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London, England, 1860-02-18 00:00:00

should adopt (even in patriotism) nil admirari as
his motto—sauntering though the world, as he
seemingly does, Judging only from Appearances.
While he is joking, however, England is arming !
While the House of Commons laughs at his
drolleries, it is voting four millions and a half for
military pay and allowances ! Whatever derision
may be thrown upon the movement by a few pro-
fessional cynics like Lord MELVILLE, or an occa•
sional Parliamentary humourist like Sir ROBERT
PEEL, there is the fact that England has already
within the last few months mustered 80,000,
very nearly 100,000 rifle volunteers ! And
i there is the additional fact that the House of Com-
mons evinces no apparently insuperable reluctance
to vote ,at the behest of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT
- £14,482,275 under the head simply of Army Esti-
t mates—an amount in excess, by £1,982,600 of our
- last year's military expenditure.

LATEST•;

W S.

INDI.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

BERLIN, FEB. 17.

It is asserted that M. Thouvenel has forwarded a
despatch to the Marquis de Moustier, the French
Ambassador at Vienna, instructing him to remind
Austria of her promises concerning Venetia.

MADRID, FEB. 16.

Gen. Uhtarez has left for Tetuan. He is the
bearer of the conditions upon which peace would
be granted by the Queen.
The Correspendencia Autografa believes that the
war with Morocco will continue.
The Duchess of Tetuan is about to leave for
Tetuan.

ROME, FEB. 14 (via MARSEILLES).

India is becoming a resort of investors, and for
the sake of both India and England this is a grati-
fying fact. It will not continue to be so unless it
be found to pay ; and if the investors are repaid,
the political advantage of our wealthier citizens,
having a pecuniary interest in the prosperity of
India, cannot be overrated. The Indian Minister's
speeches, and, above all, his financial statements,
will not then be made to empty benches. The gains
to be sought from shares in Indian railways, and
Indian canal and irrigatien companies, will be
directly dependent on the traffic of the country,
and the wealth, not of a few over-gorged civil ser-
vants, but on that of the inhabitants generally.
With prosperity advancing amongst all classes,
and that prosperity obviously the result of connec.
tion with the governing country, and with an
ample revenue as the consequence, another mutiny
will be very unlikely: And, while contentment
among the people will ensure quietness, railways
will doubly enhance the:strength of an European
army. They will enable it to fix its quarters on
the healthy plateaux of the mountains ; and they
will yet convey troops a hundred miles more swiftly
and with less fatigue than they could formerly
march a fifth or even a tenth of the distance. It
is, therefore,, matter for congratulation, that there
is every prospect of quite a new era opening
on India, in regard to the introduction of
English capital and enterprise into our
vast Eastern Empire. All Imperial Acts
notwithstanding., India has remained pretty much
the close preserve of the haughty and costly civil
service, who equally despised and dreaded men of
business. The service has, however, seen its best
days ; it nearly lost the country. The men of
business must now step in and complete its salvo-

The new loan has been negotiated with Belgian
capitalists—the 3 per Cent. at 56, and the 5 per
Cent. at 93.

Nine hundred Bavarians, enlisted for the Papa]
army, have arrived at Ancona; others are expected

The Italian patriots in Spoleto, Ferri, Rieti, Jesi,
Perugia, Todi, Amelia, Narni, and another town
have sent 10,000 fr. to Garibaldi.

FERRARI, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Governor Farini, arrived here to-day, and
was enthusiastically received by the inhabitants.
A general illumination has taken place, and a grand
ball has been given by the Marquis de Costabili.

BELGRADE, FEB. 17.

Prince Michael Obrenovich has forbidden his
house to the French Consul-General on account of
his offensive conduct.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, JAN. 26.

Shirtings, 81b, sr. Ba. per piece. Exchange on
Loudon, 2s. 11d. Money tighter. Cotton, 118 r.
to 121 r. per candy. Malwa opium, 1,305 r. to 1,310 r.
per chest. Discount 9 per cent. Copper sheathing,
72r. ; tile, 64r. to 64r. Ba. per cwt. ; 40's mule twist,
Br. 12a. to 9r. 2a. 7p. per bale. Markets generally
dull. Freights advanced to 40s. to 455.

tion.
The home Government is opening its eyes to the
broad facts of the case, and the routinists in India
will be compelled to open their eyes also. Lord
STANLEY began the new system. He was not the
man. though he leaned strongly to old Indians as
counsellors, to overlook the necessity of a bona fide
opening of India to English energy and capital.
And we are happy to have now before us a minute
by Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN, " as President of the
Council of Madras, relative to the conditions under
which English enterprise and capital may best be
applied in aid of Government in developing the
resources of Madras in particular and India in
general." As it is printed by order of the House
of Commons, every one in every part of the king-
dom may obtain it for a trifle ; and, to those who
are interested in Indian investments, it will be a
paper of great interest. Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN
had no sooner arrived at Madras on his recent
appointment there than he upset with a stroke of ,
his pen the miserable Court-of-Chancery-like system
of endless wilting and copying, in duplicate and
triplicate, of which the late Sir CHARLES NAPIEtt
and every man of business has so long complained ;
and, to the utter consternation of the scribes
of the civil service, determined to transact
Indian business on the same common-sense
and time-saving plans by which English
business is carried on ; and we are pleased '
to notice that this minute is written in the most
practical spirit and full of sympathy with the
great general object.
Our readers may remember that some time back
we described the proposed operations of the Indian
Canal and Irrigation Company, and strongly com-
mended the company's proposals to public and
Governmental notice. This company's scene of
operations lies, of course, in Sir CHARLES TREVE-
LYAN'S own province, and Lord STANLEY having
arranged terms with the company here, and re-
mitted the business to Sir CHARLES, he has
already taken active measures towards comm9ncing
the parts of the work to be first attempted, and
speaks in the most decided terms as to the certain
results of the irrigation. " Our water-meadows on
the Exe," he says, " with the rivers and channels
for irrigation, and distributing sluices, give only
a faint idea of what may be done with the mon-
soon waters of the Deckan ;" and he considers that
there is no doubt whatever of the possibility of
widely irrigating " these thirsty plains." He has
appointed on his part Colonel ARTHUR COTTON,
who has devoted his life to the subject, and to
whom the company equally looked, as the person
who shall make the selection of the work to be
done. We cordially wish this enterprising Eng-
lish company in India the success it so well
deserves, and seems certain to achieve, and hope
that it will be only the precursor of numerous fol-
lowers.

