The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-24 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1858.

From the Loudon Oazorce of Last 'Night

MASTER OF .THE HORSE'S OFFICE, JruL 1.
The Queen has been gradously pleased to appoint
Colonel Francis Hugh George-Seymour, Unattached, to. be
Equerry in Ordinary to her aajesty, in the loom of Alajor-
General E. W. Bouverie, resigned.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JuLl-1.
Ilia,RnahHighness tba Prigs Consort has boon pleased
to appoint Colonel the Holz Arthur Edward Hardinge,
C. 8., to be. Equerry to His Royal Highness, vice Colonel
Francis Hugh George Seymour, appointed Equerry to the

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Queen.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, - %%LT-23.
2d' Regiment of Dragoon--Guard-s----Edward Vandelour
Gent.,"to be Cornet,- with.mt purchase, vice Da-Mont''
morency, promoted ; Alexander -Frederic* FV_ec
• Gent., to be Cornet, xvitbourrtirthase, ace Mackenzie,
resigned. „ .
P 1 Dr.- 7,0;..D. (-;eardi—Lieutenant James Charles- Still to bo
Captain; by purchase, vice Alulville, who /dims ; Cor-
net Edward Maunder to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Still. _
9th Ligqt Dregoem—Cornet Thomas Stanton. Starkey to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rich, prompted.
10th Light Dragoons—William Morgan Maunder, Gent.,
to' be Cornet; by purchase, vice Lovell, promoted.
11th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Daniel S. Stewart to be
Captarp,,hy purchase, vice Vansittart, who retires; Cor-
net Paget P. Mosley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice

Stewart.
12th -Light Dragoons—Cornet Fraderiek Siindley to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vied H incock, deceased.
Military Train.—Robert Warner Stone, Gent., to be En-
signi by purchase, vice Lane, promoted.
The promotion of Ensign B. H. Burke to a Lieutenancy,
without-purchase, vice Murphy, appointed to the sth
Light Dragoons, to bear date 17th Hirai], 1858, in lieu
of 15th June,lBsl, as previously stated.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class

Woodroffe to be Sargiion, vice Crocker, appoin-
ted to the Staff.
2d Foot.—Assistant-Surgeon Henry Cole Peppin, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-§argeon.
4th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant
A. J: D. .Smith, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment; Lieu-
tenant Williath Congrevel from 29th Foot; Lieutenant
J. W. Madden, from 70th Foot f Lieutenant John
McDowell Elliot; Ensign David Smith to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Elliot.
6th Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchase--Ensign George
Gandy, from the Ceylon Rifle. Regiment, vice Powell,
promoted ; Ensign D. C. Campbell, vice Parkinson,
promoted; Ensign 'William Neal, vice Harness, who has
retired.
Bth Foot—Lieutenant Henry Leeson, from the 31st Foot,
to be Lieutenant.
9th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant
C. C. Grantham, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment;
Lieutenant Whiteford John Bell, from 74th Foot ;
Lieutepant B C. W. C. Blozsome. To be Lieutenants,
without purchase—Lieutenant Chas. Masterman Smyth,
from 3d West India Regiment, vice Plumridge, who
exchanges; Ensign G. M. Chadwick, vice Bloxsome ;
Ensign John Aplin ; Ensign J. S. Jefferes
11th Foot—Tne first Christian name of Ensign Tyler, ap-
pointed, by purchase, on the 13th July, 1858, is Roper,
and not Robert, as previously stated.
13th Foot--The surname of the Junior Quartermaster,
is Landrey, and not Landry, as previously stated.
15th Foot—To bo Captains without purchase.-1 lent.
Crawley, from the 70th root; Lieutenant John Hud-
son, from the 61th Foot.
18th Foot---Ensign W. Albert Le Motte, to be Lieutenant
:by purchase, vice Daubeny, whose promotion, by pur-
chase, as gated in the Gazette of the 13th July, 18i8,
has been cancelled; Wright Sherlock, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Daubeny, promoted.
19th Foot—Lieut. Ed E. Jerome, from the 86th Foot, to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Lewis, appointed to
86th Foot. .
20th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeent W. Unwin to be En-
sign, without purchase' vice Burn; promoted. The
appointment of James Smyth, Gent., to an Ensigncy,
without purchase, as stated in the Gazette of July 2,
1858, was vice Floblyn, promoted, and not vice Berne,
as previously notified.
21st Foot—Ensign E. Lewis, from the 21 West India
Regiment,-to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
22d Foot—To be Captains, with Purchase—Lieutenant W.
J. Lutman, from the 3,1 West India Regiment • Lieut.
J. F. Tryclell, from 43,1 Foot; Lieut. W. H. Rowland,e
from 45th Foot ; Lieut. Robert Richardson Ellis. To
be Lieutenant—Lient. E. M. Cookesley, from the 97th
Foot.

