Glasgow Courier. — 1857-10-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LETTERS FROM INDIA.  The following is an extract from a letter received in Glasgow on Thursday, dated Ca'cutta, Sept. 23,1857 : Ou'r troops are now beginning V) arrive steadily, every second day brings some, and we all feel that the rascally Sepoys' day of triumph is over--the reckoning is at hand, and the hope of every man, whose heart is in the right place, is that it may be a reckoning which the black children 'yet unborn shall narrate to their descendants with a shudder. My only fear is that the Government will restrain, to the utmost in their power, the ministers of punishment. They give evidence of their disposition in that respect already; and I have not the slightest doubt that most of those who escape our soldiers' bayonets will find grace at the hands of our miserable rulers. It is strange the infatuation of the men in authority here; the niggers' servile fawning disposition-gets over the big-wigs in power; and the same man who would—Roman like—make over to death his own countrymen, would pardon the mild Hindoo and truculent Mussulman for an offence differing only in its deeper shade of atrocity. I dined at the mess of H.M.'s 35th at Barrackpore, a few nights ago, and the officers of that regiment say that they are carefully excluded from seats in a court-martial for trial of mutinous Sepoys, because they insist on a sentence, the same as they would if the criminal were is European ; the law is the same for both—death. The temper of the officers and men of that regiment burns very fiercely against the Sepoy, and they would seem to have hut one wish on earth, and that is, leave to avenge their murdered coun,rytuen and countrywomen. Oh ! that Cawnpore tragedy was a frightful one. What a cry of indignation will resound through England when it reaches; and yet! believe our government could spare these foul murders, if the European soldiers put it in its power to do so. Some 40 fellows that were caught at Cawnpore, it is said, were let off by a court-martial. Tne 78th Highlanders, it is said, pursued and bayoneted them. It is a feeling which in ordinary warfare should be deprecated, but encouraged now. I saw a dozen men of the 93d Highlanders, landed from the Mauritius steamer, yesterday—kilt and phllabeg—splendid fellows. I never felt so proud of nil countrymen before. The disarmed Sepoys were squinting at them from behind the circle which had gathered round, and the halfcastes, who had never been out of India, kept up a constant stream of visitors to them. A big upcountry native merchant came to ask me what soldiers they were in that dress. I told him they were not men, but fiends—something half men, half women—and, therefore, very savage—that they used no weapons in fight, but simply seized their foes by thigh and neck, and broke their backs over their own hare kuees—pointing to their hare knees and absence of arms just at the moment. My native fiend put a greatrr distance betwixt himself and them immediately. It is a great shame that they should be kept so long on board ship in the river. Government say that accommodation cannot be found on shore, until others are despatched op country. Yet they base a  magnificent pile of buildings, a Mahommedan school, which would house two regiments, and another pile, a . Ilindoo school, capable of accommodating as many more. , Our governors hesitate to wound the feelings of the mild Hindoos and truculent Mahommedans, but bestow no care on the brave fellows who keep life in the wornout old hack, the East India Company. The following was received by Thursday's mail :