The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

REWARDS TO OUR INDIAN GE! ERALS.

(From the Times)
The honours of our Indian heroes are before us—
a G.C.B. to Sir John Lawrence, S. C. Bs. to Have-
lock and Wilson.. If these are instalments we have
nothing more to say. We are neither fi lgetty nor
impatient, we can wait for justice,—we can wait a
proper, a reksonable time. The Indian affair is nut
yet over. But it should be understood that we are
waiting—that the British public watches with a
generous and keen jealousy the re wards of its faithful
Indian servants, that it claims justice for them, and
will be content with nothing less. Meantime we
c-an only remark that the man who has—so far as
one man can be singled out fur such praise—saved
India, has got just the reward of the General who
did not take the Reda.n ; that Havelock and Wilson
have got for the relief of Lucknow and the capture
of D.-lhi just what Lord Lucan and Lord Cardin an
and Sir Richard Airey got for doing—we all know
what—in the Crimea ; and that Van Corti melt and
Chamberlain are C.B.,—an honour distributed in
the late war by the dozen.
The country has formed its estimate of the services
of these men, and is not likely to recede frum it.
The country is proud of these men. Those espe-
cially who constitute t Ito Es -is and source of political
power, who dictate the policy and govern the Go-
vernment of England, the middle classes, are proud
of these men. They see in these men not only use-
ful instruments, convenient tools, agents fur particu-
lar services which are wanted, labourers who must
be paid their wages, but men who are an honour, a
boast, and a pride to the nation. They see a cha-
racter in them which demands honour as its natural
reward, and which can bear the weight of honour,
carry off any quantity of it, and wear the crown
nobly. It may suit poets and romancers to repre-
sent the aristocracy of a country as the natural pri-
vileg -d recipient of honour, •to describe a nation as
wholly depending upon its aristocracy for all the
great and brilliant feats which are required for
maintaining its supremacy or rank in the family
of nations. This is the language of old romance.
Tee " nobles" do everything there ; they are the
only men who t4lee castles and cities, and storm
forts and win battles ; they are the only men who
have heads, or wills, or aspirations, or energies, or
anything of which the human race is proucr; they
the show speci-
eoni what our nature
mare
nst the
ofpatternsth e
gaol, of
tthhee
samples
was designed to reach ; they fulfil the °retained
type of humanity, exhibit all its great traits, and
do all the great acts—everything that is difficult,
grand, and lofty. No presumptuous plebeian is
allowed this privilege—high action is not meant for
such as he ; he must stand by as a spectator, and see
the " nobles" act, and execute everywhere the task
of the champion or the saviour of the State. They
alone eves are allowed to sacrifice themselves, and
are endowed with the spirit of martyrs. Such
present may
yt
almost say of
age in which
were the Horatii and Curiatii, and such was
theC modernuttiusof tkweorOldf
ldbe eWoorrld—w
the
we live.

