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London, England, 1857-09-05

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BEVERLEY.—A petition, signed by a few mcmbers
of the Beverley town council, has been presented in
opposition to the return of Major Edwards, who was
elected when Mr. E. Auchmuty Glover was unseated
by a committee of the House of Commons. The
allegations are bribery and treating.

GREENWICH.-Mr. Townsend, Alio member for
Greenwich, having been duly gazetted a bankrupt,
all doubts are at an end in reference to the ap-
proaching vacancy in the representation. During
the last day or two a most active canvass has been
going on throughout Greenwich, Woolwich, and
Deptford, all which are comprised in the par-
liamentary borough, in favour of Mr. Montagu
Chambers, Q.C., who represented Greenwich in the
last Parliament. Mr. Chambers has not personally
moved in the matter, although he has been requested
to do so by many influential electors, to whom, how-
ever, he has stated that, whenever a requisition shall
be presented to him justifying hopes of success,
he will immediately declare himself a candidate, and
issue an address soliciting the support of the con-
stituency. The friends of Mr. Alderman Salomons
are active in his behalf ; and it is confidently stated
that, under any circumstances, he will go to the
poll. The Hon. W. F. Campbell, son of the Chief
Justice, has also issued an address in the Liberal
interest.

MIDDLESEX.—The Hon. G. Byng was duly elected
for Middlesex on Thursday. Mr. Byng, in ad-
dressing the electors on this occasion, referred to
the current events of the day. With regard to India,
he believed the Government to have been constantly
forewarned, and to have neglected those warnings.
He was in favour of the total abolition of the East
India Company ; and while, with respect to the
mutineers, he desired to see ample retribution
demanded, he was opposed to the exercise of
" vengeance." Turning to home measures, he was
in favour of a comprehensive parliamentary reform,
the ballot, the admission of the Jews, and the abolition
of church rates.

TAVISTOCK.—Mr. W. Russell, nephew of the Duke
of Bedford, and Air. Miall, contest this election. _
_ _

FINSBURY REGISTRATION.-Mr. John Frazer Mac-
queen, the revising barrister, has appointed Wed-
nesday, October 14, for the commencement of the
revision of the list of voters for the borough of
Finsbury. The proceedings will take place in the
Lords Justices' Court, Lincolns-inn.

Dittra olitan.
London, England, 1857-09-05

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London, England, 1857-09-05

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 29th ult. contain no
other news than that M. Hidalgo, Mexican Charge
d'Affaires in that city, had, in consequence of the
rapture of diplomatic relations between Spain and
Mexico, left Madrid, in obedience to orders from his
Government ; and that negotiations on the Mexican
affair will henceforth be carried on between the
ambassadors of France and England and the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
London, England, 1857-09-05

PERSIA.

The Austrian Gazette learns from its correspondent
at Berlin, who bad the news from Constantinople,
that in Persia the Indian mutinies are regarded as a
result of English oppression and contempt for every
non-Christian faith. At Teheran, it is related, the
public excitement is so great, that " the members of
the British legation, if they ventured to appear in
public, would in all probability be assassinated, as
the members of the Russian legation were twenty
years ago, at a time when the populace were in a
state of great irritation because a peace had been
concluded on disadvantageous terms." This fanatic
feeling is not confined to Teheran ; it has spread all
over Syria and Palestine, where disturbances and
assassinations were increasing. At Jerusalem the
Latin Patriarch had been so threatened, that be has
resigned his post.
London, England, 1857-09-05

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857.

additional one respecting the construction of an
interoceanic railway, and securing to us free of tolls
the right of way by the interoceanic route. The
Honduras Government agreeing that the right of
way over any such route, from sea to sea, shall be at
all times open and free to the Government and
subjects of Great Britain.
London, England, 1857-09-05

MU. DORI N.

Mr. Dorin was a man who, in a service of thirty-three
years, had never been fifty miles out of Calcutta iii the
direction of the interior; he was, therefore, practically
ignorant of the manners, and customs, and peculiar re•
quiretnents of the people of India. For all practical
purposes those thirty three years might as well, or even
with more advantage, have been spent in England. He
was verging upon sixty years of age, and in all his habits
was a very sybarite. His experience of ruling had been
principally confined to the financial department, but even
there his budgets bore a stronger resemblance iu their
results to those of Sir Charles Wood than to the inure
lerf(ct calculations of Sir It. Peel or Mr. Gladstone. In
854, during Lord Dalhousie's absence in the Neelghery
hills, he had temporarily assumed the presidency of the
council. His tenure of that office was chiefly remarkable
for the outbreak of the Sonthal rebellion, and for the weak
and inefficient measures pursued to check it. He was in-
dolent, void of energy, deficient in mental culture and
ability, and certainly in no other country but India, find in
no other service but the civil service, would have attained
any but the must subordinate position.
London, England, 1857-09-05

NB. BEADON.