29th Foot—Ensign John-North Bornford-to be Lieutenant
without purchase, vice Congrave, promoted in the 4th
Foot.
31st Foot—Ensign Henry Leeson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Litton, promoted ; John Michael Bradley
Wood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tarte,
promoted.
45th Foot—Ensign Edward O'Neill O,Zi Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice W. H. Rowland, promoted in
22d Foot.

48th Foot-Major J. G. R. Aplin, from Depot Battalion,
to be Major, vice West, who exchanges.
53th Foot—Ensign William Bolton to be Adjutant, vice
Lieut. Wynyard, promoted; Qtiartermaster-Sergeant M.
Slattery to be Quartermaster,mice Moir, who retires on
half-pay.
•

7001 FVoi—Ensign G. A. Hilton to be tient , without
purchase, vice Madden, promoted in 4th Foot; Ensign
H. J. Hill, from 49th Foot,to be Ensign, vice Monteath,
promoted.
73d Foot—Ensign James Fraser, from the 22d Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Farrington, promoted.
75th Foot—Ensign F. Millen Morris, from the Military
Train, to be Ensign, vice Streets, promoted.
BGth Foot—Capt. Fitz Gibbon Lewis, from the 19th

Foot, to be daptaio, vice Robinson, dm:leased.
91st Foot—Lient. Henry Wood to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Kerr, who retires; Ensign John Macleod

Tiogconabe to ba Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wood.
97th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Sharkey, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Dumbreck, deceased.
100th Foot—Brown Wallis, Gent., to bo Lieutenant,
without purchase. To be Ensigns, without purchase—
Charles Arkoll Boulton, Gent. ; Thomas -.Henry Bald-

win, Gent.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant James John Plum-
ridge, from the 9th Foot, to ba Lieutenant, vice C. M.
Smyth, who exchanges ; Ensign C. F. Lloyd to be Lieu-
ten int, without purchase, vice Lutman, promoted in
22d Foot.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—To be Lieutenants, without pur-
chase—Ensign Orby Montgomery Hunter, vice A. J. D.
Smith, promoted in 4th Foot ; Ensign A. M. Walker,
vice Grantham, promoted in 9th Foot.
DEPOT BATTALION.
Major Frederick West, from the 43th Foot, to be Major,
vice Aplin, who exchanges.
HOSPITAL STIFF.
Surgeon Alfred Crocker, from the Ist Foot. to ba Staff-
Surgeon of the Second Cla,s, vice Woodroffe, appointed
to the Ist Foot.

TO BE ASSISTANT-SURGEONS TO THE FORCES.
John Alex. Lamb, Gent.l vice Curran, appointed to the
73d Foot.
William White, Gent., vice John, appointed to the 29th
Foot.
John Mahon, Gent., vice Davis, appointed to the 57th
Foot.

Richard Bere3ford Carson, 111.8., vice Cappage, sP'
pointed to the 17th Foot. . .

William Langworthy Baker, Gent., vice Atkinson, ap-
pointed to the sth Light Dragoons.
George Harman Harris, Gant., vice Sly, appointed to
the 16th Foot..

Henry William Dolvin, Gant., vice spencer, appointed
to the 18th Foot.

Hugh Mackay Macbeth, Gent., vice Berkeley, appointed
,o the 23d Foot.

Thomas Michael O'Brien, Gant., vice Knaggs, appointed
,o the 59th Foot.

Horatio Scott, Gent., vice O'Grady, appointed to let
Foot.

John Henry Halked Tothill, Gent., vice Maclean, ap-
pointod to the 6th Foot.

