Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

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MONDAY, JULY 13, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We have very exciting and interesting news
from all quarters of the globe to-day—lndia, Aus-
tralia, and America. From the former the intelli-
gence is of a serious nature. The telegraphic
accounts aro very meagre ; but there is sufficient
to cause uneasiness. We fear there is no reason
to doubt that some 30,000 Sepoy soldiers have
deserted their duties in the Presidency of Bengal.
They have gone off, however, like so many hares
into a wood, without leaders, or concert, or arms,
or warlike stores. Still the disaffection must be
regarded as wide spread; and it is possible that
many of the deserters may reach our military
stations, and disseminate the panic still further.
The Governor-General and the authorities at
Calcutta feel less alarm, and write in
confident terms as to the result. We

cannot doubt that the mutineers will be
severely punished, and the deserters dealt
with in a manner becoming the sternness of
military discipline. In the meantime, there is
happily no intelligence of any spirit of disaffection
having exhibited itself amongst the native popula-
tion throughout India. The desertions and the
crimes committed upon the defenceless part of the
European residents are confined to the soldiers of
the Bengal Presidency alone. How far the con-
tagion may spread it is impossible to say. The
mutineers, who had sought refuge in Delhi,
and who had committed such atrocities in
that city, with the aid of the worst part of
the native population, having ventured outside the
walls, and been joined by other deserters, have
been defeated, after some partial successes, and
have been compelled to seek shelter within the
walls where it is hoped they will soon receive the
signal punishment they so richly deserve. The
death of General Anson, the Commander-in-Chief,
from cholera, at any time a subject of regret, is
a loss all the more to be deplored at a
moment like this, when he is struck down in the
midst of his preparations and anxieties to arrive at
the scene of action, and to inflict exemplary
punishment upon the offenders. He died at Kur-
naul, on his road from Urnballah to take the com
mann of the troops before the capital of Delhi. The
Observer of yesterday, in alluding to this matter,
says :—" The telegraphic despatches received by
the Government yesterday, were despatched by
the Port-Admiral of Malta, on the arrival of the
Indian mail in that island. The Admiral Super-
intendent, perceiving the importance of the intel-
ligence, sent a special steamer from Malta to
Cagliari, in Sardinia, where there is an electric
telegraph to London. The Cabinet Council,
which had been summoned for three o'clock, was
assembled more than an hour earlier. Sir Colin
Campbell, with the true spirit of a gallant soldier,
at one consented to go out, without twenty-four
hours' notice. He said he would not wait to take
anything out with him: he could get all he wanted
at Calcutta as well as in London. The steamer for
India, about to start, was stopped yesterday by
telegraph, and will await Sir Cohn Campbell's
arrival at Marseilles, with any further instructions
necessary lo be sent out in the emergency. The
14,000 troops under orders for India are gone or
going immediately ; other reinforcements of Euro-
pean troops will be sent as soon as ships and stores
can be got ready.
The news from Australia to hand by the arrival
of the James Baines, which brought 60,000 ozs. of
gold, is ten days later than that previously to hand.
The Great Britain and the Lightening had both
Itlrel2ciaeerfri—geveiifyWW, Fr Sial'riTertolil.
Another political crisis had occurred in Victoria.
A long debate had taken place in the Legislative
Assembly, on a motion of want of con-
fidence in the O'Shannessy Ministry, by Mr.
Fellows ; the result of which was a vote
of 34 for and 19 against the motion. Mr.
O'Shannessy had sent in his resignation to the
Governor-General, who had accepted it, but no
new ministry had been formed when the James
Baines left. Lady Barkly, wife of the Governor
of Victoria, died on tha 18th April, the melan-
choly event being attributed to nervous ex-
haustion, resulting from her recent accouchment.
Three more of the unfortunate Williamstown
convicts had been sentenced to death. Leprosy
was prevalent among the Chinese, and great ex-
citement had resulted from the knowledge of such
a state of things. News from New South Wales
to the 20th of April states that Parliament had
been prorogued to the 9th of June. Tasmania
seemed to be on the eve of another political crisis.
There has never been an entente cordiale between
the new Premier and the Parliament, and now they
have come to a positive rupture. One of the
Opposition, Mr. Weston, had brought forward a
vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, and
it was carried by a majority of five. So stood the
matter. Whether the indignant premier would
resign does not seem to have been decided.

