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H E TAN, LONDON, FR IDAY EVE NINO- AUG usr 14, 1857

thing more would be required than 200,0001. for
a period of seven months and a half, up to the
25th March next.

Besides, pending the changes that must take
place in India, further precautions must be taken.
Although 30,000 men may be despatched before
the termination of the present month, nearly as
many more will be required before the pacifi-
cation of Hindustan, to say nothing of its
re-conquest, can be accomplished. We must
remember that the Bengal army has virtually
ceased to exist, and that the utmost caution must
be exercised before an adequate substitute can be
provided. The Brahmin can no longer be trusted ;
fcenton habet in cornu. He is essentially dan-
gerous, and at present nothing but Europeans can
be trusted in his place. The castes from which
the Bombay and Madras armies have been re-
cruited have exhibited greater fidelity, have shown
themselves more "faithful to their salt," but still
a large admixture of the European element must
be maintained if we would rest secure and tran-
quil in our Eastern territory.

Since the above was written the Mail has
already come to hand, and very considerable ex-
tracts will be found in another part of our
impression. To these we refer our readers, and
they will confirm the accuracy of the statements
above expressed. The reason why the East India
Company repudiates assistance may easily be con-
ceived. It is clearly perceived that such a de-
mand would be fatal to its existence, and that
India must thenceforward be placed under the direct
supremacy of the Crown, and the hybrid authority
discontinued, at once and for ever. Sooner or
later England will have to assume Indian respon-
sibilities, and every unnecessary expense in the
shape of exorbitant rates of interest, Str., will
eventually fall on the National Exchequer. Care
should therefore be taken to prevent the contracting
of any loan at 6 per cent. interest, which, with a
a ttion al guarantee could be obtained at 3-i. We
must look to the protection and security of India
in the first instance, but so far as is consistent
therewith we must look to our pockets. The
charges thereon are sufficiently onerous, without.
unnecessarily increasing them for the gratification
of the Magnates of Leadenhall-street.

What a pity Mr. GLADSTONE did not devote
himself to the Bar. Of course any man who
shared largely in the gift of twenty millions to
West India planters (whose loss by negro eman-
cipation itself did not equal a twentieth part of
that sum) could not need to practise for pay ; but
what a glorious fellow he would have made to
bewilder a jury ; to carry off his clients, as
HOMER'S gods and goddesses did their heroes, in
a fog; or to shift in argument, for black or whits,
as suit©d his object. We believe that many mem-
bers thought him thoroughly in earnest in the
long, impassioned, and eloquent, though thoroughly
sophistical speech which he delivered against the
second reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial
Causes Bill. We heard of one member (for the
credit of his judgment we conceal his name) whose
vote was gaiued by that speech, though followed
by the manly, practical, and sensible one of Mr.
WALPOLE. Luckily the majority could enjoy the
exhibition, but retain their cool common sense
when it came to plain business. They did not
mistake fireworks for cannon.
If, however, any were deceived then, they have
been undeceived since. Mr. GLADSTONE, folloNied
by his clique, have shown themselves to be the
most unscrupulous partisans. He, as a known Ro •
manizer, or Ecclesiastical Mystic, or one at least
of the Ciiiirch-and-PrieA party, is strongly in
favour of the absolute indissolubility of marriage.
This was the acknowledged ground of his opposi-
tion to the bill ; though it would not alter the
existing practice in regard to divorce and the re-
marriage of the divorced, it would give to that
practice the sanction of a direct law, and of a
Court for the object, instead of requiring each
case to form the subject of a separate act—in
other words, of a special law. It madenodifference
that the practice is so settled that it has the full
force of law—Romanizers in the Church of Eng-
land abhor everything which makes the diverg-
ence of the Church from their dear old mother
more apparent ; they fought hard, there-
fore, " that definite permanent law should not
glaringly defy the decrees of the Holy Fathers
of Trent. The second reading decided, how-
ever, that the English Church cared not a straw
for the matrimonial decrees of the said bachelors
of Trent, on matters about which they ought to
have known but little.
But there was another ground on which Mr.
GLADSTONE and all his junior counsel for " Angli-
canism" opposed the bill. It would open, they
said, what was now the peculiar privilege of the
aristocracy, to the middle classes. Divorce would
descend to a lower stratum of society. At pre-
sent a wealthy man only can pay for the honour,
or dishonour, of legal effectual separation from a
partner who has already been guilty of moral
separation. The middle classes enjoy the edify-
ing spectacle of three rehearsals of all the parts of
a trim. con, case before three tribunals, but they
are not permitted to imitate their betters in a .
single performance. Non cuivis homini contingit
adire Corinthum, might be most appropriately
said of the luxury of the class of actions we refer
to ; and Mr. GLADSTONE stoutly insisted that the
cost of these actions ought not to be lowered,
He thought it better that his Corinth should re-
main inaccessible to as many as possible.

