The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

THE PRES S, AUGUST 22, 1857.

House of Commons last week. Mr. James enters
into certain explanations, and suggests that, to avoid
other means of publication, Mr. Gladstone read the
letter in the house. Mr. Gladstone replies that "he
could not ask the house to listen to a document, the
most material part of which he could read only to
question and contradict."
THE REV. J. Bowes, rector of Orton, Peterborough,
has been appointed Bishop of Sierra Leone ; M. H.
Gallwey, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the colony
of Natal; A. F. Gore, Esq., to be Assistant Govern-
ment Secretary for the colony of British Guiana ;
and C. Watters, Esq., to be Solicitor-General, and J.
Brown, Esq., to be Surveyor-General for the pro-
vince of New Brunswick. Mr. Arney, Recorder of
Winchester, is also reported to have had conferred
upon him the post of Chief Justice in New Zealand.
MAJOR-GENERAL Wrzinnem was entertained by his
Norfolk constituents at a grand banquet, last week,
previous to his departure for India, to assume the
command of a division of the British army in Bengal.
Referring to Delhi, General Windham expressed his
serious doubts as to its speedy capture. The gallant
°dicer in the course of his remarks upon the rebellkin
in India observed :

I have a very strong opinion that Delhi is not yet taken,
and I am sony to say I do not think it will be token quite
so fast as many men in this country think it will be. I
sincerely hope it may, and that it may have fallen ere now,
for it would be en immense advantage. I assure you, after
two trials at Sebastopol, I do not covet in the slightest
degree the honour of fleshing the sword which you were
kind enough to present to me on my retina .:om the
Crimea in an attack upon Delhi.

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by Mr. Disraeli at the critical position of
Camnpore. That gallant general Sir Hugh
Wheeler, who for weeks had held out with a
handful of men against au overwhelming force
of rebels, has succumbed at last, and it is too
horrible to think of the fate which in all pro-
bability has befallen him and his heroic band
and the hundredsiofunfortunate refugees under
their protection. The fall of Cawnpore is the
first great military success of the rebels. They
have besieged and carried an armed station
defended by a British general of high rank.
The effect of this intelligence we fear will be
most disastrous upon India. The emissaries
of the rebels, while they exaggerate the suc-
cess, will depreciate the subsequent defeats of
Nana Sahib, and stimulate into activity those
passive but disaffected waverers waiting for
some such signal triumph to declare against us.
The loss of Sir Henry Lawrence is a severe
blow. The circumstances, too, under which
he received his death wound, " a sortie from
Lucknow," make us tremble for the fate of that
city. We know that he was besieged by the
rebels, that he had but a mere handful of
troops, and the very Let of the chief of a
besieged city hes,ling a sortie from within its
walls tells a tale close investment. The fall
of Delhi we (..d not anticipate. From the
first, N% e have always expressed our opinion
that the capture of Delhi was a work of time,
and was a far more serious undertaking than
the Goverment or the people of this country
were inclined to believe. The death of Gen.
Barnard, though not unexpected, is a great
loss. He was a brave and gallant soldier, and.
had he been spared would have done his work
well. The Bombay and Madras armies con-
tinue !stanch, though the language of the Post
this morning with reference to their fidelity is
sufficiently equivocal to lead us to believe that
the Goverrment is in possession of unsatisfac-
tory information from those Presidencies.
The Post assumes that if such an event as the
revolt of the native troops were to occur, " it
would not, as in Bengal, take every one by
surprise " ; and then remarks, "We may
reasonably hope that the evil will continue to
be cireumscribed within the limits within
which it began."
The few British troops which had arrived at
Calcutta up to the 21st July numbered only
1,500 men, and the first reflection which wig.
recur to every mind upon digesting the disaf.-
trous nature of the intelligence received by
this mail, will be the enormous advantage
which would. have been given to us had 5,000
men been despatched overland through Egypt
to the scene of action. The tardy action
and fatal inertness of the Government, some
weeks back, will bear bitter fruit. It
bas already heaped upon us terrible
dial-stem and brought misery end misfortvne
to oar doors. We should remember that it is
but one stop from a convulsion to a collapse ;
and when the days of our dominion in India
are numbered, the decline of our empire will
have already commenced.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
Sotrrweiurrow, Saturday Morning.
The Peninsilar and Oriental Company's steamship
Indus, Captain Evans, has sriived with the heavy
por.'.on of the India and China mails.
She left Alexaad-ia August 7th ; Malta, 11th; and
Gibraltr

A telegraphic despatch, of the 16th, from Constan-
tinople, announces that a secretary of the Salt= had
left that capital, bearing an autograph letter ;:om his
master to the Emperor of the French.

The Times Paris correspondent (Second Edition)
writes:—

A maritime conference of va_ious European
Powers is about to be held at Paris, to consider the
subject of collisions at sea, which of late have been
so numerous, and to adopt measures for their future
prevention.
It is confident!y stated that General Cavaignac
will resign his seat as deputy in favour of M
Desmarets, the distinguished advocate, whose re-
markable speech in defence of Tibaldi attracted so
much attention.

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