The news from the United States, by the arrival
of the Europa, which brings 460,000 dollars in
specie, is four days later than that previously to
band. The Europa brings us full particulars of
the burning of the steamer Montreal, in the river
St. Lawrence, on the 27th instant. This was one
of the most deplorable disasters that we have
been called upon to record for a long time. The
Moatreal left Quebec at four o'clock in the after-
noon for Montreal, having on board between four
and five hundred passengers, nearly all of them
them emigrants, and many of them recently
arrived from Scotland. About five o'clock,
when abrest of Cape Rouge, the wood work
of the furnaces was discovered to be on fire, and
at the same moment the flames burst forth,
causing the utmost consternation. The flames
spread with great rapidity, and numbers of the pas-
sengers precipitated themselves into the river, and
many in such cases were drowned. The steamers
Napoleon and Alliance went to the rescue, and
the former took off one hundred and twenty seven.
Several of these subsequently died of their
wounds. It is thought probable that some of the
passengers may have reached land by swimming.
Captain Rudolph, of the Montreal, and the purser,
swam to the Alliance ani were saved. News
from California to the sth June, is not of an im-
portant character. Preparations were being made
for canvassing the state for the elections, which
will take place in September. A defalcation, vari-
ously estimated at from 100,000 dols. to 500,000
dols., bad occurred at the United States Branch
Mint. Rumour—for as yet it is nothing more
—points to Colonel Haraszthy, melter and re-
finer, as the party to blame. He has made over
all his property, to be held in trust against
any deficiency that may be proved against him
It seems to be clearly established that, owing to
badly constructed chimneys and flues, the waste
in the Mint has been immense. The trial of the
notorious Ned McGowan, as an accessory to
the murder of James King, late Editor of
the San Francisco Bulletin, had resulted as
every one expected, in a verdict of "Not guilty."
In the news from Oregon and Washington Terri-
tories there is nothing worthy of special
notice. Late advices from Sonora fully confirm the
information, previously received, concerning the
destruction of Crabb and his party at Cavern.
Further and very interesting particulars are also
given of the movement of other branches of that
ill-fated expedition. There was some excitement
in California, and there were rumours of another
contemplated invasion of Mexico to revenge the
deaths of Colonel Crabb and his associates, but it
not believed that any will be found sufficiently

reckless to put such threats into execution.
From Great Salt Lake we learn that serious
dissensions have arisen among the Mormons, and
that there was some probability of a collision
between the contending factions. Brigham Young
is reported to have gone northward in search of
favourable localities for new settlements. Parties
of missionaries continue to be sent out, and over a
hundred had started for the Eastern States. The
polygamists in the Mormon settlement of San
Bernardino had been ordered to remove with their
wives to Salt Lake, in order that the peculiar in-
stitution may be strengthened by the union of
those who have adopted it.
Particulars of a most singular murder will be
found in another column. A young man, appa-
rently a maniac, who had been sent from Bow-
street Police Office to St. Martin's Workhouse,
succeeded in murder in one of the keepers by re-
peatedly striking him on the head with a poker.
The screw.stea mer Circassian, Captain Powell,
sailed from this port for Newfoundland, Halifax,
and Portland, on Saturday, with 350 passengers
and a large cargo.

A full report of a banquet given to the officers
of the United States steam frigate Niagara, at
present lying in the Mersey, at the Adelphia
Hotel, on Saturday evening, by the members of
the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.
A summons was on Saturday issued against the
proprietor of the Liverpool Herald for defamation
of character, at the suit of the Roman Catholic
priests, resident in the Isle of Man.
The news from the Continent this morning is
not of much moment. The French Government,
through the Moniteur, republishes the numbers at
the former elections, which stamped, as it is said,
the imperial regime with the approval of the
country, and in this way it endeavours to
cover the decided defeat which Napoleonism sus-
tained in the late elections. But the significance
of the return of five Republican deputies for Paris,
in 1857. loses nothing by the remembrance of the
fact, that Louis Napoleon was elected President by
an immense majority in 1818, and confirmed in his
usurpation, in 1851, by another great niljority.
The open declaration of Lord Palmerston against
the Suez Canal is severely criticised by the con-
tinental press, and especially by that of Paris.
The supporters of the project by no means dispair
on account of the hostility of the British Govern.
ment,

