The Press. — London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

defended the measures taken by them for expediting reinforcements thither. They had, he said, sent positive instructions to Sir George Grey to forward two regiments from the Cape to India, and as many more troops as he could spare, and he (Mr. V. Smith) bad not the slightest fear that Sir George would carry out the instructions with spirit and promptitude. There bad bean no lack of consideration as to the force necessary to put down the mutiny. After that was done measures would be taken to reorganise the army in India, making a large addition of European force. Mr. HENLEY protested against any reproach being cast upon the house for having obliged the Government to reduce unduly the establ'shmeats of the country. The bill was read a third time and passed. . The house then proceeded to consider the reasons of the Lords for disagreeing to several of the Com mons' amendments in the Dulwich College Bill. In the course of the discussion Mr. KNIGHT delivered a rpeech vehemently inculpating the college anthoil ties. The house resolved to insist upon its amendments. The Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill was withdrawn. Mr. H. HERBERT obtained leave to bring in a bill to regulate markets and fairs in Ireland. After some further business, the house adjourned at half -past one o'clock. THE PRES S, AUGUST 22, 1857. House of Commons last week. Mr. James enters into certain explanations, and suggests that, to avoid other means of publication, Mr. Gladstone read the letter in the house. Mr. Gladstone replies that "he could not ask the house to listen to a document, the most material part of which he could read only to question and contradict." THE REV. J. Bowes, rector of Orton, Peterborough, has been appointed Bishop of Sierra Leone ; M. H. Gallwey, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the colony of Natal; A. F. Gore, Esq., to be Assistant Govern ment Secretary for the colony of British Guiana ; and C. Watters, Esq., to be Solicitor-General, and J. Brown, Esq., to be Surveyor-General for the pro vince of New Brunswick. Mr. Arney, Recorder of Winchester, is also reported to have had conferred upon him the post of Chief Justice in New Zealand. MAJOR-GENERAL Wrzinnem was entertained by his Norfolk constituents at a grand banquet, last week, previous to his departure for India, to assume the command of a division of the British army in Bengal. Referring to Delhi, General Windham expressed his serious doubts as to its speedy capture. The gallant °dicer in the course of his remarks upon the rebellkin in India observed : I have a very strong opinion that Delhi is not yet taken, and I am sony to say I do not think it will be token quite so fast as many men in this country think it will be. I sincerely hope it may, and that it may have fallen ere now, for it would be en immense advantage. I assure you, after two trials at Sebastopol, I do not covet in the slightest degree the honour of fleshing the sword which you were kind enough to present to me on my retina .:om the Crimea in an attack upon Delhi. 819 by Mr. Disraeli at the critical position of Camnpore. That gallant general Sir Hugh Wheeler, who for weeks had held out with a handful o f men against au overwhelming force of rebels, has succumbed at last, and it is too horrible to think of the fate which in all pro bability has befallen him and his heroic band and the hundredsiofunfortunate refugees under their protection. The fall of Cawnpore is the first great military success of the rebels. They have besieged and carried an armed station defended by a British general of high rank. The effect of this intelligence we fear will be most disastrous upon India. The emissaries of the rebels, while they exaggerate the suc cess, will depreciate the subsequent defeats of Nana Sahib, and stimulate into activity those passive but disaffected waverers waiting for some such signal triumph to declare against us. The loss of Sir Henry Lawrence is a severe blow. The circumstances, too, under which he received his death wound, " a sortie from Lucknow," make us tremble for the fate of that city. We know that he was besieged by the rebels, that he had but a mere handful of troops, and the very Let of the chief of a besieged city hes,ling a sortie from within its walls tells a tale close investment. The fall of Delhi we ( . .d not anticipate. From the first, N% e have always expressed our opinion that the capture of Delhi was a work of time, and was a far more serious undertaking than the Goverment or the people of this country were inclined to believe. The death of Gen. Barnard, though not unexpected, is a great loss. He was a brave and gallant soldier, and. had he been spared would have done his work well. The Bombay and Madras armies con tinue !stanch, though the language of the Post this morning with reference to their fidelity is sufficiently equivocal to lead us to believe that the Goverrment is in possession of unsatisfac tory information from those Presidencies. The Post assumes that if such an event as the revolt of the native troops were to occur, " it would not, as in Bengal, take every one by surprise " ; and then remarks, "We may reasonably hope that the evil will continue to be cireumscribed within the limits within which it began." The few British troops which had arrived at Calcutta up to the 21st July numbered only 1,500 men, and the first reflection which wig. recur to every mind upon digesting the disaf.- trous nature of the intelligence received by this mail, will be the enormous advantage which would. have been given to us had 5,000 men been despatched overland through Egypt to the scene of action. The tardy action and fatal inertness of the Government, some weeks back, will bear bitter fruit. It bas already heaped upon us terrible dial-stem and brought misery end misfortvne to oar doors. We should remember that it is but one stop from a convulsion to a collapse ; and when the days of our dominion in India are numbered, the decline of our empire will have already commenced. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Sotrrweiurrow, Saturday Morning. The Peninsilar and Oriental Company's steamship Indus, Captain Evans, has sriived with the heavy por.'