The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

eibe exprsoo.

le;r0or sow •The11Z....• 1;;;;• !MOS pow.
ono tr, Se Oft% le. Ilerredwasat. V tv• row* ea IN
O. reimiggh
•

Walla •S mow 111D01.
M0re,46.66-111•11M 106 Ala .-.....- Atrorwm. on.
awes" Oft

vow *mom. uni clAsii Seem
OS key liverbli. 011.1.:
tParma
Woos OS AND C 3T. Mr.. Ilsdistm. sad
0017•011.—Orrnse

I 110111111nl
TR. arona.. LITHoo TOO VAX? THZ TEVPIEST
T. H...-1116,48 PM I

ft.... Amon,. *won CormWl awl New :a.
P Till WORLD. Mc `'Mr —4■ ll
WILL TUT& Mc Illidlemb. -omawase al lallowlll.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14.

Inc. rhyme, of the news of the fortnight ending
ft:h September, transmitted to the India House from
Caleutta by Mr. EDMONATONE, and published in
the Erpress of last night, lo an able and, on the
whole, a re-assuring document.
It is gratify ing to learn that the able and energetic
soldier, Major VINCENT ETRE, was following up his
•ietorions career. After the spirited affair at
Dulloor and Jugdispore, on the 12th of August—
of which a more particular account than had pre-
viously been published appeared in a Supplement
to last Friday's Gaulle, and is transferred to
our columns of this day—Kowa Suers Bed south-
ward. From Mr. F.torON,TONE we learn, that feel-
ing himself insecure in Ithotaa, he sought refuge in
the Rewab territory, about the 27th or 25th of
August, but was warned off by the Rajah. Of his
enbeesuent movements we learn nothing; but it is
said that the mutinous Sepoys here parted company
with him, and in despite of the resistance of the
Rewah troops, crossed the Tonic, and pushed on to-
wards Delhi, plundering ea they went.
On the north of the Ganges below ALlahabad
the presence of the Ohoorkhas who marched
from Gorruekpore, when it was somewhat pre-
cipitately abandoned by the civil servants, had
re-assured the inmates of those towns near the
river where an incursion of the Oude muti-
eters was apprehended. Anarchy, however, pre-
vailed in the Saran district, where one of the
(hide ringleaders had assumed authority after'
the eight of the civilians ; but the neer approach of
a second Ghoorklia detachment, which was to leave
Katmandoo the 13th or 14th of August, would, it
was hoped, suffice to re-establish order. That this!
body of troops did not arrive sooner was owing
solely to the vacillation of Lord CANNING; on this
point, however, the Secretary to the Government is
naturally silent.
On the 2nd of September the garrison of Lucknow
still held out, and are reported to have been " sal-
" ciently provided with food." They had, • short
time before, repulsed a most determined assault, and
disabled two heavy guns which had annoyed them
much. " The garrison have been told to hold out to
" extremity." With the warning example of Cawn-
pore before them this injunction was surely super-
fluous. The latest accounts of the force destined to
relieve them are as follows :—General HAVELOCK
was waiting for reinforcements at Cawnpore at

the beginning of September. the number of effective
men then with him is not mentioned. On the 3rd or
4th of that month, 1,270 men, with a 9-pounder bat-
tery, had reached Ailahabad. Of these, six hundred
Infantry and the Battery were already on the
march for Cawopore, and Sir Jams Orraxii was
to follow with the remainder on this night of the
6th. He expected to join HATILLOCIC on the 12th
or 13th, and to find everything in readiness for
crafting the river. From these facts, out readers
can draw their own inferences without our
assistance.

The condition of the country to the south and
north of the Ganges, between Allahahad and Delhi,
had undergone no change since the previous mail.
Mr. EMIONSTONE confirms the account of the vic-
tory over the Mutineers, gained by Brigadier
Nicnotsog on the 2.3 th of August. Ile adds that
the Chief Commissioner of the Punjaub calculates
that by the middle of September the force before
Delhi will be little short of 13,000 men. "Thu esti-
" mate," remarks the cautious Mr. Eumos,,roNe.,
"may be rather too high; ^ and the Secretary to the
Gov( rnment of India says nothing of a contemplated
assault.

On the whole, this report of the Government at
Calcutta is quite as favourable u could have been

expected. It proves beyond doubt that the incur-
gents lack the courage, or the military skill (or both),
to ,trike any decided blow before reinforcements from
Europe can arri, e. Respecting the operations of
the Anglo-Indian authorities in Bengal and Behar,
ocr information is too scanty to warrant our pro-
nouncing an opinion. But it is simple justice to say
of the authorities in the Punjaub, and of those who
arc now in command before Delhi, that they hare,
with their extremely limited means, accomplished
far more than we had any right to expect of them.
If we carefully abstain from encouraging the idea
that next mail will bring news of a successful
onslaught on Delhi, it is simply because we believe
that these who encourage such an expectation are,
n their anxiety to efface the recollection of the
culpable remissness of the supreme Government,
exciting hopes which it is extremely improbable can
be realised, and exposing the brave and skilful
soldiers who are struggling so gallantly in North-
Western India to undeserved reproach for not having
secompliahcd the impossible.

WE have already pointed out the circumstances
which lead us to believe that, serious as the existing
monetary pressure is, there is no apparent ground
for panic, and that the natural course of events
will in a few days materially relieve the pre
sent excessive stringency of the money market.
As a natural consequence of the increase of the Bank
rate to 7 per cent. here, the Bank of France has also
raised its rate to 61 per cent., a measure which it ie
said would have been adopted earlier, although not
to so great an extent, had not the higher powers
strongly objected to such an act of prudence.
In face of the recent return of the Bank of France,
showing a heavy increase of bills discounted, and •
large diminution of the bullion, notwithstanding
purchaees which we may estimate at above two
millions, it is difficult to understand on what grounds