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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY):

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE prostrated a petition
from Belfast against the Ecclesiastical Courts (Ireland)
Bill.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented several petitions
praying that Dissenters might not be excluded from ad-
ministering trust funds of endowed grammar schools.
THAMES WATER MEN AND LIGHTERMEN
BILL. _

Lord EBI.TRY, as chaltraan o f the committee to which
this bill had been referred in the first instance, explained to
their lordships the reasons for not being in his place on
Tuesday evening last when the bill was under discussion.
Having alluded to the censure passed on the proceedings of
the committee, he proceeded to vindicate the course
adopted.
Lord CAMPBELL said he was sure no blame could
possibly be attributed to the noble lord.
SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Mersey
Docks and Harbour, and Poole Water.
THIRD READINGS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed
Whitehaven Harbour and Town; Liverpool New Ex •
change Buildings ; and East Suffolk Railway.
SANDWITH'S DIVORCE BILL.
The standing orders were dispensed with, and this bill
passed through committee.
RED SEA AND INDIAN TELEGRAPH (N'o. 2)

BILL.
The standing orders were again dispensed with, and this
bill was read a third time and passed.
• SUPERANNUATION BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
COMBINATION OF WORKMEN BILL.

This bill passed through committee.
On the bringing up of the report,
Lord WENSLEYDALE moved an addition to the first
clause. This gave rise to a desultory discussion, after
which the addition was agreed to.
AFFIDAVITS BY COMMISSION BILL.
This bill was read a third tine.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
THE STATE OF EUROPE.

The Earl of MALMESBURY postponed, until Monday
next, his statement relative to the state of Europe.
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY IN INDIA.

The Earl of DERBY said—My lords, the subjects are
very few which a Ministry already condemned by a vote of
the House of Commons can with any propriety submit to a
Parliament on the eve of dissolution. Under such circum-
stances, which your lordships will agree with me ought to
last as short a time as the exigencies of the public service
may render possible—under such circumstances, the autho-
rity of the Ministry and of Parliament is alike weakened ;
and the strife of political parties, at least within the walls
of Parliament, is suspended, and the ordinary legislation of
the country put inabeyance, except with regard to measures
of such pressing importance that they cannot be delayed, or
those of such ordinary routine that no one can object to
them. But the motion I have to submit to your lordships is
one to which I do not anticipate any objection either on the
ground of the condition of the Ministry or that of Parlia-
ment. The motion is one that I am perfectly certain the
Government in bringing it forward represents the feeling
of this or of any Parliament that might be assembled, and
faithfully represents also the feeling of the country at large.
Not only do I not anticipate any objection to the motion but
I rely with confidence and look forward with satisfaction to
having the deficiencies—and there must be many—in the
statement I am about to make supplied, and the motion it-
self cordially supported by the illustrious duke on the cross
, benches (the Duke of Cambridge) and the noble earl below
1 the gangway (the Earl of Ellenborough) who, from their
position and knowledge of the subject, will speak on this
question with an authority to which I can make no preten-
-1 sion. My ,lords' the military operations against the for-
midable mutiny in India having been brought to a success-
ful issue, it is peculiarly fitting that this Parliament
should not separate without recording its sense of grati-
tude, and the public estimation of those men to whom we
are indebted for the suppression of the revolt, and the
restoration of tranquillity. That revolt has extended
over a 'period longer than the existence of the present
Parliament, and it is fitting that its last act should record
the sense of public gratitude for its suppression. The
only question that can arise on this motion is whether,
in fact, we have arrived at the period when we can announce
that the revolt has been finally suppressed. I certainly
should not have delayed till the present time the payment
of the debt of gratitude to those who have laboured either
in a civil or military capacity in the service of the country,
had I not hoped.that the period was not far distant when I
should be able to announce to your lordships that the rebel-
lion in India had been extinguished ; and I rejoice to believe,
not only from the intelligence which reaches us through the
medium of the public press, but also from private sources of
information which confirm that intelligence, that that
period has arrived at which we may say the rebellion is
altogether extinguished. (Cheers.) A communication to
that effect reached his Royal Highness the Commander-in-
Chief a few days ago from Lord Clyde, and I am quite sure
that your lordships, who know that noble and gallant lord,
will be of opinion that nothing could place in stronger light
the complete success of the great undertaking in which he
has been engaged than the fact that he would not state any-
thing beyond what the circumstance warrants. (Hear.)
These are not my words, they are those of the Commander-
in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in India :—" I am happy to
say that the tranquillity of the country is every day becom-
ing more and more restored, and the Government has every
cause for congratulation. In my experience I have never
known India to be more quiet than it now is" (Hear.) My
lords, I might add to this an evidence of fact which is still
stronger than that of words, that the Governor-General in
his discretion has felt himself justified in sending back to
this country a very considerable portion of the troops sent
out hence, including, of course, those who have served the
longest and have suffered the most in the service of
India. And 'as a further proof, I might say that the
same noble and gallant lord to whom I have referred, and
who is the last man to spare himself or to shrink from
the discharge of any duty so long as the service of the
country requires it, has felt himself warranted by the
state of affairs in retiring to Simla, for the purpose of
there recruiting his health, which has been shattered
by the recent campaign in India. (Cheers.) Therefore,
my lords, I think I may assume without further preface
that the time has come when we may congratulate ourselves
upon the successful termination of this dangerous revolt,
and when we may pay the tribute of our public thanks to
those by ;hose exertions that happy result has been ob-
tained. And the first person to whom, as in duty bound,
we should pay that debt is he who, standing in the fore-
most position, has had thrown upon him the greatest share
of public responsibility, and who has naturally been over-
whelmed with the largest and heaviest weight of anxiety.
