Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-24 00:00:00

INDIA.

Our London cotemporary, the Evening Herald,
Says that Government are in possession of news
from India, four days later than that previously
published.

It adds further, that Delhi had been besieged
by our troops, but unsuccessfully, they having
been repulsed with rather severe loss.
Great confidence was expressed in the success
of their operations when the siege train arrived.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

STAMFORD RACES.—YrsTEnpAy.

Turbit..

STAMFORD St: LEGER.
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Sir Collin bolted.

COLLYWESTON STAKES
Bess Lyon

Two ran.

BURGHLEY STAKES.I
Dead heat with Turbit and Tame Deer.

Six ran.
Tame Deer walks over and the stases are divided:

£5O PLATE.
Ulysses walked over.

TATTERSALL'S LATEST BETTING,
GOODWOOD STAKES..
8 to 1 agst Fisherman
10 .. 1 . • Martinet
14 1 .. Fulbeck
GOODWOOD CUP.
6 CO 1 agst Anton (taken and offered)
8 . • 1 . • Gemini di Vergy
8 .. 1 .. Fisherman
30 1• Mongrel
ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 agst Blink Benny

LATEST SFIIppIYG INTELI IGENCE.

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REPORT.
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d TIM NEw ram EscApz.—This affair was tried yester-
„ay ou the Exchange flags. It seems to answer the
rrPose, but it must be ranembered there was no fire to
`rY it.
Resolute,
OT A STEA3I-TUG.—A. new steam-tug, the
pant3c"te, pioneer of the Liverpool New Steam-tug Com-
?en-LeClitaited). was launched on Wednesday last at
trial wi with machinery, boiler, &c., in, and would make
largest
snapt the following day. She is at present the
most powerful tun-boat in the United Kingdom,
Zeeecl will be commanded by Captain Peter Jevons, who has
ennaynaituany. years in the emply of the Liverpool Steam-tug
Iseusn
--The Ite°, PREssYreatAN eguRCEI SABBATH SCHOOLS. 6 so well.k • 13" Cuoke, of Belfast, the eminent preac •er,
:cirri:win silnlsilli fling two
tOlllB three kingdoms, will preach
.n
that° the obova
cannot fail toPresbyterian Church, on Sunday, i
ecllools These are two circumVances
gation—the object of
attractthe charity rliatr-ge and respectable congre
advocated, and the high
pi?? Dr. Cooke holds in pulpitYoratory.
British ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—The Secretary of the
Bright sh and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, Mr.
accompanied by the district engineer, Mr. Wat-
Mr• Sanger, Mr. superintendents, were
at gina ger anti Gutteres,
the wires rll last week, making arrangements for carrying
atla • from that town to'Valentia, to join the Trans.i
ntte c
once able.
, The wires will be erected to Valencia.a
Dublinand 09 the 10th of August the emnec`ion with
that
,1 will be completed—the 10th being abou. the day
of the e eteaMens will have parted company in the middle
Atlant•
if,"eLan, and commenced the laying of the great
respeet cable. The Niagara and Agamemnon, wit. theirt
Queen ive
Portions of the cable, are expected to arrive a
on
WellsteN"
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'la about a fortnight, and we hope, if all goes
be and
We apprehend nothing to the contrary—to
the able to ~i_
5 Ye something by telegraph from America
*ile end r
°,, next month.

THE
MUTINY IN INDIA.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES,

Yesterday morning were issued, in the form of a return
to parliament, a series of despatches, nineteen in number,
relative to the late mutinies, and addressed by the
Governor-General of India, in council, to the Court of
Directors of the East India Company.
In the first despatch, dated Feb. 7th, the Governor-
General, in council, informs the directors of a display of
feeling on the part of the Sepoys relative to the use of
grease for the cartridges. He writes :
"Fort William, Feb. 7.

"We have the honour to transmit, for the information
of your honourable court, copy of a correspondence rela-
tive to an uneasiness which first manifested itself amongst
the men attached to the depot of musketry at Dum Dum,
in consequence of a report having reached them that the
grease used in the arsenal for preparing the cartridges
for the Enfield rifles was composed of the fat of pigs and
of cows.

