The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1857.

LORD BROUGHAM AT LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 5.
The Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux arrived
at the Lime-street station yesterday afternoon from
Leeds. He was met by Mr. W. Brown, M. E'., Mr. J.
C. Ewart, M P., and a number of other gentlemen. His
lordship accompanied Mr. Brown to the residence of that
gentleman, whose guest he is during his stay in Liver-
pool.

This morning Lord Brougham visited the Free Library
and Museum and other public institutions, proceeding
shortly before 1 o'clock to the Liverpool Institute and
School of Art for the purpose of inaugurating the Queen's
College, recently formed in connection with that scholas-
tic establishment, between which and the University of
London it now forms the connecting link. The noble
lord was accompanied on the platform by Mr. W.
Brown, M.P., Mr. J. Mollyneux, President of the
Liverpool Literary Institute, Mr. G. Holt, the Profes-
sors of the College, and other gentlemen. The noble
lord was received with loud and reiterated cheering.
Mr. BROWN, M.P., read letters from Lord Stanley
(of Knowsley), the Bishop of Manchester, and other
distinguished personages, expressing sympathy with the
object of the meeting, but pleading prior engagements
which prevented their atttendance.
Lord BROUGHAM, on taking the chair, was vehemently
applauded. It gives me very unfeigned pleasure (said
the noble lord) to acknowledge to you with heartfelt
thanks the great kindness with which you have re-
ceived me, and which, I will add, is not confined to
those who are within these walls, but I have met with
the same kindness wherever I have been since my
arrival in Liverpool. We are met here upon a
most important occasion—the opening of an institu-
tion which is already in progress of flourishing, and
which I do most devoutly hope, and I will add confi-
dently expect, will flourish more and more every year
of its existence. (Cheers.) When I came 22 years ago
to lay the foundation-stone of .that institution, in
immediate connection with this Queen's College—l
mean the then-called " Mechanics' Institution,"
afterwards the "Liverpool Institute"—l little expected
that I should live to see the day when it should be con-
nected with a collegiate establishment, that establish.
ment connected with a university. (Cheers.) Now, were
I at the present day to dwell upon the advantages of
knowledge and the inestimable benefits of education I
should be doing one of the most useless things that it
would be possible for a man to bestow labour on—(hear)
—as to the benefits of knowledge and education there is
happily, nowadays, nothing whatever new to be said.
(Hear.) Moreover, all persons admit the benefits of edu-
cation—all, or nearly all—and the few who still deny it
may be said to be unconvertible. (Laughter and cheers.)
Now, it is an old saying that to preach to the converted
is a useless office, and I may add that to preach to the
unconvertible is a thankless office. (Cheers.) I carefully,
therefore, avoid address:ng either olass. But upon the
inestimable advantage of this new institution suffer me
to detain you for a few moments. Liverpool has been
till now what the great capital of London itself was till
the year 1826 or 1826, wholly without the benefits of a
college establishment f r education. There were certain
classes in the capital, and also in Liverpool—though per-
haps fewer in point of numbers—who educated their sons
at the University of Oxford or Cambridge, or, in Ireland,
at the Trinity College, Dublin, or in Scotland—but I will
say something afterwards on that subject, which stands
on another footing. But in London there was not for
those who could not afford or did not choose to send their
sons to Oxford or Cambridge—there was no means of
obtaining good sound education in the walks of science,
including the sconce of medicine itself. We then founded
a University College, for many years called the Univer-
sity of London. Since that university has been estab-
lished, to which this college is now affiliated, as well as
King's College. the younger sister of the university
College—or, rather, I might call it the daughter, for one
sprang out of the other—the University College of the
metropolis affords the inestimable advantages of a
sound education of all descriptions, classical as well
as scientific, for those who either cannot or do not
choose to ,-end their sons to Oxford and Cambridge.
(Cheers.) I said a minute ago that I paused upon what
I had to observe respecting the Scotch colleges, for this
reason—that the University College, being chiefly des-
tined to educate the sons of persons residing in the town
itself, was placed naturally upon the same footing with
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Colleges, and with that of
Aberdeen, which educate the• sons of persons resident
upon tee spot, and are, as it were, day schools, confer-
ring the inestimable advantages not only of an economi-
cal but also of a moral kind, to those sons who reside
under the paternal roof, while they frequent classes of
knowledge in the course of the day. (Hear, hear.) Upon
that footing mainly is the London University conducted,
but it also gives the same advantage to those coming
from the country, but who are in very small numbers
compared with those who belong to London itself. All
those who come-from the country of course live in lodg-
logs and the boarding houses, as in Edinburgh and
Glasgow—the great bulk living in their fathers' houses,
with all the advantsahereiofrsuft,opst
refuse to
point of morals as well as of
, mere economy—hut the higher advantage in point of
morals, being under the eye and superintendence of their
parents, while they benefit by the instruction of the
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bat the bulk of th,ose who attend it wbl naturally be the
sons of Liverpool parents, and will enjoy those great ad-
vantages to which I have just adverted. That this should
be otherwise than eminently successful, I hold, would
be a slander upon the people of Liverpool to entertain
the slightest doubt. (Cheers.) Professors well calcu-
lated to afford full instruction on ail matters of science
are already engaged to hold classes, and considering the
short time during which it has been open, the college
has had considerable success, but a success which I will
venture to say will be as nothing compared with what
in a very few years—l will even say months—will attend
their very enlightened labours. I have said that, con-
lrBk2esr:
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nested with this college, is that institution which was
opened 2yg theoinyearsd
ago,foun andatntoioof.swhnie. c
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Parker-
street street ; some years afterwards it removed to the rooms
now occupied by your Free Library and Museum in
Slater-street ; and I cannot even in passing name that
reading-room and museum, which I had great pleasure
in inspecting this morning, without expressing the gra-
tifioation which I felt on finding that of the very noble

