A Sowar has just brought a letter to me from the Colonel saying that the General has got a telegram that the 19th Native Infantry at Berhampore have refused to use the cartridges served out to them, and that yesterday a Sepoy of the 34th at Barrackpore raised seditious cries in front of the lines, and when Baugh, the adjutant, and the sergeant major attempted to seize him he wounded them both, while the regiment stood by and refused to aid them.
The 19th are to be disbanded, and no doubt the 34th will be, too." "That is bad news indeed, Major, and looks as if this talk about general disaffection were true.

Had there been trouble but at one station it might have been the effect of some local grievance, but happening at two places, it looks as if it were part of a general plot.

Well, we must hope it will go no farther." "It is very bad," said the Major, "but at any rate we may hope we shall have no troubles here; the regiment has always behaved well, and I am sure they have no reason to complain of their treatment.

If the Colonel has a fault, it is that of over leniency with the men." "That is so," the Doctor agreed; "but the fact is, Major, we know really very little about the Hindoo mind.

We can say with some sort of certainty what Europeans will do under given circumstances, but though I know the natives, I think, pretty nearly as well as most men, I feel that I really know nothing about them.