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

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We are at length in possession of a fortrsight'e
later news from Inds. The two telegraphic
despatches published in another column will,
doubtless, be read by the public with the utmost
interest, and we are serry to say they will not find
much of a satisfactory character. The news is
nearly ns " bad as bad can be," yet we have not the
least apprehension of the ultimate result, or that
the disorganized band of mutineers will prevail
over the power of England, when that power is col-
lected,
and strong enough to take the fi:ld. The
worst that can be apprehended, according to pre:
sent appearances, is, that not- only will Delhi
remain in possession of the insurgents
for some time to come, but that Luck-
now will also fall into their hands, and
that the gallant defenders of that plaee, who were
reduced to (3cremities at the date of the last
advices, will be added to the victims already
sacrificed to the savage cruelty of the rebel forces
From China the only news of the least interest
is the fact that Admiral Seymour had declared
the port of Canton to be in a state of strict
blockade.
The meetings in aid of the sufferers in India
continue. At Leeds, on Saturday, about £l,OOO
was subscribed on the spot, and yesterday, at
Wrexham, the amount of subscriptions handed in
were fully £350.
On Sunday, in the Roman Catholic Churches
of London, a pastoral was read from Car-
dinal Wiseman relative to India. The Cardinal
employs language which will entirely free
him from the accusation of being indifferent
to the atrocities that have been committed
by the Seyoys ; but, at the same time, he
takes care that no such sentiments as those mitten
by Mr. Bowyer shall be endorsed. "Remember,"
says the Cardinal, "that the words vengeance and
revenge were washed out by the blood of Calvary
from the catalogue of man's assumed rights, and
that these are reserved to God alone."
Parliamentary papers continue to be issued
containing those official details relative to the
mutinous districts which have been received by
the Governor-General of India, and which the
Governor-General transmits to our Goverment at
home. For the most part, the papers thus printed
possess little interest, for all the facts connected
with the mutiny are known many weeks before
they appear.

We 'Publish the most interesting points of a
correspondence that has taken place between the
Duke of Bedford, Mr. Miall, and Mr. MialA's
friends, concerning the share said to be taken by
the Duke in the late Tavisto:dc election. The
accusation against the Duke was of the ordinary
kind, namely, that through his agents he employed
what influence he possessed to secure the return of
his nephew, in opposition to Mr. Miall. This the
Duke denies, while at the same time he wges that
he can see no reason why a member of his family
should not aspire to the representation of any
locality where it may hold proprietorial possessions.
Mr. Mialt's committee chairman appears to make
out a case against those who might be called the
agents of the Duke of Bedford, but the link of
connection between the Duke and these gentlemen
is, in a legal sense. wanting.
Mr. Cobbett, M P , has been giving an account of
his stewardship to the electors of Oldham. On
Saturday afternoon, he addressed a tn-eting of the
electors and non electors in the open air. Mr
Cobbett addressed the meeting at conalerable
length. The reception that he met with convinced
him that he had satisfied his constituents,
and that he had carried out all the

pledges he had made to them,

'and had

acted in accordance with their wishes during the
late arduous session. He had stuck by them, as
far as the factory question was concerned, as fast
as any man could possibly do. He had brought
their case before the house, and had divide the
_house upon it, and he assured them that if in the
future he found any variation of that .sct, or any
interference with its spirit, he would not hesitate
to stand up and demand that it should be made es
effective and st..ringent that there would be no
ground of complaint. Sometimes he bad been
called a Tory. Such had been the confusion of
parties for a considerable time, that it was difficult
to tell what a Tory was, what a Whig was, or what
a Radical was. and it was still more difficult to say
what a Liberal was. Whenever he was asked what
ho was he said he was a Radium'. Some people asked
him if he was a Liberal, but he said he was not,
b• cause he never could find out what a Liberal
was. It was the Liberals who carried, during tie
last session but one, the new Police Act—it was
the Liberals, in his opinion, who did the most
illiberal thiLgs, and therefore he never called him-
' selfia Liberal. But he sometimes went into the
same lobby with the Tories. When the division took
place on tile Police Bill, he went into the same
lobby with the Taries because they opposed it. He
would not place himszlf ill the harness of any party
whatsoever. He did not belong to any party, or to

