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London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

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Bann Items of the last news firma India tats*, we
think, hare probeed more sad than anything that
eat be mid at hems la bdimileg ear officers' wives to
roetheithr their parpoes of gob, oat with their
lethends. 1t seder a reified sedan of its being
einem sad bqgip for families to keep together,
my blew deelbed fer India is thinking of taking
est bin daughtsec the reanenetrance of all men of
saes meet be addremed to kite ; for the &tighten
are at kb disposal: but, in the case of
wires the appeal may be to themselves, as
it is to be 'apposed that they are one
with their husband. in counsel about the lead-
ing sets of their lives. Incredible so it may appear
to many people, we are still hearing of newly mar-
ried officers who are making arrangements for their
brides going out with them, If they can only succeed
in obtaining an appointaaset to service I. India;
and almost everybody cos tell of a wedding bee-
toned that the young people may be reedy Sr a
sudden call. The hastening the widen le wells
in as far as it giros the husband who gess sad the
wife who stays the best possible suppled elder a
very trying duty, in their rights to Ma ether bat
farther than this their duty to their esighbeers, as
well as to each other. forbids them to go. It seam
as if there could not be two spinier slime this after
the recent scanty tidings front Laeknow; snd yet we
hare some fears that macros who have stood est
spinet amnion sense before will persist still, in the
face of as piteous a story as the history of warfare
has to show.

Bat foe the women and children (foe the wounded
abaoe could so doubt have been mania* Hams-
wea's force would have returned to Cawnpore
much stronger than it came ; whereas sow it is con-
siderably and moat fearfully weakened by the ne-
cessity of leaving an oddities' to the Lacknow gar-
rison. No one will dream of blaming anybody on
the spot for this state of things ; and the name gene-
rous spirit whisk seem to have animated all our
soldiery, from 011:11.01 and H.statocx to the
humblest privates, mutually helpful, mad envious
only of danger, is in the hearts of the garrison who
stay and the lit. force who has gene oat to
lest their way through a trim Valley of Death,
Every man of them, we are confident, has cheer-
fully devoted himself to do the beet possibb ter the
mamas and children who have thus blau,'', bat
miserably divided' force only too mall at but. Ent
it S a trial and risk which ought arm* larboolobl
again. Whether all will end well, cer labeller mamba
have to mourn a fatal Woe for either diviaion of the
force, we have had a warning; and no party tow
cased mast be allowed to alight it. It 'honk' sot
be at the option of individuals what they shall do is
this matter. Private soldiers are not allowed to
take their wins with them; and officer' mast
be mode to understand that the public service lo-
ping the same mcrifice from them. They may
be thankful enough, before all is done, that
such a condition he, been imposed. If their wives
remain at the Presidencies, they might as well
be safe at home; for the service in the provinces is
likely to be long, arduous, and engrossing, and to
station women anywhere up the country while it is
overrun with bands of marauders, brimming with
vindictiveness, would be to invite perils which our
soldiers should not be permitted to undergo sa a non-
sequence of the 'elfishness of individuals. For a long
time to come It will be a sin and shame to any
English woman to he found in India, unless for some
better reason than any we have heard yet; and if
there is anyone at this motorist feasting her ima,sina-
bon with dreams of the honours of martyrdom,
she had better take care to avoid being thought an
egoist instead of a heroine.
if this is thought too strong treatment of an
amiable mistake, just let the state of things at
Lireknow on the 22nd of September be con-
sidered. For four weary months the little
children had been shot up—for the most
part or entirely below ground, for safety front
flying balls. leased of the morning and evening
drives, and the getting eat to play on the greasy
banks of the Gonna, or noting under the shade of
the mango groves to admire the vast city, with its
glittering cupolas and spires rising from masses of
foliage, the poor young creatures hashers' imprisoned
day and night, in the hottest season, where they have
had nothing that they wanted except their anxious
mothers. No quiet, no sufficient air, light, apace, or
appropriate food—what a charge most the et&
dres have been to their makers. Par the am than
was animal food ; and we hoar of rum, up nearly to
the time of their reknit ; and there wee plenty of
rice, but no milk for the children. The Ineessent
firing is enough in itself to wear oat the nerve sad
brain of women snd children ; and from the
hubbub there was no retreat, any more than from
the crowding, and the presence of the rick, and
the frequent disposal of the dead. A day of such a
life is a misfortune of no small magnitude; but here
there were four months of it, unrelieved, we mast
remember, by the arrival of any news whatever for
many weeks of the time. The most sanguine and
the strongest must slant have last hope at times.
Hemmed in by mutiny, with their devilish enemy
before their eyes, and raining destruction epos thou
without pause, and resew eerie only by fifth. bow
many au hour of despair mast have been 'Bratty or
dared in those crowded chambers! Of the ahem-
tire from rescue we seed not rusk. They mu t
have known more or lea what to expect if relief
were delayed too hog. The last great ausalt of

their enemy might be Tie:* tratieproblE
them. We must hope it tile, sqs
when our heroes took upi,
arms, and threw them= the *1 Igcht
among the besiegers, they that th 7 'enemy
had good reason for pressing them so hard. If so,
they would be on the watch, with eyes and ears
quickened in proportion to their hope. We may
soon know who first heard the royal salute Bred by
their rescuers—whether it was mama one looking eat
from the defences, or any of the crowd in the subter-
ranean chambers, sensible of the vibration of the
ground. We may soon know how that night was
passed, whether anyone slept, whether some did
not sleep better than for many weeks before. And
what a lookmut the next day, from the break of
dawn till the shadows shortened, and then

