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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1857.

THE DAYS NEWS.

The Neat Derby Board of Guardians held tha'r

usual weekly meeing yesterday. It was stated by
Mr. Cleaver, the clerk, that there had been several
more complaints against one of the relieving
officers—Mr. Brahman—und he asked the Board
whether they were ready to enter into the particu-
lars of the affair. They did not seem to be in a
mind to do so, and the case will be inquired into
on another date. The lunacy fee of 103. 6d. to Dr.
Nevins was rescinded. The resolution appointing
the officers committee was also rescinded. After
some routine business, the board adjourned.
At th 2 Police-court, yesterday, the case of the
alleged murder of the man Leonard, in Copperas-
hill, was gone into. After some new evidence, the
magistrate decided upon committing the accused
on the capital charge of murder.
A very singular case came before Mr. Aikin, the
presiding magistrate, yesterday. Mr. J. H. Isaacs,
the well known picture dealer, of Castle-street,
preferred a charge of felony against Coleman,
his brother-in-law, and, until lately, his manager
and cashier. Mr. Isaacs receives prints, Sca., on
sale or return. His manager left him about August
last. Lately, the firm for whom he sells on
commission required certain pictures to be
returned. When these were reckoned up, one
was found to be wanting, and, after some trouble,
Mr. Isaacs learned that it had been pledged, along
with others, at Byford'e, Dale-street, for £4o—
valued and pledged for £35. Isaacs
had Coleman apprehended, and yesterday pro-
ceeded against him on a charge of felony, but
eventually abandoned this, and went on the charge
of illegal pledging. Mr. Celeman proved, through
his counsel, and the admissions of the prosecutor,
that he (Coleman) had been in the habit of pledg-
ing property belonging to Mr. Isaacs, for the
purpose of paying his men on the Saturday night,
and Mr. lain consequently dismissed the case,
expressing his opinion that it it never ought to
have come before the bench.

The stagnation of home affairs is broken only by
the murmurs of destitution. and discontent among
the workmen of the North of England, and
the announcements, too frequently recurring,
of some crime of greater or less magnitude. The
state of things amongst the unemployed at
Bradford is described as rather menacing, and
reports of murders and fatalities scarcely fall below
the average number.

The Ve-otus arrived at Marseilles on Tuesday
night, and the mails were despatched from that
place at ten o'clock yesterday morning. In due
course they will reach hero to-morrow (Friday)
morning.

A controversy is at present going on between
some of our metropolitan cotemporaries on the
subject of the free emigration of negroes from Africa
and the West India Islands. The West Indian
negro peasant is, according to the Times," as much
like a bsast as ever;" he won't work, be won't cover
his person, or shelter himself or his family; he is
vagrant and indolent to the last degree. Goose
quently, argues our cotemporary, West India
planters must be allowed to commit felony by
buying Africans, or, at all events, to import Indians
as French restaurants supply bread, a discretion.
The Daily News, in answer thereto, bring several
telling facts against this assertion. It says :—" The
true policy of the West India planter is to purchase
at its proper market value the labour he allows to
be wasting for sugar purposes around him. But
the real object of the West India planter is the
very reverse of his true policy—it is to lower the
rate of wages for field work by immigration. The
emancipated peasantry can live without the planters,
and their labour is only to be had for substantial
wages ; those wages the planters, we have seen, will,
not pay, and then, because the peasantry will not
work for inadequate remuneration, they are in-
sulted by being told that they are as much like
beasts as ever;' as if at any time or under any
circumstances, conscientious, serious, and tem-
perately minded men could or would apply such a
term or use such language to describe any of the
human race, 'heirs to immortality,' however low
in the scale of civilisation. Some further evidence
of the errors of the planters are adduced, and the
rapers from which we quote, avers that the Times.
endeavouring to lecture upon the matter, brings
itself under the category of the blind leading the
blind.' "

Yesterday the Duke of Portland wee severely
burned, by the upsetting of a spirit lamp at his
residenoe in London.