library of 22,000 volumes—confined to the reading-room,
not lent etst-500 or 600 daily are in the hands of young
allme li
that theattending
room
thatul reading-room-100 en ad
accommodatei ng- ro m 100;
a
other libraries connected with that institution, contain-
antda that time
of being
etinhge
contain-
ing 17,000 volumes for lending out, upwards of 1,200
are issued day by day, of which it is not estimating too
highly to say that not less than four readers benefit
i by
. .
every one of these volumes. Let it be observed, and tis
when the public
a most gratifying circumstance, that
lending libraries were established, instead of diminishing,
they greatly increased the number of readers at the Ce-
ntral Free Library. But when I mention that reading-
room, that museum, and that library I cannot pass ever
another circumstance which the presence of my most
esteemed and hon. friend Mr. Brown would have sug-
gested had I not been aware of it before, though his pre-
sence imposes a restraint on me in expressing my feel-
ings, which I know are all your feelings, with respect to
his noble and wise as well as noble munificence. Now,
connected with this mechanics' institute, now called the
Liverpool Institute, which numbers, as I understand at
this moment upon an average 1,400 members, I rejoice
to find that it is self-supporting. So much could not
have been predicted of the small beginnings to which I
have adverted in Parker-street and in Slater-street
before the year 1837, when the new institution was
opened, but ever since that—except with respect to a
debt of moderate amount now paid off by subscription
—the whole of that institution has been supported in all
its expenses by the payments of those who benefit by it.
(Cheers.) I will not enter into particulars except upon
two points ; and the one is, that there are receiving the
benefit of instruction in that institution and paying for
it somewhere about 1,400, the greater of whom, almost
the whole, are mechanics, artisans, or persons living by
daily and weekly wages. (Hear, hear.) No doubt this
is a great benefit to them, to their employers, and to
the town and society of which they are members. But
there are also, no doubt, defects to be observed. 1,400
for Liverpool is too small a number, and I confidently
hope that if I should be spared to visit Liverpool a year
or two hence I shall find that 1,400 more than doubled.
(Loud cheers.) Having alluded to a giris' school which
had been established by Mr. G. Holt, his Lordship said,
I only wish it were possible that I saw an immediate
prospect of another kind of school for the benefit of per-
eons of a humble rank, to be taught not needlework, or
embroidery, or arts of that description—things useful
enough in their way—but ordinary common things, so as
to qualify girls for being domestic servants. (Applause.)
At a late congress which I attended at Birmingham we
bad a most important and a most painful and heartrend-
ing paper read by one of the most eminent men of Lon-
don, Mr. Acton, who clearly showed what frightful
effects upon the morals of that class of society are pro-
, duced by the parents not stooping to let them be taught
ordinary things, so as to make them fit for being do-
mestic servants, but must needs teach them needlework
to starve upon threepence a day—to struggle for a few
months, and, in some heartrending cases, -even for a
year or two, with that utterly inadequate payment
for their own support, and sometimes the support of an
infant or a parent, who are in the end often driven from
mere hunger into profligate courses. (Applause.) Lord
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ngoingallßrougham then urged his hearers, as he had doneclosingLeeds, to aid the cause of early closing and shorterhours
liui
of labour. He then pointed to India for a frightful illus.
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tohis lordship sat down amid loud and I ' eng•cen
tinned applause.
A vote •of tuenke to Lord Brougham, terminated the
proceedings.
The Li

