The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-08 00:00:00

fallen state is mingled with indignation against the
Power which refused to recognise the force of past
services, and has cast aside all considerations of
political. gratitude.
It seems to be uncertain when Sir Colin Camp-
bell (for so I must still style him) will move from
Allahabad. There has been some talk in Parlia
ment, and some writing out of it, of the necessity
of " striking a great blow" as soon as the rains are
over, and certain it is that we are ready and willing,
aad able to strike that blow, if the enemy will
stand to receive it. But the insurrection is as-
suming a small sporadic character, which cannot
be affected by the action of a great army, or of
concentrated corps. It is probable that the Com-
mander in Chief will be compelled to deviate from
his favourite tactique, and that he will be obliged
by the force of circumstances to divide his army into
verysmall fragments to deal with these most harassing
and distressing local revolts. The wisdom and sagacity
of Government, and the energy and resources of the
civil power will be taxed to the uttermost in de-
vising remedies for evils which seem to be almost
beyond the reach of military practitioners. Oude
still offers a most threatening aspect, for there are
no less than 50,000 men of all sorts under arms to
oppose the restoration of our role, with guns and
cavalry. Rohilcund, notwithstanding the gallant
affair at Phillibeet, under Major Samuel Brown, is
still disturbed by roving bands of insurgents, and
every mail contami intelligence of the' movements
of guerilla parties in various districts of British
India.

The desperate attempt of the disarmed regiments
at Moultan ought to be strictly investigated.
There ought to be a most rigid inquiry to ascertain,
if possible, what were the causes, the hopes, the
fears, the despairs of -the moment, or the 'secret
intrigues which impelled. these men to one
of the most extraordinary and suicidal revolts
that even the strange history of this rebel-
lion can afford. Will it be credited that one of
those curious exponents of diseased ideas called
newspapers in India—and that a respectable organ
in its way—has, with much self-complacency, pro-
claimed that the reason of the hopeless rush of those
madmen armed with the legs of bedsteads upon
loaded guns and European artillery, was that they
were almost certain of immunity from punishment,
and that they were encouraged to an attentat which
has already led to the forfeiture of the lives of 1,400
of their number by the conviction that their lives
were secure ? This, too, in the very province where
every attempt at revolt has been signally, if not
severely, punished ; where justice has been as
sharp, swift, and unrelenting as revenge herself,
and where the sparks of insurrection have been
crushed out with an iron heel. The best commen-
tary on the fatuity of the view of this organ is the
result of the outbreak. But the time is really come
for the people of England and for the Government
of the country to meet the manifestations of a s pirit
which would rendersour rule in India not only a
crime, but an impossibility, by an active and resolute
Policy. Outrages on natives must be punished,
unless we would willingly and knowingly accept
the hostility of India, and with our eyes open justify
the assertions of the intriguers who tell the people
that nothing will content us but their utter ex-
termination. It is astonishing how rapidly the
narratives of events are circulated, and how im-.
roensely they are exaggerated as they fly from
Mouth to mouth, in this country. A short time ago
a convoy under a party-of the 97th and 20th Regi-
nients were on their way to Lucknow. Darkness
fell upon them ; there were confusion and delay on
the road ; probably there were apathy, neglect, and
laziness on the part of the gam-mans, or native
drivers, who are usually a most harmless, inoffen-
sive, and honest race. Some ruffians among the
soldiery took advantage of the obscurity to wreak
their brutal ferocity on the drivers, and pricked
them with their bayonets so severely that one man
died of his wound almost immediately, and others
were removed so the hospital in litters. Now, lam
loath to believe this story, but if it be true the men
who were guilty of such disgraceful and disgusting
brutality ought to be severely and publicly
punished, and every means should be taken to
diffuse the knowledge of their chastisement. There
ho doubt, unhappily, but that their crime will
be -speedily known for thousands of miles. 'lt
Will be repeated with every aggravation, and it
Will probably be swollen into an organised con-
spiracy to murder the whole of a most useful
and numerous class of our subjects in India.
One of the papers which contains an account of the
occurrence remarks that probably "no one will
think much of wounding a few niggers." But I hope
and trust that the probability is of a very different
character ;. and that, as we would preserve our cha-
racter for justice and-humanity, the punishment of
the offence (whichis murder if wilfully perpetrated)
will be commensurate with its magnitude. These
`` niggers " are men who carry our commerce
along the public, roads, to whom our mer-
chants intrust . vast amounts of property, and
Who form a 'caste or a class remarkable for
their honesty. Indeed, I have seen advertise-
Inents in the Indian papers stating that during the
disturbances gai•rewans upon the road had placed
property with which their garries were laden in
places of safety, and calling on the owners to come
forward and claim' their property. It must be re-
collected that it would have been impossible to
deteCt or. punish these men if they had misap•
prapriated the property intrusted to them, for they
had only to make. their way to the enemy, or even
to say they were plundered on the road, to secure
themselves from punishment. But it is not in this
9,r that instance that we detect the existence of
unit most vindictive, unchristian, and cruel spirit
Which the dreadful contest and the crimes of the
Mutineers have evoked. It is in the press—in the
c9unting-house—even, I regret to say, in. the pulpit.
One reverend divine has written a book, in winch,
forgetting that the heart of man is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked, he takes. the
cheerful view that the Oriental nature is utterly
v abolical and hopelessly depraved, as -contradis-
filiPished from his own nature and that of his
euelvs• The rev. doctor apparently forgets also in
race, and
part of the world God planted His favoured
,saeo, and gave His revelations, though, indeed, he
t"lpPears to be imbued rather with the teaching of
4',,lese who smote hip and thigh, even from the rising
t 0 setting of the sun, than of Him who told
toifs servants to put up the sword. I know, indeed,
ot an- excellent clergyman at Simla the other day
t,°°'( occasion in his sermon to rebuke the disposi-
ti°ll: on the part of certain of his hearers to ill-use
e -natives ; but, generally, the voice from the
Pulpit has been mute on this matter, or it has
called aloud, "Go-forth-and spare not."
It will be perceived that the agents used in the
extermination of the insurgent and mutinous refu-
gees from Mooltan were all natives, native police
and Of the party of 400 which fled
„.,t.ll about 80 were drowned in the river, into
winch they
were driven by our men, and upwards
"„' 300 were killed or captured, leaving very few
naceounted for. Of the 300 who fled northwards
",ea.,113, every one was killed by a body of natives,
b4ll.iier a native gentleman, Gholani Mustafa Khan,
ut not until they had repulsed a body of police led 1
~3' Mr. Wright .and Mr. Leeson, and forced them to
tY with precipitation. Besides, 200 men were taken
,3: Peasantry and police in the surrounding dis-
-B'ets, and many perished miserably in the marshes,
2 that there are not many of the 1,400 mutineers
ale
alive or at large. The men of the 35th N.I.
31,e sent off daily from Meean Meen in parties of
fiand 40, and are marching quietly through the
6411,1 under Doab to their homes. The men of the
b NJ. are going down from Peshawur to Ura-
vakoinder a regiment of Jezailchees (or natives
and eShawur using the jezail, or long matchlock),
the Secretary to the Punjab Government has
aj'earedt, a circular i 4 warn the police to be on the
the out not to . interfere with, harass, or annoy
disarmed men.