" The men were appeased on being assured that the
matter would be duly represented, and at the suggestion
of the Inspector• General of Ordnance, we have, as a
present measure, authorised the issue of cartridges
without grease, the men being permitted to apply, with
their own hands, whatever mixture they may prefer.
"As it appears, however, that service ammunition
requires to be bundled, and to be greased previously with
a composition that should last for a considerable time
without renewal, we have requested his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief to cause some experiments to be
made at Meerut, where the presence of a Rifle Corps (her
Majesty's 60th) offers means which do not exist at any
other station, for the purpose of ascertaining the best
irgredients to be used in greasing the cartridges, with
reference both to the feelings of the native soldiery and to
the requirements of the service. We have desired that v e
may be favoured with his excellency's advice on this
subject as early as may be conveniently practicable. We
would suggest to your honourable court the expediency
of obtaininz some information on this subject in England,
where, doubtless, many experiments have been made.

" Your honourable court will observe that the matter
has been fully explained to the men at Barrackpore and
at Darn Dum, and that they appear perfectly satisfied that
there existed no intention of interfering with their caste;
and also that proper measures will be taken to remove the
cause of their objection to the composition of the material
used for greasing the cartridges.
" At the suggestion of the Inspector-General of Ord-
nance, we beg to recommend to your honourable court that
no more ready-made ammunition for the Enfield rifles be
sent to this Presidency.'
The directors in reply express their entire approval of
this order, and add that—" No more cartridges will be
sent from this country. In making them up in India there
will not, we are persuaded, be any difficulty in your pre-
scribing a composition which, whilst sufficient for the
purpose, will be unobjectionable to any of the castes in
our native army."
In a despatch, dated April 8, the Goveraor-General
mentions the expedient proposed to be adopted. Ho

says :
" The chief objection on the part of the sepoys was to
biting cartridges, which, it was currently reported among
them, were greased with the fat of pigs and cows. On
this point our letter to the adjutant-general of the army,
No. 116, dated the sth March, 1857, has conveyed full
information.
" It appears doubtful whether any composition free
from grease of some sort, as wax and oil, would answer
the required purpose ; and taking into consideration the
desirableness of avoiding the practice of applying to the
mouth anything which might be repugnant to the religious
prejudices of the natives, we have adopted the suggestion
of Major Bontein, commanding the school of musketry at
Dum Dem, to abolish in the platoon exercise the practice
of biting off the end of the cartridge, and with this object
to alter the instructions so as to cause the end of the
cartridges to be torn off by the left hand.
ttis Excellency the uommander-in-Chief has recom-
mended that the altered mode of loading should be appli-
cable to the ordinary percussion musket as well as to the
rifle musket, and we have authorised this change to be
carried into effect.
" We consider that the new mode of loading should be
introduced in every regiment, European or native, in
India, and we have instructed the governments of Madras
and Bombay accordingly; but we are unable to extend
the alteration to her Majesty's infantry regiments serving
in India."
The succeeding despatches continue to record various
demonstrations of a mutiuous feeling on the part of the
Sepoys, the punishment decreed for individual offences,
and at last the disbandment of whole regiments. On the
18th of May the Governor-General
,forwards to the
Directors a narrative of the disastrous events at Meerut
and Delhi, and of the measures taken to meet the emer-
gency. In a despatch of the following day, the governor
and council urge the necessity for :a material increase in
the strength of the European troops. They write—
" The necessity for an increase of the substantial
strength of the army in the Bengal establishment—that is
to say, of the European troops upon this establishment—
has been:Jong apparent:to us ; but the, necessity of re_
fraining from any material increase to the charges of the
military department, in the present state of our finances,
has prevented us hitherto from moving your honourable
court in this matter. The late untowardf.occurrences at
Berhampore, Fort William, Barrakpore, and Lucknow,
crowned by the shocking and alarming events of the past
week at Meerut :and Delhi, and taken in connexion with
the knowledge we have lately acquired of the dangerous
state of feeling in the Bengal native army generally,
strange, and at present, unaccountable as it is, have con-
vinced us of the urgent necessity of not merely a positive
increase of our European strength,' but of a material in-
crease in the proportion which our European troops bear
to the native regular troops on the establishment. We
are of opinion that the latter is now the more pressing
necessity of the two.
" Webelieve that all these objects, political, military,
and financial, will be immediately attained is a very
material degree:by taking advantage of the present oppor-
tunity in the manner we have now the honour respect-
fully to propose; and we see no other way in which all the
same objects can be attained in any degree, now or pros-
pectively. We recommend that the six native regiments
which are in effect no longer in existence should not be
replaced, whereby_ the establishment of Regular Native
Infantry would be reduced :to 68 regiments; and that the
European officers of these late regiments should be used
to officer three regiments of Europeans to be added to your
establishment at this presidency •
" We confidently affirm that the government will be
muca stronger in respect of all important internal and
external purposes, with three additional European regi-
ments of the established strength, than it would be by
embody ink six native regiments of the established
strength ; an I we anticipate no inconvenience in respect
of minor objects, in time of peace and tranquillity, from
the consequent nu nerical reduction of regular troops.
Indeed, the financial result of the measure, if carried out
as we propose, will leave a considerable surplus available,
if it should be thought fit so to employ it, for an augmen.
tation of irregulars, who, for all such minor objects, are
much better, as well as much cheaper, than regulars of
any description.
" Your honourable court will observe that at present the
relative strength of European to Native Infantry in the
Company's Bengal army is disproportionately small. In
the Bombay army it is as 1 to 9 2-3rds, and in the Madras
army as 1 to 16 2-3rds, while in the Bengal army it is as
1 to 21 2.3rds. If the proposed measure is adopted, the
proportion in the Bengal army will be between those in
the Bombay and Madras armies, viz., I to 11 2 3rds."
The court of directors, in a despatch of July 8, promise
their best attention "at the earliest possible period," to
the Governor-Gonerars report of his measures, and after
applauding his ,xeelleney and the officials for the juilg•
ment they he wt. shown, add,
" We confet. n ly expect that the next despatches we
shall receive apprize us of the complete success of
the EgeaSUres -koi. for the suppression of armed resistance
to our goveri.,,,,t ; and we feel assured that the same
!energy and si bays boen displayed 14 tagEing

