New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-07

ssutAsmy,oa, wAioh s1ysa l,st sysL.as, oriass Lo-
don journals Of the 133. We nssks TIE following e1-
ssets:
STATE OF THE INDIAN REVOLT.
Fross n, L~xSos TiDs.. S.ps q.
yhe s.rogg,e In India resolves Itself with terrible
ncssured not BY Yeas sessons bat BY weeks, and
sven days. Can eur coUn!Yyren kold out hll suec2Ts
Seseh Them against the ragisg Bends around There
2 not doob. about our ultimate a7cendeacyIaoou'
Ae uconqsest If necessary, of al India sep by step,
and provirce BY province. IN the volunes on cor
ssspoadsnce reaching Us from sn quarters, snd ex-
yressibg every shade Of opinion vs. have never jet
net win .iDge msgving sb91t the eyen.ua. ,..ue
Of the contest. India viii DO British, and the British
win be ne o-ds established in greater strength a1d
dignity than ever-such is the key note Of Indian
Sptzien even IN tho crisis Of peril, and the very
.sn who bold their own lives by hourly tenure,
ssd know not what destiLesa single day sy disclose,
ssly With unboundcd and imperurbsble confidence on
md ss Of then SS1 HSG We ss
Ne ssme nation as before, hiss now been proved BE-
yccd question. The relative superiority OF our race
syes moro o H.Ssh and biz seS. oo fought Pss
Soy I'VE times over between AIahsbed and Biiho0r,
and, notwithstanding al the Disadvantages Of our po-
s there has been only :,Rs s lat'ncs tarO b
Been vorsted. Al Arah alone has there been any
miscarriage of this kind, and then il in the DARK
xess Of tie night and the tolls OF an smbusceae.
Give Us only chance of fair, fighting,
spd the day rs our own. But up 70 the moment
when the latest dspsch left Cacut. not
single battalion, be it remembered, hsd reached
elapsed since the outbreak of the mutiny, bat during
tbe whole Of that period We had been maintaining
desperate fight against overwhelming odds, with only
such reenforcemens could be picked up from dis
hat colonies or Struggling expeditions. Our eounaJ.
men must have felt surely enough in the middle OF
May that the aid they appealed for could not be forth
coming before the middle ofseptembeIs and what was
10 be the event Of the interval There was the quss
too. For three fourths Of the period the fortitude
md heroism Of Englshmen have kept the scale in our
favor, but the struggle has been dreadful. We are
stl masters Of the field but it ia sgonzing to think of
what might have been saved by the presence of even
ssingle additional regiment few weeks earlier under
the walls OF Cawppore.
Gen. Havelocks march is the very expression AMI
type Of our position in flipdostan He advances, b.
6snts, he coIquors-eyeything goes down before him
as long &c he can stand bur is desperate work to
maize bead against twenty 20 one What kind Of task
be found may be very distinctly collected even from
the bri&f notifications of the telegraph After
ms the GaDges he had about so miles between him
elf and Lucknow. He had got over only % of these
and Jet be had fought three actions, all successfully
and captured q guns Il is plain that the enemy
lsrss be svarmng along the whole rosd like hornets
and at the end there Is Lucknow itself, with dense
population, and all the nutneers OF Dude. Our latest
accounts inform that this dsun.ess little column,
reduced by ncossant combsts 70 700 or 800 hght45
men, but reinforced by the handful Of troops which
eosld be spared from Cawnpore had again recon-
messed its eyentful march. On the 1ta Of August |
ne advance to be renewed and all the hopes and
fh6 pTayeTs OF our cOulLryHl6n went Nttb
time, the whole work would bs but childs play |
month OF two more would place 1000 troops at Gavin.
pore, instead OF 500; but month or two more would
would have lett Lucknow to the rebels, aud the game
had to be played whatever the chances, with the |
cards which we held.
Ii is OF the worst effects Of the Dinapore mutny
fhst it threatens to intercept from the north western
dissricts such the Government OF Calcutta
might otherwise have sert up. We do not anticipate
TIA. The crest lire Of communication VIII be seriously
intercepted, but troops which could otherwise have
oh 10 had md TnQ "
Be detained by work OF their at Patna or Benares
With the exception, however, OF this misfortune,
Affairs exhibit as promising an aspect as could be
booked for. In the Msdras Presidency, neither Nag
pore nor TIyderabadthe chief csnters of dsnger-had
gwen any csuse for alarm. In Bombay, the mutiny |
Of single corps-tsef exceptionally crcumstancea-
had not been followed during whole fortn,ghts inter-
val by any other example Of disatection the revolt
ers had found little encouragement, reenforcemen1s
were arriving, the Government was strong ana the
community confident. Cenu Ina'a naa peen ~ H.
under command and was Tranquil; 1t was sill on the
the Jumna and the Ganges that tho struggle was penI
pg; and here, II the outbreaks in Lower Bengal do
not materially divert the efforts of the Government
the chances seem turning against the rebels.
There are two quarters from winch the bftlsh islce
before Delhi may receive ehectusl succofs.the run
aub to the northwest and Calcutta 70 tne pnn
jAub contained the bulk Of the European forces st
6oned in the Bengal Presidency and some OF the PEST
corps Of ireguars Little time IN point OF iao. wSs
camp ct Delhi, but the Province itself had OF course
= be secured before much could be done for the aid Of
others These preliminary precautions, howeVer,
have now been taken. Every Sepoy battalion IN The
Pupjaub has either been dsarned or cut 10 pieces;
the sikh population has furnished new and rustwor-
worthy evies; and what with the European regi-
ments thus disepgaged and the Sikh troops en-
rolled il il calculated that the reGaforcements
on their way to Delhi from the northwest
IN the month last past would represent little
iess than half the effective strength OF the Bengal
army remained after the detection OF the Sepoys.
No such resources these can be dispatched from
Calcutta until the arrival Of succors from England;
but is gratifying to observe that the interval ID
marked by most seasonsble reliefs from other quar-
ters. OF the troops composing the Chinese expadi.
hon only q single regiment the 90th had bsen disen.
baked at Calcutta before the date of the last dis
patches leaving the 3d. the ed and the 93d still TO
SO0w BY the mails just received, two vessels, the
Pearl and the Larceield, were reported "a actually
at Calcutta with troops from the Transit two steamers
With troops on board were met by the BentDck com
ing I'D the river; Lord E'gin had brought about 700
with bin in the Shannon, and hying sip pnsished
by one Of the Calcutta journals on the 9th OF August
says that further very large reentOrcements
eIpected by the I'D OF that month. II this refers 10
she drafts from the Cape, il 10 possible enough that
Lord Canning may receive altogether o,oyo or WV
those dispatched from England. iiaveiocS could
do 20 much with the 9th and the 18Th what may not
be done with the half dozen fresh regiments thus
We cannot, however, pretend TO disguise the se-
verify with which time must still press upon our be-
ha2uered garrsons. For weeks 10 come, q. the very
least every European detachment in the north west
ep provinces must represent one man against fifty;
and il "a impossible 20 soy, with these sporadic erup
ions Of mutiny, what flesh demands may not be
created upon the fresh forces which Grrive month
hence may fad new Delhi in Hengsi. III Is clear
that want troops to retain in the lower provinces
"a well Is - dispatch 10 the upper and til the geat
reSpforoements arrive, the deadly struggle MUS - en-
with only such help sss few fortunate succo.s can
hrine 10 resolute endurance. private letter from
at. por, y