New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-15
THE INDIAN MUTINY.
From The Londsn Tines, July /

A. n.,use the numerous private communications
arriving from India, We are enabled to form more
distinct idea Of the progress ana iueoens Oh .ntS Us n
surrectiopary violence based more unsubst8ntal
grounds. or committed with more indefinite views.
The Sepoys have been preciptated into r. belhon by
reu;c and have actually risen against authority from
ueer fright and osuseless alarm. The accounts OF
the successive outbreaks present the features OF
molal epidemic, under the influence o. whicn men
suddenly TUNED upon their officers IN deirlun Of
dread the first example o. general bloodshed having
been set by the troops at Meerut. At Barratkpore
ard BurraIpore the discomfort of the Sepoys had as
suned the form Of sulltn disaectOD at other places,
where previous TO the 10th OF MAY! the sPr.o ieDSi
ion had shown ITSELF the disorder was checked WIN
ont violence but at Meeut the mutinous impul.e took
the direction Of MURDER and the conagrstion the tu'
NUT and the carnage had the inevitable euect OF re-
doubling the agitation prevailing
So much Of what is related 10 correspondence from
the spot must have been drawn from imperfect nfor-
nation that care becomes requisite In the discrimlna-
ton and comparison Of reports; but we observe
enough to confirm our conviction thar no genera
concert could have existed between the revolving
ba,talions and that common object, or indeed any
cbject at AL was kept before their eyes Every case
OF delinquency had notifications Of its own. Each
Of the mutincus regiments had ITS own particular
fenzy and took the disorder with symptoms pecu.
liar to itself. In many cases the infection was but
partial. Even in the Third Light Cayalry-a corps
which appears 10 have conceived extraordinary
alarm al tue imprisonment Of some Of it troopers
what is especially remarkable, these very men were
led against another corps in mutny six days after
wards. and behaved with unhinching Loyalty and
courage. In the Eleventh Regiment, though the off.
Gers Of this battalion the first victims Of the
sacre appears certain that the work Of murder was
. n mite BY the Inen Of the Twentieth aud parties
of tbe corrs Itself said TO be deserving the revolt
or. and returning TO their allegiance At Delhi the
soldiers OF the Thirty eighth RETAINED from attacking
their own officers, though they fred upon those of
other regiments; and the Seventh, also part of the
Delhi garrison, is reported as In reality entertaining
mo- cordial sympa,bies with the rebsion or the
Native Artillery il is expressly said that the gunners
were dragged into the mutiny by force alone.
From ali sides We are assured that the general poPu
,aon has exhibited rather good will than hostlh'y TO-
ward us, and In many cases efectuai Pr0tecuoh nus
been afforded TO the fugitives from Delhi III mar
civ alone al at Meeru does any evidence OF popular
magmty as yet appear but at both these places Tue
Laiiyc rsbble iose are told by thousands anu con
.bied in no small degree 10 the horrors Of the scene
7, NAV be expected indeed that many OF the atrocl'
liz rcported will be found traccable, as our iniora
ton improves, not to the Sepoys themselves but 70
the mobs which avaed themselves of the license at
tendant on the mutiDy.
The Raiahs or native Princes OF the country, nave
shown a signal attachment to the British Government,
and have supported us promptly with their followers
willie the great land owners themselves equivalent 70
territorial lords have, without exception, been hrm
their allegiance In no Of the reports DOW reach
ing us in ruch abrpdspce do We perceive any sfa.e