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THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

(From the Daily News.)

. In so far as can be gathered from the telegraphic
anticipation of the Overland Mail, the gravity of
the crisis in Bengal has in nothing abated. True,
we are told that the rebels at Delhi have been at-
tacked and driven, dispirited into the town, with
the loss of twenty-six guns ; and that all the com-
manding positions in the vicinity of Delhi are in
the posesqon of the European and loyal native
'troops. Nay, it is rumoured that 500 men had
fled from Delhi, and that the ill-starred King—
what we heart ily believe—was desirous of throwing
biraielf on the mercy of the British- Government.
Still the statement that the rebels had been driven
into Delhi, implies that they had ventured to give
-battle to the Government troops outside of the
tewne and such daring on their part has of itself
an ugly look. It is also stated that the teleara-
phic • wires between Delhi and Agra bad been
cut by the mutineers, which implies a considerable
amount bah of knowledge and of military foresight
among their leaders. But the worst remains to be
told. It had been found necessary to disarm the
native troops at most of the stations in the Punjaub,
and, owing to desertion and other causes, the
numerical strength of the Bengal army had been
reduced, according to one statement, by 26,000;
according to another, by 30,000 men. L-
is said that hitherto the disaffection has been
confined exclusively to the ranks of the army. Tuis
we believe to be true ; but what fearful interrup-
tion to the tranquillity of the province may not re
sult from 30,000 mutinous men at arms being thrown
loose upon society, without either the means or the
inclination to support themselves by honest in-
dustry. Besides, these men will keep up commu-
nications with the native soldiers who still remain
true to their colours, and, the consequences of
this intercourse may be most disastrous. It is
premature to say that the mutiny has been
checked in the ranks of the Bengal Army. It is
stated that the discipline and loyalty of the Bom-
bay and Madras armies are unslioleen. With regard
to the Bombay army we believe that this is certain ;
but many well informed persons speak less confi-
dently of the state of the Madras army. At all
events, until the Bengal mutiny is finally sup-
pressed there will always be danger of the con'a-
gion spreading to the other Presidencies.
So much for the extent and aspect of the peril.
There is also a counter-balancing statement of good
to be made. At Bombay and Calcutta the first ex-
treme of alarm appears to have abated. At the lat-
ter place, in particular, the panic would seem at
first to have been of that unreasoning nature which
disarms men of the power to adopt rational mea-
sures to ward off danger. According to the latest
accounts, all the:influential communities in Cal-
cutta, the Mahommedans included, had pre-
sented loyal addresses -to the Government ; and
this had somewhat tranquillised the miuds of the
European residents within the ditch. Be.,inforce •
menta of European troops were rapidly closing in
upon the North-West Territory from the Bombay
and Madras Presidencies and froth. Ceylon. More
important still, Sir Patrick Grant was acting -as
Commander-in-Chief, General Anson having died
of cholera at Kurnaul on the 27th of May.
It would be cowardly and foolistao shrink from
recognising the full extent of the danger that im-
pends over uz. The stake for which we play is
neither more nor less than the permanence of our
Empire in India. We feel that the nation is fully
competent to maintain its ascendancy there—we are
convinced that it will ultimately so put forth its
riaight is to maintain that ascendancy. But we can-
not conceal from ourselves that blunders may be
committed at the
,outset which may render the
struggle even more arduous than at present it ap-
pears likely to be. The first thing to be cared• for is
the Bengal army. Measures must be adopted tore-
store it to a better "mood. It matters little what
may be the reasons assigned for the late Mutinies ;
they evidently have their source in a deep-rooted,
wide-spread spirit of disaffection and insubordina-
tion of long-standing. Now, our hold of India can
only be maintained by the efficiency and loyalty of
our army; and the greater part of that army must
always consist of native. It may be found neces-
sary ti augment the proportion of European regi-
ments, but two things will always place a limit to
the extent to which this can be done. The first of
these is 'the extreme costliness of an European
soldier in India ; the second is the comparative
paucity of stations at which the health of European
soldiers can be assured at all seasons of the year.
By augmenting to some extent the number of
European soldiers, and distributing them judici-
ously at the various statiens favourable to the
constitution of Europeans, a more powerful check,
may be placed upon our native troops. Addi-
susceptible of more prompt application than hither-
to,
tional safety will be ensured by enrolling a greater
variety of castes, races, and religions in our native
army than has hitherto (at least in Beueal) been
the case. By this means the risk of a national
movement against British ascendancy will be in a
great measure averted. The necessary fusion of
these heterogeneous elements must be effected by
inspiring the army with a feeling of pride in its con-
nexion with the Anglo-Indian Government. Two
a t :er
Theri y contribute'to the attain-
mentl first is the doing of justice
of the Indian Army. If it
will
were necessary that the Commander-in-Chief in
measures
a eathesuoErfe this md
o. f
fi
glish
India should be an officer of the Queen's Army, pro-
bably no better choice could have been made than Sir
Colin Campbell. The promptitude with whichthat
gallant soldier has responded to the call of Govern-
ment is of itself sufficient to justify the choice made
of him, Still there can be no doubt that Sir Patrick

