The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

fate. In every trial they have proved themselves
to be " the bravest of the brave." And, under
a congenial leader, one of their own blood—Lord
CLYDE—they have fully maintained the excellent
position they obtained under the lamented
HAVELOCK.

It is a work of supererogation to say a word in
favour of OUTRAM, ROSE, ROBERTS, WHITLOCK,
WILSON (the conqueror of Delhi), GRANT, MANS-
FIELD, FRANKS, LUGARD, MICHEL, WALPOLE, or
NAPIER. Their brilliant achievements speak
trumpet-tongued in their favour, and to explain the
grounds on which they are entitled to the national
gratitude would be to recapitulate the. events of
the Indian war.

There is one name, the omission whereof we
deeply regretted. We had looked for Colonel
GREATHED, the distinguished chief of " the
avenging column." The man who struck terror
into the heart of the mutineers, and proved himself
to be actuated by truly British feeling and British
pluck, ought to have received some notice. He
had not, however, obtained a general's rank, and
was therefore included amongst the number whose
names could not be specified. It is a glorious spectacle
to behold the Parliament and People of Great
Britain returning thanks to efficient servants and
rendering honour to those to whom it is justly and
fairly owing. There were some omissions which
we should have been pleased to see rectified. But
no one was included who had not fairly merited
the distinction.

May we venture to offer a piece of advice to all
electors whose votes are their own? We offer it
because it involves, in truth, the principle upon
which we have acted ourselves. It may seem almost
trite ; yet, like so many well known principles, it
is but too easily forgotten under the pressure of
circumstances. If, however, we are not mistaken,
it is of pre-emirient importance at the present elec-
tion. Our advice is, that party should go for
nothing, and that measures should be the test, not

As our readers have seen, neither of the great
parties have acted to our mind in the matter of
Reform. We censured, as soon as we saw them,
those points of the Government Bill which have
been objected to ever since, several of them by Con-
servatives as well as by Liberals. It was but too
plainly intended to purge the counties of Liberalism,
to propitiate the small boroughs, and to make them
more manageable. But the ten pound county fran-
chise was a great and clear gain, and it became
obvious, in the course of the debate, that that gain
might have been secured with little or no alloy in
committee; while no power on earth could have
prevented the step thus gained from enabling us to
gain several others. The worst defect was the want
of protection for the voter. But if the bill was in
great part objectionable, we felt obliged equally to
condemn the resolutions. They were appropriate
to a committee, not to a motion for a second reading.
The mode of procedure was a mere dodge of place-
seeking, or Premiership-seeking. 4-nd worst of all,
while professing to censure the chief defects of the
bill, they left its greatest defect unnoticed. Had
they added, as Mr. WYLD proposed to do, that
to be satisfactory to the people, a Reform Bill
must provide that the votes be taken by ballot,
though even then the mode of procedure
would have remained of doubtful ' propriety,
we could not have branded the resolutions
as a Russell-Whig dodge for the Premiership.
Strongly, therefore, as we objected to the unamended
Government bill, we objected quite as strongly.to
the hollowness, the party character, and the unsa-
tisfactoriness of the resolutions. In this view,
notoriously, some of the oldest and best tried friends
of the people heartily concurred.

And what now is the result ? That we have Lord
DERBY appealing to the country to keep in, and
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Lord PALMERSTON, and some
say Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and perhaps another one or
two, appealing to the country to put then in. Our
leading politicians do not like to leave the political
stage without having tried their hands on the prin-
cipal part. The wishes of the three who have filled
or do fill that part are, however, well known
enough, and their supporters make free use of their