Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

exist. Let us, then, congratulate the country
that the great city of Delhi has fallen, and the
head-quarters of the mutineers sacked, and the
mutineers put to flight, The Russians, at Sebas-
topol, as soon as the British bayonets pierced
their stronghold, took to flight, and gave
"leg-bail" for their good intentions. The news
of the fall of Delhi has been hailed throughout
the country with ardent satisfaction. Hardly
a parish church steeple—even in the most se-
cluded of the rural districts—but displayed its
union jack on Wednesday, in token of the joyous
tidings, and not a few of the church bells rang
delighted peals during the day. Sebastopol was
considered a great military feat, but it must be
remembered that it took three powers to subdue
The deeds of bravery at Delhi will teach
our allies that with an army now like that in
India, England has nothing to fear, and that
nothing can arrest from her dominion the vast
Empire of India.
Delhi having fallen, it becomes the next ques-
tion, what of Lucknow ? We had at one time
grave doubts about the safety of the small but
truly gallant band which defends that garrison ;
but according to the latest accounts, we have
now full confidence that it will be enabled to
hold out until relief reaches it. The besieged
had repulsed the assaults of the mutineers, and
inflicted upon them heavy punishment, and what
is equally gratifying, there was abundant pro-
visions in the fortress to last them until the Ist
of October, before which time Generals HAVE-
LOCK and OUTRAM would have reached Lucknow,
and at once proceed to release the beleagued
city, and thereby put an immediate end to their li
perils of the past two months. We are sorry to
see that, although repulsed and defeated on every
side, the mutineers continue to increase. The
present mail brings us intelligence that other
regiments have shown symptoms of insubordina-
tion and disloyalty. Of course short work was
made with them—the ringleaders were sum •li
marily dealt with, and the rest disarmed. This
is satisfactory ; but to those wielding authority in
India it must be painful to learn that the spirit
of rebellion was manifesting itself in new districts,

and among regiments where its existence was not
previously suspected.

It is painful in the extreme to learn the
imbecility of Lord CANNING'S government of
India. A few days ago we had occasion to
comment upon the instructions which he pro-
mulgated respecting the treatment of mutineers
made prisoners. Carrying out the provisions
and principles of these instructions, we now learn
that 150 prisoners, taken by General NEILL at
Cawnpore, had been liberated by Mr. C. P.
GRANT, whose civil authority overides the military
power of the distinguised officer alluded to. An
act of' such ill-timed clemency has been, as it
should be, loudly stigmatised by every person of
influence and intelligence in India. We hardly
know how Lord CANNING can defend an
act so reprehensible in every respect.
time of war, when we are contending
with a numerous and ruffianly enemy, the
true policy of our rulers should be to show no
sympathy with the mutineers, but to take every
step to render them utterly powerless. This the
Governor-General of India does not do. He
releases them out of prison—an indirect admis-
sion that they have been unjustly arrested, and
that they were right in lifting arms against the
constituted authorities of India. Besides this,
we only set such men at liberty to perpetrate
fresh deeds such as those which disgraced Cawn-
pore. We look upon this ;tat of Lord CANNING
in a most unsatisfactory light, and one which the
India Board cannot explain away or defend.
'What will be said of a Government which acts so
leniently to rebels, while it suspends the publica-
tion of a newspaper because it tells unpalatable
truths, and feels compelled to speak in reprehen-
sible terms of the conduct of the Governor-Gene-
ral and his Council ? Nevertheless,_ such is the
conduct of the Governor-General, and such the
procedure of his Council in the affairs of India.
We have before demanded, for the sake of India
itself, the prosperity and happiness of its peo-
ple, and the honour and integrity of British
dominion in Hindostan, that Lord CANNING
should be instantly recalled. Every day he is
allowed to rule in the :manner which recent
accounts set forth, he is doing an injustice to the
country at Dirge, and rendering more difficult the
intricate task of tranquilising indh, and civilis-
ing her countless population.

