Northern Times.
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THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL,- THUIISDAY, OCTOBER L 1857.

towards the restoration of order. Agra. when last wa
beard from it, was safe and unmolested, awaiting the
upward march of Grant and Havelock. It is doomed, I
bar to wait long and anxiously. Sir Patrick, indeed, has
returned to M idras, to resume his command of the army of
that presidency now that Sir Colin Campbell has arrived,
but circumstances of a most untoward nature have occurred
to interfere with and delay the advance of General
Havelock. When I last wrote that enterprising officer
was in Oude, as we supposed, where we had last beard of
him twice in the same day, defeating large bodies of the
enemy, driving them from strong pasitions' and capturing
their guns. We ardently hoped that we should next and
very speedily learn that he had been able to reach and
to relieve Lucknow. But the strength of his heroic little
band had been overtaxed. It was reduced after the last
engagement to less than 900 men ; it was hampered by
its own wounded and by the stor,s and gns of the
enemy which it had so gallantly cap•ured ; in i
front, and covering the object of its hope and wishes,
were bodies of mutineers, mastering, probably,
more thousands than it could show of hundreds. It
was, doubtless, not without a bitter pang of disap-
pointme it that the General, a man as kind as brave,
saw himself necks itated to retreat, and to abandon
for the present the hope of relieving his imprisoned
friends. But there could be no doubt of the pro-
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refused to believe a havildar who reported the cireamsi:lnce
to them, and subsequently, at the sub idar's trial, when the
commandin.; officer was asked if he knew of the d'saffec-
tion, he answzred " Not officially." I need not stay to
comment on this reply. Happily, the disaffiction, which
had a very real existence, was checked by the arrest and
execu'ion of the subadar and his abettors, and the
tone and the manner of the sepoys of the regiment
(a splendid one, by the way, to look at) is described as
being far less swaggering and insolent than before.
But the story I have told, and which I repeat, I have
every reason to be sure is in the main correct, or I would
not have told it—is worthy of remark as bearing upon the
qu-s•ion of discip,ine in the Bengal army, acd of the rela-
tio bewee-i the cffi ers and th .ie men, I leare it to you
to judge how far it is likely to ba a solitary case.

The-a is nothing els', I think, of impartanle fr)m
the Punj .üb, if I eicapt a contemplated raid from Peshawur
into the Easufzlie cmttry, more as a demonstration of
force than to redress any actual wrong. Each of the Eng-
lish regiments there, the 70th, 87th, and 27th, contributes
to the little cilum^, as does also the 21st native infantry,
n Bich I thoight had been disarmed with the rest of the
native portion of the brigade. Gaolab Singh, ruler of
C tshmere, died on the 3rd instant, very staunch and true to
us to the last. The Skh troops that he had arrangsd to
to send us, will still, it appears, be for.hcataing.

priety of the measure, and he fell back accordingly to'the
river. The enemy took heart, and followed him up. Then
he turned and stood at bay, like M ,ore at Carunua, struck
once again fiercely and decided y, and with an additioa of
two more guns to his numerous trophies, crossed the
Ganges at his leisure, and rejoined General Neill in the
recovered station of Cawnpore. From the ruins of the
cantonment, and from houses and places of concealment,
the officers under General Neill have recovered a ctinsider-
able amount of pr, perty, whica they are desirous to make
over, where practicable, to the relatives of its slaughtered
owners. Many other memo►ials have been fount of the
seige and the massacre, and two or three officers, supposed
to have fallen, ate said to have alreafy appeared from their
kidini, places, to tell an appalling tale of horrors witness :d
and survived. I met with, the other day, but cannot pat
my hand upon it at this moment, an ex,ract from a
journal said to have been picked up in or near the
barrack where e European inhabitants took refuge sad
were besieged. It is scarcely to be read without tears, as.
in simple language it notes day after day the death of this
or that member of the family of the writer—'Annie died ;
Mamma died'—and then abruptly ceases. Are we to have
a reoetiti Al of these dreadful scenes at Lucknow Gol
forbi.l! But we cannot but feel very great anxiety
for iLa safety of this long beleagured party. Still,
when last heard 4f—which, I believe, ttorgh lan not
sure, was as late as the 11'11—'hey were well and hearty.
But now, in regard to their relief, comes in the other most
untoward circumstlnce, or chain of circumstances, to which

