A scheme is evidently being pressed for using Sepoy regiments
against Russia, and the Times' Calcutta correspondent warns the public that if they are to be so used, the number of European officers in each regiment, which is now seven, must be increased_ Thatis true, but that is not the only objection to the use of Sepoys in a European war. Supposing them to be beaten, they would have given us no aid, and supposing them victorious, they would have learned the only lesson we do not want to impart,. that Sepoys can defeat white troops in the open field. How long would the Sikhs, after defeating a Russian army, remain content without trying to conquer India for them- selves ? The Times' correspondent thinks regiments might be raised of Mussulmans alone. We dare say they might, though, be it observed, the fighting tribes of India, the Sikh, the Rajpoot, and the Mahratta, are libido° ; but what should we do with an unbroken Mussulman army when we got it back again, wild with the excitement of a victorious struggle for the faith? Englishmen may depend on it that if we have to fight Russia, we must do the- work ourselves, and not bribe Asiatics to do it for us.
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