The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Bpeetde► obeeem of the propowd royal
aimiolsa err Talk that we ere arrived at a turning-

per. at wale► the plod object is w have the meet the-
vweet, complete, ass eatesuirated surrey of the whole
state or India, European as well am Native. "It would

be extremely impolioic to limit the survey to any mere
branch of 'grievances,' when the very things an which

me denim to be inform. d aro—the extension of our empire,

the treaty or actual relations with native suites in scrub:
indepeadesee, the feeling of the natives civil ea well sa
military, tie desirable proportion and distribution of
European troops, the expediency of expediting certain
reams end retnniingothers. The commtesion should take
even the Qovernor•Ocneralahip into it, surrey; but
how can the Governor-Gemeral iesue a 00MIlliMiUll to
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inquire into Mine& ? It is a ckrklike mistake in Mr. Ver-
non Smith to suppwe that wo only want the opinions of able
men on specific question.; we want a judgment formed fur
end on behalf of Engl did , and the cominiasion should be
composed of men who can rice above tho present entangle•
went.. They are to be found Loth in India and England.
A commiasion addressed to such men as Sir George Clerk

and Sir Patrick (Irani. would bespeak public °madame; and
probably neither executive nor public would object to such a

&r.retary as Mr. Dseby Seymour."
The Economist remarks that besides the import

of article. from Indit and the eoporto of our

thither, we oleo send to India of foreign and colonial produce
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and maaufacture to the value of nearly 400,000/. a year—
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in 1854, 403,7521. ;in 1856, 404,32 U. Lexie quantities of
silver, too, are continually sent to India, as no have of late
had frequent occasion to notice ; and if they sometimes
occaidun alarm in those who regret the lose of bullion, they
are additional proofs of o. large and to sane persona
• palatable trade. Moreover, India carries on a con-
siderable trade with other countries—the United States,

Fr•mw, Chien, Australia, andsll the islands of the Indian

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sad Pacific Oceans. The total value merely of our trade,
impost and export, with India in 1856 was something more
then 23,033,0301. At present, we way expect that the com-
motion will be, for a time, ilijurious to trade. Merchant. will
not readily send out orders as long as there is a great pmlis-
bility that they will not be executed, nor goods which may

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not he sold. The lute telegraphic despatch tell.. us that at
Madras the import market had continued brink, but at
Calcutta and at Bombay business had come to ► stand. The
exchange, however, was further against UN and a large ex-
portation of silver fur some time may be anticipated."
The Saturday Reciew presumes that " the most
patriotic opponents of the ' ignominious tyrant of Leaden-
hall-street, would, in these Home, hardly venture to sug-
gest that the total extinction of the titular sovereignties of
Delhi and Oade is not now imperatively demanded, both on
the wore of pultcy ►nd of humanity. We have swept away,
righteously or nitrighteoualy, wisely or unwisely, many of
the great Hindoo and Mohomodan sovereignties; and it ham
been but a mistaken kindnete to leave to any ono of these
deposed princes the miserable, but still dangerous sham of •
recognised royal title. What are these names bit rallying-
points for dieiffection Y Of what use are they but to
rates deltutive hopes, and to bring the unfortunate title-
bearer, perhaps midere: Iva, to perdition We hope
that we bare now Peen the last of these kings
Saws-tae, and that there will be no more 'patios*: into the
re:eases of which the ordinary promises of the law cannot
penetrate within tho territories subject to the British Govcrn-
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meat. What hove they ever been—what are they ever likely
be—but great slyer of pollution i The soul sickens at the
thought of the number of women and children now impel-
s mr.l in the Delhi pekoe; and of the terrible seenee that
may he enacted if tho retributive European army, in but
blood, enters that COOrIWILIS brothel. It almeet makes ono
dread to receive lion tidings of the fall of Delhi. But from
that day the palace will maw to exist as a royal refuge ; and
we can hardly doubt that it will be the last privileged home
of unutterable mime which the British Government will ever
sera to ho reared in any part of its Eactisn dominions."
The Press thinks that it is a singular proof how
open the arictouscy of England is by lie eonctitution, to
tind that then, see now throe ennobled families of the

11.20 of Canning.. •• At Eton, newly eighty yearn a:co,
young Jenkinson (afterwards the second Earl of Liver-
pool) had to deliver en oration in preaenoe of Mr. I'itt,
then Prite Minister, and, with great good nature, Jenkin-
son gave his plata to his friend young Canning, who first
attracted Mr. l'itt's notice on that day. His school ex-
penses were defrayal by a relative enga,--ed in commercial
life, and Mr. llookhani Freru'oaffeeting epitaph truly record.,
that Canning was
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Horn of rot ancient own, of l!cee orartS,
Aral d.oi Antrital before Iwo birth.
The son of an Unfortunate Irish gentleman, Georg* Canning
rose to be prime miniskr. His widow was made a vis-
countess; ho raised one of his Irish cousins to the peerage
(Lord 0 krvngh) ; another kinsot m he advancod in diplo-
matic ureic° (Lord Stratford de Red life) ; and the son of
' the Ludlam orphan' (u deacribed by Mr. Ifookham

