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C. 8., Coloael ststroass, Omptain Lynch, Mr. Mimeos Wire, and Mr. her Cuody. ilto 1•011 D MAYOII, nod As Mow* 030101U1Si0140111, ankh had been sidisomi by Meer to the tloveruor-G emmel ei lens " Marks Home, August 28 "My Lord.—l hors th• phostus to somoosoo to yaw iamEsmcy that an influential public roman eras held yes- Wig at the Mansion House foe the para., of memorise ear etaeere and heartfelt sympathy with our fellow-country • me sew sufferiee in .evenly from the calamitourt events in laNs. A °inmate. has been formed for the porpoee of raid's( teeth, to be Owed et your Excelleacy's dupe), for &s Immediate relief of the most wawa' came of distress, and Ilion now ibs great entirfectiou of stating that a sum of won i.p., es. fan instalment, is payable to your Ez reilleney's ceder, at the Agee Bank, in Calcutta. The cem enting will fed greatly obliged by your Fanner:ll7's giviag work dietetics@ as you may deem advisable for the dietribus Mem of the fund. now eret, sod they look with confidence to ben Ate to remit orotitunus instalments by the ensuing mac " I here the honour to be. &c.. ( 8 0 , d) " T. Q. FINN IA: . The lord Mayor also read the following trunslatinn of • gate oddreond by lamed( to the French Ambemador "Albert-gate, 28th August, t 827. "My Lord Msyne,—Lrerning that roe hare opened a sub atelption for the families of the victiins of the dreadful mar WPM in ladle, I hasten to forward to you, in my own pri nate character. the sure of 1001 for that purger. " Accept, I bog, my compliments, and the tossrssos 0 1 10 7 ligh coneiderstios. " The Ambassador of Trance, ( 14 1 riled) " F. on PER,trINT," Cocos the motion of Alderman Wins, eeconded by Colonel HIV, I , rIBAOII, this lento was entered upon the MillOtrel. Mr F.,RRIIST (the secretary) mated that the subscriptions already re-eived amounted to .early 3,0001., and that com maturations were about to be mat to the various bankers likroughmit the kingdom tequesting them to take charge of ineeleas. Beene routine Diviner arm then transacted. end a rote of I Ilhostra to the Lord Mayor terminated the proceeings. • It may be mentioned that under the meddenry of the Lady Mayorae esveral ladies have firmed themselves into goat committeee for the pupate of I:enacting faede for the setlema namely, Mr.. henry Chapman, Mrs. Pennon, t f act .l..eithild, for Wansteed ; Mrs. Edmund Pally far , Mrs. H. Ford Bardery, foe Waltheunsterw ; Mrs. butem. for Leyt o nn o n a ; s ad Mrs. Wire, for Leninism no Lady Mayoress will be al the Mansioe 11 , 42•10 re Teem seurafema from to tot o'clock, to receive subeerlptkine sneer iaquiria. THE INDIAN MUTINIES. THE AFFAIR AT AGRA. The following letter is from an officer of rank who took part in the action: "The mutinies, of which you doubtless heard full descriptions, have become general throughout this Presidency ; the one feeling that seems to exist amongst the native army is ' Death to the white faces, and sad has been the loss, I fear, to many an anxious family in England. In Agra itsel f we managed to keep things as straight se possible until about a fortnight ago, when we heard - of the arrival of the Neemneh mutineers within thirty miles of this; and on Saturday, the 4th, the Kotith Contin• gent, mustering sonic 700 strong, of all three arms, who were brought into Cantonment' with the idea they could be trusted, mutinied and shot their ser pent-major, the officers having till escaped back to Cantonments, from the place about 3 miles off, where they were ordered to form an advance post. fleeing things getting so serious, the Lieutenant-Governor was induced to remove, although lying sick in bed, into the fort, where quarters were allotted to him. The next morning intelligence was received that the enemy (Neemuch mutineers, joined by the Hsieh Contingent, and some other Irregular rabble) were about three miles off, and. the force ' • of the Jed Etemean regiment (Bengal), a Wiry Itereptem arßlllery honed, and mme volunteer mounted horse, mustering some 70 or 80—went out to give them battle. The action lasted about two hours and a half ; but owing to one of our tumbrils blowing up from a shot from the enemy we found ourselves short of ammunition before the evening set in, and were compelled to retreat into the fort, which was effected in the most orderly manner. Considering the abort time the affair lasted our loss was heavy, some 30 men of my (3rd European i Regiment Bengal) regiment alone be ing killed and some 60 wounded ; many other officers were wounded, and one, a great friend of mine, poor D'Oyly, who commanded the artillery, died of his wounds two days after the action. With the small force we took out it was certainly a moat plucky venture, for the enemy had at least 8,000 against us, our force alto gether not making up 1,000 of all arms. I think if we had had more ammunition they would have been totally routed, for their cavalry were worth nothing. The loss of the enemy was very great, and supposed to be between 400 and 600 killed. "No sooner had our force arrived in the fort that evening than every bad character in the city rose unanimously, and commenced such a scene of burning and plundering as has not yet been seen in any town in the north-west. The whole sky was bright and lurid from the flames from the bungalows that were set on Ilre. This continued for that night, the next day, and next night, by which time almost every house war burnt and plundered of everything. Government House did not escape the general spolia tion, and I em sorry to say the lieutehant•governor has lost all his nice furniture, most of his horses, and many other things that were full of valuable and tender associations. I managed to save all his plate and books, together with some few trilling articles of furniture. Also all him will*, beer, &e., and all his clothes. His and one pair of horses are all safe under the w of the fort. My own personal loss has not been very great. Two buggy horses and a pony, together with all my pic tures and available dogcart, comprise the whole. Altogether, it is a matter of congratulation to have saved as much aa we did ; but the scene around us in this large cantonment and civil lines iemelancholy in the extreme, nothing but the bare walla of houses left standing, and the roads about strewed with fur niture and things of all kinds. " Every Christian, European and native, ham been in the fort since the 3th and hare, I am afraid, we are Intel, to remain foe some little time, until some sort of reinforcements can reach as. These are, however, coming up country fast now, some three European