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LONDON, MONDAY, NOTINBIR 23.

IT is affirmed in various quarters, with more
or less of confidence according to the temperament
of the o7eratory, that Lord Valium:4 intends to
propose to Parliament sweeping changes in the
constitution of oar Indian Government. Some
even intimate, with • little more detail, that the
days of Leadeohall-street are numbered, and
that all authority over India is on the eve of being
transferred to Canon-row. Acid some few even go
so far as to attribute to the Palates a magnificent,
and it most be confessed somewhat melo-drarnatie

and clap-trap, scheme for impressing the minds of
the natives of India by adding to the titles of his
royal mistress that of QUICO of Ilindostao, and
prevailing upon Parliament to ordain that all public
business shall henceforth be transacted throughout
our eastern dominions in the name and by the autho-
rity of the Crown slime. There is nothing very im-
probable in any of these versions of the rumour.
even the latter may without meth violence to pro-
bability be conceived to be entertained by •
Minister so much addicted to cowp de Midtre es
Lord P %Lit a•atoN.

All judicions politicians, however, will protest us
/isieue spinet any sweeping changes in the consti-
tution of our Indian Government being pressed
upon the Legislature without extensive and dispas-
sionate investigation being previously instituted.
If Ministers avail themselves of a revolt—the nature,
extent, and power of which are as yet so imperfectly
t newn—rx• urge upon Parliament the adoption of an
improvised constitution for India, they will expels
themselves to the grave imputation of taking
advantage of a necessarily perturbed state of
the public and parlismentary mind to harry a
measure through the Legislature which they are
aware cannot stand the scrutiny of minds free from
the disturbing influence of passion. If Parliament
comply with such urgency oo the part of Ministers
it will lay itself open to the equally grave imputation
of legislating in undue haste under the unworthy
influence of panic. The truth is that all information
regarding the outbreak and progress of the mutiny
of which the public is as yet in possession,
points to some cause which has its mainspring
not so much in the constitution of the frame-work
of Government as in some peculiarities of
the policy of Government* and in certain
minor administrative details. Whoever the authors

of the revolt may have been, or whatever the
agency they have brought to bear on their tools,
one thing is certain, that they have succeeded in de-
bauching and luring from the paths of loyalty the
whole of the army of our principal Indian Presidency.
This being the case, the first and most obvious in-
quiry which it will be the duty of Parliament to in-
stitute is —What was it in the composition and
organisation of the Bengal arity that rendered it
so universally accessible to temptations to mutiny ?
The next inquiry to be set about ie—To what ex-
tent has the mutiny of the army been sympathised
with or abetted by the general population of liin-
dostan ? If it shall appear that any considerable por-
tion of the population has made common cause with
the mutinous soldiery, it will be necessary further to
inquire whether they have had any real grievances
which may have prompted them to grasp at some
chance of redress by such wild and irregular means.
Lastly, as it is confidently affirmed that an average
degree of watchfulness would have enabled our
raises—here and in India—to foresee the coming
dela and to avert it, and, moreover, that their
ineeeintion and tardiness have impeded the suppler
Side of the revolt and the restoration of order, the
conduct of the authorities during these troubles
ought to be fairly but searchingly scrutinised.
The result of all these preliminary investigations
and deliberations ought to be such reforms in the
organisation and working of our Indian army and
of our Indian civil service as may be found advisable;
and the censure, and removal if necessary, of all
proved public delinquents. This is the practical way
of dealing with the Indian molt in the Legislature.

As the circle of &stream occasioned by want of
employment expends, the expediency and deity be-
come more and more manifest of dealing with it in
a spirit of considerate forethought, end in that spirit
alone. To yield to 'mere impulses of compassion.
and to promise immediate and indiscriminate relief
from pressure to multitudes who have been suddenly
brought face to face with want, merely because the
calamity has come suddenly, or because thousands
instead of a few scores call for help, is but rank
selfishness—for it is the reckless gratification of '
one's own easy-going good native, at the real-
culable cost to others of bitter disappointment sad
aggravated misery. From such inhuman humanity
the true friends of the operative oat of week
may well pray that he may be delivered. His true
friend is the man who tells him truly what really sea
be done to sid him and what can not—who tells him
what amount of assistance he may reasonably
hope to obtain, and what is beyond the scope or
power of any ordinary law to supply. On the other
hand, every true friend to the safety and the good
repute of property is bound, at • juncture like the
present, to discountenance, plainly and perempto-
rily, all pragmatical adherence to the forms and cere-
monies of public relief, which in affluent times may
be useful and proper, but tenacity of which in
Acuson* of emergency ia utterly intolerable. Good
government consists in neither suffering property
to shirk its obligations when heavy, nor in
letting it be swamped in • vain attempt'
to make it pay for work when the produce will
sot sell: jest administration consists neither in
telling the people popular lies about its ability to
secure them competence, nor in letting them go to
the wall without any effort to help them to save
themselves from extremity. It was the sniveler
perseverance in the one mune that dog that pit of
pauperism prior to lea which threatened to engulf
all healthful industry and *elf-reliance in many
parts of this country. It was the rigid and ruthless
enforcement of the opposite extreme, under tho drat
Poor Law Commissioners, that sowed broadcast the
seeds Orrin diaffeetion, and severed for so any
years the middle sad working classes in sentiment
and action.