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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOTEMBRR 14.

THE relief of our countrymen at Lucknow has as
yet only been accomplished in part. On the 2nd of
October General °CERAM telegraphed to Calcutta
that he proposed, after providing for the safety of
the garrison, to retire to Cawnpore, and there await
the arrival of additional reinforcements. The state
of affairs which had induced him to adopt this reso-
lution was as follows : The women and children in the
Residency, with the sick and wounded, amounted to
upwards of 1,000. Notwithstanding the advantages
gained over the Insurgents from the 26th to the 29th
of September, the force under General HAVELOCK had
been found too small to accomplish the entire reduc-
tion of the city. The English commander. were
thus placed in an awkward dilemma. Until the city
was entirely reduced it would be imprudent to
resolve to hold the Residency as a centre of ac-
tion against the rebels in Oude with an insuffi-
cient garrison, encumbered with so many non-
combatants. The hazard of such an operation
would be increased by the fact that the enemy
were still in such force in the open country that

they rendered the communication between Cawn-
pore and Lucknow, to lay the least, precarious and
uncertain. On the other hand, this liability to have
the communication interrupted, while it rendered

the possibility of holding the Residency extremely
questionable, rendered the withdrawal of a gar-
rison encumbered with so many women and
children, sick and wounded, a matter of de.
monstrable impossibility. There remained, there-
fore, only the third alternative—to place the
garrison in the best possible condition for a
continuation of the defence, and to fall back upon
Cawnpore with a view to organise the means of a
final advance at the earliest possible opportunity.
This result is extremely tantalising. It will
leave all who have friends and rela-
tions in Cawnpore still a prey to misgivings
which will only be the more galling from
the belief they had been momentarily led to enter-
tain that all danger was at an end. They may,
however, console themselves with the reflection that
the position of the inmates of the Lucknow Resi-
dency has been materially improved, and that effec-
tive aid must now be near. In the present state of
our information, indeed, we cannot affirm that fresh
supplies of provisions have been thrown into the
Residency by the relieving force. Nay, more, from
the accounts previously received of the state of the
commissariat arrangements we foar that this can-
not have been done to any material extent.
But by the capture of the mutineers' entrench-
ments, and by the progress made towards the reduc-
tion of the city, our troops mast have been enabled
to clear the ground in the immediate vicinity of the
Residency of all cover for an assailing force. The
mines, too, by which the stability of the English
defences was threatened, will have been destroyed,
and preparations made to counteract this mode of
attack in future. The position held by the English
force at Lucknow will thus have been materially
strengthened from within. Then for what concerns
the enemy, the moral effect produced upon them by
the passing and repassing of the small English
force between Lucknow and Cawnpore, in
spite of their utmost efforts to prevent it, cannot
have failed in some degree to cow their spirits. The
ability of the besieged to hold out has, therefore,
been increased. As to their prospects of speedy,
final relief, there can be no doubt that they are de-
cidedly improved. It is true that we do not look for
any immediate aid reaching them from the side of
Delhi. The total effective English force before that
city amounted to somewhat less than 11,000. Of
these fully one-tenth were killed or disabled on the
first day's assault. Many more casualties must have
occurred during the six days' street fighting which
ensued. Of the remainder a large proportion will
necessarily have been retained to secure our
possession of the city, and keep up the communi-
cations with Meerut and Umballah. The two
columns detached—one in the direction of Muttra

and Agra, the other in the direction of Anopsheher
—do not appear to exceed 1,000 each. It is only on
the part of this latter body that a junction with our
troops at Cawnpore could be looked for ; and though
we are informed that it has gained a victory over the
Jhanai mutineers at Bolundeheker, we have no data
that can enable us to estimate the amount of obstruc•
Lion it will have to encounter between that place
and Cawnpore. From the Calcutta aide, how.
ever, the prospects of relief for Lucknow are
more cheering. The Ramgnr mutineer. have
been defeated on the east, at Chuprak, by her
MAJESTY'S 63rd Regiment. The mutineers of the
62nd Bengal Native Infantry have been defeated
on the south, near Jubbulpore, by the advanced
guard of the Madras column. The process of clear-

