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AGE, 41-42. YULE RESIGNS SERVICE—DEATH OF LORD CANNING lv
not be in accord. Indeed, some little clouds were already
visible on the horizon. In these circumstances, it is not surpris-
ing that Yule, under an impulse of lassitude and impatience,
when accepting Lord Canning's offer, also ` burnt his boats ' by
sending in his resignation of the service. This decision Yule
took against the earnest advice of his anxious and devoted wife,
and for a time the results justified all her misgivings. She knew
well, from past experience, how soon Yule wearied in the absence
of compulsory employment. And in the event of the life in
England not suiting him, for even Lord Canning's good-will
might not secure perfectly congenial employment for his talents,
she knew well that his health and spirits would be seriously
affected. She, therefore, with affectionate solicitude, urged that
he should adopt the course previously followed by his friend
Baker, that is, come home on furlough, and only send in his
resignation after he saw clearly what his prospects of home
employment were, and what he himself wished in the matter.
Lord Canning and Yule left Calcutta late in March, 1862 ; at
Malta they parted never to meet again in this world. Lord
Canning proceeded to England, and Yule joined his wife and
child in Rome. Only a few weeks later, at Florence, came as a
thunderclap the announcement of Lord Canning's unexpected
death in London, on 17th June. Well does the present writer
remember the day that fatal news came, and Yule's deep
anguish, not assuredly for the loss of his prospects, but for the
loss of a most noble and magnanimous friend, a statesman whose
true greatness was, both then and since, most imperfectly realised
by the country for which he had worn himself out.50 Shortly
after Yule went to England,51 where he was cordially received by
Lord Canning's representatives, who gave him a touching re-
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50 Many years later Yule wrote of Lord Canning as follows : " He had his defects, no doubt. He had not at first that entire grasp of the situation that was wanted at such a time of crisis. But there is a virtue which in these days seems unknown to Parliamentary statesmen in England—Magnanimity. Lord Canning was an English statesman, and he was surpassingly magnanimous. There is another virtue which in Holy Writ is taken as the type and sum of all righteousness—Justice—and he was eminently just. The misuse of special powers granted early in the Mutiny called for Lord Canning's interference, and the consequence was a flood of savage abuse ; the violence and bitterness of which it is now hard to realise." ( Quarterly Review, April, 1883, p. 306.)
51 During the next ten years Yule continued to visit London annually for two or three months in the spring or early summer
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