Glasgow Courier. — 1858-01-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE LATE GENERAL EILL. We learn front Madras that the community of that city have resolved to commemorate the gallant Neill, and the h....mour be has done to the Madras army, Ly the eree'..,on of a monument. This will coneist of a granite %eon& suitably inscribed, and bearing, besides the name nd services of Neill, the names of the officers and men of the Madras Fusiliers who have fallen in this conflict IA Bengal. A public meeting on this subject, held at Madras on the 6th of December, was presided over by Lord Harris, who spoke in especial praise of Neill's care of his men. The last words that officer addressed to him before leaving Madras, were commending the  families of the soldiers to his Lordship's care. Two of the speakers singled out another of Neill's qualities for peculiar eulogy. This was his readiness in the emergency to undertake for the public good heavy personal responsibility from *Lich must men would have shrunk The Hon. the Chief Justice of Madras said—' I firmly believe that to the decided conduct, the unflinching energy, and the noble self-devotion of the late General. Neill, not only the safety of Calcutta, but the peace of this and the sister Presidency of Bombay is mainly, if Out wholly, owing. (Applause) He was essentially the ntan for the occasion—equal to it, because he dared to take upon himself responsibility, and, hosing done so, to net Irrespective of the opinions of others. He was not the ma to wait for orders in no emergency which required lobe niet at once with energy nod decision, and In mode fitted only to the extraordinary circumstances then occiming. I feel that in thus speakitig I may be approaching dangerous ground; hut! beg most distinctly to diselaiin all intention of referring to, or reflecting in the slightest degree on, the conduct of others. My object into do honour to the gallant Neill, end to show to how large an extent his country, in my opinion, is indebted to him. Had a less determined or less energetic man appeared at Benares at the important moment that he din, who can say to what places the conflagration then raging and threatening to involve the whole of India in its flames might not have reached? We need not attempt to conceal the fact now. This was no partial disaffection and motioy of a portion of an army, to be put down by ordinary means.' The AttoroeiGeneral held language nearly similar, and said—' Ha believed he might safely say that with the single exception of the gallant Havelock, whose loss he feared they Inert also to lament, there was no man on whose steps the country hung with such intense interest, or who no absorbed their admiration. From the time when the general took possession of the railway station atCalcutta, there, as no often afterwards, fearlessly assuming responsibilities from which ordinary men nervously shrink, to the tinie when he saved Allahabad, aid at Cawnpore inflicted righteous retribution on those high cute murderers, the Bengal Brahmin Sepoys, the fame of his deeds rang trumpet-toegued through the land, and in England, at all events, that retribution was not looked on as vengeance or revenge, but simply as that which the ComnianderiinsChief of the British army, the Duke of Cambridge, had so lately said, amidst the cheers of all wno heard him, he hoped and Vitiated would be rigidly carried out, namely, justice—prompt and stern jostiee—on every sharer in those atrocities.' Loud applause.)