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

(From the Bengal llifrAara)

"The past fortnight, alth mgh fa" from uneventful, has
yet beer more suggestive than aettve ; there bas been 1115
gathering of the 6loments—the bre ving of tha stone—but
at the latest date of writing, no tidings of the burs ing of
the thundsr-e'ond have reachad us and we cm still only
hope for the be,t.

"Oa the first of the month Mai )r-General Ceram
arrived at Allahaba.3, and he was follow° I n that and
the ten succeeding days by portions of his troops,
cousieting of the 9 :th Foot, the sth Fuel Trs,
some deals cf other regiments and artille y, making,
ieclueiteg drafts from the Allahahad garrison, nearly
fourteen hundred men in all. On the sit they commenced
moving towards Cawepore. The a-tillery and some
infantry and native cavalry, wider M j )r Vincent Byre,
had been sent on in advance. Oa appro (thing F'uttebpre
the found the en, my in some force strongly entrenched
on tile right (Fu'tehpare) btnk of the river, prepared,
apparently, to resist their forEer a luance. Eyre, how-
ever, made short work of them ; he seut his cavalry
_and infantry at than, and drove them, wi h great loss to
them, and but little to our men, into their boats ; as th y
attemp ed to cross over t) the opposite bank his guns
opened upon thnn, end sunk and deatraye I number,.
Tule operation haviug been most successfully pe:f3rmed,
the mare'a worn Cawnporo was resume 3. As to
the success of the expedition, few in Calcutta,
none of those who ought to he best informed, enter-
tain the smallest doubt, and if the heroic garrieen
possess the means of prolonging their re,istanee hut a few
drys long r, their safety will, in all hnmen prababili:y, b
se:tired, It is not anticipated that the opposition to our
advance will be of the same determined neture as on the
former occasion ; in fact, two reglatents have already
made overtures to our authorities to return to their alle-
giance, and although the offer of course was scouted, still
the fact of its being made at all proves the disen'on pre-
valent aenorgst the insurgents.
" At Agra all contitued well on the latest dates ; the
country had been deprived of the serv:ces of Mr. John
Colvin, Governor of the N trth-Western P: ovine s.
Worn by the unceasing anxietjes and labours of his
charge,' to use the langeage of the Goverear-General,
heilth and strengeh gave way.'
" C ,ruing lower do .vn towards Calcutta, we field the whole
of Behar in a most disorganised state. Keoer Singh, the rebel
chieftain of Arrah, has indeed oarried his incursions into
where be was at once j tined by the troops .of the
It.jah who had been sent to opp )se !Ant ; but his brother
tTrumur Singh is still in Behar, and at the head of a con-
siderable body of men ; no opp Isition has been offered
to la's progress. The sth Irregnlar Cavalry, too, from
Biteugalpore, have been j tined by all the disaffected in
the dist ict, and are laying waste the country in every
dieeetion. At the earnest slicitation of Mr. Money,
collector, of Gya, Mr. San:melte, the ne v Commis-
' sioner of Patna, being informed that the Irregulars had
taken up a position neas Gya, °Akre; a party of Sikhs
to a'tack them : the measure was decided upon in direct
opposition to the wishes of the military authorities. The
result was that the Sikhs were not only repulsed, but
outmanceuvred : the insurgents en`cre I Gya before them,
and again piuudered that unhappy city. Sir Cahn Camp-
bell has, we believe, tak n the only effectual means of
putting a stop to these thee:Mere by sending up a corn-
pee, bo 4y of five thousani Europeans under an oftlier of
skill and experience.

" Our accounts fr ,m Delhi do not dale later thin the
sth in,tant. We have, however, received i•iform lion of
the effect which the count of the Cawnpore maiFacre
had up3n the troops. It literally made th3m cry aloud for
revenge.

" The Panjaulo sill sten 's out in bold relief to the rest
of Indio. There, wherever mutiny has raised its heal, it
has been prororly and severely crushed. In no single
instance h ,s Sir John Lawreroca failed of success. Tne
35th, composed of Brahmins, who mutinied because they
preferred death to loss of cast ,' being pursued took
refuge with the Swats, who n t only plundered them of
their wealth, but converted them into Mahomedens, and
then turned them adrift: the 9th Cavalry, 26,h, 46th
Native Infantry, and others, ware cut up almost to a man,
and Sir John has been enab!ed not only to maintain tran
quility, but to famish a large force for the operations
against Delhi.
"Since wri'ing the above we have received infroaation
from Government that G3nerals Outram and Havelock
crossed the Ganges at Oawnpore on the WI install', and
that all was well at Lucknow on tkc 16:h idem. The relief
of the godson may therefore be looked upon almost as a
foregone conclusion.
" From Delhi the intelligence !s excellent.
" Just before going to press we le snit on good
authority that the 50. h Native Infantry mutinied at
Nagode,.but the officers of the regiment were safe, for
nee their so'diers not having massacred them Luke so many
other corps.
"Tae only circumstance that has disturbsl the t an-
qu'l ty of Calcutla d ming 'he past fortnight has had re-
ference to the press. Oa the 18th instant the government
cancelled the flurkartis licaLse, thus vir utily suppressing
the paper. It is a curious fact that the two rapers which
until the a"rivol of Lord ['inning were always supposed
to represent more or less the visas and wishes of the
Government the Friend of India and the Barkaru, hive
been the fi -st to feel the iron heel of despotic and it is •
spoasil)le authority. For ourselves, we frankly confess
that we consi ,ered the Press Gaging Act virtually as a
breach of contract between one estate and another ; we
thought it 'Wait., impolitic, an I uncalled for, and we did
not hesitate in consequence to express our opinion
of men and measu es in language which we did not care
to guard. We had that c mfidence in our countrymen that,
we believed that n body of E •glishmea—men born in the
land of frs e disuision, and educated wish tha same liberal
ideas as ourselves—woald ever combine to stop the free
expression of opinion. We can only now admit that we
were mistaken, and although our sentiments regarding the
great line of policy to be maintained at the present aide

