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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1857,

in the aggregate,—but really subjecting to the sway
of the sceptre wielded by Queen VICTORIL'S Go-
vernment, 161,000,000 altogether ! Namely,
41,000,000 under the category of the protected
or tributary States, and 120,000,000 (now that
Oude is absorbed into our actual territorial pos-
sessions by what is termed incorporation)
120,000,000 of the human family—there, in
India alone—under the heel of British domination.
During one entire century, therefore—i. e.,
from 1757 to 1857—this enormous Asiatic Em-
pire of ours has been in existence. During that
century it has been steadily, rapidly, appreciably
expanding and expanding 1 It has during this
hundred years been spreading itself far and wide
in all directions, so steadily, so rapidly, so appre-
ciably, that it has ultimately reached the magni-
tude we have here particularised—whether in re-
gard to its superficial dimensions, to its financial
resources, or to its numerical population. But—
scarcely has this first century of its existence been
completed, when the whole huge and complex
fabric is suddenly threatened with destruction.
Immediatelynprior to the Battle of Plassey,
viz., in January, 1757, the first battalion of Ben-
gal Sepoys ever heard of, was raised and officered by
OLIVE, out of a detachment he had just then brought

with him from Madras to Calcutta. THENCE
that enormous Native Army of Bengal, which has
recently revolted (we may say it, alas I without
exaggeration) to a man ! An army—as such—

cost to bring India within a week of England
by the Euphrates line is estimated at 400,0001.,
by the Red Sea to Aden at 300,0001. The com-
pletion in the former would, however, be far less
expensive than, in the latter case, which would cost
the further sum of 400,0001. to complete the cora-
-1 tnunication to Kurrachee.

no longer in existence. Henceforth nothing more
nor less than a lawless horde of robbers and cut-
throats—bloodstained and infamous from their
atrocities—hid away for a while in their great

In such a case, however, a hundred thousand
pounds, more or less, is of comparatively trivial
importance ; and were we compelled to choose be-
tween the conflicting schemes, we should have no
hesitation in awarding the preference to that by
the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. But we have no
difficulty in saying that both should be fully and
fairly carried out. We might thus " make as-
surance doubly sure," and be almost certain that
one or the other would always be available. We
can fully appreciate the advantages arising from
having one line to Trieste and another to Mar-
seilles ; and surely it would be infinitely more
important to have a double line of communication
with India, particularly under the existing cir-
cumstances of that country, and the struggle
that must be maintained for years to come.
It would seem, then, to be sound policy
to proceed with each line simultaneously, and let
them enter into fair competition the one with the
other, ensuring the shareholders in both instances
a fair, remunerative dividend for their outlay by
the guarantee either of the English Government
or of the East India Company, which will. speedily
for all practical purposes become synonymous.

" Both, then, are best," and it will, as we have
said, be sound policy to let both proceed. Should
hostile tribes or nations intervene, we, shall have
the Red Sea- line to fall back upon ; but if, --om
the other hand, storms or tempests should injure
the submerged cable, we shall not be left in the
lurch so long as the communications between
Bagdad and Constantinople remain open. As to
the mere £. s. D. phase of the question,
it is not to be considered for a single mc-
ment. Free and instantaneous communication
with the most important parts of India will be worth
more than the aggregate cost of both, although
it were quadrupled. In place of 700,0001. it
would have been worth ten times the sum to have
received the melancholy intelligence that arrived
on the 27th June, a month sooner, and b have
anticipated the subsequent tidings in a similar
manner. The news of the inflexible resolution of
the British nation to maintain its position in
India, and to fully avenge the atrocities per-
petrated on English women and children might
have prevented the spread of the mutiny, and
averted many of the heartrending narratives that
now horrify the nation, and excite a demand for
vengeance throughout the length and breadth of
the land..

