Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

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We, therefore, seeing Pahe avidity with which everything bearing upon this glorious triumph of British ernes, is read and conned over, supply our readers with several additional particulars, gleaned from the .Bombay corres pondence. It appears- certain that there was great fiahting and slaughter in Delhi, for several days, previous to its final oecupation by the British on the - -20th September, and that the position of the assailing force was improved every hour. was ready for beginning the aseault on the 14'h, non that morning the storming was so successful that our troops made themselves masters of a line of defences, including the Cashmere, Cabul, and Moree gates, with the English church, College, and other buildings The-enemy. however, obstinately held the other positions. Next day the news was that the -British continued to hold the city from the-College and the Cebul gate, and were shelling the magazine. At night, a breach in the magazine was made, and next day (die 16th) the magazine was stormed and taken. The .61st Foot was the main instrument in eff.teting this purpose. Then, on the lath of October, statements were re ceived at Lahore that the whole of our mortars were playing upon the •Palace from the magazine yard, and that the mutineers -were abandoning many of their positions. By this time enormous plunder had fallen into the hands of our soldiers, and the killed.end the Wong led must have been so great as to block up the streets. 'The account of the three days' fighting that must have occurred before the 20:h will come by the next mail.. A .4,00d1y number of the inmates -of Delhi appear to have been of opinion that discretion is the better part of._ valour. No sooner had the .British troops effected a lodgment within the walls, than -large bodies of the enemy were seen retreating. both along the bridge which crosses the Jumna, and thezuelt the Aimeree gate, by the road that leads to the famous-Itoeth Miner. Among those valiant heroes appear to have been the Kinri and two -of his sons. .Their brief nightm :re dream of Sovereign sway,. says the Dailf 'Tessa, is elready at an end. According to one report, they were lase heard of at a village about six miles from Delhi; and to anotLer, which had reached Bombay through B jmeree, the King at least, has already been taken. It is not likely that any of them can long escape; these effeminate nurslings of the Zetnana are not the men to rough it in the Jungle, and for them there is no other place of refuge that can long be safe. Public opinion will demand that when captured, -shall be put upon their trial,. as on means of -e iciting the truth respecting the origin of the revolt ; end that if convicted of having seduced our' native soldiers from theinfoielity, -or ef.having authorize..? or been accessories to the slaughter of Eurepeans in Delhi, they shall, o. and all of them, surer the last penalties of the elaw. .This is a great change from the . recent ,cry of vengence against the Mutineers; but in our-minds, aiehough we would extend mercy to all the attherdinate rebels, we would at once weeak summary veneence upon the King of Delhi, ,his sons, and advisers. A trial by a court of law would ,be a farce es long as that Imbecile Goeernar-General of India, Lord Canning, holde th e re i ns of Government. The .rumoured expedition of Mr. Grant, member .of :the Supreme Council of India, being sent up to the disturbed districts to control the Generals in command in the execution of martial law, has createcd the. utmost disgust and rmeasinese in the minds of the public in England. It is sincerely to he hoped e if such a i'utnuur is true, and that the Calcutta .Gareentnentneeould be so silly audeehort-sighted to sanction any such proceeding, that the Gent-rah.; in command will treat Mr. Grant's ieterferenee with the greatest contempt.. -If the Governor. General .is so weak as to promote .sech expeditioaae, the commanding officers in E:igleted, eeeing tfee ,position in which they are plot:el:I, .should not act,otLerwise, and they, in the long run,-will be aeconieta.ble to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and not Lord Can ninc, and his contemptible Suprerneliouncil. The Times deplore,,s.auy such expeditioo as alluded t o , and says- -, ,:enclaVindnees and perversity. as have prompted the inissien of Mr. Great may, perhaps, have to be expiated by new calamities, and repaired by Hew acchieeemenle. The -Civil Government of Irt-a may re3t aso.u'ed that, whenever the time comes for reviewing its condu3t, it will E:riLL,it no easy task to stein the • current of popular feeling, which has set so strongly against it. need not aggravate the difficulties of its pokeitionli a y wantonly inaulting-the f eeli "gs of every roan, aKleether soldier or c:iviiian. who is engaged in fighting its battles. ' There is. a time,' says the wise man, 'to kill, and a time to, heal ;' each work has to.be performed, but ec c h in its own season, and fai r .0 elin Cempbell ;must. execute his mission beforeewe can listen to the philanthropic proposals of Mt% .Grant When the Duke of W e lli ngton was asked what . martiai law meant, he replied, •No law at , a ll, hut th e of the Omni - nat - ter-in-Chi e f.' That is the law which is now wanted for ;u4loll.nt - , of corn- The Governteent of late have theinselv, s, with the ereates taken credit placeney, ter the eapid nianne-r4 in wince the Indian mails have been forwarded, .their arrival at Si, z. The following parsera - e if rapid despatch Our Matta 41, c e , n't look Mi.r t3 ir a r t e e s s p t c h m t d t e t n h t e , who, , e letter is dated the 10th loam,, Bombay mail was ,ithavoidably detajued at that place for 39 hours, Admiral Sa)pferd having no steamer at hie disposaLwhich he coe.W employ to earry it forward." The result of the .trietl of Nlpssrs F-47,ans and Thorpe, at the Centiat CEiroinal Court, foriiba on the Han. Mr. Cadogan, -foi• which the two former gentlemen were sentenced .to twelve month ' im. prisonment each, hes given -waything but satisfac tion in mercantile circles, ,evecially those u-ho have any communication with the Continent. Al a London paper cl yesterday says—" Their .