The Press. — London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

/ - 2t-C /oft; No. 231..- Europe will not . Naples, he probably would think that neither our character nor our security in Asia will be greatly improved by allying ourselves so inti mately with such demons as these. Agree ing in opinion with the highest military authority in this country, he regards the system of repaying atrocity by atrocity as morally wrong. and, in a military point of view, the gravest error that a commander can commit. The ill success of the French in the Peninsula, contrasted with their great success under HOCIIE in La Vendee, might afford him illustrations of the opinion ho had thus formed. He might think execution done upon the participators in the murder of our people an act of justice, but swinging up a few natives every mm.ning for the least thing, as a letter in the Times describes our soldiers doing, both a misfottune and a crime. He might dwell upon the necessity of a com mander refusing to allow himself to be swayed by passion if he would achieve great results. He might show that WELLINGTON'S success was owing almost more than anything to the impassive nature of .his character, and that allowing personal feeling to enter into the question of his enterprises was the real oc casion of the great NAPOLEON'S fall. He might even instance the mistake into which the noble HAVELOCK has thus been led. His true course was, while flushed with victory, to ►nareh on, as he probably might have done unopposed, to Lucknow ; and then, when he had relieved the garrison and joined the force there to his own, to have massed his troops on the key of Northern India, the strong, and as re gards native assault the impregnable, fortress of Allahabad. Thence, when reinforced front Calcutta, ho could have safely advanced to i placi: fait. all the sources of intelligence 6. They have treated the people of this country like children ; it is time that we should show them we are men. They have strived to stir up all 3 the evil passions of our nature, not for the purpose of retrieving our prestige, but for the baser end of diverting public attention from their guilt. Their real sympathy with all the *4:4 suffering they have been the occasion of is . ... ~., shown by the manner in which they gloat over .t. , ' the confiscations it will secure for them, and by their withholding from the losers by the rebellion the compensation which is their due. • True to the selfish instincts of Whiggery, their thought is only for themselves. They care not for the distresses of the nation ; the disasters • that are agonising all the rest of us are well corned by them as the surest means of obtain. ing from the country a further lease of power and unlimited support. Talk of making political capital out of the crisis ! why, the only capital they have had to trade upon all along are the wars which their irra tional policy has given rise to, which their in competence has bungled, and which have placed the unlimited resources of England at their feet. "IS THERE A DUKE OF BEDFORD." ' WE wero rather surprised the other day on reading a long correspondence about the notorious borough some of the letters We were, of course, in question was tl " The House of RU! of the potted jobs . . . . . . --,.,,,,,,,,,,,,- - . .. . . .. ... 7 A 4. - --1. ‘ ...7 • ~,., ,--,-. --7 y t ryc,.. e_____ -- . . it /a- - /e"-e# - . a . .........• • Te • . .' ' .• . 0 rt $ .... ,; . , , • . 6 ; • C - 11 t , .... _voL.v. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1857 • s T AMPED ....STXPENCRENCE. UNSTAMPED ..FIVEP. —... ___ Y .....-- , 1 1 . at once to embody the Mili tia, and to des p atch ' an y point where his services might be re- /P LtSS. to the East every i i , railable mknowing an. They showed required, that'the fate of NANA SAHIB , that the communication with Calcutta mi g ht though delayed for the moment, was certain .. be cut off, as it since has been , and t hat the when the p rovince should he again our own. surest base for our operations would be the As it is, the attempt to seize this miscreant ITURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1857. Indus, up which a force should at once be has failed; and we are paying the price of it 4 , sent. This advice, received thanklessly in the in Lucknow being unrelieved, while HAVELOCK, outset, is now proved to have been invaluable is condemned for the moment to inactivity at t • by the events which have occurred in India Cawnpore. Economist, and other claqueurs since. If that empire be not utterly lost to us, Such are the views that a statesman might : ment dilate vet" , strongly from it will be owing mainly to the counsels thus take, however unfitting for the columns of a pen the impropriety of turning afforded . ; as, indeed, much of the present journal that thrives avowedly by ministering danger in which our compatriots are placed to the passions of the multitude. These pas- isis to party ends. It is not there is due to the tardiness shown by the sions however, are nearly always of a fleeting single soul in the country who Government in giving them effect. Relying nature ; and we have no doubt that before the of doing so, but that they are upon the assurances of the Directors and year has completed its