What, then, shall we say to.the special pleading,
or rather to the unblushing factiousness of a man,
who, beaten on his grand point--who, when the
house had decided that marriage should be legally
dissoluble, and that divorce should be within the
competency of the middle classes, immediately
turns round and would force on the- Government
the extension yet further of the possibility of divorce!
First he carrits against the Government a propospl
for local courts to take home divorce to every man's
door ; next he argues for the equal rights of the
woman to put away her husband, as in Scotland.
Now, both these proposal.s are in themselves good,
but what shall we think of a leading statesman,
who first opposes legalization of the dissolubility
of marriage ; then the extension of the area over
which divorce should be practicable; but, who,
when beaten by the Government, by common
sense, and Protestantism on those points, straitway
demands that marriage shall be dissolved equally
on the application of either SEX, thus doubling, at
a stroke, the numbers of those who may seek
divorce ; and also, that courts shall be established
for the effecting of divorces, in so many places, that
the poor, as well as the rich, shall bo able to meet
the expense !
The clever debater may subtiliz) and refine as
he will, the public will think that he has de-
scended to the lowest arts of faction. We are
sorry to see Mr. HENLEY, and other respectable
men, following at all in his wake. Their conduct
is utterly unworthy of anything but the sophist
and the
otr the unprincipled partizan. Perhaps they hope
o
the Bill for theie ovsreedass
get clauses introduced which the Lord Chancel-
lor will
blacr k°
breujtecte,veit u!..t4;,!•:4,r,3tjegrictl, ofif
they deem it
voting a thing
We only good,. cannbti ,x_c74‘tirtheir
night, and whi.tii few
I mniagyhtbsoafetgeur.ally
brought home to all classes, and
y wish that matrimonial law
that woman, in regard.
to marriage, may be in
English law, as she
unquestionably
is in. New
Testament Christianity, placed on alevel with the
man ; but we do not wish to see orators proclaim '
these things wicked on the second reading of a
bill, and good when the bill is in committee. Let''
Reforms be undo by those Who have truth in
Them.

LATEST NEWS'.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

We (Daily _News) have received our advices
from India and China, in anticipation of the Over-
land Mail, a telegraphic summary of which appeared
in yesterday's impression. The dates are :—Bom-
bay, July 14 ; Calcutta, July 5 ; Hong Kong,
June 24.

The following is the summary of the Bombay
Times of July 14 :
In the last fortnight we have probably passed
"the flood' of the insurrection, and may now hope
that our future advices will be chiefly occupied with
a recital of the subsidence of this great rebellion,
and the restoration of order in the disturbed pro-
vinces. The truth is there are no more regiments
to mutiny, unless they are to be those of Bombay
and Madras, concerning the fidelity of which there
is not the slightest ground of suspicion. Delhi
had not fallen up to the 27th June, the date of our
latest advices, via Lahore. There has been a good
deal of fighting outside the walls, the rebels being
defeated on every occasion with great slaughter,
and it is matter of much congratulation that the
apparent hopelessness of their cause has effectually
checked the disposition of the mutineers at other
stations to proceed to their assistance. The only
attempt which has been made to reinforce them,
seems to have been on the part of the Nusseerabad
mutineers, who were cut up dreadfully on the oc-
casion by General Barnard's force. Whether any
of them got inside the walls or not we cannot say.
During the fortnight just elapsed we have re-
ceived intelligence of the mutiny of the troops at
Moradabad, Fyzabad, Seetapoore, Saugor, Now-
gong, Banda, Futteghur, Miaow, and Indore ; and
we proceed briefly to relate the particulars of each
in so far as they are known to us.
It is now evident that an arrangement existed
between the troops at Bareilly, Shahjeh3npore,
Lucknow, and Moradabad to effect a simultaneous
rising. A glance at the map will show the proxi-
mity of these stations to each other, and the out-
break occurred at each on the morning of the same
day.

