The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1857.

813 EDWARD BULWE4 LYTTON ON MALIN

4774788.

On Wedneeda the annual meeting of the Tring
Agricultural w held at the listleray Hotel.
FRANI JOHN Moos; Big., In the chair.
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Si EDWARD LYTTON BULWRI, Aar ••
few reks cm
kcal topics, proceeded to say :—Who is there remark
not
thisidng of India ? Has there beenteasktilisesesibly of
t is--even where the strict/et rules our touch-
ing on anything not Immediately on the subject
be us—has there been a mingle agricultural meeting,
where a member of parliament bee edthemed his constituents,
when be has not been impelled_ by the feeling of the meeting
to say something at the ceredition of India? Wo all feel
confident that no suck men would &boas such a subject
to • petty = (Cheers.) No man, whatever he
may man, te ids °pinkie sa to the faults
or the mean of peril= parties, no man, I ay, in this
✓oneq, sad I trope no man la Englund, would beam enough
to make a peaty goalies of the British &epee. (Cheers.) In
this convivial imether, we mama recal—ft would cause too
deep a peg—ell that hea taken piaos in India. Of all that
hes been acid en the subject lately, nothing, to my mini&
been better or more to the purpose then a letter of Lad
borough. There la no ppaarrtty spirit there; there Is a mesas-
Eon, so far, for consideration hereafter, ea to what may be
our civil or oar politics' duties, but there Is the appeal cf
se old Englishman to English courage, E*ish
might bs determination. And it is perfectly truergri
wen ewspt in ocean,
for tas.:l I:teuel Izdia, as
remain U. India
great
end mignifloent people. Bat It is Impossible Ike us to'
lamas a greet peopts—l all my It is impossible for us to
remain a oafs people—lf we were Is lose India in Harm we
are now threatened. It le imposeible for no to be sate spinet
Europe; It is teapomfble for us to be sae against any of the
despots of the eerily it it could be said, England in the
plenitude of her senegth England with her countlem
army; England with all her pride, could allow, not only her
whiten, not only the dower- of her army, but her women
and infants, to be massacred, and ceased from the contest be-
fore she had achieved • triumphant, an effectual, a
nest victory." (Cheers.) If we could endure that, I prima
the ocean would flow around us in vain. I be-
lieve the ocean would soon be passed ; that so Rag-
land has before now been invaded; as the sea has been
crossed when England had not men, soshe has sow, to de-
fend her ; so, though similar atrocities could not take plea a
this canny, the time might come when England weld have
to rebuilt to a foreign despotism_ If England loses bar
reputation,
reputation, ohs loses that which diatingodahm her from the
rest of Europe. No doubt there is a good deal which we
must calmly consider, which it would net become me now to
mar ou. At present, our dirty Is not that of calm relates
—our duty is to put down the revolt, and to silly with all
our streegth around the executive government, no matter a
whose hands that government is placed— (cheers)—the
culla government which represents the Majesty of the
Crows, end whose duty it is to preense the lives
of an madingered countrymen. 8o long as the danger
lasts, our longues are in some degree fettered. While
they en paling down the rebellion, we must be oath'
not to utter a -eagle word to weaken their authority.
If at this moment • reed bull were let loose aroceg se, I
don't think the beet grazier in Yorkshire would induce no to
listen to a lecture on the management of horned cattle fa
general. (Laughter.) I think the wimet man would be, not
he who could Instroct you in the beet method of dealing with
dangerous cattle generally, bet the man who mad* the
shortest work of the bull. Cientlesen, that is new our
o*ct—we must make short week of the bull. (Cheers.)
AAr thst, we shall have to consider the wisest, or, what is
the same thug, the junta and mildest manner, oonsiatent
with our Era**, of managing the wild cattle we shall have
to midis and tome. (Cheers.) Christianity Imposes on us
greet obligations. The whole question connected with India
is so dillcult that we ought to have the greatest Indulgence
for the errors of any government that may have preceded us,
and to comelsr, carefully, wisely, sad without any spirit of
party, bow we may beet do our duty to Ood and to that vat
multi= cemenitted to our sceptre. (Cheers.)