I As the Municipal Polling-day approaches, the
defeat of the Corruptionists, wherever they are
opposed, appears to be more certain. The old
watch words of great wealth—long
,standing—
known respectability—pure sanctity, and the
other cant of Twaddiedurn, are met by the
Liberal side bringing forward candidates who
Possess all these recommendations and something,
more—a Laced determination to oppose Corporate
jobbery in all its .phases. The Burgess who
thinks property an indispensable qualification for
a Town Councillor, will find it in the Liberal
candidates, Others, who desire to reverse the
established order of things, by bestowing marks
of merit on the philanthropist, will not be at a
loss to find a good and tried Samaritan on the
Liberal roll. The Corruptionists have no
respectability attached to their names which
younger aspirants to Municipal distinctions
cannot add to their fame by one vote in the
Council. The Burgesses are beginning to see
all this, and Mr. VERNON'S canvass of the North
Tomteth Ward has enlightened him very con-
siderably on this point. He has stepped forward
to oppose Mr. AvLiori ou She distinct under-

standing that he is a " Conservative" forsooth
We have repeatedly stated that politics have
nothing whatever to do with Corporate elections,
or the management of Municipal affairs ; and
political titles can only be used in such assem-
blies to distinguish one side from the other; and,
unfortunately for Mr. VERNON, the Ratepayers
of Liverpool have had that substantial proof
which years :of woeful experience furnishes, to
satisfy them that Corporate " Conservatives" are
not the men they want.
Hence the folly of employing such marks of
distinction in a Corporate contest. It is possible
that Mr. VERNON'S ardent friends may have done
him a grave injustice by identifying his fair
name with so unsavoury a cognomen. If Mr.
VERNON should declare that he will not, by his
votes, sanction any species of jobbery in the
Corporation, what will become of the " Conser-
vative" spirit of his supporters ? Mr. BANNER
is pretty much in the same plight. Unless that
gentleman countenances the further suppression
of the Borough estate, and is prepared to vote
for an increase of the debts of the port and town
and a Borough rate, he will cease to be a

Conservative," and the Liberal Candidate, Mr.
BowRING, must, if he attempts to oppose prodi-
gality, be content to be called- a " Radical" who
forgets •' all the obligations of honesty, consis-
tency, and truth," Such is the arrant nonsense
which the unimpeachable opposition drag into a
purely civil election, and on this preposterous
clap-trap they rely for the return of men to
the Council, to support the majority who
have brought our trade and town into irredeem-
able debt. They seek to fill the Corporation
with toadies who will drench us with Pike
cholera, and who will leave the industrious poor
in their present dark homes sooner than allow a
most iniquitous Gas monopoly to be interfered
with. These are a few of the foul designs which
are to be carried out by exciting political pre-
judices and sectarian passions at our Municipal
elections. We challenge the opposition Press to
show the public any one instance in which we
have profaned the sanctity of religion by making
it a stalking-horse, or named politics with a view
to obtain one single vote for the Candidates
whose return to the Council we have advocated.
We can find in the official records of th,..

Corporations doings quite sufficient to convince
the Burgesses of Liverpool that it is high time
to break down the jobbery of that body. We
sk for reforms which will secure the
economical and honest administration of the
corporate funds, and if we should fail to attain
this most necessary end by the Constitutional
exercise of the Municipal Franchise we do not
despair of obtaining it from the Imperial
Legislature. The truth has yet to be told about
the real position of the Dock Estate, and a
balance-sheet published by the Conservancy
Commission, which will startle both Houses of
Parliament. But what do the hireling scribes
of the opposition papers know about these
difficult and weighty matters ? They only
attack men who. dare to oppose corruption.
They keep far away from our figures, and make
vulgar and self degrading abuse supply the
place of reason. This may do very well for the
"Conservative' rabble, but the cool and
reflective portions of that political school must
feel outraged by the use which is made of their
name in these local contests. Our opponents do
us justice however, when they say we are
determined to break up the monopoly which
exists in the Council. We plead guilty to this
charge, and will even go so fur as to tell them
that we will give our humble support to every
man who comes forward to oppose known
Corruptionists at our Municipal Elections.
Lime-street Ward was carried last year against
uncalculatable odds, by a spirited opposition on
the Liberal side, and the same result may be
fairly anticipated this year in St. Peter's,
Vauxhall, Evertor, and North Toxteth Wards.

