Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-29 00:00:00

ALARM TN CALCUTTA.

The Birmingham Journal publishes the following letter,
re-eived by a I.,dy in Birmingham, from her son, who is an
offi)er in the East India Company's service:
Calcutta, B.h August, 1837.—My dear Mother—Do not
be surpri. ed if you see Maggie, Kate. and all the bairns in
Birmingham by Christmas day. Things are getting worse,
and there is a probability of a proclamation coming out
for all ladies to leave Calcutta. The rebels are within
two hundred miles off On the Sod and 3rd of the mcn•b,
a rise was expected amongst the Natives, and my vessel
was or lered to do duty as a guard ship, being fully armed
with twelve-pounders. I had eight ladies and eight
children on board for protection. All the 'corels of our
service that were in the town were placed under arms.
One was stationed to guard the Mint. My vessel, Ihe
Colleroon, commanded the south entrance in'o Calcutta,
over Hastings Bridge. All went r:ff quietly ; but as the
23rd and 24th are holidays (th ) Mahornm), a rise is again
expected. A man yesterday tried to hoist the green, a
Mussularan flag, on the fort He was hanged immcdiately•
Drum-head court m trtials now do all. We are fortunately
now getting our China fleet here, which may save the
country. Some of our Generals have behaved shamefully.
Two-Generale, Hewitt and Lloyd, are now under arrest for
trial by court martial One went in plain clothes on
board a steamer when the fight was going on, and left the
troops without a commander. Some c f them are perfectly
imbecile. The way things have been managed' by some
officials is shameful. When long ago warned of what
I would take place, they laughed. and called their inform-
ants alarmists.—Your affectionate son, C A, B

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which the gallant fellows have been recently en,saged. The
32nd consiitutea the chief E sropean force in the garrison
of Lucknow,-numbers about 600 rank and file, and is ex-
cecdirgly short in its complement of nfileers. Nearly all
.the vviv, s and camilies of the men olfieers were sacri-
ficed in the Cawnpere massacre, together with, the poor
i valid soldiers and pensioners ; but there are, notwi:h-
standing, upwards of 300 women and children, and helpless
r-pple. under tin protection of the garris. n Since the
27,a of May, the day of the first outbreak, this heroic
hind, with their European cempanions, have been std' up
Within the, walls of the Residency Fm t, ircesssntly her-
:and by the fire of shot and shell cotniug from the well-
served artillery of the 20,000 mutinee,s by whom they are
invested. The casualties which have taken place are main-
ly owing to the sorties which the pressurs of famine and
absolute necessity renter imperative. It was in one of
these des:e-ate sallies that the gallant and noble Sir
Henry Lawrence received his mortal wound ; and by
the la t in is is rep artedshis successor in the Po Rica!
R-sPiancy, Major Busks, had shared a similar fate.—
Expreis.
THE ItEINFORC ZMENTS INDIA —Seventy-seven
eels have already sailed for India sieve the news of the
revolt first reached lame, conveying to the assistance of
oar countrymen a force of 29;935 man of all ranks' of
Cavalry, Infan'ry, and Ar idery ; and a further force o'
5,000 men of the Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery, Engineers,
and Field Train will embark almost immediately for the
same destination. As the vessels which first left thee
shores have now been cut close upon 90 days, we may
calculate with some degree of certsi lay thti, in addition to
the 14,t)00 reinforcements already landed at Calcutta frsusa
China, the Cape, and Mauritius, relief frem England will
now be daily arriving, and that during next m oath a foree
of over 9,000 ,men affil be landed and sent up the country,
to be followed in November by near), 18 000 men, and in
the following month, December, by 18,003 more, including
the 5,000 now embarking ; so that by the close of the year
we shall have increased the British force in India by at
least 48,000 well seasoned and dis-inlined troops of every
atm in the service —7hirek6.'s Overland Mail.