Of Mr. Beadon, the Home Secretary, it will suffice to
say that his great idea of policy, the one scheme which
lie kept constantly before him, was " India for the Civil
Service." He looked, in fact, upon the country as the
property of the members of the service, and he legislated
accordingly. Indigo planters, merchants, in fact all Euro.
peans who were not civilians or soldiers, were discouraged
by him. He hated independent Englishmen ; he hated
the press, because its motto was " India for the English ;"
he hated every one and everything which interfered with
his grand idea, and he never lost an opportunity of allow-
ing that hatred. Under his rule, India would have re-
rosined in our hands what it has been for the last hun-
dred years. Its resources would never have been deve•
loped ; it would have continued almost like a burden on
England ; bit, as a compensation, it would have produced
annually a certain sum of money as salaries for the family
clique who governed the country. Mr. Iteadon had one
recommendation. If he was narrowiniuded and unscru-
pulous, he was honest He could not " smile and smile,
and be a villain." He spoke his thoughts freely and.
honestly, and people whilst they hated could not help re-
specting him—a sentiment never entertained towards his
colleague in the military department.
London, England, 1857-09-05

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London, England, 1857-09-05

GENERAL LOW.

General Low was the only really practical member of the
council. Unfortunately he was the oldest, and age and
climate had already begun to tell upon his nerves. Never.
theless, he was the only man from whom the Governor.
General received any real assistance. He knew, at all
events, that there ought to be no trilling with mutiny, anti
Le advised accordingly. It is to be lamented that he was
wanting in the eloquence or power of language necessary
to support his views. He could record a minute, but could
not make a speech. And it thus happened that he was
unable to defend measures, of the propriety of which he was
convinced, against the legal subtleties sometimes brought
to bear on them by his colleages.
London, England, 1857-09-05

ptlant.

THE Barrisa ASSOCIATION continued their pro- I
ceedings during the early part of the week, and the
success of the meeting in Dublin is undisputed. The
Lord Lieutenant has exhibited great interest in the
proceedings, and has entertained the savans with
marked hospitality at the Castle. The sittings of
the several sections were brought to a close on Wed-
nesday, and the next morning some of the members
of the association left Dublin en route by rail and
sea to the Isles of Arran, on the coast of Galway.
IT is announced by the Belfast journals that the
Lord Lieutenant has decided that an inquiry con-
ducted by the Government shall take place into the
circumstances connected with the abominable out-
rages of the 12th of July and seven subsequent days.
Mn. MAURICE KEATINOE, son of Judge Keating°,
and 1)r. Wiley, are to be the joint registrars of the
now Court of Probate, at a salary of 1,0001. a year
each. Mr. Anthony Hawkins, the present registrar,
retires on his full salary.
THE Dublin Evening Mail records another fatal
gun accident in the death of Mr. It. W. Smith while
arouse-shooting on Thursday week in the neighbour-
hood of Newport, in the County of Mayo. Mr.
Edwards, cousin of the deceased, gives the following
account of the occurrence :

About three o'clock in the afternoon one of our dogs
Caine to a point on the top of a small bank. We went
up and stood over the dog, expecting the birds to rise,
when my poor cousin exclaimed, "I see the bird. It is
London, England, 1857-09-05

THE DUCHY OF HOLSTEIN.

The following telegraphic despatch from Hamburg,
dated the 4th inst., has been received :
Tn the sitting of the Holstein Chamber, on the 3rd inst.,
the Commission reported that it considered the situation
of the country critical, and declared itself unable to dis-
cuss the new Constitution before having secured the
independence and equality due to Holstein in the Danish
monarchy.
London, England, 1857-09-05

gab 3 an Volta.

EDWARD HARDMAN was hanged at Lancaster last
Saturday, for poisoning his wife with tartar emetic.
The convict was only twenty-eight years of age.
A CURIOUS ACTION was tried against a school-
master at the Liverpool Assizes last week. The
father of two schoolboys received 15/. as damages
from a schoolmaster residing at Argbirtb, near
Liverpool, and who had expelled the plaintiff's boys
from his school, as was alleged, for ill.manners and
throwing stones at a dog. Baron Watson, in sum-
ming up, said that if schoolmasters were to expel
every boy who threw stones at dogs there would not
be a boy at school. If the boys had been ill-
mannered the master should have used the birch rod,
anti not have expelled them.
A CLERGYMAN, the Rev. Mr. Scard, was convicted
last week of defrauding a Friendly Society. The
charge was preferred on behalf of the Bishops Wal-
tham Union Friendly Society against Mr. Scard, for
withholding and misapplying a sum of 1501. in-
trusted to him, as an honorary member of such
society, for investment. After an investigation of the
charge, the bench ordered payment of the sum of
1501., the full penalty of '2O/., and 1/. costs, and in
default of payment committed the offender to three
calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labour,
being the fullest punishment directed by the Fliendly
Societies' Act, under which. the conviction took place.
A VERDICT OF " WILFUL MURDER" has been re-
turned by the coroner's jury against Cornelius
Denny, for the assassination in the Hampstead-road
last week of Gallo Benzonelli.

