The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE INDIAN'

MUTINY.

The Presse, referring probably to an extraordinary
change in the tone of the Medals within the last week, re-
specting the affairs of India, says:
" We have never associated ourselves with the continually
swelling concert of attacks and maledictions against England,
which we fed at the prefect moment in a por-
tion of the French press—a spectacle, which in
our opinion is quite out of keeping with French
generosity. We have never in any way attempted
to deny the faults and vices of the English government in
the East Indies. Neither have we underrated the gravity of
the present crisis. We believe that England is now euffering
one of the greatest trials that hat ever befallen hot; and we
believe this, like every other trial which a nation suffers, to
be well deserved. lint can it Le said that England has com-
mitted any extraordinary mime.? She has governed badly
and nnjnstly, and she suffers the consequences. But what
are the fiscal exactions of the English in India compared
to the monstrous horrors of the Spanish conquest
in America ? People talk of nationalities, ►nd they do nut re-
Bret that the enemies of the English were themselves originally
invaders in India. They forget also that there was a Unto
whew France divined the empire of India with England.
Further, they sem not to know that we ourselves hold our
dominion in Africa by prechely a similar title to that of the
English in Asia, and that all the invectives which they hurl
against English usurpation is applicable to our conquests In
Algeria. It is yore possible that if we were unfortunate in
Algeria, the English journal. would speak of us in a similar
manner, but that is no reason why we should set them a bad
example."

"We (Cambridge Independent) have heard that
there to soma intention of reiluc-ting Lord Macaulay to
honour the corporation of Cambridge by accepting the office—
almost honorary—of High Steward." Thia office has become
vacant by the death of Earl Fitzwillinte.
. . . . .

On Thursday evening Dr. Livingstone delivered
an address in the Friends' Meeting-house, Kendal, on the
objects of his travels and discoveries in Central Africa. The
meeting-bows was crowded, and numbers wet away m-
elds to obtain &di:minion. In addition to Dr. Livingetone
were present Profeesor Sedgwick and Sir John Richardson,
the Arctic navigator. Frofessor Sedgwick mad* an intermit-
in Reed'.
TIIE NIGHTINGALE FUND.—In reply to a letter
inquiring " What has become of the large stun collected for
the purpose of erecting a memorial of the cervices of Miril
Nightingale," Mr. S. C. Hell ear, that the money collected—
amounting to 41,1,511. 70. 44. (since augmented by other
subscriptions) —was nn the 20th of June paid into the hands
of fiea cruces., appointed by Mice Nightingale to re-
ceive it. They inveeted the rum in government secorille.,
bearing interest. Unhappily the elate of Miss Nightingale's
heath does not, as yet, enable her to apply that fund to the
purpwe for which it was raised—and for which purpose
alone she consented to receive it.—" to establish an institution
for the training, sontonancs, and protection of nureee and
Imemital attyndents." A report, accompanied by a balance
client of receipts and expenditure, has born published by
direction of the committee. .

v.
FOItEtON-OFFICE, SEPT. 14.—The Queen has
been gracinualy plowed to appoint George Betivenuto
Mathew, Eut., nor be: Majesty's Omani-Omni fur the
Remiss ports in the Black Sea, to be ber Majesty's Cowell-
General for the Russian Porta in to. Black Sea end in the
Pea of Azuff. Oct. B.—The Queen has been pleased to
nnprov. of Don)oaquin de Eaglet as Coneol-Contersl at
Sierra Lewis fur her Majesty the Queen of Spain.—Getactts.

LIITTERB FROM INDIA.

We give a place to the following letter as illus-
trative of the views of many of the mercantile
community in Calcutta, of which the writer is a
leading member.
CALCUTTA, 13th August.

