The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

THE KING OF OUDE.

A late number of the Mofussilite contained an
article offering some evidence to prove the com-
plicity of the King of Oude and his people, in the
events which are now disturbing India. After
a few words introductory, the article proceeds :
" Early in April last an Armenian gentleman
mentioned in the course of conversation with the
Consular representative in Calcutta of a European
kingd ►m, that some of the big men attached to the
King of Oude's establishment at Garden Reach,
had applied to him some time previously for a
correct list of the number and location of all the
European troops in India, and for particulars con-
cerning our military resources ; wbich, if we re-
member correctly what was related to us by the
Consul, the Armenian furnished to the best of his
ability.

"Although the King of Oude is too ignorant„
flt, and lazy to possess either the ability or incli-
na‘ ion to take a personally active part in any busi-
ness whatever, yet he has in his suite many men of
considerable talent and energy, who do acts and
make promises in his Majesty's name for which the
royal faineant is decidedly responsible ; and that
these men had a motive in seeking the information
we have described, it is unnecessary to assert ; and
what, in opr opinion, that motive was it is now
equally unnecessary to explain.
" When the mutinous spirit in the Bengal army
first displayed itself, the present writer, having
then just heard of the conversation he has men-
tioned, made an allusion in the columns of a Cal-
,cutta journal to the possibility of the Kingof Oude's
servants and advisers being implicated in the
mutiny, or at any rate possessing a foreknowledge
of its coming, and he was in consequence personally.
threatened with punishment by his Majesty's Euro-
pean Vakeel, and the paper itself barely escaped
prosecution. However, later events show convinc-
ingly that such a widely spread insurrection must
have-been determined upon long before the explo-
sion occurred, and its breaking out in so many
places at once shows also that it was au organised
conspiracy, in which there can be no doubt the
principal Mahomedans in India, including those
about the person of the King of Oude, were, if not
the originators, at auy rate accessories before the
fact.

" It is not impossible that theOudean nobles, re-
collecting that the insurrection in Cabul and the
difficulties we experienced in that country, led
eventually to our restoring his kingdom to Dost
Mahomed;then a prisoner in Calcutta, may have
imagined that similar difficulties in Oude, such as
have now occurred (in spite of the masterly rule of
Lawrence) were calculated to lead to a similar. re-
sult iu the case of their own king.
" It is therefore by no means improbable that the
Oudean nobles about the king may have originated,
joined, or, at the very least, connived at and con-
cealed their knowledge of the projected outbreak,
arguing with themselves in the manner we have
described--and the fact of the king residing peace-
ably and quietly in Calcutta, and the queen and
heir-apparent being in England—the former by her
1111A3 and character not likely to be suspected of
political intrigues, and the latter being engaged in
agitating his cause with the sympathising people of
England in a constitutional manner—were circum-
stances very much in favour of the policy we have
ascribed to the noble, leading to the issue we sup-
pose them to have anticipated."
The evidence now published in the Mofussilite is
almost superfluous. Government are in possession
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of the most complete proofs of the guilt of the
King and of his prime minister, the artful Ally
Nukhee. Seditious documents with the seal and
signature of the latter are in the possession of ge-
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of the Governor-General is when and how Ally

NATIVE CHRISTIAN REGIMENTS.
A correspondent of one of the Madras journals
suggesta to Lord Hart is the advisability of raising.
regiments composed entirely of native Christians,
and doing so forthwith. He thinks that with the.
aid of missionaries some 25,000 able-bodied men
might be procured, that is if government is satis -
tied with able-bodied men, and does not look for a
grenadier stature in its recruits. The native Chris-
tians are not at present very willing to enlist in the
native infantry egiartatsofar, to might lye ex
pected from the barbarous 'mance of the
dons and Mahomedans, the latter affect to look
down upon the Christian sepoys as men who hav
abandoned their caste. If all that we have heard
and read of Jesuits and of other missionaries and
their enterprises in &Althorn India is not fallacious,
a far larger number of Christian reccruits than
25,000 might be procured in the Madras presi-
dency. Why an attempt is not made to embody
them into separate regiments, we are at a loss to
conjecture. It has hitherto been the policy of the
Indian government to discourage the enlistment of
native Christians. No native Christian, is unneces-
sary say, would hive been received into any of the
Bengal regiments, and if a sepoy of any of those
corps became a Christian, he would have been
turned out. This was ono of the concessions
made to those bodies of men who have
proved so gloriously "st tench"—but it was
a concession which was) necessary, when we re-
member that from the very earliest times the mode
of recruiting adopted in the Bengal army was rotten
to the core. Thera was, however, no such neseasity
for discouraging the enlistment of Christians in either
the Bombay or Madras armies, and measures might
have been taken to induce greater numbers of them
to join the corps of those presidencies than are now
to be found in them. The great desideratum, how-
ever, ie to have regiments composed solely of native
Christiana. Such a step will have the effect of ele-
vating the native Christians in their own esteem,
and showing them that Government does not regard
them as outcasts as the Mahomedans and Hindoos
do. ,One of the results of such a course would be,
that the regiments would never want recruits. We
need not say that we are adverse to any tampering
with the religions of the races of this country; but
on the other hand, we do say, if the Government of
India thinks it politic to have a goodly number of
regiments of native Christian soldiers, that if it now
raises a few corpi of such men, and treats them
with indulgence and favour, it will be little less
than astonishing how thick native Christian appli-
cants for enrolment will be found to present them-
selves in the course of a very few years. —Phoenix,
Sept. 5.