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

SEPTEMBER 28, 185?

CARDINAL WISEMAN ON THE INDIAN
MUTINIES.

Yesterday morning a pastoral letter from Cardi-
nal Wiseman was read iri all the Roman Cltholie
places of worship in the metropolis, on the subject
of the Indian mutinies, directing that next Sunday
be set apart by the 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 China, we believed that 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 would once more give back
order and quiet rule to the continent of India.
" Who will attempt to describe the terrible calamity
which has 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 in battle, and blood in massacre. For truly had
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 tosaddenusand to direet our thoughts
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 conspiracy, which has
bilently 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 who had led
them to battle, and who trusted in their fidelity, till
the volley 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 feelings of humanity, and to
have not merely resumed the barbarity of their ancient
condition, but borrowed the ferocity of the tiger in the
jungle, to torture, to mutilate, to agonize, and to
destroy. Nay, if we had 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 devastation, the picture
would have fallen short of what has been perpetrated,
In a land that we called our own and thought that we
bad blessed with earthly happiness, on those whom many
around us know, whom some near us may have tenderly
loved.

"It is not our duty or our wish to detail the horrors
Of this overthrow of Indian civilisation, containing as
they do so much of what the apostle tells must not even
be named among us. Suffice it to say that no indignity,
no insult, no dishonour has been geared ; that nothing
which cruelty in its refinement or in its grossness could
devise or execute has been omitted from the black, ca-
talogue of committedcrimes ; that no regard has been
had 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 have 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 light the
hidden. things of darkness and amply repay them.
"At the contemplation -of these scenes 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 clan weave
the vilest of man's designs and the blackest of their
actions into a web of provilential mercies and of un-
stinted goodnese. 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 old and rotten basis of
civilisation, that a juster and a purer reconstruction of
it follow, may have
,been practicable 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 tempest—in fine; what a second and re-
newed prosperity may be in 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 side 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
He alone knoweth, but we may pray to Him to grant
and do.

" Yet, however contdent we may feel net only of
future but of present meicy, it is so covered with an
aspect of actual severity, so micglod w;th signs of im-
peno"g juugnash..3.-, ^--et tinstnolst must be
of propitiation, and of calming the anYtte-incitnivion
which visits us and that distant dependency for trans-
gressions and sins, which if dimly seen by man may be
char to God's penetrating eye. So sudden, so unex-
pected, so overwhelming, and apparently so causeless a
calamity comes, no doubt, by the permission of God,
and has its reasons buried in His unsearcnable mind.
Had it fallen upon our forefathers in Catholic days one
would have seen the streets of this city trodden in every
direction by penitential processions of men and women
crying out aloud, like David when pestilence had struck
the people. And this is likewise our first impulse, to
torn to God in affliction and contrition of spirit, to hum-
ble ourselves beneath His mighty hand, to set onr faces
to-the-Lord God, and say to Him, To Thee, 0 Lord,
justice, bat to ds confusion of face,' and then to entreat
Him 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.' For then, indeed, and
then alone, may we justly claim the mercies of the Lord,
when we haie sought to appease His wrath.
" Such, 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, vice
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 October as a
day of general supplication and collections for India 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 humble supplications of her children,
coinciding in day and bour 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 suggests. Engaged in a simi-
lar contest, let us have recourse to similar means, and
exert ourselves to the utmost to avert the scourees of
Divine justice falling heavily upon our empire, and t)
obtain that aid which God's blessing alone can effectually
give to men's prowess and skill. •
"Let us take our share ink the humiliation as we do
in the suffering. Let us not hold up our hands and say
that we have had no pia 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, ail must on that day be forgotten. We are only
natives of one country, subjects to one Crown, and wve
must take our portion of common sorrow, drink equally
of the same bitterness, and take upon ourselves the
yoke and burden of our fellow-eitizens, 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 patience to all sufferer,s,
and especially to those bereaved of their dear ones ; and
do not forget in your -warmest prayers those many
spouses of the Lamb, the sisters of various orders who
have left their homes in 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 num-
ber—an escape, in sortie instances, little, short of mira-
culous. But we know not how many more remain in
peril, and we are certain of some.
" Entreat, 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 hearts with the noble courage of
the Christian soldier, the chivalry of the valiant knight,
not with the ferocity of the Pagan, or the mere thirst
for slaughter of the savage. Lis. en not to the sanguin-
ary cries by which passions suflioiently natural and too
likely to be inflamed beyond the verge of justice by the
horrible spectacles on which they will be fed are urged
forward to still madder excitement. Realember 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 reserved to God alone, who
will make use of man's justice, stern and inexorable, but
leaving room still for mercy to creep in, for the avenge-
ment of His own violated law. No, we must give anolle
example, which vi,l show the very heathen that Chris-
tianity has a sacred pawer to conquer in the soul even
the most mighty and most sweet• of corrupt human
instincts.