remain unchanged, and are, humanely speaking. unchange-
able, we shall in future of necessity guard against the use
of any expression that might be convarted into an engine
against ourselves. Our license was restored last night,
after an interregnum of six days duration The subject is
one wuich will not be again adverted to until some definite
arrangement be arrived at regard.ng the prere."

[summary from the Calculta Englishman.] •

The last fortnight has been unproductive of any B fulling
or imp trtant events. The departure of the mail has been
pat off two days, in the herr, undoubtedly. of being able
to report either the fall of Delhi or the relief of the gar-
rison at Lucknow. Nothing decisive, however, has yet
reached us from either city. Our latest reports from our
own correspondent at Delhi, dated the 213 h August will
be found below, that of the Government is of the sth
inst. Yet, although so little has been effected, although
almost every day brings account of fresh insurrec-
tion, the fashion among offt!ial men is to Fay
that the mutiny is in a state of collapse. We
acknowledge we can se 3 no indications of it.
Here an 1 there the maineers qoarrel among themselves,
and oar very latest report from Cawnpore is, that two re-
giments hive offered to come over. Bat the whole of
Behar is in a disorganised sate, and in no part of the
Upper Provincss can British authority be said to exist
beyond the reach of our guns. We therefore repeat that,
however mu eh these men may qaarrel among themselves,
and however desultory their efforts may be for want of s
recognised leader, yet their numbers are so great that it
cannot be expected the clunty will be tranquillised till
the arrival of large reinforcements. In this respect we are
b-ginning to imprcve ; the last week his brought us, the
Welsh Fusiliers, a detachment pf the Royal Artillery, and
the 93. d Highlanders, being the last of the Caine expedi-
tion. The troops direct from England will only begin to
drop in next month so that Lord Ellenborough will be
found right, when he asserted that they could hardly take
the field before January.
We are prevented, oy reasons which will b 3 otovions
enough to tho,e who read th's paper, from commenting on
the measures of Government, but we refer what we hare
previously said, that a Specie', Providence must certainly
have decreed tat a Mahlm dan dynasty shall not again
govern India, for, as far as can bo seen all around. the wis-
dom of man has had but a small influence in checking this.
insurrection

