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London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

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

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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 . ...
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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
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1 . at once to embody the Militia, and to despatch ' any point where his services might be re-
/P LtSS. to the East every ii,railable mknowing an. They showed required, that'the fate of NANA SAHIB,
that the communication with Calcutta might though delayed for the moment, was certain ..
be cut off, as it since has been, and that the when the province 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 safely
These facts being patent, we have no doubt
of the Great Northern bring , affirm that the tide of public opinion
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 have to possible that it may be some inkling
of this fact which gives such an in-
molders in entrusting them any say 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;
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he may not take such a rose-water view of the P
rectors of the nation lead us totelligence 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 treachery, the Maharajah Griot-As
state voured
things by placing to cut off all knowledge of the true
gag on the press
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riticise a Canning or a Palmerston, Shalt. 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

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