Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

pany has wounded the pride of Canada.
That province sees od the other side of
the Red River settlement the United States
steadily advancing up the Missouri to the
Rocky Mountains, and finds itself denied all ex
pension, and refused the use of the Red River in
the same direction by the Hudson's Bay Company.
How such a struggle as this baween a great colony
and a small compeny will terminate can hardly be
doubted.
At the meeting in London, for the relief of the
sufferers in India, it was announced that the sub-
scriptions already reach £17,000.
The Vote by Ballot Society have held a written
controversy with Lord Alfred Churchill, relative to
his views on that question. His Lordship had
expressed an opinion that his recent visit to Aus-
tralia had modified his Conservative creed, and
the Ballot Society naturally wrote to express a
hope that he had become a convert to the Ballot
because of its successful operation in that colony.
To this Lerd A. Churchill replied by an announce-
ment which virtually means that the circumstances
of Australia and England are different, and
that what is good for the one may not be good for
the other. The Ballot Society sent him a second
communication combating this opinion, and par-
ticularly taking it up from that point of view which
he had himself endeavoured to expound. Lord
A. Churchill does not appear to have answered
this last note.
- Of foreign intelligence there is not much of an
important nature this morning. In France every-
thing is quiet. A Paris correspondent says that
agents have arrived at Lille for the purpose of
recruiting for the British army. They are not to
enrol any French subjects but such strangers as
may be in the city, and wh are disposed to enlist.
If our information be correct, recruits will be
taken up from - the foreign population throughout
France. No authority has been given for the
enlistment of Frenchmen.
Our Berlin correspondence' is of interest. It
gives an account of the efforts of the Prussian
Government to acquire some naval power. Prussia
fortifies the port of Fande on the Noleh Sea, and
at the same time it is about to erect works on the
Isle of Rugen, which would make this island an
important naval station in the Baltic.
No further news has arrived from Holstein, but
we hearof some expectations being entertained that
the States will perceive the imprudence of their
behaviour. For, in absolutely refusing to acknow-
ledge the conciliatory intentions of the Danish
ministry, they render it difficult for their prc-
teeters iu Germany to take up a cause which they
threaten to compromise, by accusations against the
Government of the King. The King will leave the
capital about the 20th of this month, and make a
tonr through Jutland and Schleswig.
The Crown Prince of Sweden will, most pro-
bably, be entrusted with the office of Regent of
the Scandinavian kingdom. This, at least, is
hoped by the Court at Stockholm.
We hear from good authority that with regard to
the Italian question a difference has arisen be-
tween France and Austria, as the Court of
Vienna refuses to join France in her efforts to
promote the introduction of reforms in the Papal
States.
The admirers of Napoleon express a hope that
the King of Prussia will cerae to Darmstadt to
meet the Emperor. But till now this wish seemed
to he doomed to disappointment.
The Paris Patrie says that the dismissal of
Redschid Pasha has been confirmed, and that his
successor is likely to be Fuad Pasha.
Tile Moldavian elections were to take place on
the 9th instant.

THE present position and future prospects of
cur Indian empire are, without doubt, of such
a character as to demand from the Government
the most serious consideration, energetic exertions
to meet the dangers with promptitude and deter-
mination, and proper foresight to secure the
future stability of British rule in the revolting

provinces.
It is due to Lord PALMERSTON and his col-
leagues to say that latterly they have evinced
much anxiety respecting the Indian mutinies,
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crisis, by sending forward large forces to Cal-
cutta, who will proceed on to the seat of the
rebellion without delay. We observe, too, th at
a large number of Artillery and Engineers are
preparing to embark. These are much needed
at the seat of war, for, according to our last
despatches, that branch of the military service
had been nearly annihilat in India, in conse-
quence of the mutiny, fil!owed by the disarming
of the greater portion of the Bengal army.

Notwithstanding the great number of British
soldiers now in, or on their way to India, it is
quite evident that we must take means for
despatching still greater numbers of all
kinds of soldiers before we can successfully
cope with the Bengal rebels, and restore the
reign of law and order in all the disturbed pro-
vinces. According to the best informed autho-
rities both at home and in India, we require to
have an army of 80,000 to 100,000 British
soldiers, to keep the country until its military
defence is re-established. To show the urgent
necessity for such an extensive force as this,
we have only to consider the extreme length
of the line of communication which must
be maintained from Calcutta to Delhi, the
density of the native population in many
parts and the dangers which threatens it
by the numerous and revengeful sections of
mutineers which hover about in all directions,
anxious for the slightest chance of inflicting a
b!ow, great or small, upon the unconquered
power of England. Again, the means of transit
from the seaboard to the interior of India is still
stunted and defective, so that small steamers and
trains of bullock carts must be improvised for
the unfortunate emergency which has arisen.
True it is, that the defence of Delhi is wasting
the military power and strength of the mutineers,
but the long sea voyage, unhealthy climate, and
harrassing marches-of the European soldiers are
drawbacks of greater magnitude on our side.
We must, at least, have thirty thousand men
before Delhi , and to keep up that effective
force of fighting msr, constant reinforcements
must be upon their way to the capital of Bengal.
The whole line must be well guarded, so that
guns and stores essential to the siege shall pass
in safety and with dispatch. Ca re also must be
taken to maintain possession of Cawnpere, Agra,,
Allahabad, and their surrounding districts_
Calcutta should not be left unprotected. It may
be, too, that the kingdom of Oude and the Pun-
jaub Provinces will give us renewed Trouble, an•d
compel in those quarter's the ma;Latenanee of
armies as numerous and as experaivel as 'those
required to assert British Aup ,enarkcy in Bengal