The mutiny at Bareilly, which we reported in a
few words in our last issue, seems to have been at-
tended with circumstances of peculiar atrocity and
treachery. Only the day before their outbreak, the
sepoys appealed to their officers to recal their wives
and families from the Hills, where they had been
sent for safety, and. even to the last moment these
miscreants swore to protect their officers to the
death. The regiments rose en masse on Sunday
morning, the Ist of June, a shotted gun being
fired as the signal about 11 o'clock. The men at
once rushed upon the officers' lines, and opened a
fusilade upon the bungalows. Such officers as were
able immediately got on their horses, and made fir
the rendezvous previously agreed upon amongst
them, the cavalry parade ground. An ineffectual
effort was male to bring back the troops to their
allegiance, but the scoundrels opened upon them
with grape shot, and they had to ride for their lives.
The country having risen in all directions, it was
with extreme difficulty, and only by a ride of 70
miles, that the little band at last found safety at
Nynee Tal in the hills, where they had previously
sent their families. Hera the refugees are con-
gregated in numbers whic'a will probably awe any
attempt to attack them, and as the place is of very
difficult approach, we may hope they are in safety.
At Moradabad the desire of plunder seems to have
prevailed over the murderous propensities of these,
miscreants, and they.gave their officers two hours'
grace to mike their escape, in which they fortu-
nately succeeded ; the whole of the officers (29th
Regiment) and the residents, with their families,
escaping to Nynee Tal the day after the arrival of
the Bareilly refugees. We stated in our last ad-
vces that great fear was entertained that the whole
of the station of Shabjehanpore had been mass acred.
We are happy, however, to learn that a good many
have escaped, but we are unable as yet to give the
particulars. Our columns will be found to contain
elsewhere a list of the refugees that were at Nynee
Tal on the 12th ult., and there are probably many
concealed in the plain, waiting an opportunity to
join them.