Grant is, in all thet c en.stitur es the soldier,
.at least
the equal of Sir Colin Campbell, or of any officer in
the green's army. He is on the spot ; and he mty
have queried. the innt7ny by his (fforts before an-
other arrives to reap the harvest of his labours.
Th s is unjust ; it cannot fail to irritate and alien-
ate the officers of the Company's service ; and it is
only rendered neees,ary by the traditional narrow-
mindedness and superciliousness of the Horse
Guards as respects the Indian surly. There must
be a peremptory stop put to that insolent spirit,
which is understood to have prevented Lord Har-
dingo from attending the dinner given by the India
Company, to Sir Patrick Grant, and which now
prevents Sir P. Grant from being appointed to the
chief command in India. At this time there is
more to be done than merely to suppress a mutiny,
an army has to be r- generated ; and the officer who
has acquired all his military distinction and experi-
ence in connexion with that-army is surely the man
best fitted for the The other measure to
which we have alluded is the adoption of a system by
which the English officer shall be broUght into mote
frequent and unreserved communication with the
native soldiery he. commands. Retrospective criti-
cism will, in a case like the present, be better
avoided. The fact, however, cannot be denied, that
there has of late been too little freedom of commu.-
nication between the. English officer and the native
soldier. The Mitnuer in which the Meerut mutiny
cok_the English officers by surprise is of iestlf suf-
ficient proof of this. For this evil the Company's
Government appear to have been principally to
blame. They have hampered the intercourse
between the officers and the men by all kinds of
pedantic restrictions. This must .have an end.
The men must be accustomed to look up to their
officers as powerful friends ; the officers accustomed
to rely upon Ltbe men as attached followers.
All this is compatible with the sternest discipline
It is the severe, but just, and not harsh or passion-
ate officer who can make anything he pleases of his
soldi, rs. As subsidiary to the two measui es here
recommended, the mile rievous system of rewarding
merit rious 'officers by poLtical appointments ought
to be abolished. The army ought not to be de-
prived of its best officers by converting them into
hybrids between the soldier and civilian ; the officer
ought to be taught. to look for. distinction in his
professional avocations alone. In this manner the
heterogeneous materials'of which our native armies
ought to be composed may be fused into a harmo-
nicus whole ; our Indian soldiers of all castes, reli-
gious, and races will come to be animated by one
common feeling of devotion to their standards.
Here we pause for the present. There are many
other reforms called. for in our Indian policy ; but
the regeneration of the Bengal Army is the imme-
diate ta-k to be grappled with. To this end it is to
be hoped that Sir Colin Campbell goes out prepared
to let the Indian officers see that he, with the feel-
ing of a true soldier and a true gentleman, recog-
nises the Indian officer as in every respect the equal
of the officer in the Queen's army. It is also to be
*hoped that the authority of the Governal-General
over the Commander-in-Chief is for the time being
to be reducel to a minimum. It may be doubted
whether in an emergency like the present the offices
of Governor-General and Commander-iu-Chief
ought not to be vested in the same person. But we
suppose it would Ise (red-tapically speaking) impos-
sible to recall Lord Canning immediately ; and as-
suredly his lordship would make a queer Com-
mander-iu-Chief.