the coterie of any party : he never professed to
support any party, but he invariably voted with
that body of men who appeared to him to be on
the right side.
Respecting the accident on the Great Norhern
Railway we have nut much to add. On Saturday,
one of tho Government inspectorg of railways
inspected minutely the portion of the line where
the accident occurred. He also took the eviden:e
of a great number of men in the employ of the
company, as to their belief of the working condition
of the line, its state, &0., upon which he will found a
report. This report, if not laid before the coroner to-
day( Tuesday) for the guidance of the jury, will doubt.
Ids be presented to the public in Borne other way-
Another victim must be added to the four who were
killed by the accident—William Jackson, who had
his aim amputated, died on Friday night. The
railway company gives every facility to the friends
-of the dead and the irjured.
The Earl of Fife, it is understood, is about to be
made a Peer.

On Saturday evening, the Nonconformist clergy-
men of Sheffield presented a complimentary address
to Lord John Russell. These gentlemen took
occasion to express their conviction that the noble

lord would be able, when the position of affairs
should justify such a step, to make satisfactory
explanations of his conduct at the Vienna Con.
ferences. Lord John in reply intimated that con-
siderations of state policy had alone prevented him
from entering upon such a defence.

The chief event of interest just now is the
meeting of the Emperors at Stuttgardt. We to-day
give the fullest account of the meeting, so far as it
has reached us. On Friday night, the Emperor of
the French entered Stuttgardt, and the King of
Wurtemberg WEIS at the railway station to meet
him. The King and the Emperor proceeded to the
palace, and here the Emperor of Russia was in
waiting to receive them. Next day the Emperor
of Russia took the initiative in the ceremonies
by paying a visit to the Emperor of France,
and the Empress of Russia trl3o reached
Stuttgardt that day and joined the party. As
to what may have taken place at any of the
interviews, the public at present must not
expect to be made acquainted. Yesterday
(Monday) afternoon, the Emperor and Empress of
Russia left Stuttgardt. We learn from Vienne,
that the resolution of Francis Joseph to meet the
Emperor Alexander, has created a ministerial
crisis ; and that, perhaps, Count, Appooyi will
succeed Count Buol in the Premiership.

The other news from the continent, !is not of
much importance.
The Madrid papers of the 23,1 instant, state
that several Republican proclamations had been
seized there, together with a cony of instructions
for the new members who shall
.join the Republican
secret societies. Some arrests had been made.
The Grand Council of the. Canton of Vaud has
resolved to demand the convocation of the Federal
Assembly, and to submit to it the question of
competence.
From Constantinople we are informed that the
remaining members of the Polish L,.g:on hive just
off:n.ed their servioes to the English Ambassador.
There are only 400 left, and they wish to go to
India, there to fight in the cruse of Enuland.
Their colonel, whose name is Jordan, has placed
himself et their head, and will retain the command
in case their offer is accepted. Lord Stratford
de Redcliffff~ has already written home to his
novernmont for instructions respecting these
brave men.

AT a late hour yesterday, we received a tele-
graphic despatch, giving most important news
from India, in anticipation of the Overland mail.
The despatch was forwarded from Alexandria on
the 20th of the present month, through the Rear-
Admiral at Malta to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty in London, and was received at the Foreign-
office yesterday, at 12.45 p.m. These advices
were brought to Suez by the steamer Pottinger,
and the dates are to the 31st of August from
Bombay, and the I Rh of September from Aden
The news is disheartening enough.

