New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-13
THE STATE OF EUROPE.

Prem Our Own Correspondent
LONDON Tuesday, Sept %, 1851.
The English public begin TO perceive that their
disasters in India are TIE inevitable penalty they
have to pay for having coveted their Hindoo neigh
boris country and palaces and subjects aud Income
and al that was his. There is serious lesson 10
the fact that the first of the fearful massacres oil
disarmed men, of women ADD children trok plac.
at Delhi, with the coDcJrreDc. Of the Great NJ
col, In Nboso name tho East I1dia Company dad
exercised its sway for loLg tune, aud whom it
, had spared solely becagse through him it got the
oay title il actually has 10 the peninsula. de Was
apuppet in the COmpaDys hands, but 1t required
kis prestige for considerable period, set when it
felt its sway consolidated the descendant of TImur
was looked upon as u nuisance aud d, costing too
much; and accordingly be was treated with con-
tempt. No wonder that, when the crisis arrived,
be seized the opportunity of revenge in the spirit of
m Asistic barbarian. Thus did the Rance of
Jhsns the rightiul heir of the Rajah, who had
lived and died devoted friend of the English. His
little country suited, however, the convenience OF
the East India Company, snd his daughter was not
allowed 10 succeed as QleeD, though neither the
Mohammedan nor the English law excludes females
from the throne, and many instances occur of reign
ing RANGES, even in the recent history of India.
Again, the massacre of CawnpOre-One of the most
fngbtfu tragedies ever enacted, the number OF VIC
tins amounting 10 full one thOusand-Was the result
Of the shabby treatment Nena S,hib had expert
epced from the Company; and the annexation
Of Dude was probably the first reason Of the
mstiny, since NEST OF the Bengal Sepoys were re-
cruited tr0n Dude. But 'he country Scas too far,
says an unsOphsticated British officer in letter
Published in all the papers, mot to be cOreted Cy the
GOrerROr- General. The papers are very reluctant
10 acknowledge all these facts aud speak OF the In
reference with religious habits, as for instance III
the case Of the creased cartridges and the widows
marriage act, as the causes of the revolt. Ber-
nal Osborne, however, one of the most dstln-
guished members of the Adulnstrstion-not Of the
GoverDme NJ, for he himself says, he is not OF
sufficiently high caste. not d Brahmln-has openly
Acknowledged, IN his recent speech at Dover, that
the polio, Of annexation has proved to be unsafe,
and that it must be given up. 1t was the great
MARQUIS of Wellesley who introduced the best syS-
TEN Tor governing such large country the Indian
pebnsuls, by making the Rajahs ard Khaus trbu-
tsry, Cheering their armies with Engishmen, re-
heving the princes of the offors igh policy but
guaranteeing their independence IN home affairs
The princes OF India some Mehammedan, others
Exhratta, all knew, by the experience Of one cen
tury, how unsafe the tenure OF their thrones In
the whirlpool Of foreign and intestine ware, which
had ragged necessarily from the time that the Great
Mcguls empire was broken up, and they willingly
concluded treaties with the Company on such d
basic. But the subsequent GOyernOrs-Generai sell
dom kept faith with these princes, and gradually
their countries seized, with disregard of the
Oriental law OF adoption and inheritance, and the
pensions Of the members of the kingly families
were continually curtaiee. Still, 1t continued
r. be maintained that the Company avoided
annexation, and did not intend ever 10 extend its
direct sway from the Himalaya TO Cape COmorin.
This was really the fact bat the Board of Control
and the centralziDg Government of England soon
oysrcame the serupes of Leasenhal street and
Lords Hardinge and DalhOusie openly adopted the
policy of Annexation, which filed the native arts
tocracy with dismay, while the English public was
tugbt 10 believe that these annexations were die
tated by sheer philanthropy until even the m0rasts
had objection against robblsg Peter in order Ia
benefit Paul; deprying Rsjah of his throne in
order to govern bis subjects in a less unjust way
The natives, however did not think the rule OF the
Company preferable ~ that of their own princes
a. witness the disturbed state of Sattara and Nag
pore, and the complete expulsion of the English
from Dude. However, the present lesson will Ger
tay not be lost 10 England and for the next twenty
years we shall scarcely hear Of annexations nor vii
Lord Dalhouse ever rise again in public opinion
About year ago, he was the great man of England
apension of 900 year and higher rank in tn,
peerage were but lnssallmeDt of higher hOn0rs ~
Lord Palmerston, and but for his failing health, h
would have taken at once most important position
in the House of Peers; alas al these dreams Of hi
future greatness have suddenly passed away IL i
acknowledged that his policy was the ruin OF In
gland in India, and the helm of state will certainly
not be intrusted 10 his graspiDg hands. While Lor
Dslboasie's star is setting Lord Elgin has cleyer
taken advantage of the circumstances, and I'll
presence at Calcutta at the side Of the feeble AM
vascllatiDe Lord Canning may be Of great impor
tance Tor British interests at any rate the supper
he gives TO Sir Colin Campbells energetic PROPOSE
liens must induce the poor Governor General to give
uP his temporzng halfm measures and Old-fay red
tsPnm.
As do not boast Of being initiated into the 50
crets Of royalty cannot inform YOU about the rea
meaning Of the remarkable succession Of Imperia
and Royal meetings which have already taken plac.
or are to take place between Napoleon and Yictoris
at Osborne, Napoleon and Alexander at Stuttgart
Alexander and Francis Joseph at Weimar' and
Francis Joseph and Frederick William at Re Rim
Some say that these Royal interviews viii result h
general reduction Of the continental armies to ths
benefit of the finances, which, 10 France, Austri.
and Russia, are really deplOrabe; others guess tha
h is mutual pledge OF the continental great Pow
ers TO stand by each other and by loyalty anywhere
against any possible rising OF the nations. II i
likewise limited that the Spanish, Danish, Modo
Wallschian and Italian difficulties arc to be settle'
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