In the Saugor and Nerbudda territories all is well.
The column from Kamp'ee, joined by three companies of
the 28th Madras Nalive Infantry at the detached statio,.
of Nursingpore, has crosses the Nerbudda and reached
Jubbulpore. By this )inie it is, no dnuht, at Saugor.
John Peter G:ant is appoirted Chief Commiss;oner in these
territories. In the neighbouring native State of B3phal
the troops are still hostile to us, spite of the good feeling
of the Ranee, and nre longing to get across the Nebedaa,
and att ck the Madras station of Hoshungabad, but the
full, broad, rapid stream prevents them. Seindia remains
neutral; his mu'inied c mtingent, it is said, is unable to
march upon Agra, in consegnenc of the flooded sta'e of
the river Chambul. Prim Mhow there is news by
telegraph. Up to last evening all was quiet, both there
aid at Indore ; but "the temper of Holkar's compromised
troops is not good." There is an uneasy feeling prevalent
throughout the province of iktilwa. We have lost a good
friend in the chief of Rutlaum, who is just deal.

"Of R.jpaotana I have grievous things to wri'e. Nits-
se:r ibad and Neemuch leave bath been a second time defied
by mu'iny, and this time not by Bengal Sepoys, but by
the troops of this Presidency which replacel them. True
it is that at each station it was a portion—at fie latter a
very small portion—of the sepoys or tioepere that failed in
their duty, and, moreever, that all of the principal offenders
were Purdasees, or men from ITU lostan, I mean, of course,
fom Hindostan proper, or Ueeer India. Nevertheless,
takiag int) c insideration all th at his occurred in the way
of disaffection throughout this Presidency, whether in Raj
pootana (of which more presently), or in the Southern
Mahratta country, one cannot but see that the discipline
and I,yelty of the Bombay army is slowly but surely giving
way under the temptation. Let Delhi fall pretty quickly, and
we are s afe ; but let there be a neck, or a disaster, there
or elsewhere, or even much delay, and I fear we (I spe tk
of course of the Presidency generally, not of Bombay itself)
shall see trouble° lie tims. Well, to narrate what hap-
pened at Nasseerahed and Neemuch. At the former
station, the let Bombay Lancers are quartered, and 200 of
the 12th N. 1., with a portion of tie Q teen's 831, and a
half-troop of European horse ar'il'ery. Oo the 10th of
this month, a fanatic Mahomedan of the lancers, maddened
by " bhang," appeared on the lines of his regiment, rill by
his furious and inflammatory ges'ures and addresses excited
a emsiderable commotion which spread through the can-
tonment, and was representel as due to a mutiny of the re
giment. As previously arranged, all the infantry were at
once ordered out to protect the gang. But only a small num-
ber of the detachment of the 12 h followed Cap'. Holbrow,
their commanding office. It was soon discovered that it was
one madman only of the lancers that was at fault, and that he
hal betaken himself to the 12th lines. Thither the whole
force pmeeedei under Brigadier Macan. The lancer role
out and fired at the Brigadier's head, fortunately without
effect, and he was himself br aught from the saddle by a
pistol-shot Geed by Lieutenant Swans an, of the Artillery,
which inflicted a wound that shortly proved fatal. The
recusant 12th, moody and silent, but perfectly cutlet,
were then disarmed after an address by the Brigadier.
The affair is now under investigation. It appea-s certain
that it was not premeditated, but some of the men behaved,
I am told, very badly, and will be selected for punishment
at once. They are Purdasees. At Neemuch the mutiny
seems to hive been confined to the 2nd Light Cavalry,
and to about 20 of the corps only, of whom eiget have
deserted. The 12th detachment at this station,
unlike their brethern at Nusserabad, appear to
have behaved quite well. One of the 83rd lost his
life in the affray, it is said, by a stray shot from a
comrade. But we shall have faller particulars era long.
To-day we hear of yet another outbreak near, if not in,
Rajpo Aana, at the sanatorium of Mount Ahoo, near
Deese, in Guzarat The men of the J.ouip are Legion at
that place rose on the 219*, and after firing into the com-
manding officer's house and the barracks, aul plundering
the baz tar, were repelled by a volley from the convales-
cents and Invalids of the 83rd, and descended the hi 1. One
of their viou nied was taken and hinge I. The others
they carried away in the dense, fog. M's. Lawrence, wife
of Colonel George Lawrecce, the Agent in Rajpootana,
was staying on this hill. (Her letter lies before me, edged
with black, mourning for poor Sir Henri.) At her house
was pasted a guard of the .1 audpore men. They left
quietly early in the mo-ning, in obedience ti one of the
servants, who bade then remember by whose favour they
had s) long eaten the English salt, and do no harm to the
family of the Colonel. The mutineers are thought to have
gone t r join their comrades at Erinpoora, where, however,
I believe' the authorities are on the look out for them.

