The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-25 00:00:00

SERVICES OF THBNEW K.0.8.'5.

Our readers will have learnt from our impression
on Saturday that her Majesty has been pleased to
promote to the honours of the Order of the Bath
several of those heroes who have wonfor themselves
a name in the suppression of the Indian mutiny.
First and foremost stands that of Colonel John
Eardley Wilmot Inglis, the gallant defender of
Lucknow,
.who has been recently advanced to the
rank of Major-General in the Army. He is a son of
the late Right Rev. Dr. Inglis, Bishop of Nova
Scotia, and is married to a daughter of Sir Frederick
Thesiger. He entered the army as Ensign in a foot
regiment 101833, served with the 32d Regiment in
Canada during the rebellion of 1837, and was Pre-
sent at the actions of St. Denis and St. Eustache
He took part also in the Punjaub campaign of
1848-49, and was present at the first and second
siege operations before Mooltan, including the
attack on the enemy's position in front of the ad-
vanced trenches on the 12th of September, where
after the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Pattoun,
he succeeded to the command of the right
column of attack. He commanded the 32d Regi-
ment at the action of Soorjkooned, and he was also
present at the storm and capture of the city and
surrender of the fortress of Mooltan, the surrender
of the fort and garrison of Cheinote, and the battle
of Goojerat, for which service he received the
brevet rank of Lieut.-Colonel, together with a
medal and clasps.
Capt. Wm. Peel, R.N. (who, we observe, is ap-
pointed also a naval Aide-de-camp to her Majesty
for his services with the Naval Brigade in India),
is the third son of the late Right Hon. Sir Robt.
Peel, and brother of the present baronet and of
the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, late Secretary-at-
War. He is quite a young man, having been born
in 1824, and is unmarried. He has seen active
service, however, on more than one station, and
has rends red such efficient service in India that no
one will grudge him hie well-earned honours.
Colonel James Hope Grant, of whose successes
at the head of his column we have lately heard
so much, entered the army as Cornet in 1826 ; he
acted as Brigade-Major to the late Lord Saltoun
in China, and was present at the assault and cap-
ture of Chin-Kiang-Foe and at the landing before
Nankin. He served with the 9th Lancers at the
battle pf Sobraon in 1846, and bears the medal for
that engagement, and he commanded that regiment
during the greater part of the Punjaub campaign of
1848-9, including the passage of the Chenab and
the battles of Ramnuggur and Chilianwallah ; he
also tookan active part in the battle of Goojerat,
and has the medal and clasps for his services. His
comehission- as Lieut. eColortel dates from 1850.
Col. Edward Lugard, of the 29th Regiment of '
Foot, entered the army in 1828 ; he served as a
M aior throughout the-eampaign of 1842 in Affgan-
istan under General Polio*, and was present in.
the .actions of Idazeena,
.Tezeen, and Jugdulluck
the occupation of Cabool, and the different engage:
mentsJeading to it, for which hareceived a medal.
He served throughout the campaign on the Sutlej,
for which he also received a medal ; he served as
Deputy 'Assistant Adjutant-General to Sir Harry
Smitlratthe4eattles of Moodkee and Ferozeshah,
• where- he-was wounded, and at Sobraon. He
served as Adjutant-General of her Majesty's
forcesiii India from the battle of Sobraon at
.the end Of _the campaign, 'when he was appointed
Assistant. .Adjutant General to Her Majesty's
toren.= India. , He again officiated as Adjutant-
;General .throughout the Punjab camPaign in 1848-9,
and watt present at the passage of the Chenab,and
the battles ~of ,Chilianwallah and Goojerat, for
which he received a medal and clasps.
Colonel the Hon. Charles Beaumont
..Phipps,
-whose name is associated in the Gazette with the
above officers as a K. C. B. , is a younger son of the
first Earl of Mulgrave and brother of the present
._Marquis. of Normandy ; he was born in 1801, and
3married ia.1835 a daughter of
tArchdeacon
.Henry
Bathurst;. He was a Lieutenant-
tolonel in the
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army
in o
1188_417: and
was made a Colonel
secretary to his brother the first 4arqu' of Nwas
manby, when. Goternor, Qf Jamaica,la
ad was
steward of his household *When Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland. He was for a short time secretary to
MI! Master-General of the Ordnance, andtwlaBsap:
pointed Equerry to the Queen, Au
.Arlwatit secretary, to Prince Albert,' December,
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1846-; 1. Keeper of the Queen's P
:Area:turn to Prince Albert u and treas rrieiya9.ndcoi-
,-,ferer,torAhs Prince of Wales, October, lv

(Prom tie Times.)

