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overcome But here was no time given for any preparation. 
When least expected, and in some instances even when con- 
fidence was being placed in the men under them, the 
miscreants turned upon their officers, and committed the 
most cold-blooded murders. One shudders at the perfidy, 
and asks, can it be men who have been guilty of these foul 
deeds, and such vile treachery? And who were the muti- 
neers? Among whom arose this frightful rebellion? Lord 
Shaftesbury shall supply the answer: 
“ It arose from a monster of our own creation ; it arose from an army 
pampered, flattered, over-paid, and unworked ; it arose from an army that 
we had raised by discipline into the attitude it had assumed, and having 
given it that discipline and that knowledge of arms under the military pro- 
fession, by our foolish system and by our neglect .we allowed it to acquire 
a sense of its own importance and the conviction that it could act inde- 
pendently of its European officers, and that it was as capable as it was 
willing to take the empire into its own hands.” 
Surely these wretches are dyed with blood that nothing on 
earth can wash out, and have been guilty of crimes which 
far exceed the power of imagination to conceive or language 
to express. Atrocities like those they have perpetrated are 
altogether unparalleled in history. 'Tis a sad story ; the 
mind sickens at its recital, and wishes it untrue. 
“One heart heavy, one heart light ; half in day, and half in night. 
This globe for ever goes. 
One wave dark, another bright, 
So life’s river flows. 
And who among us knows, 
Why in this stream, that cannot stop, 
The Sun is on one water-drop, 
The Shadow on another ?” 
PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO E. N. GABRIEL, ESQ., 
SECRETARY TO THE ROYAL COLLEGE OE VETERINARY 
SURGEONS. 
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