867 •

THE BRITISH BANK TRIALS—in which the Hon.
Mr. Stapleton, M.P. for Berwick ; Mr. Humphrey
Brown, late M.P. for Tawkesbury ; Mr. Hugh Innes
Cameron, and the other persons who were arrested
fur the alleged frauds in connection with the Royal
British Bank, figure—will take place in the Court cf
Queen's Bench, Westminster-hall, on or about
Monday, the 30th of November. Lord Campbell
will try the cases.

THE LAST CRIM. CON. TRIAL, or at least the last
in all probability, took place on Thursday at the
Sheriffs' Court.

A FRENCH FISHING LUGGER, No. 274, was cap-
tured off the Northumberland coast this week, fishing
within the limits fixed by treaty, viz., three miles off
the coast. She was caught by H.M.S. Otter, brought
into the Tyne to Shields, and the master fined 281.
for damage done to an English fishing-vessel.

THERE APPEARS TO EE No DOUBT that the nit-.
lien, Antonio de Salvi, against whom the coroner's
jury have returned a verdict of "Wilful murder,"
for killing Mr. Robertson in the Queen's Bench, will
have to take his trial for that offence at the ensuing
session of the Central Criminal Court, notwithstand-
ing the fact that he is at present under a sentence of
fifteen yearn penal servitude upon a conviction for
wounding the deceased gentleman, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm, arising out of the same cir-
cumstances.

SECOND EDITION.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(By Submarine and British Telegraph.)
London, England, 1857-09-05

Conk glaritet anb (ttitg 3nttlligtutt.

FRIDAY EVENING.
Jl lIE return of the Bank of England for the week
ending the 29th of August shows the following
changes compared with that of the week preced-
ing :

Increase in Circulation
Increase in Public Deposits
Decrease in Other Deposits
Increase in Securities
Increase in Bullion
Decrease in Rest
Increase in Reserve
Bullion iu Both Departments
Circulation, including Bank Post

Bills 20,108,234
The demand for money last week is shown by the
addition to the securities, which now amount to
17,m11,000/., and a small sum has been withdrawn
from the Private Deposits ; but, on the other hand,
the Reserve continues to increase, and the Bullion has
received a considerable addition. rhe Public Depo
sits are still growing. On the whole the return is
satisfactory, but its favourable features have been
anticipated.
London, England, 1857-09-05

MR. PEACOCK.

Mr. Peacock was the law member of council, and as such
was not expected to be able to deal with purely military
Questions. When such matters were debated he generally
vacillated between Mr. Grant and General Low, inclining
oftener to the civilian. His intentions were always pure,
and when convinced of the justice of a cause no special
pleading would alter his vote. Unfortunately, his unac•
quaintance with soldiers prevented him from comprehend-
ing the dangers of unchecked mutiny, and he was found,
on trial, ignorant of the proper moment to disregard rule
and to resort to urgent measures.

COLONEL BIRCH.

The Secretary to the Government of India in the mili-
tary department was a man in every way unsuited for his
position. Placed early in his career in the department of
the Judge• Advocate General, his confined understanding
was exerted in mastering the quirks and quibbles of the
law. His intellect being essentially shallow, he was
unable to take a broad view of any question ; but he would
argue for hours, and exhaust all his ingenuity in com-
bating some petty detail. When Sir Charles Napier
assumed the command of the Indian army, Colonel Birch
was Judge Advocate. He was rather afraid of Sir Charles's
downright character, and at their first interview exerted
all his powers to please him. Nu amount of special
pleading, however, would go down with the great con-
queror of Scinde. Sir Charles's bad opinion was, how-
ever, of this service to Colonel Birch, that it obtained for
him Lord Dalliousie's patronage. That nobleman, eager
to show his spite towards Sir C. Napier, took the oppor-
tunity of the first vacancy to appoint Colonel Birch Secre-
tary to the Government of India in the military depart-
ment : thus placing him, de facto, at the head of the army
in I hdia—giving him a position, indeed, exactly anaiogous
to that of tile Minister of War in France. A worse ap-
pointment could not have been made. Colonel Birch was
essentially a sycophant, always ready to give up his own
opinion, if by so doing he could curry favour with his
superior. lie had tried this plan with Sir C. Napier, but
Sir Charles found him imt, and not only felt but showed
contrmpt towards him in consequence; he found it an
easier task to ingratiate himself with Lord Dalhousie and
his successor. lint he was also an ignoramus. He knew
nothing of the Bengal army. Many years had elapsed
since he had even spoken to a sepoy. lie was ignorant of
the composition of the army, as well as of its wants ;
Whilst his previous training had so unfitted him for his
Post that he could not even write an order without making
it unintelligible by excessive quibbling.
London, England, 1857-09-05

