Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

IMPS M►IAL PARLIAMENT. (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. r • Their lordships met at five o'clock. The royal assent was given by commission to The Grand Juries (Ireland), Act 1836, Amendment Bill, The Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Ireland) Bill, The Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill, l The Scottish Central Railway Bill, The Great Northern and Western of Ireland Railway 13111, The European and Indian Junction Telegraph Company Bill, The West of Fife Mineral Railway Bill, The Clyde Navigation Bill,' The Cork and Youghal Railway Bill, '', 71" The Atlantic Telegraph Company Bill, 1 The Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Bill, : (-'And a number of other private measures. •fin answer to Lord Campbell, The Duke of Argyle stated that 'the blotched and il legible postage marks on letters were occasioned by manual labour alone being used iu the stamping, but it 'was hoped that machinery would shcrtly be made appli cable to the purpose. The Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) Bill, the Lunatics Scotland Bill, and the General Board of Health Continuance Bill. the Municipal Corporation Bill, the Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Bill, Burial Grounds (Scot land) Act, 1835, Amendment Bill, the Valuation of Land tScotland) Act Amendment Bill, the Married Women's Reversionary Interests Bill, the Boundaries and Burghs Extension (Scotland) Bill passed through committee. The following bills were read a third time and passed : — County Court Judges, Falconers and Yates Salaries, Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance, Reformatory Schools (Scotland), Superannuation Act Amendment, Frauduleut Trustees, &e., and Trustees Relief. The reports of amendments to the Militia Bill and the Court of Sessions (Scotland) Bill were received. Lord Monteagle drew attention to the petition of the Earl of Carysfort. The petition claimed a right to vote at the election of representative peers for Ireland, "and prayed that the resolution of their lordships of the 3rd of -July last may be deemed to apply to the petitioner's claim, and that such claim may be referred to the Lord 'Chancellor, to consider and report thereupon. After a brief discu4sion, the noble lord stated his Intention of moving an amendment to the resolution to - morrow. L The house rose at a quarter to seven. THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Mospxy, The. Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. The Lords amendments to the British and Irish Grand Junctio n Railway Bill, and the New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land Company Bill, were considered and agreed to. Baring's Divorce Bill was read a third time, and passed. Lord John Rlssell brought up the report of the select committee appointed to inquire whether the act 6 and 6 William IV., chap. 52, could be made appli .cable to the oaths taken by members of parliament. the report stated that the committee had considered the 'tatters referred to them, and that a resolution had been 'proposed by a member of the committee to the effect, that in their opinion the House of Commons was included in the meaning of the Act of Parliament, and that all bodies now by law eatitled to administer or to receive oaths came within its scope. This resolution bad been fully con sidered and had been passed in the negative. The noble lord stated that it was not his intention at that late period • of the Session to proceed with the Oaths Validity Bill, and vnoved therefore, that the order for the second reading be discharged. At thes me time he wished to say, that the sub ject was in that state that he tho azlit it necessary for par liament to take it into consideration at the earliest perioi in session, an 1 he begged to give notice that he should renew the question nest session at the first opportunity which presented itself. ,In answer to Mr. Wise, Mr. Wilson explained that the deduction male by "ofFicials at the foreign-office from the salaries of diplomatic and Consular servants, were for services as the agents of such servants ; but the system was nevertheless open to great objection, and the government were considering w hat substit u t e cou ld b e prov iled. In reply to M r. Horsfa li, The Lord Advocate stated that the Parochial School. masters (Scotland) Bill was a Government measure. Mr. Horsfall announced his intention of opposing it to 'the utmost of his power. In reply to Mr. Corry, Sir John Ramsdell said if should be necessary to e mbody any part of the militia, the first consideration would be to select regiments that were in the most efficient state, and subject to that to call out equal proportions of the 'English, Irish, and Scotch regiments. Sir Charles Napier asked whether it was true that Commodore Eeppel was to be recalled from China. Sir Chas. Wood declined to answer the question. On the motion for going into committee of supply, General Peel inquired whether the attention of the military authorities had been directed to the case of cer tain lieutenant-colonels of the army, who had heen super seded under the provisions of a Royal Warrant of the 6th October, lB34—their lieutenant's commission bearing date before the issue of that warrant ; and whether it was intended to restore these officers to the relative position of which they had been deprived by the retrospective - action of the warrant'. Si r Wm. Codrington a dded that 60 to 80 officers bad been passed over under the unfair operation of the warrant. Mr. RoebuCk inquired as to the truth of the statement of the 'Under Secretary for War, which was contradicted lu the Times, that the troops proceeding to India had received white coverings for their helmets and foraging caps. Sir John Etamsden, in reply to Gameral Peel's question admitted that the warrant of 1854 had not answered the expectations of the Government, and stated that the eubject which involved minute calculations, was now under consideration. With regard to the question of the member for Sheffield, the troops sent to China had -received cap covers and materials for making them; a nd as to the troops for India the cavalry artillery, and engineers took cover with them , bu t the Infantry Would have the materials supplied t o them at the arrival at their destination. Mr. B . flop. moved for a royal commission to investi gate the subject of the new government offices, on the ground that the plans which hid received prizes were not capable of being united. The amendment was negatived upon a division by 138 40 8, and the House accordingly went into committe of supply. The Civil Service Estimates were proceeded with, and the vote of £2,030 for the Historical Portrait Gallery in London (the discussion upon which was interrupted on 'Wednesday last at a carter to six) was retained after further discussion and a division by 85 to 31. A. proposition to vote £10,500, for a chapel for the Embassy at Paris