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

i LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1858.

Lord ELLRNBOROWDEI has resigned. He has
far more than expiated the slight indiscretion of
which he was guilty. With self-sacrificing honour
he took the entire blame on himself for the act
which he alone committed, and for which he
therefore was solely responsible. The policy and
propriety of the despatch were not and could not
be questioned. It was its publication that alone
was complained of ; and although we believe that
publication was a wise and statesmanlike act, one
that was essential to the pacification of Oude and
the submission of those who had been threatened
with wholesale confiscation, it was still the act
of Lord ELLENBOROUGII, and could not fairly be
visited on the heads of his colleagues.
Mr. CARDWELL'S motion will, of course, fall to
the ground. As we stated yesterday, it cautiously
abstains from expressing any opinion respecting
the policy of Lord CANNING'S proclamation. It
was only intended as an envenomed shaft
against the Ministry, not as a defence of the whole-
sale confiscation. It was merely a trap to catch
stray votes—a party trick, which alike disre-
garded the interests of India and of the United
Kingdom.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S only mistake was, that
he too completely disregarded the dictates of red-
tapism, and despised the traditions of the circum-
locution office. He fairly and boldly published
his opinions to the world, and did not, because
a lordling might feel aggrieved at the implied
censure, conceal his views from the Community.
Lord CANNING was lenient, whose leniency was a
grave mistake, when it might be considered an
indication of poltroonery, or of vacillation. He
WAS willing to pardon murderers caught with the
red hand, who had not yet washed off the stains
of our countrywomen's gore, against whom the
blood of even innocent children was crying to
Heaven for vengeance. Bat when the emergency
was over, when the neck of the rebellion was
broken, when the most bigoted native must have
seen that resistance was hopeless, and been de-
sirous of making his peace, then severity became
the rule ; and what in the first instance might
have been considered as firmness, degenerated into
cruelty and rapacity.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH would have been wanting
to 3 his duty, if he had refrained from expressing
his opinion on the document placed before him,
and more especially so as there was nothing within
his knowledge to explain or justify it. Mr.
VERNON Satrr had • quietly kept in his pocket the
note of Lord CANNING, which might have led to the
delay of the despatch. For more than a week he kept
the letter in his pocket—.a letter which, although
-
directed to him personally, was to all intents and
purposes intended for the President of the India
Board. If any one deserves censure, it is that
Hight Hon. Gentleman, who seems to be m
rant of the principles of social eDurtesy
as of the condition of the important empire,
over the destinies whereof he was presiding.
Had that letter been delivered to the person for

whom it was really intended, had even the '
slightest inkling of its contents been given, tho
despatch might not have been forwarded. The
promised explanation would have been waited for.
But Mr. VERNON SMITH kept the letter quietly
in his pocket. The proclamation was received
on the 12th of April. The letter must have
arrived by the same mail, and a day or two
would, under the most favourable circunastlnces,
have sufficed to place the new President of the
Board of Control in possession of the requisite
information. Mr. SMITH was not in any place
where the post only arrived once a fortnight. But
still he kept back hisletters for at least 14 days, for
the answer to the proclamation received on the 12th,
was written the 18th, dated the 19th, and trans-
mitted the 26th of April. In private society, a
person guilty of such an act of discourtesy, and
we may add, of injustice, would be severely cen-
sured. In public, we suppose, it will be consi-
dered that he has rendered good service to his
party, although as gentlemen they ought to be
ashamed to avail themselves thereof. We shall
ere long know to what length they are capable of
proceeding. But if they succeed, we hope and
believe that the several constituencies will receive
an opportunity of expressing their opinions on
such factious and improper conduct.

