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pursued by the so-called Government, and the
total absence of vigour and energy compromised the
native troops, and led to the terrible loss of life
that has occurred. The slightest manifestation
of zeal or energy would have averted the out-
break at Dinapore—the massacres in the sur-
rounding districts—the slaughter of the gallant
soldiers of H.M. 10th and 37th Regiments—
and the insurrection and disturbances in Bebar
and Patna, and their vicinities, that will for some
time require the attention of a considerable
force of Europeans. Nor is this all. The
fearful privations at Lucknow—the awful destruc-
tion at Cawnpore might probably have been
averted, but for the " redtapism" at head-
quarters. JUNG BABADOUR—better known as the
Nepaulese Ambassador, who visited London some
years ago—had tendered his services, backed by
10,000 fighting men, all animated by a personal
hatred of the Oudean rebels. The Resident had
accepted 3,000 of the number—very naturally
considering that the valuable reinforcement, so
urgently required, would far more than compen-
sate for the breach of etiquette. He had, however,
" reckoned without his host." The preservation of
hundreds of English lives was as nothing in compari-
son to strict adherence to " routine." Three thousand
men, who had actually marched to the frontier,
were turned back, and the friendly Prince that
offered,' and the judicious official that accepted
their aid were soundly snubbed for their departure
from strict precedent ! General LLOYD will justly
be tried for his misconduct. We fear, if the
statements by the present mail be correct, that
Lord Cammia should stand in the dock at his
side, and be required to answer a still more for-
midable bill of indictment.

Lord ELGIN has acted nobly—has proved
beyond the possibility of doubt his zeal and de-
votion to his country. Had he been Governor-
General, we should not have bad to deplore short-
comings at head-quarters. Disregarding all per-
sonal considerations, and boldly assuming the
entire responsibility of the movement—even as
NALSON in the olden time, the palmy days of
Britain's glory, assumed responsibility at Copen-
hagen—he started for Calcutta, taking valu.
able reinforcements with him. He left
China, to which he had been directed, in
order to make a very valuable suggestion to Lord
CANNING. Ha had European troops which might
be spared. They were greatly wanting in India,
while Sepoys of doubtful character, who were
rather a source of weakness than strength, would
be valuable auxiliaries in the flowery land.

Indeed they had distinguished themselves so greatly
in the olden time, that the " black devils"
as they were styled, were peculiarly distasteful to
the Celestials. The exchange of English troops
to India for a larger number of Sepoys in China
would, therefore, be useful for both countries,
aied the zeal and energy of Lord ELGIN is, there-
fore, deserving of the highest credit.
It appears that that the troop-ship, Lord Rag-

lan, has arrived at the Mauritius in 69 days,
with her MAJESTY'S 4th Regiment of Foot. This
will be avaluable auxiliary, under existing circum-
stances. The residue of the gallant 33d (the Duke
of WELLINGTON'S own) had embarked in the Lord

Raglan, and she was to leave on the 13th of
August for Bombay. The Ripon, too, which
started on Saturday, was to embark 200 soldiers
at Malta, to go by the overland route. We rejoice
to learn that this is but a beginning, and that

more troops will be despatched from the Mediter -
ranean on every opportunity. This is as it should
be. We only regret that our earnest advice,
we may almost call it " solicitation," was not
earlier adopted, as many serious evils might thereby
have been averted. -

It appears that the gallant HAVELOCK, whose
extraordinary and almost unprecedented exer-
tions have saved the Anglo-Indian Empire,
has been rewarded with a good service
pension of 1001. a-year, and promotion to the
local rank of Major-General in India ! Are these
announcements jests? Is the erisis in India re-
garded as a farce that such petty matters are re-
garded as " rewards" (!) for such services as he
has rendered ? They are moekeries—insults under

the circumstances. Far better that any
recognition of bis invaluable efforts should be
deferred, than that they should be regarded in a
similar point of view to those of the QUEE?.i'S
dancing master or music master. We have
heard of " damning with faint praise "
but we have seldom seen such an illustration of
" condemning by inadequate remuneration." Had
all our authorities acted like HAVELOCK, the
Indian rebellion would have been already sup-
pressed, if it had ever broken out, and that im-
portant fact should now be recognised, as an en-
couragement to others to "go and do likewise."