TO BE ACTINQ ASSISTANT•SUR4 _ONS.
Alfred Bowden, Gent.
James Bell Jardine, Gent.

BREVET.
Liontenant•Colonel Cale.lon. Richard Egerton, Dapot
Battalion, having complete,l three years' actual service in
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to ba promoted to be
Colonel in the Army under the Royal W arrant of 6th
October, 1854. _ _

Major John Butler Wheatstone, retired full-pay, Bth
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, the rank
baing honorary only.
The unlermentiomd promotion to take place in the East
India Company's Army consequent on the death of
Major-General Nicholas Pdnny, C.B, Bengal Infantry,
30th April, 1853 :
Colonel Richard James Holwell Birch, C. 8., Bengal
Infantry, to be Major-General.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Company's
Se:vice, retired upon full-pay, to have a step of hono-
rary rank, as follows, viz. :
TO BE MAJOR-GENERALS.
Colonel John Brownrigg Beilasis, Bombay Infantry.
Colonel James Allardyce, Madras Infantry.
Colonel George Bruce Mitchell, Bengal Infantry.
TO BE COLONEL.
Lient.-Colonel Thomas Plumb; Bengal Infantry.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.
Major William john Morris, BombAy Tafa.atry.
Major John DariP. tes3LiJ, I.Sutubay Infantry.
Mak,r B ilpli Swyth, Bengal Artillery.
Illajur William L. Walker, Madras Cavalry.
Major Charles Swinton, Bengal Infantry.
Major John Maan, Madras Infantry.
TO BE MAJORS.

Captain Joseph. Chileott, Bengal Infantry.
Captain Frederick Fanning, Bombay Infantry.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 14.
Corps of Royal Mari les --Gentleman Cadet Alfred
Emanuel Otter to be Secoad Lieutenant.

CONI MISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
sth Regiment of R Lancashire Militia—George
Smirthwaite, Gent., to ba Assistant-Surgeon, vice Henry
Hancox, resigned.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeonrulry Cavalry—Cor-
net L. Helburt to be Captain. vico Langton, resigned.
Royal Wiltshire Militia—E. J. Hayward, Gent., to be
Eusigu, vice Glascott, resigned.

port, Mohinouthshira. Aug. 10, and Sept.l4, at el.evon, at
the Bristol-District Court.
John While; miller, Loughborough, Leicestershire,
Aug. 5, and 26, at half past ten, at the Shirehall, Not—
tiughani. • -
Itichard Jones, tap owner, Dolivlly, Merionethshire,
Aug: 10 and 31, at twelve, at fin 'Liverpool District
Court. ' •
John Bradford, road contractor Altrincham and Bow-
don, Chashire, Aug: 6 and 27, at e'leVen, at the Manchester
District Court.

William l'ea rson, market gardener, East Bergholt,
Suffolk, August 2at one, and' Sept. 6at half-past two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy..
Lewis Zucker, jeweller, Oxfor.l-,+,--t, 3 4 eleven,
and Sept. 6.at twelve; ^t :16 Cuurt, of Bankruptcy.
John Ela naphtha_manufacturer, Kingston-upon-
Hull, August 4 aid Sept. 1, at twelve, at the Town-hall,
Kingston-uponAlull.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS;
Peter_Merailine, sowed muslin manufacturer, Glasgow..
George Harker, railway contractor, Bowling, Dumbar-
tonshire.
William Craig, writer, Dunfermline..
Peter Brisbane,zcowfeeder, Glasgow.
Charles Broien, slater, Coatbridge.
J. Macdonald and Co. manufacturers, Glasgow.
-BANK OF BNQLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for
the Week ending ott Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1858.
DZ.P.AIITMINT.

Notes issued . . 30,992,595

Government dibt....• 11,015,100
Other securities .. • 6.459.40
Gold coin and bullion 16,517,595
Silver bu11i0n........

