The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

-V EN IN GI PTE MB ER 28, 1857

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CARDINAL WISEMAN ON THE INDIAN
MUTINIES.

Yesterday morning a pastoral letter from Cardi-
nal Wiseman was read in all the Roman Catholic
places of worship in the metropolis, on the subject
of the Indian mutinies, directing that next Sunday
be set apart by tbe Roman Catholic body as a day
of humiliation and prayer, and that a collection
should be then made for the objects specified. His
Eminence says :
" When ,lately, dearly beloved in Christ, our country
was afflicted with war, we called upon you to pray to
the God of Armies for victory and for peace, They came
to us in good time ; and, scarcely heeding these lesser
wars which harassed our Eastern frontiers in Persia and
in Cbina, we believed thlat we had before us a long period
of national tranquillity, and of consequent prosperity.
"And now so soon again we have to invite you to
call aloud to the God of mercies that He would spare us
the afflicting and harrowing scenes which have been, and
are prObably still, acted on our own t.rritories, of which
those possibly dear to ue, at least our own people, are
the victims ; and that He wou!cl once more give back
order and quiet rule to the continent of India.
" Who will attempt to describe the terrible calamity
which bas overwhelmed us? 'Behold a little cloud came
out of the sea like a man's foot,' and while he who be-
held it 'turned himself this way and that way, behold
the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there
fell a great rain,' not, alas ! of refreshing waters, but
of gore iu battle, and blood in massacre. For truly bad
it had been merely war with its usual array of evils that
we had to deplore—had there been suddenly commenced
the conflict of brave men in honourable warfare, it would
have been enough to mdden us and to direct our t h oughts
to supplication for peace. But here it has been the
sudden rising of an immense army, subject as much as
our troops at home to the Crown of this realm,—armed,
trained, clothed, and fed .by the power which there
represents it ; their rising by canspiracy, which has
silently and darkly included tens of thousands, to break
out openly like a plague in separated spots, under one
law of cruel perfidy and treacherous brutality. Almost
without exception, as. you all have learnt, regiment
after regiment has murdered the officers wha had led
them to battle, and who trusted in their fideli y, till
the whey was fired or the thrust was made which laid
at the feet of cowards those who living had made them
brave. For, transformed by that deed of treachery into
assassins, these hordes of savage mutineers seem to have
cast aside the commonest feeiings of humanity, and to
have not merely resumed the barbarity of their ancient
condition, her borrowed the ferocity of the tiger in the
jungle, to torture, to mutilate, to agonize, ar.d to
destroy. Nay, if we bad imagined to ourselves the un-
checked excesses of a fiendish fury by which legions of
demons let loose against a tribe accursed of God would
have marked_ their progress of deiastation, the picture
would have fallen short of what has been perpetrated,
in a land that we called our own and thought that we
had blessed with earthly happiness, on those whim many
around us know, whom some near us may have tenderly

" It is not our duty or our wish to detail the horrors
of this overthrow of Indian civilisation, containing as
tbey do so much of what the apostle tele; must not even
be named among us. Suffice it to say that no indignity,
no insult, no dishonour has been spared ; that nothing
which cruelty in its refinement or in its grossness could
devise or execute has Ireen. omitted from the black ca-
talogue of _committed crimes • that no regard has been
bad of the'sacredness of age, of the helplessness of wo-
manhood, nor of the innocence of infancy ; that compas-
sion, remorse, the ties of previous obligations, familiarity,
and friendship seem to cave lost their hold on these
maddened contrivers of total ex ermination. And many
crimes there have been, no doubt, too hideous for
revelation—scenes of lawless license and unbridled
brutality, of which no record has been kept save in the
reckonings of Him who will one day bring to fight the
hidden things of darkness and amply repay them.