In all these localities the most determined
stand is being made against all the adverse
influences which can be brought to bear by the
Corruptionists. Mr. Bowl; IN G'S and Mr.
MELLY'S friends find that they are in
honour bound to return them, and no effort
will be spared, tip to the last hour of polling,
to secure the desired result. In the other
Wards strong hopes of success are entertained,
and with one generous and united effort on the
part of the Liberal Burgesses there need be no
fear as to the issue. But we must not disguise
the fact, that without some exertion be made by
those who really desire to see the Council
checked i❑ its course of unparalleled extrava-
gance and waste, the desired triumph cannot be
obtained. We must, then, again urge the
Burgesses to be up and doing, and to rally
round the polling booths in sufficient numbers
to show what the moral feeling of the Rate-
payers really is. Tice Second of November is
near at hand, and let it be observed as a day
on which the Burgesses hare a solemn duty to
perform towards their fellow-townsmen, who do
not enjoy the right of voting. That this duty
will be manfully discharged, and that cor-

porate jobbing will receive an equally
solemn rebuke, we do not doubt, The evil,
which the Liberal Electors have to reprove and
correct, has assumed the alarming magnitude of
18,000,0001. or 20,000,0001. of local debt.
This, as we have before observed, must be
thrown on the trade of the Mersey and the
town of Liverpool, if the Municipal Electors do

not step forward and at once arrest the prodigal
career of their representatives in the Council
Chamber.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.

The Vienna Gazette announces 'in a despatchAfrom
Galatz, that the proceedings of the Danubian Commission
are temporarly suspended, on account of the differ"
euces of opinion among the members of the Commission,
who will wait for fresh instructions from their respective
governments.

ANOTHER ROYAL MARRIAGE.

MUNICH, WEDNE9DAY.

Count Medolf has arrived, charged on the part of the
King of Naples to demand the hand of thelTrincess
Mary for the Duke of Camibri, heir presumptive to
the Crown of the Two Scilies. ,The Princess is sister
of the Emperor of Austria, and has just completed her
sixteenth year.

LONDON COURT OF B ANKRUPTCY. —YEsTER,DAY.

Ix RE E. BALDWIN.—The Bankrupt, late proprietors
of the Morning lie raid, and other Metropolitan:newspapers
came up on the question of last examination, and passed
unopposed-

PUBLIC DINNER IN HONOUR OF LORD
BROUGHAM AT PENRITH.

Lord Brougham was entertained on Wednesday at a
public dinner, at the George Assembly Room, at Penrith,
by a party of the magistracy and gentry of the counties
of Cumberland and Westmoreland. In the absence of the
Earl of Lonsdale, who was prevented from attending by
ill health, the chair was occupied by E. W. Hosell, Esq.,
chairman of the Q„tarter Sessioas for the counties of
Westmoreland and Cumberland. The vice-chair was
filled by Henry Howard, Esq., of Greystoko Castle.
Among the gentlemen present were Charles Howard, Esq.,
M.P. ; W. Hodgson, Esq., M.P. ; J. Steel, Esq., M.P.;
Sir J. 11. Maxwell, W. Wakefield, Esq., J. Crosley, Esq.,
and W. Coackenthorpe, Esq , strenuous supporters of
Lord Brougham durin:y, the Westmoreland election. After
the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, the healthy of the
Lord-Lieutenant, of the bishop and clergy of the diocese,
and of the members for the county and the boroughs,
were proposed and responded to. The chairman then
proposed the toast of the day, the health of Lord
Brougham. Men of all parties, he said, had assembled to
express their high regard and respect for
_one of the most
distinguished statesmen of the age.
The toast was received with tremendous applause, and
his lordship's reply was greeted with equal manifestations
of sympathy and enthusiasm.

ST. PETER'S NV tRD ELECTION AND MR
BANNER'S CHURCH.

Wo publish the following extra3ta frim the Council
ntoccedings of the 10-.11 of 'May, 1852, and July 6',h,
1854, in reference to the grant of land for the Church in
earinxion wt i tiL; Orphan Asylum.

(Feointitc Liverpool Mercury, Hay 11, 1852 )

TOWN COUNCIL, MONDAY, MAY 10.

