The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

REINFORCEMENTS WANTED.

AYLESBURY, DEC. 28.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
This morning, at eleven o'clock, the official de-
claration of the numbers polled for the respective
candidates at the recent election took place at the
Town-hall.
Mr. Cavendish, the successful candidate, was ac-
companied by a good many of his principal sup-
porters, among whom were Messrs. Darvill, Cooper,
the Rev. Mr. Phillimore, Mr. A. Tindal, the Rev.
Mr. Erle, Mr. S. M. Gibbs, Mr. Z. Phillips, the
Rev. Mr. Gates, Messrs. Watson, Benson, White,
Payne, &c. Captain Hamilton, the defeated can-
didate, was also accompanied by a number of gen-
tlemen connected with the Conservative parts-,
areong whom were Messrs. Lowades, Franklin, J.
and T. Parrott, Baynes, Fowler, Bennett, &c., and
the hall was nearly filled with electors and others.
PHILIP WROUGHTON, Esq., High Sheriff of the
county, then stood forward and declared the num-
bers polled for the candidates to be as follows :
Caveudish .
1,617
Hamilton
Majority for Mr. Cavendi‘h
and lie, therefore, declared that gentleinan to have
been duly elected as a knight of the shit e 'repre-
sent the county of Bucks in the present Parlia-
ment. (Great cheering.)
Mr. CAvnisrnrsrr then stood forward to address
the electors, and was received with vociferous
cheering. He said that before alluding to his own
personal feelings, he must congratulate his friends
and the supporters of Liberal principles in the
county of Bucks upon the great triumph they had
achieved. (Cheers.) He was not so conceited as
to suppose that it was his own political merits that
had carried him through successfully in this con-
test ; but he felt that he owed his success entirely
to the exertions of the Liberal party in the county,
and to their determination to support Liberal
principles. (Hear, hear.) He returned them,
however, his most sincere thanks for the time and
trouble they had expended in his cause. He had
been induced to come forward originally upon
the understanding that if he did so there would
have been no contest ; and he regretted that they
should have been taken from their homes, embroiled
in a contested election at this season of the year.
He would not now detain them any longer, and
should only again express his sincere thanks for the
honour they had conferred upon him, and he trusted
he should never do anything that would induce
them to regret the confidence they had reposed in
him. (Cheers.)
Captain HAMILTON then addressed the electors,
and, after some preliminary observations, be said
he felt it a duty be owed to those gentlemen who
had given him their support on the present occa-
sion, and also to the Conservative party in the
county, to state the reasons that had induced him
to come forward as a candidate, and to say what
appeared to him were the reasons fer the defeat
they had experienced. At the time the notice ap-
peared of the vacancy in the representation of the
county by the elevation of their late honourable
member to the peerage, he had not the least inten-
tion to offer himself as a candidate ; and when he
received a requisition most numerously signed by
tenant farmers of the county, calling upon him to
do so, he still refused, because he considered that
there were many other gentlemen who, by their
wealth and position, were much better qualified to
represent this large Conservative county in Parlia-
ment than himself. When, however, lie found
out that no other gentleman would come forward,
and he had received a large number of letters from
gentlemen of great influence in the county, ten-
dering him their support, he felt, it incumbent upon
him to offer himself at the eleventh hour ; but,
under the circumstances, any other result than the
one that bad taken place, could hardly have been
anticipated. (Hear, hear.) He had called it a
defeat of the Conseivative party, but he thought he
ought to have hardly used that expression, as it ap-
peared to him they had not, in point of act, been
defeated, but had merely sustained a check. (Hear,
hear.) His honourable opponent issued his
address on the 12th of December, and although
the names of four gentlemen were put forward
as being candidates in the Conserva ive interest,
his own being the last, they all declined the
honour except himself, and his address to the
electors was not issued until the 18th, and be had
only two days to canvass the county, and they
had been defeated because they av, re out•tepped
at the commencement. (Cries of " Hear, hear,'
and "No, no.") He had only been able to attend
at Newport Pagnell on the Wednesday, and at the
High Wycombe market on the Thursday, and that
was the whole of the canvass he had been able to
make. If he had had an opportunity to have
canvassed the whole of the county, he believed
there was no doubt that he would have been
returned. (Cheers, and cries of " No, no.") The
hon. candidate then said, that although when he
was in Parliament he had supported the proposi-
tion for the admission of the Jews into the
House of Commons, ho feared that, on the pre:
sent occasion, the Jewish influence in the coun
had been used against him, and that the screw had
been put on in influential quarters to prevent his
election. (A cry of "We are fighting you with
your own weapons.") He had certainly not asked
the Rothschild family for their support, but he
believed that all their influence had been thrown
into the scale for his opponent. (Hear, bear, and
interruption.) In conclusion, he said that in the
event of a vacancy in the representation of the
county
pledged
himself
place
again
ont anyfut u
forward
will occasion,
b aesiit
re-
presentative presentative of the Conservative feeling of the
county. (A cry of "And come
you
warmly received as you have been now," and
laughter.) He hoped that the Conservatives of
the county of Bucks would feel that he had only

Once master of Ludinow, Sir Colin Campbell
will, it is said, pause for reinfcrcemeuts ; an l as
3,500 men were reviewed at. Calcutta on the 23rd,
those reiliforcemeuts cannot be long wanting.
C Lvalry alone will be the arm in which our weak-
ne,:.s will be shown. Tire Ist Dragoons, unable to
obtain horses at Calcutta, were sent away on that
account t 9 Madras ; and it is painful to think that
Alter mon,hso! waning of E! iglish cavalry arrivals,
ro to:riligemolit; should have Umn made for re-
mounts.

