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FHE SUN, LON DON, \VEDNESD V.!V ING, AUGUST l9, ~18-57

flinching determination was whether the Tri.
bunal should have the power of inflictiog fine and
imprisonment,or either, on the guilty arty. The
Lords had determined that a pecuniary fine may
be imposed in lieu of the costs and damages in
the disgusting action of Crim. Co.! , which will
happily be abolished. After a sharp struggle, this
has been expunged from the bill, and there is
now no punishment for the adulterer save the
possibility of costs being given against him. This
question may again come before Parliament at no
very distant period.
The grand struggle took place on the clause
authorising the remarriage of the parties. Every
inch of ground was fiercely contested ; but in vain.
The House would not consent to consign the
guilty party to eternal and hopeless degradation,
or to permit her- seducer and betrayer to with-
hold the sole reparation in his power to offer to
society as well as to his victim. We have already
explained that such a provision would withdraw
the main check on many profligate and licentious
persons, who are deterred from crime by the
notion that they are bound in honour to marry
the partner of their guilt. If the parties
were compelled to intermarry whenever they
could do so, it would do far more to prevent
the offence than any punishment in the shape of
'fine or imprisonment that could be inflicted. A
would-be adulterer would pause before binding
himself for life" to the partner'of his crime.
We regret to say that the Government partially
yielded to the clamour raised on behalf of the so-
called conscientious scrup'es of the clergy—that
is to say, so far as they would be bound to marry
the guilty party. We have already so fully ex-
pressed our opinions on this point that it is only
necessary to say, that those who are in re-
ceipt of public Money, who are paid by the
nation for discharging • certain functions, have
110 right to object to perform any ceremony au-
thorised by the law of the land. This has been
manifestly a compromise to save time, and it will
meet the general fats of such compromises, by
being exceedingly unpalateaLle to all parties. We
cannot see how the alleged supremacy of the
Crown over the Churches of England and Ireland
can be' asserted in the face of such a provision.
It is a novel position that beneficed clergy Men
• may, at their mere will and pleasure, set them-
. selves in open hostility•to the existing law of the
_ land.

Sir JOHN PABINGTON hag again and again
striven to bring under the consideration of the new
Parliament the question upon that great measure
for the improvement of our population—a sound
moral and religious education—tha most efficient
preventive and the best corrective of the rarticu-
lar cliss of vic2s, with the merely repressive mea-
sures against which the Legislature has recently
been occupying the public time so ltrgely, and in
many respects so discreditably. When, the other
night, he asked L)rd PALMORSTON for a day for
the c msideration of the Eduction question, we
we were sorry to see no expression of regret re-
ported from his Lordship at the possible post-
ponement of the paramount subject, and that ho
referred to the preoccupation of the public time
with .the discussion on the Divorce Bill,
as if it were an amusement which he
did not care to interrupt. Now this
pre-occupation of the House as against the
education question—a pre-occupation not properly
with the substantive law of divorce, which surely
needs large amendments, but as pressed by the
Government, merely with the question of proce-
dure, is very discreditable, for to the extent to
which our young and teeming population, rising
into adult life, are ill educated, they disregard law,
and the Legislature ltbeurs in vain. It Would
have been befitting the Prime Minister to have
preferred the postponement of the comparatively
little, for the sake of the immenatlygreater ques-
tion, involving the whole field of morals and pri-
vate conduct waiting for consideration.
On the chef educational questions there are
large differences as t 3 the facts ; first as to the
existing amount of educational provisions. Mr.
EDWARD BAINES, the leader of the voluntaries,
alleges that existing provisions are sufficient, one
answer to which is that upwards of 60 per
cent. of those who are called upon to sign mar-
riage registers, can only affix their marks, that our
penal commitments exceed 100,000 per annum,
and that hordes cf depredators and quacks, includ-
ing such fortune-tellers as are found flourishing
at Leeds, live upon the illiterate. More-
over, there are widely extending opinions that
the quality of a large proportion of the educa-
tion now given is entirely unsuitable and almost
worthless. - Most of that given at the dame
schools is proved is be so. One set of objections
to a large proportion of the instruction given in
the higher schools is its abstract, and also its
Monkish character, and the little knowledge it
imparts of important " common things," to which
Lord ASHBURTON has directed attention. Miss
Courrs BURDETT has been most worthily exerting
herself to improve the education cemmonly given
to females of the poorer classes ; to impart in-
struction ou household matters ; to exercise them,
in arithmetic for example, on domestic budgets,
and in showinghow "both ends" of weekly earnings
may be made to meet, and to give them a more
practical training, calculated to make them better
wives as well as better servants, than a large pro-
portion of them now prove to be.

