The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-01 00:00:00

THE (MUMMY .AND INDIAN PATRONAGE.

(From ths Journal dee Debate.)
The English jonniaLt have just announced the
important measure which the ministry is going to submit to
parliament respecting the future administration of India.
This is nothing lees, according to the Times, than the total
suppression of the government of the Company. India into
be henceforth administered authority the government of the .
mother-country, under the and at the reeponeibi-
lity of the mintetry, and under the control of parliament.
This great measure has already received the approval of
the ion:stale which have announced it, yet it cannot fail
to give nee to the most eager debates in parliament. Boma
anxiety cannot but be felt on witeeeeing the frac disposal of
placee so numerous and eo lucrative as those which being
at present to the Company transferred into the hands of the
government. It is feared that such an extension of ministe-
rial patronage, as it is termed in England. would increase
beyond measure the influence of the government
feared, moreover, that the taste for public employment and
for offices paid by the state would be developed in England
at great expense to individual independence and national
Ile . e English, wbo give way perltaps to 'exeggented fetes
on this subject, see in every state-pi id office two evils:
the first is that it is en additional charge on the budget, the
second, that it deprives the nation of an independent
citizen. The resign themselves to these two evils in eases
of necessity, but always with regret and mistrust. They
dread to see en increase in the number of those citizens who
are no longer in • position to judge of the governmental
powers, and who probes to belong to no political party. The
increase in the number of such persons, devoted solely to the
performance of their official duties, and professedly uneon-
neeted with puli•ics, would not be looked on with • favour-
able eye in England ; it would be regarded leas as a guaran-
tee of pe.e and public security than as a probable source of
individual weediness of character and national enfeeblement
Beside., the English seem apprehensive of the loss which
would be sustained by indepeodcnt pursuits, liberal m well
so commercial, if young men should be attracted by prefer-
ence towards government euipb,3 went, When once the taste
for such employment, say they, has mimed through the
nation, the incumbnince of avast crowd of candidates will
soon make half felt. We shall see these places eagerly
sought for, nolonly by pr' pie without fortune, but even by
the rich, wbo will think it hard, in the midst of ouch • num-
ber of public employments., to be almost the only persons
who are compellodlo lire on their own famines. These
arguments, which are often repeated by the English pros.,
will not fail to be brought against the project of placing in
the hand, of h goverment all the places which are at
present dlupoocd of by the East India Company.

