New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-15
THE STATE OF EUROPE.
From Our Own Correspondent.

From Our Own Correspondent.
LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. ! 1851.
The overland mail has at last arrived, aud We are
able to combine the different details into complete
picture of the state of things in India about the mid
die of July The Pupaub, that is to say the north.
west provinces, were kept in subsection by the
energy of Sir John Lawrence, who continued to dis
arm the Bengal regments-several Of whom were
stationed here--either peaceably or by force.
Wherever there was sign or suspicion of mutny
be acted with the greatest severity, and thus sue
ceeded in neutraiziog or in removing all the dan
gerous elements from the province. One only of
the Bengal regiments which was in garrison at
Sealcote On the river Ravee close to the Cashmere
boundaries, broke loose lately from it's allegiance,
and, rising in open mutny, tried to force its way
toward Delhi; but it was soon overtsken by trust
worthy Sikh corps and cut to pieces few only
of the BeDgaese escaped to Cashmere, where
Cooled Singhs subjects caught them and returned
them to the English, to be hung without mercy.
But Sir John Lawrence thinks that his work is only
half done if he keeps his own province in or
der; be ia therefore enlisting Sikhs and GhOorkas
from Nepaul, and organizing an army in order
10 cooperate with the British forces on the
Ganges and Jumna. 1t is from the Punjaub
and from its gallant Commissioner that the little
army before Delhi may expect the first effective re-
endorsements, of which 1t is sOrey in need. The
great bulk Of the Dude mutneers able to enter
Delhi; and now the besiegDg English troops are 30
oyermatched by the enemy, and especially so de-
fciept in cavalry that they themselves besieged
IL is true that until now they have been able to
repel all the sOrtes of the insurgents, who have no
leader capable of making strategcal plan of cam
paign; but the numerical superiority of the mutt
neers and their ncessant harassiDg cavalry attacks,
together with the prevailing chOers, began to tell
fearfully on the small English army, which ia the
6rst month has lost two Commanders In Chief. We
hear nothing of the flying column Of Gen. Van COrt-
landt who was operating north of Delhi; but Gen.
HsvelOck's moving column, south OF Delhi has sue
ceeded in recapturing CawnpOre On the Gauges, and
in cbastising Nena Sahb, who had murdered the
English fuRitiyes from Dude and the prisoners of
Cawnpore. The next object of this column is to
relieve the garrison Of Lucknow, hemmed in by the
Dude insurgents, and somewhat shaken ey t1e
death of the gallant Sir Henry Lawrence Should
Hayelock succeed here, then be must proceed to
relieve Aahabad and Agra, where the small
Epglsh garrison are IN a rather strdteneu
positon At Agra the garrison, together with the
citizens more gallant than discreet, gave battle 10
the Neemuch and Nesserabad mutineers who had
come near the town on their march to Delhi, but
the Hndoos got decidedly the better, and the
English unable to check the progress of the enc.
my, had to shut themselves up in the fort. The
country on the lower Gauges from Benares to Cal
cntta remains loyal. So does the Holkar though
his troops have mutinied. We hear nothing Of the
Sinde, but the Gucowar is scarcely to be trusted
and the French papers pretend to have received in
tellgeDce that there were suspicious disturbances
m the dOminoDs Of this Prince in the proximity Of
Bombay. As to the South, the annexed province Of
NaRpOre lie in feyerish excitement but the English
have suppressed the mutiuy. The came is the case
with Hyderabad, and the Nizams dominiOps are
nOmnally still loyal 10 the C0mpany's suzerainty.
As regards the causes of the insprrection, the
proclamation Of the Delhi insurgents complains Of
endeavors to Christianize HiRdostan. 1t is holy
war, war on behalf of the faith Of the natives, to
which the inhabitants are called. Or the otker
hand, the Mogul points to the babitual ingrattude
Of the Company, and mentions how the King OF
Dude rewarded for the aid his ancestors granted
70 Lake. 1t is certain that the Company made
many mistakes, and that it must now rue its
rspacity. 1t uniformly disregarded the Hindoo
Law OF inheritance, which is intimately connected
with the HindoO religion According to the sacred
law.book of Msun, the principal duty Of every mau
y 10 offer periodical sacrifices to bis deceased
father grandfather and ancestors since their eter.
nal bliss depends upon these Oblations which, Qn-
Like the Roman Catholic mass for the souls OF the
deceased, cannot DO offered but by such lineal de-
scendahts and heirs. Accordingly, every young |
man lnaries in India and rejoees in great num- |
Der OF children, aud fears nothing more than to die
ehIdless. Should he, however have no SOD, then |
nis daughter is declared to be a son by peculiar
sermaiity, which enables her to offer the sacrifice |
= ue deceased, and 10 continue the line OF her |
y. should Hndoo survive ali his descend
1ns sno oe CHI dless, then he adopts son from
sSy mhefe there aremany children and the laws
O. Jsa,arsn grant the same rights to the daugh-
70 10 be sou, or to the adopted son, as
;.".s Thn SON IN regard to the rights of nher-
honnd 70 ooyS,n ino,a Company, however, though
India diregards this cardinal point of T the law law Of
inheritance, and does not acAnowIedne III, ri"bts
Of daughter or of an adopted SON T 1To tights ,h
e!de,t friend of the English power in. India the
H:an o. ssttaTa' being enld,s and having adopt
sfter bis own death the bliss of hs soul mygSt ba
secured, the Hon. East India Co np,ny did not a"'
knowledge the right Of adoption but Annexed the
kingdom Of Ssttsra. Again, the Peshws tie 6i.t of