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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

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FRIDAY, DECENR2II? 18, 1657.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The usual weekly meftings of the Dock and
Health Committees were held yesterday. In
reference to the recent applications for increase of
salaries, the Finance Committee of the former,
through ,Mr. Rankin, intimated that as the new
Board would so soon come into power, and would
likely take into consideration the whole of the
salaries, they (the Finance Committee) thought
that such applications should some before the new
Board. This was acquiesced in. A communica-
tion from the Collector and Inspector of her
Majesty's Customs was read. It complained of the
great irregularities that occurred in the assessing
of the quantity of grain imported at the port of
Liverpool, whereby the shipowner, the honest
trader, the revenue, and the Dock Estate suffered
in a monetary point of view. Some slight discus-
sion teok place, after which the subject was referred
to the Master-porters' Coriernittee.
In the Health Committee, the Medical Officer
reported that the deaths last week were 257, being
40 fewer that the previous week, And 10 less than
the corrected average.
The Toxteth Board of Guardians held a meeting
yesterday, at which a letter was read from the
Secretary of the Poor Law Board, stating that the
-Board
_did not see sufficient grounds to justify
them in interfering with the decision of the Guar-
dians as to the Workhouse accommodation
requ:red by the Union, notwithstanding the voice
of a public meeting of the ratepayers being against
the decision of the Guardians. The new seal of
the Union was adopted :—" It is described a stag
and a vessel in it, with the liver and other details."
The examination at the Royal Institution
Schools, Colquitt.street, took place yesterday. A
full report of the proceedings, with a list of the
prizes awarded, will be found in another column.
As the County Court, yesterday, Mr. Buckmaster,
the Secretary to the Liverpool Constitutional
Associati'37a, wan the defendant in a rather curious
case. Mr. Hastings, a saddler, in Lord-street,
supplied Mr. Buckmaster with " a hundred leather
straps and sockets." Our readers will ask what
are these for ? They were fur the men who
carried flags, &e., in the procession at Mackenzie
and Tamer's election in 1852. Mr. Hastings
recovered the sum claimed.
An accident occurred on the North London
Railway, on Wednesday, fortunately there were
few passengers, but these suffered more or less—
all being wounded to some extent.
Oa the Lyndon and North Western Railway,
a pointsman on duty near Huddersfield, missed
his footing, and a train ran over him. His death
was almost instantaneous.
Before one of the London Magistrates on
Wednesday, the Hon. George Chichester was
examined on a charge of having assaulted
one of his tradesmen, Mr. Higgins, a 'fishmonger.
The case presented a singular phase of aristocratic
life—a nobleman's residence besieged by impatient
creditors, and receiving, at all events in Mr.
Higgins's case, a by no means welcome reception.
The magistrate dismissed the charge, as Mr.
Higgins did not appeer to have sustained much
harm, and had obtained nearly all his money.
The contest in North NorLhanantonshire has
terminated in the return of Mr. George Ward
Hunt, of Wadenhee, the Conservative candi late,
that gentleman having obtained a majority of 320
in a constituency of 3,000 registered electors. Mr.
Fitzpatrick Vernon, son of the President of the
Board of Control, took the field only at the eleventh
hour, and under circumstances of extreme disad-
vantage, owing to the neglected state of the register,
the absence of n previous canvass, and the general
default of preparations for the struggle. The battle,
commenced by the spontaneous action of a few
electors, has been entirely one of prlneiple, and the
result is considered to open a most encouraging
prospect of success at the next election, before
which the registry will be greatly reformed to the
advantage of the Liberal party.
Two meetings in connection with India, and
both of a religious complexion,
,have just been
held. First, the adjourned meeting to promote
the extension of the Propegation Society's missions
in India, held at Willis's Rooms. The great
panacea for the cure of our Indian disorders ap-
peared to be the creation of new bishops. The
speech of the day was by Lord John Manners, who
rebuked Indian misgovernment and spoliation,
and earnestly reprobated the cruel wars by which
such a policy had been carried out. He re-
garded the insurrection in India as the legitimate
fruit of our own misdeeds. Secondly, there was
on Wednesday a meeting to promote religious
emancipation in British India, held in the Tower
Hamlets. Effective speeches were delivered by
Mr. Ayrton, one of the members for the borough
Mr. Miall, and other friends of religious liberty,
The speeches and resolutions deprecated Govern

meta support of idolatrous practices on the one
hand, and a Christian btate Church establishn2ent

on the other.

Increased reliefis now experienced in the Money
Market, and as bills of a first class character arc
freely negociated at 9 per cent., and in some cases
at 9t per cent., the pressure at the Bank has
ceased. This materially strengthens the imnrea-
sion that the minimum rate of discount cannot
long be maintained at 10 per cent. As far as can
be judged at present, there is reason to b,lieve
that dui new year will be ac3okapanied by a steady
dispersion of the prejudicial rtre2ts of the crisis.
The average price of what in England, accord-
ing to the returns made up on Saturday last, is
495. sd. per quarter.
Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the creditors
of Messrs Garreson, Hulce] and Co., was held at
the London Tavern. The balance sheet presented
by Mr. Quilter showed liabilities estimated at
125,3101. 4i. 3..1 , and assets amounting to 83,9801
16s. lid., leaving about las. 41 for division. A

resolution for winding the estate up under in-
spection was agreed to without opposition.
The globe announces that the coloneley of the
3rd Buffs, just vacant, will be conferred upon Ge-
neral Sir Henry Havelock.
A. war committee was held yesterday at the War-
office. It was attended by Lord Palmerston, Lord
Panmure, the Duke of Cambridge, Sir G. Grey, and
Sir C Yorke.

