The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1858.

In the House of Lords last night the new
Premier delivered the promised explanations usual
on the appointment of a new Administration.
Although not quite as explicit on'some points as
we could have desired, it was, on the whole,
a straightforward and manly state nent ; proving
that the nation has every reason to anticipate
measures at least as liberal and progressive as
could be anticipated from the outgoing Ministry.
He may possibly have been a little too chary
of positive announcement of his intentions,
but it is certainly better to go beyond rather
than to fall short of any pledges or promises
which may be given in either branch of the
Legislature. The nation has had too many
of these promises—sometimes by the leading
members of the Cabinet in their places in Parlia-
ment, at others by recommendations contained in
Speeches from the Throne, but not the faintest
indication has as yet been given of what will be
conceded to the popular wishes. It is, to say the
least of it, inconvenient to have a subject of such
vital importance shelved, and the people disap-
pointed, after being excited by the hopes held
out of a speedy settlement of the interesting and
important question.
Lord DERIAT, avoiding this mistake, declines to
give any specific undertaking on this point ;
but he declares that, "as soon as the pres-
sure of Parliamentary business enables
the Government deliberately and carefully
to consider the question, they will direct
their attention to the defects which exist in the
laws regulating the representation of the people
in Parliament, and to the amendments which may
be made in those laws, and that they will give
that attention with the sincere and earnest desire
to trifle, no longer with this great question ; but
with the hope that they may be able in the next
session of Parliament to lay before the Legislature
and the country a measure which may, for a time,
will settle a matter of such deep importance, and
which, although it may not please everybody,
may at least be accepted as a fair and reasonable
measuraby moderate, impartial, and well educated
men."

This, as We have stated, is scarcely as ex-
plicit as the community would desire. No doubt
a reasonable time should be given to those
who hare so unexpectedly been elevated to office,
to prepare a bill of their own ; but surely it can-
not require so long an adjournment. The ques-
tion has been ventilated for several successive
years. Its leading features have been dis-
euued in Parliament during the last half-dozen
Years. Every member of the Cabinet must have
long sines made up his mind on its salient points ;
have been prepared to criticise the long-promised
bill, and to aubject its provisions to a close and
searching examination. It could not, then, re-
quire so many months to indicate the nature and
extent of the proposals that vrould finally be
brought forward.

On this subject the popuiar
of the Legislature will naturally be enacting,
branch
The independent representatives of independent
constituencies have a right to kuow what are the
final intentions of the Government, and what
they really may anticipate if they consent to wait
for another session. Mr. HENRY BERKELEY will
bring the matter to a stringent teit by his annual
motion on the Ballot, and the competitors for
office, Lord PALMEPJTO and Lord J. RUSSELL,
may possibly now gee the matter in a very different
light from that in which they regarded it on pre-

vious occasions. As we recently stated, " the I
Ballot " will be the touchstone to test the pre-
tensions of the rivals, the instrument that
will ensure success to its advocate. Why,
then, should not Lord DERBY accept it ? It is
resorted to in the various clubs of which himself,
and his colleagues, and subordinates, are members.
It is there found to act well. There is no person
that asserts that, so far as these important social
institutions are concerned, the practice is repre-
hensible or un-English. Why, then, not give it
a fair trial, and thereby afford full protection to the
voter from intimidation, whether by landlord,
employer, customer, or mob ? Why not strike a
blow against every corrupt influence, and
impurity of election, by means far more effectual
than any that have been hitherto suggested
That point, at least, must be set at rest, and that
at no distant day. Should Lord DERBY follow
the example of his predecessor, and endeavour
to shroud himself in a veil of mystery, on this
point he may rest assured that a decisive answer
will be imperatively demanded. The stability of
his Government will mainly depend on the
promptitude of the decision he may arrive at in
reference thereto.

