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The details of the Indian mutiny, as given by
onr correspondents at B mabay and C=.kuits., from
the number of compensating incidents seem s' me-
what less alarming than was the bare tiegraphic
despatch. The movement is likey to be confined
to Delhi, and troops were marching from every s.do
against the town. Meerut has been en'irely de-
livered from the mutineers. In the Punjab S'r
John Lawrence had taken every precaution, and
was ready to trample out the fir,t spark of treason.
The Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Pro-
vince had placed the d's'ricts of Meerut and Delhi
under martial law. Tha Commander-in-Chief was
at Umballa with the Queen's7fith Regiment, the 9th
Lancers, the Ist Fusiliers, two regiments of Native
Inrantry, and two troops of European Horse Artil-
lery. At Meerut he would find reinforcements,
and with his augmerited forces would advance on
Delhi. In the meintirne troops were advancing
from Agi a, an I the Rajahs of Bhurtpore, Gwalior,
and Putteeallah, with their tributary Princes, were
sending in their contingents. It is therefore pro:
bable that the next mail will bring news of the sup-
pression of this dangerous outbreak and the con-
dign punishment of the offenders. Nor will the
severest retribution wh ch it is in the power of
military law.to inflict be too severe for the treacher-
ous bands which have thus added murder to
mutiny and rebellion. At Meerut the 11th and
20th Regiments of Native Infantry and the 3d
Cavalry murdered every officer on whom they could
lay hands. At Delhi it is supposed- that Mr.
Fraser, the Commissioner, has fallen, with many
others, men, women, and children. The list of
fugitives it given in another place. The most re-
as,uring intelligence is, that the mutiny has not
affected the troops in other stations. At Agra the
native soldiers stood by the Lieutenant-Governor.
At Luckuow, a tendency to revolt was checked by
the firmness of Sir Henry Lawrence. At Benares
and throughout Bengal all was quiet. So stand
mat ere fur the present.
Now, at the risk of being thouht to prophesy
after the event, we cannot help saying that a tu-
mult like this ought to excite little surprise. The
progress of things speedily sets aside false or insuf-,

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The Vanderbilt arrived at. New York on the
14th. The screw steamship North American had
arrived at Quebec.
Several collisions, attended' with serious come
quences, had occurred at New York between the
metropolitan and the Mayor's police. Major Ward
and the Sheriff had surrendered themselves, and
had been held to bail.

Walker, the Filibuster, had reached New York,
where he received an enthusiastic reception from
his friends. He had had au interview with the
President.

A deficit of $500,000 bad been discovered in the
Ohio State Treasury, and Mr. Gibson had resigned
hip office. He stated that the deficit existed when
he succeeded Mr. Bre=lon, the former treasurer.
Nothing had been seen of the comet.
Guano of excellent quality is reportOd to have
been found on some islands near California.

Newspapers from St. John's (New Brunswick)
announce great success in fishing this season.

Advicesirom Vera 0111 Z to the 4th inst. report
that au extensive conspiracy had been suppressed.
Comonfort had been elected President try a large
majority, and was' en route to Vera Cruz with
16,000 troops.
ILI the 1\;-esw Yolk naonw-market on. thep 15th,
there was ari-itieceasecl dtlnand fu favour' Of the
lender. There was very little short prime hu,ines,=
paper offering, and .rates were, therefore, rather
lower.

efieliftfvsurinises, "Eta Alite'rotion that the discon-
tent was confined to only one or two regiments,
and arose from trifling and local causes—the
greasing of a cartridge or the imbecility of certain
officers is now. shown to be inadequate for the
explanation of what has occurred. The mutiny
has not been confined to one body of troops er
ene locality. At Meerut two regimens of
Infantry and one of Cavalry have mutinied ;
re!reeting to Delhi, they were joined by three
other Native Regiments, and committed the atro-
cities of which we have now received the detailed
account. At Ferocepore, higher np in our north-
we-t territory, a similar spirit showed itself. The
disturbances beginning with the Hindoos have ac-
tually ended in placing on the throne of Delhi a
Mahoneedan Eeopero-, and the fever has gone on
to seizs the dis•ant garri-ons of what were lately
the Sikh States. A movement so universal and so
independent of conditions and Circumstances must
h eve its root in feelings which the prejudices of
religion or the neglect of a proper supervision may
indeed have strengthened, but which they
could hardly have produced. The fact seems
to be that we have ate iveei at that point in our
Indian career when the total subjection of the
native element and the orgtei'sation of all that we
hive conquered bec :me a matter of necessity. We
hive gone so far iu the conquest of the country
Viet it is now necessary 'to complete the task.
What we have done is too mucti, and yet not
enough for tranquillity. A hundred years ago,
when the disaster of Fort William was avenged, a
policy was begun which, excellently suited for the
time, has been continued into an age when it is
both meaningless and injurious. As England go-
veined her Indian settlements anomalously through
a company, so the company governs anomalously
a vast, complex, and often unintelligible native or-
ganisation. Indian rulers became our tributaries
or our pensioners ; Indian territory which our
arms had conquered was mapped out among the
native potentates who had aided our cause or been
the instruments of our schemes. The arrange-
ments of the pablic service and even the
ordering of the army have been to a great
extent made to conform to Asiatic examples.
The tenure of land, the administration of
law, were altered by us less than t' ey
would have been by any race of conquerors
that the world has ever seen. No doubt, all this
was wisely done, and it is easy to imagine that this
wonderful subjection of a sixth part of the world's
inhabitants has been effected chiefly by the tact
which knew how to establish the greatest amount
of power while wounding the least.arnount of pre-
judice. This system went on also very well while
the British dominion in India was still militant and
progressive. Up to within the last few years the
habiteal state of our Indian rule has always
hi en war. We have always had before us
the next country which it was our destiny to
conquer. Although the succession of Governors-
General ha., no doubt, furnished latge-minded
men, philanthropic men, men who saw the
future of Indie, and the duty of raising the
populations committed to their charge, yet
the immediate care of each has generally been
to guard a perpetually advancing frontier, and to
defray the expenses oflarge military establishments.
The best arrangement for the moment has always
been made with dethroned, 'or conquered, or ineffi-
cient Princes ; pensions have been granted, new
sovereignties have been established, or old ones
divided, without any purpose except the assurance
of immediate tranquillity and the easy possession of
of what had been latest gained. While this system
has grown up of dividing with native power the go-
vernment of the country, there has also been pretty
constant employment for the native armies, and an
understanding that their religion, their castes, and
their liberties or prejudices of all kinds shall not be
interfered with.