Oae little aneclote we mast relate, as it amusinaly illus.
trates this state of affairs. On the 16. h of May, is
procianaetioa was published, declaring that the
British Indian Government had no intention to
interfere, and wadi not interfere, with the religion
of the people. A short time beck a circular was
seat to the Z :minders of Bengal requeiving them t
state what number of cattle they could supply for the use
of the British soldiers expected here ! An orthodox Tlindoo
Zeinindar replied, appeeitely enough, "What is the mean-
log of this ? You have just declared th t you will not inter-
fere with our religion, now you ask me to be your agent in
violating its junctions. The ref-rapist wio peened this
absurdity prob bly never remembered that there are wealthy
butchers enough in Celcusta who would be delighted to
contract for all the beef required, if paid a little above the
ordinary market price, and who would disturb no man's
conscience in procaeing, sleughtering, and selling natio.
In noticing the result of the trial of the editor of the
Doorlan, we remarked it pleived that the real motive for
passing the Gigging Act differed font the o nensibe one.
It showed tilainly that n )t the native, bet the English press
was the most aimed at This wit s confirmed. The
Iriend of India was peremptorily suppressed, and only
allowed to be published on condition of dismissing its
editor. Alta cat every English newspaper on this side of
India has been threatened, and last week the license of
the flarkara, the oldest newepepar in India, way withdrawn,
and the entreaties of the proprietor only induce l its restora-
tion yes:cede'. In his la ,t instenee the aetic es win ck canoed
this severe infl ctioo, were not of au alaanieig or sedition.,
tendency, they were grossly persm tl and offensive, and
might have fairly led to a prosecution for libel, for which
the Sug eav Court is always open. Bat this proves that
ruse arbitrary power, hastily bestowed un her pretext of
State necessity to put dawn revolt, is al eady turned to the
trretification of personal animosity, and one member of
C euncil has been he .rd to say, that the pewter of summary
deportation ought to be rcetored to this G verument.
Tne year 1837 will be a memorable one in the annals
of Indian history memeristle, as showing the fruits of
mismanagement over confidence, and utter ignorance of
native character. \You'd that it may be memorable too,
at the cemnencement of a now era in the gevernmeat of
this country It is a Tuestien we often ask ourselves.
" Will the Government indeed learn practically the lesson
which has been so rudely taught them." It must be
pretty evident by this time that the knotty question, h .w
to get rid of a native ar ny, has welt solved itself. The
native army has saved the Government the trouble of
disben it, by di:banding of their own accord. We
might have coug ovulated ourselves on being thus well rid
of an incubus that was weighing down the financial
department of the empire, and wasting its resource.
without producing any adequate result, had the.
Sepoys not thought fit to evince their grati-
tude to their benefactors by murdering w men
and children in cold blood, and committing atro-
cities which, hiking the former relative positions
of the two parties into account, - the most savage
native of the most savage corner of the earth
would blush to bs accused of. B aeker then the
utter darkness of the infernal regions, as dew.. bed by the
genius of the poet, —deeper than the nefethomable recesses
of tee deepest ocean, is he treachery that has lately
beet displayed by tens of th meanie of creatares that
call themselves men. There is only one thing we know
of that can be compared with their treachery, and that is,
their ceotemptiblo cevardice To slaughter the helpless
and innocent ; to dash out th 3 brains of infants,' as was
tioue at Neemuch and Cawnpore ; to set fire to ladies'
dresses, and shoot their viczime while screaming
with sgeey ant 'terror ; to revel in scenes of
gtilt, bloodshed, and every atrocity that fiends
from the lowest depths of hell can prompt
men to invent; to do deeds like these, Bengal Sepoys have
proved themselves brave and ready. Bet when the work
has been fairly begun, when the cry of " Deen" has been
raised, that war-cry that has c used more bloodshed and
more mis ry to the human race than the lust of conquest,
the ambition of wicked men, when they have a king, and
the shadow of a king seated on his throne, for whom they
profess to have sacrificed their all, the their courage anis
and the cowards fly almost when none pursue. But
enough cf this ; le s us leave these vrretchee to the tender
consideration of British soldiers, with bayonets in their
hauda, and hearts bursting with revenge, and turn towards
the future.

We have already pointed out how two hundred Reo-
pima soldie-e, and three g Ins can defeat three regiments
or mutineers, witoees the 13enaree mutiny, or rather this
second chep er of ,he mutiny, wile.' bravely and energy
had to recover what indelet ce or Lie- mpetenc), or perhaps
cowardice, had lost. here is a plain lesson for
the future guidance cf Government. If 200 English
soldiers and three guns, can defeat three mu-
tinous regiments in of en fie,eht, wcat must be the
mere' effect produced by a whole regiment,
and a whole troop of Horse Artillery. In open fight, when
111011'S pa'sions are roused. when the Sepove are c intending
f r what th.y profess to value more than life, they arc beaten
at the rate of about ten to one Euglish sol eier. In ordinary
times of peace, it i. but fair to suppose that the effect
produced by the presence of European troops, is five times
at least greater than in a crisis like the present, when every
mite must have made up his mind to do or die, bef he
took the last unavoirlab!e step of open mutiny. Let tho
government for the future act upon this. A European corps
may he more expensive than one naive regiment ;
but. when 800 Europeans can be more effective in keeping
the country quiet ihen—we are afraid to say how many
thousands of &Toys, seeing it is not too much to expect
that the g ivernment of the land aitid the lives of our fellow-
countrymen and eountrywomm will for the future be
entrusted to the ssfe keeping of Anglo-Saxon hearts and
hands. How much the Government w mid save by it, we
leave to the liditery Au titor-General, who, in consequence
of the number of reg mental records that nave lately been
desixoled, must he forced to walk about his room,
whistling, from sheer watt of something
But would recrui s be procurable for In nap European
regiments? We fear not—not in such quan ity ay would
be required, and not for many) ewes. What then is to be
done, and how are the nu ueron4 offiters, now scattered
over India, to be dispose I of, and how are their services to
be employed?
The insurrecion will have to be put down by European
troops, almost sole!y, and these will come out from Et g-
land, ready officered. «'e cannot help thinking, that the
days of the Company's. Direction are numbered ; and that
fur the future, India will be a dependency of the
Crown, Certainly the Bengal Sepoys have dene their
best to kick the bail out of the hands of their
hoaourable masters, and sen I it spinning through the glass
windows of Downing street, whence it will roll on to tee
foot of the throne. And if so, woul lit not at once set all
difficulty at rest to raise as many more Qieee's regiments
as the additional duty of holding India would render necs-
B4rYi Rill put on- Indian offl oers into thorn, Let the dis-
tinction between Queen's and Indian °Mears be done away
with for once and all. Queen's regiments can be raised
fast enough - it is a different thing with the Company
Earopean Corps. A man will enlist for general service
under the Crown, while he tteinks twice (and vary wisely)
before he enters the Company's ranks, to spend his best
d ays, perhaps his life, in India, and fairly puts his foot
in it.
There is one thing more. We cannot help fearing, that