The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-14

have existed under almost any circlm.
stances. Engishmen differ from the ma.
tivcs Of Indin In every thing which might
form bond OF sympathy between con.
qlIered people and their rulers - in language
religion, manners. habits and feelings
They have done nothing to form any othsr
bond of sympathy, or TO create mutual In.
terests.
The people they govern are treated like
a race not only distinct. but Inferior
more. indeed. as II they belonged to lower
order Of Great ures: not always with actual
unkindness. though in too many instances
with brutality, but with the sort Of kindness
which would be shown to pet animal
What IAyard goes on to say is as true now
az IL was In 1853: THE natives are or
Guided from all share in the Government;
they can never rise to anything beyond
the most inferior posts. We are endeavor
ing to force upon them our old. WORKOUT
judicial system. with all it's technicalitiea
and delays, which We are gradually Kidding
ourselves of at home, and which IL infinitely
more odiois to them than it could ever DO
to us. We have Sanitary Commissioners
and Boards interfering with all their private
and domestic affairs, al. mo doubt, for their
own good, although they will not 30 UNDER
stand it. We are medd ing with customs
which are OF no real importance. and yet
are G Jung to with extraordinary tenacitv
by the people. We are breaking faith
in the most scandalous manner with native
princes, and annexing their territories
We are suddenly demanding proof Of title
to lands one hundred years back, and sea-
ing in the most arbitrary manner. mems
papers and title deeds. We allow widow
ladies of the Brahmin castles to marry again
conceive the atrocity of Palmerston,
OF own good WILL permitting man to
marry his wife's sisterD We are doing
thousand other things OF the kind, and
We are then surprised that our Indian
subjects are disafected. ALI we have
really given them in return is perfect
security. and this is certainly a great boon.
Under it money lenders and fat Parsees
and Baboos can make their fortunes and
enjoy them; but the cultivators and there
is no one else in India. our rule having
utterly destroyed the native gentry-are
reduced to the utmost poverty. We have
done nothing to draw the people to US
Education. the diffusion of our language
and Of our religion Gt is nonsense to talk
Of the missionaries being unpopular, the
means OF REORGANIZATION. irrigation
by great public works, which would have
enriched both the governed and the rulers,
have been neglected to an extent perfectly
incredible. No civilized government has
ever done less for it's subjects, and the East
India Company is doubly to be blamed,
as it has been the landlord OF every acre
of land and has raised its rents by way oi
revenue to the utmost farthing. 1t il
but sorry justification to say that tho
people have been worse on under some
native governments
Iayard was convinced that the first thing
TO be done was TO get rid OF the idea which
still prevailed in England, and which the
British Government ind,striously encour-
aged, that the uprising Of 1857 was merely
a military mutiny. There is now no doubt
that Iayard was right in describing /, as
a rebellion in which the Bengal army. not.
like the British army, an isolated body,
but part and o. the people Pie ana ts
part. You will scarcely open an Indian
paper in which you will not read OF the
execution hy the English Of Rajah, or
some native aut hor Sist or Of the burning .hdws
the real nature of the uprising. Now that
the country is TO- be. transferred to the
Crown, We may begin. anew. We may
do an immense deal Of good upon tn,
an immense deal Of evil, and very mud
fear knowing who will have to carry ON
the change evidently the Home l3orern-
% s IN th
matters had arrived at a state to render
the transfer OF India to the Grown Also
lutely necessary.
Some letters printed IN chapter neaoen
politics and Art show that Layard was
one OF the first Engishman in the nine ne;
teenth century to appreciate Botticeli
and Borgognone. Writing from Florence.
he says: Il have been showing Millais
about and he is gTehaty degh Tho T ns1
haps, has struck him the most Is Sandro
Botticelli He is delighted with the ale
gorical picture OF Spring by that grsa.
master in the Academia; We se went ,o, Win
by him in the Pucci Palace, which are for
sale, and we agree that Sir Charles East,
lakel must secure these for the National
Gallery. had not seen them before and
was surprised to find such magnificent
exquisite beauty of execution, for the
interest Of the subject and for illustration
of manners and costumes Of the hfteenth
century they are unrivalled.
to an end with letter dated Verona Sep,
tember, 1855: Il forget whether we had
been to Saronno when last wrote TO YOU
We spent several days there at decent
OF the most interesting frescos. l was
more delighted even than had been last
wear with the Luinis. which place among
the best works in fresco with which am
acquainted, and which ought to be sum
cient to convert any one Of taste TO the
superiority Of that medium over oil
was delighted with the Certosa OF Pav1a,
rich In paintings, sculptures and carvings.
Here Borgognone, scarcely known else
where, has left works worthy Of the gres',
est masters. So little is this wonderful
painter known, even in Italy, that in
very fair gallery at Rrescia l see him CON
founded with the painter Of ha tiles Of the
same name. The extreme rarity OF his
works makes them peculiarly valuable
He had all the sentiment and devotional
feeling Of Fra Angelica. with far greater
power and breadth" Layard adds
was much disappointed with Mantua ana
disguised with Giulo Ronann,
After studying the really great masters
Of Italy, 1t Is difficult to understand how
the taste OF civilized Europe could have
been 20 perverted and corrupted by Guilio
Romano and the other pupils Of Raphael
We are still suffering from them. and Rus
kin will have to do much more battle r,-
fore he can thoroughly expose their NuI-
garity and unmeaning eNaggeratlon.
NJ. W. II.