regimen's havingreached Cavii i pore on the 12th, but too late, I fear, to save the last little band there from destruction. Reports are reached as on the best authority of Sir Hugh Wheeler having consented to a treaty with the ruffians of mutineers outside; and no sooner had they got into their boats to drop down the river to Allahabad than they were tired into and, it is believed, all de stroyed. I trust some of the above force will reach Lueknow in time to assist Sir Henry Lawrence, for he is also getting hard pressed. Everyone is anxiously looking to Delhi being taken, when the effect will doubtless be great all over the country. I think they have found it a much stronger fort than they expected, or government even knew ; and sur rounded ea they were by shoals and shoals of the mutineers, they deserve great credit for the devotion and a orgy they have displayed in the lengthened time Valy Lave stood before its walls. The enemy mks frequent attacks, but are always repulsed with heavy loss. They are now very hard pressed for ammunition, more particularly percussion caps, which they find it impossible to make. They are now trying to turn their percussion muskets into those with flint locks, but this they will not be able to arrange. " We muster here in the fort nearly 6,000 soots, and I believe have provisions for some six months, long before which time 1 hope we shall see order restored throughout the district. Everything, in bet, depends upon things at Delhi. The delay has bees most unconscionable. Yesterday we heard the sews of the death of Sir Henry Barnard, the gene ral commanding, so that now the army will change heads for the third time. All this is most unfortu nate, but we are all sanguine of things being set right in time. We want at least twenty more European regiments out here, for after this general desertion of their trust and colours, no faith can be for a moment placed in any se v. They are all alike treacherous, deceitful, and full of hatred to all Christians, with a white face or black." The following extract is from a private letter from en officer of her Majmtre —th Regiment Barreckpom, July 20. Onr principsl duty at preeent is to watch dye regiments of Native Infantry whom we disarmed lame mouth. To do tide we are kept constantly patrolling at night, and perform ing general duties—hard work at this season. As soon aa some of the Chinese force—now daily expected—arrive, the 35th and the rewirneut now in Volt *Miens move upcountry to be formed into Dirinion et Al'anima, end then, I fancy, move upon Ouds. We shell have hard work. The' newton is sadly against us. Our numbers are small; rarer, food, and . ' • kicked, I fear, ammunition will, till reinforcements arrive from home, be very short. Never was loths in such a state. If you had been . here about a month ago—the day . before we the!diasemud sport—you would have been surprised. There was a panic. Ladies, women, children, all sought refuge ta my hoar and the Brisiadioee—the two closest to the temporary barracks of my regiment. Puor things, they were sadly to be piti ed . for alrewly there were lot. of no living in the house. and we had no comfort to offer them. A box, • table sad chair, and • small bed, are all that any of us have with ne. You have heard of the massacre at Cawnonire. Report to : day says that Bir H. Latinate@ is killed at Locket:ow ' and • number of our 32nd Regnant. Thing. are daily getting worn. C.h utt• is lilted with lachn end children *wooed from the Upper PrITMCOP. I was on board one Mesmer lath week in which 120 came down the rivet. Seine had nothing but the clothe. they eseaped in ; few anything but • change. And these sirs the daughters and wins of Britons, who • few weeks ago portend this land. If England want• to keep India, bat own Government must to*e the country under rule. Twenty-In thousand bayonets mMat be sent out at once, with • Gem] at their bead who has • wand heed on hi. shoulders, sad power to act and avenge the innocent blood that has hien so freely 'pilled. To tell you the fearful tales of horror would make your blood run cold. The government are afraid to report them, an yea at home do not now bear one half of the wont. The gowertemint ban made a PM mistake in gagging the ones. Thor. Y an. led, now in Calcutta without • non or can. Poor ebbs! I limo the in cos of many who have 'aimed in Idol fasmar. TY lbßowing is an extroct from prlvata letter C.lcutts, July 17. 1 . . Ns Mild lislien yet' —and worse. no Dews from Delhi. A IsMerr Asp Ages wwwisest the day %whey yesterday mid awry MI se am !era Dab'. This will show you bow tato mighty the country is in the loads of the rebels. Govern ment, I suppose, will be able to explain by-ad•by the attic impossibility of having organised any otamituniortion with the captured capital in two months: It otwhdaly re quires explanation. There Is no belief that govern ment knows any more than anybody elm It le dearly Tine na easily misled. The government here—l am very sorry to have to may does no w t not wand wall in public opinion. Lord Canning made • fatal mistake in ng the prem. the which, I sin assured, he wss by his s peial ma, as far is they dare interfere; but he is said to have yielded to the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal end the Bemetary to the Government of India. Every one was disposed to stand by the lard, and except hint from his miserably imbecile Council ; but he has flown st the throat of hie friends, and I think it will end in his being pulled down. There are petitions to Parliunent about the town of the Managua character, and people hesitate to alga because they are not strong atiough These peados' ill any put& paper would have lid instantly to r w ra i ir of the estabßlemest ; It could not be attempted. The Twit? . I!rfrileticinlarks, sad hundreds of 1111MM0.701 be subscribod bobr• the prom moot ooseereid Yon sorb an( about It. I With ft weld bare ben bettor that the Gororaor-Oeural bed 1~ err a ropes (If ho boo dose .0) to Bible @WNW or Mbolosoriso ; bat toe tbsemod times the mischief boo bon does by adooloeory Cobs& aad Majors plying the Meet Its to (oversewed protestations of son-interferease orbit rellstbes mem by eistribether tele* 'mow be r ma, sad warbles kr ceeveliket by *my mem ia they poorer. Tido* boomer, Leta pot of the lorlbotbe seesod by abet mope to lisheemeibm eed Hide, dim tetleedkeasollselid ef teeeilieendele. Tbs /allowing Inter is from the principal partner of ono of Use leading ems In Calcutta "Calcutta, July 19. I do not consider even Calcutta over safe, and think all women mad children should leave India in our present perilous