Instead of General HAVELOCK having taken
possession of Lucknow, as we were led to believe
would be the case, he has been obliged to retire
upon Cawnpore more than once, and at our last
advices, was still in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of that city. He had had
several desperate conflicts with the rebels, in
which the latter were invariably routed. So
says the telegraphic despatch from Cagliari : yet
the General was obliged to retire to await further
reinforcements before he made a final attack
upon Lucknow. Although the distance from
the one city to the other is only about fifty
miles, the want of reinforcements and the heat of
the weather prevented General HAVELOCK from
reaching Lucknow, it could not be long ere that
gallant General would make his' triumphant
entry into the city, still much anxiety was felt
for the fate of the English inhabitants, which
numbered upwards of 1,000, the majority of
whom were women and children. They were
blockaded by that arch-rebel, NENA SAHIB—he
who, it was reported, had committed suicide ;
and as the provisions in the garrison were said
to be scarce, it was really doubtful whether the
garrison could hold out until General TIAvELocK
arrived there. In the meantime several regi-
ments had been sent up the river to reinforce
that General, and if the gallant band could
hold out for some time, NENA S.tHin and his
myrmidons would meet with a rather formidable
enemy, and LucknOw be set free.
Respecting Delhi there is little or no intelli-
gence. The latest date from that-city is the 12th
August, at which time it was still in the hands
of the rebels. A number of_sortics had been re-
pulsed, and it was confidently hoped that an early
attack would be made upon the city by the British
as a large reinforcement under the command
of General NlcaoLsoN was in the immediate
vicinity, and would be enabled to surround the
walls in a few days.

We are glad to say that the mutiny, which
had spread to the Bombay and Madras Presiden-
cies, had been all but suppressed. A number
of regiments who had refused to do duty were
quietly disarmed, and but very few co:Epanies of
that once powerful army are now in existence.

From Lahore we have intelligence respecting
the 26th Native Infantry. That regiment had
mutinied, and murdered their commanding
Officer, Major SPENCER; but they met with a
terrible retribution, for a number of English
officers and soldiers immediately set upon them,
and so signal was their vengeance that hardly a
soul of the rebels escaped.

Such then is a complete synopt-is of the leading
features of the news now to hand. It w)uld be
very hazardous to say that it is not of a most
unpromising character. We have just begun to
feel the difficulties under which we labour, and
the East India Company are not, we are afraid,
in a position to put down this mutiny. It does
not possess the funds, and, ere long, we may
be sure the East India Company will be asking
a loan. They have been urged to apply for fifty
thousand men and some eight or ten minions of
money, and it is said they must do so if they
want to subdue the revolt. But if the Govern-
ment were to supply fitly thousand men, who
are to pay them ? The sooner the Queen's
supremacy in the East Indies is proclaimed over
and above the Leadenhall-street potentates, the
sooner will the rebellion be crushed, for the
mutineers will then see that they have to cope
with a powerful kingdom, while they now think

that they have only to expel from the country a
private company.

" HE that is wise in his own conceit is stronger
than seven men that can render a reason." The
Rev. HUGH HANNA, of Belfast, is the man.
Nothing moves him ; nothing puts him out of
conceit with his own notion of street preaching
for the glory of GOD, and the assertion of an
abstract right to preach, under all circumstances,
in the open air. The town has been retained in
a state of chronic disturbance and indefinite
alarm, and blood has been shed, and there is
danger of more ; but what cares this minister of
peace ? Two thousand soldiers of the line are
called out to keep the peace of Belfast, when
they might so much better be spared to keep
the peace of Calcutta, or end the siege of Delhi.
But this is all to the, glory and notoriety of the
church militant in Ireland, led on by that
redoubted officer the Rev. 11. HANNA. Quiet
citizens and God-fearing people have no par-
ticular wish to do anything that might endanger
the public tranquillity or create an uproar. They
have a feeling that the gospel of mercy and peace
accords but ill with street riots and the muster of
soldiery ; but the Rev. Gentleman says, in the
words of the apostle, " Behold, I show y a
more excellent way." Seriously, it is a great
nuisance to have a clergyman, who ought to set
a better example, sedubusiy persisting to do
what tends to create a row, and requiring soldiers
and police to protect himself and the town against
the effects of such conduct. 'We can little afford
at this moment to have our attention distracted
by sectarian squabbles.
We are far from denying the abstract right to
preach in the open air —to preach anywhere, and
everywhere. We should promote public good
at all times, and at all places. But in seeking
this justifiable end, we ought to seek it by wise
means, not by means which defeat our end.
This is what the Rev. Gentleman is doing. His
presumed end is to preach the Gospel for the
saving of the soul; but the manner of his attain-
ing his object defeats that object. Inst3ad of
creating kindness, good-will, and brotherhood,
the results are fear, hostility, and violence. Mr.
HANNA will say that he has a right to " preach
the Gospel to every creature." But should not
kindness, and propriety, and decorum, and judg-
ment, accompany the exercise of all our rights ?
Will Mr. HANNA, on the strength of the text we
have quoted, insist upon exercising his abstract
right in the Queen's palace ? Let him try, if he
dares to be consistent. The abstract right is
undeniable—and the test is clear. The Queen
and the Court are sinners of the Gentiles, and
need to have Christianity preached to them.
There are sinners noble and right honourable,
as well as sinners ignoble and untitled ; and the
Rev. Gentleman will fail and come short, if he
decline to insist on preaching the Gospel to
every creature—the Queen included.

