Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-30 00:00:00

INDIA. THE MUTINY IN THE ARMY. We are now in possession of full details .of the news per the Overland Mail. The dates are— Calcutta, May 19th ; and Bombay, 27th. The news, as already announced, is of a most important cha racter, and the following summary will be read with interest— THE MIITENT AT MEERUT. By previous advices we learned that a telegraphic message had been received at Bombay - from Agra,. to the effect that the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry, stationed at Meerut, was in state of open mutiny. The report soon received ample confirmation, and worse was to follow. For several days the intelli gence from the north-west told of nothing but revolt and murder. As was to be expected, much thus reported turned out to be untrue. Neverthe less, after making all allowances for these legiti mate sources of comfort, the occurrence is one of the gravest moment. At the two great stations of Meerut and Delhi, the whole of the native troops have broken out into mutiny and murder. From the former place they have fled or been eixpelled. The latter (where no Europe to troops were . quartered), remained, at the date of the latest accounts, completely in their possession. At the commencement of May the native force at Meerut consisted of the 3rd Light Cavalry, and the 11th and 20th Regiments of Native Infantry. Among the men of the cavalry corps the question of the greased cartridges, which had previously been mooted at Barra°!Tore and other stations, was freely agitated. The result of the movement was that 85 men of the regiment, refusing to handle the cartridges, found themselves, in the early days of the month, tried by court-martial and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment with hard labour. On the "9th their sentences were read out on parade, and the offenders marched off to gaol. Up to this time disaffection had showe itself only through incendiary fires in the lines, hardly a night passing without one or more conflagrations. But on the 10th it appeared at once in all its unsuspected strength. Towards the evening of that day, while many of the Europeans were at church—for it was Sunday—the men of the two native infantry regiments, the 11th and 20th, as if by previous concert, assembled together in armed and tumultuous bodies upon the parade ground. Several officers hurried from their quarters to endeavour to pacify them. Colonel Finnis, of the 11th, was oriel of the first to arrive, and was the first victim of the outbreak. He was shot down while addressing a party of the 20th, which is said to have been the foremost regiment in the mutiny. Other officers fell with the Colo nel, or in the terrible moments that ensued, for the troopers of the 3rd Cavalry poured out of their quarters to join the insurgent infantry, and the whole body, now thoroughly committed to the wildest excesses, rushed through the native lines of the cantonment, slaying, burning, and destroy ing. Every house was fired, and every English man, woman, or chili, that fell in the way of the mutineers was pitilessly massacred. Happily, however, many of the officers and their families had already escaped to the European lines, where they took refuge in the Artillery School of Instruc tion Mr. Greathed, the commissioner, and his wife were saved, it is said, by the fidelity of their servants, who assured the assassins that their master and mistress had left their house, though they were at the time concealed in it. The muti neers set fire to the bungalow and passed on. While the main body of the mutineers were thus destroy ing the houses in the native lines, some of their number proceeded to the gaol, broke it open, and released the prisoners of the 3rd Cavalry. Which regiment had furnished the gaol guard on that day is not stated ; but as we hear of no resistance and no loss of European life at that point, we may pre sume it was one of the native corps. Meanwhile, the European portion of the brigade was called out, and marched down to the native lines. It con sisted of the Carabineers, the Ist Battalion of the 60th Rifles, and Artillery, horse and foot: But they were too late to save life or property, and, night falling fast, they were unable, we are told, to inflict any serious loss on the insurgents, who abandoned the station and betook themselves to the open country. Some of them—how m .ny we know not, but probably a large body—made the best of their way down to Delhi, distant some forty miles. The garrison of this city was entirely native. It consisted of three regiments of infantry —the 58th, 54th, and 74th, and a company of one of the native battalions of artillery. On the arrival of the mutineers from Meerut the whole of the infantry force ran to arms, and forced. as we are told, the reluctant artillery to join them. The latter stipulated for the safety of their officers, all of whom accordingly have reached Meerut. The infantry showed no such good feel ing, but attacked their officers, though with different degrees of inveteracy, the 38th being the worst. Then the insurgents ran riot through the city, which was entirely at their mercy, and the bloody scenes of Meerut were reproduced in the streets of this ancient Mogul capital. How many English lives have here been lost will in all pro bability not be fully known till the day of retribu tion has arrived, and the place is again in our possession. Many are already known to have escaped, as will be seen from the list already referred to, and which I will now subjoin. But it is feared to be only too certain that Mr. Fraser, the Commissioner, has fallen, and Captain Douglas, Commandant of the Palace Guard, and Mr. Jen nings, eh , plain of the station, with his daughter, and many others of all degrees, including Sir Theophil - as Metcalfe. In Oude Sir Henry Lawrence keeps all quiet. Every endeavour has been made, and, it is hoped, with success, to undeceive the credulous Sepoys on the one fatal point upon which their caste and religious feelings have been aroused, and to rouse their indignation against the sanguinary treachery of the insurgent regiments. The fort at Allahabad, where there is a large magazine, has been garrisoned by the European invalids usually stationed in the fort of Chunar. In Calcutta every precaution has been taken to guard against the possibility of a surprise. The 84th Regiment, with the Horse Artill( ry, are at BairAckpore, and the 53rd in fort William. A regiment ofEuropean Fusiliers will be here from Madras this week, and another European regiment from Moulmein in the course of a fortnight The three European regiments in the Persian Gulf, whose services have been set free by the peace, will sail direct to Calcutta, and may be ex pected here in all next month. An Act has been passed empowering all officers in command of bri gades and stations to hold general courts-martial, and confirm their sentences without reference to higher authority. There is no doubt that the crisis is a serious one. The one danger to which in the opinion of Lord Metea!fe the stability of our empire in India is expoced has come to pass. The loyality of the Sepoy army is shaken, and unless the infatuation which pervades it can be corrected, and this muti nous spirit very speedily suppressed, the conse quence may be frightful. It is not apprehended that there will be much difficulty in dealing with the mutineers at Delhi, who are cooped up in a walled town without a leader, without provisions, and apparently .without much ammunition. Bat this is the first time a Senoy regiment has murdered its officers, and the example once set may be followed through the length and breadth of the Presidency. The disorganisation of all civil Government would inevitably follow, and we should not only have to deplore the . murder of th ousan d s of our fellow-countrymen , —tor the Asiatic blood, once roused, shows no mercy—but literally to re conquer the country. List of Europeans killed at ffeisrut)—cplonel Mrs. Chambers, Capt. and Mrs. Tattle, Latta M'Nabb, Vet-Surgeons Phillips and Dawson, ors. Dawson and children, one private, nnknowo. Sappers and Miners; Capt. Fraser, Mr. Tregear, Inspector in the Educational department. Wounded at Meerut .