The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

CASHMERE.

Our Bombay correspondent corrected by last mail
the report fora time generally credited in India that Oolab
Sing was dead. The following letter from his valley will be
read with interest. It to dated July 6:
"Thinking a few lines from the valley of Caahmera may
not move unacceptable either to you or to your numerous
reader% I feel moth pleasure in sending you the following
items.

Myer since the news arrived here of the sanguinary out-
break, and the atrocious barbarities perpetrated at Delhi, the
Maharajah has taken wise and prudent precaution to preserve
the peace within his own dominions; for, as below in the
plains of India, so up here, end also in the mountains, the
minds of the whole MahmMan population have been greatly
excited, if not roused. This clam of the community have,
however, thanks to the wisdom and foresight of Oolab Sing,
been kept in due subjection, end in peaceable demeanour, Mai
crews outwardly, whatever their innermost thoughts may
have inclined them to do at the present crisis 'to be fore-
warned is to be forearmed ;' and amongst other wholesome
and sound rrang is the Maharajah soused written
notices to beaposted pion all the bridFes and on all the
public buildings and places of resort in the city, cautioning
his subjects, as well as all idle retailers of gossip, gup and
rows, to bewats that if they spoke disparagingly of the
Company • government, or of tho Sabib-logua (which the
budinseles had already ismmenced &dug no as to bring the
English visitors into disrepute), they would bo laid hold of
sharp, and sentenced to five years imprisonment. This had
a most salutary effect.
• . .

" Another 'wise 11161111170 was to stop the native m-
r ance by native desk, and to *flow no person
eilit'eaci'rc to enter or to depart from Cashmere, without •
pus ; no traitorous correepondence from the new (but tem-
%or:7l2, at Delhi, or even mates hews from
cerreependents" at Lahore, mat Umritestr, or
elsewhere, can enter Cashmere by means of the native data.
Troops, accompanied by several pieces of cannon, have been
likewise sent to the frontier. of Caelimere so asto prevent
the entrance of ally of the mutineers, disbanded and deserter
Neaps &pop ; otherwise measures have also been taken
:riser. the peace unbroken, and to give security to life
MPegThus
y. much for news political.
aturejth Oolab Sing is very affable. His high-
ball holds a review of all his troop, present at the capital,
every Sunday afternoon. Theca consist of artillery, cavalry,
andinfantry, armed and dressed partly after the fashion of
the Compthy's army and partly Hindoostanee fashion. They
per in review, march well, keep the step very fairly, and
look very well for a purely "native disciplined army. A
military hand welooines the arrival of the Meharejah and his
men, by striking up our own God save the Queen, end when
the troop are put in movement, they march to e tune of
Home, sweet home,' and one or two other hackneyed strains
of EDgii•ll muck; all this looks and sounds strange in Cash-
mere. Golub Sing likes to see his European rafters assist at
these reviews, where he shows them every attention, tiutr
them seated eeide him, while the troops are on the s
At the expiration of every fortnight, the Maharejah gives a
grand dinner and a nanteh to the European valetas, nudists
rather hurt, if any of them decline to be present, .regarding
their absence as • alight shown to his hosettlity
and to his kind feeling for his European
His highness is an emend of the Lahore Chro-
nicle, the contents of which are regularly translated to him
Fn Eurasian in his service who in a native I believe, of
arrar,.F Dunga, near Chandernagore. At such a moment,
while the native army is in rebellion, it shows a maltase of
mind on the part of the Maharajah not to allow the ill-
judged and ill-timed observations, heeded Calling in the
tor' (vide Friend of India, April 30, reprinted in the
Lahore Chronicle) to petition hie mind, or to massage his
thoughts from continuing in the even tenor of their way, in
respect to his honcrarebQ and strict fidelity towards the
Entieb government and its servants. Such an article, ap-
pearing to a paper known to be the government organ, and,
in a measure, speaking its sentiments, would have shaken the
faith of any Christian ruler or governor in Europe.
" The Maharajah's own dawk frequently arrives four-and-
twenty hours before the government mail from Lahore,
although lash travel together from Setilkote; that is to say,
the Iltharejah's bag brings on the company's dawk from
that place.
t. olab Sing boa bad Vignee Cashmere' translated to
him, as also Cunningham's. I have head that he gives the
preference to the lea work, but this ia said only when the
respective merits of both works are dlecueeed. His highness
says, Reed Cunningham's—it Is the beet work.' Why'
because Vigne wrote and published his mind, and
his innermost thooghta too freely to please the
"Lest month, nn a Sunday night, • fire broke out in the
large Leaser which extended from the gates of the Shuhur-
gurhoe to the parade-ground. It broke out at ten o'clock,
and burnt nearly till night; it was a frightful conflagration,
all the houses bring of wood. The wholehamar wee burnt
down, the end of the bridge (called Asir Entul) caught fire,
and bad to be partly deetroyed.; some lives were lest. Yes-
terday afternoon (Sunday) a frightful hurricane, or tornado,
such es one would expect only in the China Sew, the lath
tude of the Mauritius, or in the West Indies, swept along
the plain, coming from the north-west. Enormous plane
trees were uprooted by its violence. The natives here say
that such furious tootans end monster blasts of wind only
hag" when the element* in the plains aro a prey to •
holloh-gooloh, of fire and swords, and strife and blood.
Curious, if true."

THE PARBEES AT BOMBAY AND

KtiRRACIIEE.

