Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

THE MUTINY AT GWALIOR.

A letter from the neighbourhood of Gwalior,
dated June 19, says :
The rumour of mutiny at Gwalior, of which I wrote to
you the day before, has proved but too true. Several
officers and men have been killed, but such as could
escape Morar, towards the teejates cantonment. were
saved, and have come into Agra. There is an on dit that
the raj th has been murdered for siding with us, and Beja
Baie raised to the musnud. The mi-chief began on the
parade ground Same officers were here shot at, and
others escaped, but this did not satisfy the mutineers ;
they made towards the Bungalow of the' Brigadier, called
him out vociferously. and sent in shots after him on his
non-appearance. He was miraculeusly, however, saved,
for as he attempted to escape out of his closet. a Sepoy is
said to have laid hold of his hands; and to have quietly
cut out of the compound in the dark towards the ravines.
Here is one instance of the.fidelity of some of the Sepoys,
and goes much in defence of the Lieutenant-Governor's
proclamation; for it is not wise to destroy the grateful
with the ungrateful. The insurgents, however, on not
finding Brigadier Ramsey, ransacked the whole of his
property, and then set fire to his bungalow. And this is
not the only instance of a Sepov's filelity. There
was another officer who was roused by his guard
at 10 p.m., and out of the nine that were in his
compound, one is said quietly to have gone up to him and
said, i•Khatnin, bhago, sub bigurgaya." The Sepy had
jest moved off when the rest came up in a body, saying,
Houses on fire, shall we load? Tne officer observed
that it was folly to load muskets to put out a fire. On
this they retired, and the officer went into his bungalow,
whence, through a window of his closet, he descried the
whole of the guard quietly hooding. He roused his ser-
vants at once, and escaped behind his house. Two shots
were fired at him, but did not tell. . He then made
towards the bed of the river, and escaped among the ra-
vines, four shots again whizzing over his head and that of
his khausamah. Happily nono told. Consternation
became general at this time, and 'has Christian portion of
the place—man, woman, and child—were flying in all
directions towards the Raj th's. Another rumour has
reached us that the Maharajah is not killed. -Ho was
bent upon going down upon the insurgents, but the Baie,
would not allow hie), saying that he was sure to be killed
and, as he has no legitimate issue,' the estate would be
confiscated, and he, his wife, and her daughter ruined.
She advised him, therefore, to send the minister, Dhunker.
Rae. who ie said to have been killed. The mutineers are
crane towards Jhansie, some say towards (Men. We
have no official report, but, are glad they have not
visited us."

THE LIBIRTY OF THE PRESS.

The Calcutta papers say:—

The Grand Jury at Calcutta held a special meeting to
consider the bills for seditious libel preferred against three
native papers. The offence alleged against two of the
three journals, both Persian, is that of publishing the
D'elhi. proclamation. Sir Arthur Huler, in his charge,
observed, had this mendacious and mischievous document-
being inserted without comment, the point for the jury to
decide would be a very simple one. The proclamation
been grossly treasonaNe and defamato7y, the publication
of it must, of 'course be a crime. Th- addition of com•
meats however, by which it was accompanied, raised the
question as to whether these were intended to neutralise
the effect of the proclamation, and whether they were
calculated to have that effect. But it was for the jury
to say whether these were added only with a view to
evade the consequences of promulgating a treasonable
'document, or really for the purpose of neutralising its'
effect. _ _

