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LONDON. SATURDAY. °crow? 17.

WE published yesterday the" habitations relative
" to the Treatment of Mutineers" which have been
issued by the Govaaicoa-OeNaltaL at Calcutta. To
appreciate aright this extraordinary document, it
will be necessary to cant a glance at the condition
of the greater part of Hindostan at the moment
when it was published.

Delhi still held out. The smiling force, by
defeating parties of the mutineers at Hisser and
Nujuffghur, had begun to narrow the range of
country under their command, but it was still very
extensive. From the frontier of Rsjpootana, on
the west, to the frontier of Oude, on the east, and
from Jubbulpore and Mhow, on the south, to
the bases of the Himalaya, oa the north,
the British authority was limited to those
few isolated spots actually occupied by our
troops. Over the whole of the rest of that wide
region a revolted soldiery, abetted be the refuse of
the towns, the sweepings of the gaols, and all the
leaders of small bands of retainers impatient of law
and order, ravaged and plundered at pleasure. There
was no police, end the civil tribunals were closed.
A state of society prevailed on which it is appalling
to reflect, and which could only be amended by the
declaration and strict enforcement of military law.

The Goi aa.soa-Gexease and his Council took
advantage of the moment when this anarchical state
of affairs was at the surst, to aim at transferring all
power of dealing with deserters and mutineers from t
the military to the civil authorities. All deserters, from
regiments which have sot mutinied, apprehended
without arms in their possession, were to be delivered
ap.to the Civil Magistrate, and by him sent back to ,
their regiments. All mutineers were, if possible, to
be sent to .‘llahabad, and there delivered up to the
Commandant ; but if, from distance or other semi,
this be impossible, they were to be imprisoned till the
plemare of Oovernment on be known. \I 'lrina?. bo.
loegieg teeny regiment which had k illed any Forepaw
slicer, or any European, might be tncd by the civil
power. The object of these instructions is palpable
—they were meant to dater military officers from the
Infliction of summary and exemplary punishments—.
to paralyse their efforts to crush the insurreatitm
by bolding over them a threat of reprimands, of
worse, from the Supreme Government.
Attempts have been made to insinuate that the '
undue severity of officers in command of detached
parties rendered the issue of such instructions WOW-
vary. This is simply untrue. The instructions were
prepared about the end of July, long before the unfor-
tunate attack of some men supposed to belong to
the 10th Regiment on the disarmed &pays at
Dinapore, or the surmised discoveries by General
Wt Wet of murders of natives before Delhi. But even
though they had been prepared subsequent to the.,
events, the prompt measures taken be Sir JAXI3
Orman and General Wirsos to brand and punish
such excesses, show that the honour of our nation,
and the preservation of discipline in our army in
India, may safely be entrusted to the officers who
command it. The instructions were uncalled for,
and they are utterly unworkable. To amid all cap-
bared mutineers to Allahabad would simply have
the effect of scattering all the English soldiers now
in India over the country in small detachments. To
imprison offenders in a country where all the gaols
have been deserted by their keepers and broken
open, or to try them by civil magistrates where all
the magistrates have Bed or been murdered, ere
simple impossibilities.
The first inference to be drawn from the perusal of
these instruction. is, that they have been prepared
by men who are utterly ignorant of human nature
in general, and of the character of the Indian insur-
gents in particular. Their authors are men whose
minds have been petrified and narrowed by incessant
devotion to the duties of mere clerks, The din of arms

which resounds throughout India can scarcelYpene-
trate into their offices, and of the fierce and wayward i
passions of the human heart they have no concep-
tion. The wide expanse of Hindostan presents to '
them no greater obstacles to immediate communica-
tion than the narrow limits of their own offices.
The second inference le, that the Goezixott-
Gaxtut who allowed the preparation of these in-
structions at the end of July, but prohibited their
publication at the time, had weakly yielded up his
better judgment and adopted the policy of his imbe-
cile tannic:lion at the end of August. The instrac-
tiecia now sanctioned by Lard CA/MTV:3 are identical
in tone and tendency with the silly Proclamation
of the Lieutenant-Governor of the N. W. Provinces,
which he ordered to be suppressed In the earlier
stages of the mutiny. It magma ill for the future
of our Indian Empire, that its destinies should at
this momentous crisis be wielded bye Council of
mere clerks, and a Goveakoa-GeNtast who has not
the strength of mind to resist their dictation.
This mischievous interference with the free action
of the military authorities in the dishirbed diarists,
not the only instance of the incomotenee of the
local Government at Calcutta, and its preempts...
interference in matters which it does not snametand.
About a month before the despatch of the Let iselb
a native regiment mutinied within 200 miles of Cal-
mat& Up to the moment of the mail's dispatch, the
Genernmeist at Calcutta had been unable to learn the
whireabost of the mutineers. Private letter,
tram Campo= reveal • state of ineilleimsey
and mimaamposent in the Commaseriat
Department, little, if at all, short of that
which excited the national horror and in-

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dignauon during the Crimean wo. The lima.of
time in the advance of the 90 and 6th BSllll,6etil
ap the Gangeo—owing ti on *meant sucelliseoi;
contradictory orders and moat er-erctors prora
the Governor'. Coancil--ehows how the action of the

military authorities wu hampered sad paralysed.

We are told that recent events have proved the
utter want of military talent amongst the in-
surgents, and that therefore the final suppree-
sion of the revolt is merely a question of time. This
would be very probable if the character and con-
duct of the mutineers had alone to be taken into
account; but in all conjectures respecting the future
the character and conduct of both of the contending
parties must be studied. And it is scarcely too
strong an expression to say that to leave our Indian
Empire at the merry of those who now wield the
supreme local authority, would be almost enough to
ensure is destruction, even without the aid of •
revolted army.

Cbt Court.

WINDSOR, FRIPA r.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prisms' Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princesle
Alice, Printer Helena, and Princess LOttiM, left Uolyrood
Palace et half-past 7 o'clock this morning, and arrived at
Windier Cann at a quarter before eight in the evening.
A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilwr Guards with the
Bawd of the Regiment w's at the Windsor Railway station.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice arrived at the Cantle
from Osborne, at a quarter past 12 o'clock to-day, attended
by Lady Caroline Barrington sad Lieut.-General Sir Fre-
derick Storni.

The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the HOll. Charlotte Stop-
ford have arrived Maid. of Honour in Waiting.
Lord Do Table,' has arrived .. the Lord in Waiting to the
Queen. and Colossi F. H. Seymour se &merry in welting to
the Prime Ceseeet; Meier Qwwal hoover*, lute eacceeil d
Majer-Chmered the Hes. C. Grey ea &mini in waiting to
her Mejeety.

Rh Edmund Wesel had ea interview with Kr. &actary
Labosolmes yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Deepatches wee* sent resteerisy front the Colonial .office to
the 001•11110 g• a( Anatralia, Canada, the Wert India Island.,
Ceylon, sod Malta. Despatches were melted from the
Owens' of the Cape of Good Hope.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancel-
lor, Earl Granville, the Furl of Harrowby, the F.srl
of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labonchere, Lord Pan-
mare, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Woad, the Right lion. R. Vernon Smith, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. M. T.
Baines.