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, 1857.

POSTSCRIPT.

THE INDIAN PRESS.

A correspondence between the Board of Directors
and Mr. J. Connon, proprietor of the Bombay Gazette,
appeared in the Daily News of yesterday. Sir James
Melville, in reply to a memorial from Mr. Connon
appealing against the late press-gagging act of Lord
Canning at Calcutta, states that the act " has been
approved of " by the Board of Directors. Mr. Con-
non, in answer to Sir James Melville, concludes with
the follo wing pithy paragraph :
The power of all these various authorities and agencies
for the Government of India to do good I find very small
but their power to do nothing, or to obstruct honest busi;
ness, and at last, it would seem, also free speech, I find
complete, and, must I add, unassailable. No, please God,
it shall neither be unassailable nor unassailed. " One
asylum of free discussion is still inviolate." And the
clever clerks, who in peaceful times pass for great states-
men, and are at no time unmindful of their own puny and
sordid interests, must give up their governing when all
empire is in danger—an empire won by the heads and
hands of great men, being lost by the red tape of the said
clever clerks. Sir, I hope my personal misfortune—and I
look upon tins gagging of the Indian press as nothing less
than that—will never make me forget my duty to my
country. But I will say that a Government of Englishmen
that cannot bear discussion on its merits, and its acts, is
one that does not deserve to exist; and if the East India
Company persist in the resolution it seems now to have
taken, I will add that it must be swayed by recreant
linglishmen,:and ignoble councils, that have brought it to
death's door; and most surely it deserves to die.
London, England, 1857-09-05

SPAIN AND MEXICO.

The Duke of Ilivas had a long interview on Fri-
day week with Count Walewski, and is said to have
declared that, before proceeding to hostilities with
Mexico, the Spanish Government would publish a
manifesto, explaining the question at issue, and per-
mitting the Mexican Government to open fresh nego-
tiations. Although accounts are conflicting with
respect to the exact course the Spanish-Mexican
dispute is taking, and to the manner in which it is
likely to be arranged, it is pretty evident that all
danger of collision between the two powers is over
for the present. As regards the final settlement,
that, considering the national character of the dis
putants, may possibly be long.
London, England, 1857-09-05

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London, England, 1857-09-05

SWEDEN AND PRUSSIA.

The healths of the Kings of Sweden and Prussia
are pronounced " precarious." The King of Prussia
has suffered two slight apoplectic attacks, and the
King of Sweden is lying seriously ill in his palace
of Tullgarn. A despatch received from Stockholm
announces that, by the advice of his physicians, the
King has made his will.
TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.

The Paris Moniteur of Monday announced :
The diplomatic relations between the representatives of
France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia, ou the one hand,
and the Sublime Porte on the other, were resumed on the
29th August.

Despatches from Constantinople, of the 20th ult.,
state that Lord Stratford do Itedclitre and M.
de Prokesch had, on the previous day, notified to the
Porte the agreement of the allied powers, and that
the Divan immediately forwarded to Moldavia, by
telegraph, an order to recommence the elections.
A letter from Jassy, of the 18th inst., says that
the Kaimakan Vogorides has just revived public
towards him by an act as impolitic as it is
unpopular. On his own responsibility he has named
a commission charged to grant to Austria a rectifica-
tion in her favour of the frontier on a certain point
of the Moldavian slope of the Carpathians already
considerably encroached upon. Such a concession
as this seems scarcely credible on the part of a
mere governor of a province, and will surely, if it
has really been made, not be confirmed or tolerated
by the Porte.
Private letters from Constantinople state that the
financial embarrassments of the Porte still continue,

and that the Government had been compelled to
contract comparatively trifling loans in the Turkish
money markets, to meet its most urgent exigencies.
London, England, 1857-09-05

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ft Is impossible to acknowle Igo the mass of letters we reeds e,
Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter.
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do
not avail ourselves.
Communications should always be legibly written, and on one
aide of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for Insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of tho writer, not necessarily for publica-
tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent f►om the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
London, England, 1857-09-05

FRANCE.

