The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 3,1857.

resistance is gradually rising in every direction
against us, and will grow in strength every day that
elapses till the arrival of reinforcements."

Letters from Hyderabad of the 22nd of August
report all well there up to that date. The left wing
of her Majesty's 12th Lancers had arrived.
Letters from Neemuch and Mount Aboo apprise
us of a mutiny in the 2nd Bombay Lancers, and in
the native contingent of the Rajah of Joudhpore.
Tha details are not yet fully known.
From Belgaurn we have news of the 26th. On
the previous clay four mutineers of the 29th N.I.
were tried, one executed, and four others, a sergeant-
major, a corporal, and two privates, sentenced to
transportation for life. Sholapore was safe on the
27th, and Sawunt Warrie on the 24th.
In the Punjaub matters are tolerably quiet. Sir
J. Lawrence is busy raising, drilling, and despatching
his new levies to Delhi. A civil servant, writing
from Umbellate, offers some sensible remarks worthy
of attention :—" The hostility of the Punjaubees to
Porbeas (Hindoos) does; not necessarily imply
loyalty to us ; but as yet they have certainly been
with us, and have been doing us extremely good
service. It will be strange indeed if, with the
recently conquered Punjaub, we reconquer HindoAtan.
The policy followed is to trust and indulge the Sikhs.
Hindostanees are ejected from all office, and every-
thing is given to Punjaubees. It is trusted that they
sill thus be satisfied with so many loaves, will not
now think of independence, and will hereafter form
a trustworthy army. Ihe only difficulty in tho
Punjaub is money. All civil employes and all
military servants upon whom the experiment can be
safely tried are to he kept six months in arrears of
pay. In truth we are attempting to reconquer India
with the resources of the Punjaub, a task to which it
is not equal ; and that money has not been raised on
any terms and sent up to Bombay is another instance
of want of appreciation of the crisis from which very
dangerous consequences may follow."
The disarmed native infantry at Lahore broke out
into mutiny oa the 30th July, massacred Major Spencer
and two native officers, and then broke away. In
less than forty-eight hours 237 had been caught and
executed, 150 shot by the police, and the rest of the
500 cut down, drowned, or died of fatigue. At
Mooltan the troop of native artillery and the 69th
N.I. has been disarmed, this regiment being "en-
tirely mutinous."
The Calcutta intelligence, which reaches up to the
22rd August (the commencement of the Mohurrum,,
is very meagre. Sir Colin Campbell's arrival is
noted with great satisfaction. The partial restora-
tion of communications between Calcutta and the
upper provinces is also announced, and Lord Elgin
was to return to China on the 25th. As to the
mutinies. " they are still developing," writes the
Bengal Hurkartt," and the insurrection is taking a
consivent form." Martial law has been proclaimed
in the Chute Nagpore di-tricts. A petition praying
that martial lax be established in Calcutta had also
twen presented to Government. Great efforts were
being made to transport what troops could be spared
from Calcutta up the Ganges to Cawnpore. The
arrival of the Shannon at Calcutta had caused the
liveliest satisfaction among the European inhabitants,
and in some measure restored their confidence.
Captain Peel, with 400 seamen, a naval brigade, and
some heavy guns, had started on the 18th up the
river on rafts for Allahabad. The official reports of
Major Eyre, detailing his advance from Buxur and
his defeat of the rebels at Arrah, were published.
Same official correspondence, also, between Sir
Patrick Grant and the Government of Calcutta, dated
as far back as last June, is published. Sir Patrick
thinks he would be more useful at Calcutta, near the
Supreme Government, and able to direct the whole of
the military operations, than if he were to attach
himself to any one of the forces employed in Onde,
or the north-west. The Governor General concurs.

The gossip of Calcutta says that a difference of
opinion between Lord Elgin and Lord Canning had
arisen, and that Lord Elgin, in consequence, would
shorten his stay at the seat of Indian Government.
Sir Colin Campbell, too, is also reported to have met
with, and to have promptly put down, an attempt to
limit his powers by the Calcutta Council. The
appointment of a Mahomedan, one Ameer Alli, to
the valuable post of assistant-Commissioner at
Patna, at a salary of 1501. a month, is severely criti-
cised in letters from Calcutta. "In sober sadness,"
observes one writer, " our rulers appear to have gone
mad ;" and he adds a curious post-cript
B. L writes me that be had seen at Dargelling
a proclamation from the Goveruor•General, signed by Mr.
C. Beadon, of as late a date as 31st of July, absolutely
offering pard‘n to those who come in and lay down their
arms, and lamenting the severities " Government ser-
vants were compelled to resort to. I am tr3ing to get a
copy of the proclamation.

The able correspondent of the Daily Yews, in
sumn'ing up the general position of affairs, pro-
nounces strongly in favour of an expedition up the