Frero) is now Governor-General of India: At Ina farewell i
dinner tau, noble rismunt uttered a generous and truly filial
aspiration that he might show that ha was worthy of wearing
his hereditary coronet. We cordially echo that prayer.
Some of his advisers hero broken down; but in each vircum-
atanees a man of inherent vigour would rise with the emer-
gencies, and we sint•croly trust that Lord Canning will prove
• brilliant exception to the general rule that the sons of fa-
mous men are failures. He is of Anglo-Irish extraction, and
Anglo-Irish names, like those of Sir Eyre Coote, Lord
Macartnoy, the two Wellesleys, the Marquis of Hastings,
and (Ahem, chino brilliantly in the eventful annals of our
Indian empire."

The Record has no doubt that one of Mr. Wal-
pU,.'s amendments in committee on the Matrimonial Causes
Bill will be conceded by the government. " When a civil
menisge is as valid an one sanctioned by the Church, no
elergyinun ought to be co:veiled to solemnise the merriage
of those who have been divorced fa adultery. We are there-
fore happy to 'CAM that there is no prospect of thin hardship
being oaf .reed on the clergy. 'rho matter should be left to
their own option, and them publicly convicted of adultery
have no right to denoted in regard to marriage that any public
revegnition of it should be made by those who may entertain
scruples an to its propriety:"
To create a secretary of state for Indian affairs is a
suggestion which we (Leader) think the Boum of Commons
could not for a moment entertain, mince it is • proposal which
would invest a corrupt cabinet with a power of despotic
patronage eufficient to taint every pouree of legislation. Tho
salaries at the disposal of tic" premier would suffice to secure
him—so long ae politicians are to be bought and amid—an
'mount of influence which could be tolerated in no
constitutional country. Of what use destroying Old
Serum if corruption is to riot in Bengal" A
hundred golden prizes would be entrusted to the
premier of the day, end this we conceive is not a
desirable result. Yet there must be a responsibility,
there must be patronage, and it appears to many who bane
stuttiud the exigencies of our Indian empire, that rho Board
of Control might be merged in a court similar in constitution
to that in Leadenhiell-street, but appointed by parliament,
and retiring by rotation. An idea of :bin kind should be
taken for what it ire worth; but it is obvious that the exist-
ing system hes foiled.
The Weekly Dispatch says :—A "claw me claw
thee" measure has been concocted between the corporation
and the government, which bus ended in a Thames Con-
fervency Bill, whereby, among other things, one-third of the
whole taxes, fees, rents, and licewse paymenta to bo levied by
the bill on the what ea and shipping of the Thames, are to
be paid over to the Queen and her family for their private
use, as part of the hereditary revenues of the crown ! The
Treasury, it is said, promote the bill, while it is entirely die-
reliAlled by the Woods end Forests. Coroner Wekley has
agitated the principal member. of the government god
opposition. lie asks if the conservancy of the greet metro-
politan river is to be handed over to a parcel of tailors and
cobblers, when at this moment a frightful pestilence is
threatened by the revolting foulness! of the stream, polluted
by their past mianuinegenient. The /tenth at present Is
literally horrible. Coalheavers and lightermen daily sicken
with the smell.
" That Sir Henry Barnard had not yet attacked
Delhi," says the United &Trice Gazette, "will awaken no
surprise. The mutineers are in much greater force than
hinmelf, and are led by men who have 'set squadrons in the
field, and something of the division of a battle know.' The
Native commissioced officers, bad as they generally are, have
risen with the occasion, and Its their new capacity of leader,
of revolted Sepoys are exhibiting the fruits of their
experience in the Sullej, °leafier, and /With. campaign.,
The Native Sapper. and Miner. and Native Artillery,
who are within the walla of Delhi, know something of
the defence as well as the attack of fortified pLece, and
we may expect flat, in their utter desperation, they will

employ every atom of their gained knoe ledge te
belle the efforts of their &umlauts. Sr H. Barnard hag
shown his prudence in *grafting reinforrerneuta and era:gent-
log himaelf with the repulse of the sorties of the Win tarn.
IMO. These sortie. are evidences of the dryrveti•m of the
mutineers. They will make a fens more, cud Own perhaps
endeavour to eecapo. Sir Henry most have enough to do q
keep theplair invested. A town, several mile* in cirrus-
ference, standing on the beak of a firer, can snip be
surrounded by a consideraLle and a very vigilant force. It
is true there are four main gates of Delhi, end high roads
conducting to them, which may be bluekadol eff,rtually, nag
the intermediate spans can be traversed and the titer crused
at so many points that the meet incessant patt,lliag sip
be necessary to enmesh the enemy. For all this, by thew
accounts, General Barnard had but 4,000 men."