times, although I do not apprehend any outbreak but what could be epeedfly put down. We have a good lot of troops in the fort; the volunteer guard amounts to 800 wont( ; sad the Niemen in the fiver would form another thou sad—awkward customers with muskets and rudeness.' Beside., we could muster 1,800 more Christians who can fire a sun , and we are all more or less armed ; in the face of which I do not think our Itnasulman friends would like to try it on. But that the feeling of insecurity pervade, ell claret may be gathered from the circumstance of the Go verner-General turning out the other night at twelvericlockr wick his aides-de-camp and body-guard, and riding down to the Bank, when a heavy gun was tired off, supposed to be • signal fur a rising, but which turned out to be • war elemessr's node of apprising • pilot that he area getting up stem. The feet is the people have no confidence whatever in the Govranment, they see such a want of vigour and precaution Theneands of arms are sold weekly in the Calcutta bazaars; ..all bodies of mimed native@ meet outside asthma ; sad yet, although this it pointed out to the powers, they "pooh, pooh" all Idea of &Astr, . they hays der Is every Inatome, until this hydra-headed couspirsey thrsatesedeedsetroy thew. I suppose they are fearful of hurting the feelings of the natives I They ought to dire= everybody but thou, having • linens@ to keep offensive weapons. Calcutta u crowded with refugees. The inhabitants have subscribed 8,0001. to find accommod►tion for theca, sad rad home widows and thaw without Mends or means, which is s good deal MOT, than the rcovernment would do. Is it not rather surpicions that the Queen of 0.1. took her departure for the Continent just at the time that the news of the outbreak reached home ? The following letter is from e settler in the hill °wintry et the north-west provisoes. - May 27. I due say you have often thought me a illy, toile alarmist, but perhaps the news the bat mall took home, together with the intelligence which will go by the nest—now to leave in a few days—will have given you rea son to change this opinion, if you ever did entertain it. What will be thought of the past, and present, by you good people in England—that is, if you are honestly informed of what has already taken place, and what le now going sm—l can pretty well imagine. Ime well imagine the intelligens* came upon you—the loudest and most startling clap of t►under which ha. burst on your mos for some time. What le yet to follow God only knows ; but this every men of . . common genes roost know and lee, that, should Fie be pleased to carry us through our present difficulties and pedle, nothing short of a radical and complete reform in swap branch of the public erreice, from the highest servaat to the most subordinate, es well se in the whole system cif Ms sad government, will save India to England. You may pat down, you may suppress fora time, the present mutiny and " " reurreinon—even this, as I now write, t feel to be by no mans certain—but, admit you do so far succeed, I repeat, without you follow it up by en entire and complete change In your whole conduct and system of government, you will never extinguish, never destroy, the ill feeling, the discon tent, now en generally displayed among all ranks and claws of natives against British rule. Do not suppose. and deceive yourselves, that it is the army alone who are discontented, dismantled, and mutinous; the feeling is general, and per vades all ranks and clam of natives except, per haps, in the two instaneem of the grain dealers-- I do not mean the cultivators, bat retailers of grain in towns and villages—and the native Milers belonging to one Civil Courts. To thew two clause the British Government Is perfection. Under its shade they ran rob and cheat, and lie and swindle, with the most perfect impunity. The com mand of the public markets n entirely under the selfish griping hold of the one, while the preseedinge of the courts of justice, criminal and civil. are as cotopletely 17111111 the control of the other. It is true the Senile have Pita Ale Initiative; but do not fancy they stand alone and lad am sympathy in the breeds of the net of the populates. Nies takes enough you have fallen Into already do not drop late this may-be-fatal see. The greased cartridges, you will in all probability hear so much about as the cause of the pr. sent mutiny, base In truth about am mush to do with it in producing it in the pen I am Dow writing with—ray It ts no more than • convenient match to blow up • mine in( room of loading and filling. As far as the army is taw • wood, you moot go back to the rule of Lord W. Bestir* if you wish to ascertain the origin and real cause of the present outburst. From that date the government would seem to have formed and systematically followed the plan of lower ing, degrading, injuring, the officers of the army. firefly one of what wee. previous to this period considered vested or chartered righta but ham been attacked in some way— either ebolished, retrenched, or declared to be held only by the =Serene* and goodwill of the Government we Nam ; while at the MILO time new impenitens on ourteigra small pay and allowaneee (for, think what you will of them, however liberal Indian pay sad al lowances may seem to your good people In Ragland, I can ware you to those who have to live = them they are found to be pug enough)—half batta fns ; taxes for beads ; taus for tosser ; taxes for funds, have been ten • posed ; is all this one cannot help thinking the object of go verensest kr been to reduce us to the lowest state of depend eire—at all eviate, they leave done mo. To do this with safety it wee necreary to do away with oar influence over the Brays. To attack the officers while they held the disport lion sad goodwill of the eepove at their disposal was not a very eels trick to try ; accordingly every means has been tried to learn or do away with this influence—lad. The night guards every officer formerly was allowed from his own com pany, and which oar Sepoya considered it a privilege and • plerure to serve on, were ordered to be discontinued. 2nd. In the same way, the Fund formerly always allowed to offi cers who happened to be merching from one station to an other were ordered to be discontinued. 