HAVELOCK'S MONUMENT.
IT is proposed to erect a monument to Havelock, and a • corre- spondent of the Daily News suggests for the site "the angle of Trafalgar Square corresponding to that which contains the statue of Sir Charles Napier; of whom our departed hero was a favour- ite lieutenant." 'There are other reasons for the choice. In reply to complaints that the recognition of Havelock by the Government had not been originally spontaneous and hearty enough, represent- ations have been put forth that he rose to distinction more rapidly than any officer of his rank—more rapidly even than Wellington. But the claims urged in his behalf were not of a kind that depend upon precedent, or could be regulated by it. It was far from being a simple case of military success. It would indeed be difficult to mete the exact amount of military trouble that would have ensued if Havelock had failed in his advance through Oude ; still more frightful to think of the moral conse- quences, both personal and political. In its nature his march appears to have been absolutely without precedent. We have before had Marches through hostile countries, but never, we be- lieve, such a steady, persevering journey, through apparent possibilities, and in the midst of what looked like certain death. But what above all determined the estimate of the service per- formed in Oude was the time at which it was done, with all India in commotion, all England in anxiety, ond peculiarly- sensitive to the service ; while Havelock's unaffected but conspicuously as- serted piety helped to endow him with the aspect of a conscious instrument in the hand of Providence. The feelings of the man individually entered largely into his power of leading his soldiers, and into the estimate which his country has formed of his cha- racter. Instead of being a mere general officer, highly successful
in field operations,—he was but partially tried in those,--Have- lock brought to the art of war the feelings of chivalry, its ear- nestness, devotion, and self-forgetfulness: qualities in whit he resembled Napier, whose monument is placed on one side Wale square, and Nelson who would stand between the two.
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