The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1857.

One of the most interesting and important
letters which we have seen on the state of India,
and the duties of Englishmen in reference
thereto, has been addressed by the Earl of
ELLENBOROVGIC to the members of the Winch-
combo Agricultural Association. It goes exactly
to the point, shows what should be done in
India and in England. It is now useless, aye,
worse than useless, to depreciate the magnitude
of the crisis, or to suppose that we can wash out
the stains of blood, with rose water. It is not by
sickly sentimentalism that we can get rid of the
blot on the national escutcheon. We have had
" a great war forced upon us, by rebels who
would deprive all our countrymen of their lives,
and England of an empire—where we placed our
confidence we have been met with treachery—
where we acted with kindness we have encountered
murder—murder, not directed only against men
by whom resistance might be made, and from
whom wrongs might have been feared, but ex-
tending equally to unoffending, helpless women,
to the children at their knees, and to the infants
at their breasts—sparing none, and often inflict-
ing death upon the body with torture, where it
had already more cruelly tortured mind."
Lord ELLENEOROUGH has already been victi-
mised by the East India Company. He alone,
in the present age, had zeal and energy sufficient
to repudiate red-tapeism, and to act for the bene-
fit of India and of Great Britain without refer-

enco to the prejudices of antiquated civilians.
We need not say that the Company exercised a
power which should never have been conceded them,
to enforce his recal, and that consequently the
country lost the service of the most able and
energetic Governor-Geueral, since the days of
CLVIE and HASTINGS.
Sir CHARLES NAPIER was also treated in a
similar manner. In his case, the directors were

subsequently compelled " to eat humble pie," and effect simply (to be plain) that the Peoples
it is by no means impossible that a like retributive are made for the Princes. Instead of exactly
justice may pl tee Lord ELLENBOROUGH at the head 1 the reverse ! It is a very old story indeed—
! an exceedingly venerable, not to say absolutely
ef the Anglo-Indian Government.
Lo- CA.NNING is manifestly incompetent. He decrepit' infatuation. Her Athenian Majesty, in
d
truth, thinks for that matter, merely as her
i,l/2 we believ©, an amiable nobleman, who might
do very well, in ordinary times, to take part in a
Order thinks. She has long since apparently
pageant, or do the honours at a ball in Government 1 altogether forgotten the constitutional origin of
Hoene. But he has not the energy or ability tot the Greek Sovereignty. She leeks manifestly
'creak through the trammels by which he is ee_ I upon OTHO'S Crown as a very fine family jewel
o cmpassed. He is the servant, not the master 1 that ought to be scrupulously kept iii the family
of the. Council, and so long as he remains in
C'' al- i and so her energies
are altogeth©r directed to-
eutte, we cannot hope for the restoration of peace i words its retention—and go to the attainment cf
„ptl iranquillity, and the complete suppression of that
;
of the insurrection. Lmel ELLENnOItOUGU as i
and expanded.
esxole end
pan, ied.her sinister intrigues are multiplied
Governor-General would be " the right man in All this is clearly imagined upon the same
the right place." He would not interfere inju- iprinciple upon which each of the not easily numer-
rioesly with Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, and a Governor- able German princelings imagines certain portions
General and a Vernmancier-io-Chief cordially co- of the human race to have been exclusively created
for the delight of hie own peculiar privilege o
°Perating, would bring the rebellion to a speedy
Sovereignty. It is unmistakably thus, let us say,
wild satisfactory termination.
by way of example, that the High and Mighty'
If the United Kingdom were canvassed at this
moment we HENRY THE TWENTIETH (vide
the Almanach de
believe that nine men out of tee
would give their votes for Lord ELLE-YBOROUGH Gotha !) preaides in his stupendous capital of
as Governor-General. Surely under existing Greiz, over the destinies of Reuss of the Elder
!
circumstances the national will should be re-
Branch, with a territory extending over the
Upected. We do not desire that Lord PALMERSTON I gigantic area of 144 square miles, and having a
should be ejected from office. H© is in his right population of actually no less than 35,159
i
position. But he ought to break through the ' (according to the last census) in the ag-