3rd. Sepoye for merly were always allowed—encouraged—to help and aunt their officers in many little waye—euch, for instance, aa in pitching their ninny cleansing their military accoutrements, cleaning their guns, accompanying them for • day or an afternoon while out shooting, in mach like and many other way.. Sepoys when off duty were always considered at liberty and encouraged to make themeare useful to their off ore,. By this • degree of intimacy, good feeling, and cone denoe 1111101 created and maintained between officers and men, which not only gave the officer an interest and influence over his Illel3, whose character. he had thus en many ways and opportunities of ascertaining, but it attached the men to their teem; they knew him es well es he Ire= them; they told their unmoor to him , made him the depository of their little family end vine's secrete and squabbler, with the hope that, when a month or two's leave was remind, they would have his support and inters= in obtaining In. indulgence ; for any indulgence in this way, or for the re deem of any real or fancied wrong, they very seldom Indeed ever thought of looking beyond the good will of, or to any higher authority than their own company officer. Now for • ftepoy to he seen at or near his akar s quarters without duty taken him there, Is an offers e in numerous regiments. Orders have been tented most atrictly prohibiting sepoys being in attendance on their °flirt under any other pretence than public duty. ith. A &pi now fauns himself Injured or aggrieved is some way, perhaps, for instance, in promo tion; her again the officer of the company has now so little power, so little to say, that he is helpless, can do nothing for his man, and has only to rod him away diratialed and discontented. The S.poy now writes a complaint, and sends it direct to army head-quarters; this is jut what army head quarters went —• splendid opportunity to lower the officer is he rtiination of the Sepoy, and accordingly a great none is wade about the coatplaiat, sad the sepoy made to believe he le:tcose meanly tenet In these, end la other ways I elop t e e e n te his Use beams of the Alen over the news{ till et lama the omoer hes own% se llali e hi es be has influence over his nem Tweatrlive yore age, thin sorb a feeling of discon• teat and diesatishe bes jaw town Uri( among oar &goys should, or mil, have mined unimown to the regi mental officer, wee Imply next to, if not quite, isopmeible. The entire reladoneidg, If I nay so call it , between offiorn and men within that period hat bnn changed; and now, in stead of being the almerfal, faithful, obedient soldier, he is • sullen, disoontented ' black nigger," a. I &DI sorry, and still more ashamed, to my he is too often called to his face by hi. own officer. The result of ell this is simply—the officer has brooms powerless for good or for ill over his Sepoy—be luso oil intone in him or his welfare. With loss of interest follows Ines of ialluenot, sad loss of influence is simply loin of the only link by which the government held the loyalty, ettschment, sad obedience of their native army. To suppose that they could mien& them by any other hold than by the influenced the Ismer officers over the &Toy was se insane an idea a. ever entered into the hied of the wildert maniac. That influence was gospe—gons--cut asunder by the suicidal hand of our own government ; and see the consequence the metre army murrethers rising up in open mutiny and rebellion. Beth officers and Sums feel they are serving a govenr ingot In whom ward mad good faith no conikkeete, no edema son be pkosL To both °Moen and moo, the underelasttlng on widen they bet sabred the service has bee In the most unscrupulous manner violated and broken to pram by the s .d r=mt; abillgogion on their part le spunky Wad— as the pad ef the soldier le this only rearaning &Mick in the eanknat, 13s intend thin MAN SS ar linnet this,* lee pentillbe end Wield many:n i t a a , and deeerethg Aar, been abolished ; sad a system of ' promotion ado pt ed at the Horse Ouerds—promotion by ' brevet—has been partly subetituted in lieu of it; a system I which opens the door to the most scandalous abuse of autho- ' rity, and numberless instance.* of each awe could be pointed ' out old and deserving officers superseded by thole who ' perhaps had not done wearing frocks and petticoats when they had worn their red jackets through tome well-fought field.. In the same way, and on the very same score, do I our old &joys complain. Promotion now with them le not I made to depend on seniority or length of eureka, I but on smartness—Ood Mae the word—or in other sad more intelligible word., to depend on the keen end affection of some Adjutant, Commanding Ofiker, or even, perhaps, Commanding Officer's wife. Our old Bepoys are as sensible and as much alive to the Injustice and wrong they suffer and are constantly ex posed to under this specious plea, " Stuart officers—emart youngsca-comminioned officers —se lying as it is specious; se th e Z of fi cer and Sepoy—both feel it alike, and both remelt 1t alike; as some sepoys whom • friend of mine met two or three months ago, while travelling through the district, and with whom be got into conversation over their camp lire, said, when talking over the service how and what it was, "You had no right to in troduce such • change with us ; make at if you plea,. the rule of promotion for all who now enter the service, but our promotion was promised to us on very different teem ;" and, after discuseing this end other wrongs they complained of, ended by telling my friend to his admithroent, "You th ink is Goorkhae (the hill men), very staunch to your rule—and so we are, but mind if ever we are celled on to fire on the sepnys of the line (the regular re =es that is), we will not do it." This was pretty plain; try must have been not only brooding over, ben diem.% their wrongs at that time some thee months ago and, if report any. tree now, the men of this eery regiment have been se good es their word. Look at the regiments or some of them sow in Barmah —the Bengal Sepoy hates goings that country ea you would into • plague-stricken city ; he knows at beat the chances are even whether he lives there two years or not. Yet our eepoys, under a promise that they should not be kept there for longer than two years—went, and went cheerfully. Now, have government kept their promise? Some of the re giments now them are serving for the fourth year, and that after having lost by death through edema 600 men out of 1,000 or 1,100, an some regiments may have taken down with them. After thine, ean you wonder that the Sepoys are distended, dish-eda and even mutinous? Re member, they are not, like British soldier*, fighting for the honour, good, and safely of their own nation, national sovereign and national ',depen dence, all motives which actuate the British soldier as moth as the pure hope of pay and honorary owords—all motives la which pride has an