:X30,991,595 I £30,992,595
• 31. MARS L, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 22d day of July, 1858.
BANKING DKPAILTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Best •. 3,296,808
Public deposits (in-
cluding E tchequer,
Cominisslo..ers of
National Debt, Sav-
ings Banks, and
Dividend Accounts), 2,803,945
Other deposits
Seven Day and other
Bills ... 798,940

Government 'comities

Oncludg.DeaclWcight
Annuity).. • • • • 1 D,SR 7,476
Other Securities...... 15,499,255
Nozes ..... .• • .... 10,386,9G5
Gold and Silver Coin.. 695,342

) ~;

437,169,033 I 437,169,033
' Mr MARSHALL, Chief Ca3hier.
Dated the 22d day of July, IssB.
AVERAGE PRLCE OF SUGAR. -

the Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending July
20, 1853, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : P. d.
From the British Possessions in America 24 7
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 22 2f
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 32 0
Average of the above descriptions.

RAILWAY MAFFIC .RMTURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles
opened,
1858.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

BRITION.

Aberdeen .. • • • • • • • •

Belfast and Ballymena • • • • ••
Belfast and County Down..
Birkenhead, Laneachire, and Cheshire
Bolton,lllackburn,and West York ....
Bristol and Exeter • • • • ••
Ca1ed0nian.,...........
_

26%
118
198%
94i
G%

Chester and H01yhead..:.....
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage • • •
'Cork and. Bandon .. • • • • • • ••••.•....
Dublin and Belfast !unction .•
Dublin and Drogheda• • •• •• •••• • • • • •
Dublin and
Dundee and Arbroath •• • • • • • • • • ....
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enni5kti1en............
East Anglian.... • • •• •• • • •• •• •• •• •...

East Lancashire •• ••
Eastern Counties and Norfolk."... a
Eastern Union ••••••.. • • • • .. . 3
Edinburgh and Glaslow .• .
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee......
Exeter and Crediton.....• ••
FiIMeSS Railway •• • •• •• •• ••
Glasgow, and South-Westorn.• ••
Great ;Tor thorn ........... • • • • • - • •
Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
'Great Western .. •• • • ••

183 X
283
203 4
465
25 4
103
2864

Irish South Eastern •• •• •• •• ••

Lancalter and Cirliao.•••••••••••.
Lancashire and Yorkshire..•• • • •• •• ••
Leeds Northern ..•• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••

161
653
514
192%
28934

Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
London and North Vi'ostern ... •
London arl lackw
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South We5tern.........
Londonderry and Enniskillell • • • • .• ••
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &e.
Manchester, Sholdeld,and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction
Maryport and Carlisle •• • • • • • • • • • • ..
Midland •• •• a- •• •00., •• •• •• •• •• •• • •
Midland Great Wost6ln (Irish) ......
Monklands .• . •

173%
9

Newcastle and Carlisle •• •••••• • • ••
North British .• .. •• •• •• •• •• •8 •• •• ••

North Staffordshire •• • ••

82%
29
48%

3015 i
171
108 N

North-Western •• •• • ..... ..

12g
682

Scottish Central . • .........

Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Shrewsbury and:l:hosier ...•
Shropshire Union .. • . •............-
%oath Devon

SouthEmthm-------

South Wales ••••.•• • .• • • • ..•
South York., Doncaster, and Goole ..
Taff Vale •• •• e• •• • • • • •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Ulster, •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• •••• ••

Receipts.

1653. 1857.

1,277

363
2,377

6 908
13,176
6,519

293
1077
1,744
1,956

604
1,165

883
7,346
26,677
6 210
3,197

1,218
7,494
23,223
6,959
31,871

264
6,b93
27,252

G 4 658.
1,736
17035
19,377
763

10,422

1,30/

364
3,041

6,511
14,277
6,713
431
277
1,3i9
1,692
2,327

Waterford r.nd Limerick .........:
West Cornwall ...... • ..... ••••• ••
Whitehavcn Junction ....• • • • • • • • • ••
York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds..

