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London, England, 1839-11-04 00:00:00

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FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Tory Newspapers have christened Lord Mel-
bourne's Government " The Lucky Administration,"
in consequence of the invariable and signal success
which has attended all its undertakings. We have no
objection to the appellation, though we do not admit
the assumption implied in it, that the successes ob-
tained have been owing to good fortune and not to
good management ; for on the.contrary we are prepared
to show that all the successes which have so happily
marked the career of Lord Melbourne's Government
have been the result of a judicious selection of objects,
and a prudent adaptation of means to ends. But it is
no slight recommendation for a Government to have the
eharaCter of being invariably fortunate. This character
is one which many great leaders, both military and political,
have been the most desirous to establish, as being the one
most likely to secure for them zealous and energetic co-ope-
ration from their followers. For mankind are more likely
to follow those whose undertakings are thought to be
sure to succeed, than those whose undertakings only
deserve to succeed ; and, as far as the interests of a
nation are concerned, success is the main point ; whether
it is the result of fortune or of good combinations,
regards only the merit of those by whom it is
achieved. But never was there an occasion on
which it could less truly be said that success
was owing to chance, than in regard to our recent
glorious achievements in India ; on the contrary,
these achievements have been the result of the
most able combinations, and of the most judicious
adaptation of vast means to accomplish a great end,
The end which has been accomplished is one the
full value and importance of which can only be justly
appreciated by persons Well acquainted with the con-
cerns of our Indian empire ; but we fearlessly affirm
that our triumph has not merely added glory to our
arms, but is pregnant with advantages of trans-
cendant importance to British interests of a vital
kind. With regard to the means employed, nothing
was left to chance, as far as human foresight and pru-
dence could provide
__for future contingencies. Four
armies crossed the Indus, three of which united to
march on Candahar, and the fourth was ready to have
marched on Cabul if necessary. The Bombay army
from the South, the Bengal army from the North, and
Shah Shoojah's troops from our frontier, all met
by different routes to the eastward of the Bolan Pass,
and marched successively to Candahar, Ghizni, and
Cabul ; and the fourth army, which came through Run-
jeet Sing's territories, was ready to have taken Dost
Mahommed in the rear if he had not prudently fled.
Some of the Tory papers have said that the capture of
Cabul was solely owing to the accidental circumstance
that 13,000 well appointed troops of Dost Mahommed
refused to fight ; but why did they refuse to fight ?
Why, for an excellent reason—that if they had fought,
they would have had to contend against a victorious army
three times their own number.

(From the courier.)
The extraordinary ability with which the plan of cam-
paign against Cabul was combined, the patience and
perseverance under privations of no ordinary severity,
with which marches of a duration so lengthened and
distances so vast were accomplisned, and the climax of
surpassing gallantry by which all was wound up in the
storm of Ghizni and the capture of Cabul, the capital
itself, have ',scarcely been repaid hitherto with that full
and fair tribute of admiration and gratitude to which
they are so pre-eminently entitled. It may, indeed,
be observed of Indian affairs, and the achieve-
ments of our Indian army generally, that they receive
less attention and are regarded with much less interest
than is creditable to the intelligence or honourable to
the feeling of the nation. It would almost seem as if
the lustre of victory was dimmed, and the warmth of
national sympathy chilled, in proportion to accumulating
degrees of intervening latitudes and longitudes. And
yet the annals of the Indian Government, and that
heroic Indian army, from the earliest dawn of empire,
present one unbroken record of glorious triumph in the
field and successful sagacity in council, such as con-
tinuously can be paralleled only, but not transcended,
in the history of Rome, Republican and Imperial.
That matchless army has ever been, as yet it
is, the nursery in which the military spirit, the
best blood, and the brightest genius of British chi-
valry was cradled and trained to the vigour of man-
hood : from the laurels, almost unheeded, of Indian war-
fare we have seen its chiefs mount to impeiishable fame
on the ruins of the mightiest of the hosts and heroe.
of more civilized Europe. If we have been unmind-
ful of the arrear of iratitude due for the past,
let us be just at least for the present and for the
future. The hand so lavish of reward and title to
Colonel De Lacy Evans, who led battalions only to de-
feat and decimation, and returned with no remant of
the army committed to his charge, save a bare truncheon,
cannot he niggard or churlish in the dispensation of ho-
nours and rewards to Sir John Keane and his gallant asso-
ciates, who have triumphantly uphold the invincible banner
of England and extended the empire of their Sovereign.
Whilst, however, we humbly discharge our portion of
the national debt of gratitude to the Indian army, we
must be allowed to question the policy and prudedee of
the Indian Government in entering on this ;car without
necessity, 'i'be system. of Indian policy, as under-
stood and acted q hy our ablest statesmen, has been
in prinelplie essentially defensive and pacific ; conserve-
',;i44 cot territory and
influence has been the rule, con-
est and extension the excevion.
(From the ..S.teftdard.)_

