The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1859.

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V.R.-TOWER.-SALE OF SADDLERY, HARNESS,
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Office of the Gas Light and Coke Company,
Horseferry-road, Westminster,
16th March, 1859.
IDO HEREBY ,GIVE NOTICE, That pur-
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JOHN SALE BARKER, Esq.,
has given me notice in writing of his intention to stand for
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O'clock, p.m. precisely.—By Order.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
THOMAS • STOREY ALDAM, of Gainsborough; in
the county of Lincoln, miller, hath by Indenture, bearing date
the twenty-first day of February, One thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-nine, and made between the said Thomas
Storey Aldam of the first part, Thomas Ranby of Gains-
borough; aforesaid, farmer, Ind Thomas Lidgard, of Bishop
Norton, in the same county, farmer, of the second part, and
the several other persons whose names and seals are there-
unto subscribed and set, being respectively Creditors of the
said Thomas Storey Aldam of the third part, assigned and
transferred all his personal estate and effects unto the said
Thomas Ranby and Thomas Lidgard, in trust, for the equal
benefit of all the Creditors of him, the said Thomas Storey
Aldam ; and that the .said Indenture was executed by the
said Thomas Storey Aldam on the day of the date thereof,
and by the said. Thomas Ranby on the twenty-second day of
February last, and by the said Thomas Lidgard on the first
day of March instant, and the execution thereof by the said
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the Patrons of the Festival, and the Public generally, from
and after Ten o'Clock this Day, for the issue of Vouchers
for Tickets, which for the present may be selected from the
Numbered Plan. _ . .

Immediate application is requisite to secure the best seats.
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N.B.—All applications for the above band for Concerts and
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THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS
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at this magnificent establishment, being POSITIVELY
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fully informed that the Ball Room will be tastefully and
elegantly decorated ; and the Celebrated Band, under the
direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform a series of
Novelties arranged expressly for the occasion. The supper,
which will combine every delicacy in season, will be served
at one o'clock. No gratuitous admissions will be given.
Gentlemen's tickets, 10s. ; Ladle's ditto, ss. Supper, ss. each.
Doors open at half-past nine; overture 'at ten punctually.
N.B.—Mr. Nathan, Castle-street, Leicester-square, is ap-
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Two Performances Daily at two and quarter before Eight
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THE BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA. T

(From the cdrrespoTident of the Times)
HEAD-QUARTERS r CAMP, ON THE GOOMTEE,
Luciorow, Feb. 4.
The accounts which are received from various
parts of Oude are, with one exception, most favour-
able. 'Forts are demolished, the revenues are paid,
the new proprietors have entered upon their estates;
but the people will not give up their arms. To their
old matchlocks, rusty worn-out guns, and indifferent
swords and shields, spears; bows, and axrows, we are
welcome;. but their precious percussions, their fowl-
ing pieces, rifles, and superior kinds of firearms,
their fine Guzeratee blades and poniards, are hidden,
watched over, hugged, and secreted beyond all
power of investigation, punishment, or coaxing.
One day our police find three or four cannon in
different wells, another they dig up a brass field-
piece from under a barn floor ; then they find a nest
of swordblades in the house thatch, or a box of
muskets under an old wall. It is calculated that
on the Ist of last September there were in the
possession of this agreeable population not less than
1.200 pieces of artillery of calibre varying from 12-
pounders to 1-pounders. The larger guns are of
iron, and are of foreign manufacture or of native
make superintended by Europeans in India, and
their loss is irreparable, for Asiatics have lost the
secret of casting iron guns or shells or shot, but
they cast brass very skilfully, and can turn out
brass guns of all sizes up to 6-pounders with ease,
and numbers of harmless brass shells. The cost of

