Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-18
England and India

ne latest accounts from India stated that .he rebels were all besieged in Delhi, with the Dri'ish army laundering at the gates and hour | expecting to take the city. But the feverish condition of the whole India mind, and the ex- cltement in England, plainly indicate that that Is not expected to be the end of the matter All at once 1t is discovered that the East India company have pursued a wrong policy. that the native army has been wrongly treated, that the English officers are from the wrong class that naughty and repulsive course has been pursued towards the rank and file; and, in fne, that the native population had become alienat- ed and disguised. We extract some items of Interest from different sources:
 The Sepoys are largely recruited from the Gercest and most dangerous spirits in all Hin- "oStan. It has been the policy of the Indian government to receive into its own pay and ser vice the troops-always licentious class-of a conquered sovereign or su5jugated state A 'wo-ioid object Is thus gained; augmentation of force which must be increased with the ex. tension ot the empire, and the employment of class of men who have always lived by ra- plne, and who if turned loose upon the con- munity, would be certain to perpetrate all sorts of enormities, and stir up civil commoton amongst the people,
 It Is well known that in the British army there Is great gulf fixed between the officer and rank and file, so that there can exist but iittle personal knowledge or sympathy between them. Ihls IS just the reverse of what obtains ln the French service, where every soldier is cheered by the assurance that he may carry marsha's baton or his knapsack, and where an intercourse, almost familiar, exists between officers and men on duty The English off Ger, when transferred to India, true to his in- stlnct, exercises towards the native soldier or subordinate officer, all possible reserve and hauteur. He recognizes them only in the masses, and 50 far as his efforts go, would run them all into one mound, and that framed of European notions. Of course he remains igno- rant of his men, and IS ever liable to infringe or some of those superstitions or preudices of caste, which are to the Hindoo in the place of honor, morality, and patriotism.
 Lately suspicion of design to subvert their faith has been spreading through the Hindoo mind, brought about by the activity of the h. dian government in the matter of internal i'm provements, by attempts to introduce new culture into the country; and above all by an interference with some of the native supersti- tons and most reverenced customs Here lies the source of the greatest danger to British su- premacy; and taken in connection with the craft ana ieroclty ot the native when reused, 1t shows how watchtul the rulers of India must ever be In dealing with the conquered empire.
 India has hitherto been regarded as a fat Iarm of England, and the company, in order to monopollze all the profits, has discouutenanced any attempt of Englishmen to obtain landed property Tn Hlndostan, to ntermarry with Hin- doc wives, who by the by, are of race at least as noble as the Anglo Saxons themselves, and to establish Anglo Indian houses in India All the riches of the Great Eastern Empire have been reserved for the company's servants, and few outsiders, more or less connected with the directors in Leadenhal street. With such a system, Hindostan has always been governed from oue single point of view-how to yield the greatest possible dividends within the shortest time.
 Now that the Hiudoos-trampled upon for a century, and bearing all the humiliation of foreign rule, and all the mismanagement of the company, with unparalleled meekness-have risen, and, by murdering their masters, show themselves to be men, the company see clearly, that they cannot trust the Sepoys any longer; and, accordingly, not only the native popula- tons must be governed in future somcw hat more justly but 1t is certain that without a considerable infusion of European blood, the lease of India is not worth twenty years pur- chase. A new era of Indian administration must now begin, and the mutny of Meerut may be the dawn of brighter day for the 1 Peninsula, just as the Canadian instruction. though failing in its immediate object, gave the inhabitants all the benefits which man expects from well-regulated government.
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