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

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THE LATE LORD ELGIN.

(From the Horning Post.)

The announcement which it is our painful duty
to make this morning of the death of the Governor-
General of India is provocative of the most melan-
choly feelings. The Marquis of Dalhousie and
Earl Canning only left India to see their native
country and die; to Lord Elgin it has not been
allowed even to breathe his last, wearied out and
exhausted, on British soil, or to rest in Westminster
Abbeyr-like his illustrious predecessor in the splen-
did viceroyalty—among the noble of all ages—

' - heroes not yet dead,
But in old marbles ever beautiful."

The Viceroy died at Dhurmshalia, on the 20th of
November, of what has been erroneously called
"dropsy of the heart"—the strict term being "peri-
carditis," or an effusion of fluid into the cavity of
the pericardium. In February last Lord Elgin went
on a tour through the North-Western Provinces of
Bengal, reviewed troops, and gave audiences to
native chiefs, completing his " royal march" before
the summer. In September his lordship lefi, Simla
to make another progress—this time through the
Punj sub. He intended to reach Peshawur by way
of Lahore, and was to open the Punjaub Exhibition
at Lahore early in the next year. His lordship had
been suffering from disease of the heart for some
time past, and while on his way to meet Sir Hugh
Rose he ascended the Rotang Pass, 13,000 feet high.
The mountain air affected his breathing, and mate-
rially increased his disorder. Becoming rapidly
worse, he telegraphed for Sir William Denison,
Governor of Madras, to act as Viceroy in his room,
and sent home his resignation of his office. He sank
rapidly, and expired, as we have said, on the 20th of
November.

Lord Elgin was chief of the Bruce family. Sir
Robert de Bruse, descended from Eynor, fourth
Earl of Orkney, brother of Rollo, who conquered
Normandy in 912, and built the castle of Le Bruse,
now Brix, near Valagues, in Normandy, had two
sons, the elder of whom, Allen de la Bruse, remained
in Normandy, while the younger, William, " came
over with the Conqueror," became a baron in Yurk
shire, and possessed, before the close of the Con-
querors life, 94 lordships in Yorkshire, besides the
castle and manor of Skelton, with Hert and Hert-
ress, in the bishopric of Durham. His son made
a great figure at the Court of Henry 1., and was an
intimate friend of the King's brother-in- law, Prince
David of Scotland, who, when King, conferred on
him the lordship of Annandale. Sir Robert de
Bruce, his descendant, was a competitor with
Baliol for the throne of Scotland; and he was the
father of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, and
Edward Bruc, King of Ireland. From this Sir
Robert sprang the Bruces of Kennet, the Bruces of
Clackmannan, and the Bruces of Airth Stenhouse.
Sir Edward Bruce of Kinloss was a Scotch Lord of
Session towards the end of the sixteenth century;
was deputed by James VI., in 1600, in company
with the Earl of Mar, to congratulate Qaeen
Elizabeth on the suppression of Essex's rebellion ;
was a Privy Councillor; and, after settling his
master's peaceable succession to the English
throne, was created, at the close of his mission,
Baron Bruce of Kinloss anu of Torry, in the Scotch
peerage, besides obtaining the Mastership of the
Rolls for life. His younger son was created Earl
of Elgin of Elgin, in 1633, and Baron Bruce of
Whorlton, Yorkshire (this latter in the English
peerage), in 1640. The great-grandson of thisfirst
earl (the second earl was created Baron Bruce of
Skelton, Yorkshire, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill,
Bedfordshire, and Earl of Ailesbury) procured a
patent of remainder to Baron Bruce of Tottenham,
with a remainder to his nephew, Thomas Bruce
Brudenell, who was created Earl of Ailesbury in
1774 ; but the Elgin title, in default of heirs male
of his body, came to Charles, ninth Earl of Kincar-
dine, a descendant of Sir George Bruce of Carnock,
M.P., who was one of the commissioners for nego-
tiating the Scotch treaty of union with England,
and who was an elder brother of Sir Edward Bruce
of Blairhall, the father of the first Earl of Elgin,
under the creation of 1633. The most distinguished
representative in modern times of this distinguished
family, the Viceroy whose death all of us are now
deploring, James Bruce, eighth Earl of Elgin, and
twelfth Earl of Kineardine, Baron Bruce of Torry,
in the Peerage of Scotland, Baron Elgin of Elgin,
in the peerage of the United Kingdom, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Fifeshire, was born on the 20th of July,
1811. He was the second son of Thomas, seventh

