New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-29

the rainy season threatens disasters and decays
equal, st east, to those Of the Winter at Sevasso
pol.
In one respect, however. and that very iupor-
tant ore, the parallel fails The defenders Of Dahl
are far from possessing the military skill Of the
defenders Of Sevastopol, nor is it in the slightest
degree likely that they have any General Todleben
among them. 1t would moreover be absurd to
expect from this extempOre army of Sep'ys any
thing like tie perseyering endurance exhibited BY
the Russians at Sevastopol. The soul OF an army
is in its officers, and the rebel forces in Delhi can
hardly be said to have any officers. No doubt the
emergency, as usually happens, may develop
hitherto unknown capacities for command, and
possibly unexpected military talent; but in the
present state Of military science no natural genius
can supply the place Of knowledge and training.
Yet however deficient in these respects the
Sepoys must be, they certainly have great SUPER.
ority of numbers. Their force is estimated at not
lees than 80, 900 men, while all the troops which it
has been yet possible for the Anglo Indian Govern
ment to bring against Delhi are about seven or
eight thousand Europeans, and FIVE thousand ma
tives There latter are put down as faithful, yet so
many other " faithful" and "perfecty Trustworthy
regiments, as it was thought have joined in the
revolt, it would hardly answer to place any great
confidence in these. The European force is said to
be very efficient being largely composed of cavalry
and artillery. Though other mutinies are re-
ported so that a! last there remains hardly single
military station in the Bengal Presidency which
has escaped this epidemic, yet there seems to be no
other center Of revolt except Delhi. Hitler all the
mutnous soldiers have aocked, except indeed
large number who appear to have disbauded, aud
scattered DO one knows where.
TIE details which we publish to-day of the mutt
MES at BARELY, at Moradabad, at Fazabad and
other places, may serve as specimen of what has
happened wherever almost there was military
station in the Bengal Presidency. The Europeans
have been the victims of frightful atrocities not by
any means confined 70 the men, but extended to
the women and children. The Sepoys, with all
their boosted mildness, and all the civilizng and
humanziDg influences alleged to have been exer-
cised upon them by contact with European officers,
have shown themselves nothing other that brutal
and ferocious savages; though, Indeed, it is to be
tied in India by the European officers, where only
natives are concerned, cannot have set the Sepoys
a very eminent example in this respect
There murders and massacres in India have
reused in England bitter, almost ferocious,
spirit especially in that middle class in which phi
lanthropy has hitherto found its chief advocates.
While the army, navy, and the church have been
chiefly engrossed by the aristocracy, the civil and
military service of India have been mainly in the
hands of the English middle class. There isscsrcely
family Of this class that does not suffer by these
Indian massacres-;csrcely family that has not
lost son, brother, sister daughter, or some other
near and dear relative by this Sepoy outbreak. 1t
is not merely the Anglo, Indian Empire and all the
avenues for employment and profit that il opens
which this revolt endangers. 1t strikes a biox at
the dome site circle of ten thousand British families,
and arouses ferocious spirit ofrevenge very much
like that which Indian incursons produce on our
Western frontiers. English newspapers Of high
character contain articles on this subject more ele-
gan,ly and rhetoricay expressed, to be sure, than
were most of the leaders In the Oregon newspapers
during the late Indian war in that Territory, but
written in the very same ferocious spirit
every sentence, as it were, dripping with
blood. However, this is clearly one of those
ca.es to which the old receipt OF first catch
your partridge, applies. The SepOys are fret 10
be subdued before they can be punished--thoush it
must be confessed that something has already been
done in that way at stations where the English
troops cyerpowered the mutineers. The practice
adopted in the Pupjaub Of blowing the rebels to
pieces from the mouths of the cannon is highly
spplauded BY some English newspapers as very
happy continuance for combining that energy Of
punishment necessary to inspire terror into the
natives with that reluctance dt cruelty charac
teristc of civilization.
Tie troops Of the Chinese Expedition were be-
ginning TO arrive at Calcutta, where the alarm as
10 revolt within the city seems to hare subsidized;
and though the defense of Delhi may De protracted,
it does not seem likely that the English dominion is
in danger Nevertheless, this revolt can hardly
fail to be followed by serious, perhaps radical
changes in the whole English Administration of
India.
A remarkable circumstance in the present state
of India is the close censorship under which all the
newspapers, especially the native newspapers, have
been placed Several native newspaper editors at
Calcutta have already been prosecuted for alleged
reasonable publications. or at least bound over in
heavy reccgbizances to appear and stand their trial
Other have been let oil with reprimands and
severe fright, and ore or two have suspended their
publication s,,.."sether. Of course where coun'
try is under martial law India is a! present the
liberty Of the press cannot hope to exist. General
jackson, if We recoIect Alright, put stop, during
.ha siane Of Nav .0rlaana 10 the only paper then