The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1861

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this time at Christchurch, except Sidney Herbert,
who was at Oriel=Canning, Gladstone, Lord
Lincoln, Ramsay, George Cornewall Lewis, Bruce.

The latter, the subject of this notice, took a first

class in Literis Humanioribus in 1832, and was shortly
afterwards elected Fellow of Merton College, pro-

eeeding M.A. in 1835. But anew career was soon to be
open to him. George, Lord Bruce, his half-brother,

died unmarried in 1840, and the young Fellow of
Merton became heir to the earldom. In the fol-

lowing year he stood at the general election in the
Conservative interest for Southampton ; and his

success was one of the first fruits of Sir Robert
Peel's tactics—the votes being for Lord Bruce (Tory)

648, for Mr. C. C. Marty n (Tory) 645, for Captain
Mangles (Liberal) 554, for Mr. E. J. Hutchins
(Liberal) 552. fle was early called upon to prove
his mettle in the House. Lord Melbourne's
Ministry, long moribund, had thought fit to appeal
to the country for a verdict in their favour, which

had been denied them by the House of Commons,
with universal approbation. Sir Robert Peel had
now a chance of his revenge, and of realising the
results of his memorable cry, Register ! register !
register !" On the address Mr. Stuart Wortley
moved, and Lord Bruce seconded,'the famous

amendment which brought the Viscount to the mis-
hap which even his friends had long foreseen. Lord
Bruce said that, as representing an important com-

mercial town, he would not be silent at such a crisis.

He attacked the Ministry for retaining office, and,

while it was notorious that they did not possess the
confidence of the country, for allowing the stream
of dignities and emoluments still continually to
well forth, acid to well forth, as copiously as, if not
more profusely than, before. Did Lord John Russell
say a word about surrendering his trust, having lost
the reality of power P In reference to an indignant

remark of some Whig member about public honesty

and candour, Lord Bruce replied with spirit and
force, "In a day when all monopolies are denounced,
I must be permitted to say that to my mind the
monopoly which is most intolerable and odious is
the pretension to a monopoly of public virtue." This

remark was a home thrust. Jo the Lords the verdict

had long gone against the Ministry by a majority

of 72 ; in the Commons the division showed a
majority of 91.
Lord Bruce did not retain his seat in the House
of Commons long, as his father's death and his suc-

cession to the title took him from the House. In
1842 he became Governor of Jamaica—a trouble-
some office—on the nomination of the present Earl

of Derby. His predecessor in this office was Sir
Charles Metcalfe, whose popularity had been so
great that a new parish in the island was named
after him. During the four years that he held office
he carried out a conciliatory policy, such as had

endeared his predecessor to the people, and showed
both judgment and good feeling as well as sagacity
in developing the resources of the island.
Though a Conservative, he was appointed by Earl
Grey, Colonial Secretary in Lord John Russell's
Ministry, Governor-General of Canada in 1846, in

