The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

EUROPE ON E.VGLANY 8 DIPPICUTIES Ili

INDIA.

(From the Spectator.)
India is not only an English, it is an European
subject; and the fare of the Continental pram proven that it
is In. Will England lose India or nut F' lee question
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mooted by friends and tow, with hopes and fears ie.
to their Wiwi; and from what they say of our prospects.
we may judge of their future conduct in the event of any
arsons lee to our power. As the pendulum swinging in
the neighbourhood of large mountainoua bodice is insen-
sibly inclined, so are nations instinctively drown towards
other nations greater than thenwelvea, or in other words
commanding a greatiir lutes of matter. Whatever meta-
physical historian may say to the contrary, poare,athe, of
territory is in itself a source of power, equal at least to the
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influence of wealth. It is all very fine to cell Runk • " toe—
league on feet of earthenware ;" yet Russia daily slows that
elm is terrible in spite or perhaps rather because of bee
"earthenware' pedestal. Political scheolninstere teach the
old nursery tale of a little man killing a Goliath, of a little
people being iitronger in its unity than a great one in its
diversity; but if over this was a truth, it is fast becoining e
fiction in our days of steam and electricity, when the power
of nations is moved in vast manias and anticipated in the
calculations of military arithmetic. Switzerland, able
to hurl back Charles the Bold of Burgundy and
his iron-bound knights, could not withstand for a day
the shoeless soldiers of the French Itepublic. The Corsican
Emperor could conquer thwbeet part of Europe, not in out-
cannoneding but in nutmarebing the ermine; but even he
found the term of hie career in the vaxt territory of R9rniii.
Thew) consideration, help to explain the strained attention
with which the Continental pre*, looks to the present state
of affairs in India. On the Continent, more than in tine

country, it seems to bc felt, and, indeed, here end there
loudly proclitimcd, thtt Groat Britain will lone her European
supremacy if ehe t,se India. It is almost umming to ob.
nerve the eaddened lone of the Continental liberal pro., end fla

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antagonism in the helf-tuppressed jubilant cries the abseil:alit
organs, increasing with every ehipinail of" bad news fmm In-
dia." All our foreign contemporaries without any exception
seem totakethemost lively interestineserythingmletingtotha
revolt. The "disappearance" of the Bengal army, the feted
compositions of •'our own correspondent," the private
letters, and telegraphic despatches, are most minutely ra
produced on the snifeewhnt Lilliputian sheets of the different
tfjournaux," " zeitangen," and "gazette" w reef the
Channel. The papers generally, to whatever p frry hey be-
long, give the mere facts honestly enough, withherc and there
the comment of some protector partieularly wise in Bsneglll
and Indian lore ; but it is when we cone to the " leadire
articles," or conclusions upon the facts, that we detect the
spirit of the party represented by the journal.