The Attorney-General spoke on other points—
the extension of the franchise and more suitable
arrangement of electoral districts—in his address
to the electors of East Sussex,!on which we yester-
day offered some remarks—" Let Lord DERBY
fairly carry out the views of his efficient law ad-
viser and also concede the Ballot, and we venture
to assert that he will be sustained by the great body
of the people." And why should he not ? There are
no great questions at issue to divide and disturb
the country—nothing to induce them to prefer
one set of men to another, provided they obtain
equally good measures. The great reproach hurled
against the new Ministry is that they will accept
and carry out the proposals of their predecessors.
The Times declares that "he (Lord DERBY) had
neither to stigmatise the measures of his foes nor
to announce any of his own invention. On the
contrary, he was entering into vineyards which he
had not planted, and wells that he had not digged,
in the shape of bills which he was prepared sub-
stantially to adopt, either because his friends had
already voted for them, or, because once in-
troduced, it was necessary to go on with
them. Lord DERBY could not hold out any
hope to the parties most jealous of political
originality of either doing anything the late
Goverfiment was not doing, or leaving undone any
thing it had in hand !" Why, then, the virulent
and almost factious opposition to the new Cabinet ?
If the assertion be correct, it is manifest that the
nation loses nothing by the change of men, while
those who lately held office will be stimulated to
something more acceptable to the nation in the
desire of recovering their lost positions. The people
will certainly not condemn them until they have
a full opportunity of being heard in their own
defence.

We have chiefly referred to the statements re-
specting Reform, as they will be most eagerly
perused by the community. Lord DERBY will,
of course, answer the French despatch, and on
the proceedings that then take place his future
Course will be marked out. He has witnessed
the manner in which his predecessor alienated
the popular feeling, and with such a lesson he
should carefully abstain from anything that would
exhibit his Ministry in a truckling position. He
emphatically declared that under all circumstances,
and without distinction, the right of asylum
would be maintained inviolable." We shall,
however, await further information, before decid-
ing on the mode in which Lord DERBY may deal
with the question that ejected Lord PA.LIKERSTON
and his colleagues from office.
An India Bill is to be introduced this Session,
which, it may be assumed, will transfer the
Government of that important Empire to QUEEN
VICTORIA. The Premier declares that it ►ill
secure most of the objects of the Bill of the late
Ministry, and at the same time be free from some
of the objections to which that Bill was liable.
On this subject, too, we must await further infor-
mation, which fortunately will not long be with-
held us.

On the whole, we believe that more may be
expected from the new Ministry than from their
predecessors, and therefore we shall treat them
fairly, and refrain from condemning until they
have done something really worthy of condem-
nation.

Not the least remarkable circumstance con-
nected with the Revolt in India is the rather ex-
traordinary fact that not one single soldier, of
any note whatever, has made his appearance
among all these Sepoy :Alutineers. No—not one !
While the troops of the QUEEN and of the Com-
pany have each, in turn, supplied history with
new names of glory, within the compass of a few
months, and that, too, abundantly ! The contrast
is something, certainly, very startling. Here,
out of a comparative handful of British infantry,
fighting their way valiantly through an all but
overwhelming inundation of rebellion, rose sud•
denly to view, hero after hero, not unworthy of
being ranked with the warriors of old, men whose
deeds will be long cherished with admiration in
the world's remembrance. There was the "Fiery
NEILL," the avenger of the atrocities of
Cawnpore. There was NICHOLSON, his gallant
brother-in-arms who fell, too, like NEILL,
"in harness," his sword blade yet red with the
blood of victory. There likewise appeared GREAT-
HED, with the dash of MURAT and the enterprise
of ANOLZSEY. There, again, was the bold
OUTRA3I—of all that dauntless host the preux
Chevalier. There, moreover, for a few radiant
moments—moments never after to be forgotten
by a race whose heroism they served to illustrate
so resplendently—there, in the deadly breach,
stood Lieutenant SALKELD.! There reeled—
blinded and wounded, among the smoke and ashes
of the flaming volcano of the magazine lit by
his order—the self-sacrificing, the self-immolating
Lieutenant WILLOUGHBY ! There, above all
resolutely pressing onward in the direction of
beleaguered Lucknow was the chief among the
chiefs of that perillou3 epoch, the most glorious
soldier among them all—that embodiment of the

