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SPAT' 441-1,--PITTIT.TC ZN.*.LF

IRAT rue; OF Y'
GLOBE.—We hod an arrival from Ineia and
China yesterday. There is more than usual absence
Of news of a striking nature in the letters and pipers
thus conveyed. The pacific character of the intelli-
gence cannot fail to gratify the people of this
country. The breaking out of a war between the
Rritish Government in India and any of the native
Powers, or the interruption of tranquility '‘y revolts
of
any of the tributaries of those Priirees, and
-
the consequent employment of force to subdue
them, are events to be deprecated whenever they
arise. Their existence is prejudicial to commerce,
and impedes the progress of the natives in those habits
'which are not less beneficial to themselves, than they
are to the consolidation and solidity of the British em-
tre in the East. The changed character of the tidings
ought by these arrivals since Sir Henry Hardinge
displaced Lord Ellen borough in the Government, is not
'More remarkable than gratifying. Durng the adminis-
tration of the latter, restlessness pervaded the Cul ;Teen
Portion of the inhabitants of India. They felt their pro.
perty and their prospects insecure under a Government
the head of which was possessed by a penchant for milie
taz Y display. They felt ~that their interests were
leopardieed by the constantly recurring warlike de-
Monstratlons which the. Governor-General projected ;
the military expeditions,!. he set on foot, and per-
eonally beaded ; and the• dread he managed con-
stantly to excite. Fears. paevailed lest new wars
'would be. •undertaken, :and new territory seized
14119 n and annexed. Thus the interests of corn-
llietee, which are •founded in peace, were in-
*)
ellred ; and the integrity of the empire itself—
based as ,it is on the confidence of the natives in the
aklvantages they derive from the British Government
--waserilled by 'the provocations to distrust the
Pledged faith of that -Government. Seeing—as they
seen;--its vielat6n'of treaties with the Ameers of
.e4Siade, and the thretitAed interference with the Pun-
tahh, as the preliminziry of dealing with that territory
the same way ashad been. taken with the Sindian
territory, a jealousy and distrust of British faith would
eAcito:l. Distrust would engender intrigues among
neighbouring native Powers. These would ripen
into hostile confederacies against our rule. The
"IPioYment °flan immerfse force, to break up and
imsperse the cdfifederates, which must be kept up to
'Prevent a recurrence of 'similar embarrassing circum-
mtances, would impose an ;ini mense demand upon the re-
:venue, anden4arik4rthe stability ofour Eastern Empire.
leThat such results would certainly be produced by
-Cord EllenhOrongh's policy was evident to the Hon.
court of Directors, who repeatedly remonstrated with
blirri' and with,her Majesty's Ministers who selected
tinefor the- p 44. Finding remonstrances, repeatedly
'Urged, utterly. unavailing—each successive arrival
bringing some new proof of the Governor. General's
determination to pursue his expensive and dangerous
3
liey—they at length interposed their power of recal.
he mischiefs Lord Ellenborough had wrought were
'arrested; and began to subside from the hour that
e,ir Henry Hardinge set foot in India. Where
nissatiafietion, perturbation, and alarm pervaded the
Population, tranquillity has resumed itn sway. The
eotainexcial interests are no 10-ver the prey of
apprehensions that some new freak o, be Governor-
blieneral will unsettle the basis of trade, and entail
4°83, if not ruin. upon the enterprises in which they
Ilte embarked. Sir Henry Harding, seeno,, in every
tesst"'"et, to offer a perfect contrast to his predecessor.
There is no obtrusion of himself—no bembastic procla-
.lt,atioeis of his policy. His experience in war, and
the prominent part he, in former years, occupied in
Military operations, has established his fame, and
impart confidence to any undertakings of that
find which any events might demand. But that
r 3
experience hes produced in him a conviction
that a warlike policy is, of all others, the most de-
trsenental to British interests. He is, therefore, the
Zitivator• of peace. The following remarks of the
intes are in accordance with facts, and express our
'views of the effect of Sir H. Hardinge's policy, so far
as that policy has been developed :
" We are glad to hear that Sir H. Hardinge seems
to follow a judicious, a cautious, and a dis•
eliminating line of conduct. He seems, if his plicy be
we tnticipate, to have a fair chance of' cal ryieg his
Iztentions into full effect, as there is neither war, nor a
Prospect of war in any quarter; and even the civil war
14 the Ptzujaub appears for the present suspended. The
prospects of commerce, too, are brightening, and, on the
vdiolo, the contents of our Indian dispatches, the first
teceiveei this year, are as satisfactory as we could well
desire."
"There hays been many powerful and justly-merited
‘exhibitions of the follies and faults of Lord Ellen.
'borough's administration of the Indian Government :
the most effectual condemnation it has yet received is
round in the opposite character and influence of his
laeccessor, in the same high office.
