Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

According to the ilforning Post, the British troops
have proved triumphant before Luaknow. We
hope such is the case, but we are much afraid of
it. However, be that as it may, the intelli- •
gence by the telegraph now to hand is not
so gloomy as we had reason to believe would be •
. the case. The garrison of that city, it is said,
had continued to lay in more provisions, an 1 if
General Havelock did not reach them shortly
•after he ha! retired to Cawnpore, we may rest '
assured that they would be eeabled to hold out
for some time to come. •The events iu the Bernbay
and Madras Presidencies may attract less notice
than the position of Lucknow, for they appeal
less to the imagination, but they
.are far more
pregnant with danger. Though the mutiny.
an the 27th Bombay Native Infantry is said
to have been suppressed, it is intimated that
• a plot to attack the 2nd Europeans, on their arrival
at Belganm, had been discovered, It is added that I
a regiment stationed at Rutnagherry had been dis•
armed. According to the Bombay . Army List,
that station was oceupiel by a local corps—the
Rutnagherry Rangers. The Mahratta country
thus appears to continue in a feverish state.
But so, also, does that portion of the Presidency
which lies to the north and east_ of
Bombay. The disarming of the 12th Bombay
Native Infantry does nor, indee 1, take us by sur-
prise, for suspicions of their loyalty had begun to
be entertained before the previous mail was des-
patched from Bombay. But, viewed in connection
with the partial revolt of the Jeuipere Legion, their
disaffection is full of menace. Erinpoora—the
station of the Legion, on Mount Aboo—is only 40
miles north-cast of Deese, the station from which
the 12 h Regiment WAS marched to Nusseerabad
after the mutiny of the Bengel troops there. There
is an appearance of pre-concert' in the mutinous
deportment f two corps which had been such
near neighbours. The news from Bomb iy is re-
assuring. Tne Kohurrum had passed off quietly.
The mutiny of the 27th Regiment had been com-
pletely trodden our, and many of the rebels had
been executed ; and a detachment of that regiment
at Rutnagherry (not another regiment, as some
report) had been disarmed. On the other hand,
it had been found necessary to disarm 105 men of
the 12th Bombay Native Infantry at Nusseeraba
who, giving ear to the seditious speeches of a
drunken trooper, had disobeyed their officers. In
other respects Bombay was perfectly secure, and the
European force had been strengthened by the ar-
xival of the other wing of the 33rd from the Mauritius,
and a battery of artillery from Bushire. The
Times of yesterday says, " the great question
for which every mail will be most anxiously
scrutinised will now be that of reinforcement.
Five hundred gunners and drivers of the much-
wanted Royal Artillery were to leave Hong Kong on
the 12th of August, and would probably arrive at Cal•
cutta at the end of the first week in the present month.
Lord Elgin, on his return to China, had left the
Shannon and the Pearl with their crews at the dis
posal of the Indian Government, and accordingly
Captain Peel had left Calcutta for Allahabad with
400 seamen and ten GB-pounders. We shall look
with much interest to the result of this unique
contribution from the B itish Admiralty to the
most important and most perilous conflict in which
England was ever engaged. Our readers, too, if
we do not mistake them, will follow the progress
of these seamen into the interior of Hindostan,
in a river steamer towing flats and carrying these
heavy guns, with a deeper interest and closer
. attention' than they give to the grand naval pro-
menade of Admiral Lyons with his three
deckers, and we know not how many guns,
or how many thousand men, from port to
port around the shores of the Mediterranean. As
Captain Peel only left Calcutta on the 18th of
August, he might arrive to the aid of General
Havelock about the middle of this month, but
scarcely earlier. The sth and 90th Regiments
were on their way up the river, but at
Calcutta there was much anxiety as to the
prospect of their arrival in time for the relief
of Lucknow. Elsewhere there appears to be
more confidence felt as to the strength and re-
sources of the garrison there. At Bombay, where
reinforcements were becoming as important as at
Calcutta, the remainder of the 33rd had 'arrived
from Mauritias, and a company of European
Artillery from Bushire. From that Presidency,
therefore, we hear no more of the misgivings felt
some weeks since, and the authorities seem to meet
conspiracy, disobedience, and symptom of disaffec-
tion with a decision evidently suggested by the
sense of security, and as evilenty successful.
Central India is reported quiet. On the whole,
then, we oonfidently trust that though the mutiny
rages with little check within its original ground,
it is not successful in its efforts to spread, and Must
now be every day contracted within a narrower and
still narrower circle."
The local news is not of the least importance.
'0 F domestic intelligence, we have but little that
will interest the public generally.
The-Rev. Hugh Hanna, upon his solemn oath,
before the Belfast Commissioners, declared that it
is his clear duty to preach in the open air, even
though convinced that a riot should follow. It is
_always dangerous, he said, to snecomb to a mob—
ile considers the authorities are bound to protect
him, and put the mob down—and to any man or
any mob he never will consent to forego his rights.
lie was cheered when he said so, for a large num-
_ diver of sympathisers were in the court.
On Thursday the Marchioness of Londonderry
-entertained her Irish tenants at Cairnelough. Her
ladyship again delivered one of those kind-hearted
4ornmon sense speeches for which she has gained
40 much celebrity.
Vice-Chancellor Wood held a Court at Norwich
en Monday to dispose of a petition praying for a