Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

a little too much prejudice, in favour of the old Bengal
system, may still linger among men in office It may
still be thought that the old system was good, but failed
because improperly carried on, as perchance owing to some
accidental spirit of disaffection or fanaticism, that will
work itself out and is not likely to trouble us again. We
have heard men speak thus of the present c isis.
Or as a religious ferment that must work kelt'
out as suddenly al it
,first appeared. We do
trust that their eyes are opt ned to the full extent of the
gigantic evi!s a disaffec'ed untrustworthy Native Army can
wake, and incleei hare waked, in this country. Let no
Sepoy ever be trusted agstin ; or, it trusted, let it be only so
far that a European ssldier, with a bayonet in his hand,
can look after him The system under which the Bengal
army has existed, is rotten to the care : its disease is h.-
curable, let no man try to renovate or re-establish it.
No ci-eibt when driven out of Delhi and one or two
strongholds, that the various bands of mutineers seem
inclined to defend, the greater part of those that escape
will take refuge in Oude, and there will be enacted the
last (we trust it may come soon) scene of this strange
eventful history. The Punjab, though full of discontented
soldiery and men bred to the practice of arms frmn their
youth, educated in an a,moephare of political disturbance,
war and vio'ence, was calmed in six months, by the
energetic manner in which the disarming order was
carried cut. So effectaslly was this done, that
in many places, the beasts of the field begin absolutely to
encroach on the limits tf civilized men, and the deer of
the jut gle might be seen grazing in the newly rising crops
Let a similar plan be carried out throughout India. We
are aware that the present disturbance has been caused
not by armed villagers, but by Sepoys ; no matter, we say,
disarm the whole—Sepoye as well as peasants.
It may appear a ggantie labour, but it you'd not prove
so. Sueh men as Sir H, Lawrence and Sir H. Wheeler,
with a regiment of European Cavalry, and one of Irfentry,
• and a troop cf Horse Artillery, would disarm the popula-
tion of a hole 1 rov nce, Sepoys and all, in a month o•
two. The operation might be carried out in different
provinces at the same time, and if this is done, with God's
blessirg, by the . end of .he next cold weather, aye and
before it, India wilt be at rest. It may heave for a time
with a swell of indgnation like the ocean after a storm, but
the motion will hs a gentle one, compared with the fury of
• the tempest that is rsgirg, and will ma, k merely the
s lent and gradual subsiding of excitement and passion.

CALCUTTA GOVERNMENT DESPATCHES
I The Calcutta Government had furnished the following
,I• information to the journals of that city :
1 AGRA, SEPTEMBF R 9rn.
The Lieutenant 4 eneral, Mr. Colville, died this aft, r-
-1 noon. Mr. G. r Reade, the senior civilian, will
`conduct the duties cf the Government. The latest
I authentic news from the Chumbul, up to the Bth of
September is, that the mutinous Infantry. Cavalry, and
guns had not yet cro‘Fed—that their advanced guard con-
tinues at Dholpore, with two guns ; that at prw.ent, of the
two streams between Agra and the Chumbul, nne is cer-
,tainly unfavourable, and that the boats have been destroyed.