The Press.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

OUR VIGOROUS GOVERNMENT.
THE sagacity and vigour with which the Go-
vernment have foreseen and met the disastrous
crisis in India is a subject for a monstrous deal
of puffing and praise bythe Ministerial journals
We doubt the truth
fact the assertion
in truth ; and in
to appear to press
meat. On the con,
afford them every
overcome this terrii
for years past !'

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ed and a refusal was given to the proposition to 9. -,..
he send a large Bengal force to China, as Lord
let ELLENBOROUGH had proposed. Thus, the well-
he affected troops were all sent away, the die- i
id. affected were all kept in Bengal, and the latter
we therefore found the field conveniently made ;
.ke clear. Is it wonderful that they should have
ed taken advantage of a position so completely.
Alt prepared by the Government to their hands? ,
Ai- If, then, the country really desires ven-
on geance, if it wants victims, it need not to go
to Calcutta or Delhi for them, as it has them
!nt here at its hand. The real creators of its mis-
na- fortunes, the real authors of its disasters, are
an- not in India, but in Downing-street and . .
no in Cannon-row. They it is who have stung .-
'alc these tigers to madness without even taking ~•
:ol- the precautions that common sense had dic-
of tated against their certain attempts at revenge-
leer These are the men who to the last pooh,. ~ 4
on pooped the affair, and laughed at what I
.ed, they described as the impotent efforts
?an of the men they had misgoverned in Hindo. ;
lm- sten. If the nation has the moral as well as
mi- the physical courage to enforce for itself
redress, let it begin with the authors of its
ids. calamities before the turn of the actors in
' of them arrives. Let it show that it is not the
een Palmerston-ridden people that the Continalk..:Avt...
tell proclaims, but that it can insist on As pun
een ment of guilty ministers as well as on that of
'LES guilty serfs. Let the country do this, and it has .
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1: only to speak its will to do Amid it is done. It •
lied will thus stand higher in the estimation of the
ght world than it will by all the ravings it can
•oin outpour against the mutineers of Bengal. These,
•an too, will have their day, we may rely upon it;
ient but vengeance, like charity, should begin at
and home. Any personal injury to the Ministers
Led, we, of course, do not contemplate; but they
Ens, should be ever marked with the country's re-
ingt probation. They who have brought dis-
mes aster and dishonour on us should no
Or, more encumber the national coun-
rerY oils, they should be no longer allowed oppor-
keen tunity of doing further ill. It was by a sturdy '
lent course of this kind that England attained her
vere greatness ;itis by the indolence that insures
sure impunity to such men that she is hastening
heir her decline. If a change is now to be effected
tile- in our condition, that change must commence, J
the not at the extremities, but at the head. The •
aave nation, if left free to act for itself, would still ;
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and show the vigour of a giant, but it will never do
Ly, if so while its limbs are bound by withes like
rots. these. What it wants is neither strength nor
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itely ability to quell this direful outbreak, but man-
real cipation from the leading of the men who have
s, all caused the disaster, and who are thinking less
all of the salvation of the country than of screen- '
.sted, ing themselves.

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