The rising at Fyzabad occurred on the night of
Sunday, the Bth ult., the 6th Regiment Oude Irre-
gular Infantry giving the signal, which was imme-
diately answered by the 22d Regiment Native
Infantry. They at once took possession of the bat-
tery, and would not allow the officers to approach,
but do not seem to have offered tnem any further
violence. Fyzabad is in the very heart of Oude,
and is situate upon a branch of the Ganges. The
officers determined to escape by boat, and were
allowed quietly to embark. What followed is thus
related by one of the party :
" I remember the officers in the two boats ; I
accompanied Lieut. Bright, 22d Native Infantry ;
Lieut. Parsons, 6th Oude Irregulars, Lieut. Cant-
ley, 22d Native Infantry ; Sergeant Busher, Ser-
geant. Major Quartermaster-Serjeant, 27th Native
Infantry, and my: elf, were in one boat. Colonel
Goldney, Lieutenant Currie, Artillery ; Lieut.
Ritchie, 2.2a1 Native Infantry ; Sergeant Edwards,
and Sergeant-Major Matthews, in the second boat ;
three other boats followed behind ; we waieed two
hours for them, bat as they did not come, we
pushed off. As we were getting into the boat we
saw the Sepoys of the 22d rushing towards
the Treasury ; there were about two laklia
and 40,000 rupees in Captain Drummond's
house (where the treasure had been placed).
Ou reaching a place called Begumgunge, about
ten miles below Fyzabad, we met some mutineers
encamped ;at half-past one, these men fired on us ;
there were 800 or 900 of them ; about 100 men fired
on us when we were 600 yards off ; Col. Goldney
advised our pushing off to the opposite bank of the
Gogra; we got on an island among some jhow fields.
The mutineers got into diughees and followed us ;
we made for the mum boat from the island ; there
were about 40 or 50 yards ot water between us.
Major Miffs was drowned. The sergeant-major,
Lieut. Bright, and I were taken prisoners, and
taken to the camp of the mutineers, who were men
of the 17th and 37th Native Infantry and the 17th
Irregular Cavalry. We were taken before the Soo-
bedar commanding the rebels. Ido not know his
name ; he was a Hindoo, and belonged to the 17th
Native Infantry. He was an old man, slightly
made, about 5 feet 8 inches high, with grey hair, no
hair on his face, and dark complexion. He asked
us who we were ; we replied. He then appealed to
the Mussulmans on the Koran, and to the Hindoo;
on the cow, not to injure us, and toll us to go
away. The men of the 17th then stepped out and
shot the sergeant-major and Lieut. Bright. I was
rescued by an artilleryman and hidden in a serai at
Begumgunge and sent off in disguise. While
we were talking to the Soobedar, some 15 or 16 ot
the Irregular Cavalry and 10 or 12 sepoys, went
af.er the remainder of our party. We heard firing
across the river ; the party returned, and reported
they lead killed Colonel Goldney, and six other
officers, and that three had escaped. On arriving
at Tauda, on the 10th inst.,,l heard people iu the
serai saying that six or seven officers hadbeen
and two or three were sheltered by some zemiudar
in Goruckpore district. After this, I came via
Mattoopoor, Shahgunge and Juanpore. Captain
Rec.], Deputy Commissary ; Capt. A. Y. Orr, As-
sistant Commissary ; Mr. E. 0. Bradford, ditto,
and Capt. Thuruburn reached Rajah Mann Sing's
house, and he promised shelter and protection.
When I was at Mattoopoor, I heard that the above
officers were going down in boats, with their fa-
milies, escorted by some of the Rajah's guard. At
T'tnda I heard that a Mr. Fitzgerald, clerk in the
deputy Commissioner's office, and overseer sergeant
Hurst, who were escorting the families of some
sergeants to Allahabat via Sultanpore, were killed
and the women and children also murdered ; I
don't know what has become of the officers who
were in the boats behinds us when we left Fyza-
bad."

We have reason to believe, however, that a con-
siderable number of the officers have effected their
escape from this station, and whatever may have
taken place after leaving it, the conduct of the
sepoys at the time seems to have been characterised
by the strangest moderation. We cannot resist the
temptation of quoting from a letter on the subject:
" The account of tho mutiny of the 22d Regi-
ment beats any romance ; they guarded their offi-
cers and their bungalows after mutinying, placed
sentries over magazines and all public property,
sent out pickets to prevent the towns-people and
servants from looting, held a council of war, in
which the cavalry (Fisher's Irregular) proposed to
141 the o_M;er3, but the 22d objected, and iuforme d

the officers that they would be allowed to leave, and
might take with them their private arms and pro-
perty, but no public property, as that all belonged
to the King of Oucle. Their officers asked for boats;
the rebel commissary-general, a Resaldar, was or-
dered to provide them ; he did so, but merely small
diugies, so that they could only bring away a bundle
each, and then they were presented with 900 rs.
which the rebels had taken &am the treasure chest
to give them. When the officers tried to meal
them to their duty, they respectfully assured them
that they were now under the orders of ther na-
tive officers, and the Subadar-Major of the 22d Re-
giment had been appointed to the command of the
sta•ion, and that each corps had appointed one of
their officers to be their chief."

We are as yet without particulars of the mutiny
at Saugor, the news of which reached us on the Bth
instant from our correspondent at Kamptee, who
was able, however, to inform us that no atrocities
had as yet been committed, all the officers and
families, with the European Artillery, having
taken refuge inthe Fort. Saugor is the chief station
in the districts known as the Saugor and Nerbudda
territories, and must have a considerable European
population in the shape of writers, conductors, and
others, con terning whose safety, after what has
transpired at Jhansi, in these same territories,
much uneasiness must be felt. It is to be hoped
that these men and their families have found refuge
in the fort also.