We can guess what his reception would be if
he attempted to enforce this abstract right of
which he prates. After he baS tried the English
Court, there might be no harm in attempting the
French Court, for Louis NAPOLEON is not imma-
culate, and needs Christianity quite as much al
the Queen of England; and, besides, it would be
bearding Itomanism, and would, therefore, be all
the more appropriate and in character. But Mr.
HANNA and his friends are not to be cured by
logic ; our carnal reasonings will have slight
force with those who ride the high horse of
abstract right. Only even they might Eee that
abstract rights are not to be exercised under all
circumstances, unless we would defeat onr own
purpose. And if, on the side of Mr. f-lANNA,
there exists the right to preach, there exits also
not less clearly on the side of the magistrates of
Belfast the right to maintain the peace ana safety
of the town. The right to protect thousands of
people is, at least, as dear, and is altogether
paramount to the right of this single spouter, to
utter his preachments, which, after all, are only
his individual judgments of the meaning of.
Scripture—for we suppose he will not insist om.
being oracular. But oracle or no oracle, the
Queen's peace must be maintained.

The Rev. Gentleman has the hardihood to pub-
lish a letter, in which the right of the magistrates,
to shift his preaching stand, is questioned ;
and he asks them to make an apology, and own
themselves wrong, in order to prevent litigation.
This is cool, But the Lord-Lieutenant has
telegraphed the thing to be done. The nuisance
must cease. There is no undue interference
with the liberty of preachinz or pros,lyting ;
for the tNo or three hundred people who listen
to the preacher can just as conveniently hear
him inside a church or chapel, and with less

chance of broken heads. We appeal, then, to
his remaining good sense, in order that he may
see that " discretion is the better part of valour,"
and that he will cease to needlessly agitate the
loner-vexed questions between ltomanism and
Protestantism. Or, if he will be a martyr, to an
abstract right, in Heaven's name, let him ship
himself off to India, and preach to the mutinous,
murderous sepoys, where, we venture to pre-
dict, he will find fit audience, if feW.

AT.the meeting of the Water Committee, on
Saturday last, that body were honoured with the
presence of their Pike Engineer, Mr. HAWKESLEY,
who for the nonce condesceuded to pay then] an
admonitory visit. We say an " admonibry visit,"
because, if we are not greatly misinformed, the
Committee were instructed by their own officer
as to how they were to treat the complaints of
the inhabitants for the future, They were told

that the Pike water was• purity itself—that its
inky colour was a positive advantage to it; that
it was much better than the water supplied to
many places, and that four millions of people
were then using much worse ; that it was
quite good enough for the canaille of Liver-
pool, without any admixture of spring water ;
that the complaints of its impurities were
all bosh, and ought to be treated, as
they deserved, with silent contempt, as being
the outcry raised by idle clamourers only, and
not the respectable inhabitants, who were, as he
asserted, all well satisfied with the quality of the
water. Such was the sum and substance of
Mr. IIAWKESLEY'S interview with the Committee,
which lasted nearly three mortal hours.
Our readers will hardly credit the fact that so
much brazen effrontery should have been dis-
played in the face of the openly-expressed views
of the Council and the Town on the quality of
the Pike water; but they must bear in mind
that unscrupulous mendacity is essential to
successful empiricism. But Mr. HAWK ESLEY Wil
discover that this time he has rather overshot
the mark. Although he did succeed in fasci-
nating the Council into a belief of the
beauties of his scheme at one time, yet
it was " distance lent enchantment to the
view." A nearer inspection showed its just
proportions, which are now fully appreciated
by all except its author. " A thing of beauty is
a joy for ever ;" but, after all, what is beauty ?
According to Mr. HAWKESLEY, the filthy bog
washings of Itivington constitute the most beau-
tiful of waters. We wonder if the same autho-
rity considers Miss JULIA PASTRANA the mo,t
beautiful of ? It may be so.