lege • ahem in urging him on as any mere pecuniary coadtaration ; bat the Sepny is • merce nary, tired and bribed to fight against his own selvedge— his own independence, hie own laws and muttons and If you expect to retain him faithful to his engagement with you, you must be ecrupolosely exact end honest in the perform ance of your engagemente with him. Ton have, ran have, no other hold on hie fidelity—l wont call it loyalty—kr Malty it is not—it is the very reverse. Again, the rule in India has always been that of a military olespotiam ; it is that beet Puited to the ides' end habits of the people. Accordingly the moldier has away, been accus tomed to consider himself and ham bees neatened as the leading. the supreme power in the stet*, end you can no man 7•oobeiki his m ind —no, nor that of the great mass d the people—to the military being subordinate to the dvll, than you could an Englishmen to the civil being subordinate to the military. You might as well try to change the colour of kis skin. In nothing more than in attempting this have you degraded the character and alienated the affections of your native army—a sure as tenacious of reek and place in society as they are of religion" caste, or as your ancient English nobility art of their rank and independence. It is no more than France and others of your great continental powers ace; and why should not the warrior race of Raj mots be the same? Bat now • Sepoy not only finds him self a degraded inferior mete, but he Pees his European officer reduced to the sante low and humiliating grade—be sea his colonel, his captain, held in lees reepect, In Ism estimation than the most petty thander (kind of super intendent of police)) of any dirty little village. Up to the time of Lord Lake the feeling of superiority (and you were pied enough then, when you felt your very existeam lathe to be dependent on hie fieklity and braw ia and, per haps, even up to the fall of Bhurtpore, in I the flew steady and faithful to his colours in them saw ; his *overtire, and himself standing where immemorial custom bad placed him, next to and round about the sovereign, and his penile, his favour and approbation, was the best reward, the highest my you could give him ; but now-a-days he has nothing of the ki nd to look up to, feel • pride in following, and pleasure in obeying. You throw to him seven paltry rupees a month, you reduce him to the low level of a mer cenary, and then complain end wonder that he behaves as At the very moment I em writing this, a Geremommt Oseettele headed in to me, in which I tee a table of teak and precedence published, and here fled the other of, perhaps, twenty-dm ram' hard services—jast a quarter of a century —placed on en equality with the boy civilian of four years' eervice—pieced on the ISMS level IS one who was not actually born till after he had made his limy through some hard-woe fields. This way of estimating the services and Importance of the two may do in England bet It will not do in India. Ont bare, lower or degra& the Aker from hie proper or recognieed place and you equally degrade the &poy. And deepite, hold as cheep ea you plows the native eoldicr, rest assured this is not a thing to be done but et great risk. May 29. The above I believe to be some—by no means all but the chief, causes of the present mutiny amongst the men, and may be ell summed up ID a few words. The °Beers are dissatis fied ; they have lost all interest in their men. Having lost interest, they have lost their influence; and this gone, the native array has lost all genre of obedience, order, and reeling of attachment to our rule. But I have said it is not the waive army only but • large portion of the many millions of Hindoosten who are as dissatisfied end discontented with our rule ea the eepoys, and the rause of this is our wretched civil courts. I do believe no native ruler ever Immo& • SORT cur= on the country than our Civil and Criminal Courts, as now conducted; they are, in truth, nothing more than so many sinks of fraud, chicanery, bribery, corruption, roguery, in every okapi" and form, and it is hardly possible, consti tuted as they now are, they can be otherwise. Ido not mean to say the Europese officers of our civil service are open to bribery and corruption, for I believe very very few of theta are so ; but most avowedly I do mean to nay the native °Morro about these courts are en, and to an extent which makes all (European or native) submit to almost any injury or wrong rather than risk a complaint before Do uncertain • tribunal. Another source of the present diaallefsetion, you may de pend on it, was the disgraceful attempt made Rome few years ago to resume all rent-free land tenures where legal door meals could not be produced by the then holden. This act crested a vest amount not only of ill-will but of distrust In the eberacter of our Government. It is true the government at last abandoned the attempt • but not before they left an iropreesion on the mind of the'landholders which a century will not efface—a dread, a belief, that no man's own is one whit eater under a British than it is under a native rule. Again your annexation polity—as you facetiously enough term it—has been undoubtedly one of the cation of this viable of the natives. There is now hardly an independent proms le ft in all Ilindnoeten but feels the grasp of your " bloody hands" at his throat; that some mean petty excuse may cheat him and his descendants out of powwowns bald in their family for centuries and centuries—bald long before even the same of England was heard, far leas feared, in India. It may be—and, I believe, is said—most of the native chief@ are aiding with as; but, for once, let me entreat of you not to be deceived by any hope of this kind. Believe me, there is hardly one native prince left in India who would not raise bin hand against you when be feels he can do so with safety ; they are now only biding their time—if the mutiny among the sirys succeeds, or even gains • heed, they will be up and join. Ask yourself is this net *sterol, is it not human nature f—to ruppoee otherwise is he suppose the natty. a different elsse of beings from all the rest at mankind. Do not fall into this fatal mistake. Ask sewing ct UMW ewe now. If report Celle true some were meted, when government opened the Let loan, to cont* bete towards B; sod whet raw/ Ifl the gevenumatt get t The line of policy pursued by that man, Lord Etalhoube, and which, gainedbirn s Marquisats sad a pension of 6,0001. reer, ehoedd, Übe had his merits, hays gained his drums to , buy • rope to bog him with. Hie rub will noon peon to ham been the most