Two remarkable incidents of the Prince of Wales's progress through
India are recorded this week. One was the laying of the foundation-stone of the memorial which Lord Northbrook is erecting in Lucknow, at his own expense, to the native soldiers who fell in the defence of Lucknow. These men, as we have ob- served elsewhere, ought to have been honoured sixteen years ago, and it is greatly to the credit of Lord Northbrook that he has per- ceived the indecency of the failure to do it. From a hint in Sir George Coulter's speech on the occasion, we gather that the Government had been asked to make the memorial national, and had declined. The other incident was the reception of the descendants of Mirza Jehander Shah, heir-apparent to Shah Alum, the last of the race of Timom.. They passed before the Prince of ,Wales, saluting him reverently, but in silence. That ceremony might, we think, have well been spared. If these Princes, of whom no one ever heard before, are not of the line of Timour, they should have been disregarded ; and if they are, it is hardly dignified to make them acknowledge the English Sovereign. Napoleon would not have directed the Comte de Chambord to attend his levee.
