New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-08

above all 20 ,ift her with means Of irrigation End Of IL
ternsl comr1auication They intend nog Or sing 1t
OF railroads India And they VIII 90 = The
| salts mus. &c i8aoyreciable
1t IL notorious that the productive powers OF India
are parztzed by the utter Raat Of means for conveying
ard exchanging rs various produce. Nowhere, more
than in lnda, do we meet with soc destitation ia the
mist of natural plenty for of the means OF ex
change. II was proved before Committee OF tbs
British House Of Commons, which sas in lsls. that
"slen grain selling from to : quarter at
kaHdeish il sold at 6ii to 70l at Poonah where
The people were dying in the streets of famine,
ai,hout The possibility OF gaisng supp les from Kan
sosisb because the clay. roads were impractcable"
Th,' introduction of railroads nay be easily made 10
observe agrcutur purposes by the tormatioa Of
tanks where ground is required tor embankment. and
~ tie conve, Of water along the different lines.
las irrigation The slEcg Of farming IN the East,
night be greatly extended aud the frequently recurring
lo'sl fsmnes arising fcm the want Of water would DO
aveTted. The general importance OF ralssys, viewed
under this head, must become evident, when We
remember that irrigated lands. even IN the districts
Ghauts. psy three times much in taxes, afford
ten or twelve times rs much employment, aad yield
Twelve or fifteen times much profit as the same area
without irrigation
Railways viii afford the means Of diminishing the
amount and the cost Of the military establishments Col
Warren Town Major of the Font II. William, stated
before a Select Committee of the House of Commons
The praoncsbliiy Of receiving Intelligence from dis
tan, parts Of the unity Ia many hour a. pr
requires days and weeks a0d II sending nstsuciipas
with troops and stores in the more brief prnd arscons
eTsiiOus which cannot be too highly estimated Troops
cOud be kept dis and healthier stations than At
present much loss Of If from ckness would by this
lie spared could not % toe extent %
required AZ the vAohs and the loss by decay aud
the destruction INCIDENTAL 70 the climate wou also BE-
avoided. The number OF troops mgit be diminished In
dr-ct pr lort n ~ their Effectiveness.
We know that the municipal organization and the
economical basis Of the village communities has been
broken up but their worst feature the dissolution Of sd
cety into stereotype and disconnected atoms has sur
yyed their vitality The villageisoston produced the
absence roads in India and the absence of roads per-
petuated the village isolation. On this plan cOmmu-
nifty existed with given scale of low conyenieuces, al
most without intercourse with other villages, without
the desires and efforts indispensable 20 social advance
The British having broken up this selEsuicent iaera
of the villages railways will provide the new want Of
communication aud intercourse. Besides, one OF the
effects of the ral way system will be 10 bring into every
"vilage affected by Il such knowledge of the contry-
and appliances Of other countries, and such means
Of obtaining them as will first put the hereditary aud
stpen1ary village artsanshp of India to full proof Of
its capabilities. and then supply It's defects" (chap-
man, the Cotton aud COmmerceOf lndia)
know that the English miocracy intend 20 endow
India with railways with the exclusive view Of extracting
at diminished expenses the Cotton and other raw
materials for their manufactures. But when you have
once introduced machinery into the lOcomDuOn OF
cnubtiy which possesses iron aud Goals you unable
10 Withhold il from ts fabrication. fOu cannot maintain
a net of railways over an immense country without
introducing all those industrial processes necessary TO
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motion and out which there must grow the appca-
ton Of machinery 10 those branches Of industry not inn
medstely connected with railways The ralway.system
will therefore become In India truly the orerunner OF
modern industry This is the certain "a the Hin
docs are allowed by British authorities themselves to
D ssess particular aptitude for accommodating them
selves 10 entirely labor, and acquiring the requisite
knowledge OF machinery. Ample proof Of this fact Is
Afforded By the cap cities and EXPERIENCES OF the native
engineers in the Calcutta mint where they have been for
wears employed in working the steam machinery, by tho
natives attached to the several steam engines In the
Hurdwar coal districts. and by other instances. Mr.
Campbell bimself greatly influenced as be IS BY the
preudices of the East India companys obliged to ayog
that great ofthe Indanpeope possesses great
industrial epegy, is well fitted to accumulate capital
and remarkable for mathematical clearness OF head,
and talent for figures and exact sciences" Their in
"tellects" be saws "are excellent" Modern indus
try resulting from the railway system, will dissolve tbs
hereditary divisions Of labor upon which rest the Indian
clses, those decisive impedments to Indian progress
| and Indian power
An the English bourgeoiss may be forced to DO will
ether emancipate materially mend the social condi-
ton OF the ofthe people, depending not only on tho
development Of the productive power, but OF their APP
preparation by the people But what they will not fail
10 do to lay the material premises for both Has
the bourgeoisie ever done more Has IL effected
progress without dragging individuals aud people through
! 'oOd and dirt, through misery and degradationi
The Indians will not reap the fruits Of the new ee-
ments e society scattered among them by the British
bourgeoisie till in Great Britain Itself the now ruling
classes shall have been suppanted by the industrial proe-
tarat OF till the HindOOs themselves shall have grown
strong enough to throw or the English yoke altogether.
At al events, may safely expect % see, at more
less remote period, the regeneration OF that great
and interesting country whose gentle natives 70
the expression Of Prince SOiykOg, IN the most IN
ferior classes, plus fms Ct Plus GdrOits que les Halisas,
whose submission even IL cOunterbalanced by certain
calm nobility who Notwithstanding their natural angor,
have astOnished the British officers by their bravery,
country has been the ot our languages, our
religions and who represent the type of the ancient Ger
in tie and The type OF the ancient Greek IN tho
/ BIabmin.
cannot part with the subject Of India without some
/ concluding remarks.
The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarsm Of
bon, geOis-ciyzaiiOn lies unveiled before eyes,
tuning from It's home where il assumes respectable
forms 10 the colonies, where it goes naked they
the defenders Of property, but did any revolutionary
party ever originate agTaTan revolutions like those in
Bengal in Madras ana in Bombay Did they not in
Ind TOW all expression Of that great r0bber Lord
Give himself resort atrOci0us extortiOn, when sim
pie corruption could not keep pace with their rsPactyf
/ w lie they prated in Europe about the inyi0lable
sarct,y OF the national debt did they not eOnscate Ia
ludia the dividends Of the rayahs, who had Invested
their private savings in the CJmpanys own funds
While they cOmbst.ed the French revolution under q
pretext Of defending our holy religion did they not
forbid at the same time Christianity % be prOpsgated
10 India and did they 10 order to make money out
Of the pilgrims streaming % the temples Of Orssa and
Bengal take up the trade In the murder and prOstu-
ton perpetrated in the temple Of Juggemauil These
are the men Of Property, Order, Family, aad Reii-
giOn.'
The devastating effects Of ED.sh industry, when con-
tempaled girh regard to India, county as vast az
Enrore and containing 10 millions Of acres, are palPa-
bic aud cOnoundDg But muse not forget ina, theJ
- ~, .b rgenie resufs Of the whole system Of pro-