The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-22
AFFAIRS IN EUROPE,
Our London Correspondents.


LONDON. Oct 80, 1857.
The Fag of Dehi-Home Doftings-State Of Our
MoraIs-TAs Taierloo Bridge Mltiiation Case
-Shvtcrecks on the Coastboard- Devastating
Eyeods-TXs Queen--7He Keans--M Modern Au-
trshsp.
.Judieium Del, Delhi has fallen! If it be a
triumph TO record the slaughter Of many of our
brave soldiers and of the mutneers, we have been
triumphant. Our Indian war, we must admit, is
one of selfdefence, and it is said that war is just
with those to whom it is necessary. This change
for the better in Eastern belligerent state has
frightened up society (savc those who have rea-
lions at the seat of war;, and in the metropolis
the atmosphere is to-day clearer and the sun is posi-
lively struggling forth at the West end for it has
long since cut the city. There the news from your
side has, to say the least of it, kept the markets
dull and thrown business generally into state OF
stacnation. The bruins of the Stock Exchange and
their outside friends, owing TO the comparative small
shipment of specie have not realized the rain Of
of Danaide. The bulls have been and are in state
of inaction, neither losers nor gamers.
Murders, suicides, robberies, from street taking
pockets as they come and on the highway, burgla-
ries, swndlings principally amongst people in the
respectable walks of society, fraudulent bank
cleaning of the papers by the present mail not to be
on the decrease The rule appears to be the excep-
ton. and speaks volumes for the state of English
ciety.
The Waterloo bridge mystery remains still some.
thing secret and hidden. Professor Taylor has
examined the remains and clothes, and indeed all
that stands IN evidence and the verdict OF the jury
is the usu leturn in such cases, murdered by some
person or persons unknown"
The past and passing heavy gales on the coast
have caused and are causing disasters dire to the
shipping and the loss of many lives. As proven
tive is supposed to be efficacous than a cure,
let hope for satisfactory results from the pa
tented invention ''for preventing ships from going
on rocks" Again, great loss of lives and property
has occurred in the counties of Essex, Kent and
Surrey, by the great floods.
The Arabia yesterday brought US back Mr.. Arce-
deckne the worthy Commodore of the Harwich
and Vice Commodore of the London Yacht
Clubs. last evening Mr.. Arcedeckne took the
chair at the monthly meeting of the London Club,
where he was warmly greeted, and this morning he
started off for Harwich, where he has been solicited
to represent that ancient borough in Parliament
owing to the death Of Mr. Warburton (brother of the
late f. Waiburton) by suicide.
The Queen has intimated to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Keene that she will not this season entertain
her theatrical friends at Windsor, owing, doubt
to the distressing accounts frem Bengal.
There are rumors Of a row in the literary world
here, in reference to the works of Mr.. Charles
Reade, published by Messieurs Bentley. Mr.. Reade
though not an original writer, has, it appears
adopted "the original plan of "novelling' French
dramas, plays and vaudevilles. Thus his Never too
Iste to Mend is a free translation of the Claudia
of George Sand and lies Chercheurs dor de la Cali.
fornie white Lies, now publishing in the London
Journal, word for word, lie Chateau de Grander y
CLOUDS and Sunshine" Tin "The Course of True Love
Never did Run Smooth, y line for line from Madame
peur.' and so on. So you see the French copyright
law ia no protection to French authors.