Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The Calcutta Mails have arrived. The news is
-of a sa.isfactory kind, so far as respects General
Havelock's movements. He was still suceessuliy
moving onwa.el towards Lucknow. The General
did not retreat to Oawnpore. The movement which
gave rise to that erroneous report was one which
became neeessery under the peculiar circumstances
of the case. After his latest reported victory he
simply retrograded to within a few miles of the
Ganges for three objects. First, he desired to
relieve his column from the .encumbrance of the
sick and wounded, whose numbers did not only
diminish big force, but imp :e its movements.
Secondly, he approached the Ganges to get wiqiin
reach of reinforcements which he knew to be at
hand. And those reinforcements airiving, more
than supplied the gaps in his force caused by war
and disease. Thiraly, he found, on a<vancing
into the (ludo country, that every little place
was fortified, and had its gun or guns;
and he desired to strengthen his own artil-
lery from the park of Cewnpore. Another point
of the intelligence will be received with pleasure,
viz., that there exists reasons to hope that efforts
to relieve Arrah have been suceesful. Nothing is
said of the retreat of our forces from before Delhi,
but that city had certainly not been taken. "In
fact," says the Calcutta Englishman, " the revolt
now includes at least 100,000 men, and extends
through whole kingdoms. From the Puojaub
throughout the North Western provincess, except
here and there an isolated garri man, the Biitiah
power is for the time extinct " rho seme paper
estirnites that in the Cewnpore massacre nearly a
thousand Christians lost their lives. The report
that Nana Sahib had destroyed himself was, as we
conjectured, unfounded. He still lives ; and when
last heard of; was threatening Bithoor.
R eruiting for the Indian army is going on with
much less rapidity than was hoped would be the
ease. The London Press, in noticing the subject,
says:—" We are inclined to believe that enough
has not been done to render the profession of arms
an object of ambition to the industrial population.
We cannot sea the use of the restrictions as to
height anti age which are now in force. In an
emergency of this character expedition is every.
thing, and we are still of opinion that if our stand-
ing army must be increase 1, the quiekest and most
effective mode of doing so would be to form an
auxiliary corps of such regiments of militia as are
willing, with their officers, to be enrolled in the
Queen's army. It would be easy to make them
distinct, if it should be thought necessary to do
so, and the inducements of hall-pay pensions and
widows' ano.vances might very properly be held
out to them." Notwithstanding this undesirable
state of affairs, we are given to understand that
for the present the offer of commissions as a bonus
is suspended, and that recruiting must take its
usual course. The recruiting sergeant cannot
stand against the temptation held out by youth
ambitious of obtaining commissions. A perfect
army would have been plaeel at the disposal of
the Csnamander.in-Chief in a very few weeks if the
system had been continued of giving an ensigney
for one hundred mete for offices were immediately
opened all over the country, and .£2 per head
offered in addition to the bounty. Recruiting
officers stood aghast at the competition, and the
militia colonels and adjutants were about to sur-
render in despair.
The intelligence by the Auatralian mail, given in
another column, is not of much importance. Trade
was tolerably steady. The imports from the com.
movement of the year to the 11th of July were
only £539,553 in excess of the exports. This
balance of payments is considered small, but the
eominercial community were somewhat alarmed
at the immense shipm:n:s which were being made
from this side. It was thought that, unless mo:e
caw.ion be exercised, that the markets, already
supplied very amply, would become glutted to such
an extent as te exercise a most prejudicial influence
upon quotations. The yields of gold continue
satisractory, and the average monthly produce was
48,284 oz., fta,tinst 41,604 oz. for the corresponding
period of 1856. The receipts by escort, were
maintained, and the exports were still large. It is
meutioned as one of the most important events in
m )netary affairs, that Australian coined sovereigns
and ball sovereigns were made a legal tender
throughout the colonies. They will consequently
be taken by the bankers at their full value, and
are no longer liable to the export duty or ship-
ment.