I alluded above when speaking of the non-arrival of Gen.
Havelock at Agra—l mean the mutiny at Dinapore, which
has set all Behar in a blez', and thus necessarily retards
the approach to Cawnpare of reinforcements for
operations in Oude an i the Doab. Bat for this unfor-
tunate occurrence—rather let me say, but for the
gross and culpable mismana7ement of General Lloyd,
commandiog at Dinapore, the 37th, 5.b Fosileers, 90th,
and 84 h might all have been at Cawnpore long era this.
You, no doubt, received all the Dinapore details from
Calcutta by last mail; I will, therefore, only remind you
that General Lloyd, with the 10th Foot, p irt of the 37th,
anal ai European field battery at his command, allowed the
7th, Bth, and 40th Native Infantry to leave the. station in
open mutiny, to crass the river Soane, burning, plunder-
ing, and destroying, and to lay siege to Arrah, where were
a few European and S khs in garrison, and a number o
refugees. That place, indeed, his since been relieved,
and its besiegers scattered, but not before a terrible
disaster bad befallen a detachment of the 37. h and

10th, under the cmsamand of Captain Dunbar, of the
latter regiment, which, despatched by steamer to
relieve it, were landed by night, led by traitorous
euidee into an ambuscade (a sort of gravel pit, it is called
in a letter I have seen), and there half destroyed. The
37th, out of three campataies, lust three officers, B 'gnat!,
Birkett, and Sale, and 61 men kiiled, and Captain Har-
rison and 23 men wounded. The 10th, out of 150 men,
lost Chettain Dunbar, killed, and had half their numb 'r
placed hors de combat. Then the 12th Irregular Cavalry
at Segowlie, near GJruckpore, broke out, murdered their
commandant, Major Holmes, stad his wife, and the doctor,
and then moved down up in the Ganges, at first apparently
for Caupra, a little above Dinapore, but then marched
further up, alarna,ng even Benares. The 65th Native
Infantry, at Galax it pare, is hardly to be expected to hold
out in the midst of so much disaffection. Nearer
Calcutta there were, at Beth impore, the 63rd Native
Infantry and
.11th Irregular Cavalry. These, it was
thsught well, after the specimen of native loyalty at
Dinapore, to disarm-, and for this purpose the 9 ith
Regiment was halted on its passage up. Everywhere
along the river are stations requiring to be guarded—
Patna, Dinapore, Gazeepcor, Benares, Mirzapore, Chun.
argur— now that the province of Behar is disturbed.
Chunargar, for instance, is a place of great strength, a
fort perched upon a cliff rising sheer from the river, and
calculated trom its position to give ui great annoyance it
surprised and held by an enemy. It was garrisoned merely
by a few invalids. These have been reinforced by a half
company of the 37th, but more probably are wanted.
You may judge then of what grave effects this outbreak at
Dieapore, this unchecked outbreak, has been productive,
in what serious jeopardy it has placed Lucknow.
Moreover, it his endangered not only Behar, but
the neighbor ring provinces or divisions of Ram.
ghur and CLota Nagpore, thus threatening and ren-
d-ring insecure the western frontier of Bengal,
We trust that the three other regiments of the China
force-82nd, 23rd, and 93rd—will very soma be at Calcutta.
Sour of the first may, I think have been picked up by
the Shannon from the wreck of the Transit, and be among
the 1 700 men who, according to the papers. Lard Elgin
and Captain Peel have taken to C ,lcutta. Probably the
greater portion are Mariaes from the Sanspareil, which I
observed reached Hongkong four days before the Shannon
sailed from that port for Calcutta. SI James Outram has
gene up to Dinapare in supreme command of that and of
the C awnpore divisions. General Lloyd was summed y
removed from his command, and there are strong rumours,
and jet stronger hops, that he may be brought to a court
martial.