At the recent educational conference his Royal
Highness Prince ALBERT stated forcibly the great
difficulties interposed in the way of the voluntary
education of the labouring classes, by the demands
made on the time of young persons under the com-
mon modes of instruction requiring, for them, large
sacrifices of the wages and service needed for the
support of families. At that same conference,
Mr. CHADWICK adduced instances of well-con-
ducted "half-time" schools, where the instruction
given, in combination with industrial occupation,
had been proved to be at least as efficient as the
common full-time instruction given in the like
schools without such Combinatiou. The Cmll-
- agreed with him and adopted his resolu-
tion, recommending these examples of half-time
teaching, for careful examination and rep)rt, as
being fraught with new and important conclu-
sions bearing on the whole scheme of popular
education. The same gentleman maintains that
schoolmasters, and educationists in general, have
not examined, and,
to examine
properly
are rarely in a posi-
tionproperly the comparative results
of their various mod"
of instruction, traceable in
the condition of their pupils in
afterlifeHe
states also, with a view to renewed
inv estig.
ation,
that of the pupils of e so_loinferior schools
fcr the poor, not more than a third
were to be found in courses of productive
industry after leaving school, and that large
numbers of them were to be found in houses of
correction as delinquents, or on the niendicity
books, or on the pauper rolls—whilst
of the pupils
of schools of an intermediate or of a better de-
scription, the greater proportion are to be found
engaged in honest labour, and of the pupils fr( m
the highest order of district schools, the whole
are got into beneficial courses.

It will ba agreed that it is highly important
that the latest experieuce of these yarious Jesuits

obtained several years ago, should be examined
and brOught.forward for the public information.

In the discussions on the education question
the Prussian system is frequently referred to dis-
paragingly by the antagonists of a public pro-
vision ; but to what authentic and recognised
sources of information do those gentlemen refer ?
and are they aware that Prussian and German
educationists say they have made mistakes in not
making the instruction sufficiently practical, and
in other respects, which mistakes they would them-
selves correct ? It would be of advantage that
their latest experience should be properly sought.
In the United States of America large questions
have been raised in respect to popular education,
which ought to be examined for our own sakes.
A proper commission of enquiry such as Sir
JOHN PAKLNGTON and Lord JOHN' RUSSELL pro-
pose, which shall examine and report the latest
evidence, on such points, would surely make im-
portant preparations for the discussions next
session, and prevent the public time being fruit-
lessly consumed by renewed disputations on ques-
tions of fact which admit of previous settlement.
We trust that it will prove to be untrue that the
Government, intend to resist enquiry, and that it
scill be made manifest that Lord PALMERSTON
duly appreciates the solemn claims of the question
for the best legislative preparations.

We cannot perceive any tyrannical interference
with private rights in the attempt now made to
abate one of the greatest social nuisances that can
be imagined, and to enforce some respect for the
laws of decency and morality and for the health
of the people. Many trades and callings are sub-
jected to police surveillance, the necessity pf the
case being the sole excuse for the measure.
Why, then, should the keepers of common lodgir g-
houses be exempted ? It is perfectly optional on
their part whether they bring themselves within
the provisions of the bill or not. They are not
compelled to receive all corners, or to throw their
houses open to every applicant. Should they
desire to do so and make a profit from those com-
pelled to seek the protection of a roof, they
should cheerfully submit to regulations essential
to their own health and comfort,
,as well as to
that of their guests. An Englishman's house
way still- be his castle, although he may not be
permitted to extract an unholy profit from the
miseries of his fellow-creatures, or to crowd a
number of persons of •opposite sexes into rooms
totally inadequate to their accommodation—to
bring them into contact with disease and crime,
and produce the most demoralising results. The
well authenticated reports of the fearful scenes
enacted at these rookeries and back-slums, clearly
indicate the necessity for further legislation. Every
dwelling-hous_e, every room so contaminated, is a
nuisance to the neighbourhood, an offence against
every individual, who in seeking refuge from the
inclemency of the weather, should not be exposed
to far worse evils than those he is seeking t) avoid.
But while Measures are adopted to improve the
lodgings offered to the poorer classes, steps should
also be taken in another direction. • What leads
to this overcrowding,•to the placing human be-
ings in places not fit for animals of the lowest
description ? It is the want of other and more
suit alde accommodation. 'Grader the existing
laws, uo person will be permitted to rest in the
open air. The stern Police injunction to " move
on" is heard whenever he or she may at-
tempt to rest their weary limbs. The
Adelphi catacombs—the dry arches of Wa-
terloo - bridge, cannot find space for
, every houseless wanderer. The Union Work-
houses are avowedly deficient in respect to sleep-
ing accommodation. The poor are driven with
reproaches from their doors, and stern necessity
compels them to seek shelter wherever it can he
obtained for the prices they can afford to pay. If
we enter on a crusade against the miserable apo-
logies for accommodation offered, we are bound to
provide a fair and proper substitute. Evety
metropolitan improvement le:isens the amount of
accommodation within their reach. But nothing
is given in its place. The parochial authorities
are not compelled to provide the shelter of a roof,
either for casual paupers or for those able and
willing to pay a sma►l sum for shelter.

