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London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1857.

The telegraphic despatch which arrived at
7.45 p.m. yesterday, is of a very gloomy and
unsatisfactory character. It is, however, meagre
and confused, not giving a clear or distinct out-
line of the events that had occurred since the pre-
vious accounts, and unfortunately there was not
time to receive any explanation before the de-
partnre of th® steamer for Malta.

The first great fact stated was that .‘ Delhi
had not been taken," but no date or time is sp6-
cified. The tidings from Calcutta are to the
21st ; from Madras, the 25th ; Galle, the 28th
July; and Men, the Bth instant. The
previous accounts were from Calcutta, the
4th ; and Bombay and Ceylon, the 14th
July. It will be seen that there is no
Bombay mail on the present occasion. It is
therefore, possible that the Delhi news may nog
be very much later than that already known.
The rumours given in the Bombay Times of the
14th July respecting the taking of Cawnpore by
the rebels, and the terrible massacre of Europeans
The"' la unhappily confirmed. It is, however,
aubaeqFt_eutly stated that " the rebels had been
beaten on three occasions, and several guns taken
between Ailaiaabad and Cawnpore, and the latter
retaken from Nat
SAHIB, whom IlAva.Locic -is
following up the
46tittee (this is probably a
mistake for the Bithno,)
about ten mile 2." This
is at best but a .ca
it contains the elements of tfuaed account but
hope, and induces us
to believe that the temporary trima
'Phi and fear-
ful atrocities perpetrated at Cawnpore have
already been bitterly expiated by the iniitineer.
and that, in that quarter at least, full triumph
has attended the British arms. Such speedy re_
tribution may be of incalculable advantage, and
check the progress of the insurrection, wherever
it still remained doubtful whether the Natives
would remain. faithful to the cause of truth and
loyalty. • •
Poor General BARNARD is no more. Ele is
reported to have died of dysentery—having fall"
a viotim to the same disease as his predecessor,
General ANSON. This, under the existing
,cir-
cumstancef..4, is a very serious calamity, and one I
which it will be difficult to counteract-. - Sir
HEY LAWRENCE, one of our most efficient 'and
trustworthy officers, has fallen on the &id of '
battle—or rather has died of wounds received in , 1

a sortie from Lucknow, where at present all else

remains well.


We also learn that "all the. troops, in
Oude had mutinied." Tbis might have,. been
expected ; if the Ex-King is really impli-'-
cated in the rebellion, it is only natural
that his troops receiving his pay should have done
everything possible on his behalf. The Gwalior
contingent had also mutinied, and were supposed
to have marched on Indore. Agra had, however,
remained quiet, and the native troops were
disarmed.

It WAS also stated that the Simoom and
Himalaya had arrived at Calcutta with 1,500
men. The last accounts announced that of the
Simoom, with the sth Fusileers, so the Himalaya
may be taken as the additional arrival during the
interval. It was also said that only 300 more
troops were expected. This, we think, must be
a mistake. Surely more than a third of the ex-
pedition despatched to China would be made
available for the Indian emergency.
The ill-fated Transit has met the fate so gene-
rally anticipated. She has been totally lost in
the straits of Sunda. Fortunately, however, the
crew and troops have been safely landed, and ar-
rived at Suez, on the 14th instant.
Sir CHARLES WOOD may thus at last be satis-
fied. Hs was determined to carry out his own
views, and he has done so with a vengeance. We
may hope shortly for something more. At present
there seems to be universal confusion ; all that
appears to be well authenticated, is that relating
to the Generals whose loss England must deeply
deplore.
It is fortunate that the news has arrived before
the prorogation. Doubtless Ministers will make
some announcement of their intentions even at
the eleventh hour. A short delay may prevent
the necessity of again speedily convening both
branches of the Legislature, now about to seek
Ithe rest to which they are so well entitled.

