New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-27

affairs, but even in the domestic politics of Great
Britain, plays a part not less conspicuous in the
Legendary history of Hndostan. In that history,
Dude reported as the oldest of the Hndoo States.
Ages sgo-how many who can tell the ancestors
of the present HindOo inhabitants of Oude-whch,
by the way is or ought to be pronounced 50 as to
rhyme with olond-enacted in that country the
very same process of general cODfiscatiOn threat
ened in Lord Canning's late proclamation. In the
Legendary poems, they are represented as invaders,
coming we know not whence, but as proud as the
English are to-day OF their white complex
IONS and sprIDgDg, too as the infaiblc evidence OF
language shows, from the very same original stO:k
with the English, gloJiDg as selfconfdently as
these same English do in their superior genius, en-
ghtenment and energy, aud in the very style OF the
letters which come from India to-day (or did few
months since) stigmstizing the inhabitants whom
they found in the country as "niggers' and idola-
ters, and heapipg execratonS on their heads. These
sane black idoaters are also spoken of as Children
Of the sun-a metaphor which We employ to-day
in relation TO the negroes-whe the invaders
claimed to be children of the moon which in
SanscIt as in German is not woman but man,
and the want of warmth in whose beams might
seem to typify the GOODNESS of the climate whence
these invaders came.
Rama, the hero of the S.nscrt epic poem Of the
Ramayano, fo1r ines as long as tho Iliad, and
supposed to be thousand years older-though all
Hindoo dates, even as revised aud reduced to the
standard of humanity BY European critics, are
nothing but corectures resiing upon raths; slight
fourdatiOns-was King Of o Ide. So WAS Vicra-
msdtya, who is copjectured TO have lived abOut
the ChIiitan era-a great patron of letters, and
whose court vas entertained by dramas 10 Sanscrlt
some CT which may nov be read in English trans
latiors. The time however, came in which the
"t.ice born, the regenerate, the profoundly 10
",tIucted in the Vcdas," found themselves in their
tuIn TIE spoil of Few inv aston by foreign people
of bost e religion. At the close of the twelfth
century, Dude submitted to the Sultan Of Ghuzoee
II became subsequently an integral portion of the
Eupiie of Delhi, and in the time of Akbar-a
co.emI oIa,y of Queen Eiizabeth-a Subah of the
Mogul Empire founded by Baber. Upon the
breaking up of tie Mogul Empire about the mid
Ole of the lss. century Dude, together with Alfalfa
bad and sCme other districts, fell into tue hands OF
Suiah-ud Dowab, the Vizer of the empire, who in
1854 invaded BeI GAL but ex 2erenced total defeat
fom the English, whose performance IN India
was LOW just commencing, aud ahose ally and
dependent the Vizier became.
From that time to ths, under a succession of
princes of this family, of whom Ghuzee-ud-Deen
was giatifed by Lord Hastings with the title of
King plying the formal remuneration of a de-
pend, on the titular Mogu Emperor, the reality
of which had long since disappeared. The govern
ment Of Dude has been carried on according to the
traditional policy the "good old rule, the simple
"plau' which has guided the Mohammedan con.
queIOrs since their first entrance into India-eyery-
body preyipe on his weaker nelghbor, aud every.
body suffering all the wrongs which stronger
than himself could infct-a miserable system
enough for the weak aud peaceful but which for
the bold shd hopeful seems TO hold out attractions
similar to those which make filliousterirg ideas
so popular with certain class Of our own populs-
ton The collection of the revenue, in fact all the
cueIaiions of Government, have been carried on By
means of on armed force. The practice has been
To farm all the revenues to large contractors.
who then collect them at their OWE risk and fof
their own profit. These spectators not only de.
mard The assistance of the troops but levy re
tain. RS Of their own TO enforce their claims on de
fsuliipg tax payers. Many of the Zeminiars oc
cupy forts or fortified residences, having abou
them large bodies of armed retainers of their own
In short, every man carries arms-eyen the ryot or
cultivator walks TO the field with sword and shield
at his back-so that the general completely of the
population of Dude in the late instruction is not 80
much TO be wondered at. The same constant state
Of struggle fraud, alsehood and every art of man.
sgement alternating with force-prevais at court
and in every department of life. Yet this state of
things detestable as it appears to US, has its st-
fractions 10 those who, if they the victims of IT,
see also before them the chances of being the
gair ers by it, It fascinates like lottery Of which
tho few splendid prizes serve to blind the eyes
10 the Lumber of blanks and the cost of the
ticket. The European looking at Dude saw
Justice perverted, humanity outraged, debauchery
and ylsiny everywhere triumphant, the lard held
by brigands; women imprisoned, dishonOred,
scourged and mutilsted men dragged BY robbers
from their flaming houses 4! night, beaten with
CLUB, scadsd with boiling oil, hacked 10 pieces