This is ancient thought, but we may say with
perfect certainty now that this is obsolete thought.
It was very natural for poets to talk thus—it was
convenient ; perhaps it was once true ; perhaps
noble blood did once fulfil this work. At any
rate, we do not grudge romance its machinery
fir creating interest, and its dramatis personce of
Knights, Princes, and Baron.. \Ve are amused
with it all, and take it to express the sentiment of
the day ; and still less would we cancel one page
of the world's past history. But, whether or not
this may have been true once, it is certain that it is
not true now. If this was ever history, it is
now fiction. As a matter of fact the middle
classes now produce that typo of mind which may
be called the governing one—that character which
rules mankind, which accomplishes great objects'
which marshals means to encl.', gives life to a na-
tion, and produces the great events and the noble
achievements of the day. There is not one single
feature, intellectual or moral, which was once
thought to attach to the operations of the nobility
alone, which does not every whit as fully and truly
attach to the caree.s of our Indian generals, born
and bred in the middle ranks, and imbued with the
whole tone, temper, and ethics of middle life.
There ii not one single feature of euergh
or self-
sacrifice, or daring—not one single solid, not one
single brilliant trait, which belongs in history or
romance to the deeds and careers of aristocracies iu
publ c, civil, or military life, at home or abroad, in
the Senate or in the field, which does not belong
to the career of Neill, Nicholson and Havelock.
These middle-class men do exactly now,
step for.
step, what the representatives of aristocracy were
once alone thought capable of doing. There is no
dtry and no service, no force of brain or of will, no
mettle, no fight, which was once attributed to Ivo-
bility alone which these n e r'o not display. These
men do all that any nubl.,3 in the world ever did.
Open any history and see if any prvileged order has
don) :flora for a country than they:
Here, thee, we say,
is a e true arist:;cracy of Eng-
land ; so far as our noble families come up to ring
type they belong to this aristo racy ; the path is
open to them ; r ut to speak of them at this time of
day as in exclusive possess;on of thistype is the mere
froth of romance. Tnird-rate nove'ists, who sue-
c-ed to the obsolete theories as footmen do to the
ant'dßated dress, the powder, wigs, velvet breeches,
arid silk stockings of former days, or who wish to
insi mate themselves into the circles of fashion by
fla tery, may snarl at the middle classes of Euglend,
may dope, ia'e middle life to exalt upper, may lodge
all th magnanimity of the nation in the one r.nd
a 1 its emptiness, feebleness, and vulgarity in the
other • but this is the mere dream arid bubble of
a selfish brain in the face of facts. 'No theory of
the exclusive greatness of Nevilles and Grevilles

inti De Are,e Burg: s ca:i stand ag:t-in.-t
facts. It must vanish like any other dr;:am of as-
trology or alcbymy, like old geography, or old
mechanics, or old astronomy, or old medicine. The
revisit iry of the governing type of character is the
British nation, and no one class singly in it.
Our fndian Generals, then, we say, are the proper
objects of the highest horours. High honours do
not suit our aristocracy &one, though some may
think so ; they suit those men of the middle classes
also ; they suit them admirably, suit them per-
fectly. Thera is no disproportion, and there
urdl be no incongruity. These men have earned
honour well, and they cm wear it well. Nor let us
forget one particular honour appropriate to the
dead. General Neill has left a family behind him.
A national provision for them, and that a generous
one, is an honour whoh such a General can justly
claim from the tomb. Such a provision will be an
honour to the dead and to the living,—to him who
earned it, and to those who receive it. The or-
phans of our soldiers are the children of the nation,
and their national adoption, while it is their neces-
sary support, is also by its associations their pride
and glory, the noblest of all family escutcheons and

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

(Prom the Daily iVeiv3.)

When the ministerial organs tell us that there is
so much unavoidable business to transact that we
must not expect Lord Palmerston to fulfil his pledge
by bringing in a Reform Bill, the answer to that
plea in abatement is—let Lord Palmerston, now
that he has summoned Parliament in December,
only go to work vigorously on the ordinary business
of the country in the second week of January, and
there will be ample time for India, the Bank ques-
tion, Military Improvement, and the Reform Bill
too. But if Lord Palmerston refuse to pursue that
obviously natural and useful course, if he have only
summoned Parliament to release the Government
and the Bank from the legal consequences of vio-
lating the law, it he mean afterwards to adjourn
the Legislature until February—then we may be
pretty sure that his policy is to escape from the
honourable fulfilment of the most unpleasant under-
taking he ever contracted. It is iu this sense that
we must understand the article in yesterday's Times,
which so suddenly changed the ground on which
the postponement of the Reform Bill is advocated,
from the indifference of the country and the per-
tinacity of Lord J. Russell to mere want of time.
Thera will be no want of time if time be properly
husbanded and properly used, and if there be a
hearty desire to deal with the great question ef
Parliamentary Reform. But there will be plenty
of opportunity to waste time if Lord Palmerston
desire to wriggle out of the engagement, and if the
Liberal party will endure the humiliation of being
trifled with on a question so momentous.
These attempts to get rid of the question ought
to be very instructive to the Liberal Party. Lest
week this subject was indefinitely sent adrift with-
out the slightest reference to Lord Palmerston's
promise, on the ground that no human being in
the kingdom but Lord- J. Russell cared a siraw
about the electoral franchise or representative dis-
tribution, or any such i Ile' unworthy phantasies.
But now that it is seen and felt that the country is
just as deeply interested in the question as ever it
was ; now that there is evidence arising on
,every
side that the subject still lives in men's hearts ;
now that there is reason to apprehend distress,
political agitation, the attempt to get rid of a Re-
form Bill altogether is dropped ; and the gains
now is another session's postponement because of
other engagements. It is difficult to say which sub-
terfuge
is the more discreditable.

