New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-26

sympathy was most worth having. The Queen
and Prince Albert were both pleased. So were
Lord John Russell Sir Robert Peel and Mir.
Gladstone, and all these well wiShers gave him
their approval. not simply because they liked
the man. hut because they had confidence in the
administrator. lie did much TO justify their
belief in him But il was his misfortune 70 re
tire from his Office in 1896 with the remark that
he hoped he was guilty of no presumption in
saying that shall leave the Indian Empire in
peace without and Within" when the Mutiny
was destined to declare itself in the following
year. and not unnaturally his character and
record public official have ever since been
discussed with more or less aCrmouy both
sides. Proud. and racked with physical pain.
he dlsdained to undertake his own defence in
the few years % life left to him after his re
turn TO England. but Sir William Lee War
ner has been permitted To make use of the
great mass OF documents hitherto jealousy
guarded from publication by Lord Dalhousies
family. and his case is presented as he himself.
we may presume would have presented it.
His bographer has difficulty in showing
! that Lord DalhOusie carried with him to India
at least two sources of strength a fine sense
or duty and good business head The
experience he had gained in the Board OF
Trade was OF precisely the right sort. and his
natural abilities had furthermore been devel-
oped under the peculiarly favorable stimulus Of
friendship with brilliant men OF affairs Mill
tary episodes were inevitably to present them
selves during his administration bu, the re-
sponshility more particularly confronting him
was that OF a ruler bound TO concern himself
with social. political and Industrial problena
His appearance at this time is thus described by
Sir Richard Temple:
His stature looked somewhat short and sman.
out ne was very wei made His figure erect,
and his carriage excellent But II at first sight
ne gave an impression of smallness, that impress
sion disappeared when he had anything particular
to say or TO do. Then his frame seemed TO date;
behind his nervous force there was evidently
poundiess strength OF mind and spirit II
marked by contemporary writer that on such
-ons ne so rose and rose TO look every inch
I..s mead was equally worthy of attention Tho
mar WAS dark brown the complexion fairly fresh
pansive and not Particularly nigh The eni as,ec,
varied much according as it was regarded In tho
istic point was the profile with the straight line OF
chxseed mouth ic aqu .bs s, n0se and the
This handsome figure only too soon to
bend beneath the weight of constant Illness, but
no matter how he suffered Lord Dalhousie was
an heroic worker. He had scarcely arrived in
India before the Punjab revolt put the gravest
problems before him for solution and the sec
ond Sikh war gave him infinite trouble 1t was.
by the way on his personal initiative that on
the conclusion Of that war, the Koh-i-Nur dia-
mond, which confscated with other state
property. sent to the Queen herself as a
Symbol OF conquest" Sir William Lee Warner
gives very friendly Interpretation of Dali
housies policy in the matter Of the annexation
OF the Punjab and. indeed. In all his subse-
quent transactions Yet some Of the Governor
Generals most plausible acts were In the long
run to work him harm. His bographer nowhere
gives u more conclusive evidence on this point