The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-12 00:00:00

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belief prevailed that an Znklis •a; 7,-1223: .
to make thd Hindoo a worse cha • *1"7::.41.N.
in his natiii state. Nana Sahib% • . n 4 e
to as an instance, but it vtais notittie.7lVtiniSahib
was a low vulgar Brahmin ;.endPspcike got b word
of English., fit was true that :eatertainments were
given in his house:at, Cawnpore, where he came for
a _Minute or two, laiit-be neverjelied thecdo . • y.
English education in _lndia was very ince.. .lete.
A.ohief at Benares' told him thatismong the prir.
cipal books were Huines- Essays—those op t! 111
miracles being left oat,' but 'there. was a perfeti
Copy in the library. Atiother great disturbing
I cause was our interference' with che customs and
usages of the natives, such as the law of adoption
and the marriage of widows. If-hairbeen asserted
that the missionaries were to be censured, but he
solemnly declared that he had never heard a mis-
sionary labourer assigned by any native as a Cause
of the outrage ; on the contrary, they always ex-
pressed their admiration of those men and said—
" We respeot their motives—they aro good men
and as long as Government do,s not support them
we are willing they should go au as thy do."
(Cheers.) Dr. Duff, who was at thehelyadspoafrethuen
Scotch mission at Calcutta, said, sc oo
one thing—don't let the Government interfere
aith us." The last cause of discontent was L rd
Dalhousie's procedure in regard to converting the
5 per cent, loan into a 4 per cent. loan. The na-
tives said to Lord Dalhousie, " You have ruined
our faith in your credit, and you are now mitring
our faith in your justice." He r.dmitted that the
East India Company had dine well. Their ar-
rangements were good, but the Government of the
East India Comp I. ny had not made a prosperous or
happy people. The faith of the natives in us had
broken down. It no longer existed. Lord Dal-
housie was accused of having been the chief cause of
this. Certainly the principles of government -upon
which 'he acted—whether he or the country were
responsible he cared not to irquEre—but the an-
nexation of Oude and the confiscation of the estates
of the people had been the cause of the rebellion in
-India. When he.aaked any nativeaa llieeVen its
which the nerne.of Lord Dalhousie -iietortedi they
held up their hands and said, "For God's sake
don't speak of him." When that nobleman left the
shore of India there were no addresses of congratu-
lation presented to him. When Lord Cannini, as-
sumed the government of India, everything
seemed to be in a perfect sta'e of quietude, but
he had scarcely taken upon him the reins of govern-
ment before the whole thing was blown up. He
was surrounded by a weak Council. We had no
able men—giants in their days. It was unfair to
say that L.ircl Canning was thwarted at Calcutta.
Ile was not. The people saw imminent danger,
and every man offered himself, volunteered to sac-
rifice life and property to serve the Government,
but their offer was relased ; but he could not have
known the extent of the danger, and under the
circumstances L )1d Canning did not *deserve the
blame that had been cast upon him. Cheers.) A.
great deal had been said about Mr. C'elvin's pro-
clamation, but Sir Henry Lawrence had issued a
p oclamati,in even more merciful than that of Mr.
Colvin. He did not wish to deny or palliate the
atroc:ties thA had been c unwitted in India. God
knew they were horrible enough, but they were
taunted for wishing that the truth should not be
spoken, and because they. felt that if those horrors
really had existed it would be Chri'tian charity to
throw over them the veil. (Cheers.) 'With re-pect
to the alleged cases of mutilation, after the most
vigilant invettigation, he had not been able to find
out one authenticated case. (Cheers.) In India it
was a great risieg of the p ople, and he believed
that they meant to exterwina e man, woman, and
chid, but they did not mean to insult or mutilate.
What said Mr. Russell in the Times? He stated
th t there were 500 native Christians .in Lucktiow
that were not molested. After alluding to the
strong feeling. which was excited in this country by
the fist intelligence of theilterrors perpetrate& by
tiro epays, and ti e loud Bills for vengeance, the
hon. gentleman said that, when standing over the
well at Cawnpore one feeling more bitter than all
the rest that rose in his mind was that we might
possibly by our acts justify that deed of hell.
(Cheers.) Ho appealed t. the members of Peale-
.xnent who wire then present, as they would soon
have to vote upon a certain queStion, not to set
their faces against all justice. (Cheers.) He
appealed to the people to rase their voce
against this thirst of blood. (Cheers.) Ho would
not spire the guilty ; punish them, but spare
the inuocent. Ho did not wish to allude to the
sulj cis of the day. He would not touch upon
party contentions. '' For God's sake let us
forget party when an empire is at rake." (Cheers.)
He would not ask whether it was prudent or wise
to publish a certain docueneni., but this he would
say, that whoever was at the head of the govern-
ment of India ought to b.! guile I by the two prin-
ciples laid down in the co:le:lading paragraph of
that despatch, which oulit to be written in cha-
ract-rs of gold,and put up in every public place in
India. (Cheers.) We shall conquer India again.
Our ekili and science and the indomitable courage
of our troops will do it ; but when we have recoil-
quered it, wh it shall we do with it ? There is no
doubt as to the cour. ewe should put sue. What-
ever may be the result, it is. our duty to pursue it.
It is all very well to see the stiteqmen of a great
nation quarrelling for party purposes when they
are ab iut to Ist a vast empire. You may have a
council, and must have a council which shall con-
trol your Indian Government at home, but India
i'self must be governe lin Indic. (Cheers.) You
must open your eouitcil not only to an European,
but to an Indian element. You have already done
it on a small scale in Ceylon. There you have a
population raised from 700,000 to 4,030,000. You
have plinters raised from eix to GUO ; you have a
council founded upon liberal and civilised prin-
cipl2s, where Indians, even Buddhists, and almost
native hale-castes, are represented. Tne experi-
ment has b met successtul. That experiment
you must ,ry in Indi If you do, and if you lose
ludia, it wilt be no dishonour and no disgrace 'to
you that future history should say that y u made
the people of I dia civilked, prosperous, and
happy, and, if i, can effect--d by our example,
let me add Christian. (Great cheering.)
A vote of thanks to Mr. Layer" was then pro-
posed by Lerd. BURY, secouded by Sir E. PERRY,
and carried by autimation.