head against the most formidable danger to which the
British Government in India could be exposed, will be
employed in taking precautions against the return of that
danger, and in immediately ascertaining and removing, so
far as is practicable, the causes which may have led to it."
The papers close with a despatch from the Governor-
General of India, in council, dated the sth ult.,-containing
apparently the latest official account of the rebellion,
received by ordinary way :

"Fort William, June 5.

"We transmit herewith, for the information of your
honourable court, a continuation down to the present date,
of the narrative forwarded by the last mail, taken from
messages by the electric telegraph, of what has occurred
at different stations in this presidency, in connection with
the disaffection prevalent in the native army. A report
received from the Hon. Lieut.-Governor, North-western
Provinces, is transmitted herewith, but it brings events
down only to the 22nd of last month.
" We regret that we are unable to forward reports from
Agra of a later date, and detailed reports from other
stations, but we have received none. We have called on
the civil and military authurities to furnish us witn
reports of all that has happened at the several stations,
but the pressure upon all persons in authority has been
so great that it is not to be wondered at that they have
not found time to compile connected statements of
occurrences.

" Your honourable court will observe with satisfaction
that the tidings now sent to you are not without an
admixture of hopeful intelligence. The 70th Regiment of
Native Infantry, stationed at Barrackpore, has come for-
ward to declare its loyalty, and its desire to emulate the
European troops in pnnishing the rebellious regiments at
Delhi. The Governor General proceeded to Barrackpore
and personally thanked the regiment at a general parade ;
end we have reason to believe that this act, while it has
had a very beneficial effect in strengthening the loyalty of
the 70th Regiment and others at Barrackporc, will have
the happiest influence on the minds of all well-disposed
men in the native army.
" The three companies of the 34th Regiment at Bar-
rackpore lost no time in following the good example of
the 70th.

" Meanwhile, we had already received a spontaneous
declaration of loyalty from the irregular cavalry of the
Ramghur force, iu which the infantry of that force parti-
cipated. And it was further reported that the Ramghur
irregular cavalry had signally marked their E incerity by
having, on first hearing of the outrage committed by the
mutinous regiments at Meerut and Delhi, written to their
comrades who were on leave in the district, to offer their
services to the general officer commanding the Meerut
district.