Many of the banks had taken first-class endorsed
paper at less than 60 days, to run at 7 per cent.,
but the general rate for short prime paper was 7i to
8. Shares had materially improved.
Foreign exchanges were firm, and tending up•
wards. On London 109/ to 1091.
Cotton, owing to.the advices from Liverpool and
the poor supply, had advanced lc. upon all lower
grades. Flour was dull. The lower qualities of
wheat had advanced slightly. Pig iron was inac-
tive. Freights continued dull.
On the evening of the 16th stocks were dull.
Cotton firm. Flower lower. On low grades, wheat
lower and unsettled. Corn lower and heavy.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, VIA HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 18,

Oar city is now perfectly quiet.
Major Ward has succumbed to the New Police
CemmissionerA, who are backed by the State mili-
tary, and is now under arrest.
The steam-ship Fulton, from Havre and South-
ampton, and the Botussia, from Flanaburz, arrived
here to-day.

But this system has had its day. Whatever may
have been the effect of the unclean cartridges at
Batrackpore, there is one thing now evident—that
we have an enormous empire, with 150,000,000 of
people, and an army of 200,000 native troops, and
that this empire is in a state of profound peace,
and this gie it army is to some extent reduced to
the duties of a police. At the same time that we
have these thousands of troops under arms with-
out the prespect of a foe, it is known that the
greatest changes are about to pass over Indian so-
ciety. For a hundred years Mahomedans and
Hiudoos have submitted willinglytto a people who
were always conquering and never converting.
Now, when conquest has ceased, and conversion—
not merely religious, but of morals, manners,
and habits—must begin, we cannot wonder
that their minds should piss through a phase of
disaffection. What the hidden causes may have
been that have conduced to this outbreak time
must show. The intrigues of Persia, and of a
more powerful empire than Persia,—the strange
intedigence which reigns among Asiatic nations
--some prverted accounts of the proceedings of
the native Princes, who are ever intriguing, and
affecting martyrdom over here—may have stirred
up those ignorant masses to revolt. But, on the
whole, we are inclined to consider the disease as
an epidemic generated by the present condition
of Indian society, and to believe that under
prompt and skiltul treatment it -will pass away.
The first tiling, of course, is to put down force
by force. Whatever be the moral causes of an
insurrection, the only safe remedy lies in a ready
appeal to arms. On this point we are happy
to say there are no grounds for despondency. We
can only hope that the suppression of the mutiny
will be speedy and decisive. As for the expression
of a wish that it may not be accompanied with
Woodshed, we feel that it would be an unw.ethy
affectation. Justice, humanity, the safety of our
demand
countrymen, and the honour of the country
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impunity for clime. The
to feel that treason,
rulersnative
army
eerigmhtusrtegbirminelgitsa memorable re-
tribution.
of country,
mutiny, andwinhteuncl
long line stationed over a
and without any common
erievance, burst out into open insurrection—when
bthe ancient capital of India falls into the hands of
the rebel soldiery, and the descendant of a de-
throned monarch is actually set up as a rival to
British authority—it is too late to talk of mildness
and moderation.

But, though the immediaLe work to be done is
rough and terrible, yet it ought to be only the pre-
lude to a more thorough organization. Now that
we have conquered India from the Indus to the
frontiers of Siam, it is our interest to establish in
it a homogeneity which it has never before poti-
sessed. All its former monarchs have been weak
because they
ruled over a chaos of races, some-
times servile, sometimes insurgent, but always
troublesome and faithless. There is no reason why
the British Government should not attempt to fuse
into a solid mass the conglomeration of provinces
which is called India. Why, for instance, should
there be a Mogul at Delhi, whose very existence,
as we see in the present case, preserves the memory
of what we should endeavour to obliterate ? We
would even hope that the death of the Nizam may
be the occasion of the Deccan being brought more
completely under British sovereignty. We cannot
now refuse our part or change our destiny. To re-
tain power in India we must sheep away every
political establishment and every social usage which
may prevent our influence from being universal and
complete,