The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1851.

Malldrninistration of affairs in our more important
dependencies has, unhappily, of late been observable
in the system of our Colonial Government. This it
is which has cast so much odium upon the policy of
Earl GREY—embittering the feeling of the West
Indian population towards the mother country, em-
barrassing the course of the local administration in
Australia, jeopardizing the loyalty of the two Cana-
des, and bringing di,grace upon the national standard
in southern Africa, by provoking an infamous and un-
eucceisful war with the barbarians of Kafirland.
Any instance, therefore, which betokens a departure
from this most melancholy course of proceeding ought,
by right, to be regarded as a matter for earnest and
profound congratulation. Experience, however,
would seem to show that the unpopularity
excited by the feeble and culpable admi-
nistrators cf our more remote and more
remarkable possessions is as nothing to the unpopu-
larity excited by these whose genius has effixted
miracles in the way of securing our conquests by the
mingled humanity and vigour of their systems of
government. Anomalous and incredible as this may
appear, it is, nevertheless, a truth no less notorious
than lamentable. Otherwise we should not as public
journalists have had to recount long since the conduct
pursued towards one of our most illustrious Captains,
who, after achieving a series of resplendent victories,
added a veit and fruitful territory to our oriental
dominions, binding the vanquished province indisso-
lubly to the empire by the energy of his scheme of ad-
ministration. In the treatment experienced by General
Sir CHARLES NAPIER ever since his appointment on
the 13th of March, 1843, to the Governorship of Sinde
—of that Sinde which he had won by his sword at
_ _

the great battles of Meanee and Hyderabad—are in.
volved principles upon the ulterior recognition o
which we believe, in our heart, that the maintenance
of our Asiatic supremacy is dependent. Aware of
this, we must ever remain solicitous until we see that
miserable system abandoned against which the De-
stroyer of the Talpcor dynasty declared himself im-
mediately on his investiture with the powers of a
Dictatorship by the command of his Excellency Lord
ELLE?i
n 3,
B0:03G 11. It cannot by this time be for-
gotten,we are bold to say that it can never,
while the history of the Anglo-Saxon race sur-
vives, be entirely lost to remembrance, how
complete and almost instantaneous was the tran-
quillity restored to the province of Sinde under
the line of administrative policy pursued by the con-
queror of the Ameers and the victorious antagonist of
MOUAINIED, the Lion of Meerpoore. His triumphs of
political organization proved, in fact, scarcely less
rapid, scarcely less overwhelming, scarcely less mar-
vellous in every particular, than those military tri.
umphs which broke asunder the iron authority of the
Belochees, and in so doing invested the name of the
victor with the glories of a new and enviable reputa-
tion. We are speaking here of occurrences the cele-
brity of which is already beyond the reach of misre-
presentation, the achievements of Sir CHARLES NAPIER
having even now been inscribed upon imperishable tab-
lets by the hand of one of the most distinguished
of living historians. It has not remained for us to
announce that the annalist of the wars of the Penin-
sular has described not merely the conquest of Sinde,
,but its total political subjection in like manner," a
'll,lEction accomplished by the abilities displayed by
his I\ll%trious brother in his scheme of administrative
organiz,tiou
Immediately after the memorable battle fought at
Dubba, anak,,Nvn as the victory of Hyderabad, Sir
cruBLES
asserted that so far as arms were
concerned the conquest of ,
.I,,vedtilSitiyne:laueae:wd:asincosmompleetiend..
which that prediction
Notwithstanding the
events proved
stances, even'the derision
thanecord g:lrl'ilelcord •
to wasb er encoetihviendg,
ltheese r
of its verification.
The influence hitherto exercised over the Uindoos by
the warlike Beloochees crumbled away us quickly
under the magical sway of the sceptre intrusted to the
grasp of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, as the Power of
the Ameers had done before the thunder of
his guns at Meanee. caving
Indus at the head of only 2 crossed the
600 men
;
the British General had not only routed an army of
30,000 strong on the 17th of February, but with
astonishing rapidity had crushed the strength of the
tAmeErs, had captured the most rcdoubtable of the
Sirdars, and had driven into the desert MOLIAIIED,
the most :terrible of the Talpoorees. Victorious
by the sword, he determined to be no less victorious

* " History of Gencritl Sir Charles Napier's Adminis-
trati,in of Sinde, and Campaign in the Catch• e Hi 113."
By Lieut.-General Sir William Napier, K.C.13., Kith
Maps alit] Plustrations. Bvc., pp. 415. London; Chap-
man and hall, 1831.