New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-06
CAUSE OF THE MUTINY.


CAUSE OF THE MUTINY.
JHELyn, NAY 80.
al believe that we are determined to make them
Chtis,iens by some meana They believe tina. all
w.I. 10 do i 10 make them eat pigs fat or bullocks
aesh md unfortunately, the cartridges for the new
Erleld rife wee creased, and in some places the
crease believe, really waslard or common bulocks
at the native contractor having u,ed these for cheap
refs In hi. frame Of mind, which has been going on
for several years. they were very suspicious Of any
thing new and believed At that the Government
reay he'd had the lard put 10 cheat them into be-
coming Christians, aud regiment after regiment held
meetngs 10 resent this attack on their reli-
Suaip;ed with Ilindostanee being selected for
stsN amendments. only those were .ett in
mos. reejmeuts who, knowing but little of the
language bad but little intercourse With their men.
and therefore they learnt nothing OF all this except in
one or two corps where some chance inguis remaued
and these corps have generally not mutined as their
officers srnt their complaints and explained the mat
ter to them 1t is now believed that all this would
Ge.s NJ Oude shorn of all their wealth and rank,
seized ON this pretex and sent messengers in the dis.
euise of Fakirs all about, praying the men TO stand
out for the religion OF ther iathsrs pan which sue
heen annrebended. The Sepoys of the nth Native
Infantry held a meeting, but luckily hal some good
ofcers and one Lieutenant. Smith, good ipgust and
great friend Of theirs so they asreed not to many,
cartridges. Meanwhile the Government or the au-
thortrs had all the cartridges burnt TO
the men. but it had unluckily just the Oppo-
si,e tendency. If, they said, there was really
nothing 1es in the cartridges Government would never
have hunt them all, but they were really creased
Nh lard they saw they were found out this time and
hunt them as the only way to get out OF the mess
Now thew say such powerful Government will soon
find out some other way it is better to eight il out
now than TO find ourselves cheated into being Chris.
tiens some day Unexpectedly, and then be unable to
clear ourselves The from the other stations is
perhaps, equally bad AT Mootan they are only re-
Cavalry and at Rawu Pndee they are on the eve OF
rebellion it IL said. MoOradsbad and Barilly troops
are said 10 be firm also the 2lst at Peshawur The
spark that il said to have fired the train is that one
marty of Sepoys did rot refuse the cartridges, but tore
III The ends with their hands, and would not put them
into their mouths, which the officer il command said
was uusoldierly, and explained all about the car
tridces to them vowed they were creased with Ghee,
and told them we did not if they were of all the
religions in the world but unfortunately few officers
left with their regiments are good hands az hinuos-
tsnee and the Sepoys did not understand hun al al.
They only understood that he was determined they
should bite of and not tear off the end OF the carthage
ard Immediately felt that there was something In
it, so mutined. There is great want OF sympathy
between the European and the native winch destroys
all hopes Of comfort, unless you could fall INTO al
their usages We all well here. God has hitherto
protected us, and We now seem to think an Is over.
splendid force is collected in Kurnal. The native
States believe that we must win 10 the end ana nave
sent their troops TO our aid. We can only trust 10
God who i. equally able to protect US anywhere; we
are in the midst Of mutny unprecedented IN lndian
history, ard only small band OF Europe ans,
fighting and struggling for existence. hcweseI, tue
regiment here s very good and deserves the nue. 50
common formerly, of the faithful Sepoy.
THE INDIAN CRISIS.
If we are to be dominant in India, 80 dominant that
rebellion. except of the whole population, Is imposs-
ble-our course is equally clear. We have three
thin ps 10 do accordingly, i'll the next i've years:
l. We ust increase the Europeans by 80 ooo men.
will not argue in favor OF An increase per SCI tha -
conceded But nv reason for fixing that number Is
this: 1t will raise the proportion Of Europeans 10 tne
old standard Of one in three We must nave
men, and Of these, to secure absolute safety oVooo
must be Europeans That VIII leave o 9V S en ,oI
at present totally denuded-l0OO 600 to hold down tue
north west ard TO- 900 in the hills ready to poai down
en- any threatened point. The force OF trained art-
erists should at the same time be triped. Inc Tos
eminent Of India possesses perhaps more cannon nan
any poteutate earth; but cannon are Simply hu'
saice without men to work them, and those men,
unlik the rank and file, require tme mueh tme 10
train. =. =, ,s .
can in this portion of the reform succeed Oneehrd
of that line has eyoted deserted 10 600 more have
been disarmed. Are you going TO arm regiments thus
6isbono,ed sgaiL They must be dismissed, with
pension or without unless you intend to meet them
with the shame o! d-hOnor 70 nfame their dlscentei
Stop the recruiting IOr tbt ohN
wears the army dangerous must be ex'inc r9r
xtera warfare its place Is amply supplied ~ the eo
dtona force Of Europeans For internal yollce raise
as many irregular regiments a. are required 10 DC
commanded by men selected from over-othcered Eu
,opean batalions. These men, better managed WIN
absolute commanding officers and pfenoslon by mer
will not be inclined to revolt. II they are they revoN
against European force half their own IN numoers
3. Disarm Indis Do il in the first flush OF success,
when the European force is in full activity. DO II az
cree by the high bar making conscalon the penaiy
of couce aliDg ans. II may be argued that such
measure would be impractlcable Sir y. Lawrence
did II in three months. He dissrmed the most
martial race in Irda go OOO,COO OF them without
disturbance. Ii is not necessary 70 take away tue
swords; take away the firearms. The moment they
are given I'd wake the utacture or import OF mus
kets matchlocks jezails, except upon government
account penal ofense. You could suppress much
more easily than the manufacture Of salt. They can
not CON in BY sea. The passes are in our own HANDS,
There il no oppression in the measure. Ii lie carried
ut partly by etiquette partly by law, III the British
Isles Il, has been done in the Pupiaub Once carried
out instruction becomes impossible. This regaro
as the FIST ard gre attest Of our Indian ne cesslte
IA Correspondent of The London Tunes
There is nothing late fiom India. Intelligence was
hourly expected when the Persia saiied AL sorts o,
rumors were continually started, but it was supposed
they had reference TO stock Obbng Operations ana oo
tanned but little credence mass OF papers nad peeu
laid before Parliament, but they added nothing Of I'M
| pc rtarc0 TO the published accounts
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