There is nothing but the extension of the syE-
tem of model lodging-houses that can provide an
adequate remedy. Even the very poorest in the
community are no enamoured of filth and suffo-
cation. If they could obtain comparatively de-
cent accommodation at moderate rent, those
wretched dens would speedily be deserted. The
salutary c)mPetition would work an effectual cure.
The two measures should proceed pari
While we enforce regulations for the health and
decency of lodgers of the class barely removed
from the limits of pauperism, we should at the same
time supply places of shelter for those who would
otherwise have to seek in crime the means of
obtaining admission even to prisons or police sta-
tions. Of course it is too late to hope for such
au enactment during the present session, but
while we should not on that account reject the
bill now before the Souse, some pledge ought to
be obtained from Government to introduce suit-
able pro Visions at the very commencement of the
next session—so as to ensure reasonable accommo-
dation in every district at moderate prices for all
who may be likely to require it.

DEATH OF LADY LYTTHLTON.—We regret to learn
that Lady Lyttelton died at an early hour yesterday
morning, at Haglsy Hall, Woroesterehire. LEer ladyship
had been suffering during the last month from an in-
ternal complaint, which towards the close of the past
week assumed a more favourable aspect. A relapse took
place on Monday morning, and from which her lady-
ship never rallies). She had the censolatiou to be sur-
rounded by all the members of her family at her
dissolution. The deceased lady was second dau,hter of
the late Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., and sister to the
present baronet and Mrs, W. E. Gladstone. She was
married to Lori Lyttelton in 1839, and leaves issue
twelve tons aad daughters.
Madame Beal° appeared in " Lucrezia Borgia," at the
Theatre Royal, Dublin, last Saturday evening.
The Italian company, from the Lyceum (Royal
Italian Opera), with Madame Ristori at their head, gave
last evening, at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, the first
of four performances. The play was " Macbeth."
Accounts from -Vienna state that General Gustavus
von Degenfeld, one of the most distinguished officers in
the Austrian service, has blown out his brains from a
disappointment in love. The deceased was fifty years old.
!SYRIA..-1 Ginstantinople correspondence of August
8, in the Courrier de Paris, states that troubles have
occurred at three leagues distance from Jerusalem, and
r bat twenty-two persons have been killed, amongst whom
are same women.

Cunious RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—During the floods in
Lancashire on Saturday night, the water collected on
the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway at Walsden to
such a depth as to put out the fire of the engine, and the
tr,iin was s opped fur upwards of five hours.
YELLOW FEVER IN THE WEST INDIES. —Writing •3
the health of St. Thomas, a correspondent informs us
that ye low fever had abated, but had destroyed upwards
of six hundred sailors from the let of May to that date.
What frightful mortality !—Jamaica Morning Journal.
THE MUTINY IN INDIA.—A gentleman, speaking of
the various tortures inflicted on ladies and gentlemen
by the mutineers and the low Muhummedans, says
" they slit the skin round the throats of their victims,
and pulled off mask, scalp and all. The Lord recom-
pense them !"
AN OFFENDED 111IISICIAN.—Herr Ernst, when, at the
resilence of an exalted personage, finding that no one
ertearsnip;ywinegreastetennt thmioin,to his performance, quietly put up
his violin, left the room, and the next day, when " his
declined to receive the money.—
MußBojeicrawLWoArlitidlt.lCULTUßAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF
IRELAND.—The annual exhibition and meet'ngs of this
society commenced at Waterford on Moni:ay. There
are between six and seven hundred exhibitors,. besides
those who send machines and implements. The trial of
ploughs and other implements has excited much inters: t.
Toe Lord Lieutenant, who will be the guest of the Mar.
quis of Waterford, is expected to be present at the latter
part pf the proceeEliDge.

