The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-17 00:00:00

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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE
BAST INDIA DIRECTORS TO THE GOVERNOR-
GENERAL ON THE TRBATILENT OP THE
REVOLTED PROVINCES.

The parliamentary papers this morning delivered
include the following copy of letter from the Court
of Directors of the East India Company to the
Governor-General of India in Council :
May 5, 1868.
1. You will have received, by the mail of the 25th of
March, a letter from the Secret Committee, which ham since
been laid before us, respecting the policy which it becomes
you to pursues towards those natives of India who have
recently bem la arms against the authority of the British
government.
2. That letter emphatically confirms the principles which
you ban already adopted, as eel forth in your circular of
the 81st of July, 1867, by improwing upon you the propriety
of pursuing, after the conquest of the revolted pro-
vinces, a course of policy distinguished by a wise and dis-
criminating generosity. You are exhorted to tamper justice
with mercy, and, except in came of extreme eriminalivy, to
grant an amnesty to the vanquished. In the sentiments
evmased by the Secret Committee we entirely concur.
there are some mimes which humanity calls upon you
to punish with the utmost severity, there Si. others of a lees
ampsvated character, which it would be equally unjust and
impolitic not to pardon and to forget.
3. The offences with which you will be called upon to dad
are of three different kinds, Firstly, high crimes, budgeted
=lce prepense, and aggravated by desaMry sad cruelty.
y, cisme the results rather cd time of
hdo Meath it is believed that may leterhett .
m
trashtues to eleinlastice of sample ; by the herd
their mom powerful countrymen, cir tb
bead that they have bees oompromised by the aide of
their associates, rather than by any wive &s he to
embarrass the existing government. And, thirdly, oiliness
of a less positive character, amounting to little more than
passive connivance at evil, or at most to the act of giving
such assistance to the rebels, as if not given, would have
been forcibly extorted, and which in many eases it would
have been death to refuse to bodies of licentiou and exas-
perated mutineers.
4. It is the fleet only of these offences, the perpetrators of
which, and their accomplices, it will be your duty to visit
with the severest penalty which you can inflict; and it is,
happily, in ends oases of exceptioad atrocity, that you will
have the least difficulty In proving both the commission of
the dime, and the identity of the offender. In the other
ewe yea m*ht often be left in doubt, not only of the ex-
tent of the offense committed, but of its actual commission
by tits ammeed persons ; and, although we are aware that
the retribution which may be righteously inflicted upon the
guilty may be in rime measure restricted by too much
sleety of specification, and that, in dealing with so large a isms
of ahem it is digital' to avoid the coutourron deems sots of
individual *justice, we may still express our desire that the
utmost exertion may be made to confine, within the amillest
poadble compass, these cams of unoartain proof and dubious
identity, even though your retributory measures should thus
fall short of what in strict justice might be indicted.
6. As soon as you have suppressed the active hostility of
the enemy, year first care will be the restoration of public
moidenoe. It will be your privilege when the dil
provisoes shall no longer be convulsed by intestine
to set an example of toleration and forbearance towards the
Witecpeople, and endeavour by every means consistent
i to
the security of the British empire In the East to allay
the Irritation and suspicion which, if attired to retain pos-
session of the minds of the native and European inhabitants
of the country, will eventually lead to nothing learn calamitous
then a war dream
G. Ice dealing with the people of Onde you will doubtless
he moved by special considerations of justice and of policy.
Thr the ream contest we have ever regarded sash
of ti=taah of that country se not being &mom or
piedmont of oar own army, have been in arms against as,
as en exceptionabh class. They cannot be considered as
traitors or eves rebels, for they had not pledged their fidelity
to us, and they bad scarcely become our subjects. Many
,
by the introductica of a new system of government, had
ammeargy been depived of the maintenance they had
latterly emoyed ; and others feared that the speedy loam of
their means of subsistence must follow from the same course.
It was natural that such persons should avail them-
selves of the opportunity presented by the distracted
state of the country to strike a blow for the renoratica
of the native rule, under which, the permitted disorganise-
don of the comely had so long been to them • soma of un-
lawful profit. Neither the disbanded soldiers of the late na-
tive government, nor the great talookders and their retainers,
were under any obligation of &leery to our emolument for
barite conferred upon deem. You would be justilled,
therefore, in dealing with them as you would with a foreign
enemy, and in ceasing to consider them objects of punish
meat after they have once laid down their arms.
7. Of these arms they must for ever be deprived. You
will doubtless in promoution of this object address
yourself, in the first instance, to the OW of
the great talookdars, who so successfully defied the late
government, and many of whom, with large bodies of armed
men, appear to have aided the efforts of the mutate= sol-
diery of the Bengal army. The destruction of the fortified
strongholds of these powerful landholders, the forfeiture of
their ram mining guns, the disarming and disbanding of their
will be among your fleet worts. But whilst you
ispri!"ving this influential and once dangerous clam of
people el their power of openly resisting your anthorig,=
we have no doubt, exert yourselves by every
amens to reemeile the. to British Ms, and encourage them,
by liberal ffirramenents Irk In accordance with ancient
lirto become industrious agriankuriste ; end to employ
ealtivstion of the sell the men who, as armedr
have so long wasted the sabstmes ot their ineetere,"dan
desolated the land. We believe that these Isndholders may
be Magid that their holdings will be mars preatabis to thou,
alder a strong government, eatable or meistefelas We
paws of the country, sad weedy punishing megrim out-
rages, then under one which perpetually invitee, by Its
weakness, the ruinous arbitration of the sword.
& Baring thus endeavoured, on the re-establishment of
the authority of the British government in Oude, to re-
insure the great landholders, you will proosed to omaider,
in the same spirit of toleration and forbearance, the meta-
don of the great body of the people. You will bear in
mind that it is esammery, in a transition stets from out
geueusent to mother, to deal tenderly with axis
mega end somedmes etas with existing abasmlbi
precipitate reforms ere dinaerooe. It is often wiser
even M %h eats evil der a lime then to Warn sad to inhale
the minds of the people by the sudden introduction of
changes which tine esa 011110 0111110 k tbets to
=teaor am, gokridaad. You
' especially =Mt in the re-adjustment,
of the fiscal system dhow= be evil the irepoittka
etomotostoesal good et cot a local ohs-
sosera:misaiimpse the teesarete, sad
elmals. the tithe pee*. Weds aptlmMe
the edlagaherelloa et As previa*,
eeeesdiag le the ion aeld to etatehrintseLkeilyem At
web lbw we should tembineer seatilele paple by
wise eseleademe. earl M de weft le ammatest the bad
that the ileilleiipeeelmeat le mere Bova te=efeelvene than
the main rake when it has sagaisaied.

