The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-20 00:00:00

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[P io 4D. S rAMPED

other. These pits have baen pointed out to us
and at fi:st it was thought of removing the re-
mains from-them and depositing them in the
Chrstian burial-ground. The royal engineers
were ordered to perform this duty, but it was
found that decomposition bad not quite done
its work—the smell was very offensive,
and might prove injurious ; a large tomb
is th:rtfore to be erected over the spot.
I • recognised amongst the- remains a little
child's frock, and, from the skull of a female I re-
moved sours long silken hair of a very light colour
—a sad memento, indeed i

NEWS PAPER

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eager to ...iser, lute between . '• ' 0
rebellion hazel on mutiny lid
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chery,..and relidere'd hideous b T..Wlit _ ' -
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the forbearance a power anxiais4f ii-
j ustice to reitternberniercy. For racir'Splitarot niee
of the hostile force, possessed of thelbastilltellr
gence, and unblinded by fanaticism, ever doubted
our ility to effect the utter destrUction of our
enemies collected in and around Lucknow. . But
when the result proved that they had over-estimated
our strength and their own weakness—when-it be-
came obvious that we stood urgently .in need. of
the aid of the great landholders—professions of a
, fff
whoma an
v
liberal policy came too late. They-savoured much
o
undignifiedestoad astlt-ininiipet oia need, by the seeure those auxiliaries
affecta-
tion of a magnanimity
we did not possesS; and this
unhappy result has been, we are told, intensified
by the miserable prcclamationd of Lora Canning,
which have been from tints to time 9111ecl, cancelled,
modified, and tinkered up to
meet, by a system
small instalments, the dem3nds,- andobvio
ate the
of of the local officers. "If a
Lucknow correspondent on the 14 h of April--
" this province b 3 not the theatre of disaster and
humiliation, to Mr. Montgomery will the praise be
due—not to Lord Canning. Mr. Montgomery is
determined to carry out that policy which Sir
Colin Campbell recommended, and of which I
believe Sir John Lawrence, Sir James Outram,
and Sir Herbert Edwards have been thee-earneit
advocates." Such ara the views of one Party;
But there are those who consider Lord Canning to
have evinced singular spirit and sagacity, Military
acumen, and true statesmanship ; and these held
that the unplewant prospect before--na is .due
to S:r -Colin Campbell's neglect of ObVibits
strategic considerations, and his want of activity.
They point to his extraordinary delay at, awn-
pore in Dedember last, to his prolonged halt at
Futtoygliur, to: his ignoration of Barilly—pheno-
mena, we are told, not honestly attributable to
commisariat difficulties, or any real inability to
_have brought the siege train from Agri at. a mull
earlier, pried. Wu are called On to note "the
bungling of the • Goorkh-is." • "Why," writes a
correspond,..ht, "{Vhy•-shonla this force,. since it
lvias-resolyel to bring it to Lucknow, not have
I been brought earlier T They say becausait had ne
ammunition. What au excuse 1 Would Wel.
lington or.. -Napier * have'. kept their.- auxiliaries
without ammunition with an. arsenal close at
hand '?" Then , again, we are told thiat when
brculit up little use wls made of the G.iorkhas.
With their ail the city child have been in-
vested. But it was not invested. And at
letst 95 per cent. of the enemy bolted. Was their
bolting a mat. er of joy or sorrow to the chief ? He
was said to have heari very angry with Brigadier
Campbell, throm4ll whose e:rors so many got clean
off from M.:•Osa lStsh. But my Cawnpore letters tell
me that this very brigadier li,s•beeri put in command
of the Cawnpore divisi. ii over the head of a seni 3r
and vary superior officer, Franklyn, whoalways did
his work well." Such are the oprosite views which
prevail. at Lacknow and in the- head-quarters'
camp. It is not fir us to reconcle or adjudicate
between them. Our duty simply is to record them,
an I to invi'e our readers, both in India and En g-
-1. to keep them in mind when studying the
his.(ry of past and watching the progress of future
op ration.. A knowledge of the discrepant views
which do ob'ain wit', mo cover, be of use to mein-
-I:crS of Parlianiout int:ndinc,6 to move for papers.
Tt_e whole official and seini-oflleitl correspondence
that has p IS3, d between the Governer Ginsral and
the Commanclt-r-in-Cnief, or between either of
those and the various military and diplomatic
officers relative to political proceedings or military
operations, si-eculd be called f.r. This is due to
Lord Ginn.ng, who has hitherto been severely
dealt with ; it is dui also to Sir Colin Campbell,
whose popul rity and prestige with the public,
both civil and military, appear to us to be on the
wane; and it is due ti the nation whose honour
and re-mitre:es are at st tke.

_NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The squadron under Lori Lyons, which left the
oiling of Malta on the Ist May, reached on V°
morning of the sth the North Chaunel of Corfu,
where it auchorei for the night. On weighing
next morning to run up, a telegram from the Ad-
naiealty reac!,ed the galsnt Admiral, via Malta,
ordering him back to that island, with an intimation
that his successor in the command, Vice-Admiral
Fenshawe, would relieve him earlier than prc-
vious'y centemplatel, whereupor, after merely
communicating with tl:e au horitie3, the squadron
worke 1 down the Southern Channel, and at day-
light on the Bth was overtaken by the Vigilant
steamer, the bearer of another telegram ordering
the Pi ilve- s Royal to Malta under steam, fur the
purpose 0: cony( yin; to Alexandria, on the way to
ItAa via Satz, the 57th Reeeiii ent. She reached
Malta on the evening of Sueday, the 9th, coaled
Inext day, and left on the afternoonuf, the AM,
convcyiug Lient: .Ci.donel Warns, Major' 1311114,
Captains Copland and Bird; Lieutenants Short,
Schoteberge Shute, Bayntun, Powell, Hailed,
and Thompson ; Enstns Waller and M'Cliutock ;
Paymaster Matthews, AdjutAnt Waugh, Quarter-
! master B.dconabe, Sur eon M'Ancirews, AsSistant-
Surgeon Ferguson, and 636 non-cc mmissioned offi-
' cers and privates of the 57th Regiment, heretofore
forming part of the Malta garrison. The Royal
Albert, bearing the flag of Admiral Lord Lyons,
accompanied by the Centurion and the Conqueror,
appeared in the offing of Malta on t.'-re same after-
noon, whereupon the Coquette was sent out with
despatches and returned in the evening with a
telegram for the Admiralty. On the 12th the
squadron stood close in, and again communi-
cated through the medium of the Coquette.
These ships have experienced very rough weather
for the season of the year, and have suffkred
reveral casualties, with loss of and damage to spars
bir'l yards, particularly the Princess Royal.
On the morning of the 13th the Royal Albert came
to an anchor in Valetta harbour, under a ,salute
from Fort St. Angelo, and another from a Dutch
friga'e, which she immediately Married. The
Cen ution and Conqueror followed, and later in
the morning the S.vallow, and in the afternoon the
Ariel, which seems to have lagged behind from
getting becalmed. Her Majesty's steam transport
Supply arrived from Bond-cum and Syraron the 10th
of May, wi thancient marbles for the British Museum.
Her Majesty's steamer Harpy, Lieut.-Commander
Percher, left: on tha 10:11May fur Tunis, to be placed
at the disposal of her 13,itannic I%..jesty's Consul
there, f r the purpose of prosecuting antiquarian
researches, and-r the direction of the Rev. Nathan
Davis, who has 13_ en emp'oyed by the British Go-
vernment for some time past excavating on the
site of ancient Carthage. The WanderEr, steam
gunboat, returned to Malta from Alexandria on
the afternoon of the 13th of May, bringing a tele-
graphic mcssage from Suez, with the Leads uf the
intelligence brought by the Ottawa, which reached
there that morning from Bombay with the mails
to the 24th of April.

BYPOTHESIS EXPLSINING THE

INDIAN PALMISTRY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Lord Cal)ning's proclamation is said not to
have been drafted in London. Its tenor is contrary
to Lord Canning's own previously known views.
It required some explanation to satisfy the ex-
Ministry. It was further mod!fied after being
" drafted." The explanations have not been re-
ceived by Mr. Vernon Smith (Lord Palmerston
says). They won't produce the letter that promises
the explanations, or even the passages that allude
to them.
Upon what hypothesis can all these ioconginities
be explained ?
By the following :
That instructions for the proclamation (though
not a " draft" of the proclamation) were sent out
by the late Ministry.
That the terms of these instructions were so harsh
that Lord Canning 's draft is a modification of them;
and it was this moditiation which he was anxious
to explain and justify. •
That when the draft, even with these exceptions
to the univo sal confiscation ordered, was further
objected to by Sir John Lawrence, Sir J. Outram,
and S Colin
clauseCaas ma
dp,bi
that
the additional
tn
appeared
ear
edin
quali-
fying
thei
o.clamation rec ntly published.

That the private -letter Vernon Smith wca.'t pro-
duce states that the explanations would be sent
(not to him) but to Lord Palmerston, or some one
else, the author of the instructions to confiscate.
hat such explanatory letters have been received,
though not, as wai said last night, by Mr. Vernon
Smith.
That theMinistQr whose " spirited foreign policy"
was his boast, is the author of the "spirited" in-
structions fur the prcclanyttion.
Tht se suppoiitions explain everything relating
to the Cambridgc-Louse plot.* No ttLer hy[othesis
will.

One word more. If Lord Canning, in writing
semi-ofticially to Lord Ellenborough, a.sumes that
the latter hal bad th© previous "private" letters
(addressed to Mr. Smith) communicated to him,
has Vernon Smith any right to keep them hack ?
May 19. Yours, &c., T. P.

THE HOMEWARD INDIA MAILS.—The P.ninaular and
Oriental Company'a tteam(ra Sultan and Panther
ruched Malta from Alexandria early on the morning
of the 15th. Tho former proceeded on to Marseilles
immediately after coali' g ; the latter for Southampkrt
at noon.