The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-03 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 3.

THE India. news in anticipation of the Bombay
Mail is once more a report of steady proems.
Mercy and judgment are conspiring to pacify Oade
and the remaining insurgent districts. "The
"amnesty,- we are told, "is slowly but surely thin-
" ruing the ranks of the rebels;' and, on the other
hand, tits: Ntstino SINGI, the great Oade Baron,
who preferred t.) abandon his stronghold rather
than acknowledge allegiance to the QuEesr, has
had the honour to be completely defeated by
Lord 4.1.41. e. in person. The enemy appear
to have been overtaken after a protracted
chaos in a jungle, near Dundeakeira, from which
they were driven into the open country, and thence
chased with cavalry and artillery down to the'
Ganges, in which many of them perished. We can
well believe that his lass was enormous." This
engagement was probably fought on the 24th of No-
vember ; the telegraphic date is demonstrably erro-
neous. General ifort G %NT, returning from beyond
the Goomtec from an expedition of which we have
no reported results, met on that river a considerable
body of rebels, whom he dispersed with heavy
inflicted lose. A, long as large bodies of armed
men promenade the territory our troops will be occu-
pied, but sppeirsncis are in favour of the opinion
transmitted by the telegraph, " that the country
" will be restored to peace without much additional
bloodshed.••

The only taddenieg fact in the telegram is re-
ported in a poettcript from Genoa. General JOIIN
JACOB, CAL, tho creator and commander of the
famous Scinde Irregular Horse, is dead. The per-
manent exi4eracies of our position in India, evoking
latent ability in a measure unexampled in our own
or any other history, have raised up to eminence as
soldiers and administrators far too many men to per-
mit us tospeak of any individual as if he were indispen-
sable to the goiernment of that country. Yet General
JACOli'l death must be lamented as a serious law
lie was one of those clear-headed, strong-willed
men who seem born to cope with the elements of
society in their most rudimentary state, and to
mould them to order and usefulness. His command
on the Noriti•NVestern frontier will some day
supply the material for a brilliant chapter of our
Indian history. J icon found the British troops there
shut up in forts, in the midst of desert, supplied by a
distant commissariat en the absence of production
and commerce, knowing nobody, linable to tell
friend from for, and threatened by wild marauders.
Oa his arrival the forts were thrown down, incessant
patrols and the steady pursuit and stern punish-
ment of robber or ineurgent bands at once announced
that • real power was eatablished. The country
became habitable ; the poor felt assured, and settled
down under our protection ; cultivation began, and
now on the formerly desert border of Upper Scinde
an army might obtain supplies, and on the site of the
old mud fort of Khanghur Ls the large and flourish-
ing town of Jecobebad, completely open and without
the least attempt at any sort of defensive
arrangement. The peace, quiet, industry, and
plenty, with full protection for life and property,
which have succeeded to rapine and disorder,
are doe entirely to the discipline and efficiency of
that Irregular Horse the reputation of which has
spread over the world. This corps, consisting of
1,600 men—gentlemen in the estimation of their na-
tive countrymen—proud of their profession, trained
to be independent of extraneous assistance, devoted
to their commander, and bound together by the repu-
tation of their fora, was always " ready to go any-
. where, and do anything." To produce and maintain
its discipline was the co:.stant study and unceasing
labour of JACOB, from the time he was appointed to
its command in 1.41 he was never absent •
single day from his duty. The late Major-
General Sir CIIABLES NAPIEII declared that the
discipline of JACOB'S Hone was "perfection i" and it
is remarkable that a court-martial has never been

held is the coma It is, however, from the
work to which all this military skill and assi-
duity was made tnbutary—the civilisation of bar-
baric tribe*, the conversion of the desert into corn-
fields, and of thousands of robbers into cultivators--
that General JOHN JACOB'S WOO will derive Freud
lustre and lasting renown.

Taa tide is evidently still rising. Regardless of
the .sadate of Mr. Lowe, and the protestations of
his anooymous supporters in the back ground, the
waters of popular opinion continue steadily and
peacefully to swell, and prepare to obliterate soon
the very toot-pnnta r f unarai.ing resi.tance. Those
who would fain persuade themselves and each other
that the tact as not so, keep audibly muttering that
there is no foam nn the ware. And why' 13mistwei
by the conhas.on of their own brat spokesmen, there
hate hardly been found any sulheisutly reek-

lees or resolute to oppose the onward flow of
national feeling. Infinite praise, of course, is
heaped on the vicarious victim of oligarchic
monopoly who publicly professed his readiness to
incur the risk of drowning in his attempt to stem
the tide of Reform. But no admiration for the
hardihood of oar modern CANUTE has led any of the
real members of the privileged order in imitate his
example or share his assumed danger. And now
they are told in accents of bitter reproach, almost
verging on railing, that whatever peril their mono-
poly may be exposed to, is doe to their social
cowardice and want of political pluck. We are not
about to discus the ethics of Eldonism as it existed
previous to the first Reform Bill, or to inquire why
we have now-a-days no Princes of the Blood ready
to blaspheme in public against liberty, or Dukes and
Marquises shouting like lunatics to an enraged people
that they " will do what they will with their own."
All we wishto do here is to note pleasantly the excited
and incoherent state of mind into which our adversaries
have fallen. Their stronghold of exclusive power is
beleaguered, and they can find nobody with courage
enough to make a sally, save the solitary QUIXOTE
whom they sent forth alone out of the Kiddermin-
ster gate, without one knightly comrade or follower.
A sorry condition this for the lineal descendants of
all the bravery and heroism of the land, and the ex-
clusive possessors of all its high genius, greatness of
soul, and true wisdom. Bat if such be the case, and
if the Philistines of Reform be threatening to press
sore on every side, would it not be better to lay
nothing about the rank cowardice and silken luxury
of the noble race to whom is entrusted the sacred
duty of defending to the last the British Consti-
tution ?

