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852 T H:E LEADER. [No. 389, September 5,...
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. » '¦ ^ Spobxi...
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SATTTBDA.Y, SETTEMBEB 5, 1857.
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REGENERATION OF THE BENGAL ARMY. The poi...
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THE CAMP AT CHALONS. Pbanoe is just now ...
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852 T H:E Leader. [No. 389, September 5,...
852 T H : E LEADER . [ No . 389 , September 5 , 1857 .
Notices To Correspondents. » '¦ ^ Spobxi...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . » ' ¦ ^ Spobxiwg Frieitd remarks that in the ' Intercepted Xetter * which appeared in our last , the correspondent talked of' cracking at' the partridges on Monday , whereas Tuesday was the First of September . "We beg to assure our sporting friend that we reprinted the passage in question textuauy , and we have no reason to think it was a "lerical error . ' Our London Correspondent , * always be-. i .., j ™ if-, h evep * *'" -- ~ —¦— T ~' ' - ¦^ ' trif ' ses ( in the -gESKifif aluriherS fj £ ^ vfi 5 & i ** *» »* ^ W eXinoTundertake to return reject *! commumoations . ^ ; . ' ~
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Regeneration Of The Bengal Army. The Poi...
REGENERATION OF THE BENGAL ARMY . The point to be kept in view b y those who discuss the measures of reorganization rendered essential by the revolt in Bengal isthat we must have a native Indian army . W e - — . , i ¦ ¦ •_« . i ltA Inoaf onfin mntfin i
believe tnac no one m me «» = » *^ .-. _—mth the necessities of our Asiatic Empire , contemplates the possibility of governing it by means of European troops alone . The English I soldier in India seldom takes part m the ordinary service of the army . Unless during a camp , he is never exposed to the hot winds and rains ; he is located at particular stations ; he is fed , clothed , lodged , and paid upon a be is
more costlj scale than the bepoy ; marched once in two or three years from one neighbourhood to another , and in the interval , except in time of war , he guards his cantonment . The English regiments , in truth , although the bone and sinew of the service are generally inactive , are liable to be disabled by the climate , are transferred from point to point at an inordinate expense , are unlit tor permanent rough work , and are at all times costly . Fifty thousand British troops cost thousand
in India , as many as two hundred natives . Of course , an improved marching equipment and the introduction of railways -would render them more available ; but , it we remain masters of India , we must have our Sepoy army . A very large proportion ot this , in the Bengal Presidency , might be com- 1 posed of Goorkhas and Belooches . Sir Charles Napieb . himself proposed to enlist twenty-five thousand Goorkhas to counterbalance the high-caste levies , drawn principally from Bahar and Oude . A certaeui wii
tain numoer 01 . gi . u uu •*»* .. ~~~~~~ < and indigenous mountaineers , but even the mixed tribes form first-rate soldiers , and although of diminutive stature , are stout , muscular , and not disinclined , as Buddhists , to keep a watchful eye over the Hindoo . A thousand of them died at Charikar , during the Afghan massacre , fighting to the last . It would be far better , we think , to raise a considerable body of these men , to be brigaded in judicious combination with x < ... nnn < inii + ii «^ i -r « - » nlr « tir » Tnianftllnneous batiiiuKv —
jljvi * v / lio ** aio . vtjiMi . * It ***" i talions of Thugs , Arracanese , and Goojers , although these might bo incorporated in the police under civil authority . Though small , they aro vigorous men , and stand the climate even better than the Sepoy . The Rajpoot and Brahman Sepoys , in truth , have been excessively costly and sometimes inefficient . The cavalry — of the highest caste—haB been superbly mounted , on horses I worth 401 . each , and its duties have consisted , for the most part , in marching from station to station at the periodical relief . Upon tho
infantry has fallen the heavy service—outpost , escort , day sentry , station-guard , revenueguard , and collectorate duties . " The Sepoys are overwhelmed with duties ihat do not belong to them — civil duties , " says Sir I ChaeIiES Napieb . Brigaded in great force at the large stations , in the presence of a I force of European cavalry , infantry , and I artillery , actually if not numerically equiva-I lent to their own , native troops might safely I be organized , especially if fifty thousand men of different races were employed upon the I plains , performing the subordinate functions of administration . Ve have undoubtedly petted and spoiled f . ^ p . itonfral Senov . If an offender , we have
allowed him to be tried by a court-martial of : u ; a /> rtn «*™ m \ PTi _ The hierher liis caste the
more personal respect have we shown him . He has not been forced upon foreign service . He has been allowed to be as fussy and aDout nis iooato
fastidious as he pleased , interrupt a march that he and each of his ' comrades may light his own fire and bake his wn oakes . His excursions among the damsels
of the bazaar have not been interfered with . We have frequently deferred to his objections to field work . We have paid him well , we have allowed him liberal leave of absence , a pension for wounds if disabled , or if worn out after fifteen years
service , and , if killed in battle , we have conferred ! a pension upon his nearest female relative . Every old Bengal officer remembers how the pastimes and solemnities of the men have been encouraged , how indulgently they were treated when soliciting leave of absence to worship their goddesses , how they were helped to pay for nautch-daneers , how , as an _ ij _ -4- ^ A . ^^ , i-Mir ^ l Trorl in lifi cntion . the juivii ¦