-6th Dragoons, two troopers ; Artillery Recruits, 12 ; Artillery, Lieutenant., Colonel Hogge; 3d Light Cavalry, Dr. Christio. Having got rid of all the English in the city the insurgents proceeded to proclaim some off-shoot of the old Royal house Sovereign of India, and in THE 'NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE* 30, 1857. th'is position, with the town and 'its treasure at tl' Lek 'disposal, but as we shall .presently see, no fi arther rising or influx of mutineers to assist t hem, they await their inevitable doom. But to revert to Meerut. On the evening of the 16th May, occurred the murder of Captain Fraser, I whose name appears in the list. This officer was Commandant of the Bengal (Native) Sappers and Miners. He was marching down from the head quarters of his corps at. Roorkee to Meerut, with a body of his men 'On reaching their des tination the Sappers fell out among themselves, • probably in discussing the propriety of following the mutinous example that had been set them, and when their commanding officer attempted to com pose their quarrel one of their number shot him through the head. They then broke and fled, -but were pursued by parties of the Carabineers and 60th, and for the most part killed or captured. Since this occurrence Meerut has been tranquil. Fears being entertained that the Convent at Sirdhana with its children's school might be attacked and devastated, a party was sent out from Meerut, which brought in all the nuns and children to a safe asylum at the station. It remains to mention how the intelligence of the mutiny j was received at other stations in the north west, and what steps have been taken towards the punishment of the offenders. At Agra, as from its proximity to Delhi might be expected, public excitement at first ran high. But great as was the emergency, Mr. Colvin, the Lieutenant Governor, proved himself equal to meet it. On the morning of Thursday, the 14th, when the popular ferment was at its height and the wildest rumours were abroad. Mr. Colvin harangued the whole brigade of the station, the European soldiers as well as the native, on the parade-ground. By all—no less by the two native regiments, the 44th and 67th, than by the European Artillery—his address was received with loud applause. Even after he had left the ground, the' cheering of the Sepoys continued long and loud. The effect of this happy speech was shortly felt throughout the whole of the city, which settled down again into a state of qui escence that has not again been disturbed. At Etawah, a station further down the Jumna, half-a dozen of the mutinous 3rd Cavalry were cut to pieces by the police and a small party of the 9th Native Infantry. At Allyghur the 9th Native Infantry arrested a mutinous agent whom they found in their lines, and handed him over to the commanding officer. At Benares and throughout Bengal all was and has remained quiet. At Lucknow the mutiny of the 7th Oude Infantry preceded by some days the emeute at Meerut, but it was checked by the firmness of Sir Henry Lawrence and the loyalty of the rest of the brigade, and the regiment dispersed at the flash of a lighted port-fire, and has ceased to exist. Since then, down to the 18th, the date of our latest news, the city and district have been tranquil. Indeed, the insurrection in the north-west may be said to be confined within the walls of Delhi. Within these walls it will be— very possibly has already been—beaten down and trodden out. One of the first acts of the Lieutenant- Governor was to issue a vigorous proclamation placing under martial law the districts around Meerut and Delhi, to the eastward of the Jumna, warning all landholders and others from join ing the insurgents, and announcing that prompt vengeance would overtake all past or future delin quents. These are no vain threats, incapable of being carried into execution. The great blow will be delivered from the North; but by all the great roads in other directions troops have been closing in upon the doomed city. The Sirmore battallions were at Boolundshuhur, on the east, the Agra Brigades, strengthened by cavalry and artillery from Gwalior, advancing from Muttra on the south, the troops of the Jat Rajahs of Bhurtpore and Ulwar moving up on the west. From the North west were pouring down the horsemen of the Rajahs of Putteeala and Jheend, while the great road from the hill stations by Kurnal and Meerut lay open for the march of the Commander-in-Chief. General Anson was to leave Umballah, whither he had repaired in haste from Simla, on the 18th. He had brought with him from Kassowlie her Ma jesty's 75th regiment. At Umballah, he found the 9th Lancers, the Ist European Fusileers marched in from Dugshaie, the 4th Light Cavalry, the sth and 60th Native Infantry, and two troops of (European) Horse Artillery. The whole of this force he would, it was expected, take down with him to Meerut, where he would find the Carbineers, the 60th, and a strong force of -artillery, and taking them with him would advance at once upon Delhi The city lying upon the further or right bank of the Jumna, and being connected with the left bank by a bridge of boats only, which the insurgents have doubtless destroyed, it is possible that some time may be occupied in conveying the troops across the river. But before many days aro past we shall hear that retribution as signal as merited has been dealt to the insurgent soldiery. To pass to the Punjab. At Ferozepore dis turbances have arisen, and there are rumours also of the existence of disaffection among the regi ments eantened at Meean Meer, the military station at Lahore. In both cases the offenders are neither Bengal Regulars nor Punjab Ir regulars. A Calcutta correspondent writing on the 18th ult. says : Even the temporary loss of a part of India would be a most serious national• calamity in every point of view, and it behoves the Government to do everything in its power to avert it. The force of Europeans in the country is notoriously insufficient, and if Her Majesty's Government do their duty orders will issue, within 24 hours after the arrival of this mail, to despatch ten regiments of infantry overland—six at least to Bengal, and four to Bombay —to remain here, if not permanently, at least until confidence in the native army is entirely restored. No success in Persia or in China will compensate, I