New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-25

vapce, than there is genera heller shelter II tbs
20 Is to bring the crow ded rabble - stop, ttsy
fall peil nell, and without sny resistance under tie
yol.ys ard bsyOnets Of the advancing British. The
British bay onet has done more execution in aoy
ore tf these oIslaughts on paDic.stricken natives
than in al the wars Of the English in Europe aud
America rut together. In the East, such bayonet-
battles. where ole party only active and the other
sbjectly passive, are regular occurrence IN war
fare: the Burmese stockades In every csss fur
pisbed an example, According to Me-. Russeus
account. the chief oss suffered by the Briti.h was
caused By Hindoos cut of from retreat, and birri-
caded in the rooms of the palaces whence they fired
from the windows upon the officers in the court
yards aI8 gardens.
In stormipg the Imsubarra ard the Ksiserbash,
the boiling of the Hindoos was so RAPID t6atne place
Was not taken but simply marchedinte. The inter-
est;pp .cepe. however, was now only commencing;
for 81 Mr.. Russell blapdy observes the conquest OF
the Kaiseibseh on that day was so unexpected thar
there was 10 time to guard sgainst inds'riulnste
plurder. A merry scene it must have been
for a true, liberty loving John Boil to see
his Briti.h g,en.diers helping themselves freely
to the jewels, costly arms, clothe' aud
all the toegery Of his Msjesy OF Oade'
The Skbs, Ghoorkas and camp.followers were
quite ready to initiate the example, and scene OF
plunder and destruction followed which evidently
surpassed even the descriptive talent OF Dir. Russell
Every fres step in advance was accompanied with
plup6er and devastation. The Kaiserbagh had
fallen on the 18th; and half hour after, discipline
WAS at an end and the officers had lost all con-
msnd over their men. On the 18th, Gen. amp
bell WIS obliged to establish patrols to check pldu-
de,ipg. and to remain in inactivity until the
"present license ceases" The troops were evil
IDENTIFY completely out Of hand. On the 18th, we
hear that there is cessation Of the grosser sort
of plunder, but dey astaton is still going on
freely. In the city, however, while the vanguard
we're lighting sgairst the natives fire from the
houses, the rearguard plundered aud destroyed
to their hearts content In the evening, there
is another proclamation against pluudering; strong
parties of every regiment to go out aud fetch
in their own men, and to keep their camp
followers at home; nobody to leave the camp ex-
ceps on duty. On the Goth, recapitulation of the
same orders On the same day, two British "Offi.
"cers ar gentlemen, "Lieuts. Cape and blackwell,
event into the city iooting, aud were murdered IN
ga house," and on the Goth, matters were still so
bad that the most stringent orders were issued for
the suppression of plumber and outrage; hourly roll
calls we're instituted all soldiers strictly forbidden
to enter the city; camp-followers, if found armed
in the city, to be banged; soldiers not to wear
arms except on duty, and all non combatants to be
dsarmed. To give due weight to these orders,
number of triaDgles for 1oggng we're erected lat
proper places
This is indeed pretty state Of things in civil
lied army in the nineteenth century; and If any
other troops in the world had committed one-tenth
of there excuses, how would the indignant British
press brand them with infamy But these are the
deeds of the British army, and therefore we are
told that such things are but the normal conse.
quences Of war. British officers and gentlemen are
perfectly welcome to appropriate to themselves
any silver spoons, jeweled bracelets, and other
little memorials they my find about the scene OF
their glory; and if Campbell is compelled to dis
arm bis own army in the midst of war, in order to
stop wholesale robbery and violence, there may
bave been military reasons for the step; but surely
nobody will beerudge these poor fellows weeks
holiday and little frOlic after many fatigues and
priyations.
The fact is, there is no army in Europe or Amer
lea with so much brutality as the British. Plum
6erDg, violence, massacre-thiDgs that everywhere
ellie are strictly and completely banished-are
time honored privilege, vested right of the British
SOLDIER The infamies committed for days TO-
gether, after the storDng Of Badsjos and San Sc
bastiaD, in the PeDnsuar war, are without par
aIel in the annals Of any other nstion since the be-
ginning of the French Revolution; and the medl-
eyal usage, prescribed everywhere else, Of giving
up to purder town taken by assault, is still the
rule with the British. At Delhi imPerious mill
tsry considerations enforced an exception; but the
army, though bought of by extra pay, grumbled,
ard now at Lucknow they have made up for what
they missed at Delhi. For twelve days and nights
there was no British army at Lucknow-nothng
but lawless, drunken, brutal rabble, dissolved
into bands of robbers far more lawless violent and
greedy than the Sepoys who had just been driven
out of The place. The sack of Lucknow in 1858
will remain an everlasting digrace to the British
military service.
If the reckless soldiery in their ciyihzDg and
bumaniziDg progress through IIdia, could rob the
natives of their personal property only, the Brit
i.h Government steps in Immediately afterward
and strips them of their real estate as well. Talk
n G. kL.