The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1858.

The Government of India Bill has made con.
siderable progress in the House of Lords, 3:3
clauses having already been disposed of, and it may
reasonably be anticipated that it will pass through
Committ.o on Monday without any important
change or modification. it could not, of course,
be supposed that such a measure could be sanc-
tioned without a proper amount of discussion, nor
would it be desirable that such should be the
case. Truth is invariably promoted by the most
stringent investigation—the closest canvassing of
every detail. Nor would it be quite consistent
with the dignity of the hereditary branch of
the Legislature to allow a matter of such
♦ast importance, in which the interests
of 150,000,000 of British subjects are
so greatly concerned, to be passed sub sitentia,
It, however, exhibits the real value of the bill
in the strongest point cf view, to show that so
lit le could be fairly alleged against its policy or
jnt.tice.

It was indeed too closely worked in the House
of Commons to permit of much novelty being
introduced even by such practised orators and
skilful statesmen as many of their Lordships.
That Lord KLLENBOROUGH should be a leetle dis-
satisfied might have been anticipated. He had
framed an admirable bill, which was most un-
fairly and unjustly assailed. Ho was victimised
for the course which was subsequently more
than justified. The Ministry were attacked in
his person, and with chivalrous generosity he
sacrificed himself. But still he must have felt
a certain amount of natural -annoyance; and'
would dearly desire to vindicate the propriety of
his own production.
The Palmerstonians, too, would seek to follow
in the footsteps of their leader, and to raise, even
if they could not sustain, the objections which he
put forward. But there was no enthusiasm or ex-
citement. There was no real contest. It was univer-
sally acknowledged that the measure was a gcod
one, the best that could be hoped for during the pre-
sent session, and none would undertake the
serious responsibility of arresting the course of
legislation, under existing circumstances, for
another year. It was a regular walk over for
Lord DERBY, or, at all events, he won in a com-
mon oanter every disputed point. ludeed, the
only real struggle was on the question whether
th,B, members of Comical should be prohibited from
carrying ou any profession, trade, or occupation.
This so-called amendment was negatived by a
majority of 15. But it was evident that if any
doubt bad been entertained as to the result, that
majority could easily have been quadrupled.
Indeed, as in every instance where restrictions
are imposed, the only limitation is on the power of
.
obtainingthe serviccs of the best awl moat eligible
men. Many who would be quite willing to act,
and whose names would carry With them popular
approval, might be debarred from so doing by
regnlatione, within the letter whereof, although
not the spirit, they would fall. Disabilities are
invariably more injurious to the community than
to the individual ; and those suggested by Lord
GRAIivILLEI if carried into 'fleet, would have ecu-
iiideraEy derogated from the value of the Bill.

The protogatiaia will gobably take place btfore

the end of the month, and it is something of
which Lord DERBY'sGoverament may well I e proud,
that they have effected more real business, within
little more than four months, than their prede-
cessors in any two previous sessions.

The atrocious massacre at Jeddah has, it ap-

pears, been supplemented by another act of
Mahommedan brutality in Candia, almost enacted
under the sanction of men high in authority. It
is to the honour of VELY PACHA, and other in-
fluential persons, that they strenuously resisted
the senile bending of their colleagues to mob dic-
tation, and resisted to the last the attempt to
enforce Lynch-law against a Christian, merely on
account of his faith.

It is, as yet, impossible to say what may have
been the magnitude of the offence committed by
the unfortunate youtb, who was subsequently
murdered, with the sanction and connivance
of the Turkish Admiral, ABM ET PA CHA.
It is said that he, being a Greek servant, had
assassinated kis Mussulman master, that he had
confessed the crime, and been sentenced to death
by competent authority. It was, however, essen-

tial that the sentence should be confirmed a
Constantinople, before it could be carried into
execution. A ferocious mob, however, de-
manded instant vengeance, not only against
the supposed criminal, but uttered the
most sanguinary threats against all Christians.
They even insulted some of the authorities who
endeavoured to allay their excitement.
The matter occurred on the 2d July instant,
and on the morning of the 3d VELY PACHA was
informed that the culprit bad been tried, con-
demned, and executed during the night. He
forthwith attended the Council to protest against
an act of such outrageous illegality, and there
learned that the execution had not actually taken
place, but that it was the opinion of the Admiral
and a majority of the Council that he should be
given up to the mob, in order to allay the excite-
ment. Ho was, however, permitted to endeavour
to appease the infuriated miscreants, a task
from which he narrowly escaped with his life.
All this time the Admiral had ample force at
his command to suppress the tumult, to which,
however, he preferred truckling—all his efforts
being directed to compel VELY PA ORA to sign the
warrant of execution, a mandate with which, to
his honour, he refused to comply.
The wretched lad was strangled, with the direct
sanction of AUMET PAOHA, and the mutilated
body dragged through the city and paraded before
the different European Consulates—the mob
howling, " Let us show these dogs that we also
can obtain what we desire." Under such circum-
stances it was felt that there was no safety for any
Christian, and a number of families sought safety
in flight, leaving property behind them to a large
amount.

