The Sun. — 1857-10-02 (London, England)

NANA SAHIB. Our soldiers and sailors could not slaughter unarmed men, and helpless women and babes, much less torture them. As to Delhi, let the citizens fairly disprove all complicity with the mutineers, and we would spare their lives and their property too ; but one thing is certain—that while the mutineers were yet few, they stripped our countrymen's daughters, exposed them in the public market place, caused them to be insulted in the most revolting manner, intentionally fixed the deepest pang they could in the bosoms of their English relatives at home—indeed we have reason to believe dishonoured them to death. All 13311 d saw this done. Delhi did not interpose. D ihi saw a'l England insulted with the bitterest of insults, in the persons of these young female?, and D 31Iri stands accused of abetting not only horrid tortures and murders, but the lastof dishonours to our nation. Let Delhi disprove the accusation, and it will be sufficient retribution, then perhaps to level all its Royal buildings, and to erect on them at the cost of the inhabitants, a monument to their own eternal infamy, with a suitable inscription in all t'ie languages of India. But if tho city .be guilty as we suppose it to be, then we do say Gilt not one stone should be left upon another, that the inhabitants who were not deserving of death, should be permitted to remove elsewhere, and build a new town, or resort to others, but that Delhi fait on an obelisk, should be all that remained of this vast but guilty city. Let all Asia as well as India know that England could pardon, if it became her, but that she could never pardon wrongs done to her helpless ones, the public dishonour and cruel butchery of her women. A city where such deeds could be done ought no longer to exist. The rtiaforcements have now begun to arrive.  The avenging stream of indignant soldiers has begun to move along the course of the rebels. Delhi even may have fallen by this Vine ; and if slowly, yet as irresistibly as a lava stream will our soldiers move onward. They will march with the consciousness of the noblest inspiration that ever animated men and Englishmen ; and we should not be at all surprised if the mutiny collapsed almost at once. As soon as the wretches, now fighting with the discipline, arms, and ammunition we have given them, know that some forty thousand of their last and invincible conquerors are really landed and advancing on them, every miscreant among them will be but too glad to flee, if he can, and if that b 3 impossible, to protest on his knees, and with hands uplifted to heaven, that ha was forced into mutiny against his will. Some regiments, hopeless of mercy, and knowing themselves to have sinned beyond forgiveness, may prefer facing our cannon and our rifles to being hung on the nearest tree. But as 1 for the majority, we should be by no means surprised to hear that, when once sure that we meant to remain lords of India, the difficulty will be to find a regiment of them together. Some grave punishment, however, must await all the mutineers. The lives of those who have not murdered 1 their officers, or fired a gun against the English, may, indeed, be spared, but even simple mutiny at such a crisis as this must be visited with outlawry or slavery—perhaps, as one writer suggests, with slavery in the West India Islands. Of course only for this generation. Any how, we must get rid of some seventy thousand mutineers, and also of the villains they have liberated from gaol,