The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

" That this unhappy man was the prime instiga-
tor of the mutinous spirit of the corps there is no doubt
whatever, and his execution is a plain necessity. It
issatisfactory to record that the disaffection is confined
exclusively to the Brahmin sepoys and officers,
the Mussulmans of the regiment standing quite
aloof from them, and manifesting the most loyal
conduct. An attempt has been made by some of
our journals to find the cause of the mutiny in
the conduct of the commanding officer. Colonet
Wheeler, who is reproached for having attempted
to spread the knowledge of Christianity amongst
the men. The charge, however, in so far as we
have yet seen, is quite gratuitous, and the ex-
treme readiness manifested by a portion of the
Indian press to stigmatise all efforts of Christian
men in the army to spread the knowledge of the
Gospel, as indiscreet, is too disingenuous to find
much countenance, and is not very creditable to
our estate. A very strong presurapton against the
charge is the fact, stated above, that the Mussul-
mans, of all men the most sensitive on the subject
of their religion, are totally free from all suspi-
ciela of disaffection, which is hardly consistent
-with the belief that the conduct of the
Brahmin sepoys is influenced by such motives.
We notice with much dissatisfaction that a circu-
lar has been recently addressed to the commanding
officers of the Bombay regiments, by the adjutant-
general, on the subject of the enlistment of recruits,
in which directions are issued tbat a preference is
to be given to high caste applicants over low ones.
A more mischievous or inopportune innovation
could not well have been made. It is well enough
known that the high state of discipline maintained
in this army is traceable entirely to the utter obli-
vion of caste in our ranks, and the attempt to Ben-
galise the Bombay army in this respect cannot be
too strongly reprobated. We publish elsewhere
the circular letter in question, and trust that some
attention will be excited to the matter."
A postscript of the Delhi Gazette of the 18th
April received at Bombay, May Ist, has the follow-
ing :—" We regret to be informed by telegraph that
bad symptoms have manifested themselves at Urn-
balla. The native troops have been ordered to
fire what they consider the objectionable cartrid-
ges to-morrow. The empty European barracks
were burnt down at nine last niget, and the native
infantry hospital, a mile distant, three hours
after."

The Phoenix states that in consequence of the ru-
mour that Goolab Sing is dead, and that the train
of events in his' kingdom is not clearly foreseen,
officers at Peshawar who had obtained leave to visit
Cashmere, have been interdicted from going thither.
The bindian of April 18 reports in the following
terms, the finding of coal in that province :
" We are happy at being able to announce that
the existence ofcoal in Scinde is an established fact.
It has been found in the Sehwan district. The
credit of the discovery is due to the deputy-col-
lector, Captain Phillips. We look upon it as one
of the most important discoveries ever made in this
country, not second to anything connected with
the province. Both as a commercial matter and a
revenue matter it must have a great effect in bring-
ing this province into competition with other parts
oelndia. We shall have the nearest coal fields in
India to the sea. The facts connected with this dis-
covery are the following. Captain Phillips was
engaged in sinking a well in the Vera Plain,
Meokan Gande,r, about 28 miles from Kotree, and
at a depth of 40 feet from the surface the workmen
came on a seam of coal, eight feet thick ; and a few
feet lower down another seam, 18 inches thick, has
been discovered. About 300 maud have been dug
out of the well, and the supply from the country
surrounding the spot is probably very large. The
well has been sunk to a depth of 80 feet, without,
however, coming either to water or to any other
strata of coal. Ten camel-loads have been sent to
the naval department for an experiment, and we
shall look with much interest for the official
report of the quality of coal and its value for steam
purposes ; there is, however, no doubt of its burn-
ing well, and it burnt in the Kotree factory to a
white ash. We trust Government will pursue the
important discovery, and a few hundreds expended
now may lead to a future revenue of thousands.
Our acting commissioner, Mr. Ellis, with expected
promptness, has at once acceded to Capt. Phillips's
. Wish, and has granted money for the purpose of
further excavations."
The notorious outlaw of Oude, Fuzil Ali, the
murderer of poor Rehau, has at last met with his
deserts. Lieut. Longueville Clarke, of the 3(l.Regt-
merit of Oude Irregular Infantry, on the evening
of the 7th April, marched with 40 men across the
Nepaui frontier,constitut through the dense jungle which
es the boundary, and surprised Fuzil Ali
and his bandinat. grove of trees. The men fought
desperately, Lou
Clarkeout of
having one man killed
and four wounded on
of his small party. Fuzil
Ali and two of hiebrothPr !, equally notorious ban-
dits with himself, were killed, and two others of the
gang. Lieut. Clarke was nixaself slightly wounded.
A suttee had oocurred at
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village of Vun. in
Kutch. Bhunsalle Sango,
died, his mother, 65 years of age, insisted onvimg
molating herself on the funeral p
;ile prepared for
the reception of her son's remains
s and though the
attendants and bystanders apparently remora trated
with her at first, they ceased to oppose her wishes
on finding that she was determined to become a
suttee, which she accordingly did. His Highness
the Rao, on learning what had been done, took the
advice of Capt. Raikes, the political agent, and
Pursuant thereto imposed moderate fines on those
of the villages which had furnished abettors of the
proceeding, and sentenced some of the leading men
in it two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
The principal parties concerned in the suttee, viz.,
the Bhunsallees of Vung, Karreea, and Bibba, are
poor cultivators, living by the sweat of their brow;
whom a large fine would throw into inextricable
debt and difficulties.

There has been another great fire in Pegu. This
time the rising tort of Bassein has been totally