"At the contemplation of tbes.e ecerieti of horror the
mind stands aghast, and is filled with strange surmises
and perplexed with conflicting judgments, till it merges
its terrors, its anxieties, and its shifting thoughts in the
depths of that ever consistent wisdom which can weave
the vilest of man'a designs and the blackest of their
ac.ions into a web of provilential mercies and of un-
stinted goodness. What expiation and what high reward
may have come to many who, with patience in faith,
have endured torments like to those of ancient martyrs?
—how large a new band of innocents may have been
welcomed in heaven by their forerunners of Bethlehem,
slain even through hatred and fear of the same Christ—
what a sweeping' away of the cid and rotten basis of
civilisation, that a juster aud a purer reconstruction of
It follow, may have been practic.blo only by this
ravaging flood—what a purging of a foul atmosphere
of hidden crime for the shining
.of a warmer and a
brighter sun may have been effected by the unsparing
whirl of this tempet—in fine, what a second and re-
newed prospemity may begin store for that empire after
the marauders have rushed in and taken away all and
slain its servants,' and a violent wind has come from
the ails of the desert and shaken the four corners of its
house, and it has fallen upon Its children and they are
dead what, in fine, of beauty and loveliness God may
cause this new desert to bud forth ;—all these things
lle alone knoweth, but we may pray to Him to grant
and do.

"Yet, however confident we may feel net only of
future but of present mercy, it is so covered with an
aspect of actual severity, so mingled with signs of im-
pending judgments, that oar first thought must be that
of prappatiun, and of calming the Divine ind,gnvion
which visits us and that distaiit dependency for trans-
gressions and sins, which if direly .seen by man may be
char to God's penetrating eye. So sudden, so unex-
pected, so overwhelming, and apparently so canseless a
calamity comes, no doubt, by the permission of God,
and has its reasons buried in His unsearcnable mind.
Elad it fallen up3n our forefathers in Catholic days one
would have seen the streets of this city trodden in every
direction by penitential prooessiors of men and women
crying out aloud, like David when pestilince bad struck
the people. And this is likewise cur first impulse, to
turn to God in alliction and contrition of spirit, to lita-
ble ourselves beneath His mighty hand, to set our faces
to the Lord God, and say to Him, To Thee, 0 Lord,
justice, but to us confusion of face,' and then to entreat
ilim to show us again the light of His countenance, to
scatter the gentiles who delight in war,' and 'rebuke
the wild beasts of the reeds.' Fur then, indeed, and
then alone, may sac justly claim the mercies of the Lord,
when we have sought to a pease His wrath.
"Snell, then, is the double object which we propose
to ourselves in addressing you. If we have waited some
time before carrying it out, it has been because a day
was approaching which seemed especially suited to our
purpose. Accordingly; on the 11th of this month, e
addressed a letter to each of our right rev. brethren in
England informing him of our intention to issue this
pastoral, and appoint the first Sunday in,Qctober as a
day of generalisupplication and collections for. Indio in
this our diocese. ,
"On that day, known familiarly among us as 'Rosary
Sunday,' the church publicly thanks God for victories
gained over great Infidel Powers threatening the de-
struction of Christian nations. And these victories she
attributes to the bumble supplications of her children,
coinciding in day and" hour with the defeats of the ene-
my. Now, these supplications consisted mainly in the
recital publicly of .that very chaplet of our Lady which
that Sunday honours and suggesis. Engaged in a simi-
lar contest, let us have recourse to similar means, and
exert ourselves to the utmost to avert the ecourges of
Divine' justice falling heavily upon our empire, and to
obtain that aid which God's bleesiog alone can effectually
give to men's prowess and skill.
"Let us take our share in the humiliation as we do
in the suffering... Let us 'not hold up our hands and say
that we hare had no part in the causes of these calami-
ties. They. are a common burden, they afflict us and
oppress us' all. However unjustly our religion may have
• been treated in that distant country by its rulers, how-
ever even now it may be unkindly dealt with, however
we may have been slandered or calumniated there or at
home, all must on that day be forgotten. We are only
natives of one country, subjects to' one Crown, and we
must take our portion of common sorrow, drink equally
of the same bitterness, and take upon ourselves the
yoke and burden of our fell Ow-citizens, however far
away.
" With all your hearts, therefore, pray that God will
break down the. fierce power of the enemies, and rescue
from their cruelty.their helpless victims, and that He
will grant the consolations of patiende to all sufferers,
-sand especially, to those bereaved of their dear ones ; and
do not forget .in your warmest prayers those many
slisousessorttie Lamb, the sisters of various orders who
have left their homesin Europe to instruct the children
and nurse the sick of those barbarians. Great has been
our joy at hearing of the escape of so many of their nutn-
ber—an escape, in sonic instances, little short of mira-
culous. But we know not how many more remain in
peril, and we are certain of some.
" En'reat, then; the God of battles to arise and scatter
His enemies, the enemies of His name, of His faith, and
of His very unwritten law—the law of humanity in-
scribed In every heart. He can give victory to our
standards and conquest to our arms. Beg of Him to
strengthen the hands of our soldiers and fortify their
frames against the poison 'Of the swamp and the arrows
of the sun ; to fill their heaits with the noble courage of
the Chnetian soldier, the chivalry of the vieliant knight,
not with:the ferocity of the Pagan, or the mere thirst
for slaughter of the savage. • .Linen not to the sanguin-
ary cries by which passions sufficiently natural and too
likely to be inflained,kyond the verge of justice by the
horrible spectades on which they will be fed are urged
forwafd to still madder excitiment. Remember that the
words ' vengeance' and ` revenge' were washed, out by
the blood of Calvary from the catalogue of man's as-
sumed rights ; that they are reaerved to God alone, vrlio
will make use of rnan'e justice, s'ern and inexorable, but
leaving room 661 for mercy to creep io, for the avenge-
ment of His own violated law. No, we must give a notle
example, which aid. show the very heathen that Chris-
tianity has a sacred power to conquer in the soul even
the most mighty and most sweet of corrupt human
inetinctss

