The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

THE CAME AND RESULTS OF THE INDIAN

MUTINY,

(From the new number of the Quarterly Review.)
The circumatances which have operated to produce
this convulsion appear to lie on the =facie. Those whe are
Intimately acquainted with the country are meetly of opinion
that the native civilians prefer our government, with all It,
shortcomings, to the stern and exacting sway of their own
prince.. But this is • feeling which cannot be shared by
the native ideas themselves. One by one they have been
swept away by the advancing tide of British dominion, and
be who escaped to-day was well aware that the wave would
engcdph him hereafter. The annexation of Oude, which,
however convenient to ourselves or beneficial to the country at
large, seems certainly to have been effected in defiance of
treaties, was eminently calculated to exasperate the victims
of cur policy. Thom who were either Imre now, or
foresaw that their turn would come later, may not im-
probably have used their money, influence, and arguments
to precipitate an outbreak, which afforded them the only
chance of recovering or retaining their authority.
But, independently of this impuloo from without,
there were noses onoagh within the army itself to account
for the mutiny. Tito Mahomatan tom loot hie military, the
Brahmin is losing hie mai, busy, and the desire to recover
it is a mere instinct of human nature. The supremacyof
foreigner., differing from them in race, habits, and religion,could not but be hateful to them; and it wee a matter of
course that they should desire to reverse the situation, and
from aubjects to become marten. All they wanted wee op-
portunity to strike the blow, and faith to believe that the
blow would be suceinsful. We have taken care by our con-
duct is give them the first, and to immix.' them with the
second. That the Bengal army had been in a perilous state
for years is now universally admitted. Why, with the spirit
of insubordination so rife and increming, and with so many

cuss cacaos so clearly pointed out, no -steps were taken tj
to. Indian government to stay the evil, is difileuh to eaplein,
end seems not to admit of an exam. No lends= in civilexam.
Ids ma atone for went of attention to our military supre-
macy, dune It la the foundation end guarantee of all the rest.
The hest measures without the strength to enforce them are
only so many Incentives to rebellion end anarchy when we
are dealing with men whole prejudices they oppose and
whose power they undermine. • • • • •
Other mar may have helped the under-officering of regi-
ments ; the absence of many of the beat men on civil staff
apptinents; the inefficiency of superrannuated poem*
and the incompetency of commanders-in-chief; bet the two
evils of submission to native caste, end the &sallower:o of
power to the English officer, are at the bottom of ell the pair
chief. The grouted certridgee were no doubt felt to be a reel
grievance, but it was only the spark which Seed the mins
that had been long preparing. Sir Cherie. Napier waa we
think, thoroughly right in his claim for greeter military in-
dependence both for himself and every subaltern. Every
Indian crisis most be a military one; sad the supervision of
a civil Governor-General, much more the intervention of a