lengthened again, and the late sunshine slanted
upon the domes of the city, and in among
the surrounding trees. We are told that the
reseuMg force appeared suddenly—from the
opposite side apparently to that on which most
eyes were flied. We. it the glitter of their
bayonets which disclosed their approach, or their
cheers, or their band? What an opening of the
gates to these friends ! What a wistful looking into
one another's faces, to see what had been undergone,
iind to learn who was dead and who remained!
What rest did Hecti.oce's force take! We know
how

they would be made much of by their hosts.
Could anybody sleep that night either, with such
news to give and take ? Next day, there was heavy

work, storming the enemy's entrenchments, and
cleating • space for mending and renewing the de-
fences, and collecting supplies of food ; for already
the pliant OIITIA/1 and Havetcora must have
Awe aware that they must give up the beet
bat of their enterprise for the payment, tea
sot hop* to rearms the British from Leek-
now. One secoant says there was a great dinner
at the Residency, to celebrate the relieL If
so it mast have been one of the moat extraordinary
banquets on record. It is too like the toilette in
Thermopylto the three hundred combing their
kirks for death. Such • eeellict of thoeghM and
emotions needed the preceding discipline. NEILL
gone, and a gallant band of brothers with hint!
So many de►ths at hand ! So many wounds within
the walls! So many widows and orphans at the
based, or unable to sit there! Such news from Delhi
to be told and from every station in India to be
asked for! Such a point of Natty reaehed, thanks
to the guests then present ; and such a deep obscure
of peril to be faced on the return ' Such a banquet
as that—half-festal, half-funereal, is a conception
new to the imagination, end to the last degree af-
lheting and stiarieg to the heart and soul.
We "maid fain stop there ; but there is a sequel
which it is for our officers and their families to take
to heart. Instead of all starting together, as soon
as the rescuing force had rested, there was a part•
lag, the grief of which we are all feeling too deeply
to be able to talk of. The women end children
at the Residency of Lucknow are shut up
&gala, and the weary straggle is renewed. instead
of liberty and triumph being enjoyed. It would be
veil if this were all t but what we the
chances of the reduced force already lost from sight
ea its return to Cawnpore 2 If it be lost, it will be on
account of the helpless burden thrown on its hands
at Lucknow. If the issue should be the best possible
under the circumstances, the risk there, sad oar
suspense here, ought to drive out of every woman'.
head the insane and culpable notion of going out to
India while there is &single mutineer at large.

We are glad to see that the English people are
showing themselves alive to the indignity which is
so tamely submitted to by the English Government.
The working men of Newcastle meet on Monday
sent, under the presidency of the Mayor, in order to
rotas' against the scandalous and insolent illegality
with which their townsman, Mr. Warr, and his com-
rade, are still detained without trial in the prisons of
Salerno. It is really impossible to exaggerate the
miserable mismanagement, and the Mill more.
miserable want of spirit, which have characterised
all the proceedings of the English Government
in this wretched affair. Our Naples correspondent
informed our seeden yesterday of the precise state
in which the matter now stands. Lord CLARENDON,
it seems, lest off a telegraphic despatch to the Britidi
Acting Vice-Consul, directing that be should demand
an immediate interview with these imprisoned British
subjects. The demand was made, and refused. The
must of the English Government to the Neapoli-
tea Government, that it should be allowed, through
its representative, to have seem to these two Reg-
lethmen, was peremptorily and eonthmelionely re-
jected, and—the Cabirat of Great Britain Las tamely
submitted to the ieealt. There they are, at this mo-
ment, these two sires Zama*, fat by the heels in
the abominable prison-house of this despicable and
detested Bocanme—there to wait, it may be months,
or it may be years, before they are even brought to
trial at all. The Commissioner of the Court, our

correspondent tells us, is now engaged in drawing up
the report, " on which it depends whether the trial
" will ever take place," or whether these victims of
FZILDINAND the PALO! may sot languish out in the
vilest durance the residue of their miserable lives.
The health of one of the men is already impaired:
his mind is seriosaly shaken.
Once. and once only,a written communication has
been permitted to pass between then and the great
country which extends over the meanest of hat sub-
jects the nits of a morn than Roman protection.
An English engineer sought out the British Consul
and obtained from him a promise that he would,
if possible, procure for him an interview with his
imprisoned comrades ; the representative of Hog.
lisp power and Roman citizenship vainly humbled
himself in supplicating from ths PrOCUTSter.
General of the tyrant this extraordinary favour,
The only relaxation he could procure was that
a brief written communication might _be mad*

and responded to. It wu brief enough.
"Do you want anything ? " was asked " Yes,
" send as money." Tea piastres wee* sent in, and
an acknowledgment of it came back. That
all the intercourse that Warr snd his fellow-
sufferer have been allowed to have with their country.
A silence as of the grave has closed over them again,
and the chivalrous Government of this proud and
great nation takes no more heed of the doom that
nay be impending over them than of the fool scorn
that has been heaped upon itself.
It is stated by our Maple. Correspondent, on the
information of eleven of the crew of the Cagliari,
that these men were absolutely and entirely limo-
cant of any complicity in the attempt of the MTG.
lutioniate. When the insurgents seized the vessel
in which Wart and his comrade had engaged
themselves as engineers, "they stood over them,"
we are told, " with loaded pistols, and threatened
to blow out their brains if the machinery got oat
"of order." If this be so (and all the probabi-
lities of the came are in favour of its truth), it
would obviously be as reasonable to draw up articles
of charge against the steam-engine by which the
Cagliari was propelled on her way as against these
me. who reluctantly worked it. They were victim.
of compulsion, not criminals by choice; and yet
these men with the connivance of the British Govern-