The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-06 00:00:00

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THE M( TINY IN INDIA.

(From the Times.)
Such an affair as the 'lndian mutiny was not
likely to pass without some malicious comments
from our ill-wishers abroad. The continental na-
tions have, indeed, for the last few years been more
sparing than usual of their taunts and their prophe-
cies of evil. The great progress of this country, the
settlement of all the difficult questions which agi-
tated it, the picification of Canada and. Ireland,
have deprived the declaimers of other countries of
their most fruitful them- s. Coincident with this
has been the overthrow of liberty in France and
the return to a system of aliselute government more
rigid than that of the pre-revolutionary Bourbons.
So, of late French and German journalists and pam-
phleteers have hardly had the boldness to abuse us ;
and England has rather become the object of
praises, which are intended to be as darts covertly
aimed at despotic authority. But religious ani-
mosity knows neither prudence nor taste. While
the Republican press acknowledges the wisdom and
moderation of this country, and the injustice of its
own former philippics,—while the Imperial press
has nothing to say against a nation which is the
chief home of order in Europe, the Univers and
one or two kindred journals never lose an oppor-
tunity of assailing us with all the stealthy hatred
which animates its clerical politicians against a
country which is at once free and heretical.
The last proof of this feeling is given in its re-
marks on the Mutiny of the Bengal Army. The
Univers does not see in this affair merely the rage
of wounded superstition or the impatience of long
inaction. It attributes the mutiny to the general
dislike of British rule which is felt by men of all
races and nations. It is the old notion of a British
milord going over the world tyrannising and extort-
ing, treating dependent natives with every indig-
nity, and returning to enjoy himself at home, so far
as fog and spleen will allow him. The Univers seems
to have learnt nothing since 1815, and its present
style is pretty much the same as that in which the
journals of the first Empire were accustomed to rail
at the Carthage which they so bitterly hated. Tiie
English, on account of their haughtiness and stiff-
ness, says the clerical journal, have never succeeded
i❑ obtaining the sympathy of the populations with
whom they have come into contact. The
Irish are forced to cross the ocean to be free
from their oppressors, and yet even in America
there is enough of English disdain to preserve the
antipathy between the conquering and conquered
races. As the British have only looked on India as
a rich and fertile country from which they might
draw the wealth they covet, the Hindoo naturally
hates the Englishman as much as the Celt does the
Saxon. The present revolt is a proof of this ab-
horrence. Nor is the danger a light one. The Se-
poy is not what he was some years since, the resie--
nation and passiveness which formerly distinguished
h;in have passed away, and we may find in him a
terrible enemy. Of course, from these premises it
is argued in the usual manner that England is me-
naced with a fearful reaction and with a terrible
decline.