Messrs. WAverpool letters mention the suspension of
. On and Co. in the River Plate trade, The
liabilities are sot euppoek to be very hom7.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE ON
INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The Duke of Newcastle performed the ceremony
of laying the corner-stone of the new National
Schools, now in course of erection at East Retford,
on Tuesday last, and in the evening attended a
meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts. His Grace delivered a
speech in favour of the objects of the society, and,
after reviewing the course of its operations in
various parts of the world, said, their most excellent
diocesan was about to address them upon the opera-
tions of the society among the heathens. He feared
to encroach upon that province at all, and yet there
was one part which appeared to belong to the
subject allotted to him—he referred to the church
in India. He was aware that it might be felt
that the time had hardly come when any one could
enter fully, he might say with freedom, on the sub-
ject of the church in India, because, in the first place,
all the energies of this great empire must, for the
present, be devoted to one object ; they must en-
deavour to put down the rebellious murderer in that
land--they must endeavour as speedily as possible to
establish British rule in that great country. The arm
of powermust leer serted for t hat purpose, not merely
on account of the prestige of this great empire, not
merely for any advantages which may be supposed
to accrue from its position, but, as the Bishop of
Oxford lately said at a similar meeting in the town
of Liverpool, "As Christian men we are not justi-
fied in abandoning.lndia ;" 120,000,000 had claims
upon us ; and he believed we should be guilty,
not only of trea.son4tO the State, but of treason to
our religion and our faith, if we were to abandon
that continent to the atrocities of any government
or any people who might, for any little time at
least, succeed us in that empire. He believed, in
fact he knew, that the greatest ignorance of India
prevailed throughout Euglish society, and those
who knew the most felt they knew the least, and
therefore were not prepared to dogeaatize. At the
same time be for one would not be found to blame
those against whom culpability might be said to lie,
though slightly, if at all, as he was little disposed
to make accusations which time might prove could
not be substantiated, or fall into the common habit
of stigmatizing the Government for a gross derelic-
tion of duty with regard to the propagation of
Christianity in India. He spoke, when he said so,
of the present moment, because he was prepared
to maintain that great timidity and vacillation were
shown on this subject. He was prepared to admit,
nay, to assert, that while on the one hand mission-
ary officers were tolerated as a kind of service
which ho for one, either in his place in parliament
or in any other assembly, would equally and at any
time be prepared most strongly to repudiate, yet,
on the other hand, the privilege of missionaries of
the church to reside in Hindostan was not given.
Perhaps they would say great blame was attached
to the Government for so doing ; but he was not
prepared to say to what extent the conduct of the
Government was improper. He did not merely
refer to those facts which were patent to all, and to
the improvements which bad been introduced with-
in the last few years in the habits and customs of

