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matter of deep interest to every true-hearted
Englishman.

Whatever may be the real opinions of continen-
tal journalists, we cannot entertain the slightest
doubt or hesitation as to the result, when
without preparation of any kind we were enabled
to guard the chief seats of Government, to pre-
vent the permanent success of the mutineers, and
to drive them to a single point ; when our troops
have been enabled to gain victories against odds
of even ten to one, we may form some conception
of what will occur when 30,000 additional men
are added to the Indian forces. 30,000 trained
and disciplined Englishmen, all animated with an
unflinching resolution to avenge the fearful wrongs
inflicted on their countrywomen, will not be thrown
away. When HAVELOCK, now a K.C.8., has
achieved so much with less that 2,000, what will
far more than the number ten times told be cap-
able of achieving ?
We must not beimpatient. We must not suppose
' that so fearful a difficulty can be at once overcome.
Every nerve must be strained. Every energy
exerted to crush the insurrection. Bnt we can
do it, and we will do it. The Anglo-
Indian Empire will still survive, despite the
gloomy vaticinations of our very good-natured
friends, who fancy that we may be degraded into
a third-rate power, exercising no greater influence
on the affairs of Europe than Spain, or Portugal,
or Belgium. " The wish may be farther to the
thought," but it will not be the sooner accom-
plished on that account: England will still hold
, its own, despite the conspiracies of crowned
despots or the treachery of faithless servants.

Our present duty—the primary, the indispen-
sable duty—is to crush the rebellion, to eradicate
it root and branch, and restore peace and tran-
quillity in the country. We must act vigorously
and decisively—must display zeal, energy, and
determination. There must be no puling senti-
mentality, no morbid refinement, in dealing with
murderers, and far worse than murderers.
NEMESIS is not to be fettered in the present in-
stance by red-tapist restrictions. There must be an
ample, a bitter expiation. The watchword has gone
forth, and our soldiers would lose heart if the
sword of vengeance were glued to the scabbard.

But the exertions must be worthy of the cause.
It is not by words that we must reconquer the
Indian empire, and restore the prestige of England.
Every person authorised or competent to lend a
hand in the struggle must do his duty. From
the Premier to the eligible recruit there must be
no flinching. Each man must act in his appointed
station. The statesman must find pecuniary
means--the young man " thews and sinews.
Routine must for once be disregarded. There
must be a display of enthusiasm at the top as
well as at the bott)m of the social scale. It is
uct merely the agr:cultural labourer, or even
the young linen-draper, that is to act chi-
valrously—to devote his life to the cause.
Every man can make a sacrifice, seoundim status
et facultates, according to his power, whatever
it may be. But we may naturally look for the
earliest demonstrations in the legitimate quarters.

General HAVELOCK has been nominated a
K.C.8., and some half-dozen of his gallant corn-
panionS 0.8., But is that sufficient Y We fear
that the voic3 of public opinion will pronounce a
very different verdict. No man has recently so
greatly elevated the English name as HAVELOCK.
But, like the gallant NAPIER, the hero of Meanee
and Hyderabad, ho has not as yet at least received
anything like an adequate recognition of his services.
The 1001. a-year pension simply excited ridicule.
It wan an insult rather than a reward, and ought
to be rejected with scorn. How wid those who
are enduring toils and dangerii receive the intelli-
gence that CHAMBERLAIN and NICHOLSON, WIL-
SON, NEILL, and VAN COURTLAND are made Com-
panions of. the Bath (!) for services worthy of
Peerages. The gentlemen of England " who live
at home at ease " ought to show a more fitting
appreciation of gallant deeds. As we have
already stated, every one of those heroes
is looked up to by a number of ad-
mirers, all participating in the struggle, and
regarding their leaders as their representative.
It is not the leader merely that is slighted, but
his whole bakt.dion. Every fighting man feels
the insult, and many capable of doughty deeds
will be paralysed by the thought that a brilliant
effort has been compensated by so inadequate a
re Nard. If we look for brilliant service we should
give a fair and adequate recognition.