Concerning the mutiny at Nowgong, we simply
know the fact that the head-quarters of the 12th
Native Infantry and of the 14th Irregular Cavalry
stationed there, have followed the example of the
left wing of each corps which was stationed at
Jhansi, but that the officers aro safe. The news of
the Jhansi mutiny we communicated by last mail,
with an account of the bloody tragedy enacted on
that occasion in the massacre of all the Europeans
in the place. We now learn that beside Mrs.
Skene and family, Mrs. Browne, Miss Browne,
and Miss Davidson have been killed. Altogether
twelve of our countrymen and women were slaugh-
tered in this small station. The only persons
known to have escaped are two Custom's officers,
who have reach Agra.
The only particulars we have of the mutiny at
Banda are contained in a letter from Nagode, dated
19th June, of which the following is a❑ excerpt :
L "We have escaped from Banda to Nagoclo, and
through God's mercy have been miraculously pre-
served.—On Sunday, the 14th, the Npivab's troops
mutinied as well as the N. l's. ; the Mahomedans
plantt..d their flag and wanted to kill us, but the
Nawab stood by us, and we got into the buggies
and on horses and got off. The place was in a
fearful blaze before we had gone a mile ; it was a
fearful scene. We start again to-night for Mirza-
pore, and hope to reach it safely, but this district
is very much disturbed. We have in our party
Mr. and Mrs. Edmonstone, Mr. and Mrs. Webster,
Messrs. Mayne, Sherer, Clark, Baws, Cousins,
Hatchinson, Oswin, and Glynn. We-are staying.
with Major and Mrs. Ellis at Nagode ; their kind-
ness is extreme, and we have rested two days."

Of the whole country of Rohilcund, Futtehghur
(Furruckabad) was the last station to rise. The
10th Regiment has unquestionably given in, simply
to the force of the dangerous example all around it.
The sepoys of this corps continued for weeks to
guard the treasury and maintain discipline, while
every station near them was in open mutiny. They
do not appear to have offered any violence what-
ever to their superior officers, but a most melan-
choly rumour prevailed in Allahabad on the 23d
instant as to the fate of the unhappy fugitives after
they left the place. We take it from the English-
men of the 29th ultimo :
"Did the report of the massacre reach you of the
Futtyghur fugitives ? It passed in atrocity all
that has hitherto been perpetrated. 132 Euro-
peans, men, women, and children, in 50 boats,
left Fettyghur for this place.
They were all the nom-military residents of the
place. On arrival at Bhitaor the Nana Sahib
tired on them with the artillery the government
allowed him to keep ; one round shot struck poor
Mrs. --, and killed her on the spot. The boats
were then hoarded and the inmates landed and
dragged to the parade ground at Cawnpore, where
they were first fired at, then literally hacked to
pieces with Tulwers. Report says not one esca-
ped."
Bhitoor is a little place a few miles to the north
of Cawnpore, and we sadly presage a confirmation
of this intelligence, in view of the state of matters
in that neighbourhood. A bloody reckoning will
surely be exacted of those fiends in human shape.
At Mhovs, the 22d Bengal Native Infantry have
mutinied. The number of Europeans slain is at
present unknown, 'but it is said to be four. The
officers are holding a fortified square iu the place,
where the ladies and all the other Europeans have
taken refuge. If the 3rd Nizarn's Cavalry prove
staunch they will soon be relieved, as Captain Orr
was within fifty miles of Mhow some clays ago.
We know little of the state of matters at Indore,
beyond the fact that the two regiments of the Ma-
harajah Holkar have openly mutinied, and pro-
ceeded with the Bengal regiments towards Oojein,
on their way, as is supposed, to Delhi. The Malta-
rajah seems to be in no way implicated in this
business, but to have acted with the same good
faith that has characterised the conduct of the
Gwalior Prince. . _