circle, the most excited criticism on the gross incom- before agents, they were actually in the belief, of our fellow-countrymen will be able to form a wit. patrons which has led to Parliament separated, that the revolt, or pretty tolerable judgment as to who are their the mutiny, as they persisted in calling it, had real and who their pretended friends. Indeed, , and which has characterised been wholly stamped out. if we are at all able to read the signs with it from first to last. If of the times, we think we may s afel y These facts being patent, we have no doubt of the Great Northern bring , affirm that the tide of public o p inion tnat the public will always be glad to hear ents into difficulties, no language what a statesman, so competent as Mr. Dis- is already on the turn. It is not im ong in which to paint the folly RAMA has proved himself to be , may ha ve to possible that it may be some in klin g of this fact which gives such an in- molders in entrusting them any sa y upon the all engrossing topic of Indian creased tone of acrimony to the Ministerial he management of their affairs ; affairs. He may not prophesy smooth things ; ress. It would, indeed, be a libel on the in- , k ; . 1 .' he may not take such a rose-water view of the P rectors of the nation lead us to telligence of the nation to suppose that the crisis as is so appropriately adopted by the ge bf ruin, our business is to , poeocurante PALICCRSTON, or his elegant sub incompetence of the Government could long for their kindness, 'and tender ' stltern, Mr. YR4OIOII Sums. NeitheiN perhaps, pass unperceived by it; as it would be a libel on its justice to expect that their miseestditest' • I. ' . '• . ed confidence and support. In does he think . that matters are to be mended . 1 by rabid denunciations of every native without should remain for ever unpunished ea ittte- their subordinates, to be sure,serves. Their crime is not simply that they , t exception, followed by throwing ourselves im-m of comment is to be allowed. plicitly into the Firma of such miscreants as caused this rebellion by their misgovernment, 4 )use, for instance. the incapa- Jeri() BF.HAUDER of Nepaul, and the man styled but that they have extended the circle of it err at Meerut, and of LLOYD at in the Dalhousie Minute " a tyrant, and the by their mismanagement, and greatly aggra- But it is quite another thing when founder of a race of tyrants"—that monster of vated its effects. They have further endea- - the claims of men in higher cruelty and t reachery, the Maharajah Griot-As state voured things by placing to cut off all knowledge of the true gag on the press • .., 4 riticise a Canning or a Palmerston, S h alt. If a regard for our character in of a of India, and by falsifying as much as possible t -.. . Qnkitli Thpse have already Europe will not allow us to keep a Minister at all the sources of intelligence at home. They In which of T-ax.2--- : ;i : • & ford." s s .. lt h Cr Cr - - ;,41, . okiigh a . , ' 4 the . i lo ra . .... ap of e p ,rr. : Issg,'- r 5 4 ~. , , 1. liani 4 3 ut, of k eu ..,$.A.*- *''"+- -:-. ..., --P ' -r- -..1). t..... I LONDON, SA THE Times, the of the Governm time to time upo) the Indian crl that there is a ! really thinks ol galled at any petence of the this rebellion, their dealing the directors their constituent can be too stroni of the shareholdi longer with the but if the directors die very verge dill them for Sate unlimited the ease of tl some freedom We may abuse, city of HEwsrr Dinapore. Be we question places, and criticise a Mangles or a Smith. These have already indicated their wishes as to the mode in which they would be dealt with by placing a gag on the whole Anglo-Indian press. And if their power to gag all here be not equal to their will, it would become us, the Times thinks, to respect their feelings, and accord to them voluntarily an immunity which they are unable to enforce. The maxim which the Constitution applies to the Sovereign is to be made applicable to her Ministers as well; Mr. SMITH, like the monarch he serves, can do no wrong. For the actual occupants of office the theory is no doubt a very agreeable one, but it is not likely to find much favour with the people at large. Low as England has sunk under Whig domination, it is not yet sunk so low as that. We are still a nation of freemen, and not a nation of serfs. The public, we think, will be rather inclined to agree with Mr. DAUNCY in the sentiments he gave utterance to at the meeting at New Dort Pagnell on Wednesday last. They will feel gratified that, amid the shoals and quick sands that beset us, there has stood forth a statesman like Mr. DISRAELI to point out from the first the true nature of the crisis, to inti mate to us the proportions it would assume, and to show us the means by which alone it could successfully be met. They will remem ber that when Ministers tried to lull the nation into a false security, he got up boldly in the House of Commons, as did Lord ELLEN.- BOROUGH in the House of Lords, to tell the people the truth. IVhile the Government was underrating the storm which its own miscon duct had occasioned, they explained how grave and vast was the danger with which we had to deal. They implored the Ministers to send out fleets and arulies; they prayed thew.