The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-07 00:00:00

viscousr MELVILLE ON THE INDIAN

MUTINY.

At a dinner given at I)alkeith on Friday to Mr.
Dundee, of Arniaton, on the occasion of the birth of a son
and heir, the health of Lord Melville was proposed in con•
melon with the army. In reply, Ma lordship said—l only
wish I could say I entertain the hope that we have seen the
wont in India. lam afraid that Wore the eervices of our
army are brought to a close there we must prepare our
for still wine calamities than we have already ref
find, and, I fear, for {Dann of a severe character. It is not
only that we have to provide an army for putting down th.
rebellion, but we have to occupy the country as well as have
a force engaged in moveable columns for the supprenion of
the rebellion in different districts in India. This will require
•largs force, and I am afraid such Sane es we have yet sent
out is Dot adequate to the service that hem to be per-
formed. As almost eve?), available soldier that Eng-
land can now produce is on his way to that country,
orb engaged in our other possessions, I feel that if
England moons to retain all her foreign penwasione, the
must maintain a much larger army than she has yet done.
You cannot maintain these distant colonies without an ad..
gamic force, not only to occupy them but to defend them it
neenaary. Shine and thither. you at thin moment require
with the most urgent neceisity ; and I hope that now, seeing
what the emergency ia, the loyalty and patriotism of the
country will stir up young men to come forth and rally round
the standard of Oren Britain, to recover that country to
England which this rebellion has placed In peril—l will not
say taken from us, for I cannot but believe that the theca
macy of England will be re-establithed end her cloudlike
remand, and that country become once more the bright gem
In the British crown which it has hitherto been." (Loud
cheers.) In reply to the subseitient toast of his own health,
pe_,peeed by Mr. Ramsay, of Whitehill, his lordship said :
My friend, Mr. Ramsay, has alluded to my semen In tenna
beyond any desert, of mine, and particularly to the wrnsita
when I commanded the Bombay column In the Punjeub. I
moot certainly congratidate enyeelf on the excellent
discipline manifested by that column; and whatever
credit may be due to me in that matter, 1 can conecien-
thinly my was by my being meet ably and malouely sup-
ported by the officers of that army. I do believe that if the
NUM discipline bad been in exietence, and the same attention
their duels had been paid by the European Ohara of the
Bengal army, this unfortunate mutiny would nut have
mewled. We cannot retain our dominion in India without
a native army. Europeans cannot do the duty which the
natives are called on to perforce ; the climate will not admit
of it. But how we can reorganise that army so as to trust
the native after what has occurred is more than at this
moment I eon possibly venture to suggest. Meanwhile a
very large European force will necnearily have to be main-
tained, and many duns hitherto performed by natives must
be perfornied by them, though, I am afraid, at a great sacri-
fice of life but that la unavoidable If we mean to maintain
out supremacy in India.