• the people by local goverument, bat he took many
• instances as evincing the falsity of the statement
that Christianity had been absolutely repudiated
by the Government. He spoke, of course, of late
years ; and, not wishing to trespass upon their
time, he would only refer to one sentence in a letter,
written by the Rev. Dr. King, Principal of the
College at Calcutta, after the dreadful massacre at
Delhi. He sail, intelligent and well-informed
native converts held legh and important positions
—the highest of the mission. Now, he contended
that those few words clearly proved that the con-
verts by the missionaries of this society had not
been subjected to the pains and penalties spoken
of. His object in referring to this was not to de-
fend the Government—that was no business of his ;
but he was bound in fairness to mention it, and
from the information which he at present possessed
he could not join in those strong terms of reproba-
tion which had been launched against them by
many who bad spoke and written on this subject.
The most opposite opinions appeared to be held as
to what we should do when the strong arm of
power had been est4blished in India. To judge
from What theyTheard, some people would overcome
all difficulties by being "all things to all men."
That appeared to be the view which some people
took of this matter, while others advocated a po-
licy of a totally different character, which they
hardly avowed though vainly hoped—he would not
call it a propagation by sword and cannon, but a
compulsory propagation of their creed. Now, as
reefer • ded the first of these matters they had cer-
tainly little temptation to attempt anything of the
kind. How had measures of that kind succeeded
already ? How had too great a deference to the
religious feelings of the people been met Why,
in this way—the greased cartridges had been seized
on as a pretext for rebellion, because, they said, we
had been endeavouring to tamper with their faith
--we had been establishing a dynasty opposed to
theirs—the
Mahornedan—by fire and sword.
Well, then,
that failed, or at all events, sys-
tems similar to it. As regarded compulsory con-
version, he could hardly think that any man could
maintain that this principle was not alien to the
habits of the people of England, and utterly alien
to the genius of Christianity. We could not, with
our enlightenment, adopt the theories of the Tal-
mud, nor, as Christians, imitate the fallacies of
Mahomet. So, we were not by compulsion of every
kind to force these men into a false Christianity,
whom we were not able by conviction to bring to
our faith, He said that Government power must
neither be used to control nor disturb the religion
of the natives. Complete toleration must be given.
When he said toleration, he meant not only must
compulsion of every kind be avoided, but that
which was as bad, namely, seduction—which he
could only call a broad species of fraud—must be
equally avoided. They must neither attempt by
tmheenlatter
compulsion nor by reward to make Christians of
m
y!
athey s
al could
toien the s
not convince.pir
spirit
of
Christianity
tbelievedanity
as the fortner. Any man who came to be so con-
vinced was little better than a believer in the faith
he had just left. But if they were not to do this
they might at any rate avow their faith end act in
policy. They
accordance) with it. They might show their Chris-
tian conduct and they might adopt a Christian
might show in private life those vir-
tues and characteristics which would induce the na-
tives to follow the belief of those whom they could
admiring and respecting. Surely, it would
difficult matter for the natives to draw a
contrast
between the Christian lives and policy of
not",e
i helpo
those who now govern them, as compared with the
monstrous lies and wickedness, the treachery and
horrors perpetrated before their eyes by those who
ruled them in former days. It was by such ex-
amples as these—by such conduct as that—the
spread of Christianity would be effected in that great
continent of India. He repeated that Government
must not attempt to convert. The power of Go-
vernment must not be exercised for that purpose.
Policy, faith, and duty forbade it. But that was
not the case as regarded individuals. As regarded
individuals, the G‘overnment was not only justified
but bound to give them fair play. It was
through the agency of men whom this
sent out that this great work must be car-
ried confessed to have seen, with some pain,
allusionsn.
toy
made in Various quarters to what people
upon pleased to call the judgments of Provilence
us for our sins in India. He could not help
feeling that there was something almost profane in
putting these minute interpretations on the ways of
the Almighty, that time, circumstance, and place
were all to be fixed by our fallible eyes as to the
objects of the Almighty and the sins for which He
was No doubt, all suffering
was
but were they justified
in saying that it was for some act which was com-
mitted 30 years ago, by which some slight had been
the especcianlsleyqo auffieniccteinogf
si us.
,n
placed
on the Christian religion in India, that Pro-
vidence had visited us with this great calamity. We
had sins enough in this country, in India, and else-
where to call for the visitation of the Almighty,
without pretending to judge the exact cause of the
calamity which had befallen us. It was enough for
us to see the finger of God in the work, and, seeing
it, to believe that it might conduce by God's bless-
ing to the propagation of the faith of Christ in
India. (Cheers.) They had often seen that these
calamities, to which fallible men could attach none
but the most disastrous consequences, had been the
harbinger of a better day ; they had seen many of
the greatest calamities turned into the greatest
blessings ; and he ventured to hope that this cala-
mity, (great as it was, would be succeeded by that
resuit. After some farther observations, the noble
lithe resumed his seat amid loud cheers.