Fully believing, with all native Indians them-
selves, that the Mutiny must and will be crushed
in no long time, it is most important for the
British public to prepare itself by obtaining afle-
gents information, for the serious questions which
will immediately follow. We must indeed keep
alive the military energies of our Administration,
but we would impress upon all ENGLISHMEN, that
a grave responsibility now lies upon them. Better
far that we should at once abdicate our rule in
India than conduct it as we have done. The
grand fault has been that constituencies have
neither known nor cared anything about India ;
it has been left to the Company and the Cabinet
of the day, and has been used by each for its own
purposes. In India, therefore, jobbery and pa-
tronage have had full scope—administrative vis
inertia has been almost insuparable ; and the
circumlocution work between the two Boards
has surpassed anything which fiction dares ven-
ture on. The constituencies alone can change all
this. They are the ultimate, the really sovereign
power in this country. What they only will must
be done. If they feel as they ought to feel that
their representatives ought to understand fairly
the affairs of our Indian empire, candidates, and
members of Parliament who hope to remain mem-
bers, will at least read up and qualify. An In-
dian debate will no longer be a bore. A Double
Government will no longer disgrace our Adminis-
tration. An Indian Secretary, of somewhat dif-
ferent capacity to our CHARLES WOODS and
VERDANT SMITHS, will be demanded to face a
critical House of Commons ; and, we must add,
that men of the METCALFE, or at least of the
ELGIN qualifications, will be demanded for the
office of Governor-General. A respectable poli-
tical head to the office of which Mr. ROWLAND
HILL is the real head, will not be deemed the
man to govern a population six times as large as
that of the British isles.

Indeed the strongest of all reasons with thou-
sands of our electors will soon make its appeal to
them, unless they awake to their duty. India
cannot be held by the sword alone, except at an
enormous expense. European troops in such a
climate must entail an enormous expens9, they
require so mud' attendanc., and the invalid list
that it is hardly possible
will always be so large,
to compute the Cost Of keeping
India by a very
large force of British bayonet,
The Brahmins
and Mussulmen cannot be trusted to any great
extent
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again
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sgt very largely from anya 1 presidency at least, nor
class of natives again. We must chiefly rely on
such a European force as can be affeide3, and o ►
f general G
an administration of justice and o

vernment, which will make the natives indisposed
to disturb it. Hitherto this has not been the

case. Much more just, no doubt, is our rule than
that of any conqueror who has preceded ns ; but '
the social and police evils of India are enormous,
and the present generation, unacquainted with the
far worse past, judge only by the present, which
they so painfully feel, and decide against us. To
send out the proper number of troops and supplies
is tolerably straightforward work. To reform our
administration is a task for more thought, and de-
manding unflinching honesty. The interest of the
whole Indian "covenanted service," and the Court
of Directors especially, and still worse their pride,
are utterly antagonistic to the needed reforms.
Yet the extent of reform accomplished will indi-
cate the extent to which we can dispense with the
bayonet. Assuming that we shall never place
native soldiers again in a position to repeat the
mutiny of 1857, we can disarm the community at
large only by making it their interest to keep
quiet.
We are not now about to enter on the whole
question of Indian Reform ; but the above
remarks were suggested to us by reading
a pamphlet by Mr. HYDE CLARKE, en
titled, " Colonisation, Defeme, and Railways
in our Indian Empire," in which the writer dis-
cusses with great copiousness and fulness of infor-
mation one branch of the improvements needed
in India. Of course Mr. CLARKE' s chief object,
from his known connection with it, is to show the
advantages of the " Hill Railway system" gene-
rally, and specially of the " Northern Bengal Rail-
way." For the details of this railway system,
we refer the reader to Mr. CLARKE'S pamphlet,
only premising that it has no resemblance what-
ever to a prospectus, but •is filled with the most
varied and interesting information on the dis-
trict of which it treats. Few of our readers
would imagine that on a spot which could, by
railway, be reached in ten or twelve hours from
Calcutta, is to be found a district and a town
where Europeans could, indeed do in great num-
bers, live in comfort, and in a climate not inferior
to many parts of Europe ; where there is ice in
winter, and an atmosphere not unlike that of our
Devonshire and Cornwall.