We are in receipt of four &flys' later news by
the America arrived here yesterday from Boston.
The monetary panic had alt but subsided in New
York, where it had been chiefly c2nfined to.
Several more failures are, however, announced for
large amounts. The specie brought by this steamer,
in consequence of the anxiety ft lt in commercial
circles, is very meagre. Something over 5,000
dollars.

There is very little news from the Continent this
morning. The Paris Pays says that a private
letter from London of the 17th had been received,
which stated that Lord Elgin would be soon
appointel to tne post of Governor-General of
India, and that Lord Canning would be nominated
to another office.

The Nouvelliste of Ghent says that the civic
guard has been told t) be in readiness to take
arms on hearing the rappel, either by night or day
This precaution has been taken in consequence of
the combination of workmen, which for some

time past bail created a feeling of uneasiness in the
city. The garrison is confined to their barracks.
Private letters from Madrid describe the recent
Ministerial crisis ; it appears that Marshal Nar-
vaez and his colleagues offered to resign, not once,
but five distinct times. The Queen refused each
time to accept their resignation, less from attach-
ment to their persons than from her inability to
replace them by any competent persons. The
Cabinet has nevertheless failed to gain a single
point, and the Qa.een remains obstinate in her
determination not to recall General Concha from
Cuba. In all probability the Court will soon see
the necessity of terminating a crisis which is most
unfavourable to its interests; and Marshal
Narvarz will be restored to good humour by the
temporary sacrifice of sundry Court favourites.
The Spanish Government has, it is said, remon
strated with that of Portugal on the presence of
several Spanish Republicans in Lisbon.
The little villige of Arne, in Piedmont, has been
all hut destroyed. A torrent, which falls over a
precipice behind the village, and joins the Dora
Grosso. a Hale way below, was swollen by a rain
storm which cuma on in the evening, to such a
degree that it washed down a great mass of earth
aad rocks from the mountain side,and overwhelmed
the lower part of the village. Many houses were
buried in the falling mass, and between thirty and
forty persons, wile sleeping in their beds, for the
avalanche came at half past ten o'clock at night,
instantly perished.

The is qThest on the hely of the female found
murdered in Leigh Woods, near Bristol, was ter-
minated on Saturday. Mr. Rudd Lucas, surgeon,
deposed to having made a pest modern examination
of the body, and quid on removing the deceased's
hair, he found a scar recently healed, about 2
inches in leng:h, on the upper part of the righ,
side of the head. On taltMg off the scalp,
he found a wound in the bone cerresponding
with the bullet mark, arid afterw irds found a
bullet of a small size in the left orbit; it was
extracted, and weighed 39 grains and a half. It
was rather. a slug than a bullet. The bullet had
passed into a small portion of the base of the
brain. The jugular vein on the right side was
divided. His impression was that she was a
married woman Three cif her teeth, extracted
from the upper j.iw, had been stopped with some
metallic substance. The wound; in the threat
causal devil. The wounds from the pistol would
not necessarily have done so. There was no
appearance of any ring on the fingers having been
forcibly torn off. She was apparently about 25
years of age, and it marriel woman. A mm named
Powell desired to see the b lv, as he had come
many miles to do so, as his daughter Charlotte had
left home six weeks, and had never since been
heard of. He was permitted to do so, but returae I,
saying it was not his child. The coroner put it to
the jury whether they would a-31mm, hut, by a
show of hands, they decided to finish the inquiry,
and they ultimately returned a verdict, " That the
unknown deceased was wilfully murderel by some
person or persons unknown."
A very singular scene his occurred at the Lon-
don Central Criminal Court. The second mate of
an East Indiaman had been tried for ill treatment
to a Lasear on the homeward voyage. About four
o'clock, on Friday afternoon, the jury came into
court and stated that eleven had made up their
minds, hut the twelfth was of a contrary opinion,
and there MO no probability of their agreeing.
The jury were then taken again to their room, and
on their return stated the same thing, and stated
that the eleven jurymen were of opinion that the
twath was either a madman or an for he
would not listen to aey arguments, an I had told
them that he would stick out for a week rather than
agree with the verdict. As the counsel would not
consent to the jury being discharged, they were
again loeked up. A third time they were brought
into court with the same resift, and the court
wan ajourne 1 till next morning. Tne foreman
of the jury said they had really suffered very
much from want of refreshments. geese sand-
wiches and porter was, therefore, allowed them.
It was understood that during the night the
dissentient juryman had not had a pleasant time
of it, as he was cuffed and pummelled, and water
thrown upon him by the other jurymm, and he
was not allowed to take any rest. Cushions were
provided Dr them to rest up m Shortly after
seven o'clock in the morning they were brought
into court for the last time, and having stated that
there was no chance of agreeing, the Commissioner
took upon himself to discharge them, and the
defendant was set at liberty upan his entering into
his own recognisances to appear at the next
session.

