The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-30 00:00:00

THE WEEK.

The wedding•day of the Princess Royal will long be remembered!.
The marriage of the eldest daughter of a Queen so beloved and of a
mother so respected as her Majesty was certain to attract the attention
and excite the sympathies of the population of London. Rarely have
such a crowd collected in the Mall as that which swarmed between
Whitehall and Buekingham Palace on Monday last, and nowhere
except in England could so vast a crowd be maintained
in order by so small a force of police and guards.
The reception of her Majesty and the Princess Royal by the people
must have been as gratifying to those illustrious personages as it was
sincere in itself. The favour, too, exhibited towards the Prince
FREDKRICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA was distinguished by a heartiness
which marked the approval of the people. Of the marriage ceremony
we have little to say. It was magnificent without being melancholy.
And the first day of a new and happy life for the Princess passed with-
out a single untoward event to detract from its brightness.

A new batch of Peers is about to be created. We have reason to
believe that Mr. WYKEHAM MARTIN, M.P., a thoroughgoing Palmers•
tonian and Kentish Liberal, will be one of the fortunate selections.
The Hon. G. FITZWILLIAM is also mentioned. It has long been felt
that " something must be done for the Fitzwilliams." Colonel DUDLEY
CARLETON, son-in-law of Lord BROUGHTON, is also mentioned ; with Sir
MAURICE BERKELEY ; ASHLEY PONSONSY, who will take his title from
the Crimea; Sir RICHARD BULICELEY, the only deserving name in the
whole list ; and lastly, a member of the Milnes family.

Considerable misapprehension exists respecting this contemplated
elevation of the Milnes family to the Peerage. We believe the facts
to be these. Early in last year the Prime Minister announced to Mr.
Musics of Frystone, the respected father of the Hon. Member for
Pontefract, and who was a schoolfellow, we believe, of the venerable
Premier, that his Lordship was prepared to recommend to her
Majesty to summon Mr. MILNEB to the House of Lords. The highly
estimable Yorkshire Squire declined the proffered honour, on the
double ground that he had no wish that his family should be ennobled,
and, secondly, that he had no confidence whatever in Lord PALMERSTON.
Since the project of creating a batch of peel a has been revived,
Lord PALMERSTON, we are informed, has now offered the Peerage to
the eldest son of Mr. RICHARD MILNE% M.P., and the grandson of Mr.
MILNES of Frystone, omitting Mr. RICHARD Alarms himself in this series
of proposals, on the plea that the Government cannot afford to lose his
independent support in the House of Commons, which, we believe,
was the real ground on which her Majesty's Ministers declined on two
occasions to confer on the Honourable Member the offices of Secretary
of Ireland and that of Poet Laureate.

Some difficulty, it is said, may be experienced in carrying out the
last proposal of the Ministry with respect to this distinguished family
by the circumstance of Mr. RIIIHARD MILNEB' eldest son being a minor.
But "the atrocious crime of youth" is one which in this age of pro-
gress can hardly be very severely visited ; and, considering the pos-
sible duration of the Palmerston Ministry, it is by no means impos-
sible that it may be the happy destiny of the youngest Mr. MILNES to
second in the House of Lords an address to the Crown condoling with
her Majesty for the loss of her Indian empire, or any other calamities
which that event will bring about

No material change has taken place in the affairs of India, accord-
ing to the latest intelligence received last night. Sir Conn( CAMPBELL
remains at Cawnpore, and the Punjaub is " tranquil." At this distance
it is not easy to comprehend in all their details the exact position of
affairs, or the prolonged and remarkable inactivity of Sir COLIN CAMP-
BELL might cause some alarm. On the 6th of December Sir Cour,'
defeated the Gwalior rebels, and for three weeks ho does not appear to
have moved from his position. It can only be a necessity of the
gravest nature which compels him to act thus on the defensive. Ile
must be in want of men and stores, and where are they to come
from? Calcutta, our last letters assure us, has not a man to
send, and stores, never plentiful, are already exhausted by the
demands of the campaign. Two considerations are involved in this
position—first, that our losses must have been enormous, and that,
though we have scarcely ended one " particular campaign," and have
another close at hand, our resources on the spot are more or less
exhausted. True it is that after nearly a twelvemonth's struggle we
have achieved great successes, that our soldiers have performed
prodigies of valour, and our generals mostly have exhibited unrivalled
skill; but is our position improved, have we regained the confidence of
the natives in the stability of our Government, and have we no work
left to us now but the pacification and reorganisation of the
country? Can we look at the map of India and point
to any single spot not covered by British guns, where
the rebellion is crushed ? We have broken to some extent
the organisation of the enemy, yet where we have done so we
see that the war has become a raid, destructively harassing to our
overtasked troops, but no single infected spot is cured. We defeat a
body of rebels one day, and they cut off our communications twenty
miles in the rear the next. It is this guerilla feature of the war that

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overtasked troops, but no single infected spot is cured. We defeat a recommend are such as we ourselves have uniformly endeavoured to
body of rebels one day, and they cut off our communications twenty enforce ; but we cannot so readily acquiesce in one of the reasons which
miles in the rear the next. It is this guerilla feature of the war that he gives for them. In the latter portion of his remarks, bearing on a most