The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

EVENING, AUG UST 29, 1857.

Army, but cne of them is reported on:furlough, and the
other, G. J. 13ax, of the 48th Native Infantry, isstationed
at Allababad. There:is also Lieut. H. H. Christian, of
the 68th Native Infantry, stationed at Bareilly.
It will be seenfro:n these numerous errors which exist
as to the names and ranks of the officers and civilians
mentioned in the t4-graphic despatch that its details
cannot be entirely depended upon. It is, however, much
to be feared that in the main it wi I prove but too correct.

yesterday morning for India with the troops before
reported.
Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt.
the Hon. Joseph Denman, returned from her cruise
to Havre last evening, and went into Portsmouth
harl;our.

. The Lucifer steamvessel, in command of Mr.
Tonkin, Second Master-Attendant of Portsmouth
Dockyard, will. leave to-day for Pembroke, w:th
crew and spars for navigating the ne Nly launched
first-class frigate Melpomene, 51, from th it port to
Portsmouth, to be equipped for service.
The brigantine Dart, 3, tender to the Castor,
Lieutenant Stephens commander, which arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Thursday morning, Mt the
Cape on the 27th of May, St. Helena on the 21st of
June, and Ascension on the 2d of July. Spoke on
the 9th of July the American ship Vista, from
Boston for Valparaiso, in le. 6 20 N., long 24 W ;
on the 11Th July exchanged colours w;th the ship
William Lockerby, in lat. 7.50, long. 24.50 ; on the
12th exchanged colours with the American ship
Siam, 21 days from Boston for Penang, in lat. 8,
long. 26.16 ; on the 26th of July the American ship
Lemagier, 18 days from New York for Callao, in hit.
30.31, long. 37.25 ; on the 30th of July the Ameri-
can wh der Redford, 41 days from Florence, in lat.
33.56, long. 41.4 ; on the same day sighted an Eng-
lish ship showing third distingu;Shing pendant over
No. 2,198, in lat. 49.32, long. 14.39. .
The following appointments were made at the Ad
miralty this afternoon :
Lieutenant T. E. Smith, to the Cot fiict.

Midshipman H. H. Washingtor, to the Diadem.
Surgeons—H. J.. S. Beveridge. to the Conquer& ;
Andrew Murray, to the Valorous ; James Whicher, to
the Conflict ; William Richardson, to the Styx.
Iltsststant-Surgeons-13iev*-Mansfield, to the Va-
lorou3 ; Gilbert L. King, to the Impregnable; Thomas
G. Wilson (acting), to the Conflict ; H. Maxwe'l (act-
ing), to the Styx.

MR. LAYARD ONJINDIA.

On Thursday evening a meeting was held in the

County-ball, Aylesbury, for the purpose of pre-
senting to Mr. Layard a handsome tea service, in
remembrance of the connection which he once had
with the borough of Aylesbury. The s-a.vice, which
consisted of a teakettle and stand, telpot, coffee-
pot, cream jug, and sugar-basin, was ornamented
with Assyrian and Nineveh devices, emtdernatical
of the discoveries made by Mr. Layard in his tra-
vels. The whole of the set cost upwards of 1101.,
and was obtained from Messrs. ,Savory and Son,
Cornhil, London. On the teakettle was the fol-
lowing inscription :

" This tea service was presented •to Au ten Henry
Llyard, 1141., by a few among the many friends he
made and left at Aylesbury, in token of their high
esteem for his independent character and personal worth,
of their strong sense of their honest and faithful services
in Parliament, and of their deep regret at, pitting with a
friend and representative whose name will live most ho-
nourably in the political and literary history of his time.
—August, 1857."
In returning thinks,
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Mr. LAYARD said,-LAll eyes are turned to what
is taking plaee in India. lam not ill Parliament,
and perhaps it is better that I should not ba ; but
1 cannot look at what is going on there without the
deepest dismay. The Government say now, "We
were taken by surprise ; we could not foresee it."
Well, if they really were surprised bY,an organized
mutiny of long standing, spreading from one end
of India to the other—if they knew &thing until
it actually broke out, then the Government has
been guilty of a degree of ignorance, of a neglect of
proper attention to duty, for which they deserve
to be driven from office. But I cannot believe
they were ignorant. If they were, they were the
only people in the country who knew, or were sup-
posed to know anything about India, who were
ignt,rant. There was my hon. friend Mr. D. Sey- '
nionr, the actual Secretary of the Board of Control
was chairman of a society called the " Young
Indian Society," the object of which was o:expose the
wrongs to which Indian subjects were exposed, and
which it wasbelieved must lead to rev ol t, unless reme-
died. He went out to India to see what the facts of
the base were. He satisfied himself of the bad state
of our Indian subjects, and he came back as a great
. .