But, nay lords, in order to appreciate the services which
have been rendered by her Majesty's Viceroy, the Gover-
nor-General, Viscount Canning, it is only right that your
lordships should bear in mind what were the circumstances
under which that noble lord assumed his present onerous
and arduous task. Immediately upon that noble lord's
arrival in India disaffection began to manifest itself in that
country. A spirit was breaking out which had for a con-
siderable time been smouldering, and perhaps overlooked
and neglected, and just at the period when the noble
lord undertook the duties of his arduous office he was
encountered by a sudden explosion. That outbreak oc-
curred at a time when he was necessarily unacquainted with
many of the circumstances of the country which ho was
about to govern. That explosion took him by surprise, and
he was obliged to seek for counsel from those who had had
the greatest experience in India. It is not surprising, there •
fore, that Lord Canning on his first arrival did not fully
appreciate the magnitude of the danger by which he was
surrounded ; but from the time—and it was not long—when
he became alive to the perils with which our empire in India
was threatened, he applied in grappling with the difficulties
which he foresaw and the dangers which he encountered all
the powers of a powerful mind and all the faculties of an ac-
tive and enorgeti c disposition. He applied himself sedulously
diligently, and earnestly to the encountering of the great
dangers by which he found himself surrounded. (Cheers.)
It is true that the noble viscount from first to last has
pursued sagaciously, steadily, and resolutely a consistent
course, that he has never permitted his mind to be thrown
off its balance by representations of exaggerated fears on
the one hand, or by extravagant and passionate resentment
on the other. (Hear, hear.) He has carefully and steadily
watched the course of events. He has left untried nothing
which could be done by indefatigable industry, by constant
assiduity, and by a most patient attention to all the details
of business and all the means by which this great revolt
might be encountered. He has been constant in his com-
munications, and, I say it emphatically, most friendly in
his intercourse with the Commander-in-Chief of her Ma-
jesty's forces. He has had the happiness and the credit of
solvingsthe difficult problem which had been left to him to
solve, he has brought the characteristic spirit of an English
gentleman to the sagacity of a statesman. (Hear, hear.)
I think that your lordships will agree with me that the
period at which the noble viscount has successfully brought
to an issue this great undertaking, your lordships and the
other House of Parliament ought not to grudge him the
tribute of praise and thanks which are involved in the mo-
tion which I am now submitting; and your lordships, I
think, will concur with me that her Majesty could not have
chosen a more grateful or more fitting opportunity than the
time at which the two Houses of Parliament are testifying
their gratitude for his distinguished services, for testifying
her own sense of those services by conferring upon the
noble viscount the dignity of a British earl. (Cheers.) I
hope that none of your lordships will be of opinion that
by the omission of the name of the noble lord the Gover-
nor of Madras from this vote of thanks, it is intended
in any degree to throw a slight upon that noble lord.
The fact is, my lords, I think it is of the deepest import-
ance that votes of this description should not be a mere
form—(cheers)—conferred upon persons merely because
they happen to have been in office without having taken
an active share in the events to which the votes refer.
It is no discredit to the noble lord the Governor of Madras
to state that from the circumstance of that presidency being
of itself altogether free from any taint of revolt and of its
having contributed but slightly to the suppression of the
rebellion, although certainly some of the Madras forces
have distinguished themselves in the course of this cam-
paign, the noble lord was called upon to take but a very
slight part in the great events which have been going on.
It is on this ground that I trust your lordships will not
think that it is from, any disrespect or slight to the noble
lord that his name is not found among those to whom the
tribute of the thanks of Parliament is about to be given'
(Hear, hear.) I will take this opportunity of referring
also to another name which is found to be omitted in the
present vote of thanks, the name not of a civilian but of a
most distinguished military officer. I have heard my
noble and gallant friend, the noble viscount behind me,
who himself has had personal experience and knowledge
of ;service in India, express his surprise that in this
vote the name of Sir Patrick Grant has not been intro-

duced. That omission, I need not say, was not intended to
imply any disapproval of or any want of respect for that gal-
lant officer, whose services in India are too well known to
need any eulogium from me. He has three times already
received the thanks of Parliament for distinguished ser-
vices ; but on this occasion his name has been intentionally
omitted. Although for a short time that gallant general
aid hold the nominal command of the army shortly after
the :lamented death of General Anson, and although in
that capacity, I doubt not his services at Calcutta in' con-
cert with the Governor-Oeneral were of signal advantage
to the country and promoted the public service, yet from
the short period during which he held that high command
he had not an opportunity of appearing personally in the
field at all. Moreover, I beg your lordships to recollect
that the vote of thanks which I am now proposing is not
a vote of thanks for the whole of the services in India, but
it is a vote for those services which have occurred within
the last 14 or 16 months, and which have not yet been ac-
knowledged as the previous services have been by a formal
vote of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) Now, my lords, the
services rendered by Sir Patrick Grant I need not say were
included in the last vote of thanks, and upon that
ground alone, and upon no other, it would be impossible
for me to include his name in the present vote of thanks.
But there is another noble lord, the governor of another
presidency, who has contributed most largely, most bene-
ficially, and most effectually to the suppression of the mutiny.
(Cheers.) Services hardly even second to the exertions of
Lord Canning himself, and which were of the greatest bene-
fit and advantage to the country, were freely and liberally
bestowed by Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay.
(Cheers.) My lords, it would appear that that noble lord—
whether or not from his greater knowledge of India I cannot
say—formed a more correct opinion than others of the dan-
ger with which India was threatened, and, with his cha-
racteristic promptness and readiness, he took upon himself
a responsibility which did not properly belong to him.
