The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR HENRY LATVRENCE.

(From the Gazette of last Evening.)'
INDIA BOARD, OCT. 24.
The following despatch has been received at the East
India House :
The Governor-General of India in Council to the Court
of Directors of the Eset India Company.
Fort William, Sept. 9, 1857.
We have the honour to forward for your information
the accompanying copy of a minute recorded by the
Governor-General, relative to the death of Sir Henry
Lawrence ; the appointment of General Sir Jame:,
Outram to the united command of all the troops in the
Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions ; and his re-appoint.
ment as Chief Commissioner in Oude.

Minute by the Governor-General of India, Sept. 8,1857.
Recently the Government availed itself of Major-
Outrarn's presence in Calcutta, to appoint him
to the united command of all the troops in the Dinapore
and Cawn pore divisions.

Major-General Outram is now approaching Cawn-
pore. He will accompany the reinforced column of
Brigadier-General Havelock in its advance upon Luck-
now, arid, as circumstances may arise calling fur the
exercise of civil and political authority on Major-Gene-
ral Outrarn'B part within the province of Oude, it be-
comes necessary for me to place on record the determi-
nation which was formed by the Government some time
ago, of re-appointing Major-General Outram, for the
present, to the post of Chief Commissioner in Oude,
vacated by the lamented death of Sir H. Lawrence,
S.C.B.

I beg to submit this proposal for the concurrence of
my colleagues.
Although intelligence of Sir H. Lawrence's death
reached the Government long ago, no official announce
ruent of this sad event, and none of the particulars con•
nected withit, were received until some time after the first
reports ; and the details are not even now very fully
known.

A wound received whilst leading an attack on the 2d
of July against the insurgents, and believed to have been
slight in itself, but acting doubtless on a constitution
impaired by protracted labours in an exhausting climate,
and on a frame weakened by the unusual fatig'ies,
anxieties, and responsibilities of the preceding month,
sufficed to close the career of one of the most valued and
best loved men whom India has counted amongst her
servants and benefactors.

In the course of his service, extending over 35 years,
in Burmab, in Affghanistan, in Nepal, in the Punjab,
and in Rajpootana, Sir Henry Lawrence was dibtin-
guished for eminent ability, devoted zeal, and generous
and self-denying exertions for the welfare of the people
among whom he was placed. As a soldier, an admi-
nistrator, and a statesman, he has deservedly earned an
exalted reputation among the foremost, and has been
an honour to the Government he served.

Impressed with a sense of his great qualifications I
selected him to be Chief Commissioner in the province
of Oude. In that position, from the first appearance of
disaffection amongst the troops quartered in the province,
his conduct of affairs was marked by foresight, calm
judgment, and courage. If anything could have averted
the calamitous outbreak which has been followed by the
temporary subversion of our authority in Oude, I be-
lieve that the measures which were taken by S r Henry
Lawrence, and the confidence which all men, high and
low, native and European, felt in his energy, his wisdom,
and his spirit of justice and kindliness, would have ac-
complished that end. As long as there was any hope of
restraining the wavering soldiery by appeals to their
sense of duty and honour, he left no becoming means
untried to conciliate them. When violent and open
mutiny called for stern retribution, he did not shrink
from the (to him) uncongenial task of inflicting severe
punishment. When general disorder and armed rebel-
lion threatened, he was undaunted, and completed ra-
pidly and effectively the precautionary preparations
which, from the beginning, he had had in view. And,
though he has been prematurely removed from the-scene,
it is due mainly to his exertions, judgment, and professional
skill, that the Lucknow garrison has been able to defy
the assaults of its assailants, and still maintains its
grouad.
There is not, I am sure, an Englishman in India who
does not regard the loss of Sir Henry Lawrence, i❑ the
present circumstances of the country, as one of the
heaviest of public calamities.

There is not, I believe, a native of the provinces
whore he has held authority who will not remember his
name as that of a friend and generous benefactor to the
races of India.

For myself, short as has been my personal inter-
course with that distinguished man, it is a grateful
though a mournful duty, to record my appreciation of
his eminent services to this Government, my admiration
of his high character, and my affectionate respect for
his memory.

CANNING.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Wyman
B. S. Moor to be Consul-General in the British North
American Provinces for the United States of America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. F.
M. Faulkneras Vice-Consul at Folkestone for the Republic
of Mexico.