(the defendants') o:.aiect, ace •rding to i-h-c decision of the jury, was to (Attain some edvaiiaa?,e from Mr. Cadoean, by threatening the Fa-Mien-tem of a slan.- derous letter, ceetesing him of malting the best arrangements with his Stock .F,x31.19-rege broker through the medium,el that information which his official position in the Submarine Telegreph effete enabled hint to posseza It was riot de.aied that Mr. C.iiogln hal deelinge on the Stock Exelnerge. nor was it denied that he frequently read the mes sages that passed through the telegfapli oilier, hut Mr. Cadogan indignantly repudiates haring joined the two things together. Steek Exchange gentle men, we hear, are of one opiniee. that no telegraph officials should have anything to do with the traffic in public seeuritice." The gentlemen compo,;ing the Siamese Embassy, consis'sing of P;iya Muntri Surnywangse, Principal Amhassaclor from the First King of Siam ; Chau Mu n Siikhedh Briielity, Second Arnbasgarlor from the First King; Chaninn Mandir Bidachs, First Ambassa , lor, Nai Pi -bar Sarbkick, Second Ambasgalor from tho Seo.ond King of Siam, with 12 pzinuipal 0111,xrs of Sta.te, 0141 ,retinuo oi servants, in all 27 persons, arrived in this country on Wednesday, and landed at Portsmouth, where they await advices from the government before proceeding to London. They were received with :great ceremony by the several eflicers in connection with the port of Postsmouth„ and after a dijrziner, the " distinguished foreieners" were condareted over the dockyards, and shown every object, of interest, with most of . which they exhibited and expressed unfeigned surprise. We have often heard of the preponderency of the numbers of Roman Catholic troops engaged in the Crimean war, the inadequate number of Roman Catholic priests, and the very miserable pay of the latter. The Rev. Henry Press Wright, in a letter tow` London cotemporary, shows the fallacy of such statements. According to him, during the late -war, five-ninths of our army were members of the -. Church of England, three ninths Roman Catholics, and one-ninth Presbyteriane. The Roman Catholic chaplains received les a day, forage for two horses, excellent quarters, and first.rate rations ; in other words, £33 4s. yearly more then the assistant chaplains of the Church of England. Mr. Wright adds—" In the Crimea, the greatest harmony existed among chaplains of all creeds, and it is lamentable, indeed, to find leading men of the Church of Rome exciting dissension at a time when the whole nation is imploring God ' to lay hand upon the shield and buckler, and stand up and help us.' These are moments when our communing ought to be for peace. Never, surely, were we less invited to 'imagine decitrul words against them that are quiet in the land.' Should we ever have another war in the Crimea (which God forbid), and Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop Cullen, and others, will ,join the chaplain department of our army, they will find the thermometer at seven degrees below zero an effec tual cooler of all ' wretched theological disputes,' and a dripping bell tent peculiarly calculated to put a damper upon all unkind feeling. When the biting cold is penetrating every pore in search of the very marrow itself one is only toe glad to keep the heart warm by keeping up in it the largest fire of Chrisiian love. After cAnmending to God's keeping the souls of poor suffering sol diers, chaplains of all denominations readily gather together as friends, and talk over the woik of the day, the trying circumstances of war com pelling them to esteem each other for the work's sake. I wish something more of the spirit were rife mid the quiet of home scenes" The Mancnester City Council have appointed Mr. James Ges3oyne Lynde, of Westminster, Lon don. to the office of City Surveyor, at a salary of £750 per annum. At the Police Court, yesterday, a number of dishonest shopkeepers were fined in various sums for having false weights, scales, and measures We are very hippy to see that the magistrates are at length aroused to the importance of dealing severely with those persons who are in the habit of robbing purchasers by means of these false weights and measures. In the course of some very trite remarks upon this subk.ct, Mr. Holme, one c) the magistrates on the bench yesterday, said, " false weights and measures were an abomination to the town, an I it was traly lamentable for magistrates to be often compelled to sand a poor hungry lad to jail for taking a loaf to satisfy his hunger, whilst the shopkeeper was allowed to plunder the public wholesale, and get off for a fine. He Wished the legislature empowered the magis trates to send the shopkeeper to kill, insead of fining him. Ho would again repeat the magistrates were resolved to put down the system of public plunder that prevailed amongst shopkeepers in this town, and h o feared it prevailed in other