met with mail opposition, and was rejected upon a division by 133 votes to 47. Tho an nouncement of the result was received with cheers. The following votes amongst others were agreed to :- 4:1,500 for the Boundary Survey in Ireland was voted. A vote of £10,060 for the Industrial Museum in Edin burgh was proposed. Mr. Disraeli recommended, under present circum stances, that this vote should be' withdr awn. • The Chancellor of the Exchequer assented, and the vote was accordingly withdrawn. Sevesal other votes were agreed to, after which the chairman reported progress. The Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, and the Dulwich College Bill, were read a third time and passed.: The house adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock. MONDAY-THIRD DAY. The trial was resumed at the sitting of the Court this day. The interest manifested in the proceedings was unabated, and on the doors being opened every available ','.ace was immediately occupied by those who had provided themselves with tickets of admission. Large crowds of persons remained about the doors throughout the day, anxious to obtain intelligence of the proceedings, and that anxiety became the more intense as the case drew towards a close, The Judges having taking their seats at shorly after ten o'clock, the prisoner was placed at the bar. His appearance was unaltered, and his demeanour apparently as calm and unmoved as on the previous days of the trial. Before closing Mr Brewster wished to state, that in the prisoner's time book which was evidence, there were two entries, the first was that he was em ployed for a quarter of a night in the cash office, and the second, that he was employed a quarter of a night on the 8 h of November, varnishing in the station. With permission of the court they wished to prove the fi iding a towel and poker in Mr. Little's room. William Haghes, police constable, was then called and examined by Mr. Brewster. I was in Mr. Little's room the day it was forced open. I found that towel ; produced, stained with sl iolcod, on the desk a which Mr. Little appeared to have been sitting. I saw that poker produced in the room. I saw a penknife and scissors, and a white-handle penknife in the writing desk. Mr. Curran then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He dwelt on the conflicting evidence of the prisoner's children, which • differed materially from their former testimony. He also urged the possibility of a paramour of ma. Spollen's having done the deed. He likewise contended that nothing had been proved that could in any way con vict the prisoner. After speaking lone hours, he concluded, implo ing them before they consigned the pri soner to the grave, to see that the evidence was such as could leave no doubt upon their minds, and not to convict him unless they were convinced that the evidence was totally consistent with his innocence, should be satisfied that no other person could have committed the murder, and they should not convict the prisoner on any mere suspicion. The principle of the law was, that it was better a thousand guilty men should escape than one inno cent should be convicted. The law was merciful, and its mercy should be administered. They should not confound the innocent with the guilty, or punish the innocent for the crime of the guilty. There was a tribunal at which they all would one day appear. The prisoner asked for that calm, careful, and merciful consideration of the case that any one placed in his position would expect ; and all he (sr. Curran) hoped was that when the sad hour came when they would have to lay their heads on. the pillow of death, they would not feel any remorse for anything in reference to the trial of James Spollen. Mr. Brewster, for the prosecution, made a strong speech against the prisoner, lasting from four to seven p.m. Chief Justice Monaghan will charge the jury this (tuseday) morning at ten o'clock. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. VALNNTIA, 4 P.M. MONDAY, AUGUST 10.—The work of laying down the Atlantic telegraph cable is going on, up to the present time, as satisfactorily as its best friends can desire. Nearly three hundred miles have been successfully laid into the sea. The depth of - water into which the cable is being submerged is about 1,700 fathoms, or about two miles. The transmission from the shallow to the greater depth was effected without difficulty. The signals are everything an electrician could desire. The ships are sailing with a moderate, fair breeze, and paying out at the rate of five miles an hour. Messages are being instantly interchanged between the ships and the shore. All are well on board, and in excellent spirits, and hourly becom ing more trustful of success. BI RMINGHAM ELECTION RETURN OF MR. BRIGHT. MONDAY.—The nomination took place to-day, the Mayor in the chair. There were about 8,000 persons present. Mr. Bright was proposed by Alderman Lloyd, seconded by Mr. George Edmonds. No other candidate was proposed, and Mr. Bright's election was carried with the greatest enthusiasm. Duncan Maclaren' E•q., ex-Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Mr. Bright's brother-in-law, returned thanks on his behalf. He promised that the first speech Mr. Bight should make would be in Birmingham. Mr. George Dawson and others also spoke. CANADA. The Mail Steamer North American, which sailed hence on the 'lsth ult., arrived at Quebec in ten days. The passengers were landed at the Grand Trunk Wharf, and proceeded by the 13 a.m. train for Montreal and Toronto. The letters by the Asia, of the 11th, had not then reached Quebec. Thera was more commercial activity, although this is the dull season of the year. A. heavy easterly gale had done serious damage to the shipping in the St. Lawrence, and to the wharves at Quebec ; on the city side some were entirely destroyed, and would have to be rebuilt. Owing to the site selected by the South Quebec Dock Company being sheltered from these periodical visitations, the Grand Trunk riailWay are about to lecate their goods terminus and connect it with this new har bour accommodation and ocean shipping, which will cause considerable changes to . take place iu the shipping business of the port and of the pro vince • THE GRAND TRUNK BRIDGE. — W e have he ard a g ood many doubts expressed as to the probability of the prose cution of this important .work. It has been befleced by sine that the funds would not be forthcoming, and that nothiug would be done for the bridge during the present season. We are rejoiced at having it in our power to put these fears at rest. The contractors have been for some time•at work on new piers extending into the river on both banks, beyond the outermost of the piers complete:l last season, and b 4 fare the winter closes in, a specimen will be exhibited of the character of the superstructure. Pre paraticns are rapidly going forward for the laying of the first girders, or tube of those which are to form the spans of the arches, and the Montrealers will shortly have the satisfaction of seeing a portion of the structure comphted in a permatnent manner. Part of the iron for the tubes which form the girders has arrived from England, and some of it will be speedily put in.o shape, and raised to s permanent position.