What do we En Jishmen most delight to honour
Worth, says the patriot, solid integrity, that type
of character which makes the especial greatness and
security of.our native land. The noblest work of
God is an indigenous product of these isles, like
our oaks and our strong-limbed youths, and we are,
above all things, proud of the race. Very true ;
honest, benevolent, self-denying men are in great
vogue among us, so much so that the gentleman
who would speculate commercially on the credulity
of the world often finds it good policy to put a
sober, half-clerical attire, and to be great in the
matter of churches and hospitals, martyr-converts
from Popery and reclaimed cannibals from the
South Seas. Wealth, would the sneering foreigner
- say, is the chief object of British adoration. English
alliances are only questions of cotton, sugar, and
- tallow, and her private life is chiefly influenced by
worship of the great dealers in these staples, or
their children, who have turned them into well-
tilled acres or Consols ; and there is much of truth
in this also. But within the last few months the
answer of most persons would probably have been
that we honour, and duly honour, brave men who I
have lost or risked their lives for their country above '
all other persons or things. For four years now
we have been incessantly fighting. The country
was roused from an easy sleep of prosperity, which
had lasted 40 years, by the calamities which befell
a nobly army. The energy, the liberality, the
devotion by which all misfortunes wet e repaired,
and a larger force than ever landed on the Crimean
shores, will long be remembered in history. The
moral effect we are accustomed to consider most
happy, and to cite as a proof that out of evil
comes good. The sudden plunge into the
cold bath of adversity braced the nerves of the
nation, relaxed by ease and money-making or
morbid intellectual speculation. The community
has become sensibly more patriotic, and the
Persian War and the Canton episode hardly
gave it occupation in the interval between the
peace with the Ozer and the outbreak in India.
Since the beginning of these terrible trials, what
heart has not beat high, what eye has not fired
with enthusiasm, for the valour of brave men ?
The cypress has been so much mingled with the
- laurel, so many have fallen under the hand of
assassins, or, more fortunately, in open fight—
eholera, and fever, and overwork, and long days
and nights of watching, have slain so many, that
something of a sacred awe is added to the feeling
with which we contemplate the exploits of those
who survive. The aged veteran and the youth sent
but yesterday to join his regiment may be at this
moment equally beyond any honours or rewards of
ours. When we speak of such a General or such
an administrator in India we speak of one whom
we only believe to live, and who may never hear
that his name has been on the lips of thousands,
and selected for chivalrous distinction by the
Sovereign herself.
But it would seem that there is something still
more honoured by England, if England be repre-
sented by those who have the gift of titles and ap-
pointments. How, indeed, shall we address our
native country—that " riddle, jest, and glory of
the world I" Shall we call upon her as the Holy
Mother of heroes and of jobbers, the common
parent of the eaele that
that creeps to the • soars and the caterpillar
it of the temple of fame 1
Shall we feel pride in
never rescued us from the
taunt that liberty has
the feet of Engl,aoeligarchy, and that wherever
are planted, there go
patrician assumptions an.na
are established new official sycophancy,
tanests for all who belong
to t!.e governing class at ho there
birth or marriage
ti:yebvyyeears of lip-service
or who have attained to it
beyond
and adulation ? Aro we
the close atmosphere of Court atnod get
Ilpath which
favour I Are we never to esca-n.Milnisterial
jungle growth of jobbery into the opern- from the
should lead the most deserving to
reward 1 It would seem nor. Refoline°rns°7l Par-
liament liament and Reformers out of Parliament, the
newspaper press, and the satirical novelists, and
the orators on education and social science, have
all worked, it would seem, in vain. The boatman
who endeavours to row against a swollen stream,
and finds himself after an hour's toil abreast of the
same clump of trees, or even slowly drifting down-
Wards, has not more reason to be discouraged.
Let us illustrate the fact. We have to go back no
further than the last Gazette. All our readers must
have received with satisfaction the list cf names
selected for the Order of the Bath which we pub-
lished on Saturday. A *number of officers have
been pointed out by their achievements and the
admiration of the people as worthy of this much-
• V-desited honour. Of ad these none has been con-
sidered to deserve the i'lrct of the three classes.
Gekniral Wilson, the conqueror of Delhi, was made
• .
a ght Commander, so was the brave old
Hallock, an i in the last Gazette we have the same
,Sink conferred on General' Inglis, who defended
the Lueknow Resideucy in a three months' siege ;
3 reuewed in our time the
our eaptaiu-Peel, who ha
,expioitg_afsirsidney smith ; on ColonelLugaarmd,
who was Chief of the
who "liaebitelf &gaged in nearly every Indian c
f6f the Page 16 yeare,
is
Staff in the Persian Expedition, and who now
Adjutant-GenerAl in India ; and also on Colonel