But, clever although the Pike engineer un-
doubtedly is, he will find himself unable to
conjure the people of Liverpool out of their
senses, even if he did successfully operate upon
their pockets. Foolish although they have been,
they are not altogether such fools as to drink
dirty water, when they c.ri procure clear, even
although they have Mr. HAwKiisLEy's authority
that the dirty fluid is the best. No,
no, Mr. lIAWKESLEY ! you have pre-
sumed far enough on our forbearance,
and we only wonder why the Water Committee
patiently listened to such sophistry. The time
thus wasted would have sufficed to settle the
water question, without any reference to
HAWKESLEY'S mountebankism, in the only way it
can be settlea satisfactorily, that is by an imme-
diate restoration of the well water. No more
arrogant dictation from jobbing engineers or
mendicant philosophers must be permitted
longer to prevent this.
The Committee adjourned their meeting until
Thursday next, when they will proceed to con-
sider another report subrni'ted to them by their
engineer, Mr. DUNCAN. In the meantime, we
would again impress upon the Committee the
advice we have over and again given them—
to act according to their own unbiassed judg-
ments and honest convictions, without regard
to the vagaries of conflicting engineers; by so
doing they will best, promote the interests and
wishes of the inhabitants.

How the philanthrop:c mind r. j,)ices when the
national voice resounds its notes of universal
thankigiving to the Great Provider for ample
and well harvested crops of the fruits of the earth.
iuch notes of rejoicing have been just heard over
the length and breadth of our highly favouredland,
and who can tell the blessing; that will follow upon
an abundant grain harvest in prospect of the claims
that must be made upon u?, nationally, sooner or
later, and in one f3rrn or another, before we have
re-eEt tblished our rightful authority in India, and
can again rejoice in having an empire upon which
the glorious orb of day never sets.
Already we notice that the prices of grain have
fallen considerably, and contrast favourably with
the rates which were current after the harvest of
1857. It is fairly to he anticipated that as the
crops of grain are also reported to be large
throughout Europe we shall sea moderate rates
for food general throughout the year.
It is well for us, too, that food is likely to be
cheap for another reason, and that is, the position'
-present and prospective, of all the industrial
interests (and who can fulfil the task of adequately
enumerating them) Which depend nearly or
remotely upon the great staple—Cmora.. The
day is past when a writer upon such a topic would
incur the risk of being termed a speculator : the
interests inseparably linked With the vast staple-
are no longer local, but national ; not confined to
the narrow sphere of a few traders in bales of
cotton, but fiad their place, in
,the, home of the
peasant equally as in the palace of the noble, and
can be traced laalpably by even an inattentive
o'_)server as pervading almost every gradation and
distinctive phase of our commercial system.
It is not our intention to create any alarm, but
simply to advert to the facts which stand out on
the face of the broker's weekly circulars
There it will be noticed that the elating stocks
of American Cotton here are only 207;000 bales aid
of all sorts 297,000 bales against the figures respec-
tively of 499,000 bales and 842,000 last year. It will be
known to most of our readers that we are entering
uroti the period of interregnum in regard to the
American Cotton crops ; that is, the supply from
the old crop being exhausted, a consid2rable period
will elapse before the new crop yields us a supply,
and it is calculated that up to the end of the year
not equal to 100,000 bales are likely to
arrive. Frem the same brokers tables it appears
that the average sales of American to our consu-
mers this year have been 28,500 bales per week. All
this looks serious enough, especially with middling
cotton at 9d, and upwards, but yet it may be said
if the American crop in futuro yields tolerably the
.prospect may not be so dreary. We wish
we could write favourably upon that topic ;

but as we cannot do so, and the reparts
say good weather may yet give an average crop,
let us hope for the best. Fortunate it is for us
that the position of China exelud ,s her from
taking much cotton, and so what India usually
sends to her comes here, and ye with that acci-
dental addition to supply, we have here, as we
have noticed above, greatly less in the aggregate
than was held a year ago.

