The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

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. struggle, with all its attendant horrors, its mas-
sacres and murders, its robbery and its rapine.
The silence of the Time: upon the great question,
with which every English heart is full, appears re-
markable. The Times avoids the subject. The
special correspondent, to be sure, has been despatched
to Hong Kong, not to Delhi ; but the Times is not
usually so silent upon a subject of such vast interest.
However, it has found space to admit that the con-
duct of the native princes is " not satisfactory," that
"the religions and races of India are opposed tons
and that we cannot help it," that " Mahomedan pre-
tenders and Hindoo fanatics" are" allied against us,"
that we have " only a few thousand men held in thin
solution over seventy or eighty millions of natives,"
and that the whole affair is " a desperate struggle."
In the face of all these admissions, to say that the
last news was " most encouraging" appears slightly
inconsistent.
The Daily News, remarking upon the singular
congratulation the Ministerial journals offer that, be-
cause the whole Bengal army is either disbande4 or
in open mutiny, all danger is passed, observes :
This much seems certain, that the insurrection has not
been a sudden unpreconcerted outbreak—a mutiny in one
regiment spreading by a kind of contagion to others. . . It
is no mere military mutiny, it is an attempt. at revolution
that we have to deal with in Bengal. The paucity of Euro.
peen troops, and the protracted resistance of Delhi, are
enabling the insurrection to assume consistency and spread
southwards.
The Morning Post, which at the first held to the
mere mutiny creed, and characterised the rebels in
Delhi as " a rabble rout," with " not much artillery,
and no ammunition," now admits that the whole affair
is " a conspiracy," that the real secret of the rebel-
lion is in the intrigues of the King of Oude and some
of bis neighbours," and that "the greased cartridges
had nothing to do with the movement."
The Morning Advertiser regards the entire revolt
"as a deeply-laid and long preconoerted plot," and
adds :

It is difficult for us to conceive how, under the circum-
stances, the opinion can be put forth that the insurrection
" does not expalid," and that the rebels " fail in carrying
any of the native population with them." A more
erroneous view could certainly not have been advanced.
The Morning Chronicle remarks :
These last accounts lying some proofs, also, of the
causes of this mutiny—proofs, both positive and negative.
They all tend to confirm the views taken by Mr. Disraeli,
and which have never yet been refuted by the authori-
ties. The mistaken spirit of propagandism, and the
deliberate attempt to interfere with the religious pre-
budices of the natives, stand forth as the primary incentives,
ut there is also the insolence of a superior race, and
the indifference to treaty engagements, generated by a
sense of overwhelming power.

The Morning Star regards the movement as a
oonspiraey against our rule, and, referring to our
past misgovernment, remarks :

If we are to continue in the path which we have so long
pursued ; if we are to raise external enemies by acts of
spoliation and conquest; if by oppressive taxation, a pira-
tical body of police, a system of covenanted service, and,
still worse, a scandalous interference with the religious
convictions of the natives, we are determined to exasperate
our Indian fellow-subjects to the highest pitch of indigna-
nation, then we had better make up our minds for a rising,
sot of the Bengal army only, but of the hundred millions
of Indian people who are subject to our sway.
The Evening Herald :
The papers presented to Parliament abound in
proofs of the foot that the exercise of ordinary
ovation and energy would have effectually prevented
the outbreak of any mutiny at all. Its real charsc•
ter, the causes which produced the explosion, and
the measures necessary for its suppression, have been
alike either accidentally or willfully misrepresented and
underrated.
The Examiner observes:—
The mutiny, in a word, turns out to be a Brahminical
conspiracy of the army to oust us from India. The
plot was skilfully and secretly formed, but the means of
execution were egregiously miscalculated.
The Spectator, though it regards the news as pre-
senting no " striking change" in the general position,
admits that the mutiny is " spreading."
The Weekly Dispatch is of opinion
That practically 132,000,000 of Asiatics are either
passively against us, neutral—caring neiLlapr whether we
sucoeed.or fail—or actively prejudiced against and hostile
to us.
The Saturday Review, though it regards the news
as " free from disheartening circumstances," con-
fesses that if " anything could convert the rising of
the Bengal soldiery into a great national movement"
it would be the continued occupation of Delhi by the
rebels. But it adds that " this danger appears to
have passed."
The Leader:—
We have a fatal assurance that the usual means of com-
munication are becoming more and more impaired by the
spread of disorder lt is most devoutly
to be wished that the next mail may bring us tidings of
more decisive import. We cannot but mistrust vague