New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-15

Europeans are fore j /. im s.'e. Upcsun,ry the
.ivcs keen lhisr ~. uu: te rtqii1i ieur o. ..c
,-ryi,,. .,., i~ zee .Tcer- =" fe h-ft. d,ybf. A.
/ wter unrlfe tat,- piarc Fri IN Consequence they
r,p, rally r.fr, ted hy uiue deck "a ia .euin
TIE cu-tur. f ri-ns esry - Cilclit eEabl-s lie
rrsi.- MI iu s-, f'fr t"'.rr i.t..kh- the s.fg
,.riiuc b.ng tie "rY ggr "i i' hay until ~ -er
,e wttu rsrIcisr = p"rtlh.r =. d." ln.gn eli. ss.
From FIVE I'll seven ~ ih- "orIl- the Il litau l.
cred with iadi-s eId -itleu norrsok: but the
eresi.st how y ~ tie evening. lrou ia! pact five ~
-rseI. Between tfrsr huuTs, every C.ic4.ts.
who car nlp.tcr any y-iir. - ~ hri-.H - %.
Strand, Which then cros lid .iyd- fsls the
scaeou. TIE 'qgipate- nre sie - ti.a, very haai.
sCnc. hut entirely Egehsh II .iye, even when they
beioi lu rich natives le rpgrnaen arr al natives,
and eeteraly We, lon, h.rrd-. TLcy it.yc r,m.rk.
abs wei. Earii carr age t.ls T. Tl4ry se,--ss ur
groom theI- h,r,-s. Thy sr- N'-.-ln ls of
peculiar oasie. aii vv-r short tsht-iti.n. JACKET
alc fiat iuIbaI t- lower par. ut n r Dp.y 5-iag cnv
cred by i tightly <ouid dto'te -ilch -Iyes -Ir i---
bare. They carry 10 tir hand- te csoHree or tail pi
the Itll't goat t't-a 1lth h.i D.. die Win las,
running aloL- size 4 III horse. -y brl- way il-
D,s. ines. saee-es wi run for almost any distance
with carriage, or after the morse u,ou winch te!r
master rides AID ry-cnuutry their rudurluce = yitel
pnt 20 severe tests. H. Cacr ~, huwpv r. the
roads IN tue hainn very crowisi, tine oi'a.--s
gcrGGu; allowed Ia sir on "a, f"-tbycri. D-,jie
the neat tlrn-uut- uf the Europeans, tur
Strand tie equip-ges # the rcn natives, wiich are
also il the Lrglsh style, but much sayer, eich ctr-
mage beirg often accompanied ~ ur eight .er-
wants including "siiscr-,tirh' The owner uf all
this syeI will s alone t. back reat pf ts- car
riape, oiytsled of all ciotbiGg, if BcaEaee bah,,
except fLe linen dho'ce from the wai-t downward.
Ihe,e taboos, native 4!erchauts are often -Ilof-
Ousy rich and live IL handsome Iouse-, 1Dd IN ~
elegant style, a. the most sesl'hy Europeans. Ihey
ape the English customs I" grrat ext'nt Ine nzve
princes many Of whom live at Calcutta on large PEN
sions irum the company als) app- 1r IA TIE irfe.
Their carriages and attendants commonly similar
o those of the baboos but wlth them dress Is great
Grafton, aud their costume is reqqrntly mas"h-
cent. Beside these large carriages, there are cr"ws
Of buggics, containing vilcrrs and grn'lenrn anh
great mauy c0raachees, miserable trpken-dVsn rt
of garrhee, urpanted, NJ washed, Drawn ny sln-e
animal ed skeleton of horse, and driven by iabei
niggGr who peIcies The narrow bnN'seat, holding
tie rol e-leiis with ole hand aud with the utrr ply,
ING the whip with nurcmittlrg diligence. Iirse
caranci ees sight snch can br seen nowhere
Else than IL Calcutta They are commonly nlei nltl
Bergaoe ccIks Or drank party OF sailors from tue
shps III the harb"r. In contrast with thrSe arr me
Arab horse-dealers, who come u Calcutta With Arab
horses fOf sale, and who take advantage "i the even
ing to show of their tees, r.ng them ut ui speed
acros the grassy esplanade Tey dress IN lsose and
graceful robes Of brightly conirastei cJors, tlef
horsenanshp il magnificent, ard their horses combine
every perfection hut size, which s the one drawback
10 an Arab horse.
