Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-20
From tie Glasgow North British Nail, Oct. 2s.]
- THE INDIAN REYOLT.s

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From tie Glasgow North British Nail, Oct. 2s.1
THE INDIAN REVOLT
The truth is beginning to leak out respecting the
causes of the revolt IN India and the why re-
bellion still shoulders In that unhappy land The
truth too. is of such character that we confess we
would gladly shut it out from eyes were it not
necessary condition of future safety that the policy
it reveals should be thoroughly understood and rad
ically changed It is very plain from the latest &C.
counts that although the is at an end so far
seige operations and pitched battles are concerned
yet dsafecton reigns throughout and our dominion
is no more than a military occupation, maintained
by continual and bloody, though desultory fighting
Maun Singh and Tantia Tepee (the latest mail re-
ports) are occupying the attention of several Brga
diers and their columns, and notwithstanding that
the enemy are "cut up"-as the brutally and un-
soldierly phrase goes-by thousands and euIbutes
into rivers in all directions STILL in our most recent
conflicts with one of these chiefs, four officers were
put h0rs de combat, and one of them killed; while
the other nsurgent leader has taken 1.-THE large and
wealthy city of Jhelra Patun" fined the bankers of
the place ten laos of rupees and become possessed
of forty pieces of new artillery, ammunition and
provisions of war to considerable amount Ma
piers column and Gen. Nichols force are about to
combine for future movements, not against Tanta
Topee only, but against other nsurgent chiefs who
continue their Independent forays. In the Baudor
district Rummunt Singh and Punjab Singh, with
the remains of large force, still lurked and COM
mitted great deal of havoc Rohilcund has been
disturbed, and in carrying an intrenchment there,
900 OF the enemy were killed and all our officers in
action Qive) were wounded. Brigadier Douglas was
to open the campaign in Bahar, during the present
month, with 5000 Europeans and 1000 Silks; sew
eral functions of brigades were planned, and when
they shall be effected Lord Clyde will be at Luck
now, and columns everywhere in motion" Such
are few of the items of series of events reported
by the Bombay correspondent of the Times which
he looks upon with satisfaction as showing that he
is justified in taking "a cheerful view of our
circumstances than some, who look upon the -Jel-
lion as still possessed of much vitality" A post
script of the latter sustans the sangune opinions of
the writer by sketch of the details of the outbreak
of the disarmed Sepoys at Mooltan, in which :" 400
or 1900 unarmed men, rose and attempted to seize
one of our most important fortresses" on the I'd of
last month"; and killed an officer before they were
driven out, or otherwise accounted for" This is
| the present state of British India, which is now
overrun by $4,000 European troops and host of
native auxiliaries, which as yet no man seems to
have accurately numbered. This is the condition of
the Queens new empire at the moment of her SOW
ereignty being preclamed and surely that critical
change ought to be taken as fitting occasion for
inaugurating new mode of dealing with Indian af-
fairs, both in discussions at home and in actual
government on the spot. There has been enough
of Boosting, in Parliament and the 71mes of the
justice and mildness of rule in the East-there
has been more than enough of vacillaton and truck
ling in the Acts and Councils of the Indian Govern
merit of "cuttng up" miserable fugitives in the
field, and Of blowing Sepoys from the mouths of
guns in environments. 1t is time that we should
consider what all this bloody work has been about
time that We should seriously SEEK in the expert
ence of the past for instruction to guide our policy
in the future We are glad, therefore, to find that
the special correspondent of the Times ventured-
though with faltering and timid hand very differ
ent from that which welded his Crimean pen-to
point to certain features in Anglondan society, the
existence of which indicate at the causes of the
late revolt and the prominent difficulties in the way
| of future governments "SomehOw or other lsays
Mr.. RusselD even before the mutiny, there was
rift bottomless, and apparently causeless separa-
ting the European from the native, and increasing
in breadth every day." Upon this text he hangs an
exposition of the mutual relations of Anglo-Indians
and natives which, we regret to say, is according
to our own information, very far from being exag-
gerated; and which goes long way towards ex-
planning upon human principles those atrocities that
unaccounted for, men shuddered at as utterly dia-
boical Of late years the accident of color has
formed a complete barrier not only to domestic or
social intercourse between the two races but to the
ordinary courtesies and kindnesses that belong to
the relation of master and servant The old habit
of recprocating the respectful and friendly ceremo-
MES of Oriental life with of dark skins has Civ
en- way before Yankee hatred of black blood en-
tirely alien to the right British nature "The hab-
tofspeaking of all natives nggers has recently be-
! come quite common Every man of the mute tur-
baned le who, with crossed arms, glistening eyes,
| and quick ears stand motionless along the mess
room table, hears it every time native is named,
and knows it is an expression of contempt"
AN INDIGNANT WoxAN.-Some "horrid wretch
having ventured on the opinion that " a woman who
| loves unsought deserves the scorn of the man she
loves" is shot dead by the following from lady