LATEST .NEW Wb.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 18.

Intelligence of the 13th from Tunis, states that
there bad been, in that city, a ferocious attack on
the Jews.

The Christans themselves had been threatened.
Several persons were killed.

The British Consulate was insulted.

Military measures for repressing the outrage
were taken very tardily.

FRANCE.

According to the Moniteur Count Rayneval is to
be the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg. He
is an experienced diplomatist, and likely to re-
present France with honour. M. Rayneval will no
doubt be instrumental in creating a better under-
standing between Russia and Austria, as he is a
great supporter of military despotism in Europe.
The Duke de Grammont removes from the Court
of 'Sardinia to that of Rome ; Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne leaves the Courts of Tuscany and
Parma, and replaces the Duke de Grammont. The
Marquis de Ferriere-le-Vayer, Minister at Wur-
tenaburg, removes to Tuscany and Parma,- and is
succeeded by the Count de Reculot, now linistcr
at the Courts of Hanover and Brunswick.

The latest news from Constantinople (Aug. 13) is
that the Ambassadors of France, Russia, Prussia, and
Piedmont, expected to resume their diplomatic rela-
tions with the Porte immediately. From this we
may conclude:that the advisers of the Sultan have
agreed to the new elections for Moldavia. Accord-
ing to despatches received in Paris it is feared
that the Austrian Internuticio at Constantinople
has employed his time lately in creating hostility,
between the diplomatic agents of France and Eng-
land throughout the East. The grave assertions
in these despatches must be known to the public
sooner or later. Another Ministerial modification
is expected.
The Moniteur pub'ishes a decree making a num-
ber of mutations, nominations, and promotions in
the French diplomatic body.
The Patrie contains the following reflections
on the satisfactory termination of the Constanti-
nople difficulty .
" The adhesion of. England to •the views of
'France in the East appears destined to produce
the results we had anticipated. Austria, who is
too skilful to remain isolated, resigns herself to
to the revocation of the Moldavian elections, while
Turkey, too equitable to struggle against allies
who had preserved her integrity, is disposed to
accept the denouement imperiously claimed by the
good faith of treaties and by political morality.
According to the latest and most authentic in-
telligence, Francs, England, Russia, AuStria, and
Sardinia are on the point of requesting the Sultan
to annul the elections in Moldavia, and the Sultan
himself will undoubtedly be led to defer to the
unanimous desire of Europe. This first point, which
may now b 3 considered solved, leaa-es unsettled the
fundamental question—that'of the organisation of
the principalities. But itresults from the declarations
of Lord Palmerston, confirmed by Lord Clarendon,
that this question cannot in itself give rise to any
difficulty. In fact, the congress of Paris will have
to pronounce itself- after the elections shall have
taken place mid., r the eyes of the commissioner,
of the six powers. We had anticipated this from
the commencement. Everything has therefore
been regulated in the spirit of the treaty. The
attitude of France, so well represented at Constan-
tinople by M. Thouvenel, has bad all the results
that could have been expected ; it has dissipated
all exclu,dva pretensions which could not agree
with the general interest of Europe, and has
strengthened more than ever the sincerity of our
alliances and the blessings of peace."
The Debats coetaies the following :
" The opposition manifested by Lord Palmer-
ston to the canal of Suez clies not proceed from
convic ion, from a pol tical idea in the real sense
of the word, but from an antiquated and puerile
prejudice which dates fro* 1808. We should
consider it an insult to M. Ferdinand de Lesseps
were we to defend him against dishonourable in-
sinuations, which can neither affect his reputation
nor character. To the meaningless sentences of the
Premier we might oppose the language of so excel-
lent an authority as Mr. Gladstone. The questou
of the Iszlimes of Suez is now well understood,
appreciate 1, awl judged, in every point of view ;
the c amulet cial world, -which i% mainlyinteref:ted
in its fortunes, the political World, awl the Wollclof
science have come to the same conclusion on the
subject. It may be sa'd that the public opinion of
Europe, and oven of England, has pronouncei
itself definitively betty: en Lord Palmerston and
the Suez can tl. Publiq opinion will maintain its
verdict, and attain the triumph of its idea."
PARIS, Tuesday evening.—The following were
the last quotaions :
Cash. fr. a.

End of Month.

