The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-13

Ebe Nows nron india-vhs Critical Position Of
Br1tish Authority There.
Recent events in India demonstrate that the
theories Of Exeter Hall nurture the seeds Of de-
cay for England's empire. Travelling hsod In
hama with Eogiand's power, they insist upon cub
jecting all social organization, all religious be-
lief, and all material development, to procrus-
an reduction to their own accepted standard,
entirely regardless of its effect upon the life
springs Of the politico-social organs n.
We have no with to cavil at the Osteosible aims
of the enthusiastic philanhfop'sts who meet in
Exeter Hall for 30 far rs they profess to desire
the moral Development of man aud the material
good q society they are worthy of praise But
the courre adopted to attain these desirable ends
has resulted practically 10 creating state Of
things which is their direct opposite. The perfect
resut of these theories il seen in their operation
in the British Wet Indies There they were ap-
piled to a state Of society that had been tns
owth Of centuries; and however interior
ii may have been, in some Of its aspect.
to he social development that rad grown
10 under very different circumstances in
orher regions, it still obeyed the great
law Of human prog esq, which is that the de-
velopement of human knowledge is INSOFAR able
from the progress of industry and of national
wealth. Dsregarding this mighty law, the
rhilanthropists of Exeter Hall, asserting wish
to improve the web of society in the British West
Indies, drew from it the inferior warp that
formed its texture, and left it hanging, tangled
warp of dissonant and disunited material The
weakness of those countries disabled their re-
sistance to Englend's power, and they have re-
lapsed into q state of industrial decline and
intellectual decay.
Forgetful of these palpable results, the phiian-
thropists of England are striving to subject
British India to the same interference with her
social and religious organization as ives carried
out in the West Indies. Lord Canning, the
present Governor General of Hindostan, Is an
acolyte of Exeter Hall, and is fully imbued with
lite notions for aboishing every thing that does not
fit its creed, and for tinkering society every
where. he has accordingly given the influence
Of his name and his official position to certain
social and religious propagandists, and the i'm
mediate result is that society in India is shaken
to its very centre, and the power of England
there trembles on the balance. The native
population Of Hindostan possesses that
numerical power for self-defence which was
wanting to that of the West Indies. and Lord
Peterborough, who, as late Governor-G General of
India, is excellent authority on the subject, did
not hesitate to state from bis place in the British
Parliament that the course Lord Canning was
pursuing was likely to result in bloody revolu-
ton that would astonish the world.
That the native opposition which has been
to the disregard of their creeds and
social forms by Exeter Hall, is not a limited and
local opposition, is evident from the alarm that
pervades the well informed circles of London,
and the haste Of the government to send out
strong reinforcements of troops to India 1t is
only few weeks since some of the native regi-
ments had to be disbanded on account of what
was derisively termed by the English press "the
mutton fat and beef suet" discomfort. Yet here
it is followed by an appalling massacre of the
English residents at Delhi, and the placing OF
that city and Neerut under martial law. How
far this spirit of disafection may extend the go
vernment has no means of knowing. That there
s some secret and far spread means of commu-
ncation among the native population and
troops is an admitted fact which several
historical events have corroboratcd The result
of the battle of Waterloo and the fall of Sebasto-
several days before the government there re-
ceived the intelligence through the usual chan
nels; and it is only short time since the sudden
appearance and dispersion over all India of GER
tain bye-words, Of which the government never
has been able to ascertain the meaning caused 1t
no small alarm
IL is TO be hoped that the dangers to England's
material greatness, which turk in the impractical
theories OF Exeter Hall, will awaken that govern
ment TO q sense Of its true duty to itself and to
the world. Should Lord Canning be permitted
to force upon India the same disregard of its
local conditions and Intellectual development
that were forced upon Jamaica; could Exeter Hall
extend over our Southern States, Cuba and Bra
zil the same sirocco of mistaken philanthropy
that has bresthed upon the British West Indies
the whole civilized world would deplore the re.
suit and none more so than England herself.
The tone and temper that have lately been shown
in the British Parliament on the India question
lead rs to look for an early removal of Lord
Canning and an official disavowal of any inten-
ton on the part Of the government to urge Exeter
Hall proselytism upon the world.
HrGH PRICES FOR SrGAR.-We have received
numerous communications in regard to recent
and present speculative movements in sugar,
and coming, as they evidently do from all classes
and conditions of society, they show the great in
terest that is felt in the high price Of this article
now held as one of the necessaries of life Some
of them complain Of its dearness, and wonder why
II is so; others openly lay the blame on the spc-
culators who control the market; others, again.
think that the Enolish Addition Society Ia tho