—Montreal Herald. THE ISLAND OF FortmosA.—According to private letters ; received at Bremer, by the last mail from Hong Kong, the I Americans have occupied the island of Formosa, on the 1 Chinese coast, This important step could not well have occurred (says the correspondent) without Sits becoming known to the British authorities in Hong Kong, and we may therefore consider the information as incorrect. From the salubrity and the great advantages of Formosa, it would be highly desirable that that island should be con verted into a British station. Such is probably its destiny.--! - 1. 4 - Tsibirci , THE PORT OF BRISTOL.—The published re turns of trade of the port of Bristol for the year ending April 33, 1857, exhibit a large increase as compared with the preceding year. The gross tonnage is 183,342 against 138 764. There is au increase in the ireportation of hides, tallow, hemp, cotton, grain, timber, fruit, fish, oil, and in fact in all the staple articles of trade with the exception of sugar. The tonnage of sugar, grain, and timber, respectively, in 1856 was 31,334, 9,648, and 46,895 ; and in 1857, 26,240, 24,900, and '74,372. The revenue of the docks atter payment of all Expenses leaves a balance of £-1,645. The Customs duties received at Bristol for the month ending on the 3lst k ultimo Emanated to £94,024103 94 TH•E INDIAN MUTINY. At a time when the attention of the civilised world is drawn to the state of aff tirs in India, everything relating thereto is read with - avidity. The subjoined letters appear in the leading journal of yesterday : "The Mint, Benares, June 9. "My dear Edward,-1 continue my journal, which I closed and despatched this day week. There has ben so little leisure since to write that I must take the first quiet day, or I shall lose the thread of events. The plot has thickened since then. The clouds which just showed on the horizon have gathered around us, and one has burst just over our heads ; but I must not anticipate. Let me go back and relate each day's events as they occured to me. Tuesday, the 2nd, passed quietly over, B— and his friend C—itaying at my bungalow; bat on Wed nesday a rumour came that 500 disbanded Sepoys were on our side of the river , opposite Benares, on their way up, and were burning and plundering as they came ; so we called a council of war, and resolved that there was no example in history of three men resitting 500 with any success to speak of, especially in a thatched bungalow, so we sent two sharp fellows to spy out the enemy, and packed up the office papers and drawings and sent them to the fort, then dined, made ourselves happy with a pipe, and rode on heavily armed. Thurs day morning, after a quiet night at the Padre's, my men came in with the news that the 503 men were a myth —only think; however, as we were in, and all the office papers locked up, I resolved to make a holyday, and stay in the station. Mr. C. was in a hurry to get to Benares, so he went off in an ci,'ca (a horrid native pony carriage) ; but jest as we were sitting down to -dinner, about 8 p.m., he came back again with a scared face and told us he had met two man in a buggy :wise had left Benares at 5 p.m. in full fight—grapeshot, officers killed, &c., slightly con. fused, and rather awful. This time the intelligence:was pronounced trustworthy, ani we felt our work was going to begin. We sent notes to the officers and held a council as to whether we should disarm the 81 or 9) Sepoys in Chumar Fort. The Padre and all the unmilitary men said, Certainly, disarm them ;' but the officers said No; we will not show them that we mistrust them.' These words which I have quoted have been the death.sentence of hundreds of the bravest Indian officers. In station after station the same feeling has prevailed of Con ciliating the blackguards by appearing to trust them, and the appearing has gone on till they fire at their officers without warning. You may be sure we made every use of these arguments, but in vain, so we prepared for a stormy night. In the meantime, as I thought my Benares friends might fly this way, I sent out a horse to meet them half way. We kept watch and watch, and the evening and the morning made it Friday, when I started at four a.m. to Benares to see what it was all about. Three miles down the road is Sultanpoor, the head quarters of the 13th Irregular Cavalry, only 50 men and a jenamadar were there, and they turned out as I came along, and told me to give their salaam to the Brigadier, and say they were then ready to obey orders, and did not know exactly what to do. I promised to take their message, but said if they wanted immediate instruc tion, they had better turn out a dozen men and come down with me. You see, an escort of cavalry would rather have suited me just then ; but they did not seem to like it, and said they had sent a picket on whom I might catch if I chose to ride for it. So on I went, found my second horse all right, and caught the picket about five miles from Benares, and joined company with them. As we went we asked everybody for news ; as we got towards the place we met another cavalry man coming from Benares, and after some private talk with him my picket tried to shirk me, and, finding they could not easily do so, one of them came to me and said they had orders to join the regiment privately, and therefore must leave me. I did not like it at all, but there was no help for it, so I rode on alone. However I got in safe, and saw some soldiers and English officers before me, and galloped up to them as fast as I could. From them I learned the particulars of the fight, and that the English were all assembled at the old Mint, a large building capable of standing a very fair seige. And now wait a bit till I sing my song concerning the battle of Benares, which was fought on Thursday, the 4th of June, 1857. Imagine a square, the north side formed by the huts of the 37th Native Infantry ; west, Sikh regiments ; south, the Irregular Cavalry ; east -300 English and three guns, the hope and last resources of Benares. Enter English officer, rides up to the ElEg i i rgit'r,,9u...the tram thex i' QAIR. A RLAJO explains to his company that they are to disarm for the present till less stormy days, One officer, G—, my in fo r mant actually shook hands with the chief men of his company, and then ordered them to step forward and lay down their muskets. Their answer came in the shape of 80 musket balls all round him ; but not one hit him, nor were any of the other officers killed in this first discharge. The men then fell back into their huts and commenced loading and firing under cover of them at the English. Major Guine, of the Irregulars, rode in among the huts, and was killed almost immediately. The English guns took up a raking