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li per Cents
3 per Cents 67 5 67 15
Bank Shares 9,800 endit goncier —
Credit Mobilior 970 Roman
Do. Account 967 50 Austrian - 89,
Belgian 41
Piedmoutese (5) B94— Home Debt

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

THE RUMOURED MASSACRE OF FUGI-
TIVES FROM FUTTEHGHUR.
We have received the letter respecting
this frightful story. We can only hope that the
writer's doubts may be well-founded :
" In a leader of your issue of the 14:h inst. this
rumour is alluded to as a fact. Thus recognised,
and relating to the murder of 130 of our country-
men, the rumour must cause intense anxiety to
very many families on this side.
"Allow me, therefore, to show that there are
strong reasons for believing that the report, if not
purely a fabrication, will prove to be a gross exag-
geration of atrocities on a smaller scale, for which
the Rajah of Bithoor may have to answer.
" In a letter which I have received from Calcutta,
dated July 4, and of which I subjoin an extract,
the writer states his positive cUsbelief of the ru-
moured massacre, and only admits the bare possi-
bility of such an event. There is every reason to
accept as correct his information, that up t i the
20th or 21st of June everything remained quiet at
Futtehghur. Now, if this be true, the report must
be false. Futtehghur is 90 miles above Cawnpore,
and tho latter place is 115 miles above Allahabad,
where the rumour was first heard of on the 23d of
June. Those who know anything of the rate at
which the native river craft move will allow at least
two or three days from Futtehghur to Cawnpore,
even if the boats proceed singly, and nearly double
that time for a fleet of 50 boats keeping together,
which is implied in the rumour. If the boats pro-
ceeded separately, some out of so many must have
escaped. If they went in a fleet, which is almost
impossible, they could not have been at Cawnpore
even on the 23d of June, the date of the rumour at
Allahabad ; while two days at, least must beaal-
low ed for intelligence reaching the latter place from
Cawnpore, especially when there was no pdstal com-
munication.
" There are other circumstances which throw
discredit on the report. The revolted Sepoys at
Futtehghur committed no violence, but only de-
serted their service, and marched for Delhi. This
renders it wholly improbable that the Europeans
there should all have been seized with a causeless
panic, which, according to the Friend of India, oc-
casioned their flight. Up to the 4th of July the
authorities at Calcutta had no information of the
alleged slaughter at Cawnpore. So late as the Ist
of July General Havelock reported from Allahabad,
" Etawah and Futtehghur safe in our hands ;" and,
had such a frightful crime been perpetrated at
Cawnpore a week previou-ly, he must have known
of it. Then, may it not be held that my corre-
spondent's information, obtained through the best
native channels up to the 4th July in Calcutta, is
entitled to a preference over the accounts which the
Englishman and other Calcutta papers had received
nearly a week before ? In these accounts there is
one particular so inaccurate as to affect the credibi-
lity of the whole story. It is stated that the fugi-
tives were attacked at Bithoor (Bhitoor in the re-
port), landed and dragged to the Parade-ground at
Cawnpore, &o. Now, BithoOr is 12 miles above
Cawnpore.
" The version given in the -Phoenix of the 30th of
June seems to indicate the origin of all these flight
ful rumours. We are told that a Ghomastah,
writing from Allahabad, stated that he had left
*Cawnpore on the 18th of June, and reported that
`the Mahratta chief of Bithoor and other rebels
had put to death nearly 200 Europeans, including
al'ove 100 fugitives from, as he says, Nym e Tal.'
Now, it is quite probable that the homastah's re-
port may be so far true that the Bithoor Chief may
have put to death some unfortunate Europeans who
may have fallen within his power. This would be
foundation enough for tl,e tale of horror which, ac-
cording to the Bombay Times, was first bruited at
Allahabad on the 23d ofJune, which would be abiut
the probable time of arrival there of the G homes tab,
who left Cawnpore on the IBth.
"Putting ail the circumstances together. it ap-
pears to me that those (of whom I am- one) who
have friends in Futtehghur may hopefully look for-
ward to the receipt by. next mail of an authoritative
contradiction to the alarming rumours in qta estio'n."
" CALCUTTA, July 4.
"You will see in the newspapers that go by this
mail an account of the massacre at Cawnpore of
120 Europeans who ba'd fled from Futtehghur by
boa's for Allahabad. We do not believe the reports
of this affair, because, in the first place, there was
nothing like that number of Europeans in the place,
even including half-castes under tint head ; ale t,
because Government has had no account of the
transaction ; and further, because we learn from '
' the agents here of the Furrucabad shroff,, of whom
we make al post daily inqu'rie4, that up to the 20th
or 21st ult. (there is the uncertainty of a day, aris-
ing from the native method of noting dates), every-
thing at Futtebghur had remained quiet. Now,
these native bankers contrive to get their letters
conveyed when Government itslf fai's to do so ;
therefore, we feel inclined to place a goo" deal of
confidence in the accounts communicated by these
bazaar men. At the same time there is no
denying the possibility of the truth of the re-
ported massacre of the Futtehghur people. I only
hope that in the end it may prove not to be true,
and that by next mail we may be able to announce
that the communication between that station and
Allahabad has been restored, and that we have
heard from Mr. .---laimself as to his own eafety."
We have received the following letter on this
subject from Mr. H. F. Gibbons, of Brick-court,
Temple:—
It may perhaps be interesting to some of your
readers to know somewhat of Nana Sahib, the
wretch who is reported, to have committed the
wholesale murders at Bhitoor. He is not, I helieve,
as represented, the adopted son of the ex-Peishwa
Bajee Rao, nor does he pretend to be so, Dho Aldo
Punt being the adopted eon of that prince. He is
the eldest son of the ex-Peishwa's Soubandar, Ram-
chunder Punt, and is, as natives go, tolerably well
educated. During his father's lifetime he was on
ill terms with the Commissioner, Col mel Manson,
and was charged by him with forgery, but the
offence was not proved. He afterwards applied,
through his father the Soubandar, for the post of
commander oLcaafalry in the Gwalior service, butit
was refused him. On his, father's death he claimed
to succeed to the bulk of the paternal wealth
tinder a will which bad been made out in Mahrarta
and English, but the authorities considered it a
forgery, and his younger brothers &aiming equal
shares, as under an intestacy, the courts held him
entitled to only one-third, instead of Ethe whole.
His disaffected spirit must have been well known,
andlis having been left in possession of artil'ery
and such like means of offence is one of those
called
sw
tbiolcetxtphleain.Gvernment of India ought to
upon