Hopes were generally expremed on the arrival
of the first telegraphic intelligence by this mail,
that this time, at least, we should hear of no ad-
dition to the horridly revolting brutalities which
have sickened and enraged us by turns. Too
soon has the trembling hope been dashed ; bruta-
lity and ferocity which we dare not let imagina-
tion dwell on, have been as rampant as ever.
Some of the first details, indeed, related to the
completion of the former atrocities of NANA SAKI.,
but what a completion ! No wonder that troops
who had seen with their own eyes the palace-court
swimming with the blood of female and infant
victims whom they were but just too late to save
—visiting whose bodies when discovered testified
that they had suffered indignities and cruelties
worse than death in the agony of the last murder-
ous hour, no wonder that such troops could van-
quish any number of the perpetrators of such
atrocities. General HAVELOCK had willing aven-
gers to lead. They needed his skill only, no
inspiration was wanting. Every man felt that he
was engaged in a holy war, if ever there was one !
What British civilian, not to say British soldier,
does not feel it his highest duty to defend the life
and honour of the other sex, and to avenge licen-
tiotts violence, even without wanton iniquities and
cruelty, how much more when these have been
perpetrated in unutterable forms.

But other murders are also recordeci—mur-
ders of those powerless to help themselves.,
which is, indeed, one of the most
unaccountable features of the mutiny—its
ferocity. Wa are not likely to know much
more of the causes which could ,evoke such
a spirit, and certainly all we yet know only fills
us with astonishment that men could be stimulated
by anything conceivable to perpetrate the pecu-
liarly ferocious deeds of which the Sepoys have
soften
idixn.crusoelmtye degree the aspect of infernal and
regiments,
fairly be alleged as
Weexthibited by so many of our late
Indeed we hear of nothinghab
that
tthsuch
ev
revolt
tnseereomuss
more like an army of
Absaloms revolting against
a parent who has never denied them anythi:ig,
than ought else that we can imagine
, . and
cer-
tainly the wretches have taken the means Which
ABSALOM took, and no doubt with the scone
Oriental view of the case, to make the quarrel