HEALTEr OF LONDON DURING THS

WEEK.

1 (From the Report of the Registrar General)
The deaths in London, which were 1,221 in the
first week of April, have in subsequent weeks un-
dergone a gradual reduction, and in the first week
'of May the number was 1,056. The period be-
tween the cold of winter and the heat of surnmeris
that which is most favourable to the health of the
London population, and under ordinary conditions
the mortality may be expected to fall till the
middle of June. In the ten years 1848.57 the
average number of deaths in the weeks correspond-
ing with List week was 1,055, but as the deaths in
the present return occurred in an increased popu-
lation, they should be compared with the average,
after the latter is raised proportionally to
,the in-
crease—a correction which will make it 1,161.
Hence it appears that the public health was so far
in a satisfactory condition that 105 persona sur-
vived who would have died if the average rate of
mortality at the beginning of May bad prevai'ed.,
Diseases of the zymotic character produced 'fait
week 242 deaths. Whooping-cough continnes .-to
be the most fatal disease in this °lasi., though it in-
dim' es a tendency to decrease. It was fatil in. 6113
cases, measles in 45, scarlatina in 30, typbU (
in
common fever) in 30, diarrhoea in
_9,
from cholera, p
a
3, a.4u,i in 1. Two deaths resulttediefre
h days' illness,.
chili having died from it,
in Poplar, and a woman 64 yaeairs
borfi
eatgeilteMssaios
fh a 2113-
street, Golden-square, after.
diphtheria•are returned ;
hours. Five fatal ofcasescurre
d in' Mile-end 0:d-town
our of these,
water had been pumped
eh.l3°ecen the consequence of effluvia
Hackney-road sub-
district,
iisrom
for a considerable
where the family had previously lived, but
Another child in this
from which they had been recently advised by their
freeorEelll
supposedsewer3 tion-*thai
ve
whichtite i n the
had died of the same complaint before the
family
ycal attendant to remove. Anot
and two others are now ill.
licensed victualler, 65 years old,' died last week
elephantiasis, from which he had suffered for
30 years. The deaths of six nonagenarians are in-
cluded in this return.
Last week the births of 868 boys and 820 girls,
in all 1,688 children, were registered in London.
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1848-
57 the average number was 1,629.
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At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
he'ght of the barometer in the week was 29'832 iu.
The mean daily reading was above 30in. on the last
3 day.. The lowest barometiical re iding w s 29.02
in. on Sunday, and the highest 30•26 in. an Friday.
The mean temperature of the week was 45.6 deg.,
which is 5.8 deg. bel.)w the avrrage of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
The mean daily temperature was below the 8
' avenigo_
throughout the week • on four days the extent of
depression was from 6 deg. to 8 deg. A north or
f
north-east wind blew every day. The highest_: depowei.l)
:
attained by the thermometer t
in theh
63.4 deg. on Wednesday; the lowest was 32.1 deg.
on Friday. The range in the week was eret
gedf
31.3 deg. The mean daily
range as o .
nt tem-
The difference between the mean dew poi
was
per,iture and air temperature 7.
wthloo
3 deg. The
on Sunday (t red was .21in., which
1 deg. The rain'
me
2d inst.o), when there
mean temperature of the water of the Thames was
53
fell chiefly
were also showers of hail.