(Hear, hear.) To hie active and energetic mind is
mainly owing the arrival of those reliefs which
reached India at a moment when reliefs were most
urgently demanded. From that time to the present the
noble lord has been unceasingly active. He has devoted the
whole of his energies to the suppression of the revolt and to
the maintenance of tranquillity in, that portion of the
country over which his presidency extends. He has grappled
successfully with every emergency as it arose. He has not
only applied himself diligently and laboriously to the putting
down of the revolt in his own province, but he has also most
carefully and most sedulously supported the general scheme
and plan of the Governor-General and the Commander-in.
Chief with regard to operations over the whole of India.
My lords, her Majesty has been pleased to say, and I at the
same time had very great pleasure, of communicating to the
noble lord her Majesty's intention, that whenever this
revolt should be brought to a close, her Majesty would
mark her sense of his services, not indeed by giving him a
seat which he has already in your lordships' house, but by
adding to his dignity as a representative peer that of a peer-
age of the United Kingdom. (Cheers.) Although I have
not yet had time to receive from Lord Canning any answer
to the communication which I had the satisfaction of mak-
ing to him at the same time as I did to Lord Elphinstone,
the last mail has brought me from Lord Elphinstone a
grateful acknowledgment of the honour which her Majesty
has been pleased to bestow upon him, and at the same time
an expression of opinion, in which I think he will stand
alone, that the honour conferred far exceeded his deserts.
(Cheers.) I hope that noble lords connected with the mili-
tary service will not consider that I am treating them with
disrespect, or that I am improperly postponing the consi-
deration of their claims to the public thanks of Parliament,
if, following the order of the resolutions which have been
placed upon your lordships' table, I first refer to those
civilians who have distinguished themselves by their
services during the period of this revolt. The first
name to which I have to call your attention is one than
which none is better known or more highly honoured in
India. Two illustrious brothers have borne that name with
the highest credit, and with the noblest distinction.
(Cheers.) One of them, unhappily, is no more. He has
fallen in the active service of his country—fallen, unfor-
tunately, too early to receive an intimation of the thanks
which his Sovereign and Parliament were prepared to be-
stow upon him. The other still survives; and I rejoile to
think that Sir John Lawrence, who has arrived iirthis
country within the course of the last few days, will have
returned in time personally to know the appreciation of his
services entertained by the country and by Parliament—
(cheers)—that he will be enabled, as a member of the Indian
Council, to give the benefit of his experience and advice in
the management of important and arduous duties ; and that
he will see how heartily Parliament appreciates that de-
voted attention to the public business which he ever dis-
played, and that firm courage and dauntless resolution with
which, with the very insufficient means at his disposal, he
met and sternly put down every appearance of disturbance
in a district but newly acquired to the British empire---haw
by the very terror and awe inspired by his name, and by
the respect due to his character, he not only altogether sup-
pressed every symptom of revolt in that wild and newly
acquired district, but made his word law throughout that
country, and made that country another England, pouring
forth its supplies and reinforcements for the purpose of
quelling the dangerous mutiny now happily extinguished.
(Cheers.) Another distinguished man, likewise occupying a
civil capacity, has been referred to on a former occasion in
terms of great praise by my noble friend the noble earl be-
low the gangway (the Earl of Ellenborough)—Mr. Frere,
the Resident in Scinde. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps the task
of Mr. Frere has not been so arduous as that of Sir J. Law-
rence, inasmuch as he succeeded to a province in which .
much had been done to tranquilise and settle the minds of
the people, and to establish the blessings of a good and
stable Government. But to Mr. Frere' must be
due the credit of having maintained and supported that
system of Government, and of having preserved in that
province the most entire and unbroken tranquillity while a
great portion of India was in a state of disturbance and re-
volt. (Hear, hear.) In naming another civilian permit me
to say that, although the duties performed and the services
rendered by these officials are not of the same brilliant and
dazzling character as those rendered by the military, yet
that they are not less essential to the good Government of
India. (Hear, hear.) Our hold upon India must no; de-
pend solely—although it must mainly—upon our military
forces, but the hold maintained by our military power must
be strengthened and supported by the respect and esteem in
which those are helcl.who exercise almost unbounded autho-
rity in the distant provinces of India. To Mr. Mont-
gomery, the Commissioner of Oude, is due the
highest amount of praise for the manner in which during
the last year he has administered the civil Government in
that province. (Hear, hear.) Following immediately on the
suppression of the revolt, by his judicious and wise and
humane measures, with her Majesty's proclamation in his
hand, and making the best use of the promises of mercy
there held forth, by his justice and conciliation, and by
tempering mercy with firmness, Mr. Montgomery suc-
ceeded to a great extent in restoring tranquillity to a country
newly subdued and in which angry feelings had been. ex-
cited. Under such circumstances the speedy return to tran-
quillity reflected the highest credit upon that civil autho-
rity which had the chief conduct of affairs. (Hear.) I may
mention here, and I hope that the announcement will be
received with satisfaction by your lordships—that in con-
sideration of the services of Mr. Frere and Mr. Mont-
gomery her Majesty has been pleased to direct that there
should be conferred upon them the civil knight comman-
dership of the Order cf the Bath; and I think your lord-
ships will be of opinion that that distinction has never
been conferred more worthily. (Cheers.) To one more
civilian it is necessary that I should refer, and that is to a
gentleman who has been charged with a most arduous and
delicate duty—Sir Rol'ert Hamilton, who has been agent to
the Governor-General in Central India. It is difficult to
form an adequate idea of the importance attached to the dif-
ficult and delicate service which such persons had to per-
form. It is the duty of the agent of the Governor-General ac-
credited to the several native states to watch with the most
'unremitting vigilance every symptom which in the slightest
degree threatens a variation from their allegiance or a falling
off in friendship on the part of those States ; to be ready to
confirm the wavering; to stimulate those who are disposed
to hang back ; to keep in awe those who might be inclined,
if their saw a favourable opportunity, to deviate from
their allegiance; to watch with the most anxious jea-
lousy every symptom of wavering, and every indicaiton
of intrigue, in which I need not tell your lordships every
Oriental is a great proficient; to watch and counter-
' manoeuvre those intrigues ; to keep tranquillity unbroken ;
to overawe sonic, and to persuade others—those aro duties
requiring most delicate and most careful management, and
those are the duties which throughout these troubles in.
