Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-12 00:00:00

OCTOBER 12. 1859.

-ue Paid- to our town, and afterwards to Man-
chester, and some other important commercial
and manufacturing places, was Most apropos, and
doubtless, respectively, in each he would gain
111401 important and valuable information, and

Rather many suggestions which may assist him

all advancing the interests of that country to
Which his earnest attention is now to be applied.
The affairs of such an office as he has undertaken

will make large demands upon his time and

talents; and it does not, therefore, surprise us,
that he paused some time before he .undertook
the laborious task which was proposed to him.
Many prejudices he will have to encounter
from the civil servants of the defunct East India
'Company, who will be naturally jealous of his
authority and interference, where they have so
long ruled paramount and undisputed ; and

many astaales will he have to overcome, which

they may not improbably aggravate, rather than

moist in removing. But the right hon. gentleman
appears quite alive to the magnitude of the trust
"nirnitted to his charge, and in his valedic-
-4_

address to his constituents at Devonport,

4.4 e
other day, he referred to it, we obser'e,
in terms of deep solicitude. " The interests
between England and India," he said, " were
" every day becoming more and more important.

" Their en
-lisnmption of the manufactures of this
" country,
the one hand, and their production
" of all th
:• nse raw materials which minister to the
:111thistrY of the people of this country, on the
<<°ther hand, rendered the connexion between
i tnbn and and India every day_ of greater and
_ e
ater importance ; and he did not exaggerate
when he said, that not only hundreds, thousands,
<< °f
of thousands, but hundreds of thousands
of hard working men in this country were at the
.:?resent moment dependent upon the commerce
4, tbhetween those two 'countries ; and they would
t, „he erefnre perceive the anxiety which existed in
N°ltil of England, and the midland counties,
as. to the settlement of the question which had
l
tisen from the, terrific war recently carried on

1
n that e°llntrj

here can be -,
the r_.,: but one unanimous opinion upon
1,, --
eat importance of our trade with the East
—dies I
tauch
thatt is almost impossible to conjecture how
zieree most
and interchange of coin-
will be
_
magnified by the facility of com-

tilnicati°n and transit which will be opened up,
"'nen that vast continent is interlaced by a corn-
Prehensive '
cursor system of railways ; the great pre-
of traffic and trade, as also a secondary
the
of civilization. The ready market which
kae raNV materials of cotton, silk, indigo, and
'wool will :
find for the producer by that means oft_
i„transtt, will doubtless have the effect of stimula
'44g
the -natural indolence of the Asiatic, and
14411eillg a more extensive and a more careful
tultivation of the soil. The ultimate prosperity
°f India, and its eventual recovery from the
effects of the late sanguinary rebellion, are only
a question of time ; and that this'is an universal
ffaceeliilintg; :iethuweebd; nol-better evidence than the.
, —ten ,the loan was raised in the
done market. We must endeavour, in our
government of India, to inspire the population
'With a feeling that they are not to regard us as
tant q.erors desirous of oppressing them, of en-,
:re, Ing' upon them the attributes of conquest, a
473 nge in their laws, language, customs, and_ .
o:7e all, is their religious prejudices, but that
Ler °eel-Illation of the country is for the mutual
:eat and advantage of each other. If we can
the A
get such a sentiment as this to pervadef
its ise,cllie of India, and we do not despair o
it yeic„
I,: 'one, we shall be enabled to govern
f
India 1,--' cost of life and money. In lieu o
and a -eing a continuous source of anxiety to us,if
We an everlastiiv
drain upon our exchequer,
%tide" only once establish such a general feeling
to, itu:lietatancling as the one we have reverted
longer-I
be a mine of wealth to us,—it will no
ei_ be necessary to rule there by playing one
irearlt of religionists against another,—the expe-
.,a slat lndiabuY wel Olin hpantyhe government of the late
tishatndoubtedly, a was too much carried on. It
positive Christian obligation,
vaat, We should offer to them, and plant in that
tcnthsnif. e' "nunitted to our trust, the .saving
me haveo ChristianitY• It is, indeed, a command
Zta received directly from the Great Form-
ainof the Faith that we should do so. It is our
five :SS to do so in the way we find most effec-
ty the
the end; and that, certainly, is not to be
k,, e sword.
It requires a zeal tempered with
"Wled
the Gospel' to propagate the great principles of
ikile, among a -people of such deep-rooted
thus- , titiclas. An indiscreet and injudicious en-
Proas4l would do more harm than good, and
voke greater hostility to its reception.