In the se uthern Mahratta count-y, you will remember,
occurred the first intrance of open disaffection in a Bombay
regimen', in the mutiny of part of the 27 h at Kulapore, of
which I wro e in my last. Since thee the remainder of the
regiment at head-quarters, and also the detachment at
Rutnagherry, have been disarmed by Colonel Le Grand
Jacob, who has gone down to the district with special
powers. At Dharwar and Belgaum respectively are the
28th an 1 29 h R..giments, raised at the same time with
the 27th. Both were undoubtedly wavering, and have
probably only been saved from open outbreak by the timely
arrival of the 2nd Europeans, who by the excellent arrange-
ments of the Government an I the naval authorities, were
presented at the various stations at a time of the year when,
as some of the 28th exultingly declared, the cost was
closed, and no English could be brought down. Many
executions have taken place of mutinous prisoners at
Kola pore, and at Belgaum of seditious agitators and of
one native officer of the 29th. At the latter station all the
sentences were ordered by a native court-martial. Here
the Mahomedan festival of the Mohurrum is passing, or,
as last night was the grand night, I may say has passed
off quietly. The authorities were on the alert with
bayonets and field pieces. We are anxious to hear that
Ilyderhabad in the Deccan has been equally free from
disturbance. Up to the evening before last (the 20th) the
telegraph announced all quiet. The wing of the 12th
Lancers reached the station from Poonah about ten
days ago. For Madras, too, where exists in the
suburban village of Triplicane a very turbulent
Mussulman population, we are anxious. But
as late as the day before yesterday nothing had
occurred to disturb i.s ordinary tranquility. I
greatly regret, however, to announce a mutiny in the
cavalry regiment of that presidency (the Bth). which,
ordered to Madras to embark for service at Calcutta,
refused to go. Its horses were taken away and sent to
C ►lcutta ; the men were disarmed of their pistols and
carbines,'but were allowed to retain their swords, and in
this condition are now doing duty at Arcot. One's first
impression is, that they have got off rather easily.

