Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-17
GRlo Statesman.
FROM INDIA.
Correspondence of the Ohio statesman.l
CALCUTTA, July 3Oth, 1868.

Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
80 y .' CALCUTTA, July 30th, 1868.
In the course of century the British
power has passed from struggling and
nascent state to undisputed supremacy
over the vast territories which now com
pose British India. 1t has, in fact, at
tanned the natural boundaries of the en-
pire, and having reached these obliga-
tory limits it has ceased to be aggres-
sive,s and. is compelled, by its own high
interests, to prefer the consolidation of
its acquisitions to farther barren and
Improbable conquests beyond difficult
frontiers. For the future, secure pos
session and undisturbed progress in the
material prosperity of its dominions
must be its main aim. r.J iriZ ss-s3
The great rival of British power in
Asia is Russia; the Government of that
Empire pursues different policy, how
ever, from what the Cabinet of St.
James has done for number of years
and should continue to do. The cap
ture of Bokhara and Samarcand, though
the latter place is about to be evacuated
again by Russian troops, gives a strik-
ing illustration Of Russian policy Of ag-
gression, and foreshadows coming events.
Among the Europeans living in India,
a.good deal of uneasiness has been per-
ceptible ever since the last Rus
sian conquest in Central Asia. To
be sure, the servants and repre-
sentatives of the Gear humor the
populations which they force under their
masters sovereignty by leaving their
religion, language and local laws intact,
and thus give themselves an appearance
of indulgence which this government
has not always practiced towards the ma
tive tribes of India over which it rules
The fatalistic character of the Mahom-
edans readily takes for an accomplished
fact an event which certain amount of
extra exertion would be likely to pre-
vent, such as the aggression of their
land by military force, but the same
fatalism may one day serve to successful
resistance against the foreign foe, if the
native populations are guided by man
in whom the natives put that blind faith
for which the Oriental nations are noted.
They may, if once aroused, turn against
rulers with theiI characteristic indiffer-
ence to death and expel the invaders,
even though the last man of their tribe
should fall in the struggle. 1 do not,
therefore, apprehend any immediate dam,
aging consequences to the British power
in the East from Russian conquests,
but it will become this Government to
watch with sharp eye the spirit of
the native tribes now under British
sceptre and to leave unlimited sway to
the rule of the native princes over their
tribes, provided their acts are not hostile
to the established British laws. 1t is
not believed that Lord Mayo, the lately
appointed Governor General of India,
possesses the qualifications necessary
for the administration of this empire,
and considerable dissatisfaction prevails
on that account among the European
residents. Lord Mayo knows nothing
of the Indian character, nor the mode
of governing the British possessions in
India; he will have to go through an ap-
premiership, which may be expensive
and injurious to themother country, and
to Hindoostan too, and our great hope is
that nothing will occur during his ad-
ministration to disturbe the peace and
equanimity of the Indian Empire. In
the mean time it is a cheering thought
for us to know that every thing is being
done to shorten the distance between Eng.
land and the capital of her great East.
ern dependency. On the side of Europe
the Fellsrailway over Mont Gents is a
fact and Brindisi must soon be the port
of departure for the East, both in spite
of-the very'natural opposition of France
In three years Italian genius and energy
will certainly have pierced the tunnel
under the Alps, while on the side of In
dia seventy miles will be saved by the
complication of the railway from Cub
bulpore to Hurdah. The construction OF
the Suez canal has thus far been more
successful than has hitherto been allowed
eitherin Europe or India.
The Suez canal, the dream of the
Caesars, the Ptolemies and the Napo
Icons, is to be opened on the 1st Of
October. 1860, the contract date. There
is no lover of progress, whether social
commercial or scientific, who will moi
rejoice in what Mr.. de Lesseps. with
Characteristic exaggeration, describes as
runion des deur mere" The cana
will be gain to humanity, for which
France has paid. Engineering Difficult
ties have been overcome, ignorant and
interested prejudices have been dis
PEELED. The work will stand SECOND
only in Importance for the commerce o
the world, to the construction of the Pa
cifc railroad across the American con
tinent. h.. ..--5 ~ 7-rs +