STANDARD.—A long and not very well written
tirticle, upon the existingrelatione between the Papacy
Aid the several nations of Europe, appeared last
Ppek in a morning paper. This article, though
k.ished in a journal which can scarcely be
rashl to support the policy of the Government,
ee,L, by a certain air of diplomatic triyeteree im
11,417if' upon some simple persona as a half-official
sot esto, and been eagerly seized upon by others
Lion `O „,, simple, to serve their own purposes of agita-
the -Lhe truth, we have reason to believe is, that
no more responsible for
the artittiiesihe Ginovernment; is
aBhitigton
write' question than the Government of
or Pekin ; and we know that the
twee.thannothing new
een 13 • of the relations be-
Thee . • latish and Roman Governments, because
r " nothing or twe new to tell. For many years—
tish Gear:v years at the least—every successive Bri-
thaintai4,_.ntnent has been under the necessity of
lettipoianluTl a correspondence with the Pope as a
ceeee pr ince, for commercial purposes, and for the
lion illenee of travellers. Previously to the separa-
13ritish°f the kingdom of Hanover from the
tnerall Crown, this correspondence was pretty
-liaise! carried on through the Hanoverian
\Picea of
o at Rome, though occasionally the ser-
ern„-eean Austrian or Prussian Minister were
tleiof"X• When, however, the Crown of Hanover
tnlphe7eritiP" King Ernest the late Administration
own Co" a stipendiary, but unofficial, agent of its
We hay Illanage the rather unimportont correspondence
tie e described •the death of' that gen-
, n'an heat and upon
-necesso summer,
summer, Mr. Petre was named his as -
be, r• This raised is the whole truth upon which have
Inents, 8° many- fanciful stories of art ange.
selvee to
_ne°rdys, &c. Before men allowed them-
was
em.aoelieve that Sir Robert Peel's Government
Part e .gf-'(1 in a violation of the law, and acting a
by en°ghpconsistent with its character, es to attempt
much oreet
course what micriit be as easily an
eeeeernore honourably effected directly, if it could
*Oll CetPd in any manner, they would have done
Ittkit„sic"aider whether the object pureued was
skt
e, or worth the trouble of pursuing it.
,
e'er ;)lA„lye presume to he, some official control
eoki
1 ememan Catholic clergy in her Majesty's
.11,1‘08 rotestan,.
--spiritual control being, of course, what
L Government has a right to claim.
nip?. Is order. to give such official control as is here
hee".itstd, the Pope must first himself have it—but he
trete) irle°t, at least in Ireland. The Roman Catholic
s"°Ps, bishops, and priests, in Ireland, care just 1
ear;ei!ch for the authority of the Pope as they
et
fur the authority of Queen Victoria. The
Aell)aee of the Irish Roman Catholic Church to
kepee"onian see is merely nominal. They use the
ti,47 of the Pope when it serves their own purpose ;
E.l,ttllre.w„iettllttePrlso.y the shadow of his Holiness's authority
indifferent to them ; but let the Pope, only
,n° least disposition to control them, and they
141.1,,er1,i3T as little respect to his mandates as to a
s speech. This was proved in the case of
eise ve,
ho "0 controversy, more recently in the case of
16!eeeeP
t.OFinan's privation, and in the cruel
~IL";teail 41," of Dr. Mulholland, who, when he ex-
Lne
:a Pope's order to restore him to his parish,
signed Inth the seal of the Vatican, and counter-
trst eenY Cardinal Franzoni, the Pope's Secretary
X 116,3 (we have seen the order auch as we de-
,.(t '')--harl the document all but flung in his face.
qi.pe Perfectly untrue, therefore, to say that the
Ati has more power in Ireland than in
Prussia, or France. The Pope has
th Power whatever in Ireland.
in
Lev_ dependent power of the Roman Catholic
tithe a in Ireland is an anomaly, but like the
4tal It anOtnal of the Pope's concordat with Pro-
Ile of tPrussia, on which the changes have been
the f en
rung, it is an anomaly inseparable from
the constitution constitution of the United Kingdom. It
(I%,ee
.simplest thing in the world for a despotic
thaeerel gat who can by a word or a nod corn-
ql te_ the civil obedience of all his subjects in
"'Poral things, to arrange with an ecclesiastic,
tiltitht hrai.sesicoir abroad, the limits of spiritual and civil
time. n, and this is just what is done by a con-
te 44. But how can the Government of a free
•
tils • Y.' in which every man claims and enjoys
111, light to think as
pleases him, to believe as
k4rase4 him, and to act as he thinks fit, make
14 such
the arrangement? France is just now
'lied agony of the attempt to reconcile estab-
N teßoman Catholicism with civil liberty ;
;,:teeoeuee,, symptoms of the experiment hitherto
,r7i are the very reverse of encouraging.
Nti.it.ed States sought to get rid of all difficulties
it 9 kind by altogether rejecting religion from
Political constitutions ; but late events at
rt,;-;.tia ore and Philadelphia, and late alarms at New
tee ' seem. to prove the inefficiency of this expe-
tte '" To us it is as clear ns any proposition
t(ite he, that no free Government can ever
tth any satisffietory and useful arrangement
'''•°/110, and, whatever our opinion of the ge-
.•
.tsalicy of the Papal see, we do not found this
n upon any offensive hypothesis, but upon
l'yonsideration, that as under a free ;'orm of go-
e• e taent, the clergy must be as free as :he laity, a
V' • lb.
h, " Catholic priest under such a government, in-
N 7 I as be is with more or less of personal power, will,
'ersely disposed, resist the Pope, by virtue of