If the Duke of Argyll will give a quiet hint
to Col. Mallesou,— person with eyes and brains just appointed Custodian to the Rajah of Mysore,—to see if he can find out what is doing among the Mussulmans of Southern India, he may prevent mischief of a very serious kind. Something is brewing down there which bodes us no good. There may be unreasonable panic among the Madras- sees, and there is violent party feeling about the new organization of the Army; but, nevertheless, there is too much, much too much, smoke visible. It is, we take it, really true that faquirs are preaching treason to the Mussulmans ; that they are specially addressing the sepoys ; and that the Wahabees are multiplying with astonishing rapidity. We do not like that story from Vel- lore at all, exaggerated as it may be, nor the peculiarly Mussal- man character of the movement. An insurrection in Southern India would be Mussulman, and its centres would be, not Hydra- bad, where the reigning family is She,ah, but Mecca and Mysore. There are means very well known to the Indian Government of ascertaining if anything serious is stirring, and we have a kind of smell that it is time to use them.
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