The Paris Court of Assize on Thursday condemned
(par contumace) Ledru Rollin, Mazzini, Massarenti,
and Campanella to deportation.
The shares of the Credit Mobilier yesterday were
offered at the commencement of business at 885, and
fell rapidly to 850.
London, England, 1857-09-05

No. 227.—V0L.V.

Ete Vrtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857.

AT a time when the frantic outpourings of the
Ministerial journals on the subject of India
are beginning to turn the sympathy felt for us
on the Continent into a feeling somewhat
akin to disgust, it may not be unfitting for
those wha have some sense of national dignity
under the pressure of misfortune to surrey
our position calmly, and to examine into the
causes which have led to these disasters. It
i 3 not the men loudest in their yells and
their vociferations who generally approve
themselves the wisest or the bravest when peril
overtakes them, whether by laud or by water,
in the Cabinet or in the Camp. To begin,
then, with our position.

No doubt it is most disastrous, though leaving
us certainly no reason for despair. We have
loot Artsos, and BARNARD, and LimasNes, and
WHEKLER,) all commanders of the highest
rank. In Delhi we are as much the besieged
as the besiegers ; and accounts from the camp
tell us how often the turning of a straw would
have changed a dear-bought victory into a total
defeat; and defeat before Delhi involves anni-
hilation. At Agra our state would appear to
be very dangerous, with a fort to protect and
feed filled with five thousand non-combatants,
and only a fifteenth of that number of troops
of all arms for duty. At Lucknow we are
even still more unsafe ; for there the
small garrison is beleagured by the whole
revolted army of Oude. All the remaining
places of importance in Bengal are in the
hands of the rebels, and how strong some of
them are we may judge by the numerous
repulses we received in earlier wars from the
fortress of Bhurtpore. The Punjaub, we are
told, is secure, the Patens and Sikhs being
. stanch; but we confess that our own
• im-
pression is that these aro merely playing their '
own game. That is, that they, are simply
helping us to destroy their old. enemies the
findoostanees in order to have the field clear
or them to operate against us themselves.
We shall be very much surprised if it do not
prove after all a repetition of the old story of
the wolves and the dogs. And we are the
more confirmed in this opinion by the letter
which the Times lately published from See-
kote, in which it was said that the Sikhs were
mainly actuated in their support of us by this
feeling, and that a reverse before Delhi would
probably lead them also to rise. We cannot
caution our countrymen too strongly against
placing any deep reliance on the professions of
our bitterest enemies of olden days. the
Patens and the Sikhs. Then, again, if we
look to the southward, there is deep danger at
Hyderabad, for we cannot believe that the

LATEST EDITION.
London, England, 1857-09-05

Gorrtsgonlrtnte.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIAN
REVOLT.
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."

Sir,—l distrust Lord Palmerston's principles, and I
detest his policy ; but it is by no party standard I
measure, nor in any hasty spirit I would comment
on either the one or the other. The remarks with
which I venture to trouble you are dictated solely
by an overwhelming conviction of the dangerous in-
consistency of the conduct of his Government in a
perilous crisis,—an inconsistency shared by the
Ministerial press, and especially by the Times.
Both appear to be living in the fool's paradise,"
in which the Indian authorities have so long and
fatally slumbered ; but with the aggravation that,
now admitting the danger, they are lulling the nation
into a false security, and paralysing that feeling which
alone can stimulate to the exertion the exigency de-
mands. Lord Palmerston greatly underrates the
gravity of the peril that threatens our Indian empire.
The Times forms a juster estimate of its magnitude,
but administers anodynes where it should apply
stimulants. To crown all, the destinies of that
empire are confided to the superintending authority
of—Vernon Smith ! The truth must be told; the
country is in danger. It is high time that the people
should drive the Government upwards to the recogni-
tion of the solemn truth,—Lord Palmerston
temporises, while ruin threatens.
On Friday last, her Majesty in a speech addressed
to Britain, to India, to Europe, to the world, is made
by our jaunty Premier to say that mutinies and dis-
turbances in Bengal, which have amazed and
horrified the whole nation, have occasioned to her
Majesty "extreme concern," and that " barbarities"—
designating thus atrocities too monstrous for men-
tion, and infamies too foul for thought—have "filled
her Majesty's heart with the deepest grief." Of course
they have. " There needs no saint from heaven to
tell us that." Her Majesty is a woman, a delicate,
sensible, tender woman; strange, indeed, would it be
if outrages on females that have disgraced humanity,
and made every bosom thrill with shuddering awe,
had not touched that heart with "deepest grief."
But was this the only sentiment that should have
been expressed from such a heart, on such an occa-
sion ? True, her Majesty expresses admiration of
the conduct of many of her military and civil officers.
True, her Majesty assures her Parliament that
"she will omit no measures, calculated to quell these
grave disorders." Sir, the nation justly confides in,
respects, luves the Queen ; but I assert fearlessly that
her Majesty's Ministers have omitted and are omitting
the measures necessary, not for quelling grave die
orders, but for promptly and effectually protecting
European life and property in India, vindicating
British sovereignty, and preserving our Indian em-
London, England, 1857-09-05