On the slopes of the Himalaya, in the small
province of Sikiw, between Nepaul and Bhotan,
is situated the comparatively modern and almost
European town of Darjeeling, the nearest sana-
torium to the capital. To this place, and to
Simla, in the far north-west, Mr. CLARKE would
construct branches from the great trunk line, the
"East Indian Railway," which is to run along
the whole valley of the Ganges. His chief idea
is to adapt India to European colonisation, by
rendering it easy for inhabitants of the temperate
zone to reside there. In all the Presidencies
there are spots very well adapted. to the consti-
tutions of Europeans, where they could reside a
large part of their time, and yet administer the
government or attend to their commercial affairs
with ease, provided communications were but
more rapid and easy.
Mr. H. CLARKE contends that, by thus locating
to a great extent, and for a great part of the
year, the British population in these sanatoriums,
our Government, our army, and our commercial
men would reside in the tropics without the evils
generally incident to health in a tropical climate.
They would probably become acclimatized gra-
dually. At Darjeeling, children, who must gene-
rally be sent home from ether parts of India,
thrive vigorously ; and one of the greatest trials to
residents in the East, that of parting with their
families, might be avoided. The Commercial
benefits of railways to India we need hardly ad-
vert to ; they are, however, admirably developed
by Mr. CLARKE. Their military uses are suffi-
ciently obvious also. Even in the case of a.
mutiny, when parts of them might be pulled up,
they could soon be restored, and, at the worst,
would shorten a march materially. They would,
in fact, quadruple the efficiency of our army.
Every reader interested in India (and who is
not just now ?) should consult Mr. CLARKE'SI
pages for himself.

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LATEST NEWS

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Rear-Admiral at Malta, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, London.

Received through the Admiralty, 12.45 p.m.
6 p.m., Sept. 25, 1857.

The Pottinger arrived at Suez yesterday, with
dates from Bombay, 31st August ; Aden, 11th
September.

The latest dates frOm Delhi, the 12th of Aug.,
when that city was still in possesion of the rebels ;
but an attack was expected to be made shortly,
as General Nicholson was within a day's march
with considerable reinforcements. Gen. Havelock's
force has retired towards Cawnpore, being unable
to reach Lucknow. A second advance was made
on the 4th of August the General was again
obliged to retard for reinforcements.
During these movements several actions were
fought with the enemy, who were invariably de-
feated, and lost many guns.

The 26th Native Infantry mutinied at Lahore
on the 20th of July, and murdered the com-
manding officer, Major Spencer ;. but the muti-
neers were wholly destroyed.

Maharajah Goolab Singh died at Cashmere
on 2d August. The 12th Bombay Native
Infantry at Musserabad have been disarmed, as
the men exhibited symptoms of disaffection.
Most of the remaining Regiments of the Bengal
Army have been disarmed. The Bth
Madras Cavalry refused to proceed to Bengal, and
was immediately disarmed. The mutiny in the
27th Bombay Native Infantry, at Colapoor, has
been suppressed. The remainder of her Ma-
jesty's 33d Regiment has arrived at Bombay
from the Mauritius. Central India is tranquil,
all being reported quiet at Magma, Saugor, and
Jubbul poor.

A part of Jouspoor Legion had mutinied at
Mount Aboo, but no mischief was done at the

station.
This intelligence received from Acting Consul-
General Green at Alexandria, dated 20th instant,
for the Earl of Clarendon.
(Signed) M. STOPFORD, Rear-Admiral.
Cagliari, 27th September, 7 50. a.m.
(Signed) CONSUL CRAIG.

THE IMPERIAL MEETING AT
STUTTGARDT.

STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 27.