a well made matchlock is about 305., and the village
smiths in Oude are skilled in their manufacture,
but choice sword blades are made mostly in the
north-west, and the local armouters' work of this
kind is not much prized. The bows are used by the
Passies, a large class of the population, who guard
the crops and flocks of the villages, and diversify
their avocations, like true agriculturists of the
older types, by occasional raids and dacoitees.
The bowmen are strong and skilful, and can
send an arrow right through a man's body at
a distance of a hundred yards, but they are only
formidable to bad matchlockmeß: All cheap arms
are readily given up, but it is ion before the lum-
berdar can indicate the retreat of his ancient flint
" Mortimer," or some native " farkilling" matchlock,
or the tulwar wherewith he smote Ram Bux in the
great fight three years ago, or at any time since he
could wield a sword when the Government collector
sought to sweep away their crops. And then,
though not afflicted by cutaneous disorders, they
are most remarkably fond of brimstone, and hide it
in quaint little pots, as reserves for a future day.
Charcoal lives in every tree, the soil abounds in
nitre, and the art of making an explosive compound
from admixtures of those ingredients has been
handed down in the villages from times far ante-
cedent to the earthskaking discovery of Friar Bacon.
There are great differences of opinion as to the
population of Oude. No attempt has ever been
made by the Governments of Lucknow to take a
census of the people, and the estimates of our officers
range between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000, the calcu-
lation of the Gazetteer, which is only 2,500,000,
being universally rejected as quite below the real
population. When Major Barrow was commissioner
of the Salone district, which is about a ninth part
of Oude, he found the population by a careful
census to be 750,000 souls. Of these the males,
owing to the dreadful infanticides systematically
practised by all the Rajpoots, are in great excess of
the usual proportion, and it may be safely assumed
that there are in Oude 2,000,000 of male adults, of
whom each carries an arm of some sort or other.
There ought, then, to be 2,000,000 firearms, swords,
daggers, bows, spears, &c., in the province. As yet
we have succeeded in getting only 333 cannon out of
the assumed number of 1,200. We have only
121,000 firearms, 400,000 swords, and 27,000 spears
out of the two millions we require, so that there is
much yet to be done ere the people are disarmed,
and the police must be active and honest to collect
these, and to prevent the illicit manufacture of
others. But with the forts we are more
successful—they cannot be hid ; and so out of
the 900 forts computed to be in Oude no less
than 631 have been already demolished, and
233 are reported to be undergoing demolition !
Here Lis [England of the 19th century running a
muck at England of the 12th century ; the new
civilization warring against the customs and man-
ners of its ancient progenitor—the offspring swal-
lowing up Saturn.
With all this there comes a strange frame of
mind upon the people; in fear and perplexity, they
seem to be awaiting the event which is to force
them to become Christians. Of the belief in our
intentions to convert them no act or saying of ours
can divest their minds. Strange to say, such
forced conversions as they seem to be looking for
are not at all unusual, or rather were not unknown,
in 0 ade ; and it has been recorded that the Maho-
medans here made many converts to their creed by
the simple process of surrounding a village and
threatening to kill all the inhabitants unless they
embraced the true faith. To save their lives the
males went through a ceremonial which is supposed
to assure their orthodoxy, and the females, very
Ruthlike in such matters, became Mussulmans like
their husbands and kinsfolk, but though the Hindoo
thus became a Mahomedan, and never could be-
come a Hindoo again, he and his being cut of to all
eternity from his race, he preserved all the customs,
traditions, and many of the rites of his former
faith, with which he wove a curious theological life
in the woof of his new belief. There are some peo-
ple here who think the Queen could make many
millions of Christians here " by proclamation" or by
" Act of Parliament," and would advise her MajeAty
to try the evangelising process, if she were Unfor-
tunate enough to have such councillors. It is
unquestionable that the efforts of learned mis-
sionaries, well versed in the native languages,
acquainted with the dialectis of the Hindoo and
Mahomedan, zealous,pious, and patient, would meet
while the people are in this state of mind, with an
amount of success which would be as surprising as
it would be gratifying. And here let me observe
that these much reviled natives show a temper and
moderation which we do not find among self-styled
Christians and civilised nations nearer home. So

long as a Christian minister can argue with a
moulvie or a pundit with patience and ingenuity,
he will be listened to with interest and
respect ; he will be permitted to expound the
Scriptures, and to warn his hearers against the
errors of their faith,'provided that he refrains from
insulting, contemptuous, and irritating language ;
but if he be a mere ignorant illiterate zealot, with-
out any qualification (temporally speaking) except
a knowledge of Hindustanee and good intentions,
he may be exposed to the laughter, scorn, and even
abuse of the crowded bazaar in consequence of his
manifest inability to meet the subtle objections of
his keen and practised opponents. From what I
have heard I regret to state my conviction is that
no considerable success, as far as human means are
concerned, can be expected from the efforts of those
who are like the ancient Apostles in all things hut
their inspiration and heavenly help. The differ-
ences between Christian missionaries—the Roman
Catholic, who tells the natives that the Commis-
sioner, the Collector, the Judge, and the chaplain
are not Christians at all, and that he is the only
true teacher—and the clergyman of the church of
England, and the Scotch Presbyter, and the Ameri-
can Episcopal Methodist, and the Baptist, and the
Unitarian, do not present a very encouraging front
to the Hindoo or Mussulman would-be neophyte.
Come what may, the present aspect of the country
indicates that peace has come for the present. The
storm is over. Those who have escaped its fury
are with anxious eye scanning the clouds, fearful
to trust themselves to believe in the calm.
Nor can the people accuse the British Govern-
ment of any harshness now, though they may be
inclined to dispute the validity of the grounds on
which we seized the country. There can be no
question that, notwithstanding the corruption of the
Court and the tyranny of the landholders, the
people of Oude loved their King and were attached
to their aristocracy. As Lord Canning pointed out
in his despatch, the small village proprietors proved
quite powerless to help either the Government or
themselves. The broad wave of the popular feeling
carried back on its crest the members of the old
shipwrecked race, overwhelmed the intruders whom
our Courts had placed in their stead, and left the
Talookdars in possession of the lands from which we
had ousted them, under the pretence that. they had
acquired them by force or fraud. If we cannot
restore the Royal family of Oude to the throne on
which a long race of Nawab Viziers sat as our firm
allies, our ready friends in time of need, every ready
with crores of rupees and such help as they could
render us in trouble, we can at least endeavour to
turn to account the attachment which is asserted to
exist on the
part of the people towards their chiefs
by intrusting the latter with some share in the ad-
ministration of the country. A landed aristocracy
without any power is a dangerous anomaly in India,
or out of it. Although Mr. Wingfield, the new
Commissioner, will no doubt give a fair trial to the
system inaugurated by the mitis sapientu of Robert
M `Montgomery, it is much to be regretted that the
services of the latter will be lost to Oude at this
critical moment. But Sir Sohn Lawrence leaves

