The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-05 00:00:00

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.

Earl GRAN VILLE gave notice of his intention to-
morrow of moving an address of congratulation to her
Majesty, on the occasion of the marriage of the Princess
Royal, . .

THE ARMY IN INDIA.
Lord PANMURE gave notice that on Monday next
he should move a vote of thanks to the naval and

military forces in India.

TEE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Upon the motion for adjournment, which was moved
by Rut GRANVILLE,
The Earl of DERBY said it surprised him much that
the noble lord opposite should have made that motion.
Considering this as the commencement—the virtual
commencement of a new session ; consideriug that they
had not before them now that general summary, pre-

rented in the address from the throne, of the state of

public affairs and the measures to be brought forward, ,
considering that nearly two months had elapsed since
they met in that house, and that those two months were
not to be enumerated by duration so much as by the im-
portant events which had taken place in them—he should
have thought that on the opening night of what was
virtually another session, the Government would have
felt it their duty to volunteer a statement to the house
more explicit than they had volunteered on a previous
occasion as to the various and important questions which
were now pending. Ile had thought that the Govern-
ment would have felt it their duty to advert to the pre-
sent position of affairs at home and abroad, for though
undoubtedly there had been some symptoms of amend-
ment since they last met, there was still much to excite
grave apprehension. It was true that the imminent crisis
had passed away, that there had been the most extraor-
dinary revolution in the money market, and that the

state of the Bank now presented the most extraordinary
and almost unparalleled contrast to that presented on the
last occasio❑ when they met, and that the sudden

alteration in the rate of discount called for the most
serious and anxious consideration of Parliament. Un-
doubtedly the monetary crisis had passed away, and

there was some improvement in commercial nattere ;
but even up to the present time the workingclasses were

suffering severe privations, and the Government were

mistaken if they supposed that up to the present moment
those privations would have been borne with forbear-
ance and dutiful submianion if they had not been believed
to be inevitable. (Hear, hear.) But when they 1901itd
to foreign affairs, he must say that though they had been
relieved from the immediate apprehension so
painfully entertained by every one of them as to the
state of the garrison of Luoknow, and though those
affairs had undoubtedly improved, still they were threat.
ening in a high degree. They bad had to rejoice over
successes obtained by swall numbers of men -(cheers)—
and they had had to rejoice at the gallantry of stir
troop?, and their honourable exertions. They had had
many causes to rejoice, but he did not know whether
those causes of rejoicing had not been exceeded by their
deep regret—on looking at the long list of those who had
fallen, and saw the name of that noble man who had
fallen in the hour of victory, and without knowing the
regret which his countrymen felt. (Cheers.) He be.
keyed that there was not a section or party in England
who did not participate in the public mourning when
the news arrived of his death. And while he spoke of
those who had fallen, let him do justice to those who
still remained ; and above all, he thought that they
should take the earliest opportunity of expressing their
opinion of the great exertions, exemplary military skill,
and great prudence that had characterised that ga'lant
general, Sir C. Campbell. (Cheers.) He must say that
that distinguished man had equalled if not raised himself
above the high position which he bad before occupied.
But he pressed the Government to lo•k at the condition
in which we had still to struggle in India. Let them not
flatter themselves that they bad succeeded in putting
down the revolt ; they had undoubtedly scattered those
that had revolted against us, but they had still to per-

form a task of unparalleled magnitude with most inade-
quate means on our part. ?fit this moment he did not
think that Sir C. Campbell could collect an army of
10,000 men for any operation, and he was morally cer-
tain if they had twice the whole force now in India it
would not be too much to restore cur empire and
establish tranquillity in India. He had heard more than
one officer express a distinct opinion that with the suc-
cess we had achieved over the rebels the revolt might
have been put down if we had had an adequate amount of
cavalry to make good the success achieved by our in-
fantry. (Hear.) On every occasion we had fought
against unheard of odds, and in the last moment of
victory we had had no cavalry. From that arose
the fact that in a few days after we bad obtained

a great victory we found a fresh force rose up calling for
fresh exertions. An army which had fled one day with
the loss of their guns, re-assembled in a few days with
as many guns ; and in one instance an army which was
said originally to have had 22 guns, when we had cap-
tured 27 guns from them were said to have succeeded in
escaping with the remainder. This quettica of cavalry
was ene which bad been anxiously brought forward and
forced on the attention of Government by his noble
friend (the Earl of Ellenborough), who had urged them
to send out cavalry and horses for our artillery. What
had the Government sent out ? They had sent cut a
number of guns, the thing which was least of all wanted
in India, for of guns there was an abundance in India.
They had not sent with the guns well-trained gunners,
for they had them not ; and they had not sent horses
or harness ; and the consequence was that the guns in a
great measure were utterly and entirely useless. He
recollected that his noble friend, when the Government
said they would send a corps of artillery to India, put-
ting the question across the house, " And their horses
with them ?" to which no answer was made. He was
told that they were in such straits in India for want of
horses that they were attempting to draw the guns by
unbroken 3-yr-eld mares taken from the country where
they were carrying on operations. The reason why he
pointed to this state of things was to call the attention
of Government to the matter, so this: they might take
some effectual steps to obtain a continual stream of re-
inforcements to that small army in India. He was not
exaggerating whoa be said that to maintain that army
on its presentfooting they must send 1,500 men a month,
or 18,000 a year. He did not believe that we were
raising recruits at that rate, and the men we were send-
ing out were mere raw recruits, among whom the havoc
of disease on their first landing was perfectly frightful.
He earnestly entreated their lordships to take this
question into their serious consideration, and let the
Government take every means to send troops to India.
Let them strip this country, if they pleased, of all the
available forces that they could by possibility spare, and
entrust this country to the charge mainly of its militia—
(hear, hear) —of which they had been repeatedly entreated
and implored to direct the embodiment of the whole. If
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recommend the step, but he thought that it was the best
mode of recruiting for the army ; and he was sure that it
was the best mode of providing for the def. rice of the
country, and of enabling them to send trained soldiers to
the army in India. There was another point to which he
asked the attention for a single moment of the Minister
of War. A suggestion was made during the Crimean
war for raising regiments in the colonies. He firmly
believed that if proper steps were takenldieti
without difficulty raise for the service of this country five
or six regiments at least in our colonies.y,
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He did not know whether this suggestion was worthy
of attention, but he was sure that to urovide for the de
fence of this country, and to give to the army in India
much larger reinforcements than we had yet given, we
must raise more men from somewhere. At the moment
when we were suffering from this deficiency of men in
India, and when we wanted every man we could possibly
bring into the field, we had 50 ships with 560 or 570
guns, and a very considerable number of seamen and
soldiers idling—worse than idling—in the miserable war
into which we bad been forced iu China. He looked at
that war with great apprehension, for Le could cot see
what they were driving at. We were in the midst of
two wars for which we must provide; one of which had
taken the Government by surprise, and the other had