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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The fall of Delhi is still the all-absorbing tenic
of cfmvereation in the various classes of the com-
munity. We, therefore, seeing Pahe avidity with
which everything bearing upon this glorious
triumph of British ernes, is read and conned
over, supply our readers with several additional
particulars, gleaned from the .Bombay corres-
pondence. It appears- certain that there was
great fiahting and slaughter in Delhi, for
several days, previous to its final oecupation by
the British on the --20th September, and that the
position of the assailing force was improved every
hour. was ready for beginning the aseault on
the 14'h, non that morning the storming was so
successful that our troops made themselves masters
of a line of defences, including the Cashmere,
Cabul, and Moree gates, with the English church,
College, and other buildings The-enemy. however,
obstinately held the other positions. Next day the
news was that the -British continued to hold the
city from the-College and the Cebul gate, and were
shelling the magazine. At night, a breach in the
magazine was made, and next day (die 16th) the
magazine was stormed and taken. The .61st Foot
was the main instrument in eff.teting this purpose.
Then, on the lath of October, statements were re-
ceived at Lahore that the whole of our mortars
were playing upon the •Palace from the magazine
yard, and that the mutineers -were abandoning
many of their positions. By this time enormous
plunder had fallen into the hands of our soldiers,
and the killed.end the Wong led must have been so
great as to block up the streets. 'The account of
the three days' fighting that must have occurred
before the 20:h will come by the next
mail.. A .4,00d1y number of the inmates
-of Delhi appear to have been of opinion
that discretion is the better part of._ valour. No
sooner had the .British troops effected a lodgment
within the walls, than -large bodies of the enemy
were seen retreating. both along the bridge which
crosses the Jumna, and thezuelt the Aimeree gate,
by the road that leads to the famous-Itoeth Miner.
Among those valiant heroes appear to have been
the Kinri and two -of his sons. .Their brief
nightm :re dream of Sovereign sway,. says the
Dailf 'Tessa, is elready at an end. According to
one report, they were lase heard of at a village
about six miles from Delhi; and to anotLer, which
had reached Bombay through B jmeree, the King
at least, has already been taken. It is not likely
that any of them can long escape; these effeminate
nurslings of the Zetnana are not the men to rough
it in the Jungle, and for them there is no other
place of refuge that can long be safe. Public
opinion will demand that when captured, -shall be
put upon their trial,. as on means of -e iciting the
truth respecting the origin of the revolt ; end that
if convicted of having seduced our' native
soldiers from theinfoielity, -or ef.having authorize..?
or been accessories to the slaughter of Eurepeans
in Delhi, they shall, o. and all of them, surer the
last penalties of the elaw. .This is a great change
from the. recent ,cry of vengence against the
Mutineers; but in our-minds, aiehough we would
extend mercy to all the attherdinate rebels,
we would at once weeak summary veneence upon
the King of Delhi, ,his sons, and advisers. A
trial by a court of law would ,be a farce es
long as that Imbecile Goeernar-General
of India, Lord Canning, holde the reins
of Government. The .rumoured expedition
of Mr. Grant, member .of :the Supreme Council of
India, being sent up to the disturbed districts to
control the Generals in command in the execution
of martial law, has createcd the. utmost disgust and
rmeasinese in the minds of the public in England.
It is sincerely to he hopedeif such a i'utnuur is
true, and that the Calcutta .Gareentnentneeould be
so silly audeehort-sighted to sanction any such
proceeding, that the Gent-rah.; in command will
treat Mr. Grant's ieterferenee with the greatest
contempt.. -If the Governor. General .is so weak as
to promote .sech expeditioaae, the commanding
officers in E:igleted, eeeing tfee ,position in which
they are plot:el:I, .should not act,otLerwise, and they,
in the long run,-will be aeconieta.ble to the Queen
of Great Britain and Ireland, and not Lord Can-
ninc, and his contemptible Suprerneliouncil. The
Times deplore,,s.auy such expeditioo as alluded to,
and says--,,:enclaVindnees and perversity. as have
prompted the inissien of Mr. Great may, perhaps,
have to be expiated by new calamities, and
repaired by Hew acchieeemenle. The -Civil
Government of Irt-a may re3t aso.u'ed that,
whenever the time comes for reviewing its
condu3t, it will E:riLL,it no easy task to stein the
• current of popular feeling, which has set so
strongly against it. need not aggravate the
difficulties of its pokeitionliay wantonly inaulting-the
f
eeli"gs of every roan, aKleether soldier or c:iviiian.
who is engaged in fighting its battles. ' There is.
a time,' says the wise man, 'to kill, and a time to,
heal ;' each work has to.be performed, but ecch in
its own season, and fair .0 elin Cempbell ;must.
execute his mission beforeewe can listen to the
philanthropic proposals of Mt% .Grant When the
Duke of Wellington was asked what.martiai law
meant, he replied, •No law at ,all, hut the of
the Omni-nat
-ter-in-Chief.' That is the law which
is now wanted for
;u4loll.nt-, of corn-
The Governteent of late have theinselv, s, with the ereates taken credit
placeney, ter the eapid nianne-r4
in wince the Indian
mails have been forwarded,
.their arrival at
Si, z. The following parsera-eif
rapid despatch Our Matta
41,ce,n't look Mi.r
t3irarteessptchmtdtetnhte,
who,,e letter is dated the 10th loam,,
Bombay mail was ,ithavoidably detajued at that
place for 39 hours, Admiral Sa)pferd having no
steamer at hie disposaLwhich he coe.W employ to
earry it forward."
The result of the .trietl of Nlpssrs F-47,ans and
Thorpe, at the Centiat CEiroinal Court, foriiba on
the Han. Mr. Cadogan, -foi• which the two former
gentlemen were sentenced .to twelve month ' im.
prisonment each, hes given -waything but satisfac-
tion in mercantile circles, ,evecially those u-ho
have any communication with the Continent. Al
a London paper cl yesterday says—" Their .(the
defendants') o:.aiect, ace •rding to i-h-c decision of the
jury, was to (Attain some edvaiiaa?,e from Mr.
Cadoean, by threatening the Fa-Mien-tem of a slan.-
derous letter, ceetesing him of malting the best
arrangements with his Stock .F,x31.19-rege broker
through the medium,el that information which his
official position in the Submarine Telegreph effete
enabled hint to posseza It was riot de.aied that
Mr. C.iiogln hal deelinge on the Stock Exelnerge.
nor was it denied that he frequently read the mes-
sages that passed through the telegfapli oilier, hut
Mr. Cadogan indignantly repudiates haring joined
the two things together. Steek Exchange gentle-
men, we hear, are of one opiniee. that no telegraph
officials should have anything to do with the traffic
in public seeuritice."

