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

RUSSIAN INTRIGUES 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
b:•st-informed in this country. There sail be no
doubt whatever that the Emperor of Russia, Nicho-
lls, 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. Iu
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 mis-
chief in British India.

Any one who knows the State system of Russia
is perfectly aware that the Government of the
Czar has iu its employment hundreds of men pre-
pared for any emergencies or any enterprise, how-
ever desperate or difficult. There are at St.
Petersburg, adventurers and renegades of every
country and clime -- apt, artful, and unprinci-
pled—ready for instantaneoull duty in any latitude.
Among these may be found It inane, Greeks, Swiss,
Germans, Armenians, Mussulmans, Jews, Parsees,
and Ilindoos. These adventurers, lured by the
hope of gain and distinction, rush to Russia, as un-
principled schemers did in its paltriest days to
Rorie—" Quasi in sentinam corruptions." In St.
Petersburg they are put at once in training, and
are attached to such superior agents as the late M.
Italinaky, or the late M. Simonitcti, the latter of
whom. largely operated in Persia, Affghanistan, and
British India. The cause of the Affgha war may
be traced to agents of this kind, and the belief be-
comes hourly more prevalent thit 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 fun(' ionaries and
nobles, and to establish a chain of c'mmunication
with the Russian empire.

Nor would this 13e the only means by which
Russia might intrigue against us. Russian schemes
against British power have been before now
hatched by Russian agents in the British metro-
polis and also within the harbour of New York.
We believe at this moment Russia is working by
American-horn agents in China, in Japan, and in
British India. Within twenty years an immense
and
delinquent was cap.ured the better.
number of journals have been established in the
three Presidencies of Tadia and np the country,
and who can say how much of Russian influence
and money may not be brought to bear in this
particular direction. If Russia can maintain a
paid press at Frankfort, Augsburg, awl Brussels,
why may she not have such a press at Calcutta, at
Agra, or at Delhi. From the journals of Sir C.
Napier, we know that some of tee writers in the
Indian newspapers are men of blasted character
and desperate fortunes, and it is to such men iu
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
may not this effort be traced to a
ccf idocreairtgriaagsgeency," such as was hinted at by Mr.
Mangles in his speech on Monday night ? Under
such circumstances as we suppose, the placing of the
Indian press under a license was a wise precau-
tiodteya. hisr
the and the arrest of the King of Oude
a
measure,Minister was not only a necessity, but a
duty, The King has long been a suspected person-
age, and the moment proofs were obtained the
sooner
otawhse,rwe
the
es aDwukeaekoofr an undefended point
i'-‘nVuoihllYoennndweeilavaeyn: Close fifty-three ye\arVsellailf,l7go,"`l`
must expect discon'ent, bat the
iswrot toe
betoC
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.-
General Stuart from the camp at Niggeree, in
government in India is held
that ,"the conclusion of
mosttjblyilielYt'hles4 80s;osu'rc‘dctelTst all
and
ful foreign war in India—that
by which the most formidable enemy may have
been subdued, if it gives an accession of territory,
must territory a necessity to in-
crease the eatmwjyt,hthe
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 csnaplaints of high military establishments, and
and of all the difficuldes in which you
sv'e found yourself from the want of troops."
melxtupwseitnllhsebae well to weigh these wise words aft .!r the
suppressed and Delhi taken, of both of
wmuteihn
y ie-Luts we enter: sin little doubt we shall
m
have full details by the next wal

The idea that the mutiny Ivi,d extended to other
Presidencies is one • of those monstrous ftbrica-
tions_ concocte i by the Greek forgers of false
intelligence. It should be remembered by those
writ,ng and speaking of these events, that liidiA 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 (ne of our
greatest securities. ' There Is no common co-opera-
tion amongst tbese.divcrse races or castes, awl their
cohesion is a rope of sand. The village and the
field where any particular libido() was llirn is his
whole world, and his thoughts extend not beyond
it. There is uo common fel ng between the natives
' .we are enabled to hold in
of the different Presidencie,, and this i why, with
sauht yei
cdtfiuolu oaf
population
sixfold more numerous than
that of the 'United Kingdom.—Morning Post.

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