We have the very largest confidence in the
potent influence of price, as calculated to extend
production in this as in other articles. We have,
too, little less confi lenee in the utility of letting
our wants be generally known as a means of
making an early supply adequate to them.
Those who talk hastily upon th's subject, say,
reduce your consumption of Cotton, but we know
that that means also to employ less labour, and so
to bring "gaunt want" to many a fireside, If this
indeed, is in store for us, fortunate are we that
we have at least the assurance of a cheap loaf
as a compensation.

111UPINFES IN INDIA. •

[COMMUNICATED.]

WE would hardly wish to deprecate the
anxiety felt by all classes at this moment as to
the lives of our heroic soldiers, and the honour
of our not less brave sisters in India; but, while
we offer up our prayers for the safety of both, we
are not prepared to feel so utterly hopeless and
despondent of the issue as the greater part of
our countrymen seem to be. JonN BULL is
generally self confident enough, but on great
occasions he allows himself to be influenced by
the alarmists, who think that it shows a greater
knowledge than their neighbours, to be alarmed
for the safety of the nation, and to proclaim at
the top of their voice that " the end of all things
is come."

With these patriots we feel little sympathy.
That a great and awful disaster has occurred—
that hundreds of our fellow countrymen and
women have died a terrible death at the hands of
those who were receiving our pay, and eating
our salt—that our fair Empire, in India is over-
run with disbanded or revolted Sepoys—are
undeniable facts, but we are not prepared to
jump at the conclusion that the struggle is a life
and death one for our supremacy, or that the
crisis is such that all the Ministers must forego
a few days holiday after the hard work of the
session, or that our Queen should give up her
healthful residence in the Scottish highlands,
even if it be out of " Telegram" distance.

In our recollection this is the third time that
the absence of Ministers from London, or the
annual residence of her Majesty at Balmoral, has
been made an excuse for a regular onslaught on
our responsible rulers for not attending to their
duties. We have yet to learn that a few days'
rest incapacitates a Minister from the due dis-
charge of his office, or that a couple of hours
shooting in the morning prevents Lord PALMER-
STON from receiving his letters, and. despatching
his well considered correspondence by the
afternoon mail.

With these few observations, we would dismiss
the flaming " leader " of the .Daily News, on
Saturday last; but the want of self-confidence
displayed in that a.rtic!e is, we fear, a fair expres-
sion of the feeling of the country, and requires
some reply.

If we compare our present position with that
which we occupied during the Crimean war, when
pestilence, brought on by want of sanitorial
arrangements—overwork, caused by military mis-
manage9aent and the French alliance—and want
of stores and provisions, produced by the negli-
gent home officials—brought our army to the
verge of utter desolation, and made the nerves of
the nation thrill with agony at its sufferings,
and with indignation at its authors, we thank
Providence if' the experience there gained has
so far prevented a repetition of the same disasters,
But if we go back a few years in history, and
consider the time when England, Portugal, and a
few Spaniards stood alone against all Europe—
when • we subsidised Austria, Prussia, and
various German and Dutch Principalities, at the
rate of one hundred millions a-year—and when
victory against the most military nation of the
continent, led by the greatest military commander
the world has ever seen, crowned our endea-
vours—we need not despond because a few thou-
sand uneducated Sepoys, without a leader, raise
thel standard of revolt in Bengal, unsupported
even by the natives or by half the hereditary
Minces of their own country.

, The financial question is one of the least
important we have ever had to consider. The
nay of the disbanded army alone amounted to
2,000,000/. a-yest, which may now b.: transferred
to the account of the British troops employed
there, and would suffice to meet the expense
of maintaining forty to forty-five regiments of the
line ; the annual pensions of th revolted chiefs
amount to about 9,000,0001. per annum, all of
which is now forfeited ; but if the expenditure
were five times as heavy, it could easily be borne
by the descendents of those who paid one hun-
dred millions per annum in 1812, when the
resources of the country were not half so large as
now.

