Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review, taking to task varii%
writers on the Indian, question, remarks—"
very men who, three years ago, clamoured at tl„
tail of the Times that the middle class of Enlglin't
men were aliens in their own country, shut out
from their just share in its government by' ;
greedy exclusiveness of the aristocracy, are now
sisting that the middle classes should be rernoveir
thei.e
from the only field in which they have essayed
Whether te„.l,
capacity for administrative action. Whet
middle classes can govern at all must be proved_:
disproved by the character of Anglo-Indian Pnliw
In the East they have had the country to thn;
selves. They founded the empire by their shays
prise, and extended it by their arms. They inid
suppled the immense majority of its generals, oatl
all but two or three of its statesinen. The"' tie-
administer it with barely a nobleman or a ne"ns
man's son among them. And now the very Pets °re
who were for giving them England to rulet.ais
making a proverb of Indian naisgoverment.' the
pretty well known that we did our best to decri.‘
leer
ghat
ignorant, of two years since. We called it un
Whn6
ignorant, precipitate, and barely honest. that
better justification could we look for than
.e;
which is furnished by the rump of the adrninistr
tive reformers, who are for taking India out of the
hands of the middle class, and making it overly
the eonnexions of great noblemen with gent l
terest, to venal lawyers, to the hacks of parliarne-
e
t
and to the underlings of political clubs ?"
refer.
The Presse makes a strange statement in that
ence to the state of feeling in Calcutta : it is, 'lit
signs of mutiny have made themselves aPPare •
among the European troops. "We hear that tba
commanding officer of one of her Majoity'S rergoi
meats has communicated to the Governor-&80s
the fact that his men are not to be depond,,e'fb-st
unless their demands are submitted to, and
the rest of the European troops have BIN'. to.
uphold them, if the government should venture
resort to force. We do not vouch for the statue
—we only say, that it has reached us from a soujie
on which we think we can rely ;.and there o°4lo
no indiscretion in thus publicly bringing.; it
matter to the notice of the authorities, bees? 7itif
has already been alluded to, in terms suifielen-le
intelligible, by one of the leading morningion,r,die
here. We hope that, with a nun like Sir u.,:„of
Campbell at the head of the army, these sparks
mutiny, if they exist, will be speedily put out.
the intelligence that ouch a spirit has beet:l°,4,
bited at this early period, is not very reasenr7iie
more particularly when we remember what a sini'd."'
spirit led to at Cabal, when the outbreak ocenrr the
The Economist observes that the policy gof
Rank of England during the last three Year or
governing the rate of interest by the-foreign so.
changes, and the 'pressure which exchange trausbee
tions,, rather than domestic transactions, so
brought upon it, is at once a sound and, 00 fsrtiee
the home trade is concerned, a truly conserynos
policy. "Itin of infinitely less importance to
be
home trade that a high rate of interest shoui,, re be
paid for a time, than that our resources shotwegs
drained so much to feed speculation in fe,f„ealte'
countries, that the ordinary wants of our merou"
and manufacturers must be curtailed to 00.
inconvenient and ruinous extent, The loss °telt
sinned by the depreciation of property nutter ~8-00
circumstances would be much greater than '1;e0
soy difference in the rate of discount, 13,00
when at the highest. We have seen the' t%te
when bankers have nominally fixed the
their
of discount at five per cent., but when t'-by
sources of supply were nearly dried stP,' it
foreign drains. At the present =omen,' rge
would be but little satisfaction to the 0-„°;,,t
trade to see the rate of discount ".,7).
down at 5 or 0 per cent., when the effect 'wool% A
to drain our market of bullion in order to fee,. of
demand abroad, to be soon followed by eAteb`..ol
much more severe restriction at home- e'-1, to
rate of interest, like a high price of comtacou'—ase
the only true correction of scarcity. As in the tntio
of commodities, it acts as a security for the fliveats-
in three ways:—first, as we have shown, it Praeg's its
the exportation of bullion :--next„ it encourages
importation :—and, lastly, its tends to 00°Z.eadY
the use of capital by modifying transactions reat
undertaken, and for the time inducing to gwo,
caution in entering into new ones. In every or
an adequate high rate of interest is the uerat
the only real conservator of the home trade -eat
time like the present when, in almost everYigrt. iee
commercial country, enterprise and speen''esj
have outrun the legitimate means of eendec"

