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through the Session, that gave him such a de-
cided and unequivocal majority on the recent ap-
peal to the country. We look to him stilt,
not merely to control and direct his colleagues,
but to act in any and every department where
his services may be required. His presence gives
confidence to the nation, which would be sorely
tried if he were to withdraw to any considerable
distance from bhe metropolis. That he is not
insensible to the magnitude of the emergency will
be discovered not only from the large reinforce-
ments already despatched to the scene of action,
but from the fact announced in the military intel-

ligence communicated in another column, that
eleven more regiments—four cavalry and seven
infantry—have received orders for India, and may
be expected shortly to embark.
It is to be regretted that the Court is so far
from the metropolis. GOD forbid that our Most
Gracious SOVEREIGN' should be debarred from
any relaxation that may conduce to her
enjoyment or advantage. But it is not on
her account solely that the journey to Bal-
moral is undertaken, and that one of
,the principal
Secretaries of State is obliged to attend in a re-
mote part of Scotland. It is that the PRINCE
CONSORT may indulge in deer stalking and grouse
shooting, on which he was so intent that a single
day would not be spared in order that the British
SavEumuNmight pay the usual compliment to the
co-ordinate branches of the Legislature of pro-
roguing Parliament, and delivering the validictory
address in person. It was only on the morning
of Friday that the Royal party departed from
London, and six hours later the Royal Speech
was read by the Commissioners I

We should readily spare Prince ALBERT. We
should willingly relieve him from all the political

duties in which he engages, but it is too
bad that, under the present peculiar cir-
cumstances of the case, great, and, very
possibly, untoward delays, may be oc-
casioned by the absence of the Court from
the vicinity of the metropolis. We have already
had enough of COBURG interference during the
late Russian war, not merely of the Panrcz

CONSORT himself, .but of " Uncle LEOPOLD," and
the Germanic element. It would be well if
Indian aflairs were exempted from these sinister
influences. We recently alluded to the remarks
made at a memorable Trinity House banquet,
that " the British Constitution was on its trial."
It is so at the present moment ; but it is not the
Parliamentary element that is now involved.
Parliament has done everything that. could be an-
ticipated. It has armed Ministers with all the
power and authority that were demanded. And,
if these powers were net sufficiently ample, they
have only themselves to blame for the omission.
The nation expects that every person will do his
or her duty, and if there be any shortcoming,
strict accounts must be rendered of the causes
thereof. At all events, the members of the
Cabinet must be ready, at any and every moment,
for the performance of their important functions,
rn which the welfare and happiness of 150,000,000
of her MAJESTY'S subjects so greatly depend !

It would appear thSt though slowly, yet surely,
the ministers of justice are surrounding the never
to be forgiven miscreants at Delhi. Towards the
North and North West they have no chance.
The vigorous administrator Sir JOIIN LAWRENCE,
a man only second, if second to his lamented
brother at Lucknow, keeps the Punjaub well in
hand ; even the Sealcote mutineers were promptly
met and routed, and VAN CORTLANDT leaves the
rebels little apace or rest on that side of Delhi.
Lord EL2HINSTONE also informs us that Sir JOLIN
LAWRENCE is rapidly organizing levies to the
amount of 35,000 men from the Sikhs and Pun-
jaub tribes who have no other care for the high
caste Sepoys than to attack them as soon as they
can, and extract the pilfered gold mohurs from
their pockets. Thus, with the considerable num-
ber of British soldiers already in the North-West,
and with the new levies of the right stamp, Delhi
will soon be hard pressed on that side.
On the North there is at present but our small
besieging army, which, small as it is in compari-
son with the army within the walls of the town,
yet firmly holds its ground, will not be outflanked
by the vastly more numerous enemy, but quickly
repulses all attacks with great slaughter of the
assailants. This small force, keeping guard, as it
were, over the monster, now waits patiently the
descent of reinforcements from the Punjaub on
one side, and the advance of General HAVELOCK,
and the gradual arrival of the reinforcements
from China and England on the other—the
south-east side. We trust that HAVELOCK was
enabled both to relieve Lucknow, and turning
back again to march to the relief of Agra, whose
garrison and numerous Earopeans, now shut up
in the fort, reported, it is true, to be sufficiently
spacious and well provisioned, may yet soon begin
to see their supplies failing them. We trust,
indeed, this will not be the case.

