Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-17 00:00:00

camp at Gwalior for assistance, but it was
refused, as not a man could be spared from that

quarter.

But there are other items of very encouraging
news by the present mail. The operations of the
Mahrata Maharaja Scindiah continued of great
♦alue to the British cause. Ten thousaad armed
Thahoos, in co-operation with the contingent,
had cut off the supplies of the seditious batallions,
and to all appearance compelled them to submit.
Besides this, we learn that the rebellion at
Ramghur has been suppressed, Major ENGLISH,
and a force under his command, having attacked
and routed them at the village of Chuttarah
with much loss of life, ainunition, and guns
This, we are told, was a severely contested
action, and cost much life and blood to the
gallant defenders of British supremacy in India.
From most other parts of India the intelligence
are far from discouraging or unsatisfactory.
The complete fall of Delhi appears to have
checked with considerable effect the rebellious
disposition of wavering troops in the Bombay
Presidency, and induced them to pause before
engaging with the irresistible power of England.
We can well fancy with what feeling of chagrin,
mingled with fear, the news of the fall of Delhi,
the ancient capital of the Moguls, would be
received in Bombay, and all other quarters dis-
posed to aid the mutineers. The fact of all the
British Generals assembling in the Imperial
Palace at Delhi, and drinking, in the name of
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, success to the
supremacy, and the loud and enthusiastic
cheers with which the toast was hailed, even by
the gallant Goorkha's representatives, of one
of the most warlike races in the East, is a grati-
fying evidence that England can and will reign
supreme in Hindostan.

We read that all the city people found in
Delhi were bayoneted by the British troops ;
and it is added that Europeans were found fight-
ing by the side of the mutineers. We can hardly
credit it that women and children were included
in this deed of butchery. England has com-
mented with severity upon the Cawnpore mas•
sacra, and surely her brave soldiers would not
disgrace their nation and their name to imitate
atrocities which Lord PALMERSTON stigmatised as
the wark of demons from the mouth of hell.
We cannot believe the story. Nevertheless, it is
one that requires to be cleared up—and we trust
that the next mail will place us in possession of
such intelligence as will enable us to denounce
the averment as a concoction of the enemy, entirely
destitute of the least foundation. Siould there
be the slightest ground for the accusation, the
general who sanctioned such conduct will find
himself in a grave and truly disagreeable posi-
tion. No amount of military glory, however
brilliantly achieved, could stand before the loud
and univ.eigal shouts of indignation, which the
Liut, ur LUIS cJuutry, nut every Lana of
civilization would raise.

While it is our pleasing duty to congratulate
the country on the success that has attended our
arms at Delhi and Lucknow, as well as in the
other minor engagements which have taken place,
we must not rest too confident that we have now
but comparatively little more to do in India.
The reinforcements now on their way to the
seat of war, will find plenty to do in recovering
Oude from the rebels, and withdrawing from
Lucknow, in pursuing and cutting up the rebels
under NENA SAHIB, no less than fifty thousand
having surrounded Lucknow and its environs,
in effecting the entire destruction of the fugitive
rebels who have escaped from Delhi, and in
generally tranquilizing the country from one end
to the other. To do all this, is not only work of
time, but of labour and great expense. Taking
all the great facts accomplished into considera-
tion, there is reason to hope that we have seen
the worst, and that when Parliament assembles,
ministers will be enabled to announce that the
rebellion has been completely crushed.

RUMOURED VISIT OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL
TO CROXTETU.

A rumour was prevalent yesterday evening, that the
Princess Royal had arrived at Croxteth Hall, West Derby
on a visit to the Dowager Countess of Sefton and lAdy
Molyneux. We made inquiry at the Railway station, but
the officials there did not know anything of the visiz of
this dieting iished lady, and were rather surprised that
they were ignorant of such a circumstance. Our represen-
tative then applied to the guard who came by the train
that was said to have brought her Royal Highness, but it
was the first intimation that he had heard of it. Not
feeling quite satisfied, he went to West Darby, and made
inquiry there, and was informed that her Royal Highness
had not honoured the noble house of Sefton with her
presence. It appeared that a party of noble lords had
arrived at the Hall, on a shooting excur4ion—but how
this could have originated a rumour that the Princess
Royal was amongst them, we know not. It was stated to
our reporter (rather ironically, certainly) that her Royal
Higness might possibly visit (some time) a neighbouring
Earl. The time was not specified.

ACCIDENT TO SIR M. F. BERKELEY.—The gallant
successor to Berkeley Castle met with an accident one day
last week, which, but for the courage of the coachman,
might have been attended with the most disastrous con
sequences. The gallant admiral, Capt Probyn, and one
or two other friends, were ping out for a day's shooting,
and got into a break, drawn by two horses, intending to
ride to the scene of operations. When the horses had got
down the hill leading from the street at Berkeley to the
Castle, the driver pulled the rein for the horses to take
the road through the town. The horses, however,
probably from not having been worked lately, turned
in the opposite direction towards the well-known
kennels and stables. In trying to pull them round both
reins broke, and the horses dashed off at a furious pace.
The coachman however, jumped upon the back of one of
the excited steeds, and getting hold of the broken reins
he pulled the animals up. We hear that Capt. Probyn
jumped out of the break, and was badly shaken and
bruised, but the Admiral, as he afterwards said, " stuck
to his ship," and escaped.—Bristol Mercury.
The greater number of the persons who passed last
week at the palace of Compiegne has now left. Fresh
invitations were issued to several other persons of