The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1858.

whose traditions do not tell diadem:es mere or leas
numerous of this kind P Bow many additions will
be made in the next fifty yews to the honoured and
honourable catalogue if the prescriptive rights of
the English commonalty to their share in the
administration of Indis be arbitrarily forfeited, and
a jealous fence of oligarchic patronage raised high
to bar their ingress ? Or if, to save appearances at
first, some openings should be left through which an
entrance may still be had to their patrimonial pos-
session, they would soon find their progress barred
by some impassable barrier beyond which lay all
that was really worth obtaining; and when, too
late for a return to the previous state of things,
notice would be posted up—" No admission here !"
It will not do to tell the people of this country,
whose children it is intended to exclude for the bene-
fitof honourable and hungry hangers-on, that already
we have seen the system of competitive examination
introduced by the Company, and that when the
Treasury is substituted for Leadenhall-street com-
petitive examination will be still the rule. This is
an affair of entrance upon such offices as them of
junior clerkships, of civil and military cadetships,
and so forth. But what guarantee can we have
that all the promotions worth having, all distinc-
tions worth obtaining, all the great trusts and cow-
-1
laments to which Company's servants now inevitably
rise, will not, if this change be submitted to, be
jobbed to the Tottemacses, HowARDS, and CLAN-
itickwits, in India as elsewhere? It is but the other
day that a show of fairness in the Artillery and En-
gineers was made by the War-Office. The sous of all
were to be suffered to compete equally for commis-
alone; and people began to prepare their children
for competition by the requisite training. But
already, it seems, faith is broken with the public in
this matter. "'Already an attempt is being made to
revive nomination by the Horse Guards. Competi-
tive examination under a Secretary of State is
proved to be a mere delusion and a snare.
Let the Constituencies look to it in time ; and let
them take care that no man enters the House of
Commons who is not pledged to vote against any
Bill that would give over the lucrative and potential
patronage of India to the Minister of the day.

INDIA.
-;.-

The following despatch wu forwarded to ns at an
early hour this morning from the East India House
,' CALCUTTA, Du. 10, 1867.

" The Commander-in-Chid having relieved the
Lucknow garrison, returned to Oawnpore with the
women, the wounded, and the state prisoners, 23
lace of rupees, and the King's jewels i also, all the
pas worth taking away. Sir James Outram had
been left with a strong division at Alumbagh, in
the vicinity of Lucknow. All the women and
children from Lucknow, and moat of the wounded,
have safely reached Allahabad.

" On the 26th, General Windham attacked and
routed the first division of the Owalior Contingent,
3,000 in number, which had arrived near Cawnpore,
after craning the Junin* at Calpee, taking all their
guns except one light field-piece.
" On the 27th November, the main body of the
Owalior Contingent entered the civil station of
Cawnpore and burnt down the • of three of
our regiments. They were repulsed with severe
loss in an attack they made on our entrenchments

on the 28th November. The Rifles captured two of
their 18-pounders.
" The 64th Regiment suffered severely.
" Brigadier Wilson was killed. Sir Colin Camp-
bell reached Cawnpore on the evening of the 28th of
November. He despatched the women and wounded
towards Allahabad on the 3rd of December, and on
the 6th he attacked and completely routed the
Gwalior Contingent, pursuing them for 14 miles
along the Calpee road, and capturing their camp,
16 guns, and an immense quantity of ammunition,
park stores, grain, bullocks, &0., with all their
baggage. Our loss was insignificant. General
Hope Grant pursued the fugitives of the Gwalior
Contingent, and came op with them as they were
beginning to cross their guns over the Ganges at Sera
Ghent. He attacked and totally routed them, cap-
turing 16 guns, and all their stores and ammunition,
without himself losing a man.
" Sir Henry Havelock died on the 26th of No-
vember.