"Christian Hero" of Sir RICHARD STEztx—tlae
noble-hearted, keen-sighted, unflinching, unhesi-
tating, liorztoct ! Such, in brief, were the fore-
most among our little warrior band—the leaders
of our numerically insignificant forces in the san-
guinary struggle between life and death in 1857
in ilindostan.

note,
But for one single soldier of any
we look in vain among all that swarming
horde of very nearly 100,000 mutineers.
Disciplined according to our own system ;
armed with our own arms ; clothed in our
uniforms—au army all but flesh of our
flesh and bone of our bone—
rose against us in the Sepoy army -ah)
rehallikm upon a miserable
pretext about somagreabld cartridgea, has not in
one solitary instance given to -view in all this
terrible twelvemonth of strife, o:gz Captain. liot,
one ! There has been one ruffian certainly dis-
tinguished above them all h
by his preternatural

and unparalleled infamy—but liis pre-eminence l,
.imply the " bad pre-eminence" won to him by

his atrocities. NANA SAHIB is simply notorious
among the leaders of fighting men just as lIBITRIOT
was notorious at the head of the troopers of
the French Republic during the Reign of
Terror—HENßloT, whose habitual battlefield
was the Place de Greve, and whose rallying
standard was the blood-red *colour of the guillo-
tine 1 No—again we say not one single soldier
of any mark whatever has, from first to last, made
his appearance among these Sepoy mutineers. Not
one of them has shown any generalship—any
strategic skill—nay, for that matter, any com-
mon brute courage. They have fought simply
like a set of wild hounds—encouraged in each
instance to resist for a while simply by the obvious
fact of their enormous numerical preponderance.
How may this be accounted for?—among a race
certainly not deficient hitherto in the ability of
the soldier's craft---a race that has long since
numbered up in history as famous warriors as
GHENGIS KHAN and AIIRUNGZEBB. What may
be the source of this unexampled lack of anything
at all like their former valour or their pristine
generalship ? What ? Is it not Remorse—born
from the memory of all their fiendish atrocities ?
Is it not remorse—acting upon all their physical
and intellectual energies like a sudden palsy ?
Might not thousands of Sepoys among that popu-
lous host each mutter to himself, literally, in the
famous words of MASSINGER—,

" Some undone widow site upon mine arm,
And takes away the use of 't ; and my sword,
Glued to my scabbard with wrong'd orphan's tears,
Will not be drawn."
The execrable crimes by which at Delhi, at Cawn-
pore, at Bithoor, and elsewhere, this deadly revolt
was first of all inaugurated, would really appear
to have evidenced themselves in the extraordinary
fact we have here particularised—the fact of this
Sepoy host of nearly 100,000 Asiatics, disciplined
by Europeans, not having onco throughout the
whole conflict given to the world a single soldier
of any eminence whatsoever. The result of those
diabolical deeds of inhumanity being the paralysis
of the warlike genius and power hitherto dis-
played by the warrior population of Hindostan.

ALTEST NEWS.

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The following telegram has been received from
Malta at the India-house :

" To SIR JAMES MELVILL, K.C.8., INDIA-HOI7SE,

LONDON.

" The Commander-in-Chief was at Futtyghur
on 'Tannery 24.
" Brigadier Walpole's column was near the Ram-
gumma, preparing to cross into Rohilound. A
rebel force was on the opposite bank of the river.
"By intelligence to January 22, Sir J. Outram
had been again assailed, and an attack by the whole
rebel force in Lucknow was daily expected.

" Reinforcements bad been sent to Sir James

Outram.

"Saugor was relieved by Sir Hugh Rose's force
on February 3.
"On the march to Saugor, Rakjhur was attacked
on January 26th, but the garrison evacuated the
place.
" The chief rebel leader in Central India, Ma-
hommed Faril, was, however, taken and hanged.

" On January 31st Sir Hugh Rose defeated the
insurgents at Banda. tOur loss was slight, but
Captain Devill, of the RtJyal Engineers, was killed.