SIR lIENRT LAWRENCE.—Every boy has read,
and many living men still remember, bow the death of Nei-
.= Wan felt by all as a deep personal affliction. Sir Henry
Lawrence was lose widely known, and Lis deeds wore in
truth of lees magnitude, than tines of the great eta-captain;
but MVO, probably was a public man within the sphere of
his finOliatiOlS more ardently beloved. Sir Henry Lawrence
bad that rare and happy faculty (which a man in rdroost
every other &Teel unlike him, Sir Charles Napier, fa said alga
to hare poreseed) of attaching to biased, every one with
whom he tame in contact. He had that gift which is never
ainuired, a gracious, winning, noble meaner; rough mid
reedy as be was in the field, his minter in private hfe had
an indescribable charm of franknes., genus and even colutly
dignity. Ile had that virtue which Engliehmen luetinc-
lively and chance( rietically love—n courage, e. Ile
lead that fault which Englishmen so readily forgiv and,
when mixed with what are felt to be its natuisliy cm:trend-
' tant good qualities, they simnel admire—a hot end impetu-
ous tempo; be bad, in overflowing meow., that coei-like
grace which even the base revere, and the good acknowledge
a. the crown of virtue—the some of charity. No Yowort
officer ever eat at Sir Hcnrv'e table without learning to think
more kindly of the nativee I no one, young Or old, man or
woman, ever beard Sir IL-try Freak of the European
ev r, or ever visited the Lawrence Asylum, without Laing
excited to a nobler and truer appreciation of the reel extent
of Lie duty toward. his neighbour. Its was one of the few
dietimenisbed Anglo-Indians who bed attained to something
like an English reputation in hi. tile-time. lea few years
his name will bo familiar to 'maw reader of Indian his-
t:irj i„.b.utofo.twdteheoplri„
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im.c.mthorivt
any eulogy on him will to best appeciated, it is by them
that the inntitutions which be fmnded and maintained will
be fostered am re monument to Lie memory.—" Letter forte
the Punjak" in Prater's Plegarine for Decennia,
TUE AFRICAN SOFADEON AND THE SLAVE
To tDE.—The African squadron has become a mete chem.
It is true, our brave tare, ty tmerseing aletincee, manage
to catch a slaver or two in tee nurse of the year; hut, white
they do this, the trade it rani, don openly mod r their men,
end they are not allowed to interfere. The long, low tsout,
exhaling for upwards of 2,000 miles. affonle, in Ito number
lees Lights and (reap, Wrists for the light gave craft
I which oar cruincre cannot entor, and are powerless to watch.
Sir Charles Wood persists in refusing a few Mesmer.' for
the Cuban rout, where alone the overlies ran he in...v.-
carted, al d, as e consequence. the traffic. growing MOM awl
I more active, has now attained a height that wee never err-
pawed. Cargo after (ergo reach the Wand, and are landed
In open day, under the e)e of the authorities, and without
the idishiest attempt at concealment. It it calculated that.
theh ogerotione continue unchecked, 20,000 Owes wi'l
be Lade' during the next few months. Meanwhile, we ore
exposing our women on the African etetinn to the moat
soxleue climate is thaworld, and impelling them t
hawtions which, revery y's experience Muses% can no
end or object. All the world bootee that if the eupp'y is to
be steps,' d—if our government really desired to perform in
doh, and carry out the wiab of the nation —the germs. must
be ',applied at Madrid and Havannela. Where there's a
well, there's a way ; and a hint that we ebould offer no op-
petition to a filibustering expedition would bring the man-
Hon to an bane. Bat how could Lord Clarendon hold 'such
liengusigc to Spain, when he connives at. the reopening of the
trade by France Our ally across the Mane; with whom
we maintain such friendly relation., chow. hie Rpm:dation
of our intimacy by abrogating the meet em lemn treettes with
this country, as if they were merely an oath of fidelity to a
French comfit-alien. English inflnenee bon mink en low in
Europe, that we submit to this breaeh of faith stud flagrant
violation of the laws of nudism', After reining our Inert
colonies, and, in a time of great national distress., paying
twenty millions fur the enfrsenchieement of the slave—after
making the suppression of the traffic a primary 'stipulation
in every treaty with a foreign power—all our t forts end in
leather and prune la, On every part of the African meet.
where we maintain a squadron at eneh a cost of trearne end
life, the French are buying free emigrants et 150 francs
head, and, as soon as they are obtained, piecing, them in
Irons, and carrying them off by ehiplonde to Guiana. While
thin in continued, of what nee is it to keep a cheek on the
Colon supply e— United Service Mete; 'e, for Denembnr.
THE PREACHER AND TEACHER FOR SCHOOL-
nova. Addrseaee which rem:eeriee with an unctuous
"beloved young friend.," which are couched In the fee-
, monieing style. known respectively ea treacle, trim-
dote, or thaeloand-brimstose. which treat the boy es
, a compound half ewinlett and half diabolical, and yet
WI upon him to wend the heights of 'seraphic con-
templation, will afteuredly mica their mark, and be treated by
the schoolboy as " tennis and dotage." The man who
knoweth to Mira and scull—who has stood up to the eock of
his school with glorious victory, or honourable defeat—who
has made the longed swipe in playing field'', the beat cattle
in the school mehhea at Lords, or pulled the best ear in the
Westminster eight—who, if net Oils, is yet a men in the
trneet trtmsa of the word. oroPsthi'ing.ith aft that is manly.
and Meting all that is mean and filthy with a holy hatred
—a Christian gentlemen, in short, like Selwyn or Arnold,
la the only preacher and teacher for bole of the higher ranks.
Such boys cannot bear brimstone and treacle; pep and cards,
whey end swipes, hogwash and liquorice-water they utterly
despise. The first falsetto note sets the rogue, leashing, sad
then it is beet to wind up the sermon. Most preachers,
sant'. had *other face the largest and meat hatidions
audience in Dublin or London than Dr. Goodrieh'. or Pr.
Vaugban's boys. No critics so terrifically and inatincticely
true; yet, find the way to theirhererte, and none more tender
or kindly.—Dublin Unitersity Magazine, for December.
THS KIND'S OFFICERS IN VIIIGINIA.—As for
the company of the king. effieers, Mr. Harry and his elder
brother both milled at their mamma's compliments to the
elegance and propriety of the gentlemen of the camp. If
the good lady had but known all, if ate weld but bare
beard their jokes and the gouge which they sang over their
wine and punch, if abe could have seen the condition of
many of them as they were carried away to their lodgings,
she would scarce have been so ready to recomeriend
their company to her sons. Men and deems swaggered
the country round, and frightened the peaceful farm
and village folk with their riot: the General raved
mad stormed against his tenors for their disorder ; against
the provincials for their traitorous niggardliness ; the soldiers
took remotion aimed as of • conquered country. they
seemed the provincials, they insulted the wives even of their
Indian allies, who had come to join the English whirr&
upon their arrival in America, and to march with them
against the French. The general wee compelled to forbid
the Indian women his ramp. Amazed and ontraited. their
husbands retired, and but a few months afterwarde their
services were lost to hire, when their aid would have hem
most precious.—The Virginians, No. 11.