• SEPT. 15.
1. The mail which has Just reached us brings intel-
`lgence of two matters which are somewhat infeli-
oe'tous in their
,juxtaposition. It is announced that
n Majesty has been pleased to confer a baronetcy
Sir Jamsetjce Jeeeebhoy, the eminent Parsee
Illerchant and philanthropist of Bombay. At the very
4,raUle time the same honour is offered to Sir John
I-ANN-6nm, who has been by something more
our ova-
s4l4chle than mere popular acclaim declared to be
the saviour lour Indian Empire. In his pSatent
‘‘`r amsetjec Jeejeebhoi., Bart., is declared to be
telilinent for morals an character," and being so
-no doubt fit to belong to an order eminent
tZ is-no
virtues. For what is Sir John Lawrence
count nt For something deserving better of his
17, than the• possession of even such morals
1144„(.1 etiaracter as the worthy Parsee's. If there is
eTiation in honours and rewards, or any win-
an their distribution, there has been a singlar
fteet of both in the present instance.' .
flare e month of April last, when our army was
hatte"i'lg through Rohilcund towards Bareil
,2ecasion to report the execution of a tehseeldarY'
,sl;briti;Ar. Money, and to accompany the statementthe
sent,,„B"le remarks on the apparent harshness of
--ee• It was understood that an officer on
deligadier Walpole's staff had been in correspon-
tioileevith this man, and that certain communica-
renctuad Passed which led the tehseeldar to sur-
sparear himself in the belief that his life would be
)_ ed. Mr. Money denies that any inducement
444, -to had been held out to the rebel by
the 4. ;It he (Ides not allude to the report that
assu2eLlseeldar was induced to surrender by
stat'umenes from others.- It appears that the
et of which. I sent you was the sub-
dire et°f a question in the House of Commons, which
1104 ed
Mr. Money's attention to the matter, and he
t°l4-isstriessed to me the statement which will be
vetccv, for which I request as wide a circula-