position, and peppered the huts with grape at 250 yards. One of our officers came forward with a few men, and fired the roofs, so the Sepoys got rather astonished. Meantime the Sikhs left the E Ist side of the square and formed a line parallel to and be tween the Sepoys and cavalry, and facing the former. The cavalry said they wanted an English officer to lead them, and Dodson, of the37th, who had just escaped the first fire of his own corpse, came forward and was imme diately received with one or two ritle - balls from the cavalry Upon this the Sikhs faced round and fired a volley but whether intended for the officers or the cavalry is not told. Certain it is they shot down three of the former and none of the latter. When the other officers found themselves thus between two fires they galloped out and joined thy Europeans, and made them turn their guns on Sikhs and cavalry alike, until these two gallant regiments found out their mistake, and once more turned their fire on the 37th. Was not this a nice battle ? The sum total was that the 37th were utterly smashed, and the Sikhs and cavalry frightened out of their wits, and made sen sible that they were mistaken. Many of the officers are furious, and say we have been shedding innocent blood, and the whole thing was a blunder. But the cavalry fired at a party ofiadies who were going in their carriages to the Miut, and would certainly have murdered them if they had not been beaten off by a small force of Eu ropeans. So much for the battle. I found everybody at the Mint, which several had only reached after many ad. ventures, and we bivouacked in the large rooms and slept on the roof—ladies, children, avas, and patakah coolies ; officers lying down dressed, and their wives,ditting up by them fanning theni ; gentlemen in the most fearless disha bille. sleeping surrounded by ladies. In the compound or enclosure below there is a little handful of Europeans— perhaps 150 altogether ; others are at. the barracks half a mile off. There is 'a large collection of carriages and horses, little bedsteads all over the place, and two circular quick hedges, with flower gardens inside, are falling victims to the sheep and goats which have been brought in to proiision that place ; add to this a heap of more beer boxes than your English imagination can take in, and throw over all the strong black and white of a full moonlight, and you have the Mint as it looked when the English of Benares had sought refuge in it. There Was a picknicky, gypsified look about the whole affair, which prevented one realising that the small congregation were there making a stand for a huge empire, and that their lives were upon the toss-up of the next events. On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday our fears dimi nished progressively, and we ventured out more and more. Yesterday morning news came that Allahabad had mutinied, and all who were not in the fort were murdered, including ten officers. Oh for my friends in Allahabad I Mirzapore is said to be fighting; and oh fer my friends in Mirzapore 1 This is my cry, and this is the cry which is going up all over India, and will be echoed at home in half the families in England ; but, instead of 'friends, the word will be, my son, or my brother, or my husband, and, worse still, my sister or my wife 1 But do not think that people, as a rule, are showing sad faces. The English here are so essentially people of action that they are kept cheerful by it, and you see among them no grimace, no affectation of sorrow. It is a time like this you should take to judge of the Indian English, and then you may be proud of them. " Saturday, June 13.—Since 1 left off ;there:has been a succession of reports from the different stations, but the postal communications:are cut off this side of Allahabad. At the latter place the European community have taken refuge in the fort, where they are said to be sufficiently uncomfortable. The day of the outbreak there was very bad ; 14 officers were sitting at mess, 12 of them were killed on the spot, all the English who had it t already taken refuge in the fort were killed, and souse with tor tures not to be related. The telegraph wire is cut, and all boats seized•by the rebels, and the bridge of boats cut down ; all above Allahabad is unknown. Whether the English have taken Delhi or not is uncertain. About Cawnpore and Agra we know nothing ; there are European troops enough there to cut the natives up, and that is our trust. It it is said they are short of provisions in the fort , of Allahabad, so we are sending them, per steamer, loads of English troops, with whom they can walk out and get some sheep and things. At LAWIlpOOr, some thirty-six miles north of this, they came badly off ; we were much interested in them, as Mrs. cog late Chunar bride, wa4 there The subjoined letter from a German residing in Calcutta is contained in the last number of the Augsburg Gazette : "CAT.CUTTA, JUNE 17. " The troops have been on the point of mutinying here, and the inhabitants of the city are in a terrible freight. At the outbreak of the revolution the Europeans (foreigners) offered their services, but they were declined, and that almost contemptuously. Many persons were, hewever. much alarmed, and took revolvers with them ' when they went to church and to balls. The Government considered it advi;ablo to coax the rebels, and when the 70th Regiment, lying at Barrackpore—a few miles from this city—offered to march against their comrades, the Governor went in person to thank it. When it was decided that the regiment should begin its march it became evident that its professed loyalty was a mere mask. At 3 o'clock during the night between the 13th and 14th instant we were suddenly awakened, and informed that the outbreak was about to take place. A. messenger who had fallen into the hands of the authorities had confessed that the two regiments at Barrackpore and the troops in Calcutta had agreed to mutiny during the night in question. Tae commander of the city sent about evervwnere ar.d had the people roused. The expression of people's faces was a sight worth seeing. Dr. George von Liebeg, who was armed to the teeth, called us up, and out we sallied, clothed and armed in a sufficiently picturesque manner. The heroes in our quarter of the city were few, and only eleven men offered their breasts to the cool morning breeze. As the sun rose our apprehensions diminished, but still many gentlemen were in despair that only women and children were admitted into the fort. Naturally the most alarming reports were in circulation. There was a very warlike movement in Calcutta on the 14th of June (Sunday). We fetched a whole cart-load of muskets, formed guard, and did what we thought was for the best, as the attention of Government was entirely occupied by the troops. In the course of the afternoon. the European soldiers had disarmed all the Sepoys. The former would gladly have had an excuse for having recourse to more stringent measures, for they were greatly