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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1&57.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We may now shortly expect to receive telegraphic
accounts of a fortnight's later news from India.
Whether the intelligence will be of a reassuring
character it is very difficult to pregnosticate, but
let ue hope that the masacres and butcheries that
we have had to chronicle from time to time the
last two months have ended, or at any rate de-
creased. But should the news prove disastrous,
should it unhappily turn out that`" for a time the
rising tide of mutiny is carrying all before it—
England will not bate a jo: of heart or hope, but will
still look forward with assured confidence to the
day—ielayed, but not far distant—of her ultimate
triumph. "But, as surely as that is true, so surely
is this true also," says the Daily News, "that she
will exact a stern retribution from those careless
or incorapetent rulers who, in the days of Eng-
land's distress and India's extremity, chose to
forget, in sending out their army of succour,
that Alexandria is the route to India.' " The
G/ob3 of last night, by way of pre Baring the public
mind, says we are not justified in anticipating that
any large and decided change for the better will
take place before about the third week in October,
when the first strong body of reinforcements from
England may be expected in India. The Times
says that the revolt will immedia:ely fail from
financial weakness alone, if the mutineers continue
to rely upon their own unassisted resources, and
argues from this that, until all the chiefs and
princes join the revolt, there is no ultimate danger
to the rule of Great Britain in Indic. " The primes
of India are now on their trill, and if they are
found faitlalul their position will be secured for an
indefinite period. They have it in their power to
do much injury to the Supreme Government, and
by the same act to entaL inevitable ruin on them-
selves. .The dominions of faithless allies and the
pensions of treacherous dependents will be justly
applied in relief of the charges which must neces.;
sarily be occasioned by the war. Any territory
which the mutineers may occupy, through the
connivance or incapacity of its rulers, will be
re-conquered to the use of the Power which
is able to protect it. It is of the utmost impor-
tance that the rebels should be prevented from
sheltering themselves under the authority of any
legitimate potentate. Those native Governments
which prove themselves ready and able to fulfil
their engagements will not fail to reap their
reward, and the present crisis will show whether
it is desirable that the English Empire should be
surrounded by feudatories and dependant allies.
But the proverb which attributes victory to the
longest nurse indicates no accidental or inequit-
able condition of affairs. Wealth is on the side
of prudence against rashness, of commercial
rations against warlike hordes, and generally of
civilisation in its contest with barbarism. There
is little doubt that English organisation will out-
last the imple.ses of Oriental violence,
The fund for the relief of the sufferers in India
is fast accumulating. Throughout the length and
breadth of the land meetings are being held, and
subscriptions are rapidly pouring in. At the
meeting at Glasgow the sum of £5,000 was
subscribed on the spa, and at Manchester, nearly
43.500. The fund in Liverpool now amounts to
£lO,OOO.

Recruiting is going on but slowly. An evening
paper says, that 700 young men per month are
enlisting in the artillery, but it does not venture to
inform us how many for the Line. Another
question is, whether the new Government plan,
about which so much has been said, for bestowing
commissions upon young gentlemen who .can
bring 100 followers, has yiel ?ed any fruit ? Some
say it has been abandoned.; others, that Govern-
ment have had many overtures from the class of
young gentlemen referred to, but there is no praot
that any one of them has succeeded in getting his
men.

A correspondent of one of the London papers,
proposes a plan -by which he says 40,000 troops
could be raised in two months. He says—" During
the last European great war, many of our finest
regiments were raised by transferring whole
bodies of local militia or volunteer corps,
at once to the line, the rank of the officers
having been confirmed to those holding commis.
sions. Each county has already a regiment of militia.
Were the Government at this moment to give a
bounty of £O, with a free kit, to each private, and
offer to form forty second batallions of 1,000 men
each, to the first forty militia regiments that
volunteered to be transferred to the line, with
confirmation to rank to the present officers of these
militia regiments, placing the force on an equal
footing in every respect with the line—rank to date
from the day of such transfer—there can be no
doubt that double the number of men now required
would be placed at the disposal of the country,
without any red tape fuss or circumlocution.
The Globe, of last night, states that General
Ashburnham, the Commander of the China Expe-
dition, is to have a command in India. Brigadier
General Havelock, whose substantial rank is that
of colonel, is to have the rank and command of a
major-general. The last promotion is, of course,
not intended as a reward to General Havelock, who
will he honourel in a manner commensurate with
the brilliancy of his services.

The enquiry into the causes of the Belfast Riots
continues. It would appear that up to the present,
the enquiry has been without practical aim, while
it has not been conducted according to any system,
legal or otherwise. It is altogether a " hodge-
podge" affair; and the result will be a ponderous
blue book of evide,nee, from which the public, in
general, will turn in disgust—it will never be
read. The general desire of the town of Belfast
is, that the Commissioners should ascertain, as
fully as possible, the cause of the rioting,
and then take evi lenee as to the most effectual
means by which a recurrence of such semi-
barbarous conduct should be, iu future. guarded
Against. The July riots were undoubtedly
_caused, as far as the evidence goes, by the drunken
folly of a Roman Catholic, named Loughran, who
drove on, an outside ear, through the Romish
quarter, on the 12th, flourishing a bunch of orange
lilies, by way of brEkyado He was not recognised
as a Roman Catholec—in fact he was taken to be
an Orangeman,-and a rush was made to seize him.
He was seiz 3d, and would havo been not very
mercifully dealt with, had not the police interfered
to save him. This incident created a commotion
in the Roman Catholic district, and some shots
were fired in the evening by way of idle defiance.
They were duly responded to from the Sandy-row
or 01 auge quarter ; and, as darkness set in, some
personal contests- took place, with stone throw-
ing. Such simply was the.origin of the rioting. As
far as possible to glean from the mass of irrelevant
evidence that hampers the enquiry, the Roman
Catholic party allege that they are the innocent
victims of Orange conspirators•-=meek and long-