THE MUTINY AT MHOW.

FORT, July fi.

What many of us have long feared has happened
—viz., a mutiny in our regiment, and in that of the
cavalry stationed with us. Nearly every regiment
of Sepoys in the army had mutinied ; and after
hearing of the fall of Delhi, and from our isolated
position, we expected that we might escape, but it
was not to be our fate ; it began as follows :
On the morning of the Ist we heard guns in the
direction of 'More, and about 11 o'clock two
guns passed through the centre of our cantonments,
and down the Bombay road. An hour after
they had passed an express CllllO in from
Indere' telling us the Residency had been attacked
by the Muisulman poputation of the city, and the
native troops had refused to fire on them ; that
Colonel Durand and all the Europeans that had
escaped the massacre were retreating on the Simirole
road, and that we were to stop the guns at all
hazards, as they were going to command a pass on
the Bombay road, through which Woodburn's
column had to march. When the order was given
for two companies of ours to turn out and a de-
tachment of cavalry I noticed our men were very
long turning out, and on the march would not step
out, although every moment was of consequence.
The cavalry were before us and came up with the
guns. Captain Brookes ordered a charge, but they
hesitated, and at last want on, he leading, and
killing one man who attempted to draw his sword.
The guns were taken by him, but he could not
disarm them until we came up, Wo took the arms
from the gunners, yoked the bullocks to the guns,
and came back to cantonments. I noticed how
sulky the men were, and when I went to the lines
to lodge their ammunition they .told me they had
an order to keep 40 rounds in their pouch, but I
would not let them, and there was a good deal of
grumbling, but they all pretended they were faith-
, tul to us, and onty wanted their arms in case they
were attacked from ludore. However, in riding
away from the lines I saw the men collected in
groups talking, and some with muskets in their
hands; this made me more suspicious, and I aviat
and reported it to the Colonel ; he, poet- •man,
thanked me, but evidently did not doubt the good
faith of the regiment. • • • • . Bo"'-
over, thank God, my representations, coupled with
the assistance of the, officer commanding the
Artillery, made him give orders fur the occupation
of the place we are now in ; but, to givse cur men
confidence in us, we had guards detached to our
bungalows, and had orders to sleep in our lines.
Our dinner was taken down to our serjeant-
major's house, close to the lines, and there we sat
down. During dinner we saw a. light on the r,:of
of our mess-house. I went up, and it was put out
by the cook. Not one of the Sepoys of the guards
was there. That made me nervous, but I went
back to the lines, and we all sat in &group, talking.
After a little while they came and tuld.-us there'
was light in another roof. I went up and beat
calt the fire with my cap, and wad assisted by a

