The Plague riots reported from Mysore should teach the vernment
of India a lesson. They clearly were not directed zainst the English authorities, for they occurred in a native ,tate, said to be in remarkably good order under the manage- ment of a Hindoo Maharaja. He is, however, an " en- ghtened " man—that is in India a man with Western ideas -and he either ordered or sanctioned preventive measures ;Must the Plague, particularly, we imagine, a camp of ,gregation, which excited violent animosity. A crowd corn- psed of both Hindoos and Mussnlmans on the 18th inst. ndeavoured to rescue some prisoners sentenced at Seringa- itam for breaking the rules, and, being defeated, called in n thousand men from the surrounding villages, and made a desperate attack upon the fort, which stands upon an island a the Cauvery. Many even swam the river, and the police ad a small body of cavalry were compelled to fire, killing .iany, though the number is not stated. More than a hundred _irate were subsequently made, and reinforcements were sent .n from neighbouring cantonments. The people of Mysore, a fact, think the precautions ordered by science far more dreadful than the Plague. Killing them for that erroneous pinion may be morally justifiable, though we doubt it ; but is clearly unwise. The Government, European or native, should adopt all the precautions which the people do not :late, and then leave the matter to time.
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