Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-18
The Instruction in India-Alarming State
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of Affairs. | he late intelligence from Asia indicates clearly that the meeting in India is A wide spread movement of the most alarming char. acter, and that 1t may lead to fearful calamities
 me N. I. Herald says of the affair:
 AS was apprehended by those who are best ln'ormed, the mutiny has spread; the sepoys in the other presidences have flown to arms and all India, from the Himaayas to Cape Comorin Is in blaze. The British troops-by which we mean the handful of Queens troops tooeth. CT With such of the natives as had remained l loyal to the government-had marched on | Delhl and concentrated their force against it they had captured certain guns and seized cer' tan heights; but they had not retaken the citv or the Grand Mogul, or dethroned the new,v crowned King of Delhi.
 we take thls event to be the most moment ouS ih all the history of India-the greatest ePoch since the battle of Plassy, just one hun- dred years ago. Had the sepov revolt been Such an afalr as has happened before in India | -sucn' TOT Instance, as the mutiny which broke out when the sons of Tippoo Sab stirred up the l natives, or when the Mahrattas burst into re. volt, we should by this time have been hearing or the measures taken to punish the.rebels. and Ut V"e new lstrbut on of authority con e luent upon the array. As 1t is, we hear of abso- lutely nothlng but of the convulsive endeav- ors of the English to avenge their murdered conntrymen at Delhi, and to guard aoainst | more masSacres elsewhere.
 l The late Lord Metcafe, one of the most con, | prehensve minds that ever engaoed mon . study of Indian affairs, pointed to the proba- | bllty of a sepoy revolt, as the one dancer 1 agalnst which the Indian government ought to guard: hlS predictions are being verified long before the tune he indicated No doubt the oilnd folly of Exeter Hall and the weakness of the new Governor, Lord Canning have pre- cIpltated the crlsls At any rate it is upon the EhSnsh, and we shall now see whether the buster of the London journals, and the un doubted bravery and and skill of few devoted men, will suffice to stay the hand of fate. here are at the present moment about 10. = OOO or l2OO0 British troop-that is to say Queeu's troops-in India, lent according to custom, to the government of the company.- Usually, these are more numerous: but since the outbreak in China large portion of the British army in Hndostan has been draughted to Hong Kong, leaving only the number we have stated. In the course of few weeks thls number may be sweled to 10000 or 25 oOO by endorsements from England and other parts Of the world. The number of English men capable of bearing arms and susceptible of oelng concentrated on any one point in India IS not likely to amount to more than 10 ODO of :. fectlves. It Is possible that few regiments of sepoys may join the English against their conn., trymen. On the other hand the sepov army falls but little short of 100000 men. in the highest state of efficiency and discipline.- Wlth these will side, as matter of course, the entre populace of British Inda--the rabble anc peasantry of country counting 156, ,OOO,- ooO Inhabitants. But this is not all. The oIkhs, men oi great bravery and military apti- tude, are In arms; the Affghans, who have never been punished for the invasion of 1885, are eager for a new foray; the Birmese. lately roooed by the company, are only waiting for a lit occasion to renew the war; and in all the sea-board towns, the Chinese are ready to offer money and aid to the foes of England. Sub jects and aliens, all will take up arms with ioy against the atrocious and internal despotism which has fattened on India during the last century.
 Small wonder then that the gravest and wlSeSt Of EngIand's statesmen should consider thlS the most Serlous crisis in the history of the Indian erhpre; and that the hoarv Lord Ellen oorough--than whom no man in England bet ter understands the subleCt--should utter words 1 of omlnouS, awful warning! Small wonder that the funds should decline, as they have done, and that the mercantile community should be appalled, at the magnitude of the pos slbIe catastrophe.
 The utter ruin of the British empire in India flor the events that are occurring foreshadow | nothing short of this--would be an event in the history of England far more momentious l than the loss of the American colonies. three-quarters of a century since India has been the best and the choicest market for Brit lSh produce. It has been sort of private garden for Englishmen cultivated by hun dred and fifty millions of slaves for the ex- elusive benefit of few thousand natives of 1 England. It has been, in greater extent than any other country in the world, the source of Eng lands wealth, and the cause of her power and her greatness. Let her lose this and what will she be-