" The Jannpore frontier having been threatened by
a large body of rebels, Colonel Longden fell back on
Jaunpore. He was immediately reinforoed by Euro-
pean troops. This had a great effect; and, up to
the Bth of December, all was quiet on the frontier.
Colonel Franks has been appointed to command the
troops there.
" The Rewah troops have twice defeated the
Myhere rebel,,: capturing the forts of Kunohynpore
and Zorah.

" Mehidpore was attacked by rebels on the Bth of
November. The Contingent behaved badly, and
their officers were forced to escape. The rebels
captured all the guns, and plundered the canton:
mut. They were, however, pursued by a portion
of the Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry, under Major
Orr, and, on the 12th of November, were cut up,
after an obstinate fight, leaving a hundred dead on
the field. All the guns and plunder were retaken.
" Colonel Durand, with the column from Mhow,
advanced on Mundesore on the 23rd of November.
The rebels were attacked and defeated with heavy
loss. Five of their guns were captured. Neemuch,
which was threatened by these men, has thus been
relieved, and the remnant of the insurgents, who
still hold the fort of Mundesore, are much dispirited.
Killed—Lieutenant Redmayne, her Majesty's 14th
Dragoons. Wounded—Lieutenants James, Martin,
and Prendergast.

" CairrsooNo.—The detachment of the 34th N.I.
mutinied on the 18th of November, released the
prisoners, and plundered the Treasury. They have
fled towards Bylhet. No lives have been lost. On
hearing of the Chittagong mutiny, it was determined
to disarm the three companies of the 3rd Native
Infantry, stationed at Dacca. They resisted, but were
overpowered, and fled towards Jelpigorie, the head-
quarters of their regiment, leaving 80 killed. Three
sailors were killed. A detachment of the 73rd Native
Infantry, with 60 Goorkhu and 80 Irregular
Caviar', have marched to intercept the mutineers
from Duos. The troopers fled during the night,
but were fired upon by the rest of the party. The
Europeans from Barjeelhing (?), with three guns,
have been sent to Jelpigorie. Europeans have also
been sent from Calcutta to Chittagong and Dacca.

" Two thousand seven hundred and four men from
England have arrived since the last mail."

• 11legible•

The following telegram wee received at the India
House at 11.32 a.m., Jan. 11 :
TRIESTE, MONDAY, 6.45 A.M.
To TER HoN. SMART COMIIITTEZ, EMIT INDIA

Hour, LONDON.
nication between Bombay and Cal-

Postal con
cotta cut off.

Four of liolkar's regiments disarmed.
Sir R. Ilunilton has resumed charge of the Centel
Indian agency.
All quiet in the Punjaub, Scinde, Agra, Nizam's
Country, and Madras.

Bheels in Candeish still in rebellion, but no greet
excess reported.

An armed band has attacked Peinth (?) and plun-
dered the Treasury. Burst troops have been sent
from Madras and Bombay, and police from Tannal
and Musick, to restore order.

Outbreak in Kolapors country on the Gth of
December, gates closed by a large body of Mungo
and Kamooses. Colonel Jacob blew open principal
gate, attacked and dispersed insurgents ; fifty pri-
soners taken, and thirty-six immediately tried and
executed. In three hours tranquillity was restored.
The rising of &wands entirely cruahed, after
a body of them had been severely chastised at
liulfullee.

Bombay Castle, Bth December, 18.57.
H. L. ANDERSON,
Secretary to Government.

SPAIN.

SPEXCH OF THE WHEN.

AND DIUTIAZ 1111.102.1.P1.)

(71,011 001 oww

MADRID, JAw. 10.

The Royal Speech on opening the session of the
Spanish Cortes is of great length. The birth of the
Prince of Asturias (says her Majesty) dissipates vain
illusions ; that Prinoo " will find love for his people
in his heart, his name will suggest to him the
glorious paths followed by his ancestors; and my
cour eels will inculcate the most inviolable respect for
the constitution and accepted laws." The media-
tion of France and England in the affair of Mexico
is instanced as a proof of the spirit of conciliation
which animate' the ministry. Whatever the result,
the honour and reputation of the Spanish people
will rest intact. The speech farther treats of intended
measures of compensation for the sale of the church
lands, for the improvement of the navy, great public
works and railways, territorial institutions, credit,
the dignity of the senatorship to be hereditary in
great families, and changes in the electoral
law, and the law of the press. Extraordinary
credits will be avoided, and the Cortes are urged
to vote the budget of 1869 this session if possible.