At our pl'ice court; on S-tturday, five krirneynien
cabinet-makers were committed for trial on a chat ae
of conspiracy—inasmuch as they had intimidated
eerlain work !non in the ernpl iy of Mess-es. Bradley
Brothers, cabinet-mati.3rs, of Bal

THE all-absorbing topic of the day throughout
the United Kingdom is the progress of the
Mutiny in India, and at no time since its firs
outbreak has expected news presented such mo-
mentous importance as the intelligence N.vhich we
have reason to anticipate by the next Overland
Mail. British supremacy in India has long been
in a critical position. At last matters have
assumed a phase where conquest or defeat must
be declared, and while we write either one or
other of these issues has become matter of
history. Nevertheless, we must suffer several
days of acute suspense and terrific anxiety ere
we learn the details of the grand and final
struggle between the heroes of Britain and the
savage and treacherous hordes of India. For
ever memorable will be the military transactions
in India during August, 1857. They will be
interesting in the chronicles alike of Asia and
of Europe, It will be recorded that in that
month the British Empire in Hindostan passed
through a severe and trying ordeal ; that then
Great Britain had to put forth all her strength in
asserting her right and power to rule in India.
The theme which •some future AlicAniy will
take up and philosophise upon i•, ere this, one
well known and understood at Calcutta, but we
at home, who have friends and relations engaged
i❑ civil or military service, must wait in positive
agony for the bloody intelligence which the next
Overland Mail will be sure to bring.
View the subject in whatever light we may, its
importance at once becomes apparent. The
result of the contest will exercise .an effect
upon the civilised world weightier in its
consequences than any similar event of
either ancient or modern times. When CLEO-
PATRA'S galleys fled at Actium—when the last
terrific charge of the Old Guard failed on the
plains of Waterloo—no small portion of the
civilised world change-1 masters ; still, momen-
tuous as these consequences were, they were
insignifilant matters compared with what has
taken place in India. The contests between
ANTONY and AUGUSTUS, or the fierce disputes
between BONAPARTE and the Muse of Bourbon,
were, after all, nothing more than personal con-
tests of ambitious aspirants for regal power and
supremacy. Under any circumstances, the
civilised world would have got on independent of

