The Sun. — 1857-10-19 (London, England)

FOUR. However, here the two documents lie before us. Lord ELLENBOROTIGII'S we adverted to in part on Saturday. Unable to attend the meeting of the Winchcomb Agricultural Association, he writes to it his views of the character of  the mutiny and the mutineers, and of the mode  (by which the sons of the soil may best discharge their duty of providing the requisite force to retain, as well as to reconquer India. On the latter point we gave our opinion on Saturday. Let our readers, however, compare the tone of Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S remarks on the deserts of the mutineers, with those of Lord CANNING in his circular to the Indian authorities. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, at least, writes in the spirit of his countrymen ; appealing to them to aid in raising a competent militia, he says— " Gentlemen, you may not have looked into all the details of what has taken place in India, but you must know this—that we have there a great war forced upon us by rebels who would deprive all our countrymen of their lives, and England of an empire—that where we placed our confidence, we have been met with treachery__ where we acted with kindness, we have encountered murder--murder, not directed only against men by whom resistance might be made, and from whom wrongs might have been feared, but extending equally to unoifencling, helpless women—to the children at their knees, and to the infants at their breasts—sparing none, and often inflicting death with torture upon the body where it had already more cruelly tortured the mind. " We have seen there, in almost every instance of mutiny, one general deliberate design, not only to deprive us of the dominion we have so long held with honour, but to place us, as a people, under circumstances of outrage and of indignity, which, if we submit to them, must render us, in the eyes of all living men and of all future generations, a despised and degraded race. Will you submit to thi4? You will say you never will—you will have redress and vengeance. We will say nothing about vengeance—that belong 4 only to a Higher Power ; but to punish crime so signally as to deter all hereafter from its commission, and to vindicate our sovereign authority, this is no doubt our right, and it is our duty."  Again, urging the value of their example, if a patriotic one, he exclaims— " It is impossible to over-estimate its importance. There is nothing man holds dear for which we have not now to fight. If we should not bear ourselves manfully in the contest thus forced upon us, if we should not succeed in it, we must be content not only to lose the noblest empire in the world, but to mike the name of Englishman a byeword of shame amongAt nations. _  "The wives and daughters of our countrymen have been publicly violated, their children have been put to death with circumstances of cruelty surpassing all we read of in history as the punishments inflicted by God upon the offending Jews. it has not been deemed sufficient to destroy us. We were first to be dishonoured, and this in a country through which we have proudly—perhaps too proudly—stalked a 3 conqusrors for a hundred years.'  These are unquestionably the sentiments which Air the bosom of every Englishman at home, the sentiments which arouse farmers and farmers' men to do what in them lies to wipe out the foulest blot ever inflicted on the fame of England. But we turn to the document issuing from the Governor and his Council, all of them persons almost on the spot—issuing from this man, inched, several of them and thes3 man, if, deserve the name ; for t,) us, in ono's native clime, it seems as if a tropical climate had reduced them to the condition of those unfortunate persons who guard the harems of Rajah 9, Nabobs, Peishwas, and Eastern Emperors, and who cannot be ' stung to insuppressible indignation with indignities to either sax----vfe turn to this document, and what is its object ? To proclaim martial law wherever mutineers are in force ? To encourage firmness and decision when everything depends upon it? To refer the civil authorities to the military commanders, as the best judges of what course the former should  take in each district ? Nothing, indeed, of this kind from Mr. Some Secretary