Oa their trial, the two Mahommedan editors.were

induced to plead Guilty, and s) were let off
without any real punishment. The 'Endo() corn-
pawion in tribulation held to his plea of Not
Guilty, and was acquitted by the jury. This result
of the trial the Englishmen& cites as proof that the
authorities intended that the prosecution should
break down, in order that the diffiJulty or impos-
sibility of conviction under the existing laws might
justify the imposition of the Ifess Act.
The flurkara says :
The other day we described the condition of the Indian
journals as similar to that of shipwrecked mariners
endeavouring to hold out until the arrival of relief. It is
amusing to note the various stages of exhaustion at which
they have arrived. The Bombay and Madras journals
having received the news of their fall at a later period
than those at this presidency, were still retaining a
certain amount of vigour at the latest dates. But those
of Bengal are fast beginning to.show declining symptoms,
caused by being deprived for. too long of their natural
mental food. If things go on in this manner, the con.
ductors of the papers will soon be reduced to their last
split pea, like gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy in Mr.
Thackery's pathetic ballad. We notice in the other
presidencies signs of distress, analoguus to taking to the
boats, and launching out into strange and unfathomable
subj cts ; but on the Bengal side we see distinct symptoms
of that last alternative of famine, "casting lots,' that is
to say, casting lots of admirable articles into the waste
paper basket, as being too dangerous to appear in print.
The Englishman is apparently reduced to a far more
desperate condition than his neighbours, and has been in
a state equivalent to feeding upon the cabin boy for some
days past., When that intellectual food has been digested
and disposed of, it will be a difficult and painful task to
say what must become of our coteroperary. The
metaphorical cabin boy, which is now being eked out in a
succession of mild sallies upon harmless subjects, cannot
be expected to last long, and what next—and next—will
come, remains to be seen. The worst ot this intellectual
starvation iv, that it induces a taste for blood, and when
once made ravenous, we can fancy that our cotemporary
will become insatiable. • 4:3;k

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh•strtet,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the. Ages of Six to Twenty Year*.

Il\-DIA, CHINA.

AUSTRALIA.

The following despatch ihai been received front
Trieste

The steamer Jupiter arrived, with the radian-news
at 'frieve, on the 17th init., at a q nrter p sit five
The Jupiter was ready to leave when the Australiara
arrived at Corfu. The news arrived seal t hairs' in ad
Vance. She brings the following pespatch :
ALERANDIIIk, SE.Pr• 11.—Tile India, China, MA ,Aus-
tralian mails leave to-morrow at daybreak, with intelli-
gence from Climate to the loch
August. Madras to the
17th, Ceylon to the 21st, and Hang Kong to the. 25th
July/
A. detachment, composed of 350 men of her Ntajesty's
10th, 37th, and 56th Regiments, hid gone in pursuit, of the
Dinapore mutineers. They attacked the enemy at ArFsb,
but were overmhelemed` by numbers, and obliged to
nitGiecdneiyma't" having advanced to within
retreat, with the toss of 210+ killed an I woualid. z•:74,
baea o•hli;e1 t fill
back upon, Cawnpore, and' there to place-his wounded
March of
men and captured guns in safely*. Cholera 1114 brekea
out among his .small force.
The 12th, irregular ;Cavalry had mutinied at Segowlie,
and murdered- their officers.
A. plot to massacre the Ewtopeans at Benares and
J-Leeiore had bean discovered and9thwarted.
The 63rd Native infantry had Resisted the order todis-
arm at 1' heluni; and had been cut to pieces- by a, detach.-
merit of Europeans, TheiGovernan General's body guard
had been disarmed.
There had been, severe actions wkii•the rebels at Agra
and Azinghur.
iler Majesty's ship Shannon had arrived at Calcutta on
the- tith of August with Lard Elgin and,stalf; 330 marines,-
and a company of the 59th Regiment.
The Pearl and Sameetield had also arrived, with troops,
from the Transit.
Martial law had been proclaimed in-Rehar„.:
Sir James Outram,isiappainted to command at Dias-,
pore.
• A.report is mentioned to the effect that General Kee&
is dead, and that rhveges caused by cholers,had compeller
the British farce to retire from De,lhi to tigrtt.

This reaches me from Ceylon alone, an-d: seems uann-
thenticated.

Tne Calcutta markets are dull. Exchange 2i 2il to,
I. Government securities had a dowuwardmendency..
In freights there was a slight improvement.
Exchange at [long Eioug for Birk bills was 4s Hid;,
Shanghai, 7s Id.