It is now to be seen what course will be
adopted by the Governments that have been so
grossly insulted and abused in the persons of their
diplomatic servants, to avenge the bitter wrong
inflicted on them by Mussulman fanatics. At
Jeddah there was an organised conspiracy, in
which many thousand Tuiks were implicated,
without even the slightest pretence or reason.
Without anything to extenuate their brutality,
they butchered not only the representatives of

France and Englaud, but helpless .females

and innocent children. It is to be re-
gretted that the commander of the Cyclops did
not inflict summary vengeance on the sanguinary
miscreants. Probably he did 'not feel quite cer-
tain as to the manner in which such energetic and
decisive proceedings would be received at home, and
thereforo'contented himself with affording shelter
and protection to every fugitive who was so fortu

nate as to escape from the cAlughter. We cannot,

however, believe that the Government would ob-
ject to the most vigorous measures in such a nase,
such as the honour of the British flag and the
interests of humanity alike demanded.
We shall soon learn the nature of the proceedings
instituted by the Turkish Government. We trust.
that they may be commensurate with the magni-
tude of the outrage, and that they may be such as
fully and completely to satisfy the just indigna-
tion and reasonable demands of the Cabinets of
St. James's and of the Tuileries.

The unusual circumstance of a political pamph-
let running rapily into a second edition has
been witnessed—not in any way to our own sur-
prise—in the instance of the really alnirable
brochure entitled "Phases in Politics," more
than once cordially commended by us upon the
occasion of its first appearance. The ingenious
author of this remarkable and ctustic resume of
recent occurrences in Parliament has prefixed to
the new edition of his argument a fow pertinent
and spackling pages, bringing events down to
a moment almost immediately contemporaneous.
fu these "add Lion," Me. LE NDRICK, our pamph-
leteer, naturally enough takes occasion to refer
somewhat Pxultingly to the justification of all his
I sagacious reasonings as to the prospects of the
newly-installed DERBY-DISRAELI Government.
His reference to the graduated dwindling of the
supposititious majority against Ministers upon
Mr. CAE/Mk:Lek; memorable and most re-
doubtable motion—a majority becoming, like
EUGELINA'S waist, " small by degrees and
beautifully less," fading, in het, from 180 to
150, then to 130, afterwards to 100, next to 70,
and eventually to 50, where it stopped up to the
moment of his sudden evaporation in an igno-
minious withdrawal—is as drolly cruel as it is
-tersely epigrammatic. Ilia__allusions, therefore,
to the edifying theory laid down; during the de-
bate, as to what constitutes a private letter, as
oiontradistinguished from an official communica-
tion, are caustic and capital I Besides which, it
is certainly difficult to suppress a smile on glancing
over his sententious record that we learned during
that same notable discussion the extraordinary
fact that confiscation does not really and truly
mean confiscation, but merely—wholesale annexa-
tion ! Qauth Mr. LEND RICK drily—" Al member
of the late Government further informed us that
so far from being a measure of severity, confisca-
tion in reality is one of kindness and conciliation
towards those upon whom it is exercised"—a
sentiment which the Right Hon. Gentleman seems
to have derived from Mrs. MALAPROP, who con-
sidered " nothing so conciliatory as severity I"
It is with the same serio-comic whimsicality that
he,iefera immediately afterwards to " the sudden
reconciliation which the apparent prospect of
power produced in two Noble Lords," hitherto
for years past in " mutual aatagonism"—a re-
conciliation et once instinctively reminding hint
of a precedent to be found recorded in the pages,
tr)t of IIeNsARD,, but el GAY—"B:other, give
me your hand—Brother, we have both been in
the wrong." Throughout the whole of this excel-
lent pamphlet the sense produced by its perusal,
upon the mind of every reader who does not
happen to be a Whig or a Palmerstonian is
capable only of being accurately articulated
through the echo of a familiar exclamation—re
has one MICHAEL CASSIO on the hip ! Never.

*Pnases in Politica. By VV illiatn Edroonatone Len.
dcick. Second Edition, with Additions. Bp,p. lsp. 86
Londe ; T. and V. Boouo, 1858.