The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

LOLO ELLENBOROUGH ON INDIA.

The following letter hu been addressed to the
Members of the Winchcomb Agricultural Association:

SOL THAN DFLABTRE, OCT. 16, 1157.

Gentlemen,-1 much regret toy not Ming able to attend
your annual meeting today, the more especially ea I wee
desirous of speaking to you upon the subject merest to my
heart—the ear in India, and of urging you to essiet, so you
and alt country gentlemen and farmers can, most powerfully
In bringing the country through the diflicultla in which it
Is involved.

Not having the opportunity of ddrte•tng you otherwise, I
now write to you.
As to the war halt I need my but tittle. As to the con-
duct of the ministate and of the Indian government in this
emssge•ey, I shall say nothing. I mum soon have ample
and more proper opportunities of saying whatever I may
think upon that subject.
Glentlimen,—Yes may not have looked into all the details
of what has tape• place in India, but yes moat know this—
that we have there a great war forced upon us by rebels who
would deprive all our countrymen at their lives, sad England
aim empire—that when we plead our confidence we have
bee• met with treachery—wiere we wad with kindness we

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sem by whom miasma might be marls, and from whom
wrongs might have been feud; but extending equally to
no/ending, helpless women—to the children so their knees,
and to the infanta at their breasts—sparing none, and often
fainted death with torture upon the body where it had shady
more cruelty tortured the mind.
We hays seen there, in almost every kurtance'of mutiny,
one genera deliberate design, not only to deprive us of the
dominion we have so long held with honour, bat to place
us, as • people, under cirommtences, of _ontrageand of
indignity, which, if we submit to them, moat vendor as, la
the eyes of all living men and of ell future gmemstiona, •
despised end degraded race. Will you submit to this? Yon
will ley you never will--you will have :Wives end
vengeance. We will say nothing about vengeance—thet
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belongs only to a Higher Power; bat to punish crime
0 signally as to deter all hereafter from its °empiric's,
sad to vindicate our sovereign authority, this is no doubt our
right, and it is our duty—snd you will say you will not
be found wanting la the perfotroance of it—Lott, thin, what
will you do ? Depend upon it, it le not enough to sit quietly
at horns and to pay tame, nor to go to public meeting, and
psi reeolutious szpresive of sympathy with the sufferers
and of indignation spinet their destroyers. You must do
more than this, and i will tell you what you can do—what
none but those who are in your position can do equally well,
and what you now all ought to do for the honour of the
country, and for your own.

You hare heerd of the greet reinforcements of troops
which have been recently nut or are now going out to India.
You have been •surd that we shall have there • larger
wary than we had in the Crimea, and I dare my you expert
from the exertioste of this force early and complete
success in the war. Everything that the noblest of
soldiers can do hat been done, and will be done by ours in
ladle ; and they have now a general who knows well what
war is—the boas an at last led by • lion ; but be sewed
hat this is not • sudden temporary danger, to be rep•Wd by
saddle tenpa•ry exertion. Whet at fire was a mutiny is
beer • ',weblike ; to mem' civil authority is mon diffi-
cult than at mew military maistanoe, end it requires
awe firm le campy then it does to subdue. Be enured
that the natiliery tundtagiers a dais country, managed as
they now an, w insaditiont porassaently to supply the
numbs, el met imbed to mosaquer what we hare lost and
to hold our ampire lantsltsr in security. It is only
through • change in those institution., which no
midair would willingly propose, or through • greet
praeled bapowessat in the working of them which your
so-eperadea may supply, that the accessory force ma be
maintained. lIN seeded that the principle upon which
our militia is now founded, that of voluntary eallelmed.
is the one most acceptable to the people ; sad I feel sweet
that • militia metaled at its full complement, sit nay be,
sad can only be, by the patriotic exertion' of country
gentleman and tamers, is the bad toga hulas d Mr Wan