do not say for the loss of our Indian Empire, but for any serious detriment to the Influence or power of England in her Eastern possessions. The Bombay Times, of the 27th May, contains the following:— The mutineers at once set up a king in the person of the 801 of the late Mogul Emp3ror, and we have no certain news of what has trans pired since. The most active measures are of course being taken to suppress this revolt, and it is satisfactory to know from the latest intelligence, that the garrison at Agra and of the neighbouring sta tions remain staunch. The Commander-in-Chirf is moving down from Umballah with a strong European force, while a cordon of troops of the Gwallor, Bhnrtpore, and Putteeallah contingents is beingdrawn ronad Delhi to prevent the escape of the mutineers, who will, doubt less, meet with a speedy and righteous retribution. The conduct of some of the native regiments stands out in most pleasing contrast with that of these sconndrels. N ,whers in India does fLer material f or an army exist than in Bengal, snd it has been the vicious system of pampering and coaxing alone that has led to these lamentable issues. An outbreak has also occurred at Ferozepore. It had, however, bees suppressed. Seven companies of the 31th Regiment Native Infantry were disbanded at Barrackpore on the 7th instant. It will doubtless be remembered that it was a cepoy of this regiment, who, having armed himself with a loaded musket, on the 29th of March, advanced upon the parade ground in front of his lines, and having called upon the men to mutiny, attacked and wounded Lieutenant an 1 Adjutant Baugh sad the Sergeant-Major of his regiment. The man was tried, ceniemned, and hang; and the Jemadar who was in command of the quarter guard on the occasion, and forbade any of the guard going to the rescue of the adjutant, ;raid the penalty of his crime also by the same Ignominious de ,th. During the hand to hand conflict that took place, nundreds of sepoys in undress and others in uniform looked passively on, while some took part in the struggle, and attacked the officers with the butt ends of their mus kets. It was not found possible to identify these men, and the Governor in Council determined to disband the whole regiment, with the exception of the three corw , anies who were not present at the Station. The order was carried out, as above stated, on the 7th inst., the men maintaining the most mutinous and insolent behaviour on the occasion. It Is generally felt that these measures are not sharp enough, and that to crush the disaffection which has shown itself very severe remedies =FA be resorted t Thus, in the short space of one month, have the following regiments disapp?ar-d from the ranks of the Bengal army, either by disbandment or by having openly arrayed thems-lves against the Government : Minix= AT l!dszaur.—The 3d Regiment of Light Cavalry ; the 11th Regiment of Native Infantry ; the 20th Regiment or Native In fantry; the Sappers and Miners. Muxneren AT Deutz. —The 30th Regiment of Native Infantry; the 54th Regiment of Native Infantry; the 74th Regiment of Native Lsfantry ; a Native Battery of Artillery. Disaastrau AT BA ZZACKPORE.—The 19th Regiment of Native In fantry; the 34th Regiment of Native Infantry (7 companies). These regiments represent a force of nearly 8,000 men. If we have painful proof that dissatisfaction and hatred of our rule are widely spread in some quarters, we are not without evidence that others a loyol and intense abhorrence la felt of the treasonable and prirdlrOtis outbreaks we have recorded, The young eherajOh India of Gwalior no sooner heard of the rising at Thelhi than he hastened, with every expression of friendship, to placer the whole of his contingent at the disposal of the Lieutenant-GO , error of Agra. As a compliment to the Prince, the services of his Highnesa'a Body C-card, consisting of horse artillery and cavalry, with a detail of in fantry, were accepted, the political agentend the brigadier command ng the contingent having previously inspected them on parade at the express solicitation of the Prince. The men of this force are id very soldier-like body of fellows. They are of the same caste as the Maharajah, many of them being members of his family; and their assistance, if required, will be loyally given. It is said further, that the King of Delhi sent a deputation of the revolted cavalry to the Rajah of Jilin% asking his assistance against the Eng ish. The Rajah was on the parade-ground with his troops at the time, and immii.di ately ordered his soldiers to cat down every man of the messengers. The Rajah of Bhurtpore came forward also at once with the offer of his regiment, and there is no reason whatever to doubt the perfect good faith with welch these men have acted. The Rajah of Puttee. allah has intercepted and sent to the commissioner of his district many seditious letters which had found their way into his territo lea, and so far as we can yet see, the districts of the north-west neither desired nor were prepared for the success of the mutineers at Delhi, but hold their bloody outrages in detestation. Perhaps one of the strongest proofs we could have that the disaffection is confined to the ranks of the pampered traitors who have been allowed so long to wear the uniform of British soldiers is to be found in the fact that the vary prisoners who were liberated at Meerut have reported themselves to the various police thanadars of their districts, stating their willing ness at once to return to gaol when the Sirkar calls for them. Many have already given themselves up, and it is supposed that not less than 75 per cent. of the whole would yield themselves if called upon to do E). The fact is, the Bengal army is the sole focus of the mutiny, and its state is a disgrace to the administration of that Presidency. Over and over again has the inevitable issue been urged upon the Government, and we are to-day in the crisis of its eventuation. The first measure called for in oar circumstances is an immediate and elnsiderable accession to the strength of our European army in India. A dozen or twenty regiments should at once be despatched from England, an part, if possible, by the overland route. The second measure should be the immedi - ite appointment of a commis sion to Inquire into the state of the Bengal army. This commission should be composed of officers from the other presidencies and from the Queen's army. The whole Bengal force is demoralised, and it is probable that two-thirds of its asnior officers should be invalided as incompetent, through long training in a vicious system, to enforce discip`ine. The Bombay and the Madras armies, perfectly free from all suspicion of mutinous feeling, and in a high state of discipline, are a standing reproach to the Bengal army, and are the sheet anchor of the Government at the present moment. The opportune return of our European forces from the Gnif enabled ns to despatch, without landing, Her Majesty's 64th and 78h Regiments to Calcutta some days ago, and the troop of Madras House Artillery, which was waiting here for transports to convey it to Madras. This force left Bombay a week ago by the steamers Assays and Queen Victoria, and the transports Raby Castle, Avalanche, and Kingstown. In addition to these troops the Ist Fasileers