The gentlemen compo,;ing the Siamese Embassy,
consis'sing of P;iya Muntri Surnywangse, Principal
Amhassaclor from the First King of Siam ; Chau
Mun Siikhedh Briielity, Second Arnbasgarlor from
the First King; Chaninn Mandir Bidachs, First
Ambassa,lor, Nai Pi -bar Sarbkick, Second
Ambasgalor from tho Seo.ond King of Siam, with
12 pzinuipal 0111,xrs of Sta.te, 0141 ,retinuo oi

servants, in all 27 persons, arrived in this
country on Wednesday, and landed at Portsmouth,
where they await advices from the government
before proceeding to London. They were received
with :great ceremony by the several eflicers in
connection with the port of Postsmouth„ and after
a dijrziner, the " distinguished foreieners" were
condareted over the dockyards, and shown every
object, of interest, with most of . which they
exhibited and expressed unfeigned surprise.
We have often heard of the preponderency of the
numbers of Roman Catholic troops engaged in the
Crimean war, the inadequate number of Roman
Catholic priests, and the very miserable pay of the
latter. The Rev. Henry Press Wright, in a letter
tow` London cotemporary, shows the fallacy of such
statements. According to him, during the late
-war, five-ninths of our army were members of the
-.Church of England, three ninths Roman Catholics,
and one-ninth Presbyteriane. The Roman Catholic
chaplains received les a day, forage for two horses,
excellent quarters, and first.rate rations ; in other
words, £33 4s. yearly more then the assistant
chaplains of the Church of England. Mr. Wright
adds—" In the Crimea, the greatest harmony
existed among chaplains of all creeds, and it is
lamentable, indeed, to find leading men of the
Church of Rome exciting dissension at a
time when the whole nation is imploring God
' to lay hand upon the shield and buckler, and stand
up and help us.' These are moments when our
communing ought to be for peace. Never, surely,
were we less invited to 'imagine decitrul words
against them that are quiet in the land.' Should
we ever have another war in the Crimea (which God
forbid), and Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop
Cullen, and others, will
,join the chaplain
department of our army, they will find the
thermometer at seven degrees below zero an effec-
tual cooler of all ' wretched theological disputes,'
and a dripping bell tent peculiarly calculated
to put a damper upon all unkind feeling. When
the biting cold is penetrating every pore in search
of the very marrow itself one is only toe glad
to keep the heart warm by keeping up in it the
largest fire of Chrisiian love. After cAnmending
to God's keeping the souls of poor suffering sol-
diers, chaplains of all denominations readily
gather together as friends, and talk over the woik
of the day, the trying circumstances of war com-
pelling them to esteem each other for the work's
sake. I wish something more of the spirit were
rife mid the quiet of home scenes"
The Mancnester City Council have appointed
Mr. James Ges3oyne Lynde, of Westminster, Lon-
don. to the office of City Surveyor, at a salary of
£750 per annum.