ruffian den at Delhi. There, in truth, they are
now brought to bay collectively. After a course
of absolutely unparalleled and some of them
almost unimaginable crimes--murder, and arson,
and rape, and torture, perpetrated under circum-
stances of even devillish inhumanity—these miscre-
ants may be said to have—there in Delhi—ga
thered themselves together for the unintended
purpose of an aggregate expiation! For an invo-
luntary submission to a collective vengeance—
affording to ourselves a battu of Justice—the
certainty of a hecatomb of victims, victims sternly
and imperatively demanded to be thus sacrificed I
The storming and capture of Delhi will assur-
edly, of course, mark " The End " of the late
sanguinary catastrophe. But that END will only
then have its Beginning ! It will be an End, not
accomplished in a day—any more than that epoch
marked in the annals of Old Rome by the caba-
listic initials, the u. c., meaning simply and lite-
rally the tlrbs Condita. Delhi fallen—the last
batch of the Ruffian Mutineers exterminated—
What will then remain to be done ? Rather,
what will not then have to be accomplished I
"A terrible wreck," as Maga has aptly phrased
it, will be the residue—a wreck the responsibility
of repairing which will then devolve upon us in-
stantly. From that moment must date the reor-
ganisation and the reconsolidation of our empire
in Hindostan. First of all the work of vengeance
—and then the work of reconstruction. The evil
destroyed—the good will then have to be discovered.
Then—with a due display of vigour and sagacity
on his part—Lord CANNINIG may win for himself
(what we all wish him, so won) his ear Hom !
Then—throwing aside at last the plumed bonnet
that has fluttered already in the van of so many
glorious battles, Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, in his turn,
also may find his knightly hand closing at last
upon the bauble of a cor onet—acceptaLle at least
as a symbol of repose and as an evidence of ap-,
preciation. So conftdeat are we of the inevitable
certainty of the ulterior triumph of the good
cause at issue, a cause in which Might
and Right are united—that even now we
are fain, as will be seen, t 3 anticipate in
each instance the probable award of the in-
fallible recompense. Consoled as we are at heart
through all the horrors of the present bloodshed
and uncertainty, by a profound conviction that
events will evolve sooner or later the final recon-
quest of the revolted Presidency ! And that
from the day when that reconquest shall have
been definitively accomplished, will date a new
era for British-India, an epoch of peace and pro-
sperity—the fruits of good government.

The Marquis of Dalhousie, accompanied by the Ladles
Ramsay, purposes to leave this ccuntry early in the en-
suing month for Malta, in order to pass the approaching
winter in that island.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have taken
Eastin gton House, Bournemouth, for some weeks, for
the pur pose of sea-bathing.
The Earl Granv lle left town yesterday.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town yes-
terday for Brockatt Hall, Herts.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT BALGONIE.—We regret to learn
that Viscount Balgonie, eldest son of the Earl and
Countess of Leven and Melville, died on Saturday last,
after a protracted illness, incurred while doing service
with his regiment in the Crimea.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT HINTON.—We have to record
the death of Viscount Hinton, second and eldest sur-
viving son of the Earl and Countess Poulett, which
occurred on Saturday last, at Hinton St. George,
Somerset.
The True Briton, now 80 days on her voyage from
Melbourne to London, has 30,400 sovereigns on freight,
in addition to the 61,803 oz. of gold previously men-

tioned.
The 123,0001. in gold announced last week by the In-
domitable, from Australia, reached London yesterday
afternoon. A. portion will, perhaps, be sold' to the
Bank.
About 50,0001. worth of silver has reached London
within the last day or two from Boulogne and Antwerp,
per the steamers Rhine, Panther, and Clarence. The
imports of the metal from the Cjntineut, however, are
now upon a more moderate scale.
The Suisse of Bern says reliable accounts received from
Prussia state that tke health of the king inspires serious
uneasiness. He had an attack of apoplexy some time
ago at Pilnitz, and a second one only a few- days since
at Potsdam.
THE JOHN AND Lucy EMIGRANT SHIP.—The John
and Lucy (part of the Black Bell line) arrived safely at
Sydney in the beginning of May, with 400 passengers
on board, all in a healthy state.
MILITARY SAVINGS-Ba.NICS.—The number of deposi•
tors in these banks on the 31st of March, 1855, was
9,880, and the balance due by the public 146,5241. The
total amount of the fund from these banks up to the date
of the account (August 1857) was 177,8411.
IMPALEMENT OP A )(GUM—Yesterday morning as

There is a time•honoure3 proverb that illus-
trates the danger of relying on two distinct sup-
ports. The man who rests on double stools has
no very safe reliance. England is at present in
that position with respect to the rival schemes for
telegraphic communication with India. Two
valuable projects are put forward, either of which
would be very acceptable if carried into execution
promptly and efficiently. But unfortunately the
advocates and promoters of the different routes
are at daggers drawn. They seem even more in-
tent ou damaging their rivals than in advancing
their own interests. It is a rehearsal, on a small
scale, of the celebrated "Battle of the Guages," and
there seems to be but too much reason to fear
that during the struggle the nation may lose the
chance of obtaining the invaluable aid of a tele-
graph to India within the present year, which
might easily be accomplished in either case, so as
to enable us to receive communications.