between them and us an implacable one ; their
insults and gross indignities to our women, were
intended to show us the very last contempt ; we
can well believe that licentiousness had but a
small shale in what our innocent wives, matrons,
and virgins suffered ; it was meant to placard the
English nation throughout all India, as the nation
whose very women had been dishonoured in " the
light of the sun," and certain it is that nothing but
an act of RETRIBUTION which shall ring throughout
Asia from Moscow—where Orientalism really be-
gins, to Canton itself, will restore English honour
in Oriental eyes.
But still, we ask, why all these heartless, these
ferocious murders of civilians, of officers, of me-
dical men, of merchants, and even of missionaries;
of every unarmed European, in short, upon whom
hands can be laid. If these persons escaped they
could not injure their murderers, indeed sparing
their lives might have been pleaded by the mutineers,
if vanquished, in mitigation of punishment. But
if they had gone further ; if they had secured all
the prisoners they could, they might at least
have used them as hostages in the event of defeat
for their own security, and in the event of success,
have set off at a ransom. It would seem as if
the extermination of the British in India was the
point aimed at ; and had their plans been fully
matured, they might have been much more nearly
successful. Was the conspiracy based on this ?
Had orders to exterminate the British when the
signal for universal insurrection was given, really
gone to every station in India, so that thus far all
acted on a preconcerted plan, although events
interfered with the insurrection being simulta-
neous ? In this case the ferocity was like that of
the Catholics on St. Bartholemew's day, under
the Hapsburg generals in the thirty years war,
and in the Irish rebellion, when extermination of
the Protestants was the watchword, and unspar-
ing ferocity was the method deliberately chosen
for the accomplishment of an end.
Gratifying, indeed, are the exceptional cases in
which Sepoys have behaved kindly to the officers
against whose authority they yet mutinied ; and
very gratifying the fidelity of so many non-mili-
tary native servants to whom their masters owed
their lives ; yet these instances of better feeling
only serve to exhibit in darker colours the almost
universal treachery and ferocity of the mutineers.
They seem also to bring us back to the conclusion
that ruthless murder of those they had sworn to
obey, and whose " salt they had eaten," was not a
universal order ; and, that while revolt was en-
joined, the treatment of the officers and other
defenceless Europeans was very much left to each
regiment. We fear, therefore, that the conclu-
sion must be that these " mild Hindoos" are,
after all, what Asiatics have always been, relent-
less and cruel, beyond Western conception, when
they think they can safely be so. Treated as the
Sepoys had been, they could not seriously believe
that their superstition, or their caste was to be
compulsorily interfered with. They knew the
honour of the British too well for that. At most,
the greased cartridges resolved itself into an affair
of honour; they had objected to them, and they
stood by their objections. That it was not a con-
scientious objection was plain enough by their
using them quite readily to murder their officers,
and to attack Europeans generally. In the late
war the Russian soldiers were guilty of such
brutal murders of the wounded, as horrified real
Europeans. Ferocity is, we fear, an attribute of
the Asiatic, character. Indeed, the earliest a>
'mints of Scripture make us familiar with the
painful fact.
It seems impossible to forget all this when the
hour of deliberate retribution arrives. We say
deliberate retribution, because our soldiers will
assuredly, whenever triumphant, exact the se-
verest satisfaction possible in the hour of victory.
But there will be ;the vast majority of one hun-
dred thousand villains and scoundrels to deal with
all over India. They will be so many human
tigers scattered over the land, the scourge of the
country, the Tiers-iu-wait for blood, all over the
Bengal Presidency. It will be necessary to pre-
vent their infesting the whole territory, and
and living lives of assassination and plunder, at
the cost of the peaceable. They will be men
whom no kindness can soften, and whom conscious
gUilt will make our special enemies ; the life of
no European will be safe where a mutineer yet
lives in the jungle, or secreted in the houses of a
town. He will be a Thug, a robber, and a mur-
derer by inclination and profession. Even the
peaceful natives, especially those who have been
faithful to us, will be in perpetual danger from
the wretches who, in the hour of momentary
triumph, could evince such gratuitous ferocity.
We see nothing for it but that the whole of the
mutineers should be outlawed—that a price
should he paid for their capture, and that all who
could not show some clearly extenuating circum-
stances should be at once executed without mercy.
All the regiments which have murdered officers,
civilians, women, and children, must be thus
dealt with, for all must have been guilty as prin-
cipals or abettors. It is an awful prospect, but
it is the deliberate justice, inflicted for proved
guilt, which will most strike the Asiatic mind.
It must contrast markedly with wild revenge, and
with the wanton massacres of the natives in many
a former case as well as the present one.

WILLS AND CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.—The will of the
Duke of Marlborough has been sworn under 200,0001.
personally. Mr. William Stone, of the "Casino," Dul.
with hill, 400,0001.—Illustrated Noes.
THE BELFAST RIOTS.—The eximination of Mr. Green

was renewed and concluded. The Rev. NV. M'llwaine,
the Rev. C. Seaver, and Constable Hugh Heany were
ale) examined, when the Court rose.
PRIISSIA.—Letters from Berlin state some surprise has
been caused in that capital by the fact of the French

ambassador having desired German officers and soldier.;
to send in their claims for the St. Helena medal.

The French Eastern Railway and the Baden company
have agreed to connect their lines by an iron briilga over
the Rhine. On this bridge there will also be a foot way
for passengers, but the bridge of boats will remain fur
horse and carriage traffic.
No TELEGRAPfI TO BALMORAL.—The Indian express
which reached London on Sunday afternoon, did not
reach the Queen until Monday morning.
AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPDOL, Saturday.—The Bri-