Now, as to the decline and ruin, we can assure
the Untvers that the English nation is quite easy on
that point. The whole chorus of malevolent spirits
—Absolutist, Fusionist, or Democratic—have for
years been singing a prophetic dirge for this country,
yet we find nothing to justify their claims to fore-
sight. Every year the British Empire is extended
in territory, becomes more populous, more wealthy,
more united, and more able to hold its own against
all foes, foreign, or domestic. This Indian Mutiny
will be put down with a strong hand, and in a few
months will be forgotten, except as a guide for
future policy. But there is one point on which we
may condescend to argue with this French journal.
The Univers tells us that the English have not the
faculty of obtaining sympathy from other races,
and ascribes by implication this amiable quality to
its own countrymen. But how stand the facts ?
That hive been the hi,tories of the two nations
for the last 150 years ? Briefly, the French have
been sooner or later driven out of every country in
which they have established themselves, while the
English have added conquest to conquest, and,
with an army of small numerical force, govern a
sixth part of the human race, and possess settle-
ments on every point of the globe. As to the
sympathy of foreign nations, we would ask what
are the sentiments with which the rule of the
French is remembered in any of the countries
which they once possessed. in fact, it is nito-
rious that, however attractive Parisian civilisation
may be for the idle and the wealthy through-
out Europe, yet the French, as a people, have been
far from inspiring any feelings of sympathy among
those whose country they haye occupied, whether
cultivated or barbarian. In regions where the
British arms have triumphed, such as India, Malta,
Egypt, Portugal, and Spain, the result has been in
no low degree owing to the desperate hatred con-
ceived by the people against the French during
their term of power. Indeed, the Frenchman has
always &en a hard master, domineering too openly,
making changes too abruptly, wounding prejudices
too wantonly. Even in Turkey, during the last
war, although the Sultan owes almost everything
to France, yet the Orientals have been inspired
wieh the most bitter resentment by the cavalier
behaviour of Frenchmen, both high and low. The
English, on the contrary, have pre-eminently the
gift of attaching half-cultivated races to them by the
vigour of their character. Whether it he among the
llindoos and Mussulmans of India, the Turks on the
Danube or in Armenia, the Arabs of the Euphrates,
or the Caffres of Southern Africa, the Englishman
has always managed to establish an ascendancy
which, thOugh it may at times be struggled against,
is not the less irresistible and permanent. Clive
at Arcot, S) dney Sin Ith in the breach at Acre,
Sale at Jellilabad, Edwardes in Upper India,
Williams at Kars, hive given proof how much
moral power is possessed by the Englishman in his
dealings with half civilised natures. Within the
last, few years some of the most stubborn races of
Asia have been conquered by our arms, and it is
strange, even to those accustoieed to command, to
see how effectually these have been attached by the
tie of good feeling to British authority. It is only
seine 15 years since Sir C. Napier beat the Beloo-
chess, and now Beloochees form part of the Per-
sian expeditionary force. The Ghoorkas, who
nearly cut to pieces an English regiment in one of
their bloody battles with us, now use their sabres
against our foes. The same may be said of
the Sikhs, who burst on our frontier 100,000
strong some eleven years ago, and were not finally
subdued till 1849 ; and yet we find them now
among the most zealous of the Indian army. Even
this very Mutiny brings to light the respect and
confidence which our rule inspires. The tributary
or friendly Rajahs, the Zemindars, great and small,
the inhabitants of the towns as well as
i the pea-
santry, have shrunk from joining the insane out-
break, and no doubt will do their part in putting
it down. So, let our continental detractors be
silent on this theme, for it is one on which the ex-
perience of a hundred years shows that their views
;.,re as erroneous as their spirit is malignant. What-
ever may be our defects, inability to govern men is
not at long them.

COPPER, PIS, AND LEAD.—A return moved for by
Mr. M. Williams.). M.P., informs Parliament and the
public that last year there were imported into thiss king._
from abroad 71,678 tons of copper ore, r, oeunBB
of
,f
regulus, 2,063 tons of uDwrought coppe 1,244 t
r, and
old copper, 1,744 tons of partly included 7
227 tone of plates and coin. The exports o. 2
tons of British copper ore, 6,096 tons.loQf utnwrougd. cop.
wrought
.oneF
he gran total
per, and 13,378 tons sheets and naht
T t
export amounting to 21,906 tons., otea quantity of
c.ipper ore imported in 1856 was i 1,678 teas. The im-
and 1,874 ton's of British tin were
ports of tin last year were 3,464 tons of tin and 749 of
tin ore and regnins;
concurrently exported. The imports of zinc included
18,213 tons of zinc or speller, and 235 tons of the oxide
c were concurrently ex-
of Zinc; 3.155 toms of British zin
ported. The imports of lead (pig and sheet) were 10,254
tone, and the exports of English lead (pig and rolled)
20,868 tons, besides 646 tons of ore, 2,266 of shot, 476
litbarge, 1,845 of red lead, and 2,819 tons white lead.
Tan DuNmow FLITCH OF BACON.—The Essex Herald
of Tuesday, contains a long report of the proceedings on
the occasion of the award of the flitch of bacon at Dun-
mow, on Thursday last. The jury consisted of six
maidens and six bachelors. The claimants were Mr. and
Mrs. Hawkins, Victoria place, Regent's Park, and a
Mr. and Mrs. Heard. Mr. Heard first ascended the
witness box to depose to his own felicity. The other
claimants went through the same process, to the great
amusement of the company. Witnesses were examined
and letters read. The president thought both claims
had been made out, but left the jury to decide which
should be preferred. .The maidens and bachelors laid
their heads very close together—rather closer inn
they
some
instances than beseemed legal consultation—
decided in favour of the Heards. Hats waved and hand-
kerchiefs fluttered at the result, and in the full enthu-
siasm of three cheers the court broke up. There was
then a procession through the town to a meadow,
where the pregiontatiog of the flitch took place.