iviag Calcutta and its virility with a passing
mention that it has been found advisable to disarm even
the Governor General's body guard, I ietern to the Pun-
jaub and Sir John Lawrei.c.. The Chiel. C immissientr
Is at Lahore. I have written already of wh it he has
done for the army at Delhi i i the way of reinforcements.
He continues hard at w,rk, enlisting aed training the new
levies. He has already nominaLd the officers fir
s,xte,n new Punjub Irregular Infantry corps, to be
numbered from the 7th to the 22nd inclusive, and hopes to
have, before the year is out, an army of 30,000 men,
entirely Sikhs, hill-men, and Puaj thee Mussulinans ; not
one Ilindoo, or Hindostani Mahome lan. llis province
was, at the latest dates, quite tranq i 1 We have, however,
heard during the fortnight, of one distil, b ince rapidly
an] terrib'y put d :we. Oa the 30th of J ily the disarnoe 1
26th Native Infantry mutinied at Lahore, killed
their commacdiag officer, M,ijor Spencer, and two
native offi_iers, and then broke away, anti del up the
1 ft bank of the Et ivee chased by the police and sum
of the new levies. At a place forty miles from Lahore
they attempted to cross the river. When the Depu v
C of llmri seer reached the spot the next afternoon,
he found Vow. about 150 men had been shot er drowned
by the police, aided by the villagers; 160 were captured
on an island in the river; 35 were coon ed drew i in in
trying to get off. Numerous fugitives ware been lit
is from all Ttaiters during the night ; '237 were summarily
ex, cived yesterday (.due. 1); 41 died frAn fatigue, and about
21 In ire had been apprehended in neighbonhlne
lii round numbers, ,500 men are thus account Ir t )
these be added the furlough and tick men, the Bhoojpore
met, the Silas, and Purij iheev, and some guar Is
who remained, the total Fteeingth of the while regi-
ment is approximately given. This is from the official
bulletin. Twenty-nine more of this regiment hive since
been executed—retribution swift aryl severe, bet amely
merited and most necessary. At such tomes it is lenity
that is the real cruelty.
At 'Meehan, an outbreak in the port of a regiment
under similar circumstances to the 26th, that is, disarmed,
was at one time imminent. The corps is the 69:h Native " You will have received by last mail the Calcutta pe
Infantry, which in a let er from Mooltan that !Ls before tition for the transfer of the Government of this country
me is described as " entirely mutinous ;" but for the timely to the Crown. I have just seen it. I cannot yet say
appearance of a regiment of Panjsub Infantry on the whether it will flail here the favour which is solicited for
morning of the 7th of Jane, there is, lam ass fired, little it from the mercantile and other bodies, but I, for my
doubt, that unarmed as the men were, a desperate attempt own part, think it will not. For a document emanating
at mutiny and massiere would have been made on that from men of eminence, I believe, among the merchants
night. It was the Subadar-Major of this regiment who was and anion& the lawyers, it is, I think, eminently weak,
blown away from a gun in pretence of the Boinbay Fuel-
and unfair. By a convenient petitio principii it
lie s, as I mentioned in my last. Five or six others of the assumes--what may be true—hut what it does not, as it
should, attempt to prove—that the mutinies are the result
corps have since been similarly disposed of. The guns
of an organised and deeply ramified conspiracy, and
used in these execn:ions were these of a native troop of
coveredproceeds
and to censurerovided against
the Governmentthi
l t fort not
utterlyha having
odri
es
s-
Hcrse Artillery, which, is spite of this service, have
since, as a prudential measure, been disarmed. But Lord Canning'sr sending to Chinaeapriod to England for
recur to the case of the subadar of the 69,h. On forcements, blames him for declining to accept the
the trial of this man, face came out which are worthy proffered services of the militia, then asserts that his
of note. I am assured, on authority which I have policy up to the hour of writing had undergone no change,
every reason to believe correct, and which I know and yet in the next sentence mentions the enrolment of
will be so represented in high quarters at home, that the the volunteer guards and of the yeomanry—inveighs against
t
mutinous speech to the men for which the subadar sufferei,he censorship of the press, which, with a studious half-
was reported to the adjutant by a sepoy, and that his story
truth, it says was unnecessary with regard to the English
paers, and u a er tho im mediate
was disregarded by that officer, why, when questioned by intrpoduction of winds
haltp witha
dozen ra
raydicalfor changes, for the
Major Chamberlain (I presume it is meant after the story majority of which it has
shown no reason whatever.
had been told to him), denied the existence of disaffec:ion When I add to these special faults of the petition the
in the regiment. Moreover, when the men, roused by the general error °fits promoters in endeavouring to.straiten
address of the subadar, were moving about the bells of the hands of Government at such a vnomente anili in acting
arms, and refusing to leave them, the officers at the mess I than,, as, it appears to me, umpattiotica4, k have g,iVoell

" Here, in Bombay, we may consider ourselves safe,
even should disaffection declare itself among the 10th and
11th regiments, of which at prsent the intelligence de-
partment which has been right in its previous warnings,
and deserves respect fur general success, declares itself
ignorant. At. Sattara the townspeople have been dis-
armed. At Poona a similar measure has been once or
tw,ce praposed, but as often abandoned, which is singular,
if th-re be danger sufficient to warrant the bringing out
loaded six-pounders to the church on Sundays. This has
actually been done more than once.

my reasons for thinking that the Calcutta petition wil
not find many supporters in Bombay.
"The fall of rain. has been ample, and agricultural
prospects are good. Exchange on England, 23 lid."