EMBODIMENT OF THE Qua 'N'S ROYAL ( ?NTIIIIII) RIFLES.
—The emboairneat or our county militia regiment took
place on ThJr,day at the ,emperar.: quarters of the waff, of
tte Botanic-road, corner of Donegal Pass. Lieut.-CJonel
Ferguson ani several of the ofric?rs were present ; and
about six-hundred of the men came forward to otain
their kits. A large number of the Rifles arrived by the
last train from the lower party of the county in the
evening,. The absence of Major M -eserz.e, the Adjutant,
owing to a severe attack of fever, was generally rrgreLted.
Tne men who attended rLeeived their clothinz and a,ms, and
were bil:t tad ,h,ough the town for the night. Several new
recruits were atte,ted, and the utmost exer ions ussd by
the officers and nun-commis,ione,l officers to tarry out, the
necessary arrangements. Although the regiment aas only
embodie; on Totirsday, and a large numb -r of the men
h.ve not yet come tor, and o obtain th it accoutrements,
the military auttori its ordered them to proceed in
this state of unpreparedness to Newry, on Frithl 'as', to
lat there stationed. The Maiqnis of Donegal!, the Colonel
of this flue carps, may well be proud of the s yle in which
his regirn-lit has turned out to a dis'qnt station on the
day following that of its embodiment. —Be fast News Letter

STUTGLRDT, Sunday.—lt is reported that the Empercr
Napoleon will proceed with the Czar to meet the Emperor
of Austria at Weimar. The Empress of Russia an the
Queen of Greece are t ere.
THE GREAT NORTHERN ACCIDENT.—Inother sufferer has
been aele.'ed to the list of fatal cases. Mr Jackson, of Bourn,
near Cambridge, died on Friday night, from interest
injuries, after having undergone amputation of one of his
arms. The guard is elowly recovering.
LORD CANNING.—the Laity News contains to elsbnrate
article on the competency of Lord Canning for the office
of Governor-General at this arduous juncture. His merits
are candidly taken into mcount, and the subject is impar-
tially trereed. The writer shows that, in his opinion,
Lord Canning is not equal to the crisis.
C2an:NAL WISRMAN'S PASTORAL ON THE INDIAN MUTl-
NlFS.—Yesterday (remday), a pastoral letter directed that
next Sunday he set apart by the Roman Cathol c body as
a day of humiliation and prayer. 'the Cardinal refers to
the mutinies in terms of horror execration, and encourages
the faithful to believe that their prayers will be heard
against the enemies of Christianity..
THE RECRUITING Seavica.—Fitt} thousand men must
be recruited to fill up the new second battalions, the
regiments dlyerted fr ,na home and eelonial service in
augmentation of the usual Indian establishment, and in
providing for the recessary drafts to be sent from the
depots at borne to the head-cpiarters in India. A large
number of these have already been raised, and rewriting
is reported to be going on at the rate of a thousand a week
or ma e.
ExTaxortnettee Surerna.—Mrs Olive Cycle, of Bristol,
Vt., lately committed suicide by starving herself to death !
Her husband ha 1 deseret t er, aid unable to support
herself, she received aid from the town. Wir situation SO
weighed ou her mi ad that she toiled into a deep melan-
choly, and, refu-ing all fool, after thirty-three days of
fasting, died in terrible agony. Everything was done to
cause her to break her determination that pi ulcnce could
dictate, but in vain.
Wrees.—The will of the late General Sir H. W.
Barnard, K.C.8., has been sworn to in the London Plobwe
Court; it was made in 1838, and has one codicil, dated
1854; the personalty, £9,ooo.—Sir Edward llsiggerstone,
Bart., of Effingham, Northumberland, £2s,ooo.—Dame
Anne Fagge, of Cha haw, Ken', £3,000.--John Blake,
Esq., of Bremerton, Norfolk, £oo,ool—Thet nes Plant,
Each of Kings Winford, Stafford, £2o,ooo.—Mrs.
Eleonora Margatut Bag. t e of Vouseester-plane, PQrtnaau-
square, £25,000.