Arabia
tish and Nerth American Royal Mail steam-ship
Commander James Stene, railed this forenoon for New
Yodc, with the United States and Canadian mails, 140
passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on freight.
DANCING CONGRESS AT VlENNA.—Another congress
has just been held at Vienna—one of dancing master.,
It was attended not only by all the principal masters of
that city, but by deputations from Prague and Odessa
The object of it was to deliberate on the grave question
of the introduction of new figures in dancing, and the
congress, after much anxious reflection, came to the
resolution of adopting a new quadrille invented by a
dancing master of Prague, of the name of Eichler.
SUICIDE OP Ma. LEGREW, THE SCULPTOR Satur
day Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the residence of
the late Mr. James Legrew, aged 54, St. Alban's-road,
Kensington, sculptor, who committed suicide by blowing
hie brains out with a large horse pistol. Mrs. Jane Le-
grew, deceased's sister, who was deeply affected, said the
deceased had for some months past laboured under 1.1103•
extraordinary delusions, and appeared quite an altered
man. Oa Wednesday she was fetched from her own
residence in Victoria-road, and found that her brother
had shot himself through the head. The deceased was
unmarried. He was in affluent cireunistancee, and die
knew of nothing that preyed on his mind. He was held
In high estimation as a sculptor and artist (some of hi,
productions may be seen in the Crystal Palace.) Several
servants spoke to the deceased's strange state of mind
for months past, and Dr. Turner said he found decee,e.i
lying on the floor of the drawing room quite dead, his
head being shattered by the explosion of the pistol.
Death must have been almost instant.—Verdict, tem-
porary insanity.
Accounts from Frankfort confirm the news that

IBiron de Richb3rg, the Austrian Minister to the
Diet, who was about to start on leave of absence,
ha. 4 received instructions to remain at his post, in
conwequence of the active interchange of notes now
taking place on the Holstein questions.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL JACOB.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SIT/f.

Sni,—ln your Thursday's edition I notice a paragraph
stating that Major Jahn Jacob, of the Scinde Horse, is
not the " Brigadier-General" Jacob left in command of
the division of the Bombay army now in Persia. I beg
to correct that error. Colonel John Jacob was made
" Brigadier-General" immediately on arriving in Persia,
and placed in the command of the Cavalry Division. On
Sir James Outram's leaving Persia for Calcutta, General
Jacob was retained by the Bombay Government in com-
mand of the force still stationed at Bushire, though much
against the wishes of the Governor-General, who, know-
ing the value of such an efficient officer, had applied for
his services, to place him in command of a division of the
Bengal army.
The Lieut.• Col. Le Grand Jacob referred to is sow
in Bombay, and, by the last accounts in the Bombay
Times, had just been ordered to take command of the
disturbed districts in Koolapore, where the mutiny of
the 27th N.I. had just broken out.

I beg to inclose my card.
Sept. 17.

VERITA S.

The ex Queen Marie Amelie has for some days past
been on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire at Chats-
worth.

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame
Muenrus are still sojourning at St. Leonards-on-Sea,
and will not return to town for some weeks.
His Excellency the Count d'Apponyi intends to leave
Holland at the close of the month, to visit his estates in
Hungary. His Excellency is expected to resume hi.
duties at Chandos house at the end of next month, or
the first week in November.

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton are still at Bro-
dick Castle, Isle of Arran. The duchess and youthful
family are expected in town about the Bth of next month.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on
Saturday for Broadlauds, Hants.

Viscount Povverscourt will attain his majority on the
14th proximo, when there will be great festivities on his
iordship's estates in Ireland.
The Exeter Gazett? says :—The friends of Viscount
Ebrington are painfully anxious as to the sight of the
noble viscount's remaining eye, the symptoms in connec-
tion with which have recently assumed a somewhat
alarming character.
Lady Howard de Walden and the Hon. Miss Ellis
have returned to England from the Continent, and are
staying on a visit with Lord and Lady Stanley of Alder-
ley, at Alderley-park, Cheshire.
The Duke of Rutland, after remaining a few days in
town, has returned to L9ngshawe, Derbyshire. At the
en I of the week his grace purposes to go to Belvoir
Casa., for cub hunting.

The Earl and Countess of Hard wicke and the Ladies
Yorke have left Sidney Lodge, Hampshire, for Wimple
Hall, Cambridgeshire. The coming of age of Viscount
Royston, eldest son of the noble earl and countess, will
shortly be celebrated at Wimp°le.
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine VillierA,
after visiting Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, at
Drummond Castle, Perthshire, proceeded to join the Earl
of Aberdeen's party, at Haddo House, whence they have
since gone to Blair Athole, where a distinguished circle
have assembled, on the invitation of the Duke and
Duchess of Athole.