large towns also. No competion i n t ra d e s h ou ld i n d uce any shopkeeper to resort to dishones'y ; and he was again sorry to say that his observations applied equally to large and what was called respectable establishments, as well as to small " We heartily endols:-. the sentiments uttered by the worthy ma gistrate, and only hope that his fellow Justices of the Peace, will in all cases inflict the fullest penalty on a second conviction. A very full report of the meeting of the Dock Committee, held ye:lterday, will be found in another part of t -day's impression. It will be seen that the question of dock accommodation occupied much of the time o° the committee. The resolution of the sub-committee, that the extension of the Brunswick and Huskisson Docks, as shown on the plans, should be introdused into any bill laid b,fire Rub:anent W. 1.9 brought up, and also the memorials from various commercial bodies of the town, urg . .ng the necessity for the extension of Dock accommodation on the Lancashire s - de of the Lfer.,:ey. All of these communications were referred back to the sot-committee. Their report on the matter will be delivered in time to take action upon any bill that may be thought necessary to be introduced in the next session of Parham ?nt. The Lae prnpri,etor of the Morning herald and :standard, Mr. Baldwin, has passed his last exviii• nation at the London Bankruptcy Court. Mr. Labouchere, the Colonial Secretary, has spoken on the Indian revolt, congratulatin ; . ; himselt :And his hearers on t,Lti unanimity of the country in supporting the Goverument, and promising, on the part of the Ministry,,a full investigation into Indian mismanagement. The news from abroad this morning is not of mue,l- 4 imnoltance.. An article in the semi-official Paris ,paper advocates that t h e F renc h Govern ment ,r , ill probably not-be , found intractable on the question of the Principalities. Neither Russia nor Prucsia was At all inolinod to join in pu:ting any pres)nre on the Porte in that affair. The Servian conspirary, as we conjectured, had nothing to do with .rcpubi:.aniitn, anal the s'a'ement that it had was Austrira clap-trap. It was the sillywork of a tveal'ily pretender---a Prince Milosch. The .Swiss E'ItiO:IS continue favourable to the Liberals ; and tve 'art' from Copenhagen that the DanishVolhithina h gs unanimonsly acknowledged the legality of the Who te-state Const::tution, against which Holstein protests. WE placed before our headers, ;yesterday, full details of-the news from To.dia, and they must have been gratified to learn that the mutineers at Delhi were rout/2d from their stronghold, and their would-be Kiag„compelLd to re.sort:.to false 'pretences, for the purpose of effecting his escape. Th e struggle was long and severe. It . .appears that the assault commenced on the 14th, .and lasted till the :20th ult., 'hen the British -runes made themselves masters of the city and fortress. By this fact, we have ample reason to hope that we have seen the beginning ,of the end of this rebellion.. In‘de,ed, the fall or Delhi, and the ig nominious Right of its mock-Goverign, must go • far to conviace the mutineers of the utter hope lessness .of their contest, their inability to cope with the power and majesty of England, and its determination to maintain, in all its integrity, supreme control over the people of Ilindostan. But while the news of the capture of D4hi will be acceptable to the nation, not merely as a fresh proof of the indomitable courage and zeal of the troops, there are hundreds who will bc..plunged into the deepest grief that the struggle has deprived them of some of their nearest and dear est friends and relatives. The loss of British officers and men has been very severe ; indeed, the proportion of officers unusually so. Thi s , however, is a proof that they were " foremost in the fight," and cheered on their roan regardlcyss of all consequences, and given fresh proof that a more undaunted nod chivalrous set of men than the commissioned officers of her Majesty's and the East India Company's armies do not THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1857 exist. Let us, then, congratulate the country that the great city of Delhi has fallen, and the head-quarters of the mutineers sacked, and the mutineers put to flight, The Russians, at Sebas topol, as soon as the British bayonets pierced their stronghold, took to flight, and gave "leg-bail" for their good intentions. The news of the fall of Delhi has been hailed throughout the country with ardent satisfaction. Hardly a parish church steeple—even in the most se cluded of the rural districts—but displayed it s union jack on Wednesday, in token of the joyous tidings, and not a few of the church bells rang delighted peals during the day. Sebastopol was considered a great military feat, but it must be remembered that it took three powers to subdue The deeds of bravery at Delhi will teach our allies that with an army now like that in India, England has nothing to fear, and that nothing can arrest from her dominion the vast Empire of India. Delhi having fallen, it becomes the next ques tion, what of Lucknow ? We had at one time grave doubts about the safety of the small but truly gallant band which defends that garrison ; but according to the latest accounts, we have now full confidence that it will be enabled to hold out until relief reaches it. The besieged had repulsed the assaults of the mutineers, and inflicted upon them heavy punishment, and what is equally gratifying, there was abundant pro visions in the fortress to last them until