The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-30 00:00:00

RUSSIAN INTI4IGUE3 IN INDIA.

The belief that Russia has for the three last years
been endeavouring—and successfully endeavouring
—to sow discontent in India becomes more and
more prevalent on the Continent, and amongst the
best-informed in this country. There can be no
doubt whatever that the Emperor of Russia, Nicho-
las, could never be brought to believe in the possi-
bility of a cordial alliance between England and
France, and in 1852 and 1853 his plans were for-
med and matured in this thorough conviction. In
the solitude of his own Cabinet, and in the gloomy
recesses of his own mind, the Emperor had arrived
at this conclusion, and when dependan's and coun-
cillors appealed to facts and events, Nicholas be-
came excited and angry, and appeared to cling more
obstinately to his own opinions. At length, early
in 1854, his Imperial Majesty became aware of how
entirely erroneous were his suppositions, and at
this time it was that, disabused of his illusions, he
turned all his thoughts to the perpetration of mie-
chief in British India.
Any one who knows the State system of Russia
is perfectly aware that the Government of the
Czar has in its employment hundreds of men pre-
pared for any emergencies or any enterprise, how-
ever desperate or difficult. There are at St.
Petersburg adventuiers and renegades of every
country and clime apt, artful, and unprinci-
pled—ready for instantaneous duty in any latitude.
Among these may be found Italians, Greeks, Swiss,
Germans, Armenians, Mussulmans, Jews, Parsees,
and Hindoos. These adventurers, lured by the
hope of gain and distinction, rush to Russia, as un-
principled schemers did in its palmiest dai s to
Rome—" Quasi in sentinain corruptionis." In St.
Petersburg they aro put at once in training, and
are attached to such superior agents as the late M.
Italinsky, or the late M. Simonitch, the latter of
whom largely operated in Persia, Affghanist an, and
British India. The cause of the Affghae war may
be traced to agents of this kind, and the belief be-
comes hourly more prevalent that in the recent
mutiny, Russia has, directly or indirectly, been an
"agent provocateur." Within a few years, several
traders from Bombay and Calcutta have settled at
St. Petersburg ; some of these have intermarried
with Russians, and become Russian subjects ; and,
on the other hand, there are several Russians, and
Greeks by birth though Russians in feeling, settled
in various parts of India. By the aid of this ma-
chinery it would not be difficult to operate on the
King of Oude and some of his funs ionaries and
nobles, and to establish a chain of communication
with the Russian empire.
Nor would this be the only means by which
Russia might intrigue against us. Russian schemes
against British power have been before now
hitched by Russian agents in the Br:t'sh
polls and also within the harbour of New York.
We believe at this moment Russia is working by
American-born agents in China, in Japan, an i in
British India. Within twenty years an immense
number of journals have been established in the
three Presidencies of India and up the country,
and who can say how much of Russian influence
and money may not be brought to bear iu this
particular direction. If Russia can mAintain a
paid press at Frankfort, Augsburg, and Brnssels,
why may she not have such a press at Calcutta, at
Agra, or at Delhi. From the journals of Sir C.
Nap'er, we know that same of tee writers in the
Indian newspapers are men of blasted character
and desperate fortunes, anti it is to such men in
foreign countries Russian solicitations are usually
addressed. If the native press in India has endea-
voured to stimulate the Sepoy on the question of
the cartridges, maisancobt
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Manglesreign agency,inliissPeech on Monday night ? Under
such circumstances as we suppose, the placing of the
Indian press under a license was a wise precau-
tionary measure, and the arrest of the King of Oude
and his Minister was not
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adguet,y.anTdhteliKe inmgohmaesnitonpgroofs were obtained the
sooner the delinquent was c iyured the bstt r.
Whenever there is a weak or an undefended point
in India now, we must expect discontent, but the
only way, as the Duke of Wellington wrote to
Colonel Close fifty-three years ago, "is to be
guarded everywhere,. and to keep up troops for
our defence." We should never lose sight, as
the same great authority said, in writing to Lieut.-
at I\liggeree,, in
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"the conclusion of
the most successful fereign war in India—that
by which the most formidable enemy may have
been subdued, if it gives an accession of territory,
must bring with the territory a necessity to in-
crease the army, because the Government must be
established in the new territory, and supported,
as well as in the old, by the power of- the sword.
The want of knowledge, or rather recollection, of
these facts," adds the Duke, "is the cause of all
the complaints of high military establishments, and
expenses, and of all the difficulties in which you
must have found yourself from the want of troops."
It will be well to weigh these wise words after the
mutiny is suppressed and Delhi taken, of both of
which events we entertain little doubt we shall
have full details by the next mat.
The idedthat the mutiny had extended to other
Presidencies is one of those monstrous fabrica-
tions concoate i by the Greek forgers of false
iuteligence. It should be remembered by those
writing and speaking of these events, that India is
composed of several different nations, each speak-
ing its own language, and having its own peculiar
and dissimilar feelings. The absence of community
of feelings, opinions, and views, is cue of our
greatest securities. There Is no common co-opera-
tion amongst these diverse races or castes, and their
cohesion is a rope of sand. The village and the
field where any particular Bindoo was born is his
whole world, and his thoughts extend not beyond
it. There is no common feeling between the natives
of the different Presidencies, and this is why, with
a handful of Europeans, we are enabled to hold in
subjection a population sixfold more numerousthan
that of the United Kingdom. —Morning Post.

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