Lord and Lafly Holland and Miss Fox have left St.
Ann's Hill for Paris.
The Dowager Lady Bateman and the Hon. Misses
Hanbury have left Bien Hall, Penrith, where they have
been on a visit for some time, on a tour in Scotland.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and
Mauritius. Despatches were sent to these colonies on
Saturday evening.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL HAVELOCK.—His Royal High-
ness the General Commanding-in-Chief has availed him-
self of the first opportunity presented to him of recogLis-
ing the services of Brigadier-General Havelock in
punishing the mutineera. He has conferred upon him a
good-service pension of 100/, a-year.—United Service
Gazette.

SIR JAMES BROOKE.—The sum subscribed in Norfolk
to make good the recent destruction of Sir Jamer
Brooke's library now amounts to 1381. 9s. 6J. Several
donations of books have also been received.

VISIT OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO SHEFFIELD.—
Lard John Russell has consented to preside at th 4
annual meeting of the ragged school, to be held in the
music-hail on Fliday next. At a special meeting of the
Town Council to be held on Friday next, it is intended
to consider the propriety of presenting an address to -his
lordship on the occasion of this his first visit to Sheffield.
We understand that Lord John Russell will be the
guest of Alderman H. E. Houle during his stay in
Sheffield. —Sheffield Time 4.
AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—Statements differ with regard to
the gold brought by the Norfolk, but the amount is be-
lieved to be 424,0001. The latest departures announced
from Melbourne and Sydney are the Red Jacket, with
264,0001., the California, with 16,C00/., and the Plimai-
clan, with 10.3001., making, with those before reported,
a total of 818,0001. still on its way, exclusive of the
373,0001. brought by the Columbian, and which will be
received from Suez .in about a fortnight. Of this
818,0001. 500,0001. is overdue.

THE MEMBERS FOR NORWlCH.—Viscount Bury, M.P.,
fici Mr. H. W. Schneider, M.P., the representatives of
this city, met their constituents on Saturday evening, in
the large room at the Royal Hotel, Norwich. The meet-
ing was well attended, and both hon. members were
well received. A vote of copfidence in both was carried
Ullanirßously.
REPRESENTATION OP GREENWICH. Committees
have been formed at Greenwich, Woolwich, and
Deptford, for the purpose of raising a fund to pay
off the liabilities of Mr. Townsend, and his friends
are very sanguine of success. Mr. A. R. Bristow,
solicito', of Greenwich, who has been publicly
accused by Mr. Townsend, of adopting the most un-
fair means to drive him from the HOME) of Commons,
in or ler to provide a seat for Mr. M. Ct:ambers, has
published an address, in which he states that he has had
nothing to do with the creditors of Mr. Townsend, and,
with respect to future elections for the borough, he has
made up his mind not to interfere on behalf of any can-
didate, even as a professional agent. Mr. Bristow has
al-o published a reply, which he forwarded to the Hon.
W. F. Campbell, declining to act as the election agent
for that gentleman, and states that he has sent similar
replies to two other candidates. The friends of Mr.- M.
Chambers have now organised committees in every part
of the borough, and are still actively engaged in obtaining
signatures to a requisition, which, it is stated, will be
presented to Mr. Chambers in a few days.
THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDlA.—Although the offer
of Messrs. Croskey and Co. to establiab a regular trans-
port line between England and India, 'via Suez, has been
declined, the Government, it appears, have determined
on sending as many troops as possible by that route.
The mail steamer Ripon, which left Southampton yes-
Lrday, is to embark 200 soldiers at Malta for Alexan-
dria ; and orders have been received for the Australasian,
which sails on the 12th proximo with the Australian
mails, to be prepared for the conveyance to Alexandria
of 400 troops, and probably a larger number. It is
rumoured that a certain number of troops will he sent
out oy each successive mail steamer that leaves South-
ampton for Alexandria, and that all the available
steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company on the
other side of the Isthmus are ordered down to Suez to
carry them on as they arrive there.
TYE OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA.—The arrange-
ments made by the General Post-office for the rapid con-
veyance of the Calcutta, China, and Australian malls
from Marseilles to London, and thence to the country
districts, appear to have been most successfully carried
out. Telegraphic and written orders were transmitted to
the railway authorities on both sides of the Channel, to
the Mail Packet Service at Dover, and to the British
Consul, Mr. Bonham, at Calais. By express desire the
new mail packet Prince Frederick William was sent to
Calais to convey specially the mails and officers in chore
of despatches, and nothing else, and a special train was
ordered to be in readiness at Dover for London under
the same restrictions. The continental train ,arrived
punctually at Calais. The mails, 43 boxes from India
and Chive and nine from Au-tralia, were shipped and tie
vessel was under weigh within 16 minute=, and from the
time she put on full speed to the moment of easing her
engines off the Admiralty pier, running the wiled, die-
ts.nce in a broadside swell from a strone wind N.N.E ,