The literary ;Ipporeterssuppoosf theunlilpoinpiustiaryritymaonfiftebset
great satisfactipp at the
Queen with the Conservative party, and exult in the
diffic4itie, which the assumed violence of that party
would impose upon Sir Rolaert Peel at his accession to
ofAcet The sottsfactiou professed tt the loss to ti
(ueen of Abf? afActicto, of an import- Akirlalon
'
a her *Rtitos—and !tat divis;-
Crawo la', ever found :‘ 1
—on, too, In which the
-.wilt vi
..0 alley Support in times of danger
...---is
.a sir..6oiar evidence of 16.yally ; but it is quit *in
Ic.:eping with the whole policy of that party, wVch has so
sedulously laboured to represent the Sovereign as in feel-
ing the Sovereign only of a factic,-,1, and by these represen-

%formation has reached us of a public meet',„,
held at Calcutta on the 19th of August, to receir e ti,s'e
report of the New Bengal Steam Fund Commit, an ; the
Lord Bishop in the chair, at which Eurcrtiear4s and na-
tives urged in the most pointed lanr.iage., and in the strongest manner, the importance to India of a direct
and speedy communication with thi; country. The feeling
is intense in India and general here in favour of the plan, and what is there to prevellt it; execution ? We will not repeat the suggestions, offered by some of the speakers
at the Calcutta mrAting, but when it was shown, ja
this communication, as o
munication, that forty-five days in
point f
time, and three shillings in point of charge, may be
- - -•.
sr..ved on every letter to or from India, by .„ :
improvr,
ment in the mode of transmission, the public have right to know who and what it is that preverit
ffijie.4l‘t P7.team
4the
immediate establishmect of a direct aAnnd,ei
communication between us and our
b ° oull'an fel-
low-subjects.—At/as.
HOGARTH AND AN OLD SIL'K litNDICER-
cHIEF.—For a considerable time
past,
tobfe'mj
with respect t
the National Gallery have been in P kuecehpae
lrasnn of
and astonishment,
; the apparent decay of
Hogarth's fire series of pa
.ntings, which have been
for so tr4any years one
the Ciallerv. I, a p of the chief attractions of
„ litocrp of
that while the pictures
are,und the
brilliancy of color,rs: the .maintainedtrsb their i originalortl
satirist daily riaded, becoming
aumeore
by our
unrioremmdinray.
They were strictly observed, the wall which they ado-./4.41
was examined, yet no cause for the lamentable -change
was detected. After much anxiety it was discri
arise from the breath of the numerous visit-orsvered to
to the
Gallery, who examining the pictures it,-
question with
microscopic eye, eager to catch the: minutest detail
of their truly English character,, minutest
the can-
vass too nearly. The damn 1-.
r- tuns occasion attracted
and retained the dust of t/
~e room. on the surface of
the pictures, until their v.eonted e.ad well known beauty
gradually became obs•*,nred. What was to be done.?
the application of Liquids to clean pictures is at IA
1 times hazardo-A ; doubly so with the delicate and
ex.
pressive
#Juches of Hogarth's masterly pencil. The effect
of old silk handkerchief was tried
an ot-t the
orner
r of one of the pictures—the result was .cniraen-
..
re rubs and the picture app
lous—a few mo r.
aced in all
and
its pristine beauty of colour_ expression*
The rub-
bing process was extended to the series, and our old
friends with " shining morning faces," can now scarcely
be recognised.—Literary Gazette.