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of the British name, and discomfited their assail-
ants. It was anticipated that there would be
11,000 trustworthy men before Delhi by the 15th
of August, three Pays from the date of our last ad-
vices, and that the grand attack would be hazarded
about the 20th August, so that we may learn the
result by the next mail. We must not, however,
feel any undue impatience for the downfall of the
Rebel City. At present it renders valuable ser-
vice by attracting the great majority of the muti-
neers, and enabling them to be crushed almost at
a single blow, whenever that blow can be properly
aimed against them.
At Agra all was well in the Fort on the 11th
August, and there were abundance of provisions.
Relief was of course anxiously looked for where
there was so large a proportion of . non-comba-
tants, but we hope and believe that there is
but little danger of our women and children
encountering a fate similar to that of the refugees
at Cawnpore. There is but little to be dreaded
while our men can fight, and famine does not
assist the efforts of the rebels. That is our chief,
our only dread for Lucknow and Agra. If provi-
sions hold out we have but slight apprehensions
of the prowess of the besieging miscreants, al-
though numbering 50 to 1.

There has been some slight disaffection mani-
fested by a few soldiers of the Bombay Army, not,
however, sufficient to induce us to doubt the fidelity
of the general army. The Mohurrum has passed
over quietly in that Presidency and in Bengal : so
far as advices have been received many execu-
tions had taken place for treasonable practices.
The utmost vigilance and severity were rendered
necessary by the circumstances of the country,
and the many conspiracies in operation.
The formation of the Naval Brigade, under
Captain PEEL, RN., to proceed so far inland,
was a valuable experiment, from which we augur
important results. A similar body earned for
themselves before Sebastopol the thanks and gra-
titude of their countrymen. They were then,
however, near their ships ; now they are to go
many hundreds of miles inland. We have no
doubt, however, that they will sustain the honour
and furnish new and irresistible proofs of the
efficiency of British seamen.

Wednesday, the 7th of October, has been fixed
as a day of national fast and humiliation. We
may well humble ourselves for the disasters that
have occurred, but we may be permitted to doubt
if a lessening of our resources is the way to repair
the evil. There has been gross mismanagement
—great mistakes have been perpetrated—and the
people are therefore to lose a day's work when
they will have extra demands to meet. Lord
PALMERSTON some years since obtained well-
merited praise for the judicious answer he returned
to the demand of certain Scotch Ministers who me-
morialised the Government for a similar fast. He
showed them that it was more fitting to adopt
proper means to prevent disasters than to mourn
over what was inevitable ; and yet the same Lo
PALMERSTON, who ought to be the general director
and manager, seems to have altered all his pre-
vious views, and to have entered on the course
which he previously deprecated. It is true that he
was not present at the Privy Council at which the
proclamation was resolved on. Another influence
might have prevailed, overruling his judgment,
and deciding in opposition to the nominal head of i
the Government. But he is the person responsible
to the people, and he has to answer for the "loss
of a day"—a serious matter when wages are to be
deducted, and the scanty resources of humble
householders diminished by the one-sixth of the
earnings, or sixteen and two-thirds per cent. of
the available week's income.
It was supposed that a Sunday would have been
selected, chiefly because no loss would have been
thereby sustained, and also because there would
not have been so great temptation to change the
fast into a feast, to indulge in amusement rather
than sorrow. Men will not, cannot be made
religious by Acts of Parliament or Royal Procla-
mations. It must be their own natural impulses
on which they act, and they will feel more dis-
posed to resent than to obey the direction. Those
who cannot afford the loss of a day's wages will
not accept the order in a very amiable spirit.
Far better would it have been to devote the day's
earnings to the relief of the Indian widows and
orphans, to have applied the money, now irre
vocibly sacrificed, to feeding the hungry, and
clothing the naked, to succouring the sick and
needy, or rendering assistance to all who are in
any way afflicted in mind, body, or estate. The
Mawworm faction has, however, triumphed for
the time, and we may possibly ascribe the result
to the absence of Lord PALMERSTON from the
court circle. The resolution was adopted in the
north of Scotland, not in the neighbourhood of
the metropolis of the United Kingdom. Had the
Premier been present we believe it would hove
been very different. The members of the Council
in attendance were the PRINCE CONSORT, Earl
GRANVILLE, and Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY.
They are alone entitled to credit (!) or censure.
It is, however, strange that members of the Cabi-
net of which Lord PALMERSTON is the head should
take a step so diametrically opposed to the pub-
lished views and opinions of their leader.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 27.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal
Highnessea the Princess Helena and Prince Arthur, and
attended by Lady Churchill, drove out yesterday ar-

ternoon.

The Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Alfred,
went out deer stalking.
Earl Granville has,left Balmoral.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday from the Governor of Bermuda.

