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Coders to bo mfti9 payable at the Strand ilooay-Orcr OfSco, to Joan Baztzs Iia.koixy, 33a SbranAspirit of tljc 3Pns*.THE EVENTS IN INDIA.Fbom “ The Press.”Wo ate on the eve of great events. Changes of the first importance, imperial and domestic, will be accelerated by the portentous intelligence from Central India. A crisis in Indian affaire, long anticipated, has at length arrived. Words of warning, often spoken, and as often disregarded by the supporters of a system of routine, have become realised. The crisis la India must produce changes at home. For months to come the public mind, “ whioh can bear only one cause of excitement at a time,” will be concentrated, almost exclusively, on the East. That such should be the case cangive no cause for wonder. The money market— the great commercial seats of industry—the shipping interest—the political system of England—the stability of her Empire, and the glory of her Crownaro all affected by the Indian mutiny. The emergency demands that England should have bold men and a brilliant policy; the country fears the mismanagement of shallow men and half measures.The worst feature ia the present crisis is that it has so long been foretold, and that its obvious symptoms have been so superciliously disregarded. Obstinate officials, with perplexed minds, but plausible lips, would shut their eyes to the fact that our military arm in India has been neglected, and that an insane confidence has been fostered in the governing talent of civilians. For twenty years, with a few passing and striking exceptions, our system In India has been one leading gradually, but surely, to deterioration and degeneracy. Lord Auckland was a feeble statesman ; he had too exclusive a faith in civilian rule for an empire won by warriors like Clive, Lake, and Wellington, and by the far-sighted minds of Warren Hastings and the Marquis Wellesley. The file of office was like a fetich to Lord Auckland, and we know how his system ended. We all recollect the national shudder when the news of the dire events in Afghanistan reached England. But the subject is too painful to dwell upon.The rule of Lord EUenborough was bold and decisive. He committed some errors, chiefly in language, but his views were original and masterly. He was fertile ia resources; and the greatness of the English name was upheld in India. The hushed attention with which the noble earl’s speech on Monday was heard by the peers was a recognition of the undeniable fact that on the subject of India Lord EUenborough has the ear of the Senate, and of the public out of doors. His speech was the address of a Bgacioue statesman and a commanding orator. The feeble and faltering tone of Lord Granville, and his evasion of a reply? clouded with anxiety some eminent personages in the great audience in the House of Lords.THE NATIONAL GALLERY.Feom ‘-The Times.”A rumour of so strange a kind has ^ got abroad, and has obtained so much credit m wnat are called “ well-informed circles, that it would be highly satisfactory to meet it with an authoritative contradiction. This it is :—It is asserted that as soon as Parliament has risen, or at auy rate during the recess, the recent Report of the Royal Commission upon the site of the Rational Gallery is to be treated as a nullity, and that the collection 13 to be transferred to Kensington. In justification of this violent act, it will be pleaded that the decision received the signatures of only three of the Commissioners. These three, however, constituted a clear majority. Mr. Ford had been selected as one of the original six. but from the first he had refused to act, consequently the number was reduced from six to five. Now, with regard to the five, Professor Faraday— a gentleman whose name wewould mention with the mo3C unfeigned respect —refused, if we are rightly informed, to affix his signature to the decision, or to any decision. fie gave the Commission the benefit of hia scientific knowledge, but would meddle no further with the matter. Four Commisioners remained. Of these, three reported in favour of leaving the National Collection of Pictures where it is ; one took another view. If this be not tbe decision of a majority we know not what is.We do not say we ourselves believe that the decision of the Commission will be disregarded, for the proceeding ia so monstrous as to defy belief, but we are justified in the assertion that credit is attached to it by persons who have pre-eminently aright to be well informed upon such a subject.Under these circumstances the course to be pursued ia so obvious as scarcely to need suggestion from us. The Commons decided that an Andress should be carried to the Throne, pray mg the Queen to appoint a Royal Commission for the purpose of investigating and deciding on certain points connected with the National Collection of Pictures. The Royal Commission was appointed, and has made its report. It ia now proposed, we are told, to treat as a nullity the result of this investigation, which originated in the Commons’ House; but that assembly will have greatly degenerated from its ancient spirit if it tolerates ;so grievous an indignity. The habit of treating .Parliamentary decision with indifference, not to say with contempt, should receive a timely check. There is yet ample time for putting such a question to the Treasury Bench as will considerably hamper the authors of this design, if, indeed, it be a reality.Hp i 'i ■BeSt.HisaiBPlt;uidtInttA'1wPo:hnbfia:vaFrctarcfiIMELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE,—A SOLICITOR AND ms CLERK D ROW'S ED.1Some there were on Monday night who could not help recollecting how the Earl of EUenborough, by a combination of intriguing redtapists and disappointed cliques, was recaUed in the midst of signal triumphs, the result of a skilful policy, by which the nationalities of India were soothed, and the Executive of England strengthened. The CGm-mercialiats insisted on his being displaced ; but; the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, two statesmen peculiarly averse from lavishing titular honours, advised the Crown to confer marked distinctions on the statesman who had repaired the errors of Lord Auckland. The Queen raised Lord EUenborongh two steps in the Peerage—an earl’s coronet and the insignia of the highest order of chivalry were conferred on the noble lord. Can that be the best system of governing India in which the anomaly occurred of a Cabinet recommending for honours a statesman whom another body insisted