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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The House of Lords met at the usual hour
yesterday afternoon. Atter the Royal assent
had been given to a number of public and
private hills, and other miscellaneous business
had been transacted, a discussion ensued on the
ease of the judgment creditors of the Tipperary
bank, when the Lord Chancellor proposed that
their Lordships should yield to the amendments
made in the Joint Stock Company's Bill, granting
to thejalgment creditors the dividend of 26. in
the pound, but that they should not have any
further dividend, or recourse to any other remedy
beyond that possessed by them in right of their
judgments against the lands affected by the same.
The Commons amendments to several bills were
agreed to, and the House adjourned.
The Commons had an early sitting. The first
business was a motion by Sir James Graham, for
the appointment of a select committee to inspect
their Lordships' journals relative to the Mersey
Conservancy Bill. After the motion hid been
agreed to, the further consideration of the Divorce
and Matrimonial Causes Bill was resumed, and
some progress was made with the clauses un
decided.d. At the Evening Sitting Sir James
Graham brought up the report of the select com-
mittee appointed at the Morning Sitting, to consi-
der and report on the Mersey Conservancy Bill
They recommended that the bill be postponed to
that day three months. The Right Hon. Baronet
then introduced a bill in accordance with the inti-
mation given by him in the morning; it was after
a short discussion read a first and a second time.
Mr. Fitzroy then moved that it he referred to the
committee of selection, and that no petition against
it be received after two o'clock on Wednesday.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and
the house separated.

There is not any local intelligence of importance
this morninv. The trials at the Assiz2s progress,
but as yct the cases heard in either Court were of
the ordinary character, and do not call for any
remark. The Central Criminal Court was opened
at the Old Bailey, London, yesterday. The Com-
mon Ssrgeant addressed the grand jury, alluding
particularly to the charge of manslaughter against
the of&ials connected with the North Kent Rail-
way.

Much regret has been expressed at the mishap
which has befallen to the Atlantic Telegraph Cable.
Hopes, however, are still entertained that the dis-
aster will be remedied. We observe that a meeting
of the directors will be held during the week to
decide upon the elan of future operations. We are
afraid that the completion of the undertaking will
be retarded until next summer, for the season is
fast approaching when the swell in the Atlantic
will not a!low the cable to be laid down with any-
thing approaching certainty or security.
Respecting the war in India, we are glad to
learn that preparations are going on all over the
country, in order to despatch an army of 30,000
men to the scene of the insurrection in Bengal,
The more the late news is scanned, the more
anxious do all classes of the people become for
the arrival of another mail, in the hope that it may
bring some tidings of the fall of Delhi, and the
subjugation of the mutineers.
We give, in to-day's publication, the particulars
of a terrific thunderstorm, which took place in
Manchester, and parts of Yorltshire, on Saturday,
by which considerable damage was done to the •
growing crops, and no less than twelve lives lost.
It appears that the storm was general all over the
kingdotn. These storms have already had their
influence upon Mark-lane. Yesterday holders Of
wheat, fi•)ur, Oats, and Indian corn, were enabled to
obtain advanced prices.

Owing to the non-arrival of the French, Spanish,
and Itehan m ails, our Continental ncws this
morning is somewhat vague. From Paris we learn
that it was believed, in well-informed quarters, in
case the government succeed in procuring the
conviction, during his absence, for contumacy, of
M. Ledru Rollin, a demand will at once be made
to our cabinet, under the extradition treaty, for the
apprehension and surrender of that individual.
No one doubts that a conviction will be readily
obtained, the intervention of a jury in such eases
not being necessary. It is further stated that
already ccmmueications on thin snhj-et of a private
sort have passed between Count Walewski and
Lord Cowley. The latter has, it is believed, ad-
mitted that such a conviction would bring M. Ledru
it' °ilia within the provisions of the extradition
treaty. It is added that M. Ledru Rollin either
has already left-, or intends to leave England for
the United States.

The Emperor and Empress left Paris yesterday
for Biarritz We learn that the affair of the great
robbery of the Northern Railway will come before
the Assize Court of the Seine on the 26th instant,
and is expected to occupy five days. The prisoners
have just been privately interrogated by M. Pre-
sident Roussigne. M. Lachaud will defend Car-
pentier, Grellet, and Guerin. M. E. Datture is
counsel for Parod. The company, as parlie eicile,
is represented by M. Choix d'Esange.
Tne reduction of the Russian army, a measure
which will instead of diminishin,f the
military power of the Great Eastern Empire, is
now in a fair way of execution The reduction
first takes place in the Guards, the strength of
which will be reduced from eighty thousand to
fifty thousand men, the number of regiments
remaining the same, but their stairi as well as
their rank and file being diminished. It seems.
however, that the number of regimental officers of
the lower grades, in whom the real strength of an
army lies, is not to he diminished. It is expected
that afterwarls the whole army will be reduced in
the same proportion, which would send back
150,000 men to their homes and to productive
labour. On the other hand, the Government
seems inclined to increase the strength of the
navy. A Russian squadron is to be despatched to
the Chinese seas. Some of the St. Petershura
journals have become enamoured all at once with
the project of piercing the Isthmus of Suez.
Constantinople letters 'of the 7th inst. mention
that no efforts had been spared on the part of the
Sultan and his Ministers to bring about an arrange-
ment eatiefaetory to All partus, and avoid the rup-