up both es weak and ; so wean, in offering the life
it boa not the power to iaka as rapacious, in seizing estates
to which it has so right. ft will be industriously instilled
into the ear of the Oade permit that henceforth nothing he
=I is hiown—hamths bullock with which he ploughs
own—ham
the thatch with which be oovers by hut, all, be
will be bkemed, have been taken. But perhaps the Governor-
General I. ka labour with a mighty scheme. It I. net enough
to have a fah& ram in the North West Proviaoss—it is
not enough to have to build up there a new system of lend
amessment—to erect a mew schema of financial and judicial
procedure; therefore we disorganise Oude, that mall ;go-
yim*, containing not more than five millions of inhabitants
there we render all property insecure, and add a slight ill..
aliment to our labour*.

PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE ENGLISH
IN INDIA.

The following extraordinary proclamation was
issued by Prince Mina Mahomed Feroze Shah on
the 3rd of Rujub, 1274, corresponding with the 17th.
of February, 1868:

. -
Be it known to 6H the Matto° and Idahoinedas Wald-
tants of India that to rule over a country is one of the gonel
Wining, from HOLM, mod it is Wad to a tyrant sr an
',prance. Within the hat few years the British command
to omen the people to India under di_fferent pleas, end ear
nived to urethane Hindeolon and thabowwfaft. and
maim ail the peck abrade Christianity. Tb. Ato.
Power otharving thfe Wald the hearts of lima pewit e.
dam", meme, fad now every one ha turned to
the WS* end they ben nearly does ae. Three*,
narks and sentitica the British have *own mar
nualMenee, though is vets. Through:7W ewer
Wawa in a short tine be reduced to no . Let We lath
be known to tail Hinders and hi unulmen, the Begithla
bear the bitterest enmity towards them. Should
becomeproloniant this country—which Geed =
they wth destroy rollick's, property, and eves titie lib et'
evveyene. A brief sketch of the views and Inisations et the
Bamente Court and parliament is hereby sins, ft order in
warn the people that they should at rid of the habits of
negligence end strive in unity to destroy the infidek. When
the Indian troops mutinied to save their religion, and killed
tail infidels in ~,seal places, the wise men of wow
of opinion that had the British authorities in India kept the
following things in view the mutiny would never have broken
ant:

i. They should have destroyed the race of the former kings
and nobles.

