The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

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ANL BILLZIrIi LISCITME ON INDIA.

Aft exceodingly numeroua and fashionable aadi-
iasa snubbed la Enter Rail, yesterday evening, to hear a
ham MB ak• all absorbing topic of India, from the Rev.
J. H, sousw, 0 clergyman, who has not long returned from
tbst mnpinp. hall wee completely !Wed, and the num•
km airmen prow* in mourning bore melancholy testimony
to dm gnat and immediate ;nteren of the subject.
Licrrasa FOOtoodej to animadvert strongly on
what was k sown as the traditiclon7 policy of the India
Company. That policy bad t. len one of attraction
to Christianity, to occomeres, and h.' civilisation, bat it had
also bon one of the grossest &bandit'', hams tanatar
they had conquered a territory they left It to he Intrded by
its conquered people. They kept an inanfilenat European
force in India, while at the tarn time their native rellitante
were ridiculously andervofacered. In Lord Dalltooshell nine

100,000 square nisleTi ;en added to oar territory , WO the Ml'
(Mks at Enrage= free am only one regiment. AZ to-

peendualleakei to recent ovule next fidlowed,and the lentowar
pseienetely aged, " Wee Canning clemency and eivilins
• melt eto he permitted to spars the butchers el Camerae
end that um of imperial Many, the debauched Ting et
Delhi f" (A loud sad universal ay of " No, se," followed
by immense cheering, was the suspense to this appeal.) Ns,
let him (the King of Delhi) be hang up on the next See,
oak his royal robs. around him." (Chest cheering)
believed the causes of the recent mutiny to hen bus
ear potting of the Sepoys which led them to think we
wen afraid of than, the annexation of Oxide, and
the mend cartridges, which last mooed • real panic. With
newt to the annesation of °ode, the public ought to soa-
ped their verdict on Lord Dalhousie, se, to his (the lec-
turer's) certain knowledge, that nobleman had acted in that
matter only in an executive capacity, the order for annexe-
ties haring come from the home government. 8o far back
as 1801 Lord IVellesley threatened the Virder of Oude
witlx deposition unlace better government were intro-
duced ; and Iced Harding, decreed annexation if re-
formation did not take place within two years.
Five years were allowed to elapse, and then, end
then only, the heel act took place under the government of
Lord Dalhousie. It should be remembered, also, that to
Lord Dalhousie we owed the Ponjaub, and that but foe the
admirable condition of the Punjub we should not now to ex
able to cope with the mutineers of Bengal. Mr. Bellew pro-
ceeded to mark the different warnings we had received of the
present outbreak, from the time of Lord W. Bentiack
down to its. very commenosment, and mid that all
through the government had 'inhibited moral cowardice
• dueßeg with the native troops. Their policy
wee, in filet, to pet the natives and jealously to ex-
clude the Europeans. India might be an ample field for
ooloniestion, awl might make us independent of America
for cotton but for that triple eyrie= of government which
had been jocularly celled • political application of the noble
seience of thimblesig. (A laugh.) There were three thim-
ble—one in Leadenball-etreet, one in Cannon-row, end one
in Calcutta ; but it would be very hard to lay under which
of them the pea of Indian reform could be found.
(Laughter.) One man alone in recent times had
inelenly exposed the defects of our Indian system,
sad that man was John Bright. (Cheers.) That the India
Company had discouraged colonienlion might be judged from
the fact that there were only 300 independent British resi-
dents in Bengal. Hsi there been 30,000 we should net now
have to fight for our own fortiflcatiune at Delhi. (Bur,
hear.) Leg of all, Christianity and the Bible were great
bugbears of the traditionary policy. Were the native@ &held
of it ? Let him mention one fact. There we. • school in
Calcutta, et which the avenge Attendance of children we.
1,300. In that school the Bible was ed only In
the library, Lut Tea • clans-book in the wheel.
The use of it was perfectly voluntary, and no native with-
held hie child on account of it. All he sided was that the
Bible should have few play, and that • Christian people
should not be ashamed of the book of life. (Loud cheers.)
We had been wro-g in our treatment of the &pop, wrong
In our 0:16120f011, wrong in our treatment of Chriedenity;
end, if he was raked when wee the time for mionm
he anewered—Now. The lecturer concluded with an
eloquent peroration, in which, after alluding in em-
phatic terms to the reeponeibility of Lord ralmereton,
he said that English rule in Indite should he like the Buyers
thee of that country, ever spreading, but etriking root as it
spend, sad giving food, and shelter, and protection to all
that sum within the eythere of its influence.
The ketem, of which the above in but • brief outline, was
led te theseghout with profound attention, only fmter-
moiled ty frequent bursts of cheering, which were never so
emphatic as whoa the lecturer called for stern and summary
jostles on the mutineer.. On his retirement Lo wee recalled,
And honoured with a renewed bunt td applause of the most
hearty and unanimous character. The lecture will, we un-
deretand, be repeated on Thursday week.

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