have been despatched up the In ins, so that the good conduct of our native army, and the perfect confidence we have in its discipline and loyalty, have enabled us to despatch a force of 4,000 Europeans to the Bengal side in the last ten days. Madras also is readily furnishing its contingent, and within a month the European army of Bengal will be strengthened by an increase of 10,000 or 12,000 men from the other presidencies. CHINA. We have very little intelligence of interest by this mail. I❑ the colony of Hong Kong nothing more exciting has occurred than the trials of two Chinese —one for murder and one for high treason, at the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court. Ho Apo, door. coolie to the late Mr. Charles Markwick, was found guilty of murdering his master, and sentenced to death, to the entire satisfaction of his own countrymen as well as of others. We under stand that he has made full confession of his guilt. The "high treason" ease resulted in the conviction of Chun Acheen, the head watchman at Chek-che, against whom sentenee of death was recorded. The scoundrel, it seems, is a notorious extortioner, and has been squeezing the villagers all round about Chek-chu- Even the poor grass -cutters hail to sell him the products of their toil at his own price. - In Canton, the utmost misery prevails, and rice is enormously dear, retailed, it is reported, as high as 6 dols. and even 7 dols a picul. In the interior the flak-has are ravaging the country, and after defeating the imperialist forces sent against them, had arrived in great numbers at Shau-hing, and were gradually approaching Canton, being then, it is said, little more than a day's journey from it. They had completely overrun Sin-hwui and Sin ning, and the latter place had been almost entirely destroyed by them. In the Canton river little of importance has recently occurred, beyond an attempt made by the Chinese to blow up the Acorn, about four o'clock on the morning of the 3rd of May, by means of a large iron tank filled with gunpowder, that exploded close to the sloop of war, off Hamilton Creek, and the concussion of which was felt on board the Encounter and the Elk, two miles off—so strongly indeed that the crews of these vessels imagined it had occurred close to them. The tank is supposed to have been the boiler of the unfortunate steamer Queen, and the mode in which the Chinese attempted to carry out theirproject of destroying the Acorn was most ingenious. They first make a rope fast to one of the stakes at the Barrier, then a man must have floated down with the tide a distance of 800 yards, and fastened it upon the ship's cable. To this rope the tank was attached bamboo rings, to make it slide easily, and thus allow it to drop down with certainty upcn the vessel ; and another line was carried from the tank to the shore, worked by means of a pulley, so as to guide the tank in any direction required. Very fortunately , however, the distance had been slightly miscalcu lated, and the explosion took place some seven or eight yards only from her bows. A similar " infernal machine" was detected lately close to the Hornet. All hopes of saving H. M. S. Raleigh seem uow to have been abandoned, and though tenders for raising her are still advertised for, this is gene rally understood to be merely pro forma, for the value of the vessel would be scarcely worth the cost. The rock on which she struck has been sur veyed by Captain Bate, in the Coromandel, and found not to have been laid down on the charts, so that no blame can possibly attach to Commodore Keppell, who will, notwithstanding, have to un dergo the usual ordeal of a court-martial. At Ningpo, we learn from the North China Herald, the import of opium is now legalised by the local authorities at a duty of twelve taels per chest. At Shanghae, the opium guild has been called on to pay its war -tax, in common with the other trading communities. At Shangliae, the good understanding betwixt the Chinese and foreigners remains uninterrupted. The Taoutae had issued a proclamation, warning all Chinese junks to anchor at night close to the river banks, so as to avoid collision with the steamers passing up and down. The residents have been amusing themselves with horse-racing and theatri cals; and business, in silk especially, has been brisk. Of the rebellion, in Kiang Su there is no fresh intelligence worth much. The appearance of the Kiang Si rebels in Fuh Kien we have noticed before, and the authorities at Fuh-chau do really— as may be gathered from the urgency of the demand for funds —seem to believe in their near approach to that city. and for the increase of settlement in every direction. The valley of the Ottawa, and the St. Maurice, and our western frontiers towards the territory of the Hudson's Bay Com pany, have alike received consider-tion at your hands. I earnestly hop- that your efforts on all these importantsub jects may be crowned with success, and that the measures devised by your wisdom will be promptly and effectually carried oat by the agency of the servants of the , Queen. la submitting to the decision of her most gracious Majesty, the final choice of a seat of government for Canada, you have done that which, without derogation from the rights of the colonial Parliament, will remove from its walls a constant source of heart-burning and local jealousy. By generously postponing your lien on the Grand Trunk Railroad, you will, I conceive, infuse new vigour into an association, the interests of which are inse parably connected with those of united Canada. I myself view with mach satisfaction the complete separation of the executive government from the delegation of the commercial body. The Governor-General and suite would embark , at Quebec, on board the Candian Mail Steamer North American, on the 20th, and may be ex pected on Wednesday next. The passengers per North American arrived at Quebec at 8 a.m. of the 1 15th, and the same evening the mails and passen gers, numbering 450 persons, proceeded by special train to Montreal and Toronto. The transit between Liverpool and Toronto was thus accom plished in 12 days by the Canadian Mail Steamers and Grand Trunk Railway. Sir Allan M`Nab was about to leave Canada not to return. The steamer Canadian was not expected to be got off ; the platform had burst and the vessel lay sunk in deeper water. A special meeting of the Grand Trunk share holders is called for the 29th July, to receive the , report of the directors, electing a new board of directors, and determining and defining the num ber, relation, constitution, and composition of such hoard, together with the remuneration; also of considering and approving the purchase of the London and Grand Trunk Junction Railway, a short line of thirty miles, which will form the junction with the Great Western at London, and open the route to Detroit and Sarnia to the Grand Trunk. The authorised capital of the Grand Trunk is stated as follows : two millions of Prefer ence Bonds, of which 829,0001 has been raised, leaving 1,171,0001 unissued, 2,624,8881; debenture capital and 3,301,400/ share capital, making a total of 7,926,2881 for a line, when completed, of upwards of 900 miles long, including the Victoria Bridge, and a full equipment of rolling stock. The bridge can only be proceeded with