ing the country between Calcutta and Allahabad of
the mutineers and insurgents has been fairly begun.
Every step made in this process will facilitate the
advance of troops from the seaboard to the interior,
and will leave a larger disposable force available for
operations in Oude. The troops from England will
now be beginning to be landed. The Marine Brigade,
under Captain PEEL, had been reported to
have reached Mirsapore before the mail was
despatched from Calcutta. When these facts
are kept in view it is impossible to entertain any
serious apprehensions for the ultimate fate of the
English shut up in the Lucknow Residency. At
the same time, we would warn their friends not to
be too sanguine in their expectations that they will
hear of their final extrication even by the next
Mail.

A CASE was tried on Tharday last before Mr.
Justice EItLE at Guildhall which, though trifling in
amount, is somewhat important in principle. The
gigantic mercantile frauds of more recent occurrence
have in some degree diverted public attention from
the mere peddling villanies of the small bubble
Insurance Companies. But the latter must not be
lost sight of. The amount of misery and destitution
they have been the means of spreading among the
humbler classes of small capitalists is perfectly fright.
ful, and it is pleasant to have to record at least one in-
stance in which the arm of the law has been long
enough and agile enough to reach one of those in-
genious gentlemen whose function it is to bait these
destructive money-traps for the allurement and ruin
of the unguarded. In the case referred to the
plcintiff was an old Somersetshire gentleman of the
name of TERRELL, formerly, it appears, in the army,
and known amongst his country Mends by the
style of Colonel TYRRELL, from the fact of having
once having held that military rank in some patriot
regiment raised in South America. The defendant
was one TAPLIN, an auctioneer at Paddington.
The old west country gentleman, on a vist to town,
fell in with TAPLIN at the Warwick Arms, in the
Barrow-road. The dextrous auctioneer found first
a listener and then a victim, as he expatiated on the
splendid prospects for investment offered by a new
concern in which he was interested—the Eclipse
Fire and Life Insurance Company. It was a
flourishing affair, said TAPLIN, a first class
Company, doing more business in propor-
fic7i to the time it was established than any other
concern of the kind in London. The Directors were al l
men of property and substance.; if Colonel TYRRELL
would only take a few sharer—say fifty at 261.
and allow his influential name to be used on the
direction, he would be certain, without any trouble
to himself, to make a capital thing of it. If he chose
to attend the board meetings, he would receive a
sovereign as a trifling honorarium for his exertions.
No money need pass ; if the Colonel would only give
his bill for the amount, it should never be called
for ; he (the friendly TAPLIN) would renew it as
often as it fell due.

Of course, the bait took ; the Colonel was made a
Director, and attended the board at least a score of
times, on four or five occasions in the capacity of
Chairman. The sovereigns were not forthcoming
indeed, but the bill was for some time regularly re-
newed, and the old Somersetshire Squire was per-
mitted to live in hope. At length a very trouble-
some eustomer—a surveyor who, in an evil hour for

Mr. TAPLIN, had been persuaded to become a share.
holder—taking a hard business-like view of things,
insisted peremptorily on knowing how the Company
stood. Then the wretched bubble burst with the
usual results, and the poor Colonel was left to
TArt.tx and truth. The auctioneer, of course, was
himself trustee, treasurer, and managing director_
In two years the Company had received 401., and
spent several hundreds. One of the " men of pro-
" perty and substance" who had figured as a
director of the Eclipse was a gentleman of the name
of BECK, now, it appears, abroad, but who, while resi-
dent on this side of the Channel, was discovered
to have been generally employed by TAPLIN
"to go into possession for him " whenever it
became the auctioneer's painful duty to en-
force the penalties of the law of distress;
An attemp t was made "to transfer the business o
" the Company" to the Beacon, another institution
which has since wound up. " The negotiation
" failed"—everything, in fact, failed : the under.
secretary absconded ; Mr. BECK, as aforesaid, went
' abroad ; the poor Colonel was left to represent the
Eclipse in his own person, to pay off the amount of
his own acceptance with interest, and to liquidate
he best knows how many liabilities besides.
Ender these circumstances, Col. TYRRELL brought
his action against TAPLIN for falsely representing that
the Eclipse Fire and Life Insurance Company walla
a state of solvency, when he well knew that it was
insolvent, and thereby inducing the plaintiff to take
shares. TERRELL, with the logical inconsistency per
mitted in English pleading, first denied that he had
mode the representation, and secondly, alleged that
when he had made it, he believed it to be true. The
jury very properly found a verdict against him on
both issues, and the former Chairman of the
Eclipse got judgment for the amount of his accept-
ance and the costs of his action against the late
promoter, trustee, treasurer, and managing director
of the Company. It is right that a result of
this hind should be published as extensively
as possible. The nipping frost of high interest
and tight money markets has had the bene-
ficial effect of cutting off for a time these pestilent
misgrowtbs of a too rank prosperity. But there bp
no saying how soon they may reappear. The race
of Tarirres is never extinct, and the family of the
TrartErr-4 is, we fear, equally inexhaustible. Still
it is as well to know, and to make known, that the
dupes are not in all cases entirely without redraw
against the knaves. Even the connecters of fraudu-
lent Insurance Companies are not always beyond the
reach of their victims, but may be punished in the
only way which they moat dread—by the infliction
of a penalty which adds the pain of mulcted avarice
to the disappointment of thwarted cupidity.