(From the Observer)

The news from Indic is certainly serious ; but it
will probably not turn out to be so alarming as it
looks. The telegraphic despatches are necessarily
meagre and unsatisfactory. The full accounts in
wri'iug will not be received for a day or two longer.
We may hope that-they will b 3 more full, and as-
tisfactory, and reassuring than the rumours which
precede them ; we fear, however, that there is no
reason to doubt that some 30,000 Sepoy soldiers
have d-seitcd their duties in the Presidency of
Bengal. They went off, however, like so many
hares into a wood, without leaders, or concert, or
arms, or warlike stares. Still, the disaffection must
be regarded as wide spread, and it is possible that
many of the deserters may reach ion'. military st
tions and disseminate the Panic gill further. The
Governor-General and the authorities at Calcutta
feel has alarm, and write in confident terms as to
the result. We cannot doubt that the mutineers
will be severely pnnished, and the de,,erters dealt
with in a manntr becoming the sternness of
military discipline. In the meantime there is
happily no intellieence of any spirit of disaffec-
tion having exhibited itself among the native
population throughout India. The desertions
and the crimes committed upon the defenceless
part of the European residen's are confined to the
soldiers of the Bengal Presidency alone. But we
repeat that the authorities on the spot, and those
at home who—have personal excerienca of India,
and who have filled public offices in India, have no
fears for the general safety of all our possessions
there. Still, we may look for an unsettled state
of aff.tire for some time, and we must be prepared
to put down the present revolt with a strong hand,
and to provide against any recurrence of similar
scenes in future, by not trusting quite so much as
we have done to Urge masses of native troops, who
have exhibited a disposition so treacherous and un-
ruly as they. have Horse upon this arid (on a smaller
scale) upon former occasions. Let us hope, also,
that as this seems to be the most extensive case of
disaffection, so it may prove to be the most con-
clusive and decisive of consequences to the future
security and good government of India. It pro-
bably required some such general and serious out-
break to awaken the attention at home to the vast
interests at stake, and to the very anomalous cha-
racter of the Cervernment of India-
The mutineers who had sought refuge in Delhi,
and who had committed such atrocities in that city,
with the aid of the worst part of the native
population, having ventured outside the wails, and
been joined by other deserters, have been defeated,
after some partial successes, and have been com-
pelled to seek shelter within the walls, where it is
hoped they will soon receive the signal punishment
they so richly de-erne.
The death of General Anson, the Commander-in-
Chief, from cholera, at any time a sulject of regret,
is a loss all the more to be deplored at a moment
like this, when he is struck down in the midst of his
preparations and anxieties t) arrive at the scene of.
action, and to inflict exemplary punishment upon
the offenders. He died at Kurnaul, on his road
from Umhallah to take the command of the troops
before the capital.of Delhi. Ile is justly lamented
as a most accomplishel gentleman and true soldier.
The people as well as the army, in Great Britain,
as well as in India, will be glad to hear that he is
succeeded in his higli c enmand by Sir Colin Camp-
bell, who has had the highest experience in Indian
warfare, as well as throughout the Crimean-
cetnpaien. Sir Colin Campbell leaves London for.
Marseilles this morning en route for India.
The telegraphic despatches received by the Go-1
vernment yesterday were despatched by the Port-
Admiral of Malta on t'le arrival of the Indian mail
at that island. The Admiral Superint ndent, per-
ceiving the imp°. tance of the intelligence, sent a
special steamer from 'delta to Cagliari, in Sardinia,
where there is an electric telegraph to London.
The Cabinet Council, which bad been summoned
for 3 o'clock, was assembled more than au hour
earlier. Sir Colin Campbell, with the true spirit
of a gallant solder, at once consented to go out,
without 21 hour' no:ice. He said he would not
wait to take anything out with him ; he could get
all wanted at Calcutta as well as in London.
The steamer for India, about to start, was stopped
yesterday by telegraph, and will await Sir Colin
Campbe!l's arrival at Marseilles, with any further
instructions necessary to be sent out in the emer-
gency. The 14,000 troops under orders for India
are gone or going immediately ; other renferce-
. ments of European troops will be sent as soon as
ships and stores can be got ready,

OXFORD CITY ELECTION.—Lord Monck met the elec-
tors in the Town-ball, Oxford, on Saturday, and in-
it Was the intention of a nu-
formed them that, finding
merous and highly influential body of Mr. Cardwell's
supporters to bring that gentleman forward he (Lord
Monek) should withdraw from the contest. The friends
of Mr. Cardwell are now exerting themselves to procure
his return. Mr. Thackeray, at a meeting of his sup-
porters on Saturday evening, stated that the result of
the cancan on his behalf had exceeded his most sanguine
expectations. Mr. Neate, the late member, has issued
an address earnestly recommending the electors to vote
for Mr. Thackeray.
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PRINCE OF WALES OAr HIS "TP 3 V ELS.

