Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1857

viz., raising them to a share in the same privi-
leges—the same lofty and beneficial knowledge
which has made her the admiration, the envy,
and the wonder of the world. Thus it is that

we have, in some respects, imparted to them
things—wise and good in their degrees, so that
what science, skill and civilisation has done for
Europe, began to dawn on the darkness of
Hindoostan. Thus England taught the slave of
Asia how fevers might be cured and disease ar-
rested ; to stay in its course the lightning of
heaven, and at last to rival that very lightning in
the magic swiftness of the electric telegraph ; but
notwithstanding the fact, that the Hiadoo was
taught to sow and reap, kill and cure, as a civi-
lised being, England omitted to make a deter-
mined and effectual effort to Evangelize the
country. We have already reaped the con-
sequences of this neglect of duty. The savage
hands of a debased and an atrocious enemy have
been raised against us. The honour and
majesty of England have been called in question.
Her daughters defiled and polluted, tortured, and
put to death, whilst treachery, cruelties, and
indignities of an uuparallelled character, have
been the fate of many a gallant defender of the
proud banner of Great Britain. This, we say,
was the result of the misgovernment of India,
whereby its boundless resources .vere left unde-
veloped—public works neglected, and every pro-
posal to construct railways, cultivate the land,
render the rivers navigable, or establish means

of intercommunication, was systematically
thwarted. No wonder, then, that there should be
a lond and general cry for the abolition of the
Leadenhall-street monopoly, and that the general
opinion of that monopoly should be, that
it is one altogether rotten, and requires an
immediate remedy. The necessity for Reform,
which has s• long loomed before us as a problem
requiring solution, but did not press for imme-
diate solution, has at length become a matter of
the utmost exigency ; so that the remodelling of
our Indian Administration is the topic of the
day, and is discussed with an eagerness and an
anxiety almost superseding any other question of
domestic or foreign policy.

Already has the meeting held in St. Martin's
[Tall had some fruit. The Government, it

appears, has given notice to the lion. East
Indian 'Company, of its intention to abolish the
present system of double Administration, and it

is more than probable that in doing so, Lord
PALMERSTON will create a Secretary of State for
India, who shall be responsible to Parliament for
the good and proper administration of that vast
Empire. This will be the first step towards the
improvement of the country and its native popu-
lation, rendering it one of the richest and most
valuable gems in the British Crown—giving to
us a country teeming with wealth, and a people
useful and profitable to the mother country in
every sense of the word. In the preparation of
the Indian Reform Bill, let us hope that no time
will be lost, and that the Government will not
stoop to consult private and personal interests,
but legislate for the peace, the benefit, and the
happiness of both India and the mother country.

LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISIIMINT FOR BOY'S
CLWIIINCL—Numbar of bays clothed for the week ending
Saturday, December 19th, 814; correspond ng week last
year, 494—increase, 320.

CORONER'S Isquisr.—The Coroner resumed the inquest
on the body of Thomas Simon, who was tonal in the
pottery hole, as described in our paper of yesterday.
Surgeon Wall, of the Northern Ho.3pital, said he made a
pose moreeni examination of the body, and the cause of
death was drowning. The marks of violence on the head,
he said, would In cause 1 by a fall against the vessel in the
dock, and then the deceased would have rolled into the
water, and be drowned. The jury returned a verdict of
" Found drowned." The Coroner also held an inquest on
the body of a black sailor, named William Johnston, who
was found dead in his buck, on board a ship in the river.
The details of the inquiry showed that death was the result
of natural cause., and the jury found accordingly.

the mental, moral, and social condition of the
people. The past history of India shows that
this has not been the case. On the contrary, we
know full well that as nation after nation yielded
to Vie irresistable force of England's arms, the
conquerors never failed to exact from the
♦anquished a tribute of freedom and of treasure,
which, as was natural, for many a long year
branded the name of Englishman, in the eyes of
the native population, with the cltle of invader,
tyrant, and robber, in place of a feeling and
generous conqueror. This, however, did not
arrest the progress of aggression, nor abate the
lust and might of conquest, which spread itself
far and wide throughout the area of India,
every where the proud banner of Christian
England was hoisted amidst the millions of
deluded and degraded Pagans. These conquests
were gained and claimed as a Christian victory
by a Christian power, so that, outwardly at
least, the idol-worshipper saw in his conqueror
the disciple of the Christian faith. In course of
time he was told that the conqueror's faith was
truer, purer, and diviner than that of the bar-
barous and sensual Mahornetan. the cunning
and deceitful fanatic of Bengal, or the benighted
and obscene worshipper of wooden gods on the
mountain or on the plain; yea, more, he was
told to regard the very men who ha I invaded
their country, and exercised to the utmost extent
their powers of repacity and plunder, and other-
wise inflicted injustice upon the tribes of India,
were Christians. Still we kept from these
numerous conquered races the real precepts of
that religion—precepts which forbid, in the most
emphatic manner, injustice, oppression, and
cruelty. Thus, then, we sec that England in
the flush of victory and conquest forgot, whether
wilfully or by accident we shall not stop to
inquire, her first duty to the millions
of human beings whom, by virtue of
the sword, we forced under our control—