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LONDON, WILDNDSDAY, JULY 16.

"le the Parliament and Government acted undo-
aid ally—if they thought there was nothing in the
pesmat crisis, and that it would die out of itself—if
tory were not disposed to put forth the strength of
tido esantry—they might depend upon it that loss
sad disgrace would pursue us until our character
awl authority in India were entirely destroyed."
This emphatic warning, uttered by Lord ELLER-
110110V011 in the House of Lords on Monday, may
sot be altogether uncalled for. It is right that
Government should wear a calm and unperturbed
sapect ; but it will not be right in Government to
buoy itself up with hopes that the crisis in
Bengal is over. Bo long as Delhi holds out,
the hopes of the mutineers will remain as
high as ever. Now, although the despatch of the
mail steamer was purposely delayed, no news, up to
the last moment, had reached Bombay of the fall of
Delhi. It is true that the walls of Delhi are ill cal-
culated to withstand such a storm of shell and shot
as a French or even an English army could pour
in upon them; but it was uncertain whether the
Bees before Delhi bad the means of shelling the
town. If it had not, the peculiar conformation of the
walls would render an escalade difficult. The
mutineers of Meerut and Delhi bad had their
numbers augmented by the arrival of other
revolted regiments, all of whom were fighting
with the rope about their necks ;it does not appear
that the force which had been brought up by the
authorities was numerically equal to the defenders
of Delhi. The mutineers had chosen their time
with much sagacity—the commencement of the hot
season, the season when active operations in the
plains are certain de►th to Europeans. So long
as this main stronghold of the mutineers could
hold out, regiment after regiment might revolt.
It is evident that at Alighur, Moradabad, and
elsewhere, the troops were at first indisposed to
mutiny ; but the persevering agitation of the mal-
contents roused them to fury at last. Every dis-
banded regiment or company weakens the Govern-
ment in a double sense. The army is the police of
India, and every regiment that mutinies is so much
power last to the maintainers of law and order-
Again, the disbanded soldiers and deserters will not
settle to steady industry. If they do not become •
tebel army, they will become robbers. This simul-
taneous augmentation of plunderers sad decrease of
thief-takers, threatens Bengal, the North-West
Province, and the Punjaub with universal inse-
curity of life and property. Civil society will
be resolved into a state of permanent anarchy. The

proprietary and industrious classes will have
nowhere to look for security and protection. This
state of chronic alarm will give a stimulus to all
kinds of discontent, and there is no province or dis-
trict in India which has not its permanent local
grievance. In one place it is the ryots, diaaatisfied
with the land-tenure ; in another, it is the temindars,
brooding over curtailed privileges and augmented
rents. It is not sufficient for Government to act
with promptitude; the measures it adopts
must be on a scale commensurate to the emergency.
And there must be unity of purpose on the pert of
those upon whom devolves the task of originating
and carrying out these measures. It is with
alarm that we hear rumours of discordant views,
not only as between the Board of Control aid
the Board of Directors, but as among the Di-
rectors themselves. Can it be possible at such
a moment that the news received by electric tele-
graph on Thursday evening or early on Friday morn-
ing was not communicated to the Directors till
a late hour on Saturday ? Can it bo possible that
while some of the Directors urge the immediate de-
spatch of ships of war to the I foogliley and Bombay,
others oppose a measure so admirably calculated to
give confidence to the Europeans and scatter dismay
through the ranks of the mutineers throughout India
upon some miserable calculation of a few thousands of
expenditure more or less? " A house divided against
itself cannot stand." While Directors are arguing with
Directors, and the whole Board with the Queues
Government, India may be lost. Cray of purpose,too,
is as requisite in India as in England. Lord ELLEN-
' DOROUGII.B suggestion about the necessity of ennui-
' cipating the Commander-in-Chief from "the Po-
: 'ideals" ought not to be disregarded. Such a crisis
es now exists in Bengal calls for a Dictator.

becalm= were made in both Houses of Parlia-
ment ow Monday night with great propriety relative
to the Indian news. From Lord GRANVILLE'S state-
ment last night it appeared that Government bad
very little to communicate to the House which had
not already been learnt through the newspaper..
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The real question is why the communication of this
intelligence, especially the mercantile portion
of it, had been so long delayed. To the commer-
cial public, it is a matter of the deepest
interest that news such as that brought by the bra
Telegraph should be known as speedily as possible;
and Ministers should be closely questioned uto
the time at which the first intelligence was received
from Cagliari. As the mail reached Marseilles on
Sunday morning, we do not doubt but that the
sews trarwmitted from Cagliari was received before
midday on Friday, in time, if published, for every
merchant to have availed himself of the outgoing
which was made up on that night.
We received our telegraph from Cagliari at
tow pm. an Saturday, and under circumstances to
raise the suspicion that, as on a former occasion so