Tounavoida.t.le postponements the country must
submit ; to a,ljournment on the part of one whose
zeal and devotion to the cause even his detractors
are obliged to admit, but, admitting, pervert to his
depreciation, it has already submitted. But, to post-
ponements which sound thus false and fraudulent
—to adjournments that are obviously insincere and
fictitious—to delay thus inconsistently sought,
and unaccompanied by any zeal or devotion to
the cause itself—to delay urged and asked for, not
by the avowed friends, but by the secret opponents
of substantial Reform of Parliament, the Liberal
party can never submit or agree with honour or
self-respect.
The older and more experienced members of that
party are not to be thus deluded. We entreat the
younger, the less thoughtful, the less experienced
members not to be cajoled by these insidious
prt'mptings into any premature expression which
may be construed into indifference or approval of
postponement. It i.a easy to conceive that even
some pledged Liberals may, thus urged, be willing
to have a fulfilment of their pledges deferred. But
there are men in the Rouse of Commons, they may
rest assured, so earnest on the question, so true to
themselves, so simply honest, and so determined—
and those men amongst the most eminent of tie
party—that they will not permit the subject to be
shelved, but will test the honesty and courage of
the Liberals by moving a vote of want of confidence
if there b 3 any tricky evasion on the part of the
Government.

For the suspicions which have arisen that Lord
Palmerston means to play the country false,
Ministers have only the subserviency of their
organs to his supposed and assumed intentions to
blame. If, however, thesa suspicious prove true,
a serious and irreparable feud in the Liberal party
is impending. A party cannot, even were
its morality su low as to.di,poso it thereto, live on
expewations. Want of time is an excuse that can
be always resorted to where there is an indisposi-
I lion to act. No man cm bespeak a session of Par-
' lialw•nt f,r any partcular subjee. When a ques-
tion is ripe for legislation, then is the fitting time
for legislation. And who will say that the question
of Parliamentary Reform is not. ripe ?
Postpone the 'question against this approaching
session, and so tar from seeming for it au oppor-
tunity the session thereafter, the reverse will be
found to be the case. The question will then be
found to have receded still further from Parlia-
mentary grasp. There is no time like the present,
when we have a House of Commons prepared for
its deliberation by the pledges of a great party and
the promises of a powerful Minister.
The Dories are plucking up their courage again ;
and who can predicate that in the course of the
next session they may not be able to defeat even
the present. strong Administration? Who can say
with any confidence that Lord Palmerston, whose
plighted faith we now possess, wiil be Minister in
1859 ? " Nature's copy is not e7erne" in him, all
juvenescent as he is. In the midst of strength, great
even as his, we are in weakness ; and the leader of
the Cabinet of the day may be the head of Oppo-
sition only next month. Why, then, should the
Liberal party abandon the security it possesses now
that the time for its discharge is at hand, and for
the third time accept a promise on the future
which events may for the fourth time d'spwe of.
Let us be wise and firm. We have no right
to trifle with such a question as the representa-
tion of the people. Their due and proper repre-
sentation in Parliament constitute the very essence
of the Constitution. Befi re it all other questions
ars comparatively insignificant. And now that
we have a government bound to extend° the suf-
frage and re-distribute the representation, we
shall be the veriest of human dupes if we listen
to the miserable excuse for delay that they have
no tune. Want of time, indeed ! We must make
time for the Cabinet.

