Show the dance of death at Bal bai balmoral morl mori TO 70 TH THE F EDITOR OF sni sri ahe times when announcing the arrival of a steamer at Southam southampton pLon pion with some of the refugees from delhi ac remarked the athe prevailing impression seems to be that the people at home borne have even now ilow not nothing hilli like a correct notion of the extent and anil character of the inu mutiny tiny from what caule cause I 1 ask does uch such an erroneous impression arisa ans Is not riot the indian revolt the sole topic of discourse do not tile tha newspapers teem with descriptions of its pro progress gress gresi and ils its al rocile have not the people of op england opened their purse strings and liberally sub acil lb ed in aid bid of the suffer gummer ej elsby s by the mutiny has haa not our army been drained almost to the last man ma at home in order to reini oice ce that of hidia india aro not recruiting parties spread over the country erill enus sting tins all that will enter the military service in ili facts sir there is ia but one circumstance that can have haie originated the filse false impression of 6 our bein being to the awful magnitude of the tha lumn ludian indian crisis and that circumstance is the ilie cruel and heartless apathy displayed displaced by the court and the tile scandalous neglect of U their official duties by the queens ministers when the english journals reach india what will our gallant soldiers think thinks oil ou perusing under the head of court intelligence that the queer queen of england is dancing in m thi new cew ballroom at balmoral house ald alo aia ala that her spouse prince albert is daily to be seen enjoying himself on tile the grampian Gr ampian bills deer sta stalking aking at the ery very time when the he heart of the nution nation is is bleeding for the murders of innocent bonien and harg harm harmless harmless lebs leks babes and the he land is s a land of mourners weep lug ing for the thousands who have met violent and ana hor hanible libie lible deaths nero fiddled chust whilst rome was burning victoria Victo iia lia dances iu in the midst of mutinies massacres and murders no wonder judt judi indeed ted bed that the affrighted refugees just returned from witnessing that awaul tragedy of blood carnage car nage aage raphie rapine violation arld and death which iq now beilig being enacted in in the largest portion of the queen at of En glands dominions should be impressed with the notion that he extent of the calamity is uio uti del dei rated at bome home when they find the Sove severe ga of those fair territories dancing arid and capering to the sound of gay and blithesome music asir I 1 sir can ran only filid find a counter counterpart parS to such cold coid blooded conduct con COD duct by conjuring up tip ill in lly liy my own imagination the tile fright frightful rui rul spectacle specia cle cie a an iru irl irish haaks waka wake sometimes Ome times timas offers when hen drun diun drunken kerl kell rey rev revellers resellers revel ellers leis make death hideous by howling and dancha dancil g around lh the tha commin coffin of the dead what can call nie hie he gallant soldan who are fighting against such feard fearful al adds who may be said to have in death at their elbow think when tiie they hear that in in tile the midst of their benis penis and whilst all ell is uncertainty as to the fate of and thousands of eil ell english lish men mes women and arid children charen the lady whose uniform our soldiers wear dances and junkets just es dilt glit blithely hely heiy as though and arid sat upon her lier ci own I 1 leae iem lem e this subject sir gir ii with ith indignation I 1 and disgust painfully coli coll convinced vinced that in a this monarchy ridden country birgs princes and nobles can call outrage with the dearest sentiments of humanity and that the sense gense lefis crow crow will throw thron up their caps aid aej ard shout god gavel gavey sae those who care riot not a dump for lieu lien 0 Fidd fiod MarshaI prince alert albert is siau elau b bering ing adfer custea of und urd Ms ils bif f ka pring capering ca hapring phing aw away a to tile tiie tune of pop top goesl goes tha the ba leevel the ministers of S state slate at fo lowIng purn puan bad examples have deserted and are far away flom fionn the seat of rj government af at the very time kielies ivere were momentarily expected from india tile the newspaper P 1 that the war minister lord 1 was shoo shooting tinz at Inver indermark mark lode lodo scotland oland and that thai on monday night a government despatch was received at the telegraph brechin for his lordship which was imme conveyed convened ed express ap lo 10 indermark Inver mark lodge a of some twenty miles may be his this despatch des fatch aa va of the most moat vital importance requiring g instant attention and all an immediate response he time wasted in its trans transmission from london to indermark Inver mark mi at be the cause of further dasas teri terl leri lerna lerua a crisis where prompt energy action and resolution atre are ane required lord Panni panmure Pan mure ure as well eliis nans colleagues is a salaried i ed servant of tho the public i addas andas nd massuch such bound to attend to the duties of his officer mice fice what would be said of the conduct of a Is hips ships captain who when his vessel was surround surrounded td by ilg lit perils merlis riis left leit her and sought his recreation crea creation tion tiou at a distance dis dib tance 3 why lie would he be dismissed hi his hig employ and the owners of bf the ship would onix only boniv be too gad glad of ridding themselves of sucha beg neglectful and aud unfaithful servant sel sei vant buethe bit but the people of england although they pay the salaries of their ministers mims mins fers lers have no authority over them in tunes of peril and great national catastrophe tryo ine metropolis being the tile seat peal of government is is the proper place bolh botti for the queen and her ad bisers it is 13 in london flat fiat intelligence first ur arrives rives and consequently it is there that such ielli intelligence nc can cau the inot most promptly be acted upon tiie tile the public offices are centered in in the metropolis tro polis and it is there that the catlon cation can be made between the head heads of the ga government and the heads of departments but when ali the e queen is at balmoral lord panmure a at t I 1 Iner nver maik lord palmerston in hampshire the duke of cambridge in france iid other mini migi aters flitting about hither and thither the he most necessary ingredient in our treatment of 0 the pre ent sent indian revolt promptitude of action und and of oui isel isei Is impossible impossibly the other day the held a council at balmoral and ministers were mere scampering from ene one ie end of tile the kingdom to the other in in order to it now what would be thought of pre president 11 ident buchanan by tile the americans it if in a time of danger and disaster he lie quietly retired resl reil edme acme five or six six gix hundred miles from washington enjoyed himself in shooting and da dancing rici tg and made the ministers lofstate of state wait atte attendance it clatice upon him why from one end ot of the united states to the other a cry of indignation would ailse alise and every citizen ef of the republic denounce such conduct as unfeeling r and unpatriotic but sir the americans know how to make themselves re 11 pecked by their rulers whilst we are so acas tomed to be snubbed by monarchs ministers and cour zour courtiers tiers that we dare not openly resent behag beli bell avi 1 our which is as insulting in to tile the feelings of E elig engh fig ahmen 1 h at home as it is cruel and heartless to those who wha gre ar fighting our battles abroad GRACCHUS |