Central India have been performed, and successfully per-
formed, by Sir Robert Hamilton. His name consequently
appears in the vote which I have the honour this night to
propose. (Cheers.) In turning from the civil to the.mili-
tary branch of the service, and in asking your lordships to
give the thanks of the house to those gallant officers
whose names are contained in the resolutions upon the
table, I am aware—and I rejoice that it is so—that I shall
not have to call your lordships' attention to any cir-
cumstances of such deep and thrilling interest and of such
painful excitement as those which were commemorated on
the last occasion when a vote of thanks was proposed in
this house. We have had, thank God, during the last year,
or year and a half, to record no such horrors as the mas-
sacre of Cawnpore, no such atrocities as those that were
committed before the siege of Delhi. We have not had to
watch with that painful anxiety with which, day by day,
during'the progress of that memorable siege, we waited to
see whether it was possible that success could crown efibrts
made with means so disproportionate to the opposition
which they had to encounter. Nor have Ito relate to your
lordships the painful interest with which we received, mail
by mail, the accounts of that marvellous advance of the
lamented Havelock. We have not had to speculate in
agonising suspense over the probable fate of the garrison of
Lucknow, or to thrill with satisfaction at their first and,
temporary relief, to have our hopes again dashed by the
news that thegarrison was still beleaguered, and at length to
havethem crowned with satisfaction by the announcement of
the final and complete relief ofthat heroic garrison. (Cheers.)
From objects of such thrilling interest, from events occa-
sioning such deep anxiety, the statements which I have now
to make to your lordihips will be altogether free. It will re-
late, indeed, to occurrences with regard to which the public
expectation has been aroused; but that expectation can
scarcely be said to have taken the form of anxiety, for since
the earlier days of the period to which I am about to refer
one unbroken chain of success has characterised our arms—
success engendering confidence, and to such an extent that
the slightest check has been regarded rather as an unlooked-
for disappointment by the public than as what might be
anticipated from the nature of the struggle in which we
have been engaged. (Hear, hear.) Happily also the period
to which I refer has not been marked by that lamentable
loss of distinguished lives which characterised the early
period of this revolt. (Cheers.) Doubtless many hive
fallen who have left a fearful gap in their own families and
private circles—many who, if they had been spared, might
have risen to the greatest' eminence, and have held the
highest stations in the public service; but of those who
have filled a place in the eye of the country there are com-
paratively few who have been cut off during the present
year. Three there are, to whom your lordship will permit
me to refer, by whose premature death the country has
sustained the deepest loss. Mention has been already
made in this house, but this is an occasion on which
that mention may well be repeated of the distin-
' guished services of the late lamented Sir William Peel.
(Cheers.) To a bravery which almost verged on rashness,
to a determination which bordered on the heroic, he joined
those high qualities of frankness of disposition, openness of
manner, cordiality of feeling and great private virtue which
endeared him to his own friends and these who imme-
diately surrounded him as much as his public character
entitled him to the respect and admiration of his country.
(Cheers.) Two others there were of a somewhat dif-
ferent character, in whose premature death India, at all
events, has sustained a most serious loss. I allude to
two men, both of them model chiefs of irregular forces,
which they themselves had formed and disciplined
from among tribes and natives who had not long be-
fr?re been our enemies, over whom by their valour, their
rigid discipline, and at the same time
.by their careful
attention to their real wants comforts, desires, and even pre-
judices, they had obtained an influence which was all but
marvellous, and which enabled them to lead their troops so
formed and disciplined into any danger and into any con-
flict with as much confidence as if they had been British
soldiers. (Hear, hear.) One of these men has met a soldier's
death, the other uullappilY has succumbed under labours

which were too great even Tor his vast powers, but it will
be long before the pet* of India, I am sure it will be long
before the Punjab arid' Scindo will lose the memory of
Hodson's Guides and Jacob's Horse. (Cheers.) With
these exceptions, the list of those heroic men who have
fallen in the service of their country since last year is hap-
pily small. I turn with satisfaction to the more pleasing
task of commemorating and recording the services of those
who are still to receive the reward of their distinguished
valour. I need' say nothing in this house of the merits
of Lord Clyde. His former services spoke trumpet-
tongued for themselves, and his career in India
throughout, has thoroughly vindicated the high
military character with which he went out to India, at a
moment's notice, at the call of his Sovereign. (Hear, hear.)