The loss of life as yet, terrible as it has been in
its details of women and children ruthlessly
murdered, has not been great when looked upon
in a military point of view ; the nutnber of offi-
cers and soldiers murdered in cold blood by the
mutineers, killed during the sorties before Delhi,
or who have fallen in the pitched battles in the
HAVELOcK advance, or in the disastrous march on
Arrah, do not exceed the casualties at the battle
of the Al

The native princes, with a few exceptions,

have remained faithful to the sovereigntY of
a ill)
Queen VICTORIA. The King of Delhi iS
pet in the hands of the mutineers, as be °so
puppet in ours, when a few years back',
coined rupees with his etfi-y, and the eVollP`fecii,
NENA SAHIB has not been very generally
to
lowed. The native population have 'll°ll' to
say the least of it, considerable indifferencl
4'
the struggle now going forward ; and eve 00
they have not given our fugitives assistance t
sib
every occasion, they have certainly n° " bit
with the ni utin eers to any onside
extent.

;bilitYl

Want of decision, a fear of responsl- - tibe
the imbecility of aged generals, have beell If
chief causes of the spread of the inntit,oo
General IlEwirr at Meerut, or General
at Dinapore, had shown the courage and °Poo),
which have distinguished EYRE, M.4C193*. atifi
CAMPBELL, WILLOUGHBY, the L.ovnEls°sll,of
many others, the mutiny would long ag°
assumed less fearful proportions; as it 15
have no doubt that the worst is past, °at
lio
each week rolls by, bringing hundreds °ill be
into Calcutta and Bombay; confidence 'III be
gi
restored to our countrymen, and terror hole
struck into the enemy, and that ere the:froo)
of the thirty thousand men who have Sailebag
England arrive in India, the mutineers will
t di`'
to exist as a body, and will be b°
lace
organised bands of robbers, hunted from
to place by the natives themselves.
after'
The telegraphic news received yesterday fat
noon confirms this opining. Troops °coil
arriving, and are as rapidly being pushed Or. •op
to the.f ront ; and the accounts of the disaff ec°
of a Madras cavalry regiment is amplY td
sated for by the confident hopes expressed
army before Delhi.

ded t°'

As on the other occasions allu. tot
alarmists, as usual, look towards Franee' tiff
impressed by the new fortifications of Cher,rol
(which some of them have seen), and th"thio
camp of Chalons (of which all have read)'
that they perceive the ominous signs of °II:oil
and begin to whisper that the Emperor tesibiso
advantage of our weakness, and drop dark,;lie
of that favourite bugbear with all alarmists ocir
sudden descent of twenty-five thousand re ,4
men on the shops in the Strand, or on the
of England and the Lombard-street c0ff,15',05.
idea of a sudden invasion would bet 31101'
were it not fraught with the very danger %vdt(
it fears ; nothing would be so likely t°110(
such an event possible as the terror whie4
very thought of it seems to cause, and its °5,
nators will certainly be our English alarinifectlf
\Ve are among those who have a Per/
unlimited faith in English valour, English Proo
and, above all, in the resources of the eOliti)
Very true to our nature is the simile of the
Lion—that unfortunate quadruped so oft° I3d
fully alluded to, whose name is so oftental‘e,ool
vain, and whose habits are so littlieind'lrs'o
The deep feelings of the country have been 11;1
aroused but once in the recollection °fol
generation. and that was at the coma-151°1(01
of this century. The Crimean war fAi4O,Ol
awake our dormant sense of power, and t° thod
a real enthusiasm, though, if that contestv,
lasted another six months, the result would ;if
been widely different, for the country Was ba.eie
ning to see the importance of the strlls'
which it was engaged. te 01'
We would not be supposed to under°. gif

dangers to which we are at this moment eci ct:(
nor are we among the false prophets'n r
" Peace, peace, when there is no pe°elll'
we believe that we shall in this, as on °' fro,
occasions, come forth with renewed 11°`feel/
the struggle, and that while we ought to iit(4'
the means in our hands, and all the re:/
with which this favoured land has been gi"
fee ki
Providence, we ought not to give way t°
of despondency, or of want of self-conhclell.;
which we find no excuse in the past 11' (l)
the Nation.