749
1,160
516
1,! 78
7,802

28,217
5;478
3,581

Bs7
1,016
31,690
3,691
1,366
3,55 S
6,194
7,021

1,167
8,040
22,1
6,712
33.587

9sB
2.928

224
6.895
27,662

69,146
1,793
16,991
19,884
728

11,268
797
1,1u7
82,853
3,331
1,473
3,655
5,748
8,117

!;9
2,8 8 7

1,741
2,861

1,929
$,228

897
22.319
7,421

882
2,831
2l,otiG
7,3 33

-1,015
1,502

1,381

THE E4sr

• (Froin i7te Daily xews.) - •
• Ti,o deed is done One Of the great Powers of
The civilised world-is extinguished. Another chap=
-ter of human history (and Q;10 of the most romantic
in. the whole 'record).is closed. The groat ruler,
'John Coornpanee, whose mere name and 's`-alow
were a spell'ou the im4g.irdtion. Of a hundred
milli n.l of men fur long generations, is. deposed..
it is always mournful• to Watch the departure or
ex inction of anything really—venerable. Iluilliant
as Florence was when .tile Medici resented as an
impertinence .the last act of .republiCan custom,.
that tread which put out the last spark of popular
-freedom still echoes through historY.: Proud and
14ppy as the American c Aonista w.ere at the achieve-
ment of their independence, there were many who_
gazed through tears 'aT thelast ship which carried
a royalist freight; as it .pist off iron the shore.,
'llapghtily as the martial- Spaniards drove the-Moors
before them into the Mediterranean, punishing all
who lagged in the final- flight; theliigh-heartcd
among those Christian knight's could hardly have
paced the halls of Sarannic palaces,. and climbed
the pinnacles of the empty mosques, without some
sadness and some tenderness for the departed
people, so brave in their first intrusion, and so
learned and accomplished in the midst of their
heresy and bigotry. From the poor Indian rem-
nant on the Missouri, who close up the:burial
mound of their last chief, and take down their last
wigwam, and turn their backs on the period when
they were a tribe, to the train of Zenobia following
their captive queen as she issued from the gates of
Palmyra into the desert, before, the eyes of a 'fay-
ing foe, there is uo hum•qa heart which can help
suffering when human pride and greatness succumb
to the ultimate destiny of all.
SO fails, so languishes, grows dim and dies
All that this world is proud of. From their spheres
The stars of human glory are cast down :
Perish the roses and the flowers of kinge,
Priuces.and emperors, and the crowns and p.dms

Of all the mighty, withered and consumed 1

And not only does the- old imperial and kingly
grandeur of the world's youth thus perish, but, as
the poet goes on to say, the more modern corms
and forces of social rule.

Degrees and ranks,
Fraternities and orders—heaping high
Now wealth upon the burden cf the old,
And placing trust in privilege confirmed
And re confirmed.

