The Sun. — 1862-04-23 (London, England)

PRINCE. We allude to that Scott Monument, however, thus directly as affording a very noble evidence of what can be done—cf what has, in that instance, been done by a judicious blending of sculpture and architecture. There—every one will recall to mind, how, under that tapering, arched, columnar, gothic structure, exquisitely imagined and nobly realised in carvers stone, sits in his magic arm chair (the figure itself sculptured in white marble and of life size) the very effigies of the  Great Unknown. " Sic sedebat " is on the pedestal. It is Sir WALTER SCOTT himself. And, interspersed among the architectural beauties of the Monument, there are single figures and clustering groups, charmingly sculptured, representing the creatures born of the Dreams of the Great Magician. The Lady of the Lake stepping into her boat —Prince CHARLIE grasping his claymore—and so on through all those trumpet-toned chivalric Poems and those gorgeous Novels and Romances, led off by, and collectively called after, that now twice " Sixty years ago" tale of " Waverley !" Remembering the many beauties and the general effect of grandeur for which the Memorial to Sir WALTER SCOTT at Edinburgh is remarkable, we cannot but think that, as a combination of the labours of sculpture with those of architecture, it may rfford a hint to the Royal Commissioners.  The Indian mails inform us of Lord ELGIN'S arrival in India and Lord CANNING'S departure. The returning Viceroy brings with him the sincere blessings of all classes of the community, both European and native, and that after having passed through such an ordeal as no preceding Governor-Gen eral has ever known. Hardly a year had passed after he set foot in India ere the "greased cartridges," too ludicrous a atory at first for European belief, proved a spark to kindle a flame of mutiny through our whole vast but dangerously petted sepoy army. The sad and wonderful history of that military rebellion is but too fresh in too many minds; and the return of the Governor-General who witnessed its commencement, its complete suppression, and not only the restoration of the country to peace, but the inauguration of a far better system than prevailed when he arrived there, is an event which brings vividly before us both the painful past and the more hopeful present. The former we pass over with hearts aching afresh at the mere remembrance of it. It is somewhat singular, however, that while we write this, our attention is arrested by an eye-witness's description of the execution of MOGUL BEG, at Delhi, on the 14th of March, en atrocious ruffian, who was distinctly proved guilty of the murder of four unarmed Europeans who had fled to the palace for refuge, two of them young unmarried females. The judicial retribution, after nearly five years, has had a very beneficial moral effect upon the natives, and it marks the happy alteration in the state of the Indian mind, that Coe native princes actively co-operated in tracking the fugitive from justice; that the people showed no sympathy whatever with the criminal, and that amongst the crowd around his scaffold, the remark was, " Truly, this man has had his deserts." That such were the circumstances attendant on the execution of one of the worst criminals of May, 1857, must be ascribed to the remarkable moral qualities which have distinguished from that time to the day he left, the administration of Lord ,