At the Police Court, yesterday, a number of
dishonest shopkeepers were fined in various sums
for having false weights, scales, and measures
We are very hippy to see that the magistrates are
at length aroused to the importance of dealing
severely with those persons who are in the habit
of robbing purchasers by means of these false
weights and measures. In the course of some very
trite remarks upon this subk.ct, Mr. Holme, one c)
the magistrates on the bench yesterday, said, " false
weights and measures were an abomination to the
town, an I it was traly lamentable for magistrates
to be often compelled to sand a poor hungry lad
to jail for taking a loaf to satisfy his hunger,
whilst the shopkeeper was allowed to plunder
the public wholesale, and get off for a fine.
He Wished the legislature empowered the magis-
trates to send the shopkeeper to kill, insead of
fining him. Ho would again repeat the magistrates
were resolved to put down the system of public
plunder that prevailed amongst shopkeepers in this
town, and ho feared it prevailed in other large
towns also. No competion in trade should induce
any shopkeeper to resort to dishones'y ; and he
was again sorry to say that his observations applied
equally to large and what was called respectable
establishments, as well as to small " We heartily
endols:-. the sentiments uttered by the worthy ma-
gistrate, and only hope that his fellow Justices of
the Peace, will in all cases inflict the fullest penalty
on a second conviction.

A very full report of the meeting of the Dock
Committee, held ye:lterday, will be found in
another part of t -day's impression. It will be
seen that the question of dock accommodation
occupied much of the time o° the committee. The
resolution of the sub-committee, that the extension
of the Brunswick and Huskisson Docks, as shown
on the plans, should be introdused into any bill
laid b,fire Rub:anent W. 1.9 brought up, and also
the memorials from various commercial bodies of
the town, urg..ng the necessity for the extension of
Dock accommodation on the Lancashire s-de of the
Lfer.,:ey. All of these communications were referred
back to the sot-committee. Their report on the
matter will be delivered in time to take action upon
any bill that may be thought necessary to be
introduced in the next session of Parham ?nt.

The Lae prnpri,etor of the Morning herald and
:standard, Mr. Baldwin, has passed his last exviii•
nation at the London Bankruptcy Court.
Mr. Labouchere, the Colonial Secretary, has
spoken on the Indian revolt, congratulatin;.; himselt
:And his hearers on t,Lti unanimity of the country in
supporting the Goverument, and promising, on the
part of the Ministry,,a full investigation into Indian
mismanagement.

The news from abroad this morning is not of
mue,l-4 imnoltance.. An article in the semi-official
Paris ,paper advocates that the French Govern-
ment ,r,ill probably not-be, found intractable on the
question of the Principalities. Neither Russia
nor Prucsia was At all inolinod to join in pu:ting any
pres)nre on the Porte in that affair. The Servian
conspirary, as we conjectured, had nothing to
do with .rcpubi:.aniitn, anal the s'a'ement that
it had was Austrira clap-trap. It was the
sillywork of a tveal'ily pretender---a Prince Milosch.
The .Swiss E'ItiO:IS continue favourable to the
Liberals ; and tve 'art' from Copenhagen that the
DanishVolhithina h gs unanimonsly acknowledged
the legality of the Who te-state Const::tution, against
which Holstein protests.

WE placed before our headers, ;yesterday, full
details of-the news from To.dia, and they must
have been gratified to learn that the mutineers
at Delhi were rout/2d from their stronghold, and
their would-be Kiag„compelLd to re.sort:.to false
'pretences, for the purpose of effecting his escape.
The struggle was long and severe. It. .appears
that the assault commenced on the 14th,
.and
lasted till the :20th ult., 'hen the British -runes
made themselves masters of the city and fortress.
By this fact, we have ample reason to hope that
we have seen the beginning ,of the end of this
rebellion.. In‘de,ed, the fall or Delhi, and the ig-
nominious Right of its mock-Goverign, must go •
far to conviace the mutineers of the utter hope-
lessness .of their contest, their inability to cope
with the power and majesty of England, and its
determination to maintain, in all its integrity,
supreme control over the people of Ilindostan.
But while the news of the capture of D4hi will
be acceptable to the nation, not merely as a fresh
proof of the indomitable courage and zeal of the
troops, there are hundreds who will bc..plunged into
the deepest grief that the struggle has
deprived them of some of their nearest and dear-
est friends and relatives. The loss of British
officers and men has been very severe ; indeed,
the proportion of officers unusually so. This,
however, is a proof that they were " foremost
in the fight," and cheered on their roan regardlcyss
of all consequences, and given fresh proof that a
more undaunted nod chivalrous set of men
than the commissioned officers of her Majesty's
and the East India Company's armies do not