The Press. — 1857-11-07 (London, England)

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 7,1857.  There is one rule that is equally applicable to all countries, let the system of policy be what it may, and that rule will take upon myself to extract from the fifth on the list of the great English poets:— Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies. It was mainly on tkat admirable and universally recognised principle that, to my delight, I saw the ceremony of this day conducted. I can well imagine that a peasant or a yeoman, " acting well his part," might find in the acclamations of his countrymen and the applause of those under whom he had served " where all the honour lies." I can imagine that even a prince may he a working patriot —that he may devote his high intellect, his energy of mind and body to the zealous and persevering discharge of important and interesting public duties. I can imagine, as I have said, that even a prince may be so little dazzled by the luminous atmosphere in which he moves as to be able to see and to distinguish a meritorious comrade in the obscurest ranks of the private force ; and I can imagine that even a prince, not bound by the dignity of chief command, may, at a moment of State exigency, sound with his breath the bugle for recruits. These are things that, republean as I am, I can imagine possible. Whether the imagining in your Letter knowledge of men and things can be made a tact among British princes it is not for me to determine. lam not one of the jury for the trial of that fact. I am, 93 I have said, a stranger. You are the panel, and if you find that there happens to be among British princes one of whom all these imaginings of mine in reference to individual merit become a plain fact, why your finding as jurors of such a verdict would be conclusive upon the judgment of those who hear it. Referring to the crimes of the mutineers, Mr. Dallas said : Mutiny and murder are heavy crimes ; they are dark and gloomy crimes ; but they are crimes known to us all, and they are crimes committed in almost every community and under almost every Government. Penalties are speci• deafly provided for these crimes in the respective criminal codes of various countries. Let such crimes be punished wherever they occur according to the law. That is the first and clearest principle of action. But there are other crimes—crimes, at least, of another character—which become so monstrous as to assume the attitude of enmity to the human race ; not merely crimes committed with reference to the power of India, not merely crimes inimical to England, not merely crimes inimical to Europe and its civilisation, but crimes that constitute their perpetrators what pirates are, what cannibals in the Fejee Islands are, enemies of the human race, and meriting, not from one nation, not from one people, but from the whole of the human race, summary and peremptory extirpation. The LORD MAYOR next gave the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," to which Lord GRANVILLE replied in an exculpatory speech on behalf of Lord Canning. Lord Granville, carefully abstaining from offering any opinion of his own upon the recent events in India, denied that Lord Canning had " forgotten what was due to justice," or that he had " interfered with the military authorities," in whose hands the punishment of the mutineers must mainly rest, upon the ground that Lord Canning had frequently written to him (Lord Granville) expressing a certain "soreness of heart" that retribution had been delayed upon "devils in human form." Lord Granville, in conclusion, and amidst much impatience and interruption, denied that Mr. Grant had been sent up to control the military authorities in the north-western districts, held up to admiration Lord Canning's " great moral courage " in suppressing the liberty of the British press in India, and, finally, asserted that Lord Canning had " broken the neck " of one of the most formidable mutinies which have ever occurred in our dominions. Several other toasts followed, and the proceedings terminated at a late hour.  THE LORD MAYOR ELECT, Sir Robert Carden, was on Monday received by the Lord Chancellor, who, with the usual formalities, signified her Majesty's entire approbation at the choice of the citizens of London in selecting Sir Robert for the office of Chief Magistrate.