The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn. 8 min. aft. 9 —Even., 51 min aft. 9
To-MORROW—Morn. 40 min. aft. 10—Even. 27 min. aft. 11

THE WEATHER-SIN OFFICE, AUGUST 15.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
73—highest since noon yesterday.
58—lowest this morning and during the night
61—this day at noon.

13AuomETER, 29.83.
WIND, N. • light, with dull weather. A terrific hail.
storm, with thunder, lightning, and a deluge of rain, bursi
over London yesterday evening, about six o'clock.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1857.

The more detailed intelligence by the Overland
Mail, which appeared in The Su of yesterday,
has not in any degree altered the general aspect
of affairs, or varied the prospects of the speedy
and complete suppression of the mutiny. Details
were given of the deepest interest to those who
had relatives or friends in the disturbed districts.
In many instances their hopes or fears were con-
firmed, either by the glad tidings of the escape of
the objects of their solicitude, or of their deplora-
ble but not dishonoured deaths. In others,
where these points were involved in obscurity,
data were given, by which the chances could
be calculated, and tolerably accurate guesses
hazarded respecting the fate of the fugitives. But,
as we had anticipated, there was nothing of any
importance, so far as the nation was concerned,
beyond that which was communicated by the
telegraphic accounts which were so promptly and
so handsomely published by the Government im-
mediately on the receipt thereof.

It is true that there was another rumour re-
specting the fall of Delhi. This purporteri
to have been received by a Bombay jour,al, by
telegraph from Nagpore on the 27th of June.
It, however, bears a very suspicious resem-
blance to that received a fortnight before by the
preceding mail, and referred to private letters
from Ajmere as the authority. It also spoke of
7,000 of the mutineers having been slain, and the
fierce manner in which they contested every inch
of ground. These are all the points of the previ-
ous statement completely renewed ; and, as we
have other authentic accounts which show that no
organised attack had taken place up to that timo,
we must believe that " the wish was father to
the thought," and the rumour was without the
slightest particle of foundation.
We are happy to find that the mutinies which
have taken place have not been characterised by
atrocities similar to those that shocked the nation
a fortnight since. There have been many cold-
blooded murders, but, generally speaking, they
were rather acts of isolated vengeance, or were
perpetrated, not by the mutineers on their
officers, but by the bands of armed miscreants
who were patrolling the country in search of plun-
der and of victims. English women were not,
however, subjected to treatment far worse than
death) nor was there the refinement of brutality
manifested, so conspicuous on the first outbreak.
In many
eases themutiny, Sepoy soldiers, although in open
protected the officers and their families,
and gave them a
certain time to escape. Although
tainted by disaff,,,a
On, and won over to the cause
of revolt, they snowed dthat they had no personal
in juries to avenge.
Thug, at Moradabad two
hours were cc.needed to the ofacers to escape, with
their familii,:s and their private property, by means
whereof the whole of the officers of the 29th Regi-
ment, and lie residents with their families,
were
enabled t: escape to Nynee Tel the day after the
arriv.P.lL of the Bareilly refugees.

officers were allowed
At Fyzabad, in Oude, the
quietly to embark. The 22d Regiment here,
against the will of their co-conspirators, "guarded
their officers and their bungalows, after mutinying,
placed sentinels over magazines and all public
property, seat out pickets to prevent the towns-
people and servants from " looting," and after a
Qouncil of War informed the officers that they
might take with them their private arms and
effects, but no public property, as that belonged to
the King of Oade." The officers were even pre-
sented with 900 rupees from the public treasury,
in order to f,:tilitate their escape. Unfortunately
many sabh?quent!y f ll victims to detached patties

way of inquiring whether the gentlemen who gave
their honest and dispassionate opinions respecting
the prospects of the undertaking were prepared to
advance the capital, or to be responsible if their
calculations broke down.

The Right Honourable Gentleman is the last
man who should venture on such a line of argu•,
ment. Has he any recollection of the " GLAD-
STONE abortion," and the enormous loss to the
Excheger by his own dabbling with the conversion

scheme? Is he prepared to be personally respon-
sible for the breaking down of that notable pro•
jest ? We -fancy that it would require more than
his family received, for compensation, under the
twenty million grant !for the abolition of slavery
in the West Indie.4,—and that was no trifling
Rum-to replace the funds squandered on that
ridiculous scheme. Even he could not deny that,
if carried out as it might be, with very trifling
assistance from the nation, it would greatly
lessen the distance, and still more mate-
rially lessen the time required for communi-
cating with, and receiving intelligence from
India. And who that has witnessed the intense

anxiety usually manifested for authentic tidings

from the disturbed districts, would not say that
it Would be cheaply purchased at ten times the
required cost, all that Mr. GLADSTONE and the
red-tapist coterie could, babble to the contrary
notwithstanding?
But this was not all, he attempted to ride off
on a collateral issue ; and in reference to the
Euphrates Railway scheme gave utterance to a
pack of unmitigated trash in reference to the
union of the Danubian Principalities.
Lord PALMERSTON spoke in a very different
tone, but while acknowledging the great value
of the undertaking, declared that he could not
hold cut " the slightest encouragement that the
Government would be disposed directly or indi-
rectly, to advance any money for the attainment
of that end."

This is at all events candid, although it may be
disagreeable. It is not feeding the parties who
have advanced their money with false hopes or
delusive expectations. It permits them to
judge and act for themselves. But, al-
though in strict accordance with routine,
it is not in accordance with the true interests of
the nation. It is but folio wing the precedents
that have been so loudly and justly complained
of—that have opposed official impediments to those
who ought to be regarded as benefactors, not
merely of England, but of mankind, and tried to
arrest every improvement, if not by direct opposi-
tion, by that which is even more intolerable—by
coldness, apathy, and indifference to projects that
ought to obtain the most zealous support and co-
operation.

We hail the offer of University Examinati3ns
for Degrees to Candidates,- from all kinds of edu-
cational institutions, as one of the best educational
schemes of the day. For our part, we should
have been well pleased if Oxford and Cambridge
had been prepared to confer the same degree on
those who had studied without their college walls,
as on those who had been trained within them.
The usual appendage of the graduate's college
would have then become a little more common,
as the distinction of those NS lio bad enjoyed college
discipline ; and the degree would have been the
uniform measure of certain intellectual attainments.
It seems hardly necessary that it should be a cer-
tificate of the peculiar social training of the old
universities. We do not, however, complain.
On the contrary, we thank the universities for the
scheme they are now completing, and feel confi-
dent it will prove a great stimulus to middle-
class education. Every private tutor, and every
commercial I school, as well as institutions of a
more pretentious character, will feel its influence.
In a few years it will be difficult for any man to
secure attention to his school unless the teachers in
it have passed a university examination, while the
wish of every parent will be that his son should
be competent to face the ordeal, and of every boy
of spirit to attain the honours, valuable for all
of having passed it.
future life,
With our views of the whole question, we are
oratified to see that the Senate of the University
of London proposes to open its examinations for
degrees in the more complete form which are
here indicated. It is in position to do so with
greater ease than the two old universities, since
the Affiliated Colleges aro nearly independent of
it ; they are at least in no way amenable to the
I University for their genexal Goyernment, or for