The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-12
INDIA.

The adyices by the present mail being only to April
23d later in date than those received by the Bonn
bay mall on Thursday week
The Hurkaru published at Calcutta speaks OF news Of
rebellion every side and Of three armies being in the
field against us, while the Engshman shows that no de-
cve blow struck and that the rebels dispersed all
over the country
The Calcutta correspondent Of the Times saws it is not
imagined that the rebels will make any great resistance
except at Barclly, but there danger of desperate
effort to escape Their plan is said to be- to trust to
their legs to oumach and press for Central India
and Bombay
There they will find new army to tamper WITH and
population which has not forgotten that it paid
taxes out Of the plumber of the rest of India.
This is our real and permanent difficulty. We cannot
march 20 miles day and the rebels accomplish 40 rcgu
arly and sixty when hard pressed Gradually as this
pindarec developes organization will be modified
by necessity and body Of light horse which march
like Makatta cavalry with pack horse herman must
ultimately spring into existence.
Meanwhile the rebels swarming into the Doab the
telegraph is interrupted between Cawnpore and Futtic
har and in that district Etwah and Mywporit the of
GERS are hardly pressed
There is kind of guerilla going on everywhere.
P Two or three thousand rebels ravagc Pcrgunnah Ma
urally its inhabitants plead inability to pay revenue
They league with the rebels to escape the tax The ma
gistate sent out flying column which have been tempo
rary lost The villagers have knocked our system ON
the head renstated the old laookdahs and either killed
or dismissed the The rcinstatei landlords fight
to the DEATH and, though politically powerless form
remedy OF raising an armed native poll is not without
danger The writer says the present nondcscpt army
will prove some day a serious embarrassment. A Sikh
chief has warned British officers that the Skhs IL left
idle, will be worse than the Hindostanees.
Light divisional batalions of armed police being
raised In Bengal one half of whom to be Skhs and
the remainder men without caste.
There has been no rain In Bengal only two inches
for six months, and the crops suffering severely If
the drought continues there will be real distress for food
thing not known in Bengal for eight years past
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times says the proc
ianatiOn has not been Withdrawn sOftencd but that
Mr. Montgomery has received blanche to deal with
each he chooses. His is to compound with
the arisoccy, and the landholders finding that the
chief gives them their property are coming TO him fast
There Is, however, little hope of the pacifcaon of Dude
for months. We hold JnIy the city, and that VIC
compelled to fortify again,
The Northwestern officials, long devoted to the
village system admit that the native aristocracy is
essential to security and that without permit
ting andhods to grow permanent, peaco is almost i'm
possible.
CHINA
Our dates from Hong Kong to April l3 Our d.
pOmatic relations have taken unfayorable turn Re-
ambassadors to their communication with the court
Pckin
The said to be proposed for the settlement Of the
existing dicultievz: to discuss the question at Can
tarics and has decided Lord Egn Baron Gros and the
Russian and United States ambassadors to proceed once
to the Teentsen.
At Canton all is quiet but the people in the neghbor-
hood doubt still nimica to us, and 1t would re-
quirc exhibition of force to constran them The in
structions left with those in authority Il il understood
prevent such from being followed
Newspapers from China assert that Lord Elgn had de-
cared himself ready to employ force penetrate to Pc
kin itself The Journals express hopes that Teentsein
situated about 60 miles from tho capital would be easily
taken. demand for gunboats for river service had
been made The Chinese authorities continued their tor
lures to all suspected to be favorable the allied pow
ers, and to the throwing open of the ports