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London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

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ligations are to be liquidated ? The senile
candidate for the " Musmud " might pass
a few lakhs, or possibly even a " crore" of rupees
accumulated. But how long would the largest
conceivable amount supply the demands, and
exigencies, of these discontented spirits? Plunder
might for a time act as a useful auxiliary, but
what would the wealthy bankers, jewellers, and
shopkeepers of Delhi and the other disturbed dis-
trict;, think of such a course, which, however
pleasing to the military, would be by no means
agreeable to the civilian portion of the popula-
tion. Systematic robbery would speedily ex-
haust the fountains of wealth, and it is obvious
that, with an army encamped before Delhi, ordi-
nary fiscal resources could not be made available
without our organisation. We find it a hard task
to wring the authorised contributions from the
hard hands of the contributors, and for years to
come the mutineers could not obtain from similar
sources the means of support.

Large sums have unquestionably been taken
from the public treasuries. Many of the rebels have
secured considerable " swag," but it has been
what is termed, on their own " private hook."
They have not even sympathised with the " com-
panions of Jehu," who only robbed "for the good
of the cause." The rebel sepoys put the plunder
in their own pockets, and held it for their own
use. The miscreants who were killed, had gene-
rally large sums in specie on their persons, trans-
ferable by what is termed " the rule of thumb,"
but that does not fill the treasury or make up the
means for paying soldiers. " JOHN CoSIPANY" bas
Great Britain at its back. Our guarantee will
still be available. But the octogenarian quasi
MOGUL has nothing to look to. A rumour
was circulated that he had been hanged,
n)t as he ought to be, by a British executioner,
but by the mutineers. Such an event is by no
means improbable at any time, and each day must
increase the danger of the would-be King of
INDIA. The resources cannot be maintained, and
s. d., or perhaps we ',should say rupees and
annas, may prove no less formidable to the Ma-
homedan Pretender than the muskets and bayo-
nets of the avenging army, determined that the
slaughter of their countrymen and the degradation
of their countrywomen shall be fully and com-
pletely expiated.

Amidst all the horrors of revolt in India, and
all the dearth of legislative reforms at home—with
darkening prospects before us of the continuance
of a war income-tax, and of the probable delay
yet longer of the promised improvement of the
parliamentary system—we have at any rate the
immediate and substantial consolations derivable
from a magnificent harvest, and from crops (gene•
rally) of unusual abundance. It is a circumstance
at all times of importance, but it periods like these
(periods otherwise disastrous) it is, we may truly
say of the very last importance. A harvest
like the present comes to us in mitigation,
most opportunely. It yields the nation at once
solace and encouragement. It inspirits us to bat-
tle manfully with the evils we are called upon to
contend against simultaneously with the good thus
directly enjoyed from the bounty of Heaven.
And the magnitude of this good may be at once
more fully appreciated if it be only considered for
a moment how deplorably our present anxieties
would have been multiplied, if to the horrors of
war abroad, in India, in China, and until very
recently in Persia also, there had been added the
miseries of a deficient harvest—all this coming
moreover upon the very morrow of the close of the
Crimean conflict—a struggle as ruinously expen-
sive as it was, alas, fruitlessly sanguinary.
Every thing considered it becomes, indeed, mat-
' ter for earnest gratulation amongst ourselves that
—with no Reforms and plenty of Bloodshed—the
harvest generally all over the land is repaying our
husbandmen a hundredfold. From all quarters

the intelligence received in this way is a great deal
more than simply satisfactory. It is of a kind to
inspire us with gratitude and exultation. It is
much more than an average crop ; it is a crop in
many directions unusually plentiful. Sometimes
the improvement observable is simply one of gnat.-
tity—sometimes one of quality—sometimes (and
this frequently) of both together. It is the same
thing pretty well with the wheat crops, and the
oat crop, with the crops of rye and barley, with
the whole variety of careal products collectively.
And as with the grain, so, for the most part is it
with the fruit generally. Particularly in the
apple-growing counties—Devonshire for instance
—where the cider pressers give promise of affluent
overflowings. Meanwhile our English vineyards,
such for example as the beautiful hop gardens of
Kent, present a contrast more than ordinarily re-