civil or military board, Timid be irksome and shackling to a
much less impetuous temper than that of Napier. If the
offices of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief are to
be kept separate, we gall probably for some years to come
not send oat second-rate or untried men in either opacity;
but for a really strong and vi us adminetretion, such u
Is now required, the powers should be combined.
The religious scruple pretended by the mutineers at once
gave the handle, so readily seized, for throwing the blame
of the outbreak on the Christian rei,=iontinee and euvietiee.
Lord Ellenberough, backed by Lord Lansdowne in the
House of Lords, pronounced it incredible that Lord Canning
should have given his subscription to a 'elision society (whose
it turns out, was confined to the European Christian.3tefeutta), and implied that it was enough to account for
the mutiny had he done so • and that be would certainly
merit to recalled. It was ;aid that we had offended the
natives by forcing Christian education upon them, and had
brought the authority of government to bear upon native
conversion. The law lately passed by which a convert tram
Hinduism wee saved from the entire lose of his property,
to which he wee subject under the old libido° law, vas
as alleged by Mr. Disraeli • pernicious and tyrannous inno-
vation. But the emuree of events soon cleared off this line of
argument. Though the missionaries at Delhi and Cawnpor
and elsewhere, fell in the itidescriminate slaughter of Euro-
pum, to., was no special animosity exhibited either against
their or their quarters. In some places, as at Meerut,
the atfmimary bungalow ego spared in the general ruin; at
humors it was burned in cold blood by a roof-maker to get
himself a job. In the Paojeub and in Benares the preachers
and teachers have already recommenced their services and
schools, and the natives attend them. So far from the Ben-
gal Sepoy being the object of missionary propagandise,
the only known baptised Sepoy 01 that army was in
1519 dismissed on that very account; nether is there a
single missionary station in Oude, the hotbed of the revolt.
The chief fields of missionary effort and meow are in the
south of India, which is the quietest part of all. The Mahe-
reedses, doubtless, hats as well as fear the advance of Chef'.
Meetly ; but the Hindoo has never opposed oar puckers.
Our missionaries have never met with such treatment in the
native trumara as Wesley and Whitfield did in the market-
Ouse of England. It is well known that the ministers of
Christianity are generally treated with perfect indifference
by the self-righteous Brahmins. They wonder rather at the
ignorance of the preacher than dresd his success. Bat the
mass of the people can appreciate the self-denial and devoted-
ness of the missionary, and only set themselves against the
aggressions of force, or fraud, or law, on their faith. No
doubt the bigoted Moslem and even the supine Hindoo saw
symptoms of advancing light. Even in the government
'chub, the pupils might learn that the earth did not rest ote
a tortoises back. The railroads, the electric telegraph, the
gas, all told of innovation and strange power. The aboli-
tion of suttee—of infanticide—of VI —of self-immols-
tion—of Juggernaut abominattonrths discontinuance of
grants to heathen temple., and of palates in honour of their
idolatrous serviom—the permission of widows to marry—the
preservation of their property to converts—all morel con-
quests from the strongholds of eupeeettttou and injustice,
and each of itself in the eyes of old Indians sufficient to create
a revolution—had gradually been ; the English, and
in several cases the Christian, edie Anon of restive princes
was advancing ; our own Queen had welcomed her royal In-
dian god-children to her own court; in a word, for the first
time Mite our occupation of India, British ciciliset ion was
beginning to tell, and the Brahmin and the bleelem might
710 y see that, unless a blow was now struck, their thanes
It tmLattrat the wr
mootui¢ and their
marked a eetnbetzrovn.d the term
of English rule; It is certain that the Mumedmans have
never let go the hope of regaining their ascendancy, and it le
now said that prayers have been regularly and eonvtantly
offered up in their movies for the restoration of the royal
house of Delhi. Bishop Heber, in his time, said that if •
' fair opportunity offered, the Musaulmans would gladly avail
themselves of it to rise against us, but more from political
than religion. feeling.
It mast already be evident to the mutineers themselves
that they are playing a losing game. While their resources
in men, arms, and ammunition are daily diminishing, ours
are daily on the increase. The moment the balance turns in
our favour, the contest will probably be as brief as it is de-
cisive. Thome who are familiar with the annals of European
warfare have leas reason to be apprehensive that the wrong-
doers will escape than that the unoffending will fall victims
to the indiscriminate fury of a heated soldiery. Bat British
°Moira, we feel convinced, will do their utmost to prevent
the sword from lighting upon a single guiltless head.
They, at least, will not forget in the hour of victory that,
though it is a dreadful necessity to punish the
_lt is
a gamed day to spare the innocent If, in the din of battle,
they could forget that they were Christiana, they can never
forget the chivalry and humanity which are Inherent in to.
hearts of English gentlemen. To risk their own live, and
to save the lives of the unoffending, will, we venture to pre-
dict, be the double distinction of every commander through-
out the whole of the wide peninsula of India. Until rebellion
has been put down and order re-established, it can be of no
advantage to enter upon the greet question of the future go-
yernment of our Eastern dominions. The materiale which
are to guide the minim?, and the country in their decision
are rapidly accumulating. Never before, since we esta-
blished our sway, have the people of this country been wilt-
ing to listen to the evidence, or have eared to arrive at a
verdict. Whatever mistakes may be committed before ex-
perience has enlightened us upon the best measures fo
pursue, there wW now be a real effort to eeeure the
safety and ameliorate the condition of India, and, roma
by a horrible catastrophe, we shall alike endeavour to do
our duty to the natives and oblige them to do their day
to us.