pernicious, the moat dabructive to British influence In 11111111 of any Cloveraor-Cionseal who ever bead power. I told you as much Ina Mtge some 18 months ago; and England will yet find bow teas this is, bat not till you have paid dearly for the truth. One more cams for all thin I will only new stop to men tion or slightly allude to, and that is, the Myeectsd met of the Missionaries ; they have, to use a oast tans, " own done it." Fancy a number of Mussubbas Imo= preaching the rottenness of Christianity, Its an and unworthiness, in the midst of one of your gnat bits, or soy large assembly of Englishmen, and that, too, Ferhm i c . st an Easter &today, Cloud Friday, or some great C hankisy. What do you Immo.. the feeling, what the ISOF &sot of the pupas would ho God forbid I should ow us cos ward in opposition to the spread of Christianity; bet I do my so d seal la the cams Is anything but wise— it is celealmed mot to advance r but to obstruct the eauss—to mats the moat bitter of all sal yessions, religious bobol— ink the very Mast and centre of our own home ; sad this I am afraid it hos done in the present instance. All these see some of the cameo which have helppeed topmoduse the pretest state of mutiny in the army, and dirsatithodon among the native population generally. It is not one aune—atelt as the greased cartndgee—nor two causes, but sevoral; soma telling here, others working there, till at lost or general Sasling of mistrust and dimatiofaction seems to pervade dm whole race, and to unite all in a determination to mist foster sttbjeation to British rule. lons 1. I hew been obliged to write this by scraps. Hare we hen all tea kept on the re nor apprehending some sudden attack either by the people of the Plies or from the plane. I have not slept in my own house for the last six teen nights, several of us Europeans having united to guard and patrol the public roads and apprcethes, and during the day constant interruptions, as la usual et such times. I have in this given you what I eh:merely and conscien tiously believe to be the real muse of the present mutiny sad insurrection. It appears, from what is now becoming known, to have been long premeditated and arranged ; that it wee to have broken nut about the middle of Jane, at a time when, from climate, Europeans are most helpless ; but some very harsh and unjust measures adopted in the 3rd Cavalry at Meerut blew it into a blaze before all was reedy and ripe. Had it not been for this accident, in all probability you would have received no warning—simply the intelligence that WI was lost. May God send the warning now given be not despised end lost! You may—in all probability will—have time to repair the peat and to provide for the future. If this much is given to you, do not Mille, do not think lightly of it. Another such opportunity may never again be open to yea. Another rising of this kind will decide for ever the fate of England in India; and whatever that of the latter may be, that of England in India will be certain. Commence the work of reform at once do not allow Missionaries to be weadeeing over the length and breadth of the land, turning the most mend and cherished religious opinions of the natives into ridicule ; teething dietr utter worthiessnees and untruthfulness ; preaching what in England would balled blasphemy. You have no right to do this, however certain you may be of the truth of all you are raying Have wheels and educate the people if you please. They will gladly accept this ; but be content to leave the net to the tam of education, or to God in his own good time. THE CONSPIRACY. PARIS, AVOUBT 28. I amjust returned from Calcutta: myresidencewu next to that of the ex-King of Onde. I was in Calcutta when he and his ministers were armed. I saw sufficient to con vince me that something was wrong a month before they were arrested, and my opinion is, after a residence in Calcutta of 25 years, that it is entirely a Mahomedan rise. I do not believe that any Hindoo would or could be guilty of the atrocities perpetrated. They may have gone with the rest through intimidation end Wee representations; but you may rely on it that it is entirely a Mumulman insurrection. They hate no, and never lose an opportunity of showing it where they can do so with impunity. I believe that the whole Mahomedaa race in India knew what was going on ; and any one of them could have told no what would take place if he chose. I have no ticed a very marked difference in my domestic servants within the lest 12 months—that is, tie Mussulmana, but not in my Hindoo .e-rants; they won Just the same, quite as respectful es ever. Talk about showing clenceney to such villains ; I cannot think how the Rev. J. Leifchild could have made inch a speech as he did the other day, at the meeting at the Mansion-house. The idea of showing . . _ mercy to • set of violaters and murderers of innocent women and helpless children 1 I am • merchant; but if I were only twenty years younger I would go out tomorrow to India, if only to pay those *mandrels off. Yon meet not be surprised at the indignation every Englishman Stela when he bears of Englishwomso having their proms violated and murdered by such as compote the Bengal army, being little better than the beast, their bodies being very Reds more covered when off ditty. The government of India must hare foremen this a long time ago, bat It was with them a matter of pound', shillings, and pox. The idea °Heaving Delhi without troops, a place that has always been troublesome, when 1,000 English troop would hare held the place against any odds. Regarding the Kiog of Oude, he is a poor helpless creature, who cannot move from one room to another without assistance. His father-in-law, Nutt Ally Khan, is the great movier in all this; he isp wealthy, having, they my. 20 creme of rupees at his dim . The King is often obliged to borrow from him. Near y the whole of the Ightiog men round the King belong to Radii Ally. I learned this from one of his head Fornutas, who used to call on me, and from whom I sacertuned aufl cieat to induce tee to leave my reidamos, and move into Cal cutta, only three days before they wen all arreued. He celled on me about taking my house, stating that if the news by the eteamer Bengal, which was esperted in daily, was favourable he should require _the home, if on the contrary, be would not. After the Benga l arrived I thought it we. time for me to quit, which I did at 9 o'clock at night, with my family, to an hotel in Calcutta. P. 9.