. a 4 JTlCU . lt HIISu Ul ICU v » »— o * . Sepoy enjoyed the . privilege of being first on thf judge ' s bill . We have permitted the army of Bengal to bean aristocracy . We have never inflicted an intentional wrong upon the Sepoy ; and , to revenge a fancied plot against his creed , he has "become a rebel , in assassin , and a monster . We have always maintained , in the midst of contradictions , that religious rancour has been a principal motive of the insurrection . That belief has IN . G ~ . A \ w f >» fi "Dfilhi T > roclam . ation , «/
U ( 3 t 51 i ( JVIliUJ- UU "J •»»»* ' — L - I which points distinctly to a supposed attempt to Christianize and Europeanize the army . We are passing as a consequence through that series of insurrections and massacres ' prophesied thirty-five years since by Mr . I Thomas Munbo ; we have ' maintained n I foreign dominion by means of a native army , which has been taught by the native press < that it ought to expel us . ' It is to be kept in view that the Sepoy , reading his News of ^ the Vicinity and Delight of Souls , and his other Hindoo oracles , has heeu stimulated to accounts ot maian
rebellion by false strengcu and English weakness . The main principle of Bengal military regeneration is to abolish the system under which recruiting has been almost exclusively confined to Bahar and Oude , among the high-caste Hindus and the Mohammedans , and so to distribute the 1 Sikhs , Sindhians , Punjabees , Goorkhas , and i Mahrattaa , that one shall "be a check upon the other . We must have no more fawning
upon insolence ; we must give the European officer authority to punish the Sepoy ; above all , we muBt insist upon an Indian education for Indian officers , instead of sending out raw and flippant youths , who soon learn to enjoy the festivals of the Hoolce and Do-| sarra , to receive with gravity tho salutation of the jessamine , aud to amuse their men by griffin antics ; who , indeed , fight and die heroically , but wlio aro incapable of comprehending the character , and therefore of con-J trolling the actions , of tho native soldier .
The Camp At Chalons. Pbanoe Is Just Now ...
THE CAMP AT CHALONS . Pbanoe is just now the scene and audience I of a great drama , of which the dencument \ mcvy be within the ^ iew of the author , althou gh it may , also , not yet be seen even by that inventive genius . Shebidan was teased for ' copy' after his play was in rehearsal ; Rossini sat down to write the Passage of the Red Sea' in his shirt , hurried out of "bed by the clamour of the arrested singers ; and it is not impossible that Louis Napoleon may be hurried out of bed in order to assist in some unrehearsed effects . When composers thus engage in works which they begin without the capacity of seeing the end , they are not always so successful as Hossini or
Shebid an . On those vast plains winch give I their name to the most popular -wine of France , Champagne , between Chalons and Rheiins—on that classic spot where stood the ancient Durocortorum , and where Charles I T \/ T . __ t , _ U / . n 4 . 4-V . rv Vi / iw-loa r » f A rrrrTT . K ofnnrla j . j . j ^ m ^ m ^ 1 / ivtAVA
jyjL . A . JviMjXj ucau uiit > uuiuvw v * . ^ . a- . . .. u now the camp of the GaTde Imperiale of NAPOXiioisr the Thibd . Yet this is but the preface , the introduction to the great pageant . 6 \
The body is respectaoie : it comprises j , aovj men , with 5950 liorses , under command of G-eneral Saint Jean d'Angext . The Emperor himself did not enter the plain until he had performed a sacred duty . A new order has just been founded , full also I A i ¦ /» . Ti . * ~ i _ — Via rlitil-inmiicnOn it is i uiauiugii ^
of dramatic iorce . > u w . » . u by a medal , of which the Iiidependaace Beige says , Ifc was determined by the Minister , and as good as settled , up to the last moment , that the medal should be called Medaille de \ la Vieille Armee ; when suddenly , in the evening , the Emperor sent directly from ma cabinet the order to the Moniteur to proclaim the new token of merit as Medaille de thus lounaeu
Sainte Selene . Having rue order of St . Helena , Napoleon the Thibd sets out for the Camp of Chalons , inviting to folioav him his Marshals Pelissieb , Canrobert , Bosquet , and Baeagttay d'Hixliers . How many classic associations gather round the Imperial Eagle on this plain ! But yet greater things are preparing . The corporal condition of the men is provided for in a contract with Messrs . Hiiiscn and Block , two G-erman Jews , who have underio buii
taken to kill daily thirty oxen , ana the meat to Government at the rate ot ninety-nine centimes ( just ten pence ) per [ pound . This is really a low rate for France , where some prime parts of meat lately have been selling as high as half-a-crown a pound ; but soldiers are favoured . The officials are to provide for the souls of the warriors . An arrangement has been made with Monseigneur Morxot , Archbishop of Paris , who , during the manoeuvres , will reside at Bhoims ;; and the troops will thus have distributed to them
To give the more distinction to the p ace , a roaffninceut pavilion has been provided lor Napoleon the Thibd . Made of ; blue and white silk , it surmounts a hig h lull , whence he can overlook the whole camp , and tiie open Champagne for many miles round Here he will preside over grand > "ana » vi c « , festal reviews , and gatherings of the lociu gentry or visitors from Paris , and all thai can hang round the hcad-quavters of an army debi
Bgnedto have its political aivu > w »* : "" " - at homo as well as its military influence abroad . rpufl But this , we say , is only the preface , i « enmp is to be inaugurated next ^ A lrf the Bishop of Chacons . Until that ti . no Clmmpagno must not be regarded na » temple consecrated to the Eag le , the uia Imperialism . Hitherto there has been o . niy tho Imperial Guard , but ultimately nnnn menso camp is to bo formed . A 8 F , ^ f wiU be built , for tho permanent edification
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/12/
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