earl—who, while ambassador at Canstantinople,
collected, at a cost of nearly £75,000, the splendid
Grecian antiquities, taken mainly from the Acro-
polis at Athens, between 1801 and 1812, and known
as the "Elgin marbles," and purchased by Govern-
ment for £35,000 for the British Museum--by
his second marriage with Elizabeth, youngest
daughter of Mr. James Townshend Oswald, of
Dunnikeir, Fifeshire. The earl, by the way,
hadbeenmarried previously to Mary, only
child of Mr. Hamilton-Nisbet, of Dirleton,
f[addingtonshire, and had by her a son, George
Constantine, Lord Bruce, born in 1800, and Lady
Mary Bruce, married to the present Right Hon. it.
A. Christopher Hamilton -Nisbet, the well known
protectionist M.P.
fo
1837 to 1857, Chancellor of
in Loorin a younger son of in
ais ntory'
t over wealthy Scotch Lincolnshire from
Lord Derby's
family, a son, too, of a second marriage, Lord Elgin
began life with no very brilliant prospects. He had
B
to make a reputation for himself, and, when he had
done so, hereditary rank and possession of the ances-
tral estate gave the young Fellow of Merton a chance
of emulating his school-fellows, William Ewart
Ministry,
North
Gladstone and the present Duke of Newcastle, in
their already promising Parliamentary career; He
distinguished himself both at Eton and at Oxford.
At the university he added the late lamented
Marquis of Dalhousie, Viceroy of India, and the late
beloved Lord Herbert of Lea, both popular Harro-
vians, to the list of his friends. That was a brilliant
constellation of future statesmen who were about

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-
ceeding 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 y oung 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. Martyn (Tory) 645, for Captain
Mangles (Liberal) 554, for Mr. E. J. Hutchins
(Liberal) 552. Ile 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, '6 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 Ifad 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, and 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 ? 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 l ermitted 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. In 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.

Thougha Conservative, he was appointed by Earl
Grey, Colonial Secretary in Lord John Russell's
Ministry, Governor-General of Canada in 1846, in
succession to Lord Cathcart. His chief troubles in
Canada arose from his unflinching impartiality, and
his determination to deal with both the vexatiously
hcstile sections of the Queen's subjects—the Upper
and the Lower Canadians—on a footing of equality.
After the rebellion of 1837-8 the Upper Canadians,
who were loyalists, demanded and obtained com-
pensation for their losses; the Lower Canadians were
refused, as the rebellion was chiefly fomented and
notoriously supported by them. When Lord Elgin
was compelled by an adverse N ote of the Assembly on
his Ministers to form an administration from the
French section of the community, the Lower
Canadians determined to take their revenge,
and accordingly they brought in their bill of
indemnity. Great excitement prevailed in Mon-
treal. When the Governor-General gave his
assent to the bill the loyalists showed their
loyalty by hooting the Queen's representative, by
burning down the Parliament house, by setting
some valuable libraries on fire, and by summoning
an inflammatory meeting for the purpose of procur-
ing the recall of Lord Elgin, as having "seriously
impaired her Majesty's royal authority, and endan-
gered the peace and tranquillity of the province."
Her Majesty's Government replied to this demon-
stration by creating (1849) the obnoxious Governor-
General a peer of the United Kingdom, as Baron
Elgin of Elgin. The Governor-General soon entirely
reversed, by his sound wisdom and calm judgment,
the unfavourable opinions of the Canadians; and
he left his high office With universal esteem, having
also acquired the respect and approbation of the
Home Government, and of six successive colonial
secretaries, for his unrivalled administrative capa-
city. He had promoted the best interests of Canada,
he had developed its commercial and agricultural
resources, and he was the author of the famous
reciprocity treaty with the United States of June
5, 1854. He returned from Canada June 9, 1855,
was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Fifeshire, and
was entertained at a splendid banquet, attended by
men of all parties in the State.
His lordship was at home but for a few years. Troubles
arose in China towards the end of 1856, which caused a
second war with that country, besides convulsing parties
at home, and plunging the nation into the muddy whirl-
pool of a general election—all on account of the lorcha
Arrow, which the Chinese boarded as a vessel under
native register, and the British, impersonated by Sir
John Bowring, a distinguished member of the Peace
Society, claimed as bearing the British flag. It is
little use telling once more the disagreeable tale of the kid.,
nappings and assassinations by the Chinese, and the hunt-
ing down of the Chinese in their creeks by the British.
Lord Elgin, a man of singularly impartial and judicial mind,
was sent out as special Ambassador in 1857. At Galle he
met General Ashburnham, who startled the party with an
alarming story of the disaffection of the North-Western
Provinces of India. At Singapore he took it on himself to
divert British troops on their way to China, and sent them
on to India, while he himself resolved not to leave Singa-
pore te transmission
and complete arrangements had been made
for of this force to the scene of mutiny.
Vessels also were specially sent by his lordship's orders to
the Straits of Anjier to divert the transports of the 90th and
a rebel After
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colleague for some months. There were throe courses open
to Lord Elgin—to remain at Hong Kong, to take Canton,
or to render an important service to Lord Canning at Cal-
cutta. He chose the third course. Within 36 hours after the
disastrous intelligence from India had been received Lord
Elgin was on his way to India, on board the Shannon, com-
manded by the noble and still lamented Captain William
Peel. Arrived at Singapore, his lordship e was encouraged
in his resolves by a flattering address from 28 leading
English merchants at that place, cordially concurring in
the steps he had taken to divert the expeditionary army.
Here he heard the awful details of the massacre at Cawn-
, pore. Within 21 hours 400 tons of coal were taken in, 300
men of the troops wrecked in the ill-fated Transit were
picked up, and his lordship telegraphed to Lord Canning his
imminent arrival with 1,700 men, including
Erlegminained there till his
wtahse brleueeei-jvaeedkeetsn:
marines. He arrived
after a voyage
quent bombardment of
of 17 days, on the
20th of September ; on the 16th of October his colleague,
Baron Gros, also arrived. All the world knows the story
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so that, like that worthy but not astonishingly great Go-
vernor of Hong Kong, he might " get the Bath." Lord
g-ga-ta by French men-
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Gros) and merrily feasted him, praying him to drink wine
with him." Elgin pooled day after day at Hong Kong,
stamping and sighing." That must have be an uncommonly
peculiar scene in which his lordship took the chief part on
the 4th June, 1858. Kweiliang and Uwe- Shama, two pleni-
potentiaries of high rank, arrived at Tien-tsin to confer with
the two foreign " barbarians." Lord Elgin met the two
celestials in a joss-house. Lord Elgin's powers were first
; read out to the Chinese, who eagerly listened while the