TIIE Pomo( Alfl4l.BT4.—Count Ladislaus Plater,
nuncio at the last Diet of Poland, has addressed to the Asip-
burg Garet* a reply to a statement of that journal. whkfh
had affirmed that "with the exception of the ultra-democrata
and socialist., all the Polish emigrants have availed that-
selves of the late amnesty and returned to their country."
That assertion the Count declares is completely erroneous, nit
out of the several thousand Poke residing in France, Bag-
land, Belgium, Switzerland, and the United State., no person
' of note has returned to his country in virtue of the amnesty,
end the whole number whoa circumstances have forced to vs
hack to Poland is only 315.
BARRACK Rooms IN SHE COLO/CIES.—Our wry
of lodging our army has of bite very much improved ; apses
and ventilation have been attended to in all our newly con-
structed herniate We no longer crowd our soldiery into low
sleeping rooms, filled almost to suffocation,
where the bad sir brought on that tendency to consumption
which used to fill our hoopitale and decimate our ranks. But
in the colonies the old system yet prevaile ; and the mortality
in a regiment on its first landing in the West Indies is
oftener rauaed.by this fatal mistake then by the elimate, or the
yellow fever, or the new rum, usually blamed for the loos of
life really caused by the over-crowded barrack-mote. The
newly arrived men die down to the reduced number the
barrack-rooms can bold with safety ; and then the regiment
pt. healthy, and is said to be " aceilmathied," until the
arrival of fresh drafts from home befogs back the
mortality ; and so the waste of soldiers goes on dicing
the whole term of the regiment's colonial service. The
officers, who ere better lodged, do not die in the same protec-
tion. Since recruits have income costly, the improvement of
barracks Is as much a matter of economy as of humenifig.
The mismanagement in the housing, the clothing, and
ihs
Nal of out troops, produces the necessary result; they wadi
away on tropical service; and then we ate told that the Im•
prudence, the intemperance, the bad habits of our toldiere
have caused all the mischief, and that official stupidity end
routine have nothing to do with it. We must are mine for
these vital requisites, taped :41y now that so large • foto' is
needed to maintain our Indian empire, if we mere to dojos-
. Mee to our noble soldier., an well as to keep down "army
estimates."—/(afiewel Review, new number.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
TIII6 DAY.
(Betas Mr. Catsmuisakmar For.)
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ter kw the orellari • peke wedMg up the
Royal Seeley Oan Carry (Tired), which had teen
paved by Mr. harass Jeer ambled, • shareholder, and
wear oil the aapy meter the NO ruse of the Joint-
er* Cempries hat At to. lest retie& it will
be rentermed, kin Rarer Meier to make any err upon
the petition, tad rierell wserldienties, with • dew to
the &tiuon of the drerithee ring in at • petrel
meeting of that body. Ile peesereop 'fhb Ur sub-
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been and
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to inventive, the sale ei the repay, and
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I:llftidy, do Naar yes ersol metal the 19th of
Deambst.

'ER COUNTY COURT.

(Before F. Bayley, 16•4, sad • larl).
JIXAN OVIII.-0.41/40101 2.1.-ATIOIII
r. 112(131.
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lids Ina aa adios bomigiiity tbidatiflt hydra gas
derizeismor of loagesgoa. ht tottloy-stmet,
•epiara, spirt tin cob ostw►, Pim-
lico, to memo cememsetloa from bits Ist laterite oulteleell
la Wag rya ow by me ci his ode. Damages woo 101
at 310 J.

Joicel=stv, woo for the plaintiff ; and Kr. H. T.
Roberts
TM Fleapit, who appeared with his right new la •
olittamid that about cis o'clock in the midair
. 19th of Jane lam he was proceeding with two Cando,
who ware It deems of him, towards the Fost-ollea Mare
ing-crom, whim, a cromiag over the road of Devamiser
mired from St. Martin's Cho he wee knoclued dews by a
Mansotes patent cab driven didendank the barns la
which trampled ma him, the paeans ear Vs=
Ha was picked up sad carried to Charing-aces
when it warn foaled, that blades other isjarlts two
principal boom of his arm were broken in three He
road in the hospital font weeks. since hs lad
bees, sad woe sow, wooded at his own beam by Mr. Mega,
ear , Deon-etreet, Soho.
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her. Roberta—TM defendant did not all oat to Wm,
and when knocked down, he saw no omnibus or other
veherie near _ _ _ _ -

l'ellce-strisTis 0 16 and E 6, wbo way at the tins
paring, gars evidence fully corroborating that of the
}Wain, the latter adding that, on snag dekadant be lb
names and addren, he nand Wag than
1. suns to Kr. Joyce, bun the carialase an Uwe
wee no canine at the an en Obey theoght, alangh
fondant was going at -a in trot, tf be has been ring
propsr titration, be could have porton the sonnet.
- Mr. Rogers, the engem, osed that the 16111.610 60
pleintiff 's an were each se to monde the poseNny of bit
ewe again titan the the eta of it.

In7;ply,Tisiaidant,amatt loaned Cook, and Thorne 1,
• cabman, swore that planolif was under the neds of hones
I=ielloor canine gam to Haugerford-uairket. He
very nervous sad Mghtened, and by pressing the
pole, po himself away, yea directly In frost of the nab,
which fint stopped se axe as he could.
His Honour having reed over the evidence, said the aaly
gunk& for the jury to decide was, could the defendant, by
using proper stMatima, have avoided the occident, or
woe it through plaintiff's own negligence. In a sinner ear
nod in a supenur cant, Mr. Janes Coleridge who podded
held that the pavement was ter hot paessagsre and the nod-
way f carriage. ; but still that on searing • awing, man
'asocial! If each meant woe at the corset of a strait It
was the bounden duty of the clavier:Any vehicle to look about
and see if, by programing, there was any danger to foot
par, the slightest, to pall up. In the primal
can it the jury ooneidend that, Is eacaping trete an mud-
boa, plantsf nut under the cab, defendant could not be
liable; tut that if what occurred one through deleadeat not
wand grew canton, a verdict would be for the plaintiff.
Tomitiary, after brialy coaferving, gave a verdict fur the
—Deenges, 2dt,