—1 am surprised now that ere were not all murdered la oar beds. The King of Oude and hie father-in-law had some 1.200 retainers there, and many of them were the disbanded soldiers of the 19th and 34th, from An old partner of mine haa jest arrived in Cal l t r urtat:l4 Csernpore with • wife and eight children, who writes to my that he had several narrow and hair-breadth wanes down the river. After much trouble and fright be arrived at Alla hated just as the steamer going to Calcutta bad pushed off —in fact, five minutes more and they would have been too late, and all would have been lost, for the very lame night they rose at Allatiabad and murdered all the Europeans. My friend and his family would have wished. He had been twenty years at Cawnpore. and from the hurried way in which he must have left be could not have Wien much with him ; coneequently, his house and all him property, no doubt, have been stolen or destroyed, mi that his hard earnings for so long • time are no doubt lost in • day, and he will have to begin the world again, with • large family to support. Surely the government will have to pay for all this eventually. My cousin, who lad a place at Meerut, had it burnt to the round, and all he had there stoles, amounting to somethiog like 20,000 rupee.' worth of property. CENBUB OP DELHI IN 1646-46. As at the present moment every species of in formation regarding the imperial city is anxiously sought after, no apology may be necessary for troubling our maws with details of a dry a nature so the following. On the census of 1846. it was ascertained that Delhi con= 25.611 houses, 9,945 shops, mostly one-storied, 261 mosques, 188 temple., 1 church, 678 well., sad 196 schools. The total population consisted of 137,977 sale, of whom 69,738 were melee, and 68,239 females. Of these, 90 families, or 327 persona, were Christians; 14,768 fanlike, or 66,120 persona were Mohammedan ; and 19,257 families, or 71,630 persons, were Htndoos . In the year 1846, there were bora 1,994 male, and 1,910 females; the marriages were 9.53 in number ; and 4,850 deaths occurred. Of the last, 1,320 took place before the age of 12 months, 493 be tween 12 months and 2 years, 843 between 2 and 12 years, and 2,194 above that age. The census of the thirteen villages forming the suburbs of Delhi comes down to 1847. They then contained 22,302 inhabitants, namely, of Ilia does, 709 cultivators, 14,906 non-cultivator . and of !In- Isamenedana, 495 cultivator, and 6,192 non-cultivaton. In this return there are two points worthy of notice. The first is, that, notwithstanding the ratios of PMY1 616 ,7, there I. • very trifling diSereece between the amble M males and that of females. The only Infanasta to be drawn from this fact is, that • large proportion of the males must be unmarried, and that, consequeefly, aro lute habita are the rule. The other . point to be remarked is the equal division of the population into Hindu°. and Moberanedane. Throughout Bread generally the former is to the latter am three to one. This exceptional fact is, of course, attributable to the circuinstanoe that Delhi has always been regarded se the heed-quarters and capital of the Mohammedan population of India.—.dlisn's ledvn 1104. The following in an extract from a letter from an officer, dated Ferompore, 13th July:—•" I hoard from my aunt (Mrs. John Finnie) at Landow yesterday. She is with Colonel Steel. The other Wise end children in that district, under his charge, am all Wm I understand the dank. are mopped between the hills and Beeribey, and should you, therefore, not have heard from bee, this inforreetion will be a great enlist to you and other Batopean &Wide who lava relations in that grarlior." CALCUTTA-FREE TRADE IN ARMS. TO TVS IDITOIi OP TBI 112PRZia. Bm—incredible ae it may appear, it is neverthe less a fact that a mercantile house in Calcutta has actually sold a thousand Minis rifles to the natives, and that no attempt has been made by the load government to check the sale which is still proceed mg. This intelligence comes from a highly respect. able firm in Calcutta, and may be relied upon. The same writer alao states that many ladies had arrived from "up country," sadly and cruelly mutilated —their live/ had been saved by a miracle. And there were also a great many children, whose parents had perished m the different massacres, and for whom the government would have to provide.— I am, &0., TRUTH. [From other and trustworthy sources we have heard of more than one sordid establishment in Cal cutta making money by the sale of weapons which might be turned against their countrymen. The government might have prohibited the trate, but it was too busy gagging the press.] THE HIND OF OUDE. TO TIN IDITOR Or Tall IOLTWS. Bra,—A. certain English journals continue to condemn the King of Our, without waiting for proof, on the accusation brought sgainet him three mails ego of com plicity in the revolts and mutinies in India, I deem it my ditty again to protest spinet the unfairness of their so doing, and will lay before the public a few facts, which I trust will tend to show how unlikely it is that the King of Ors should Imo la say way, mixed himself up with the de signs of those who have clearly for a long time past prated the overthrow of our power in the East. Two mails Imo arrived since we received intelligence of the King's arrest, on • charge of treason. In neither of these are we laid duty farther proceedings against him, still less of any dirge being established. May we not, then, look on the most sea mere precautionary measure, as stated in a late drabs? and in that case what becomes of the King's guilt? In February, 1856, when our troops arched from Onwspare to Lacknow, under some shallow pretext, oil the King was suddenly called on to abdicate, asl be indignantly refused, and It was then pro error that the independence of Ore was at an end, the people of Our prepared to fight and to repel the in vaders, the King himself dieermd his soldiery and dis mounted hie guns, and boned proclamations forbidding his people to leer the Vt , as he intended to appeal to the Queen of Engird the ontrapous act of spoliation committed by the t India Company. He set out to England, but General Outram detained re.2i to nister Nawab Ali Nuckee Khan at Luckier for five months; and in proof that the King was sincere in hie deer to appeal to the proper authority, although unable to go himeed without his minister, he sent his mother, his son, snd he brother to prepare the way for himself or for whom soever he might depute. Had he altered his intentions and determined to takenp arms, be would certainly have recalled his family. Upwards of s year after the annexation of Our, and after mutiny had begun to showitself in the Bengal army, and