The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,'

motest quarters, of the United Kingdoms. Our prc.
vincial fellow-countrymen, indeed, have regarded the
matter at once in its just light, and at its proper
value, as one of a national, rather than a merely
local interest. Therefore it is that they have
petitioned in favour of the preservation of
the Crystal Palace with as much right, and
almost with as much reason, as the citizens
of London and Westminster. Looking at the entire
transaction from the same point of view, we must
acknowledge that it is no less a subject of anxiety to
the country at large that the capital of Nngland
should rejoice in this public building, than it is that
they should experience pleasure, as they unquestionably
do, on visiting either the British Museum or the
National Gallery. Besides, the country at large is
annually taxed for the maintenance of the last-men-
tioned establishments ; whereas it is merely proposed
that the Crystal Palace shall be self-supporting, being
founded in ithe first instance by the surplus funds
derived from the Great Industrial Exhibition.

Whatever Lord CAMPBELL may say as to the injury
inflicted upon household property in the neighbour-
hood, it is undeniable that no such evil as that com-
plained of has, up to this present moment, been any-
where experienced. Another nobleman, residing in
the immediate vicinity of the Crystal Palace, has em-
phatically asserted as much—we mean Lord Lis-
TOWEL. From the facts everywhere accumulated,
in short, in reference to the project of ren-
dering the structure permanent, it must be
confessed that hitherto we have only derived
perpetually increasing arguments in favour of that
desirable proposition. Hence, late as the time is in
the Parliamentary session, we cannot but think that
Mr. PAZTON has reason to feel gratified at the proba-
bility, almost amounting to a certainty, of our being
enabled by the Legislature to release the Crystal
Palace from the fate hanging over it by reason of the
solemn engagement of the Royal Commissioners.
We look with no small degree of confidence to Mr.
llETwooD's motion of this evening for the
dissipation of all further anxiety upon the
subject, satisfied that the House of Commons
must recognise at once the reasonableness
and moderation of his suggestion, and persuaded, if
possible, yet more decidedly that her MAJESTY will
rejoice at the demand submitted to her faithful sub-
jects in the Commons House of Parliament. Our
close proximity to the prorogation renders it impe-
ratively necessary that whatever steps are to be
taken should be prompt and decisive. It is doubly
satisfactory therefore to find this evening fixed upon
for his motion by the Hon. Gentleman the Represen-
tative of North Lancashire.

