The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

T E 6tY N,

It might perhaps be doubted whether the pelnons
who had been butchered in that country were not
the most fortunate, because, poor creatures, they
were now beyond thereach ofhuman misery; whereas
a very large number of highly respectable Europeans
had lost their all, and many delicately nurtured
ladies had been left without a rag to their backs.
It was therefore earnestly to be hoped that the ap-
peal made by the chief magistrate of the metropoli
would be generously responded to by all parts of
the country, and ha believed that the West Riding
of Yorkshire, and more especially the ancient town
in which they were then assembled, would display
that liberality in succouring the distressed which
had always distinguishedit. (Cheers.)
Viscount GODERICH also returned thanks. Un-
like his bon. colleague who had preceded him, he
had no claim on that great constituency for past
services. Yet in the elevated position to winch
their too flattering choice had raised him he pledgea
himself to discharge the duties intrusted to him
with uuabating zeal and untiring energy. (Hear,
hear.) Heavy as were the responsibilities which
attached to the office of their representative in
times like these, they were almost merged in the
yet graver responsibilities which fell to the lot
of every member of the House of Commons, be-
cause in the next session of Parliament great pro-
blems would have to be solved, and would test the
statesmanship of our Ministers and put the wisdom
of our legislators to the proof. Those problems had
reference to the lamentable events occuringin
It was impossible at the present moment to speak
on any public occasion and remain silent on that
sad topic. The hearts and minds of the people were
filled with the thoughts of them; they haunted our
wakingsteps—they tinged and coloured our dreams.
The times in which we lived would mark a memo-
rable page in English history. Fortunate was it that
in such an emergencyany Government could always
appeal without hesitation and with perfect confi-
dence to the support of the nation. Whenever the
power, the honour, or the reputation of England was
at stake—whenever our empire was in danger, Eng-
lishmen at once merged every difference that other-
wise divided them in order to rally round the Sove-
reign and her Ministers. (Cheers.) He was convinced
the people of this country would readily submit
to every sacrifice and make every effort which might
be needed, to maintain our eastern dominions.
Sure he was that white there was a man who could
sharpen a sword in Sheffield, or one who could
manufacture a cannon at Low Moor, the people of
the West Riding would sooner spend their all tLan
lose the glorious heritage won for them by the
valour and genius of their forefathers. (Cheers.)
We had another source of confidence at this criti-
cal juncture—he meant the heroism and devotion
of the British army, which had never yet failed us,
and would not fail us now. (Hear.) Other troops
might turn traitors and mutineers, but the army of
England would serve their country with fidelity and
honour to the last. And in this contest—war he
could not call it, because those who were opposed
to us were not worthy the name of England's ene-
mies—our soldiers would be led by a gallant and
distinguished general, who was eminently fitted to
be at their nead. (Cheers.) Sir Cohn Campbell—
(renewed cheers)—did not owe his present high
command either to family influence or to political
intrigue ; he had won it for himself by bis own
courage, and by his devotion to the serv:ce which
he adorned, and by the great military genius he had
displayed through his long and active career.
(Cheers.) It must be a great satisfaction to any one
having to deal with public affairs to have an oppor-
tunity like the present for exchanging thoughts and
ideas with his fellow-countrymen ; and though,
fortunately, they were not at liberty on these fes-
tive occasions to launch into politics, to which lie
was sure the members of Parliament at that board
would be glad to give a few months' truce, yet these
gatherings afforded indications which were valuable
guides to public men, who could neither attain
eminence nor hope to rule the country with effect
unless they made themselves acquainted with the
feelings and wishes of the community. (Hear,
hear.) Meetings like the present, which brought
together from all parts of the cnintry men with dif-
fete nt interests and occupied in various profes-
sions, did not merely subserve the social purposes
of the hour, but tended to promote that cor-
dial union among all classes on which was founded
the true prosperity of England. In times of com-
parative quiet opposite parties could afford to in-
dulge in mutual squabbles. All sections of the
community then had their differences, and also
their own pet grievances, and nothing gave them
so much pleasure. (Laughter.) Nothing, in fact,
was so agreeable to a man as to have a good griev-
ance. But when periods of difficulty or danger
arrived—when there was a real need of national.
union, and a call had to be made upon the pa-
triotism of Englishmen, the note of party strife
wasinstantly hushed, sectional grievances were
immediately forgotten, and there was displayed on
all sides and among all ranks that happy spirit of
unanimity and enthusiasm which enabled our Go-
vernment to act with a vigour and success that
were a standing marvel to foreign nations, unac-
customed to English habits and English usages.
(Cheats.
Mr. Re N. PHILIPPS then proposed the health
of the members for the borough, taking occasion to
eulogize their diligence and fidelity in the cause of
their constituents.