1/EVERRED HONMIZIL—A contemporary last week
announced the arrival in town of "Lady" Havelock, the
wife of the dintinguished general at Ceartapore. It wee a
very natural mistake to make, for who could suppoer that all
these months would have been 'offered to elapse without any
sate of the royal approbation of the conduct of the hero of
nine victories—the indefatigable chastiser of the mutineer.—
the soldier, the gentleman, and the Christian, under every
trial to which discipline and humanity could be expoesd?
In Franca, the elevation of Havelock would not have been
retarded in the presence of forma and usages.—United Service
Gamete._ _ -

w••••••••
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 11.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Caw Henry Hawkins, E.g., F.H.8.,
to be surgeon extreardining to her Mojesty, in the room of
Benjamin Travers, Esq., appointed serjesnt-surgeon to her
Nejesty.— Gerdes.
IsLIROTON VESTRY HALL COMPETITTON.—The
vestry hews awarded the first premium- to the design havim
the motto " Utility." the author of which I. Mr. Henry E.
Cooper, srehiteet, 7, South-square. Gray's-inn; and the
mooed to "Con Amass," by Mr. Thomas Allom, architect,
Honorer-chambers, 12, Backinghanestreet, Strand.—Beild-
ing News.

FALL OF A CHURCH SPIRE. —The splendid
Gothic building in course of erection for the Free Church
congregation of the parish of Cum Tao on Monday loot met
with mood mishap. The spire kit down with a tremendeng
crash. while 'overall parts about the front corners end dome
en rest almost from top to bottom.—EdinbursiA Wanus.

Thy Earl of Burlington and Lady Lovias Caven-
dish an prise UM mama at Haar Hall, Writ:wawa
Lard Caviaittsh has istsrasd to town for s tow days..

The Earl and Countess of Wicklow will Imo
trendielt.equant me week ler Brighton.

Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Was
Captay are sapareart at t. Lacoarers-os-Sis.

The Countess of Gaiosborough sad Lady Victoria
KAI lave Was their depertare from the Queetia Hotel,
Upper Norwood.

Lord and Lady De Lige have arrived at the St.
Gem{.'. Hail, from Y.ea.4'•e.

Lad aad Lady Harriet Ashley arrived at the
Kameda at Dopeylts eveitieees, Ha,,AeM novae, Uxbridge,
• h. day's stem, trees the Coverers!.

Sir goblet sad Lady Emily Peel dare returned
Ditytas Komar, from s War of visito.

Mr. H. Hassell, M.P., sad Lady Elizabeth Russell
eN lasse Duentwed Part, taw swat al Earl Dslawarr, la
dossa. tre Woos Abbey, la the swans s few days.
Ms. Leas Pox has left town on a 'ilia to the
DM sod Comires el Clemas, at the Gross, rat W.

