The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-01

This mammoth corporation is tlius spoken Of by
the Christian Enquirer
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 TO 900, 900. IL has been
subject, IN England, 10 the unwisc mana cement
which must always attend a company whose stock
holders ana directors are constantly changing, and
whose agents and field Of operations distant by
half the circumference OF tie globe from the cen
tire where measureS Originate; and besides this, il
has had 10 encounter the hostility OF the whole com
mercial class OF England, formerly shut up bv its
monopoly from the Indian trade while in loda il
has Contcnded for existence huudred bloody
baule fields, with Dutch and French, and the native
monarchles o the cast. Bat notwithstanding all
obstacles, 1t has expelled the Dutch; II las aulhi-
lated the power Of the French in Inda-has sub
dued one native kingdom after another; its facto
ries have grown into States and these States into
vast and consolidated empire; il has maintained a
| standing army larger than that of any European
power except Russia, and varying different times
from one hundred and nifty thousand 10 two hundred
and ninety thousand men; 1t has conducted sieges
not less dreadful than those which drenChed the cities
OF Spain in blood, IN the pcuinsuar war; il haa
stormcd imperial cities aud ortroases almost be.
yond number. So incessant havc been is wars,
that Tor "A hundred years scarcely a day has nnssed
in " hich the Wild beasts of The iu.gl,s 90 the
alarmed inhabitants Oi the hills, have not fled be-
fore the thunder of the British cannon III hayD.
nets have broken the erca, power of the Wild Nah
rata cavalry, ot tue wcll-disciplined squadrons of
Mysorc and OF the ianat, courage If ihe Sikhs; il
has subdued great and wurhke Kingdoms and not
only subdued them, but has deposcd their sOver-
egns, appropriated their revenues, subvertcd in
sutions old India herself reconstructed its
laws and Jurisprudence, aud over vast regions
changed the very enures by which the soil is held;
IT'S history IL iull OF vast schcfnesto day of con
quest, tomorrow of social regeneration and i'm
prnvemcnt Of skllul diplomacy olhecoic achieve
ment, Of desperate valor, making good all defcien-
cies of numbers and resources, and Of names world
renowned in Craftsmanship, aud ar and litera-
tue and religion
This company in England h,s been composed of
merchants apd others, Who have li,ol quietly, IA
good subjects and citizens, unknown ana unheard
oI yet they have appointed, and, ,eir pleasure,
recalled governors general, who have exercised in
India despotic authority over the iortuu,. Of more
than one hundred millions Of people. which the
monarch oi England ddres not exercise in bis
island domain. Before ts charter expired in 1888
II had sublncd nearly the whole peninsula from
Cape Comorin to the iupassable SHOWS of the Him
alaya Inutlntalns. And since then. the career OF
conquest has not paused. The cannon of FL gland
have burst open the mysterious gatr- Of China; ah
Is trying new experiments IN civilization among
the savagcs of Borueo; she has added the Punaub
70 her empire, and thousand miles Of the In
dus reversing the course ot Alexander conquests
penetrating among the Wild and warike tribes vi
Ahghanstan, where she met the hercest resistance;
her unwearicd blttalions have reached the confines
OF Persia, and the echoes of her advancing drums
have startled the sentnels who at night kept watch
at the outpost OF Russian power