markable to the great continental vineyards, where
the grape disease has still revealed a very deplor-
able prevalence. The yield of hops, generally
speaking, throughout the hop-growing districts,
being here of peculiar excellence, there of an
abundance quite extraordinary. Simultaneously
with these good tidings, there has come to us from
Ireland the happy intelligence of the almost uni-
versal disappearance Gf that destructive blight
among the potatoes, which, for some years past,
had really seemed to threaten the extermination
of that important vegetable. It yields one the
hope that that other serious scourge of vegetation,
already referred to, may prove, after all, one of
merely temporary duration—that disease of the
grape vine which has hitherto been so far spread,
and so virulent as to threaten the wine-countries
in the south of France, in Germany, and in the
Iberian peninsula, with universal desolation.
Consoled by a harvest so opportunely abundant,
England will now, we may rest
,assured, with
double energy and renewed determination, continue
resohitely to encounter and to conquer all her op-
posing difficulties. Drained though she has boa n
of 100,000,0001. by the late deplorable, because
utterly futile and bootless, war with Russia, she
will yet begrudge no additional war-expenditure,
however considerable, if by means of theme new
disbursements through the Horse Guards, and the
Admiralty, and the Ordnance, and the Commis-
sariat, and the other War Departments, she ►nay
only witness the evidences of vigour, promptitude,
and unflinching determination on the part of the
Imperial Government. Whatever recruits, what-
ever money that Government may demand, they
will have at once yielded to them,.without demur
by the country, and yielded cheerfully, if, iu
return for this confidence in their rulers, the

people only behold a resolute repression of the
Indian mutiny and a strong though t trdy rejoin-
der to Chinese Zinsolanca- Nothing more than
time we do really believe is wanted fur the
accomplishment of both these great enterprises.
Ana a very brief interval, please GOD, will bo
amply sufficient
inoec
to falsify utterly and egregiously
prophecies of the Unive.rs
newspaper. It is not reserved yet for Mr. J.
MiTcuELL, or any other of the ruffianly Irish
Sepoys to exult over the discomfiture of what the
Hero of the Pike once foamed at (with more of
alliteration than of eloquence) as "the bloody old
British Empire."

The Norfolk Parsons and Squires appear to
have taken rabbits under their special care. •Not
very long ago we had Lord HASTINGS committing
labourers to prison for stealing rabbits from theic

own commons, and all but fighting a duel with an
editor who saw fit to publish his opinion of such
Justice's justice. Indeed, his Lordship's violence

went so far that an indictment was actually pre-
ferred against him at the Norwich Assize;, and

would have been tried in Court but for a timely

apology from the rabbit-preserving peer. We

commented on the case at the time. It was one

of great hardship to the morally innocent
labourers, and in our judgment, as is that of
the Editor of the Norfolk News, the men were

legally innocent also, and were denied justice

simply because their means did not admit of an
appeal being made to a superior Court.
In the local journal just referred to, we notice
another rabbit case, and one in which we think
the men were treated very harshly, there being

some good ground to doubt, in this case also,
whether the law was not strained against them.

The special hardship of the case lay in the cir-
cumstances under which the rabbits were killed,
even if the act were, by a rigid construction of
the statute, illegal. All England over there are

certain perquisites falling to the lot of labourers
in every department. Those who labour or
lounge in many a Government office pick up some,

but none are luckier in that line than ecclesias-
tics. From the Bishop, and his numerous

appointees, zegistrars, chancellors, surrogates,
and we know not what, to the rectors and

vicars, perhaps in some case to the very
curates, fur whose spiritual-mindedness, as
well as for that of bishops, we pray de-

voutly every Sunday—to all of these goodly
perquisites are ever and anon falling; renewals of