during summer, which will retard its completion until 1860. This cost, however, is exclusive of the government gift of upwards of three millions sterling. The present traffic returns are not considered as offering any sound indication whatever of future results by those who have a knowledge of the statistics of the country, connected as it will be so closely with the eastern and western States of America, and with a population and a commerce of its ownlidaily aug menting. If the Grand Trunk, costing not more than 8,000/ per mile, will not pay before 1860, no line in America can be expected to pay, costing as they do nearly double. All the capital of the Grand Trunk is raised, with the exception of the 1.171,000/ of preference bonds, which will be called up as required for the bridge, and the extension to London, it was understood in Canada, that the London board of directors would hold a meeting, in order to discuss and obtain the sanction of the shareholders to the proposals of the Canadian directors. No less than 444 vessels had arrived at Quebec, being an increase of 176; and of 85,766 tons. There is a report that her Majesty will visit Cork and Killarney in the course of the summer. It is thought that. the Emperor and Empress of the French, if they repair to Osborne, will proceed to Man chester Exhibition. There would not be any official recep tion in London on this occasion. EXETER HALL SERVICES.—On Sunday evening a vast crowd of persons assembled at the above hall to hear the Dean of Canterbury (Rev. H. Alford). Among them were the Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr Wilbraham Taylor, the Rev. Dr. Livingston, and. many other distinguished per sons. Tho rev. gentleman took his text from the 18th chap. Ezekiel, 31st verse," Why will ye die " WHO IS TO BLAME ?—A young woman, raving mai, and almost in a state of nudity, after having been refused ad mission at one of our London hospitals at noonday on Sunday, was taken by the police, who had much difficulty in controlling her, two officers holding her continually, to a workhouse, where she was refused admission on the ground, as it was said, of the doctor's absence. She was then taken to the Bow-street police station, and a police officer having found a surgeon, the poor creature was at last admitted to the workhouse. PROTESTANTISM IN Russra.---The University of Elsing fors (Finland) celebrated on the 18th the anniversary of the day on which, seven centuries ago, Christianity was introduced into that country. The Emperor of Russia, on the occasion, addressed to the Lutheran clergy a rescript, in which he congratulated them on the great services they have rendered to religion and to their country. In the course of the day it was officially announced that from 1844 to 1853 there were distributed in Finland 246,000 Bibles, of which 61,000 were gra tuitous. EMIGRATION OF DISCHARGED GOVERNMENT ARTISANS.— On Saturday morning last., the John Owen, sailing vessel, left the ltoval Arsenal Pier, Woolwich, for Quebec, having on board 392 emigrants, being the fourth party sent out by. the Woolwich committee for promoting the emigration ofdis charged government workmen and their families. The fund being now closed, it is pleasing to state that the committee will be enabled to send out 1,012 emigrants,instead of 750, as originally. contemplated. The total cost of sending them them out, and providing a large number of outfits, is £6 300. . TURNOUT AT THE CLIFTON COLLIERIES, NEAR HALIFAX.— On Saturday, at the West Riding Magistrates' Court, Halifax, two colliers, named James Ellis and Mark Sheard, were charged with using threats and intimidation to George Townend, and thus endeavouring to force him to leave his employment as a collier for Messrs. Armitage, the proprietor of the Clifton Collieries. The act gave the justices power to send the defendants to prison for three months, but as they expressed themselves sorry for what they had done, the bench commhted them for four fourteen days only. A CURIOUS PIC-NIC.—A pie nic party held on Malvern hills, on Whit-Tuesday, comprised the following persons : —One grandson, one great grandson, two sons, one son-in law, two husband., two wives, two widows, one father., one brother, one uncle, one grand-uncle, three mothers, one sister, two grandmothers, one great-grandmother, two daughters, one granddaughter, one niece, and one great-nephew, one mother-in-law, one grandmother-in law, one godson, one goo!-daughter, two godfathers, and two godmothers. These thirty-four relations were united in six persons —Cheltenham Examiner. INAUGURATION OF THE: WATT MEMORIAL.—The statue of James Watt, which has been for some time in progress, and was on Thursday last placed on the pedestal in front of the Infirmary, Manchester, which corresponds in position with the pedestal on which the Dalton statue stands, was inaegurated on Friday, and formally handed over to the mayor and corporation in trust for the public. The proceedings were very interesting in themselves, bet interesting in a greater degree from the eclat which was given to them by the presence of the members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, who in this way very appropriately concluded their sittings in Manchester. FRIGHTFUL COALPIT ACCIDENT.—A FATHER AND SON KILLED.—On Saturday last, Mr. Taylor, coroner for the honour of Pontefract, held an inquest, in the presence of Mr. Cnarles Morton, government inspector at Soothill, Dewsbury, on the bodies of Richard and William Ellis, father and son, who met their deaths in a dreadful manner. Both the Ellises worked as " coal getters" in the Chickenly Hea'h Colliery. Oa Friday afternoon they had finished work, and came to thepit bottom for thepurpose of ascend ing to the bank. They both got into the ascending chair, and Thomas Kitson, the hanger-on of the corves, gave the signal t i draw up. As the chatr was ascending ano her was descending. It was Kitson's duty to watch this. Just as the descending chair had reached within a few feet of the bottom, and the ascending one a foot or two of the top, the rope broke, and the cage, with the two men in it, came crashing down to the pit bottom. Kitson just escaped from under it in time to save his life. When Kitson went to look at the result of the disaster, he found Richard Ellis (the father, forty years' of age) horribly mangled and quite deal ; but William Ellis, although fearfully mutilated, was living. He was taken to the surface, and surgical assistance was procured, but he died within an hour and a half afterwards. The rope was new, made of wire, awl about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The jury returned a verdict iif " Accidental death." CASH AND DEED Boxits.—The neat important thing to the posses sion of r ash is. bow (when you have got it) to keep it safely, either in the counting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly for Mr. E. T. Hall, of South John•sireet, that challenge attention. There boxes are male on new and admired principles, and possess patent lochs, which dety the ingenuity of any "pick-lock" in the world to open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and others, these new safes, on a small scale, Must prove valuable i n d ee d. +—Northern Doily Timis, 21st May, 1857. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTZRDAL LIVERPOOL. BZIPORN MR. P. A. HAMILTON. CHARGE OF PROCURING ABORTION—SHOCKING CARL — A person named John Godfrey Patrick Bride, described as a surgeon, and residing at 24, Eldon-place, Vauxhall road, was brought up on a charge of having procured, by means of instruments ; abortion in a women, name i Margaret M'Creel. The woman lies at present in a pre carious condition, and her d epositiou was, therefore, taken by Mr. Hamilton, on Saturday, in the presence of the accused man. She is about twenty-five years of age, and was engaged as a stewardess on board the William. Cummins, now lying in the Victoria Dock, where her de positions were taken. Mc. Bluck defended the prisoner. The depositions of Margaret M'Creel were read over. he stated that at the time of her arriving in this port she was three months' pregnant. She is a married woman. She consulted the prisoner, and told him that she was in the family-way, and asked him if he could do anything for her to take her trouble away. She saw him three times, the last time being Thursday week. He used a little instrument with her which appeared to be made of silver. He passed it up through her womb, and hurt her very mach. He gave her medicine, both before and after using the instrument. She felt great pains that day and the next, and on Saturday she miscarried. Some questions were put to the woman by the prisoner when her depositions were taken, in reply to one which she stated that she did not say anything was the matter with her, except that she was in the family-way. It also appeared by her statement that she paid the prisoner 1216 d, and was to pay him more if the operation proved successful. Mr. Bluck said he was instructed to put very different questions to her. He was instructed that she did not tell the prisoner what was the matter the first time but assigned a different cause. Detective-officer Home said her statement was that she did not tell bim until the second visit. Mr. Bluck said he supposed he should have an opportunity of cross-examining her when she was able to attend personally. The captain of the vessel, 'William Townsend Johns, was then examined. He stated that early in Nay he engaged Margaret M'Creel as stewardess for his vessel, in Savannah. She had a little child with her. On the passage he observed that she took a good deal of medicine, and he questioned her as to her reason for doing so. She said there was nothing particular the matter with her, any more than that she was not in a natural state of health. After the vessel came into Liver pool he observed that she was still taking medicine. Last Friday week, about eleven o'clock in the morning, she was taken ill. She took to her bed, and was apparently in great agony. She was seen by him frequently running backwards and forwards between her room and the water closet. He heard her giving cribs of agony. He asked her had she consulted a physician, and she said she had consulted Dr. Bride. On Saturday she appeared also in very great agony, and witness gave her some laudanum. Daring the day she sent her little child to him to ask him to come to her. He went into her room, and she told him there was something in the water-closet which she wanted him to take away. He went to the water-closet, and there found a foetus. He asked her how it occurred. She only said that she at tempted to put it through the valve, but that it would not pass, and she asked him to put it out of sight. He asked her whether the medical man whom she consulted knew that she was pregnant, and she said he did. Witness immediately sent for Dr. Hill, who attended her, and questioned her about the circumstances. Finally, Dr. Hill and witness thought it necessary to lay the matter before the authori ties. At this stage of the proceedings, after Mr. Bluck had briefly cross-examined the captain, the prisoner was remanded for seven days. We have been informed that the prisoner, although practising as a surgeon, is not a qualified practitioner. CANADA. On the 10th instant, His Excellency the Gover nor-General, proceeded in state to the Chamber of the Legislative Council, in the Parliament build ings. The members of the Legislative Council being assembled, His Excellency was pleased to command the attendance of the Legislative Assembly, and that House being present, His Excellency having given the Royal assent to 150 a number of Bills, was pleased to prorogue the Third Session of the Fifth Provincial Parliament, with the following SPEECH. Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,—When I opened this session of the legislature, I recommended to your especial consideration certain subjects on which you were ready to deliberate. On the present occasion, at the close of this session, it is my welcome duty to thank you for the manner in which you have fulfilled the assurances then expressed, and for the labour 'which you have bestowed on the general business of the province. Every one of the matters which I ventured to submit to you has been dealt with by the wisdom of Parliament : The state of our prisons and lunatic asylums; the administration of the law in Lower Canada ; the improved organisation of the civil service: the encouragement of arts anti agriculture; and the welfare of the Indian tribes ;—all these have become the subject matter of fresh legislation. You have not failed to show your impartial zeal for the progress of the proviuce, BEFORE MR. R. SHEIL. " OVER THE LINE."—A young woman, named Mary Ann Gray, was brought up by Constable Burns 94, charged with having one gallon and five half pints of whiskey in her possession without a permit. The officer said he saw her in Old Hall-street, and observing something bulky about her person, he imagined she had some stolen property, and he followed her into Prussia-street, where she entered Mr. Day's office, and he went in after her. He asked her what she had ? and at first she said she was running away from her husband, who was going to assault her. On pressing her, she admitted that it was whiskey she had, and pro duced a " grey-beard" and a bottle containing the " stuff." An excise officer proved the quantity, and said it appeared to be home-manufactured ; more than a gallon without a permit could not be so carried, under a penalty of £lO. His worship inflicted a penalty of £lO, or one month's imprisonment, but he would recommend her to the con sideration of the Board. INDscaNr.