The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

THE WEBELY PERU.

The Saturday Remit, thinks the electric telegraph
le getting into disgrace. It Is said that it writes history is
epigrams. But its history is often without truth, and its
epigrams without point. It is almost a necessity that it
should exaggerate. In a meagre outline, good news seems
better, and bed news worse, than it actually is. It gene-
rally bootee that, when we come to fill in the details, we
Ind things not so bad as they wen represented to as by the
electric wires. The " full particulate" commonly show that
there is balm in Gilead. The telegraph cannot particulestre
I —cannot even qualify. It must go straight to the mark,
end deliver itself of the mein pomeible amount of
fact in the fewest possible words. But the philo-
sophy of telegraph-writing ie net well understood.
The choice of words is, dandies, i greet thing; but
the distribution of sentences is eon pent. So keg es the
facts ate elated correctly, it may sun to be a man matter
whether they are imaged in one orderer In paean ; bet the
arrangement has unamtionably a net sin is regards the
impremion which the words predate inn the public mind.
Wnts a dozen cameos ea a don of papsr ; then alter the
ceder of War arrangement, an the change, though the some
Erb es bikes be inland, tray mks a Mimeos of ono or
two ant. in the Tahoe al °nook seat reeralag. U ',shad
se mnition to drive a pail begun en lb. fttook ltzeheage,
we woad wish tor notlthm; better ea to have la our heads
the erseopteest of the prepeat iestoore• seat by the
elsehle telegrepL

The Prsu says It now seems just lace a day
to look back on the time when Mr. Macaulay, and Prod,
said Charles Boller, end many more were about toe*, after
the starting of Knigite • Qworterly Magazirsc Prod is
now no more; ha was mon of a poet than a politick; and
he was not well salted Ice the Maggie of life. Like Charles
Boller, be wee of a weekly mainitutio; and his brains
wen, not eupportel by backbone Of all that befflisat
company Mr. Macaulay has alone culminated. Both Freed
and Charles Buller were prematurely cut oft; end many
others, with considerable talents, have pursued the hum-
drum' course of esielenee—Noy married, got rich, and
gained landaus without renown. Mr. Macaulay, in
Lad Beson's kagnage, never gave ' hostages to for-
One; and even with all the advantages of hie splen-
did Saha* kM dearllng style, and hie varied knowledge, the
new btermy peer Lee bean singularly fortunate, so much so
as to dram his ell rue of lucky Tom.' He was lucky'
in baying a ham before him who had aocess to all the high
whig circles. Old Zachary was not a bad progenitor for an
ambitious young orator. Many of the interesting social
anecdotes which flow so rapidly from Mr. Macaulay's lips
testify to the fact of his early initiation into political circles.
Wilberforce, in hie diary, speaks of young Macaulay and his
father, and young Tom's old competitor, the present dia-
thigaithed Greek scholar, Professor Malden. Earl Grey
Ohms Viamiunt Howick) was one of the first who praieed in
high circles the eloquence of the young member of the Cara-
bridge Union. XnegArs Magazine introduced the charming
essayist to the lidesbargh Refine. The dissertation on
'Macs' anted his name far and wide; and Lord Lans-
downe gave him a borough at the exact time most suitable to
the display of his powers."

The great world of London (says the Leader) is
decidedly out of town. You meet no on. Your half-pay
friend, the cousin of an Irish earl, has retired into Norton-
street, where he mena to live in strict seclusion until phea-
Mint shooting is over, when he wfl reappear, not so hearty
in appearance se s man ought to In after as many weeks of
glorious open-air exercise. Somerset Hone is enjoying its
thirty day. at the es•dde. The Foreign-081n is on the
Rhine. The City hones mad their deputations of alerts
to Hammen and Brighton. Every one who can and will
enjoys himself entenbigly, except Lord Palmerston, who is
doing duty like a white elan. In fact, every one is away,
and nobody I. in London—" every one" meaning about ten
thousand people, and" no one" considerably more than two °W-
inn. And what ions great world doing out of tons? Killing
bide, for the most part—that is to say the gentlemen. The
Inks wear round hate, canter on merino parades, and im-
peones little s*.•udo seasons, where they use up the blush*.
caught from the morning breeze. They dip in the foam,
their footing* are sweet on the hit* their favourite Herm
sad harpist. follow them to the Town Hall. The Poly-
graphic Hall gees to Brighten; the Gallery of Illustration
is mt down at Hastings ; little frapasatio of London Sy off
in every direction, not even the Opera accepted. So that,
t►e town being out of town, lase We town with it, and the
metropolis is left like the lest ma, without sun or seam—
Victoria at Balmonl, the Oneds among the red deer of the
Invenese-shire glens, parliament on the moors, the Albany
smog the Anew preserve, and Belgravia at the wateriog-
pV~•

