The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

A NEW KING OF DUDE.

The capture of Lucknow will not, it is needless
to say, produce the submission of Oude. The
rebels have placed a boy on the throne, and keep
him in state at Fyzabad--a city of 100,000 inhabi-
tants, defended by a large fort w►th a wall, a ditch,
and round towers, lately repaired, and new en-
trenchments. Here the last great stand may be
expected, and the royalty of Oudo must finally
perish.
BRAID FOR THE SEPOY MUTINEERS.

It will be seep by our Legislative Council report
of Saturday that a Bill was introduced into the
Council by Mr. Peacock, and read a first and a
second time, for the purpose of enabling Govern-
ment to order Sepoys to be marked with the
letter "M" for mutiny, and the letter " D " for
desertion, in the same manner as European soldiers
are now liable to be marked with the letter "D"
for desertion.—Bengal Hurkaru.

NAN♦ SAHIB.

It seems that the mutineers resented the tend-
ency of the chief of Jalouu to favour our authority
by flogging him severely, then hanging him by the
heels, and bringing him afterwards a prisoner to
Jaloun, where Jaiee Baiee, a grandson, I believe,
of the Maharajah Scindia, has been set up as a pup-
pet prince in conjunction with Nana Sahib. It is
stated that the respective shares of each of these
new potentates in the revenues of Jaloun are four
annas for the Jaiee Baiee, twelve annas for Nana
Sahib, giving the latter the lion's share. This wily
chief is at no great distance from Jaloun, acting in
concert with the Ranee of Jhansi.
MI7RDEII, OF LIEUTENANT NEVILLB.

Lieutenant Neville, proceeding to Bombay to
meet his intended bride, recently arrived here in
the!Windsor Castle was killed at Pali Puttun, where
his boat lay at anchor for the night. The follow-
ing account of his death has been published :
It appears that Lieutenant Neville started from
Ferozepore in a country boat, and as his boat was
dropping down the stream by a place called Jum-
lera, on the Sutlej, a party of the rebels, numbering
40, hailed the boatmen from the bank to put to.
The request being backed by threats that they
would be fired upon in the event of non-compliance,
was at once obeyed, when the boat was attacked.
A conflict ensued between the ill-fated occupant
and the rebels. Lieut. Neville is said to have made
a stout resistance, cutting down two of his assailants,
but being himself wounded, ho was seized and car-
ried ato the rebel camp. He offered to pay the
sum of 2,000 rupees as a ransom for hi• life, and
the party who made him a prisoner agreed to the
arrangement. But no sooner was he taken before
the chief of the insurgents than a command was
issued to put him to death, which was done in the
most diabolical manner. The Commissioner, Major
Hamilton, visited the scene of murder soon after,
and I bear picked up a few relics belonging to the
unfortunate man.

THE CIIRRE OF OAST; &C.
Of the 100,000,000 whom we govern in India,
there certainly are not 10 who could comprehend
the possibility of a man concerning himself for the
good of the country at large, or extending his re-
gards beyond the circle of his kindred or friends.
And yet, after all, the ingratitude and the cruelties
which horrify humanity, and put the cannibal to
shame, are 'plants
of Oriental growth, and which
have always flourished in the Eist. The native
treat each other just as they have treated the Eng-
lish who have recently fallen into their hands.
They have no idea of captivity, unless associated
with torture or extermination. To burn or punch
out .the eyes, or burn the bowels out, are matters
Of every day occurrence, from the earliest periods
of their history down to the present time.
The interposition of the British Govern-
ment is being perpetually called upon to
shield the native subject from the inflictions of his
sovereign or chief. We have had within the past
five years before us the memorials from Baroda,
from Kattiawar, from Ajmere, Kotab, and other
places in Rajpootana,. all to the same effect ; and
if monstrous tyranny fell short of bodily tot ture or
capital infliction it was to the British Government
that even this much of mercy was to be ascribed.
The eyes of Europe have now for the first time
been opened to the condition of India and the
that
untilcharacter of
niovtl have been ofs people ; aecl such things as those
constant occurrence
must never again be suffered to appear. A stern
iron despotism, never stooping from its dignity or
flinching from its duty, must take the place of that
goodnatured and
well-intentioned combivation of
checks, and temporisinga
coercions,uponmasterpieces as the of an
hitherto t compromises,
looked
Eastern administration. Brooking no resistance
cn the part of those we rule, it will be the first
duty of the rulers to provoke none ; and oxasting
propriety in others, to show an example of unbend-
ing rectitude in ourselves. The time will come,
but not now, wht n public employment and emolu-
dmoeeisitasrrmivaeytib3ee
firresotpteeristec to the native ; when it
.lof his deserving the coun-
tenance of the civilised is the renunciation of the
badges of barbarism. There can hereafter be no
communion betwixt light and darkness, and he who
claims the privilege of being guided by "native
custom" must renounce the hope of _European
countenance or sympathy. The Bengal mutieet ra
have done nothing more than indulge in the cus-
t was of their casts and country, and nothing beyond
what wes sanctioned by ciietem and by cteed.
With men who think such things permissible did
opportunity occur we can have no intercommunion
whatever. Front the perfect facility with which in-
fanticida, suttee, slavery, and thuggee—all great
institutions of the country—have been put down,
we have no doubt whatever that half the other pri-
vileges and usages we fear to meddle with would
vanish were we only bold enough to face them.
The use of greased cartridges and the readiness with
which all castes travel together by rail add to our
convictions on these subjects. A caste man and a
native custom man—adverse as both must needs be
to progress and to the advancement of the great
human family—are the enemies of the common-
wealth, and ought to be made to contribute many
times more to its government than those who are
its friends. Were the highly orthodox triple-taxed
struck from the list of justices and of Government-
house visitors, andassured that public employment
was not to be looked for by them, wo should find
caste vanish like smoke ; the Brahmin most pro-
bably discovering, as in the case of suttee, that the
Vedas and Shasters were never iu reality meant to
have been interpreted as they have hitherto b.:et:—
Bombay Telegraph and Courier.

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