" And pray ye thus for that peace which will not leave
a wiltierness,for a kingdom, nor ruins for its cities. Let
the guilty dealt with so that the land be purged of
its inquily, end then let just laws, and honest principles,
and fear of God, and large Christian views prevail, with-
out oppression of the heathen or unfairness to Christians,
that so once more the land may be clothed with abund-
ance and its inhabitants abide in safety. And thus shall
it be if GOd so direct the counsels of the nations' ruler.
as to be wise and moderate abroad and at home, here
preveLting religious strife, and there not fomenting
lx litical convulsions, uniting all here in equa.li4y of state,
and Winning back the confidence and admiration of the
strati;;er, that so this realm may be staid in lastin
peace, and hold its hign dominion undisputed over the
sea, and respect ed in every land."
Then is prescribed the order of prayer and the

order of services for Sunday next, the day
appointed for humiliation—an indulgence being
granted -to -all the faithful who shall take part
in certain of the services for the intentions and
objects of the day's supplication.
fn reference to the collections to be made, his
Eminence says,--
"As the prir sts who have generously offered to go as
chaplains to the seat of war, beyond a most inadequate
salary, are allowed nothing for outfit, or for the provision
of things necessary for religious worship, the proceeds of
the c Illection will be in part applied to supply this want.
As yet we do not know the extent of loss by destruction
of ecclesiastical or conventual property in India, but we
kno ,v for certain that several religious communities have
lost their all. While no doubt they will receive such
relief from public funds as is awarded to individual
suff,rers, we can easily understand that they will re-
quire epecial assistance in consideration of their re-
ligieus state, of which, probably, no regard will be had
in• the distribution of such funds. To these particular
wants our attention will likewise be devoted. Should
your particular charity enable us to go beyond these
special wants, any surplus would be thrown into the
general subscription for the relief of the distress in India,
towards' which many of you have doubtless sent your
subscriptions."

THE REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA.

(From Thacker's Overland News.)

The following is a clmp'ete and corrected list of
the transports which have sailed for India with
reinforcements-of troops to supress the Sepoy mu-
tinies ; also the vessels engaged to take out the
last ordered to India, and now embarking. The
dates and numbers having been corrected from the
official list, and the detail of officers embarked
added to each detachment, will account for any dis-
crepancies from the previous statements, and makes
the information in its present form complete.
Those vessels named as destined for Ceylon touch
at Point de Galle for final orders. The movements
of these vessels of which we have any tidings are
given in the footnotes.
From the totals given by this list it will be seen
that 77 vessels have already sailed for-India since
the news of the revolt fist reached home, con-
veying to the assistance of our countrymen a force
of 29,235 men of !all ranks of Cavalry, Infantry,
and Artillery ; and that a further force of 5,000
men of the Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery, Engineers,
and Field Train will embark almost immediately
for the same destination. As the vessels which
first left these shores have now been out close upon
90 dap we may calculate with some degree, of
certainty that, in addition to the 14,000 reinforce-
ments already landed at Calcutta fisoin China, the
Cape, and Mauritius, relief from England wid now
daily arrive, and that during next month a force
of over(9,ooo men will be landed and sent up the
country, to, -be followed in November by nearly
18,000 men, and in the following month, Decem-
ber, by nearly 18,000 more, including the 5,000
now embarking ; so that by the close of the year
we shall have increased the British force in India
by at least 48,000 well-seasoned and disciplined
troops of every arm in the service :

