The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-13 00:00:00

MR. CA KL WALL'S hEsOL UTI ON.

(From the Daily News.)
For their own sakes it is to be hoped that Mr.
Cardwell and those who act with him will embrace
the opportunity offered by the resignation of Lord
Etlenborough to reconsider the resolution that is
to be moved on Friday night. Lord Ellenborough
and his despatch are out of the field. In so far
as Lord Canning's personal feelings are concerned,
the discussion might be allowed to drop. The
paramount consideration at issue is what expres-
sion of opinion as regards the policy to be pur-
sued in India is most consonant to the welfare
of the empire and the honour of England. We
have much at stake. It is difficult to imaeine that
a proposal to confiscate the whole lands of Oude
should not have a perilously irritating effect on
the public mind throughout India. According to
• the proclamation of Lord Canning, the threatened
confiscation is to apply to the land; of all " Talook-
dars, chiefs, and landowners." Every person who
claims a proprietary right in land in Oude will feel
alarm. The co-parceners of the " estates" and
villages must be in as feverish a state of excite-
ment as the great Zemindars. That there is peril
in such a state of affairs is denied by no one.
Even Mr. Cardwell, in his resolution, declines to
express approbution of the policy of the proclama-
tion. Lord Canning himself (or Sir Jas. Outram for
him) has softened considerably in his proclamation
some of the harsher features of the draft. If a
majority of the House of Commons is bent upon
censuring Lord Ellenborom,-;11's despatch, aed its
public .tion, even after the noble lord has withdrawn
from office, let, at least, the expression of censure
b= accompanied tay some declarati ,n regarding the
future policy of the A_nglo-Indian. Government that
may re-assure the minds of the innocent or the
penitent throughout our Indian dominions. Is the
propect of our being disgracefully driven out of
India t :o remote to tell upon the imagination of
the people of England ? Then let this considera-
tion bring it borne to our apprehensions :—On ac-
count of the civil war in India we have already
been obliged to increase our army beyond the ave-
rage pe4ce establishment. The campaign in Robil-
cund during the hot season will increase to an enor-
mous amount the mortaliy iu the ranks of our
European soldiers in India. With what a drain
upon our healthy adult population does the recruit-
ing that must replace these lasses threaten us !
How much will it cost us to keep our European
army in India on an effective footing ? How long
may this expenditure in lives and money last '? Can
we afford to brave a prolonged and internecine war
in India by carrying into effect a policy which every-
body shrinks from defending ? Tee Directors of the
India Company have set the example of denuding
the question of all irritating personalities, and
doing what in them lies to concentrate attention on
the necessity of adopting a just . and concliatory
policy towards the natives of India. Tuey have de-
clared to Lord Canning that their confidence in him
is not abated ; but they have at the same time indi-
cated to his LordAiip the course which they think
he ought to pursue. With reference to the
Despatch of the Se 'net Committee, the Court of
Directors has expressed its continued confidence in
the Governor-General, aiding its conviction that
his measures for the pacification of Oude and the
other disturbed districts in India will be charac-
terised by a generous policy and by the utmost
clemency that is found to be consistent with the
satisfactory accomplishment of that important.
object. If a majority of the House of Commons
is bent upon pouring balm into the wounded feel-
ings of Lord Canning, let it at least show so much
consideration for the honour and prosperity of the
empire, as to follow the example of the Court of
Directors, and give Lord Canning to understand
that it is by a just and humane policy that he must
seek to earn a continuance of its favour.
In the part we have taken in this discusSion we
have resolutely banished from our minds every
consideration but what is conducive to the pros-
periT and happiness of India, alid, through that
prosperity and happiness, to the honour and per-
manence of the British einpife. We are, of course,
by principle, opposed to the present Administra-
tion ; but we will not, with a view to preopitate
its fall, which under no circumstances can be very
remote, ri,k a renewed conflagration in Hiadostam
That would he to follow the example of the Chinese
in Cnarles Lamb's grotesque but genial legend,
and burn down our house to roast our pig.
Nay more ; before we take Rot in any move-
ment to unseat the present Ministry, we are
disposed to ask for some guarantee that we are
to get a liberal Ministry in its place. To put out
the present men is one thing, and to establieh a
real, strong, united, stable,. L beral Ministry, is
another. To bring back Lord Palunerstoa as die
tator, with Lord Clanricarde, Mr. Vernon Smith,
and Mr. Robert Lowe in his train, would be no
great victory. Lord Palmerston was only a few
months back deposed by a majority of the House
of Commons—has he now regained the confidence
of that majority ? He has not, on the contrary,
been further weakened since that time by losing
the confidence of some who then remained faithful
to him ? Are Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham,
or Lord John .Rte-sell any more disposed to rake
office along with Lord Palmerston now than they
were a few months ago ? The truth is that the
time has not yet arrived for reconstructing the Li-
bat al party on a looad and satisfactory basis. That
re-construction must be the result of a closer ap-
rroxiaration among the various sections of the
Liberal party in sentiment and principle than has
yet taken place. It cannot be brought about by a
few leaders agreeing to make-behave that they
have been reconciled. That the Liberal party will
he re-constructed we have no doubt, and nothing
shall be wanting on our part that can contribute to
so desirable a consummation. But nothing is to be
gained by factitious patching up of alliances where
there is neither cordiality nor agreement in prin-
ciple. We can afford to " bide our time," and see
no
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lennsuccessors
in office of the late Mr. Coppock wish us to do so.

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