The foreign news continues to exhibit an unim-
portant character. An article in the Constitutionnel,
a paper known to reflect the sentiments and views
of the French Government, openly defends the
new slave trade inaugurated by the French from
Africa to their West Indian possessions. The
paper in question has probably been emboldened
thus plainly to avow the purpose of the French
government, by the recent declaration of the Times
in favour of a revival of slavery.
From Persia we learn that the Shah, is about to
solemnly recognise his son as heir to the throne ;
but the honourable C. Murray, her Majesty's Pleni-
potentiary at Teheran, objects. because he has
chosen an heir himself, who happens to be a
different person from.the Shah's choice.

The European commission, whose business is
finished, since the Wallachian Divan persists in its
abstention from all further legislative discussions,
is about to leave Bucharest.

The Prince of Prussia has declined to open the

session of the Prussian Landtag in person. It will
be done by the President of the Council.
A Stockholm letter states that the session of the
Swedish Diet, which has already lasted more than
eighteen months, is about to be brought to a
close.

THE statements contained in the last Indian
Mail require the cool and undivided attention of
the public. The desperate character of the con-
test which Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL had to engage
in to release the garrison at Lucknow. and the
course which the Commander-in-Chief was corn-
pelled to pursue subsequently—namely, to mass
his infantry beyond the reach of the rebels' fire,
and to rely on his artillery to harrass and keep
the enemy at bay, are indications of numerical
weakness which must produce intense anxiety
in all dispassionate and reflective minds. The
bayonet has done the work of conquest hitherto
in all our Indian wars—from the battle of
Plassey down even to Sir Coun's attack upon
the be,siegers of Alumbagh ; and when this
strong and victorious arm is thrown aside for long
balls, or what appears to us to be an impracticable
line of defensive field operations, we cannot help
looking despondingly on what may be the issue.
The reason assigned in the Indian newspapers
for this change, was a desire on the part of Sir
ComN to save his infantry as much as possible,
and to keep them together for an emergency.
But herein lies the paramount difficulty of an
Indian campaign. Congregated numbers add to
the dangers to life in the sickly jungle, and the
many obstacles to provisioning a large force in the
field. Our old and heroic Commander hastened to
the rescue of the chivalrous HAVELOCK and his
followers, with his usual devotedness to his
country, and without waiting to consider the
possible hazards of an imperative duty. He
saw that this relief movement was one of the
most critical exploits of the war, and he put
himself at the head of the relieving force.

The Commander-in-Chief had scarcely crossed
the Ganges, however, before the rebels began to
display renewed activity on their whole line of
defences on the south side of that river, and
around Cawnpore, the base of our operations in
Oude. From Dinapore to Gwalior the muti-
neers were in motion. Sir CoLIN had no sooner
attacked the rebels at Lucknow, than we find
them advancing in force from Gwalior to Calpee,
a fortress only a few miles from Cawnpore. '
Another large force appears in the neighbourhood
of Allahabad, to intercept reinforcements from
Calcutta. The entire country from Nusseerabad
to Saugor, and from Jubbulpore to Neemuch,
becomes suddenly alive with Mutineers, while
the districts around Meerut and Delhi are found
to be infested with moving columns of the
enemy, and require large additional forces to
open the communication between the evacuated
city of Delhi and Agra and Cawnpore. The
interruption of this line of communication leaves
us in utter ignorance as to what is going on at
Ferozepore, Lahore, and Peshawur. The far
North and West may be as badly off for succour
as the Southern and Eastern portions of the
Native States. The renewal of active operations
by the rebels in Central India shows clearly that
their object is to draw our attention from Oude,
and to cut off supplies from the army of the
Ganges; and, for the accomplishment of the
latter object, we again repeat that the enemy's
plans have been most ably devised. And once
they get a large body of our troops into Oude, we
should not be surprised to find the whole rebel
force concentrated at some point on the Jumna,
and ready to oppose the advance of further rein-
forcements, and cutting off the retreat of our
Oude army at the same time. The raising of
the seige of Lucknow, coupled with the simulta-
neous movement of the rebels throughout India,
are circumstances which must naturally prepare
us for news of the most important and interesting
character.

