Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

THE DNY'S NEWS.

Mr. Bowring has been returned by a -rntority
qof 31 as Town Councillor for St. Peter's Ward. Of
course we were previously in a position to predict
the return of Mr. Bowling, but if wo hrtd done s),
the Conservative portion of the ward .world have

sneered at our prognostications, and accordingly
we confine ourselves to the list which we publish
elsewhere. The voting on the occasion will be
found in another part of to-day's impression.
The London Tapers are still discussing the state
of Indian affairs. 'A writer in the Times says-
-" Every one is waiting for every one else, and
nothing comes of it. But as 150 millions of peo-
ple spread over vast provinces cannot alerays be
governed by the legitimate result of an equation
represented by zero, there are times when the Go-
.verner-General, over-persuaded by the Court
oil if he is a weak man, over-persuading
them if he has any address, or openly setting
them at defiance, and snapping his fingers
at Council, Board of Directors, -.Board of
Control and ail, if he is obstinate and resolute.
-does act. It is ou these extraordinary occasions,
and in this irregnlar way, that those -acts
.of
Government are, performed which occasionally
astonish the . world. This is how .wars are
made, States annexed, treaties concluded and
rigidly suppressed, until we hear that they have
been violated in every particular. Perlitnnent
and the country knows nothing of -the-se things,
or of the causes which led to them, undi
years hove elapsed, until the Governor-General
has returned, till an army has been lost or a rebel-
lion arises. Then we rub our eyes, make an outcry,
and strive to throw the blame on some one.
But, in truth, we are ourselves to blame for
maintaining the farce of a double Government.
For the individual acts, right or wrong, of each
Governor• General, his best answer and excuse is
—' Something had to be done, and, as the existing
system admits of no responsibility, I had to do it
on my own. If you are displeased, alter your
system, but do not blame me, for you -cannot
govern a great empire by a system so nicely
balanced that all its elements are nonenties, and
• least of all suppose that you can continue Lord
• Paramount in India. if you obstinately ignore your
national responeibility.7"
It has been repeatedly staled or assumed that
General Havelock has been already raised to the
dignity of a for his successes in India ;
such, however, we are enabled to state, is not
actually the c,ise at present, though we have good
grounds for believing that the public will hear of
his elevation to the -Commandership of the Bath
before Christmas at tho loteot. It is curiently
reported that her Alajeety will be aelvised to bestow
a similar distinction on Brigadier General Arehdeli
-Wilson, of the Artillery, as a reward for the storm-
ing and capture of Delhi; and possibly also on two
or three of his brave colleagues in arms.
Our readers will; no doubt, remember -that a
• regular emute occurred is Corfu on the first
. receipt cf the Indian news. There was an outcry
against the British Government ; there was a
demand for an instant abolition of the Proteetorate,,
and for an union of the lonian Islands with the
kingdom of Greece. These .• feelings, so far from
having decreased since then,, teem on the contrary
to have augmented in intensity. Exaggerated
accounts of reverses of the British army in India
have beeneireulated amongst the lonian people; for
- them the approaching downfall of English power
has been , confiiently predicted, and the glorious
day which is to witness the:tte..iou of the entire
Greek race, and the dispd.rition of the British

Alag from the Seven Islands, has . been declared
to be near ,at hand. Emissaries have been
r-aeat by ;he leaders of this agitation into
r Greece., and into every country where it
-was supposed ;that a revolt against British power
. would meet with sympathy and...support. The
agents of some of the Foreignl.Powers who are
resident in. Greece have given encouragement
to the movement, but that encouragement is
• ei;cluzively con,B.,led to them. The, Creek people
have learned, bylitter expeller:4:e, the. svils•vvhich
may result from setting themselves up in opposi-
tion to the Western Powers, and . they have
rejec!ed this appeal to a Iraternat coalition as the
viciors and unprincipled scheme of corrupt and
designing men. No thinking Greek .believes
In the sincerity of this cry for a
.Uttion,
even supposing such a thing to be possible,
and there is no thinking Greek but is aware that
.the. leaders of the ma.v.ement are ti ,ose who have

the least faith in the principle they profess to
_advocate. One of the great sources fi otn .which
money .poured into Greece in support of the in-
surrection in Epirus is now open to the lonians..
And it is that money, and_that alone, whist' moves
the instigators of a revolt in the Seven Islands
Is it to be supposed that an lonian, with
:his pretensipns to .Venetian nobility, his .Euro-

Mean tastes and education, wi-ih all • the
:social advantages that are to be found in a

:prosperous cmatry, and under a stable and well-
,organised government, would be ambitious of
.becoming the istrbjeet of a bankrupt kingdom, with
few resources, mid of living under the rule a
~joyerninent whieh preserves a
_strong leaven of

iirientalism in its fOrms and its actions ? The
xefineal lonian would naturally aspire to govern,
"Wile would meet with a fierm and jealous oppo-
sition from the natives Greek; fur the spirit which
,dietated the, law for the Autochthcnes and the
lleterGebtones is an element in the national charac-
ter. Things, however, have of late assumed so
grave a ,oharacter in the lonian Islands, that Lord
Lyons has removed into the neighbourhood with
'his fleet.
The Great L'astern steam ship will be launched
_to-morrow, and our readers will perceive that the
preparations whiah have been necessary to ensure
sacs passage into the Thames for this leviathan
of the deep are of a most stupendous character..
With the exception of a short speech delivered
'try Mr. Thsraeli at an agricultural association in
Buckinghamshire, in 1-vWch he said that rewards
given to deserving labourers at these rt unions were
not intended to be substantial, but simply bonaritic ;
and a ;speech of Lord Melgund at Kinross, pointing
out w,hat he considers the danger of attempting to
govern India direct from England, there is little to
notice in domestic affairs.
The Michaelmas Law Term was duly inaugu•
rated yesterday, by the bar breakfasting with the
Lord Chancellor The Lord Mayor of London
elect, Sir It Carden, *was presented, according to
eustom, to his lordship at Westminster, and her
Majosty's aoncurrepge in the choice of the citizens
was erp reaPe d •
Do Saqvi, eonvieed the other day of -
ugh-
ter, by slabbing Mr. Robertson in the Queen's

