The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-30 00:00:00

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I ONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1858.

The HAVELOCK Memorial Fund ought by this
time to have realised our most sanguine expecta-
tions. It has ECU to do so however—the sub-
scription lists are still open—the public sympathy
in furtherance of the object of its originators is
still earnestly claimed by them in memory of the
heroic dead, the pure-minded, gentle-hearted, self-
forgetful, self-sacrificing HAVELOCK ! "Soldiers,"
cried that gallant Captai:a to his troops, on the
of last August, addressing them through the
General Order after the action at Bithoor, " SJI-
- ! in that moment your labours, your priva-
tions, your suffering, and your valour will not
be forgotten by a grateful country." In that
tnoinent—tha Hereafter. Fur Sir H. HAVELOCK,
himself, " that moment has long since arrived
—it arrived within two days after his last and
most glorious achievement—the relief of Luck now.
From the date of that fatal morning, when the
saviour of the beleaguered city fell a victim to his
long-continued and preternatural toils—dying not
by cannon shot, or by bullet, by bayonet thrust,
or by sword stroke, but by sheer physical ex-
haustion—all time in his regard since then Las
been indeed with a solemn. significance—the
Hereafter. And in that moment, in this mo-
ment, surely we may echo back to him his own
noble words—" Soldier ! your labours, your
privations, your valour trill not be forgotten by
a grateful country." Those great labours, those
terrible I,Aivatione, that nntehleQg valour—we
still bear tenderly and reverently as a nation in
our remembrance. We remember that although
Sir H. HAVELOCK'S brilliant career commenced
subsequently to the Battle of Waterloo, it had
been illustrated before its premature close by
many splendid and innumerable successes. it
began for him in India, five-and-thirty years ago,
namely in 1823, when he exchanged into the 13th
Light Dragoons. It Was inaugurated there fur him
by his participation forthwith in the first Burmese
war; and subsequently was continued in 1839, in
1841, and in 1842,
when he acted as &kw-de_
Camp to Sir WnLOUOILBY COTTON in Affghanistan.
As "Persian Interpreter, he served successively
under Major-General ELPHINsTONE, under Sir R.
BALE, and under Sir G. POLLOCK. He was at the
storming and taking of Cilluzuee. - He was at the

defence of JelLtlabad. It was he who aonntanded

the right column in the attack upon MORAMED
AKBAir. at Tazeen, in the conquest of Cabmil, and
at the capture of 'stela It was HAVELOCK, again,
who acted as Persian interpreter to Hume Lord
GouGa at the battle of Maharajpore. In. 1845
and 1316 he passed through the deadly campaign
of the Sutlej—through the sanguinary battles of
Moodkeh, Ferozeshali, and Sobraou : in the first
of these three fearful conflicts having two horses
shot under him, and in the last, one—proofs posi-
tive of his having been in the thick of the horrible
carnage. In the springtime of last year, 1857,
he took part with the heroic OuTRAM in the brief
but eminently successful Persian Expedition.
subsequently every one knows the glorious
sequel by heart—the advance of Sir HENRY
HAVELOCK, with his handful of heroes, through
that disastrous wilderness of death, Bengal—then,
far and wide, through its length and breadth, in
a state of bloody, cruel, mad, and pitiless insur-
rection ! It was an advance mad© through all
but overwhelming masses of the rebel soldiery—
through one almost continuous struggle, hand to
to hand, during eighty-seven awful days of march-
ing and fighting. Ripping their way through
the serried ranks of the insurgent sepoys—through
some deadly missile discharges from the can-
non's mouth—the little band of warriors, mark-
ing their p ty t 11,3, trail of their dead enemies,
advanced upon what was then the very ite...rt of
the rebellion : and two days after the relief of
Lucknow, HavEnocK the Bold and the Victorious
was no more—had been laid low by the very
triumph thus mournfully achieved. The history
of his life and death forms a grand and instructive
Remembrance. Dead himself—his name England
will not willingly let die. Thousands have already
responded to the appeal for some fitting public
commemoration of the last, and not the least, of
the Heroes of Hindostan. London, for the most
part, has answered the call—but, have the rich
City Guilds ? Nay, for that matter, have the
majority of the wealthy mercantile firms of the
metropolis ? Have the more affluent among the
great commercial towns in the provinces ? Has
Liverpool ? Has Birmingham ? Let the sub-
scription-list answer ! . . . It is dumb. A
silence so remarkable should be broken. Wo csil
upon those guilds, upon those firms, upon Liver-
pool, upon Birmingham, upon the capitals of com-
merce all through this busy and prosperous land
of ours, to swell the funds of thin patriotic memo-
rial—the memorial of the heroic and lamented
HAVELOCK.