excited against the natives. The whole affair, however, went off peaceably, and the Sepoys mounted guard with ramrods instead of guns. Daring the night of the 14th all the Europeans were in movement. We patrolled the streets from one till five in the morning ; we stopped mi.) ... lß7s t k sne. ker ha'l Axiro b oo tj l ; hp. sm q net Government troops had laid hands on the King of Leek now (Dude) and on a Prince of Delhi, who was with him. Iloth of them have had quarters given them in the fort, and many doorkeepers. On Monday (the 15th) all was quiet, but during the night many people were arrested. We again took up arms, and were so fortunate as to capture some political fugitive - . I have beeoMa a soldier, as you see, but shall be heartily glad when I can lay aside nay mus ket. Business is quite at a standstill. The construction of the raitroaa is discontinued. The railroad company suffers terribly ; all the engineers are dispersed, and a prodigious quantity of materiel is lost. Government will have to pay an enormous indemnificp.tion to the sufferers. The price of provisions rises from day to day, and rice costs just twice as much as it did a week ago. I believe that all danger is over here, but things look very ugly up thy' country, and order will hardly be restored before the winter is at an end. If the troops intended for China should come here it will be a great piece of good fortune, for if they should not the insurgents will be able to hold their own. • Terrible atrocities have been committed, and when the English soldiers. get alongside of the rascals little mercy will be shown. At Gnazee whole platoons of rebels fell on their knees, but the soldiers were deaf to the voices of their officz,srs, and not a Sepoy was left alive.' • The following are extracts from a private letter received by the last Overland Mail : BOMBAY, June 26.--Although we have As yet been quiet in Bombay, it is impossible to say whether this state of things will last, and whether our trcu'eles may not have to be encountered. What has • happened might have laFen foreseen long since, had our rulers exercis:d that due de gree of caution so requisite in their high station. The large cantonment of Poonah, about seventy miles froth here, is in a state of ferment, and is nightly patrolled by troops. At another station, that of Naggur, there is a active regiment whose loyalty is very doubtful, but as there are pltinty of Europeans, including a squadrsn of the 14th DragtiOns, they will probably be kept in check. In fact, as yet we may csrsider that the native army of Bombay is staunch. At Nusserabad, where the Ist Bombay Lancers were, together with a large number of Bengal troops, the latter only revolted, and although the whole place was entirely dAtro,ed and burnt to the ground, the Lancers charged the mutineers several times, and saved the lives of the Europeans, although, of course, they lost everything. A number of ladies and children, dis gusted as Musttulmane, have lately found their way to Nugger from Arungabad, where the troops are said to be in a state of revolt; but these, although office - ed by Europeans, form a portion of the Nizam's army, and are not trader our Government. A Bombay paper says that Tuesday, the 16th of this month, was fixed for a combined outbreak in the whole of the Bengal native army, but that matters were precipi tated by the occurrences at Meerut. It is said the insur rection was admirably arrimuged, and would, if carried out in a combined way, have proved most disastrou7. It is certainly bad enough as it is; but, happily, being met in detail, each insurrectionary movement has been resisted. There is no doubt whatever but that deep and long-con cocted conspiracy has been going on for so - ne time past, not only in the native army, but among the Musstalman copulation desirous of a restoration of the ancient dynasty. I wilt now proceed to give you a sketch of the rise of this dreadful mn'iny, which is without a parallel in his tory at the present moment. There are unwards of 100,000 men in arms against our authority, net strangers or aliens, but cur own soldiers, who have been treated in the most in dulgent manner, and well paid and well cared for, and who have proved themselves the most bloodthirsty, cruel scoundrels whe ever breathed. The whole of this large body are fully provided with arms and ammunition, and the cavalry and artillery with their horses and guns. They have taken possess).on of Delhi, and. thousands are flecking thither daily ; and although a large European army has been investing Delhi for some time, and various rumours are afloat concerning its capture, n o authentic news has been received. It is said th at the investing force proceeded to storm the place, but that three native regiments belonging to that force cunmenced to parley with the muticeers inside the wall, and th_t they were cut off, almost to a man, by the Europeans, who amounted to about 7,000. The origin of these disturbances was at Barraelzpore. When the 19th Native Infantry were disbanded, the 34th and the. 2nd Grenadiers were in league with them, and, yet these mutinous scoundrels were a'lowed to get off sOO free, ili:tead of being s,bot, every single one of them, ark they so with, her husband.. The first news they had of the out. break was of the post being stopped on Friday, the sth ; then some indigo planters came riding in, and said that the 37th were close-at hand, whereupon they all went to the cutcherry, or collector's office. The 2nd company of Sikhs, stationed there, swore to defend them to the last drop of their blood, and, as they walked' into the itcherry, one of the blackguards shot Captain ()Mara through the back. They took him in and shut the doors, and laid him down on the ffeor, while the Sikhs kept firing in above their heads, and another party of them' seized the treasure (some 1:25,1)00), and walked off with it : then the English came out, left poor O'Mara dying, and got into their carriages and drove away. They had to leave the Benares road, as the 13th Cavalry were canting along it, and they kept knocking about the country till Tuesday, when a party from here fetched them in. Of course, during these four days 'they underwent great hardships 'a d were in perpetual danger of their lives, so you may fancy how welcome the English cheers sounded in their ears. Cubbidge, the magistrate was killed by a Sikh ; and Mrs. O'Mara died of apoplexy, but the rest of the party' got in safe. Last Thursday we had another party of fugitives ; they had gone on board a Steamer at Mirzapore, and had been taken too near Allahabad, when the fiat which was in tow of the steamer struck on a sandbank, and the steamer having business at the fort left the passengers on board the fiat, and went off alone ; of coarse, the flat was immediately attacked by the na— tives, and the English had to cut in the boats. They actually sailed down to near Mirzapore before they were caught by the steamer. The Mirzapore people all ran down to Chunar, but