In other rebellions we have always had a pros-
pect of a speedy termination of bloodshed by.

the offer of terms to the deluded victims of arch
traitors. But the refusal of all quarter to the
Indian Mutineers, leaves us no such hope. The
issue of the struggle depends on the extermi-
nation of one of two hostile races, and in all
such contests it is impossible to say which side
can lay claim to the greatest amount of hu-
manity and wisdom. History
,is, however, a
valuable premonitor, and we have yet to learn
from its pages that, the destruction of a mighty
armed host, wisely selected, carefully cultured,
earnestly fostered, perfectly disciplined, rendered
equal to any service when ably commanded, and
which formed at once the nucleus of mutual
confidence, sympathy, dominion, and political
life in a conquered country, was not a great an d
irreparrable loss. We governed India by
British bayonets in Mahommedan hands. By
one race we governed a thousand races who
despise and loath our rule. Emancipate these
from the iron grasp of their Mahommedan
masters, and each petty native prince becomes a
leader of a turbulent people, and legions of im-
placable enemies to the British Crown. The wisest
heads in India have foreseen all this; and the late
governor of the Western Provinces, Mr. CoLviN,
was the first to endeavour to stem the torrent of
rebellion, by offering terms to the Mutineers.
Unfortunately, his farsightedness was not re-
ceived and seconded by those around him ; and
even now, when it has become self evident that
without our native Indian army, our hold upon
our great Eastern Empire is even more than en-
dangered, Mr. COLYIN'S policy is loudly
condemned.

In moments of great public exasperation this
is all perfectly natural. The inhuman atrocities

committed by the Sepoys have placed their race
almost beyond the power of pardon. Had they
embarked in a war to deliver their country from
its conquerors, and observed the ordinary
decencies of armed contests, they might have
some claim on mercy. This they have not in an
ordinary sense. But when we look coolly
on the 150,000,000 of merciless and un-
tutored beings who will be let loose on
civilisation, by the destruction of this savage and
debased element of human control, it becomes a
question whether, in destroying one of the
instruments of civil and political amelioration
and established government, we are not making
room for a far worse order of things, and raising
up a thousand of cut-throats for every Mutineer
we slay. We must ignore the existence of
politics as a science, if we treat these questions
with contempt, and allow natural impulses to
direct our actions. The British-Indian popula-
tion have done these things, and the more
thoughtless at home have encouraged them in
what, on mature reflection, must appear both
rash and impolitic. No one pretends to doubt
our power of putting the whole llindoo nation to
the sword, if we went about it; but there are

few, except 'our most inveterate enemies, who
would wish to see us embarked in such an
undertaking. It would appear that, at this
moment, we find it politic to grant certain
privileges to the dethroned King of Delhi and
his youthful son. Our communication with this
former stronghold of rebels being cut off, exces-
sively high bribes, and the influence of native
princes, are required in order to get a message
through the rebel districts. It may, in fact,
prove a most providential circumstance that this
old man's life was spared ; and, taking the
whole position of our Indian affairs ints account,
it is sincerely to be hoped that our rulers will
throw aside all rashness and view them as great
Imperial questions, requiring the utmost dis-
cretion and foresight of the enlightened and
experienced statesman.

THE COURT, &e.

WIND:O7I, Tuesday.—The Judge Advocate General had
an audience of her Majesty yesterday, to submit the pro-
ceedings of some courts-martial. The Portuguese Minister
and Countess de Lavradie arrived in the afternoon on a
and in the evening dined with her Majesty. The
party also included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, his Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiniugen, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Lady Augusta Bruce, and
,Sir George Couper.
Her Majesty's private band played :afterwards in the
drawing room. The Queen rode in the riding house this
morning. The Prince Consort, accompanied b) the Prince
of Leiniugen, went oat shooting. The Princess Royal
walked and drove in the Home-park. The Prince of
Wales went to London, and attended a lecture at the
Royal Institution. The Duke of Nemours, with his family,
visited her Majesty. Lord Dufferin and Lieutenant-Col.
W. Frederick Cavendish have succeeded Lord Waterpark
and Major-General Berkeley
_Drummond as Lord and
Groom in Waiting.

