Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-11-19

that time; but at night, finding it still
IN the same place, she put it within =
drawer amongst her few other treasures.
where it stayed and was forgotten.
TO be continued
Foreign Corresponce, of the Tribune and
Telegraph.
DERBY ENGLAND, Oct. Sth 81.
Yesterday was appointed by her Ma
jesty rs day of fasting and humiia.
ton on account ofthe troubles in India.
1t was observed by the general suspen-
sion of all kinds OF business and religi
Gus services were held in nearly all tn,
churches. The Rev. c. II. Sturgeon,
preached in the Crystal Palace to the
largest congregation ever assembled in
modern times on a religious occasion.
numbering not less than 25, 900 persons
At the close, collection was taken W
for the benefit Of the sufferers in India,
and f475, contributed. The directors
cf the Crystal Palace Company gener.
ously added 1900 to the sum.
As so little is known, especially in our
own country of the manner in which the
English became the masters of India
perhaps it will be interesting to yom
readers for me to give brief history OF
the transaction.
In the dim and shadowy ages of fic-
ton; when Jason set sail with his few
adventurous Argonauts in search OF the
Golden Fleece, he was impelled by the
same notion that has made the English
masters of India. The unweared search
OF the alchymist for the Philosophers
Stone, which was to change whateye,
it touched into gold; the adventures O
PiZun and De soto, and in our own tim,
the vast exodus to the auritcrous field,
Of California and Australia, have beer
but 50 many adventures in search Of the
golden fleece, attended with greater o,
less measure of success. Long befor'
history began and WHEN fancy supplied
its place, the distant portions of caste i
Asia were renowned tor gorgeous pal
aces, p;inc,ly ulers, swarming popu
lation ana untold treaSu es.
Humid eds Of years after Alcxande
marched his victorious amy into India
and the Roman Empire had fallen t.
decay, that great traveller Marco Polo
first gave 4 reality to the tabled vision,
of Eastern grandeur which had so long
been the envy Of affordine
fancieS to the poes and mysteries to the
wise. His startling revelations were
listened to with intense interest, and cx
cited the wonder of Europe. 1t NAV
seem st, ange that after the lapse of Sc
many centuries so Ii tie is known of this
country even by the English themselves
The people, now as then, have only Z
dim notion of splendid Bazaars, swarm.
ing with buyers and blazing with cloth
of gold; with variagated silks and viii
precious stones--ot treasures where dia
monds are piled in heaps and SECURES
in mountains Of palaces compared Will
which Hampton Court and Whitehall
would be novels, and Of armies ten
times more numerous than that which
assembled at Tilbury to repcl the Span
iSh Armada.
1t is interesting to note in the history
ofthe East India Go. how handful Of
men managed in SO short time to make
England heir to so grand an Inheritance
and how step by step they have become
the rulers Of $50 millions OF people and
Il country ten times larger than England
itself. During the 18th century the mur-
chants OF Venice were amassing large
fortunes in manner which puzzled the
other maritime powers OF Europe
Mysterious looking ships We're seen in
her harbor and III time it was found tina;
She obtained the rich cargoes of spices
and silks from the east. Then began
the race-the Genoese being the first
and in the early part of the 10Th, cen
fury the Portuguese who for long time
were the first nation in commercial i'm
portance-(noW almost the LAST entered
into active competition with the Nene-
ian merchants. The Pope was priv.
legged to grant his subject princes do
mlnion over any country inhabited by
heathens. The people of India were
considered pagans and the fortunate
Gu i>tian Who happened to discover it
were considered like Robinson C.usoe.
''lord OF all he surveyed" particularly il
he could back lis arguments to the ma
tons with the cloquence of gun-powder.
\ strange right indeed; this right oil
discovery, 'said W illiam Penn to Charles
the I'd" ''lf band of sayages land in
thy island, they discover il GER ainlv,
but would'st thou say it belonged to
them therefore," Piety so called and
interest sometimes clash rather awkard
ly, and | regret for the cause of human
ity to say the latter is often triumphant.
Great Britain was not then the i'm.
portant maritime power she now is, and
1t was nearly century after the success
of the Portuguese that the English be
gan to share in the prize.
In 1917 Francis Drake the son of a
poor clergyman of Kent obtained com.
mission from Queen Elizabeth and went
on an expedition to the East and West
Indies. The rich stores Of spices and
silks with which he returned excited
the merchants of Europe, and CavendisI
who sailed on a similar errand in 1856
was even more successful than Drake
1t was on the last day ofthe 10th cen