the person or qualities of its immediate rulers
In this view of the matter we are fortified by the
fact that history furnishes us with innumerable
instances, setting forth the most notable exam-
ples of the human race, the most glaring
triumphs of faith, liberty, and truth, both civil
and religious, which were accamplished during
the reigns of the worst, most debased, and
besotted of monarchs—an evidence that the
imbecilities and the vices of the rulers for the
time accellerated the progress of national
improvement. Again, the contests in Europe,.
which have been maintained at several periods
by ambitious competitors, for possession of
coveted thrones, exercised but little influence
upon the character and condition of the people.
Civilisation was progressive, and, as we have
before remarked, it mattered little whether it was
a weak-minded, or a benevolent and vigorous
monarch, that ruled the destinies of the people.
The vices and follies of weak and vicious sove-
reigns only tend to spur the people to acts of
regeneration, if civilisation is an element in their
social system.
When, how ever, we come to consider the
present aspect of affairs in India, we find a very
different state of things existing. The mutiny
that has taken place involves the very existence
of civilization in that vast empire. Upon the
issue of the gigantic struggle in which we are
engaged will depend whether that vast country,
with its 130 millions of people, shall be ruled
and governed by laws which have civilization as
their foundation, and the people trained and
nurtured to habits of industry, loyalty, and the
principalities of Christianity, or whether they
are to be permitted to relapse into all the bar-
barities of their past history. This is the grand
question. And although every patriot—and who
in such a case is not a patriot—yearns for the
infliction of summary vengeance upon the
murderous miscreants whose atrocities are, with-
out the shadow of doubt, beyond a parallel,
human nature revolts at the savage butcheries
and the monstrous iniquities perpetrated upon
helpless women and children. Nothing that one
man can do to another, no matter how savage,
would be a tithe of the punishment which these
miscreants merit.

Our firs': duty, however, is to regain the
superiority which we have lost. In doing so we
must not study to imitate the barbarities of the
Sepoys. Hiving hunted down the mutineers in
every quarter, and dispersed them over the
length and breadth of India, we should show to
the 'people of India that they have to choose
between the civilizing rule of Beitain and the
absolute sway of a chief wh )se actions have
shown that he recognises no restraints of
faith or humanity, who violates the most
solemn oaths, commits the most hideous bar-
barities, and impudently declares to the world
that he can be bound by no tie of
moral princip!e or personal obligation. Nor
should our rulers at h )me forget the fearful
character of the contest. Every energy should
be put forth to meet the crisis. Against us
we have an overwhelming force of rebels, the
casualties of weather, and the probabilities of the
prevalence of that terrific pestilence—cholera.
The latest advices from India show that General
HAVELOCK had to encounter this new and for-
midable enemy. Cholera had forced him to
beat his retreat to Cawnpore, there to remain
until he had cured his sick, and obtained some
reinforcements. This is truly painful intellli-
g.snce, and shows that the bravest men, who
despise all odds and diFfi.Alties, when opposed
to a human force, succumb before the irresistable
attacks of cholera. We only hope, with true
fervency, that the God of battles may so preserve
our soldiers' health and strength, although
subjected to the ravages of an Indian climate,
that they will have conquered a peace. convinced
the mutineers of the superior military prestige
of England, and taught the population of India
to respect conquerors who, although powerful,
are just and merciful in their dealings with
foreign dependencies.

IT is, at all times, an unpleasant duty, to find
fault with a public body like the Birkenhead
Police, but, as public journalists, we are, in the
discharge of our public duty, constrained to
ignore private feeling on this, as on every
other matter which appertains to the public weal.
We are not of those who would find fault,
unnecessarily, with the manner in which Police
officers discharge their duties, knowing, as we do,
that, as a body, they are obnoxious to a very
large section of the community ; on the contrary,
we would afford them every possible encourage-
ment, and award them all due credit while they
acted strictly within the limits of their duties ;
but when we are in possessi of authenticated
statements, charging individual members of the
force with committing acts, or, rather, outrages,
grossly illegal and unconstitutional—and when it
is indicated that the whole body are united in a
common brotherhood as it were, which organi-
sation has the effect of securing immunity to
its various members from punishment, however
flagrant or unconstitutional their conduct may
have been—such a combination as this, amongst
such a body, is fearful to contemplate. Let
but an individual give offence, and he is for
ever a marked man. Of this we have evidence
in abundance.

We published, a short time ago, a letter, from
a party who gave his name and address, com-
plaining of a gross outrage to which he had
been subjected, by this truly inquisitorial and
irresponsible gendarmerie of Birkenhead, The