The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1867.

Sir COLIN CAMPBELL this morning took his de-
parture for Hindostan, there to crush out with a
heel of iron the flames of Revolt lately kindled
by the Delhi insurgents. We give this glorious
intelligence first, because we believe the important
fact here announced will be accepted as glad
tidings indeed by the whole mass of our home
population. With Sir COLIN CAMPBELL as COM-
mander-in-Chief of " our Anglo-Indian army,

we need have no solicitude for the ulterior

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consequences of the terrible struggle which

we cannot but regard as only just now corn
rnencing—a life-and-death struggle for the main
tenance of our vast Asiatic Empire—a vital or a
deadly strife for the allegiance of 100,000,000 of
the subjects of our Constitutional Sovereign.
The latest intelligence from the far East—re-
ceived, so to speak, but a few hours since, yet
pu'Aished in our columns on Saturday evening—this
atest intelligence, we say, was in truth sufficiently
darming to• necessitate some bold and resolute
neasure like this (viz., the instant appointment
,f Sir COLIN CAMPBELL to the chief command of
,ur forces in Hindostan) on the part of our Home
Government. It reached Ministers—that disas-
trous news—late on Friday evening ; and was
formally taken into consideration by them at the
Cabinet Council on Saturday. So seriously taken
nto consideration, that already we see the result
Le this wise and instantaneous nomination of Sir
:OLIN CAMPBELL—one of the most heroic and
ilustrious of living soldiers—to the imminently
t)erilous and responsible post of Commander-in-
:illief of the whole of our military forces
Ai the Indian peninsula. No wonder the
tdvisers of her MAJESTY have acted for once thus
resolutely, without temporising or procrastination.
the situation is altogether too full of danger and
sterna to admit of one moment's unnecessary
lelay. Ministers have seen this, and have acted
accordingly. It would have been incomprehensible,
wholly and astoundingly incomprehensible, had
they acted otherwise. For what is this Sudden Peril
which they are called upon to grasp—at once—and
with a glove of steel ? What ? It is the Revolt
)f the whole Bengal Army ! The Desertion or the
Rising in Arms of 26,000 men in the aggregate.
ft is true, no doubt, that not by any means the
whole of these 26,000 men are actually in the
field against our authority—considerable bodies
)f the rebels having fled from their colours in all
lirections, hastening either to their own homes,
x into yet more secluded retirement. It is also
consolatory in another way to remember that
even at the principal stronghold of the Itebellon,
the Ancient Capital of the MOGUL Empire—at
Delhi—the insurgents having tempted battle out-
side the walls with the troops still faithful to the
British Government had been signally defeated
vith a loss of twenty-six guns—their routed and
diminished ranks being driven bask ignominiously
nto the town, and the town itself threatened
with an immediate assault and bombardment !
By a singular casualty, General ANsoN died of
cholera on the 27th of May at Kurnaul—le lying
vacant, at a crisis of great peril, the post of Com-
mander-in-Chief, in which post he was thus
strangely and mysteriously deprived of that
coveted prize of the Soldier, the oppeitunity of
earning distinction I The appointment, however,
of General PATRICK GRANT as Commander-in-
Chief had—although by necessity only a tempo-
rary appointment—already done very much more
than simply relieve the general anxiety spreading
far and wide throughout Hindostan. It had re-
vived the hopes of the civilians, and reanimated
anew the resolve and energy of the soldiery. It
ppears, under the circumstances of the case, to
have been perhaps the wisest course upon
which the Indian Government could possibly have
adventured—this temporary nomination of one of
the most popular of all the Sepoy Generals until
the situation could be resolutely dealt with by the
Imperial Government at home. Let it be re•
membered that General GRANT is in the Com-
pany's Service—that he was recently appointed
(the first instance of the kind—absolutely the
first instance of the kind—with reference to any
but a QUEEN'S Officer) Commander of the
Forces at Madras—and that he was Viscount
(then Sir HUGH) GouPa's Quartermaster-General
throughout the two memorable campaigns of the
Punjaub. As a " temporary " appointment, no-
thing in truth, we conceive, could have been
better judged than this one of General PATRICK
GRANT as Commander-in-Chief pro tem, namely,
until the Governor-General and the Councils at
Calcutta could communicate with the magnates of
Leadenhall-street and the Horse Guards, and,
above all, of course, of the Imperial Government.
Now—having communicated with them—the In-
dian Governor and Government are relieved from
all this heavy weight of responsibility. Already,
as we have seen, the crisis has been effec
malty dealt with by the Advisers of
the Crown. And the danger threatening
the stability of our Indian Empire may, under
GOD'S protection, be already looked upon as vir-
tually dissipated and scattered to the winds of
heaven Eagland, we do confidently believe,
reposes implicit reliance upon the wisdom and the
valour of Sir COLIN CAMPBELL—and events will
soon prove, with GOD'S blessing, that she is not
in any way mistaken in her elevated estimate of
the warlike genius of that heroic Highlander 1

The Lords have OEIOO more rejected the Oaths
Bill. The second reading was on Friday refused
by a majority of 34 in an unusually full house,
there being 139 for and 173 against the Govern-
ment. The numbers present who heard the
debate were 91 for and 109 against, and proxies
48 for and 64 against. For the sake of retain-
ing one of the last vestiges of bigotry and into-
lerance, they retained useless and almost blas-
phemous adjurations that might, without any
extraordinary stretch of argument, bo described
as " taking the LORD'S name in vain." For this,
too, they have entered into collision with the
other branch of the Legislature, which, by a 1
de-
cisive and overwhelming majority, decided for
the removal of the civil and religious dis-
abilities. They have certainly " paid dearly for
their whistle," in which, as might have been an-
ticipated, the members of the Episcopal Bench took
A very decided and prominent part, there being
no less than fifteen votes (seven present and
eight proxies) recorded against the bill.
The old stock fallacy of unchristianising the
Legislature was of course largely resorted to