The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

DUBLIN (CITY).

The committee assembled this morning to try
the validity of the return of Mr. Grogan and Mr.
Vance for this city.
Mr. Edwin James and Mr. M'Donough ap-
peared for the petitioners, and Mr. 'O'Malley and
Mr. Itodwell for the sitting members.
Mr. James, in his opening speech, alleged a sys-
tem of corrupt practices and organised bribery
amongst the liverymen of the city of Dublin, a
large body of whom are of the poorest class of per-
sons, and many of whom were actually taken out
of the workhouse and bribed to vote. In Dublin
there was a society called the Protestant Society
consisting entirely of freemen. Mr. Lilly was the
president, and had the control of these men, some-
thing in the same manner as in the City of London,
where there were about 300 or 400 freemen called
long-shore men, who obtained the largest sums
they could for their votes. The system of bribery
complained of was on the part of Mr. Lilly. The
learned counsel cited a great many cases, and pro-
ceeded to call evidence in support of them.

HUNTINGDON.

The committee met at 11 o'clock.

At 2 o'clock it was announced that Mr. Heath_
cote had withdrawn, and the committee declared
Mr. Fellowes duly elected.

IPSWICH.

After bearing k ome further evidence, the com-
mittee ordered the doors to be closed with a view
to consider their decision.

The Committee, after a lengthened deliberation,
came to the conclusion that Mr. J. C. Cobbold was
duly elected.

AMERICAN VIEW OF TfrE INDIAN
MUTINY.

If, with all its many faults and shortcomings,
the East India Company had achieved no other
work displaying either tact or talent, the creation
and maintenance of the native army would entitle
it, if not to the esteem, at least to the respect of the
woild ; that a territory of such an extent, so
acquired, should be so defended through 80 years,
embracing vicissitudes of every imaginable kind, is
a wonder greater than any ever achieved either by
the arms of Tamerlance or the munificence of the
Great Mogul. The administrative talent which
has enlisted a f,rce of 250,000 men from' a
conquered population, differing from their rulers
so widely in language, manners, religion, and
modes of thought, and at such a distance from
home, anti Lag ennvortocl a feeble andxtusillanimous
race, debased by ages of slavery and of caste
into brave and hardy soldiers, is clearly of no
mean order. The chairs which have retained the
sepoy steadfast in his allegiance to the Company
" whose salt he eats," in all changes of war and
time, from Plassey to Gujerat, and nerved him
into victory over the master races of the continent
on a thousand bloody fields, are clearly not forged
by fear. One of the chief causes of the mutiny is
unquestionably to be found in the suicidal policy
pursued of late in reference to staff appointments,
and which has kept the present generation of
European officers of the native regiments apart
from their men. Twenty years ago cadets left
the military school at Addisconsbe with no hope
either of fame or advancement apart from the
regiment in which they were given their commis-
sion. They made it their home, were interested in
its efficiency, and were interested in the men who
composed it. They made it their business to know
the sepoy, hear his story, redress his grievances,
dissipate Lis delusions, enlighten his ignorance,
and were—as far as young, gay men entering on
life can be—educators as well as officers. The
ambition of such was a step in promotion in the
regiment, and the command of it eventually, nor
looked they beyond it for anything. Nowadays,
all is changed. There is hardly one of the frolic-
scene young gentlemen whom Sir James Hogg
sends from Addiscombe over the Isthmus of Suez
each year, with the blessings of their country,
to lead the sable armies of the "Kompauee
Sahib," who does not carry a letter to somebody
f. om somebody, securing him somebody'sinfluence
to get an appointment on somebody's staff, or spe-
ci it service of some sort, in which he " may have
an opportunity of distinguishing himself." Or
his father sends to Lord So-and-so, who writes
to Sir So-and-so, and mamma is delighted by the
thought that "dear George" will not have to be
long in obscurity, in a sweltering station, but will
speedily be place 1 in such a position that he
may regenerate irreclaimable tribes, like Mac-
' donald, or get up a tidy war ou his own respon-
sibility, like Edwards. The great demand there
has been, of late years, for special agents of all
sorts to aid in carrying out the reforms and im-
provements mentioned. and others recently set on
foot-, have unlia,ppi!y entailed upon the authorities
the necessity of complying with too many of
these demands. Officers have been draughted away
from their regiments by the score, and sent right
and left, snrveyins, engineering, negotiating, re-
forming, edifying, judging. The remainder feel
the regiment to be but a stepping-stone to some-
thing else, or, in arisocratic jargon, " a bons."
The Sepoys are left to their devices, and are yearly
getting more and more firm undtr the moral in-
fluence of their European superiirs. A foolish re-
poet about beef fat being put on the cartridges gets
abroad, and inflames their ignorance and isolation
into mutiny. There is no man who knows any-
thing of the Indian service who does not feel that
twenty years ago the deplorable delusions which
have led. to the Delhi massacre could not have
existed for one week.--11 ew York Times.

A meeting of the Netherlands Land Enclosure Com-
pany took place yesterday, Mr. Charles Morrison in the
chair, when the report of the directors was unanimously
ad,,pted.
Nanaow. ESCAPE.—As the wife of Sir W. E. C. Cooke,
of Wheatly-hall, near Doncaster, was going out for a
drive in her brougham, with a fine pair of horses, on
Wednesday last, one of the animals, it is supposed from
being struck by a gadfly, began kicking, and, having got
its leg over the polo, frightened the other horse, on which
both started off at a furionae rate in the direction of a
sunk fence in front of the'. hall. The coachman, how-
ever, managed to pull the animals round a little, when
they rushed towards a group of trees, which they threaded
safely, and then made for the coach-yard, in passing
through the gate of which the off-wheel of the carriage
came in contact with the post on that side with great
force, and one of the lamps, together with the ironwork
in which it was suspended, wa, torn off and dashed
into the carriage, just missing the heal of
Lady Cooke, and falling into her lap. The coachman
was pitched off the box several yards in front of the
carriage, and rendered insensible by the fall. A foot-
man, who was also on the lex, continued to keep his
seat by clinging to the carriage. The horses then dashed
on towards a stone wall, against which they ran madly,
breaking the carriage poll to shivers, and sma,hteg
the carriage. Several of the servants from the ball inn
tuediatsly ran up to sx.ericate their mistress from her
perilous posHon, when they found she had quietly kept
her seat all the true, and bad not sustained the slightest
it. jury. The feotman on the bc x also escaped injury,
but was taken down in a terrible fright, his hair literally
standing on end.. Lady Cooke at once ran to the coach.
Man, and directed him t ) be removed into the house,
where surgical assistance was soon obtained for
and he has since gone on wed. The horses :sere greatly
itjured about the loins and
_hips but not to much as,
might bee.A.ex-}-e,4ted,