The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

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TEI BISHOP OF 01701 D AND ML GLAD-
STONE ON INDIAN AMATO.

The annual meeting of the Som'ety_for the Aid of
P 0741111 Mimics' was held at Chador =Wesley, the Lad
Bishop of the diocese presiding. The meeting wee held In
the Node-hall. The attandeace at the mid-dey modes was
large sad respectable, but fa the waling the ball wee crowded
la all parts to inconvenience.
Shortly steer two o'clock prooddiegs 'wee commeaceL
The Lord Bishop welcomed the Bishop of Odoid to his dio-
cese, and thanked his lordship for his comment to advocate the
claim of the Foreign Mission Soddy. Some forseel bed-
am haring been disposed of,
The Rev. Caton BLOIIIIIIILD proposed the fort ropolnlios,
which recognised the claims of the toddy upon Chriedds

benerrolence7 . -
The Lead Bishop of OXFORD seconded the resolution, and
spoke at = length on the lothelickl results of
in all parts of the workl. Beim
rig :age Indian mutinies, the right rev. prelate said,
if ever then showed forth uponthe warms beau* either anall•
and the handwriting tracing mystic e.haractem to be reed by
the eye ci tic prophet of God, surely surely it to that out-
break. I life one firmly believe—firmly—that God will
give us one other trial in India. I believe the crisis of
England's crisis of her own posseeeions of her
awn Christianity still e
epen upon the manner in which she
um that truth if again it be committed to no. And there-
fore I say, I desire every one of you, as Christians and Eng-
Bahmen, to study this matter over,and to be ready to take •
positive Minute of renatenos, if od blesses our ama, to the
re-settlement of the Indian question upon anything but •
Christian Wis. And let there be no mistake amongst us
upon this point. By • Christian tens God forbid that I
should leech you to understand that we should use one iota
of force or fiend or earthly favour to draw one man into the
profession of the faith ci Christ. Our deity seems perfectly
simple . It is, that we should maintain, in the first place, path,
truth,and quietism—that we should say, no man shall suffer
for reigion—be disgraced for religion, or be punished for his
religion; but, having declared that, we should &dare, withjust
as bold a front, that we are the servants of the Cructhed.
It is oar duty—it is our blaming—it is our birthright. We
Mire to see mavens to our faith, because that faith, and
that faith only, will elevate them hero, and save them here-
after. We are Christian men administering a heathen
nation. We will not attempt by form or favour to draw a
single heathen man over, but we will make no secret of our
own Christianity—our belief that we hold our power on this
o:edition, that we should use it for God ; and with this res-
ponsibility, that it will be taken from na if we use it for our-
selves. (Applause.) That seems to be oar duty se Chris-
tians ; and if every Christian man will fairly imam that
attitude, the government of Bngtand will see the neoeinty of
will
let r du:astlandrir gladly idto that m
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God helpingo
on who mamforeotht ore
amount of blessedness
in store for our church I' Who von try how far she will not
be attended by God In coming ages to be at onus the minister
of truth to the heathen, of purity to our Roman catholic
brethren, giving the fixedness and firmness of the church to
those who now lack them, and to be the centre of light, and
truth and Christian warmth for an evangelised and grateful
world. . . . .

