The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-28


railroad. Uoder these favorable ssipuiations
there is room to hope that the claim. Of our citi-
zens for juAt reparsion for the injuries inflicted
more than a year snoe IL the Panama riot, and
which have been 60 lorg delayed by clumsy d.
plomacy, will soon be settled. 1t is not to be
doubted that the practical views of Mr.. Buchanan
ard General Cas- will not decay this matter by
any false sentimentalism in policy.
We ere assured that General Herran is ami
mated by the best disposition on the eide of New
Granada Indeed, the course he has pursued during
the excited state of feeling that followed the late
rupture o. relations between the two countries
has been most prudent and praise worthy one
His communications to the local authorities at
Panama led them to place no interruption Ia the
way Of our mails, and to take Q very prudent
aid conci iato,y course towards our ships of war
that were sent to the Isthmus to prevent any re-
newa. Of the attacks upon our citizens add their
property in the transit over the Isthmus BE en-
Joys the confidence of his own country and
government in high degree for his conciliatory
course Ia these matters, and we have reason to
know that he stands on very favorable ground
with Mr.. Buchanan and General Cas- for the same
reasons. 1t is to be expected, therefore, that
under his wise guidance the relations between
the two republics will again be placed on a
friendly and firm footing, to their mutual ad-
vantage, for long time to come.
The News from Europs-Ths War In India.
The news from India is of the most startling
and alarming character AS was apprehended
by those who were best informed, the mutiny has
spread; the sepoys In the other Presidencies have
flown to arms and all India, from the Himalayas
to Cape Comorin. is blaze. The British troops
by which we mean the handful Of Queens
troops together with such of the natives as had
remained loyal to the government--had marched
on Delhi, and concentrated their force against it;
they had captured certain guns, and seized GER
tain heights but they had not retaken the city Of
the Grand Mogul, OF dethroned the newly crown
ed King of Delhi. For further particulars we
must refer to our news columns.
We take this event to be the most momentous
in all the history of India--the greatest epoch
since the battle OF Piassy, just one hundred
years ago. Had the sepoy revolt been such an
affair as has happened before in India-such, for
instance, as the mutiny which broke out when
the sons of Tippoo Sab stirred up the natives, or
when the Mahrattas burst into revolt, we should
by this time have been hearing of the measures
taken to punish the rebels and of the new distri-
button of authority consequent upon the affray.
AS it is, we hear Of absolutely nothing but of the
convulsive endeavors of the English to avenge
their murdered countrymen at Delhi, and to
guard against more massacres elsewhere.
The late Lord Metcalfe, one Of the most CON-
prehensive minds that ever engaged upon a
study of Indian affairs pointed to the probability
of a sepoy revolt as the one danger against
which the Indian government ought to guard
his predictions are being verified long before the
time be indicated. No doubt the blind folly of
Exeter Hall and the weakness of the new
Governor, Lord Canning, have precipitated the
crisis. AT any rate it is upon the Eoglish, and
we shall now see whether the bluster of the Lon
don journals, and the undoubted bravery and
skill of few devoted men will suffice to stay the
hand of fate.
There are at the present moment about 10000
a 1900 British troops-that is to say, Queens
troops-in India, lent according to custom, TO
the government of the company. Usually, these
are more numerous but since the outbreak in
China large portion of the English army 10
Hindostan has been draughted to Hong Kong,
leaving only the number we have stated. In the
course of few weeks, this number may be
swelled to 10000 or $4,000 by reinforcements
from England and other parts Of the world. The
number of Englishmen capable of bearing arm
and susceptible of being concentrated on any one
point in India is not likely to amount to more
than 10000 electives 1t is possible that few
regiments Of sepoys may join the English
against their countrymen. On the other
hand the sepoy army falls but little short
of 800 900 men, In the highest state of efficiency
and discipline. With these will side, as matter
of course, the entire populace OF British India
the rabble and peasantry Of country counting
156 900 900 inhabitants. But this is not all
The Sikhs, men Of great bravery and military
aptitude, ere in arms; the Afghans, who have
never been punished for the invasion Of 1s45,
are eager for a new foray; the Birmese, lately
robbed by the company, are only waiting for
tit occasion to renew the war; and in all the sea-
board towns the Chinese ore ready TO offer
money and aid to the foes of England Sub
jects and aliens, all will take up arms with joy
against the atrocious and internal despotism
which has fatsened on India during the last cen
fury.
Small wonder then that the eravest and
wisest Of highlands statemen should consider
this the most serious crisis in the history Of her
Indian empire; and that the hoary Lord Ellen
borough-than whom no man in England better
understands the subject-should utter words Of
ominous, awful warningl Small wonder that
the funds should decline, as they have done,
and that the mercantile community should be
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