Sepoy on guard from my own house. After ex-
tinguishing it I went back an sat down. Some
officer proposed we should then go to our beds at
the bells of arms of each of our companies, and
were going, when some one said, " The report is
the regiment will rise at 10 to-night." It then
wanted 10 minutes, and our major said, " Oh,
very well ; let's wait and see." By Jove, the words
were hardly 'uttered when we heard shots iu the
cavalry lines, and we all sprung up, some one cry-
ing out we were attacked in rear by the Bheels.
We all ran towards our companies, but as I got to
mine I was received by two shots, one in rear and
one in front ; an officer was behind me, and I sang
out, "The men are firing on us, there is no hope
—run." I then saw the adjutant galloping towards
our quarter guard ; he was received by a volley.
He, poor man, saw it was hopeless, andtold Dysart
to run. It was a bright, beautiful moonlight night-,
and we were in our white uniforms, so they could
see us for a long distance I ran and received a
volley from our grenadier company, but the bullets
went all round me. After a little I was dead beat,
and could not move, but, seeing a Syco running
away with an officer's horse, I seized it, and
mounted, but, not liking to carry away an animal
that belonged to another man who might be in
danger, I waited under the shade of an empty
guardhouse to see for him, but I heard footsteps,
and, looking round the corner, I saw the men of
our hospital guard within 50 yards of me. I thought
then I was done for, but put the horse to a gallop,
and heard a shot ping by me quite close. I then
made. for the fort, and found the gateway all con-
fusion. Our poor colonel was there on horseback,
and, infatuated to the last, would not.believe the
men had mutinied, and called on the adjutant to
follow him to the lines. That was the last we saw
of the poor fellows. We instantly disarmed the na-
tive guard in the fort, and turned them out,
mounted sentries at the bastions ourselves, and pre-
pared for the worst. It was a fearful night, some of
our officers were on picket duty by themselves, miles
out on the Indore-road, and we feared their death
was certain ; in fact, the escapes were wonderful.
One officer, who had hid in the bazaar all night,
came into the fort at daybreak, telling us the colonel
and adjutant of our regiment had been killed in our
lines, and that Major Herris was lying dead in the
road, shot by his own troopers. The only one we
could not account for was .Dr. Thornton, of the
cavalry. Hearing the bodies were lying there, we
resolved to bring them in, and went out with two
guns and some officers mounted to protect them.
The scene of
.pillage and confusion. was horrible ;
our messhotiee was burnt to the ground ; my own
house also. I have lost everything except my
sword and pistols, which I had on at the time of
this outbreak Having recovered the
bodies, and not knowing how many men were De ir
us, we returned to the fort and had the melancholy
task of burying them ; throughout all this I cannot
express the admiration I feel at the way tha ladies
have behaved—eheerful, and assisting in every way
in their power ; poor things, without servants or
quarters, huddled together, they have had to' d_i
everything for themselves, and employ all their
time in sewing bags for eovvder for the guns, well
knowing the awful fate that awaits them if the place
is taken ; there has not been a sign of fear, they
bring us tea or any little thing they can, and would
•ven like to keep watch on the bastions if we would
let them. . . Yesterday
Holkar'e Vakeel cams over and. disclaimed all
participation in the mutiny. We shall see if he
is sine -re, for they offered to send all the treasure
that was not carried off over. here, but I have my
doubts. We have no money, and the people round,
seeing the, state of affairs, won't let us have any-
Vain without paying for it. We hear Wooiburn's
column will be here on the 15th. God speed it !
There is no water in the fort ; we are dependent
for it from a well close by, and if we are invested I
don't know what we shalrdo. It all depends on
Holker, f r our mutineers -have marched to that
rail) ing place of the faithful, Delhi, to assist there.
I don't know whether you will ever get this-
letter, for the road is lined with people to in-
tercept the daks. Yoifthould see'the state we are
me king up eaniAt-r, ladies sewing powder
bags, people bringing plunder recovered, artillery
mounting guns, and I don't know what all ; all of
us dirty and tired' ith night watching ; we mount
sentry duty to take the weight of it off the artillery-
men ; we snatch sleep and food as we can ; we have
made a few foraging parties, and I succeeded in
driving back our mess sheepe4to the number of
15€), and recovered a lot of mess stores ; but all
our silver and furniture has been stolen and burnt.
Tnis is not a regular fort—merely a sort of store
place for spare guns, &e. But we are putting it
in as defensible a state as we can, and I think we
I shall stagger a few before they cap are it. Martial
law is proclaimed, and a gallows in course of erec
ton ott side the fort gates. Mercy is a word we
have scratched out; in fact, mercy to them is
death to us.