" And pray ye thus for that peace which will not leave
a wilderness for a kingdom, nor ruins for its cities. Let
the guilty be dealt with so that the land be purged of
its inquity,.ond 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
preventing religious strife, and there not fomenting
political convulsions, uniting all here in equality of state,
and winning back the confidence and admiration of the
stranger, that so this .realm may be staid in lastin
peace, and hold its hign dominion undisputed ovt r the.
sea, and respected in every land."
a„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 ail the faithful who shall take part
in certain of the services for the intentions and
objects of the day's supplication.
In reference to the collections to be made, his
Eminence says,—
" As- the prit 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 collection 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
know 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
sufferers, we can easily understand that they will re-
quire special assistance in consideration of their re-
ligious 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 Th.acker's Overland News.)

The following is a compete 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 first reached home, con-
veying to the assistance of our countrymen a force
of 29,235 men of fall 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 days, we may calculate with some degree of
certainty that, in addition to the 14,000 reinforce-
ments already landed at Calcutta from China, the
Cape, and Mauritius, relief from England will now
daily arrive, and that during next month a force
of over 9,000 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
hall have increased the British force in India
t least 48,000 well-seasoned and disciplined
,s of every arm in the service :
§ailed.l Ship. 1 Destination. 1 Trps. 1 Corps.

