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A MAHOMEDAN'S ADVICE.

[From the Ptmjabee, May IS.] The following has been sent to us by a friend at Delhi. It is from the pen of a Mahomedan, of some intelligence, and containing as it does his opinion on his countrymen and his creed, is worth attention :— With God's grace I have been spared the fate of many of my Mahomedan brethren. God the one, and only God knows the secrets of every heart, knows that neither myself nor family ever entertained disaffection towards the British rule. We have for three generations been pensioners. The rebellion in which both innocent and guilty have perished, has been brought about by Mahomedan fanaticism, in the wild delusion, that the Prophet had decreed that the British rule should only last for one hundred years after the battle of Plassey ; and that after this the Mahomedan's power would be as supreme as ever. You are acquainted with the history of Hindoostan. I need not tell you that similar rebellions used'to occur, and will now continue to occur, so long as the British place confidence in any but their own. We Mahomedans are not true to ourselves, or to our God, how can we be true to those whom we are taught from our infancy to consider inimical to our religion 1 Few Mahomedans like myself venture to think for themselves, but are bigoted to the early notions inculcated by our Moulvees, and spiritual teachers j to argue, or think freely, would be considered the crime of crimes. It is a fact that the Sheeas would kill the Soonies, and the Wahalees both, though the three sects are essentially Mahomedans. We are not true to each other, how can we be expected to be faithful to the British ? The rebellion is not over yet, the British are making a greater mistake than ever j they formerly, as a precaution, only entertained 900 Hindoos to 100 Mahomedans, they are now entertaining 900 Mahomedans to 100 Hindoos; they are thereby increasing the firing and reducing the water, and I know the tenets of my own faith. lam perfectly satisfied that the mere consideration of pay will notalter or restrain my brethien,in their moral obligations to the Prophet, and we shall have all these horrors and murders again. I, as an individual, with my family, though of the Mahomedan faith, are well wishers to the British, and hail their rule as a blessing to our country ; hence when the rebellion was going on in Delhi, I showed my loyalty by communicating with B. and C. It was God's will that I should be a traitor to my own — it was my fate, hut my life having been spared, tolls me that though I may have violated the tenets of my oithodox faith, yet God, the only God, has made it the instrument of saving my life. In telling you all this, as my friend, and one to whom I must ever be indebted for past kindness, I would venture to suggest a few policies. Ist. Do not depend on the integrity of any native army, whether Mahomedan or Hindoo. Have European soldiery. 2nd. Never "teach the Natives of India the ail of war, the use of arms, the cannon, it will only be turned against their masters, as proVen in the late rebellion. 3rd. Let your revenue treasuries and military magazines be confided to the care of Europeans alone. 4th. Do not have any independent states, no royal pensioners ; remember the cub of the tiger, caged ever so young, has had while in its mothers womb instilled in its nature the thirst for blood. sth. Do not suppose that any Mahomedan serving a Christian master can ever be honest, be the amount of his salary what it may. He serves only for gain. He will deceive you, and be corrupt; his dis. honesty, for serving a Christian, is the only atonement he can make to his Prophet. It is the only hope for pardon. Integrity would be perdition to his soul.

The Paris CoNrEitENCcs. — The Independance Beige gives, on its own authority, the following analysis of the particulars of the first three re-unions of the Paris Conferences : — " The first sitting was completely absorbed by the verification of the Powers, and by the performance of the usual preliminary formalities. But at the secord meeting the question of the re-organization of the Danubian Principalities was introduced, when the French plenipotentiary opened the discussion by formally proposing the union of the two provinces. Lord Cowley then demanded that the order of the discussion should be regulated by precedent, and that the initiative of the propositions should be lej't to Turkey first, and then to Powers boidering upon the Principalities ; that is to say, to Austria and Russia. This proposition, supported by M. de Hubner, was unanimously adopted. But Fuad Pacha, instead of piesenting a project of organisation, or of indicating at least the essential basis, contented himself with presenting the desiie of the sublime Porte to see the question regulated by a common accord, and to the satisfaction of all the Governments lepresented at the Conference. As'to Austria and Russia, their plenipotentiaries shrouded themselves in a complete reserve. The following sitting gave rise J;o some animated debates, and the question was then put in mere precise terms. M. de Walewski re-introduced his plan of union, and presented the bases of a project of reorganisation, according to which Moldavia and Wallaohia would each continue to have his hospodar ; but would be regulated by a common con&titjution, and would have but one and the same legislative senate. The English plenipotentiaiy having reminded his colleagues that, in virtue of the decision taken at the preceeding meeting, the initiative of the proposition had devolved in the first place upon the representative of the Porte, Fuad Pacha, declared that his instructions did not permit him to submit a formal proposition to the Conference, and that they only prescribed to him to oppose every discussion having for its basis the union of the Principalities. The Austrian plenipotentiary, to whom then belonged the initiative, proposed to discuss the re-organisation. M. de Hatzfeldt (Prussia) declared himself without instructions for that discussion, and demanded that they would begin by examining the state of the relations of the Danubian Provinces with the Porte. The Conference concluded by perceiving that the instructions of its members were not sufficient, and that under these circumstances every discussion would be without result. It is then, after having refused to inscribe upon the protocol the plan developed by M. Walewski, as well as the proposition of M. Je Hubner, adjourned to the 10th, in order that its members should furnish themselves, in the interval, with fresh instructions, more complete and precise. Accor. ding to what we learn from Constantinople, the Porte immediately transmitted to Fuad Pacha an order to take an attitude more distinct, and to com., bat energetically every project of union.

Holloway's Pills as a Remedy for Dyspepsia. — No one who has seen the effect of Holloway's Pills in cases of dyspepsia, can believe for a moment that this depressing and dangerous disease is incurable. The patient who has suffered from it for years, whose strength, appetite, and cheerfulness, seem utterly gone, to whom life is a burden, and who has long ceased to hope for relief, may be radically'cured by a course of this powerful stomachic and mild aperient. Innumerable instances' of this kind abound and are on record, all over Australia, Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand. '

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Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 324, 16 October 1858, Page 4

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A MAHOMEDAN'S ADVICE. Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 324, 16 October 1858, Page 4

A MAHOMEDAN'S ADVICE. Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 324, 16 October 1858, Page 4