The Italian newspapers continue to give details
connected with the late outbreaks. They all show
that the 3cheme, for revolutionising the South of
Europe was on the grandest scale ; and it is not
very surprising to meet the assertion in a Paris
Ministerial paper that the French Government
was for a fortnight previously in possession of
information that the assassination of Louis Napc-
leon was destined to become the signal for simul-
taneous outbreaks in France, Italy, and Spain,
with the war-cry of " The Social Republic."

WE, this morning, publish further news from
India, which is of a sufficiently disasterous
character. Although the mutineers had been
defeated outside the city of Delhi with a loss of
26 guns, may be satisfactory, the desertion of
large numbers of Native Troops in Bengal and
the North-western Provinces, coupled with the
death of Col. ANSON, and also that of two
thousand men from excessive heat, is dishear-
tening, the Country will be anxious for the
details, to know something more of the
grave and critical state of affairs in India.
England is not dismayed, the island is
not shaken from its propriety by this military
revolt of some thousands of soldiers belonging
to an empire of 170 millions of people. We are
calmly confident of our power to stretch forth
our iron arm and put down insurrection and
mutiny at the distance of half the globe. Yet
there cannot be a doubt that, though the nation
umerrmea mere must be anxiety in many
English homes that may happen to have relatives
in India. either in the military or the civil
service. Their trouble and anxiety are assuredly
not assuaged by the reflection that, possibly all
this bloodshed and violence may have been
provoked in part by our own misconduct in
India, and might have been by forecast and pru-
dence prevented. All our military authorities
up to this moment, concur in the belief that
probably, long ere this, the revolt is crushed in
Delhi, its head quarters ; and we all devoutly wish
it may be so; and that the mutiny may not have
seriously spread to other places, and the wild
fire have seized upon the majority of the Bengal
army, numbering eighty thousand men. We
have had so many recent grounds to distrust our
military authorities, that we must be pardoned if
we take their opinion with a few grains of
allowance. But we will try to hope the best till
we know the worst.

During this pause of suspense we will offer
a remark or two. It will be found impossible,
we believe, to exonerate our civil and military
administrators from grave and long-continued
mistakes in governing India. How much might
have been done that has not been done, to
conciliate the religious feelings and prejudices,
or if you will—the superstitions of the people.
The deceased Mr. BLACKETT, late M.P. for
Newcastle-on-Tyne, made himself very con-
spicuous and very useful, in his endeavours to
call attention to the misgovernment of India,
and to procure justice for that portion of Her
Majesty's subjects; and he was earnestly
seconded by that liberal constituency. We dis-
tinctly remember being present at a public
meeting in Newcastle, when he announced the
certain approach of trouble in India, and urged
the meeting to support him and others in Parlia-
ment in procuring measures of reform, to avert
coming disaster. Nor was this anticipation pe-
culiar to him; many others, in the Muse and
outside, shared it with him. " Coming events
cast their shadows before ;" and it needed no
prophetic mind to see that either our system
must be altered, or our power shaken in the
East. We learn that, lately, officers more zealous
than discreet, have been distributing tracts and
Bibles among the soldiers. Well meant, but de-
cidedly unwise. Our Christian civilisation and
ideas cannot be passively poured upon other minds
like water from one vessel into another ; but the
people must be gradually and judiciously pre-
pared for the change, if ever they are to accept
our religion. The circumstance of the greased
cartridges is a very sorry affair of course, but it
seems mighty to them. Very wisely two pro-
clamations have lately been issued in India since