Mr titzmy Lay Ms lens entertaining a Imo-
pm dodo d Maio iIN Closlosy, rr Iporkk
Mai its Dub d WaiNeglos. Lot M Lodi 111. Lem"
Lard lei Lady Tshot, Mr. NM lika. Tams IlVillhek
Lrd r/ LedyCkwarkill,Capeals Ix., b.

We (Carlisle Patrielj mirk to lea; that the
lea temate kw Wleakeww, R. C. U&jid, Req., Is et
Nit tyieg loyeeamly■ el lb here la Loadca.

- Mr. ChitrlssDiskiss W sessented to give a
learns, el the Mid Alas, fee the beseat of that
teeti.alaa, ea the emestas et the 19th lanary.

We read ia the &Les Irreg.. of this day :
" Tritentay, et we o'clock, an ianaeatial &satanic
salted es the Chentallar d the liderquir, la Donlan-
sheet, te pierat a manearlal tor the posponemeat al die
&iron an es merle %ha Mena plinstatios, tall May
ant. Vass& Parerey, ht.P., end J. O. Dams,
Zoo., M.P., eacimpanlid the gestkems priest. The
ChesciMar d the Rachorme aaalty said, I 1.31 take
the saga Me coorklaretion. I caw* bold oat loops
et moot, bat I sal lick et the reports of the Ca use-
&am of Island Marisa*: "

We (Uosikd &Trice Chung) anderatand that
Coeurereader Z. Santa bee hem eppoistrd Secretary to the
COIMINTMOTS of the River Thum*.

Tit* coursing fixtures are Burton-on-Trent, High-
WM, (Nortluruberisad), sad Bel:Weld (Flistahire), on
Mosiday • Celedcaiaa 81. Lam sad Br4d k, on Tawday
end Wedawder, Caediaroa Club, the wear days sad
Thursday , sad Chatsworth (ora), us Thursday sad Friday.

A letter (says the Literary Gazette) has Jost been
neared from Madame Ida Maw, trots Taaarlea, la Ka-
dagascar, fa which she lays that fibs I la good health, sad
bat beta ottrasely well remind la tho island. She day
previoaely she had brio Invited to court, to play co the
pianoforte, sad bad girls es mach eattslactiout that she wee
irooodfidetyperreatad with a quality of kola and agga to
recogaitioa af bre musical posies.

A letter from Vienna states that Coast d'Ap-
posyi, Austrian ambaseador in England, ba rosalvei &me
tires from Ms government to oontribute, in the sear d bap
governommat, 2,000 ducats to the frnd for the rail el the
%Aims of Ins Insurrection to India.

The greater number of the persons who pawed
lam weak at the palms of CampOm ham sow MR. Fes&
hiritatame ware immd r semni Mbr wear of dieneetka.
Awes the lumber whir ham sehrel ere Cant de Kistelal4
the Realm' maimasidar, The greseded Is Cangiissa
la-
sadiately attar ameba is Paris; M. Trophy" prmidare of
this Smog , M. Realasd, Minister of Puha Issirealias ;
Marshal the Duke de Malakoff, Cost de Hatthieli, tie
Flimsies raistisme, sad this meets=; Prince ds Reza
Lard ad Leidy Webs awl their daaghter. Lady ligartas;
It Laity, make ; Ned this Dub. sad Duchess de Cam-
Moreau

The approaching marriage of the yonag Prises
vrith Male. Sophie Dachas, a skilful pied* Is
sanotanned. The prince below to one of the sad fWoa•
Woos families of Poland, sad to poseamor of a very lerpe
tortoise.

Wtu.s.—The will of Sir Charles llifaatflold Clark,
But., Brighten, wee proved la Landow ender 140,0001.
pirsoualty.—Sir Theme. Barrett Leeward, Bert, of Bathes,
Idwee, sad Bryweetcorequare, 26,0061.--Cloorge Beeemse,
Lisodagtow Priory, 40,0001.—Nra. Awww Nark
Newbury, of Bellbtaw, 80,0001.—Tbe Rev. Thomas H. Alb-
beret, D.C.L., Tallow of AB Boole College, 0zt0rd,30,0004
—lllisstrstaf 141•11011 Now.