" The fort and town of ATah were occupied on
January 24th, the greater part of the garrison
having escaped in the night during a violent storm.
"Punjaub and Scinde all quiet.

" All quiet with the exception of Candish, in
which, however, no new excesses are reported.
" Proof has been obtained that Shorapoor
Rajah has been collecting troops for a rebellion.
" A Bombay force from Belgaum, and a Madras
force from Kurtool, are advancing to Koolea
with the Nizam's troops, for the reduction of the
Rajah.

" D. ANDERSON, Secretary to
Government,
" Bombay Castle, Feb. 9, 1858.

"Per steamer Euxine.
"from V. G. MONTA.NARO.
"Malta, March 1, 1858."

We (Fimqs) have received the aubjoinedtelegram
from our -MAUI correspondent, dated March 1,
11 p.

ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 26.

" rae Bombay mail leaves to-day with intelli-
gence from the Commander-in-Chief to the 28th of
January. He was still at Fu ttygliur, waiting for
the siege train from Agra, which left that station
on the 22d.

"An attack from Calpee was expected at Fut-
tebpore. Troops from Allahabad and Cawnpore
were concentrated to oppose it.
" Sir James 0 utrara had been reinforced at Alum•
bagh, and held his own.

" The Ghoorkas have marched from Goruckpore
on Fyzabad, in Oude.
" The Fort of Ratghur was evacuated by the
enemy on the 26th.

" The Nawab Mahommed Favil Khan has been
hanged ; and at Delhi the Dewah of Furruck-
nugger likewise.
" Awah was abandoned to the Rajpoetana field
force during a storm on the 24th.
g' The trial of the King of Delhi was to commence
on the 2d. of February.
" The Rajah of Shorapoor in the southern Mah-
ratta country, is about to be attacked from three
quarters.

" The rest of the 18th Royal Irish, besides the
;Ist Highlanders, have arrived at Bombay.
" The Habeas Qorpus case is at an end by the
arrival of an act from Calcutta justifying the
prisoners' detention.
" The Bombay money-market was much easier
" The Bank had reduced its rat© of discount
3 per. cent.
" The import market was active.
" Exchange, 2s. Otd. for credit.

" The above news has just been received by the
Ewan, from Alexandria, for which port the
Colombo left this afternoon. The Eaxine leaves
for Marseilles at 4 to-morrow morning. Neither
the outward nor the homeward Australian mails
had reached AlrAndri% up to the afternoon of
the 26th.

" Tke Vectis, from Marseilles, has just arrived."

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING,
The Moniteur publishes the following in its
official columns :
" General Changarnier and General Bedsan have
permission to return to France."

- lofiltiilt: uncffi
the publication of the first volume of the " Corres-
, after ttlbee;:f2"
cial columns the 3loniteur announces
Pondenue of Napoleon 1.," which it states to be
Oznicra:t;!,_hwee.tl.3milect
obfe. beautiful fit
pe workslmperial
that
printing-office.l2as over i F s u eldt
four
iu Italy,
Rt,l.l4,unittatinatthbraoefe6Tuauphanirt,
ofin ttuheyeayueiapraitgwnos
es on the last day of the year
eat of Wurruser. The volume is

