Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

TO TTIE EDITOR OF TILE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—The Times, on Monday last, in a long
article, attempts to controvert the arguments of
the Univers, touching the dissolution of the Br tish
Empire, and declares that the Sepoy, in his fury,
would murder a Catholic as soon as a Protestant,
not knowing one sect from the other. So much
for the opinions of that ,lespotio paper (the Times),
which is now, on the Indian question, making
a laughing-stock of itself all over Europe ; from
the first outbreak to the last arrival from
India, the supposed head of the English press has
not, on one point of prediction, been correct ; in
fact, it seems to be in total ignorance on the
question at large. The idea of the Mahommedans
not knowing Protestants from Catholics is the
worst assertion it has made.

The Catholic soldiers of England and the Sepoys
were the best friends, and the priests of the
army have met the greatest kindness from them,
now and before the revolt,—both have suffered
injustice at the hands of the East India Company
—both their petitions for fair play were presented
to the Governor-general together—both were re-
jected, and, consequently, a sympathy existed
between them. The Sepoys revolted, the Catholics
patiently submitted to the injustice, nor have the
former touched one of the priests although they
spared not the Protestant ministers in the hour of
triumph.
The Mahommodan notions of Christianity are
&f,-rent from those supposed to be by the Times.
They believe t!-,at the Catholic faith, as professed
by France, the oldest form of worship, and consider
that, as being so, deserving the preference; and,
moreover, the Mahomaaadan rulers have frequently
denounced the English form of religion, in mani-
festoes to their people, as a mutilated fragment cf
Christianity, composed by a king and parliament
to suit their views. The respect which the French
mi3sioneries have met with in India caused a
jealousy against them. If the London Times can-
not confute its antagonist on other grounds, it had
better be silent —Yours, &e., SARSBIELD.
B3otle, Sept. 25, 1857,

BOYs' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE, at:LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.

LICENSTNG OF Arms.—Mr. W. S. Tracy sat again on
Thursday, in the record court of the county court-house, to
receive apprcations from persons to have and carry arms.
In ueordatice with his annouocerneat on opening the
court, his worship has not given licenses to carry arms to
the residents in Belfast, he has not granted a single licerst
to the residents in the streets and places in uhich riots
hare taken place ; and fur the three days that the court. has
been held, the number of persons licensed to have erns in
their dwellings amounts to only one hundred and fifty.
Belfast Mercury
HANGING AT' SEETABULDEC—A letter from this place,
in Irviia, says :—Flanging is the order of the day here, I
am happy to say. A short lime ha' k, I sent you an ac-
count of the stringing up of three of the Irregulars, and
now I have the felicity of informing you that two more
miscreants were similarly elevated yesterday an 4 the rhy
before—a proceeding that not only reflects great credit on
the energy and promptitude of Mr. Plawden and his sus-
- hut has manifestly had the salutary effeet of awing
the niggers, and keeping the peace in these anarchical
mrs. Here, I rejoice, and am mast thankful to say, all
is profoundly tracquil, and is Fkely to continue so I
hink.

ROMAN week, in di7ging for the drainage
works in Copennegen-street, the workmen turned up a
small copper coin, or Qaiolrans, of the Roman Emperor
D.lrni..ian. On the eLverss is the laureated head of the
Emperor, a portion cf the inscription—' Imp CAEs Dom,"
being discernible. o.t the reverse it a fivire of the go3dess
who superintended the public coinage, holding in one hand
a horn of plenty. The pair of scales with which she was
usually represented in the other, and the heap of coin nr
metal usually depicted at her feet are partly worn out. The
legend is " Moneta AuguA.i," with the familiar " S.C."
(senates consulto) in the field. A stral silver coin of
Charles I. was en Wednesday found at a depth of some feet
below the old sewer on the North Parade.— Worcester
Chronicle.