In discussing the general question of carrying oil
Indian works by the Government or by:private
companies, Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN assigns, as
might be expected, the most satisfactory reasons
for preferring private companies. The Govern-
ment superintendence of such railways as it has
guaranteed is of a very imperfect kind, and can
never equal that of private companies. He thinks
the guarantee system has been carried much too
far, though it was necessary at first, because Indian
works were strange to the capitalists of this

country.
But as regards navigation and irrigation com-
panies, he says there is no need whatever of gua-
rantees. Such works are perfectly understood in
India. They are so sure to pay, that he considers
the exigency to be of the opposite kind. Govern-
ment should take its guarantees that if it surrenders
the public water to a private company, it should
secure a countervailing public advantage—such, we
suppose he means, as fixing a maximum rate of
supply to the public, or of profit to the companieJ.
The irrigation works constructed hitherto by the
Government in India are, he says, not to be com-
pared with those of private individuals, and private
companies are much more effective instruments for
communicating Engl'sh ideas than the Govern-
ment. And as to the sacrifice of contingent gain
by the Government, it is of no use to talk of that
unless the Government were prepared to do the
work. Its duty is to watch that the public derives
a fair advantage for the surrender of the public
waters.

NEW THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL-1-ler Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary
and suite honoured the performance with their presence
this evening.
THE VOLUNTEERS.—The Duke of Cambridge,
Commander-in-Chief, has signified his intention of pre-
siding at the dinner of the volunteer officers, to be given
on the 7th of March.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY eVENENG, FEBRUARY 18, 1860.

HINA.

By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the
Overland Mail, we have received our letters and
papers from India and China. The dates are—
Calcutta, Jan. 10 ; Hong Kong, Dec. 30.
The 43d Regiment of Light Infantry leave for
Calcutta as soon as the 80th Regiment relieves
them. They (the 43d) are under orders for Madras,
and will probably be on the road by the 12th inst.
The following are extracts from an article in the
Calcutta Englishman :
A reference to our date will show that availing
ourselves, though at some cost to us, of the after
packet leaving Calcutta at two p m. this day, we
are enabled to give a day's later intelligence than
any other journal. Up to the time of going to
press we have no intelligence of the arrival of the
incoming mail steamer at Gallo, which is now two
days overdue.
The first year of direct assumption of the Indian
empire by the Crown has closed, and it is no slight
mark of its value and its resources, that notwith-
standing the recent tremendous struggle for mere
existence, and in spite of one of the most ineffieient
and obstructive Governments ever inflicted upon a
British territory, India has so far attained not
merely restored tranquillity, but prospects of pro-
gression. In our first despatches of the year now
passed we had to report that Oude was still
unsettled, that bodies of rebels, partly by fighting,
partly by bribes, were forcing their way into
Nepaul ; that Central India was still disturbed,
and bodies of rebels extant in Behar. The
Begun, the Nana, Tantia Topee, and other rebel
leaders were still at the head of large, though
demoralised and distressed forces. With the close
of the year has come the absolute close of the
campaign against the last of the rebels. By the
sword, by disease and want, and by gradual deser-
tion and escape, the last rabble of the vast.mutin-
ous army have melted away. The Begum is still
at larga, but altogether deserted, a powerless and
impoverished fugitive. Tantia Tepee has been
hung. It is almost certain that the Nana died
miserably in the jungle, and the principal agents
and abettors in his atrocities are now undergoing
or waiting for their trials at the hands of our Com-
missioners ; and as it is unlikely that these are of
Major Barrow's stamp it is probable that the pri-
soners will meet the just reward of their ruffianism.
OuAe is disarmed and tranquillised, and has
afforded the Viceroy a field for full display of the
"pomp and circumstance" of a triumphal progress.
Just now many of the loyal chiefs who have shared
among the honours of the I)urbars are in mortal
fear lest the possible disclosures of Mumnioo Khan
and others of our prisoners—their late dear friends,
should display the nature of their loyalty rather
too fully to be quite pleasant to them.
Having completed the destruction of the rebel
army, our Government contrived the dissolution of a
large portion of the European army who had so
nobly done that work. Not fewer than 10,000 men
have been sent home at great cost, to illustrate the
sound sense and admirable tact of Earl Canning, who
can exclaim with Coriolanus, " Alone I did it."
Perhaps Lord Clyde, who is about to follow the
malcontents to England, may enlighten the Viceroy's
friends in the Ministry how it was managed.
Having now no active internal enemies we have
breathing space to fit our contingent for the China
force. The Government have purchased two of the
old Peninsular and Oriental steamers, and are taking
up vessels for the despatch of avery large force, in all
it is said some 15,000 troops- The Quartermaster-
General of the Forces has already gone in advance,
and we hope that this time the terrible losses caused
in the commencement of most of England's wars for
want of pre-arrangement may be avoided. Our latest
China advices bring us nothing new.