leases and fuses in the case of the Conferrers of
spiritual gifts, and what we call foes in the case
of the receivers of such gifts. And these perqui-
sites to the spiritually gifted are, as we know by
the Burial-ground struggles, clung to with an ex-
traordinarily tenacious grasp ;la five-pound note
also or a five shillings for a marriage, seems
to be duly appreciated ; and very grave does the
man in holy orders look if a well-to-do bridegroom
does not cross his palm with something for luck
beyond what he can legally claim. Something
over, to the tier of the knot, is expected for good
fellowship's sake, and on such a festive occasion.
We doubt not the Rev. T. J. BLOFIELD has often
thought with pleasure of some present for his
wife or daughters, if he have any, to be purchased
with the proceeds of a wedding windfall.
Now, the Rev. T. J. BLOFIELD is the owner. of
some land at Hoveten, St. John, which land he
lets to a Mr. JOHN BOURNE. On this land two
young men, JOHN SMITH and SAMUEL IVES, were
engaged in the hard but' cheerful labour of har-
vest. They were mowing some oats. Now,
from time immemorial, if labourers would but
mow round a nest of winged game in summer,
they always expected to be indulged a little in re
gard to the game that could run. They would
not perhaps chase a hare in the presence of the
squire or the gamekeeper if they knew it ; but it
the scythe disabled one, and "the poor thing wa'
put out of its misery," and lay under a labourer's
jacket till night, and was put into the
pot for his supper the next night, no rea-
sonable squire or farmer knew it, not even if he
had seen it. It was a harvest windfall ;
" a bit of luck for the poor fellow, who had not
meat too often," and so forth. But if a rabbit
came in the way, that was an acknowledged per-
quisite. A labourer would hardly think of an
apology for killing a rabbit in the barley ho was
mowing ; that was an acknowledged perquisite
of harvest ; perhaps he could not legally claim it,
but like the Rev. J. F. BLOFIELD, by the extra
marriage fee, he thought it would make a pleasant
treat for his wife and family, and custom gave ii
him in the merry time of harvest. .
But the Rev. J. F. BLOFIELD, however Mel
he may approve of wedding joys overflowing in
sovereigns for the priest, and silk and crinoline
for the females of his family, does not approve of
the toilsome but merry days of harvest providing,
a chance hot meat supper for a labourer's family.
The smiling faces of little JOHN and SALLY count-
ing on a limb of rabbit next day—the pleasure of
" my missus" preparing the comfortable mess for
"my master" on his return from his next day's
toil ; and the comfortable anticipations of the
senior JOHN himself on his walk home, have no
charm for the man of wedding fees ! Itabbit4,
yes, even rabbits—the poor man's game by cus-
tom as old as the custom of bouncing wedding
fees—must no longer be even a harvest perquisite!
Labourers are first denied the right of killing them
on their own common allotment ; and then refused
the privilege of bagging one which the luck of
harvest, andof custom immemorial has given them.
Now, we submit that this is hard. The clerical
rabbit-owner does not wish to be dealt with ac-
cording to strict law himself when custom suits
Min better than law ; ought he then to tie down
the poor labourer to the most rigid construction
of the most execrable laws, still retained from
feudal barbarism in our present code ? Of the
rev, gentleman referred to we know nothing.
We never heard his name before ; but we submit
to him that such rigidity in a clergyman is not
the way to win the hearts of his flock.
The case itself is soon told. Mr. BLOFIELD
set a man to watch the labourers (whom he had
told generally not to kill the rabbits) ; the man
saw two killed by the mowers. One it was shown
was wounded fatally, and accidentally, by the
scythe first ; the other was chased a little way.
But the men were not proved to have known of
the prohibition, which was cf recent date ; and,
whether they knew or not, they were but follow-
ing the custom of harvest. They were not tres-
passing, but pursuing their lawful calling, and it
was not shown in Court that they were men of
poaching habits. The 30th clause of the Act 1
and 2 War. IV., c. 32, under which they were
prosecuted, expressly mentions trespassing in pur-
suit of game ; but the Magistrates—game pre-
servers themselves, no doubt—decided, that
though not trespassing by being on the lauds, they
became trespassers by going after rabbits ! A
nice point, indeed, of law—one of which the poor
men should certainly have had the benefir, as
they could not try it by al peal. Under these
circumstances the Magistrates fined the poor men
sixpence each, which with the costs made the total
penalty EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS each. Of course
no Norfolk farm labourer could pay such a sum
at once ; one week only is allowed them ; when,
if they cannot pay Gd. each fur their guilt, and
17.5. Gd. for the benefit of the Magistrates' Clerk
and other officers of justice to prison they mint
go 1

THE GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER SQUARE.

DIORAMA OF DELHI.