THE SCRNE OF THE CAWSPORE MASSACRE —A elrres-
pondent writes :—" I have been to see the place where
the poor women and children were imprisoned and after-
wards butchered. It is a small bungalow close to the natl.
There were all setts of articles of women and childre's
cl tthing : lathes' hair, evidently cut off with a sword, back
combs, &e. There Isere also parts of religious books.
Where the massacre took place it is covered with blood like
a butcher's slaughterhouse. One would fancy nothing
could be worse than this, but in the well at the back of the
hove are the Indies and :iinbs of the p-eer things. I looked
down and saw such a sight as I hope never to see again.
The whole of the bodies were naked, and the linfcs had
been separa'ed. I thought of the two Mrs. and the
three p ior girls, and felt very sea. By all accounts the
women were so ill-treated that death, even such a death
must have been welcome to them. I will not enter into
more details. I have looked upon death in every Um,
but I could not look down that well again."
A CASE FOR Tem VICTORIA Cst,e.s.—Perhaps one of the
finest acts of cool, determined bravery ever recorded was
performed by a private soldier belouzing to the English
force besieging Delhi. He was in the sot of bearing a
wounded ensign, a mere boy, from the field, or rather the
suburb before Delhi, when a mutineer fired upon them
from the upper windows of an mire tnt house. Deliberately
placing his senseless officer under shel►er, he walked to
the house, tramped up stairs, and shot the man who had
fired. With this wretch were two other mutineers, and
before they could come to their wits two rapid thrusts of '
the s'ildier s bayonet finished their career. He then coolly
returned to where he had placed his wi,unded officer, took
him no in his arms and carried him to the camp. In the
*same communication f-om which this fact is derived, it is
stated, as a proof of the infinite superiority of our troops
over the mutineers, that 150 of the latter having got into
a serai (a walked enclosure for traYAlers) on the flank of
the British camp, kept up a galling fire upon stragglers.
Twenty Europeans went after them. The Sepoys shut the
door, but it was immediately blown open, and our men
rushing in, shut and fastened it again, determined to fight
to the death, till Every wan on one side or the other was
down. They then set to work, rushing from one to
another, and driving their bayonets through them as if
they had been sheep. Of the' whole 150 not one traitor
escaped.

CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED C•,Nvar—The c
Joseph Stillman, has arrived in Bristol from Liverpool,
and been safely lodged in Bristol jail. The convict w,s
smtenecd to fifteen years' penal servitude for murderously
assaulting and robbing a mane in the employ of Messrs.
Hewitt of Bristol, but some months ago escaped from jail,
in company with another man named Parr, who was
undergoing a year's imprisonment. for = uttering counterfeit
coin. Stillman states that they both got-away 'Without the
connivance orknowledge, but through the neglect of some
4 the turnkeys. The doors of'their cells and of the in-
firmary were accidentally left open, and-the night officer,
on coming on duty, neglected to ascertain whether they
were locked, as ha should have done. The prisoners
waited until the dead of the night, and having watched the '
offices out of sight, crept stealthily into the corri ior, and'
thence into the jail yard. There they made a rope of some
woollen comforters, and filling one end of it with earth,
threw it over the wall. Stillman climbed up firs', and
jumped from the summit of the wall into the field. Parr
tollowed, but on reaching the top,. turned the ballasted
end of the xtemperised ladder inside the wall towards the
prison, and then deliberately descended into the field.
The convicts shook hands and parted, each going his
own way, and Stillman, it is said, heard nothing of
Parr afterwards. Stillman's friends, it would seem,
secreted him in Bristol for three weeks, and when the
hue and cry had abated he got on board the medcan
ship Siloam, bound to Quebec, and stowed himself
away, and only made his appearance On deck when
the vessel was oat of sight of land. ,He was, however,
recaptured soon after the Siloam arrived in the river of
St. Lawrence by the local authorities, who had re-
ceived itformation of his escape, and the expected'
arrival 'of 'the ship fromßristol. Stillman is very much
qt the renevial .4if • his incarcerition,--Bristol
I.Mirror. ; • • • •

BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WI TB GREAT TAITE AT LEWIS and
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TIMES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 1857.