The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

INDIA.
Thu following is from a Calcutta correvondent

CaLcurre, July 4.
The affair of the fith Europeans is over, and the
quarrel between the soldiers of the old army and the
Government may be considered settled. There was
something so comic mixed up with the proceedings of
the men at Ilerhampore, something so utterly
anel unexpected in some of their acts, that you will find
even officers dist.* sl to treat the mutiny with con-
tempt. It wail, however. • serious affair. The regiment
was about 600 strong. and had expressed its opinion in
the matter of the transfer with offensive clearness. It
continued, however, to do duty until the arrival of some
deserters from Allahabad, who taunted the men with
doing unnecessary duty. Nearly 500 of the men here-
upon refused to do any duty whatever, upon which the
anumanding officer. Major Maitland, ordered the officers
to withdraw. This step exasperated the men, as it
implied • danger of assassination, and they elected
officers of their own, one Marshall being chosen colonel,
and assisted by • major, two captains, and four ser-
,p-ants. Major Maitland now withdrew all servants,
punkah coolies, ruin, and, in fact, everything except
rations, which it wan impossible to stop without an
explosion. Fortunately for all parties, Marshall
turned out • man of some capacity and resolution.
Ho threatened to flog the first man caught looting,
and carried his menace into execution. Another man,
guilty of disrespect, received 50 lashes, and the regi-
ment was brought into • state of discipline to which it
was entirely unaccustomed. The men played cricket
under their officers' noses, but otherwise re-
mained quiet enough, opening, however, a cor-
respondence with the 6th at Hasareebagh. At last,
on the 26th of June, Colonel Kenneth Mackenzie,
Deputy-Adjutant-Gerieral—not Colonel Cohn Macken-
zie, who only went up to Protect Moorshedabad,—
arrived with 1,000 men of Her Majesty's 99th and the
Buffs, and four guns. He placed his men and offered
the mutineers 24 hours to consider themselves. If at
the expiration of that time they returned to duty, •
court of inquiry would be held into their grievances; if
not he should employ force. The men, 39 excepted,
submitted, and the recusants were arrested. The court
of inquiry is now sitting, but it seems perfectly under-
stood that the men will be simply discharged. I feel
very doubtful whether even the ringleaders will be
punished. The discharge will apparently be nearly uni-
versal. (If 50 recruits at Barrackpore, all demanded it
except two. All the men in the arsenal took it at
once, and even the Governor-General'a band declared
their resolution to "resign." The sth, it is known, will
go ea Name, and letters begin to come in speaking of
dischargeo by the hundred. We shall, in fact, lose the
whole substance of the Company's European army,
which has thus, like its native comrade, committed
suicide. The men calculate on • pleasant voyage to
England without work, three month's holiday at home,
and re-enlistinent on fresh howdy. They share, more-
over the feeling of dislike to the country, now so lament-
ably strong even among officers, and have been, finally,
idle in the tropics for months.
The Govenior-General has ordered that Thursday,
the lSth of July, shall be kept as • day of thanksgiving
for the restoration of peace in India.
There is literally no further news, except that the
Supreme is,
has been reduced to one man—Sir
James Outrain. Sir Barnes Peacock has taken his seat
in the Supreme Court, Sir B. Frere is still in Saute
and Mr. Ricketts is away sick at the Neilgherries.
Harrington, member for the North-West, haa mourn-
ingly been called to Council for the nouce,—• step
almost without a precedent.