In addition to the attractions offered to the public by
Mr. Wyld, the spirited proprietor of this favourite at
instructive exhibition, he has now added a qleridid di.)-
rama of the City of Delhi, a private view of which we.
were favoured with this afternoon. It is impossible
to speak too highly of the beauty and accuracy of the
painting—every spot rendered so painfully interesting
to the public being very vividly pourtrayed. The
IstEness of the hour compel; us to postpone until to-
morrow a detailed description of Mr. Wyld's latest
production, which will attract thousands upon Viol:-
sands to the Great Globe in Leicester-Auara. Tho
exhibition will be thrown open to the public to-morrow
kSatutclay.)

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LATEST NEWS

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 24.

Under date of Constantinople the 16th, we
learn that Omer Pacha is nominated Governor-
General of Bagdad, a very lucrative post, the
revenues of which amount to 500,000 francs.
lie is charged with the duty of establishing a line
of steamers upon the Tigris and upon the lower
Euphrates, and with the protection of commerce
against the Arabs.

The English have transported to the Euphrates
le necessary material for completing the line of

,elegrapb

The journal La Presse says that the Arabs have
tried to destroy the posts of the telegraph in order
to show their sympathy with the Indian mutineers.
TJp to the 10th of August the Persian Govern-
ment had not, as represented, recalled the garri-
son from Herat. Mr. Murray had addressed re-
monstrances to the Government on the subject.
There is a a financial crisis at Constantinople,
and the rate of exchange has advanced consi-
derably. The army of Asia is about 20 months
in arrear of pay.

DRESDEN, SEPT. 24.

It is announced from an authentic source that
the Emperor of Austria is expected at Dresden on
the 29th or 30th of September; and that he was
about to meet the Emperor of Russia on. the Ist
of October, at Weimar.

BERLIN, SEPT. 23.

It is stated that the rumour in circulation re-
lative to the French note in favour of Denmark is
without any foundation whatever.

Prussia and Austria have determined, fur the
present, not to carry the affair of the Duchies
before the Diet. These two Powers have agreed
to await the representations of Holstein.
Separate negotiations with Denmark have bcen
broken off.

The Temps of this day announces that the
Prince of Prussia has received the order of the
King to go at once to Stuttgardt from Carlsruhe,
in order t,.) do honour to the Emperor NapoleoE.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.
The Moniteur has a letter from the Camp of the
23d, stating that the Imperial Guard bivouacked
on Monday at la Suippe, in splendid weather, and
returned the following day, at noon, to camp. The
Emperor saw the Duke of Cambridge to the rail-
way station at Mourmelon, and then set out for
Luneville ; from which place another despatch ap-
pears, stating the rejocings there in honour of the
Emperor.
Prince Jerome Napoleon, says the Illoniteur,
will preside at the Council of Ministers during the
Emperor's absence.
The Univers contains the following :
"The Constitutioirne/ is wrong in calling India an
English colony. The English are only encamped in
and are not established there. They have inter-
dicted the colonisation of India in order to prevent the
recurrence of the spectacle given by the United State 4,
in order to escape from the necessity of abandoning a
colony which has attained too great a power to re,
main united to the mother country. They have suc-
ceeded, but the danger has arisen from another side,
and it is the vanquishel race that has shaken off the
yoke. The English have taken no root in India. They
are there for commercial motives, and they oppress the
natives in the name of the leant generous and least ex-
cnsable sentiments of human nature. Europe dues not
sympathise with England in this struggle ; it is neit'm r
in the honour nor interest of Europe to prefer the domi-
nation of England in India to the affranchisement of the
natives."

The Spectateur expresses some surprise at tin
articles published by the Patric on the isolation of
Austria, and bears witness to the national feeliu
created in Germany by the approaching interview
.)f two foreign sovereigns on German soil. It
says:--

