New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-11

Charter we're the consequence Of this step The Com
panys affairs falling TO improve, notwithstanding their
new condition and the English nation having simultsne
ousy lost their colonies 10 North America the necessity
OF elsewhere reganing great Colonial Empire be-
came and more universally felt The illastrOus
Fox thought the oppouDe moment had arrived in 1873,
for bringing forward his famous India bill, which pro-
posed 70 abolish the COurts Of Directors and Propie-
tore and vest the whole Indian government in the
hands Of seven Commissioners appointed By Parliament
BY the personal influence Of the nbecie King over the
House of Lords, the bill Of Mr.. Fox was defeated and
made the instrument Of breaking down the the then Co
ation Government Of Fox and Lord North and Of plsc
ne the famous Pitt the head Of the Government Pitt
carried in I7o4 bill through both Houses which direct
ed the establishment OF the Board Of Control consist
ing of six members Of the Privy Council who we're 70
"cbeek superntend aud control all acts operations and
concerns which in any wise related TO the civil and mil
iary Government, Of the territories and
possessions OF the East India Company" On this
head, MIL the historian, says:
sIn passing law two objects pursued To avoid
The mputaOn Of what represented the heinous OBJ
jtct OF Mr. FOxs bill it necessary that the principal
part Of the power should AFFAIR to remain in tbs hsnd Of
the Directors Fer ministerial advantage Was necessary
that II should in reality be all taken away Mr. Puts bill
professed differ from that Of his rival chiefly ais very
point that while the one destroyed tbs power Of tbs Duec
Tors the other left almost Under the OF Mr.
Fox the powers Of the ministers would have osen ayow
sdly held Under the Of Mr. Pitt they held in
secret and by fraud The bill Of Fox Transferred the ne
Parliament. The bill Of Mr. Pitt transferred them to
Commissioners appointed by the King
The years Of 1888 and 17s4 were thus the first and
tin now the only years for the India question 10 become
ministerial one The bill of Mr. Pitt having been car
red the charter Of the East India Company was re-
pewed and the Indian question set aside for twenty
years But in 1913 the Ant-JacObin war, and IN 1855
the newly introduced Reform Bill superseded all other
political questions
This then is the first reason of the India questions
having failed become great political question: since
and before 7s4 that before that time the East India
had 6rsft IN q
that after that time the Ogarchy absorbed all OF Its pow
or which could assume without mourning responsibility
and that afterwards the English people IN general ~ere
nj the very epOchs Of the renewal Of the charter IN 1913
and at 1888 absorbed by other questions OF overbearng
interest
We will now take different view. The East India
COMPANY commenced by attempting merely to establish
factories for their agents and places OF deposit for their
goods In order 10 protect them they erected several
forts Although they had even early as 1853, con
<eiyed the establishment Of dominion in India and OF
making territorial revenue one OF their sources oil eno
ument vet down 10 l744 they had acquired but a lew
annp0rant districts around Bombay, Madras, ana al
eutts The war which subsequently broke out in the
CarDatc had the effect Of rendering them alter various
struggles virtual sovereigns ofhat part of India Much
more considerable results from the war IN Bengal
and the victories Of Gives. These results were the
real occupation Of Bengal Baber and Orissa At the
end Of the Eighteenth Century and in the first years Of
the present one there supervened the wars with lppo
Sab and in consequence of them great advance OF
Gem In the second decennum of the Nineteenth Cen
fury the first convenient frontier that Of India within
the desert had at length been conquered 1t was not
till then that the British Empire in the East reached
those parts Of Asia, which had been, at all times the
seat of every great central power in India But the most
vulnerable point of the Empire from which II had been
oyerrun as often old conqusrOrs were expelled by
new ones the barriers of the Western renter were not
In the hands of the British During the period from
1888 to Is49 in the Sikh and Afghan wars British rule
subjected to defnitive possession the ethnographca
political and military frontiers OF the East Indian Cont
nent by the compulsory annexation of the Punlaub and
Of Scnde These possessions Indispensable to re-
pulse any invading force issuing from Central Asia, and
indispensable against Russia advancing to the frontiers OF
Persia. During this last decennum there have been
added to the British Indian territory l6 900 square
miles with population OF e,57263O souls. AS to the
interior all the native States now became surrounded
by British possessions subjected to British su=erane6
under various FORMS and cut off from the seacOast,
with the sole exception of Guzerat and Sclnde As to
its exterior, India was now finished III Is only sace
ls49, that the great AngO-lndan Empire has ex.
isted.
Thus the British Government has been fighting under
the Companys for two centuries, till at last the
natural limits Of India reached We understand
now why during all this time all parties in England have
sonnyed in silence those which had resolved to be-
come the oudest with their hypOcrtica peacecan at
Ter the ACCOMPLISHMENT of the Indian Empire should
have been completed Firstly of course, they had TO
Get H. in order to subject il aferward to their sharp
tered position Of the Indian question in the present year.
1853 compared with all former periods Of Charter re-
newM.
Again. let us take different view We shall still
better understand the peculiar crisis in Indian legislation
on reviewing the course of British commercial inter-
course with India through its different phases
At the commencement of the East-lnda C0mpanys
operations under the reign Of Elizabeth the Company
was permitted for the purpose OF protaby carrying on
its trade with India 10 export an annual value of ESOOOO
in silver gold and foreign coin This nraction
against all the preiudlces OF the age, and Thomas
z Nun was forced to lay down N A Discourse on
.Trade from England TO the East Indies,
the foundation of the mercantile SYSTEM admitting
that the precious metals were tho only real wealth
country could possess but contendng at the same time
that their expectation might be safely allowed provided
the balance Of pdymeats in favor Oithe exporting ma
ton In this sense he contended that the commodities
imported from East India were chiefly reexported TO
other countries, from which much greater quantity OF
bullion was obtained than had been required TO pay for
them in India. In the spirit, Sir Joshua Child
wrote A Treatise wherein il is demonstrated that the
EAST India Trade is the most national Trade Of all
"Trades" By-and5y the partisans of the East India
COMPANY grew audaclouS, and IL may be noticed
as curiosity 10 this strange Indian history that the
Indian mOnOpOllstS were the hrst preAchefS Oi Tree
trade in England.
Parliamentary Intervention, with regard to the Last
India Company was again claimed, not by the commer-
cia but by the industrial class, at the latter end OF the
18th century and during the greater part OF the lSh
when The importation of East Indian cotton and silk
stus was declared to ruin the poor British manuiac;ur
ers an opinion put forward in John Poexfen; England
and India inconsistent ia their Manufactures London,
"l6g7," title strangely verified century and half
later but in very different Parliament did then
interfere BY the Act IL and II William ILL., cap. 10,
il was enacted thai the wearing of wrought silks and OF
printed or dyed cac0eS from India, Persia ami Chna
should be prohibited and penalty Of 1900 imposed ON
all persons having selling the same Similar laws
were enacted under George L., H. and HI, in conse-
quence Of the repeated lamentations OF the ser"ard So
.sanIoltsnaAw lSrtiSh manufacturers And thus, dur