The resolution was adopted.
At the evening meeting, the Right Hon. W. E. (ILAINITONI
moved a resolution to the effect that the Indian aids cells
for extended exertion in the spread of the gospel. The right I
bon. gentleman enlarged upon our ignorance of India, the
failure of the administration of that country, and the foul 1
Mots on our Eastern policy. Nevertheless, for England to I
give up India would be one of the greatest calamities that '
could befal the people. " I argue thus," continued
Mr. Gladstone, " not became of the material benefit
of the connexien—for, after all, these benefits are but of
tOw=consideration. It is not on account of the benefits
ves—for, titer all, England would not perhaps •
=suffer in the essential elements of her power; but it is
we have, perhaps nobly end posamptuonaly, pieced
ourselves in the condition of trustees standing between
Almighty God on the one hand, and two hundred millions of '
His creatures on the other, sad because it is our absolute
duty to discharge the trust we so undertook to the glory
of God and the benefit of these His creatures. Well then,
my lord, in what manner is that trust to be discharged P
For my own pert, I oertainly do go the whole length with
these who are of opinion that Christianity ie never to be en-
forced and newer to be propagated to the prejudice of justice,
and that we are bound, not in derogation to Christian
principles but in consequence of Christian principlm, to ab-
stain both from tome, fraud, and from anything that beersa
resemblance either to forte or fraud, in respect to the propa-
gation of the Gospel. (" Hear, hear," and cheers ) It ap-
pears to me that what we have to mak, that what this society
and the people of England have a right to ask and exact
from the government in India, amount to this, that the
government should separate itself from all pm-don—if any
Beach practices there still rmein—shmM separate DNB
from any remaining practices by which it appears to be
implicated in the acknowledgment et the prevailing
false religion and false worship of the country—goud
cheers)—and that having severed their own political
and public action from connexion with those Wee religions,
the next thing they should do should be to establish a perfect
freedom and toleration of *pinion. (Hear,hear.) I
met do better than read to you a very ew words,
which I find in a letter of Lord Shaftesbury's on this sub-
ject. He says —" All that we require in India is a complete
religious equelity • and if the Hindooe and Mahomedans,
singly or conjointly, choose to form emaciation far the pro•
mulgation of their creeds, and imitate our proceedings, let
them do eo as freely as ourselves—(hear,
theal:provided
they keep within the limits of law and order." ear, hear.)
Therefore, that perfect freedom and perfect ties—not
nominal only—but an established equality se to every poli-
tical right and principle of religion, in the eyes of the govern-
ment in India, is, I believe, the fleet principle of which
Christianity commands the 'depth n with regard to our
they in that country, because it would be contrary to that
• vatic' which is the formation of Christianity itself, if,
wing obtained a power ever the people of that country,
which we certainly have not obtained by public
right or law, we were to use it for the purpose of doing
violence to the conscience of that people. But we
have a duty beyond the establishment of toleration in India,
and that is a strict selherenco to propriety of conduct on the
pert of our European resident there—the avoidance of un-
just and unneceseary wars—the avoidance of all countenance,
and especially of all direct connexion, and substantial con-
nexion, with all demoralising practices, under whatever name
they may be veiled, and with whatever apparent practical ad-
vantages or necessities they may be allied. Indeed, my lord,
I do not know how, although it is not always that the len-
page of Scripture seems to fit easily into the notions
of modern policy—but I don't know how the rules of our
' policy in India can be better described than in one part of
' the Epistle appointed to be read in the services on Weiner'
day last—l mean a mikes of the 7th chapter of Jeremiah,
in which it is said :—" Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
' the temple of the Lard,_ the temple of the Lord, the temple of
the Lord, are these. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways
r and your doings ; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between
a man and his neighbour ; if ye oppren nut the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow' and shed not innocent blood in
this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
• then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
I that I gave to your tethers for ever and ever." (Cheats.)
• In these words, my lord, I believe are conveyed
• the duties of the state and of the public as far
• ea regard,' the government of India.
The Nee. Mr. WELCH, of Liverpool, seconded the resolu-
tion in an able and elective speech, and it was unanimously
passed.
Thanks were voted with acclamation to the Lord Bishop,
I and after 'sayer the meeting separated.

ea thine relating to bankruptcy, which the section ought
to and-adverted to- the strong desire which pre-
vailed for • improvement in the celestial law. The
soap lord, after eulogfiring the codes of the Empwors Jas.
thins and Napoleon expriteeed his belief that when we bad
amended the law, the code that would then be produced,
slowly worked out, would be of a more perfect kind then any
ever produced; it would be found in the ancient guarantees
' of a nee nation, founded on a civilisation more complete and
more intelligent than that which existed in the time of Justi-
nian or Na loon. He concluded by indulging the hope that
under the beneficent sway of • beloved QUOSSI, we might me
car code of laws improved, and a fabric rained which, al-
though it might take • long while in the would yet
be °teach en order of architecture, and of materials,
that it would be an object of reverence for the other nations
of the globe, and ft to withstand all the assaulta of time.
The noble lord resumed his seat amidst prolonged cheering.
fir JOHN PAILINOTUN, President of the Educational see-
tits, delivered an address on the subject of his department.
He expressed the great pleasure he felt in acting with men
who had so distinguish ed themselves in promoting objects
precious to the people, and eepecially in taking part in these
proceedings under the presidency of that greet and venerable
man whose name for 60 years had been convictions for
promoting almost every plan which had been brought for-
ward to improve the condition of our fellow-subjects, and
who last night afforded a signal proof that the lapse of time
has had no e Sect upon the powers of his gigantic rand.
(Chinn.) The right hon. gentleman then reviewed the
state of education in England, oompimug it with that prevail-
hag on the Continent and in America, and egged the propriety
of meeting our difficulty in this respect boldly, Instead of
standing at a distance, and magnifying it. He expressed hie
conviction that all these difficulties were surmountable. Aber
some Anther remarks of a general character, 812 J. Peking-
ton, in conclusion, elated that in his opinion the government
ought to pees • permissive bill fairly to try an improved
school system, and he thought they ought to grant a careful
inquiry into the whole subject. He hoped their di/enemies.
st that conference would be directed to the points he had
adverted to, and he trusted that the result of their delibera-
tions might be to extend their information, expand the pub-
lic interest on that mewing public question, and to accelerate
the arrival of that time when parliament would no longer
hesitate to legislate in a manner that would conduce to the
permanent welfare, the honour, and the interest of the