VrollinciaL

GREAT HARVEST FESTIVITIES have been held in
Norfolk and Suffolk during the past week. At
Brooke, near Norwich, last Friday, the harvest fes-
tival was held, and some 350 of the peasantry sat
down to a substantial dinner in the vicarage garden.
After dinner, sports and games amused the guests
till dark. In Suffolk the " horkeys" have been kept
up, but with prudence.
A STATUE TO MR. FRANK CROSSLEY, M.P., in
gratitude for his gift of a park to the people of Leeds,
is now being subscribed for in Leeds, to be erected
in the park.
THE NEW L.tNDING•STAGE AT LIVERPOOL, off
Princes-pier, was thrown open on Tuesday. The
2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards embarked
from it for Ireland.

THE BRAEMAR GATHERING took place On Thurs-
day. liar Majesty the Queen and Royal Family
honoured the gathering with their presence.
THE WILL OF MR. MUNTZ, late M.P. for Bir-
mingham, has been proved, and the estate sworn
under 000,0001., thus disposed of-1,0001. a year to
his widow, to be chargeable on his works, the French
Walls, to cease on her remarriage ; legacies of
25,0001. each to his four sons; 20,0001. to his
daughter ; to another son 2,0001. only, to be invested
in the purchase of land and stock in New Zealand ;
a legacy of 1,0001. to his brother; and the entire
residue of his property to his eldest son.
THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CON-
GRESS closed last Saturday. On Friday the members
of the association proceeded into West Norfolk.
Little Snoring Church was examined, and the party
afterwards proceeded through Great Snoring to
Binham, where they halted for the purpose of in-
specting the remains of the venerable priory. The
last place visited was East Barsham-hall. On Sa•
turday the members of the association visited Ely.
Here the final meeting was held, and the congress
dissolved.
London, England, 1857-09-05

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857.

after a resistance of two hours and a half, during
which the mutinous cavalry in considerable force made
frequent attacks against my baggage, which compelled
me to use every available detachment and gun against
them. At noon we attacked their intrencliment at the
bridge over the stream; the resistance here was short
but spirited, and the two guns taken were of large calibre.
The Madras Fusiliers particularly distinguished them-
selves.

From Brigadier General Havelock, dated Cawnpore Can-

tonment, July 17.
By the blessing of God, I recaptured this place yester-
day, and totally defeated Nana Sahib in person, taking
more than six guns, four of siege calibre. The enemy
was strongly posted behind a succession of villages, and
obstinately disputed for the 140 minutes every inch of the
ground ; but I was enabled by a flank movement to my
right to turn his left, and this gave us the victory. The
conduct of the troops was admirable. Nana Sahib had
barbarously murdered all the captive women and children
before the encampment. He has retired to Bhitoor, and
blew up this morning on his retreat the Cawnpore maga-
zine. He is said to be strongly fortified. I have not been
yet able to get in the return of killed and wounded, but
estimate my loss at about seventy, chiefly from the fire
of grape.
The gallant general published the following order of
the day after the action of Futteypore
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AUSTRIA.

The Emperor of Austria, who left Presburg on the
27th ult. by railway, to continue his journey in Hun-
gary, had a narrow escape. At Hobulkut the loco-
motive ran off the rails with such violence that one
of the wheels broke, and the whole train was dragged
off, and stuck fast in the ground. After some delay
his Majesty resumed his journey, and in the evening
reached Bolasso-Gyarmath.

RUSSIA.
An interview between the Emperors Alexander
and Napoleon is freely speculated upon by the German
papers.

Prince Gortscbakoff has announced at Warsaw
that the Emperor will arrive there on the 6th inst.,
remain a week, and then leave for Berlin, and the
Dresden Journal says :
It is looked upon as nearly certain that at Darmstadt
the Czar will have an interview with the Emperor of the
French. From this capital the Czar will go to Weimar
and return to Berlin via Stuttgardt. Prince Gortschakoif
is to accompany the Emperor.