The toast was received with gnat applause.
Mr. HADFIELD, M. P. , responded on his own be-
half and on that of his abseut colleague, who, he
said, if his state of health had made it prudent for
him to attend would doubtless have spoken words
of authority fitted to influence the counsels of
England in this trying emergency. Mr. Hadfiell
briefly adverted to the legislation of the past ses-
sion of Parliament, singling out for especial com-
mendation the Probate and Testamentary Juris-
diction Bill, and then touched upon the military
outbreak in Bengal. He believed that if the spirit
of mutiny had lain dormant for a time, and broken
out two years hence, instead of at preent, the evil
would have been infinitely more dangerous and
embarrassing. When the crisis was over and tran-
quillity had been restored to India the work of
social and material reform in that country must
be recommenced. with greater energy and per-
severance than ever. The Indian Government had
had its faults as wallas the natives, and they might
rely upon it that when the boundless resources of
the eas'ern peninsula came to be duly developed,
it would be found that a elmmunity of interest
between that country and Englaud would rapidly
spring up which would afford a far stronger gua-
rantee for the security of our empire than any that
could be derived from the sword. (Hear.)
Mr. HANKEY, M.P., proposed the " Municipal
Corporation of Sheffield," to which Mr. P. Smyth,
the mayor, duly responded ; and after disposing of
several other toasts of a purely local nature the
company separated.
The evening was much enlivened by the per-
formances of the band of the 7th Dragoon Gusrds,
and also by the vocal efforts of the choir of St.
Philip's, church.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMO
TIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

THE TREASURY.—Mr. H. Sidebothan and Mr. James
Durrant, temporary clerks in the Audit-office, have been
appointed to supplementary clerkships in the Treasury.
A first-class clerkship has become vacant by the death
of Mr. Alfred Waller.

WAR DEPARTMENT.—Mr. Henry Taturn has been
appointed military storekeeper, army clothing depart.
merit, Weedon; Mr. Itsynes, late clerk at Bermuda,
has been appointed first-class military store clerk, army
department, Weedon.

CuaToms.—Mr. W. P. Towline, landing surveyor,
Liverpool, Las been appointed a landing surveyor in
London ; Mr. Win. Gillingham, ex ra weigher, has been
appointed a weigher in London ; Mr. C. M. Pocock has
been promoted from second to first-class landing sur-
veyor in London ; Mr. J. M. Arnaud ba(been promoted
from third to second•class landing surveyor in London';
Mr. T. E. Carter has been promoted from third to
second-class landing surveyor in London ; Mr. R. F.
Hoskin has been promoted from second to first-class
landing waiter in London.
INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT.—Stamps and Taxes
Branch.—Mr, Thin,. Fawcett, surveyor, has been pro-
-noted to be inspector of taxes at York, vice Welch ; Mr.
R. H. Silversides, surveyor of taxes, has been proumt ei
to Bolton, Lancashire ; Mr. Evan Lloyd, surveyor of
taxes, has been promoted to Bloomsbury ; Mr. N. C.
Strickland, surveyor of taxes, has been promoted to
Bakewell, Derbyshire; Mr. C. J. Foakeq, surveyor of
tax s, has been promoted to Hastings ; Mr. G. H.
Boyce, surveyor of taxes, has been promoted t An-
dover ; Mr. W. Harnett, surveyor
.of taxes, bas ben
promoted to Monmouth ; Mr. R Kirkpatrlck, Purveyor
of taxes, has been promote.] to Saffron Walden ; Mr. W.
Wilson, surveyor of taxes, has exchanged to Abirglon ;
Mr. A. Applegate, surveyor of taxes, has been promoted
to Southinolton ; Mr. J. C. Sells, surveyor of taxes, has
Exchanged to Kingston -:on- Thames. Civil Service
Gazette.