We trust that the hope expressed by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday, that the
Government of India Bill would pass through
committee during the present week may be fully
realised. There is no point of principle remaining
for discussion on which long debates can be anti-
cipated. The only
_subject that can lead to ar-
gument, is Mr. GLADSTONE'S motion that the first
members of the Council should be named in the
bill. We have already adverted to this point,
explaining that it was the original intention
of the Government that such should be the
case, so far as the nominated members of the body
were concerned. Subsequent investigations, how-
ever, disclosed sundry objections to the course,
and we have no doubt that when those objections
have been fairly stated the House and country
will accede to the course adopted, after mature
consideration, by Lord STANLEY and Mr.
DISRAELI, and their colleagues in the Cabinet.

The President of the India Board has given
notice of sundry amendments to be introduced
into the Bill when in committee. They are,
hntvAvpr, merely inter.del to provide greater faci-
lities for working the Legislative machinery.
And the publication of these amendments will
enable the different members to consider the
several points, and to make up their minds with
respect thereto
There will be no factious opposition. That
day has gone by. Lord PALMERSTON has got his
quietus. He has received a painful but salutary
lesson, teat he is not the accepted leader of the
liberal party. His hope of political dictatorship
has vanished. He must ex necessitate submit to
his exclusion from office. There is no plausible
pretext. No excuse that can be resorted to.
Every trump card has already been played, and
he could not succeed in gaining a single trick.
Majorities of 62 and 93 respectively were great
facts, which

"Made him wise, and opened his eyes
To a sense of his situation."
The mauling he received from young BENDIGO,
when he took up the cudgels that had fallen from
the nerveless grasp of the Bedford pet, showed
the grave mistake into which he had been
betrayed, and he might have exclaimed with a
well-known character—

" Ara' I had known he had been se cunning of fence,

I'd have seen him d----d before I had meddled with
him."

He is therefore virtually bound over to keep
the peace during the remainder of the session,
and his quo-itdam, colleagues and followers are
includad in the same recognisances. With the
best disposition, therefore, to get up any row, by
which he might accomplish his object, or even
annoy his successors in office, he sees no oppor.
tunity of gaining any advantage that should not
be purchased at too high a price,'and therefore, as
the Times announced on Monday, " The India
Bill will pass," and that without any unnecessary
delay. It will no longer be made the champ
de baltaille of faction fights, as disgraceful
as any that ever t )ok place at Irish fair or pattern
in "_the. tewu of Nate Cio6,heen," or the classic
plains of Kildorrary.
The Lords will deal fairly with the subject.
It will be brought fairly before them next
week, earlier than has been anticipated, and
they will certainly not waste the public time by
unnecessary procrastination or useless delay. The
by no means sweet-smelling savours emanating
from the " silver winding Thames," and
penetrating into the most secret corners of
the Imperial Palace at Westminster, afford the
best possible guarantee for their industry. They
are already panting for their holidays, when
each noble lord can ride his respective hobby with-
out let or hindrance, and comfurt himself with the
notion that he has fairly earned the recreation he
is enjoying by his zealous attention to business,
and indefatigable energy.

We suppose that the temporary alleviations of
sickeri-,g c!//,iriltra, obtained at a cost of
1,500/. per week wilt theu cease. IN!:en the
select upper cruet have migrated, when the ten
thousand, who consider themselves " the world"
have fled to their country seats, and " London has
really gone out of town," nothingmore will be done.
The lives of the remaining 2,490,000 inhabitants
are of too little consequence to occasion the

slightest uneasiness in aristocratic minds. Such
at least would be the case under a Whig
regime, with either L)rd PALMERSTON or Lord
JOHN RUSSELL at the head of affairs.
We, however, hope for something better
from Lord DERBY. We can readily discern the
difficulties with which the question is beset, the
Impropriety of entering into a very large ex-
penditure until every point had been fully cond.