The correspondent of the Times telegraphs from Calcutta that the
Kooka insurrection has been suppressed, and thirty-nine of the in- surgents executed. That is very prompt, to say the least of it, as the rebellion had been put down, perhaps if anything a little too prompt, a little too much like the old method of governing Ireland. It is a great trouble to keep insurgents in prison, and every religious rebel is in India dangerous, but we confess to a "sneaking kindness" for the haughtily humane policy of the old East India Company. Their habit was to let anybody talk all the treason he liked, plan all the revolts he could, and persuade any fools he might. When he got beyond that and descended into the streets, he was attacked and, if possible, shot, but if taken, treated as a prisoner of war. We are invaders there, after all, and executions are open to this immense objection :—It does not pay to surrender, and a swift surrender of rebels is very convenient for their lords.
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