The anxiety to meet the enemy at some dis-
tance from the fort probably arose from the wish
not merely to save, if possible, the cantonment,
but to avert an attack on the fort itself, after
so many women and civilians had sought shelter
within it. It would appear that the necessity for
retreat and apparent defeat was entirely due to
the loss of their ammunition by the blowing up of
the tumbrils ; it became evident, however, imme-
diately after with whom the real:victory lay, since
the enemy did not venture near the fort, but
though they had marched out of the direct road
from Neemuch and Nusseerabad to come to Agra
at all, they turned aside and marched for the
grand centre of the conspiracy, Delhi. For some
distance South of Delhi ttle country seems to be
pretty freely traversed by the mutineers, but
Indore and the adjacent stations, and all the
Deccan south of the Nerbudda appears ,to be se-
curely occupied and hell by us ; the risings hav-
ing been everywhere suppressed and the rebels
driven out.

Of course every part of the country occupied
by the late Bengal Army will be liable for a time
to be infested by predatory and savage bauditA,
composed of the scattered sepoys, but they do not
appear likely to make head against any number
of our troops, except in the district a little east
and south of Dellal. To this district, therefore,
the efforts of all appear to be converging, and
though we must probably wait some months yet
before either Sir JOHN L4WI;ENCE'S levies in tho
Punjaub, or the reinforcements now arriving at
Calcutta, and at Kurrachee t)o, will be able to'
act with effect, yet that time must come, and then
the doom of the Mahommedan Sodom and Go-
morrah is sealed. Delhi will soon then be uncu-
red With the cities whose sites are but curiosities
for the
trust, Wilantiquary, and its very stones, we
l be carried far down the stream, to
found another city,
to be known by
to
h..
another name, or
oe
rxt extend
future ernporium of thewci Araestflu aialtsffie rathe.
It seems beyond doubt now that the infernal
atrocities practised on our women especially were
not mere cruelty, but cruelty and defiance of
Europeans combined. These wretches intended,
by their unheard of villanies towards our females;
to cast away their scabbard and proclaim ureter:.

cileable war between the Mussulman and the
Englishman, between the Sepoy and his late
master. Nothing do Asiatics guard Er jealously
as the honour of their own women, no insult can
they offer to each other or to us equal to that of
degrading the f&imale sex. They cannot plead
ignorance here. They do not wish to plead it.
Their fiendlike boast is, that come what my,
they have dishonoured at Delhi the beautiful
girls of England. But lives there an Englishman
who will not spend his last sovereign, were it
necessary, to wipe out in the blood of these
wretches, and the utter destruction of the city the
stain on our national honour ! A satisfaction
must be taken, the memory of which shall outlive
the memory of the insult and the crime, or at
least be for ever told of with it as the terrific
atonement. The name of Delhi that once was,
must, for all future ages, be the epithet for un-
heard of atrocities avenged by unheard of severity
of justice. Delhi retribution must mean a retri-
bution at which the ears of Oriental shall tingle
for all time to come.

This is the first great act our troops have to
perform. We loath the mawkish cant which can
whine about mercy for the dishonours, the
maimers, and the murderers of our women, and
the torturers of innocent children. We hold such
language t) be unworthy of men. Bankside can
give such effeminate creatures a lesson. We be-
lieve that GOD and man alike demand that such
heathenism and Mahommedanism, such licentious
and wanton savagery, should be extirpated from
the face of the earth. If these are the lustful and
bloody orgies appropriated to the defence of Ma;
hommedanism, the sooner we relegate its disciples
to their own paradise of black-eyed Houris,
the better. Bad as earth may be, it is too good
for them.

The fund for the relief of the sufferers by the
Indian mutiny is progressing, and we hope and
believe that it will prove alike worthy of the
British nation and the cause for which it is re-
quired. Fearful, indeed, have been the miseries
endured and the losses sustained by those sufferers.
Many parents and providers have been cut off in
the pride of health and strength, leaving widows
and orphans in a state of comparative destitution.
Many helpless children have lost both parents
under the most deplorable and heartrending cir-
cumstances. Many of the survivors have been
deprived of all their resources, and left
almost naked and penniless, too happy
that their lives and honours were preserved. If
ever there was a cause that appealed irresistibly
to British sympathy and British liberality, it is
the one advocated at the Maniion-house meeting,
and the demand will be promptly and. fully re-
sponded to.

