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    NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . * A . Spobxiwg Friend remarks that in the ' Intercepted M *^ T whi ch appeared in our last , the correspondent tateed of' cracking at' the partridges on Monda ^ , whereas Tuesday was the Fust of geptem&r . TVe beg to Assure E ^ E" ^? , * ^ £ ^ Printed the pa ^ age iiTftS S 2 SiS S& ' - l ^? - T ^ no reason to thini it was a ftJTO-naiHA « . — . . ^» , uaii « oi « i »» io- « i »» . iv . aBS IHl JUO true spirit of a lurcher ; from the night jbefore the First . "Wecannot undertake to return rejected communications . ^ v ^^ —m m ? jf c m ¦ *^ ^ mm - ^ ^ s > ^ ^ B ^ ^» ^ - ^ __ - — - _ ^_

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    REGENERATION OF THE BENGAIi ARMY . The point to be kept in view by those "who discuss the measures of reorganization rendered essential by the revolt in Bengal isthat we must have a native Indian army . "We believe that no one in the least acquainted mth the necessities of our Asiatic Empire contemplates the possibility of governing it by means of European troops alone . The English soldier in India seldom takes part in the ordinary service of the army . Unless dimng 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 more costly Bcale than the Sepoy ; he is 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 unfit for permanent rough work , and are at all times costly . Fifty thousand British troops cost , in India , as many as two hundred thousand natives . Of course , an improved marching equipment and the introduction of railways , ¦ would render them more available ; but , if we remain masters of India , we must have our Sepoy army . A very large proportion of this , in the Bengal Presidency , might be composed of Goorkhas and Belooches . Sir

    Charles Na . pieu himself proposed to enlist twenty-five thousand Goorkhas to counterbalance the high-caste levies , drawn principally from Bahar and Oude . A certain number of them , might be half-castes 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 eve 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 Europeans , than make up miscellaneous battalions of Thugs , Arraeanese , 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 .

    infantry has fallen the heavy service—outpost , escort , day sentry , station-guard , revenueguard , and collectorate duties . ' The Sepoys are overwhelmed with duties that do not belong to them — civil duties , " says Sir ChaeIiES Napiek . Brigaded in great force at the large stations , in the presence of a force of European cavalry , infantry , and artillery , actually if not numerically equivalent to their own , native troops might safely be organized , especially if fifty thousand men of different races were employed upon the plains , performing the subordinate functions of administration . —

    we have undoubtedly petted and spoiled the Bengal Sepoy . If an offender , we have allowed him to be tried by a court-martial of his countrymen . The higher 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 fastidious as he pleased about his food , to interrupt a march that he and each of his comrades may light his own fire and bake his own cakes . 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 agriculturist often involved in litigation , the Sepoy enjoyed the privilege of being first on the judge ' s bill . We have permitted the army of Bengal to be an aristocracy . "We have never inflicted an intentional wrong upon the Sepoy ; and , to revenge a fancied plot against his creed , he has "become a Tebel , an 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

    been confirmed by the Delhi proclamation , 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 . Thomas Munko ; we have ' maintained a foreign dominion by means of a native army , ' which has been taught by the native press c 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 oraclea , has been stimulated to rebellion by false accounts of Indian strength 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 Sikhs , Sindhians , Punjabees , Goorkhas , and Mahrattas , 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 must 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 Dosarra , to receive with gravity the salutation of the jessamine , and to amuse their men by griffin antics ; who , indeed , fight aund die heroically , but wlio aro incapable of comprehending the character , and . therefore of controlling the actions , of the native soldier .

    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 worth 401 . each , and its duties have consisted , for the ^ most part , in inarching from station to station at the periodical relief . "Upon the

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    952 TH - REAPER . [ No . 389 , September 5 . 1 SK 7 »*« . — . - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ mBfcM ^ fcj ^ Mfc ^ H ^^^^^^*^^ ' ¦— - ¦ .

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    THE CAMP AT OHALONsT -Fbanoe is just now the scene and audience of a great ; drama , of whicn the dertcHment maybe withm the view of the author , although it may , also , not yet be seen even by that in-^ > FT' S ™«»*« r was teased for copy after his play was in rehearsal ; Rossini sat down to write the < Passage of the Red Sea m his shirt , hurried out of bed b v the clamour of the arrested singers- and it is not impossible that Louis Napoleon mav be hurried out of bed in order to assist m some unrehearsed effects . "When composers thus engage in works which they begin without the capacity of seeing the endthey are

    , not always so successful as Rossini or Shebid an . On those vast plains wliich give their name to the most popular -wine of France , Champagne , between Chalons and Rheims—on that classic spot where stood the ancient Durocortorum , and where Chakles Mabtei , beat the hordes of Attila , stands now the camp of the Garde Imperiale of NAroxEoisr the Thtkd . Yet this is but the preface , the introduction to the great pageant . The body is respectable : it comprises 20 , 250 men , with 5950 liorses , under command of G-eneral Saint Jean d'Angeit .

    The Emperor himself did not enter the plain until he had performed a sacred duty . A new order has just been founded , full also of dramatic force . It is to be distinguished by a mediil , of which the Independaiice Beige says , Ifc was determined by the Minister , and aa 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 hia cabinet the order to the JMbniteur to proclaim -f cVie new tolcen of merit as Medaille dt .

    Sainie Selene . Having thus founded the order of St . Helena , Napoleon the Tiued sets out for the Camp of Cb&lons , inviting to follow him his Marshals Pulissiee , Cankobert , Bosquet , and Babagttat d'Hillters . 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 . Hmscii and Block , two G-erman Jews , who have undertaken to kill daily thirty oxen , and to sell the meat to Government at the rate of

    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 Mori , ot , Archbishop of Paris , who , during the manoeuvres , will reside at Rheims ; and the troops will thus have distributed to them daily rations and daily benedictions .

    To give the more distinction to the place , a magnificent pavilion has been provided for Napoleon the Third . Made of blue and white silk , it surmounts a high lull , whence he can overlook the wliole camp , and the open Champagne for many miles round . Here he will preside over grand manoeuvres , festal reviews , and gatherings of the local gentry or visitors from Paris , and all that can hang round the head-quarters of an army designed to have its political and social influence at homo as well as its military influence abroad .

    But this , we say , is only the preface . The enmp is to be inaugurated noxt Sunday by the Bishop of Chalons . Until that time Cliampagno must not be regarded as a temple consecrated to the Eagle , tho idol ot Imperialism . Hitherto there has been only tho Imperial Guard , but ultimately an immense camp is to bo formed . A groat circus will bo built , for tho permanent edification ot

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    SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 5 , 1857 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 852, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/12/