Au extensive joint_mod; company, has juB,, ben
formed at Mo,c)vv, to explore and work the coal,
sulphur, and other mineral products which are paid to
abound in the provinces of Moscow, Katona, and Tier.
and forges, and to carry en a trade in iron and
oTntherro mpany proposes also to establish smelting fur.
o
Daces
m,tale.

TILE ILL-STARRED PUMP,

(Prom the Morning Post.)
If it be sometimes desirable that the public should
ignore a danger prevalent amongst them, lest un-
due cause of anxiety should arise, that argument
ceases to be applicable when the danger has passsd
away. Moreover, if the cause of its passing away
be traceable, if it be the consequence of reasoning
and foresight, both applicable at a future time,
then, so far from concealment of the fact being de-
sirable, to give it publicity is a duty.
Asiatic cholera has been amonest us—has visited
an eastern suburb, establishing itsslf in a row of
cottages numbering 18 houses, occupied by a respect-
able class of operatives, silk printers, and oth-rs,
with their families, averaging about five persons to
each cottage. The locality is West Ham, and the
cottages are situated about ten yards from the river
Lea. In front and around them are marshy tracts,
intersected by numerous ditches, some of which are
sewers. The proximity of the river Lea has already
been indicated ; and as to the c Inclition of that
river, for the benefit of those who require the infor-
mation, it is some degrees more impure than the
worst part of the Thames. Each cottage consists of
two rooms on the ground floor, the same number up
stairs, a back kitchen, and a back yard about 20
feet in depth, and a privy connected with a cess-
pool. The cottages, according to the t'stimotly of
Dr. Elliot, from whose report we glean these par-
ticulars, are clean and airy. In front of them,
separated by a road about 20 feet wide, is a pump
well accessible to all the inhabitants ; indeed, which
furnished the whole of the water employed by them.
About eight or nine yards still further in front is a
covered sewer, discharging its contents into the
river Lea by a tidal ditch.
Such are the conditions under which the houses

in ques ' ion are placed; and unfavourable co n ditionA,
sanitarilyregarded, they would seem to be. Between
the 29th September and the 13th October, both in-
clusive, 14 cases of cholera occurred ; of which all
except one (on the 10th) were unaccompanied
with premonitory symptoms, and of which seven
terminated fatally. The medical attendant looked
upon the pump well with suspicion on his first
visit, but on October 12th his convictions that the
water had some connection with the disuse ac-
quired such force, that he ordered the pump-
handle to be removed. The quantity of water em-
ployed by the inhabitants of each house varied from
two to four pails daily. Though clear to the eye,
it bad a peculiar taste ; and chemical analysis de-
monstrated further impurities. It was alkaline ;
held in solution much organic matter, and con-
tained some inorganic ingredients not usually found
in water.

"It is very remarkable," Dr. Elliot goes on to
state, in his communication to the Lancet, " that
the sudden cessation of the attacks of cholera was,
in point of time, coincident with the cutting off
the supply of that water. The pump-handle was
removed on the 12th, and the last case of cholera
occurred on the 13th."

Still more worthy of note is the fact, that, up to
the period when the pump-handle was removed,
the disease had been acquiring force ; therefore the
cutting off the water supply was assuredly not a
mere coincidence, but a true cause of the subse-
quent cessation of the malady. Not only were the
attacks increasing in frequency up to the 12th, but
also in malignity. Moreover, as Dr. Elliot perti-
nently observes—" This sudden interruption or
termination of cholera, after a duration of 15 days
only, is by no means the usual course of that
disease."