There is no news of importance from abroad this
morning. The Queen of Spain has celebrated the
birth of her son by granting an amnesty far political
offences in her transatlantic possessions. It will

have most practioLl effect in Cuba, but, what is
very material., it is not said whether it is to extend
to foreigners as well as to Spanish subjects.
There is again a flood of diplomatic gossip in
the continental papers on the question of the
Principalities, an affair now more complicated and
more menacing than ever. The publication of the
Sultan's decree dissolving the Divans, but which
according to others, prorogues them only, is still
anxiously waited for. An occurrence, which took
place within the native garrison at Bucharest, is
calculated to throw some light on the spirit which
characterises the relations between Austria and the
Wallachians.

News from Teheran shows tie Persians to be
still engaged in repelling attacks of their Turko•
man neighbours on the North Eastern frontier.

The Tumour that the supplementary elections in
Paris are about to be postponed, seems to be con-
firmed by the fact that no decree convoking the
electoral bodies has hitherto appeared in the
Mouiteur.

A French advocate, the son of Chaix d'Est-Ange,
has fought a duel with a nobleman, arising out of
expressions he made use of against that nobleman
in an action at law. He fought this duel, although
the bar council interdicted it. Considered from
any point of view, the proceeding on the part of
the advocate is a highly disgraceful one.

A duty of 25f. per hectolitre on pure alcohol
imported into France is just announced.

As the ladiau war progresses we begin to
get a better idea of its actual magnitude and
form. We have from the first outbreak of the

revolt suspected time would show that, great
military skill, if not consummate generalship,
had been employed in laying down the plan of
campaign for the Mutineers. This suspicion has
now being fully realised. The districts through
which the outbreak has moved—the advances
and retreats of the enemy—the positions selected
for attack, resistance, and incidental occupation
—all prove that some master-mind was at the
bottom of this lamentable war. The first object
of the Mutineers was evidently to draw off our
forces into the interior, and to divide them as
much as possible, while the most commanding
positions were taken up on their flanks and rear.
The first of those motives led to the flight of the
rebels to Delhi, and the second to the occupation
and evacuation of Agra, Cawnpore, and Lucknow.
The occupation of Delhi, though a costly one,
appears to have been little more than a feint, as
its evacuation, after our heavy losses by the siege
and the subsequent movements of the enemy,
clearly demonstrate. The Niutineers suffered
bitterly, no doubt, by the siege of their strong-
hold, and in their retreat towards Cawnpore ;
but while the attention of our commanders was
fixed in this direction, they had effected the occu-
pation ofJubbulpore,Hoshungabad,Mhow, Indore,
Shahjehaapore, and established an unbroken
line of defences on the extreme south of their
chosen battle ground and which with the addition
of Saugor, Neemuch, Jhansi, Gwalior, and
Nusseerabad, gives them full cuminaud of all the
practicable lines of march from Calcutta and
Madras, to the scene of action on the Ganges.
Cutting off the communication between our
army in the field, and Calcutta, does not appear
to have formed s) pro.ninent a part of the
enemy's plans. His chief object seems to have
been, simply to outflank our advancing columns,
and this he has done by the occupation of
Di napore, Buxar, Benares, Banda, Bareilly, Azim-
ghur, Oude, Fyzabad, and Corruckpore. These
positions completely cover the roads leading
from the Bengal Presidency, to Cawnpore and
Lucknow on the East, On the north, the
mutineers hold Barnitch, Khynegur, Mora-
dabada Bareilly, Minporee, and Futteyghur. These
post from a complete circle, round Lucknow
north of the Ganges, and although they
may be of very trifling importance just at
the present moment, they serve to
show the military skill of the rebel chiefs, and
that they are ready to be occupied in force, if
required. But their plans do not end here. The
positions they have taken up in the extreme
north of India, namely, at Meerut, Lahore, and
Peshawur, look as if they contemplated carrying
the war beyond the Indus. The siege and eva-
cuation of Delhi may have defeated this portion
of their design ; yet, the ground they hold on
the banks of the Ganges, and along the whole
line of the opium country, is sufficiently formi-
dable to cause us considerable anxiety at home.
In this contest we hear but one side of the tales
of war, and those are not sufficiently explicit to
enable us to judge of the respective positions o
the belligerents.

In tracing their movements on the map 01
India, we can see, however, that the relief of

Lucknow will go but a little way towardi over-
throwing the Mutineers in that direction. The
great danger is that they will let our relieving
force iato the fortress, and there besiege
them, whilst they strengthen those points which
outflank the line of communication with the sea-
coast. At whatever place defeat may overtake
them within their present field of operation, they
have ultimately well selected lines of defence to
fall back upon. In a strategical point of view,

he enemy's lines were originally perfect, and all

,hat has taken place since the ecnnmencernent of

,he contest, only seems to be giving them greater

powers of resistance. And if the.relsels act on the
defensive, as they have done hitherto, and wait

for all the chances which accompany the odds
that may be counted against Europeans in an
Indian conflict, the reconquest of their country

will be a most arduous and costly undertaking.
On the other hand, the minority of advantages

on which we rely for speedy and complete
triumphs, are certainties. The superior dis-
cipline, the dogged courage, the tried skill of our
commanders, and the determination to conquer,
which every British soldier carries into the field
with him, give us undying hope of victory in
every 'male our arms are engaged in. We are
strangers to feelings of despair, and never dream
of defeat ; and when we give an enemy credit for
ability and valour, it is only that we may know
bow to frustrate his designs, and secure our
conquests with the least possible effusion of
blood. To do this in India, will tax the military
talents, prowess, experience, and moderation of
our leaders and soldiers to the uttermost, and
will make the praise due to them only second to
the glory their acts will bestow on their country.