111 E. CILADSIONE AND Mb'. EDWIN
JAMES, Q.C.

The following "corraspondence has bean Fa'

lished :--

‘lBrookes'e Club, Saturday Evening, Aug. 15.

' "Sir,—My attention has been-drawn to the repo;t of
a speech delivered by you in the House of Commons on
Friday evening, in which 'you refer to observatiors
made by me, as counsel for the plaintiff,ln an action for
crinikal conversation tried at the assizes for the county
of Surrey.
" My speech is inaccurately reported.
"I neither intended to institute, nor did I institute,
any parallel between the witness nolo whom evidence I
was commenting and yourself; still less was it my in-
tention to represent your coriduot as derogatory and
unbecoming.
"The proceedings taken by the Duke of Newcastle
to obtain a divorce from his wife have become a matter
Publici J uris'—a subject of forensic history—and I
do not consider that I transgressed the fair limits of the
advocate in referring to them.
"The sentiment which I intended to convey to the
jury was, that a man of the highest position and the
most unsullied honour might, from feelings of friendship
and from the most.siticere motives, lend his assistance
to another in prdcuring the evidence essential to obtain
a separation from a wife who had dishoLoured him, and
who, he believed, was no longer worthy to bear his name.
"Since my return to town I have read the testimony
given by you in support of the Bill in the House of
Lords, and which I think jtistifies the statement which
I made in the couranof my address to the jury.
"I venture to suggest that it is due to y .urself. and
to me that you should read this letter in your place in
the House of Commons, and I beg the favour of your
informing me whether you will comply with this request.
Should you accede, the necessity for any other mode of
publication will be obviated.
" I have the honour-to be, Sir,
"Your obedient servant,
" EDWIN JAMES.
"To the Right Hon. W. R Gladstone, Esq.,
M.P., &c."

" 11, Carlton-house-terrace, Aug. 17.
"Sir,—l have had the honour to receive this evening
your letter of the 15t,,, and I regret that I cannot con iply
with the request which it contaios:
" Whether the rules of the House of Commons would
permit me to read that letter to the house, I have .not
inquired ; for, even if they should do so, I could not
ask the house to listen to a document the most material
part of which I could read coly to question and cur
tradict.
"So far as I am concerned, the matter will rest upon
my evidence before the House of Lords, and my state-
ment in my place.
"Of course I cannot have the smallest objectio n to
the publicati ,n of your letter, and you are quite, at
liberty to add this note I now Write, or not, as 3rou
think fit.

"I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your most obedient servant,
" W. E. GLADSTONI

" Edwin-James, Ecq., Q C., &c."

STATE OF TRADE.

mINCHESTER, AUG. 18
•
We have had a considerably larger business bet h in
cloth and yarn. In cloth there has been more doing 3 in
nearly all descriptions, including longcloths and T-cl* 'the.
A rather better demand has also been experienced in
fabrics suited to China. The advises from India b ave
been variously interpreted, but the general tenon* of
private commercial letters has been discouraging. Tb era
has, notwithstanding, been a large business in India fabr ies,
some large purchases having been made on speculati
and, stocks of India goods having been cleared • off,
manufacturers are holding for higher prices. In ya rns
shippers to India have been operating to so me
extent, but the chief business has been for Germai ty.
The accounts to hand of the prospects of trade in
Germany are- very encouraging, and the se lee
have been rather large, with an advance of fully Id. j per
lb. In some cases sellers have realized fd. per lb. higl
ier
than the rates of last week. The home tract& in yarns is
also reported as rather brisk, at an advance of id. per lb.
Messrs. John Slam and Co. report of the cloth- market ,
" The last accounts to hand from India,though on 1.-110
whole considered favourable so far as political affairs , r.re
concerned, have not yet led to any increase of buosin
,enss-
from that quarter; but, owing to the aspect of the tt`
fikrmetecsr, at:
)tol
market, even manufacturers of India goods are
price and less disposed to sell. ' For other 119_ ces
home and foreign, there is still a good der-rou'llaA.reanne'illri
for nearly all kinds of goods are gradually hard •
Mr. G. Fs aser SOD, aud Co. report,—
rates, and in many instances higher prices y
firm in'pric
" The market 'for yarns is more active to-hdaavyeabt
been pi
nitet
prises, .0
than previously. goods also are
looking upwards, but without any
India fabrics remain quite neglected,
buty
ale withyat
ain the de dr
oTteivit
change in prlo '." -