FiNANC3 COMMITTEE,

Tae proceedings of the Committee contained a rec,,m,
dation to grant, subject to the approval of the Lords of the
Tressurv, a piece of land in Myrtle Street, to Mr. Han
mood Banner, on condition that he baild a Church thereon
within three years, that sufficient accortarnodatio I be at all
times resoled in the Church gratuitously, for the use of
the children, teach =r=, and others connected with the
Female Orphan Asylum, and Orphan Boys' Asylum ; the
plan and elevation of the Church to be subject to the
approval of the Cour..cil.
Mr. Lloassy in movin., the mfirmation of the
proceedings, said the only surbjeet to which he need c li
attention was the grant of land to Mr. Ilarmood Banner,
for the use r,f the Fern +le Orphan Asylum. After speak-
ing of the liberal manner in which Mr. Banner had come
forward and offered to tract the Church, he stated 'hat the
quantity of land granted by the Council was 2,140 square
yards, which, with previous grants to the same Charities
amounte I altogether to 8,000 ,quire yards. The land was
of considerable value; but the committee believed that,
the two Charities to which the grant hid been made were
most vaLiable, not only as regarded the objects they had in
view, but is a pecuniary sense, for there was no doubt
many of the objects who did not come under their operation
might otherwise become chargeable to the community,
either as inmates of Workhouses or prisons.
The resolutim was s corded by Mr. Alde-man J.
Holme ; aid aPor a few werds from Mr. Beckwith, the
Council unanimously confirmed the proceedings
Mr. HaaMoon BA NN At could not suffer the confi flaa•
tion of the proceedings to take place without making his
acknoWledgements to the Finance Committee for the very
handtmine manner in which they had recommended the
grant of land which he p.qitiouarl. for, and the very unani-
mous vote of the Council on the present occasion. He
quite agreed wi:h his friend Mr. Hor:flay, that it was not
only to the present mein nt that they were to hock with
regard to those institutions which were fur the orphans of
the town, but they \v.:re really dohog goed for g' nerations •
yet to c one—(hear. hear) —not only to the chil hen DOW
there, but to the children who in future ycare might be
brought up in these insti utions and inasmuch. as
prevention wis better than cure---(hear, heir) —how true
was the sentiment of Mr. Harnby, that they we-e providing
for children who might other wise have got into bad hands,
and through bad example an I evil cornmunic Itioas have
become pests of society. lie felt greatly indebted to the
C and the Finance C tomi tee, both peronally and
on behalf of ill two ins'itutions. The limitations in the
grant be quite a2proved of, and when he produced the
plans and elevation of the intended church, he hoped they
would meet with the unanimous ap,;r val of the Council,
and net only wove useful for the purpose for which they
were intended, but also era matn..l to the town. (E-Lar,
hoar.)

Extract of Town Council proceedings, July sth, 1854.
A letter was read from . B triaer, petitioning Oat the
Church, in ctnnectim with the Hale and Female Orphan
Asylum, in DI fr e-street, might have a liaggel path vay
placed before it,
M. BIGHAM opposed the grant, on the goad that Mr-
Banner had an interest in the churah, and had placed his
son there as chaplain.
Mr. Banner said that he hal withdrawn his son from a
more b?neficill app datmetv, and that if he had expended
the sum which he had given for building the church, in
purchasing a benefinP, he would have derived a much
greaterpecuni try interest.

- Mr. fLinsos charged Mr., Banner with having a bene-
fici a interest in the church, and said that he ior oat, should
always ()ppm the kind of mawkish sentimentality which
Mr. Banner was in the habit of intro-liming.
Mr. BANNER said he was unable to account for the
personal feeling which existed against him, ani he re-
gretted that hi 3 views in building that chapel were not
more appreciated. He state] that he hai built that
chapel without rec.iving a farthing assist :rice from any one
else, and he oily asked that ttle same should 131 done for
this chapel as hid been done for chapels bath by Mr.
Horsfall and kir. Inman.

H aadts doprelated the personal manner in which
the motives of M.. Sinner hal been attacked, which he
was hims of aw.►re was actuated by the purest spirit.
(Hear, hear.)

The Rev. W R Jolley, formerly curate of St. Bride's,
Liverpool, has been appointed tutor to Prince Alfred.
Lewis AND GiMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT Y3B. BOYS'
ClLortiixo.—Number of boys clothed for week ending
Sttur lay, Ogobtr 24th, 475; corresponding week last year,
280, which was the first week this establ'shment was
ope.ied ; incrn+se, 196 boys.
Me. Ronsow's BENEPIT.—Oar col mans are so crowded
that we can only in a line or two call public attention to
the fact, thlt to-night this latest, and in many reipec s
• g-eatest, cal,b ity of our stage takes his benefit. Mr.
R )loson- will appear in the new drama" Piot and
Passion In which he achieve.] one of his most remarkable
impersonations, and in the burlesque of " Mataniello."'
Lttrzaioon OFFICE Sit LOIDON.-A paragraph appeared
in the Daily Post of yesterday, stating that the commercial
astociatiorts bad agreed to rc nnmend Mr. Brines for the
above appointment, this, we are informed, it an error; no
,nell recommendation has been mad', and, moreover,
nothing will be done in the appointment untl :he deputa-
tion chostn by she Chamber of Commerce and other publio
bodim to wait upon the C irp ration and Dock Committee,
have etnonrmicated with. those holies. The Chamber of
Commat'ee have requested the different pubic bodies to
send into them the expristiun of their views ani intentions !
r9specting its office, and a general matting will shortly
take plums to fiaeide the question.

