The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-29 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1858.

The first scene in the first Act has been an un-
questioned success. The new Ministry has done

all that either friends or foes could ask of it before
Baster. Routine work, and foreign work, and
open-question work, and the great work on India,
have alt prospered well in their hands. In each
affair, as yet, they have given us no cause to

regret their predecessors, in some they have snr-

passed them. The Jew and the Marriage Bills

have not fared worse under their rigims, though
we confess ourselves unable to comprehend Mr.

DisatzLfs silent vote against Lord BURY. As

the latter question is one of religious liberty
equally with the former, we trust that on recon-

Bideration it will also have his support on the

seeond reading. If Lord CLARENDON had encou-
raged WALEWSKI and the hot Imperialists to take

liberties with us ; and, if in consequence, to the

very leafy WAnnwsir.fs communications were

shaped rather to support his own consistency in The Indian telegrams, which will be found in
the eyes of the silly Colonels, than to apologise another part of our impression, are of a truly
frankly to us—all this lies at the door of the late satisfactory character. Sir COLIN CAMPBELL was
Foreign Secretary and his Principal. Lord fully maintaining his well-established reputation,
MALMESBURY made the best of a bad job. At displaying that cautious discretion which, while
Naples, however, they have far outdone their pre- economising to the utmost the lives of the gallant
deceesors. We, indeed, blame both Governments men under his command, effectually destroys the
for not speaking from the deck of Lord LYONS' flag- resources of the enemy. His worthy coadjutor,
ship. But as neither of them would try our diplo- Sir J. OUTRAM, had repulsed, with considerable
znacy,which, we are as oonfident as ever waathe 1. 11, slaughter, two determined onslaughts from the
we cannot deny that the mission of a special repre. rebel forces, one on the 21st, and the other on the
!imitative of the British Government has told well. 25th, of February. They appear to have strained
Even the Times confesses it ! It remains but to every nerve to destroy the comparatively small
insist on compensation for false imprisonment, and body occupying the Alumbagh. But all their
for brutal imprisonment; and, if they but do this, efforts were vain. They had moved forward in
'Le may pardon their not being so far ahead of great force, flanking two sides of the British
71g, routinists and diplomatists as not to send a position, and having a heavy column in the
three-decker or two to watch the trial, or rather centre. OUTRAN, however, did not await the
to demand the kidnapped
r the piracy.menand some few thou- assault under cover. He knew that he could
sands as hadetnuity fo
depend on his men, and was aware of the achieve-
And now the lien.
Members are sent to their ments that could be effected by British troops
Easter Holidays with an India Bill in their hands, who had confidence in their leader's pluck and
Her.. ;no one denies that the new men have generalship. He accordingly moved out on the
outdone the old. The main charge against the approach of the insurgents, cut off both flanks,
indeed,is that it is too popular—the popular and after capturing two guns, placed the rebels
Parts are but bribes or claptrap f This, of completely hors de combat. Their loss was very
course, is a simple imputation of somewhat low i revere, while ours was restricted to some twenty
Motives,. It is a. charge which can, from its men wounded, not a single life being lost in the
t,
neither be proved nor disproved. affair.
Taitteedalti:itslior know, pretendvt to know,
. from the On the 2d March, Sir Court proceeded from
have been llt sliould not; their Bill ought to ICawnpore to the British citadel. From thence
fit instance, have favoured such a r—°r_ning.f otion ~ts \he despatched 017 TRAM, with 6,000 men and 30
ipawimotittno as guns
that of the election of ,across the Goomtee, which they passed on
which of coursethe Gth March, and took up a position en the
only means that Lord P.kumtsll:l;
eastern side of Lucknow, nearly opposite to
a, collected
was Conservative enough not to do 80. But vi
that at the Diik
been a
Liberals, may
as advanced take the charge for true. at
h, oosha Gardens, where Sir
his troops. The Dil-
summer resi-
Ind what then ? The Tories have been, it is said, 11r"°"
ha
1110:0 liberal than the Whigs, merely to conciliate den: otChrta:" had
a tale of
popular gwd will, and to put their opponents in I situated within g 0-onn, and was
Brigadier FRANKE!. Ilaa joined °w' There
"31 'with 4.000
men from Goruokpore.
'Wag. Well, and what have rre to say againtt
care not a straw about politicalualimvo:
are all much of a The 13tter General, who bears in .the tervicie
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