The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

INDIA.
THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

ADKN TLLLGRAPH-OIFIC/L, June 10.
The Calcutta mail of the 17th of May arrived here
tins morning. The discontent manifested by the late
Company's European troops is arrested. The new
Five-and•a-Half per Cent loan is at 6 discount.

The spirit of dissatisfaction among the soldiers of the
late East India Company at their unciremonioue trans-
fer to the Crown has developed itself widely. At
Meerut, where it was first iliaplayed, and where many
men of the artillery and cavalry had to be put off duty,
it seems to have given way to the humane and judicious
measures of the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Clyde, who
dictated a division order, reasoning with the malcon-
tents on their untenable pretensions to the right of
retirement from the army or re-enlistment with fresh
bounty, directing their return to duty, and ordering •
court of inquiry before which every man should have
leave and opportunity to apcak his mind. At Allahabel,
Berampore, Lahore, and Ilwalior, insubordinate demon.
stratums have been made. the cavalry at tho first named
station hiavimig gone so far as to lire in the air in the
prelienre of their officers. Hitherto no violence has
been attempted hy the malcontents, nor has it become
necessary to employ force for their coercion, and from
the example of Meerut and of Lahore, where the failure
of diaeipline was but momentary, we may hope that
after sulking for a while these dissatisfied men will give
way to reason and return to their duty. Jlean while the
poeidon is a very embarrassing one, and affords to the
natives a spectacle by no 111C1111111edifying.
The NADA i still at large, and believed to be some-
where on the borders of Oude andNepaul, together with
the Ileguin of Ouile.
The little rebellion of the Rana of Nagger Parker, in
the cast of &Mae, the origin of which is still very oh-
,cure—one raport brings women into the case—has been
suppressed with little trouble. Strongly posted on the
hills behind the town itself, the coolies made a spirited
resistance for mine time, till several of our men were
woundeit—one of them mortally. They then broke and
tied into the adjacent ravine., which afforded ready
but only temporary shelter. They were driven out of
the hills by a combined movement or. the 4th instant,
but the arrangement for the capture of their chiefs failed
I through a misapprehension of orders. Their camp was
I found prepared for a prolonged resistance: and it is be-
lieved that the insurgent Bane had objects in view
I beyond the redress of local or individual grievances,
} though what they were even rumour does not venture
to say.
The Nawab of Furruckabad had been sentenced to be
hanged; but it coins out on the trial that before his
surrender a letter had been written to I by Major
• Barrow, the special commissioner with the camp of his
Excellency the Coinniander.in-Chief, in which be was
invited to surrender, And that in this letter he was told
that pardon had been extended to all who hail not per-
smelly coininitted the murder of British subjects, and
that if lie had Ind personally committed the murder of
British subjects he might surrender without apprehen-
sion. Ou the receipt of this letter he immediately sur-
rendered. He now claims the fulfilment of the promise
• of pardon, being found guilty, not of having personally
co 'tted the murder of British subjects, but of having
been an aecessury before the fact. The Governor-Gene-
ral in Council entirely condemns and disavows the act of
Major Barrow, in making a promise contrary to the
Royal proclamation and contrary to the express order
of the Government, excepting the prisoner front all
benefit of pardon.