The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

THE RgLIEF OF LUCKNOW.

(Prom the Daily News )
It is believed, in the beet informed circles in Calcutta,
that the 90th Foot and the sth Fusiliers have been in-
tercepted.at Dinapore by Sir J. Outram on their way to
jo-n Gen. Havelock, with a view to attempt sending
them to Lucknow through Fyzabad. Such a project
oull be little short of insanity. There are only two ways
of reaching Fyzabad from Dinapore—by the Gogra, or
through Gazipore, Jaunpore, and Azimghur. The latter
is at all seasons a difficult route, owing to the want of
made roads ; and at this season the greater part of the
country to be traversed is under water. The Gegra,
f:om its volume of water, is no doubt navigable, but it
has never been surveyed, and to send a steamer up it
on an expedition where speed is a main object would at
present be most unwire. But let us suppose the troops
arrived at Fyzabad. They would there be as far from
Lucknow ae at Cawnpore; they would have no such
road to travel along as between Cawnpore and Luck-
now ; and they would find the country which they had
to pass one great quagmire. This review, however, un-
favourable though it be, leaves the most prominent
feature of the Illy of the scbeme attributed to bit. James
Outram entirely untouched. The revolted soldiers in
the vicinity of Lucknow are estimated not to be under
20,000 well-armed men, at the lowest figure. They are
so concentrated that they can with ease be made to face
either way—to resist an assault from the Cawnpore or
from the Fyzabad side. They are sufficiently numerous
to make head against Havelock's 900 and Outran]'..
2,000 at the same time, if they do not advance in one
united column. It would be a hazardous attempt for
Havelock, even were the sth and the 90th added to his
force, to cut his way through the superior numbers of
the mutineers to Lucknow ; but for either or bah of
the detachments to reach that place before they are united
will be next to impossible. The scheme attributed to
Sir James Outram is alike in defiance of every principle
of the art of war, and of common sense. It is an attempt
on the part of an infinitely force to surround one vastly
superior, and attack it sec masse; whereas the tactics of
the inferior force ought to be to concentrate itself, break
the enemy's line (if we may borrow a phra e from naval
warfare) and cut him np in detail. If Sir J. Outrain
has really taken upon him, at the eleventh houatech inge
the plan of operations which General Havelock has
hitherto been acting upon, iu this. absurd manner, we
may abandon all hope of the reecue of the Europeans
shut up in the Residency at Lucknow, and we must al-o
entertain the most serious apprehensions for the safety
both of the troops under Havelock, and of those which
Sir James Outram is sending on such a wild-goose er-
rand. And it is to be feared that Sir James Outram is
just the man to make such a blunder; for immediately
before the battle cf Meanee he endeavoured to obtain Sir
Charles Napier'e assent to a childishly absurd and im-
practicable movement proceeding on the same false prin.
cip'e..
But, however it may be with this matter, thus much
is certain. Sir James Outran] ha; been appointed to the
command at Dinapore, at the same time as Mr. J. P.
(hetet is sent forsard to Allahabad. Both of them were
members of the council from which thi-ir appointments
einenated ; both proceed to their respective destinations
prepared to carry out the same policy. Now, what that
pel,cy is, in the case of Mr. Grant, is well known. That
gentleman repairs to ..41!ahabal avowedly for the purpose
of transferring all power from the military to the civil
authority, in a province where civil war is raging, and
every principle of law in abeyance for the time, Mr.
Grant goes to Allahabad to put an end to the impress-
ment for the carriage of troops—a system indispensatd;3
to what is at present to all practical purposes an enemy s
country, and doubly indispensable from the utter ineffi-
ciency into which the Commissariat service in that die
trict has been allowed to lapse by the Civil Government
of India. Mr. Grant goes to Allahabal for the purpose
of put ing an end to the trial of all native • by courts-ruar-
i tl, and re-establishing, amid the anarchy of a military
cumbrous,
complicated and plundering insurrection, ale the
compLcated end retarding forms, which, even in the
most (plot times, have rendered the criminal
Courts of the Mefußsil a laughing-stoc'c and a
bye-word of scorn to the aggregate crime-class of
Judie. Mr. Grant, who has been nominated by himself
and his colleagues to initiate this unwise p they, is cx-
aetly the man to d ) a thing which irsuet be intelsrable
to all soldiers, in the most cffeesive manner; for his
whole career has been a series of wanton insults and ob-
tructions to the military service. And Sir J. Outran],
whose experience in the political department is usuch
greater than in the military, is cot the men to assert the
rig:lts of his own branch of the service against his
pe !antic red-tapist colleague. The antecedent; of both
gentlemen leave litle.room.for doubt that their presence
in the disturbed districts will utterly paralyse the ope:A-
hihficeshiwrGioleinoieinirlsiaislestaHumparov.oneeloti
does of the army. Nor is this the worse. The system
the
eki actnhrd7oNntie:toinlal
thhrefiness
upon which they are sure to act will be an entire change
obf renoemi been thatras ettoi
ondgu Pt;
ooanbne7l,
policy being departed from, and the Neill-Havelock
policy resumed. Even though the measures understood
to be contemplated by Mr. Grail and Sir J. Outran]
were as sagacieus as they are unreasonable this inces-
sant change of counsels would be mot injurious to our
cause in India. It will be regarded by the native sol
diery and populetior, and by all the native princes, as
symptomatic of weakness and irresolution. I. will pre-
long the crisis and increase its danger.
Now for all this Lord Canning is responsible. He can-
not throw the blame on his Council. He is obliged to
listen to their advice, but he is not obliged to take it.
He may be as ignorant of India and Indian affairs—as
dependent for information respecting all that concerns
them upon his Council—as his friends allege when trey
seek to extenuate his short comings. But this he know.,:
—that his Council advised and sanctioned the scheme of
action upon which Gen. Havelock has been pr. seeding,
and that the some Council now advise the diametrically
opposite scheme of action upon which Mr. Grant and
Sir J. Outran] are to proceed. His commen sense told
hi n that a military revolt and insurrection can only be
put down by the army ; that so long as war is raging in
e ur provinces the authority of the Civil C iurte must be
staipende I—the ozelinary forms of civil procedure inter-
m tted ; and the same common seal() must tell him that
t) hamcar and obstruct the operations of the army by
the interference of rod-tape bureaucrats is to render it
utterly ineffective. Lord Canning, it is clear, lacks that
strong persistent will which is requisite in such a crisis
as that through which British In tie is now passing.
In.leed, it is doubtful whether any mere civilian is ade-
quate to the task of wielding the destinies oflnd,a, at
tics present momeat. There is much plausibility in the
eu;gestian that the offices of Governor-General and
C ennaander-in-Chief ought to be vested in the same per-
son—at least until the revolt has been thoroughly and
finally suppressed.

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