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

ONDON, .WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1858.

The HAVELOCK Memorial Fund ought by this
time to have realised our most sanguine expecta-
tions. It has still 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 Haveeoeie! "Soldiers,"
cried that gallant Captain to his troops, on the
17th of 'last August, addressing them through the
General Order- after.the action at Bithoor, " Sol-
diers ! in drat moment your labours, your prlia-
tions, your sufferings, and your valour will not
be forgotten by a grateful country." In that
moment—the Hereafter. For Sir H. HAVELOCK,
himself, " that moment " has long since arrived
—it arrived within two days after his last and
most glorions aehievenient—the relief of Lucknow.
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:—a.ll time in his regard since then has
been .indeed with. a solemn significance—the
Hereafter. And in that moment, in .this mc-
,
men% surely we may.echo back to him his own
noble _words—" EeNierl rztr icao:trs, your
privations,. your vel.our 'net forgotten by
a grateful - Those great lahours, those
terrible privations, that matchless valour—we
still bear tenderly and reverently as a nation in
our remembrance. We remember that althotigh
Sir H. Ilaveeoces brilliant career commenced
subsequently to the Battle of Waterloo, it had
been illmtrated before its premature close by
many splendid and innumerable successes.
began. for bit" is "die, ties-and thiriy years age,
nam,iy in 187,, when Ile exchanged into the I 3tli
Light Dragoons. It was 'mailgurated there for him
by his participation forthwith iu the first Burmese
war and subsequently was contineei in 1839, in
1841, and in 1842, when he acted as aide-d,_
camp to Sir WILLOGIIBY COTTON in Affehel,,teln;
As Persian Interpreter, he served suecessiTely
under Major-Ganeral ELITINsToNz, under Sir it;
r. the,
SILE,' and under Sir Poizo;I:::. 110 was
storming and takingof Cilmiineo. Yr": tho

defence of Jellalabad. It was he who commanded

the right column in the attack upon. MORAMED
AKBAR at Tazeen, in the conquest of Caboul, and
at the capture of Istaliff. It was HATEnocz, again,
who acted as Persian Interpreter to HUGH Lord
GouGH at the battle of Maharajpore. In 1845
and 1846 ho passed through the deadly campaign
of the Sutlej—through the sanguinary battles of
Moodkeb, Ferozeshah, an'd`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, 185'1,
be 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 made 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 path by the trail of their dead enemies,
advanced upon what was then the very heart of
the rebellion : and two days after the relief of
Luclipbw, HavzLocx4e Bold and the Victorious
was no more—had en 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 Eugland
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—buf, 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 ?
Liverpool ? Has Birmingham ? Let the sub-

suription-list answer ! . . . It is dumb. A

silence so remarkable should be broken. We 0111
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 tha funds of this 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 oljections to the course,
and we have no doubt that when those objections
have been fairly stated tho House and country
will accede to the course adopted, after mature
consideration, by Lord STANLEY and Mr.
DISRAELf, and their colleagues in the Cabinet.
The President of thicjn,liA Board has given
notice of slndry arnencltneAts to be introduced
into' the till when in 'committee.. They are,,
however, merely inteedel 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 go': his
quietus. He has received a painful but salutary
'lesson, that he is not the accepted leader of the
liberal party. His hope of political dictatorship
has vanished. Be must ex necessitate submit to
his exclusion from office. There is no plausible
prettxt, 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 sittntion."
The mauling ho 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-kno 7711 character—

" A..' I hed known he had been en canning of fence,
I'd have Keen kien d---d bviote I had ratid,lled with
hirn,"

He is therefore virtually bound over to keep
the peace during the remainder of the session,
and his quondam colleagues and followers are

included 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.
tuuity of gaining any advantage' that should not
be purchased at too high a 'Orin; and therefore, as
the Times announced on Monday, " The India
Bill will pass," and that without any unnecessary
It will no longer be made the champ
de battaille of faction fights, as disgraceful
as any that ever t)ok place at Irish fair or pattern
in " the town of Nate Clogheen," 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 wilt 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 ranting fur their, holidays, when
each noble lord can ride his respective hobby with-
out let or hindrance, and comfort himself with the
earned recreation he
nutiou that ha has fairly the
is enjoying by his zealous attention to bu=rners,.
and indefatigable energy.

We suppose that the temporary alleviations of
the sickening effluvium, obtained at a cost of
1, 5001. per week will then cease. When the
select upper crust 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," nothing were will he 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
iegiine, with either. Lord PALMERSTON' or Lord
Jonx RUSSELL at the head of affairs.
We, however, hope for something better
from Lard'Dmtnv. We can readily discern the
.d;fripulties with which the question_ is betet, the
PFopriety of entering a very large ex-
P"Ylaate until every peint bad. -Letzt. fully copb-4-

dered, and it had ascertained whether the ca. luable
manure which might be wasted could not be
applied to the fertilisation of the surrounding
districts, and made to liquidate a considerable

proportion of the expense.
We must perforce be contented with make
shifts for the present year, but these should be of
the best character, without reference to cost,
which is but of secondary importance, when the
health and life of two millions and a-half of
British subjects are concerned.

EAST NORFOLK' ELECTION.

(FROM A CORRUPON'DENT.)

