The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

pose but that of encouraging the arrogance of the
military Brahmins.
We say, too, that these results were natural.
How far the apprehensions of a `Hindoo for his
caste were originally sincere we cannot pretend
to determine, but we have at all events taken the
very worst way to appease or remove them. In
reality, as every Christian knows, they were ab-
solutely groundless. The fear of compulsory con-
version entertained or professed by Hindoos could
never by any possibility have existed if the na-
ture of Christianity and the principles of Chris-
tian government had been fairly brought before
their eyes. It would be as reasonable-to suspect
us of cannibalism as of proselytism by force.
Ignorance alone could have engendered these ter-
rors, and this ignorance we perpetuated by keep-
ing our religion out of sight. All that Hindoos
saw was that we were afraid of their suspicions,
and this itself was enough to give those suspicions
currency. They might have believed in the es-
sential peacefulness of Christianity if they had
been familiarised with its character, but they could
not believe in the sincerity of rulers who, instead
of professing and explaining their religion, were
willing to disguise, and even discourage it, under
terror of revolt. IZeligions differences they could
not understand ; religious truth they were not
permitted to comprehend ; and they credited us
therefore with the only alternative which presented
itself to their minds—the religious fanaticism of
crusaders.

The very problem before us could only have
been created by a combination of unnatural im-
pressions. There is nothing to show that Hindoos
under any other rulers, although those rulers were
often bigoted professors of a proselytising creed,
were ever troubled with these frantic alarms about
their caste. There is no example in any other part
of theglobe of the Briti Governtnent having been
embarrassed by any fear on the part of a subject
population that we should turn crusaders. In
British India alone have Hindoos become rebels
through religious agitation, and Protestant Chris-
tianity been charged with the attributes of
Mahomedanism. Why should Lord Canning have
been more an object of dread than Aurungzebe
or Tippoo Sahib ? Why, should we, who never
dreamt of crusading anywhere, and whose national
faith would not admit the idea of compulsory
baptism, be suspected of these terrible designs in
our Indian Ealpire ? If we had been suspected of
any poli ical aggressiveness the impression would
have been natural enough. If Hindoos had always
been ready to run mad upon the subject of their
caele, we could not bedsurpriald at faring as other
conquerors of India bad before us. The embar-
rassments, however, and the perils to which we were
exposed'are so totally without warrant from prece-
dent, and so utterly opposed to the reality of things,
that nothing but a false policy could ever have
produced them. We first invested our own subjects
with preponderant military power. We then
showed ourselves perpetually anxious lest this
power should be turned against us. When Brah-
minisna thus discerned its opportunity and claimed
excessive consideration for caste prejudices, we de•
ferred to these demands, as we must needs, under
the circumstances, have deferred to any, until at
length our constant deprecations produced anim-
pression of our insincerity, and we suffered under
the imputation of designs which we never enter-
tained, but which we had been incessantly forced
to disavow. This policy has now borne its fruit.
It has not secured the submission of the native
army, the only object to which it was directed ;
but it has invested us with a false and discreditable
character, and his threatened the safety of our
oriental empire. Certainly it is high time that
such a policy should be changed.

OUR MONETARY PROSPgCTS-PRODU-
CERS AND CONSUMERS.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)

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apprehension is, we may hope, in a fair way of being
entirely suppressed. But our home prospects pre-
sent many features of anxiety and doubt. The
commercial storm has lulled. The wrecks of many
edifices of commercial power and magnitude lie in
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one above the level of the shallow writer of the
Times' city articles knows that the rise in the rate
of discount, bad as it is in itself, is one of the minor
evils of a large contraction of the circulating me-
dium. A far greater is the iuinous depreciation of
the pr ice of all commodities. This an avowed arid
necessary principle of the Bank Charter Act.
Prices aro forced down in order to attract gold to
the country in exchange ft!r our cheap goods. Now
in our market of depreciated goods and produce the
foreigner buys excellent bargains. Take, for exam-
ple, West India produce, which has, in some cases,
depreciated more than 80 per cent. The foreigner
buys this produce at its reduced price. lie benefits,
the British producer or merchant loses. But if
the process
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gulf depreciation be traced out, it will
appear that in reality scarcely any persons at home
gain,
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people are
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Nearly all may be classed among the producers.f
This is the case w,th the great agricultural body.
Out landed proprietors all belong to the class of pro-
ducers. The tenant farmer is an agent of the no-
bleman in raising and selling the produce of his
estate. It is some time, indeed, before a deprecia
tion of agricultural produce affec's a landlord.
But it is plain that everything which lowers the
value of the land itself, either to sell or to lot. The
manufacturers in the busy hives of Lancashire,
Yorkshire, and Scotland belong to the producing
class, and in general all persons engaged in business
we directly_ or indirectly interested in the welfare
of productive industry.
Now all this large body of persons suffer by un-
natural depreciation of prices, such as that caused
by a monetary crisis. They benefit to a trifling
extent as _consumers. Their sugar, bread, and
clothes may be cheaper. But they lose to a very
groat extent by the diminution of their fair profits.
In many cases there is a complete stagnation.
Profits altogether cease. This is now the case
with many of those who deal in articles of luxury
--jewellers and artists.
The working classes are seriously injured. Bread
is cheap. But their wages are reduced. In many
cases they receive no,wages. Cheap food without
money to buy any is no help to the poor man, and
h the country loses immensely by the cessation of
labour. Ahundred thousand industrious and
able-bodied men cease to produce anything. They
still consume. They must be maintained out of
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and remain unproductive.
There is a small class which gains by a deprecia-
tion. This ie the class which consumes, without
producing. The person of fixed iirSome, the an-
nuitant, the pensioner, the Government official,
gain by the low price of all they have to purchase.
The fuudholder, provided ho be in no way con-
nected with the producing classes, gains.
And above all, the trader in the money market,
the capitalist, who watches the bank reserve, who
knows /trough of the operation of the Bank Charter
Act to foresee when the contraction of the cur-
rency will enhance the value of his article—to him
Lim ruin of 00.111w0ra.7 and ti, prootr,kinn of iirn-
ductive industry opens an abundant harvest.

The Usurer, who by means of money dealers can
take advantage of the artificial dearth of money
created by Peel's Bills, gets his eight or nine per
cent. for hji money, or bays securities depreciated
below their honest worth.

Thus the " hard calculator," a cunning, but
often a very ignorant and narrow-minded creature,
the drone of the indusrrious hive of England, obtains
his thousands of profits, to enable him to do which
the nation pet iolically loses millions. At this pre-
s,sut m•unent this process is in operation. Peel's
Bibs litre turned us int) a nation of cannibals—one
usurer devours a thousand industrious traders.

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