A NEW KING OF DUDE.
The capture of Lucknow will not, it is needless
jo say, produce the submission of Oude. The
rebels have placed a boy on the throne, and keep
him in state at Fyzabad—a city of 100,000 inhabi-
tants, defended by a large fort with a wall, a ditch,
and round towers, lately repaired, and new en-
trenchments. Here the last great stand may be
expected. and the royalty of Oude must finally
perish.
BRAND FOR THE SEPOY MUTINEERS.
It will be seen by our Legislative Council report
of Saturday that a Bill was introduced into the
Council by Mr. Peacock, and read a first and a
second time, for the purpose of enabling Govern-
ment to order Sepoys to be marked with the
letter "M" for mutiny, and the letter " D" for

desertion, in the same manner as European soldiers
are now liable to be marked with the letter "D".
for desertion,—Bengal Ifurkaru.

NANA SAHIB.
It seems that the mutineers resented the tend-
ency of the chief of Jaloun to favour our authority
by flogging him severely, then banging him by the
heels, and bringing him afterwards a prisoner to
Jaloun, where Jaiea Baiee, a grandson, I believe,
of the Maharajah Scindia, has been set up as a pup-
pet prince in conjunction with Nana Sahib. It is
stated that the respective shares of each of these

new potentates in the revenues of Jaloun are four
annas for the Jaiee Baiee, twelve annas for Nana

Sahib, giving the latter the lion's share. This wily
chief is at no great distance from Jaloun, acting in
concert with the Ranee of Jhansi.
MURDER OF LIEUTENANT NEVILLE.
Lieutenant Neville, proceeding to Bombay to
meet his intended bride, recently arrived here in
the!Windsor Castle was killed at Pali Puttun, where
his boat lay at anchor for the night. The follow-
mg account of his death has been published :
It appears that Lieutenant Neville started from
Ferozepore in a country boat, and as his boat was
dropping down the stream by a place called Jum-
lera, on the Sutlej, a party of the rebels, numbering
40, hailed the boatmen from the bank to put to. -
The request being backed by threats that they
would be fired upon iu the event of note compliance,
was at once obeyed, when the boat was attacked.
A conflict ensued between the ill-fated occupant
and the rebels. Lieut. Neville is said to have made
a stout resistance, cutting down two of his assailants,
but being himself wounded, he was seized and car-
ried off to the rebel camp. He offered to pay the
sum of 2,000 rupees as a ransom for his iife, and
the party who made him a prisoner agreed to the
arrangement. But no sooner was he taken before
the chief of the insurgents than a command was
issued to put him to death, which was done in the
most diabolical manner. The Commissioner, Major
Hamilton, visited the scene of murder soon after,
and I hear picked up a few relics belonging to the
unfortunate man.
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the possibility of a man concerning himself for the
good of the country at large, or extending his re-
gards beyond the circle of his kindred or friends.
And yet, after all, the ingratitude and the cruelties
which horrify humanity, and put the cannibal to
shame, are plants of Oriental growth, and which
have always flourished in the East. The natives
treat each other just as they have treated the Eng-
lish who have recently fallen into their hands.
They have no idea of captivity, unless associated
with torture or extermination. To burn or punch
out .the eyes, or burn the bowels out, are matters
of every day occurrence, from the earliest periods
of their history down to the present time.
The interposition of the British Govern-
ment is being perpetually called upon to
shield the native subject from the inflictions of his
sovereign or chief. We have had within the past
five years before us the memorials from Baroda,
from Kattiawar, from Ajmere, Kotah, and other
places in Rajpootana, all to the same effect ; and
if monstrous tyranny fell short of bodily torture or
capital infliction it was to the British Government
that even this much of mercy was to be ascribed.
The eyes of Europe have now for the first time
been opened to the condition of India and the
character of its people ; and such things as those
that until now have been of constant occurrence
must never again be suffered to appear. A stern
iron despotism, never stooping from its dignity or
flinching from its duty, must take the place of that
goodnatured and well-intentioned combination of
compromises, coercions, checks, and temporisinga
hitherto looked upon as the masterpieces of an
Eastern administration. Brooking no resistance
on the part of those we rule, it will be the first
duty of the rulers to provoke none ; and exaetieg
propriety in others, to show an example of unbend-
ing rectitude in ourselves. The time will come,
but not now, when public employment and emolu-
ments may be reopened to the native ; when it
does arrive the first test of his deserving the coun-
tenance of the civilised is the renunciation of the
badges of barbarism. There can hereafter be no
communion betwixt light and darkness, and he who
claims the privilege of being guided by "native
custom" must renounce the hope of European
countenance or sympathy. The Bengal mutineers
have done nothing more than indulge in the•ealle.
tolliS of their caste and country, and nothing beyond
what was sanctioned by custom and by creed.
With men who think such things permissible did
opportunity occur we can have no intercommunion
whatever. Front the perfect facility with which in-
fanticide, suttee, slavery, and thuggee—all great
institutions of the country—have been put down,
we have no doubt whatever that half the other pri-
vileges and usages we fear to meddle with would
vanish were we only bold enough to face them.
The use of greased cartridges and the readiness with
which all castes travel together by rail add to our
convictions on these subjects. A caste man and a
native custom man—adverse as both must needs be
to progress and to the advancement of the'great
human family—are the enemies of the ccmmon-
wealth, and ought to be made to contribute many
times more to its government than those who are
its friends. Were the highly orthodox triple-taxed
struck from the list of justices and of Government-
house visitors, andassured that public employment
to o bl
kleo oskmeodkfeo r;
theby Bmin them,rah most pro-
we should find
caste wast
vanish
bably discovering, as in the case of suttee, that the
Vedas and Shasters were never in
reality meant to
have been interpreted as they have hitherto been—
: Bombay Telegraph and Courier.

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