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London, England, 1857-08-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST St.

TO OUR READERS.

The lease ow Saturdays of a Double Number of
the Express, ceased, aa originally announced, with
the dove of the Parliamentary Selaion.

Ara learn from one of Colonel Names letters that
the mutineers in his district had expended their
percussion capaland were converting all their detona-
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ton into matchlocks. A Cuasid from Lucknow is
said to hare declared that the mutinecrs there were
in want of shot, and were reduced to the necessity
of firing stones from the gnus. At Delid, too,
percussion caps appear to hare been wanting,

and the swill arms men, for want of ban,
were wing dugs made of the electric tele-
graph wire. It is also reported that latterly,
having no fusee* for ;their shells, they bad been
obliged to have recourse to some very inadequate
substitute. This iaZa serious disadvantage under
which it was from thi.beginning obvious that the
antieeers would soon come to labour. They have
been drilled to the use of the more powerful weapons
fabricated by a race more advanced in civilisation ;
but they are not sufficiently advanced in science and
the mechanical arts to rubricate and repair these
arms, or the peculiar ammunition they require, as
they are worn out and expended. Their temporary
equality with Europeans, in respect of weapons, may
therefore be considered as having already ceased to
exist. And they lie loader this additional dis-
advantage, that, having been accustomed of
late yens to e:nploy the improved arms, they
have become unaccustomed to the use of those

in which they were once so skilful. In addition to
this disadvantage, they are also subjected to one to
which we formerly adverted—the circumstance of
their having no officers among them who are poe.
.used of the instruction requisite for acting as staff
ollsers. Instances have been known in which
natural genies has compensated for defective
knowledge in this respect; but such instances
are tare. It was remarked by Sir CHARLES
NAPIEa that the Company's army was as much
superior to the QUEre'S army in respect of staff
officers, as it was inferior in respect of regimental'
otheeni. It follows from this that the mutineers,
though formidable from their numerical force, are
vastly inferior to the handful of Europeans that
makes head so gallantly against them in Bengal,
both from the want of leaders capable of conducting
war on a great scale, and from the defective nature
of their equipments.
Even this reflection, however, is insufficient to set

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the national mind at ease, seeing how terrible is the
disproportion between the Europeans in Ben-
gal and the mutineers in respect of numbers.
It is now confessed that the position of the
small band before Delhi is rather that of be-

eieged than of be►iegers. They are obliged to
remain on the defensive, and content themselves

with repelling attacks, which it is true are constantly
defeated, but are again u constantly renewed. Agra,
too, is no longer left unmolested. Considerable
obscurity rests upon the unfortunate affair before
that city. It is curious that no mention is made, in
any of the reports, of the name of the officer in com-
mand. It would almost appear as if an over-sealoas
bead had rushed out to meet the enemy with no cos
in authority over them. If this has been the am,
no wonder they were driven back into the town
with such loos. In such an event the repulse
will at least have the good effect of teaching
civilian volunteers, who are endowed with mon

courage then discretioa, that if they would be useful
as auxiliaries in the common defence, they most sub-
mit to the guidance of those whose traria is war. The
importance of rudimentary training expressed by
awns of the gentlemen volunteers, both at Calcutta
and Madras, would seem to indicate that such a
Meson was not altogether supererogatory. Au retie,
the sudden disappearance of the Neemuch mutineers
frodi before Agra after the discomfiture of their op-
ponents, appears to imply the adoption, on their part,
of tidies analogous to those of the Pindarries of
former days. This is what we have most especially
to dread; foe a desultory, guerilla warfare, waged by
numerous horde, among the fastnesses of the Vind-
bya range sad the country to the south of it, might
be protracted for a long time, and indict incalculable
Misery on India. Already India is threatened with
famine and a financial crisis; prolonged anarchy
would render both inevitable.
Notwithstanding the advantage gained by oar
arms at Cawnpree, there does not appear math
ground for supposing that permanent communica-
tions to the westward—with Agra, Delhi, and Mee-
rut—will be speedily re-opened. It is meet likely
that Oateral HAVLLOCIL and Colonel Nana. will
tern their arms eastward in the direction of Luck-
now, where the Ism of Bir HURT Law-
snes would render relief mare arrest
And has, we mad remark that if what
is stated hi coo of the private Wen flow
Calcutta, which we publish to-day, is correct, Lord
CAXXING must be considered eminently disqualified
for the arduous task which has devolved upon him.
The statement to which we allude is that at an early
period of the mutiny Lord CAN/11NC applied to Irmo
BABADOOR for an auxiliary force; that the No-