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LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPT. 15.

ON E of the most encouraging features of the pre-
sent crisis ia the strong sympathy manifested by the
rest of Europe with this country in its Indian

troubles and calamities.

There are of course some exceptions in the foreign
press to this general rale, part icalsrly in that portion of
it which in France represents and expresses the fana-
ticism and folly of a low-born and ignorant priest-
hood; and their vituperation and anticipation of

our downfall have, no doubt, n ri Hex in claws which

they delude and dupe, and amongst politicians who
seek foe opportunities to use ecclesiastical bigotry
and superstition u an instrument and means of
governmental despotism. There is, too, a small and
active corps of soured and ill-conditioned correspon-
dents of th.rman papers in England, exiles of more
or less learning, and cultivation, and biliousness.
seeking to live by abusing the hospitality that pro-
tects them, who vet industriously re-melt into their
crucible all the worse features of the events so faith•

hilly Lod fully recorded in the English journals, and
all the criticism by which we endeavour at once to
establish a diagnosis and to probe and to remedy
the misfortunes which have caused this amazing
and painful drama, and who reproduce, after the
perverted fashion of German generalisation, the
most grotesque, outrageous, and sardonic caricatures

of English tyranny and imbecility.
Ent these are exceptions. The rule on the Con-
tinent of Europe ia a sincere sympathy for England
in this crisis of its and of the world's history, and a
very hearty wish to see our arms speedily trium-
phant. This European sympathy is not to be
attributed so much to any great love of England
on the Conticent, am to the character, the mode, and
the objects of the Mutiny, to its inevitable conse-
quences if successful, and to that solid unity which
It is to be hoped will ever characterise Christendom
when the struggle is one with l'sganism ; where
false religion has neither truth nor justice on its aide,
and where its votaries display in themselves all its
horrible vices and cruelty.
The insurrection in India is, on the statement of
its leaders, an 'Mir of religion entirely. They avow,
they proclaim its religious character, and that its
design and object are the destruction of, and libera-
tion of India from, the Christians. In each a
struggle the rest of Europe is, we submit,
almost as deeply interested SS England is. The
tint question that Europe has to ask itself is
the character of this revolt. When it finds that its
end and aim are anti-Christian as well as anti-
English ; so far as the liindoos are concerned,
the restoration, in all its demoralisation, of
a sacerdotal and most superstitious system
of government, science, morals, and belief, and,
relates to the more astute Mahamctans, the re-
vival of the empire of a false and aggressive re-
Won, which has in its time been dangerous to
Europe. and which, if again triumphant in India,
would place at hazard all the improvement which
Asia and parts of Africa have received from their
connexion with Christendom ; when it is seen
that this struggle seeks the emancipation of India
from all those influences from which alone its ulti-
mate civilisation and happiness can proceed—Europe
justly and instinctively recognises that the strife
concerns England not only in its separate and local
capacity, but as the representative in the East of
the great principles of Christian unity and modern
cirilisation. On this mainly, we apprehend, the
sympathy felt, either consciously or unconsciously,
for England rests.

Then, Europe most see that the manner and
mode of the Mutiny corresponds with the character
of its objects. First of all, there is an universal con-
spiracy in an army only too well cared for, fostered,
and petted, and also amongst almost all, it is to be
fearedt the leading Princes and Chiefs. Our careless
Inattention to the symptoms of this conspiracy, to
the state of the Bengal Army, to the ill-will of the
Princes, Europe may wonder at and censure, as we
ourselves do at home, and mean to trace to its respon-
sible source. But against treachery so unprovoked,
against faithlessness so undeserved, and against dupli-
city so consummate, the religious and moral mind of
Europe must revolt. Then •he unparalleled atrocities,
the superhuman barbarities, the exterminating sen-
geance, which no maladministration, no interference
with religious prejudices, can possibly excuse; these
applied equally and remorselessly to all ages and to
either sex, simply because the vim ims were Christians,
have quickened and vivified for us that sympathy
which might otherwise base slumbered. Great and
noble and heroic examples of martyrdom,of sutT,ering,
of endurance, of gallantry, of courage, and of skill,
are the choicest inheritances of nations, the noblest
patrimony of a people. These the late events in
India have given us in melancholy bat consolatory
abundance; and these have re-acted to our advantage
throughout Europe.
There are other considerations, too, to which Europe
cannot possibly be blind. Without affecting to he
insensible to the immense national advantages which
England derives from India in a peaceable and
prosperous condition, the dependency of India on
England has also been of great service to the rest of
Europe. It has opened up for France, Germany,
Holland, and Belgium large, valuable, and increasing
markets for their produce and fabrics ; and it has
poured into Europe generally precious commodities
and rich manufactures, many prime necessaries, and
much real wealth. It has done this to an extent that
bas made India under our rule an European pos-
session. Of this market and this source of wealth
Europe would bo deprived were the Mutiny suc-
cessful.

The very character and manner of the Revolt
shows how hopeless would he the re-subjogatiou of
India to any other En.iopean Power, even if there

were any strong and bold and ;rich enough to nuke
the attempt. In India there is really no alternative
but Eiwlish vpremacy or Europeax eirlusion. In
the United States, on separation, the case was otker•-
wise, because there we had a cognate, a Christian
race; there we hail ;in feeling, in hopes, in faith,
another Europe; there we had connexions, affec-
tions, sympathy, and common language. From
India, we should separate without one of these ad-
vantages—in hatred and anger, in enmity and hoe-
tility. Hence, while in the last century Europe
encouraged the British Colonies in their revolt,
Europe now declares against India in this savage
attempt at independenee, from which it would be
with us a common sufferer.

Were it consistent with:our:duty ar.d our position
in the world, or with the retribution which we owe
to our fallen fellow•couutrymen, probably the worst
punishment we could inflict on India would be to
withdraw from the interior and confine ourselves to
the great ports. Then, indeed, the people of India
would feel the full force of the triumph of this mis-
creant army, and of the restoration of the govern-
ment of native princes, in the internecine wars for
power and division of the spoil ; in the excesses of an
arrogant and insolent and triumphant soldiery ; in
the interruption and disturbance of peaceful indus-
try ; in the insecurity of person and property ; in
short, in (as Mr. BRIGHT well expressed it) the
anarchy that would follow. In such a state of
things Europe can have no interest. These inevit-
able consequences of native success would devastate
and destroy a country, pith the peaceable cultiva-
tion, good order, and tranquillity of which, under
the mild and beneficent, if not always wise, sway of
Great Britain it reciprocates great advantages.
Such is the case that, apart front all exclusively
European claims, England presents to Europe for
sympathy and moral support, and to which Europe
has responded favourably in the Indian drama.
Other a-sistanee we seek uot. All that we require
is that our case be fully understood, and that the
interest which Europe has in the success of our
arms be duly appreciated. In this struggle, what-
ever may be the defects of our Indian administra-
tion, we are at least not wrong-doers. We arc the
representatives of Christianity and European eivilifa-
, tion in .ksis, and, encouraged by the approbation of
all that is rational, temperate, wise, and pru-
dent in Europe, we will, with Goi.'s bl•:ssinz, in-

dicate the character of Christendom in India, and
put to scorn sod contempt the mean, rindictise,
and bigotted criticisms of sacerdotal malice, come
they whetlicr from Cardinal WI4r.IIAN, or from so
debased—and, happily in France, so powerless
—a print a the Paris Unirers.