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LONDON, 8427711 DAY. NOTEMBER 28.

Ls France it ha. bees customary, when the 1
machinery of Government has been found not to
work so well as could be wished, to change it en-
tirely by means of a Revolution. In England it
has been customary, when the machinery of Govern-
ment has been found not to work so well as could be
wished, to amend what was wrong is it bye special
Reform Act, more or less extensive, according to
circumstances; or to change the hands employed in
working the machine. Since the year of grace 1789
there have been in France at least seven Revolutions,
or complete changes of the form of Government. In
England daring the same period we have had no Revo-
lution, nor anything approaching to one ; but we have
had many changes of Ministers, and we have had
many Acts of Parliament amending what has
been found to be faulty or obsolete in the details of
our laws and institutions. The results of these
different modes of procedure are that at this moment
the citizens of Great Britain enjoy more complete
liberty of thought, speech, and action than those of
France; the citizens of Great Britain have better
assurance of safety to life and property than those
of France ; and while France has paned from the
irresponsible despotism of a BoettlioN dynasty to
the irresponsible despotism of a Nsrottow dynasty,
through a series of internal convulsions and wars,
civil war has been unknown in our islands. This
retrospect goes far to establish the superiority of
the English mode of improving political institutions,
and adapting old laws to new social conditions, as
compared with the French mode.
It seems passing strange, therefore, that a Minis-
ter so entirely English in his tames and habits as
Lord P UMERSTON is generally ondentood to be,
should have been frightened by the present Indian
difficulty into a resort to the French, instead of the
English, mode of remedy ing what may be amiss in
onr Indian system of Government. Yet, if we are
to believe the Tinier., which speaks on this occasion
as if it had authority. Lord PALMERSTON'S remedy
for the causes which have produced the Indian
matiny—whatever they may be—is neither more
nor less than an entire resolution in the frame-
work of our Indian Government. "We are happy
to say," our contemporary announced yesterday,
that as soon as Parliament meets for the despatch of
" general Imiiness, the total abolition of the Com-
" pony's Government will be proposed by Ministers.
India will be brought immediately under the control
"of the Crown and Parliament, with such a ma-
" chinery of administration as shall be thought to be
" conducive to its welfare. The greatest dependency
" of the Empire will receive the benefits of direct
" Parliamentary supervision or direct Ministerial
responsibility."

The first question suggested by this rather start-
ling announcement is : What reason is assigned for
the entire suppression of the East India Company in
such hot haste, without even the decent form of •

preliminary inquiry? Four years have not jet
elapsed since extensire modifications were rupee-
induced upon our system of Government in
India by the British Legislature. In 1853 Lord
PALMERSTON and his present colleagues were all in
favour of the continuance of the Company's Govern-
ment. Up to the close of last session not one of
them whispered a word against it. flow has this
new light broke in upon them so suddenly ? What
has happened to convince them that the existence of
the Company can no longer be tolerated? One
reason only is assigned by the Times. The l)irecton,
that joarual asserts, are to blame for the adoption of
the slow " method of marine locomotion which best
" accords with their antique traditions." The ground-
lessness of this charge we have exposed in another
article. But arming, for the sake of argument,
that it wan well founded, is an error of judgment on
the part of ooe set of Dim: tors to be held 'sufficient
reason for the entire abolition of the Company in
whose name they act, and the transference of all
its functions to some new department of the ler
perial Government? In April next six new Director,
will fall to be elected—two by the Clasen and tour
by the Company. Two years after that time other
six vacancies will have to be supplied in the Direc-
tion. Even though the present Directors had laid
themselves open to censure, there are constitutional

means of getting rid of them; and the fault laid to
their charge is personal—it has no necessary con-
nexion with the system of which for the time
being they form a part. Even could we admit that
the assertion of the Times was correct, it would not
follow that even a partial legislative reform was
called for, but merely a change of functionaries;
and that the existing oonstitution of Indian Govern-
meat would enable us to accomplish. Even by the
Times' own *bowing, the present cave is eminently
one to be dealt with by the English, not by the
French. mode of political amelioration.
The evening organ of Government attempts to add
another reason for the adoption of Lord PALMER.
/troy,. Revolutionary Policy in India to that upon
which the Times has exclusively perilled its case.
" In India the Government of the East India
" Company never quite lost the habits and at-
" Wades of a parents. It remained too much
" addicted, like Sir Pertinax Maesyrophamt,
“ to. boo .' Something stuck to it of the success-
" ful mercantile upstart, who had to pay his footing
" by some extra complaisance among the old country
" families." The meaning of thin rather vulgar and
not very original attempt at Government-01es wit