AMUSEMENTS.
sr
„ ti
SAM COWELL'S Farewell and Benefit Concert efio
this evening, at the Freemason's Rail (as maY iILI 9
our advertising columns), on which occasion his7j
Miss Sidney Cowell, will make her first aPPe7r;lifir
Liverpool. Report speaks most favourably a -500-
lay's talent, she having made her debut at thee64:4
iTheatre, some months ago, for her father's bete°
which occasion she was most enthusiasti.!allf
MIS 3 Susan Wight, Mr. B. Thwler, and W. o,',
Bridgeman, also lend their valuable ail, and sye,r4o6-.'
doubt but a great treat is in store for all who 00 t's'old
sion lend a helping hand to the King of Calo;e1 01111"
R )17AL, ED BC/N RGlE—After the "tr-la,
Ot. %.
the season," in the introduction of Italian °i": oirsiPdA
ported bf the first artistes of the 'op
~v
Giuglini, , and an " extra
e') Br)
to ceiling and doors, Mr. Wyndham has reviv et
very excellent and standard dram farce' s and farc-LeOtl'i
the number we may particularise the " Bride cif moor," not only put upon the stage in a verye'
rely)
manner, but well performed throughout by ibef Cd
membersa of the company. For the part
A°
derv' one we shall find but few better interr Y
'4
B ornl
Mr. Harker; and is The Two Friends," Aiig:
Rose, Mr. Verner and Mr. Lyons, have Pe? or)
excellent. Mies Foote, a yoang, clever, ell% ord,
actress, has made herself a great favourite, dto,.?
progress being observable in every part B.llo°tttebeo
The very groat painstaking evinced by Ii
connected with this theatre is, no doubt, fail" e"
measure dae to the talent, kindness, and Paren.

the fair manageress. pV
01l OP
THE WEATHER has changed again. t 5;. t. 116 „
fine, bright, and sunny cs one c)uht ; Tb
remarkable, after the heavy rain of Sandq•
THE AUSTRALIAN PASSENGE SHIP " LILLI!;gr"....IIII
fi chip, belonging to the Merseyß Line,t ,rlei
noon, with a full complement of passenger''s .101utlietc'hi
three hundred in the 'twcen decks, and twen'!,itiog
cabin ; also a large and valuable cargo, tois'sh,,tbo"A
wards Lf 2,000 tons. She is to be inceeded
colf.upser ship Herald, a 1,600 tons register, tt5",,,0046110
Her acconamo cations for all classes or Fos
aret of the e highest crier, and will, no doubt, reel
sbarJ of patronage.

sove,reigntl
Delhi is a PuP;
-,9, as he Wt
Lvias
'ears back6o
the elan'Pl 0,
generallY
Lave 8/1°1: 0
indifferen%
; and e'uo
re
!s assistanc!
Sidi
Linly tbit
y consider

ponsibili* the
have been If
ie rantin);:oll
General r'citi
Lge and °Pao,
1001°.4„d
'Awns:os'oe
long' ag°,
is; as it 15t' 0
past, tbsoo
indreds
ifidence 111:11
be
terror /11 hole
; ere tll3, 1
freo
have saileti log
inee..rs wilit
will be bu.niace
Lted fro° r

3s. after,
yesterdg
'roDps lcciarti
Pushed forictio
the disaffe eir
,in pl 9 °filth!
!xpresseci 13)T

ttie
alluded to' Mlod~
Is France'hooli
ns of Gber-,rot
, and the
ave reall)'ro cret,
de
signs 01
caper'rualhitto
drop dark
t,c
:
Il
alarraiSts fich'
re
Ousand
or on the Oil
3et coffers'
siog,
Id bs au° bici
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fe",
likely t°
;error Whic"rvi,
e, and itA.5,
ish alartiViectl!
ave a Per o.ol'
English Pt/iitit
of :he c°:ritii
ille of the Y
so of ten
;0 often talcefl
,1
it LlG.undetelti
have been to
ti
Jo
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entry
the strub4

to under° 05ei
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no pegeei'l i)sl
5, as oo
wed I'-'`verge,/
ought to tio/
al the resejtl
s been glftelid
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f-eou de/110,
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(as may peg
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first oPPelis 11,47
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and °eh:4 ric..
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Italian CV! 01g41
ha 'op'rat,°iit''l
:tra night'', 00 j
has reviro>olt,
Lnd fareeo joseic
Bride °f rete,
in a very ee oti
.hOut by tbof
the PO Atete
ter interPr"
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have bee e
;lever, - Aia
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part 811°, tbe re)
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doubt, ie t.
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coiiisting o;
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classes'of PO'js74l
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