Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-05-11
British India and British Lies.


 British India and British Lies.
 During the earlier months of the revolt in India the newspapers were filled with accounts of atrocities. committed by the revolting Sepoys. Crimes, whose details were too revoting for ut- terance, and acts that none but fends would have been guilty of were charged upon them. The pictorial newspapers had double-paged wood-cuts representing delicate women in the grasp of terrbly-looking savages and children writhing in the agonies of death.
 Ladies of rank and quality, as if the disgrace and suffering were less intense to the poor, were said 10 have suffered every indignity that could be inflicted and then tortured to death or driven to the commission of suicide. Names, places and dates were given with particularly that left no room for doubt in the mind of the nearer or reader. Columns of the papers were filled with accounts of these atrocities; stories illus trative of the perils and suffering of the English residents were published until all over Chrsten- dom feeling was awakened of resentment and desire to see the supposed authors ot these outrages condignly punished.
 The whole of these stories were false, every word ie Recent disclosures in parliament shows that there is no authenticated instance of any violation of females, and that the story of certain females who having suffered outrage and indsuities refused to disclose their names and lived in retirement at Calcutta, proves also to be sham. These charges were the more readily believed because it is matter of his tory that there never were more cruel tyrants than the East India Company, or more abject and oppressed race than the natives. Living on rice only and in times of scarcity dying by thou sands for want of that worked till the powers of endurance were exhausted, liable at any mo- ment to have wife or children torn from them, as it might please any member of the company, tortured on the slightest provocation, oppressed and down-trodden, it was not surprising that they would retaliate But they have acted 1t appears with forbearance and for semi-savages with maguanmity.
 An exchange says:
 
 made up by the British journals during the ear Her months of the Indian revolt has been seve- ra times exposed within the past few weeks Mr Mangles, M F. and East India director spoke as follows in the House of Commous- 10 prove how exaggerated were the state meAts with respect to the atrocities which were said to have been committed in Iudia he might mention that he had been informed hv Capt. Lowe, who had acted as alde-de-camp to Sir A. Barnard, aud who had been engaged throughout the whole of the seige of Delhi, that he had been unable to discover that there had been the slightest foundation for the char ges which had been made against the Sepoys Iu that respect notwithstanding that a strict ill., vestiLatOu as to the truth of those charges had been made and he might also adduce in sup port of the view which he advocated the case of Mss Jennings whose death wa, sad to have been preceded by the Iut ctIOu of the most h1r- nd suierugs, uOtwjthstaudiu. that 1t was how established beyond doubt that Il had not been attended by any circumstances of a-grlvation. hen, agalm. with rel gard to the Inscriptions which were sad to have been found written on the wall of the room where the women bad been confined at Cawnporc, he had been tod by an afjcer tcto lCas present loith Me E1gltsh army Mat on dae first day oten Hs troops e,terel Catcn- J~7e there 1ere no such inscriptions Hsere, and uat they had been ,oriten subsequently, by some person ,0do hat q strange taste for e1ag3sratina Hte reai horrors of h.e spot
 correspondence which had passed between Mr. w. uargreaves and the Earl of Shaftcsbury, is published in the Morning Sar. Mr Har- greaves does not alude to his lordship's equi- yocatons as to the letter from the h hjghest lady ID lndIa,' but as his rlahip stated that he had positive knowledge of cases of mutllation Mr. Harsreayes begged to inquire whether the tes- tmOuy On which he made the statement Was uu- ,haken. : do this,' said MT. Harpeayes be- cause it has come to my knowledge, that the relief committee at Calcutta has not found any cases of the kind referred to in the public press and eisew here, that the directors of the India Company have discovered none, and that, to the best of their belief none have come down tAe Gauges or have been landed at Soulhamp- tou. Moreover it has been stated on every good authority, that d lady advanced in years, has expressed to the board of directors wish to leave a portion of her property by will to the untortunatcs referred to, but that the directors have been unable to find a single case
 Mir. uargreaves ecited three short notes from the p.ous Earl, in the first of which he simply stated that his belief ln the facts mentioned in the various papers was still unehake' ; in the second he refers the inquirer to the writer of an anonymous letter in the Times and lu the third he refers him to some oue in Ida.' Sp the murderous falsehood having done its work of blood iu India, and having swiuded a crowd of fools ln these countries, Is allowed to drop. But a British lie traverses the world. We ind by the late mail that the people of Australia are stIIl frantic about the Sepoy atrocities"