ITALY.

SPECIAL ALLIANCE ALLIANCE BETWEEN ENGLAND

AND AUSTRIA.

(mow ova owx col

TURIN, JAL 8.

I am now obliged to go back, and refer again to that
treaty between your government and Austria, which
I have mentioned to you more than once, and which
has been alluded to within the last few days by the
Spectateur, of Paris. I think I may say that you
have frequently had proof, by the event itself, that
my statements and information are derived from a
good source ; and I now repeat to you that, notwith-
standing the denials of the Globe, I have but too
much reason for insisting upon the assertion of the
existence of that treaty which is said to have been
concluded and signed on the 6th of July last
year. But upon the word "concluded," some
equivocation may be set up, for I believe I know
that although the bases and principles of
the treaty, drawn up in four articles, hsve
been accepted and concluded, the mode and
conditions of their application are still to be deter-
mined. English public opinion may yet, therefore,
interfere in time, and turn away your foreign policy
from a course which I regard as disastrous to the
liberty of the nations, while it is unprofitable, and,
above all, inglorious to the British empire. Does it
not seem to you exceedingly strange that what was
not done three years ago in the Eastern war, namely,
to assure Austria her Italian possessions, should be
done by England now, in the midst of complete
peace, and after having experienced, in that same
war, at once the disloyalty and the impotence of
Austria? Nevertheless, so it is, notwithstanding
the oral denials of Lord Clarendon, which I reported
to you now some months ago. The text
of the treaty conveys a formal assurance to
that effect, and there is likewise added an
article of which the intention seems to be to
preclude all direct intervention of any other power
in the affairs of the Lombardo-Venetian territory,
with an allusion, which is but too manifest, to
France. Austria, with an appetite which, u the
proverb says, will increase by feeding, demanded
moreover an express guarantee of the existence and
permanence of all the other Italian States and of
their dynasties, which appeared to your government
to be rather too much. These particulars are not in
the Speetateur, but you may receive them as
certain. However, I do not believe in what
lis added by that journal, namely, that Prus-
sia and Russia had been invited to give their
adhesion to the treaty, but that Russia excused her-
self, alleging that she was now thinking of her own
internal affairs, and did not wish to pledge herself
to anything beyond what she is obliged to by exist-
ing treaties. It is not to be supposed that Lord
Palmerston and his colleagues would have, been so
imprudent as to renew, with a little difference of
form, the Holy Alliance, placing France ander the
neceseity of emerging, at whatever cost, from the
solitude into which they would have driven her, and
countermining the menace which woald be impli-
citly contained in such a Quadvuple League.
But taking things just as they are, and looking at
this fact of a special alliance between England and
Austria, I know not how such an alliance can seem
to the solid good sense of Britain to be a wise and
profitable one. In the first place, such an alliance
compromises most seriously her friendship and union
with the French empire, and prostrates the liberal
policy initiated by the Congress of Perim. In the
second place, where is the gain that England derives
from it P Such an alliance is timeless in time of
peace, or rather it is injurious, for the reasons stated.
And what is it in time of war ? Then it will be worse
than ever. Austria, as has been proved a thousand
times, is competent to her own defence, and to main-
taining intact her own armed neutrality. But to
an offensive war she is inadequate, being gnawed
at inwardly by the worm of the aversion,
more or less latent, of two-thirds of her
own subjects, who will never let slip any
opportunity of vindicating their liberties. England
is, it cannot be denied, a most powerful ally ; but
that she can prevent France from openly aiding
Piedmont, invading Lombardy, and driving the
Austrians out of it, seems scarcely a credible thing,
especially as the whole of Italy, rising in favour of
Piedmont, would cause a very serious diversion in
favour of the war on the Po. And who will come to the
aid of Austria ? Russia, it will perhaps be said. For
the present, the most and best that could be hoped
for from her is neutrality ; and the same may be maid
of Prussia.

