New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-16


even wander beyond toe history Of cotem'
porary Ensl4nd All We wan. lie 70 st0dS
the first Chiuese WAY an event, 20 IN say Of
Yesterday The EDgisb soldi-ry then commit
ted denominations for the mere fun Of IL their pas
sous beng neither sanc:iei by religious fqna.cism
nor e1acerbated by hatred against eyerbearng and
conquerine race, nor proyoked By tie stern resist
az &c of heroic enemy The violations Of women,
the cuttings of children the roastngs Of whole VII
lsges were then mare wantOn sports, not recorded
BY Mabdarins, but by British officers themselves.
Even at the present catastrophe would be an lIl-
mitgated mistake to suppose that all the cruelty
on the side Of the SepOys, aud all the milk OF human
kindness flows on the side Of the English The lev
ters Of the British officers redOent OF maignty.
An tfi:er Writing from Peshawur give: description
Of the disarmiug Of the 10th irregular cavalry or not
charming the 10Th native infantry when ordered 10
do So He exuts in tie fact that they were not only
dsarmed. but stripped Of their coats and boots and
after having received 12d. per man, were marched
down TO The river side, and there embarked III boats
and sent down the Indus, where the writer IS
delighted TO expect every mothers son VIII nave
chance of being drowned in the rapids. Another
writer informs us that, some inhabitants of
Pesbawur having caused night alarm by exploding
little mines of guDpowder in honor OF a wedding "a
national custom), the persons concerned were
tied IN next morning, ard received such fOggng
nas they will not easily forget" News arrived
from Pindee that three native chiefs were plotting.
Sir John Lawrence replied by message ordering
a Spy to attend to the meeting On the spys re-
port, Sir John sent q second message, Hang
Them" The chiefs were hanged An officer in the
civil service from Alshabad, writes: 1--WE have
"pOwer of hte and death in hands, aud we as
"sure YOU we spare not" Another, from the same
place. mot day passes but we string up from
Item to fifteen Of them (non-combatants) One
exutine officer writes: "HOlmes is hanging them
"by the score like BRICK" Another, in allu-
sion to the summary hanging of large body Of the
natives: "Then our fun commenced" A third:
1--WE hold court. martials on horseback. and every
"Digger we meet with either string up or shoot
From Benares we are Informed that thirty Zemin-
dars were hanged on the mere suspicion Of sympa-
tbizlDg with their own cOuntrymeD, and whole
villages were burned dewn on the same plea. An
officer from Benares, whose letter is printed ia
The London Times, says: The European troops
"have become friends when opposed to natives"
And then il should not be forgotten that,
while the cruelties of the English are related as
acts of martial vgOr, told simply, rapidly, without
dwelling on disgusting details, the outrsses Of the
natives shocking as they are, are still deliberately
exaggerated. For instance, the circumsfantlal ac-
count first appearing in The Times, and then going
the round of the London press of the atrocities per
petrated at Delhi and Meerut, from whom did it
proceed From cOwardly parson residing at
BangalOre, Mysore, more than thousand miles, as
the bird nies distant from the scene of action Ac
tual accounts of Delhi evince the imagination Of
English parson to be capable of breeding greater bor
rors than even the wild fancy of HindOO mutneer.
The cutting Of noses, breasts, &c, in one word,
the hOrrid mutilatOns committed by the Sepoys, are
of course more revolving to European feeling than
tue throwing of redhOt shell on Canton dwellings
by Secretary Of the Manchester Peace Society, or
the roasting of Arabs pent up 10 a cave by French
Marshal or the fayiDg alive of British soldiers by
the cato -ninetais under drum-head court-martial,
or any other OF the philanthropcal appliances used
in British penltentiaTy colonies. Cruelty like
every other thing, has its fashion, changing
according 10 time and place. Caesar, the accom-
plished scholar, candidly narrates how he ordered
many thousand Gallo warriors to have their right
hands cut off. Napoleon would have beea ashamed
TO do this. He preferred dspatchiDg his own French
regiments, suspected Of republcansn, to st. Do
miDgO, there to die of the blacks and the plague
The infamous mutilatiOns committed by the Sc
poys remind one of the practices of the Christian
Byzantine Empire, or the prescriptions of Emperor
Charles VS. criminal law, or the English punish
ments for high treason, as still recorded by Judge
Blackstone. With HindOOs, whom their religion
has made virtuOsi in the art u seftOrturing, these
fortunes inflicted on the enemies of their and
creed appear quite natural, and must appear still
more 10 to the English, wbo only some years since,
still used TO draw revenues f.Om the Juggernaut fcs-
tvals, protecting and assisting the bloody rites OF
religion Of cruelty.
The frantic roars Of the "bloody Old Times az
Goblet used to ca. it its playing the part of fur
Gus character in one OF Mozarts operas, who INDUCES
in most melodous strains in the idea of fret hang
Jog his enemy, then roastug him, then quartering
him, then splitting him, and then fayins him
aliye-its tearing the passion of revenge to tatters
and to rags-al this would appear but silly if under
the pathos of tragedy there we've not distinctly per-
,ceptible the tricks OF comedy The Loadoc Times
overdoes its part not only from panic Itsupplies
comedy with subject even missed by MoEere, the
Tartune of Revenge. What it simply wsnts is to
write up The funds and to screen the Government.
As Delhi has not, like the walls of Jericho fallen
before mere puffs of wind John Bull is to b. stepped
in cries for revenge up to his very ears, to make
him forget that his Government is responsible for
the mischief Matched and the colossal Dimensions it
has been allowed to assume.