ture which has unfortunately taken place. To the
note of the French Ambassador, complaining that
the Ministry did not treat the demands of the
French Government with proper deference, the
Sultan replied by dismissing the Grand Vizier
Redschid Pasha. The new Ministry, with the
venerable Mustanha Pasha of Crete at their head,
immediately proceeded to examine a second time
the demantis of the French Ambassador.
The latest bulletins of the s'-ate of health of
King Oscar of S‘Veden are of a serious nature. The
death of tb2t. monarch would not be without in-
fluence on the turn of events in the three Scandi-
navian kingdoms.
Vienna letters represent the gov,ernment of that
empire as disposed to abstain from defending the
elections in the Principalities, but decided to use
all means to prevent the union. his also stated that
in virtue of the currency treaty between Austria and
the other German States, the Vienna Bank will
have to resume its cash payments Gn January 1,
1859, but it is by no means clear that it will be in
a position to do so with safety. At present the
reserve fund of the Bank is but 94,500,000f1., with
a paper circulation of nearly 391,000.000f1. The
monied world is of opinion that the Bank would
speedily get out of its difficulties if it were to raise
a loan on the domains ceded to it by the State,
but it is doubtful whether Government would
authorise it to do so. The domains in question
are valued at 155,000,0001, and there would
hardly be any great difficulty in obtaining a loan
on them if it were what is called a " lottery loan."

Oua readers have, ere this, peruse.d the copious
details of the news from India. On Saturday we
devoted a considerable portion of our space for
the purpose of giving every item of interest and
importance bearing upon the subject. We are
sorry that they should be called upon to peruse
a narrative of such horrid butcheries and bruta-
lity; nevertheless there is the consoling reflec-
tion that we possess the power and ability, not
only to suppress the emule, but also to place our
rule in India upon a more enlarged, secure, and
permanent basis. This will be readily inferred
when we consider that the Mutineers are without
a definite object—proper leaders, or even re-
sources. Drea.lful though the affair may be, we
cannot look at it as anything more than a
military revolt. In every engagement which they
entered, through the skill of the British generals
and the heroism of their brave and daring soldiers,
the enemy have been worsted, and given evidence
of their inability to cope with the power and
authority of Great Britain.

This, however, should not cause any relaxation
on the part of Government, either at Home or
in India, in exerting every possible means fur
inflicting signal vengeance upon the rebellious
miscreants who have unhumanly sacrificed our
fellow countrymen and countrywomen and their
helpless offspring. General BARNARD, we are
told, was waiting the arrival of reinforcements,
in order to compel the insurgents at Delhi to
surrender At the date of the last advices from
that city his operations seemed to ba confined in
defending his own position from the attacks of
the Delhi garrison, which also continued to
receive reinforcements and give evidence of a
desire to fight. They had made several, but in-
effectual sorties, and they encountere.l a British
force under General VAN CORTLAND, and were
compelled to fly, leaving 200 of their adherents
upon the field. These, as we have said before,
are encouraging items of news. Still, we should
not fancy that the task before us is easy, and
that we can without a desperate effort subdue
the rebels who have risen against us. As yet we
are not aware of the power and strength of the

enemy, and although no doubt can be enter-

tained of the final results of the struggle, it would
be madness to underrate the importance of the

enemy. Besides this w.. have the Chinese alLir

on our hands, and although our gunboats have
made a few successful exploits on the Canton
waters we must not expect that the Mandarins
of China and the &Toys of India are to be put
down in such a way as many of our metropo-
litan and provincial cotenaporaries imagine.
When we were at war with Itasia we despised
her naval and military power, and spoke of the
c( ultry with contempt, and its people as bar-
barians. In due time we learned, by painful
experie ice, that the enemy was not only power-
ful, but talented in military genius, almost beyond
anything England could lay claim to. Then we
were told of the ravages of disease in S2hasto-
pol,—now, we are consoled with the assurance
that Dilhi is full of sick and wounded, as if
every city subjected to a siege must not be.
The news to hand, verities, to a great extent, the
predictions of Mr. Drstunt, when he called
attention to the affairs in India on Tuesday last.
While, therefore, there is no danger of the
overthrow of British rule in India, we must not
expect to subdue the mutinous Sepoys without a
struggle. In the accounts just received, there is
much to encourage the hope that, ere many
weeks pass over, we shall have news of the
complete suppression of the rovolt, and that
ample retribution has been inflicted upon the
perpetrators of the atrocities which darkened
the pages of Saturday's publication.
England owes it to herself and to the civilised
world, to hunt down the miscreants who have
murdered in the most bloody, brutal, and
cowardly manner, English officers and their
wives and children; cost what it may, either in
treasure or blood, India must be made an
example of. A people so treacherous and blood-
thirsty as the Indian Sepoys, must be taught a
lesson they will not forget ; and although they
may not relish our own power and control over
them, it is our duty to insist that in tly:ir case
we shall be masters.

From what has taken place it is perfectly
clear that we have been too indulgent to the
native troops, and the chi.-1 fault of our Indian
rule is, that we have pampered the native
forces to an extent which has now threatened
our governmental power among them; let, then,
the errors of the past guide us in ruling thii