A clearer train of evidence against that sewage-
laden water, as having generated the disease, can
hardly be imagined. If the hypothesis of local
emanations be adopted, then no explanation is fur-
ui.hed of the restriction of the outbreak to one
single row of cottages. Immediately contiguous is
a large silk factory, where four or five hundred men,
women, and children are congregated ; and not far
distant is a leather-cloth factory giving employ-
ment to about 150 hands. The same atmos-
pheric causes which affected the cattagers must
also have affe3tel the operatives. Amongst the
six hundred factory people there has not occurred
one case of cbolera, although the cottager', num-
tering only one hundred, have furnished fourteen
cases—fifty per cent. of which were fatal.
One case of apparent exception only confirms the
inference already adduced. Opposite the cottages
is a public-house—the White Swan. A woman
living therein was attacked with cholera, although
she had never drunk of the water of that particular
well. Nevertheless, inspection being made of the
pump-water obtained from the yard of the White
Swan, it was proved to be contaminated. A a ill
more curious circumstance is the following :—On
Friday, Oct. 9, a boy died, after twenty hour.' ill-
ness, at Pelton-place, Bromley. Having taken a
long walk into the forest, together with his father,
on his return be lagged behind. This awakened his
father's attention. Turning to ascertain what had
become of the boy, he discovered him to have been
drinking at the ill-starred pump
The foregoing are truths which in our estimation
cannot be too extensively diffused. Until lately
the public notion about cholera has prevailed that
it is a destiny, a fate ; something removed from the
laws of causation altogether; a disease against which
precautions are unavailing, and the best course of
action consists in ignoring its presence, or banishing
the thoughts of it. Such demeanour was not ra-
tional at any time, though for a season it might
have been politic. In the presence of facts like
those supplied by the West Ham evidence such a
course would neither be rational nor politic. Cho-
lera is no longer the mystery it was. It may be
referred to the list of causation' like other diseases,
and the causes very generally are such as admit of
removal.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.;

(From the Timm)

Lord Granville's defence of the Governor-Ge-
neral of India at the Mansion-house on Weduos-
day was necessarily so full of reserves and
qualifications that it furnishes the public with
little more knowledge on the subject than they
possessed before. That Lord Canning's position
became unexpectedly arduous, that he was sud-
denly confronted with perils of unexampled mag-
nitude, that the ordinary duties of his office were
abruptly exchanged for responsibilities of the most
countars fa
y meir claims
n—a upon
lithes the co
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e nsid consideration of
points
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nig
awful character, and that under such circumstances
he h
general acknowledgment and assent. It is un-
doubtedly true also, as Lord Granville remarks,
that the opinions which we involuntarily form upon
the receipt of intelligence from India might under-
go material modifications if we wore in possession
of a more complete and comprehensive knowledge
of facts. This argument, however, which is almost
invariably employed in depreciation of popular cen-
sure, would, if rigidly applied, prevent the forma-
tion of any opinion at all. Complete knowledge
never comes. Though the contests and recrimina-
tions occasioned by the Crimean campaigns arenow
consigned to oblivion, it cannot be said that we have
ever yet arrived at what all parties would call truth ;
and if we were to reserve our judgmelit in the pre-
sent case for the time when the history ot the Bengal
mutinies should have been unexceptionably eluci-
dated, the whole existing generation might descend
to its grave with the subject gill unexamined. It
is of no use entering upon any defence of the practice
actually prevailing in this respect, for the simple
reason that it is unavoidable. Men must talk and
criticise, especially when the eVeuta are so mometi-
thus and the interests excited so deep, They can=
not and will not wait for an inquiry which may dr
may not occur a year or two hence, and which may
or may not result in any pdsitivd dOcisidni They
must express their views at once, though they lidid
themselves open to information and correction ;
and, as a matter of fact, we must needs say that
time and investigation often do little more than
confirm the instinctive impressions of the pubilcs
We very much doubt whether the conduct of the
Indian Government will appear this day twelve-
months in a light substantially differing horn that
in which it stands at present. Of course, there are
many particulars of which we are ignorant, especi-
ally those concerning deliberations of State, but
events have now been spread over so many months,
the policy of Government has been indicated by so
many acts, and all these transactions have been re-
ported and illustrated by such an infinity of authen-
tic and independent communisations, that we sus-
pect the substance of the case is pretty well before '
us.

Judged by these impressions, the conduct of
Lord Canning would receive, upon the whole, no
unfavourable verdict. It is }mpossible, indeed, to
quibble or wrangle over the one weighty fact which
Lord Granville adduced—the fact of success, for
it must be so called, notwithstanding all the calami-
ties intervening, when a Governor-General of India
unaided by the arrival of a siugle battalion front
England, has first withstood and then crushed in
its stronghold a revolt of 100,000 native soldiers.
If at the outbreak of the mutiny we had been told.
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