The Empress of Russia and the Queen of Greece
arrived here last night. Prince Luitpold of
Bavaria is expected to-day.
The Prince of Prussia came to meet the Em-
peror Napoleon in Baden.
The Emperors Alexander and Napoleon leave
Stuttgart ta-morrow evening for Darmstadt, and
very probably the latter will accompany the
former to Weimar, and there meet the Emperor
of Austria and the King of Saxony.

STUTTGART, SEPT. 25.

The Emperor Louis Napoleon arrived here this
afternoon at a quarter to five, after having kept all
Stuttgart on the tenter-hooks and tip-toes of ex-
pectation for a full hour and a half. The French
Minister here, as well as Count de Montessuny, the
French Minister at Frankfort, together with several
of the Wurtemberg Ministers of State, and
Adjutants of the King', went out this morn-
ing by railway to meet the Emperor at th 3
frontier station of Bruchsal. During the for,:-
noon, while all the world was talking and
thinking exclusively of the French Emperor, the
Russian Czar was driving about the town to pay
visits to his relations in a simple barouch and a pair
of horses, with his brother-in-law, the Prince
Alexander of Hesse, seated at his right hand, and
by this contrivance he passed everywhere unrecog-
nised by the people, which is the more feasible, as
at a little distance his round fur cap can hardly 133
distinguished from the bearskin caps of the Wur-
mbe
er f
yesterdaye Then Emperor of Russia was
eve of the family at an rtee
received
/ djaye
as o
in-
significant railway station outside of the town with-
out any guard of honour or fuss of any sort being
made with him, the King's private carriage even
being used on the ocension ; but the Emperor Louis
Napoleon has been received to-day at the terminus
herein the town with all possible state and cere-
mony. Not only was the main station
kept
stictly reserved for the members of the Court, but
also the street leading from the station to the Palace
was lined with infanty and Lancers ; this latter re-
giment very singularly, however, displayed at its
head an Imperial eagle with the N, being a stan-
dard it took from troops under the command or
the uncle iii ie.:l4, and was now paraded so judi-
ciously before tile
eyes of the-nephew in 1851.
An eye-witness of the interesting ceremony that
took place at the terminus enables me to inform
your readers and fu tura historians of the impor-
tant fact, that the Emperor Louis Napoleon,
on alighting from the railway carriage, twice em-
braced the King of Wivienaberg, who was wait-
ing to receive him. This, alcubtless, formed part of
the French programme of the ceremonies, but it
certainly would" not have •becn introduced of his
own accord by the King, who is an extremely
cold, reserved, undemonstrative person. On this
occasion all the members of the Royal family were
present en grande tome, with state carriage and
servants in gold liveries, but, unfortunately, as the
carriages were not open, probably on account of the
scorching heat and the dust, the carriages and the
servants were all that the patient public got to see
after two hours' waiting.
The troops had hardly drawn off, after the cortege
of carriages conveying the Emperor and his suite
to the Palace had passed by, when a feldjager
rode rapidly through the garden by the side of the
Palace, and had hardly time to clear a space
through the crowd when the Emperor of Russia
drive up in a carriage and pair with his brother-
in-law,
the Prince of Hesse, and followed by a
single adjutant. My letter of yesterday has t ,id
you that the two Emperors would dine to-day with
their respective hosts separately, and meet for the
fast time this evening at the entertainment given
by the Crown Prince, and it may be that this is
true still ; but if it be otherwise, and the Emperor
of Russia has come to dine with the King and his
Imperial guest-, I should be disposed to believe,
from the excellence of my authority for the former
version, that his Russian Majesty has unexpect-
edly deviated from the arrangements that well-
informed members of the Court believed yesterday
to be still valid. It is impossible also that the
visit is only one of formal greeting and a mark of
attention to the French ELITCrOr ; on the other
hand a much more surprising., deviation' from the
intended programme, which I have been enabled
already to announce to you by telegraph, consists
lathe approaching arrival of the Empress of
which is now expected to take rlace to-morrow. It
is also a novelty in the arrangements, that it should
have been &Added at length thtat the Prince of