The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

rEE SUN,

inuuications between Delhi and Aboo) informs us

that the wall was breached, and the mutineers
expecting the attack. The reference to the muti-
neers would make it appear as if natives had con-
veyed the intelligence to Aboo.

Again, we have a letter from Benares, also
dated the 19th of June, which the writer, a
highly respectable missionary, had opened to state
that intelligence had just reached Benares from
Indore (which is about 600 miles from Benares
and 300 from Bombay) that the " rebels had been
defeated and the city re-captured." The news
had come "by telegraph." This looks as if the
communications were pretty well open between
Benares and Bombay, and as far west as Rajpoo-
tana. It is well known how quickly Asiatics,
like the ancient Gauls, can carry intelligence
through vast districts in an incredibly short time ;
hence the Indian Bazaar reports of the capture of
Delhi, connected with that by the letters, renders
it far from improbable.

The fearful atrocities perpetrated by the Indian
mutineers, Lot only on their officers, but on helpless
women and innocent children, demand the most
complete and speedy retribution. The blood of
our brethren, so wantonly and cruelly shed, cries
from the earth for justice on their murderers. In
some few cases feelings of gratitude were displayed
towards those who had exhibited kindness to the
Hindoos, but this was but the exception to the gene-
ral rule. The sanguinary miscreants ordinarily
acted with the most fiendish and heart-rending
barbarity towards their unfortunate victims. We
can scarcely allude to the deplorable and revolting
details. Suffice it to say, that, to ladies particu-
larly, speedy death would have been accounted
mercy. They were treated in the most horrible
manner in the presence of husbands, parents, and
children, who were prevented from aiding them
in the slightest degree; they witnessed those
nearest and dearest to them murdered in cold
blood, and only were suffered to live until every
possible ignominy had been heaped upon them.
Their intense sufferings were made the sport of
the malevolent and licentious scoundrels into
whose hands they had fallen. We believe that a
parallel cannot be found to scenes such as those
already narrated, and it is more than probable
that we have not as yet heard the worst. Many
victims have fallen, whose dreadful fates will
never be detailed, save by the confession of the
cowardly assassins who caused their deaths.

Under such circumstances there can be no tem-
porising or compromise with the insurgents.
Their guilt is of too deep a dye, too infamous to
listen to any suggestions of mercy. Of course, as
in all such cases, there are gradations in crime,
and we shall be only happy to listen tl
any mitigating circumstances in favour of
those who have lent aid or assistance to
English fugitives. But we fe46 that the number
of those who can truly put forward such a plea is
very limited. A vast majority have stained them-
selves with the highest possible degree of guilt.
For these miscreants there can be no sympathy,
however terrible may be the punishment they
have so richly merited. Those who have wit-
nessed the sufferings of their countrymen and
countrywomen will ibfliet exemplary vengeance on
their infamous assassins.

What renders the matter worse, is that the
mutineers had long been treated with the greatest
possible indulgence. Their scruples were respected.
They were petted, and their condition made the
envy of the surrounding population. And yet
these were the very men to massacre their officers,
and, far worse t'lan all, to inaisi.lr3 thei r wives
and children, and indeed every English-
woman or child who fell into their hands I
They set aside every consideration of humanity,
and, if a host of demons had been let loose on
earth, they could scarcely have exceeded the atro-
cities perpetrated by these ruffian Sepoys.
The rumours respeAing the alleged fall of Delhi
have assumed a greater degree of consistence, and
there is some reason to hope that its capture had
been effected. The statement WAS that more than
7,000 of the rebel Sepoys had fallen, while the
English loss was also very considerable. But
even if the accuracy of the report had been verified
beyond the possibility of doubt, that would not
justify the slightest relaxation of exertion on olr
part. Our victory must be complete and decisive
—.the retribution terrible—or we shall have all
the work to do over again. After exemplary
punishment it will then be our duty to trace
out the causes of the outbreak. We believe
that it will be found in a great degree to have
been tormented by Russian intrigues. The Per-
sian war was also kindled in the like manner. All
the arrows have probably been drawn from the
same quiver ! The Sepoys were influenced and
taught to believe the destinies of the Anglo-In-
dian Empire rested in their hands. Some of the
miseralsle puppets were likewise induced to sup-
pose that they could reclaim the thrones forfeited
by their own miscondu(S. It is, however, satis-
factory to know that the vast majority of the
chiefs and peoples remained faithful. It has
been a military outbreak, in which the King of
DELHI, the ex-King of OUDE, and possibly the
Rajah of MOORESHABAD have participated. Their
conduct will be strictly investigated, and if their
complicity be clearly established, nothing shall
save them from the stringent penalties they have
so richly deserved.

S:r THOMAS MARYON WILSON is now once
more before Parliament, endeavouring to accom-
plish his private objects by means of a public act.
He hai certainly exhibited indefatigable zeal and
energy—a degree of perseverance worthy of a
better cause. But, for all that, we cannot consent
to surrender Hampstead Heath to the hands of
builders and bricklayers, or give up the benefits
provided for the metropolitan community by the
will under which he himself derived his title to
the estate.

Sir THOMAS made repeated applications for a
private bill, but was foiled on every occasion.
And why ? Simply because the learned judges,
who took a merely legal view of the stioject, in-
variably reported against him. Their judgment
was not founded on matters of public policy or
expediency, but of absolute right. They con-
sidered the wishes of the testator, which were,
that so long as he had the power to create a bind-
ing entail the Heath should not be built on. So
far as lay in his power he dedicated it to the
public use, and the benefit of the bequest should
not be lightly surrendered.

_ .
An ordinary person would have yielded to these
repeated defeats. But Sir THOMAS was, to use
the language
in of the fancy, "a very glutton in
punishment." He did not know when
he
was beaten, and returned to the charge again
and again. New bills were brought forward,
but with trifling variations. The opinion of the
judges were sought in every shape, and it was nog
until the faintest possibility of private legislation
was removed that the general
Wbililch was practi-
was brought in
9 accomplish his object, h
„,11y a public enactment for the private relief of
air THOMAS MARYON WILSON.
That act gave power to the Court of Chancery
to grant leasing and selling powers to tenants for
life, where previou4y au appeal to the Legislature