should bo removed -from the position in which those identical honours had been gained? In the Cabinet which advised her Majesty to bestow; these great rewards on Lord EUenborough there sat the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley (the Earl of Derby), the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, tlie Earl of Ripon, Lord Lyndhurst, and Sir James Graham, at the head of the most powerful Parliamentary connection of modern times.After the recall of Lord EUenborough, and the interregnum of Ldrd Hardinge, the system of de-pendance on civilians was again put into force. Admitting some pf its advantages, and acknowledging the abilities of Lord Daihouaie, we believe that the routine of civilian rule is unsuited to Oriental races, and to imperial exigencies. Sub-aequent evBUta have shown that the principles promulgated In The Minute of the . Marquis of Dal-aouflie (28th February, 1856) must be accepted with catrtion. * * Tim policy which led to the annexation of Oude is now more than ever doubted. The most soeptlcAl also must now be convinced that a system of bureaucracy alone cannot govern India. The enthronisation of civilian rule may lead to the chronic jeopardy of oinr Indian empire.The worst part of the present condition of affairs Is the fact that Government received repeatedwarningfc, and still remained inert and incredulous. “My Lords,” kaid the Earl, of EUenborough, on Monday, these must have been a continuance of mismanagement and misconduot before the natures of the soldiers composing those regiments could have been so changed.” Constant remonstrances have been in vain addressed to the authorities for the last three years about the condition of Bengal, the seat of Viceregal Government. Journals patronised specially by the Directors of the East India Company contained appeals from various public bodies, aU pf which have been strangely neglected. The insecu-The Liverpool Mercury publishes the followingA sad and priufai event occurred on Thursday morning last, at Carr Mill d‘-m, a l*rge reservoir o£ wator rifcuate on the estate of Sir Robert T. Gsrard, Bait., and midway between St. Helen’s and Billing*. Mr. Samu-1 Gaskeii, a solicitor, in practice in Sr. Helen’s, and his clerk, an intelligent little boy of the name of George Dixon, •gtd about fourteen years, went to fish wim rod r-nd iioe at the dam, early on Thursday morning, accompanied by tbe bro‘her oS the former, Mr. Allan son Gaskel), surgeon, who, shortly after partaking lt;f bo my luncheon, in a little hut there, about eight o’clock, left them to vlsii his patients. In the afternoon, Mr. AUansou Gaskeli became alarmed at his brother’s prolonged absence, and about three o’clook Le again went-o the dam, when he saw bis brosher’s hat floating on the water ai d the bcy’B clothing lying on the embankuiciit close by. Ho returned to Sc. Hele/saud informed Superintended JAivia of his apprehensions, and that gentleman Imnseoiateiy prooeded to Carr Mill, and there found Mr. Aliacson’s^ Lara too truly reaUeed. At the top end of tho dam, which at that point becomes narrow, and in the centre deep, lay Side by Ado fcao frw-. dead bodies of Mr. Samuel Gaskeli ai d his clerk. They were drawn out with tho grappling Lons, the former with ail hi.-: clothes on, a.d a blron^ line, probably used for catching pike, tightly wrapped round nls arms and body, and atiuch-id to the wrist of the boy, who was naked. The hat was found s^.li floating, and neat the spot where tho bodies were discovered were found a rod and line, and a fish caught at the e;.d of the .rue. No evidence aa to bow the distressi g accident happened was adduced before the cor ner, at an inques • held at the Egle and Caild Ian, in Caurcb street, on Friday, but jhere is no doubt, that the opinu n formed d* the jury is correct j namely, thnt the fish having dr^wn tho rod from tbe embankment, the boy undressed and went into tbe water to reoovet the rod, having the strong Hue fastened to hi? wrist, end held by Mr. Gaskell; that the^boy, getting roar the centre, suddenly plunged overhead, and Mr. Gaskeli rushed in to uave him. when ha got his arms entangled with ;he c rd, aod thus both wore drowred. Considerable emotion was felt; throughout the town, and great crowds of persons thronged the streets to witness the bodies being conveyed in a hearse to tnoir respective homes. Tho deceased gentleman’a watch was found stopped at half-past eight, so that in aU probability the lamentable accident occurred shortly af er Mr. A. Gaskeli lefs the da a. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of “ Accidental death.”East India Company (War with China).—Some correspondence between the Audit Board, the Treasury, the India Board, and the East India House, presented to parliament, was Issued this morning. Ic brings to a olose .the protracted correspondence respecting the claims of the East India Company upon the Imperial Government for expenses incurred by the employ mans of Indian troop3 in the late war with Chiba (not the present hostilities) ; the terms of the settlement being the payment to tho company of a balance of 590,693b, and that sum accordingly appears in the estimates to be voted for this year. ‘Public Income and Expenditure.—A Parlia.mentary document, issued to-day, shows the grons income of the United Kingdom in the‘year ended 30th June,’ 1857, to hive am^nhted * to 72 067,821b thus made up:—Customs, 23,606,4682. ; excise, 17,667,000k; stamps, 7,364,016k ; land ..and assessed-taxas, 3,097,0207 ; property and inodmi tax, 16,-168,7227 ; post office,2,845,000k; crown lands ^net) 284,857k; miscellaneous, 1,034,136k Tbe expenditure amounted to 71,756,710k, having an excess -of income in the year of 311,liu. Of tfle expenditure 28,695,020k waa on account of the permanent and floating debt; cm consolidated fund, (including civil list, annuities and pensions, salaries and allowances, diplomatic salaries and allowances, courts of jostloe^andmisQeUaneous}, 1.798,705k; army, 16,104.5567 ; navy, 12,370,000k; mlsorilaneous civil services, 6.671,240k ; salaries, Ac., of revenue departments, 4,117,187k ; for re. deception of exchequer bonds, 2,000,000k ; tho balances in the exchequer on 30eh Jana; 1857, were 6.611.563k ; on the 304i June , 1856, the bdances were only 3,922,334kRailways in India,—A return, on the motionof Mr. Cheatham, to vhe House of Commons, waa issued to day, showing the outlay sanctioned by the East India Company for railway* ia India. There are fiva I^dia rail-
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