The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-12


physical decline, which has been laid to us by
European writers, and with more truth than we
care to ADMIT. 1t only needs little outdoor
exercise to bring up the physical stamina of our
youth. The stock is good enough yet. The
trouble is in the rearing, training and feeding.
PROSPECTS, OF THE BRITISH IN INpIA.-The
Indian news by the Fulton does not accord
we'll with that by the last Cunard steamer,
though seemingly both refer to the same Indian
mail. The Africa brought intelligence (by
telegraph in advance of the maiD from India,
which, according to the commercial circulars,
had depressed the stock market. The Fulton,
four days later, reports on the contrary, ga
variety of British successes"
However the discrepancy may be explained
whether another Indian mail has been tele-
graphed or the details of the last were incor.
rectly analysed by the telegraph-certain it
seems that the English must be beginning to
realize the terrible position in which they are
placed in India, and the absurd mockery of de-
bate after debate in Parliament on abstract
theories for the government of millions, who, it
is now pretty clear, are in no hurry to put
themselves in the way of being governed again
by foreigners. The little army commanded by
Sir Colin Campbell is not only insufficient to
keep the country in subsection, but is actually
dependent on its native allies for bare existence.
Even the loyal correspondent of the London
Times confesses that were the Sikhs to abandon
the English, the best that the latter could hope
fOr ho coco 20,
The Sikhs are three to two, and in some places
two to one, of the English. They can stand
the heat, which the latter cannot. They
can live upon q handful of rice, while
the English require substantial food, and plenty
of it. They are at home. How long, with these
immense advantages in their favor, they will
continue to do the heavy work of the Europeans
and conquer the country for their benefit, re.
mains to be seen.
Meanwhile the Indian dog days are upon the
Europeans, with their necessary sccompani-
ments-sma'lpox, jungle fever and sun strokes
Our fearful heats would be there considered
mild, pleasant weather. 1t is with the thermo-
meter ranging, in the shade, from los degrees
to lis degrees that these Englishmen, in their
woollen coats and bearing their weighty KNAPP
sacks, are running after the naked sun-born
Hindoos through the most deadly part of the
Indian jungle. or the strategical consequences
of this heat, one may form a judgment from the
item of news brought by the last mail, to the
effect that the COMMANDMENT Chief had with
drawn the bulk of the garrison from Lucknow
which post will probably be reoccupied at no
distant day by the rebels
To understand the pending Indian war, one
must fancy the Florida war magnifed ten thou
sand times. For every hostile Indian that there
was in Florida when the war broke out, Hindos.
tan contains ten thousand natives who are hos
tile to the British; but it will be as hard to SUBJ
due the ten thousand as 1t was to catch the one
and the expense Of money and men will be pro-
portionately increased. The Hindoos may be
beaten over and over again in the field; but that
they ever can he conquered again it takes
very sanguine Englishman TO believe. God
gave them capacity to support extreme heat
and to live upon next to nothing their Euro
pean masters have given them arms and disci-
pline-the two are calculated to make them I'M
comparable.