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London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

rebellion by our own acts; and let ns beware lest when
the books are opened the blood 01 our countrymen and
countrywomen slain at Delhi be not demanded at our
hands ; together with that of the thousands our soldiers
will slay, urged by the stern necessity we ourselves have
provoked ! It is in vain to send oat while's. Send out
honest men, if any honest men can be found, to undertake
the task of purification; let justice hold the balance with
an equal hand; cease to shelve the just complaints of those
whom you have oppressed ; abolish the torture whose
existence no shuffling can dissemble; equalise taxation ;
punish bribery as you now punish honesty ; and put down
the reign of ignorance, incapacity, and nepotism at home.
So perhaps it may yet be time to save India. If n rt. hope
not to conquer her in any other way, but rather desire it
to be expunged from the list of our possessions as the
foulest blot that ever disgraced the British name.

These are the statements made by Mr.
Lnard, and which are based, he says, on his
own experience as a civil servant of the Con►-
pany for many years. If the nation desires to
maintain its character for honesty, it will corn-
pd inquiry into them, for any attempt to
blink the question can only be accepted as a
sign of conscious guilt. It may suit the pur-
pose of the Ministers to try and stifle niscus-
sion, both in India and in England, because
they know that the farther discussion pro-
ceeds the deeper will he the evidence that this
revolt has been occasioned by their own mis-
conduct, incapacity, and neglect. But what
may suit the purpose of the Ministers will be
very adverse to the interests of the people of
these realms. The Ministers are here to day
and gone to-morrow, and what is said of them
is soon forgatten ; but the character of the
nation will be irrecoverable when once it has
been allowed to pass away. lf, then, it is the
same England that it once was, let it do its
duty manfully, be the consequences to the
Cabinet what they will. Let it show that if it
has erred in ignorance it will not continue to
sin with its eyes open; and that if like Francis I.
of France it has lost all besides its ho:►our,
it is not prepared at the bidding of a Premier
to sacrifice that as well.

Soyer's Culinary Campaign. Being Historical
Reminiscences of the Late War. With the
Plain Art of Cookery fur Military and Civil
Institutions, the Army, Navy, Public, &c. &c.
By Alexis Soyer. London : Routledge.
THE Vatel of modern times, Alexis Soyer,
though he has immortalised himself by his
dishes, appears resolved to win a reputation
by his books. Hia works upon cookery are
in every home. He has given us a dietary
scale both for rich and poor ; with the origin•
ality of his race, he has invented for us every
year a relish, or a nectar, or a new sauce,
and yet he is not content—he must write
a book upon the Crimea. To give freshness
and novelty to a subject so hackneyed re-
quired not so much peculiar qualifications as'
a new point of view, and there can be no two
opinions on the subject that Soyer has seized
the only one left intact from which the Cri-
mean war could he regarded, and that both a
prominent and an important one in our ope-
rations before Sebastopol. M. Soyer endea-
vours to express from this, the "culinary,"
point of view, his experiences of a campaign
in the Crimea, and we are bound to say that
he has given us a very entertaining and a very
instructive book. A vein of culinary criticism,
of course, runs through the volume. Soyer
never sits down to, or sees others sit down to,
a breakfast, a dinner, or a supper, on board
ship or on shore, without telling us whether
the appetites were good and of what the dishes
consisted. A dinner at Marseilles was very
" recherché," but the " bouillabaisse " threw all
the accessories into the shade. On board
every ship he sails in he makes the ac-
quaintance of the cook, superintends the bill
of fare for the play, and estimates the value
of the captain as a good fellow according to
the nature of his tastes, whether for
luxurious epicurism or coarse voracity. He
visits Ajaccio, and moralises upon the kitchen-
grate " which first aliment ed the brain " of
Napoleon. He describes with gusto the well-
constructed charcoal•stove, upon which, " no
" doubt, the most delicious fish and genie
" were submitted to the highest perfection of
" the culinary art." Evidences of roasting by
wood fire and broiling in the ashes he detects
with the keen eye of a master, while in an old
I semicircular oven he is confident were baked