Never was there a more timely or opportune
lecture than that which Mr. LAYARD has just
delivered at the St. James's Hall, in the presence
of many members of Parliament and other influ-
ential persons. That Hon. Gentleman has recently
visited India. He has encountered all the inevi-
table risks of so daring an act, and the unavoid-
able expense and fatigue thereof. His object was
to ascertain, on the very spot, the true state of
the case, and to be enabled to tender unexcep-
tionable evidence to the nation—to state the
actual facts without exaggeration or suppression.
He has done so faithfully and honestly. By
wonderful self-sacrifice he has obtained authentic
information. He has ascertained the feeling of
the inhabitants of India, has visited the very
scenes of the insurrection, has peeped down that
terrible well at Cawnpore, has been at the Market-
place at Delhi, where the ill-treatment of our
countrywomen inflicted the heaviest dishonour on
the English same.

The testimony of an intelligent observer of such
a character is invaluable at the present time,
when a question relating to the conflicting
policies of Lords CANNING and ELLEN-
BOROUGH is actually pending. Mr. LAYARD
has clearly and distinctly exposed
the impolicy of universal confiscation, the danger
that must arise from the CANNING principle of
deeming every man to be guilty until he could
prove that he was innocent. He explained that
it should not, and ought not to bo made an oppor-
tunity for a factious opposition. With a fine burst
of eloquence he exclaimed,

" For God's sake, let us forget party when
an empire is at stake." He would not ask
whether it was prudent or wise to publish a
certain document, but this he would say,
that whoever was at the head of the Govern-
ment of India ought to be guided by the two prin-
ciples laid down in the concluding paragraph of
that despatch, which ought to be written in cha-
racters of gold, and put up in every public place
in India."

The very words were as follows :

" We desire to see British authority in India
rest upon the willing obedience of a contented
people ; and there cannot be contentment where
there is general confiscation.' These words should
be written in characters of gold, and exhibited in
every public place in Indic ; and if they were acted
upon there would probably be no other rebellion.
India must, of course, be governed in India, and as
to the Council in this country, it should, be thought,
consist partly of old civil servants, partly of mili-
tary men, and partly of natives. In Ceylon there
was a Council founded on liberal and civilised prin-
ciples, the Bhuddist and native half-caste race
being represented. Let them try the experiment
' of governing India on the same principles, an,l
then, even if they should lose India, that would be
no disgrace to them, provided they left the country
eivilised, prosperous, and happy, and if they could
effect that by their example, tie would add Chris-
tian."

On those the vindicators of Lord ELLENDOROUGH and
the Ministry, may take their stand and resist the
Sabbath-day conspirators, who hatched their
scheme at Cambridge House Sunday last. The
result of which we shall probably learn on Friday
or Monday next. We do not think that Mr.
CARDWELL will serve the Peelite cause by assist.
ing in the dirty job.

irresolute, and procrastinating. The former
association keeps up the ball of opposition vigor-
ously. It is a standing reminder of truths as
telling in their way as these—that "fifty per
cent." is the mere .cost of collecting tolls—!,hat
freight from business is positively less than tolls
on fifty miles of England's highways—that tolls
are a tax on the workman's dinner—that they
prevent employment, and are an obstruction t 4
international exchange. It is simply ridi-
culous, in truth, for us, so long as the
London toll-bars remain in existence, to
talk disparagingly of our Parisian neighbours ;
for, inasmuch as they submit with a grumbling
pusillanimity, almost with a bland complacency,
to the continued levying of the old octroi duties
at the barriers, linked like a financial cordon
4bout the entire circumference of that magnificent
capital. Let no one born in England whisper a
syllable about the grievance of the octroi at Paris
until we have rid ourselves at least of the yet
more intolerable grievance of the Tolls of London.
We must have an end of the nuisance. It has
come at length to be absolutely unendurable.
And, now that the old incubus of debt has been
removed, there remains for it nut the shadow of
he shade of any further excuse whatsoever. A
metropolitan member of the reforming school,
such a man, let us say at once frankly and ex-
plicitly, as—THOMAs SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE—
(night make short work, we feel satisfied, if he
iisted, with this monstrous and absurd annoyance.
The monstrosity of it, the absurdity of it, are
everywhere admitted, are universally recognized.
The pear is ripe. Let such an one as the Hon..
Member for Finsbury, use the Toll Reform
Association as his battering ram, and down that
ripened pear of reform must drop. And metro
politan Toll-bars will thenceforth become as much
ingenious tortures of the Past as the thumbscrew
and the Scavenger's Daughter !
Since writing the foregoing, we are glad to find
that Mr. BYNG last night moved and carried an
address to her MAJESTY, to issue a Royal Com-
mission to the following effect, and we hope they
will make short work of the abominations :
"Resolved,—That an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be
pleased to issue a Royal Commission to inquire
and report as to the best means of affording to the
iuhabit.mts of the metropolitan districts, wii hill six
miles of Charing-cross, a relief, from the abolition
of turnpike-gates and toll-bars, similar to that
which the Legislature has already granted, on the
recommendation of a Royal Commission, to the
metropolis of Ireland."

DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN F
POR ruGAL.

[By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
His Portuguese Majesty's steam corvette Barth o-
lomeo Dias, having on board her Majesty the Quen
of Pottugal, left Hatnoaze shortly after 3 o'clock
this morning, and, being joined in the Sound by
Admiral Chads' squadron, the Renown (91), Dia-
dem (32), Curacoa (31), and Racoon (22), steamed
thriugh the Western Channel for Lisbon. Wind
favourable from the northward.

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL AT PLY-
MOUTII.—The Royal train, consisting of six carriages,
which left Paddington at 10.33 yesterday (Tuesday)
morning reached Taunton at 2.36 p.m., started again at
3.5, and at 5.40 arrived at Plymouth, where the Queen
of Portugal was received by an assemblage of official
persons, including Mr. Hicks, Mayor ; Mr. Derry,
railway director ; Mr. Carr, secretary ; Mr. Collier,
Portuguese Consul ; Major-General Eden, Commander
of the Forces in the West, and staff, and guards of
honour from the Royal Marine Artillery and the 67th
Regiment. Her Majesty proceeded in one of the Queen's
carriages, escorted by the military staff, to the Royal
William Victualling yard, where Admiral Chads, Ad-
miral Pasley, a large number of naval officers, and a
guard of honour from the Royal Marines were in attend-
ance. On leaving the carriage the Queen of Portugal
entered the Port-Admiral's barge, and, under salutes
from the Citadel and Mount _Wise, and from all the
chips in harbour, proceeded on board his Portuguese
Majesty's corvette Bartolomio Dias, which wai moored
at a short distance from the yard.
THE NEW AMBASSADOR TO CONSTANTINOPLE.--Her
Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace, at which the Right Hon. Sir Henry
&darer, G.C.8., had an audience of the Queen, and
kissed hands on being appointed her Majesty's Ambas-
sador at Constantinople. Sir Henry was presented by
the Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton bad an audience
of the Queen of Portugal, at Buckingham Palace, yes-
terday morning.
The Marquis Zalbura has arrived at the Brunswick
Hotel, St. James's, from Spain.
Lord Aylmer, who succeeded to the peerage at the
death, in March last, of Admiral Lord Aylmer,K.C.B.,
bas arrived in London, from Canada.
The Right Hon. S. R. Lushiagton and Mrs. Dashing.
tin have left the Clarendon, for Terrace House, New-
market.
'''' The Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P.,
have been entertaining a distinouished circle during the
Nobody can question for an instant that the past three days at Strawberry Hill.
Mr. George Hitchen, the editor of the liampaltire
Tolls in the streets of London are an intolerable
Chroniele, published in Winchester, died suddeaiy last
nuisance. They obstruct the traffic. They fleece week in that c ty, aged 73.
the public. They are a constant burden and a VICTORIA AND PIMLICO S TATIONi-mTlbieeo and a Stationcmrnitteeon
perpetual annoyance. Formerly, of course, there
neartEl e
Vbill aVictoria-srtirail.eng f
haaveraidl:C aay to
red the preambl, proved.
were even still more of them, than those actually CITY OF LIMERICK ELECTION.—The supporters of Mr.
yet remaining among us, as standing monuments John Ball have
n d t already
e i
se
vc ne,
cantrhaeststhine
of the foolish old-world system in vogue among a hon. gentleman twill this timer succeed.
)rfyim enanscoend ta o
busk
i suppose
past, and, comparatively speaking, certainly every beTt lie ,
Portland and Alderney
NEWSUBItAIit N E CABLE.—i
iTI il
l):
t fiti
be atb ab,ve
h inanr,i neca,le
slow generation. Time was, for example, and fifty miles long. Cherbourg can bebe effectually watched
