The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

LONDON, NOND47, Nor. ..razz 2.

NON. of the aetsally reigning Princes of India
have availed themselves of the Mutiny to shake or
subvert the British Suzerainty. One or two have
occasionally been suspected of wavering, but not one
has taken open part against na. Pretenders Ilia
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NAs t Btme: bankrupt e;it enterer, like Kan SING,

and Erre and there nZemindar who has affected the
title of ?iawab oe Rajah, and indulged in the osten-
tation of a troop of retainers, have endeavoured to
place themselves at the head of the movement ; but

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all who can be cossidered as Princes have either kept
aloof from it, or have actively befriended us. The
services of the Nisam and of the Rajahs of Putealah
and lheend have been most important ; the Rajpoot
Princes and the Rewah Rajah have done their
bee tbr us. Even among the recently dethroned
Pri:.cea of India suspicion attaches only to three—
the King of OVDE, the Rajah of SATEARA, and the
R.ulee of 'HANN.

This fart is important ; and it is the more remark•

alio. became the increasing frequency of "annex

" atione " at kite yeses has so doebt dons mach to in-
dispose the native mind to one ascendancy, and to pro-
mole the machinations of those enemies who bare

seduced aa army from us and raised the population
of °vide against as &Irma to a man. We du not
mean to my that the people of On& oared
mach, or anything, foe their late King. They
appear, so far as in have the means of learning, to
bare taken his deposition, in so far as he

was personally coneerncd, with marvellous nm.
nimity. But though they may have had no
objections to see the ex-King of Oche removed from
his throne, it is clear that they have been extremely
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indignant at seeing " Knompany Sahib " seat
her, or itself in his stead. More than thirty years

age, when 11E8E1 was conversing with en ititelli-
ger.; native of Dude, mil receiving has cordial swat
to every censure pronounced on the them reigning
monarch, the Bishop went on to suggest that it
might be better if the Company warned the reins of
government. Whereupon the native interlocutor,
pressing his hands together, earnestly exclaimed,
" May GOD preserve us from the loss of a native
" lloveramentr This feclieg is still strong in the
men of Oade. NANA SAHIB appealed to it when
he offered aefety to al! Europeans in Cawopore
who had taken no part in the annexation of Onde.
That clause, in the terms he proffered to the be-
sieged, was addressed not to them, but to his
followers. As early as the latter end of last
January—before the incendiary fires (the first symp-
toms of the bed temper of the Sepoys) had been
kindled at Barrackpore and Meerat—information
was given to the Government at Calcutta that a
number of the most irtluential native officers were
in correspondence with the malcontents of Oude.
When the Native Regiments mutinied at Fyzabadi
an old. grey Subandar told one of the Engliah officers

Utz t he end his Allows cared not for their

late King; that he was in truth no king, bat
merely one of the Company's making but
that they were bent on re-establishing • Na-
tive Monarchy, and for that purpose they were
going to Delhi. Take these facts in connexion with
this other fact, that in Ouds alone does the revolt
appear to hats assumed anything like a n►tional
character--that while there, as English °Seem
wri'e, every man's hand is against us, and every
♦;;:age and house a tomer, elsewhere our enemies
have been only Bepoys, villages notorious for the
plundering propensities of their inhabitants, or land-
holders with small troops of retainers—and it will

be found impowible to resist the conclusion that it is
the annexation by hoed Dstitousix that has turned
the hearts of the men of Oude against ua. Among
the tow other place where popular hostility to the
English has displayed itself were Jhaasi and Nag-
pore, which are aleo among the most recent of our

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Now, without ent.ring at present into the question
of the justice of three and other ennegations, it wal
be aa ditaccilt matter to show that they are ex-
tremely impolitic. Even with regard to Onde, what
harm did the misgovernment of the late King do us?
If the country was unsettled, that did net disturb
the tranquillity of our territories. The Magistrates
of all the British districts bordering on Onde were
asked whether life and property were more insecure
in them on account of the proximity of that anar-
chical province ? Boise of them replied that
they wens not aware of any difference ; one or two
frankly coarsened that the inhabitants of Ouds were
more pestered by marauders from the British terri-
tory than rite eersd: and net ern ventured to say
that the tranquillity of the British territories
wee at all endangered by the proximity of
Onde. And, for what concerns internal govern-
ment, recent history ~hows that the people of
Oade, when left alone, have been able to help them•
Nevis. The character soil conduct of one of the pie-
&censors of the late King are well known, from the
•maaing book called " Memoirs of an Easters King." I
Well, what is the statement with which that book
wants up ? That the sesame of its hero grew quite
ietelerable ; that his on ti relations wore obliged to
get rid of him; and that his successor, deterred by
the cocarquences of his vice and folly, ruisa like •
irremovable being and • ja..t sovereign. Undoubtedly
Gude was terribly misgoverned osier the late King
—who appears to have been smarty as bad •
character as err owe GEORGE IV.—but has
it been better governed since the Anglo-Indian
Government took it into their hands? From
all we can learn, the inhabitants of the native
State whale territories ere intermingled with our