612LOSTSTANLET delivered an address on the Egbjects which
belong to the section of Public Health, of which he is pre-
sident. He said the fundamental axiom which sntitariaaa
lay down was—that of epidemic diseases some might be made
under proper ielluences to disappear altogether, whilst those
which vermin would exhibit a milder and less destructive type,
whilet of diseases not epidemic, a large proportion arose
out of our ignorance of physical laws. The noble lord
concluded an address full of thought and fact by de-
claring his belief that whatever exception might be found
in individual instances, when you come to deal with men in
the mass, physical and moral decay went together • and it
would be small Belief iction to know that we had through
series of ages resisted every external enemy, if we learnt too
late that that vigour and energy for which ours stood con-
fessedly pre-eminent smongst the races of the world are
undermined by an irresistible agency, the offspring of our
own neglect, against which science and humanity had warned
us in vain. (Great applause.)
Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE, SI President of the Social Economy
Section, read a brief paper on the general principles winch
ought to guide the association.
The Recorder of BIIIMINGHAM luring been called upon
by Lord Brougham to addrass.the meeting as President of
the Reformatory &Own, gave an account of the manner In
which reformatory treatment of adult convicts is be-
ing carried on in Ireland. The Recorder concluded by
expressing his belief that the vast majority of all who enter
the prism as criminals can be sent back into the world,
after no unreasonable term of probation, honest men and
useful citizens. Lot the small minority remain, and if death
arrive before reformation, let them remain for life. (Loud
cheers.)
In consequence of the brishour at which the delivery of
the pre 'dent's speech concluded little progress he. been
with the papers of the various departments. They will
be promeded with on Wednesday morning.
There is a soirA at the Town-hall, and Lord Brougham's
inaugural address at the Midland Institute this evening.

CASTS IN INDIA.

Col. Sykes, late chair:ll;M of the East India Com-
pany, has replied to wens newspaper correspondents who
have written slightingly of the obligations of cute m Iselin.
and expleina what high caste sepoys will and may do, and
what they cannot In, even for officers whom they may vene-
rate. The gallant officer shows that the Brahmin and Rajpoot
sepoy will cheerfully handle the pickaxe and shovel as la-
bouren, build walls, sink wells, and stand shoulder by
shoulder in the rank' with the lowest caste men; but that a
breech of certain alimentary lava ipeo facto consigns tha
°Sender to excommunication and degradation, than which
death is preferable, for his parents, hie brothas, and his
friend' can neither eat nor smoke with him, nor let him
drink out of their water vessels. He is become en out-acts.
He is condemned to contempt in this world, and hie soul is
damned in the next. It is very lamentable," observes Col.
"that in this age of reason such stern obligations
should be accepted by human beings and be operative ; but
they exist—there they are as great facts. So it is lamentable
that hostile religions should exist; but there they are, and
always have been—great facts which produced the condicts
of the Homoculiana and the H01:11010Wililll in our early
church, Bartholomew's Eve, De Montford's bloody doings at
Carcassons, Anabaptiet atrocities at Number, our Smithfield
fires, Irish massacres, and even in these days threatened
bloodshed at Belfast."