2. They should have bang in books or every other

r. They should not have left even a Wawa of ground to -
any of the native rulers.
4. They should have intermarried among the natives,
so that after a short time all would have brooms one race.
6. They should not have taught the tuts of artillery to
the natives.
6. They should not have left arms among the matins.
7. They should not have employed any native until he
consented to eat and drink with Europeans.
8.
alloTwed he
dead. mosques and Eindoo temples should not have been.
be
9. Make Noulvies nor Brahmins should have been
snowed le preach.
10. The several 01&311 brought into the courts should have
hem decided according to English laws.
11. Engle prieste shwa have performed all nuptial oe-
remadenet the meth= emarding to their English customs.
12. An pwripticas of the Hindoo and Musaulmen phy-
skim am
Wised. id have bass prohibited, and English medicines
taniiied

IL Neither Made* mar Muredwan fakeers should have
beta snowed to waved people without the permission of
sissionsrlea
Eillinuropeast donors only should hare been allowed to
amid salve women in childbed.

Sat the ntrhOritiesdline4 take means to introduce these
nisesores. On the contrary, they always encouraged the
=so much so that they at lad broke out. Had the
Yee kept in view the maxims above alluded to the
native would have remained quiet for thousands of yearn.
Theme ere now the real Intentions of the English, but all of
us must conjointly exert ounelves for the protection of our
line, , and religion, and to root out the English
from t is country. Thus we shall indeed, through Divine
ream, gain great victory over them. 1 (the Prude) now
draw a brief sketch of my travels, end I hope the people
will pay attention to what I say. Before the dateadiest of
the English I went on a pilgrimage to Mecca end ae aq
return I observed that the English wen is a
bed end hazardous position. I therefore offend
thanks to Ood became* it is la my nature to follow
the priaciples of my_teliglon and to promulgate justice.
I wooded assay at Delhi to raise a religions war ; I then
hastened towards Owalior, where the majority of the military
Moen promised to kill the English and take up my cause.
A small portion of the 0 walior army accompanied me. I
had not the least intention to announce war before I had
everything to order,
_bat the army became very enthusiastic,
and commenoed fighting with the enemy (the English).
Though our army wee then but a handful, and that of the
enemy very large in numbers, still we fought manfully, end,
though apparently we were defeated, in reality we were vici-
iodate our our sassy, for we killed 1,000 of them. Mace
then I have been collecting as well as exhorting the people.
I have exerted myself In procuring ammunition up to this
day, now four months since the commencement. Thank
Ood, an army of 150,000 old and new men are now
bound by a solemn oath to embrace my cum. I have col-
lected conidderable treasury and munitions of war in many
LlMsad lm a shed time I shall clear the country of all
. Since the real purpose of this war is to save reli-
gion, let every Endo° and Mussulman render assistance to
the utmost. Those that are old should offer their prayers.
The rich, bat old, should artist our sacred warnon with
mosey Those is perfect health, as well u young, should
ateendin perms. But all those who are in the serene of
either Mina Bhjish Kadar Bandar in Lackmow sad of
Shea Bahadoce Khan at Etareilly should sad vague
eat to join us, for these rulers are ihMilOhle using their
ben endeavours to dear the country of ell Wadi. All
who jois us should do so solely with a view of Frontal.
their reftion, not with that of worldly avarice.
ciltiegvkitery will certainly smile upon as • thee diellugulehed
r.....:111 be confined on the people at Lige. The delay in de.
the Basil& hes been cued by people kind/stein=
cent thee end women without any perseission w
from the Were, whose commands were ad obeyed. Let ns
all avoid each primness, and then modals' • mend war.
Lastly. The great and small in this oumpaign wilt be equal,
kr we an waging • religious war. I (the Pried) do now
proclaim • sewed war, and exhort all, amordiag to. he need
of their relligio to exert themselves. The rent I be
Ood. We elan certainly conquer the English, consequently
I Smite the people again to my andereees.
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