FALL OF THE
DELHI.

;In addition to the Calcutta Mail, the cooten
of which we published yesterday, we have n
received our private correspondence and OP°
from Bombay to the 3rd of October.
The following is the letter of the Time's 13°11/_-;
bay correspondent, which gives the particulars .o_l'
the fall of Delhi, and the usual summary of events
since the departure of the last mail
BOMBAY', Cler•?..
At length I am able to announce to you the fail oftsut
revolted capital of North-Western India, or, if
chi
tier
appellation be not strictly correct, of the ancient e
city of the Mogul empire, in which a faithless soldier,
had sought to re-erect .the independent throne of the
desceadant of Babor. Delhi is once more in possessing
of the British. Our information at present is more seati
than could be desired, owing partly to the dawk ceoe
munication being unluckily intercepted between Lahore'
and Mooltam. But the main facts have reached 133 from
t
so many quarters as to leave no doubt whatever that ~,,
:place was assaulted with success on the 14th of SePte
ber, when a permanent lodgment was effected, that dorind
the four or five following days further advances 6
acquisitions on the city were made, and that finally °u
the 23th the whole of the space enclosed within the walls
°f
was in our possession. I should observe, however, thee,
we have not received as yet such certain evidence
Tho
e
latter part of this story as of that of the former.
to.
proceedings of the 14th, 15th, and 16th are known l°
however, compendiously from the official bulletins issned
se
by the Chief Commissioner at Lahore, and fours gut
or
you know, on telegraphic messages from Delhi. 135b;ir
the final occupation on the 20th we have only heard
an express from the Residency at Jeypore in 10.1"tabiled
which reached Lord Elphinstone by way of Alneda;tbe
yesterday. It is dated at Jeypore on the evening °1 'to
23rd, and is to the effect that the news had just also
received at the Residency bath from the Rajah and -to
from the Vakeel or Minister of the Nawab of Jhuijunsig
whom it may be presumed to have been forwarded by "A
master, a chief resident in the immediate neighbourhe°t;
of Delhi. Thus the tidings of our ultimate and comPlear
success rest at present on native authority only, bilt,pd
the natural srquel and complement of our undonb""
triumph of the 14th they are universally credited. ill
But to complete, so far as my present materials ri`
allow, the story of the avenging army. When I closedo
my last letter, we had heard that the heavy siege trail
was expected to reach the camp in a very few days, an
that works ware being erected wherein to mount the guns
on their arrival. While the troops were thus basYt
the
enemy were inactive. There were none of those desPera'-f.
sallies from the city that characterised the early days
°
the siege, when day by day successive waves of Inntinni;
were shattered against the heights of the British P°
and though their artillery was not silent, the only success
attained was on the night of the' Ist of Septetnbc°
when a shell from the battery on the further side of the
river (of which I wrote in my last) burst among a Pick%
of the 61-at, in front of the Melcalfe-house, killing two men
and wounding seven. On the morning of the 4th, arrived,
in camp the long looked-for siege train of between 30 ann
40 heavy guns, howitzers, and mortars, with large 0%;
titles of ammunition, escorted by the remaining wirl44-,.
the Bth font, two more companies of the 61st, an%
wing of the Ist aelooeh battalion of the Bombay o°3'.
On the 6th cane in from nteerut a most valuable rein'
forcement in 200 of the 60th R flea, and 100 Artillery
recruits. To the latter were added 45 men of the 91 t
Lancers. The place of this detachment was supplied at
Meerut by the 7th Puajah Infantry. On the foll°wn:b
day the army was further strengthened by the 4th Punk " e
Rifles under Captain Wride, and by some troops oft
Jheend Rajah. On the night of the 7th the advance 0.
batteries' intended for the destruction of the '~lore
bastion and: the adjacent curtain were armed with
heavy guns at about 650 yards from the bastion, anaro-
d
enclosure within :half that distance of the walls, call;,f:
the tlClodsea Bagh, was occupied by a detacholont
infantry and artillery. In these operations we sustain%
a loss of something un ler 50 killed and wounded, tvi,
officers being amen; the'former, Lieutenants Ifildebraao '
of the Bengal Artillery, and ,Bannerman, of the Born"!
Fusileers, attached to the Beeloochees, the latter
promising young officer, well known to myself and t
many peep!e here, and by:all regretted. The next do,
