The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-02 00:00:00

MUTINIES.

Two of the French journals contain comments
upon the last news from India. The Debafs says :
" The taking of Lucknow completes the work which
was commenced by the taking of Delhi. The last
stronghold of the insurrection is conquered ; the cam-
paign is finished, or very nearly so. England comes out
victorious from a struggle which she has carried on for
six months against her rebellious subjects in Bengal.
That the English Government and the English people
should triumph at this denouement is most natural and
most legitimate ; they may triumph over the unlucky
prophets who predicted that India was lost to England,
and were debating about their own snare in the spoil.
But let not our neighbours and allies triumph over
g surrounding nations,' to use an expression of the
Times, that would be a pretension ♦ery much out of
place. For ourselves,who foresaw the denouement of the
struggle from its very commencement, we have read the
news of the event without wonder, displeasure, or envy.
Nay more, we are sincerely glad of the success of
England, and we think that all enlightened friends of
civilisation will rejoice with ue. . . We would rather
ree India governed by Lord Canning in the name of
Queen Victoria than see it fall under the yoke of Nana
Sahib. . . Delhi is taken, Lucknow is delivered, but
the conquerors must not forget that they have as yet
accomplished but a moiety of their task. It is not Bull.
cient that India should be reconquered ; it mist be
pacified, reorganised, governed."

After alluding to the report circulated by the
English journals, that the abolition of the Eastlndia
Company's Greve/lime:at will be proposed to Parlia-
ment, our contemporary continues :
" Thus then the English Parliament and Government
will have to substitute for a system of administration
which has existed for centuries one entirely new and of
artificial creation. What a problem to solve I What a
task to improvise a plan for the political and administra-
tive organisation of an empire of 156 millions of souls 1
Where is the mind capable of regarding with unblenching
look the prospect opened by this reform, or rather this
revolution, which has now become indispensable, of cal-
culating the probable consequences, of appreciating and
measuring the influence which it may exercise, not oily
upon the situation and nature of India, but also upon
the situation and future of England herself, and the
movement of her fundamental inetitutiosn I These are
the reflections which seem to us calculated to engage the
attention of the press and of public opinion on the other
side of the Channel, to moderate the joy caused by the
recent news, and to abate the pride to which the Times
gave way a few days since, when it represented thisnews
ae a lesson for surrounding nations.' We would recom-
mend the Times to read and meditate over its
own article of October 27th last, where it will
find an answer to the article it has just published
on the siege of Lucknow. It will there find re-
flections perfectly appropriate to the present circum-
stances—such reflections as are alone compatible with
the character and dignity of a great people, which
should know how to bo moderate, and keep its moral
equilibrium in good as in evil fortune. It is not only
to individuals nut to nations that the lesson of the
Latin Poet is applicable :-
2Equam memento rebus in arduis
Servare mentem, non seems in bonis
Ab insolenti temperatam
moriture Deli.'" •
The Spectator says, iu reference to the intelli-
' gence that a part of the town of Lucknow still re-
mains in the possession of the rebels :
" We do nut the least desire to undervalue the
importance of Sir Colin Campbell's victory. li the
advantage obtained by him is not complete, it is
decisive ; the English journals are right in so consider-
ing it, and rejoicing accordingly. We think they are
equally right in regarding the question of the re-
establishment of English domination in the kingdom
of Oude and throughout India as substantially settled
in their favour by the taking of Lucknow„ We did
not even wait for that event to come to the conclusion
that the rebellion must be crushed. From the moment
when it was found that the insurrection remained
concentrated in the Valley of the Ganges, and did
not spread throughout the Deccan, we looked upon
the triumph of the English as assured. But although
the rebellion is, powerless to produce any important
change in the situation of India, we shall be much
mistaken if it do not defend itself yet for a long time
against the victorious armies of England."