The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

in order to show how different is the pecuniary
value of such promotion and of the recompense
sometimes given to leroes, that we here quote the
precedents of Williams and Havelock. Sir Wil-
liam Williams's defence of Kai s was a feat in many'
respects similar to Sir John Inglis's defence of
Lucknow, though it must be recorded, in fairness
to the latter, that it was not equally
successful ;
yet certainly no one felt that the hero of it Was,
over-rewarded by a baronetcy with a pension 01
£l,OOO a year attached to it. The command of the
garrison of Woolwich and the command of the
troops in Canada were additional marks of Her
Majesty's favour. ,To the widow and son of Sir
Henry Havelock, who can hardly be said to have
relieved Lucknow, though i
name of that city s
appended to the baronetcy were awarded respectively
similar pensions of £l,OOO a year, amid the applause
of the whole nation, We are far from saying that the
inferior honours bestowed on Sir John Inglis were
a shabby requittal of his deserts, but we N;ish:to point
oat that they were inferior, and not only inferior,
but—what is of greater importance—far more pre-
carious. Having been made a Major-General he was
afterwards appointed to the command in Corfu.
Had he lived he might here, perhaps, have saved a
considerable sum in the course of time, but his
health was shattered by his Indian service, and he
unhappily died of an lonian fever a few months ago,
leaving a widow and five children, to whom a sixth
was added but a week since. The worth of his
commission having been lost by the very fact of his
promotion, a share of prize money amounting to
less than £2OO, a widow's pension of £l4O a year,
and an allotment of £25 each for all the children
so long as they are under age, is all the acknow-
ledgment that remains to the representatives of a
man to whom our :Indian Empire owes so much.
Now, the question is not whether this does not
pain our feelings, but, simply whether this is right.
There are many brave men who have fallen in their
country's service after exertions not less heroic,
though more humble, than those of Sir John Inglis,
and whose widows may have at least an equal
claim on the score of compassion to the national
bounty. When we select this as an exceptional
case, demanding the attention of the Government,
we do not speak of compassion but of equity.
Unless it can be shown that Sir John has never re.-
ceived what he had a right to expect, and what the
English nation, from the Queen downwards, in-
tended to give him, we should be ashamed to plead
on behalf of Lady Inglis. We regard this as a re-
markable example of the injustice which the system
of rewarding public benefactors by offices tenable
for life may occasionally work. Where it does work
such injustice it is surely the part of the Govern-
ment, and, if necessary, of the Legislature, to step
in and redress the hardship which would otherwise
be suffered. All that is required, or could properly
be asked, is that the widow of Sir John Inglis
should be placed in the same position which would
have been unanimously and most cheerfully con-
ceded to her if her husband's premature death could
have been foreseen.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of
millers and dealers, and an improved demand experienced
for wheat at generally the full prices of this day week, but
hi to 2d per 100113 more money for good winter red Ameri-
can. Four more inquired for, but not dearer. Oats and
meal, with a slow sale, barely maintained Friday's prices'
Barley and peas as before. Egyptian beans were easier to
buy. Indian corn was rather neglected,

MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY.
White wheat, 48s to s:s ; red, 43s to 46s per 36 stone.
Malting barley :at 378 to —o:per qr.; grinding, 30s to 329
per 30 st. Oats, old, 265, to 295; new, 22s to 25s per 24
st. ; beans, 34s to 39s per qr.

BRISTOL—TUESDAY.
The transactions in the corn market here to-day were,
purely nominal, and call for no report.

SHEFFIELD—TUESIDAT.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Od to 165
204
7,
White ,
, ...20a Od to 21s Ol_,
New red
...17s Od to 18s o°,
New white ..
.18s Od to 195 06

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Od to 190 uu