Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-09-03

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turbances in India are supposed to threaten
the integrity Of British dominion. Tho out
break has been sudden and dangerous, and no
satisfactory reason for II is given. Russian
agents could not have brought about so gem
eral disafection and yet have remained un-
discovered. The creased cartridges were re-
called In time to prevent their giving any sub
stanfial cause OF ofiense to the Mohammedan
and brahminical faith Of the soldiery. 1t is
proDable that Their cause lies ne deeper than
lhis-that II is but another instance of the rea-
dy contagion OF Individual characterization and
crime among large bodies of men. 10 us it
does not seem singular that these native troops
are In revolt. 1t is only remarkable that they
nave not bel ore this broken into rebellion
We do not mean that these troops had occas-
ION 70 hate the English government. On the
contrary, we think that ii there was reason
Ior the fidelity of any subject of the British
government in India, reason did exist for the
iAthiulness of the army. The Sepoy soldiers
were Treated with Kindness that probably
reached no other class, and in their pay and
equipments they enjoyed advantages which
made their lot appear prlnceiy in Comparison
with that of others Of their class. But il is
strange that the Sepoys have not discovered
before now that they would be, if properly
commanded, the masters of India, and il is
more singular that, acting under the impulse
oil TINS discovery, they have not before now
made some premature attempt upon the gov
ernment of the country.
We need but recur to the history of English
rule in lndia to see how uncertain must be the
tenure OF English power as 1t is at present sus-
famed. In 1852 the English had scanty leave
accorded them TO establish factory at sta
tion to the southwark of what is now Calcutta.
In zoos they gained permission to hold land
lot trading purposes on one of the branches of
tne Ganges. In 1896 they built their FIRST for
1 t1tiCntlnn m I'm 1,l,- l.. At.
| IN possession Of Fort William, with a garrison
OF l29 soldiers, and Of small station at Ma
1 M,i IL was from this last place, when Fort
Hllham was taken by the Mahometans IN 1855
anu the English murdered in the Black-Hole
that GIVE came to punish the outrage, with
tne whole force that could be theG raised
ABOUT Two thousand men, English and native
India dates.
rms East India Company from that time
steadily advanced in prosperity. At the close
OF the year 1900, from these outposts at Ma
aras and Fort William, they had extended
tneir territory until it embraced more than
| <oz,VuU square miles. In 1926 il extended
over 52O,OOO square miles and now, by reas-
on OF protectorates and further conquests, it
embraces more than one million square miles,
ana more than one hundred millions of inhab-
itants. 10 accomplish this result we think
mat no more than $4,000 European troops
nave been employed in any one year within
tne limits OF India. The forces which the
c East inela Company were made up of natives
formed into regiments and drilled by English
oincers, and OF native soldiery commanded by
their own chiefs and acting as auxiliares. The
natives formed into regiments-the we'll known
oepoy troops, whose revolt in the Bengal pres
iuency has set the signal of rebellion-number,
IN all the presidencies, not less than $50 900
uIscipllned men. They are, according to the
t%vs ',,ly OF all the English generals from
W ellington to Napier, mon who need only to
DC well commanded to fight as well as any Eu-
roFeah troops. In the Bengal presidency,
where THIS rebellion broke out there were 90
Uoo OF these Sepoys, of whom it seems, by
Tue last accounts from Europe, Al, 900 are now
besieged in Delhi.
uoou troops as they are, and of all arms, Ii
seems mat they are ovelaweJ by some five
Iousand European troops which are besierinp
tnat city. The reason is that they are without
commanders . OF experience, the non-commis.
stoned efheers only being natives in those re-
glments, all the others being European, No
ihyder Alior, Tippoo Saib has as yet shown
himself among them, and as habits of disci-
Pipe, Il Is possible that these soldiers, shut up
WI. I'm the walls OF Delhi, may soon degener-
ave into rabble-rout, and be cut to pieces BY |
General Bernard, or by Sir Colin Campbell |
tney hold out until his arrival on the scene, |
me nutiny, extensive as it has been in Ben
gal, anu ominous as are Its signs In the Mat
u ;.1s anu Bombay presidencies, has yet exhib-
lteu one remarkable feature-it is exclusively
military rebellion; and in this fact, and in the
,ae.s 10 which we have alluded, that the mutt
noeTs nave no leader, is the hope of ultimate |
Engnsh supremacy, even against the fearful |
ouos at which the Europeans fight. Broken
9y internal quarrels and struggles for prece-
dence and booty, these masses OF disorganiz-
ca veterans, unsustained by popular assistance
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| broken up and tho whole Sepoy force is dis
Oande I, where will England obtain the men
WHO are needed to keep this one hundred mil
lion Of restless heathens quiet That is the
question which must be solved after this is dis
posed of.--Baftimore Sun.