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD.

Lahore for England in a fortnight, and unless the
arguments of his successor, Mr. Montgomery, who
will start on the 15th to meet the great Punjabee
before he leaves the scenes of his immortal labours
and triumphs, convince that clear hard head, Sir
John Lawrence will go home a determined opponent
of any measure which shall confer the semblance of
power and authority on the native gentry, and he
will leave behind him many able men who are
already standing aghast, or raising the voice
complaint and protest against such daringinnova-
tions on the policy of many years.
Although many of the Talookdars, great and
small, broke into open rebellion and long resisted
us in the field, the conduct of the Government of
Oude has been marked by clemency and generosity
—two words and qualities odious to many in India.
Whatever the threats of the Proclamation, Lord
Canning has certainly used the powers of confisca-
tion very sparingly, and Major Barrow's settlements
of revenue with proprietors who are placed beyond
all fear of change or dispossession for years to come,
now amount to the sum of 8,914,209 rupees, on a
revenue of about 12,000,000 rupees per annum, of
which 4,142,190 rupees have been already collected.
The Rajah Lonee Singh, whose estates are not yet
confiscated, is waiting his trial, as he not only fought
against us; but permitted British subjects, ladies and
children, to be treated with indignity when they
sought for shelter on his estates, and betrayed the
Seetapore fugitives to the Lucknow Government
The State trials of men who would have been most
certainly hanged at once if they had fallen into our
hands a year ago will be interesting. The Nawab
Of Furruckabad is to b e tried at Futtehghur by Mr.
Batten and two other judges, and he will be allowed
counsel for his defence. Several native officials
supposed to have been banged have come to life and
.
are under trial, but does not appear who their
representatives at the executions were. In Oude
the capital sentences and punishments inflicted by
the civil authorities are few indeed, and evince the
spirit of clemency by which the restoration of our
rule has been characterised, and may be held in
some measure to account for the speedy tranquilisa-
tion of the country.. The total number of capital
sentences carried into effect in Oude is only. 28..
All the convicted were great and notorious crimi-
nals. About 120 were sentenced to transportation,
50 were flogged, and 90 were acquitted. In con-
tinuation of former returns I forward a copy of the
latest weekly report relative to the disarmaments.
It will be seen that the distrust of the sepoys still
defies experience and promises. Including the
Oude regiments there could. not have been less than
50,000 sepoys belonging to this province, and, as-
suming that one half of them were killed or died of
wounds and disease, there is still a very large mar-
gin between 25,000 and the 6,000 who have sur-
rendered to us. Granting that many thousands
have returned secretly to their homes, and are
hiding all over the province, there must, neverthe-
less, be upwards of 12,000 or 14,000 sepoys at large,
of whom the larger part are probably in the
Nepaulese territories or in the Terai jungles. Only
496 acknowledged soi-disant mutineers have ap-
peared before our officers all over Oude, but of the
4,900 sepoys who have presented themselves with
leave certificates it may be fairly assumed that one-
half, at least, were fighting against us.

FEB. 1.