' the disturbances began, assuring the Hindoos
that there would be no interference with their
religion. Quite proper but too late. Why was
not all this and a great deal more, foreseen and
done long ago. Our reforms generally move at
a snail pace ; and when the steed is stolen, we
take the precaution to close the stable door.
Thus Master John Bull proceedeth, for he is
wise in his generation—at least he thinketh him-
self so. We have not always dealt gently and
discreetly with the religious sentiments and usa-
ges of the people. In the present revolt the
cry was " the English wish to convert us to
Christianity, and to subvert the ancient religion of
India." The double government of India,—by
the Honourable Company, conjointly with Her
Majesty's Ministers—is a clumsy round-about
way of doing things, adapted to embarrass, delay,
and counter-check itself. We do not at this
moment say " Let the Company stand out of the
way and let India be directly represented in the
British Parliament"—but some such demand as
this, or better, will be made one day. Too great
lenity may have been shown in dealing with some
recent instances of insubordination, and where
there should have been severe military discipline
and punishment the culprits have got off easily ;
and thus, our system, or rather our no-system,
combines the opposite vices of rigor and remiss-
ness. Our English officers are said to know very
little of the habits and feelings of the native
soldiery under them.

The two come rarely into contact. The
natural result follows—alienation, want of sym-
pathy; the men hardly know their officers, except
when a riot occurs, just enough to shoot them
down. Possibly, Russian machinations may have
something to do with our late disasters. We
distrust that grasping, perfidious, intriguing
power, even while we are at peace with her. And
while we are at peace with her arms and have
no ill will to her people, we must give no advan-
tage to her diplomacy. We are not bitten by a
Russo-phobia ; we have no fear that Russia
can ever contend with us on the plains or
passes of Hindostan ; we hold in supreme
contempt her power to conflict with us
openly. She could not even, without immense
effort and difficulty, transport a hundred thousand
men to dispute with us the sovereignity of India,
where we could meet her with three hundred
thousand men, led by British officers, brave as
their own swords, and who know not the word
fear. It is not her force we dread, but her wiles;
her deplomacy ; her perfidy ; her hollowness ;
her plausibility that threw Western Statesmen
off their guard, and could turn the heads of even
stronger men; and cleverer ambassadors than
LORD JOHN RUSSELL, Timeo Danaos et done
ferentes. We must distrust diplomacy and
Russian sympathy in every form. Meantime,
firmly and fearlessly, this India revolt must be
extinguished at whatever cost—even if it has
been caused by the incapacity of our rulers, :
out tne same hour which sees the mutiny sub-
dued, must be the hour thattshall witness the
commencement in India, of complete reform,
both in her civil and military departments.

WE hear a great deal of cant and twaddle in
the form of sympathy, for the miseries and priva-
tions of the working classes from those who do
all in their power to perpetuate that misery. As
we have often said, it is in vain to grapple with
the giant flood of human wretchedness, which
sweeps over this and other lands, until. we have
learned to deal with the causes, not to tamper
with; and speculate about the effects. The curse
of the human race is now as it ever has been—
ignorance ; remove that and you put an end at
once to that fearful mass of misery, wretchedness,
and crime, which all alike deplore. But how is
that to be effected, that is the question ? Your
teachings of the schools will not accomplish it as
has been abundantly shown. While the utopian
schemes of socialists and other visionaries, how-
ever spacious they might appear on paper, have
one and all proved abortions; a fact which cannot
be denied. Until the masses are taught to compre-
hend their true social position, their redemption
from poverty and degradation must be postponed
till an indefinite period. They belie the Creator
of the human race, who contend that poverty and
suffering is their natural condition. A con-
venient doctrine, certainly, for the interests of
the few who profit by its continuance, but very
unpleasant for the many who are thus doomed to
everlasting toil in order to:eke out a miserable
existence and die unnoticed and unknown. Who
are the producers of all wealth ? Who, but these
children of toil ? They produce it for the enjoy.
merit of others not for their own, and will con.
tinue to do so until such time as they shall be
made aware of their own true interests and put in
practice the only means which can lead to their

social regeneration.
In the artificial state of society in which we
exist the great bane of the masses has been the
fierce competition which has so long prevailed in
almost every branch of trade, and the general
" glut," as it is called, of the labour market.
This competition is not only disastrous to the
masses but often to the principals, as the records
of our bankruptcy courts abundantly prove—
cheapness. • Cheapness is, and has been too long,
the order of the day, and this cheapness is not
only the course of the working man, but the bane
of the honest and fair-dealing tradesman, who to
secure an order and compete with his rivals has
often to resort to practices from which, under other
circumstances, he would shrink with abhorence ;
and, unfortunately, this state of things is not
confined to any one particular branch of trade