one hour and 38 minutes elapsed. Getting alonpide,
landing the heavy boxes, and conveying them in hand
trucks up the pier to the railway station, and putting
them in the vans, occupied about 20 minutes, and the
special train started at 4.U, and reached London in on
hour and 45 minutes. Thus the Post-office was enabled
to despatch that portion of the mails fur the country by
the morning mail trains ; and the metropolitan public
had their letters by an early delivery, and the details of
the momentous intelligence published in the daily papers
at leeet two hours before the usual time.
THE INDIAN SUFFERERS —SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 20.--
The following notice was issued here yesterday :
" Sufferers in India.—Ndy Prescott, having been
requested by the Lady Mayoress to receive a deposit of
clothing from the London Ladies' Committee, for the
purpo.,e of distribution among such distressed refugees
from India as may arrive at this port, has willing!y erne.
sented te do so ; and she will be happy to see at her
house, on Monday next, at noon, any ladies who will
honour her with their advice and assistance in forming
a local committee in. aid of the benevolent object. See
ad 1, in the interim, gratefully receive any articles of
clothing that tarty be forwarded to her for the said
sufferers, adlreesed to the care of Lady Prescott,
Grosvenor-square, Southampton.—September 18." The
necessi'y of this notice is apparent, when it is con-
sidered that the Indian snail packet Colombo, with some
of the fugitives from India, is expected here on Thurit-
day next.
MonE TROOPS FOR INDIA. —lt is stated that the
Government has decided upon dispatching 10,000 troops
t 'lndia, in addition to the reinforcements already ern-
basked, or under orders, for f. reign service. These
reinforcements ill consist of 1,000 ft yal Art Ilery aed
Sappers and Miners ; 1,000 Royal Matinee, for Madras
and Ceylon, to replace re4ireente that may have been
withdrawn from those places; Er service in the dis-
turbed dietricts of Bengal, s.rel the North• West Pro-
vit.can ; two regiments of cave.lry, of 750 sabres each ;
three regiments of infantry, from the Mediterranean ;
mad three regiments fro-u the rereited Kingdom, eac,
numbering 1,000, effective men. Militia regiments
will relieve those of the line which are to embark
from garrisons in the Mediterranean. In order to
dispatch such a 1,,r4e force at °rico, 12 additional
regimeete of militia vv:11 be embodied forthwith.
Troop ships for the conveyanc3 of these reinforce-
ments are requirel, each vessel not to ho less than
1,000 tons ; screw steam vessels will .be preferred
The reieforceneetits will embark as soon as the vessels
fro the:r conveyance are ready for sea.

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CHINA.

(Front a Correspondent of the Daily News.)

DEPARTURE OF LORD ELGIN FOR INDIA.

HONG KONG, JULY 16.

In my last you were informed that the Earl of
Elgin was about to proceed to the northward—it
was sail to Japan, but it was more generally be-
lieved that his lordship's destination was Pekin, to
endeavour by diplomatic means to avert the horrors
of war. A council of war had assembled, at which
it was resolved that until a much larger military
force arrived it would not be possible to keep Can-
ton, although its capture might be easily effected by
the joint operations of the naval and military forces
at present here. Soon after the deliberations were
over the steamer Lancefield came in on the 14th
inst. with much graver news from Bengal, and this
determined the noble earl's resolution to proceed at
once to Calcutta, and to send to the assistance of
the Governor-General of India all the military
forces destined for China.