Hope Grant, whose brilliant service the other day
is fresh in the recollection of all. Only these four ,
are thought worthy of the second rank. The fol-
lowing are only allowed the dignity of Companions
of the Order :—Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, late Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy ; Colonel
Greathed, who marched
ha flf-a-dozenrom Deltimes •hi to Lucknow Colonel
and beat the enemy
Showers, Colonel Cotton—the so-called Gun-
Cotton, of Pesha.wur—Colonel Baird Smith, who,
nearly exhausted by sickness, conducted the engi-
neering operations at Delhi with never failing
energy and skill till the place was taken, and
many others. Now we come to the announce-
ment which shows what influences are still powerful
in this society of ours. Havelock and Wilson and
Inglis are sufficiently rewarded with the K. C. 8.,
Greathed, and Showers and Baird Smith do not
get so much • but we have gazetted to be an Or-
dinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second
Class or Knights Commanders of the said Most
Hon. Order,—
Colonel the Hon. Charles Beaumont Phipps,
C. B. , Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse.
There may be some whom these columns will
reach who know not the highly-honoured Phipps
even by name, others to whom he is only a mythical
being, who is always attending some Royal per-
sonage or another in the " Court Circular." But we
must all now learn to think of him with reverence.
We know that in the eyes of authority he is of
greater desert than men who have been described
in official despatches as evincing singular energy,
and skill, and devotion in a war of unexampled
difficulty. We must believe in the greatness of
"Privy Purse." Like the planet Mercury, he has
not been visible to the eye, simply because he has
been lost in the effulgence of Royalty. But he
possesses a sensible magnitude which can be mea-
sured by the superior intellect of the official world.
Indeed, he comes of a most extraordinary and gifted
family, a
family whose genius is so exquisite and
recondite that it entirely escapes the observation of
the vulgar, but yet qualifies the race of Phipps for
the highest and most difficult posts. It is thought
by some that, since we have no mission at Rome,
the Envoy at Florence should be an able and ener-
getic diplomatist, and that an infirm old Peer might
well give place to one who could and would take a
part in the complex politics of Italy. But the Mar-
quis of Normanby, the chief of the house of Phipps,
is, and we presume will be as long as he chooses,
England's representative on the banks of the Arno.
Most people who travel and think have also some
anxiety about the condition of our North American
dependencies, inhabited by aspiritedpopulation, and
with some twenty-five millions of Republicans for
neighbours. Nova Scotia is an important colony,
and Halifax is the finest harbour in the New
World. There are in England men who have made
colonial governmen t a study, or at least have shown
capacity for business at home. But another Phipps
in the person of Lord Mulgrave, has been appointed
to the office. We must take it on trust that he is
the fittest man. Now we have the steady hanger-
on of the Court elevated to the same honours as
Havelock, and to a higher rank than some twenty
devoted and heroic soldiers.
Truly the authorities are setting up their judg-
ment rather too much in independence of national
opinions and feelings. It is not enough that Lord
Clanricarde should have been replaced in the Cabi-
net, to the astonishment of the country and even
of the less scrupulous Continent ; it is not enough
that aristocratic favouritism is seating its nominees
on the Episcopal Bench, and has even invaded the
precincts of the law ; it is not enough that every
appointment, both high and low, is grasped at by
the poorer members of aristocratic families with a
greediness, an indecency, and a success beyond all
precedent ; but in this hour of the nation's trial and
enthusiasm we are to have elevated above its no-
blest sons the name of one who is distinguished by
nothing but the favour of a Court. Patronage has
recently run wild, but we know no worse instance
of its exercise than the- present. The " Privy
Purse" might at least have waited a few days, and
saved himself from contrast with. the names of men
who have reconquered for their country the Em-
pire of the East.