Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-01 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1837.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We are now in receipt of full details of news
from India We regret to say that they are very
gloomy. The rebellion, which it was thought had
received a check at the departure of the previous
mail, was as fierce as ever, indeed several parts of
the country, which heretofore were very quiet, had
revolted, and it is reported that a Rajah of South
Maharatta Country had raised the standard of
rebellion, and had been joined by 20,000 insur-
gents. If this be the case, we will have heavy
work in that quarter. The report in a London
cotemporary, that Lucknow had been relieved, is
not confirmed ; the statement is premature, at
least, as our latest accounts from General Have-
lock left him at Cawnpore. We have not any official
mews from Lucknow. General Herbert has had
several very sharp engagements with the enemy,
and in each action the British troops were masters
of the field. The mutiny in the Madras regiments
was not of much consequence, further than the loss
of some thousands of troops. They, too, quietly
submitted to the disarming process. But in
Central India, although '•all was well," serious
danger was again apprehended, since the border
regions are more or less in a state of disaffection.
Thus, at Nusseerabad, where the 12th Bombay in-
fantry had been quartered as a measure of pie-
caution, and where the princip 1 portions of the
Rajpoot force is stationed, a hundred and five men
had been disarmed,but this seems to have resulted
from a drunken outcry. At Aboo, in 119jpootana,
fifty of the Joadpore legion, composed of twelve
hundred and forty six men, had mutinied, and
joined the ranks of a predatory chief; the Bopal
contingent had deserted its colours ; the inten
tions of Holkar and Sindiah are suspected, but Nag-
pore and Hyderabad are perfectly tranquil. The
Times says that" the particulars of the news throw a
new and a gloomy light on the state of affairs. For
the present, aau for several weeks more from the
last date, we must make up our minds to in-
creasing difficulty, and the consequent probability
of fresh disasters, in one quarter or another.
Here and there the tide may be turned in our
favour. An heroic act, a desperate advance
or still more desperate defence, a brilliant vic-
tory or a miraculous relief, a timely panic in the
foe or an unhoped-for aid, may serve to console
us for casualties of an opposite character. But
when things are pushed to the extreme, and
everything everywhere is staked on the cast of a
die, we cannot expect the chances to be always in
our favour. It is not Delhi that is now the chief
point of anxiety. Nor yet do Lucknow and Agra,
with their gallant defenders, and their hundreds
of women and children, monopolise interest. The
whole line of communication is threatened and
disturbed. We have had to retreat, to surrender
points which till lately we were sure of holding,
to detain reinforcements, to provide against new
dangers, and reduce our position to the least and
most manageable nucleus of dominion. All this,
of course, is only for a time. Give us the single
month of September—let us tide over those thirty
days, and there is small c :use of fear. But it
is terrible to think what may happen in that
interval—how much that can only be recovered
at a fearful cost—how much that is absolutely ir-
remediable. Taking the news seriously we believe,
however, that, notwithstanding the troubled state
of Rajpootana, the sinister aspect of certain districts
in Bombay and Madras, the immense legions of the
enemy gathered between the Jumna and the
Ganges, and the possibility of 'urther local disas-
ters, the-tide of events is generally favourable, since
no sooner will Delhi have been reduced than the
rebellion will gradually recede from the north-west,
and, being pent up between Agra and Allahabad,
will then, perhaps, after many a fierce, destructive
struggle, be finally exhausted. For a month we
may be without satisfactory intelligence ; we may
hear of delays at Delhi, and massacres elsewhere ;
but if the nation is true to itself, it will lose not an
inch of territory, from the ocean to the borders of
Affghanistan.

In the NOP.THERN TIMES of Tuesday, we pub-
lished a note from Mr. John Laird, intimating that
Mr. James E. Rae, the Minag,r of the Birken-
head Branch of the North and South \Vales
Bank, had kindly consented to receive 6 übscrip-
tions in aid of the Relief Fund for the suff,trers by
the Indian mutinies. We need hardly say that,
such relief, to be really valuable, should be imme-
diate; and, we have no doubt, but that the residents
of Birkenhead will cheerfully and liberally respond
to the call now made upon them, without the aid
of a public meeting to arouse sympathy.
The inquest on the bodies those persons who
lost their lives by the accident on the Great
Northern Railway, has ended in a verdict of acci-
dental death. The Coroner's jury, however, were
of opinion that there is not sufficient caution given
to engine-drivers working express trains, and that
they have too much liberty to work their engines
at any rate of speed. The jury also requested the
coroner to bring the subject under the considera-
tion of the Government.

A very interesting eeremony took place at the
Sailors' Home, yesterday- Captain Sharp, of the
ship Ann Pitcairn Sharp, was presented with a
gold chronometer watch and chain, from the Presi.
dent of the United States ; Captain Graham, late
of the ship Abel Gower, with a gold medal, from
the Swedish Government ; and William Eccles, of
Hoylake, fisherman, with a silver medal, the gift of
the Board of Trade, for their gallant conduct on
most trying occasions. We refer our readers to our
ample report of the proceedings.
The meeting of the West Derby Guardians was
held yesterday, but the proceedings were of a
merely routine charaetar, and does not call for the
least attention. The business transacted at the
Police, Bankruptcy, and County Courts was also
very meagre and uninteresting.
A man named John Booth has been found
guilty, at Edinburgh, of the wilful murder of his
mother-in-law. Previous to the judge passing
sentence of death the prisoner requested to speak
a few words, which request being granted, hei
made a most singular statement, a report of which
will be found in another column.
The net decrease in the quarter's revenue will
amount to about £90,000, and about £200,000 on
the year.

The Belfast riots investigation is still going on,
and so tar not muc`a evidence of an important
character has been taken. It certainly appears
that the riots were caused solely by the acts of one
Laughlan, an insane Roman. Catholic, who drove
through the districts inhabited by people of that
denomination, disguised, and brandishing an
Orange lilly. A local paper says that not a
scintilla of evidence has been produced to justify,
in the remotest degree, any one of the numerous
calumnies that have been so freely vented against
our local magistracy. No attempt has been made
to sustain the slightest accusation against them.
They have been maligaed and vituperated in the
most scandalous manner, not by a low and
ruffianly mob merely, but by men whose presumed