The Emperor will arrive at Berlin on the 15th and
at Darmstadt on the 17th.

Le Nord reports from Paris that the Emperor
Napoleon, in reply to a deputation from Metz, pro.
mised to visit that city "on his way to Germany."
With regard to Circassia the Russians acknowledge
severe fighting and heavy losses on the 16th, 17th,
18th, and 19th of July.

It is worthy of note that on the front page of the
Journal de St. Petersbourg of August 27, and in
larger letters than we have seen in its pages before,
is this telegraphic despatch :

Berlin, August 25.
In yesterday's sitting of the House of Commons, PA.
merston declared that Russia had not broken the treaty
by her procedure in Circassis.
The Premier's declaration evidently appears as ex.
traordinary to the Russians as it did to his own coun-
trymeE.
London, England, 1857-09-05

THE EMPERORS NAPOLEON AND

ALEXANDER.

PARIS,. September 5.
The Bing of Wurtemburg has quitted Biarritz to
return to his capital.
It now appears certain that the Emperor and
Empress of the French have resolved to return the
King's visit, and that their Imperial Majesties are
expected at Stuttgardt on the 25th of this month.'
From that place the Emperor of Russia will have
gone to Baden to rejoin the Empress Maria. Both
will remain at Baden from the 20th to the 2-101, and
arrive at Stuttgardt on the latter day, where they
will stay till the 28th.
It may therefore be looked upon as positive that
the interview between the two Emperors will take
place at Stuttgardt.—Morning Post (third edition).
London, England, 1857-09-05

gabal aab

The Times on Thursday announced that additional
regiments had, since the Cabinet Council on Mon-
day last, been placed under orders for India. We
are enabled to add the following authentic details:—
Cavalry :-7th Dragoon Guards
Bth Hussars
17th Lancers
Infantry:—The 18th, 94th, 31st, and 98th
Regiments
Artillery : One Troop Horse Artillery
Three Field Batteries
Royal Engineers :—Four Companies

MOVEMENTS OF HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.--The 2nd
Battalion of Scotch Fusiliers, under the command
of Colonel Walker, have left St. George's Barracks,
and proceeded to Haslar Barracks, Gosport; this
battalion is appointed for garrison duty at Ports-
mouth. The Ist Battalion has also left for Windsor
to relieve the 3rd Battalion of Grenadiers, who will
perform duty at the Tower. The Ist Battalion of
Grenadiers 'have left Wellington Barracks for St.
George's Barracks, to make room for the 2nd Batta-
lion of Grenadiers, who have come from Dublin,
having been relieved by the 2nd Battalion of Cold-
stream Guards, which left Liverpool on Tuesday.
MAJOR-GENERAL GOUGH, C. 8., at the Curragh
camp, is to command a brigade in Dublin. It is
rumoured that Lieutenant• General Sir Richard Eng-
land, G.C.8., will be succeeded by a major general.
Major Nasmyth will accompany General Gough as
brigade-major.

ON THE EMBARKATION OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY
FOR INDIA at Woolwich, on Monday, the whole line
of march was crowded with thousands of spectators,
who continuously cheered the troops, and the excite-
ment of the scene was enhanced by the number of
handkerchiefs waved from various windows in token
of the approbation of the fair sex. On arriving at
the Royal Arsenal Pier the band took up a position
at the pier-head, and performed the National
Anthem, during which the troops embarked in
excellent order on board. The artillery force now
at Woolwich awaiting embarkation for Calcutta,
comprises the II troop of Royal Horse Artillery, the
3rd company of 9th Battalion, sth company of 12th
Battalion, and various detachments, making a total
of 007 rank and file. The field batteries will take
out the whole of their guns, carriages, and materiel,
but the horses will not be forwarded.
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Morning Order, July 13, 1857.
Brigadier.Gen!ral Havelock, U. 8., thanks his soldiers
for their arduous exertions of yesterday, which produced, in
four hours, the strange result of a whole army driven from
a strong position, eleven guns captured, and their whole
force scattered to the winds, without the loss of a single
British soldier !
To what is this astonishing effect to be attributed? To
the fire of the British artillery, exceeding in rapidity and
precision all that the brigadier-general has ever witnessed
in his not short career: to the power of the Enfield rifle
in British hands, to British pluck—that good quality that
has survived i* revolution of the hour—and to the
blessing of Almighty Gud on a most righteous cause—the
cause of justice, humanity, truth, and good government in
I !Wis.

So far our intelligence at present leaves the gallant
general. His next effort, in ali probability, will be
to relieve Lucknow or to capture Nana Sahib, who
has retreated to Bhitoor.

