Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1857 — The Trouble in India. [ARTICLE]

The Trouble in India.

The news from India evidently ex"cited alarm in the British Government, for though the final issue of this outbreak must result in the subjugation of the revolters, followed by k terrible punishment as an example, yet the contest may be carried on for a longer period than is convenient or profitable to the British Government. Commerce suffers by the exactions which are required of it in times of war, and British commerce, as expansive and as recuperative as it mdy be, must still feel severely the cost of the continual hostilities in which England seems to be involved, with a prospect of further long-con-tinual and expensive operations in India and China. The principle of buildingjthe commercial greatness of a counfry upop the subjugation of nations is a bad one, however greatly if has been extolled by English writers. It takes centuries, eyen with the best educational means, and the most determined social and political efforts, to erase from a people their feeling of nationality, and to blot out the memory of their freedom from the control of a master. British rule in India has not been always of that kind to conciliate the natives. Though modified much in latter years, the wrongs inflicted by the East India Company in its days of greatest power, and which drew down upon it the eloquent denunciations of Burke, must still fester in the popular mind. Hence the necessity of guarding against just such outbreaksas the British Government are now called upon to suppress and to punish. That they will do it is certain, for England cannot afford to lose her supremacy in India, costly as it may be to her to maintain. But with this .example of a false principle before her, on which to base her commercial greatness, why seek to repeat it in China? The intention to conquer the latter country is repudiated in the speeches of British statesman, and in the comments of leading English journals, yet if concan English views prevail unless force is continualy applied to a government which excludes all outside interference with its policy? Will not any power which undertakes this formidable task,with so intractable and self-sufficient a nation as the Chinesey be driven from one step to another, till finally conquest and subjection will be the only remedies left it for its own safety? Can any one power long maintain such a colossal empire by force —China and its three hundred millions of natives, and India, with its one hundred and seventy-two millions? — Phila. Ledger. , ~"7~

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A Singular Bet. —On fihe 20th July, at the City Exchange, in New Orleans, Colonel W« Williams began to eat a thousand eggs in a thousand hours ; that is, be is to eat one thousand eggs in forty-one days and sixteen hours; amounting to one thousand hours, without the impossible condition of eating each separate egg in each separate hour. [The bet is for a thousand dollars be- ’ tween Williams and G. W. Hutchinson. If Williarps wins that bet he certainly must be a regular gormandizer. % ICPWbcr’stheman that struck Billy Patterson? 4 C f