The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1857.

The anxiouqy-looked for telegraphic intelligence
from India has duly come to hand. It is but a
matter of simple justice to the Government to state
that no time was lost on the present occasion in
relieving the very natural public anxiety, by
affording the earliest possible information to the
daily and other journals. The despatch was only
received at 5.26 p.m., and within a few minutes
after it was forwarded to our own and other offices
—and we can state for ourselves, that not only
vas it circulated in the Metropolis, by our last
edition, before seven o'clock, but it was transmitted
by post to our c3untry subscribers in almost
every district throughout the length and breadth
of the land. We beg for ourselves, and on the
p.,rt of the community, to tender our best thanks
to the Earl of CLARENDON for the prompt and
efficient means adopted to meet the national
wishes. The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste
at 11. a.m. yesterday. Six-and-a-half hours were
therefore consumed before the Government re-
ceived the despatches forwarded by the consul.
This was unquestionably a gnat improvement on
the twenty-six bouts lost after the arrival
of the last mail, but there is still too
much reason to believe that the Government
was again forestalled by private speculators ;
shortly after four o'clock some sales were effected,
and the market instantly gave way, awl shortly
after a rumour prevailed that Delhi had not
fallen, that the mutiny had spread to seven
or eight other (patters, and that there was
great pressure in the Calcutta money market.
Tiii?, be it remembered, was some time before
either the Government or the East India,
C)mpany had received these despatches, and
from the general accuracy of the details it is clear
that the magical wires have again been tampered
pith, and that undue influence has been at work
to promob the objects of private parties. This,
we hope, may be stringently inquired into, and
that adequate means may be adopted to give
Ministers the priority of intelligence to which
they are justly entitled.

The intelligence is of the usual chequered cha-
racter—a mixture of good and bad. It is ascer-
tained beyond the possibility of doubt that Delhi
had not fallen, but that up to the 27th June it
remained in the hands of the insurgents. The
accounts of its capture, which received partial
credence, have thus baen completely removed, and
there can be no doubt that the effect has been to
injurious to Eualish into-
& certain extent very
re3ts. There is still a stronghold in the hands of
the rebels, which offers great encouragement to
the disaffected. On the other halui we find
that, although several desperate sorties had been
made, they were invariably repulsed with great
slaughter, and that the insurgents,, even at their
very head-quarters, had no chanfee against the
loyal troops in a fair contest. Besides, it was
currently reported, and with much apparent
truth. that the rebel city was full of sick and
wounded, and that cholera ex tensively prevailed
within its walls. Considerable reinforcements
had also arrived, so that the hands of General
BARNARD were greatly strengthened, his force
consisting of from 7,000 to 8,000 European,
And about 5,000 native troops, on whose
fidelity and good- conduct implicit re
liance might be placed. It is true that the
mutineers also received aocesiiQns of force