ushered in by a report of the Minister of State,
upon the high importance of the work ; the decree
which constituted the commission charged with the
collection and publication of the " Correspondence
of Napoleon 1.," and, finally, the report addressed
by the commission to the Emperor upon the re-
searches and labours to which they had devoted
themselves in the performance of their duty.
A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels says :
" Orsini, Pierri, de Rudio, and Gomez, on return-
ing to their prison after the trial, appeared to retain
all their usual calmness, but at the moment when
the strait jacket was beine put on them, Pierri gave
way to the most violent rage, venting his passion
particularly against Orsini. ' I wish,' he said,
' that Orsini had a dozen heads, and that they
were all to be cut off, in order that he might suffer
the longer.' De Rudio is very much cast down ;
he fancies he sees the sceffold standing before him,
and he declares that in his sleep he feels as if the
iron were touching his neck. Orsini preserves
a composed
attitude, and mostly remains
silent. pierri, it is said, expected to come
out of the affair safe and sound ; and so deeply
haciforthat hope taken possession of his mind
thatseveral days before all his thouzlits had
been concentrated on what had become of his um-
brella. He had even written several letters on
the subject, requesting that it might be sought for
and be ready_ for him when he should be released
from prison. '
The Times Paris correspondent says :—" Ru-
mours have circulated for the last two days that,
after all, the life of Orsini is likely to be spared.
To what degree they. are entitled to credit I cannot
say. lam equally ignorant on what grounds his
title to clemency is based morethan his companions.
His letter to the Emperor,as published in the Moni-
teur with the rest of the proceedings, has produced
an unpleasant impression on the representatives of
some of the German States, and it certainly will not
promote goodwill between the Court of Vienna and
that of the Tuileries. It is still the topic of severe
remark in diplomatic circles. Though Orsini is
a lid to display much calmness since his condemna-
tion, yet, to prevent any attempt by his own hand,
it was thought prudent to use the camisole-de
force, or straight waistcoat. The others, with the
exception of Gomez, who is not condemned to
death, are similarly treated. The chaplain of the pri-
Sea has been with them, but it is not said whether
his exhortations have had much effect. They
attended Divine service yesterday in the chapel of
the prison. The minutes of the trial were to be
submitted this day to the Parquet of the Court of
Cas4ation by the Attorney-General. They will be
distributed, and the Court will appoint one of the
Conseillers to draw up the report, on which the con-
firming or invalidation of the sentence of the Lower
Court will be founded. I may add that there A
little or no chance that the sentence will be dis-
turbed, and i:-, is probable that the whole affair will
be decided in the course of the week."
It is stated that Lord Malnaesbury has already
answered the despatch of M. Walewski, and, it is
said, in a tone and spirit becoming a British
Minister. It, of course, expresses a desire to cul-
tivate
the beat relations with this country, and to
remain in alliance with her, but it declares that the
right of asylum shall be maintained intact. It is
not said whether the suspended bill will be taken
up by the new Government.
BOURSE, Alarchl.—The settlement of the account
has gone on readily in the Rente with easy terms of
interest, but the market has been flat, and prices
declined owing
to a fall of gon Consols. The
market continued heavy to the close, when thee
following Rare the
e quotations :-
4i per Cents
Do. end raonti — Belgian 4
3 per Cent. ...., ... 69 30 Piedmontese (5) 9O
Do. end month 69 40 Roman B9
Bank Shares 3015 Austrian
Credit Mobilier ... 875 --- Spanish Threes
Do. Account B7O Home Debt 3 i

RAIL'
Orleans ....,.... 13971
Northern! 963
New Ditto 797
Lyon and lediteran. 830
New Ditto ........ ; 797i
Geneva . . 7OO

'AY&

Midi
Western 6B2i
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

AUSTRIA.
According to a letter from Vienna, M. de Pro-
kesch has received instructions, from his government
relative to the disturbances in Bosnia, and in which
he has been charged to urge on the Porte the im.
perative necessity of pacifying that country, by
granting all the reforms which had been promised.
A letter from Vienna, in the Nuremberg Corre•
spondent, says :—" The approachinc, winding-up of
the eminent banking firm of Simon G. Sina may be
looked on as certain. The head of the firm, Baron
Sine, has recently been appointed representative
of Greece at the court of Austria. As his with-
drawal from business was made a condition of his ap-
pointment, the baron has consented to add this to
the many sacrifices which he Las already made to
that country.'

Another letter from Vienna, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" The Government of Oldenburg
had made a proposition to the Germanic Diet to
pay the arrears of pensions of the old officers of the
armyof Schleswick-Holstein. Austria opposed the
adoption of that proposition on the ground that the
Diet had decided, in the sitting of the 6th April,
1854, that it would merely grant assistance to these
officers, and that the present proposition went
much further. The Assembly has now decided in
accordance with the views of the Austrian repre-
sentative."