The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-03
DAILY DISPATCH.


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The Mutiay I'm Indta,-Exeter Haii'
Lord Peterborough, in n late speech in the House
Of Lords declared that the mutny In INDIA Is dan-
gcrous and extensive that detection IN tine indiah
army Is becoming very general, that II has eh-
tended 70 2s.oeo r,cn Of the Bengal army: that In
tho Punjaub all the native regiments have breh
disarmed. Two Of those regiments are among the
most distinguished Of the British army. Even 1t
the British troops succeed in retaking Delhi a
place 80 sickly that no European regiments are
ever stationed thcrc, Lord Peterborough says that
all he can venture hope is that they will be able
to hold the places they occupy; they will hold what
they stand upon but little or nothing else. The
London Phi saws that tho Indian army - unsettieo
and upheavlng in fitfnl and partial mutiny rom
Calcutta to Lahore and that Sir Colin t"mpoc''.
lust sent ont to take command of the army WIZ
probably find upon his arrival hollow quie' '"e
eruption indeed over. but the volcano SIM Sh"u'
dcring The London Haes urges that Inc infantry
cavalry and artillery be soon sont a''ef ''' ooilh
1t speaks of mutny breaking out In CITY ai'er CITY
nos, affair most. regiment after regiment, In the
whole Presidency of Bengal, and only avoided 10y
di.arning regiments in the Punjaub. 1t intimates
that Great Britain will have to reeonquer and re-
construct the whole Indian Empire. The expenses
nf the instruction, il declares, will, under any
circumstances be very great, especially as the in
-urgcns had got possession of seven hundred thon-
sand pounds Of government treasure nearly the
whole Of which obtained in Delhi. The Paris
Taric says IL is exaggeratioh to assert that the
British empire in India Is shaken to the base. 1t
Is obvious, from these statements. that the crisis
in British India is Of a serons character. though
the resources and energy Of Great Britain, will, in
all probability, after immense sacrifices, re establish
order and security.
The causes of the present discomfort in India are
generally traced TO the fnaticsm Of Exeter Hall.
that Broadway Tabernacle" Of London, and great
cad quarters of the fanaticism Of the world. The
Exeter Hall system of prosclytsm seems to have
found willing co-laborer in the GovernorIGeneral
of India. who, in his sincere but impetuons zeal to
convert the IIindoos. has overstepped the bounds
Of discretion awakened the suspciOns and fears OF
the native population and thus undcsigncdiy kin
died tho flames If general revolt, and postponed
the accomplishment of object, in itself good and
desirable for Il century 10 II is in this same
Exeter Hail. that the abolition crusade against the
United States was begun, and has been carried on
that fanatical speeches have been made, Southern
Institutions denounced, and war of determination
wa .rd against slavery. Exeter Hall was the great
citadel Of English and American abolition, and
never failed 10 give aid and comfort to onr Ameri-
can disorganizers. Its emissaries in the United
States have endeavored to kindle In this country
Just such instruction as is now visiting India,
and its high priests would have gioatod with de
moniac exultaton over such reports from this CON
tineut as those which are now received here with
sympathy and sorrow. Whilst we cannot but Ia
Inent the sanguinary scenes now Transporting
in India we are struck with the fact that the
fomenters Of instruction in peaceful and friendly
land have been themselves visited with the horrors
which they sought to bring upon others, whilst the
objects Of their coaseless malignity repose in unn
tcrrupted peace and security. 1t is scarcely more
than ak months since the British press were dwell
ing with ill-eoncealed satisfaction upon the mn
founded rumors of domestic disturbances in the
Southern States. and they now have to record in
their own fillibustered and oppressed provinces
such scenes of real and horrid revolt and insurrec
ton as have not been paralleled since the days OF
st. Domingo 1t is not a month since there was a
discussion in Parliament upon cotton, in which il
said that, in all probability, there must he dis
turbances soon in the labor of America, and that
was one, among other reasons why Great Britain
should look to India. We should judge, from the
present state of affairs that she will have to look
long while to India, before she finds more quiet
prospect than America presents. These things
should teach her humility and charity; should in
duce her 10 attend to her own affairs and let other
peoples business alone and forthwith and for
ever discourage the schcmng and ravn8 rogucs
and fanatics of Exeter Hall, who, if they could
have full swing, would lay waste both East and
West, prostrating the Indian Empire under their
laundering attempts to proselyte laying waste the
cotton fields of the United States, which sustain
Great Britain's manufacturing pre-eminence and
thus bringing England to the dust, tenthratt
power, with none poor do her reverence.