The news brought by the Overland Mail, which
has just arrived from India, is, we are happy to say,
of the most uninteresting description. Throughout
the length and breadth of the British territory every-
thing is tranquil ; all the officials seem enjoying them-
selves ; thanks to the valour of NAPIER and the de-
cision of ELLENBOROUGH, Sinde is as quiet and the
inhabitants are as satisfied as though such beings as
the Ameers had never existed. The firm
but just rule of the British is favourably
contrasted by the Sindians with the cruel and capri-
cious tyranny of their former masters, and nowhere
has her Britannic MAJESTY more faithful subjects
than on the banks of the Indus. The Punjaub is
now beginning to feel the advantage of British rule.
For the first time since the death of RUNIZET SINGH
the Punjaub is, thanks to the victories of GOUGH and
the administrative talent of DALHOUSIE, tran-
quil ; for the first time in the history of
the Punjaub its inhabitants have experienced
the blessings of a government administered
according to law, the rule of right has replaced the
rule of might, and so entirely have the inhabitants
given in their adhesion to the British Government—
s() tranquil under the rule of law has the whole country
become—that the Governor-General has thought it
safe to direct the release of 72 political prisoners, who
had been sentenced to various periods of imprison-
ment as rebels. Details such as these are not so ex-
citing as bulletins from Meanee and Hyder-
abad, from Sobraon and Goojerat, but they are
of infinitely greater importance, inasmuch as
they prove that those great battles have not been
mere barren victories, but that they have rescued
millions of men from the tyranny of profligate Ameers
and semi-barbarous Seikbs, and that the men thus
rescued, grateful for the blessings of British rule,
are now among the firmest supporters of the
British Sovereignty over India. Sinde and the
Puojaub in their present state bear striking
proofs of the wisdom of the policy of
annexation, as contrasted with that of protection.
Sinde and the Punjaub, which have been annexed, are
as tranquil as Yorkshire but if we turn to the terri-
tories of the protected native Princes, a very different
picture presents itself to our view. " The NIZAM'S
territories," says the Indian newswriter, " are much
as usual," and thereupon he gives the following de-
scription of the " much as usual" state of the Nizem
and his dominions :—" The NIZAM himself continues
besieged, as it were, in his palace by thousands of
unpaid soldiers clamouring for their arrears, who
debar access to and egress from many of his
palace gates ; his own officials are thus obstructed.
On a complaint made to him lately by
one who had thus with difficulty reached his pre-
sence, he remained silent, and could suggest no
remedy for this insult ; many of the soldiery, how-
ever, think it better to pay themselves than to waste
their time in dunning their insolvent master. Two
hundred of these, on the Ist of June, attacked
and plundered the house of STED Am, a Fakeer
of great sanctity and enormous wealth, being the
spiritual adviser of the NIZAM and half the opulent
men and nobles of the city. The town police
having attempted to interfere were tied up and
severely beaten, and the plunderers got off with
their booty, which is stated to have been immense."
Surely it is a duty we owe to the inhabitants of this
protected territory to save them from the conse-
quences of the incompetence, or something worse, of
this native Prince, and to give them that security for
life and property, and that consequent tranquillity
which the inhabitants of Sinde and the Punjaub now
enjoy under British rule. It may be said that we
have guaranteed to the NIZAM that he shall
reign, but such guarantee must necessarily be re-
strained by the proviso that he shall be capable of
reigning. We may guarantee to a man that on pay-
ment of a shilling he shall see the Exhibition,
but such guarantee would not bind us to restore
sight to a blind man, neither does the guarantee
given by the East India Company to the protected
Princes bind the Company to uphold them
in their abuse of authority, coute qui coots.
It is clear that if a protected Prince is manifestly in-
capable of managing his own territory, it is a duty
the Company owes to the subjects of the Prince to
take the management of the territory into their own
hands ; and after the success of the experiment of an-
nexation in the cases of Sinde and the Punjaub, we
hope the principle will be applied wherever it is ca•
pable of application.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDA.T.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, commanded by Capt.
C F. Burney, with the mails for Spain, Portugal, and Gib-
raltar, left this afternoon, having twenty passengers, and
specie for Lisbon amounting to 13,8501. The Montrose, with
the homeward Peninsular mails, may be looked for on the 4th
proximo.

AMERICAN FIREARMS IN THE EXHIBITION.--brir.
Abbott Lawrence, the United States' Minister at this Court,
having requested that his son, Colonel T. B. Lawrence, ma
be allowed to take out of the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park
three of Mr. Colt's American revolving pistols, to be for-
warded to the Cape of Good Hope, for the use of an °Seer
in her Majesty's service, the Lords of the Treasury have
given directions to the proper authorities to permit the pie_
tole to be removed from the Exhibition Building and de-
livered to Colonel Lawrence, as requested.
The Recorder and the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Wortley
gave a grand banquet, on Saturday evening, to the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex,
and a c;rcle of civic functionaries, at the mansion of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, in Carlton-gardens.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF LISBURNE.--We re-
gret to state that this lady died on the 28d instant, at Enfield.
The Countess was cousin to the Noble Earl, being daughter
of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart. Her Ladyship was born
in 1798.

ALTAR-PIECE FOR CARDINAL IVISEMAN.--T Two
cases, containing a large picture and frame, the former mea-
suring nearly 100 feet, have arrived by the steamer Soho,
from Antwerp, for his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and in-
tended for the altar-piece of a Roman Catholic place of wor-
ship in the metropolitan district.

LORD BROUGHAM'S HEALTH.—Lord Brougham
has retired to Brougham Hall, on the urgent advice of Sir
Benjamin Brodie, who, it is said, has told the Noble and
Learned Lord that, to continue his Parliamentary labours,
must inevitably prove fatal. The Noble and Learned Lord
was himself much affected in making his last speech, and
several Koble Lords were observed to be la tiara.— &core.

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