The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

(PI-cm the Overland Bombay Times, Dec. 17.)
SUMMARY.—The Son dial insurrection seems now
over, the last of the insurgents in the field have
been surrounded, and Kanoo, the only leader of
note yet remaining amongst them, has been cap-
tured. The troops, it is supposed, will be suffered

o return to quarters, the police i)eing considered

sufficient from- henc4forth to maintain the peace.
The latest operations against them are of some inte-
rest, as being more decided and vigorous than most

of those preceding them. On the 2oth of November
a body of troops were despatched to Rox,sianugal,
and though none were found at this particular point
their track was discovered by men sent up in the
trees. The troops pushed on and found themselves

all at once, to their surprise, in the centre of a great
encampment, with the cooking pots still on the fire,
and which had not been abandoned for above ten

minutes. The insurgents, to the amount of 1,500,
were scattered in patties of from 200 to 300 in the
brushwood all around, over a space of four or five

square miles in extent. The tro-ops at length came
in contact. with them, plunged into a tremendous
bamboo jungle, and drove the Sout.hals before them.
They finished by burning from 20 to 25 villages,
and by showing the enemy that none of their fast-
nesses were impenetrable. On the 30th detaA-
ments were sent out by General Lloyd, if possible,
,to capture the remaining insurgents, and in this

they-were entirely successful, Ensign Allen having
arrived the following day with all the most impor-
tant prisoners in charge, Kanoo included.
We have since our last had no disturbances of
any kind in any part of India. An expedition is
said to be in preparation against the robber chief
Saadut Khau, whose people still threaten to mo-
lest us.

A temporary tranquillity reigns in Oude, under
the fear on both sides that an uproar will be the
=,ignal for coercion. The people of India at large
experience no such repugnance as is supposed to
the extinction cf indigenous administrations, from
the maintenance of which the majority suffer so
t:arfully ; but the minority, who, having the purse-
strings in their hands, can command the services of
Mercenaries, whether with sword or pen, manage
to create or Maintain the cry of injustice while
their victims are condemned to suffer in silence.
It is a great mistake to imagine casual .outbreaks
amongst the Mahornedan Population, such as have
of late occurred at Lucknow, at Bolarum, and in
Malabar, the result of any concerted arrangement,
or an) sympathy among the wrong-doers, or any.
general sentiment of religion common to them all.
1 Each of these can be traced to distinct local causes.
having Lot the slightest connection with or bearing
on each other. There is no class of the native com•
munity, whether Hindoo or Mahornedan, that feels
hope or common
sympathy or grievance,excited ol- affected by
has the
ea
slightestcominon s
con-
cert with each other, or that need occasion the
hat . A country a
smallest alarm of any extensive outbreak or gene-
ral rising on any ground wever.
million and a quarter of miles in area, occupied by
200,000,000 of people, must always require a vast
military force to keep it in order ; the most power-
ful weapons we can employ for the maintenance of
peace being good and wise measures of administra-
with mpunty, convinces the
tion ; that justice and kindly consideratiou which
shows the evil-disposed that they have little
neglect, , never of
pheoapeeeaobfle
thatescap tiirghe i i
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are better under the Eng-
lishJ sthey
of n e may than under any other dominion,
occasionally
sustain and that
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tention. While every care should be bestowed in
'keeping our army in the highest state of efficiency,
in case unhappily its services should be called upon,
it should be held a matter of paramount considera-
tion to endeavour to avoid requiring to call for it
at all. ' States as well as individuals should at all
times remember that by far the strongest chains we
Ican forge, before which those of the despot are as
cobwebs, are the bends of affection.
The -Rajpoot state of Oodeypore, one of the oldest
and best governed in India, has been of late
threatened with civil war, in consequence of mis-
understandings amongst the chiefs themselves, and
betwixt a portion of them and _their sovereign.
About a year ago matters had reached such a
pass that the Rana applied for assistance to the
Political Agent of Mey war, Colonel George Law-
renee, who used every entreaty that could be
devised to convince the turbulent of their danger,
and all parties of the inexpediency of summoning
foreign aid to interfere with domestic misunder-
standings.
The Rana was ma de aware at the same
time that were his entreaties persisted in they
would be complied with, to prevent rebellion, but
only in the case of extremity, and even then with
the utmost reluctance. We had hoped that mat-
ters had by these means been got smoothed over,
when fresh rumours arose of interference, or, as some
will have it, of coercion. The Sovereign and his
chiefs agreed at last to submit their grievances to
English arbitrament, binding themselves to abide
by our decision, whatever that might be. The award
baying been communicated to them, the Rana sub-
mitted with the most perfect integrity, but the
chiefs broke their pledge, and now desire that the
British Government should alter their judgment.
Although Sir H. Lawrence, who is supreme in the
Rajpootana States, is the last man to suffer their
independence to be. interfered with where it can
be avoided, summoning British aid can in the long
run have but one result. Despotisms, or even oli-