The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-31 00:00:00

flying rebels. But, unfortunately, there was a
partial failure. Although Lucknow was captured,
and the British flag floated over the rebels'
stronghold, one link in the chain was defective—
one meshe in the elaborate net work broken. Sir
HUGH ROSE was prevented from taking up his
assigned position at the proper time, by insuper-
able obstacles. The state of affairs at Jhansi pre-
vented his advance, and there was consequently a
loophole fur escape, of which the rebels largely
availed themselves. The great body of the in-
surgents fled from before their then conquerors, but
can still maintain a guerilla warfare that
may occasion much trouble and lead to
the loss of many valuable lives. Should the
fugitives be encouraged by the discontented
talookdars and zemindars, driven to desperation
by the confiscation proclamation, it would be diffi-
cult to predict where the matter would terminate.
We have had some repulses. The first attack
on the Fort cf Rowas failed, and Brigadier AD-
RIAN HOPE, whose name had previously acquired
high distinction was killed. It is, however, satis-
factory to know that the rebels subsequently
abandoned their position, and our troops were
enabled to move forward. A small force under
Captain LE GRAND seems to have fallen into a
trap. The party which had advanced from Azz%n
followed, perhaps imprudently, the enemy into
the jungle, and 133 men and 3 officers, including
the commander were killed.

In addition, we learn that Body was taken by
General WIIITELOCK on the 19th April, after an
engagement in which the enemy lost 500 men and
4 guns. Sir H. ROSE left Jhansi on the 27th, and
expected, first, to be joined by Gen. WIIITELOCK,
and then to fight the Ranee's army, 12,000
strong, encamped at Koouchin, advance of Calpee.
The Kotah force has gone into quarters, with
the exception of a small brigade ordered to pro-
ceed to Sir H. ROSE'S roar. General PENNY is
moving now from the Ganges to assail Calpee from
the East. Brigadier ;JOHNS, of the 60th Rifles,
has been successful in reaching Moradabad on the
25th April, after three actions, and the capture
of Rujeedabad and Nujeena.
Sir WILLIAM PEEL is also dead 1 That truly
gallant officer has fallen a victim to small-pox.
He had established for himself a high reputa-
tion. The community had fully acquiesced
in the well-merited honours that had been
bestowed on him. He was a true hero,
and his name will be remembered through ages
as the worthy coadjutor and efficient auxiliary of
HAVELOCK and OUTRAM. We do not say "we
could have better spared a better man," for it
would be difficult to find one more deserving of
the national gratitude than the hero who has just
been deposited in his last resting-place. There
was nothing but the imperative sense of duty to
urge him onward. He had an ample fortune—
had won high honours, and could not obtain a
single step on the lad ler of promotion by any
triumph, however brilliant. But still he fought and
conquered, and has left a name that will long
be enshrined in the memories of his countrymen.
His loss alone more than counterbalances the suc-
cesses recorded in another part of our impression,
and truly and sincerely we sympathise with his
bereaved family. It would have been more satis-
factory had he fallen on the ensanguined field ;
but his end is not the less glorious, nor will his
melancholy fate be the less lamented.

What a land of steady growth, yet of the
strangest out-comings of human caprice, is the
United States. Hardly half a century old as an
independent Power, they have so 'overtopped
everything in the New World, that if America is
spoken of we at once understand the Union.
While the States, whieh are but fragments of the
vast Spanish domains of the centre and South, are
waning, and preparing themselves by ceaseless
political changes for absorption into the Great
Republic, the latter, especially its Northern and
Western past, is rapidly, almost portentously,
advancing in population, territorial extent, and
commercial vigour. New States, like Kansas and
Minesota, as big as large kingdoms, are every now
and then added to the Federation ; and even
Canada, the Great Britain of the North American
continent, has been content, till quite lately, to let
the pushing Republic walk the course.
This vigorous growth, however, seems to be
attended by all its natural concomitants. There
is a strange mixture of laddish swagger, which
all naturally forgive to an overgrown lad-empire,
with the cunning of an acute lawyer or moneys
lender of forty or fifty. But there are, also, all
kinds of freaks of social and individual fancy. Not
long ago her filibusters in Cuba and Nicaragua
were bearding not only the weak Powers of those
countries, but defying the opinion of all Europe.
Her Mormons have for some years been the moat
remarkable instance in the modern world of the
success of a half Mahomedan, half Jewish poli-
tical and religious organisation, attracting in larr*/)
numbers votaries to the absurdest of impo:tures,
and inspiring them with an energy which makes
them of political consequence in the States, and
renders them no contemptible antagonists for such
an army as the Union can send across the deserts
and prairies which separate Utah from the great
body of the States.

A monster commercial crisis, a monster fight
for slavery and free soil, and a monster re-
vival of religion, are among the very recent
events in the States—the latter being still in
active progress. The monster Kansas iniquity is
probably as great a piece of villany as ever was
perpetrated by Legislators and a President in the
face of a civilised community the territory
settled by freemen was first attempted to be seized
by Border ruffiins in the interest of slave-holders;
the late forgotten President egged them on, and en-
abled them by open violence to seize the Govern-
ment, and enact laws giving all power to pledged
pro-slavery men only ; the famous, or rather in-
famous, Lecompton Convention and Constitution,
were the offspring of all this, as the Topeka Con-
stitution was of the bond fide settlers, who refused
to be bound by the atrocious scoundrelism patron-
ised by slave-holders and their President at
Washington. BucusztAx himself got the Chair
by a discreet but treacherous silence as to the
course he should pursue in Kansas. Eventually,
the Lecompton or Slavery Constitution comes
before Congress. The opposition is strong and
long against such glaring unrighteousness ; but it
was nearly balanced by the slavery votes is the
Lower House ; and the Upper House, like most
Upper Houses, was the stronghold of every abuse.
Withthe immense powers of corruption in the hands
of an American President, powers used as un-
scrupulously as they were by our WALPGLES of a
past age, Mr. BUCHANAN found means to pass a
cunning, yet audacious Instead of devising
measures for honestly taking the sense of the tu-
ritory, one of his creatures, a Mr. ENGLISH,
arranged a compromise, which was, in, reality,
one purely in the interests of slavery. Under it,
if Kansas would accept the L.?.compton Constitu-
tion, and come in now as a slave state, she was to
be rewarded with five millions additional acres of
territory,. as well as immediate independent pol:-
mai existence. If
she would not, she must
remain a mere territory several years longer, till
the population reaches 93,000; it being now