royal reporters crowded round thesarsdi:liirn.goui:siphhe
srdeyEelg"in as his look grew moreda7tg,ro,4ukpaentpdot
re"tmowwahan.erdndashriLeno'hoard that the commissioners were
catch the words. When the Chinese powers were read in
moreturn,s ll
slily
s "everyturninge
empowered to do anything which might not infringe on the
dignity of the Celestial Empire, When this document had
been read, Lord Elgin sternly ordered his chair, and told the
astonished Chinese that their commission was unsatisfac-
tory. His lordship was again besieged by Keying, but in
vain, inasmuch as among the papers of the captive Yeh
had been found a letter from this worthy to the Emperor,
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 261 of June—the
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.
From China Lord Elgin went to Japan, hoping to break
up the odious monopoly which had excluded all foreigners
except the Dutch from commerce or intercourse 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-bax boats, each with a 4-
pound howitzer in her bows, enclosing the Ambassador's
barge—the officers all in full 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 tco 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 previously, at the Grand Commemoration. Lord
Derby was now Prime Minister, and highly complimented
him on " the zeal, ekill, 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 ac••
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 Taku forts were taken, the Chinese sub.nitted them-
selves, and in November, 1860, the allied forces left Pekin.
In January, 1862, Lord Elgin was selected with uni-
versal approbation to succeed Lotd 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 had 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 Ellenborcugh
moved his famous "grandiloquent" resolutions of the 14th
of May, 1855, in favour of a more vigorous prosecution of
the Crimean war than he thought the Liberal Ministry of
Lord Palmerston had urge' on, Lord Elgin, then, as ever,
a moderate, but independent Conservative, felt himself
bound to interpose in favour of the Government. He made
the beet 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
lordship'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 saccesses 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 dr!'iiolation
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 tonel, 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 S 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 tame 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 Led." 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 la
anticipation of a war with the United States, which
had just voted a million with apparently warlike de-
signs. He 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.

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to Canada, Lady Mary Louisa Lanibton, eldest daughter of
Durham, G.C.8., previously Ambassadorg at St. Peters-
burg, and Lord Privy Seal in the first Reform Govern-
ment, at the head of which was his father-in-law, Earl
Grey. By her he has had issue, with two otherterin sgohnndra.,
daughter, an heir, Victor Alexander, Lord Bruce, born at
reserved it.
in 1849, who succeeds him in the title and estates
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ing over a little boy, and helping him, apparently, in his
studies. It is a photograph of the illustrious Viceroy and
of the successor to his title—let us hope to his liberality,
his unsullied character, his noble self-sacrificing. devotion
to the welfare of his country. Lord Elgin has as much died
for his country as any brave soldier has4l fallen on on a
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ministering
fliaollre'dn among the foremost of the great
sovereigntY•

THE COCOA NUT TREE IN ENGLAND.—This
noble tree, which has hitherto been universally
barren in Europe, hits at length been enabled to yield its
fruit. In the conservatory of the Duke of Northumber-
land's garden at Sion. Rouse there is a beautiful specimen
this graceful palm, with a nut securely set, and advancingow
steadily to maturity. It has been obtained from flower
a _
which opened last July, and it nvw measures 101 n c"8 in
circumference.