Teta ROYAL MARAIAGE.-13ERLIN, December 26.—The
approaching marriage of Prince Frederick William with
the Princess Royal forms just now a most prominent
topic of conversation, not only on account of its interest.
ing character in itself, and its high political importance
in future years, but also, because in the present unhappy
state of the reigning Powers, these nuptials, and the ent: y
into Berlin, promise to be the only event to mark the
coming season. According to the latest arrangements
made here, Prince Frederick William will leave this city
on the 21st of January, attended by General Baron von
Schreckenstein, Major-General von Moltke, Major von
Heinz, who is to be the Prince's " Hofrnarschall," or
Master of the Household, his two personal adjutants,
and an orderly officer. The ladies and gentlemen of the
Princess's future household, the Count and Countess
Perponcher (Chamberlain and Mistress of the Robes),
the Countesses Marie zu Lynar and Wally von Hohea-
thal, Ladies in Waiting, will, in compliance with an
invitation from our Queen, proceed to London previous to
the wedding, and enter on their duties as soon as the
nuptials are concluded. Not only will the Prince (?) and
Princess of Prussia be present at the marriage, but most
of the other members of the Royal Family of Prussia
will avail themselves of the Queen's invitation, and re-
pair to London on this occasion. Prince Friedrich Carl
and Prince Albrecht, jun., cousins of the bridegroom,
Prince Adalbert, cousin of the King, have already
accepted the invitation. Prince Carl, the uncle of the
bridegroom, has been prevented as yet by indisposition
from accepting it definitively. The newly married couple
will leave London February 2nd, and proceed from D over
to Antwerp in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert ; the
3rd of February is to be devoted to a visit to the Belgian
Court at Brussels ; on the 4th they will cross the Prussian
frontier at Aix-la-Chapelle, and stop that night at
Cologne. On the following day, the sth of February,
they pass on to Hanover, and, after a stay of a few hours
there, will proceed as far as Magdeburg, where they will
rest again, and on the 6th will arrive at Potsdam.
February 7th will be passed in Potsdam, and possibly
on the evening of that day the young couple will continue
their progress to Charlottenburg, from which more
convenient spot they will make their public entry into
Berlin on the Bth of that month. The question of
their stopping a night at Charlottenburg previous to
the public entry doubtless depends upon the Bing's
health and circumstances. On a former occasion I men-
tioned that the Prince of Prussia had, in consideration of
the cold weather probably to be expected on the occasion,
struck out of the programme of the ceremonial to be
observed at the public tintry of the newly married couple
the item of the young girls, who should, according to
prescriptive custom, receive the bride at the gates of the
town in bridal costume, and present her with flowers, &c.
It is understood, however, that the Princess Royal has
since then expressed the wish that this youthful party
may be admitted to present to her their whiteclad selves,
their address, and their flowers, the next day after her
entry at the Schloss, where the Prince and Princess will
reside until the summer admits of their removing to
Babertsberr, the Prince of Prussia's seat at Potsdam.
There is a great commotion to be noticed already in the
ranks of the virgin aspirants to the honour of being
included in this favoured band, but the vast majority of
those already looking forward to it are doomed to disap-
pointment, for only about 200 of them can possibly be
admitted, and the very numerous municipal officers of
the city of Berlin seem to rejoice in an unusually large
number of female descendants; the ill-starred damsels,
therefore, who cannot boast of Berlin aldermen or com-
mon councilmen as their progenitors, have but
small chance of sporting their white satin shoes on
this occasion. The different guilds and trades unions
which are entitled by prescriptive right to form part of
the procession on this occasion of the public entry of the
bride and bridegroom have already had various meetings
at the Rathhaus for the purpose of arranging the numbers
of the masters, journeymen, and apprentices that shall be
admitted to its ranks, and the order of precedence to be
accorded to each. Various trades have voted from 1,000
to 2,000 thalers for the furbishing up of their flags,
emblems, &c., or for the providing additional bravery.
The butchers boast of the Iroud privilege of appearing on
such occasions on horseback, and great is the activity
observable at present in the titling schools, in which was-