The 9th Lancers and 79th Highlanders remain in
their dusty, sandy plain near the Chuckerwallah
Kothie, the latter close to the very spot where they
encamped when Outram crossed the river and led
them on in their first movement towards the final
checkmate. They are to be stationed at Lahore,
and they will thus traverse a large portion of India
before they reach their cantonments. The 9th
Lancers will volunteer before they start for Eng-
land, and for three days the canteens will be open
gratis and the men served with liquor ad libitum if
the old practice be, as I hope it will not be, observed.
It is not fair to the soldier to ensnare him, or to
secure his services by such means. If he elects to
enter another regiment, and to continue his mili-
tary career in India, let him do so with all his
faculties about him, and let him not be able to say,
" I was drunk when I took the bounty." There is
no artificial stimulus requisite to make a man remain
here if he is sober, intelligent and moderately edu-
cated. In the new European regiments he is certain
of becoming a valued non-commissioned officer in a
very short time, and if he is saving and industrious
he has a fine career open to hint in the lower
branches of the public service. The life of a dra-
goon in India is a course of absolute luxury com-
pared with his duties in England or any home
station.
The furloughs of the civil service are opened.
But what is the use, if the Peninsular and Oriental
do not take compassion on us ? Will no one hear
the cry of those poor starlings who are piping, hot
with apprehension of the coming heats, " We can't
get out ! We can't get out !" and liberate us from
the cage ? The " Great Eastern" to the rescue !
Not all the curry in Calcutta, nor all the prawns in
the Ganges, nor the kuskus tatties in Hindostan,
nor the claret cups of all the clubs, nor all the pun-
kahs in Bengal, or the pickled mangoes of Bombay,
nor humps of ox nor brawn of boar can tempt one
who served last summer under canvass to risk
another, unless the civil service or a fat brigadier-
ship with its magic four 3's a month, binds him
by golden links to the burning, deadly soil.
FEB. 2.
I am told that Lord Clyde reviewed or inspected
the 79th Highlanders this morning, previous to
their departure to-morrow on their long march of '
60 odd days to their station at Lahore. I hear that
his lordship made the regiment a farewell speech,
in which he attributed the position he now holds to
his Sovereign's favour, and his peerage to the High-
land Brigade. Lord Clyde might, however, have
taken some credit to himself for his long career of
meritorious service, and his gallantry, professional
attainments, and great sagacity. No one knew of
the inspection, except the members of his lordship's
personal staff and the Chief of the Staff, and one or
two others. Even the Quartermaster-General of the
Army was not made acquainted with it, and Col.
Taylor, commanding the regiment, did not know
they would be inspected till late in the previous
evening.
Young Lord Dangan left the head-quarters camp
last night on his way to Bombay, having failed in
his object of seeing active service, except such little
affairs as those of Doundhia Khera, Mejiddiah, and
the scamper of the Raptee, and consequently losing
his chance of establishing a claim for a brevet-ma-
jority. The army is inundated with brevet-majors,
and a very high authority has designated a modern
war as "a machine for evolving brevet-majorities."
We must not make military rank and rewards too
cheap, and at the best brevets are bad in principle.
The only army in the world save our own in which
brevet rank is known is not one to follow in any
way—l mean that of Spain, where there are some-
times 20 field officers to a regiment. As far as lam
aware, brevets are not known in the army of France,
or in those of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Denmark,
Sweden, Sardinia, or Turkey. As to clasps, medals,
ribands, and deorations, we are in a fair way of
rivalling the Russians. Some of our officers have
not room on their ample left breasts for the display
of their many coloured harvest of ribands from the
field of glory, and, as our medals are very solid
affairs, the ingenious jeweller drives a small trade
in making decorations in petto.
FEB. 3.

The policy of Lord Canning in reference to the
relations between our Government and that of
Nepaul has been, however tardily inaugurated or
divulged, most successful in its effect. Jung Baha-
door has been obliged to solicit our assistance.
Orders have been despatched by Sowars to Briga-
dier Horsford to cross the Raptee on receipt of the
despatch, and to enter Nepaul to co-operate with
the Ghoorka troops in reducing the Sepoys who
have sought refuge. As Lord Clyde has had a re-
turn of his indisposition, and is now so unwell as to
render any application to business undesirable, I
presume that General Mansfield in issuing those
orders acted on the instructions of the Supreme
Government. For my ownpart Iregret much that
I shall be unable to see this strange and interesting
country—the relays of Sowars will traverse in
some 30 hours a space which it would take me six
or seven marches to accomplish, burdened as I
should be with tent and food, so that making the
utmost haste I could not arrive on the Raptee for
four or five days after the column had entered
Nepaul. In consequence of the march of Horsford's
force the pass of the Raptee will be left open, but
the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, who were at Byram Ghat,
expecting the route for llugshai, near Simla, will
be sent on to take their place, and the Kumaon
Battalion, from Bareach, will probably move on
to support them, for it is necessary to guard all tho
bridges and ferries for the present, lest the despe-
rate Sepoys and outlaws known to be hugging the
Terai should make a rush to get away to their
homes or to plunder unprotected villages. The
indisposition of the Commander-in-Chief is caused
by a kind of bronchitis—an aggravation of the cold
from which he has been suffering for some days,
produced, no doubt, by his exertions yesterday,
and by want of precaution against the effect of the
raw air. To-day the dust is flying .in clouds, under
visitors axe corning
the influnenee of a high wind.