The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-16 00:00:00

LNSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO THE
TREATMENT OF MUTINEERS.

The following instructions have been published by
order of the government:—
From C. Bandon Beg., Secretary to the Government of
India, to C. B. 'Thornhill, Eeq , Officiating Secretary to
the Government of the North-Western Provinces.
. . . .

gi;,Liiniallrected to forward the accompanying extract
from the proceedings of the Right Hon. the Governor-
General in Council, relative to the treatment of mutineers,
deserters, and other persons concerned in the recent and pre-
sent diuurbances, and to request that the observanoe of the
principle. there laid down may be enjoined upon the local
authorities —I have &c.

(Signed) C. BEADox,
Secretary to the Government of India.
Fort William, July 31.

Extract from the proceeding's of the Right Hon. tiw
Governor-General of India in Council in the Home Depart-
ment, under date July 31

1. The GovernarsCienenToTincifain Council as observed
with approbatinn the zealous exertions of the loud i vil aathori-
tie 1.. r the and condign punishment of the
mutineers anda=pnconcerned in the present revolt. It
was neessary by the severe and prompt punishment of such
of these criminals as found their way in the districts in our
pesession when the minds of the native troop, could not
but be in a very unsettled state, though the men for the most
part bed abstained from open mutiny, to show that the just
fate of the mutineer is death, and that the Britiah govern-
ment was powerful to inflict the penalty. It was necessary
also by the offer of rewards for the appreheneon of all desert-
ers, to check the crime of desertion, which was becoming rite
in some of these minuets, and to prevent the possible escape
men who, apparently mere deserters, had been concerned
in aush teveible atrocities that their apprehension and condign
punishment was an imperative dory.
2. But lest measures of extreme severity should be too
hastily retorted to, or carried too far, his lordship in coun-
cil think' it right to issue detailed instructions on this sub-
ject by which all civil officers will be guided in the exert ise
rebeof their powers in the cum of mutineers, deserters, and
3. There is mascot to believe that in some, even of those
native regiments whose revolt has been stained Ly the most
sanguinary atrocities, some men may have distinguished
themselves from the Mee by protecting an officer. In some
such cases men of very guilty le=leet=eeee certificates
in their favour from aloes of ta bat there
may be others equally deserving of clemeacy who are with-
out any such ready moans of ciesiZlLthemaelvess from the
preeuntive evidence of their deep
& where the number of men go of what It is imps-
bible to pardon is so great, the government will gladly seine
• opportunity of reducing the work of retribution before
it by fiwusg a free pardon to all who Miaow that they U.
▪ chum to mercy on this ground, provided they have
not been guilty of any heinous crime against person or pro-
perty, or aided or abetted others in the 1301111111181:111 of any
such crime.

6. It le apse Ili In wide mistried, end
fee Weenier pert wid ore Is sea, wither mwderlng
lir Arm enmeettling say other Ilesrisr,
lire writ sees who to her hod ne hinetitit
err% thank ebey the:4=o soldier, and who
here es Mord desk isseceetile mad their want of
maithy with time whe ishe Row sinned Is epee nil-
is agora the geweeirel, by dkparsist I. 0••• villages
when tie Nei op, and telling piny with the
runs Ills derable to treat such men with all
revere fredeney.
the Owrcireer-Oereal h Council ttrnlore deems it ne-
eded yto dews the fellewing rule. kr the weiderser of
airJ. Is reedring the power,. erred In them by
mead for the pry ,alive othons sad
sek usarey we inertias.
fok. teL • sive Wier or soldier Irksome to • mi-
nis which hes not mutinied is to bey u 1 by the card
power es a mere derma wise he be feud or apprvistied
with ems ha is preen m. earl nee, when tare beim
r apprehended by is civil poem ere to he mat bar to
their ragiseste whenever that or le dose, there to be dealt
wets by the military antioritise. When mob saes c Lana
ler err beck to tier emigrate inamedmicly. they should be
dud is primes reds* the orders of aor reanent. lowborn
a g
art
is the is se mode. ilreeeed to the so aviary Co °overh-
Whi
2ed. Native =1"1:11. seldlere ring mouser. or
Isis Wire or eppreieended by is civil power.
ine= wr openhanded with swim i tile sot
dorsal with city swat set of beirte •
eft mot white Ina matIMA kW his set bras of the
a woroder at its llkers ere dry etherm.
le he ler lo Vie or to welt etherminA7roverromat
may brnahsr seam, nod me there te be :ode over to the
ossiameedsmt, le be desk with by the military authoritwo.
Should any .le
mime in sending the of enir to Alleha-
bed, either by rums el its &ince from the ple.oi of rout,
re ethers he, the cinder should be itoprianied until the
orders of government eon be obtained, Weer for
rebb.ca it may be ••••••ary to psis►le the ardor=
wick, is which ere a report wLU enneedittJ, afterwards be
made to the gorramest.
Sec. 3rd. Every matinee: or deserter who may be tar
before or apprehended by the civil authorilies, sad who easy
Le found to belong to a minaret which killed any European
allow or other European, or committed any other langun
mina, may be tried and ;raided by the CIVIi powe
the prisoner tea show that be wee sot pri rot at the meter
or ether outrage, or, if present, that he did Ms riser Is
permit it, ball particulars of the ors should be reported to
government in the military deportment, before the met e,
whatever it be, le carried into edict, otherwise the swift
•
should be carried late effect forthwith.
lee. Ir. If it carer be aecertained to what regiment a
mutineer or deserter taken balms or apprehended by the civil
authorities belonged, he is to be dealt with as provided above
by the lad Rale.