For these, too, is Nature always preparing a
shroud, and their splendid trappings must be ex-
changed sooner or later for the covering of common
verdure which finally enwraps all that have lived,
and all their monuments. We are now at the
death-stroke of one of the ablest Governments on
record. Its monuments will outlive it long, end
we must make the most of them, seeing that their
nature is that of the highest order of monuments—
the good works which follow the dead, first to
praise them, and then to lapse with them into ob-
livion. Without attempting to measure the meg
nitude of such monuments in other cases of illus-
trious rule and in this, we may mi.( ly say that no-
thing resembling the success of the Company's go-
vernment has been seen elsewhere than in our em-
pire o flndia.
Its imposing greatness appears now the least
affecting part of it. There is no need to commend
to English hearts the valour manifest .d on all oc-
casions of need by individuals, from 0, hes to Have-
lock, and by the Government, from its defiance of
Ryder Ali to its mastery over its mutinous Bengal
army. We need not point out to -English eyes the
splendour of the whole panorama of Indian his-
tory, from the sailing of the first fleet into Goa, and
the gorgeoua enibassiei to the foreign courts of Asia,
to the final spread of railways, roads, canals, tele-
graph wires, colleges, village schools, and civilisa-
tion in all its forms. There can be no need to rouse
the sensibility of British men to the digeity of
such a hierarchy, and such a succession of
ability as has been built up and drawn out
within the dominions of the Company, from the.
first hour when it found work for its hand to do,
to the present, when its knell is struck. Not
only Englishmen, but all other men who care about
the doings of their race, are aware of the magnifi-
cent features of our Indian rule, as shown in war,
in wealth, in power, and in genius. No one of the
vast multitude of observers will say that in any
one century of human history there has been else-
where such a display of remarkable men, of work
done, and of empire c msolidatei, as between the
battle of Plassy, and the victories of .13 avelock. But
these kinds, and -all other kinds of greatness, will
grow dim hereafter in comparison with that which
constitutes the special glory of our Indian rule ;
its being planned and carried out for the benefit of
India, and more and more t xpresity so from period
to period of its history.. it is hero that we feel the
most misgiving and the saddest regret, As we
never saw before, we must naturally ask whether
we shall ever see again, a great empire ruled, not
only by a- superior race for the benefit of an infe-
ri )r, but a Government planned and carried out at
all, expressly for the good of the many.
It may be true, and it is true, that the empire of
the Company arose by ambition and cupidity, by
encroachment and force of arms. It is true that
there have been selfsseekers in the councils, and
tyrants in the palaces of India. .It is title that the
spirit 'of monopoly was extended from the Com-
pany's trade to other departmen's of its activity
and authority. It is true that its annals would
have bean fairer in the reading if there had been
fewer wars, and that we should -leave been prouder
of its territory if it had been smaller. It is true that
it had latterly become better acquainted with
the native mind, and that improvements in its civil
administration we: e at least balanced by deteriora-
tion in its Military organisation and managsment.
But, admitting all this and more, the fact remains
that the Company his exercised the meat bene-
ficent rule ever exhibited for an equal length
of time ; and that it not only released the native
population from the penalties of barbaric rule,
but governed them for their own welfare, be-
stowing on the study of that welfare an amount
of toil, solicitude, generosity, and magnani-
mous devotedness more appropriate to an ideal re-,
public than to the transactions of a despotic corpo-
ration. There must be a world of painful doubt in
the question—the great and omino usquestion of the
momente-whether this aim is still to he upheld—
whether this lofty temper is s ill to animate the
counsels and inspire the acts of future Indian Go-
vernments. At present we have no great reason for
confidence, and vet ystronggroued for appreh -nsion.
During the most tremendous crisis of In iian his-
tory, we have seen Parliament exhibiting every
possible evidence of incapacity, levity; caprice, anti
scepticism, of that worst kind which grows out of
selfishness in the soil of ignorance. We who are
outside may see something of the lowering dark-
ness of which our legislators seem to be almost in-
sensible. We see no means taken to replace the
native army which has become our worst foe. We
see no prospect of either pacification or the end of
the war, or of sufficient means of finishing the war
being provided.
But we will say no more of what we sne or do not
see in the future. The past is enough to engroqius
at this moment-. There, far off, we discern the
old English power touching that mysterious s'io.e,
and daring to penetrate among the b siber,e sera ws
and perils of its interi We see it assuming its
c p rate form, repairing to the dazzling courts of
Oriental Princes, busy in the bazaars and in the
battle-field, besieged in forts, or noun ing the
judgment seat, or protecting thrones, or keeping
the peace between hostile Sovereigns. We see it
setting looms and the plough to work over areas as
large as European kingdoms, and calling home
.its
fleets from all seas. We see it waking laws, in-
dulging religions while suppre!sing superstitions,
developing intelligence, extirpating fanatical crimes
and bringing to bear on the welfare of a hundred
millions of people the noblest ability and most
strenuous zeal that liberality of-views and of purse
ever brought into action.
We have seen its will overpowered by circum-
stances, and its opulence swallowed up by casualty ;
we have seen its mer4tants_ withdrawn from the
markets and its fleets ffora the sea ; we have seen
the concentrated earnestness with which it devoted
itself to its remaining hoot ions of territorial govern-
ment, and have marked the increase of good works
by which every year has been distinguished. All
the while we were aware, more or less distinctly, of
its coming change. Where its early armies had
gone out a sight, there its caravans of wealth had
followed. Its warehouses and its fleets had vanished
next. Some time since its councils and magistracy,
its host of civil functionaries, its armies, its sages
at home and its heroics in the field, turned their
faces in the way that the rest had gone, knowing
that the word would come for them to march. '1 he
storm of rebellion and the panic of popular igno-
rance have precipitated the order ; and the s :ene
has closed- before any due preparation .has been
made for the opening cif another. We have all
hoped to the last that the departure would have
been delayed till a safer moment ; but the petty
interests Qf party hate come uppermig in the con-