—irratiesel and absurd as thew caste obligations are, even
felons in the pals die to maintain them, and their active
resistance to the recently introduced messing system in the
gaols of Bengal and the north-west provinces has occasioned
bloodshed. "We have read in a recent Madras newspaper that
some convicts who were embarked for transportation to the
eastwsrd refused the ship's food given to them, and, as they
were dying of starvation, it became neceesary to disembark
them. How are we to deal with such tenacious obduracy ?
We cannot kill the fanatics, and we can only, therefore,
lament the fanaticism, and tolerate it. It is little known or
thought of in the western world to what privations and euffer-
inpthehigh-cartecepoy issub,jected in embarking for foreign
service. From the moment he sets foot on board a ship he
cannot cook; he cannot receive the ship'. provisions, and his
support is confined to parched grain and condiments which he
takes with him. In the great expeditions to Jays, China,
and the Persian Gulf thine privations and sufferings were
borne cheerfully by. thousands of sems in our service, and
would be borne again and again if them religious prejudices
were respected. In the present feeling of resentment which
has been so justly roused by the bloody acts of the Bengal
sepoys, and the generally-expreesed want of confidence in
the future loyalty of the Brahmin and Rajpoce, it is of
vital importance, as we cannot do without a native army,
that there should be a clear undorstanding, not only with
respect to the constitution of that army, but that in its
management we Mould have coon witty in mind what set-
vices we can and what we cannot exact front them. In our
dread of Brahmins and Rajpoots we must be careful that
we do not go to the other extreme and plate ourselves at
the mercy of Punjab.° Mummies:us, or Sikhs, the latter
having prvjudioes about cow-slaying ustrong, or even
stronger, than those of the Brahmin. or the Rajpoot.
Reliance we moat plan upon native troops or police bat-
talions. Let the history of the pest, therefore, umpire us
with hope that ss a mutiny on religions grounds in 1806 in
the Madras army has been followed by uninterrupted loyal
services, so may a lengthened loyal devotion to the state
characterise a reorganised Bengal army. But our present
duty is clear—the last spark of mutiny most be trampled
out; retributive justice must overtake the real perpetrators
of murders and outrages, whether sepoys, camp followers,
felons from the gaols, or villagers • but let tia, for the sake
of humsnity and our Christian character, not involve in one
common and terrible punishment the active guilty, the
pismire looker-on, and the wholly innocent."
In a note to his letter, Colonel Sykes mentions the fact
that Major Evan Davis, in command of the cavalry of the
Ifirem's Contingent, a popular officer, was cut to pieces by
his men, owing to the indiscretion of one of his young
officers, who had the beard of one of his troopers shaved off
by violence.

A VISITATION.—Mr. Spearman, of Newton Hall,
at the recent dinner of the Durham County Agricultural
Society, was reminded, by the abeence of clergymen, of •
story which perhaps he might be permitted to relate' an he
had it from a very good source—namerom • very excel-
lent divine, who was himself a prebenZe of the cathedral
church of Durham. Two honest farmers, in riding along to-
gethu, encountered a large number of clergymen, and one of
them read to the other—" Where be all these parsons coming
from?" To this his Mend replied, "They have been at •
visitation." The other, no niece than before, says, "What's
• visitation?" and rho answer he received was, " Why. Wit
where all the parsons goal onus • year and swops their ser-
mons." (Laughter.) His friend, on being thus enlightened,
quietly remarked, " Deng it, but nor chap sun get the
worst en it every time" (Roan of laughter.)—ffettesneed
Observer.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM ETIIF.R.—A man, named
Bennett, employed as a patter by Mr. J. J. Fyne, chemist,
Piceadfily, was carrying ajar of pomade and a bottle of ether
from the shop into thlighter candleuteday evening the let
instant. He had left fted in the patience leading
into the shop, and as he returned from the shop with his load,
and stooped to take up the candle, the lid 41 the jar fell off
end broke the bottle, and the Ether ignited. Au explosion
wee heard in the chop, and Mr. Fyne, on going to ascertain
what was the mum, saw Bennett in flames end running up
the stairs. He told him to lie down, and water wee poured
upon him, which extinguished the fire. He was then taken
to the Royal Infirmary, where ha died on Sunday morning.
Pyne considered that the shock to tbo nervous system wan
the immediate cause of death. At the inquest, which was
tek, issiestseday by Mr. Herbed, city coroner, the jury re-
• wallet of " Accidental data." Manchester
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