royal reporters crowded round the distinguished group to
catch the words. When the Chinese powers were read in
turn, "every mandarin's eye," says Mr. Oliphant, "kept
slily turning towards Lord Elgin as his look grew more and
ecai captive but in
more severe" when he heard that the commissioners were
env veeredered to do anything which might not infringe on the
dignity of the Celestial Empire, When this document bad
byth lie
y v
Yeh
had been felled a letter from this worthy to the Emperor,
e been read, Lord Elgin sternly ordered his chair, and told the
astonished Chinese that their commission was unsatisfac-
tvoariyn.,
inasmuchH i lordship shaiam
p was
among again
g the besiegedpapers
advising him not to bind himself to the treaty of Nankin of
1843. So vigorous and so firm was Lord Elgin that Key-
ing was at once disavowed and recalled, better counsels
prevailed with the Emperor, and on the 26th of June—tho
a of
15th anniversary of the exchange of the ratifications of the
treaty of Nankin between Sir Henry Pottinger and Keying
—the treaty was at last signed.
ho in g to break
From China Lord Elgin went to Japan, p
up the odious monopoly which had excluded all foreigners
except the Dutch from commerce or intetcourse with that
unknown land. His excuse for entering Japanese waters
was the presentation of a steam yacht to the Emperor of
Japan. He reached Nagasaki on the 3d of August, and
was joined the day following by Admiral Sir Michael
Seymour with two men-of-war. He went up the gulf of
Jeddo to Jeddo in the new yacht. Beyond Kanagawa,
however, no foreign vessel was allowed to pass, and here he
found at anchor the Russian squadron which had preceded
him from the Chinese waters. Still Lord Elgin's little
fleet went on till it came to a line of forts erected for the
seaward defences of Jeddo, and anchored a mile and a half
from the city. The Japanese were thunderstruck at the
apparition. Boats were sent off begging Lord Elgin to re-
turn at once to Kanagawa; but there was no help for it, so
the Japanese ceased to interfere. The flotilla passed up to
Jeddo in royal state, four paddle-box boats, each with a 4-
pound howitzer in her bows, enclosing the Ambassador's
barge—the officers all in lull dress, the band playing God
Save the Queen. The Treaty of Jeddo was signed on the
26th of August, 1858. How it was kept on the side of the
Japanese recent events have shown only too plainly.
Lord Elgin, having returned home, took his seat in the
House of Lords on the first day of the session of 1859. He
had been made a G.C.B. in 1858, and a D.C.L. of Oxford
two years previoudy, at the Grand Commemoration. Lord
Derby was now Prime Minister, and highly complimented
him on "the zeal, tkill, and ability" with which he had
fulfilled his functions, adding, that he congratulated him-
self on having introduced Lord Elgin to public life. Lord
Grey said that he had appointed him to Canada, imagining
that this was the office to which Lord Derby alluded ; but
Lord Derby, undoubtedly, when Sir R. Peel's Colonial
Secretary, took Lord Elgin from private life, and sent him
to Jamaica.