the Ist of October, before which time Generals HAVE LOCK and OUTRAM would have reached Lucknow , and at once proceed to release the beleagued city, and thereby put an immediate end to their li perils of the past two months. We are sorry to see that, although repulsed and defeated on every side, the mutineers continue to increase. The present mail brings us intelligence that other regiments have shown symptoms of insubordina tion and disloyalty. Of course short work was made with them—the ringleaders were sum • l i marily dealt with, and the rest disarmed. This is satisfactory ; but to those wielding authority in India it must be painful to learn that the spirit of rebellion was manifesting itself in new districts, and among regiments where its existence was not previously suspected. It is painful in the extreme to learn the imbecility of Lord CANNING'S government of India. A few days ago we had occasion to comment upon the instructions which he pro mulgated respecting the treatment of mutineers made prisoners. Carrying out the provisions and principles of these instructions, we now learn that 150 prisoners, taken by General NEILL at Cawnpore, had been liberated by Mr. C. P. GRANT, whose civil authority overides the military power of the distinguised officer alluded to. An act of' such ill-timed clemency has been, as it should be, loudly stigmatised by every person of influence and intelligence in India. We hardly know how Lord CANNING can defend an act so reprehensible in every respect. time of war, when we are contending with a numerous and ruffianly enemy, the true policy of our rulers should be to show no sympathy with the mutineers, but to take every step to render them utterly powerless. This the Governor-General of India does not do. He releases them out of prison —an indirect admis sion that they have been unjustly arrested, and that they were right in lifting arms against the constituted authorities of India. Besides this, we only set such men at liberty to perpetrate fresh deeds such as those which disgraced Cawn pore. We look upon this ;tat of Lord CANNING in a most unsatisfactory light, and one which the India Board cannot explain away or defend. 'What will be said of a Government which acts so leniently to rebels, while it suspends the publica tion of a newspaper because it tells unpalatabl e truths, and feels compelled to speak in reprehen sible terms of the conduct of the Governor-Gene ral and his Council ? Nevertheless,_ such is the conduct of the Governor-General, and such the procedure of his Council in the affairs of India. We have before demanded, for the sake of India itself, the prosperity and happiness of its peo ple, and the honour and integrity of British dominion in Hindostan, that Lord CANNING should be instantly recalled. Every day he is allowed to rule in the :manner which recent accounts set forth, he is doing an injustice to the country at Dirge, and rendering more difficult the intricate task of tranquilising indh, and civilis ing her countless population. I As the Municipal Polling-day approaches, the defeat of the Corruptionists, wherever they are opposed, appears to be more certain. The old watch words of great wealth—long ,standing— known respectability —pure sanctity, and the other cant of Twaddiedurn, are met by th e Liberal side bringing forward candidates who Possess all these recommendations and something, more—a Laced determination to oppose Corporate jobbery in all its .phases. The Burgess who thinks property an indispensable qualification for a Town Councillor, will find it in the Liberal candidates, Others, who desire to reverse the established order of things, by bestowing marks of merit on the philanthropist, will not be at a loss to find a good and tried Samaritan on the Liberal roll. The Corruptionists have no respectability attached to their names which younger aspirants to Municipal distinctions cannot add to their fame by one vote in the Council. The Burgesses are beginning to see all this, and Mr. VERNON'S canvass of the North Tomteth Ward has enlightened him very con siderably on this point. He has stepped forward to oppose Mr. AvLiori ou She distinct under- standing that he is a " Conservative" forsooth We have repeatedly stated that politics have nothing whatever to do with Corporate elections, or the management of Municipal affairs ; and political titles can only be used in such assem blies to distinguish one side from the other; and, unfortunately for Mr. VERNON, the Ratepayers of Liverpool have had that substantial proof which years :of woeful experience furnishes, to satisfy them that Corporate " Conservatives" are not the men they want. Hence the folly of employing such marks of distinction in a Corporate contest. It is possible that Mr. VERNON'S ardent friends may have done him a grave injustice by identifying his fair name with so unsavoury a cognomen. If Mr. VERNON should declare that he will not, by his votes, sanction any species of jobbery in the Corporation, what will become of the " Conser vative" spirit of his supporters ? Mr. BANNER is pretty much in the same plight. Unless that gentleman countenances the further suppression of the Borough estate, and is prepared to vote for an increase of the debts of the port and town and a Borough rate, he will cease to be a Conservative," and the Liberal Candidate, Mr. BowRING, must, if he attempts to oppose prodi gality, be content to be called- a " Radical" who forgets •' all the obligations of honesty, consis tency, and truth," Such is the arrant nonsense which the unimpeachable opposition drag into