The utino-it secresy was observed, or it is obvi-
ous that with our trade almost at a stand, the mer-
cantile community would have addressed his lord-
ship on the subject, and remonstrated against the
seeming abandonment of his great mission, which
for a time will have a bad effect on the minds of
the Chinese, and be construed into fear of the im-
perial displeasu. e. With the foreign community
but one opinion prevails, namely, that the Canton
ese must be severely chastised to ensure future peace
and the proper conduct of trade. Few are aware
that the earl departs. Yesterday the 300 Riiyal
Marines brought on by tho Sanspariel were trans-
ferred to the Shannon, and to-day his lordship
embarks, quietly proceeding in the Shannon to
Singapore and Calcutta, and taking with him her
Majesty's steamer Pearl, of 20 guns, and 400 horse
power. _ _

Referring to the council of war, the Register says
that the question discussed was whether Canton
shall be taken before Lord Elgin presents himself
at Pekin or not. The navy are of opinion (says
the Register) that the place can be taken and held.
The army are of opinion that it can be taken, but
cannot he held.

The French squadron hag left Mac-to for C..istle
Peak Bay, where the ships are now at anchor, and
do not, it appears, proceed to Japan at present.
The Admiral, having been relieved, sails to-day for
France in the Virginia frigate.

JULY 26.

I am now in a position to inform you what there
is reason to believe is the object of Lord Elgin's self-
imposed mission to Calcutta, in which, if his Excel-
lency succeeds, it will secure him a step in the
peerage. Many of the Bengal regiments have been
disarmed, not be cause they had shown decided symp-
toms of mutiny, but as Wprecautionary measure they
were deprived of their arms, and if removed from
the tempting influence of evil example they would
be found, as heretofore, staunch and loyal. Lord
Elgin has, on his own responsibility, after conferring
with General Ashburnare, gone to confer with Lor
Canning, and to offer some of the European regi-
ments in exchange fir B-neal native troops,
the disarmed sepoys, who will be best kept out of
mischief by giving them military service. During
the last war the Bengal and Madras native regi-
ments did signal service; indeed the Chinese troops
were so much annoyed with black sAdiers being
employed against them, that they directed much
of their fire against the " black devils," as the
sepoys were styled. Already Lord Elgin has
ordered all European soldiers for China to pr, teed
on to India' and himself has taken on 31:0 marines,
calling at Singapore for any troops that may have
arrived at that from England. The Governor-
General may well and safely spare a dozen Sepoy
regiments, who would be, I believe, as firm in their
allgiance and as gallant in performing their nal-
tary duties in China, as during the late war.
Should Lord Elgin succeed in his mission, and the
result turn out equal to expectation, his Excellency
will have the blessing of his Sovereign and the
thanks of the British nation. Tile Earl's stay at
Calcutta will not exceed ten days or a fortnight,
when his Excelency will return to China to carry
out the original plan of operations.
Already there is raised a cry here against Lord
Elgin's apparent indifference to the important mis-
sion on which he has been sptciallv sent, but, when
our citizens learn the cause of the EArl's deprt ore,
and the noble and patriotic aim he seeks to accom-
plish, they will see that his lordship has clone his
best to secure the safety of our Indian empire, and
the effectual conduct of the expedition to China.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Shanghai
leaves to-day with the bi-monthly mail to Gado.
In addition to the budget I despatched per her Ma-
jesty's ship Shannon, via Calcuuta,,, I enclose you
the Overland Friend of China, from which several
interesting items may be gathered.

The Overland Friend of China, of the 25th July,
says :—"Since the despatch of the last mail, mili-
tary operations about Canton have been nil; and
there appears reason for believing that before we at-
tempt pessession of the walls, the rebels will have
concluded the business for us. From the provinces
we learn that, under the renowned chief Le, the
rebels gave battle to the Imperialists under Gen.
Kwun, near Seu-hing, and gained a complete vic-
tory, only three boats escaping to Canton. to tell
the result, and carrying Le's bravado challenge to
Yeh to come on again as soon as he could get ready.
La's force is said to number 100,000 fighting nien
and 1,000 war vessels, and his Excellency Le's head-
quarters ate now at the district city of Uet. The
first-class city of Seu-hing is iu very straitened cir-
cumstances.