The 6th Native Infantry at Allahabad has also come
forward with an assurance of its devotion to Government,
and an offer of its services against the mutineers.
" We have publicly acknowledged these several decla-
rations of loyal and soldierlike feeling.
" On the 30th of May last, a part of the Meerut force
was attacked near Ghazzeeooden Nugger by a large body
of the insurgents from Delhi, with five guns. The in-
surgents were thoroughly beaters by our troops, and
dispersed with much less; and the five guns, with ammu_
nition and a great quantity of intrenching tools, were taken
from them. Our loss was 44 men, killed and wounded,
chietiy of the 60th Royal Rifles, but the greater number of
these were injured by the explosion of a tumbril left by
the fugitive insurgents at the bridge on the Hindun
Nod lee, near the place where the action was fought. This
victory will, no doubt, be of great value in proving to the
mutineers, and to the whele army, the prowess of our
European troops, [ever' in comparatively small bodies ;
and its occurrence just now is still more important, when,
owing to the difficulty in peocuring sufficient carriage,
and in moving the siege train which his Excellency the
Commander-in• Chief was organising for the attack :on
Delhi, a delay of some days must take piace befote the
attacking force can roach that fortress.
`• But we deeply regret to say that the attack will not
be made by General Anson in person. An allusion to his
having died was received by us on the Ist instant, and on
the 3rd this was confirmed by tidings of his excellency's
decease at Urnballah, on the morning of the 27th of May,
by cholera. General Anson must have proceeded fo
ic„,„,„l ineviuusiy, ror a message from his
excellency has reached us dated Kurnaul, 25th of May.
It is probable that he had been obliged by illness to
return to Umballah, where he died.

" We lost no time after the receipt of this melancholy
intelligence, in transmitting to Umballah, by such means as
may be available at Cawnpore and Agra. and north-west
of those places, our instructions to Major-General Sir H.
Barnard, K.C.8., commanding the Sirhind Division, to
assume the command of the force proceeding against
Delhi; and we have urged upon that officer the necessity
of his attacking the insurgents and mutineers at that place
at the earliest possible date ; the continuance of order
and quiet, already much imperilled by excitement at the
most important stations of Allahabad, Cawnpore, Luck-
now, and Agra, and in the adjoining districts, being
dependene on the early and signal discomfiture of the
rebels in arms at Delhi, and in its neighbourhood.

" Major-General Reed, C. 8., her Majesty's service,
commanding the Peshawur division, succeeds by right of
seniority, and according to custom, to the command of
the Bengal Army as Provincial Commander-in-Chief, but
considering the emergency of existing circumstances, and
the absolute necessity of committing the command of the
army of this presidency to some officer of pre-eminent
qualifications, in point of knowledge of the native troops
and Indian experience, we have thought it right to request
Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, K.C.8., the Com-
mander-in-Chief at Fort St. George, to come to Calcutta
with all convenient expedition, to assume the office of
Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army. We
trust that this important measure will be approved of by
your honourab e court. It is temporary only, and it will
rest with the home government to appoint some officer to
succeed to the high office of Commander-in-Chief in India
and of the Bengal presidency, in succession to the late
General the Honourable G. Anson, deceased.

"Every effort is being made to despatch European

troops to Cawnpore. The 84th Foot have been sent up
almost entire; a detachment of that regiment is expected
by the Coromandel from Rangoon.
" The Ist Madras European Fusiliers have been also
sent up by transit carriages, by the bullock train, and by
steamers.

" Of the 64th Foot, who have just arrived from Bombay,
350 men will proceed on a steamer and flat immediately,
and the remainder of the regiment will be sent up by
dawk carriages and the bullock train.

" The other regiments expected from Bombay and
Ceylon will be pushed upward as expeditiously as
possible•

"We aro now despatching instructions to Rangoon to
send round her Majesty's 29th Foot, as soon as the corps
can be brought down from Thyetmew.
" It is our confident hope that by the next mail we shall
have it in our power to report to your honourable court
that signal retribution has been inflicted on the mutineers
and rebels at Delhi, and that the immediate result has
been a perceptible tendency in all the districts to return,
at no distant period, to quiet and good order." t,