The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-15
Vhe mutipy In india.

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The KutiBy In india.
The reader will find in another column some
information upon the mutiny in India, contained
in the debate in Parliament, and the leader in
the London Times on the subject. Among the
speeches. the best worth reading is that of Lord
Peterborough, whose long residence in India, and
official experience give great weight to whatever
he says; though possibly some allowance must
be made for the jealousy with which he views
the policy of his SUCCESSORS Mr.. Smith, the go
vernment speaker in the House f Commons
admits the charge that the disaffection among
the sepoys arose from an apprehension on their
part that measures were about being taken for
comprehensive conversion of the natives to
Christianity, in which work they-the sepoys-
would naturally be employed as instruments
But no facts are given. The London Times, which
doubtless writes with the concurrence Of the 60
vernment, says that the outbreak indicates the
necessity for more stringent measures of dena-
tioDalization and tyranny than have yet been at
tempted.
The whole story is not told Before us we
have few plain facts. The army Of India, not
in one place only, but throughout the country,
with the exception OF ore or two environments
rection there does not seem to be re-
liable troops enough in India to protect the CAPT
tai in case of decided movement on the part Of
the insurrectonists. The Indian army consists
of 100000 men, the bulk of whom are excellent
soldiers, as they have proved during the Persian
war; and though in the event of general insur-
rection. it would lose its officers, there are edu
Gated Hindoos in abundance to take their place
The first symptoms of insubordination were no
ticed in January last. The fret actual outbreak
was in May, at Meerut and Delhi, and was cha
racterzed by much bloodshed. The only cause
assigned for the mutiny-where cause was as
sgned-was the new regulations obliging the
troops to bite cartridges smeared with hogs lard,
which no Hindoo will touch.
Upon these facts we have to reason. Add in
the first place. it will appear utterly preposterous
that an instruction of such magnitude, aud Q
movement so widespread, could have its origin in
the character of the grease employed to lubricate
cartridges. This must be mere pretext. Re-
membering that the Hindoos have no newspapers
to tell their story, and that the government Of
India can regulate the press of that country by
the methods used by Napoleon in France, it can
be easily understood that there may have been
deeper cause for the outburst. In the alb
sence of positive information we are in
clined TO believe that the government Of
India, under the dictation of Exeter Hall
fanatics has actually entered upon comprehen.
sive policy of prosslytism, aud that the apprehen-
This is oplys conjecture; we are content to await
inquiry for its verifcation. Should it prove cor.
rect, to what depth of infamy should the misera-
bic fanatics who have caused 30 much suffering
be consigned by common sense world
As to the result of the movement-there are,
We believe, some ten thousand Europeans In In
dia, ard one hundred and fifty million ma
tives. Notwithstanding this disproportion Of
numbers. the two races have been contending for
a hundred and fifty to two hundred years and
success has uniformly sided with the foreigners.
Should the Indians be victorious this time 1t
would b. the first example of such a thing in
their history, and the first example, too where
an unaisciplined and unorgauized people tri-
umpbed over q compact, well organized, and
amply equipped government. Still, this is, we
believe, the very first occasion that the contest
has been one of religion as well as of race; and
that consideration would naturally tend to i'm
part unity TO the councils and action of the Him.
docs, and to render their courage desperate.
II is impossible to take leave Of the subject
without a singular mixture Of horror and admira-
ton at'he sublimely impudent and atrocious doc
trnes put forth In a moral and sanctified tone by
the leading organ of the British press. For q
century and more the poor Hindoos have been
merciessIy ,ramped by the English; their land
has been seized, their daughters have been raw
ished, their sons have been made servants, their
money has been appropriated, their political in
dependence taken away; nothing whatever has
been left them, no-neither family nor national,
nor religious, nor caste, nor personal rights Yet
at this hour of day. when all this frshtful oppres-
sion has been practised for a century, the Lon
don Times coolly tells us that the reason of the
failure of the East Indian experiment has been its
too great leniency and it's too imprudent favor
TO the Hindoo. Nothing therefore remains but
to cut the poor creatures throats bodily.
THE New SILVER COUNTRY or ARIZONA
Some of our credulous contemporaries are giving
currcncv and color IN tho other wise vaoue and