Cool and cautious in coming to a determination, to such an
extent that superficial critics rentured to put upon him the
charge of slowness, always eager and anxious to spare the
lives and labour of his men, unsparing even to recklessness
of his own exposure, Wary in forming his plans, sagacious
in making his combinations, he was determined not to strike
before the time came for striking an effectual blow; but
when the.time came the blow was struck, and it was with
the full force of an entire campaign. (Hear.) He knew
when to strike, and those whom he encountered found that he
knew how to strike. (Cheers.) Though it would be impos-
sible for me to attempt even a faint sketch of the operations
during the period to which I refer, it would, perhaps be more
convenient to your lordships, in order to bring under your
notice the names of the officers who have so greatly distin-
guished themselves, that I should shortly remind you of
the principal features- of the campaign since the last occa-
sion upon- which your lordships were called on to pass a
similar vote of thanks. That period, if I recollect rightly,
was immediately after the final relief of Lucknow, The
Commander-in-Chief at that time found himself entirely
unable, from the paucity of his numbers, to do more than
withdraw the garrison and the helpless women and chil-
dren, and in doilig that he performed a great achievement.
(Hear, hear.) He felt it necessary to fall back with his own
forces on Cawnpore, to make preparations for future offen-
sive operations, by clearing the line of his communication,
and by establishing a new basis of operations. He arrived
at Cawnpore barely in time to succour and relieve General
Windham, who was hard pressed by the rebels from Gwa-
lior; and his opportune appearance enabled us to turn
what, at all events, was a doubtful day, into a signal and
satisfactory victory, That occasion was the first—and to
one in his position they must be rare—on which the own-
raand of a division was held in person by that gallant offi-
cer, Sir W. Mansfield, the Chief of the Staff. (Hoar, hear,
hear.) At the battle of Cawnpore Sir W. Mansfield
commanded one of the divisions, and contributed mainly
to the success of the day. In that battle another gallant
officer signally distinguished himself, Colonel Walpole of
the Rifles, to whose efforts and to whose skilful manage-
ment of his troops General Windham frankly stated the
chief merit of the success was owing. In recognition, as I
apprehend, of that service the Commander-in-Chief ap-
pointed Colonel Walpole to the command of a division to
pursue the rebels, and in that command he has since re-
mained. In speaking of Sir William Mansfield your lord-
ships will remember how arduous, how important, and how
confidential are the duties of a Chief of the Staff. He has not
the opportunities, as other men have, of distinguishing .him-
self in separate commands ; but, under the eye of his chief,
acting in the name of his chief, he has perpetual occasions
of performing the most signal services ; and, without the
assistance of an able, energetic; and thouroughly trustworthy
Chief of the Staff, no commander-in-chief could hope to
carry on a campaign with any prospect of success. It is
sufficient for me on this occasion to quote the words in
which the Commander-in-Chief expresses himself as to the
value of Sir William Mansfield's services. Writing in
March, 1853, after the Battle of Cawnpore, ho says :
" I have now the pleasing task of communicating to your
lordship the name of an officer to whom not only I, as a com-
manding general, but to -whom in truth the service at large
is under great obligations—Major-General Mansfield, tte
Chief of the Staff, whose labour has been unceasing, AT,hose
abilities are of the highest order, and have been of the
greatest use to me during the campaign. It is impossible
for me to praise this officer too highly, or to recommend
him sufficiently to the protection of yon:r lordship and the
Government."
(Cheers.) Immediately after the defeat of the Gwalior
rebels at Cawnpore the Conninander-in-Chief prepared for
the resumption of offensi-ee operations. He proceeded to
the Doala awl eapturefi Futtyghur, and then proceeded to
accomplish the e,"re,:it operation of the final siege of Lucknow.
He had at that, lime under his command an amount of force
which was entirely disproportioned to the enterprise on
which !e was entering. I think I am right in saying that the
Ere.opean troops with him did not amount to more than
13,000 or 14,000 men—certainly considerably under 20,000.
They were about to be met and supported by the Nepaulese
forces under Jung Bahadoor, which amounted to a con-
siderable number, but upon whom it was not a matter of
absolute certainty that entire reliance could be placed. It
is due to that gallant commander and his troops to say that,
although circumstances from time to time arose which
might have seemed to cast suspicion upon them, they have
never swerved from their engagements, but performed
their part honestly and faithfully. (Hear.) I attribute
that to the wholesome influence exercised upon their minds,
and especially upon Jung Bahadoor, by having the oppor-
tunity of personally witnessing the extent of the power and
resources and the resistless force of the country. (Hear.)
Immediately under the Commander-in-Chief, and after the
Chief of the Staff, was Sir James Outram, who had been
left in command at Alumbagh. General Franks was fight-
ing his way from the other side to join in the siege. The
artillery was under the command of Sir Archdale Wilson.
Sir Robert Napier was in command of the Engineers, and
the chief divisions were under the command of Sir E. Lu-
iard, Sir Hope Grant, and General Walpole. I mention
these names because, though the statement which I have
to make:may be unavoidably long (but not longer than the
occasion demands), I wish to refer in detail to the services
which each has performed. (Hear, hear.) The character
of Sir James Outram is perfectly well known. Your lord-
ships will not yet have forgotten the generous forbear-
ance with which, when he met the late lamented Havelock
at the termination of his successful march, he abstained
from superseding him in his command until the final relief
of the garrison, and left that gallant officer the glory
of the success which he had so nobly achieved. After the
retreat of the Commander-in-Chief Sir James Outram was
left in a most exposed and perilous position. He was left
with a small force in the occupation of Alumbagh, exposed
to constant assaults from foes outnumbering him ten times,
which on every occasion were successfully repllled
Until the Commander-in-Chief returned to the siege
of Lucknow Sir James Outram maintained himself at
Alumbagh, and in so maintaining himself made it clear
to the natives of India that they were not to sup-
pose that the retirement of the Commander-in-Chief was
anything but merely temporary. Against any idea that the
withdrawal of Lord Clyde was anything of a triumph to
them, the position of Sir James Outram was an astounding
protest, and it was a standing menace against Lucknow,
which was carried into effect before no long time. (Cheers.)
