The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

THE SCN, L'ONDON' TUESDAY EVENING,'

his atrocities. NANA Sir is simply notorious
among the leaders of fighting men just as HERRIOT
was notorious at the head of the troopers of
the French Republic during the Reign of
Terror--HENItIOT, whose habitual battlefield
was the Place de Greve, and whose rallying
standard was the blood-red colour of the guillo-
tine 1 No—again we say not one single soldier
of any mark whatever has, from first to last, made
his appearance among these Sepoy mutineers. Nut
one of them has shown any generalship—any
strategic skill—nay, for that matter, any com-
mon brute courage. They have fought simply
like a set of wild hounds—encouraged in each
instance to resist for a while simply by the obvious
fact of their enormous numerical preponderance.
How may this be accounted for?—among a race
certainly not deficient hitherto in the ability of
the soldier's craft—a race that has long since
numbered up in history as famous warriors as
Guniars KHAN and AVM:1(0210U. What may
be the source of this unexampled lack of anything
at all like their former valour or their pristine
generalship ? What ? Is it not Remorse—born
from the memory of all their fiendish atrocities ?
Is it not remorse—acting upon all their physical
and intellectual energies like a sudden palsy ?
Might not thousands of S3poys among that popu-

.ous host each mutter to himself, literally, iu the
famous words of MASSINGEB.--.

' Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,
And takes away the use of 't ; and my sword,
Glued to my scabbard with wrong'd orphan's tears,
Will not be drawn."

The execrable crimes by which at Delhi, at Cawn-
pore, at Bithoor, and elsewhere, this deadly revolt
was first of all inaugurated, would really appear
to have evidenced themselves in the extraordinary
fact we have here particularised—the fact of this
Sepoy hest of nearly 100,000 Asiatics, disciplined
by Europeans, not having once throughout the
whole conflict given to the world a single soldier
of any eminence whatsoever. Ttie result of those
diabolical deeds of inhumanity being the paralysis
of the warlike genius and power hitherto dis-
played by the warrior population of Hindostan.

ushered in by a report of the Minister of State,
upon the high importance of the work ; the decree
which constituted the commission charged with the
collection and publication of the " Correspondence
of Napoleon 1.," and, finally, the report addressed
by the commission to the Emperor upon the re-
searches and labours to which they had devoted
themselves in the performance of their duty.
A Paris letter in the
.Nord of Brussels says :
" Orsini, Pierri, de Ruche, and Gomez, on return-
ing to their prison after the trial, appeared to retain
all their usual calmness, but at the moment when
the strait jacket was being put on them, Pierri gave
way to the most violent rage, venting his passion
particularly against Orsini. I wish,' he said,
that Orsini had a dozen heads, and that they
.
were all to be cut off, order that he might suffer
the longer.' Da Rudio is very much cast down ;
he fancies he sees the scaffold standing before him,
and he declares that in his sleep he feels as if the
iron were touching his neck. Orsini preserves
a composed attitude, and mostly remains
silent. Pierri, it is said, expected to come
out of the affair safe and sound ; and so deeply
had that hope taken possession of his mind
that for several days before all his thoughts had
been concentrated on what had become of his um-
brella. He had even written several letters on
the subject, requesting that it might be sought for
Ind be ready for him when he should be released
from prison."
The Times Paris correspondent says :—" Ru-
mours have circulated for the last two days that,
after all, the life of is likely to be spared.
Orsdini
To what degree they are entitled to credit I cannot
stiatyl to Ic
His letter to the Emperor, as published in the Moni-
alemme ecnicuyalilsybase ignorant on what grounds his
morethan his companions.
Moni-
teio with the rest of the proceedings, has produced
an unpleasant impression on the representatives of
some of the German States, and it certainly will not
promote goodwill bat ween the Court of Vienna and
that of the Tuileries. It is still the topic of severe
remark in diplomatic circles. Though Orsini is
a mid to display much calmness since his condemna-
tion, yet, to prevent any attempt by his own hand,
it was thought prudent to use the camisole-de-
force, or straight waistcoat. The others, with the
exception of Gomez, who is not condemned to
death, are similarly treated. The chaplain of the pri-
son has been with them, but it is not said whether
his exhortations have had much effect. They
attended Divine service yesterday in the chapel of
the prison. The minutes of the trial were to be
submitted this day to the Parquet of the Court of
Caseation by the Attcrney-General. They will be
' distributed, and the Court will appoint one of the
Conseillers to draw up the report, on which the con-
firming or invalidation of the sentence of the Lower
Court will be founded. I may add that there is
little or no chance that the sentence will be dis-
turbed, andit is rrOable that the whole affair will
be decided in the coarse of the week."
It is stated that Lord Malraesbury has already
answered the despatch of M. Walewski, and, it is
said, in a tone aacl spirit becoming a British
Minister. It, of cause, expresses a desire to cul-
tivate the best relations with this country, and to
remain in alliance with her, but it declares that the
right of asylum shad be maintained intact. It is
not baid whether the suspended bill will be taken
op by the new Government.
BOURSE, Marchl.s—The settlement of the account
has gone on readily in the Rente with easy terms of
interest, but the market has been flat, and prices
declined owing to a fall of on on Consols. The
market continued heavy to the close, when the
following were the quotations :
per Cents ........ 95 10 Credit Foncier
Do. end m0nth...... Belgian 43
3 per Cent. ..... 69 30 Piedmont-ese (5)
Do. end month ...... 69 40 Roman B9
Bank Shares ...... 1015 Austrian
Credit Mobilier 875 -- Spanish Threes
Do. Account ........ 870 Home Debt 3