The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 29.

TROUGH British ascendancy in India is in no
immediate danger, the state of affairs in Bengal
demands instant and searching inquiry. It u only the
Bengal army that is at present tainted by a spirit of
mutiny. The most perfect loyalty, the strictest spirit
of discipline pervades the armies of the Madras and
Bombay Presidencies. But in Bengal whole regiments
and brigades break out into mutiny, at distant
points of the Presidency. This news ought not to take
the home public by surprise. So early me the beginning
of the Afghan war, the temper of some of the Bengal
native regiments wee the reverse of satisfactory ;
and ever since that time reports have been

reaching this country, at intervals, of un-
pleasant and awkward occurrences in this or
the other native regiment in the Bengal presidency.
Whatever be the cams of the disease, it is evidently

of old standing ; and it u evidently extends to a
considerable part of the army. The remedy required
must be powerful. and promptly administered; and
unless Government is willing to run the risk of
doing more harm than good, the symptoms must be
previously subjected to a rigid scrutiny.
In the present state of our information, it would
be presumptuous to speak dogmatically on the subject
of these mutinies. One thing, however, there is
too much reason to fear : that the general moral.

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of the Bengal army has of late years been
allowed to lapse into a very unsatisfactory state.
Until within a very recent period no attention what-
ever seems to have been paid to the characters of '
the young men who were allowed to obtain eimmie-
aims in the native regiments of the line. Meader
ordinary revelations made some years ere
trials, arising out of an irregular Mao whisk had
sprang up in Indian Commissions, are not yet dr.
gotten. There are few persons in this country Wl*
have not at some time or other had occasion to beer
of instances in which some respectable family has
contrived to get rid of a scapegrace, who threatened
to discredit it, by obtaining a cadetship for
him. Nay, came have occurred in which
an individual who bad, in order to avoid
exposure, beembliged to leave the QUEEN'S army,
hes been provided for by an Indian Com-
mission. More care, we have reason to believe,
is now taken with Indian appointment; but the
taint introduced into the army during the period
of undue carelessness cannot yet have been eradi-
cated. The home public have no conception of the
frequency of painful and disgraceful exposures aris-
ing out of gambling transactions at the up-country
stations, for friends and relations generally con-
trive to prevent the publication of thaw scandals
is Itegland. When eruption has been thus allowed
to weed smug any considerable number of the
Alms orate, army, the whole body cannot bat suffer
more cc lase from the contagion. Our Indian armies
are peculiarly liable to be damaged by such a cause.
The native °Mare are not allowed to rise above a
certain rank ; bat they are in general most respect-
able and intelligent men, sad their disgust at being
hopelessly subordinated to contemptible superiors Is
Bahia to become dangerous disaffection. Again, all
the ism worthy soldiers and an excuse for their
own misconduct in that of certain English officers.
What with the encouragement of the bad, and what
with the aliseation of the good, a proportion of
weak sad Mime English °doers maps and under-
mines the ms aalle of the whole army. This is a
point to wide the attention of Government and
the Legislates* ought to be strenuously directed;
Sr Ow retest awdinlos would appear to be more
swing Is same pascal relaxation of discipline—to
mar petals lie Bengal Amy
—than as toganlans grimes, soma to a part el
it so emliesalit en Ins lsalwa oat bate acts
al insallindieldna led mine. Us dad
ems of ebb we Wed wen Main raj
se" wbee. sipandllans slimed to ham Am
=treated—the liknadmas froyoys taasitier
Frye the slalimant that a dessendant
the Mpg Swam ]es km declared ding by the
.teas - cat whoa we have intelligence by the
siamt aril, there seem mason to 'meet that the
eingleallee at Irma will be fogad to below to tie
Illaandsawa papadas. These facts indicate a wide-
=dlepeekina ti Mistime sad Malmonlisor
pomptaess b mask at local or elan Om.
ipso are SS excuse tie Mmtiny—rather aim any
mime an well-Maid awe of complaint affecting
es whole seldisq.
Sill it L saran owl that the evil spirit be era&
Mod from the array without daisy. A new ors is
dawning upon India; ibdemni wont le mid.
pated, and Government egad le he graineel lOW
*muter many unrealities illlooltiss. Fiessibi
native Princes there Is loirsi little to be Mew
heeded their power is tee ampleatly beim q
The H Moo families are but shadows of theft NNW
tral importance. To conjure in the same of
the Mogul Emperors in India is se hopeless
an undertaking as to conjure in the name of the
Bruaare would be in England. Owle is an-
nexed; and the death of the late Ntmat tkreetsee
the extinction of his family's influence. The Its..
Mem Princes is India, in shoed, have been bras&
WI low as the Guide; Jealousies sad antipathies
of race, cute, and religion, will webs& my general
organisation of the satires against the Inds&
Bat a new eivilisados,ltee began its work. The
spring tido of European indmariel wateeprise is
about to set in upon India with redoubled 'Mx
Edscstios and a newspaper press ere making rapid
'domes among the satires. Every year will
sae the intelligence and wealth of the paper
laden of our Anglo-Indian Empire as,
seated, end with them its sense of its own