I think that this may be the fitting opportunity for calling
attention to the circumstances under which he joined in that
siege. Sir Thomas Franks was engaged on the other side of
the Gogra, and had to force his way through hostile troops.
In so doing that gallant officer exhibited qualities of the
highest order, and qualities the more remarkable, because he
succeeded in surpassing the native troops in that in which
they are certainly pre-eminent—viz., rapidity and secrecy
of movement. By the rapidity of his movements he suc-
ceeded in meeting two important bodies of the rebels in
detail, defeating both on the same day and preventing
their junction, and fighting a third battle on the next day
or the next day but ono. Having fought three successful
actions in the course of three days he was in time to give
his valuable assistance at the siege of Lucknow. (Hear,
hear.) The course which Lord Clyde pursued, and which,
if I, as an improfessional man,'may venture humbly to
express my opinion, appears to have been a wise and
humane course, was not<to risk the lives of his soldiers by
any premature assault or attempt at storming the town,
where great loss muschaxe ensued, but to trust mainly to
his artillery for success. The artillery, breaching walls and
battering down building after bulling, and narrow street
after narrow street, directed: by the persevering and active
energy of the engineers, mainly contributed to the success-
ful and almost bloodless capture of Lucknow. (Hear, hear.)
It was impossible for the rebels to withstand the fire
of the artillery, and they took an early opportunity,
which the smallness „:of our force prevented our
impeding, of evacuating the town, leaving an al-
most bloodless victory, and thereby vindicating
the sagacity and wisdom of the course which Lord Clyde
pursued. (Hear, hear.) SirArchdale Wilson was already
immortalised by his command at the siege of Delhi, but I
think it right, with regard to his services, again to quote
from Lord Clyde, who' has thus expressed himself :
" The merits of Sir Archdale Wilson are too well known
to gain anything by encomium from me; but I may be per-
mitted to express my satisfaction at having been able to
avail myself of the assistance of this most distinguished
officer. The effective'fire of the artillery during the long
operations, which depended so much on the management of
that arm, elicited general admiration."

Another officer, Who commanded a division under the
Commander-in-Chief at the !siege of Lucknow was a very
distinguished and able officer, Sir Edward Lugard. (Hear.)
He has recently been compelled by the state of his health
to return to this country. I trust he has already consider-
ably benefitted in health in so doing, and I tun only express-
ing the feelings of the illuitrious duke on the cross benches
(the Duke of Cambridge) when I mention the satisfaction
which I am Bur* he has felt at being able to replace the
valuable services of Sir Henry Storks in a department of
the War-office by one so efficient to discharge the duties on
which he has entered as Sir E. Lugard. (Hear.) It must be
a great satisfaction to find that, although obliged to retire
from active service, the services of Sir E. Lugard are not lost
to 'the public, wad I trust they will be long continued.
I have mentioned the names of most of those officers who
shortly after the siege of Lucknow, from one cause or
another, returned to this country, or at all events quitted
the field to assist in the council, or in other civil duties.
After the capture of Lucknow, when unfortunately the cir-
cumstances to which I have referred had the effect of driving
and dispersing the rebels but at the same time spreading
them over a great extent of country, where from their num-
bers they might do great mischief, one question became a
matter of anxious consideration, and probably noble lords
opposite will recollect it was made a subject of suspicion that
differences of opinion and disputes had arisen as to the course
to be pursued, between the Governor-General and the Com-
mander-in-Chief. There was a most important question to
be decided upon which strong arguments could bo urged on
both sides. Two lines of policy might be taken. Having
possessed ourselves of Lucknow, we might have applied the
whole force otour army to consolidating that conquest to
obtain the complete subjugation of the whole kingdom of
Oude. That object suggested itself in the first instance to
the Commander-in-Chief; but other considerations, not-
withstanding the late period of the year and the approach
of great heats, seemed to render it more expedient that a
different course should be pursued. The first impression
was to leave the insurgents during the hot weather and the
heavy rains in Rohilcund, and to keep them cooped up
there until the operations in Oude were completed;
but on
the other hand, it was represented that in R hilcund the
population generally was very well and favourably dis-
posed towards the British Government, and consequently
that it would be a poor return for the fidelity oft friendly
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was not one which in the opinion of the military authori-
ties was of sufficient eminence to entitle him to so much
honour, but I am sure the illustrious duke will not be slow
to testify his sense of the manner is which Brigadier Jones
supported Major-General Walpole, and contributed to the
successes which were achieved in tohileund. Another Ail
cor of YorY great distinction Was despatched in a different

direction. That officer is one who, from the commencement
of the revolt, has always filled a prominent place in the
military annals of the time. He has commanded
with unfailing skill, and has probably been mentioned
more frequently (perhaps with one exception) than any
other officer in the whole list. He was engaged m constant
and almost always successful contests with the enemy from
first to last, and from the final relief of Lucknow (town to
the latest period the exertions of Sir H. Grant have been
unceasing. (Cheers.) Between the 233 of February, 1868,
and the 30th of Juue, 1858, he was engaged in no less than
six general actions with the enemy, and on the 25th of No-
vember, after the rains, in the renewed campaign, he
crowned his great deeds by the signal defeat of a large bodl
of insurgents whom he drove into if not across the Gogra.