The official journal of •Berlin announces that Prance
Frederick William of Prussia had left for Weimar.
The Doc de Grammont left Turin on the 25th for
Paris.
The experimental squadron of Admiral Trehouart
arrived on the 24th at Mahon from Barcelona. Its
officers were most cordially received by the population.
The Swiss journals state that the Swiss legation at
Paris, by order of the Federal Government, recently
asked the French Government if Swiss officers would bo
allowed to attend the camp at Chalons ; and the Mini4ter
of War replied that theugh no official reception would
be given to any foreign officers at the camp, all who
might go wool] he certain of being well receive !, and of
having every facility afforded them of witftessing the
manceum 5.
" The relations between Switzerland and the Grand
Duchy of Baden," says a letter from Berne, " are
becoming every day more friendly, and it is permitted
to hope that the animosity whic'i arose from the insur-
rection of 1848 —when the Confederation gave an
asylum to numerous refugees from Baden, and even t ,
a battalion nearly complete of the Body Guard of the
Grand Duke—will soon• have cewed. It has already
been stated that the Government of Bs len has romoverf
bpeutiwatezatmheen%
theri !equestratioh which was pieced on the property of
Duitioul Congregations of Switz &and in the Grand
'169 ; and, in addition, a treaty just concluded
netehcleration and the Grand Duchy sti-
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and his wife some years previously. The lady alluded
to in this paragraph is the wife of another brother, and
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LATEST _NEWS

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

The following telegram was received at the
Foreign Office from the British Vice-Consul at
Trieste, Sept. 29, 2.10 a.m.
From Calcutta, Aug. 23, 1857.

From G. F. Edmonstone, Esq., Secretary to
;he Government of India to the Hon. Secret Com-

mittee.

GENERAL HAVELOCK'S COLUMN.
General Havelock, after pushing on half-way
to Lucknow, and defeating the insurgents two or
three times in the Oude province, was compelled
by the weakness of his force, reduced by expo-
sure, fatigue, sickness, and const mat fighting, to
withdraw to Mungutwar, six miles from the
Ganges, and ultimately, on the 13th August, to
recross with all his force to Cawnpore, where he
now is ; Bithore having been mean while reoccu-
pied by mutineers from Sangor and others, num-
bering about 4,000, with five guns. General
Havelock attacked it on the 16th, and carried the
position, capturing two guns. His force is re-
duced to 900 men, who are worn out with fatigue
and need repose, and he considers that to advance
on Lucknow until reinforced would be to court
annihilation. Adequate reinforcements it is feared
cannot reach him in less than ten days or a fort-
night from the present time., Her Majesty's sth
and 60th China troops having been, moreover,
hero detained below, in consequence of the dis-
turbances in Beshar.

No news later than 22d ult. from Lueknow,
but by more recent native account the garrison
were holding out well, and it is believed that they
have managed to lay in additional provisions.
General Havelock expects to be attacked simul-
taneously by the Muds (Oudes) insurgents from
the left bank of the river, as well as from the side
of Futtehpore, where boats were collecting, and
from the direction of Cal(pee, where Gwalior
mutineers, strong in artillery, threatened to cross
and form a junction with the Oude rebels. A
steamer has been sent down by the General to
destroy the boats at Futtehpore, but his force is
too weak to oppose the passage of the \Yuma
(Jumna), at Callpee. The Oude people aro
making aggressions on our villages to the north of
the Ganges, and it is feared that communication
between Allahabad and Banares may be inter-

r upted.
Delhi is still in the hands of the insurgents.
Our accounts extend to the Bth of August.
There appears to have been severe fighting on
the 30th of July. The Ist and 2d instant, when
the enemy, reinforced by troops from Neemuch,
attempted to carry our position, they were repulsed
as usual. Their loss is said to have exceeded 3,000
men, including 900 of the Neemuch force, who
did not return to the city after the failure on the
Ist, and they are reported to be really dispirited.
On the Bth their powder manufactory in the city
was blown up by a shell, and about 500 artificers
are believed to have been destroyed, together with
a large quantity of sulphur and saltpetre.
They have been for some time short of English
powder, and of fusees, and the supply of gun caps
is said to be failing ; they daily manufacture pow-
der of inferior quality. The Kumagn Battalion
of " Goorkhas" reached Delhi with treasure, am-
munition, and stores, on the Ist, and a reinforce-
ment of 1,300 Europeans and 3,000 Punjaubees,
from the Punjaub, was expected to arrive on the
15th. Retrograde movement is now tftt thought
of, though at one time it was talked of. No fight-
ing since the 2d inst.

and 4 guns—had been detached by the political
agent to intercept them if possible, either at the
Sohages Ghut of the Jonse or at Sorce. In the
direction of Allahabad, the Ruttra Pass was de-
fended, and it is hoped that by the one force or
the other they may be attacked and dispersed.

found neessslry to disarm 105 of the 12th Boni-

bay Native Infantry, they having refused to obey
their commanding officers, on the occasion of a
drunken trooper raising an alarm that the Euro-
pean troops were about to murder them.
A Court of Inquiry is now investigating this
affair.