The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

the men of the 48th Regiment by the men of
the fish Oude Irregular Cavalry, was intercepted,
and thereupon brought to Sir H. LAWRENCE at
Lucknow, was of itself sufficiently significant ;
particularly when, in addition to this fact, it is
remembered that Oude itself was only as recently
as the early part of last year annexed to our
Oriental possessions—thereby absorbing into the
Company's Territories the sole remaining Mahom-
medan State in Upper Hindostan. The poignancy
of this latest blow administered to Asiatic pride
was felt elsewhere than simply in the modern and
ancient capitals of Oude—viz., at Lucknow and
Fyzabad. It affected the whole of the Asiatic
race more or less acutely ; but it influenced, in a
peculiar degree, the great mass of the army of the
Bengalees. For—it is a very remarkable and
Inoticeable truth, that Oude alone is under-
derstood to have furnished the Company's forces
with besides many thousands of troopers
—actually no less than three-fourths of
the Bengal Infantry. Bearing in mind the sus-
picious manner in which this frightful military
revolt followed hard upon the annexation of Oude,
we regard the curious fact here italicised as (to
say the very least of it) singularly significant.
However this may be, we now know but too
distinctly that the vast military revolt here spoken
of really took place thus suddenly and suspi-
ciously—a gigantic mutiny, in round numbers, of
100,000 disciplined fighting men—the lawless
rising, in point of fact, of the whole regular
native army of Bengal, an army consisting at the
moment of—

Seventy-four Regiments of Infantry.
Ten Regiments of Cavalry.
Nine Battalions of Foot, and
Three Brigades of Horse Artillery.
It was the revolutionary outbreak, in point of
fact, of a hundred thousand skilled veterans—
the Bengal Sepoys—the men, the very men who,
under the banners of Poxes, contended, now two

thousand years ago, with the warriors of
ALEXANDER. It is M. DE VA LBEZEN who
speaks—" Ce sont les hommes," he exclaims (in
his ingenious work 'Les Anglais et I'lnde,' p. 98),
" les memos hommes, qui sous les drapeaux du
Roi Porus, combattaient it y a deux mille ans, les
guerriers d'AlexaEdre." The same men—but
how degenerated ! How not merely degenerated
how utterly brutalised and degraded. Not in all
the terrible records of crime and barbarity em-
blazoned in the pages of ARRIAN or of CURTIUS,
can anywhere be detected narratives comparable
in the smallest degree with the fearful annals
already inscribed upon the tablets of Anglo-In-
dian History, in bloody, and indelible, and damn-
ing characters. Damning to the perpetrators of
these new and hitherto inconceivable horrors
—the ruffians, above all, of Delhi and Cawnpore.
Well may the Edinburgh declare of Jack Sepoy,
in spite of all his superficial " tincture of mili-
tary discipline and his disguise of civilisation"—
that his character was still after all " overshacled
by low animal propensities, by the beastial super-
stitions of the worst form of heathenism, and by
the impenetrable cunning of a feeble race !" That
cunning is already transparent. That feeble race
we have now alone to deal with ; we have to crush
out its insurrection, to punish its: atrocities, to
brand its ingratitude, and to systematise, as
speedily as possible, its permanent re-organisation.

ANOTHER ADVANCE IN THE RATE

OF DISCOUNT.

The directors of the Bank of Entland, at their
meeting to-day, raised the rate ot discount to the
unprecedented point ot 9 par cent. ! This proves
that the establishment must be in a very straitened
condition, and it is supposed that the balance-sheet
for the present week will be quite as unfavourable
as any presented in 1847. It is impossible that
this rate can be maintained, and measures will, no
doubt, be concerted forthwith to relieve the mer-
cantile public ; otherwise they will be unable to
pass through the ordeal, already too severe, with-
out serious distress. An impression prevails that
unless some arrangement can be made to prevent
it the rate will soon be advanced to 10 per cent.

THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Liverpool Borough Bank is partially open
to day for the payment of depositors under 2001.,
in accordance with the arrangement mentioned in
The Sun of yesterday.