The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, 'SEPT. 17, 1857.

Another telegram has come to hand, which
was received at the Foreign Office (through the
Admiralty), at 8.25 a.m. on this day. It states
that "Lord EL6IN reached Calcutta on the Bth of
August, in her Majesty's ship Shannon, accom-
panied by her Majesty's ship Pearl. These yes-
sell had 300 extra Marines and 300 soldiers on
board.

After the mutiny at Dinapore, a small force,
consisting of 160 men of her Majesty's 10th
Regi'nent, and about the same number of the
3;th, was despatched to relieve some eight
Europeans, besieged by the mutineers at Arrah.
The expedition was not successful, and our loss
very heavy.

ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 12.
GeneralllavELom bad advanced 25 miles from
Cawnpore, towards Lucknow, but, after defeating
the mutineers [in] three engagements, with loss
1 of 21 guns, he was obliged to retrace his steps to
Cawnpore, for the purpose of leaving his sick,
considerably increased from cholera, "and was
sions. waiting for reinforcements.
The 63d Regiment of Native Infantry was At Agra the Krok contingent, and other rebels,
disarmed at Behrampore, on the Ist of August. had been entirely dispersed.
The llth Irregular Cavalry and the Governor- A detachment of her Majesty's 10th and 37th
Ge'.ieral's Body Guard have also been disarmed." Regiments 300 strong, bad made a night attack
It will be borne in mind by our readers that upon the men of the Bth and 40th Infantry,
the Pekin, which brought the intelligence, al- who has mutinied at Dinapore, but was dispersed
ready inserted in The Sun, ha'l arrived at Suez with a loss of 200 killed.
0n the 4th inst Int, and that it contained the The Irregular Cyrps at Segowlie had mutilated
1.
''''allaY dates to the 15th August.. The mail and killed their officers.
from Calcutta, was however wanting, and that has A plot to murder the Europeans at Jeesore and
just arrived by the Bantinck. It does not how- Benares had been discovered at Midnapore.
ever, add much to the information already The Shakawanti battalion was wavering, but
received from the seen, of action. We cannot
had not been disarmed yet.
conceive why Lord ELGIN should have returned
Martial Law had been proclaimed in Behar.
from China to Calcutta, at which place he ar- Great uneasiness was felt in Calcutta of an
rived on the Bth of August, in R.m.Q
' °llanr-on, outbreak during the approaching Mohurrun, and
accompanied by H.M.S. Pearl, bringing 300 Or 400
the body guard had been disarmed, but allowed
extra marines, and 300 soldiers. It would seem to retain their horses.
as if leis mission had been fruitless, and tha
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was refused a reception by the Chinese Emperor. Lord Elgin arrived on the Bth of August with
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400 marines and a company of her Majesty's
It ie strange that nothing should have been said, iioth Regiment, and another steamer had brought
`on this very interesting and important tapir.
\ some of the troops from th© Transit.
The parties, however, entrusted with the duty of The lientinck met two steamers cowing up the
condensing information at Suez, exhibit a singular .
1 River with treepri.
ya left on the 11th for troops from
reticence, as they invariably pass over without !
tbe slightest notice, matters on which public the Mauritius.
anxiety is greatly excited. We must, of course, I The report of General IlavEnocre's retreat
wait for further intelligence before we can speak comes by the Suez
Telegraph.
with any certainty on the subject. It certainly r The Calcutta Englishman, of Aug. does not
looks like a total failure of the mission, and we I mention it. • ,
shall be prepared for a confirmation of that impres-
sion. The 300 or 400 marines and the 300 soldiers ! Future historians are to write of a "Council of
will be a valuable reinforcement that must be Berlin," which, if we may believe one of the
acceptable under any circumstances. It may be, Fathers present, is to take rank not with the rno_
too., that Lord ELGIN, finding that nothing could dery Council of Trent, but with the early Christian _
Baron Macaulay Oar.' the AWISbUry Gazate)
achieved in China for the present, had come to Councils. The Colisiaeareip of this
Council is Present at Troves.

General LLOYD has been removed from his
command, and General Ounum invested with the
command of the Dinapore and Cawnpore divi-

lised world, the services were conducted in several
languages, and by the device of the 100th psalm
printed in French and English and sung to the
same tune, they contrived in part to worship to-
gether. Popery, with its missal in an unknown
tongue, has, however, the advantage of mechani-
cal unity of worship ; for a German, French, and
English Minister, the latter being the Hon. and
Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, who has long joined the
Baptist denomination, each offered. extempore
prayers in their respective tongues.

The meeting of the second morning was " de-
voted to discourses on—Unity in spite of the diver-
sity of Protestant Christians." Of course these
will be published in due time fur the edification
of all whom they may concern. For ourselves
we should, of course, rejoice in any scheme which,
promises to keep religious peace among all the
sects of Protestantism. We cannot, partly for
the reason hinted at above, be very s
The personal interests and pride of Protestant
priests, or heads of sects, will always be in the
way of real and cordial union. Anything like
Federation is impossible. Toe Protestant sect;
resemble much more the small republics of ancier,t
Greece, and of middle age Italy, than they ever
will those of the United States. Perpetual the:-
logical war seems to be a condition of their fre;.-
dom, perhaps of their very Existence. 'We need
hardly add that the King and Queen, too, were
as aflahle, and even cordial, as possible. There
was nothing of the cold reserve of our Court core.
monial in their intercourse with the delegates
whom the King addressed in several languagu,
professing his hearty zeal for their ebject—a pro-
fession we have no reason to think insincere. The
delegates were loyal enough on their part, and
testified their admiration of the liberal-minded
monarch in shouts in all languages.