—Thomas Ross, a labourer,- was charged by two officers, who said about half-past seven on Saturday evening, the prisoner was in Church-street ; he was drunk and insulted several respectable females who were passing. He was advised to go away quietly, when he acted most improperly, and subsequently six men were required to take him to the station. He was fined 10a. or to be imprisoned for fourteen days. THE " P," IN LIME-STREET. APPLICATION FOR A WARRANT. one er before at m e t s h s e r m. Johnor n ngsittings a d t .o j f e t ff h e e ry p , o m li c r e . courts, irtes of 76, Lime-street, on the ground that the house was a Aspinall applied for a warrant against William Domville, disorderly one. The application was made under the acts 25 George the 11, and 15 George the HI, under a notice Cropper, a n served by Mr. Nathaniel A. Caine, merchant, and James Radley, hotel keeper, said warrant having been served on the head constable and the parish overseers, according to the acts quoted. The notice having been read, and the parties having entered into the necessary recognisance required by the act, to produce evidence to support a charge of the house being a disorderly one, Mr. Aspinall applied for a warrant to arrest Mr. Doraville, under the 106 section of the first-named act. He said the pre liminaries having been proved, the act directel a warrant, without the process of issuing a summons ; and when the party was arrested, the act stated that the justices could take bail for the appearance of the party at the quarter sessions, to attend there until the grand jury should have found true hills, or otherwise discharge him. Tte warrant was then issued, and the parties left. A MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY A HORSE.--OnFriday evening a middle-aged man, named Peter Horner, waggoner to Henry Ambler, Esq., of Ovenden, near Halifax, met with his death whilst breaking in a horse for a shopkeeper of the village. He bad got the animal yoked to a cart, and was about to drive it on the road, when it suddenly started, and one of the shafts pierced the unfortunate man in the breast. Beture the horse had gone many yards, Ambler fell down under the wheels, and when picked up he had expired. THE Fox, LADY Pe.ANKLIN'i DIWOVEBY SHIP.—Th e Erpresen ly lying at the S o ut' i D ac k Gate, anocl, whichwhich is isgoing out to the Arctic region% to complete the search for the long-lost Franklin expedHon, has been fitted for her peculiar work in the moat perfect and sub stantial manner, and is now almost ready for sea. It is intended to sail from tlis port very shortly. The Fox will carry a crew of twenty-seven picked men Lady Franklin, who arrived here in the beginning of the week, to witness the departure of the expedition, has taken the most lively interest in everything connected with the fitting out of the vessel, which, with her gallant crew, will set forth on her arduous voyage amid the fervent good wishes of the civilised world.—Aberdeen Free Press. There has been some grumbling about the way in which a distinguished person's evidence was taken in a recent trim. con. case, viz., that in which C o l o nel Macd ona ld, aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chi e f, was a principal. It' is well known that the distinguished person in question was no other than the Duke of Cambridge. The complaint is that he was not called in propria per Bona, instead of_ his evidence being received in writing and anonymously. It certainly looks like an attempt to defile the pure spring of justice, and extend to the great privileges denied to the small. The extreme popularity of the D Ilse, however, subdues the public indignation to the gentlest murmur. The precedent is bad, nevertheless.—London Correspondent of the Carlisle Patriot. AGRA. AND UNITED SERVICE BANK OF INDIA —The rPport of the committee of inquiry, composed of Messrs. Duncan Sym, J. Stopford, J. C. Palmer, G. H. Donaldson, J. Thomson, and T. Q. Firuis, directors, and Messrs. W. Newmarch, W. J. Fergusson, a nd J. ll3Pilliams, auditors, his appointed to exam i ne t h e a ff a i rs of th i s b an k, s t a t es that its liabilities, in c l u di ng pa id- up cap i ta l, reser ve, and depo sits (forty p er cent o f w hi c h d epos i ts b e l ong ed to proprie tors), amounted on the 31st of December last to £2,245,000, an d th e tota l assets amo unted to £2,292,000, ocafmtwp twenty ydr thirty -five cent , n e rmmeocnennte cent a employedper and n remittanceiri propo opera tionsrti on statement, in on y ten s acyesn thet, and committee,i nloins eiemployed I) mustt l h oy li e t d y ed be regardedpi discounting n e cent. i t n a . g s p bills only seating sound and satisfactory proportions. As to th e l ast item, loans to the amount of £430,000, there was £1136,000 advanced on more or less mercantile securities, and about £250,000 on personal loans, repayable by instalments, ex tending over a considerable period ; the total advance on such long loans in all the India branches being probably £500,000, or twenty per cent only of the total investments. The committee have caused instructions to be sent out for the fullest and most accurate publication of the accounts of the bank. ATTEMPTED MURDER FROM JEALOUSY. At the Worship -street Police Court, on Saturday, Liam Mann, a journeyman shoemaker, of dwarfish ats and miserable appearance, was charged with cutting wounding a young woman, named Mary Ann Inwood,: intent to murder her. The prosecutrix, a fine.loo young girl, whose face and neck were enveloped in me( bandages,•stated that she was a shoebinder; in the era of Mr. Freeman, of Westmoreland-place, Kingsland-r About nine months ago she became - acquainted with prisoner, who professed a warm attachment, to her,, subsequently proposed to marry her. Having ascertat however, that his intentions were not of an honour character, she discouraged his addresses, and studio voided his company. On Thursday e veni ng s h e dentally met him in the street, when he 'addressed in an impassioned manner, - in the course of which told her that unless she consented to live with she would have the blood of both upon her head he was determined to kill her, and afterwards to dee his 'own life. The prisoner then abruptly left her, and saw no more of him until the previous evening, when was informed while sitting at work in her masters 1 0 that he was anxiously . waiting to take leave of her. be he left the country. Witness accordingly proceeded ti to see him, with the consent of her mater; and on elate the room, the prisoner advanc e d t owar d s h er pressed her cordially by the hand, with the observe "That they must part on friendly terms, as he was 0 far away." Witness was in the act of shaking be with him, when he rapidly passed his left round her neck, and at the same moment' she felt he had stabbed her in the left side of thiy throat, which the blood streamed down her dress. She strugl desperately to release herself from him, and her sere ( for assistance att rac t e d t h e attention of her master,' rescued her from further violence. ,Mr. 17illiam 1 1 ! Freeman, the complainant's employer, stated, that er engaged in his workshop on the preceding evening, prisoner entered and requested his permission to see, last witness, as he was going a long way off, and will to bid her "good bye" before they parted for Witness communicated his request to the complainant, from the excited demeanour of the prisoner, he kept we at the door and had scarcely been a minute there when heard the noise of a violent snuffle, accompanied by of " Murder," from the prosecutrix, which induced to burst into the‘room where he found her struggling a the accused, who had a shoemaker's knife in his 1 11 which he was in the act of drawing back from her the Witness grappled with the prisoner, and, after wreel the knife from him, he flung him down up o n the IF where he held hi m fast until the arrival of a policelg Cox, 60 N, stated that th e pr i soner was given into . , custody under the circ ums t ances d escr ib e d , and on LI way to the station-house he voluntarily declared that had made up his mind to murder the woman on heal that she was about to be married to another man. lb Henry Coward, the divisional surgeon of police, ell 6 that he had attended the prosecutrix, who had receive' superficial cut down the left cheek, together with an ink wound of about three-quarters of an inch, extending iO l diately over the jugular vein, and but for the point of knife having been previously broken off, it would inevitS have been attended with a fatal result. The prisoner, e i exhibited extreme excitement during the proceedings, declined offering any defe n c e , was or d ere d to be remetiv for the formal completion of the depositions. THE PRINCE CONSORT. (From the London Gazette.) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th June, 1857: Present, the Queen's Most Exc3llent jesty in Council. Whereas, there was this day read at 'the board draft of letters patent, conferring upon his Royal High l, Prince Albert the title and dignity of Prince Consorts: Majesty, having taken the same into consideration, pleased, by and with the ad v i ce o f h er Privy CouncPJ, approve thereof, and to order, as it i s h ere b y or d ere d " the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, one her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do cal) warrant to be prepared for h er Majesty's signatures A passing Letters Patent conf orma bl e to t h e sa id dra f t n o the Great Seal of Great Britain. Was. L. BA.Tuußst.‘ At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th dal o o June, 1857: Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Mai in Council. Whereas, by the Act of Uniformity, which establis o o the Liturgy, and enacts that n o f orm or or d er of Cot/ Prayer be openly used other than what is prescribe% appointed to be used in . an d b y t h e sa id b ook, i t i s withstanding provided, that in all those prayers, litat and collects, which do anywise relate to the King, 4 2°,7 1 or Royal progeny, the names b e a l tered and changed time to time, and fitted to the present occasion, accor ( r, to direction of lawful authorit y . H er M ajesty was p ' e n this day in Council to decl are h er royal will and plea-w d that in all the prayers, litanies, and collects for the 1 Family, the words "The Prince Consort" be inserted stead of the words " The Prince Albert." And her Majesty doth strictly charge and conun,.s o /1 0 that no edition o f t h e Common Prayer be from hence printed, but with this amendment ; and'that in the 111 7 1 time, till copies of such edition may be had, all pati vicars, and curates within this realm do (for the prevenp of mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all 15 0 prayers in th e i r c h urc h b ooks, according to the foregc?l,l directions :And, for the better notice hereof, that order be forthwith printed and published, and sent to $ several parishes ; and that the right rev. the bishops take care that o b e di ence b e paid to the same accordin_ . Wm. L. BeTrinig.'"' hot The last quotations in the negro market are someone, lower than the previous rates. At a sale reeently at ► 4e re burg, S.C., a lot of 52 average d 690 Bois. There we r e many very yonog childr en i n t h e lot, however, who W r if sold away from their mo th ers, t h ereby diminishing tii"a chance of existence and naturally their value also. , e INSTALATIOI N OF THE BI SHOP OF Nonwren. — l lO installation of the new Bi s h o p G f N orw i ch took pack 0 , that city on Friday afternoon. The proceedings CO menced with the presentation o f an ad Ire s to the hish io from the clergy, and a t one o ' c l ock the I,l 4 ter went,,o procession to the episcop a l p a l ace f or this purpse. t !. ot 11 Dean immediat e ly p rocee d e d to read the address, referred in terms of satisfaction and congratulation to se previous exertions of Dr. Pelham, during his ministry ° e l parochial clergyman in the diocese, and expressed a bold that no needless dissensions would arise to einhirresg " o g mind or impede his usefulness in future years. 'I he 8i 5 , 1 10 of Norwich replied in a very appropriate speech ; 111 , 0 1 received o o n l e d o c i e which he proceeded to the cethedral. At the great vi`p ceremonies theem theiron e future e t e sa dean t u t n i door of the sacred edifice a table was placed in the °P e e, s hw p ihs a o ce ,_ rl. occupiedai vn,di.the Ts seats r r d tt occasions, having been observed, the Bishop took peesesg'vo canons usu i n a s l a r e o l e s n r i d o e s : l e ne of his stall, and evening service was performed. A tl e 4 anthem, comp ose d b y D r. Buck for the occasion, was with meeh ^ taste and feeling by the choir. The w e da c imposition were selected from the 16th, 20th, 22nd, 27th verses of the 89th Psalm. A YOUNG LADIZS' ESTABLISHMENT IN BELGIUM.I 6 miscellaneous assortment they were, differing both in c as ,,,f and country. As I sa t on my estrade, and glanced one, the long rang e o f d es k s, I had under my e F h ~, ye renc lish Belgians, Austrians, and Prussians. The m s P r i of blonged to th e c l ass b ourgeois ; but there were rna'd comptesses, there were the daughters of two generals of several co l onels, captains, and Government emplogl o . these ladi es sat s i de by side with young femalis destine(' be dem o i se ll es de magasins, and with Some Flamand e r o ; genuine a b , r - g i nes of the country. In dress all we, nearly simil ar , an d i n manners there was small diff renehe Exception s t h ere were to t h e general rule, bu' majority gave the tone to the establishment, and ti l o tone was rough, boisterous, marked by a point-bla disregard of all forbearance towards each other or (b e e teachers, an eager pursuit by each individ ua l o f h e r ost s interest and convenience, and a coarse indifference to t P interest and convenience of every one e l se. Most of theo to could lie with audacity when it app eare d advantageous do so. All understood the art o f spea ki ng fair wholl 0 y point was to be gained, and could, with consummate 81 0 ,.; a nd at a moment's n o ti ce, turn the cold shoulder tle i ns tant civility cea se d to be profitable. Very little °Pe o quarrelling ever took place amongst them ; but hackbitil and talebeeiing were universal. Close friendships vier forbidden by th e rules of the school, and no one g" i i seemed to cultivate more regard for another than was la necessary to se cure a companion when solitude woo have been irksome. They were each and all 54; posed to have been reared in utter unconsciousne ss of vice. The precautions used to keep they ignorant, if not innocent, were innumerable. How w'",i it, then, that scarcely one of those girls having attaive l , the age of fourteen, could look a man in the face vit t a , modesty and propriety ? An air of bold, impudent flirt io tion, or a loose, silly leer, was sure to answer the W e e ordinary glance from a masculine eye. I know nothin g of the arcane of the Roman Catholic religion, and I g o t not a bigot in matters of theology, but I suspect the ro ut. of this precocious impurity, so obvious. so general, he Popish countries, is to be found in the discipline if not t" 10 doctrines of the Church of Rome. I record what I 1 1 %, seen ; these girls belonged to what are called the reaP t i ' i s table ranks of society ; they had all been carefully broli e up, yet was the mass of them mentally depraved. Professor. lar,“) .73F. gei•Hi;