a purely civil election, and on this preposterous clap-trap they rely for the return of men to the Council, to support the majority who have brought our trade and town into irredeem able debt. They seek to fill the Corporation with toadies who will drench us with Pike cholera, and who will leave the industrious poor in their present dark homes sooner than allow a most iniquitous Gas monopoly to be interfered with. These are a few of the foul designs which are to be carried out by exciting political pre judices and sectarian passions at our Municipal elections. We challenge the opposition Press to show the public any one instance in which we have profaned the sanctity of religion by making it a stalking-horse, or named politics with a view to obtain one single vote for the Candidates whose return to the Council we have advocated. We can find in the official records of th,.. Corporations doings quite sufficient to convince the Burgesses of Liverpool that it is high time to break down the jobbery of that body. We sk for reforms which will secure the economical and honest administration of the corporate funds, and if we should fail to attain this most necessary end by the Constitutional exercise of the Municipal Franchise we do not despair of obtaining it from the Imperial Legislature. The truth has yet to be told about the real position of the Dock Estate, and a balance-sheet published by the Conservancy Commission, which will startle both Houses of Parliament. But what do the hireling scribes of the opposition papers know about these difficult and weighty matters ? They only attack men who . dare to oppose corruption. They keep far away from our figures, and make vulgar and self degrading abuse supply the place of reason. This may do very well for the "Conservative' rabble, but the cool and reflective portions of that political school must feel outraged by the use which is made of their name in these local contests. Our opponents do us justice however, when they say we are determined to break up the monopoly which exists in the Council. We plead guilty to this charge, and will even go so fur as to tell them that we will give our humble support to every man who comes forward to oppose known Corruptionists at our Municipal Elections. Lime-street Ward was carried last year against uncalculatable odds, by a spirited opposition on the Liberal side, and the same result may be fairly anticipated this year in St. Peter's, Vauxhall, Evertor, and North Toxteth Wards. In all these localities the most determined stand is being made against all the adverse influences which can be brought to bear by the Corruptionists. Mr. Bowl; IN G'S and Mr. MELLY'S friends find that they are in honour bound to return them, and no effort will be spared, tip to the last hour of polling, to secure the desired result. In the other Wards strong hopes of success are entertained, and with one generous and united effort on the part of the Liberal Burgesses there need be no fear as to the issue. But we must not disguise the fact, that without some exertion be made by those who really desire to see the Council checked i❑ its course of unparalleled extrava gance and waste, the desired triumph cannot be obtained. We must, then, again urge the Burgesses to be up and doing, and to rally round the polling booths in sufficient numbers to show what the moral feeling of the Rate payers really is. Tice Second of November is near at hand, and let it be observed as a day on which the Burgesses hare a solemn duty to perform towards their fellow-townsmen, who do not enjoy the right of voting. That this duty will be manfully discharged, and that cor- porate jobbing will receive an equally solemn rebuke, we do not doubt, The evil, which the Liberal Electors have to reprove and correct, has assumed the alarming magnitude of 18,000,0001. or 20,000,0001. of local debt. This, as we have before observed, must be thrown on the trade of the Mersey and the town of Liverpool, if the Municipal Electors do not step forward and at once arrest the prodigal career of their representatives in the Council Chamber. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. VIENNA, THURSDAY. The Vienna Gazette announces 'in a despatchAfrom Galatz, that the proceedings of the Danubian Commission are temporarly suspended, on account of the differ" euces of opinion among the members of the Commission, who will wait for fresh instructions from their respective governments. ANOTHER ROYAL MARRIAGE. MUNICH, WEDNE9DAY. Count Medolf has arrived, charged on the part of the King of Naples to demand the hand of thelTrincess Mary for the Duke of Camibri, heir presumptive to the Crown of the Two Scilies. ,The Princess is sister of the Emperor of Austria, and has just completed her sixteenth year. LONDON COURT OF B ANKRUPTCY. —YEsTER,DAY. Ix RE E. BALDWIN.—The Bankrupt, late proprietor s of the Morning lie raid, and other Metropolitan:newspapers came up on the question of last examination, and passed unopposed- PUBLIC DINNER IN HONOUR OF LORD BROUGHAM AT PENRITH. Lord Brougham was entertained on Wednesday at a public dinner, at the George Assembly Room, at Penrith, by a party of the magistracy and gentry of the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. In the absence of the Earl of Lonsdale, who was prevented from attending by ill health, the chair was occupied by E. W. Hosell, Esq., chairman of the Q„tarter Sessioas for the counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland. The vice-chair was filled by Henry Howard, Esq., of Greystoko Castle. Among the gentlemen present were Charles Howard, Esq., M.P. ; W. Hodgson, Esq., M.P. ; J. Steel, Esq., M.P. ; Sir J. 11. Maxwell, W. Wakefield, Esq., J. Crosley, Esq., and W. Coackenthorpe, Esq , strenuous supporters of Lord Brougham durin:y, the Westmoreland election. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, the healthy of the Lord-Lieutenant, of the bishop and clergy of the diocese , and of the members for the county and the boroughs, were proposed and responded to. The chairman then proposed the toast of the day, the health of Lord Brougham. Men of all parties, he said, had assembled to express their high regard and respect for _one of the most distinguished statesmen of the age. The toast was received with tremendous applause, and his lordship's reply was greeted with equal manifestations of sympathy and enthusiasm. ST. PETER'S NV tRD ELECTION AND MR BANNER'S CHURCH. Wo publish the following extra3ta frim the Council ntoccedings of the 10 - .11 of 'May, 1852, and July 6',h, 1854, in reference to the grant of land for the Church in earinxion wt i tiL; Orphan Asylum. (Feointitc Liverpool Mercury, Hay 11, 1852 ) TOWN COUNCIL, MONDAY, MAY 10. FiNANC3 COMMITTEE, Tae proceedings of the Committee contained a rec , ,m , dation to grant, subject to the approval of the Lords of the Tressurv, a piece of land in Myrtle Street, to Mr. Han mood Banner, on condition that he baild a Church thereon within three years, that sufficient accortarnodatio I be at all times resoled in the Church gratuitously, for the use of the children, teach =r=, and others connected with the Female Orphan Asylum, and Orphan Boys' Asylum ; the plan and elevation of the Church to be subject to the approval of the Cour..cil. Mr. Lloassy in movin. , the mfirmation of th e proceedings, said the only su r bjeet to which he need c li attention was the grant of land to Mr. Ilarmood Banner, for the use r,f the Fern +le Orphan Asylum. After speak ing of the liberal manner in which Mr. Banner had come forward and offered to tract the Church, he stated 'hat the quantity of land granted by the Council was 2,140 square yards, which, with previous grants to the same Charities amounte I altogether to 8,000 , quire yards. The land was of considerable value; but the committee believed that, the two Charities to which the grant hid been made were most vaLiable, not only as regarded the objects they had in view, but is a pecuniary sense, for there was no doubt many of the objects who did not come under their operation might otherwise become chargeable to the community, either as inmates of Workhouses or prisons. The resolutim was s corded by Mr. Alde-man J. Holme ; aid aPor a few werds from Mr. Beckwith, the Council unanimously confirmed the proceedings Mr. HaaMoon BA NN At could not suffer the confi flaa• tion of the proceedings to take place without making his acknoWledgements to the Finance Committee for the very handtmine manner in which they had recommended the grant of land which he p.qitiouarl. for, and the very unani mous vote of the Council on the present occasion. He quite agreed wi:h his friend Mr. Hor:flay, that it was not only to the present mein nt that they were to hock with regard to those institutions which were fur the orphans of the town, but they \v.:re really dohog goed for g' nerations • yet to c one—(hear. hear) —not only to the chil hen DOW there, but to the children who in future ycare might be brought up in these insti utions and inasmuch. as prevention wis better than cure---(hear, heir) —how true was the sentiment of Mr. Harnby, that they we - e providing for children who might other wise have got into bad hands, and through bad example an I evil cornmunic Itioas have become pests of society. lie felt greatly indebted to the C and the Finance C tomi tee, both peronally and on behalf of ill two ins'itutions. The limitations in the grant be quite a2proved of, and when he produced the plans and elevation of the intended church, he hoped they would meet with the unanimous ap,;r val of the Council, and net only wove useful for the purpose for which they were intended, but also era matn..l to the town. (E-Lar, hoar.) Extract of Town Council proceedings, July sth, 1854. A letter was read from . B triaer, petitioning Oat the Church, in ctnnectim with the Hale and Female Orphan Asylum, in DI fr e-street, might have a liaggel path vay placed before it, M. BIGHAM opposed the grant, on the goad that Mr- Banner had an interest in the churah, and had placed his son there as chaplain. Mr. Banner said that he hal withdrawn his son from a more b?neficill app datmetv, and that if he had expended the sum which he had given for building the church, in purchasing a benefinP, he would have derived a much greaterpecuni try interest. - Mr. fLinsos charged Mr., Banner with having a bene fici a interest in the church, and said that he ior oat, should always ()ppm the kind of mawkish sentimentality which Mr. Banner was in the habit of intro - liming. Mr. BANNER said he was unable to account for the personal feeling which existed against him, ani he re gretted that hi 3 views in building that chapel were not more appreciated. He state] that he hai built that chapel without rec.iving a farthing assist :rice from any one else, and he oily asked that ttle same should 131 done for this chapel as hid been done for chapels bath by Mr. Horsfall and kir. Inman. H aadts doprelated the personal manner in which the motives of M.. Sinner hal been attacked, which he was hims of aw.