Sailed. Ship. Destination. Trps. Corps.
July 1 Flucephalui .. Calcutta .. 223 35th Rgt
I Barham .. .. Do. .. 131 Rifle Brigade
10 'Ulysses • • .. Do. .. 298 -38th Rgt
10 Bilenborougll .. Do. -.. 226 40th and 60th Rgts
11 Cressy • • .. Do. • ... 223 Bth and 3d Bat Rd B
12 Adelaide .. .. Do. ; .. 216 EI. Co's
1 Prince Arthur .. Do: • .. 304 B. I. Co's
15 Sir G. Seyinpur .. Do. .. 230 7th Rgt
16 Surrey wr; ' .. Do. .. 351 38th ltgt -
1i Calabar .. .. Do. .. 209 48th Rgt
19 Cambodia . .. K.urrachee .. 219 Bth and 88th Rgts
19 Castle Eden .. Do. .. 239 47th, 52d, 61stRgts
21 Ramifies • • • . Do. .. 223 7th Rgt
21 Roman Emperor .. Do. .. 195 27th, 6 .st,B7th Rgts
21 ieringapittam (a).. Do. .. 234 7th Rgt
21 Bombay .. • • Do. • • 356 2 ith and,7oth Rgts
21 Albuera • • • • Do. .. 233 -27th and 81st Itgts
21 Owen Glendower .. Calcutta .. 277 lth Rgt
22 Suilej (b) .. ... Madras .. 231 3d Bat Rifle Brig
23 Alnwlck Castle .. Calcutta .. 422 19th Rgt
23 afilliam Hammond Do. .. 233 19th; 53d, 60th Rgts
24 Merchantman .. Do. .. 352 19th Rgt
25 Octavia (c).. .. Do. •• 237 33d and 75th Rgts
25 Blenh im (d) • • Do. .. 349 2d Dragoons
26 Aliquis .. • • Do. .. 339 32 Bat Rifle Brig
26 Monarch (e) .. Do. •• 378 4th, 10th, 32d, 35th,
and 60th Llgts
25 Caledonia .. • • Ceylon .. 376 Ist ltgt
28 Robert -Lowe • • Calcutta • . 438 Ist Rgt
29 Sir Robert S.lO .. Do. .. 290 el. I. t,o's
30 Whirlwind.. Do. .. 353 19th and 422 Rgts
31 Thebes (1 )• • • • Ceylon .. 209 38th Rgt
31 Walmer Castle .. Do. .. 420 79th Rgt
Aug. 1 Louisiana .. . Calcutta .. 450 79th Rgt
1 Carthage (g) •• Ceylon .. 221 38th Rgt
2 Scotland . • • Do.' 312 Artillery
4 Defiance ~. .. Do. .. 414 let and 60th Rgts
4 United Kingdom(h) Do. .. 419 38th and Rif Brig
6 John Bell (i) Do. - .. 406 38th and 64th itgts
6 Golden Fleece (.1). • Calcutta .. 934 34th and 42d Rgts
6 Victo,ia (jj) .. Do. .. 403 Artil and 422 Egt
6 Forerunner • • Bombay .. 258 3d Drag Gds
7 Liverpool . • .. Ceylon .. 479 6th Rifles, 33 Bat
7 ;Sussex .. • • Do. .. 465 3b6oßf 2 b Rf Brg
8 lames Baines .. Calcutta .. 1037 97th and 42d Rgts.
8 Champion of the . .
Seas • • • • no. .. 1032 20th and 42d Rgts
a Sarah Sands Do. .. 900 51th Rgt
9 Lady Joceyn(k) •• Do .. 766 54th, Art. Elf Brig
10 Ghenghi Khan(kk) Bombay .. 417 64th 86th, 3d D Gds
10 Impera-lor (1) .. Ceylon .. 524 Royal Marines
10 Tyburnta .. .. Do. .. 420 3d b 60th IL and 79th
12 Agamemnon . Calcutta .. 257 10th and 44th Rg.ts
12 Warrior Queen .. Do. .. 373 art and 3d Dg Ws
12 Imperatriz tm) .. Ceylon .. 539 Royal Marines
to Victoria • • • • Madras .. 4:4 Artillery
15 Sydney BO • • . • Calcutta • • 300 Artillery
15 Austral= (o) .. I Do. .. 300 428 Rgt
15 Candia • • • . Do. .. 672 19th. 20111,34th,97th
15 Ballarat (oo) .. Madras ~. • 291 69 Rif & Itif 0,2 d ii