."For the last few days the Patric has published
‘rtieles on the of AustriA, which have aVracted
,ouch attenti.)n in Germany. We will not discuss the
',oaring of these articles, but we may inquire if it is by
,mere chance or by intention that they appear, between
the visit at Osborne and the interview at Stuttgard, in
a journal which, from its position in the press, is inspired
with much reserve ? Tee French Jouraal of Frauk
fort, under the head of ' The Stuttgard Interview,' ad-
wits that the said meeting has excited mistrust in Ger-
teeny ; it says—'This interview of two foreign sove-
reigns on German soil, on the territory of a state which
belonged formerly to the Confederation of the Rhine,
coupled with the absence of the sovereigns of Austiia
and Prussia, has inspired a mistrust which is scarcely
Usguieed. In Germany, the press views in this meot-
ing a first step towards•an attempt on the unity of the
federal relations.' If the Patric counts in its editorial
tanks writers who are well able to judge of what is pas--
ing in government circlesin Paris, the Frankfort Jour-
very exactly informed
l We may add, on the
authority of private intelligence which has rarely misled
us, that it is not only in Austria that at least a portion
of the enjoys
tone the
of o reputation
tii
of the population views with a certain 'mistrust' the in-
terview at Stuttgard. This sentiment exists in Bailin
as well as in Vienna. The Ring of Prussia, who wa,
invited to Stuttgard to meet the two Emperors, escu-ed
him•ell on the plea of age and ill 11,:alth. That was doubt-
less the real reason which led him to prefer exiursions
is the forests and preserves of Silesia. to three t r four
day.' fetes at SAI .igard: Nevert eless, many persons
ei:rsist in attributin-4 his refusal to politics:
and they do not blame him. It is moreover to be
observed that the journals of Berlin, Koenigsberg,
and other Prussian towns, openly declare that it is
requisite to draw closer to Austria, slid we are as-
sured that England is actively engaged in encou-
raging this intimacy of the two courts. We draw no
conclusion from these facts and rumours ; we confine
ourselves to the role of spectator and of echo."

__
BOURSE, Sept. 24.—The following were the list
quota.ions :--•
Cash. . End of 341-onth.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 67 30 67 35
Bank Shares 2,800 Credit Foncier 550 --
Credit Mobilier BS2 50 Roman
Do. Account BB2 50 Austrian
Belgian 4i ... 09— §_panish Threes —
Piedmontese (5) ...... 90 --- Home Debt

RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
tr. c. tr c.
Orleans 1,3361— Western 720
Northern -
Lyons and Med B7O New Ditto
New Ditto 855 Grand Central
Geneva
Midi

Count do Trapani, brother of the King of
Naples, and the princs3ss, his wife, née Arch-
duchess of Tuscany, arrived at Vienna on the 20,11.
A. Vienna correspondnrt of the Cologne Ga.-x-ile
states that the presence •of th) count in th© Aus-
trian capital is attributed to a projected marriage
between the Prince Roy:1 of Naples and a sis-
ter of the Empress of Austria.

A St. Pc'erAourg letter slys :—" The re
duction to a petce footing of the three divi-
sions of cavalry of the Imperial Guts it ac-
complished ; they now form. only two divisions,
ono of heavy and one of light cavalry, and will
t-e stationed in the capital at Karskoje and at
Peterhof. The generals and a certain number of
officors have been kept on the active service list,
but they will exercise no conynancl unless called
upon to join some distant expedition."

A royal dea..e, in the Madrid Gate of the
20th convokes the Corte4 for the 30th Oct. Tile
French amb tssador hal given a grand dinner full
ball in honour of the Princ3 of Orange. It was
believed that the government intended to ream()
the uutuler of provinces, the recent census having
shown the population in several of thetn to be very
smal A to!eraphie line has been opened between
Valencia and Castellan do la FlAna.-

GUERNSEY.— An apricot tree belonging to Mrs. Alitz
of Hauteville, hai for tnauy years past given a produc,,
which would be incredible it the tact was not notorious.
In the year 1855 this tree yielded no less than 16,000
apricots, and this year the produce has been at Wail
10,000 fur-sized and perfectly-ripened apricots. The
irse, which is, we believe, upwards of 40 years old,
measures 20 feet in height, nod has a span of 60 feet,
thus covering a surface of 1,200 feet.—Guernsey Star.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT A FIREWORK MAKER'S.—
YeAterday morning a frightful accident occurred at Mr.
Davis's, firework maker, No. 3, Garden-place, Regool.
street, Lambeth. It appears Charles Davis, aged six
years, and William Davis, aged four years, with some
other children, procured about a quarter of a pound of
guop.)wder, which they took into the garden for the
purpose of making " fizz,ig," when a spark from a
lucifer dropped on it, and a frightful explosion took place,
Deady kiliug the two brothers. They were conveyed to
St. Thomas's Hospital, where Mr. Williams, house sur-
geon, promptly attended. But faint hopes are eater-
taiued of their recovery.