►re was actuated by the purest spirit. (Hear, hear.) The Rev. W R Jolley, formerly curate of St. Bride's, Liverpool, has been appointed tutor to Prince Alfred. Lewis AND GiMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT Y3B. BOYS' C l Lortiixo.—Number of boys clothed for week ending Sttur lay, Ogobtr 24th, 475; corresponding week last year, 280, which was the first week this establ'shment was ope.ied ; incrn+se, 196 boys. Me. Ronsow's BENEPIT.—Oar col mans are so crowded that we can only in a line or two call public attention to the fact, thlt to-night this latest, and in many reipec s • g - eatest, cal,b ity of our stage takes his benefit. Mr. R )loson- will appear in the new drama" Piot and Passion In which he achieve.] one of his most remarkable impersonations, and in the burlesque of " Mataniello."' Lttrzaioon OFFICE Sit LOIDON.-A paragraph appeared in the Daily Post of yesterday, stating that the commercial astociatiorts bad agreed to rc nnmend Mr. Brines for the above appointment, this, we are informed, it an error; no , nell recommendation h as b een mad', and, moreover, nothing will be done in the appointment untl :he deputa tion chostn by she Chamber of Commerce and other publio bodim to wait upon the C irp ration and Dock Committee, have etnonrmicated with. those holies. The Chamber of Commat'ee have requested the different pubic bodies to send into them the expristiun of their views ani intentions ! r 9 specting its office, and a gener a l m at ti n g will s h or tly take plums to fiaeide the question. FALL OF THE DELHI. ;In addition to the Calcutta Mail, the cooten of which we published yesterday, we ha ve n received our private correspondence and OP ° from Bombay to the 3rd of October. The following is the letter of the Time's 13°11/ _ - ; bay correspondent, which gives the particulars .o_l' the fall of Delhi, and the usual summary of events since the departure of the last mail BOMBAY', Cler•? . . At length I am able to announce to you the fa il oft s u t revolted capital of North-Western India, or, if chi ti er appellation be not strictly correct, of the an cient e city of the Mogul empire, in which a faithless soldier, had sought to re-erect . the indep en d en t throne of the desceadant of Babor. Delhi is once more in possessing of the British. Our information at present is more seati than could be desired, owing partly to the dawk ceoe munication being unluckily intercepted between Lahore' and Mooltam. But the main facts have reached 133 from t so many quarters as to leave no doubt whatever that ~,, :place was assaulted with success on the 14th o f SePte ber, when a permanent lodgment was effected, that dor i nd the four or five following days further advance s 6 acquisitions on the city were made, and that finally °u the 23th the whole of the space enclosed within the walls ° f was in our possession. I sh ou ld o b serve , however , the e, we have not received a s yet s u ch cer t a i n evidence Th o e latter part of this story as of that of the former. to. proceedings of the 14th, 15th, and 16th are known l° however, compendiously from the official bulletins issned se by the Chief Commissioner at Lahore, and fours gut or you know, on t e l egra phi c messages f rom D e lhi. 135 b;ir the final occupati on on th e 20 t h we have on ly heard an express from the Residency at Jeypore in 10.1" ta b il e d which reached Lord Elphinstone by way of Alne da ; tbe yesterday. It is dated at Jeypore on the evening ° 1 ' to 23rd, and is to the effect that the news had jus t als o received at the Residency bath from the Rajah an d - to from the Vakeel o r Mi n i s t er o f the Nawab of Jhuij un s i g whom it may be pres ume d t o h ave b een f orwar ded by " A master, a chief resident in the immediate neighbourhe°t; of Delhi. Thus th e tidi ngs o f our u l t i mate an d comP le ar success rest at present on native authority only , b ilt , p d the natural srquel and co m pl emen t o f ou r undon b "" triumph of the 14th they are universally credited. ill But to complete, s o f ar as my present ma terials ri` allow, the story of the ave ng i ng army . When I clo sed o my last letter, we had hea r d th a t th e h eav y siege trail was expected to reach the camp in a very few days , a n that works ware being erected wherein to mount the g uns on their arrival. While the troops were thus basYt the enemy were inactive. There were none of those desPera'-f. sallies from the city that ch arac t er i se d t h e ear ly day s ° the siege, when day by day successive waves of In ntin n i ; were shattered against the hei g ht s o f t h e B r i t i s h P° and though their artillery was not silent, the only success attained was on the night o f th e ' Ist o f S e ptetnb c° when a shell from the batt er y on th e f urt h er s ide of the river (of which I wrote in my last) burst among a Pic k % of the 61-at, in front of the Melc a lf e -h ouse, killi n g two men and wounding seven. On the morning of the 4th, arrived, in camp the long looked-for siege train of between 3 0 an n 40 heavy guns, howitzers, and mort ars , w ith large 0%; titles of ammunition, escorted by the remaining w irl 4 4- ,. the Bth font, two more companies of the 61st, an% wing of the Ist aelooeh batt a li on o f th e B om bay o°3 ' . On the 6th cane in from nteerut a most valuable rein' forcement in 200 of the 60th R flea, and 100 Artille ry recruits. To the latter wer e a dd e d 45 men of the 91 t Lancers. The place of thi s d e t ac h ment was supplied at Meerut by the 7th Puajah Infantry. On the foll°wn:b day the army was further strengthened by the 4th Punk " e Rifles under Captain Wride, and by some t r oops of t Jheend Rajah. On the night o f th e 7th the advan