-16 Adelaide • • • • Ceylon .. 478 Royal Marines
lo Sarah Sands • • Calcutta .. 338 04th Rgt
20 V,-rnon .. .. Bombay • . 208 E. I. Ce's
26 City of Manchester Calcutta .. 53 I King's Drag Guards
27 Heisltia .. .. Madras .. 272 41th Rgt -
27 lightning •.. .. Calcutta .. 676 .3 th Bus & Ind dep
28 Matilda Atheling —Do ' 310 728 Rgt
28 eledgmoor • • .. Bombay .. 369 64th, 78th, 83d, 85th
2?' Waterloo •• --' • • Calcutta .. 315 sbth Rgt
29 Southampton (p) • • Bomoay .. 368 56th ltgt
U Khersonese (q) .. Calcutta .. ' 563 14th Rgt
30 Queen of tfie South Do. ' • • 760 ci6th ltgt
Sept. 1 tlipore .. • • Kurrachee .. 232 Art and Ind depots
2 Athlete .• , .. Calcutta .. 191 artillery
9 illoriana (r) .. Do. 235 66th and Ind depots
9 Scotia .. .. Bombay .. 341 722 Mgts
16 Gosforth .. .. Do. .. 308 B. 1. Co's Eng & Art
18 Hydaspes .. .. Ceylon .. 631 .Artillery
24 Illand . , .. Kurrachee 320 'oBth Rgt
Total, 77 ships. Total.. 29,9 )5 "Droops
VESSELS NOW EMBARKING TROOPS.
Great Britain .- Bombay .. 1000 Bth Bus, 17th Larks
gallops .. .. --turrachee • • 430 98th Foot
Italian .. .. Bombay .. 425 .18th Foot
Prin. Charlotte .. Bombay .. 425 118th Foot
Austria • • • • (urrachee 1 125,6 lArtill 84 Field Bat
Leop 1d .. .. Kurrachee
These vessels were to have embarked the troops named, but have
. ~..
been rejected.
.. -
1 indomitable .. Bombay .} 850 57th Regiment
Melbourne.. -.• Bombay 1 „ • . .
St. Louis .. -... Jaleatta .. 406 1 Fld Batt Co.'s Art
Charity .• • • Madras •. ' 296 artillery

(a) Spoken on the Bth of August in tat 39 N, long 14 W.
(b) Spoken in la: 41 N, long 12 W.
(c) Spoken on the 15th ofAugust by the Golden Fleece.
(d) Sp Acen on the Bth of August iu lat 39 N, long 14 W.
(e) Spoken on the 10th of August in lat 38 N, long 16 W.
(f) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 11th of August.
(g) Touched at Cape Verde on the 12th of August.
(h) Touched at St. Vincent's on the I,th of August.
T uched atSt. Vincent's on tho 18th of August.
(j) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 18th of August.
(jj) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 27th of August. _
(k) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 20th of August.
(kk)_spoken on the 30th efAugu t in lat 12 N, long 20 W.
(1) Touched at Madeira on the 15th of August.
(m) Touched at Madeira on the i7th of August.
(n) Touch..d at St. Vincent's on the 25th of August.
(o) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 25th of August.
(oo) Spoken on the 14 h of August in lat 1 N, long 24 W.
(p) Spoken on the 28th of August in lat 47 N, long a W.
(4) T.:uched at Madeira on the Gth of September.
(r) Spoken ou the 1 ith of September inlet 50 N, long 9 W.

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