Assuredly, we may repeat, England is at the
present day governed by an antiquated and obstinate
system of diplomacy, which refuses and will not
choose to recognise the new and bolder paths upon
which she ought to enter. In the meantime, here is
Piedmont betrayed in her national aspirations, and
deprived of every means of exerting a beneficial in-
fluence on the other Italian States. Austria, with
the new treaty in her hand, becomes again mistress
of the destinies of this peninsula. No friendship has
been dearer to Piedmont than that of England, but
what is Piedmont to do now P She must of necessity
throw herself into the arms of France ; and France
perceives this, and multiplies her caresses. The
Emperor has expressly declared to Marquis Villa-
marina that he was very highly satisfied with the
" order of the day " adopted by our Chamber,
whereby a censure was passed on the moral coercion
exercised by the clergy in the late elections, and
whereby, in the best possible manner, a preliminary
step was taken to the holding of a parliamen-
tary inquiry. " Your tribune," as the French
Minister, La Tour d'Auvergne, yesterday said,
" Your tribune and your forma of government are
now somewhat discordant with those which rule
France; but the Emperor acknowledges that it is
needful either to maintain them alive and unim-
paired, or to see the Austrian policy prevail through-
! oat all Italy." These words, which are not less true
than candid and honest, have caused a great im-
pulsion here. But I cannot reconcile myself to the
thought that the first friend of Italy is not to be
England ; and if your diplomacy forsakes us, the
English people will remain faithful to us. In no
country so much as in England is the saying true,
that opinion is the queen of the world ; certainly
public opinion is queen of the British world, and to
her do the Italians appeal.
An important question has been under discussion
in our Chamber for the lut two days. It is whether
the 98th article of our electoral law does or don not
take from the canons of the cathedral churches the
right to become deputies. The most distinguished
part in this discussion has fallen to the Deputy Cas-
taldetti, an advocate of much repute and very con-
versant with ecclesiastical law ; he has decided for
the exclusion of the canons. There seems to be no
doubt the majority will share the same opinion ; the
result will be known this evening.
For the rest I can but repeat what I intimated in
my last, that the party of the Right is greatly dis-
concerted, and has no longer any hope of victory.
No eminent speaker has entered the chamber be!
longing to that party 4 the prints are eilhorillhmt
at read their spesebeer the Count dl Outbid,-
moo recites his from memory, with the tone
and aoosnt of a preaching friar, though he

succeeds, it cannot be denied, in canting a scandal,
and yesterday he was called to order by the Presi-
dent. The Debate, in an article of doabtfal eigain-
canoe, has taken to consoling the droloosia and its
followers, under the assumption that what is con.
tended for by the latter journal is the right of the
' clergy to interfere in any way in the elections. But
the Dibats, with its characteristic sufesance, has set
itself to canning a tilt against windmills ; for it
seems to imagine that there is awish here to exclude
the clergy altogether from legitimate action in the
elections, and to prohibit the employment in any
case of their proper authority and influence. This
is not the idea either of the government or of the
liberal party. Est modus in rebus ; and no one
will pretend that the clergy more than any other
class of citizens are to abuse their rightful functions,
or that their spiritual arms, which were made for
the conflicts of the spirit, should be employed for
worldly interests and ambitions. A.

In the sitting of the Bth, the election of the
Canon ktarongiu, of &nazi, was annulled by 83
Totes against 60 ; but it is understood that the gene-
nal question of the eligibility of canons will be form-
ally brought forward at a future period.

TURKEY.

PARIS, TrESDAY MoAxnro.

In consequence of the death of Reschid Pacha the
Turkish Cabinet has been modified u follows :
Grand Vizier, Aali Pacha; Foreign Affairs, Fund
Pacha; Tansiroet, Mehemet Biprioli Pacha.—Post,
second edition.