TRH POTATO DISE We regret to learn from
vatioui gources, bothAinszcotlan-I and England, that the
potato disease
[ilbvituTismutzi...rbl
useful veg,teis this year very general, and that this
t ) that of 1846. has been destroyed to an extent equal
—Holloway's Pills the mast effec-
taut reletywafoinr
etdhiciCuuerhe of Liver and Stomach Com-
last 28 years, and the indiC
plaints.
idastonished the world for the
all
lials who have taken them,
complaints
without sucess,
for having had recourse to
indigestion, and
in cases of liver and bowel
restored them
comment, and
other fearful disorders, these haveAiLins
to health, where in many instances they
to be past relief, such facts do not re
all sufferers can easily prove their
all medicine vendors throughout the world • a-i-prool d by
Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and
SO, Maiden-lade, New York; by A. Stamps, 0,6t-i-,--
quyirtwernerthe.considered
tinople; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Matti* 11.

MR. MIALL ON TFIE INDIAN MUTINIES.

(From the Times)
On Wednesday last Mr. Miall addressed the con-
stituency of Tavistock in the capacity of a candi-
date for their suffrages, and embraced the opportu-
nity to express his sentiments upon the rebellion
now raising in India and the duties which its ter
rible incidents had imposed upon this country.
The public character of Mr. Miall is too well known
to require any explanation on our part, and, in-
deed, although this distinguished Nonconformist
is eminently attached to peace principles, as his
vote on the Chinese question showed, and the
man above most others from whom we might na-.
turally have expected the arguments of the party
usually averse to war, we do not pretend to say
that we looked for any denunciation at hie hands
of the efforts we are now making for the relief of
our countrymen and the restoration of our rule.
On this question we do not anticipate dissent any-
where, but so frankly patriotic and national are
the sentiments which Mr. Miall announced and so
uncompromising are the views which he expressed,
that we think it right, both as an acknowledgment
to the speaker and for the edification of the public,
to call especial attention to the opinions which this
representative of an important, and, generally
speaking, a peaceful section of our countrymen,
has now openly avowed. After sympathizing in
fervid language with the calamities of the sufferers
and paying a well-merited tribute to their heroism
he thus proceeded :
" Whatever may be necessary for the Government to
do to master this rebellion, to crush it out, to dissipate
all the elements of it to the winds, though it may be by
the sacrifice of much property, and each individual in
this country may be called upon to contribute far more
largely than his circunutances would allow, yet I would
render to the Government all the aid I could afford in
order to procure the reestablishment of order, law, and
British supremacy in India, because I believe that the
interests of the 200,000,000 souls committed to us by
God's providence to govern in that empire are identical
with the maintenance of that law, order, and British
supremacy."
In this strong and decided language have the
views of an economical and peace-loving party been
now published to the world, nor do we fear that in
any quarter they can be met with refutation. It is
impossible to question either the rights or the duties
of the British nation in India. Foremost among
the many momentous considerations affecting the
subject stands the obligation of terminating blood-
shed and anarchy, which, except for the interven-
tion of British power, might endure for incalcu-
lable time. The actual question at this moment
is not whether our Government, or some other
Government equally well organized, shall prevail
in India, but whether there shall be any Govern-
ment or none. Unless the might of this country
is exerted to re-establish order, the provinces of
Hindostan will be at the mercy of that wont of
classes, a disbanded soldiery, whose licence will be
emulated and whose ravages will be doubled by a
vast criminal population released from the terrors
of the law. Nobody so much as imagines that the
unhappy puppet set up by the mutineers at Delhi
could exercise any authority even in the streets of
that city, nor does there exist any machinery what-
ever fur protecting public or private interests in
Hindostan except that which the traitorous and
frantic Sepoys are endeavouring to destroy. We,
moreover, are the people who called these armed
ruffiansinto being. To our policy it is owing that
some scores of thousands of Hiudoos have been
trained to arms, and imbued with those elements
of a martial character which make their present
I ferocity so dangerous. Tue Bengal Army is our
own creation. We brought the monster into exist-
ence, and we are bound to save the country from