apparently without sufficient alarm, so they were ordered back by Government to their duty. Several of our .railway bungalows were burning, and in some cases the owners had to run fast for their lives. My bungalow is, I believe, unharmed, its proximity to the fort may have saved it ; any how I had all the tur niture brought on', so all I can lose is the roof and the doors. This is all I have to say concerning this most wonderful rebellion. You see within the last month we have lost the whole of the North— West, and we shall be happy indeed if another month passes without Lower Bengal following. The moment our protection is withdrawn the villagers plunder and burn one another's houses, and the country, which has taken us 100 years to bring into order and cultivation, becomes a desert in one night. It is said the mutineers are collect ing at Oude, and forming an army which may possibly drive us out, of Benares. No news of Alfred of course. tie is the other side of the break in the mails, so there is no chance of hearing from him yet, but he is in the midst of au E iglish army ant safe enough. As • for we, I con tinue in Benares with the family of which I consider myself a member, and make one of the family garrison, and, as they are people of peace and rather ignorant in the matter of firearms, I am able to make myself of some use. We have four muskets with bayonets, and feel very strong, and, as Mark Taply would say, we are remarkably jolly under the circumstance's. Benares for the moment shows no signs of being in rebellion ; the city is quiet, the shops open, and we drive and ride about the station as if nothing was the matter. V.vy pleasant ; but how long will it last?, In the meantime, the river is rising fast, and European troops corning in daily." iehly deserved. The mutiny at Vellore about half aTentnie ago vas only put down at cegreat sacrifice of life, andihad the same measures been adopted at Bhrrackpore, the lamenta ble orearences that have since transpired would all probability have been averted. When will our governing powers learn to dsal riglely with Asiatics ? Of coarse the spirit of ditifNtioa spreads rapidly, and first broke into ff ones at Meerut. Some men of the 30th Light Cavalry, were sentenced to transportation, and the following day (Sunday, the 10th of May.) the men 'of that regiment, together with the native infan ry regiments, commenced an indiscriminate slaughter of all Kiropeans—men, wo men, and children--accompanied with circumstances of the greatest brutality. Women had their clothes set on fire, and, when half burnt, were cut to pieces ; children at the breast wt re killed, and atrocities of the most horrible kind perpetrated ; and all this with a farce cf Europeans nearly the same number as the natives; consisting; of rifles, dragoons, Sae. The officer commanding the station must have been a wretched imbecile, and nearly all the officers just as bad. Shameful—and should cause a blush in the face of every English.neri—`hat, while English remiss were boing ravishei and tortured, English solders took no steps to prevent them; the mutineers were allowed to make their escape unpursued, and proceeded towards that stronghold of fanaticsm, Delhi, which was• garrisoned entirely b.; native troops, who immediately sided with the mutineers, murdered all the European officers; and then commenced another massacre. Since then in every statioa in Bengal, an places hundreds of miles distant from each oter—in east, west, north, and south—a war of exter mination has been waged against everything with a white face; thousands upon thousands of Europeans have been tortured, mutilated, and killed. And will it be credited, after all these atrocities, when the taood of the murdered victims cried aloud for vengeance, and the ground was wet with th a g e blood of helpless women and children—when these merciless scoundrels ought to have been hunted like wi'd beasts and shot down like mad dogs—a proclamation appeared offering pardon to all who would come in and lav down their arms ? Even with all their knowledge of John Bull's gullibility and miserable softness, the rascals could not believe this, and therefore, most fortuoatelve did not avail themselves of it ; so that now there is a elrance of their meeting their deserts. The fact is, the Government are panic-stricken, and did not know what to do, and instead of vigorous and stern measures that should strike awe and terror , they are dilly-dallying, and do not know what plan to adopt. Thu quay men who is acting le an e oergetie manner is Sir Henry Lawrence, at Luclrnow, where some dorm or so of the brutes are blown away from guns every morning, and as an equipoise another dozen or to of them hung, with guns loaded with grape and canister under the gallows to prevent any chance of a rescue: \\ bile the English people are running after that dusky old dame, the Queen of Oade, end her tribe of ragamuffin followers, ter precious sop, for whom so much fuss is made by soft and easily-led John Bull, has been made a close prisoner in Calcutta, circumstances , having transpired which deeply implicated him in the disturbances. The Gordion knot of the Onde difficulty might now very easily be settled by hanging his m jest) , off-hand, or sending him off like a rocket from the muscle of a six pounder. This would settle the old Queen Mother's business. I am often amused at the fulsome adulation which these Indian notabilities experience in England. I see that treacherous old rascal, his Highness Meer Ali Moored, of Kayrpcor, is Seinde, has been converted into a sort of a demigod at home, although it has been proven that he took a false oath on a leaf of the Koran, and has always been doable traitor, both towards his relatives and the British Government. But how much amused the people of Bombay have been at the honours that Jaffer Tullimon, who keeps a second-hand furniture warehouse next to my office, has received ! He has been treated with great disanction at S outhampton, and converted into a prince I 0 &wont ! 0 mores ! Poor J.frar, who used to be trudging about Bombay as a borab or travelling ped lar, to be converted inae a prince ! Who will venture, on his return, to ask him the price of a chest of drawers, or to beat him down in the price of an old sofa 2 But this is digressing from 'my subject. You who are living at a distance can form very -little idea of the ferment in which we are; for although what has occurred is at a distance, we cannot be sure but that our own torn may come. Day after day, for more than a month past, nothing but reports of mutinies, burnings, and murders have reached us; but it is to he hoped that it is now over, as authentic intelligence has teen received of the fall of Delhi. The mutineers fought with most un qeestionable bravery, but were at length entirely destroyed. We are now anxiously awaiting fai Vier news. There is but very little doubt but that the King of Oude, who is now a close prisoner in Fort William, in Calcutta, is very deeply implicated in the disturbances. It is not known whether the King of Delhi has been killed during the late storming of the city, or if he is yet alive; bat if so this last descendant of the Great Mogul should be hanged on the same gallows with his obese Majesty of Oude. Will this show the people of England the ridicu lous folly of supporting the claims of Any of those ex-kings and princes ? Perhaps the Mayor of Sonahampton and many others who have been feting and supporting the Oude Queen and her followers may have sisters or other relatives who, by the instigation of their pet king, have been brutally ravished, murdered, and tortured. Too cowardly to_awri_hia_nlain? 