that not by any means a hundred years ago, when from the neighbourhood of Alderney, and when the
a thriving trade was driven at Hyde-park Corner pcablear is laid d
t:
cf England
dwon i
of
annystantnotice c
movement
ofa can btbee;rievneen to
French fleet
by these same official highwaymen, these recog- at Cherbourg. The cable could be easily extended from
nis
ed and authorised TURPINS according to Acts ofJerseycont
could thouandGuercusey,aatneblead.large portion
of Alderneythe
Frenchto
Parliament. Ultimately the old tollbar at Hyde- THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—It is stated that Hull is
park Corner was swept away as a grievance -no taonr
ilrhi
te
.great
di nitrei r
hin e,il Tot er s t aht i
co no
mo fp
at
nh
ye Tforrantbseattlaranntise
longer endurable. A few other turnpikes almost iniesion of messages betwee'enalAP.merica and the continent
neighbourhood
nrcPe.
f
equally preposterous were demolished—but there four-wireulf
or t cableh.
e.
London, laid i
Liver-
ended t b e
the sweepings of the high road with tha pool, Manchester, and Glasgow s
will be placed in direct
bosom of destruction. Bea sigma, to this very comrunication with Hull, as well as with Valentin, on
the h coast, whence messages will be received from
day the perpetual robbery of little bundles of America. Communications intended for the Continent
ha'pence, kept up doggedly to the last, all along
owaiblliebne
of owr
about
e dt
od i
ur eec t tor.Hdully a‘nydtbthenceaatlong the
evia
the very commonest of the outskirts of this vast Point, where it leaves the Britt-ih Isles and passes
purn
metropolis. "Survey the world (not) from China dtriarencotelyofacthwesEs ,bh
etti Na
nodr t
tilt
eSne
oae tbey
iCa un xd h
taov eun ,s
ma tb
ti the
tebn -
tore
Peru"—but simply survey the world of Lou- principal terminal' station on the Continent. Mr. Pog'atell,
don, north of the Thames, from the Custom-house one of the company's engineers, is now in Hu 1 prepar-
to Chelsea Hospital-- there to this moment stand ithilogn forbeingproducedthe
transmission b y of
strokesmessages
upon a
by sofiuon,.d. ;.00tbed bell,
e v ibra -
the old vexatious barriers, "ganging their ain gates," entirely dispensing with the use of the needle. It is
at Cambridge-heath, at Islington, at Kilburn, at a
expected that communicationbteheeompletedby between New York
the City-road, atCamden-town, at Notting-hill, at DRESS OF THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS IN INDIA.—
Camberwell, and at Kensington. Yet, as many Iwthiossgenerally Highlandecoodnetrribtouotddtbsoatmthueeto
h erefiej iamnedn ttlo,
as 33 years ago the Metropolis Roads Commis- the
capture of Lucknow,e have been made as comfort-
sion was organised for the express purpose of doing able as possible in the way of dress.t w
thoret are sorry,t
away with these same vexatious obstructions. In thoowt he 30th oafn nAoi ua
race:: us pn
co
bn
is
nbo t :hue,
case.y ,
ob ao tnh pe
1825 the Commission was originally appointed. contrary, men and officers had
ibeen obliged_ tot march,
So that REBECCA. had in it a distinct Parliamen-fe
nmeot
~11 mount
notwithstandingnard, and figthbte *
evident the' r
disadvantages
and
of
fr b o
thesen -
tary incentive to her notorious rising against the articles of dress in the hot climate of the kingdom of Cade.
Welsh Pikes long afterwards. Having, 'somewhere The
horrible kdt ,t after nightfall, gohft fal
thein
l,
ticino whose leaves
it
the soldier exposed
nameex there
posedtothise
about 1850, after an existence of a quarter Legion, and the heavy hot feather bonnet, though over-
of a century, contrived at length to relieve the tolls topped with a whitish coveri,ng, fixed to the dice,