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This of course varies according to the political predilece
Lion se well IA the national eympatby or antipathy; t•r the
formal alliance with the government of the country
ing the journal demo not entirely regulate the feeling. Thu
Emperor of the French, for butane°, visits oar been us
friend; but the prep., of France does not talk in friendly
fashion. We may describe the tone of some of the mod
prominent French journals in the words of their own country-
man the Sieele:
"The great events which threaten at present the English
power, have, ea WAR natural, given fresh ardour to the
enemies of one English alliance. Them writers see perils to
Great Britain in Egypt, Persia, India, China, Greece,
Canada; and are nigh ...condemning England to non-existence.
It is only, according to them, a question of time."
The lonrnol des 7140 s—which once had nOltiall sym•
pathies, if it hag them not still—is gradnally examine atme
of mom settled hostility towards England. Perhaps the
change of ministry in Constantinople nay have conteffmted
to a certain rancorous exultation in the jeurnalist, teat at aS
events he is quite ready for the handiest construetiem. He
assumes that the great, if not the chief, cause of the military
revolt in India is hatred of English domination, an 4 he tab
a proof of this hatred in the atrocity of the excesses caw'
tatted by the Sepoys. Frenchmen are always greater at in
Inference to be drawn from a fact carnally presented, this
at tracing the fact to its couses; otherwise the French
writer might hive remembered that the atrocities
perpetrated by Sepoys on the Brinell have been preceded by
the like atrocities perpetrated by Indiana upon wish othe
and even upon theeteelveo. The victim,. of Thuggec, Seine,
and Juggernaut sacrifices, were net British but Bieber.
The Imperialist Esto„fi tte, which is almost considered a
ministerial paper, goes yet further than the Joonsi de,
D 401; e,
"There is a profound panic in London; for in the wont
day. of its history England has received no more noted
check. In fact, the loss of India would be a deathblow to
her commerce and industry; and, once driven out of that
country, the former conquerora would find insurmountable
°Wade, if ern they should think of returning."
"In tho first instriwz, they have cruelly oppressed the
Indiane, who are now taking their revenge, and who
probably will prefer to be exterminated to the lest DIAN
rather than to bear again the odious yoke of the foreigner."
"The English have hurt the national feeling, and mew
witted acts of bre/via of civilisation (lSse-eiriliention). They
have to answer now a terrible account; instead of civilizing
India, they have exploited it. They only wanted gloves, but
they have created Spartacuscs."
"Is the British Cabinet," sake the same journal, " going
to demand French help against the revolted Indians; and if
ea, will our government accede to it? Such is the Iluestion
which political men sok." The mode in which our French
allies discuss the question, however, would not assist in re-
conciling the Eaglet% public to such a request if our govern-
ment were disposed to make it, or to the acceptance of the
help if it were proffered.
While the journals of France appear to reckon upon the
abandonment of India by England, tho newel prom of Ger-
many energetically expresses an opinion that England is
politically and morally bound to curb the gehellious spiritd
the Bengalee eepoye, in order to extend civilisation
throughout the East. Our own observation contirms tie
summary statement of the &lite, that " the papers of Berle,
Hamburg. Cologne, and Frankfort, express Wrong good
wishes for England, in a somewhat doctrinaire fashion, et•
curable in learned profirsacirs, but too detailed to be quoted?
The bni,,pe wiener Beige—which has sometimm tag
thought a Russian, sometimes a French organ in the Bel-
gian capital—perhaps embodies another ekes of feelings is
the form of a narrative. A French adventurer of the IMO of
Glendon returned to France last winter, to me his family
and to marry a sweethesut at Nantes. An old soldier ofthe
school of Dupleix and filontealm, a garde-du-corer of Charles
Dix In 1830, he became a voluntary exile, with the intention
of fighting the English wherever he could meet them.
Ultimately he found his way to Burmale, where, under the
name of D'Orgoni, an anagram of his real name, lee raised a
troublesome enemy for the British ; one whose hostility
mast ho counted among the circumstances that contributed
to embolden the Sepoys of Bengal.
"During the beizinning of loot winter, when the man*,
of General D'Orgoni took place, ho declared loudly and ester
gewleally, in all the salons where ho had the entree. in Ps"
and in Nantes, `That it woo a great mistake to believe the
English domination in India fettled ; that the native popah•
tien had an implacable resentment spinet the ConspeaT;
that their anger would break out on the first occasion; that
a greet number of princes, apparently in subjection, would
lift up their bead ono day; that an fur as regarded his own
person he had only reached his eminent post on an owe of,
his paella' brand of all Engliehmen, against whom he had
declared war without mercy, so that he would not lay hie
sword down before the last Englishman had been drivel
from Indian soil, "
The lorfe,po4l,), truly remarks, that while IrOrgted
was thee expressing himself in Patio, the East India Cow
piny seemed to have no idea of the danger whkh threatened
the esietenee of our Indian empire, and the departments es
all the presidencies and in England were receiving the sort
satisfactory aaouraneea from the colonels of regiments.
We conclude our instructive survey with .1 specimen ei
Italian feeling •
"The enemies of England," says the riedmentee
Opinions, " already rejoice at the insurrection of the Sea
; asserting that if England do not now lore her cur
pire, she will lose it in time not far distant. tVhi retort: we
counsel them to hasten the cutting of the Isthmus .4 Seer;
for if England should lose the Indies, and those region)
should remain a pre y 1,. their domestic tyrants. the croon"
of the Incline will become a fable of the Thousand-:cad-one
Nights."

The accounts from the moors arc very fairly pro-
mising, consklering the terrible lIIVJe which was Prod
among old and young birds by the rainy spring of fast for'
Ham, partridges, oral pheasants arc said to be "legion;
and the stubble' will be unusually soon cleared for operations
Highland stags arc splendid everywhere, and the hot weather
has wide those in the English parks as fat as butter; in fade
their owners dam not give orders to shoot Manor MI
would not ke p four days in such heat a" we 'Dose had.