Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-06-07
The East India Company.

ms mammoth corporation, which may be sald TO
rule the commercial destinies of England, is thus
spoken of by the Christian Enquirer:
81 The stockholders of this Company have never
much exceeded two thousand and the capital stock
on which dividends have been paid, at the largest
has been put at $6,000000. 1t has been subject in
England to the unwise management which must al
ways attend company whose stockholders and di-
rectors constantly changing, and whose agents
and field of operations distant by half the circum
ference of the globe from the centre where
originate; and beside this, it has had to encounter
the hostility of the whole commercial class of Eng
land formerly shut out by its monopoly from the In
dian trade while in India it has contended for exis
tence on hundred bloody battle fields, with the
Dutch and French and the native monarches of the
East. But notwithstanding all obstacles it has
PEELED the Dutch; it has annihilated the power of
the French in India has subdued one native king
dom after another; its factories have grown into
States, and these States into vast and consolidated
Empire; it has maintained standing army larger
than that OF any European power except Russia, and
varying at different times, from 100000 to 100000
it has conducted sieges not less dreadful than
those which drenched the cities of Spain in blood in
the peninsuar war; it has stormed imperial cities
and fortresses almost beyond number so incessant
have been its that for hundred years
ly day has passed in which the wild beasts of the
jungles, the alarmed inhabitants of the hills, have
not fled before the thunder of the English cannon
it's bayonets have broken the power of the wild Nah
rata cavalry of the disciplined squadrons of Mysore,
great and warlike kingdoms, and not only subdued
them, but has deposed their sOveregns appropriated
their revenues, subvered institutions old as India
herself reconstructed its laws and jurisprudence, and
vast regions changed the very tenures by which
the soil is held; its history full of vast schemes
to-day of conquest tomorrow of social regeneration
and improvement-of sklful diplomacy, of heroic a.
chievement Of desperate valOr, making good all def
ciencies of numbers and resources, and Of names
world renowned in craftsmanship and war and lite
and IN En- hos
been composed of merchants and others who have
lived quietly good sub jects and citizens unknown
and unheard of; yet they have appointed, and, al
their pleasure recalled Governors General who have
exercised IN India despotic authority over the for
tunes of more than hundred millions of people
which the monarch Of England dares not exercise r
his island domain. Before its charter expired il
1888, it had subdued nearly the whole peninsula
from Cape Comorin to the impossible SHOWS Of thu
Himalaya mountains. And since thea, the career O
conquest has not paused. The cannon of England
have burst open the mysterious gates of China sht
is trying experiments in civilization among thu
savages of Borneo: she has added the Pun aub t.
| her empire and thousand miles west of the Indus
reversing the course of Alexanders conquests pene
trating among the wild and warlike tribes of Afgha
nistan, where he met the ercest resistance, her
weared battalions have reached the confines of Per
STA, and the echoes of her advancing drums hav
startled the sennels who at hight kept watch at tn
outposts of Russian power"
Only Brick Another.
Edwin was looking at a large building which the
were putting up, just opposite his fathers house,
He watched the workmen from day to day, the
carried up the bricks and mortar, and then place
them in their proper order.
His father said to him. My son, you seem to b
very much taken with the bricklayer-pray, wha
might you be thinking about! Have you any nc
ton of learning the trade q
< No, sir" said Edwin, smiling; 'but I was Jus
thinking what little thing brick is, and yet tina
great house is built by only laying brick on an
other
Very true my son. Never forget it. Just so
is in all great works. All your learning is only
little lesson added to another. If man could wal
all around the globe, it would be only putting on
foot before the other. Your whole life will be mad
up of one little moment after another. Drop adde
to drop makes the
Learned from this not to despise little things -
Learn also not to be discouraged by great labor tn
greatest labor becomes easy if divided into paris
You could not jump over mountain but step afte
step takes you to the other side Do not fear there
fore, to attempt great things. Always remember tina
the whole of yonder lofty edifce is only brick
another"