b somewhat
of London from the load of debt by which they rseerse,mbe.
rc iin
g
Tah elaodbyj'eact' nellyre'tal retaining t e
the n kiltta ande' activen
feather
had until then been more or less grievously en. bonnet is no doubt to strike terror into our enemies, to
whomil the deeds of our Highlanders in that costume are
we
cumbered, the Commission in question had smoothknown ; but surely utility and humanity should
ground before them for the realisation of the pro- i take the peecedence of any such advantage It would
reeEwl7cobriunt
tsrhy oar., te
nt i mr
eecit:
rlee t i t b enon
okbn oawd
vn
e thattiti
oonusr
ass
jest, for the attainment of which they themselves fis-
had been called into being as a Commission, Had anCe, and it is not their dress but their stout hearts and
stalwart bodies that make their rush on the foe irresis-
they but acted energetically, had they indeed but tihie. The authorities of India have, however, so far
acted conscientiously, they might gradually, year relieved ourl Highland Brigade as to substitute a light
by year, in 1851, in 1852, 1853,
in and so on by warm yrecdo coloured loose coat., with red facings, for the old
coat. This policy should surely be carried
i out, and that im d*
one solitary toll per annum down to the presentyoar
the'dress.—ade,rioe
.mtely, with respect to the rest of
oilii. Mercury.
of grace 1858, have abolished all the intolerable THE VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO RAILWAY.
gates Toe Board of Works
gates to the north of London—the gates we have.
torte Station and hasPimlico ltadeterminedi to oppose the Vic-
now by name enumerated ; instead of which they letter is published in the parliamwaeyntßa4l.papTehres
ofoflyloewstienrg
remain intact down to the end of the chapter, at
hall,d —m '
a'
yOffi4ce oGf
eWanirekinsenan and P n bli? Buildings Wh i te-
Kensington, at Notting-hill, east, west, north, C .narovinoner of her Majesty
Worksdirected
abnyd th(lPublic
t
the •
and south, along the rigid sweep of that contract- Bra,inild,i,ntegrss
ofto tahcequvaiinctoyrioausftautrion
atrprpaation of the
ing semicircle. The proceedings of the Metro I)iitl. that itoviog coastlteo tho t'ugineernliojef°Lail7i Now
Polls Roads conamisi,,ioD, amount itter,liy, in , con-
(J ;E:.',l I;rhigio and Tnaaics Embanktputt, lately con-
the
,GeyeaTnaretit,,,a,nd.
,baving this day re-
Point of fact, to just simply .
~,th:,,, TT , 41, !Btr u et ed. .by
,se -- —.• "aPP' -6 cell ved cos iow 1,, toe/ irs Cu...mii. loner will feel it his
however, for the public at lay e the Toil Reforml due to oppose the further progress of the bill as pre.
g , .
_Y. PP
Association is as active, 1
as energetic, and as lade- '
fatigable as its officialis slumbrous,
antithesis d al to the property in charge of this department, ju cial
I and to the use thereof by the pu 1 ,
ALFRED AUSTIN." bre —I a-n, &c. (signed)

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i_A I ST NEWS.
r 71.4

TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Monitetir contains the following with re-
gard to Turkey and Montenegro

"Turkey threatens to invade Montenegro.

" Die French Government, in order to avoid
a conflict, invited England to co-operate, and
prevent hostilities.
"It has been decided to send commissioners
there to arrange difficulties."

The article concludes by hoping Russia and
Austria will join in the work of reconciliation.

VIENNA, MAY 10.

We learn from Ragusa that the Turkish steamer
Silistria, and a ship of the line having on board
3,500 men and 12 field-pieces, under the com-
mand of Sassan Pacha, had arrived in the port
of I_Vek.