I them."' lttlY
The Leader says :—" There is- a corps of V) he
' teer cavalry in one of the divisions of Kent. Bigot
men are require& each finding his own horseace
being supplied by the government with 11,"000
uniforms, and equipments. The troop has elf
organised several months, and numbers scaLre
forty. Infantry volunteers, of course, are'
i'ti
easily procurable; but even an artillery 1711 et
might lee raised on a much larger scale thol/boet
present, if the managers knew how to set goo
their work. In 1852, certain farm labourers-bo
mechanics of Suffolk worked out a plan by Wthid
they proved how much might be effected ill rife
way if adequate facilities were afforded- .001
hundred of them enlisted, being originally. destl
jJlti-
for the light infantry branch of the militia.
11200
matelee it was determined to make artillery oioe
of thorn. They assembled for a month's exierdter
in a camp on the estuary of the Orwell, an " vic•
three week's training, went through the 9eroise
admirably, performed manual and platoon c5'00,0-
and the military evolutions, were capable Of aoali
naug the battery guns on Languard Fort'
keep their tents and themselves in readine9-,
01(1
order, could furnish two detachments for 000,
guns, could cook well, and submit under catither•
hardily and cheerfully, to rainy and windy svereari:
It would be an excellent thing were all thetios,
time counties provided with similar organise beep
hut we do not hear that the experiment has
repeated in more than two or three lecaliti.,e,9' or
" 'Notwithstanding," says the John Bot"a0 the
pensive attempts to render it efficient toward ro'
security of the public, general opinion Toe.
nounced the police force in that respect a ~,i1 tbe
Something is evidently wrong either 110 the
character and constitution-of the body, ier.oeedle
means at its disposal for the certain and ~entc,
detection, if not prevention, of crime. Ile 'idol"
to have armed them with every weapon of aduels,,,
authority and trenching on the rights of indiviriti ot
whilst an increasing conviction of the inser,juseftit
life and property attests our opinion of tbeiieeen
ness to be at the very lowest point. A. Pc),hood2.
enters a house of ill-fame in the neighh"" up t.„';
Ratcliffe-highway and Rotherhithe, wakes if wi;
inmates, and threatens to break down doorsee 13;
ingress be impeded, all the while that °cP
ue O
ground of suspicion, but merely that pee:
exhibit the haunts of vice and proffigacY,.:ta OD,
grinating philanthropists, or experimental a et,
infamy, at four o'clock in the morning.
take up any gentleman who witnesses his '-'not Pal
,;
to an unfortunate homeless one, who cr euenti.:
her footing to be unmolested in her iree'Letil9,7
self-loathed walk of vice, and the next morning spo.t,
dozen of his divison who were never near .1:000;
prepared to dovetail evidence, and square
tertaies t 3 the total discomfiture of truth. A" 00,
say, and much more,the police may do, yet Whipe:tsce,°;l
murder is committed, with strong ()dreg ea i"0
evidence pointing to a house of ill-famest on,eo
scone of bloodshed, instead of pouncing
upon every bad house in the metropolia
_:washe:
discovery is fresh, and probably the traces uftid to,f:
out, they have recourse to the dilatorY, airt
platy
free people despicable, system of sPie,sehe puble
clothes, inform the culprits by means of ehiel
channels of everything they think or do, !If, offerer
rely for success upon a government rowni.lau've bee'
long after the first traces of the crime "
obliterated."

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The Paris correspondent of the Daily 141ewsbeeil tf°,4o
the overthrow of the Turkish cabinet had 10,1diffieltl
seen, the late cabinet having found its lima"'
beyond its Ntrength.

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