If the good clergymen have gained a point,
they have also incurred a penalty. Sir RICHARD
BETHELL and his Chief seem to have been unable
to parry their attack certainly, but they have dealt
them a severe-and well-merited stroke in return.
The petitioners have succeeded in setting the
Church above law so far, that any Romanising
eerie can now refuse to marry the guilty party
after his or her divorce, although the law expli-
citely declares them to bo marriageable. But the
law has taken the churches of these dissenters, in,
the Establishment, into its own hands, at least
pro hac vice, and it sap, if you will not marry
those whom no legal cause or impediment forbids
to marry, your churches will be open to more
loyal clergymen to carry out the law instead
of you. Their liberty is therefore doubly
limited. That they must marry the divorced
party if it be the injured and not the
guilty party. Secondly, they cannot hinder a
religious ceremonial, according to the rites of tho
Church of England, being celebrated in their own
parish Church on behalf of the guilty parties.
They are only left to mope and mutter in their
parsonage, and to growl out for their relief,
"Thou canst not say I did it."
To many a protesting incumbent the punish-
ment will be like that of CAlN—greater than
they can bear. Mr. MALINS most truly observed
that there was hardly a point on which most in-
cumbents were more sensitive than their supre-
macy in their own parish church. High Church-
men and Low Churchmen, and the churchmen of
each. of the five or six sects in the establishment,
are most rigid in their exclusion. of all the
Apostolically ordained, who do not concur with
them in ceremony and doctrine. We, in the pew,
are never permitted to hear from the pulpit, or to
witness in the service, anything discord-

ant with the Incumbent's ideas of

rubrical and doctrinal consistency. If we
want variety—that is, heresy, in the view
of our Rector or Vicar, we must wander for it.
He deems his church as sacred against intrusion as
his house ; only his Right Rev. Father, and a
father is no intruder, may minister in his pulpit,
or at his alt-ir without asking his leave.
We can hardly conceive anything more galling,
in actual practice, than that some irritated, though
guilty, couple, just repudiated by the Rector,
should turn about and obtain the services of some
non-scrupling clergyman, and walking into t!le
objector's church should have the service fully
performed at the altar which hitherto had known
but one master. According to the clause cacried.
by Sir R. BEI HELL, the Incumbent can keep out
everything else contrary to hisi own teaching and
practice, but he must submit to see a stranger,

who impugns both, enter without his leave, and

profanely, as he thinks, perform one of the most
solemn services of his church. Of course we rea-
son from the incumbent's point of view ; for our-
selves we hold that the churches belong to the
parish, and belong to the parish for all legal pur-
poses ; and as we presume no parish, as such,
entertains the unpractical and subtle scruples of
the 9,000 and Mr. GLADSTONE-why, the parish
church ought to be freely opened when it is legally
required.

The member for Oxford, Sir W. REATIICOTE,
suggested perhaps the most sensible course ; and
one to which it is not unlikely the country will
finally come. His object was t) require all
divorced patties to marry only at the Registrar's
office. He suggested, however, that the better
plan might be to require in every instance a civil
marriage first, leaving the religious service en-
tirely at the option of both the minister and the
parties who marry. This would make registration
itself more simple and uniform—would reliev e
clergymen' from all liability to perform services
to which they could object, and would draw
clearly the line between things spiritual and

things temporal. At first sight, it strikes us as an
excellent proposal. The law would then have all

it needed for purposes of property and legitimacy,
and the Church would be spared the thankless office
of depriving any person of civil privileges because
theological difficulties indisposed her ministers to
perform a religious ceremony to which civil advan-
tages were attached. If the mere marriage is
viewed as a sacrament, or a religious service at
all, the less ought secular privileges to depend
upon it. Sir W. HEA:TEICOTE'S plin of a univer-
sal civil marriage for civil purposes meets every
difficulty.

The bill has at length pissed through th
Commons with all its faults and imperfections,
and no less a person than the Chairman of Com-
mittees of the Upper House has given notice of
his intention to make another attempt to cause iti
rejection. Lord REDE3DALE has, from the very
l'ginniug, distinguished himself by what may
justly be termed his " obstructive policy," if
it should not receive the name of factious
opposition, We .
cannot
wonder at the warmth
1
with which his conduct-'was
all Ga,
A
stated that the character f h
rebuked by the Lord
Chancellor and E rrvinnz. It was truly
0 t o House van
involved in the matter ; and it would never
do for Chairmen of Committees to resort 'te. a
"pettifogging quibble," a paltry dodge to get rid
of a question that had received more considera
tion, in both Houses; than any thatt had
e
been decided fora lons -series of years. At

last moment the Noble Lord withdrew his motion,
'and therefore there will be a prospect of the
matter being fairly considered on Monday even-
ing, and its passing into a law before the proro-
gation.