"Another rebel chief called Lein, with 50,000
men, has had a hard battle with Imperialist troops
from Tsue-chow, and having gained the vic►ory his
Excollency is compelling the whole of the surround-
ing country people to submit to his rule. Fear+ng
for the provincial city itself, Yeh is calling iu all
the Tsue-show men, and has stationed 1,000 of
them in the south eastern suburbs. The leaders of
the 96 villages, too, have had to send their qu.tas
of armed men ; between two and three thousand of
them are in the western suburbs. The Ban nerinee,
Manchus, and the Lieut-Governor's guard, alto-
gether about 3,000, are trouped on the heights be-
yond the northern wall.
" The Hak-has of Ko-msng and six other dis-
tricts have united, and are burning and destroying
wherever they go. Calton is the great point to es-
cape to, and there the poor starving wretches of the
surrounding districts are congregated by thousands
—men, women, and children.

SINGAPORE.
SINGAPORE, AUG. 7.
My last announced the departure of Lord Elgin
for Calcutta. Her Majesty's ships Shannon and
Pearl conveyed nearly 400 troops from the wrecked
transport Transit ; and on Sunday last the detach-
ment of her Majesty's 59th Regiment, destined for
Hong Kong (where the headquarters of the regi-
ment are stationed), proceeded to Calcutta in the
steamer Laneefield. All that now remain here are
those belonging to the medical staff corps. Ord,rs
have bent given by Lard E gin for all Enroi_ean
troops to proceed to Calcutta, should they touch at
this place en route to China. A few days aao lier
Majesty's steamer Inflexible, from Hong ‘K ,no,
arrived here, and next day proceeded to the wreck
of the Transit, in Bane% Straits, for the purpose of
taking on board the stores and crew of the un-
fortunate transport. Captain Bate, of her
Majesty's ship Ac won, proceeded in the Inflexible
to the scene of the wreck, for the purpose of sur-
veying the rock on which the Transit was IoA,
preliminary to the comet-inder and officers of that
vessel be;ng brateaht to a naval court-martial.
Her Majesty's ship Racehorse is still here, waiving
the arrival of the Amethyst, from China, when the
Racehorse will sail for England.
On Sunday last her Majesty's steamer Encounter
arrived here from Bangkok, having on board the
Siamese embassy for England. The principal am-
bassador lauded next day under a salute of nine-
teen guns. In a letter from the King of Siam to
a gentleman here, the royal correspondent
writes 4
" Our embassy consists of 28 Siamese personages,
of whom his Excellc ncy Phia Montree Suriwong-
see, the full brother of his lordship Chowfiya Suri •
wongsee, S.P.K., is the first ambassador ; and my
beloved adopted son, his Honour Phra Noi Sarb-
bedh Chaky, is the second ambassador." In addi-
tion to the two ambassadors, one representing the
First and the other the Second King of Siam, there
are four chief attach, s, named Chamun Rajamale,
Noi Bieber Ssrbkick, Man Rajoday, and Chatnun
Mondir Bidecks. The embassy will leave this to-
morrow in her Majesty's steamer Encounter, pro-
ceed through Bauca and Sunda Straits to Adeu un-
der sail, and coaling at the la ter place will steam
to Suez, from whence the Encounter will sail for
England. A war steamer will be iu readiness at
Alexandria to convey the embassy to England.
Among the presents ou board the Encounter is a
w4ii.e elephant, intended for her Majesty Queen
Victoria.
The commercial news from Bangkok is highly
unfavourable for rice and sugar, which were scarce
and in great demand ; indeed, the price of sugar
was higher at Bangkok than at Singapore. Several
European vessels were wa.tiog for cargoes.
P.S. The ship Blervie Castle, from London, April
28, arrived here tais moruing, having on board
Major Robertson, Captains Wyatt, Clark, and
Ingietield, Lieut. Blake, Ensign Botkim, Adjutant
Thompson, Surgeon Mrthur, Paymaster James,
Janv..s, Purveyor's Clerk Bush, and 248 rank and
file of her Majesty's 2d Battalion Military. Train.