When Lord Palmerston came into office Lord Elgin ao
cepted the office of Postmaster. General. In 1860 it was
again necessary that the Emperor of China should be
compelled to fulfil the engagements into which he had en-
tered with the British, but which he was determined, if
possible, to evade. Lord Elgin went out, retaining the
office of Postmaster-General till September, 1860. On
his voyage he was shipwrecked at Ceylon, and had a nar-
row escape from death, but was put on board another
vessel, and proceeded to Hong Kong, and then to Shanghai.
The Taken forts were taken, the Chinese submitted them-
selves, and in November, 1860, the allied forces left Pekin.
In January, 1862, Lord Elgin was selected with uni-
versal approbation to succeed Lord Canning, his friend and
schoolfellow, as Governor-General of India. How he has
pacified angry feelings, established loyalty among doubt-
ful chiefs, promoted education, furthered religion without
offending the faith of the natives—all these things are
matters of recent history. Though his viceroyalty has
been short, it will have left its mark for good in Indian
history, and few Governor-Generals will have earned a
higher character for hearty zeal and warm liberality, as
well as for consummate administrative ability, than the
Earl of Elgin.
Lord Elgin could hardly be called a great orator. In
truth he bad little opportunity of either showing himself or
making himself an orator, since his services were chiefly
administrative and in distant countries, while,when in Eng-
land, he rarely spoke in the House of Lords, in which he
had a seat for 14 years. One speech of his, however, must
be noticed, in which he displayed that entire freedom
from partisanship and that true patriotism which distin-
guished his whole career. When Lord Ellenboreugh
moved his famous "grandiloquent" resolutions of the 14th
of May, 1855, in favour of a more vigoroas prosecution of
the Crimean war than he thought the Liberal Ministry of
Lord Palmerston had urged on, Lord Elgin, then, as ever,
a moderate, but independent Conservative, felt himself
bound to interpose in favour of the Government. He made
the best speech of the day by far, at times rising even to
eloquence. Beginning with the admission that, from
having been so many years absent in the foreign service of
the Crown, he was nearly a stranger to the proceedings of
Parliament, his lordship mentioned his present relations to
the Ministry. Not very long back, he said, he had thought
it his duty to state to Lord Palmerston that he was resolved
to maintain an independent position in Parliament, and yet
his desire and intention, subject to that qualification and
reserve, were to support the Premier, not only because on
questions of public policy his sentiments coincided with his
loroship's, but because he owed to Lord Palmerston and
his colleagues a debt of obligation for the support they had
uniformly given him at critical periods in his foreign career.
It was true, he must owr, that the successes of the Minis-
try, whether in the Crimea or elsewhere, had been few ; and
the germ of his hope in Lord Palmerston had not yet ripened
into public confidence. The resolutions spoke of " firm
alliances of brotherhood in arms of a sympathetic and
enthusiastic people." Was there no word of regret "for
national friendships of old standing broken, for desolation
carried into thousands of happy homes, for Europe in arms,
Asia agitated and febrile, America sullenly expectant ?"
The grandest sentence was that in which Lord Elgin, in
earnest tones, contrasted the devotion of our soldiers and
sisters of charity with the unpatriotic conduct of certain
people who " sat at home at ease," not far, perhaps, from
their lordships' house. After speaking of the gallantry of
the soldiers of all ranks, he said:—" To look to another
quarter, to contemplate another class of virtues which are
not less essential than those to which I have referred, to
the happiness and glory of nations, I have heard from en-
thusiastic, even bigoted, votaries of that branch of the
Christrian Church which sometimes prides itself on having
alone retained in its system room for the exercise of the
heroic virtues of Christianity—l say I have frequently heard
from the frank admission that the hospitals at Scutari have
proved that the fairest and choicest flowers of Christian
charity and devotion may come to perfection even in what
they are pleased to call the arid soil of Protestantism.
People at home should show the same indifference to small
and personal motives, the same generous patriotism, the
same disinterested devotion to duty which have charac-
terised our soldiers in the field, and the women of Eng-
land at the sick bed." The following year, about the
same time (May 27) his lordship spoke somewhat em-
phatically in deprecation of the despatch of 10,000
troops to Canada, and the general increase of the mili-
tary establishments in British North America, as if is
anticipation of a war with the United States, which
had just voted a million with apparently warlike de-
signs. Ile said he had seen a great deal of the people of
the United States during his administration of Canada,
and he spoke in the interest of the North American colo-
nies, which would be the first to suffer from war. He
deeply regretted the unfriendly feeling which existed be-
tween the two nations—but he insisted that only the
governing classes of America, chiefly foreigners or of
foreign extraction, and of no very reputable character, were
our enemies ; whereas the better classes, who abnegated
their duties as citizens, and allowed Irish rowdies to govern
them, were anxious to continue on friendly relations with
us. Beyond a short explanation of his treaty with China
after this, we do not find that Lord Elgin took part in the
proceedings of the Upper House.
We have already mentioned his lordship's first marriage.
He married secondly, Nov, 7, 1846, on the eve of his journey
to Canada, Lady Mary Louisa Lambton, eldest daughter of
one of the moat eminent and most unfortunate Governors._
General of that Province—John George, first Earl of
Durham, G.C.8., previously Ambassador at St. Peters-
burg, and Lord Privy Seal in the first Reform
ment, at the head of which was his father-in-
josnrs and a
Grey. By her he has bad issue, with two other :,
born at
daughter, an heir, Victor Alexander, Lord
true °and estates
Montreal in 1849, who succeeds him in the t!
easing photograph
Most Londoners are familiar with the
leasing
man bend-
in many shop windows of the venerate-
apparently, in his
ing over a little boy, and helpings hilllustrious Viceroy and
studies. It is a photograph of th Gt°
Earl
hope to his liberality,
of the successor to his title—let
laesselfacrificing devotion
his unsullied character, his
noble
Elgin has as much died
to the welfare of his countrY.
soldier who has fallen on a
consolation that his country
field of battle, with the
only
life in administering her -
tor his country as any
will honour him who lost his great
whose arms preserved it--
empire equally with those ,
fr
KaAos evi pLotaxotcrt recr6vra
" Teesripevat YN)
tivaßov irEpl varp ikapvcip.Evo„.,,
Lord Elgin fought the good fight for England, and he has
the foremost of the great chatalpions of her
fallen among
sovereignty'
brave

THE COCOA NIIT TREE IN ENGLAND.—This
noble tree, which has hitherto been universally
barren in Europe, has at length been enabled to yield its
fruit. In the conservatory of the Duke of Northumber-
land's garden at Sion House there is a beautiful specimen of
this graceful palm, with a nut securely set, and advancing
steadily to maturity.
It has been obtained from a flower
which opened last July, and it nt,,w measures 10i 'I
inches
circumference.