It cannot be otherwise than profoundly inte-
resting to recall at this moment to popular re-
membrance—by rapidly epitomising them in a
few words—the principal Facts connected with the
Rise and Progress, the creation and development
of the British Empire in Hindostan. Exactly one
century has elapsed since the date of its fmnda-
tion. It was on the 23d of June, 1757, that
Crivx, with scarcely three thousand men, routed
the enormous forces of SIIRA.7IH DOWLAII at
Plassey, thereby inscribing the name of the First
Victory upon that historic scroll afterwards em-
blazoned with so many glorious achievements. It
WAS en the 23d June, 1857, that the tenth Regi-
ment of Native Infantry mutinied at Futteghur,
thereby completing the fatal disaster begun hardly
three months previously at BArraekpore.
A hundred years to the very clay, we repeat,
separate from each other those two remarkable
occurrences. In the memorable conquest of
Plassey, our gigantic rule in Asia may be said to
have originated. By the contemptible mutiny of
that single regiment at Futteghur, the revolt of
an entire army, the great army of Bengal, may
be described as having been virtually consum-
mated.

William Cross, aged 14 years, residing In Kent street,
Borough, was endeavouring to scale a wall, he accident-
ally slipped, and fell a considerable depth on some iron
spikes, which entered his body. He was conveyed to
Guy's Hospital in a dangerous state.
A MAN KILLED AT THE IMPERIAL GAS WORKS.—
Yesterday, a man named John Finch, aged 42, who was
engaged at the Imperial Gas Works in arranging the
tackle for lifting some iron-work intended for a gasome-
ter, was struck:on the head by some part of the machinery.
He was taken to the London Hospital, where he died in
a few hours from concussion of the brain.
We understand (says the Edinburgh Courant) the Ad-
miralty is about to make a survey of Lochlomond at an
early date. Those well acquainted with this beautiful
expanse know that sunken rocks rise up near the surface
during the dry season at many points, but the ex ict
position or the exact number of these hidden dangers have
never been properly ascertained or duly marked off.
The letters from Paris mention that M. Auguste
Thurneyssen, the well-known banker, and one of the
directors of the Credit Mobilier, has been declared by
the Tribunal of Commerce liable for the debts of his
nephew, Mr. Charles Thurneyssen, who failed for more
than 600,0001. and absconded in May last. The judg-
ment produced an unfavourable effect on the price of
Credit Mobilier shares.
SOUTHWARK ELECTION EXPENSES.—Yesterday Mr.
It, A. Pritchard, returning officer for the borough of
Southwark, published his statement of the expenses in

It behoves every reflective mind amongst us to
consider in this imminent juncture in our His-
torY--What it 'was that Lord CLIVE'S Victory
really inaugurated ? What it is that this terrible
and disastrous mutiny of the Bengal Army is
threa -.enhg with destruction ?
Li•eralV, it is nothing less titan au Oriental
Emp re—extending in geographical dimensions
over 'nearly 1,000,000 square
and
com-
prising within itt limits considerably more than
se
100,000,000 of human beings the aggregate of
its population. Otherwise to express it, the Prize
now Lt stake is an empire yielding a net
revenue
very little short of 30,000,000/. annually. It is
a dominion spreading, directly or indirectly, over
the chief portion of that vast peninsula—
C_ ape Comorin
stretching north and south from
to the great range of the Himalayas,
east and west from the Delta of the
Indus to the source of the Burhampooter. A
stupendous region, computed to embrace an area,
in round numbers, very neatly ten Ulnas that of
France, and having a t3ta.l boundary, by land and
by water, of more than 11,000 miles-4,500 of
which constitute one continuous line of sea-
board. It is a country, moreover, inhibited by
no leas than a quarter of a hundred different tia-
tiona---twenty-five nations different in race, in
religion, and in language ! A heterogeneous mu:-
titudo, already vaguely spoken of in generalities
as numbering considerably more 0411100,000,000

