. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . of n Free Subjet:t A TICKET-OF-LEAVE. the pavements of a church were the last placein the world for the burial of the dead. TheMinister concluded that England was the lastcivilized country in which people still insistedin accumulating the putrefying bodies of thedead amid the dwellings of the living. As toburying bodies under thronged churches, saidhe,
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . of n Free Subjet:t A TICKET-OF-LEAVE. the pavements of a church were the last placein the world for the burial of the dead. TheMinister concluded that England was the lastcivilized country in which people still insistedin accumulating the putrefying bodies of thedead amid the dwellings of the living. As toburying bodies under thronged churches, saidhe, you might as well put them under libra-ries, drawing-rooms, and dining-rooms. 344 UNIVERSAL HISTORY—THE MODERN WORLD. CHAPTER CXXX.—SEPOY iOM 1854 to 1856, the at-tention of Great Britainwas almost wholly ab-sorbed with the events ofthe Crimean War, andwith the terms of thetreaty by which that con-flict was concluded. We shall hereafter noticethe conditions of settlement. For the present,we pass on to consider the next great event inwhich the history of England found expressionin foreign lands. This was The Sepoy Re-bellion IN India. Tlie outbreak of the in-surrection belongs to the year 1857. The re-volt and its suppression covered some of themost tragical circumstances which history hasbeen called to record in modern times. Inorder to understand the fundamental characterand shocking incidents of the insurrection, andof the methods employed by Great Britain forthe restoration of order in India, the groundmust first be cleared with one or two prepar-atory studies of the state of Indian civilization,and of the style of the British Government atthe time of the outbreak. The field which here opens before us is ofalmost inf
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