The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-18 00:00:00

Here is an instance :—One great engine for the
goveinment of India has given way. .People are
saying that we must consider the further use
of it as hopeless ; that we mint throw it aside and
look out for another ; that the large native army
must be wholly superseded for a smaller European
one. On the other hand, it is said that it will never
do to govern India entirely by an English army ;
that it would-be the worst confession for us to make,
and a complete departure from the ground we have
all along taken—viz., that we were naturalized
rulers of India, like the reigning races and dynas-
ties that preceded us, governing India not as suc-
cessful invaders, but as its adopted guardians. On
this latter idea it would be as absurd for us to
exclude natives from our army in India as it would
have ben for our Norman Kings to exclude
Saxons ; because we are no longer foreigners in
India, however we may have been once, but
possess a union of interests with the natives, as
fellow-subjects alike of the Queen, sharing the same
institutions and enjoying the nine liberty. Sime
may say this is more a theory than a fact, but it
must be al m4'o4 that this profession has gone on
now so long that it would be awkward for us to
depatt from it and govern India like invaders. What
you want, then, is to keep your Native Army, but
to have a tighter hold of it. You want such a
connexion with home as would bring the Home
Government into a very close contact with the
Sepoy, so that it will cease to be a vague and distant
Power to him. But this is exactly what the electric
telegraph does. The sepoy will know that every-
thing he does will be known immediately in Eng-
land. Ho will feel England close to him every
hour of the day. Ha will never be able to get out
of the mysterious proximity, which will sit on him
like a niglitinale the instant he tries to rebel against
it, and strangle the plot before it is horn.
But the electric t -legraph will do more than its
own task ; it will infallibly bring on a quicker
military transit to India—the pas4age by the Alex.
andrian Rail, oad and Suez. With the rapidity
of the news from India we shall not be able to
tole rate the present slow sea passage of troops to
India. The freshness of the news will give a spur to
action, an 1 the nearer we are to the spot in know-
ledge the quicker we shall wish to gr-t there in
person. Tna truth is, the electric t-legraph will
have a tantalisitig effect at first lint 1 we have got
accustomed to the new measurement— he new re-
latt-n_ of news from India to the journey to India.
The instant we hear from India of a great mutiny
or war by electric telegraph we shall 'Wish fur an
elec ric telegraph to send troops to India to by; but
as this is nut within the resour..es of science, we
must be con'ent with the Alexandrian route
as the next best transit. But, if this will
then appear, as it certainly will do, exceed-
ingly slow, the old sea pazsage will be intolerable.
At any rat?, then, the electric telegraph must be
followed by the Alexandrian route, otherwise we
shall only gain six weeks out of five months in our
equipment and transmission of troops on any such
emergency as the present to India. This, of
course, will be worth gaining, but it will not be
a miraculous change. Add on, however, the gain
of another six weeks in the transit of troops, and
you reduce five months to a little more than two
months, as the whole time which is necessary be-
tween the very first outbreak of such a mutiny in
India and its repression by troops from England.
Consider, then, the immense difference that this
will make to the mind of the Sepoy. This present
mutiny broke out on the 10th of May la-t, the
news of it reached this country on the 27th of
June, reinforcements fir putting it down lett
at the end of July, and will arrive in India about
the beginning of November. That is at present
the interval between a military outbreak and its
effective punishment,—the distance between the
middle of Mey and November. But with the
Electric Telegraph and the route by Alexandria
such a mutiny would have been suppressed by
the middle or end of last month by troops tha
left this country after the news of the events.
Such a new machinery, however, we need not
say, will act by way of prevention rather than of
cure. The Indian Sepoy will not mutiny when
he knows that punishment will follow so certainl
and so immediately. He will feel himself under
a new power. The übiquity of England will fil
his imagination and subdue his murmurs ; it will
stand by his bedside, at his table, and at his hut-
do ; and we shall have to thank science for in-
venting a now hold over the Sepoy just at the time
when it was so sadly wanted.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE CIE-
MTS.—The publication of the report of the commie-
hioner4 on the number of the judges and the re-arrange
went of the circuits haN just been circulated. •Tne re-
port expresses a decided opinion against leesPning the
numher of the judges. With regard to the circuits, it
recommends an aslizt for Manche ter,Ai the circuit
is said to be too long, that York shall be taken from it
and added to the Midland circuit ; that, as a kind of
compensation, Warwi3k shall be taken from the Mid-
land and added to the Oxford Circuit ; and that Here-
ford and S.:rewsbury shall be taken for the like reason
from the Oxf,ird and added to the Welsh circuits. The
report also reclnimends a consolidation of the anima of
tome of the smaPer Welsh counties to save time and ex-
pense by converting the two Welsh circuits into one.
The report then recommends a third civil assize for
Yorkshire, Liverpool, and Bristol, to be held at the same
time as the winter gaol deliveries for these places. I
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changes therefore recommended by the report are
ditional winter civil assize at the large tiwns of York
and Liverp 01, and an additional assize for Manchester
and Bristol,

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