was marked by the opening of the advanced batteries se,
the Moree bastion and by the arrival in camp 0f tbo
Jtlrool33 or Cashmere ;:Contingent. Meanwhile her
engineers were hard at work in the erection of nt;bo
batteries. Oa the 11th a morter battery opened 00;0
Moree from the Koodsea Bagh at little more than fire
yards, and upon the Cashmere and Water bastions e
,'"•10
was commenced from 13 heavy guns and howitzers an'tbe
large mortars, planted at two points in front of !a
enclosure known as Ludlow Castle, and so noted
Water
Wyld's map. Oa the 12,h the attack on the iv
bastion was strengthened by fear 18-pounders atfa trico
light (51 inch) mortars (increased afterwards aPPirent-e-cl
to eight of the former and twelve of the latter), Piau 0
at 209 and 20 par Is from the wall and the Castonv"-i, :c
compound near the river The fire of the enei-ti
was most severe upon the last-named batteries, 'te
were exposed not only to the gans of the Water hastl'
but to those in the old inner fort of Selimghur, and 3.1 a
to those on the other side of the river, Here Cartia;
Fagan, of the Artillery, described as a most enterPrisWo
and excellent officer, fell, shot through the head,
ring
other fatal casualty occurred among the officers rin;
these days, nor does the general loss appear to hare
severe, consid3ring, the proxnaity of' the batteries to 'it!
walls and the tenacity of the defence, the enemy I°°Plitries
up a vigorous fire of musketry from rifle pits and Pr".."-rd
of jungle even after (hair heavy guns were rendered
unserviceable. This latter result was rapidly Pr°due:e9
by the precision and weight of the constaat disehnlr°
jou
a
from oar batteries. By the 13th the Cashmere .3 tow
was in ruins, and had long ceased to return a shot t°
fire that was continu ally kept up upon it. The adPir°llo
curtains on either sile were similarly ruined, and fro o
the deb, is of the Moree bastion only a slight gun °r to
at intervals replied to the heavy shot and shell lhatr:tre
poured into it. At the other end of the works the "
bastion: had suffered scarcely less severely, its (strecied
magazine was blown up, and a light gun which enfila et
our batteries had heed silenced. And now, the 11349rne
for !he assault drawing near, General Wilson promulgated
the following excellent order :
The force assemhled before Delhi has had much hard-
tti*f
ship and fatigue to undergo since its arrival in
by
camp, all of which has been most cheerfully borne
efficers and man. The time is now drawing near that
the Major-Genera! commanding the force trusts
their labours will be over, and they will be rewarded,od
the capture of the city for all their past exertions -0
for a cheerful endurance of still greater fatigue sist
exposure. The troops will be required to aid and as,
the engineers in the erection of the batteries and trenc"h
-
and in daily exposure to the sun.
a the.
The Artillery will have even harder work tea
„-r.rd
yet have had, and which they have so well and ene-,iiort
Performed hitherto; this. however, will be for rrAor'
period only, and when ordered to the assault the in-
G.naeral feels assured that British pluck and dete:i the!
ation will carry everything before them, and ,noel
bloodthirsty and murderous mutineers against
their
they are fighting will be driven headlong out °`do
stronghold or be exterminated ; but to enable thenl.,l,. of
this,
this, he warns the troops of the absolute necessity
err
th -ir keeping together and riot straggling fromt
coltinans—by this cata success only be secured. troll
Major-General Wilson 'nee I hardly remind the
of the cruel murders coMmitted. on their officersoo
comrades, as well as their wives and children, t° "Taeu
them in the lea lly struggle. N quarter should gee of
to the mutineers ; at the same time, for the
aelon,3
humanity, and the honour of the country
cy the
he calls upon them to spare all woman and hildren 'l3O
may come in their way. f or the'
It is so imperative, not only for their safety, but from'
froor
success of the assault that men should not stragii-tv
their column, that the Major-General feels it his un,Artlf
direct all commanding officers to impress this 810,- Ara-
.unonon their men, and he is confident that, after this them
them
!oa,,.the men's good sense and discipline will indate., it 10
their. officers and keep steady to their du .7:_inate
tot obey
explained to every regiment that water" been
plunder will not be allowed ; that prize agents hieeied
appointed, by whom all captu-ed property will be 01 gu-
d re'
and sold, to be divided, according to the rules and; an
lations on this head, fairly among all men engageratured
that any LUAU fOULIa lying eouoa.tied of !laving o.r