His account of the SepOys, OF whom we have
lately heard so much, will be read with interest.
IL was at Calcut.a that fret saw the Sepoys. or
mnre t,rurery .SpdLces from sipa tue Persian word
for u bow. They were better looking race oi mt
than the Bcrgalces, being recruited up-cou try Their
uDor Was similar that oi English soldiers, except
that their shake had 10 leather peak, which woiin oe
an offruse 10 their caste. The SepO,s always Looked
better when off duy their native dress, than when
in uniform, they had not the prominent chest OF the
European and the heavy red coat seemed most IN
appropriate dress for the climate. However. tney
very proud Of 1t, and much di take the Tan
cy Of the natives, ,hst years ago II was introduced
into the arcs of all the independent native princes.
| Tie Sepoys made good troops generally ana would
| fight well enough IN company w'th European resl-
n.ents Of which the Honorable Company had seven,
and the Queen generally twenty or more, III india
Tie English regiments wear IN tins hot climate, an
undress uniform of white cotton, witt cap oi The
| same, having q white tnrbaD wound around II.
urban found to be the best protection against the
effects Of the Indian sum- and European ever goes
out without one round his hat.
The great trouble with the Sepoys was that they
were always too much petted. Their pay was higher
than what they could Gained by any other orcu-
patton and far higher than that OF any army IN Eu-
rope If the expense OF the necessare' OF lie ne taken
into account. The lowest wages OF SePoy were SIX
rupees Der month more than double tue ordinary wa-
ges Of laborIIg man, and sum which wonlf equal
$50 10 10 in this country. Their caste high, ami
| its requirements sxacting; they could not pass the
limits Of Ipdia, eat certain food wear certain clothing
or cook their meals in hess than a certain number Of
hour, which were necessary Tor the performance OF
the religious ceremonies which are obligatory IN the
preparation Of a food to be eaten by Hlndoos ln oil
these respects their preudices very properly re-
spected but when they refused to dg in The trenches
| at MoOan, and white did the WORK nnder brol-
ing SUM- while the nggers looked on and snecred at
them il must be acknowledged that tue government
was rather too cOmplasaDt and when white soldier
could be logged with five hundred luahes, by order OF
| a roginental court.martal, while Sepoy could not
be touched with the lash, it must he confessed tnas the
regulations Of the army were both unjust, aud calcl
laed to give the native soldier altogether too high
idea Of his own mpCrtance-pGrtlculGrly as every M
tive is accustomed to be iogged and kicked nom his
earliest infancy and never hesates to use such dlsc
| pine on others. The extent to which this system o
petng the native soldier was carried ON IN Indla IS
hardly credabe For tine last few years il wss scaice-
" possible to punish Sepoy for any ofense, tue pro-
cess oi sending the sentence up for approval being 50
| LONG ard uncertain. The result was that discipline
4 became relaxed, and the men naughty, imPeruncnt,
ana impatient of the least hardship. Ii Is this state
| of things which has caused several minor m1tines
during the Last twenty years and has at last eUded IN
the feocious outbreak, and grand uLed effort
to step into theI masters shoes. These remarks ap-
ply Inrcpally TO the army in the Bengal Pres
! idencv. which was mainly recruited in Dude, from
the hIgn caste Rapoots. In the other Presidences,
and in the Pun lab regiments of the Bengal array, the
men were of low caste the reqnli enens OF their rei-
eion few or n0ne and the discipne much sric'er.,
The result has been Dat they have almost without ex
! ception remain cd latul-the wayering of some of
the Bombay regiments being probably attributable 10
~ er having been raised ia Dude; though, not being
Raipoots they would probably under ORDINARY circii-
| stances have made good soldiers as any otncrs.
Tue natives Of India make excellent mercenaries as
they are 80 split up into naoLs and csStes, taa. they
! can be easily played against one another; AM have
little patriotism that they Will serve whoever pays
best. This - great secret OF the wonderful spread
of the British power in Iuda, and only on sc-
count Of the negligence OF the government which re-
cru'ed the Bengel army almost entirely from one
caste. that il possible for the nssators of the
recent muny, to proiuce arv unanimous and sympa'
thetc action among the various resilnen's Hai Tue
Bengal army contained men Of ell castes, and Of sew
,rsi dfereft rgtiuIs TO general rising could ever