.on of the India and China mails. She left Alexaad-ia August 7th ; Malta, 11th; and Gibraltr A telegraphic despatch, of the 16th, from Constan tinople, announces that a secretary of the Salt= had left that capital, bearing an autograph letter ;:om his master to the Emperor of the French. The Times Paris correspondent (Second Edition) writes:— A maritime conference of va_ious European Powers is about to be held at Paris, to consider the subject of collisions at sea, which of late have been so numerous, and to adopt measures for their future prevention. It is confident!y stated that General Cavaignac will resign his seat as deputy in favour of M Desmarets, the distinguished advocate, whose re markable speech in defence of Tibaldi attracted so much attention. City, Eleven o'clock Consols for Account .... 901 to : dart anb lagion. Her Majesty the Queen and Court embarked on Monday on board the royal yacht, and proceeded on a cruise to Cherbourg, where her Majesty arrived the same evening. Her Majesty spent the following day inspecting the works and dockyard, and left on Wednesday on return to Osborne, touching at the Channel Islands en route. On the same evening her Majesty reached and landed at Osborne. The birthday of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bent was kept with all the honours at Windsor on Tuesday. Her Majesty the Queen of the Ne'herlands took leave of the Royal Family at Osborne on Sunday last, and returned to the Continent. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are entertain ing a select circle assembled at Gordon Castle, N.B. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave their seat in Cornwall on Monday next for Northum- berland-house. Sir Fitzroy Kelly has left England for Germany. Lady Lyttleton died at an early hour on Tuesday morning. The deceased lady was sister-in-law to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. The Bishop of London will not be in town to receive the clergy on Tuesdays at London-house until further notice. plitttal. CABINET Covscus were held on Saturday and Wednesday last, at the official residence of the First Lo-d of the Treasury. THE PROROGATION.—AIthough by no means a matttr of certainty, we believe it is most probable that the session of Parliament will be brought to a close on Tuesday next. Her Majesty will not, as has been erroneously stated, prorogue Prviiament in person. The Royal Speech will be delivered by commission, and a Privy Council will be held on Monday next for the pr pose of settling its contents. —Globe. THE MINISTERS attended their usurl whitebait dinner on Wednesday last. THE CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS FOR THE COUNIY OF HUNTINGDON have invited the Hoa. Newton Fellowes and Mr. James Rust, the two county members, to a publ'c dinner which is to take place at the Fountain Hotel, Huntingdon, on Friday the 4th of September. THE BISHOPS OF LONDON, Oxford, Carlisle, Salis bury, and Norwich, have issued circulars to their clergy, requesting them to remember in their prayers all their brethren now in peril in India, to use a special prayer for that purpose, and also the prayer for war and tumults. _ THE RIGHT HoN. E. CARDw_ML, M.P., was enter tained at dinner last week, at Oxford, by his con stituents. Mr. Cardwell, in the course of his speech on the occasion, pointed out the large share of its a.tention which Indian affairs would occupy next session, the necessity of apportioning our public penditure to our public resources, and, finally, the promised Reform Bill, which, he said, would not be like the last—a conflict for power on the part of the commercial and middle class—but a question of the scientific applicat;on of political principles to the enlarged requirements of the people. Mr. Cardwell concluded by declaring his principles to be those of a moderate" advancing Liberal." A CORREFroNDENCE between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., has been published, concern ?ig Mr. Gladstone's persons' N:qclication i i the SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE INDIA. SPREAD OF THE MUTINY, AND FALL OF CAWNPORE. The following telegraphic communication from her Majesty's Consul at Cagliari was received at 7.45 last evening at the Foreign office : ALE:" . .NDRIA, August 14, 9 p.m. The Nubia ai_ived at Suez today. She bi'ngs dates from Calcutta to the 21st July ; Madras, 25th July; Gale, 28th July; Aden, Bth instant. The telegraphic message from Suez is meagre and confused, and there is no time to receive explana tion before the depari.ure of the steamer Baotia for Malta. It is stated that Delhi is not taken, but the:date is not given. General Barrard is reported to have died from dysentery. The news given in the Bombay Times of the 14th of July by last mail, respecting the taking of Cawn pore by the rebels, and the massacre of the Euro peans there, is confirmed. The Suez telegraphic message then goes on to say as follows :—Simoom and Dimalaya at.lved at Calcutta with about 1,500 of Chinese forces, who are to proceed at once up the country—only 300 more troops are expected. General Hancock's forces had beaten the rebels on three occasions, and taken several guns,',between Alla habad and Cawnpore. The latter was retelcen from Nana Sahib, whom Havelock i. 3 tg up the Blitter ( ? to Bhitoor), about ten mil.% Sir Henry Lawrence died of wounds received in a sortie from Lucknow, where at present all is R ell. All the troops in Oude mutir 4 ed. Agra all quiet. Native troop disaLned. Gwalior Contingent has mutinied ; supposed to have marched on Indore. No political China news given. The Transit, Government steamer, totally lost iz the Straits of Sunda. Crew and i-oops all arrived at Suez to-day.• This telegraph received from Acting-Consul- General Green at Alexandria for the Earl of Claren don. (Signed) W. S. Cnuo, Consul. • We print this as received, but no doub. it should ran thus : "The Transit, Government steamer, tar 1 y lost in the Straits of Sunda. "Crew and ti clops ell saved. " Suez, to day.' This last is evidently appended u a date to the despatch, which the Alexandria telegraph of Aug. 14 is quoting. The Straits of Sunda divide the islands of Java and Sumatra, and, with the &mita of Malacca, form the entrances to the Chinese seas. The above intelligence confirms the well founded apprehension expressed on Thursday C