Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

subscriptions that have been made for Mr. Douglas
Jerrold's fomily. We have felt that, however kind
hearted the intentions of the charitable were, in
such a case it would be mean and degrading
for a respectable family to become the recipients
of beggarly donations, and we could not encourage a
practice that would lower .them in the estimation
of those who have a noble and independent nature.
His son shows that the father did not leave his
family paupers upon the wide world, but on the
contrary, had taken means to prevent such a ca-
lamiy. The Central Criminal Court commenced
its September sessions yesterday. The cases,
although not numerous, comprise three charges
of wilful murder, and two of assault with intent to
commit that offence.

Ttie continental intelligence this morning does
not possess many features of moment. Contrary
to the boast of the partisans of Austria that the
new elections in Moldavia would result in the same
Anti-Unionist majority as the annulled ones, the
electors of Moldavia seem to be resolved not to
allow thems4ves to he °lnvited by the Wallachians
in efforts for the union of the Principalities. The
elections- commenced on the 10th of this month,
and the order of the clergy returned three ecclesi-
astics, who are decided unionists.

It is denied that the Emperor of Austria has
offered to mediate between Naples and the Western
Powers The only offer of this kind has been
made by the King of Prussia ; but Lord Clarendon,
as well as Count Walewsk;, refused to listen to any
proposal before King Ferdinand has introduced
the reforms demanded from him.

Late adviers from Vienna mention that the
Emperor has addressed a letter to the Archduke
Aihrocht, Governer-General of Hungary, expressing
his gratefulness for the demonstrations of loyalty
which he met with during his tour through
Hungary. The Emperor tells the Hungarians
that there is a good time coming for them, that
their pr.--spelity is progressing, and that he will
stick to the principles which hive guided him
since he assutned the reins of government. This
means that the Emperor sviil do nothing to remove
the grievances of the national party in Hurg try.
Letters from Paris mention that some Indians
from Delhi, have within the last few cloys taken up
their residence in the Hotel des Italiens. They
quitted Delhi at a moment when the mutineers
and the English troops were engaged in a serious
batch under the walls of the city. They belong to
a rich ani powerful family, and whenever they
appear in the streets they attract considerable
a.tention.

A Paris c;rrespondent writes that the offer made
by the Commandcr-"n-Chief of the English army
to give a commission to any young man who raises
one hundred men is referred to by the Pebzts as a
curious instance of the shifts to which the present
Government of Great Britain is obliged to have
reccurse in order to obtain recruits. "As to us,"
says the Debats, we cannot help congratulating
ourselves on not having need, in time of war, of
appealing to aristocratic sentiments in order to fill
the ranks of our regirnentF."
The Swiss Federal Council has this day decided
that it will send to the Government of the Canton
of Vaud a reply in which it will maintain is decree
quashing the interdiction of the works on the
Oran Railway, issued by the Cantonal Govern-
ment. The Federal Council likewise persists in
the date of September 15, fixed as the most
distant limit for examining the plans of that
line.

From Madrid we find that the exports from the
ports of Spain amounted, in last July, to 61,385,296
realP, being an increase of 20,713,051 reels on the
exports at the corresponding period of last year.
The ratifications of the convention recently signed
between Spain and England, in respect to literary
and artistil property, have been exchanged at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Hojai announces
that the Sultan is to send a diplomatic agent to
Spain. The ministry are occupied in examining
the financial plan of M. Barzanallana, the secretary
of the finance department.
The news from the West Indies. South and
Central America, brought by the Royal Mail
Steamer Atrato to Southampton, is fully reported
in another column. It c-aitains a report from
Callao, that the British Minister at Lima, Mr
Sullivan, had been assassinated. Whether the ac
had a political or a private motive seems to b
uncertain. The assassins had not been captured.
Intelligence from Chin?, via Kj ichta, gives a de-
plorable picture of the condition of Pekin and the
southern provinces of the empire. Commerce has
almost ceased, and the wretchedness of the people
is aug,mt wing daily, The government has issued
iron money to pay the employes, and to purchase
corn, whilst it requires the taxes to be paid in

The White Star Packet Ship San Dimian arrived
here yesterday from Australia, having gold to the
atnonnt of £19,848 sterling on freight. She
sailed from Melbourne on the 14th of May. Her
news has been anticipated. This bhould have been
the vessel announced yesterday, and not the Black
Ball clipper, Montmorency.

ANOTHER mail has arrived from India, but we
are again without any definite intelligence as to
the actual progress of the mutiny. Like most
others of the telegraphic despatches which have
reached us, in anticipation of the mail, that
contained in our impression of yesterday was
meagre, contradictory, and certainly unsatisfac-
tory. We only hope that what the telegraph
imputes to the Bombay Times is correct—viz.,
" that the rebellion has been checked, and that
the news
.is decidedly of a cheering character."
Let us see if the_information in the telegraphic
despatch warrants such a description.
Like all of the other dispatches which have
been forwarded through the same source, the intel-
ligence to hand gives a little of what we desig-
nated " hope" and " despondency." First, we
are told of the success of General HAVELOCK ;
that he had defeated the rebels at Abipur-al-
Gunge on the 29th and 30th July, taking nearly
all their guns ; and that he expected to reach
Lucknow on the 31st of July. It does not suit
the authorities to tell us what this defeat cost us,
and what was the actual carnage which resulted.
In the next place, we are told that at
Agra the Europeans remained in the fort, well
able to hold out, but anxiously waiting reliefs.
To this gratifying news we have to add that the
Sealkote mutineers on their way to Delhi ware
totally destroyed at Goodaphore by Brigadier
/STICHDLS3N'S force. Other movements, which,
if true, are gratifying to know, are
contained in the despatch received at the
Admiralty on Sunday evening, But there is a
dark side to this same picture, which we earnestly
trust may not turn out to be the true one. Four
more regiments had mutinied at Dinapore on
the 23rd of July, of whom eight hundred were
shot down by a single regiment. This statement
seems to require confirmation. As it stands, ti
looks like a blunder or an exaggeration. It
would seem as if another and a most important
city was about to be subjected to a siege. We
are told that the mutine.rs were advancing upon
Benares. We hear, too, that great alarm prevails
in Belgaum, Dharwaz, Rutnagherry, and Sattara.
Reports prevailed that a Mahomedan conspiracy