The garrison of Lucknow, it is said, could hold out
twenty days from the 4th of July. It is distant
fifty-three miles from Cawnpore, and the country
is infested with powerful bodies of rebels. The
passage of the river at first starting will be probably
contested :

riHo will have to cross the river (writes a correspondent
from Calcutta, speaking of General Havelock), which I
expect will be strongly contested, and, in an enemy's
country, will have a march of fifty miles to Luoknow,
to relieve our force there. A portion of the enemy's
army, consisting of 12,000 men, with fortytwo guns, is,
we hear, to dispute the way, but they cannot stand before
Europeans.
London, England, 1857-09-05

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July 14.

We have taken every gun from the rebels at Futteypore,
twelve in number. This has enabled me to equip and take
into the field nine excellent guns, instead of six lighter,
and with the facility of also bringing into action two light
°•pounders.
From Brigadier• General Havelock, Camp Pandoo Nuddy,
dated July L 5.
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tured four more guns, with trilling loss. A strong ad.
vaticed guard under Colonel Tytler drove the enemy out of
all intrenched positions in front of the village of Osung
London, England, 1857-09-05

MR. J. P. ORANT.

Mr. Grant was a very different character. In the prime
of life, active, energetic, and pcssessed of a certain amount
of ability, he might, had he been trained in any other school,
have done good service on the occurrence of a crisis. Un•
fortunately, he laboured under a complete ignorance of the
habits and customs of the natives of Upper India. Accus•
tomed, during his service, to deal only with Bengalees, he
had imbibed the extraordinary notion that they were a
type of the Hitlostanee3 generally. His vanity was so
great, that he would not stoop to demand information even
from practical men of his own service. With the super•

cilions manner which is so often the accompaniment of a
confined understanding he pooh-pooh'd every suggestion
which was at variance with his settled ideas. Of the sepoys
he had no knowledge whatever, although with respect to
them he was always ready to offer a suggestion. of mili-
tary men in general he had a jealous dislike, which
prompted him on every occasion to oppose any plans or
suggestions offered by a member of that profession. He
was an adept at intrigue, and being possessed (ifs practical
knowledge of revenue matters, a plausible manner, an easy
address, and considerable influence at the India•house, he
had gained a seat in council at an earlier age than was
customary. As a practical man he had always been a
failure. It was his advice, given because Mr. Halliday pro-
posed an opposite plan, which delayed for seven or eight
months the proclamation of martial law in the Sonthal
districts ; and it will be seen that on the occasion of the
mutiny at Barrackpore his pernicious influence was always
opposed to those pro:npt and severe measures on the execu-
tion of which the safety of the empire depended. These
faults are attributable to the evil action of the school in
which lie was trained on a disposition naturally haughty
and teipercilious. Had 114 never been a civilian, had he
Leen trained to depend cn his own exertions from the
moment of his entrance into life, his career would have
been more useful to his country and more honourable to
himself.
London, England, 1857-09-05

INDIAN BAGGAGE.

A CORRESPONDENT of a daily paper, who claims for
himself a long experience of campaigns in India,
suggests the following as the necessary outfit for
India:—

1. Two camel boxes, each fitted with two rings.
''. A bed frame, with cane button', at each corner a hook
which fits into the rings of the boxes, and forms a bed ; by
this plan the boxes can never be stolen from your tent at
night.
3. A lsrge piece of waterproof (that will stand heat) to
cover the bed and bedding,—this is much better than the
waterproof cases supplied by outfitters, which are useless
in marching, the bed and bedding being covered and placed
flat on the camel. _ _ .

4. A good horsehair mattress, pillow, bolster, blankets,
tte., for bed.
5. A large•sizrd wooden tub for washing, the top making
a table. The tub to contain a tin washing basin and tripod
for same, a small filter, and a box to hold a few plates,
glasses, knives and forks, &c. A regular canteen is the
most useless and expensive article an officer can take out.
A native will never replace the things in use in the can
teen, and I have often seen among an officer's baggage a
canteen perfectly empty, while the plates, glasses, Sc ,
were carefully packed up in an empty beer box.
ti. One or more pairs of good thick-soled winter walking
hoots; these are invaluable in India. The boots of the
country do very well in dry weather, but with the least wtt
they are like brown paper.
7. Flannel jacket and trousers, most comfortable to put
on after a long march; also flannel bands. Liood flannel

is not to be procured in India, and I should recommend
every one taking out a spare piece.
Other clothes in moderation ; and, finally, a really good
regulation•size sword, and not the miserable spits which it
is the fashion fur officers to wear now-a-days, and which
have often seen nearly cut in two by a stroke of a common
native tulwar.
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