The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

through the Session, that gave him such a de-
cided and unequivocal majority on the recent ap-
peal to the country. We look to him still,
not merely to control and direct his colleagues,
but to act in any and' every department where
his services may be required. His presence gives
confidence to Vie nation, which would be sorely
tried if he were to withdraw to any considerable
distance from the metropolis. That he is no.
insensible to the .eaeni• rade of the emergency wit
be discovered net 0111 from the large reinforce-
ments already despatched to the scene of action,
but from the fact announced in the military intel-
ligence communicated in another column, that
eleven more regiments—four cavalry and seven
infantry—have received orders for India, and may
be expected shortly to embark.
It is to be regretted that the Court is so far
from the metropolis. GOD forbid that our Most
Gracious SOVEREIGN should be debarred from
any relaxation that may conduce to her
enjayrnent or advantage. But it is not on
her account solely that the journey to Bel-
moral is undertaken, and that one of the principal
Secretaries of State is obliged to attend in a re-
mote part of Scotland. It is that the PRINCE
CONSORT may indulge in deer stalking and grouse
shooting, on evhich he was so intent that a single
day would not be spared in order that the British
SOVEREIGN might pay the usual compliment to the
co-ordinate branches of the Legislature of pro-
roguing Parliament, and delivering the validictory
address in person. It was only on the morning
if Friday that the Royal party departed from
London, and six hours later the Royal Speech
was read by the gemmiseieners
We should readily spar& Prince ALBERT. We
should willingly relieve him from all the political
duties in which he engages, but it is too
')ad that, under the present peculiar cir-
cumstances of the case, great, and, very
possibly, untoward dt lays, may be oc-
casioned by the absence of the Court from
the vicinity of the metropolis. We have already
had enough of COBURG interference during the
'ate Russian war, not merely of the PRINCE
CONSORT himself, but of " Uncle LEOPOLD, 'r and
the Germanic element. It would be well if
Endian affairs were exempted from these sinister
influences. We recently alluded t 3 the remarks
made at a memorable Trinity House banquet,
that " the British Constitution was on its trial."
Et is so at the present moment ; but it is not the
Parliamentary element that is now involved.
Parliament has done everything that could be an-
icipated. It has armed Ministers with all the
power and authority that were demanded. And,
tt these powers were not sufficiently ample, they
nave only themselves to blame for the omission.
rhe nation expects that every person will do bie
e. her duly, and if there, be any shortcoming,
Strict accounts must be rendered of the causes
.hereof. At all events, the members of the
cabinet must be ready, at any and every moment,
'or the performance of their important functions,
in which the welfare and happiness of 150,000,000
of her MAJESTY'S subjects so greatly depend !

It would appear t!lat though slowly, yet surely,
the ministers of justice are surrounding the never
to be forgiven miscreants at Delhi. Towards the
North and North West they have no chance.
The vigorous administrator Sir JouN LAWRENCE,
a man only second, if second tel his lamented
brother at Lueknow, keeps the Punjaub well in
hand ; even the Sealcote mutineers were In omptly
net and route 3, and VAN CORTLANDT leaves the
rebels little space or rest on that side of Delhi.
Lord. ELPIIINSTO).TE also informs us that Sir JOHN

LAWRENCE i 3 rapidly organizing levies to the

amount of 35,000 men from the Sikhs and Pun-
jaub tribes who have no other care for the high
caste Sepoys than to attack them as soon as they
can, and ex►ract the pilfered gold m9hurs from
their pockets. Thus, with the considerable num-
ber of British soldiers already in the North-West,
tied with the new levies of the right stamp, Delhi
*ill soon be hard pressed on that side.
On the North there is at present but our small
besieging army, which, small as it is in compari-
son with the army within the walls of the town,
yet firmly holds its ground, will not be outflanked
by the vastly more numerous enemy, but quickly
repulses all attacks with great slaughter of the
assailants. This small force, keeping guard, as it
were, over the monster, Dow waits patiently the
descent of reinforcements from the Punjaub on
,me side, and the advance of General HA.VELOCK,
and the gradual arrival of the reinforcements
from China and England on the other--the
south-east side. We trust that HAVELOCK was
enabled both to relieve Lucknow, and turning
back again to march to the relief of A grai, whose
gairison and numerous Europeans, now shut up
in the fort, reported, it is trua, to be sufficiently
spacious and well provisioned, may yet soon begin
to see their supplies failing them. We trust,
indeed, this will not be the case.
The anxiety to meet the enemy at some dis-
tance from the fort probably arose from the wish
not merely to save, if possible, the cantonment,
but to avert an attack on the fort itself, aft 3r
so many women and civilians had sought shelter
within it. It would appoar that the necessity fur
retreat and apparent defeat was entirely due to
the loss of their ammunition by the blowing up of
the tumbrils ; it became evident, however, imme-
diately after with whom the real:victory lay, since
the enemy did not venture near the fort, but
though they had marched out of the direct road
from Neemuch and Nusseerabad to come to Agra
at all, they turned aside and marched for the
grand centre of the conspiracy, 'Dalhi. For some
distance south of Delhi the country seems to be
pretty freely traversed by the mutineers, but
Indore and the adjacent stations, and all the
Deccan south of the Nerbudda appears t be se-
curely occupied and hell by us ; the risings hav-
ing been everywhere suppressed and the rebels
driven out.

Of course every part of the country occupied
by the late B3ngal Army will be liable for a time
to be infested by predatory and savage bandit'i,
composed of the scattered sepoys, but they do not
appear likely to make head against any number
of our troops, except in the district a little east
and south of Delhi. To this district, therefore,
the efforts of all appear to be converging, and
though we must probably wait some months yet
before either Sir JOHN LA.WRENCH'S levies in the
Punjaub, or the reinforcements now arriving at
Qalcutta, and at Kurrachee t )o, will be able to
act with.effect, yet that time must come, and then
the doom of the Mahommedan Sodom and Go-
morrah is sealed. Delhi will soon then be num-
bered
with the cities whose sites are but curiosities
for the antiquary
a2'ir
trust, will be carried itsdo vewntrhy o
the
stones, we
Wtoe
found another city, to Yr, to be known by
another name, or to
extend Agra as the
future emporium of the north-west fl • uvral traffic.
It seems beyond doutt-Low that the infernal
atrocities practised on our women especially were
not mere cruelty, but cruelty- and defiance of
Europeans combined. These wretches intended,_
by their unheard of villanies to.,va‘ds our femalts,
to clot away their scabbard and proclaim irrecon-