- The good work goes bravely on. A high-
minded lady has headed the list with the splendid
donation of 1,0001. May she long enjoy the am-
ple means which she applies to such noble pur-
poses. Others too, have aided in proportion to
their resources. Even " the widow's mite " has
not been withheld. Count PERSIGNY has exhi-
bited his kindly feeling, by the handsome gift of
1004 ; and sundry other subscriptions to a
similar amount have been recorded. To
those who have not yet had the opportunity
of rendering assistance, we emphatically say " go
ye, and do likewise." Do honour to yourselyes
by proving that you know the proper use of the
abundant means with which you are endowed.
It is not, however, merely the wealthy that should
assist. The shillings of the millions are more
productive than the pounds of the upper ten
thousand. There are few indeed who cannot
spare something for such a cause. The cutting
off some luxury or even comfort, the sustaining
some petty privation will enable them to contri-
I bute, and the more urgent their own calls, the
more acceptable will be the gift. It is a national
question that should be answered by the community
without exception. The old proverb " bis dat cjui
cito dat " should bo strongly borne in mind. Every
man should give not only liberally, but promptly.
The exigencies of the sufferers demand immediate
aid, and what comes slowly will be of compara-
tively trivial benefit. At present the affair is
but in its first stage ; but surely the bril-
liant example sot by Lady FORBES, MISS
ASIIBUENEIL, and their coadjutors, will not
be lost on those who have the power and op-
portunity of acting in a similar manner. We
earnestly commend "the case to the general con-
sideration to which it is so pre-eminently entitled.
Something may, of course, be expected from Par-
liament but that must be long deferred, and the

necessities of the case are already peculiarly
urgent. Let the nation now do its duty, and
Parliament and the East India Company will not
be wanting when the proper time has arrived.

HOLYHEAD HARBOUR AND BREAK-
WATER.

HOLYHEAD, SEPT. 2.
A grand operation took place to-day at noon in
presence of the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty and Mr. Hawkshaw, the Admiralty Engineer.
Height of quarry face, 172 feet ; length of ditto,
150 feet ; grip, 60 feet ; charge of powder, 11,000
lbs. ; power of galvanic battery, 40 cells ; result of
operation, 70,000 tons of the hardest quartz rock.
Engineering operations conducted by Mr. Charles
Rigby in person, assisted by Mr. Reitheimer, the
resident engineer of the contractors.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Prin-
cess Royal and the youthful members of the Royal
Family, are expected to honour the Highland Gathering
at Braemar to-day by their presence.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale and suite have arrived at the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street.
The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland has arrived at
Downham, Suffolk, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wm.
Po wlett.
The Earl and Connteis De La Warr, and Lady Ara-
bella Saokville West have left Backhurst Park, Sussex,
for Ingeetre Hall, Staffordshire, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess Talbot. t
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers
have arrived at Drummond Castle, Perthshire, on a visit
to Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, from Mr.
Baillie Cochrane's seat in Lanarkshire.

Lord and Lady Foley leave town to-Jay for Worksop
Manor, Notts' for the autumn.
Lord and Lady John Russell and the Misses Russell
are still staying with the Earl of Minto, at Minto
House, Hawick, N. 8., where a large family circle have
assembled.
Lady Georgiana Ramilly and family have arrived at
Eudeleigh Cottage, the Duke of Bedford's romantic seat
near Tavistock.
The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have arrived
at Spa.
The Earl and Countess of Malinesbury are staying at
his lordship's shooting-box at Achnacarry, in the High-
lands. The nebie earl and countess have been enter-
taining a select circle. His Excellency Ciunt Crepto.
wich has been among the guests.
The Earl of ‘Vestmorland returned to town last week
from Cowes, Isle of Wight. The countess and Lady
Rosa Fane returned a few days since from a tour in
Swi:z3rland. The noble earl and countess have glne
to Apthnrpe hlull, Northamptonshire, for the autumn.
The Countess Cowper and family have arrived at Pan-
shanger, Herts, from Roseneath, Argyleshire, the Duke
of Argyil's seat, which the countess has been occupying
for a short time.
Lady Charles Somerset as returned to town from
Windsor.
Sir Joseph and Lady Charlotte Copley have just re
turned to their seat iu Yorkshire from a tour in the
United States.
S:r Charles and Lady Cecilia Des Vseex will.leave
town this week for Leamington Spa, where Sir Charles
Las purchased a mansion.
LORD HARRY VANE AND THE PEERAGE.—The Gates-
head Observer gives a curious reason fur Lord Harry
Vane declining a peerage, that his lordship was unwil-
ling to plunge his constituents into the turmoil of au
election.