Bench prison, was brought up f2r sentence yester-
day. The sentence merely repeated that pro-
nounced on the former conviction—fifteen years'
penal servitude—to commence, however, from the
date of the second conviction.
It is 'rumoured that Sir Alexander Cockburn,
Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, will be
raised to the Peerage forthwith, and that a similar
honour is in store for Mr. Justice Cresswell, who
is entitled to a retiring pension on account of
length of service. The Government, it is said, are
impressed with the importance of adding to the
number of Law Lords, and hence the proposed
eleyation s.

The tax on knowledge, in the shape of a news-
paper stamp, has just been re-established in
Austria.

If the Paris correspondent of the New Prussian
Gazette speak the truth, we have to make a very
startling announcement to our readers, nante,ly,
that in the month of June of this year a convention
was entered into between the Austrian Government
and that of the Queen of Great Britain, to the
effect that in case of a revolutionary outbreak in
Italy, Austria may rely for the protection of her
dotninions on the friendly services of Great
Britain Of course we shall refuse to give
credence to a piece of news of this kind until it
come to us in an official shape.

We may notice, that on our going to Press the
French Mail had not reached us, consequently we
are rather short of Continental news.

Tar present recess has been most remarkable
for the number and variety of orations delivered
upon the Indian mutiny. Peers and Commoners
have alike commented upon the disasters -which
have taken place—yea, even net a few of the
Cabinet Ministers, and some of the East India
Directors, haVe "had their say," and enlightened
us upon the origin, and its cause, of the rebel-
lion in Bengal. Among the more recent of these
speeches is that of no less a personage than the
Right Honourable the Secretary of the Colonies..
When Mr. WILLOUGHBY, one of the Directors
of the East India Company, addressed his con-
stituents on the subject, he took occasion to
show that he was very unfortunate in giving the
public any real insight into what caused the
mutiny. Mr. L ABOUCH ÜBE, in his speech, the
other day, was less discreet, for he acknowledged
that the Indian authorities permitted themselves
to be taken by surprise,
-and that otherwise a
mere handful of English soldiers would not have
been permitted for months to struggle against a
numerous and a ferocious race like the Sepoys.
This is an admission which Lord CANNING, and
his adherents in the Ministry, will not thank the
Right Honourable Gentleman for publishing.
But whatever the Cabinet may think of the can-
dour of their colleague, he only spoke the senti-
ments of the country at large when he made the
declaration alluded to. We have already
remarked that, in British India itself, the conduct
of Lord CANNING was viewed with absolute alarm
by every one who had the least knowledge of
passing events, and the general character of the
infuriated Sepoys. his first defalcation, as
Governor-General, was to wink at the premoni-
tory symptoms of anarchy, cruelty, and rebellion,
and of which he was fully apprised ; and the last
reprehensible step of his government was that to
which we alluded on Friday—taking part with
the mutineers, tind vu s• thcm fi um that PSI
punishment to which their barbarous and disloyal
deeds entitled them. The past history of Eng-
land in India does not supply a parallel to the
unpardonable position taken up by Lord CAN-
NING, when he issued his never-to-be-forgotten
instructions regarding the treatment to Sepoy
prisoners, and when he virtually sympathised
with the native agents of NANA SAHIB, now
appropriately designated the " black butcher of
Cawnpore."

it is painful in the extreme to read the state-
ments contained in private letters which every
post and mail brings to England, but which, from
the brutalities they contain, are unfit for publica-
tion. These letters too, be it observed, contain
denunciations of the strongest character against
the Governor-General and his supreme council
at Calcutta. But let us give instances which
corrobOrate these statements. Three unim-
peachable servants, Messrs. Palmer, Sandys, and
Irving, who rendered valuable services to
avenge the barbarous and cruel attro-
cities at Camninore, have been Slighted for
their daring and courage, and it is said
that Viscount ELPaINSTONE was shocked
at the cruelty they:inflicted upon the assassins of
innocent and defenceless English ladies. Oae of
the ferocious Sepoys, seized the daughter of one
of our brave captains, and placed her on the
edge of a marble basin,and then proceeds to open
slowly the veins in her limbs, throat, and bosom,
land dies the water with her blood. The inhu-
man monster is caught in the act, and before his
captors inflict upon him the penalty of the brutal
murderer, they indignantly drenched his head
in the fountain so fearfully stained. This so
shocked the sensibilities of the authorities at
Calcutta, that Mr. GRANT, as we mentioned on
Friday, gave orders, by and with the consent of
Lord CANNING, to release 150 prisoners taken at
Cawnpore, a proceeding which is undefensible
on any grounds. Lord ELLENBORQUGH, no mean
authority on Indian affairs, has emphatically
declared that, cost what it m the rebellion
must be put down, and signal punishment
inflicted upon every rebel who has cmantenaneed
the late movemnit of the Sepoys. Lord
BROUGHAM, at Penrith, with that force and
vigour for which he is renowned, has given it as
his opinion that severe punishment is needed,
that retribution is al:nost a matter of course, and
that justice must take precedence of mercy.
Such is not the course adopted by Lord CANNING
and those under his control and direction, If.
anything were wanted to prove that the civil and
military authorities in India are just now at
complete variance, it would be found in the fact
that Lord CANNING is a complete and heavy
drag upon Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, that Mr. GEA.NT