So East Norfolk remains with the Whigs. The
contest has been a sharp ono as the reports of the
polling show, and it is a very instructive one too.
Whether we would or no, having shown our face
in the county, as we made fret, to tell.our readers
last week, we were forced to be present ; for we
had old friends there, and old friends hotly in for
a contested county election, as some of our readers
may know, will not let you rest in Landon if you
can give them a vote. Yon may tell them that
you care little which candidate beate, but they
will ask you in tones to which you may not for
old acquaintance-sake be insensible, whether you
do not care that they should be on the winning
side ; they will find out some mere showing of a
reason why, of the two, their man should be
yours if you do vote, and vote you mast and
share their
,hospitality for a day whether you can
spare the tidie or not, at peril of their to dis-
pleasure. You may give a majority of one,-1--you
may help to make a small majority a little better,
or, it is just whispered, you may render a mino•
rity loss despicable. What with such considera-
tions, and the good old fame of Norwich for
"cooping" voters likely to give the slip, what could
any one do but obey the summons? And how, then,
didyou vote? some inquisitive readers mayask. We
beg to remind them that we are out and outadvocates
for secret voting, and how then can any one pre-
sume to ask us what our vote was ? We wish,
however of course to be obliging to all our friends
—so to our liberal friends we may reply—we
voted for the most liberal candidate ; that surely
is all they wish to know. And to our Tory friends,
for some we have, and good ones too, men who
can pardon all our Radicalism, because we can
afford to be independent and straight-forward, to
them we say, we voted as our father voted before
us. 2'hat we are sure is an answer which will
satisfy every true Conservative, for how could the
past be conserved if we do not stick to the ways
of our forefathers ?

Tuesday morning opened with no small
solicitude to both parties. Who was
to win no mortal can tell. A leading Tory lord
has been mortally affronted by his party, and it
is understood emancipated his tenants pro hac vice;
" they were to be at liberty to vote as they
pleaSed," a boon, the meaning of which they well
understood, and doubtlesa used it aright. Other
Conservative landlords have, of late years, veered
round to Whiggism, and had proved their power
at the last election. Still the Tories had been
making unusual efforts . Sir HENRY STRACEY had
been first and actively in the field, and it was to
be, on his part, a thoroughly determined fight.
We went at eight o'clock to the Norwich polling
booths, where the arrangements were very good ;
on each side of the Hall where criminals were tried,
and the foot of the hill, on which stands the castle,
from which they would look down, if they could,
on the free and independent electors below, we
found two broths, surmount. d respectively with
the names of STRACEY and COKE, and so widely
separated that even Irishmen would have found
it not so easy to "kick up a shindy." However,
the not very large crowd which surrounded them
showed no disposition to do so. All was wonder-
fully quiet. A large proportion of the voters
were not personally known to the spectators or
each other; rosettes and colours were rare. Cabs
with properly tinted, placards were almost the
only conspicuous party devices, though we did
notice one • large orange flag with " CORE AND
REFORM" for its motto. His opponent's favourite
motto seemed to be—" VOTE FOR STRACEY, THE
FARMERS' FRIEND." A friend they do need,
they generally think, no doubt, with the best
wheat at forty shillings a quarter. But we doubt
the old cry is now used up. Farmers think that
a bad harvest in France would be a better friend
to them than anything a legislator now can do.
Well, and what again of the two candidates and
the contest ? We cannot, we fear, add
.much to
what we have already sail. Sir HENRY STRACEY
calls himself a Derbyite out and out. But it is
generally thought there is a very much more stiff-
necked Toryism in him than in the Noble E He
is supposed to be one of the old hard class of Toriee,
and to be almost frightened at the liberal doings
of the Cabinet, by whose leaders be swears.
Truly or falsely such is his repute among the
Radicals; that uow large body, therefor's, in East
Norfolk almost to a man voted for COKE A Con-
servative of the STANLEY type would, we halieve,
have triumphed ; but a " farmer's friend," and a
breeder of nothing, and of less than nothing, if he
could help it, put some little opposition life into
the Independent Liberals. Then they did get
Mr. COKE—one clear political, noted above his
antagonist. He would vote for the etbo/ition
of Church-rates, if it ever came before the Com-
mons again, and would have voted for it had he
been in the House. This was at least an advance
ou Lord PALmEr.sToN. It told far too much in
old Norwich, with its forty parishes, where a large
number of voters live, and where church-rate
contests have been bitter. As to the Ballot—
well, he had not thought much about it, but be
would do so ; and the report was that, on that
point, he was to be considered squeezable. We
quite believe that he is ; that he would at any
time vote for it rather than endanger his seat.

The battle is an instructive one both to Whigs
and Tories. The former must see that they will
have to advance from the PALMERSTON and Rus-
SELL position if they are to beat even an old

school Tory. The latter will see that they, too,

must look out for the most liberal men of their

own party even-fur-the- counties. -The very laud-

lords themselves aro beginning to-move on a little

with the spirit_of the times, and
_when the pre-

sent fathers are gathered to their fathers, the sons

will be found to have made a considerable ad•

Vance. Let the Liberal leaders also know their

weak point, and liberal Tories their strong one.

Some of the Whis canvassers in the country dis-
tricts told us frankly that their greatest diffi-
culty was the indifference of their party. Voters
alleged openly that the Tories were doing better
than the Whigs bad done ; and in the midst

of hay harvest, and when they were riot

even to have a glass of 'ale and a piece of
bread and -cheese for riding; ten or a dozen miles

it might be, why should they put themselves out

of the way for siiel in.!-Kever

theless Mr. OOZE' has won.- An auceStrat name,'

. _ .
deservedly Poirdar among Norfolk agrfculturistS ;
the turning round of many of the Tory lan.dlords

—on which before long we may have something

to cay,for the gehorill.good ;" the banging out. the

vaguo "RefOrm"..flag;,tho-Parlianieutary Churoh-

z4.e abolition ; and . the alleged hardge.o of his

opponent's Toryism, are probably the chief causes
of his victory. A triumph it hardly was. Not
five per cent, on the voters polled) and much
less than that on the registered constituency.
Oul best wish for him is that he may be as good
a man for his day as his father was fur his.