The following meetings will he held in the tarn li
-
hop week .—Nteday—Repal Aerilerp, s p.m.—(R.
Fer-
bid{a. Let, as Aseratip.) Seed Zereseten Itrares,
p.r.—(l. Cele, Nee, C.D., on the Funetices of the
Berm* ref Art Dopernmet) Bridle Architects, 8 p.m.
Tosoloy—Ftoyel flosioty of Literature, 2 p —(Pentwor
Chrome as AWN, rot Clappetrit.); denetwel, 8 p.m.—
(dosted Brews, Za.. leper en de Lir animal &ado.
deal Camerae of Vries, lisperdr, 1837) ; Cidl
Steam% 8 p.a.—(dr. 0. L. debreeeth es dr Cow
rare of Weed by Illethhavy.) Weineedep—dooksy et
Aft, O p.a.—(l4. C. Wirework Me, Chab of the
Comell. Andre en the Order of the Ore Ihrhal sot
la w& Sere.) Oielograi—(r. J. J. Higeby, en
de Mawr Chllllll6lllll, BiZIGNA, Xa/26101/. art Tame at del
Petrosele Ober of the Otete et Slew Twit.) Themby—
Limargi. I 1,-•. ; Nmammedk 7 p..; aim** Nft—
(ML Maw on a New Oaken. Priem) Ihesethg—
Aar*, 2 p.m.

Mr. Edward Capern, rural pastana at DilalA in
North Dens, • nines of whom moms wo hod Mmes la
Winos imely, hr rersirrit from Len Ilhosrsim sparks
•1401. Ills Is nominally • sonnoardso perks, Mr.
Carers lhavlsir for lassy yisr Snags' turd-ho las sll
thorns dap of dos sm.!. on too nal, pay of oilia
stipsors ; ht it is to bl. poetry on thimble pollsirlemism
mid his soar mars than la, rnkr, that hossionlimosint
retrint.-I.4insr7 Gortic

Thrplabitiff rani ached m Otwa-
otatar-ternoy Paddington, rile and to raceme
ra caregnierm et • kern whin had her bleed heti lase
lindenre win baring bona throws drown nod net.
Mr. &tent Ballantine and Mr. Peon steered far the
=and Mr. fferjaant Shea and Mr. Pearce IX the
t.
The plaintiff's one wee, that in August Let he lent •
favourite an,. to the defendant for • month for 6/. Gs. Thal
mare was to be ridden by Mrs. Oiandonati, but was not to be
put in harem. She was, bowers., put into • small wiekar
carriage at Richmond, and no sooner did ahe begin to
deecend the bOl and the carriage to press upon her than the
aborted off„ ran against a bunp•post, broke the carrion, end
threw out the coachman. The mare was severely wounded
In the bock, end Iman. Before the mann ohs had bees
wank about 461., kid disc the ennui the not mid at
CAI=• Ow 101.14.
part of the tiellniont it wee attempted to be Ann
that It an, • general hiring of the mare, and not a hi=
Mai oat ; but that dimes failed, and then soma
wee given in redaction of damages.
The jury found • verdict for the plaintiff for 351.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Camillolaw ToaMmiges.)

Tfa bsakrupt, a cbie. aed gisliadar, of Southampton,
2rdfor his castigate. Debts, 1,400 J.; meets, about
Thy was no oppositkm.
It appearing that this wee the secoud bankruptcy, ha
Hotspur said be could only great a certitkato of the third
clam

IS It VOA.

Is the demos et Mr.eiZajiZser Maths" through
judiegleitiolu, the jeet ea the otetificete in this ore, ap-
pistil kw this istmuft wie lethered.

• wall= seer he Me ewe whether an adjudication in
banitrwreey amid be mode alter the tender had filed hie own
ranks maw She iworanemnad alarm
Alm bosefog Ms. Lawmen mad Kr. Chidley, by whose
must OMB WM
ID liar men. edjalleation on the yrinclpl• that
the imprint ma* toad net ho allowed to nand in the
waxer the mere pallid iemody of banktaptey.
TIN baninwnt, who wee a lamildw and oontreater, sinews
WINK Ptah" rid of Las* ta Line" wee
in serwel hese contruen Camila aud eke Zsgtre
liabilities are rid to be may eonatierahls.