The Ecorwmist denies that the government of
India has be any way violated Uindoo prejudices in inter-
fering at all with their law of wioptka. The illusion pruva-
WO on this ►rod among the advocates of Mr. Diwyeles
theory of the mutiny is totally without foundation. In the
lending cue of the Rajah of Batters, the truth is, as all know
who have really looked into the government correepoodence
on the quegke, that the adopted heir was allowed to inherit
all that the Rajah had to give away—namely, his personil
property. It waa expressly understood that the English go
vernment should be conaultad as to any petitical annogror to
be appointed ; and so fee was this from being alien to the
custom of the Mabratta States, that in case of a
similar adoption by any of their subordinate chief.
' the 'unction of the superior government was always required.
number caws of the more claim is now of more interest. Just
before the death of the late Peishenth Badjes Rao, long after
that prince had taken refuge—a miserable trembling fugitive
—in the camp of Sir John Malcolm, and long after his con-
sequent retirement on terms dictated and a life-pension
granted by the English governoust,—he nominated as his
adopted heir the present Rajah of Bhitpoor, the infamous
Ness Sahib. This man wished to inherit not only the
private and personal property, bat the life-pension of the
Peishwah. He might as well have laid claim to his
abdicated dominions, for which that life-pansines was an
equivalent. The government of India very properly refused
his request. And this is now considered by the treacherous
HWoo im • violation of Hindoo law, whi hbntitlee biro to join
the standard of rebellion, and murder scores of English ladies.
We believe that all the alleged eases of the same kind are
equally without foundation. Adopted heirs have always
been permitted to take what the adopter lied to give, and
that neither libido° nor any other l►w could give more, is
obvious rough. The British government in India haa never
In feet violeted Hmdoo customs, except when, ma in the ease
of souse, and the marriage of (nominal) widows, there was
• general feeling even among the Hiodooe theniaelves that
social morality and order required the step. If the Indian
government has made any mistake at all in these matter., it
has been probably in abowing too nervous a regard to 'Rodeo
opinion on all points that touch sacerdotal custom and cage.
The line that the government has, in the morn, pursued, and
that we Vast it may continua to pursue, is one of scrupulous
but courageous neutrality on all matters of a religious nature
when they do not practically interfere with the physical order
and prosperity of Indian society.
The Illustrated News believes the errors hitherto
committed in the government of India have not had their
origin in cruelty or desyotism, but in humanity and gene-
rosity, end sprang from • too implicit reliance upon the good
faith and gratitude of Asiatic soldiers. Such errors, we may
be sure, will not be repeated. The rebellion will, at least,
have taught Ur that. Whatever In our future policy towards
the people of India, as distinguished from the soldiery—
and there can be no doubt that it will be humour, en-
lightened, and beneficent—we shall never again pamper se
Indian army. We shall never again trust the permanence
of our dominion to the support of Mahommedans or Hindooa,
but shall rely upon the right arms of our conatrymen to
defend abet we have won, and work to proper issues the
reeouroes of our empire.

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The Builder says:—" With the sad events in
India it is not our province to deal ; but, bearing upon them,
lIIP have advice and • warning to give, which, if attended to,
will e•ve life, lessen sorrow, strengthen our arms, and
shorten the struggle. We ask for the immediate organisa-
tion of • sanitary cormsimios to proceed to India with ear
army. We mold peat to • score of warnings in ow peps,
attention to which, to the int instance, would have meld
wealth and lives . recollect, if no other, the dangers of the
ramp at rilderabott ; the evils which threatened the
Oulden-pears district, In • sanitary point of view;
sad the indefenaible arrangements at Netley Her