SUFFERERS FRON THE MUTINY IN INDIA.—It has
recently been ascertained that a person residing at Mar-
seilles has been practising' the most hearil-ss frauds on
the relatives of those who have fallen in India, or whose
fate is unknown. He probably varies the method of
effecting his base purpose to inset particular cases ; but
following appears to be his general mode of proceeding :
Ile addresses the relatives of persons whose death has
been reported fro n India, and infortns them :hat he has
privata information that the parties are not dead but in
a place of cancenirnent, and in want of money to enable
them to effect their escape. He then offers on receiving
a certain amount which he names to convey it to the
persons in je%,,ardy, and thus enable them to make their
way to
.a place of safety. It is important that all
whose friends are engaged in the suppression of the
mutinies should be cautioned against the attempts of tbis
worthless imposter, and it is hoped that he may yet be
brought under the power of the law, and suffer the
punishment he so richly deserves.
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ENG' 1811 ,SUBALI 231-0 N TO AUSTEIA.

(Front the Times )

An ariic'e appeared a few days since in tlics9
columns calling attonrin to a most improper
agreement between the British Government and
that of Austria respecting a line of telegraph to
be constructed from Ragusa throtigh Corfu to
Alexandria. Tt bad been stipulated, we eaid,
that if Austria would make - this line all the
communications of the British Government and
of the East India Company should be forwarded
exclusively by it in perpetuity. A contradiction
appeared in an evening paper which did not touch
the matter, and was, in fict, evasive. It is most
certain, we are sorry to say, that a convention has
ben made by which "Her Britannic Majesty's
Government gives the assurance that their tele-
graphic correspondence and that of the East India
Company shall be exclusively carried on by the
telegraph line of Alexandria and Corfu, anerttat as
long as the line is open they will never themselves
open a line in competition in that directimi." The
contradiction of the Globe only extended to the
transmission of the messages from Corfu to Eng-
land. It appears that these may be sent by way of
Cagliari and Marseilles, but between Alexandria
and Corfu the Austrian line will have a umplete
monopoly._
__

We can hardly imagine how a Government in a
free country could have been bold enough tc pledge
itself to a foreign State by such a monstrour agree-
ment. It would even be a bold exercise of Parlia-
mentary authority thus to presume to bind he na-
tion for an infinite term. Let us consider for a
moment what it amounts to. In no case, whatever
may be the nature of the intelligence or the impel t-
ance of the crisis, will the British and Indian
Governments communicate except by an Austrian
line, controlled entirely by Austrian officia.s. In no
case will the Government give any encousigement
to a British line in th 9 same direction, whativer may
he the wants of the community or the interertsof the
State. No line from Ma!ta to Alexandria, lit from
Algeria along the African coast, will receive the
support of the British Government, and if such
lines be constructed they will never be permi ted to
forward a Government message. The secreci with
which this Convention has been made duriig the
recess of Parliament, and without the slightest
:Allusion in any speech or newspaper, arils to
the surprise and suspicion with which it mug be
received. And when it is remembered that several
companies were ready to establish the recpsite
communication, and that the Government were
urged by no necessity to close with the ofi3r of
Austria, we are the more astonished. Wahli the
last few weeks the proposal of Turkey to mike a
line from Constantinople to the Persian Gu) was
rejected, although Omar Pasha has been r?at
Governor to Bagdad expressly to bring the wild
tribes into order. There is also in existence an
English company which obtained a firman :hrea
years since for a sea line from Constantinople to
Alexandria, and the claims of this companyhaye
also been rjected. In fact, while the Governnent
has had offers from every side, and might have
established two or three lines of communicatim, it
has rejected everything in order to advance this
project.

- The favoured line is a concession made bp, the
Viennese Government
.to Mr. Brett. Mr. Brett
is also to construct the line from Corfu tolta
and Cagliari, which may perhaps explain the con-
sent of the Treasury to send telegrams by this -outs
also. The Treasury recommended the plan of 'ailing
this line exclusively if Mr. Brett should obtain the
concession, and the Austrian Government would
not make the concession without a Convention be-
tween the two Governments to the effect that Eng-
land would use the line exclusively and in per-
petuity, would herself make a line from Suez to
India, and would bind herself to construct no
competing line. The only demand which was ob-
jected to was that the messages should be sent from
Corfu exclusively ti rough Ragusa and Vienna.
This was refused, and Mr. Brett's other telegraph
by Cagliari will have a share. We believe that
more than one person of high position and exten-
sive knowledge of the sabject has protested against
what has been done, and we trust that at the
meeting of Parliament the whole matter will be
fted with the closeness which its importance
demands.