THE DOKE OF WELLINGTON'S SAECOPIIAGUS.—The
Duke of Wellington's sarcophagus, which has been in
hand upwards of two y(ars, in Luxulyan, is now nearly
finished.

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—(This Day.)

The election for the county of Middlesex, rendered
necessary in consequence of the elevation of Lord Robert
Grosvenor to the House of Peers under the title of Lord
Ebury, took place this morning at Brentford. The
proceedings were of the dullest description, which was to
be attributed partly to there being no contest, and partly
to the inauspicious state of the weather.
Mr. Sheriff Mechi and Mr. Sheriff Keates, accom-
panied by the Under -Sheriffs, Messrs. Crotley and
Anderton, were punctual in their attendance, and when
the proceedings commenced at ten o'clock there were
not a dczen persons on the hustings, which were erected
in the Market-square, including the officials. The great
body of the free and independent electors were repre-
sented by a about 50 navigators and labourers, who
were obliged to take refuge from the ra;n that descended
in torrents, under the door-ways and projecting windows
of the antiquated houses in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Under-Sheriff CuosLsY opened the business with
the usual proclamation of Oh, yes !" desiring all per-
sons int=rested in the proceedings " to draw near and
give their attendance," which was responded to by a
couple of urchins, who braved the pitiless storm, and
advanced to the barriers erected to keep off "the pres-
sure from without ;" but, on a mysterious signal given
by one of the policemen In attendance, they beat a sud-
den retreat, and the open space in front of the hustings
I was left in quiet possession of the force.

A long pause ensued after the formal opening of the
business, anl the arrivals were few and far between.
At 20 minutes past 10 o'clock an open carriage drawn
by four greys with outriders, drove up in front of the
hustings, when the hon. Mr. Byng, the candidate, ac-
companied by several of his younger members of the
family, and Sir W. Stirling, alighted and took up a po-
sition assigned them on the buitings. The cheerless
state of the weather had so damped the ardour of the
assembled few that they were only able to welcome the
hon. gentleman with a faint cheer.
Mr. HANBURY, the other member for the county, was
present.

LATEST NE IV S;

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELE )RAPH.

SOUTHAMPTON, TIIIIRSDAY MORNING.

The United States mail steamer Fulton has just
arrived off Cowes, with advices from New York to
the 22d ult. (being two days later), and $lOO,OOO

ill specie.

The Jason, screw steamer, from Southampton;
arrived at Now York on the 21st.

The New York money market was active, but
prices for railroads stocks were still downward.
The market for cotton closed firm and at full
prices. Flour was dull and irregular, some de-
scriptions closing at a further decline of about
56e. per barrel. Wheat heavy, for common and
ordinary ; while prime was unchanged. Corn
was in good request. Sugars without change of
prices. Sales of coffee embraced 900 bags of Rio
at 11ic. Rather more doing in freights, espe-
cially to Liverpool and London.

lence to change his detiaation, •which was Tunis,
and proceed to Ponza and Sapri ; and that, conse-
quently, it was not surprising that the Sardinian
police should have been deceived. As a proof of its
good faith, the Cabinet of Turin assures the Neapo-
litan Government that for the future a more rigid
surveillance shall be exerciFed, and promises to give
the Government of Naples information of any facts
which may come out during the political trials now
going on at Genoa, which may in any way in-
terest the secu►iry of the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies, and requests that the Neapolitan Go-
vernment will make a similar c)mmunication
should anything transpire during the trial before
the Court of Salerno calculated to throw light on
the events which have lately taken place in Pied-
mont. No trace of any bitterness of expression is
to be found in any of the notes exchanged. As far
as regards England, no note whatever has been
sent. The consul at Naples has confined himself
to recommending his countrymen who were on
board the Cagliari to the attention of the Neapoli-
tan Government, without in any way wishing to
impede the free course of justice and throw any
difficulties in the way of the investigations which
may lead to the discovery of the hand which directed
the criminal enterprise of Sapri.''