desolation by conquering and annihilating it, now
that its fearful nature has been displayed.
We say surther, and without fear of cm tradic-
tion, that,'although we govern India as conquerors,
our govetnment has been the best and the most
beneficial which that country ever knew, and that
its authority could only be removed at the cost of
all the prospects of civilisation and improvement
which Hmdoos possess. We do not claim any per-
fection for our policy or our proceedings. Certain
burdensome incidents were perhaps inseparable
from the rule of a nation separated by 15,000 miles
of sea, and it is not in reason to suppose that a
whole century of government under such conditions
should have escaped the blemishes of occasional
wrong. But we do claim the credit of having
governed India on better principles and with far
better success than any former rulers, and of hav-
ing given its people an infinitely greater amount of
security thae they ever before enjoyed. We, and
we only, have rendered life and property as secure
in India as in Europe. If our taxes could be
thought heavy—though not a syllable of accusation
bas been heard on that score—they at least repre-
sented the whole amount of the contributions ex-
pected. When the Government dues had bean pa'd
every native, however humble, knew and felt that
whatever be could accumulate by his diligence or
his self-denial would be securely his own. We
relieved every State and the people of every State
in India from the chronic calamities of intestine
war. We yut clown with a strong hand commu-
nities who Jived upon organised robbery, and ren-
dered the attacks of one Prince upon another as
impossible upon the Ganges as they would be upon
the Rhine. These infinite blessings—that public
order and paramount authority of law which are
the indispensable preliminaries to anything like
political improvement—we bestowed upon the peo-
ple of India. it is of no avail to ask by what right
we are there. There we stand as conquerors, and
it is by God's Providence, as Mr. Miall said, that
we do so. The currents of population created by
conquest are apparently ordained by the Divine
law, like the currents of the air or the currents of
the see. We stand charged, as governors, with
the maintenance of order and the promotion of
civilisation in India, and we must fulfil our ob'i-
gation. There is no Power but ours which can do
the like. The alternative before us is simply the
re-establishment of British supremacy or the aban-
clonment of [ndia to utter anarchy, internecine
massacre, and general ruin.
So manifest, indeed, are these considerations,
and so plain the path of duty before us, that if we
again cite the testimony of Mr. Miall to such
political truths it is mainly for the sake of re-
minding Government how much may be done, and
how much therefore will assuredly be expected,
when a nation like ours is so unanimous in its
views. Our resources are practically inexhaustible.
For the reinforcent of our army we can draw upon
a population very nearly as large as that of one of
the first military Powers of Europe. The means of
transport we possess to an extent absolutely un-
paralleled. The financial strength of the St ate at
this moment is without example in our history ;
we are at peace with Europe, and we have just
been blessed with an abundant harvest. The dif-
ference between a year of plenty, such as now lies
before us, would in itself go far to compensate the
expenditure which these mutinies may entail.
There are no motives for shrinking, therefore,
while there is every motive for energy. Half as
much as we have already done would, in all human
probability, if it could have been done six mouths
ago, have saved us the necessity of doing any more.
If events were not to be prognosticated, then they
are, at any rate, to be appreciated now, and energy
and expedition at this moment may save us twice
as much outlay and effort by and by. There is
nothing in our way. Our work lies before us—its
demands are plain, and we have only to
_exert our
strength without hesitation or reserve.

IRISH Fismoucs.—The report of the Irish Farber)?
Commissioners for 1856 states that the sea fishery still
continues in a languid and depressed state, and that
the coast fisheries are not worked with that energy and
vigour which might be expected from the amply remu-
nerative prices afforded by the markets. The salmon
fisheries are steadily increasing in value. The commis-
sioners recommend that the six Fishery Acts be conso-
lidated into one, for the purpose of rendering the la v
plain and palpable, and to obviate the necessity of refer-
ring to so many separate statutes. The apathy of the
Irish as regards the fishery on the coasts is accounted for
by the general growth of prosperity in the agricultural
districts, and the increasing demand for farm labourers
at remunerative wages.
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