ce 0 . batteries' intended for the destruction of the '~lore bastion and: the adjacent curtain were ar med with heavy guns at about 650 yards from th e b as ti o n, anaro d enclosure within :half that distance o f th e wa lls, cal l ;,f: the tlClodsea Bagh, was occupied by a detacholont infantry and artillery. In these operations we sustai n % a loss of something un ler 50 kill e d an d woun ded, t vi , officers being amen; the'for mer , Li eu t enan t s Ifildebraa o ' of the Bengal Artillery, and ,Bannerman, of the Born"! Fusileers, attached to the Beeloochees, the latter promising young officer, well known to myself and t many peep!e here, and by: a ll regre tt e d . The next do, was marked by the opening of the advanced batteries se, the Moree bastion and by the arrival in camp 0f t bo Jtlrool33 or Cashmere ;:Contingent. Meanwhile he r engineers were hard at work in the erection of nt ; bo batteries. Oa the 11th a morter battery opened 00 ;0 Moree from the Koodsea Bagh at little more tha n fir e yards, and upon the Cashmere and W ater b ast i on s e ,'"• 1 0 was commenced from 13 he av y guns and howitzers an'tbe large mortars, planted at t wo po i nts in front of !a enclosure known as Ludlow Castle, and so noted Water Wyld's map. Oa the 12,h th e attack on the iv bastion was strengthened by fear 18-pounders atfa t r ic o light (51 inch) mortars (increased afterwards aPP iren t - e - cl to eight of the former and twelve of the latter), P iau 0 at 209 and 20 par Is from the wa ll an d the Castonv" -i, :c compound near th e r i ver The fire of the enei-ti was most sever e upon t h e last-named batteries, 'te were exposed not only to the gans of the Water ha st l ' but to those in th e o ld i nner fort of Selimghur, and 3. 1 a to those on th e o th er s id e of the river, Here C a r t i a ; Fagan, of the Artillery, described as a most enterPr is W o and excellent officer, fell, shot through the head, ring other fatal casualty o ccurre d among the officers ri n ; these days, nor d oes th e general loss appear to h a re severe, consid3ring, the proxnaity of' the batteries to ' it ! walls and the tenacity of the defence, the enemy I°°P l i tri es up a vigorous fire of musketry from rifle pits and Pr".." - r d of jungle even after (hair heavy guns were rend ere d unserviceable. This latter result was rapidly Pr °due :e9 by the precision a nd we i g ht o f the constaat disehnlr° jou a from oar batteri es . B y the 13th the Cashmere . 3 t o w was in ruins, a n d h a d l ong ceased to return a s h o t t° fire that was continu ally kept up upon it. The adP i r °ll o curtains on either sile were similarly ru ined, and fro o the deb, is of the M oree b ast i on only a slight gun °r to at intervals replied t o th e h eavy shot and shell lhatr:tre poured into it. At th e o th er en d o f the works the " bastion: had suffered scarcely less severely, its (stre c i e d magazine was blown up, an d a li g h t gun wh i c h enfil a et our batteries had h ee d s il enced. And now, the 11349rne for !he assault drawin g near , G eneral Wilson pr omulg ated the following excellent order : The force assemhled before Delhi h as h a d muc h hard tti*f ship and fatigue to un d ergo s i nce its arrival in by camp, all of which has been most cheerfully borne efficers and man. The time is now d raw i n g near that the Major-Genera! commanding the force trusts their labours will be over, and they will be rewa rded , o d the capture of the c ity f or a ll the i r past exe rtions - 0 for a cheerful endurance of still greater fatig ue s ist exposure. The troops will be requir e d to aid and a s, the engineers in th e erect i on o f th e batteries an d trenc" h - and in daily exposure to the sun. a the . The Artillery will h ave even h arder wor k tea „ - r.rd yet have had, and w hi c h t h ey have so well and ene-,iiort Performed hitherto; this. however, will be for r rAor' period only, and when ordered to the assault the in- G.naeral feels assured that British pluck and de te :i the! ation will carry ev er ythi ng b e f ore them, and , noel bloodthirsty and murder ous mut i neers aga inst the ir they are fighting will be d r i v e n h ea dlong out °`do stronghold or be exterminated ; but to enable thenl.,l,. of this, this, he warns th e troops of the absolute necessity err th -ir keeping together and riot straggling fromt coltinans—by this cata success only be secured. tr oll Major-General Wilson 'nee I hardly remind the of the cruel murders coMmitted . on their officersoo comrades, as well a s th e i r w i ves and c hildren, t° "T a eu them in the lea lly struggle. N quarter should ge e o f to the mutineers ; at the same time, for the aelon,3 humanity, and the ho nour of the country c y the he calls upon them t o spare all woman an d hildren 'l3O may come in their way. f or t he ' It is so imperative, not only for their safety, bu t from' froor success of the assault that men should not stragi i- tv their column, that the Major-General feels it his u n ,Artlf direct all commanding officers to impress this 81 0 , - Ara .unonon their men, and he is confident that, after this the m them ! o a,,.the men's good sense and discipline will inda t e ., it 10 their . officers and keep steady to their du .7:_ ina te tot obey explained to every regiment that water" be en plunder will not be allowed ; that prize agents hieeied appointed, by whom all captu-ed property w ill be 01 gu d re' and sold, to be divided, according to the rules an d; a n lations on this head, fairly among all men eng a g e ratured that any LUAU fOULIa lying eouoa.tied of !laving o.r