We have new again arr:ved at the close of a long
and tragic story. We can of course understand
well the intense excitement this intelligence will
produce at home, and we pass on without comment
to notice the state of matters before Delhi, and the
progress of the siege.
The force at Gen. Barnard's disposal has doubt-
less been inadequate for the reduction of the place,
but as important reinforcements must have
joined his camp long ere this, we entertain
a confident hope that our next advice 3 will an-
nounce the fall of the place. Meantime the force
has not been idle. Animated by the courage of de-
spair, the mutineers have made the most despera,to
sorties, but ever with the same result. They have
been driven back into the city with terrible loss on
every occasion, to find eventually as we trust tL&r
tomb within its walls. Our columns contain ample
details of these several actions, and to attempt to
summarise them here would swell our epitome to
an inconvenient length.
General Van Cortlandt who is marching upon
Jhansi and Hissar with the Buttiannah irregular
Force, has had two engagements with the rebels in
the neighbourhood of Sirz a, defeating them in each
instance with severe loss. The last action was a, very
decided one, and the rebels fled in disorder, leaving
200 men dead upon the field, besides many prisoners
in our hands. The troops of the Bikauir Rajah,
2,700 men of all arms, have joined Gem Cortlandt's
force, though what reliaace can be plaoed on these
men remains to be seen. Major-Gen. Nicholson's
moveable column was at Jullundur at the date of our
last advices, via Lahore:
The whole Punjab renaine quiet, thanks to the
energetic conduct of the commissioner and the men
in command, Msny of the disarmed native regi-
ments have begged the restitution of the;r weapons,
and to be lad against D lhi, but it would be mad-
ness,
after what has transpired, to listen to such.
prayers. The men may be loyal in their present
mood, but in the presence of an example such as
that offered now at Delhi, would yield to the dan-:
gerous influence to a certainty.
To overawe the Mewar territory, and keep the
Gwalior contingent ire check, a considerable force
is on the march from Deem, and must now be in
advance of Nusseerabad. It consists as follows :-
3 Horse Artillery Guns (Europeans), 500 men
H.M. 83d Regt. Foot, 400 men 12th R3gt. Born-
bay NJ o s
~ twquadrons 24 Bombay L.C.
To quell the mutiny which is now general along
the valley of the Nerbudd, from Mhow to Bundel-
kund, a light field brigade Las been ordered to
assemble immediately at Malligaum, under the
command of Col. C. H. Somerset, and the troops
are already on their march thither. This force will
be composed as follows :—Half Troop Horse Artil-
lery (Europeans), a squadron H.M. 14th Ught Dra-
goons, a wing H.M. 86th Regt. Foot, sth Regt.
Bombay Native Infantry,
3d Regt. Nizam's Ca-
valry, a detachment of -the Poona Horse, and a
detachment of Sippers and Miners.
General Woodburn's movable column, originally
ordered to Mhow, stands fast at Aurungabal, and
this arrangement is doubtless a judicious one, in
view of the unsettled state of the Nagpore territo-
ries, and the doubtful temper of the NizAlli troops.
We regret to learn that the General has bean com-
pelled to resign the command through severe sick-
ness. Colonel C. S. Stuart is appointed to succeed
him. This forco is composed as follows :—Two
squadrons H. M.'s 14th Light Dragoons, a battery
European Horse Artillery, 25th Regiment Bombay
N. 1., 24th ditto ditto (one wing), the Light Infan-
try battalion (Persia.)
General Woodburn's column has already crushed
the rebellion at Aurungabad, where our readers
may remember the Ist Regt. Nizam's Cavalry mu-
tinied, and the presence of the force at that sta-
tion will doubtless overawe effectually any open
disaffection in that quarter for the future,

CALCUTTA.
( _From the Calcutta Englishman of July 4.)
The last fortnight has been sufficiently eventful,
and we regret to say that it has abounded with
mutiny and. assassination. At present we cannot
give even a probable guess at the numbero of (IR