9r to cpilr rZirp - g in Fuviand. he vet rival the atrocities of Nadir Shah, the Mussulman con queror of India. There has been fear, terror, and dismay thou zhcut the length and breadth of India, and our governors have been paralysed; they have begged, and entreated, and prayed their dear Sepoys to remain quiet, and have been laughed at and insulted. It is now jrst a hundred years since our power in this country was cemented by the battle of Plessey, and never during the whole of that time has it received such a severe shock as the present. The press of India, from the commencement, called upon the G.:- verner-General to adept vigorous, measures, by which the mutiny might have been nipped 'in the bud ; and because they have commen'ed severely on the weakness and cowardice displayed by Government, an act has been passed gagging the press, What a graceful act on the part of the son of George 0 inniug ! So much for the gratitude of public men t With the fall of Delhi, end the disarming of all Sepoys in Bengal, we may hope that the crisis is past, but with a gagged press and a weak and eff to Government, we have no security far peace or tranquility for the future. Grea t and signal retribution should be taken for the innocent blood which has been so ruthlessly shed ; but we have very little hope that the stern dictate of the Mosaic law will be carried out. 4TtheeakCiioilsoibneebonplaosnsegnegxerpse,stae3,a,thanaat othgereimatagfaionlattioopnvecoarns to scarcely conceive the fiendish barbarities perpetrated by the sepoys. . When the Bengal mutine ers entered the city of Delhi, there were Eaglish merchants, mercantile, telegraph, and post-office clerks, of f icers of the native regirneutr, and government functio n e ries, with their En glish wives and children , living there as unconscious of danger as if they had been in a n y En g lish town. As soon as the mutineers entered Delhi, a great many Englishmen and gt. raishwomen and children escaped, but numbers c o uld not do so, and those who did not escape wore subjected to outrages worse than death. The daughter of an English clergyman was driven through the stree ts of Delhi naked, then subjected to unspeakable outrages b y an infuriated soldiery, and afterwards cut to p ieces with swords. An English lady in the same c i ty was sus p ended by the feet naked and hacked to piece s. The European officers and soldiers are exasperated to madness by these atrocities, an d most terrible punishments will be inflicted by the Euro pean soldiers on the mu moos sepop when. Delhi.. is taker. Th es e sepoys have acted more like fien ds than human cre atures. It is with the greatest diffic ult y , that the E n glish soldiers can be prevented from-laying violent hands on every native they meet. A Highland egiment landed at Calcutta, and one of the s ) ld iers was seen ilia. mediately to rush straight to a native and fell him la the earth with his fist in an instant. Whoever lives to tell t h e tale ( f Delhi and of the scenes witnessedt in the cit y durin g the siege will he able to relate undre amt of horrors. The * officers who came home by the Co/antho seemed to think that it was fortunate the rebellion in. India broke out when it did, for the dissaffection might have s p read more ex tensively, before it made itself openly kn own. T he out. , have been the fear to taco it or anticip ate it on the L part of the authorities. Tiic following are extracts from the letter of a gentleman resident in Calcutta, to his mother and sisters. It is dated 19th 3 une : ••• • • • • So much for the up-country news now for ourselves in Calcutta. Everyho ly supposed we were perferAly safe here, mver dreaming that the niggers would veuturo upon any measure against the metropolis. However, last Saturday, a felow was seizid trying to seduce the sepoy, on guard at one of the fort gates. He was to be hung immediately, when an order arrived, to keep him till the following day. It seems that he confessed and gave up papers, showing that the King of Oude is deeply implicated in the mutiny: The following morning his majesty, with prime minister, eunuchs, woMen, and courtiers, were seized, and lodged in the fort. But to return : at midnight on • Sa'urday, two regi ments of Europeans were roused from their beds,. awl, marched up to Barrackpore. The roads were i oc c u pied by English artiller y , and the enrolment for volunteers was pushed on in breathless haste. Sunday morning came, and we then learnt that 4,000 native soldiers had intended to shoot their officers, and rush down to Calcutta at once, to murder us all, at four o'o'ock in the morning. Thank GA, it was discovered on Saturday night, and our troops arrived in time to \ a - ert the danger, For the prewat, thee, vig are saved; and to avoid a future outbreak, every sepoy in and about - Calcutta has been disarmed ; most of them have since run away. Well, this is not all. Same few nights ago a plan of Calcutta was found,. marked into dirtric's, and parties of Mussulmans attached to each, who were tote ready whey called upon to rise and massacre every E uropean. We arc told that the ltajih of Noorsheialiad, ICO miles from this, is now marching down with 30,000 men, to attack Calcutta. This is not strictly true ; he meant to do sr, but the Bar rackpore plot being discovered has frightened him, mid he :awaits another oppertanity. You know, next Tuesday, June 23, is the centenary of the battle of Plassy, when Clive defeated Slrejah lab, the hero of the Black Rile atrocity. The natives say,•before that dayiwe are all to be turned out of India again ; and we quite expect they will do all they can to maks their prophecy true. Wa are at any rate preparing for them. _ The native press is treasonable to the very buttons, and this seems to be a time when the native mind, filled with fanaticism, is running to all sorts of wild extremes. Noticing seems too desperate for them to attempt; no crime too fiendish 'for them tto commie. Worked up by their preachers, and drunk with intoxicating drugs, they vow vengeance upoe the 'bated Yeringhees, and expect a blessing from their prophet proportioned to the quantity of lade' blood which they shed. You will think I have' give you but a doleful view of things, but beg you to read 'on and dispel your fears. As our security we have. first and highest, the watchful provi dence of