The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-12 00:00:00

W tenon bum lie to.. M d ee to Mr C. Trevelysa's
Nam orbits he fully osseured. Sr 0. Trevelyan wen
an old posenal Mod of hi eon. He had ward with lie
far tweedy years at t u tremor', and In the coarse of • Meg '
public life be led sews bed a mole painful duty to per- i
hum. He believed that a mare hienset. • ems moms,
right, and independent pahlie earoat sow lived. He
admitted that he bed army goat qualities that 'miaow*
fitted him for the piece for which he wee seleeted. He
believed that is teary respects he had doe eneellmetly
well, awl if he could only have abstained from a worn ar
fraught with m..chief to the authority of the invoniment
of India, he would hi, been a most useful INITIBM 01 the
crown, bed • most popular governor in India. (Hear.)
He must my, therefor,. that both on pails sod as private
grounds he regretted vs ..oviinOy_—•aare, Indeed, than he
could express the b•• had pemaami, mad th. „Dm.
nhidi hail n,.,-vorily followed. He thought the
call .f Sir C. Trevvivansgreat public Iwo but Ii would have
been • greater mithc.lauger if a public servant had been
ellowol to reniiin in office titter an act so subversive of all
authority and ai dangerous to the mainteosnee of our rule
in ,alculateil to promote opposition, and even in-
surrc,tion. (Hear, hear.) These were the gmeinchi on
win, h the government were prepared to justify the recall
of sir C. Trevelyan. He thought it was their duty to do
so. and it was also their duty to allow no time to per
without providing a successor to Sir C. Trevelyan in the
goouviorship of Madras, for the government of such a prowl-
dem. was not nee in which an interregnum could be eafsl7
permitted. It was time, therefore, that the tart night a
mail, which took out the roan of Sir C. Trevelvau,fislso took
out the COIIIOIIOIOO appointing Sir Henry Ward in his
Sir Henry Ward had administered the government
of Ceylom with great sncoms, and had largely improved
the revenue, and he did not think they mull have
found in the whole Indian or coloaiel service a maw
fit person for the office. (Hear.) He would only add that
when the telegram reached the tioventor•Osneral of India,
informing him of what had takes plasm Lewd Connie,
regardless of the great inconvenience of travelling at that
season, immediately left Simla to proceed to Oaleotta,feeting
that he ought not to be absent at such a °animators tram
the sot of the central government. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. imucan mid the question was one of a somewhat
panful character, and he quite understood the olimeulty in
which Sir C. Wood was placed. He had considered the
budget of Mr. Wilson, and did not deny its ability ; but the
fault he found with it was that it proposed to balance in-
come and expenditure by imposing new taxer. Sir C.
Trevelyan sae strongly of opinion that Mr. Wil-
son's scheme wan 00i a wise one for his fp,
verument, and that it wr not necessary to raise
taw taxes, but that the balance might be ef-
(ected by reducing expenditure, and he wrote a
most able minute, which obeyed him to be more of • states-
man than the authors of the Calcutta scheme. But the
questioo erases to the course taken by him in publishing his
minute. This coarse was most unusual and contrary to id-
eal etiquette, and he could not join Mr. Seymour in en..
demning Sir C. Wood. The withdrawal of Sir C. 'hereto('
from Madras would, however, be deeply regretL•• wistb°4lb
mot • judicious subordinate, be bed proved himself e
governor, and he iMr. Bright) hoped Sir C. Woad would
study his minute with ore as it would enable him to ma
dify and greatly improve the project of lagialatios proposed
et Calcutta.