The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

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;.ON )I)N, TUESDAY. AUGUST 31, 1847.

The intelligence just received by the Overland
Mail, from Bombay, consists, for the most part, of a
iccEssion of cruelties and brutalities perpetrated by

Asiatic barbarians. What is wanting in politica
importance is made up in individual atrocities. In
the Punjaub, for example, the diabolical conspiracy
-which has been so long and so repeatedly spoken of,
was being unravelled ; and although most of the pre-
ceding conjectures appear to have been gross exagge-
rations, the chief conspirator PREMA has revealed
many facts of a diabolical character, in which even
the RANEE is said to have been implicated. At
Caubul it would seem that a sanguinary encounter
had taken place between the Caubulees and the Kuz-
zilbashes ; and the ground seems to have been plen-
tifully fattened by the blood shed in their dissen-
sions. At Sinde a party of Thugs—stranglers and
poisoners by profession—had been incarcerated. At
Nepaul, the old Raja had been deposed by JUNG
Baiianooa, in consequence of an intercepted letter
from his Highness to KATMANDOO, accusing the
Minister of continual and systematic depravities. At
Oude the Sovereign was relapsing into a brutish: in-
dulgence of his appetites; his Minister, the Wuzeer,
was reviving from the attempt at assassination ; while
the cut-throats, who endeavoured to effect his de-
struction, continued in a state of lingering
torment for the expiation of their brutalities. At
Goomsoor the disturbances were increasing instead of
abating, and the prospects of slaughter were being
realised. CHURRA BISSAYE, after cajoling Colonel
CAMPBELL, had assailed the Sebundie post near
P osera, and obliged the inhabitants to demand the
immediate aid of reinforcements. In the do-
minions of the NIZAM the pecuniary dif-
ficulties are rendered a matter of secondary
consideration by the recurrence of deeds of a more
terrible and threatening nature. According to the
last information received from those territories, the
lohillas had mustered in considerable numbers, and
eturning towards the city, had encamped some three
miles from the cantonment. Here they were for-
mally visited by HUSSUN-00D-DEEN Kuala, who was
Main suddc,i and terrific melee. TORA BAz KHAN,
relative of the principal assailant of this personage,
and a jemadar of the Rohillas, had been, in conse•
quence of this outbreak, nearly bludgeoned into the
other world, while his followers continued in a state
of sullen excitement the exacerbation, as it
may be termed, of the epidemic of sedition.
Bey and these revolting occurrences, there is a de-
tailed account, in the dispatches which have arrived
from Bombay, of a trial before Sir ERSKINE PERRY,
of
a mm named BOOLOOK SARAWUN, for the wilful
murder of his sister-in-law. • The
.circumstances. of
this crime are of a nature so. superhumanbT guilt, as
to cast the deeds committed AWELL, GOOD, and
GREENacan into the shade by comparison.
proceedings
Such is a rapid summary of yth'f
narrated in the information receeiviendarousour Oriental
possessions and dependencies. The absreonmce of anything
the consolidation.
of any remarkable kind in regard to
of our Indian Government, or to the
the adjoinin; principalities, is more tPbaacnificatum of
sated, as far as interest is concerned, by these atrocious
revelations. Appalling as are the vices and butcheriesis 1
which pollute the lands of civilization, frequent a
they are when contrasted with the blessings which
might be anticipated from the diffusion of know-
ledge and the enforcement of religious principles,
they are as nothing when compared with the whole-
sale enormities by which the magnificent territories
of Asia are profaned and that atmosphere of guilt is
roeluced which its population is ever respiring.
ese reflections should only enhance the exulta-
tion cif every well-% isher of the human
family at the remembrance of our footing upon the
eastern continent. They should inspire us with
.se.n-
fitrsents of satisfaction from the reflection that mall-
:cation and Christianity must march onwards from
Ilindoostan, and ultimately produceiol an emollient and
humanizing influeace upon the idolatrous races of
the more remote countries of theiap globe.
cunFiaorrythaetsel
rons, as well as from motives of
a
the
superb
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caramei-cial character, it is that we havecontinually
enforced the necessity of the retention of
province conquered by the prowess and guard(i by
vigilant sagacity of its Governor, Sir CHARLES
NAPIER. 1N ow that the solicitude to allow Sinde to
pass fro: la our authoi it.y, if not from our protection,