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New Zealander, Volume XX, Issue 2080, 2 April 1864, Page 6

Tio New Viceroy of India. — It is notonaccountofhis services that we believe this appointment wise. Better pay men for services in any coin than Governments for which they are unfitted. But we believe Sir John Lawrence is, at this juncture, the very man to fill his splendid position. The two Indian difficulties are at this moment the disturbances on the frontier and the necessity of maintaining severer discipline within the new Sikh force, and the mere arrival of the Viceroy will probably terminate both. The frontier tribes will not face the man who for five years kept the bit so strongly within their teeth that every raid cost them more than they gained in money as well as lives, and Sikhs will diisrust the dangerous prophecies which require for their fulfilment that the “ forehead ” of their hero should pass under a cloud. They will face English bayonets sooner than his fortune, and while they are faithful the disaffected throughout North India must perforce remain .inactive. This is in itself equal in value to a great victory ; but Sir John Lawrence meets also, the requirements of internal administration. The new organization must be completed by a man on the spot who shall possess the confidence of the advocates both of the new and the ancient systems. Sir John Lawrence is himself their very point of agreement. A civilian of civilians, he was the one man on whom the “ settlers ” relied for a comprehension of their claims, and though he never bore a commission, and maintained haughtily the supremacy of the civil rule, he was obeyed by Generals older than himself. A strong Governor in the old sense of the word, with a full sense of the necessity of maintaining the absolute power of the Government, and fully persuaded that India can as yet be held only with the sword, he is, nevertheless,. a man who believes injustice and progress, in railways and canals, and free trade, in better education and swifter justice, in fresh careers for natives, and more ample, means of acquiring wealth. Familiar, with the old ideas, he has during his residence at home comprehended those upon which the Government must now be based, and though he resisted the new organization, he will, now that it is accomplished, devote himself to the task of making it work more perfectly than the old. The natives know him of old as one who, right or wrong, is at all events irresistible ; the Europeans will accept at his bauds the compromise in which their claims must end; the civiTlans’will feel his appointment an omen of a new future for themselves, and the army has for years studied his opinion as that of a General made by commission higher than the Queen’s. The Administration, painfully working its way through heaps of the debris of rotten systems, needs any accession of force, and Sir John Lawrence is to all other rulers what a locomotive is to a cart. His single temptation will be to crowd the work of a life into his single term of rule, but the obstacles are so many that the only result of this foible will be a slightly swifter advance. The locomotive will be steadied by the weight of the train behind.—Spectator.

European Sovereigns in Search of Monet.—A letter from Paris says ; Baron Stieglitz, the governor of the Bank of Russia, is now in Paris (at the Hotel Mirabeau), and looking after money. According to report, he wants a loan of £32,000,000 sterling. If he cannot get it here he is going to try his lack in London. Austria also wants a loan—which, indeed, has already been authorised by the Reichsrath, but not having yet succeeded in negotiating one, she has borrowed money in Paris, at three, four and five months’ date, to tide over the winter. ,In the spring she willibe pressing on the money market, and ready to accede to almost any terms. Italy, also, with all her warlike preparations, is a borrower. , If the compass were your guide in selecting a young lady with' magnetic attractions, what name would it ’indicate? Miss North, of course. : ' 1 ‘ Do yon know who built this bridge V said a person to Hook.— ‘ No,’ replied Hook ; * but if you go over you’ll be ioUed.* A gentleman observing that he had fallen asleep daring a sermon preached by a bishop, a wag remarked ‘ that it must be Bishop the composer.’