[332] The History of India, by Meadows Taylor, p. 710.
[333] Curiously Mr. Cobden was among the few Englishmen who both knew and cared. In a letter to Mr. Bright, dated the 24th of August, 1857, he says, “From the moment that I had satisfied myself that a feeling of alienation was constantly increasing with both Natives and the English—we had some striking evidence to this effect before our Committee in 1853—I made up my mind that it must end in trouble sooner or later.”—Morley’s Life of Cobden, Chap. XXV.
[334] Meadows Taylor’s History of India, p. 713.
[335] India under Lord Dalhousie, by the Duke of Argyll, pp. 57-60. Sir J. Kaye says that the Indian army consisted, in round numbers, of 300,000 men, of whom 40,000 were Europeans.—Kaye’s Sepoy War, Vol. I., p. 341. When Lord Canning reached India the Native army, as a matter of fact, consisted of 233,000, the Europeans of 45,000 men.
[336] Now we maintain in India one English to every two Native soldiers. Dalhousie maintained one English to every five Native soldiers.
[337] See on this curious subject Kaye’s Sepoy War, Vol. I., and Appendix, p. 619.
[338] “The Mutiny would perhaps never have occurred if British officers, turning themselves into missionaries, had not fostered the notion that the Company was anxious to convert its subjects to Christianity.”—Walpole’s History of England, Vol. V., p. 430.
[339] Holmes’ Indian Mutiny, p. 82. India under Lord Canning, by the Duke of Argyll, p. 77.
[340] Parliamentary Papers. Mutinies in the East Indies, p. 1 et seq.
[341] Meadows Taylor’s History of India, p. 720.