our Heavenly Father. As yet He has revealed to us the eecret designs of our enemies, and preserved us fronx their accomplishment, and , we trust the same merciful Providence will continue to protect us: But we are not idle. The troops on their way to China have been intercepted, and, we hope, arc coming here. We have all turned out as volunteers, and do duty as soldiers. To-night I patrol the streets with loaded musket and bayonet, and a revolver containing five bullets. I go out at ten and return at twelve, whn lam relieved at five a.m. .We go out to be drilled, and in. a few days will be able to settle our account with the &pops, should they venture down here. We are all ia capital spirits, and nnly anxious to meet the wretches, when a thousand honest men, who never dreamed of becoming soldiers, are sworn to die or avenge the death of our dear countrywomen. Verily, the blood of our English veins boils with indignation, and neither the numbers of our foes.ner the burning sun shalt allay our passions, till we have scouted the mur.larous wretches to help'. Heaven only knows whether the brutes wilt attempt to carry oet their intention of efer minating us before Tuesday • this wo know—they will find us armed to the teeth, and, what is more, baying British hearts within us, which never yet knew what it was to shrink from our ranks in time of danger.. One's better nature as a Christian leads him to pray that we may be spared the awful necessity of shedding blood, but it requires something more than human charity to continue s'eadflet in this prayer. Our passions are excited, and the most amiable of us cry aloud to be led to the attack. NAVAL AND ZLLITARY INTELLIGENCE. Major-General Sir Hugh Rose will command a division, and Colonel Percy Herbert a brigade in the army which has just been despatchd to India. General Rose, it will be remembered, was for some time Consul General in Syria, was then for awhile Charge. d'Affaires at Constan tinople, and was the Military Commissioner with the French army in the Crimea. He also filled for soma months the same position with the A.ustrian army. Colonel Percy Herbert! was Deputy.Q tartermaster- General of the division under Sir De Lacy Evans in,the Crimea, and was afterwards Quartermaster-General of the army in the Crimea. Major-General Windham will, as we have already stated, command a division in India. The following circulars have been is Ated from the 'Torso Guards : "Until furthdr orders, recruits enlisted at the head quarters of regiments will be retained there for training, and not be sent to the depots• " The standard of recruits for the Infantry is r3duced to 5 feet 5} inches." On Friday 15 officers• and 446 sergeants and privates of the. 2d Battalion of the 60th Rlfles proceeded to Kings town. The 31 Battalion of the 60th Rifiss, consisting of 212 rank and file, and the last division of the 79th High landers, consisting of nine officers and 162 sergeants and privates, proceeded to Kingstown on Saturday for the purpose of embarking. Considerable activity prevails at the head quarters of the Royal Engineers• at Chatham., where the whole of the officers. non-commissioned officers, and men are almost daily practised, under the direction, of Colonel 11. Sand with -- oter' ellgtue'ernig Opera:Lail:ls, - - vt 'LScalr cm. young officers and men of the Royal and East India Com pany's Sappers and Miners 'may be perfected in those branches *of military exercise previously to quitting England for service in India. The number of Royal, Engineers and East Company's troops who are now under instruction at Chatham is considerably more than 1,003 men, exclusive of officers. The James Baines and Champion of the Seas (clippers), Captains M 4 Dannell and MiKirdy, left Spithead in tow of the powerful steam tugs (which took them from Liverpool to Portsmouth harbour).Resolute and Blazer at one p.m., on Saturday. The James Baines took out Lieutenant- Colonels Ingram and Legh, Brevet Lieatenant-Colonels Burton and Turner, Captains Hawkins, Harene, Venables, Jones, Annersley, Browne, Wilkie, and • Ingram Lieutenants Harmond, Morgan, Onslow, Fitzprald, Gould, Smyth, Safford,. Mellay, and M`Donald ; Ensigns Parker, Barber, Cookesley, Stator, Lowe, Thompson, Fulford, Grey, Adjutant and Ensign Smith, Quartermaster Woodrooffe, Surgeon Barry, M.D., Assistant-Surgeons Porter, Sinclair, M.D,, and Drumbeck ; 52 sergeants, 21 drummers, 34; corporals,. and 711 privates of the 97th regiment. These troops are all armed with the 1853 pattern rifb,.and have taken out 483;140 .rounds of ball cartridge, 600,175 , percussipn caps, and 1,049 rifles. 'Major Wilkinson, Captains Ward and Baird, Lieutenants • I WLeod and Stewart, I 9 sergeants, 2 drummers, 6 cor porals, and 165 privates of the 4.2 ad Highlanders, also, have gone in the James Baines. The- following troops 'went in the Champloa of. the Seas _--Lieutenant-Colonel Evelegh, Majors Radcliffa and Butiar, Captains Bennett, Parkinion, Dickens, Warren, Hewett,. Lyons,. Dashwood, and. Francis ; Lieutenants Vaughan, Mitchel), Little, Datrickson, Holmes, Edridge, M‘Donough, Carden, Gordon, Rimer, Vereker, Dean, and Grethin;. Ensigns Fahie, Byrne, and Johnstone Lieutenant and Adjutant Geraghty, Surgeon E. Howard, Assistant-Surgeons Keleall, Short, and Monday; and Quartermaster Aylett,, 53 sergeants, . 20 drummers, 33. corporals, and 705 privates of the. 20th Foot. All are armed with the riPleonusket of the pattern of 1853. Tirly carry out 48),140 rounds of ball cartridge, and 600,17 a percussion caps. Orders were issued on Saturday at. Chatham for the following reinforcements from that garrison, for the pur pose of embarking for India to join the head quarters of their respective regiments, viz. non-commissioned. officers and men of the 64th and 86th Regiments, to embark in the Genghis Khan at Gravesend for Bombay,. under the command of Lieutenant T. R. Hamiltcn and Lieutenant V. G. Coates, 86th Regiment;. 50 non-commis. sioned officers and men of the 82nd (yriuce of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment will proceed to. Portsmouth, in charge of Lieutenant J. A. Brock,, and embark on board the Sarah Sands for conveyance to. Calcutta; 50 men of the same corps are also to proceed to Dublin for the purpsse of embarking on board the Ballarat for Calcutta. Reinforcements for the 10th Foot and 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment will also leave Chatham garrison for the purpose of embarking for India. The number of men of those corps under orders to proceed from the Provisional Battalion are 44 non-commissioned officers and men of the 10th Foot, and 106 of tke 84th Regiment, with the following officers, viz.:—Captain J. Cater, Lieutenant P. B. Lucas, Lieutenant C. A. Armstrong, and Ensign J. Ball, 10th Foot. The whole of the non-com missioned officers and men have been equipped with the, Enfield rifle, in the use of which weapea the' llaYe been: instructed at Chatb,ani garrison. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1.1 , 1857.