(Cheers.) I now pass to an officer whose name stands pre-
eminent to those I have had the honour of mentioning, and
I should not have been so long in bringing it before your
notice, had he not held a command in a district of the
country entirely different, and in which he exercised
supreme command. It affords me additional pleasure to be
able to speak of Sir Hugh Rose in the immediate presence
of one of his nearest relatives. (Cheers.) That officer has
earned for himself the highest and most distinguished cha-
racter. (Cheers.) It would be long indeed to enumerate all
the distinguished achievements of that gallant officer, but
from the 29th of January to the 22d of June, a period' less
than six months, here is a tolerable list :
"He commanded the Central India field, constantly en-
gaged in action with the enemy. Among their achieve-
ments may be enumerated the reduction of the fort of Rath-
gur, the relief of Sanger, the siege and storm of the fort of
Chandairee, the siege, investment, and storm of the fortress
of Jhansi, the capture of Calpee, the general action on the
Betwa."
After these achievements Sir Hugh Rose, exhausted by the
labours of the campaign, and sinking under serious illness,
laid down his command. But, at the very moment when
he was withdrawing from the command of the force which
had so highly distinguished itself, he heard that the rebels
had seized upon the Fort of Gwalior. Placing himself
again at the head of his force, Sir Huge Rose, between the
16th and 22d of June, stormed the Gwalior cantonments,
fought the -general action before Gwalior, and assaulted,
and captured that city. (Cheers.) To strn up the achieve-
ments of the gallant body that Sir Hugh Rose had the
honour of commanding, and in his own eloquent words,
they "marched 1,084 miles, took upwards of 150 pieces of
artillery, took one entrenched camp, one fortified city, one
partly entrenched town, fought 16 successful actions, cap-
-20 forts, and never sustained a check." (Cheers.) My
lords, in the operations which were conducted with so much
skill and gallantry by Sir Hugh Rose, he was most effi-
ciently aided by Major-General Roberts and Major-General
Whitlock. Those officers greatly distinguished themselves
under the command of and in ca-operation with Sir H.
Rose, and they were actively engaged in pursuing and in
many cases capturing and destroying, those bands of
rebels which, dispersed over the country, caused considerable
annoyance, although they never ventured to make any
head against her Majesty's forces. I cannot
.pass over an
officer who in a separate and well-known district performed
efficient service—l mean Major-General Sir John Michel,
of the Mhow Field Force' who with the force under his corn -
mand defeated the rebels under Tantia Topee and took 27
guns. (Cheers.) Since that time Sir J. Michel, with other
officers under his command, has been most actively and
zealously engaged in pursuing the fugitive bands which
have infested that part ofthe country. One name more must
be mentioned—the name of one who fought at the side of
and under the Commander-in-Chief at Lucknow, who shared
the labours, anxieties, and dangers of the period which fol-
lowed the relief of Lucknow, and who subsequently, placing
himself under Sir H. Rose, co-operated in the capture of
Gwalior, and defeated the rebels on that and various occa-
siont—a name that has an hereditary claim on the honours
not only of this country but of India—the name of Sir
Robert Napier. (Cheers.) I need not recount in detail his
pursuit of the enemy after the capture of Gwalior at the
head of a small cavalry force, with which he charged the
enemy, defeated them, took 24 guns, and intercepted the
return of the rebels. (Cheers) I have to apologise to
your lordships for the length of time during which I have
occupied your attention. (Cheers.) I feel how imper-
fectly and inadequately I, a civilian and an unprofessional
man, have done justice to the gallant officers whose names
I have mentioned, but I thought, in my position, I had better
risk the infliction of a lengthened discourse upon your
lordships than seem to undervalue services which cannot
be too highly estimated. I have now gone
through the list of those distinguished officers to whom
I ask your lordships to pay the tribute of your
thanks, and seldom on any occasion has a list of more dis-
tinguished men been presented for such a purpose, or one
with regard to Indian warfare which could be more appro-
priately headed by the name of Lord Clyde or more appro-
priately terminated by the equally honoured name of Napier.
(Cheers.) Of course, in the selection of the names to be
brought under the consideration of Parliament, to receive
the gratitude of Parliament and the country, it is necessary
to draw some line of distinction, and to lay down some
rules in order to avoid any invidiousness which might fol-
low from the selection ofindividual names without refer-
ence to position or responsibility. But I doubt not that, if
any military authority should follow me, many names
not included in the list before will receive that testi-
mony of approval and approbation, the value of which
will be infinitely enhanced when coming from a military
authority. I shall not presume to select from the list of
those men many who have eminently distinguished them-
selves, but who are not upon the votes for any special notice
or special thanks. In the general vote your lordships are
asked to grant the thanks of the house to "the other gal-
lant officers in her Majesty's army and navy, and also of
her Majesty's Indian forces, fer the intrepidity, zeal, and
endurance evinced by them In the arduous operations of
the late Indian campaign"—(cheers)—and your lordships
are asked to vote, "That this house doth highly approve
and acknowledge the valour, self-devotion, and brilliant
services of the non-commissioned officers and private sol-
diers, both European and native, who have taken part in
the suppression of the recent disturbances in India. I
pause, my lords, to say that by an inadvertence ,which I
regret there has been an omission in this resolution. In the
previous resolution your lordships are asked to thank the
officers of her Majesty's army and navy, but inadvertently,
in the fourth resolution, no notice has been taken of a not
very large number of her Majesty's forces, but who in pro-
portion to their numbers rendered most distinguished ser-
vices—l mean the " seamen and marines," and I propose to
put them in the fourth resolution, as equally deserving of
our thanks with the European and native army. (Cheers.)