after the disbanding of the 19th Regiment, the King and his minister gave convincing proof that they still adhered to their original policy of non-resistance, and that their only hope of trios lay in the justice of the British governor; by soft* me to this country to take charge of the Ore case. I rater that if he had cherished the designs now imputed to him, his family would have been re called, I never thould have been sent, and the King would not have ressidar In Calcutta. Farther, some mouths alter the annexation, a petition was signed by a large samba. of inhabitants of Oro, complain ing of the operation they suffered under the new rule, and pitying that the King might be restored to hie throne. In this petition they plainly say that the fact of their King Or -2 iluma. appeakid to England, and forbidding them, on their to resist. was the cause of their remaining quiet, diretimethsy would have endeavoured "to right thee:lesiva." It now err that for a considerable tune after the revolt had herr oat in our old provinotr, Oude still remained tran quil By comparing dates it is clear that the signal for the enehrenis is Ors wee the Mere of the Xing and re Wa iner. Pesple acquainted with India know that it to mesa for the intermit of the King of Oude that we should be the paramount power than that the Delhi empire should be re- Ord. The newspapers above referred to have more than nos painted out the advantage that would moult conlisiseriag the King of Onde's pen ion, and al p!ying ti *e the purposes of the war. It is a pity that such saga chum thoughtfulness should be wasted, and I trust that the wee will have resources to rely on of less Imaginary nature than the King of Onde's pension ; for be it known that the King of Our has, from the day of the seizure of his domi- WOOS, steadily declined accepting anything in the shape of • ppenmsiooonn from those who are his Obtuse for millions of money burrowed from him and his ancestors. The much lauded generosity of the East India Company In giving pensions in thousands to those whom they had stripped of millions, may be fact in some cases in that of thsHing of Oude it is simply a fiction. There may, too, be some generosity in granting a liberal pension to a sovereign whom you have conquered in fair fight, but none where, so In the case of Oude, by breach of solemn treaties and by treachery you take possession of the country of a faithful ally, merely roue he is too weak to resist, one too from whom and from whose ancestors our government had re ceived sorter benefits. One in speaking of the Queen Dowager of Our, now at no ß House, uses the expression, "enormous old =r I" Now, supposing she may not be so well off as we robbed her sun, we ought to be the lam to &MOM her of poverty ; at the same limo I Dave never beard that she or any of the royal family of Oude, in India or in EnPand, ever asked for pecuniary aid either from the East India Company or the British government, but have paid for what they required at of their own resources. In conclusion, I solemnly declare that for any natives of India, without excepti'n, who should be proved to have been actors or abettors in the bloody horrors of which we daily read, end at which we daily shudder, my hand should be foremost to sign their death doom; but I feel confident—and few have had better opportunities to judge than I—that in spite of the cruel and unjust treatment which the King of Oude has met at our hands, be still merits the encomium conveyed in the words of Lord Dalhousie, in the memorable proclamation annexing Oude, in allusion to the King and hie errors—He has ever been " • true and faithful ally to the British govern road."-1 en; &c., R. OESELEY. Colonel, Chief Agent to the King of Oude. Junior United Service Club, August 31. SHARPE AMERICAN BREECH-LOADING RIME CARBINE. TO TIS BRITOIL or THE RSPRSSS. fit at,—The four cavalry regiments lately embarked hare for the East Indies ars provided with Sharp's Atnericsia Bresch•leading Carbine I have taken the opportunity of explaining to the commanding officers of each regiment the superiority of nay measles' gun-cotton cartridge for such breech-loading arms over the gunpowder cartridge now ha ass, which latter requires to be cut by the action of the elselzyr lever. Everybody blows that nothing blunt. the edge of • sharp instrument more than the cutting of paper. My cartridge does not nquire to be cut by the closing lever. Moreover, the residue of gunpowder impales the free action of the lever ; my cartridge leave. no reridtre to impede the free action of the lever. Much is raid in praise of the Enfield ride, twenty-four to the bore. That rifle would be of no value without the use of my elongated shot, which I submitted to government as far back es the year 1823, and which was not adopted into our service till many years after the Honourable East India Company ordered their officer (the late Sir William Harris) to instruct the King of Abys sinia and "the blameless Ethiopian." in the superior effi ciency of an elongated shot and shell for ride arms ; end General Jacobs, of the Bombay Artillery, is now wakes!, engaged in instructing the descendants Ktng Pune in the practical use of similar shot and shells. Shortly after General 7, R.A., delivered his instructive lecture on firearms at the Cork National Exhibition, the late Lord liardinge, being Muter-General of the Ordnance, reported to her Majesty that I was the original inventor of the elongated tide-shot end shod.* The conatruction of the cartridge is so i s t,s t rw ir c athat any soldier can readily make it. le, August 26. J. NORTON. • N.B.—The necessary supply of saltpetre, eulphur, and chums] may fail, but "the king without the ketches" will supply from the West Coast of Africa soy quantity re quired of the duet cotton wail for a mere qualqual hoacsariusa." CATHEDRAL. AND CO..t.t.GIATE CHURCIIES.—This moniker was published a return from the Ecclesiastical COGIMiIIIIOOOI9 for England of every payment mado to them since the Ist lune, 1856, on account of any euip o ended stall oe stalls is the cathedral and oollegiata churchee f England sad Wake. The total amount of monies so received is 62,9041. 16a. Td. HAMPTON COVET AND KEW OARDENB.—This morning was printed a return of the number of visitors d elete/4 to see the spar/mein and pictures at Hampton Come., sod the gardens at Kew, duriog the year 1866. It appears that the number admitted to Hampton Court, on Sundays, was 61,706; and on other days, 110,069; makiug • total of 161,764. The visitors to Hew Gardena were, on Sundays, 174,1162; as caber days, 167,148; making a Wel of 30,1* _ f CO ' Of 3.