had been discovered in the Bombay Presidency,
and that several parties had been arrested and
were ordered for trial. From these brief and
somewhat contradictory items we are asked to
believe that matters wore a better complexion
than at the date of the previous mail. Until we
have the detailed accounts before us we cannot
consider that such is the case. The zebellion is
evidently spreading, and with the exception of
General HAVELOCK'S reputed successes, and the
exploit of Brigadier NICHOLSON'S force, the news
is more in favour of the mutineers than other-

wist%

At Delhi, the head quarters of the mutiny,
nothing is reported beyond the fact that the
third General has taken command, namely,
Brigadier-General A. WILSON, in place of
General REID, who was obliged to relinquish
the office of General-in-Chief on account of ill
health. Earnestly do we hope that this brave
man will not became a prey to the climate
of India, as did his predecessor, General
BARNARD.

From all we can glean out of this despatch
we are convinced more than ever that Great
Britain is engaged in a struggle, the ultimate
end of which it is most difficult to tell. We are,
in fact, in the midst of a crisis which requires
not only the most prompt and energetic, but
the most extensive and gigantic preparations to
meet it. We are contending against a race
whom we have trained and nurtured in the art
of war ; given them a complete insight into the
habits and dispositions of their present enemies,
and although they have not English officers to
guide them, it is simple absurdity to contend
that among their own ranks there cannot be
found plenty of men to head the mutiny, if
possible, to a successful issue. Indeed, the
protracted character of the struggle clearly
proves that the sepoys possess much
more military skill, power, and persever-
ance than England has ever been wont to accord
them. We are too prone to look upon the war-
like heroism of England as the ne plus ultra of
the world, and to regard our enemies with a
feeling akin to contempt. One would have
thought after what took place at Sebastopol, that
we would have learned a little humility in this
respect, and been less given to term every power
that questions the validity of our claims to
supremacy throughout the world nothing but
cowardly barbarians, who could not stand an
hour before the bayonets of British soldiers. Had
we been less disposed to act upon this feeling,
and to have kept the conquered natives of India
in their proper place, we should not have now to
regret our dreadful losses in the British ranks, or
to mourn over the hardships and privations which
has befallen to all who have been the objects of
the furious sepoys of India; and, from what has
taken place, the greatest sinners in the affair have
not been over active in meeting the danger with
proper means to re-establish peace and order in
their disaffected provinces.

THE heartrending accounts which have
reached us from India for some months, detail-
ing the misery, destitution, and privation tsrl
which not only British officers but their innocent
wives and helpless children have been subjected,
have aroused a feeling of deep COMmisseration.
Accordingly, as in the days of the Crimean cam-
paign, meetings are being held and subscriptions
obtained for the relief of the sufferers. The
extreme penury and want—the degradation and
deplorable wretchedness which thousands of our
countrymen have endured---differs much from
the pitiful accounts which reached us from
Sebastopol, Then we were invaders of the
soil of another country. Now we only seek to
retain a land which we obtained by conquest,
but which the original inhabitants seek to
dispute inch by inch, and by every means, fair
and foul. It is philanthropic to come to the
rescue of a brother or sister in trouble, and the
inspired writings tell us that if we feed the
hungry, clothe the naked, take in strangers, and
comfort the afflicted, we do deeds of merit, and
shall, in the great day of account, receive a great
and glorious reward. Instigated by feelings
such as these, a few of the merchants of Liverpool
held a meeting yesterday, under the presidency
of his Worship the Mayor, for the purpose of
" expressing their sympathy with the unhappy
sufferers in the truly distressing events
that have occurred in India." As far
as that goes we have nothing to object.
It is nothing more than a Christian duty to aid
and assist the helpless. Hence, we join heartily
in the hope expressed by one of the speakers,
that the merchant princes of Liverpool will
come forward and contribute liberally to the
fund which is being raised for the purpose of
assisting all who have suffered by the Indian
mutiny.

It did not require the eloquence or poetic
quotation of Mr. MACKAY, to convince the
gentlemen who met in the Sessions House
yesterday, that brutal atrocities of the most
appaling kind had been inflicted upon our
fellow countrymen, their wives, and their
children, that the fate of many of them was
of the most heartrending character, and that
humanity and love for our fellow beings dictated
that instant and effective means should be taken
to meet the pressing want and destitution of the
Indian officers—all belonging to them—and
thousands of ethers engaged under the British
Crown. All this was more than admitted, and
had there been no other sentiments propounded
than were contained in the excellent speech of.
Mr. MACKAY, we should have gladly endorsed