I will only say, in conclusion, that at the present period we
may congratulate ourselves upon the complete and absolute
return of tranquillity in India, and the restoration of peace.
I think I saw the other day that, in a comparatively recent
period in Oude, there have been something like 1,000 forts
already captured, something like 480 cannon already taken,
and a milhon stand of arms. The subjugation of Oude, and
the restoration of our authority in India, is now complete.
So far as military operations go, we have entirely accom-
plished our task. But the experience of the last two years
teaches us that there is yet before us a more arduous and
more serious duty than that which we have accomplished.
You have subjugated the natives of India, and impressed
them with a sense of your irresistible power, and your reso-
lution to maintain that power. But that which remains Is
more difficult. You have yet to subjugate their hearts and
affections to your rule, and as you have impressed them
with a sense of your irresistible power, so you must
impress them with an equal sense of the benevolence
and justice of your rule. (Hear, hear.) We have an
arduous task to perform, and we have to apply ourselves
diligently, sedulously, and anxiously to a duty which must
occupy us for many years—namely, to restore, establish,
and confirm the blessings of good government for India.
(Cheers.) We shall, with all our military force—and it will
be necessary for many years to maintain it—find our sway
unquiet and our possession of India uncertain, unless we
govern that country not for the advantage of the few but
i en
re s
l d ()e
s oe fn the many—unlesstal condition we
of the population
endeavourpuieitoetadn-
foval; tcheethhapemp e
which, under Providence, is placed beneath our rule—un-
, less we endeavour to develops the resources of that exten-
sive and naturally wealthy country, and unless by a firm
and temperate sway we satisfy the natives that, if we are
masters, we are friendly and benevolent masters, to whom
it is not only their fate but also their interest to be faithful
and obedient subjects. (Cheers.) I believe that, by act-
ing on the wise and humane principles expressed in her
Majesty's most gracious proclamation, and endeavouring
to heal the wounds and obliterate the scars inflicted
during this unhappy revolt, we shall best consult the
interests and honour of this country. And. I trust, 1111
der the blessing of Divine Province, that the posses-
sions reconquered for us by the valour of our military force
will, to the benefit of India, long be maintained, supported,
and confirmed by the liberal and judicious wisdom of
the statesmen of this country. (Loud cheers.) The noble
earl concluded by moving the following resolutions :
" That the thanks of this house be given to the Right
Hon. Charles John Viscount Canning, G.C.8., her Ma-
jesty's Viceroy and. Governor-General of India; the Right
Hon. Lord John Elphinstone, G.C.8., Governor of the
Presidency of Bombay ; Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence,
Bart., G.C.8., late lieutenant-governor of the Punfaub ;
Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, Bart., agent to the
Governor-General in Central India ; Henry Bartle Edward
Frere, Esq., commissioner of Scinde ; Robert Montgomery,
Esq., late chief commissioner in Oude—for the ability
with which they have severally employed the resources at
their disposal for the re-establishment of peace in her Ma-
jesty's Indian dominions.
" That the thanks of this house be given to General the
Right Hon. Lord Clyde, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief in
India; Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, Bart.
G.C.B. ; Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B. ;
Major-General Henry Gee Roberts; Major-General
George Cornish Whitlock ; Major-General Sir Archdale
Wilson, Bart., K.C.B. ; Major-General Sir James Hope
Grant, K C.B. ; Major-General Sir William Rose Mans-
field, K.C.B. ; Major-General Sir Thomas Hart() Franks,
K.C.B. ; Major-General Sir Edward Lugard,BK.o 101
Brigadier-General Sir
Major-General Sir John Michel, H.C.B. ;
rig er-
General Robert Walpole, C.B. ; Briga
Robert Napier, K.C.B.—for the eminent skill,
military
opera-
tions courage, and
perseverance displayed by them during the
effectually suppressed. be iven to the othe
" That the thanks of this house
by which the late insurrection in India has been
army and navy, and also
gallant officers of her Majesty'
the ard o •
endu ce evinced by them uus operations of th
her Majesty's Indian forces;f'esrthe intrepidity, zeal ano
late Indian campaign.
" That this house cloth highly approve and acknowledge
the valour, self-devotion, and brilliant services of the non-
commissioned officers and private soldiers, both European
and native, who have taken part in the suppression of the
recent disturbances in India; and that the same be signified
to them by the commanders of their several corps, who are
desired to thank them for their gallant behaviour."
Earl GRANVILLE, in seconding the motion, said the
speech of the noble earl had not only contained a most ac-
curate statement of the services which their lordships were
called upon to thank, but it had also been marked by
complete absence of anything like personal or party feeling
It was therefore hardly necessary for him (Lord Granville)
to add anything to the noble earl's address ; but it was desir
able that some one on the opposition side of the house should
express his entire concurrence in a proceeding which would
no doubt excite great interest in the country, and still more
in India. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible not to recurto the
vote of thanks moved by his noble and gallant friend last
Year ; for there were one or two matters on which they could
not look without satisfaction. On referring to the list of
distinguished persons who were thanked last year, they
would not find that one had died ; and not one had done an
act that in the slightest degree tended to tarnish his honour;
while many of them had doubled and trebled their claims
upon the thanks of their lordships. (Cheers.) The first
resolution referred to the civilians ; and he had listened with
heartfelt pleasure and satisfaction to the singularly jus
uestio
q
titled to the thanks o
and accurate tribute which had been paid by the noble ea r a
to the Governor-General. Last year there was
whether Lord Canning was then en
o.ee to
find
that
the
the house ; but he (Lord Granville) rei °1
be buried*br
vion. He would not express aPY opinion tof his own gs t
memory of these discussions might now in o