New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-25

euouph IA fold after fold of the small rags was
taken off and great was MS reeI wmeS anI nnron
scious of the treasure which he had bad III MS Keep
ing "There is nothing here, Sahlb," he said, nut
The Koh-i-noor was then quickly presented TO the
Board that it might be forwarded to the Queen :
and when John Lawrence told them his story sreaS
was the amusement it caused. The level passed,
am told on good authority, through one or Two
oIler striking yiciSsitudes before IL was saleiy
lodged in the English crown. But never, feel sure
whether flashing in the dadem of Turk or Mogul,
or IN the upliited word of Persian or Altman, OF
Sikh couqueror did it pass through so SUI neo d
crisis greater risk of being lost ior eyer,
than when it lay forgotten the wals'cOat poG @
OF John Lawrence, or In the brOScn-uOwh ph IVA
of his aged bearer.
Lawrences managemement of his subordinates
was IN spite of his natural roughness full OF tact anu
patience. He valued q man of mettle ana knew
when to yield his own wishes and prejudces 10 one
whose might be as strong as his own Weak
ness, ncapaclty aud want of conscience he wouiu
not endure, but there no amount OF rouo'e Ho
would not take to humOr and retain man OF hohol
and energy. strict discipinanan ana a mater III
id eness, he had way of infusing his own energy
and devotion into others; and the men wnoin no
gathered about him and trained to toer "o'A
were not the least element of SAFETY III that Day
,vben the tuo.of-war came for England IN India.
wanting AZ he was in the more popular qualities"
saws his biogrlpher " he 40 doubt, did manage 10
offend at one time another. all but the most as
cernlnq of his friends and subordinates. But they
ALL with very few exceptions giayItated BACK 10
him; and ALL without any exception NJ all, loyany
recocn,zed him az their chef and leader. His in-
mate friends were ALWAYS few in number. l don D
care much for many fello VS. he said to one of the
chosen few, when late IN his life he was going back
TO In Tia. but you are of them These few. and
many others also well know that his roughnesses
were but surface r0ughnesse5 He had nothing Of
the bear but his coat said one of them to me. His
rouq1ness,s' said another. were those Of big
Newf,undland-no let us say of n st. Bernard dog.
"Of his appetite for work ii is difficult to speak too
strongly lie was Unsuitable of it, He possessed
by what his suborllnltes, win less physical pow
ers or less force of WILL might we'll have described
as n demon of work. The cry that the Puujabis
generally were overworkcd Irritated him greatly.
'The present cry' he writes to Montgomery, of
ovcrwork is not only absu H. but suicilai. II al
mitted il will end IN more officers AMI less pay
should like TO propose To some OF our OVcrWOrkeh
men to give No their work and pay to deputy; Jet
!, is 10 this Gin It the present no Wing will bring u.s.
1T is the fashion, he writes on another occasion
when ne had been attacked for getting iii OF a
grossly incompetent officer with the Press TO MAKE
ont that am hard aud severe TO those who serve
officers. civil. military aud uncoycuanted, under
mr. Z is not posslbe that can do my duty and give
no offence Bat would challenge any man 10 come
forward and produce any official correspondence IN
which have either dealt harshly. or have even
used ex orcssons which the circumstances OF the
case have not fully warranted. You do not surely
suppose that a country ike this is to be Kept III
order by 'rosc-watcr' expressions or by butter
milk management"
With the news of the fall of Delhi came Law
rencc's opportunity. The mettled men he had
trained the resources Of the province he had sunlu
gated and developed, the native forces which IN
spite Of disahccion yield ii to his tact and npcr-
Gus will. the supplies which he stripped from his
Punjab tel 8 and arsenals-a these he hurried
TO the support of the hulc band OF
English that bc-eIged tn muiineers' stronghold IN
tho old Mogul city The Commandcrs-iu-chie were
helped no less by his counsel than by his stores and
bis troops. Not for a moment did he lose con-
Gdeuce IN English victory and the way"ri ~ cnlet-
fans and half dIsloyal soldiers were convinced by
b,s in.istent will tnat II was wiscst To be ia,
winning side. There was nothing too small for him
10 CONSIDER nothing too large for him TO master.
Whenever a sign of mutiny showed I'm his prov nee
he STAMPED 10 out al one blow-no er how hard a
one. IL was no time thea for gentlencss. llo car
ried on his government almost as though 1t had
been a time of profound Deace keeping 1t well in
hand the while he bent his strongest energies - tho
rescue of the Empire At that time lie had made
but "A slender provision for his chIidren-le Wa
never maker of money and his lncorruptible
integrity scorned the "jobs' well knONh TO many
an East Indian official. But what he had TO leave
he set in order and gave himself thereafter entirely
70 his work 1t has been said that his was the mind
throughout this critical lime. HIS COURAGE, his
coo'nes,. his determination his cOmmon-scDse, As
great in its way genius, saved India to the
English No help came from England, and the be-
sieping army was cut oil from Calcutta. twas from
the Punab alone that rescue came. There was no.
where a loophole of failure in his plans He never
lost his head. while he never stopped for discussion.
Uia military expedients were as wise was his
civil government. Il has been said in reference 10
the soldicrly quail of the man that to such an
extent did soldiers believe in him that he was the
single civilian in the Empire who could have taken
command of an army without the resignation Of
any officer in il The bravest soldier that ever
fought had no more physical courage than
be. Once during the second Sikh war,
when instruction was rife all around,
he Law quietly sleeping in a lonely station. At dead
Of night there was an alarm, and ono OF his assist
ants pallid and shaking, rushed In, crying Do you
know that We are in cul-de-sac" " Hang the cul-
desacD said Iron John and turned over and finished
his nap.
When the mutny was over. and the Euglshmen
burned To aven1e the cruelties perpetrated upon
hcloess women and children by cruelfles almost ~
great. Iawrence's rigid sense Of justice came
into play. When, before the capture of
Delhi the spirits Of the mutlneers tagged, there
was no snrer way OF rousng them than to parade
through the streets n stalwart fair-skinned Kash-
men. and declare TO the creduous people that tho
prisoner was Jan Larens himself the man whom
they believed made their success impossible. When
at last they were conquered IL was TO Jan Larcns
that they were to owe what Of mercy was dealt to-
them lie struck only that lac might save; and had
no taste for ndiscrimnate vengeance.
ar I,wreucc;s honorable career as Viccroy there