There is something not a little remarkable in the
way this same accusation of " a want of civil courage"
seems to turn up in all directions. Ina recent speech
of Mr. Ronan Pamirs, M.P., addressed to the non-
electors of Bury, we find some very suggestive re-
marks on the subject referred to. He states that
when in America a few years ago, he beard an emi-
nent preacher in the city of Boston lament the want
of moral energy among the wealthier dares of so-
ciety in New England, to which he ascribed certain
evils observable in the national condition. Mr.
Future appears also to entertain the opinion, ex-
pressed by many eminent thinkers in France, that
the exegeses of revolution and the recurrence of des-
potism under varying forms in that country, is to be
attributed in a great degree to the timidity and selfish-
ness of the higher orders. It were easy, we think, to
show how litle analogy there is between the state of
society in either France or America and that exist-
ing in our own country. With rare and casual
exceptions it might with truth be said that, what-
ever evils of intolerance, prodigality, or corruption
prevail in our system of government, arise from the
lack of outspoken and uncompromising opinion on
the part of men of the industrial claws. Poli-
tical power in England is notoriously monopolised
by a small and exclusive section of the community.
The direction and control of the military and civil
administration is confessedly in their hands. Every
approach to the throne is filled exclusively by them,
and every post of power or distinction is occupied
(with exceptions few and far between) by
members of the sacred cute. The entire of
one House of Legislature and more than
one-half of the other are theirs; at their nomination,

subject to their veto, and swayed not nnfrequently
by their influence, is the magistracy of every county
in the realm, by whom justice is locally adminis-
tered and local tazation imposed. And so complete,
in point of fact, is the predominance thus exercised,
that it is only when, from time to time, popular dis-
satisfaction finds utterance by the lips of some ex- j
ceptional man of the middle classes, and by his
,eloquence and courage he is able to well together
in threatening combination the separately powerless
units of industrial intellect and worth, that he is
able to wring from the selfish fears of oligarchy
any notable concession to justice or to right. How
was Catholic Emancipation carried? By the reitera- ,
tion of the most offensive and insulting threats ever .
openly addressed to oppressive power by an infuriated .
people. It was withheld emphatically by the aris-
tocracy and their adherents until all the grace of
concession was utterly goue. and every pretence of
yielding to considerations of policy or justice was at
an end. How was Free-trade carried ? By an
anti-oligarchic combination, which was denounced as
seditious and anarchical by nine-tenthe of the ruling
class, whose aim a Whig Prime Minister told the
QUEEN was to take the crown from off her head, and
whose leader a Tory P rime Minister did not scruple
to point to in full Parliament as one who by hie
speeches encouraged to assassination. Neither
religions nor commercial liberty was ever yielded
to reason : they were dropped In terror by the here-
ditary monopolists of power when they dared no
longer resist.
Is it for a repetition of such scenes of humiliation
that our opponents in the present controversy sigh ?
Will nothing suffice to consioce them of the suicidal
folly of their affecting to ignore the intelligence and
industry of the nation at large but the organisation of
its masses, and the awakening of dangerous passions ?
All is tranquil now ; the popular brow is unruffled,
and its voice though confident is calm. There is
indeed no pretence or excuse for the libellous up-
braidings we daily hear—no sort of justification for
the ill-feigned airs of apprehension adopted in some
quarters as to the possible results of restoring the
old common-law right of household suffrage, and
enabling the constituencies to vote as those of every
other civilized community do, with the freedom that
is secured by the ballot. This hypocrisy of pole
will not do. The (luny( in her palace most be
told plainly by her Ministers, if they are honest
men, that the present is a peculiarly propitious
moment for putting an end to a gross and grievous
wrong, which it is only marvellous to think that
millions have endured hitherto so patiently. The
bishops, on their episcopal thrones, must be warned,
respectfully but with candour, that in no way could
they do more harm to the Church of which they are
the legislative guardians, than by heading with
croziers a pharisaical cabal against the rights of the
humble and the poor. And the magnates of the
land—who, after all that is asked has been given, will
still possess a greater amount of power, territorial,
social, and political, than any other est of men were
ever suffered to enjoy in a tree country—must be
told—blandlyand benignly if that will do, boldly and
bluntly if they will provoke it—that the tax-paying
people of England have made up their minds to
exercise henceforth the share they are entitled to in
• the representative government of the land they love;
t and that legal guarantees for its future exercise they
are determined to have.

Mr. Gibbs, the tutor of the Prince of Wales, is
now in Remo, and wa, conspicuous a gew evenings ago with
his C.D. star at Cardinal Remoter's reception.
The third of a series of lectures commenced*
~h„rt riom, ago at Woolwich by Colossi Wilford, ft A.,
G.,remor of the ft.yal Military Academy, and Colossi
Eardley Wilmot, Supermtandant of the Royal Military Gun
Factorieq was gloss on Friday lest In the regimental school-
room, sad was attended by Msjnr•Generst Sir William
Pertwkk Williams of Kars. commandent of the gamma,
art a crowded assembly of officers, sca-commissioned officers,
sad paws of the Royal Artillmy.