Wo observe, with no little delight, that the
Parsee community of Bombay intend.' on rho morning of
the 22nd instant, to assemble on the esplanade opposite the
Wellesley statue, end afterwards proceed to Hormusjee
Itomanjoe'e grand Fife-temple, there to offer up prayer, to
the Almighty, for the immediate Guava of the measures
take. by thetritish government to suppress the disterbancee
In the North-West provinoes. This is not the Bret time that
the Pantie community has displayed readiness in enuring to
swum the interests of the British government. If our memory
semi no right, the fireworshippers were the fleet of the
tatty* ceniniunity, on this odd., of India. that offered up
prayers to the Almighty for the !meccas of the British Irma
while the River= war was reging ; and their almilsrly
exemplary conduct in these critical tunes tends not a little to
' show that their loyalty to the present government is un-
flinching.
We take this epportoaity to coegratulafe the Zoroastaisaa
of Korman% who have with unanimity enatribated their
mite to the fiend special fund, and have already alliesd up
prayers at the Apiary In camp.—ffied Korea{ July 31.

TRANSPOITS.-80UTHAEPTON, SEPT. 17.—The
Earopesa sad Amstar Cusps:Ws steam ship Calcutta,
Captain Histerirs. Imo boss charisma by government far
the scessysass *Sinop to bilis.
THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN COMPANY.—
NorrNAErrow, Bert. 17.—The mews ship Argo, Capt.
bosom,
ei
dap loft Ods day tor New York, with 430 passessets mad
SOO km

411 4.IIERICAN MISSIONARY ON INDIA.

Among the passengers by the European and
American steamer Argo, which left Southampton yesterday
morning for New York, was the Rev. Mr. Hay, the Ameri-
can missionary from the mutinous districts in India, with
his wife and two children. In consequence of the Argo not
sailing until yesterday Mr. Hay's company wee eagerly
sought on board the Argo on Wednesday evening by persons
wishing to learn as much as poesible relating to the terrible
calamity which has Welkin us in India. Although • nits-
sioluu7, whale sole object in residing in Hindostan was to
convert the natives to Christianity, he, with the sagacity
characteristio of his nation, attentively observed the nature
of British rule in that country, where millions not in a state
of slavery are governed by a few thousand.. At the
same time he powered the means of estimating
the durability of the English dominion over the
vast population of the continent of India. As a mis-
sionary, Mr. Hay has had the best opportunities of searching
the very souls tithe natives to find out their secret grievances,
and their medal and moral capacities for throwing off the
yoke of their conquerors. The reverend gentleman gave •
most interesting an amt of missionary labours in India, the
policy of which is still • subject of dispute amongst
English statesmen.; He had charge et Alishahad
of the printing prises belonging to the American
Missionary Society, called the " Gement Assembly's
Based of Miamians of the Presbyterian Church."
It was the great object of missionary labour to break down
Hindoo caste, which is the chief obstacle to the conversiat
of Hindoos to Christianity, and to their submission to
British redo. Mr. Hay thinks it is the timidity
of the British government respecting the ditheuragement
of the %Sat of Rancho superstitions that has been in a
measure the cause of the alight hold which the BogWh
remment ham en the Hindoo race. Not long sham the IC--
tieh government used to give • donation to Jwherm
Many English to India now denounce the Brit govern-
ment for dicostraging the Suttee, while mete is conaidered
a thing too sacred not to be recognised and encouraged, and
the most trivial and childish cause of offence to the native pre-
judice respecting it is puniehableby Euglish law. Owing tattle
odious system of theta, the commonest Raipoot soldier in
the Bengal army demised his European colonel, end socially
did not consider him tit to wipe his shoes. Such sentiments
must be fatal to discipline.
Mr. Hay found characteristic differences in the plulthophy
of the Hindoo and Mahomedan race. The philosophy of the
Hindoo Brahmins and p .ndits is of • subtle kind ; many
of them are idealists, and deny the existence of the external
worts. Many of them are also peatheilts. The philoasphy
of the Mahometan Moulvies resembles that of the more
western nations of Persia and Arabia. In his missionary
peregrinations Mr. Hay visited the cities of Delhi end
the capital* of the renowned Achim, the most renowned of
the modern Moguls, and have he maw the stria:argues
to and tomb. now doomed destruction, for no ,he be-
lieves, will be suffered to exist that is reverenced by the
fiends who have disgraced humanity and committed
such atrocities on unoffending Englishwomen and chil-
dren. The most splendid of these buildings were erected by
Ackhar, and bear evidence of European workmanship. One
of the tomb. in Agra contain., numerous flowers, ornamented
with precious stones. In one flower Me Hay counted 43
precious stones Both at Agra and Delhi are still seen the
black blocks of stone, on which Ackter the Oren used to
sit to give audience to the people.
Mr. Hay still believes that the rebellion in India is e
mutiny of the army and not a national revolt, and that
it originated with the Mohammedans.
Lord Elketoniugh was a great enemy of missionaries in
India. His lordship thought that all England had to do
with India was to govern it, get as much as possible out of
It, and leave the vast population of India to enjoy their own
religion. He was not even for telling the native. that there
wee a purer, better, and truer religion than their own.
He thought ;that millions would sit down quietly
under the dominion of comparatively a few strangers,
who in • great number of instances did not appear morally
or mentally superior to themselves. His lordship never ap-
pears to have thought that these millions of shrewd and in-
dustrious people had prejudices of race, and religion, and se-
piratione after self•government, dreams of better times mad •
change of masters. The present generation in India, has
forgotten the tyranny of its native rulers one hundred yeses
ago. The few English civilians who collect taxes and ad-
minister justice to crowded Indian cities, neither associate
with the natives, nor farm any connexion with them.
Mr. Hay proceeds to New York, whence he goes on to Wash-
ington city, where no doubt he will be able to afford valuable
information to the President of America about the Indian
mutiny. From Washington city he will proceed to Indian-
apolis, in the state of Indiana, the native place of both him-
eel( and his wife. He says there will be no possibility of the
English holding India for the future without a very large
European army.