Weekly North Carolina standard., 1857-12-02
LORD BROUGHAM ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Education at the Leeds Mechanics Institute, Lord
Brougham made address on the topic OF the oc-
casion which closed with the following allusion to
India :: .r.. .. .-.r -
When I stated the number of young people at
Huddersfied 0hough the proportion there is more
than in any other town in Yorkshre) who were en-
loving the benefits of good education, and are dis
tnguishng themselves by their progress in attend
| ing the schools, l omitted to MENTION what am
therefore bound to mention, that there will now
be more encouragement than ever for young persons
| to qualify themselves in those branches Of know-
edge, of science and Of literature, which in these
schools making such material progress. will
| take one instance. Those most deplorable events
that have taken place in eastern empire must
lead, sooner or laterI hope rather sooner than Ia
ter, because it must be upon the extinction OF that
foul and execrable rebellion-to such o new model
ling and such increase of all the civil and other
offices in that vast dominion as must afford the most
important extensive, and valuable encouragement
to all persons well educated
1t is impossible for me at any time. and more es-
peclay at this moment, after tue recent intelligence
which has reached US from those countries, to avoid
saying word upon the rebellion before sit down.
[Hear, hear} That most foul and execrable rebel
lion differs from anything that have ever known
before and in two particulars it is most remarkable;
one is the suddenness-the instantaneous, and with
out warning suddenneSs-wh which it broke out.
1t is common thing to compare it. and have heard
it so compared, to the sudden explosion OF some
great volcano laying under ruins by its devastation
the fertile plains beneath but it differs most mate
rally from that because volcanic explosions are al
ways preceded by some warning. The giant who
is fabed to groan beneath .Etna moves and heaves
the mountan-gves a warning-before the torrent
of liquid fire is poured forth to lay waste the plains
below.
To find anything like the recent, the sudden, the
instantaneous outbreak of what has taken place in
India must 60 to the East itself for comparison.
rbere &c Ike hut he tvph ch
denly seizes upon the ocean, rippled by no wave,
and instantly raises that ocean, without further
ming, mountains high. So the whirlwind of rebel.
lion which broke out in the East, burst out without
the whisper of the breath of breeze to warn any
of what was about to lay in devastation the
whole of that snperb dominion; and yet, sudden
it was, unprepared all persons were, without the
possibility of the least preparation, our countrymen,
both civic and military, were Ito their eternal, i'm
mortal and mperishable glory be it said) ready in
stanty to rise to do their duty and to sacrifice them
selves. Long continued applause.] Observe in
what part of our dominions it was that the atrocious
rebellion broke forth-in the very portion of all In.
dia which was the best cared for and the best gov
erned by US hear, hear the northwestern pIovin
ces, where We had fixed certain rent, on a moder-
ate SCALE portioned to the actual value of the pro-
duce-a rent for thirty years; where we had dug
canals that traversed the country and joined togeh
the great rivers; where we had built, rather than
constructed roads-ruads, some of them fine
any roads in England itself; where had begun to
construct railway and establ shed the electric tele
graph where We had planted schonls and colleges
in that district it that this atrociouS mutiny
broke out 1t needs no more to prove that it could
not be the people theinseves-I hope and trust to
heaven it could not be-but only the armed rabble
whom ourselves had taught-to a certain degree
spoilt-and who had turned against ourselves those
weapons which We had taught them to use, but who
were met by the unconquerable valnr of both civil
and military Englishmen. Loud applause.] Itwas
in Allahabad that one regiment which had been
thanked ty the officers for having joined against the
mutineers in the evening Of the same day arose up
on its officers and massacred them at their mess,
and afterwards performed atrocities to which no
erences can now be made but bad any commtteda at
Cawnpore or at Delhi. a voice from the bottom
end of the room" They did right with the off
cers."1
When say that civil as we'll as military English
men deserve the credit of having stood against this
mutiny, against this rebellion speak without the
book for it does happen that the civil servants of
the Company marched in the same line with the in
antry, and were for some time the only cavalry who
were available to pit down the revolt Hear hear1
1t is to support and aid such country men to com.
plete the suppression Of such a rebellion that we
have right now to call upon all England to initiate
the example, rejoice to say of part of Yorkshire
Il mean Sheffeld-which to its immortal honor,
has sent forth, or is sending FORTH 500 men to Join
the armies of the East Hear, hear Don't let it
be supposed that because Delhi is taken tina: all is
over and that all is settled Part of the northwest
provinces still remains in the hands of the rebels
Dude is not reconqnerrd. Lucknow--If fe,l unspeak.
able anxiety even in mentioning the name of Luck
now. Heaven forbid that there should be ground
for that anxiety, but Lucknow we don't yet know
to be relieved. Then there are those hordes from
Delhi, scattered over the country, carrying kind
of guerilla war against us, which we know from ex-
perience in the Peninsular far fatal to the
French than our own unconquered legions. Hear,
hear.
Now, all this is still to do, and all this requires
large increase of our military force; but will Eng
hshmen ever hesitate to give their aid to increase
the number of those who shall go to augment the
army in India, when they recollect what has been
done there by their countrymen in arms, as well as
their countrymen unarrned? ! speak first of their
countrymen in arms. Four. and twenty battles were
fought by those gallant before Delhi fell, every
one of which was equal to the battle of Alma or of
Inkermann; and the siege of Delhi itself was equal
to more than the siege Of half a-dozen Sebastopo!s.
Hear, hear. l say this, heaven knows, without
the slightest wish to depreciate-God forbid-the
great merits and the glories Of our troops in the
Crmea, but while fully and freely admit their glo.
ries, it is impossible, in the circumstances in which
the later triumph of our has been achieved to
conceive what incalcuable unspeakable and eternal
claims upon the gratitude of their country our SOL
diers there have. [Applause.] Then never let it
for a moment be supposed that we dare abandon our
hold OF India, though upon that neither wealth
or power in the slightest degree depends. [Hear,
hear Some Of our ill-wishers on the continent
have notion that if We lose India we are DONE
There never was greater delusion. [Applause l.
Long before we gained India stood high in the
nations OF the world as have stood since and il
we Lost India tomorrow should stand as high as
we do now applause]; but if we lose it we abandon