New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-01

OF late. These jungles have sOw for nesnJ "sn'
months served a. a retreat to insurgeut paraes'
who have been able to render very insecure hs
Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Aiianaoao'
the main communication Of the British.
In Western Inda, the Gwalior insurgents are
still followed up By Gen. Roberts and Col ho'e''
At the time of the capture OF Gwaior IL was
question Of much consequence, whst dirrc'ou
the retreatinR army might take; for the wnoe
of the Mshratta country and part OF Rsjpootans
appeared ready for q rising IS soon as SUI
hciently strong body Of regular troops arrived
there to form q nucleus for the instruction.
retreat of the Gwaor force in south
westerly direction then seemed the most likely ma
peuver 10 realize such result. But the nsur-
rents from reasons which we cannot guess at from
the reports before u.s. have chosen north.westery
direction. They went to Je!pore, thence turning
south toward Ocdcypore, trying to gain the road
| to the Mahratts country. But this roundaoouI
| marching gave Roberts an opportunity of coming
up with them, and defeating them totally without
any great effort The remnants of this body,
| without guns. without organization shd ammunl'
ton, without leaders of repute, are not the m'n
| who are likely to induce fresh rislnss "a
| the contrary the immense quantity OF plumber
which they carry along with them, and which ham,
pers all their movements, appears already to have
excited the aydity Of the peasantry. Every straa-
Cling Sepoy s killed and eased of his load Of gold
mohurs. If it has come to thet, Gen. Roberts
may safely leave the final dispersion Of these Sepcys
to the country population. The loot Of Scndiah''
| treasures by his troops saves the British from
renewal of the insurrection in squsrter more dan.
gerous than Hndostan; for rising IN the Mahrstts
country would put the Bombay army upon rather
severe trial.
| There is fresh mutiny in the neghborhaod Of
Gwalior. A small vsssal Of Seindiah. Msun Singh
| (not the Maun Singh Of Oude) has joined the
| insurgents, and got hold of the small fortress Of
Paoree. This place, is, however, already invested
| BY the British, and must soon be captured.
| In the mean time, the conquered districts are
gradually pacifed. The neishborhood of Delhi, it
is said has been so completely tr4nqullized BY
Sir j. Lawrence that European may travel about
with perfect safety, unarmed, and without an es-
cort The secret of the matter IT, that the people Of
every village have been made collectively responsible
for any crime or outrage committed on its ground;
that military police has been organized; and above
al that the summary justice of the Court Martial 80
peculiarly impressive upon Orientals, is everywhere
in full swing. Still, this success appears to be the
exception, as we do not hear anything of the kind
from other dstricts The complete paci6cation of
Rohicund and Dude, 81 Bundelcund and many
other large provinces, must yet require very long
time and give plenty Of work yet 10 British troop
| snd Court .Msrtials.
! But while the insurrectiOn Of Hindostan dwindos
| down to dimensions which deprive it Of almost oil
military interest," there has occurred event far Of
at the utmost frontiers Of Afghanisi T. which is be
with the threat offuture difficulties. conspiracy to
murder their officers and to rise against the british
has been discovered among several Sikh regiments
| at Dera Ismarl Khan. How far this conspiracy
was ramiied We cannot tell. Perhaps il was mere
ly a local affair, arising among peculiar class Of
Sikhs; but We are not in position to assert this.
| At all events, this is highly dangerous symptom.
| There are now nearly 100000 Sikhs in the British
service and we have heard how saucy they are;
they fight they say to-day for the British, but may
! fight tomorrow against them as it may please
God. Brave, passionate, tickle, they are even more
subject to sudden and unexpected impulses than
| other Orientals. If mutiuy should break out 10
earnest among them, then would the British indeed
have hard work to keep their own. The Sikh'
were always the n.o., ,rlsble opponents of the
British among the natives Of India; they have
formed comparatively powerful empire; they are
| of a peculiar sect Of Brahminism, and hate both
| HindoOs and Mussulmans. They have seen the
British "rsj" in the utmost peril; they have con-
tributed great deal to restore it, and they are
| even convinced that their own share of the work
was the decisive one. What is more natural than
that they should harbor the idea that the time has
come when the British raj shall be replaced by a
Sikh raj that Sikh Emperor is to rule India from
| Delhi or Calcutta 1t may be that this idea is
still far from being matured among the Sikhs II
may be that they so cleveriy distributed that
they are balanced by Europeans, 80 that any rising
could be easily put down; but that this idea exists
| among them must be clear, we presume, to every
body who has read the accounts Of the behavior oi
| the Skhs after Delhi and Lucknow.
Still, for the present. the British have recon
| quered India The great rebellion, stirred upby
the mutny Of the Bengal army. is indeed. 1t ap-
| pears, dying out. But this second conquest has
not increased Engsnd's hold upon the mind OF the
Indian people, The cruelty of the retrbu,ion dealt
out by the British troops goaded ON BY exaggerated
and false reports of the atrocities attributed to the
natives, and the attempt at conhscntlng the King
dom Of Dude both wholesale and retail, have not
created any particular fondness for the victors.