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July 1 Bucephalus .. Calcutta .. 223 35th Rgt
1 Barham .. Do. .. 131 Rifle Brigade
10 Ulysses • • .. 00. .. 298 18th Rgt
10 Ellenborough .. Do. 226 35th and 60th Rgts
11 Cressy • • .. Do. .. 223 Bth and 3cl Bat Rif B
12 Adelaide .. Do. .. 216 EI. Co's
12 Prince Arthur .. Do. .. 304 E. I. Co's
15 Sir G. Seymour Do. .. 230 7th Rgt
16 Surrey .. .. Do. .. 351 88th Rgt
18 Calabar .. Do. .. 229 88th Rgt
19 Cambodia . Kurrichee .. 219 Bth and 88th Rgts
19 Castle Eden .. Do. .. 239 27th, 52d, 6lstltgts
21 Ramifies • • • • Do. .. 223 7th Hgt
21 Roman Emperor .. Do. 195 27th, 61st, 87th Rgts
21 Seringapatam (a).. Do. .. 234 7th Rgt
21 Bombay .. • . Do. • . 356 21th and:7oth Rgts
21 Albuera • • • • Do. .. 233 27th and 81st Rgts
21 Owen_(#lendower Calcutta • • 277 7th Rgt
22 Suite) (b) s. Madras .. 231 3d Bat Rifle Brig
23 Alowick Castle .. Calcutta .. 422 19th Rgt
23 William Hammond Do. .. 238 29th, 53d, 60th Rgts
24 Aerchantman .. Do. • • 352 19th Rgt
25 Octavia (c) .. • .. Do. .. 237 32d and 75th Rgts
25 Blenhrim (d) • • Do. .. 349 2d Dragoons
26 Aliquis .. • • Do. .., 389 3d Bat Rifle Brig
26 Monarch (c) .. Do. .. 378 Bth, iOth, 32d, 35th,
and 60th ltgts
26 Caledonia .. • • Ceylon .. 376 Ist Rgt •
28 Robert Lowe • • Calcutta 438 Ist Rgt
29 Sir Robert Sale e• Do. .. 290 O. I. Co's
30 Whirlwind.. . • Do. .. 353 19th and 42d Rgts
31 Thebes (f).. .. Ceylon .. 209 38th Rgt
. 31 Walmer Castle Do. .. 420 79th Bit
Aug. 1 LouL-iana . Calcutta .. 450 79th Rgt
1 Carthage (g) .. Ceylon .. 22 ) 38th Rgt
• 2 Scotland . •• Do. .. 312 Artillery
4 Defiance .. Do. .. 414 Ist and 60th Rgts
• United Kingdom (h) Do. .. 419 38th and Rif Brig
6 John Bell (i) • • Do. .. 406 38th and 60th Rgts
6 Golden Fleece (i). • Calcutta .. 934 34th and 42d Rgts
6 Victoria (jj) .. Do. .. 408 Artil and 42d Rgt
• 6 Forerunner Bombay .. 258 3d Drag Gds
7 Liverpool .. .. Ceylon .. 479 6th Rifles, 3d Bat
7 Sussex .. • • Do. . .. 465 3b6oßf 2 b Rf Brg
8 fames Baines • • Calcutta .. 1037 97th and 42d Rgts
Champion of .the
Seas • • • • Do. .. 1032 20th and 42d Rgts
g Sarah Sands . • Do. .. 900 54th Rgt
9 Lady Jocelyn(k) .. Do 766 54th, Art. Rif Brig
10 (Armagh'. s Khan(kk) Bombay .. 417 64th, 86th, 3d D ads
10 Imperador (1) • • Ceylon .. ".`029 Royal Marines
10 Tyburnia .. Do. .. 420 3tl b 60th It and 79th
12 Agamemnon - Calcutta .. 257_ 10th and 84th Rgts
ITWeiliTectlifY) le Veyrorr- "539 • irtittrttc'...-
15 Vietoria .• • • Madras .. 44 Artillery •
15 Sydney (n) • • • Calcutta 300 Artillery
15 Australian (o) .. Do. • . 306 42d Rgt
15 Candia • • . • Do. 672 19th. 20113,34t11,97th
15 Ballarat (oo) .. Madras .. 291 68 Rif & Rif b, 2d II
16 Adelaide • • .. Ceylon 478 Royal Marines
hi Sarah Sands • • Calcutta .. 368 54th Rgt
20 Vernon .. Bombay • • ' 208 E. 1. Ce's
26 City of Manchester Calcutta .. 531 King's Drag Guards
27 Hersilia .. Madras .. 272 11th Rgt
27 Lightning .. • • Calcutta 676 Bth Hus & Ind de)
. 28 Matilda Atheling Do. .. 310 72d Rgt
28 Sedgmoor .. Bombay 369 64th, 78th, 83d, 86th
20 Waterloo • • •• • Calcutta .. 315 56th Rgt
' 29 Southampton (p) • • Bombay 363 56th Rgt
38 Khersonese (q) .. Calcutta .. 563 44th Rgt
30 Queen of the South Do. ' 76) 56th Rgt
Sept. 1 Alipore .. • • Kurrachee .. 282 Art and Ind depots
2 Athlete •Calcutta .. 191 Artillery
S Gloriana (r) .. Do. .. 235 66th and Ind dCpots
9 Scotia Bombay .. 341 72d iigts
16 Gosforth .. Do. 358 0.1. Co's Eng & Art
18 Hydaspes .. Ceylon .. 631 Artillery
24 Ireland . Kurrachee .. 320 98th Rgt
Total, 77 ships. Total.. 29,935 Troops
VESSELS NOW EMBARKING TROOPS. .
Great Britain .1 Bombay .. 1000 Bth Bus, 17th Lams
Bahiana," Kurrachee • • 430 ,98th Foot
Italian.. .. Bombay .. 425 'lBth Foot
Prin. Charlotte .. Bombay .. 425 18th Foot
Austria .. • • (urrachee 1256 Axtill & Field Bat
Leop.dd Kurrachee
These vessels were to have embarked the troops named, but Have
been rejected.
Indomitable .. Bombay . _
850 57th Regiment
Melbourne Bombay
St. Loafs Calcutta .. 406 1 Fld Bat 2 Co.'s Art
Charity • • .. )iadras artillery

(a) Spoken on the 9th of August in lat 39 N, long 14 W.
(b) Spoken in lat 41 N, long 12 W.
(c) Spoken on the-15th of August by the Golden Fleece.
(d) Spoken on the Bth of August in lat 39 N, long 14 W.
(e) Spoken on the 10th of August in let 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.dtched at St. Vincent's on the 18th of August.
(j) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 18th of Auguste
(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 ofAugu t in lat 12 N, long 20 W.
(1) Touched at Madeira on the 15th of August.
(m) Touched at Madeira on the 17th of August.
(n) Touched 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, loog 12 W.
(q) T,,uched at Madeira on the Gth of ,eptember.
(r) Spoken on the 1 Ith of September in lot 50 N, long 9 W.

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