The Washington union., 1857-09-17
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. THE NEWS
BY THE PERSIA


late date as the 4th. The mutiny In India Is still the
monument topic In the English journals We make tho
following extract from elaborate article m the Lohd
News of the 4th
There cannot be a more dangerous deusion than tho
belief which certain journals attempting to PROPAGATE
that the worst is already In India 80 far om tk
being the case all the most Intelligent Indian soldiers
and civilians at present in this country the abest officials
al the India House. and the most respected members Of
the cabinet are convinced that the next mail from India
will bring more disastrous news than the last
We make room for the following letter from the Lon.
don correspondent of the New York Commercial Adver.
tiser, written ON the 4th
There has been little OF interest since the departure Of
the Baltic The next Indian news viii not be due until
this day week As the last mail, however, got in i've
days before its time the same thing may occur again.
neciav s ON this occasion there will be nothing from
China and the Calcutta steamer will thus avoid deen
ton of about twentyfour hours which sometimes takes
place at Point Ie Gale if the arrival from Hong Kong
not punctua Meanwhile the papers are filled with
from the various OF horror every scrap
of which taken sngly would seem to tell an unparalleled
tale but which in mass from its horrid sameneSs and
occasional repettons beginning to pail upon the public
mind.
Nevertheless full study of all these letters essen
tia to complete insight to position and prospects
Each writer in his degree makes plain some point of
ton OF peculiarities of topography, race, Or
ganization, which in connection with such country rc-
formed of final probabilities. These persons all describe
things from their own individual field Of view and often
express the most contrary opinions The English reader
by weighing the whole detect what is merely preu
dice OF the result of local Influences and by
separating II from the observed facts about which there
can be no Question is enabled to effect comprehensive
survey which person actually resident In India but
cupyng only limited district, could ever gain. Thus
it is on the banks of the Thames not q the Ganses
that the best estimate is formed of what going
marvellous consequence of those powers OF journalism
which during the Russian it was the grand aim OF In
efficient bgotry to extingush
Possibly, even in the present case this feeling Will
soon be revived in many quarters Hitherto the public
the press the Indian authorities and the home govern
ment have all been absorbed in unanimous feeling
sympathy for the sufferers admiration OF their herolm
and anxiety for their But when the immediate
crisis over and permanent remedies are to be adopted
the spirit of obstruction will rise again. and then the
press prepare to encounter the old animosity Al
ready it is beginning to state some things that Will excite
ire For instance, the fact has been exposed that the
Calcutta government had absolute warning OF what was
going to take place months before the utiny broke out
Not merely he warnings OF opinion, such as were e1
pressed by old General Napier but clear unmsaksbc
announcements such those which preceded the gun.
powder-plot in England and which, through being at
tended to, saved King and Parliament. In November
last Gholab Singh old Sikh cheftan, wrote TO Lord
Canning the governor general at Calcutta that the Mo
hammedans intended to rse and had offered him the dre
tion Of the projected movement The government it's
their elcompacent wisdom they doubtless looked upon
it as trick of the old to ngratiate himself but
allowing the probability Of this supposition, what gov
with spark of prudence would have sighted the
intelligence and left it without attempt at nycstga
ton This however Is as nothing compared with what
fellows An English merchant had had his suspicious
excited and converted into certainty, and upon
communicating his information to government he re-
ceived the same treatment.
This person il stated to have been Mr.. Hamilton lie
had long carried business iii Cawnpore and Alahabad
and had gained the confidence Of the native dealers From
these he received friendly notice to send away his fam
ily in six months At first he refused but at last he be-
came convinced there impending peril, and he
followed the advice. AT the time he wrote to the
government and offered to obtain further particulars
But the authorities too well satisfied With their own
knowledge and this letter. like that from 6holab singh
not acknowledged. 1t is to be admitted that
these statements may require confirmation but they
strong appearance of truth Assuming them to be cor
rect the history of human conceit and apathy hardly
furnishes similar instance of mfatuation Either fact
taken singly might have been expected to excite vigi
lance but the two from such totally different sources
amounted to handwriting upon the wall which only
official Nebuchadnezzar would have dsregarded Moth
ing done, and Delhi the great arsenal Of the coun
try left without single company OF European
troops while the Calcutta authorities were busy in fra
ming law to extend the native power to bring the
people perfect political equality with their rulers and
to enable them to sit judges In the law courts.
The London money market is without much atera-
In the Stock Exchange the rate for advances govern
ment securities ranges between and per cent but in
the discount market the Bank minimum of 81 per cent
continues to be freely paid The bullion in the Bank has
lately increased but not to the extent that might have
been expected from the large arrivals At this period
the year. however, there is always peculiar drain caused
by the fight of tourists to the continent. London de-
Serted and although letters of credit on foreign bankers
the principal things taken by travellers each man
provides himself with moderate amount of gold, and
these small totals make in the aggregate very heavy
sum-
Consols at the last date wero quoted at 9O and they
have closed this evening at 903
The shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company are less
firm 1t was recently expected that their cable would
be purchased at full price by of two companies who
proposing telegraph to India But it appears that
slowed Is board ship, the centre of the coil &C
cumulates amount of heat which raises Its empea
ture at least ten degrees above that of the surface Inc
gutta percha is thus liable to become sotencd and In
very climate such must be encountered in cross
ing the tropics the result would be to force portions
the copper wire to the outside and destroy insulation
is said that during hot Sunday at Gravesend on
the Thames about so go miles Of the existing cape
spoiled in this Any cable to be sent 70
India must il is considered be coed in portions SO as 70
admit of ventilation the constant flow Of stream
water upon it.
The report OF the Liverpool cotton market for the week
shows continued activity and an advance of Id per 10
The wheat market has been firm at the late decline
The steady summer heat which prevailed almost unn'e
ruptedy for four months has at length given way sh
during the past three days have had rain storms anu
comparatively low thermometer.
The next steamer from this side will be the Ariel on
the 9th 1t is Just possible although not probable tha
she may take out fresh India news At all events you
scarcely fail to have the next accounts at an ea
date via Halifax by the Canada, which leaves for Boston
the 18th Our latest dates from New York are TO wv