The London Mail of the 10th July arrived this afternoon,
and I was much gratified, on reading your letter of the 3rd,
to M., on finding that you heA taken suck a correct view of
the outbreak at Meerut and Delhi, which you looked upon as
only the commencement d a general movement against
the corrupt government of this country. It is only three
days since I wrote to you by last mil, and in that small in•
tervel most sinister accounts have continued to reach us from
the Motorail, from quarters that had hitherto remained
tranquil. . . .

The grand trunk road is in the hands of the mutineers
above Raneegunge, so that no top country Hake have came
In for several days. The greatest anxiety Is therefore Mt for
the safety of the different station', as they are almost all
quite unprotected. The mutineers may now be said to be
almost at our doom, and large bodies have been seen routing
down by land aa well as by water ; an attack in therefore ex-
pected on Calcutta shortly, perhaps during the Mohurrum,
and great preparations are in progress to meet the occasion.
Bailors from the ships In the harbour, under naval offline%
now man the guns in Fort William ; Lieut. Carew, of the In-
dian navy le at Barrackpore commanding a field battery also
maimed by millers. The volunteer guard is being increased by
the addition of a battery of artillery, the members of which
are being regularly and actively drilled. The Infantry and
Cavalry are also drilled every morning by their regimental
officer, besides private drill in the afternoon, which most of
them voluntarily undergo in private, so that they are already
considered ae of no email value for our defence. The Cavalry
continue to patrol every night, and the Infantry to mount
guard in different parts of the town. This volunteer corps,
together with the sailors and the few European troops which
are to be retained in Calcutta, are a match for many thou-
sands of the rebels, should a rising or an attack take place.
Disparity of number+ is not to be feared, as Colonel Neill
peeved at Beams, when he dispersed or slaughtered 2,600
armed Sspoye and Sowers with 198 European soldiers and
three field pieces; and again, by Major Byre, last week, near
mg* when lee defeated the Dinapore mutineers, reinforced
by Comer Singh and hie rabble, with 150 men of the Madras
Fusiliers (Europeans) and some artillery, about 100 men.
The natives bungle in their arrangements, se we have all
along tnown them to do, whenever spent and order are
wanted. It is only by cunning and dissimulation, by
treachery and perjury that they have overreached us.
But unfortunately they have proved very powerful against
the host of incapable', who hold or held responsible
situations In this country, and our real danger lies in the
imbecility of our rulers. Our police in Calcutta, proverbially
corrupt, and well known to be unfit for any good purpose,
has added treachery to its other qualities, and several win-
ners of it have just been detected in league with the conspi-
rators, a pollee Jemadar among others. The man was tried
by • • • whose obtuseness could not see anything In
the evidence, but that the man bad used language calculated
to lead toe breach of the peace, and contented himself by
imposing a fine of 20 rupees. Government, however, have
quashed these proceedings, and had the man tried by court-
martial. He is lately to be banged in & day et two.
This will show you what incompetent men we have in
most important situations. The other magistrates are even
worse, more ignorant, and quite as incompetent. The
anxiety, therefore, we feel arises only from the stamp of man
who have power at prevent.
Amen Alin, the %%thee' of the Budder Dewanny, bee just
been appointed by Halliday assistant to the commissioner of
Shababsd, on a salary of 1,500 rupees per month. They my
ho was earning 4,000 rupees per month at the Budder. Is It
to be supposed that he sundae the difference to a sense of
duty P

Neither Mr. Halliday nor tke public can be duped on that
point, so that conjectures are 404 SA to the true motives
of this appointment, so extraordinary at a time when all Mr
homedeas iaspire the greatest mistrust.
. .

August 23.

Since 'nibbling the enclosed things have gone from had to
Tone, but a ray of hope has gladdened no since Sir Cohn
Campbell's arrival, as he is the only man among our rulers
who can see the mismanagement which hes brought these

disasters upon us, and Lae the courage to undertake reform
and to adopt energetic measures. But halms turned into per-
sonal rummies those who are high in power and authority.
Hs has therefore a difficult teak before Lim. He must defect
three enemies before he can hope to defeat the rebels.