The London Court Circular states that the Prince
of Wales is about to commence his foreign travels,
that he will pass a portion of the summer on the
Rhine, going thence thi:ough Sivitzerland before. he
returns home. : He wdl travel under the title of
Baron Renfrew. This idea of come foreign educa-
tion for tile yoUng man who is one day to become
King of Ore et Britain, if he lives, is an excellent one,
but it should not be too contracted in its operation.
We propose, therefore, that after he haS passed the
present summer in ooking at the little countries
into which the peninsula called Europe is cut up,
he shall coma over here as plain Alfred Guelph,
Esq., and take a look at this country, which occu-
pies nearly a whole continent. Travel in the United
States has turned out two of the most prominent
monarchs Europe has had during the last genera-
tion. Louis Phillippe was among us, and de-
scended the Mississippi on a flat boat in the
beginning of the present century. He saw us as
we then were, learned. much, and did pretty well
for 18 years on the throne of France. Louis Na-
poleon came later,' and when we had got
steamboats and a few railroads, and he learned
more. The results of his eight years' rule of France
show that if he endures lOyears longer he will have
surpassed Louis Philippe greatly in the benefit he
derived from his stay with us. We are much in
advance of where we were 20 years ago, when Louis-
Napoleon studied us, and could give the Prince of
\Vales an insight into men and things Low that
would fit him to become a greater monarch than
either of those we have educated. We would re-
commend that Palmerston should come with him,
but we fear he is too old to learn anything.—. New
York Herald.

LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF
THE ROYAL PATRIOTIC ASYLUM.

