Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-11-14

Rome, occupying only Ancona ana bologna
SwITzERLAND-The Neufehatel prisoners have
been discharged
TURKEY-Redschid Pasha has received orders to
form new ministry, but has declined.
From the Friend of India.
Progress o the English In India.
The Goth of June was the centenary of the mas
sacre of the Black Hole. 1t the goth Of June,
1885, that Suraj ood-DoWlah, after triumphant en-
try into Calcutta permitted &c that great crime, mem
orable for its singular atrccity, memorable for the
tremendous retributon by which it followed"
From that day forward. so unbroken has been the
course of British conquest, increasingly the growth
of British powe, that its events have passed not on
" from recollection, but almost from belief. The
Imagination refuses to realize the picture of Cover
nor of Fort William sinking 10 his boat, and every
European in Calcutta trembling for his life at the adj
vance of Nuwah of Mooshebabad, at the head of
rabbe of BengaIees. There is no hope of dominion,
however wide, no dream of progress, however vision
airy, which is justified by the history OF this one
hundred years. II we now to predict that
in 1856 an Anglo Saxon governor general of China
would hold evees at Ptkin, that Cambodia would be
a commissioner ship, and Japan province valued
chiefly for its fertility and its revenue, we should be
| accused, most justly, of impractical specuatlcn.-
Yet that dream would be less marvellous than the
accomplished fact There is d native lady yet fight
| ing lawsuits in Calcutta whose husband must have
watched, perhaps shared in, the triumph OF SuraJ
God Dowlah All that we have accomphshed-the
subjugation of empire larger and more pofulous
| "
ment for an eighth of the human races compre
hended within The span of those two lives. 1t has
been accomplished, too, by a force which has never
yet been equal to clear tenth OF the population OF
a presidency town.
There is nothing in all history TO compare with
the achievement. Russia rules wider territory, but
one half of it fell to her by accident ana three nun
dred years have elapsed since Ivan freed MS coun-
try from the Tartars and himself from the arsocFa-
cy The Romans conquered races as brave and
ar advanced
but they spent seven hundred years in the execution
of the task Alexander subdued territories as broad
in far less time but his work was upheld only by
the vgor of his sing lie mind, and persisted with him
self The Spanish empire in America is the only one
which can for moment bear comparison with that
of The English in India and the whole population
of those vast trtories would not be missed from an
. Indian census.
In these days OF political etfeminacy, when the
conquest Of an African island is gigautic" an
undertaking for Great Britain, and the press screams
because one more MussuIman kinglet Is pushed ou
of the PATH it is we'll occasionally to recall the great
t deeds we have already performed But it is not te
indulge in any feeling OF natural pride that We WIS.,
to recall this anniversary it may serve oG''et pu
pose in encouraging US the vast task which yet re
mains to be accomplished. The century of conques
may be considered complete Is the century of CIV
ilzatinn TO commence? for, as yet, fully as we recog
Mise the achievement already performed, We adm
that we have founded nothing-e establish one In
stitution which would endure if the external pres
sure we've Withdrawn. We have conquered the bod
les of this great population, but their minds ar
still too much exempt from our authority III
rhymed sentences of Sadi have still greater nt1uenc
in India than al the philosophy of the West.
| We have placed India under one government, bu
i its component kingdoms are still without the slight
3 est cohesion, desire 10 cohere. The provinces
Rome called their severance from the empire th
0 greatest OF oalamties We have ore tied an arm
0 more powerful and better disciplined than The arm
: of the Mogu but system still depends wholly o
ourselves The military system of Alexander eudt
red for centuries after his death. We have passe
laws wiser than those of Monoo, but we have in
planted no theory OF sound legislation. r, pei
re- shed, but daily life in Europe is still regulated
lite the precepts of Justnan We have founded college
ad by the dozen, but the peope-heso hundred an
his fifty million of whom we talk much-are as bari
arous as their forefathers three hundred years
the savage rule had not driven cut the human educ
ton from the municipalities of Gaul. We hay
OIL created judiciary free at least from corruption, b
81 the native idea of justice remains unchanged.
III have restrained the enorites of Hindooism but
'u have given the people new faith to replace ii
u old. We have fostered permitted gigantic trad
and there is not one sound principle OF commerce y
m rooted in the native mind. The task remaining
he be accomplished 10 the DEEPEST thinkers amc
nal hopeless. 1t is fear the conquest OF Ind
If would also to have been to towards. But II we bril-
oh TO the energy and the courage, the rmness and
contempt for the impossible which we have broug
to our military task, the historian of the next
uary may yet chronicle results magnificent al
an. infinitely more enduring.
e &c THE GROWTH OF ST. PAUL, M1NNEsoTA.--We e
pf tract the following from the Minnesota Pioneer a
y, Democrat;
10 1.-THE growth o! St Paul in population, and in tho
: is eie,"enS Vi "ean anu Piospey "nlon oons''
the present season. A greater number of buildir
~ been erected this year than in any two years prec
~ ing The increase in population has been very gre
tains population of twelve thousand souls. In Is
i" it did not contain five houndred inhabitants.
IL Dnrin The Fast