The conflicting projects are those via curred by the candidates at the election in March last.
the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf, on the il z opm t
eh
xi sp ede od ce ud i
3,
nBtBoitl. a 7
pe7adrs
,thsaitrMcrh. JlohesnisfLocke,
one side, and on the other by the Red Sea and my:, 1,219/. 14s. ld. ; aud Mr.. Apsley Pellatt:Pwiehro,
a
w staunt.seanef t
his election ed, 48/. 3s. 11d. The document concludes
the Indian Ocean. The English Government ap- b gtht 6Mr. Mayhew
expenses.
wheass declined to furnish an
proved of the former, and gave it what may be alastratelt
regarded as the indispensable encouragement of a REPRESENTATION OF GREEVIICII.—A. circular has
beenhedistributedaraongsrivttahtee
et
supporters
to taketersofM trinJ J.
national guarantee of 6 per cent. Unfortunately, Townsend, convening a private o
however, political difficulties intervened, and the consideration the present position of the borough in
with recent events in the Court or P Bankru tcY.
SULTAN'S firman mid not be obtained. It is connexion
1 e
meetingxi oa
o f the friends of Mr. Montagu Chambers was
true that a little gentle pressure might yet get held last evening, and it was unanimously resolved to
rid of this impediment. But there was still an- request
of aac
thavtg
eventlnut amiss.
`Aldermanloecome
saalcoandhid9a.s tealin the
other very serious objection. There was to be a in the field, and two other candidates are spoken of.
land journey from Bagdad to Constantinople of avteisdrtohceKcEhatt cernigh.:dorewdiengprtioerMtor.
hßieyhugehaving
accepted
the°,
Brceipornesoeintthat iohn of thfisboroußedford h .
no less than 1,200 miles. This, it was calcu- ' candidate for the county of hundreds,
a vacancy has
ouse
lated, might be accomplished in little over 6 days been
Aocctahseiornßedus
but did not
by couriers, until a land telegraph could be com- at Once entered the field as a candidate. He addressed—a
pleted across the intervening diet Ince. It is ob-
o
e
urthldiecpmutatti.on tof wait on Mr.
meeting of the electors otri StahturTday.eeening,
is,t oact k standard.a
vious that this c3mmunication might, at any held on Monday,
snhgouldthhee
which esoluA
u
he lee cs too rr se ,
second
ycoanyi
mmeeetTifing comewas p
moment, be cut off, or that the telegraph, if tion was
inviting
atili.pmoitnotiang
opened would be liable to constant destruction at aßnuds Russell, I
,wlinthvidtriangw from theP contest,
the hands of the wandering Arabs. These are quested by the majority of electors then and there assein-
A requisition to Sir W. Clay is in course of signs
serious objections. It is obvious that they may thuledre, requesting him to allow himself toise put in nomi-
come intooperation at the most pressing emergency, nation.
BY A TICKET-OF-LEAVE Col.
and England may find that through Russian or vicArTTEfesTtEeprdaSyulfeoirDenEoon a man named John Ric-h
other intrigues, or even in consequence of mere mond, aged 49 years, residing in Poplar Now-town, was
taken to the London Hospital with a severe incised
wanton mischief, the instrument may fail in die-
wound in his throat. lie is a ticket-of-leave convict,
charging its all-important functions. who had been transported for 14 year, for an attempt to
It was under such circumstances that the Red mundrdher his wetiferiedby cdutting her tdhrfoat. S h eff recovered,c
a
ciceor the
Sea Telegraph Company was projected. They had asometimweasince he returnoednvto England, but he wea's na-
-1 Previously secured the necessary concessions fro:n able to obtain employment, which preyed heavily on his
the Tuikish and Egyptian Governments, so that ,mi r,.i
aP
d , ani i a
knife
hm al
inflicted
dt
the injury despondency
ohh h
iste ohrobattaineTdhae
there- Was- no political impediment to delay the wound is serious and his recovery is doubtful. The
proceedings even for a single hour ;• and when wife of Richmond is in possession of an independency.
once the
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
task of laying
down the cables from Sure about 5 per mille premium, and the short exchange on
to Aden, and e London is 25.20 per 11 sterling. On comparing these
eventually to Kurrachee, the point
• rates with the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d per
not orally selected in bothinstances, instances, was completed, ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly
there would be but little d # 10tho per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
anger to be apprehended
from any human obstacle. The l• advice 3 from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per
and- portion of the mark, and the short exchange oa London is 133 a per 11.
work would only be 240 miles from Alexandria to sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is
Suez, and that through the Red Sea. and Indian in
nearly 1-10th per cent,
London.r The course of
exchange
ge in
at Hamburg
Ne than
York
on
Ocean would be virtu•dly under our own con_ London for , bills ht 6
odayx;
sightan is 1091 per cent
trol. At all events we should have only
twhich, when compared with the Mint par between the
natural difficulties to encounter, and theze '1 in favcoouurnotfruln,glashnodw.s thandat the ex
after
r raking
gnge is
allowanceellg slightly
are far less formidable than what might arise - esheaartgetatof transport and difference of interest, the pre-
Ives
.a trifling profit on the importation of
from the machinations of our enemies. The gold fAil
t
4 jolted Btatee.

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