Late ;hoeing the several reginterts and detachments
',brit have mutinied will be prepared with all precticable
despoil in the mild/try data/scant, stating in each came all
!mown particulars of the mutiny, and accompanied by no-
tional rills. with appropriate 'murk' entente to the saws
of tiati,e officers tad men who are known to bays been
alei,nl from them regiment at the time of the mutiny, and of
thew who, if present, me known to have taken an active
part either in promoting or supremo/4th. mutiny, or to have
mut ly • oiled, or shetalsed from joining it. Thou nominal
rolls. a; awn .e prepared. will be printed and tircuLited to al
eted offiters, and to-
indite,, officers I. command.
The Governor-Others! in Council is anuouo to prevent
mesons...a of extreme severity being unne ~easily twitted to,
or ,amid to ewes*, or applied without due discrimination,
in regard to sots of rebellicin couunitted by MUM tot
inntinetre.
It is un luestionably necessary, in the first attempt to
restore (Id r in • merrier in wy. ti the civil authority has been
eattrely overthrown. to ackonmster the lam with each
promptitude and seventy u will strike tern r into the minds
of the evil dt.pieed among the people, sad will induce them
by the fe it ,if death to abstain trona plunder, to wore stoles
propeny, and return to peurful orkup.itions. But thaa ob-
jets once in a ergot degree sttaineil, the punishment of Crimes
eta reeulAteil with duscrimioation.
N. The continue! adminfittrati in of the law in its ar-
mee severity after the requests stnpreuion has bola made
urn the rebellious and disorderly, and after coder W been
carnally r.tiired would hate the effect of c sespeniting the
;weld.. and seetild probably induce them to Land together in
large number. for the protection of their lives and with a
view to n :aliatiin. a result much to be depn,oted. It would
gently add to the difficulties of set,ling the country
hereafter. if • spirit of sniturinv eginut their
milers were engendered is the minds of tie pet pie, and if
their helices were etuto:•cred by the timetubrance of needs
bloodshed. The riel every li•tri^t should
endeavour, without condoning any heinous ...deuces or mak-
ing NV promisee of pardon he eat h odenves, to encourage
all parsons to rerun to their usual oiciupatt.in, and, piani.lz-
tag only oath of the prism ipal offenders as on be appro.
to postpone •• far as pared:do all tomtit, inquiry into
pektinal awls until inch Hine as the guvcrnwent are in a
posltiontodeal with them in strength after th ugh invethiga-
bon. It nay be asowsary, lower, even after a district is
ton tally restored to order, to make clueptee from time to
true of such persons, if any, who may he guilty of serious
.****ages
,against person or property, or who, by stopping the
dswk cr mita ing the elector telegraph or otherwise, may al-
diestrour to promote the designs adios@ who are waging Iry
awning the state.
11. Ani,h, point to be noticed in conneiirdt with this sub-
WhpigLhe general burning a villages, whit k the Governor-
in Connell has MAIM to fear maw have been carried
too toe by sow of the dell ulcers emPloysd in restoring
ardor.

A some niessure of this sort is doubt lies asonsary se
an eserapie to some nem where the mar of the inhabitants '
of a village bees committed • grave outrage, and tits perpe-
trators cannot be pualsbed is their persons; but soy !ap-
proach to • wholasele destructice of roomy by the of
at goverawent, without due regard to the guilt tanoossce
of these wits at sflscted by It, maid its strongly 'carob/sad.
Apart from the awe whit* such a swank* wool I bore upon
the feelfag• sad &spathes of the country people, there ran
be as doubt that it would priest theca trona osturning to
their Algae and resuming the cultivation of that fields, •
pont at this season of vital imp:chum, laseninch es if the
hod. remain much kart uneolne, distress an even famine
airy be added to the War diflicalties with which L2O gooses-
sent will have to contend.