,' rulers. Then as the 10:h had to divide into three parties
to chase the three bodies of mutineers, a native brought a
mesa age by word of mouth from the magistrat to one of
these parties (250 strong) to relieve a particular place•
The officer in command believed it ; the detachment soon
found itself in an ambuscade, and (it being night) was
completely cut up ; ninety only made their escape. No
pursuit had been organised at all till the mutineers had
; got safely away. This brigadier will be brought before a
court martial (like his companion in trouble, Hewitt),
unless the Government considers themselves implicated
for allowing an imbecile of seventy-two to retain so re-
sponsible a situation. Other court martials will be held
at the bar of public opinion, from con•letnnation in which
there are men numbered among the dead whom not even
death will save.

Strange rgnorance and stranger trash that refused to
believe in the existence of the disaffectton till it left tracks
of blood wherever it went; that carries out the same
principle in detail to every regiment and every criminal.
Will it be believed that such a conspiracy could have
existed, as this is proved to have existed, for months ?
We were all sleeping on a volcano, and government.
dreamt not of it. And then, when the explosion came,
when the dill. rent communities in Calcutta presented
addresses to Lord Canning expressive of their desire to
help government as volunteers, or in any other way.
he repudiated their services ; "he dotrhted not but that
tranquillity would speedily be restored." The volunteer
guards were not organised till long after. And he must
have written in the same self-satisfied manner to Lord
Elgin, or we should have had the China troops. He wrote
to Jung Bahadoor for Goorkha troops, which would have
been in time to relieve Lucknow, and perhaps rase the
siege of Wheeler's camp at Cawnpore, but in an evil hour
he countermanded them, and now has sent for them again.
But we dare not penetrate thus- into the region- of might-
have-been, and recount haw mony horrible massacres—
how much shame and sorrow to England—might have
been avoided if idle laisse faire and coward hesitation
did not bear sway in our highest places. That massacre
at Cawnpore—the most fearful of related or imagined
horrors—it is too horrible to think that it was not
inevitable.

INCOgE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE EAST

INDIAN GOVERNMENT.
There are four principal sources of revenue, which,
large as is their yield, hive not been found sufficient to
meet the expenditure of the Indian Government As
this will form one of the most important subjects for
inquiry whenever our rule has been reinstated, some
re narks at the present moment may not be thrown away
upon it. The sources to which we allude are the lane-
tax, which yields nearly sixteen millions sterling; the
opium monopoly, yielding nearly five millions; the salt
monopoly, yieldino two and a half millions ; and the
Customs, which yield nearly two millions. Thus we have
an income of up war3s of twenty-four millions, with which
one might reasonably expect the Indian G tvernment
would be able to pay its way. Against this, however.
there are some formidable items in the way of expendi-
ture, which present a balance on the wrong side. The
military charge amounts—or dii before the outbreak of the
mutiny—to something over ten millions ; the civil and
political establishments, to upwardt of two millions ;
cial and police, two millions and a half, and the interest
on a debt of over fifty millions, somewh tt above two mil-
lions. But in additton to these, there are other items
which have made a deficit at the end of the year the rule,
and equilib ium the exception. So differently have the
British rulers of India applied the resources from the
native governments. But it is at the same time to be
remembered, that we have had to maintain an army gene.
rally of about 40,000 European soldiers in India, and that
this is a cost which the native princes have, of course, not
had to bee-. The public debt of India, up till the 30th
April, 1856, was £5O 483,360, and the interest pay-
able upon it £2,140,577. Of the former sum, the Pre-
sidency of Bengal owes £47,598,204 ; the North
Western Provinces, £238,403 ; Madras, V ,383,664 ; and
Bombay, £1,503 095. It will thus be seen that of the
three presidencies Bengal owes the public creditor f r
and away the lion's share of obligation, due, no doubt, as
much to the mismanagement of the presidency as to its
extent ; for it is a rule that more money is spent on things
done badly than on things done well. But it is also to
be observed that while the company has been in debt, the
cultivators of the soil have been impoverished, and their
physical condition impaired, especially by the monopoly
of s This article, fir which the consumer in England
pays 30s. a ton, coats in India £2l per ton. These are
circumstances which must be borne in mind, whenever a
happier state of things leaves us at liberty to consider
the state of India. And, in reviewing them, we shall be
bcund to take into account that, whenever the disaffection
of the people of India, apart from the Sepoy', it has not
taken an offensive form.—Morning Advertiser.