slaughtered countrymen and countrywomen,
for many supposed to have been murdered
have escaped, and others rep,-rted safe, have un-
doubtedly perished. Station after station where the
native soldiers were not restrained by the presence
of the British troops, has been the scene of plunder,
incendiarism, and assassination. The honourable
and true-hearted soldiers of the native army have
vowed obedience one hour, and the next have mas-
sacred their own officers at their rnes table. In the
6th Native Infantry an intimacy of 20 years did not
protect the officers from their murderous followers.
While one regards such treachery, such blood-thirsty
and unprovoked cruelty with horror, it is consola-
tory to find the spirit of British soldiers great as
ever, rising triumphant amidst the difficulties by
which they are surrounded, regardless of the num-
bers to which they are opposed, and though a mere
handful, always beating the assassins who dared to
face them. This spirit is a sure guarantee for the
complete reestablishment of British supremacy
throughout the land. Yet the encouragement of
thanks, wasted upon the disloyal Sepoy, has not
yet been vouchsafed to these warriors, who have
so nobly sustained the fame of their country.
Our communication with the Upper Provinces is
so completely cut off, the country is so infested
with bands of marauders and brigand, that we get
no regular news beyond Allahabad, nor shall we
till Cawupore is relieved, and the road to Arra re-
opened. A little light is, however beginning to
penetrate the darkness. The native bankers are
known to receive early and accurate intelligence,
and for the last few days their operations have in-
dicated confidence in the restoration of order.
They have sent about ten lakhs in money and some
goods also up the river by a steamer, and have been
readily purchasing government secnrities.
The government has commenced a prosecution
againt a wretched little Bengallee paper. The pro-
prietor has been held to hail in twenty thousand
rupees, and is terribly frightened, declaring that he
knew nothing of the acts of the editor.
Lord Canning has done a little bit in the Louis
Napoleon style ; he has given a warning to the
Friend of India, that his license will be taken
away if he again transgresses the narrow limits as-
signed him. We wish his lordship had the courage
to take another leaf out of the French Emperor's
book by marching out the traitors, of whom he has
a list, and shooting them on the misdaun. One
such example would be worth a hundred lectures
to the press.

MADRAS.
(From the Madras .A thenceam of July 11.)
On Saturday evening the 27th tilt —the day be-
fore the steamer left Madras was thrown into a
panic by the arrival in great haste, from the
Mount of a company of Horse Artillery and six
gulls. Many gentlemen and ladies drove into
the fort, several made for the Mount, and hun-
dreds of the inhabitants rushed to the arsenal. It
was said that the Commissioner of Police had re-
ceived intimation of an intended rising among the
Mahomedans of Triplicane, but as nothing of an offi-
cial nature has been said about the mal ter people are
still in the dark. The Horse Artillery has been
picketed before Government House since the 27th
ult., arms have been sent to the Club, troops are
stationed at other pasts, and places of rendezvous
have been appointed ; but as very little, if any
publicity, has been given to the last-mentioned fact
—from a mistaken idea that by so doing alarm
would be excited—the advantages of such a mea-
sure will, in case there should be any necessity for
using them, be confined to a few. But notwith-
standing all these preparations there is every rea-
son to believe that we are perfectly safe in Madras,
and they are or should only he made on the same
principle that prompts a careful man not to be un-
prepared for any nossi'ole contingency, however re-
mote it may be. On the 9th instant the Volunteer
Cavalry and militia assembled on the island for
the first time at a little gun fire. The scene that
was presented was a very lively one ; horsemen
galloping licire and there, and bodies of militia-men
marching about in various directions. Large num-
bers of the fair sex assembled to witness the opura-
tions which were, however, not of a very interest-
ing nature, consisting as they merely did, of the
distribution of arms and the arrangement of the
volunteers into their respective divisions. The
natives of all creeds and castes held a public meet-
ing the other day, at which they expressed their
detestation of the fearful crimes that had been com-
mitted in the north. west, assured Government of
their loyalty, and adopted an address to that effect.
The address is now being signed by the native com-
munity, and therefore has not been presented to the
governor.

below will shortly join the force at Delhi, or may already
have joined it.
Noparticalar intelligence has been received from other
quarters. But all appears to be progressing satisfac
orily with the Bhutteaua force and elsewhere.
(Signed) R. MONTGOMERY,
Judicial Commissioner.

—lbid.

Judicial Commissioner's Office, Lahore, June 24.
Nothing new has been reported from Delhi siece yes-
terday. Brigadier-General Chamberlain, actingadjutant-
general of the army, had left Kurnaul, and will have
reached army headquarters ere this. Further portions
of the reinforcements for the army passed through Urn-
halla, and are pushing on. The Kumaon battalion from
Rawul Pindee may be expected at Lahore early next
month (about the 4th Ed. L. C.) on its way down
country. Further detachments of Europea❑ troops
have reached Mooltan by steamer. The moveable column
under Brigadier-Gen. Nicholson is still at Jullunder ;
Gen. Van Cortlandt's force of Irregulars bad beer.
joined at Sirsa by 500 Bikaneer Horse. Plundered pro-
perty was being brought in, and the country restored to
order.—Lahore, June 24.