(Trr
Parrary Ur the Gorrnmer of !Mr

SIATEMILVT OP A PAPTIOT MIST lON.IRI

720 M DIAL!.

The Rev. Mr. William, a aindeaary tam the
Mewl Presiherty, ollowkil at the
weft
Derr Chapel, is Isreder lienthresliesidery
ptes, ea Vfeeday.
la the erne of by rood bashed die pert Ode of
Iran Hr NAM dry pees in dot wortry, but left it
W. the many vale ed. Ms it two dares. how-
w, is the Iskedused Illy of Ape. Re be needled and
="in stet dory sew of the eider sod towns which
iitere arid V armies .lea the dreadful gory
nook. He deed thee Its bed air pe robed is the strode
it Dad, dud had her Ikerell to with the greeted esterion
by the seder dive. A emir terrier of Ids eloweintres,
mite wet heriewl at Agra, woe derend st Deihl. The
ewe. crettlenten rove • Tory latissesting wort of
rd his piece el Illibeer. He Wee Nor &kb ink-
astray, sod ben Sadden to his resosekti arta) soma-
sad to hie lebed end retlemeoly seeenere
Oe=h:b wee eluded is re of the Bortish goverment
schook to lobo, whine steed book 11 welted bat the
Ides. sod onoryttriog right hot ChW toady. Nver &rod
there is • ped which is perticakely mend to the Weide
herr we et dark pods I. rid to hove droppicl he mid
than. Fairs de WM beside this pod aid Ler narelien
plirlds vii k. Torrerty de Mod ladle Conroy died
erne el tire Odder hot
•Aie le se kepi the oleo •
however, steads seep that Wade to the peel
end ends •ea Am ovorf Aida thd pares War Biller,
Awe Mrs Sahib molded, is Art Id wMee he. Compote.
WiDiewe deed lir the poem eissese:of Hided always
wad& Broad to the k. el the dirkeesise. The
Peter weld peed epnf to Maas, het sot is Maim,
wed= Whew- Is lerp err IM lireirine were all-
rented end tweed the tokokomfoo. The gored arms*
so Beide ode sod to the spool of de ia lend .l•••
BIM like Aar i.heb sod earn who lied hew& .dareted is
the geeernaent colope. lied of ties wit,- proateddly
did het is nobly others. At Compd., • b•peed
eiterek hal des brawl end • subset sedithabed. Med of
the wild muddle thee hod been deoseedd. Lersow
ere Herbed. the leipsl city set of Cal: red is se
pins weeded ever as each Ream fide by sale with meat
aogolkonso, so In Lockarro. Tie no. potlescan wee ere
=dto enter • Madam lark, where al Cads of
rier we. lake role le wake op • Hilldoo god,
Mry of tt • poorer domed Hindow, when *pace to der
thin, atesd Its sieddity. Mr. efilkams complained tae
tle Hersh goverment keened red two int,cu in Ines.
If the governdme bed only been anted, the Christi= die-
deowlee treed sot have awl. She Wier were oder per-
witted tepees& to the Sepoys. The H.v. Mr. Williams a-
pnoea hk ceeddest estielystind that the British govern-
meat would pot down the eddy, sod recover It. power in

A public meeting was held last evening at St.
id elites Hall, Lang-sere, relative to raking volualser asp
for Iris. Then 1.61.9 Newer 400 sad 600 peal.. sesss,
may yore/ sees of the arena eke It agreed—
re I. That a retreat of riveters to earned kw
arra tladla • ark reirrest to be rolled ten llrttirb
V Artier' 2. That web regrew be rosoposed of yrs,
men a approved moral sad physical gualificatinus. 3. That
nadfdafethe d of service be derreed Irk et tb• time of the
'a ettestater That tbe silken of dr cry. be ap-
parsed, * the lint *elm* by as Correander-a-Clad,
end all tenni vserriss fa aneire be sawed fees the
esui-coressirsitsed Moan etas asp, se le Os rep
pearl of the Corneeder-a-Clilef. -6. Thatbe
rue, reoutreseests, to. to food by the goverreent".7l
Thr the repair seep by_ part Oa the rm. Peg
every other reaper as her ennlesere wry. 7 That r sees
es a estacest smater of fares be unrolled, iheee propo-
rtions be submitted to bee Iliontre gorneriant."
MANCIELSTRI CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRI INDIA
/IMF liftne.—Tbe Oar enbarribef at blearterar lays
near the Imams 1•1 m of 15,01111. 0. 5,1. of obeli 6,0031.
have been melded to Calcutta, sr ;fat to Bombay. The
Myles Is rutaiasti to be Cavort of as the amnion elan
re fit