Indian reformer. -Welt; Lord Palmerston made him
Secretary of the Board ontrol. What was that
for ? Either to get the, tof his information, or
gin') him mnn ( “nd Ttlab'o it !")
I believe it was the latter ; at any rate, we have
heard nothing on India from Mr. Danby Seymour
from that time to this. All the stories of the evils
initiated on the natives, all the stories of native
princes who had been defrauded of their pos9essions
and had died from the ill-treatment inflicted on
them—all have disappeared. We don't want yen=
geance, we want justice. Justice is more terrible
than vengeance, it is more true than vengeance,
more Christian than vengeance. (Hear, hear.)
Do not think that I would not punish ; but you
only complicate by vengeance—you punish by jus-
tice. (Hear, hear.) I have had a great deal to do,
with EaAerns—not in the way that many .gentle-
men have to do with them who go out with 3,0001.
or 4,0001. a year, and with Government autho-
rity to support them. I have lived alone among
Easterns, without a single friend near me, and I
generally managed to deal with them. My maxim
was this :—Be as severe as you like, but be jus4,
and when once you have set your mini on a right
thing never be turned aside from it. (Cheers.) No-
thing makes so strong an impression on the Esstern
mind as that justice which is irrevocable, and will
not be turned by time or circumstances. The East-
ern thinks he may commit a crime and go away for
four or five years, and it will be forgotten. I would
disabuse them of that. (Hear.) I would not let one
man escape who has been concerned in these massa-
cres. (Hear.) If it were 40 years hence 1 would'
never take my hand off him as long as he lived.
But I would not advocate indiscriminatevengeance.
I could ne more approve the slaughter of women
and children by ourselves than the slaughter of
women and children by these miscreants who have
destroyed our countrymen and their families. No
doubt what has taken place in India is h, Trible, but
are our hands clean ? From the vary beginning our
empire was founded upon fraud. You remember
that treaty that was forged by Clive. We began
our rule with fraud and injustice, and from that
time our dealings with India have been fraught with
injustice. Well, you have heard a great deal about
Lord Dalhousie's good government. Well, Lord
Dalhousie finished by making enemies almost of the
British residents in India themee'ves. Nothing
could be more extraordinary or unjust than the
act by which he suddenly reduced the interest upon
the loan from 5 to .0 per cent., thereby half ruin-
ing many of the Company's servant:, fled immedi-
ately afterwards' issuing a new lo tit at 5 per cent.
That was nothing less than a direct act of fraud.
(dear.) It is not vengeance that we have to look
for in the present crisis. (Hear.) It is not the re-
conquest of-India that is before us, but the recon-
stitution of an empire—(hear, hear)—the bringing
together those who govern and these who are
governed. (Cheers.) Hitherto you have done
nothing towards that objec', nothiug to re-
concile the feelings of the people of India to the
Government which rules them. - (Hear, hear.)
If you tell them you are a peaceful, a Christian, and
a civilised nation, and you do not recognise the
rights of those who are-not civilised and are not
Christians, but will take possession of their property
and their country, that would be honest; but you
must be prepared to carryout your doctrine by force.
But by practically acting upon that doctrine, while
pretending to respect the rights of the Indian people,
and professing a regard for their interest-, you have
so weakened your moral power over them that the
whole country is against you. Well, you have now
to re-tore the whole Indian army—who is to do it?
Mr. Smith, of Cannon-row. Yen have to reform the
wholecivil administration of India—who is to do it?
Mr. Smith, of Cannon-row. You have to reintro-
duce a system of government to reconcile oppos.te
-races and hostile religions—who is to do it ? Mr.
Smith, of Cannon-row. (A laugh.) We want a man
of-genius—a Wellesley or a Clive—and whom have
we? Mr. Smith, -of Cannon-row. Aud who is Mr.
Smith ? Mr. Vernon Smith he is called—he is proud
of the name of Vernon. (Laughter.) He is a mo 4
excellent person, I believe, and one of the yellow-
glove men of the Administration, and one who, no
doubt, in all that concerns personal appearance, is
an ornament to the Government, but he is not the
man to refound the Indian empire, and thatliswhat
we have to do. We have the East India Company
on the one hand and the Government on the other,
the Boar d of Directors undoing what the Board of
Control does, and -the Board of Control undoing
what is done by the Board of Directors. Is it won-
derful that we find matters in such a chaos ? 1
Thesay
it would be far more wonderful if we did not.
only wonder is that the subject is not taken up more
I
fully throughout the country. trust the, time will
soon come when the country will rise as one man
and compel the Gbvernment to do something, not
only to reconquer our Indian empire, but to make
India au integral part of her Majesty's dominions,