The great Russian war has passed into history,
the Chinese war, the Indian mutiny, nay, the trial
of Madeleine Smith, may have hustled it out of the
thoughts and memories of the crowd, but the "un-
named demigods" who perished at Alma, and In-
kermau, and Balaklava, have left, as sacred lega-
cies to the country for which they died, the wives
and daughters from whom they had been torn by
the inexorable summons of the trumpet. And their
country has not been deaf to the appeal, for wi' hin
an incredibly short space of time nearly a million
and a half sterling has been accumulated fr.im the
free gifts of the people of the United Kingdom, the
colonies, our Indian empire, and much of it even
from persons who owed no allegiance to the British
Crown. Such spontaneous liberality is to be found
n,,where but in England, 'where the resources
of the people are only equalled by the freedom with
which the latter are ever ready to dispense them
in the cause of benevolence. But to speak of mere
benevolence in the present case would be an insult
alike to the givers and to the recipients. The
solace and maintenance of the widows and orphans
of the Crimea must be considered in the light of a
debt on the part of the people of England, and all
we can say is that it has been fairly and equitably
discharged. Out of the subscriptions known as the
Patriotic Fund, the widows of the soldiers and
sailors, and of some also of the officers, who pe-
rished in the Russian war, have been provided
with moderate allowances for life, and a sufficient
balance still remains for the building, the inaugu-
ration of which was celebrated on Saturday, and,
afterwards, for its liberal endowment. For the
building itself 38,0001. has been reserved, and
140,0001. for its subsequent endowment. The ar-
chitectural design will, we understand, be a modi-
fied copy of the celebrated Heriot Hospital in Edin-
burgh, and it will accommodate 300 girls, for whose
reception it is expected to be ready in two years
from the present date. Daring that time there will
be ample opportunity for set'ling on the details of
training and education, and it is to be hoped that
some advantage will be taken of the lights of the
present age in organising such a system of instruc-
tion, both physical and intellectual, as shall be a
great and useful advance on the somewhat antiquated
curriculum of our ex's' ing charity schools. Under
the present system a " charity school girl" remains
a charity school girl all her life, so indelible are the
traces of her early wooden drill—we cannot call it
education ; but the Crimean orphans are not cha-
rity girls' they are the daughters of the nation, left
in trust by its brave defenders, and they are en-
titled to the best nurture, and the most sound and
practical education that may be consistent with
their normal posit:on in society. The present is
the time to think of this, for when matrons have
been bhosen, arid teachers have been appointed,
and plans of instruction have been organised, it
would be a hopeless task in this age of red tape to
think of recommending the slightest altera-
tion in the programme. The Crimean or-
phans should be taught to read well, to
write well, to cypher well, and to sew well,
results that are hardly ever attained in existing free
schools, simply because the teachers are badly paid,
and therefore of inferior ability. They should suffer
no degrading uniformity of closely-cropped heads,
or "clariti" habiliments, matters seemingly of
small importance, but calculated to produce a most
deprssingeffect on young people, especially females.
To put the child of the public bounty into a hideous
and glaringly distinctive dress is equivalent to pin-
uing a label on her back, stating the nature an
amount of her obligation. In the particular of
costume a hint may, he taken from the Licensed
Victuallera' School, any one of the pupils of which
might be taken for a respectable child of the middle
cla-s who had not had the misfortune to lose his or
her natural guardians. The business of domestic
life, the " common things " of housekeeping,
should be taught practically by practised hand 4,
and where the gifts justifying superior culture de-
veloped themselves, as they are sure to do in a cer-
tain ratio in any assemblage of 300 children, the
prams of such cu.ture should be a; band to give
them fair play, for every superior intellect allowed
to perish from neglect is a positive and serious loss
to the country. It may be thought that our busi-
ness here is rather to describe than to moralise, but
" the Queen's name is a tower of strength" to the
newspapers ; every one will read the account of a
ceremony which her Majesty has honoured with her
presence, and therefore we could hardly choose a
better opportunity fur calling general attention to
points on which we believe the future success of the
Patriotic School will greatly depend.
Wandsworth-common, the site chosenfor the new
institution, bids fair to become populous withpublic
,schools. The situation is healthy, the soil dry and
gravelly, and the railway station on its border gives
it all the advantages of an urban position. The Free-
masons had taken possession of a large slice for their
excellent school, and now the Patriotic Fund secures
a plot of 70 acres. Theirschool will be situated nearly
in the can-tre of the common, and from its windows a
noble view will be commanded of a finely wooded
country on one side, and Of London, with its " silver
Thames," stretching out 'like a panorama, on the
other. The toad from town is one of the most beau-
tiful out of London, and notwithstanding the faci-
lites offered by the railroad, presented quite a fes-
tive appearance on Saturday, with handsome equi-
pages rolling rapidly &ong, soldiers marching to
fife and drum, gaily dreseedgroups at every garden
gate watching for the Queen, and pedestrians troop-
ing vigorously off to the scene of the ceremonial.
There the authorities had erected a semi-circular
gallery for the accommodation of the more distin-
guished visitors, and had sent to both Houses of
Parliament, and to the various public departments,
asking how many tickets would be required. In all
cases large demands were made and complied with,
but in very few instances was any use made of the
tickets. By these means numbers who would have
been delighted to be present were excluded, and
her Majesty on her arrival saw what she rarely wit-
nesses on such occasions. " a beggarly account of
empty benches." Numbers of persons without
tickets were admitted to the gallery, and thus the
picture was, at the 11th hour, made to present a
more satisfactory appearance. That the paucity of
numbers arose from no want of interest on the part
of the public. was proved by the appearance of the
Wandsworth-road, which looked like one continued
fair, by the long lines of carriages filled with com-
pany that lined all the avenues leading to the
ground, and by the crowds which occupied every
elevated spot from which a sight of the cere-
monial could be obtained. The visitors had bean

requested to attend at half-past 3, and by that time
all who had been favoured with tickets had assem-
bled; the outside crowd had also mustered pretty
strongly, and all waited patiently under a broiling
sun until 5 o'clock, when her Majesty, with her
usualpunctuality arrived. A little distemper, colour,
or cheap drapery, on the front of the galleries would
certainly have made things look more cheerful than
they did for the royal visit; but "they manage these
things better in France," and we must, for a little
while longer, be content with the more solid advan-
tages of our system. The children were all ranged
round in front of the -galleries, and there was deep
interest in watching these poor orphans making
themselves happy in all the unconsciousness of
childhood. The boys of the Duke of York's school
were also present, and kept up a constant rivalry