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LONDON, PRINT; SEPT. 4.

TIICRE cannot be a more dangerous delusion than
the belief, which certain journals are attempting to
propagate, that the worst is already over in India.
So far from this being the ease, all the most intelli-
gent Indian soldiers and civilian' at present in this
country. the ablest °alien at the India Howe, and
the most respected members of the Cabinet, are
convinced that the next mail from India will bring
more disastrous news than the last.

What elm can they expect ? Look to the letter
from a eivihan in Lucknow which we this day
pabliab. The death of Sir HLSIT LAW.
aricr was occasioned by the revolt of an import-
ant portion of the few native troops who had
appeared to remain faithful. Their treacherous
attack carried off not only the brave leader, but •
considerable number of the small body of European
soldiers in Lucknow. The consequence of this de-
fection has been the abandonment of the town lines
by the English and their retreat into the fort. Six
weeks ago they were provisioned only fur five weeks,
ea Awl allowance. Taey were surrounded by swarms
of dimeiplined mutineers and an hostile population.
The only place from which relief could reach them
was Cawnpose, and the small force under General
Itavrtotx had its tlanks and mar threatened by
enemies, turn which way it would. The rains had
commenced, and the route from Cawopore to
Lucknow is across a conntiy marshy at all
seasons of the year. The prospects of th
garrison at Lucknow were therefore anxious and
precarious in the extreme; and they had among
them upwards of two hundred women—many of
whom were debilitated and sickened through the
privations and mental agony they had endured.
God grant that Lucknow may not add another har-
rowing episode in the history of the beastly
mutineers !

Again, at Agra as well as at Lucknow the Euro_
pram were obliged to confine themselves within the
walls of the fort. It ia true that the European
force at Agra was greater than at Lucknow
and the fort appears to have been better sup-
plied with stores of all kinds—except am-
munition. Even there, however, the number of
women, and non-combatants of all kinds, was large
in proportion to that of fighting men, and the very
extent of the fort would make it more difficult to
defend when incessant fatigues began to do their
work on the garrison. From Delhi no help could be
expected, for the evacuation of the Position in front
of it would be a confession of weekness that would
=courage many a timid enemy of England to join
the r►nks of the mutineers. From Agra, too, it is,
therefore, not impossible we may yet hear of dark
sad revolting deeds perpetrated on Englishwomen.
Nor ought it to be forgotten that numerous ►mall
parties of our countrymen and countrywomen are
scattered o'er out-etations and intermediate stations,
around which swarms of mutineers, insurgent vil-
lagers, and disaffected nobles, hover sod prowl.
From many of these no intelligence has yet been
received ; and what that intelligence may be, when it
comes, it is impossible to conjecture without alarm.
The belief, then, entertained by many, who to the
clearest intellects in England add the most extensive
experience of India, that the next mail may bring
more appalling news than any of there which hare
preceded it since the outbreak of the mutiny, is
only too well founded. Nor is it harrowing inci-
dents alone that we are to expect to hear
of by the nest and the following mails from
India. The full extent of the denotation wrought,
and to be wrought, in Ilindostan, is as yet but dimly
apprehended by the home public. The progress of
events alone can enlighten the, They do not ap-
pear to reflect that many local treasuries have been
plundered, and that throughout the disturbed dis-
tricts no revenue ran be collected at present, nor.
under any circumstances. for a considerable time to
come. Again, our reminiscences of Iri,h history
ought to hate taught as what is impending
over India. A year of insurrection in lee.
land has uniformly been ful!owcd by years
of famine ; civil broils put a stop to cal.
tieration, and a short supply of food is the come-
quence. This will be the case in the disturbed dia.
tricts of India; and the= is reason to fear that the
evil will this year be aggravated in some districts by
the fall of rein being under the average. As yet we sre
without reliable information from the districts where
indigo and other staple articles of Indian export are
cultivated ; but there is too good reason to km that
the operations of the planters may have hewn seriously
impeded by the insurgents. In short, as one conse-
quence of the mutiny, there are impending ever a
great part of India famine, a paralysis of productive
industry, and a financial crisis. There can be
no doubt that the Indian Government will be com-
pelled to resort to a loan, and that this lota meat be
guaranteed by the Imperial Government, and pro-
=lily the interest paid by it for a few years, in order
to give confidence to 1. odors. The advances made by
England for this purpose will ultimately be repaid
by India, but the burden will fall upon the English
public in the first instance. We have, therefore, to
make up our minds to defray, in the first in►tance,
the expense. of reeonquering India, and of enabling
the Indian Government to pay its way until a revenue