The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-04 00:00:00

THE SUN.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1858.

The arrival of the Bombay Mail fully confirms
the views we have already put forward in reference
to the present state of affairs'in India. The rebellion
has been virtually surpressed ! It is true that there
are bodies of fugitives still ranging through dif-
ferent parts of the country, but, as we yesterday
stated, " all hope of success has departed. They
are now merely gangs of spiritless and despairing
brigands, knowing that the atrocious crimes of
which they'were guilty had excluded every hope
of mercy, that they are outlaws fighting with ropes
about their necks, and never daring to resist an
attack, however great the numerical advantage on
their side." This is another powerful illustration of

a righteous cause.
,4 Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though wrapped up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corroded 1"

These men are now alive to the misery they have
brought upon themselves by proving unfaithful to
their salt :and turning the arms with which they
were entrusted by the British authorities against
those who were liberal paymasters and kind com-
manders. But in the first excitement they com-
mitted a series of brutal and cold-blooded atrocities
that prevented the possibility of any arrangement,
and placed an insuperable barrier between them-
selves and pardon ! They knew that dispersing
would be of little use. They would speedily be de-
tected in their own villages. They can only live
by plunder, and they are now looting friends
and foes with the most perfect 'impartiality. In

one respect this will be productive of good results,
as the natives must speedily become disgusted at
these extortions, and will be as anxious to get rid
of them as even the British themselves.

As might be anticipated, the chief force of the
rebels is in Oude. It appears that " the clemency
proclamation," as it has been termed, which ap-
peared in the Bombay Gazette of the 30th of June,
and which was generally received as authentic, was
an impudent forgery ; or, as it has been designated
by Mr. BEADON, Secretary to the Government
of India, " a pure invention, without any
foundation whatever." The journal in which it
appeared must have been greatly hoaxed, and will
doubtless, for its own sake, deem it essential to state
the authority on which it published so impm twit a
document. The Talookdars, however, have made
sundry overtures, and are coming steadily to our
side. It is said, and with much apparent truth,
that they only require adequate protection to avow
themselves openly air our adherents. The return of
temperate weather, when Lord CLYDE can take the
field Is ith a powerful force, prepared for active
operations, will confirm the waverers and encou-
rage the timid, so that although it is asserted that
there are still 40,000 men, with 50 guns, against us,
there is but little chance of another attack on Luck-
now, or any place where a British force can take
the field.

Brigadier BERKELEY had proceeded with a
strong force f7om Allahabad to the Southern fron-
tier.. In his progress he had captured two forts,
and killed 500 rebek Sir TIorE GRANT, as usual,
was active. He had proceeded to Fyzabad, which

it was intended to occupy, and thence was to ad

vance on Shahgunge, where AlAux SINGH, who had
given in his adhesion to our side, was besieged
by some 20,000 of the Begtrn's troops. They are,
however, deserting in large numbers, the treasury
being mostly exhausted, and the receipt of their
pay being, to say the best of it, very problematical
—something to be desired, rather than hoped for.

General ROBERTS had taken effectual measures

to relieve Jeypore from the anticipated visit of the
remnant of the Gwalior insurgents. They had
retreated to Tonk, which they plundered ; but as
he rapidly pursued, they abandoned the town,
at which he took up his head-quarters, on despatch-

ing Brigadier lioLmEs with the detachment under

his command in pursuit. The gallant Brigadier
was close on their track, and may ere long render

a good account of TANTIA TOPEE, and recover the
enormous booty of which he oktained possession
during his temporary occupation of Gwalior. The
advance of General Roil Eras was a most judicious
proceeding, and has had a very beneficial effect on
the state of Rajpootana.
We may now congratulate ourselves on the
wonderful success that has attended the British
arms, and restored our supremacy throughout the
length and breadth of our Anglo-Indian Empire,
now really a portion of the dominions of Queen
VICTORIA, governed in her name, and under the
authority of her chosen ministers.

Apathy is surely better than any such ridiculous
displays of cracked and boisterous enthUsiasm as
those by which our impressionable cousins across the
water have been celebrating at
New
York
and
other cities in the United States, the
successful
laying down of the submarine cable. If anything
could degrade what is, beyond a doubt, traly Sub-
lime in that wonderful achievement into the ira_
mensely Ridiculous, it would be precisely these
kind of frantic and preposterous demonstrations.
The mere narratives of them in the American news-
papers, the mere headings of those very narratives,
read for all the world more like the ravings of
sheer lunacy than the expression of anything like
rational exultaticn. The infuriate delight, more-
over, manifested in America at what has just now
been accomplished, with the blessing of heaven
upon the enterprise and energy of Man—is not
simply tinged, is positively saturated and ingrained
with vulgarity. It must needs so be designated by
those who read it with any regard to ordinary good
taste, and without affcctm. g, for one moment, the