New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-31


turned ever after long Absence with large purses
and bad ivers. Money WI tho eeg1nnlnC ana the END
Of all things with the powes that ruled IN inds' hse
supplies taken from an enemy and turned 70 carry on
the war against himself the riches OF Hfndosan were,
for generations unscrupulousy extracted and aviSnT
expended in England TO smother inquiry and pefpetn
ate the power of the Eat India Company. Jus'ica
had been 80 long held captive by wealth, thas even
those who had knowledge Of the wretehed admins
traton Of that Company felt positive assurance thas
TO attempt stem the tide ofther misrule was only 70
endeavor vainly strive against inevitable fate. Even
in the British Parliament when, at long intervals, some
member, more Quixotic than wise, would make efforts
TO discuss the dement's Of any prominent act OF
oppression, the commencement of the uniDeresdDg de-
bate was invariably the signal foT many honorable
gentlemen TO go 10 sleep, and for the rest 70 retire.
The mu,iny Of the East India Companys native
army has, however, hurried forward contamination,
that without the attention attracted 70 the country by
the horrid deeds of the mutneers, might have been
delayed for generations yet TO come. long night Of
darkness and extrayagant misrule has just passed
away, and the dawn Of better times and better things
il already perceptble. The heirs and successors Of
generations Of partners of mercantile association that
from small beginnings, more than two hundred and
fifty years ago, rose to the power Of making and do
posing kings and TO rule over rich and popuous ter
rtory greater in extent than the whole o. the United
States east of the Mississippi River, have retired from
business that had long since far outgrown their ca
pacity to manage with either honor profit 70 them
selves or others. The executive power OF India mas
now passed, nominaly, to the crowd but in reality 70
the people, Of Great Britain. These people want
cheap and abundant supply of cottonj and, now that
they have got the matter in their own haads, we may
rest assured that they will make every possible effort
10 obtain il. India possesses greater natural resources
for the production of than be found in any
other portion of the globe. The natives, both BY ma
ure and habits are well suited for such work. and any
number of laborers, male or female, can be employed
at wages varying from four TO six eight cents for
day of ten hours work. Thousandsof square miles OF
her uncultivated lands only wait the advent OF West
ern means, and Western heads and appliances TO set
many millions of now idle hands to work to raise cot
ton in quantities large enough TO supply the market OF
the world at price with which it would be hopeless
to compete. India has lately received portion Of the
attention which it merits from Great Britain The
work is far advanced and the country will soon be id
tersected with railways which will bring the most re-
mote inland districts into communication with the porto
of expectation We are assured that the Of Man
chester will find means to impress upon the Govern.
ment of England the necessity of reducing the expenses
of ruling India, or, at any rate, Of discovering some
other mode of raising ess Objectionable than
that Of levyng heavy tax upon the land upon which
is grown the material on cheap and abundant supply
of which their hope of prosperity depends.
The strong arm of national justice often strikea
down the guilty from quarter whence the blow was
least expected. The effects that must follow the stroke
which laid the East India Company In the dust, viii
long reach our shores, and evebtuay-even if no
other power working for the desirable END
-extipguish American Slavery. With the immens.
plains of Hindostan freed from oppressive tax and
thrown open Western enterprise, with canals roads
and railways intersecting and connecting teeming
population willing to work for mere percentage Of
what labor costs elsewhere, India, under her new
regime must stand unriyaled for the growth Of crop
that requires great extent Of surface, warm climate
and large amount Of light manual labor in it's