The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL AT TAM WORTH.

Oo Tueedav evening Sir R. Peel and Lord Raynbate,
members for Tarnwortb, were present at an entertain-
ment given to the ex-mayor of that town, Mr. E. B.
Hamel. The mayor, Mr. S. Hannon, presided.
In responding to the toast of "The Borough Mem-
bers," Sir R. Peel, referring to the Indian war, said the
contest was discreditable in the way in which it bad been
brought about by those who bad the government of
India in that country. He would give the government
credit for the energy and determination with which they
proceeded to put a st'T to the mutiny. Three days—and
teis was the great merit of Lord Palmerston, fur aged as
be was be possessed a vigorous mind, a mind capable of
appreciating events and expressing itself vigorou-ly in
action—three days after the news of the mutiny reached
England, on the let July, troops were immediately dis-
patched to India. Bcfore the end of the month 15,000
British bayonets had left, and before the 15th Sept. 40,000
left our shores, to revenge the blood of our murdered
countrymen. They, however, sent these troops by way
of the Cape, and surely every one knew who had com-
mon sense that the best route to take would have been
across Egypt. They bad the means, and yet they did
not adopt it. In the Mediterranean there was a fleet
under the command of a man to whom, from the begin-
ning, be had always hal an antipathy—he meant Ad-
miral Lord Lyons ; a fleet which kept philandering
caLboonorsudut,lt
adynoo(iinnsgbrenotbing. They read in the papers how
wentaf
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hwhe
mt there ;wvisited
aboutth e
seeingG r e k
the beauty of the .cener in this; andplace and that ; when
those ships might hoaffve:biesen
hcarrytng troops to India
hwiomrseeltfheoffßriintisetheaduniefofrdino-7, the emseva:nvi t man who ever
instead of showing
ice
nation. When Parliamenotfimntgheit,he hopletodoiwttahwsnosuildorwcon-
sider b
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Lb.
GA.h.atvdt e
m beenpts
Generals ; and one man
audacityactuallolyarldheenatidnyntwohnhetshic.eh to
r or-
affirm that the disturbances were owing to thegovtehran
mthat
of the Marquis of Dalhousie, and to Propose
rondon of 5,0001. a year should be revoked! (Rear,
hear.) Was aayLliing more monstrous than for a
man to get up and say this of a man who had peril-
led his life and broken his health by so long a resi-
dence in India as Lord Dalhousie—a man, whom he
made no hesitation in saying, was as great a governor-
g' neral as ever governed our Indian territory ? His name
was to he held iu as high estimation as that of Clive and
pocrewear s r
position.esto e d
to replace the chief BPrtinck—ard one still greater than either, as Hastings.
It remained for Lordf government iri
Canning,whents e
former
i
East India C anpany. It
to be tHoetfhleelnid
it,,hmantntabgeeonuietubtreoafktshie'nludia were to be ascribed
intro-
duced. ['bat was one of the havethe must deal
was cear th it sweeping reforingsuew,
the East India Company,
necessary to do away with
council at Calcutta,
with—a question of the deepest it:tp:louirr'dtsance.y It was not
but they must establish a legislative
and give italocalpow
iern—stnruocttiloentts,ing it write back to
England continually for