The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-02-10 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

KOOKS MUTINY.  There is a mystery &boot the mutiny of the Kookas. a Ilindoo caste or tribe, and the tensible retribution inflicted upon them, which requires clearing up in a fuller form than we can expect to find in telegraphic dospanthes. All we know is that the Ifookixs, to the number of three hundred, attacked a Government fort or station in the Northweet. stanewlaere between Delhi and Umbells, and killed one or two soldiers of the garrison, but were promptly repulsed, and literally hunted down. Of the captives, we ore told, Deputy-Commissioner anCall cleated fifty men to tie shot, and all these, with the exception of one who was cut down in breaking wooly, were blown from the mouths of gems in the horrid style which suede the retribution for the last gTaat mutiny Co hideous. Sixteen more wore executed—it is supposed in the same way —by the orders of Mr. Forsyth, the commissioner at Mmballa, and of the remainder it is stated that sixtY-1 six men and two women, terrified, half-famished, find twenty-nine of them wounded, submitted in the end to four men. An immediate inquiry into the whole circumstances has been ordered by the Government, and there seems need of this, since there were 15,000 men of all arms in the neighbourhood in Ihe camp of exercise at Delhi. We require information as to who the Kookas really are, what was the cause of their so-called mutiny, and why it was considered necessary to punish them with each terrible severity. It looks as if C,ommiosioner Forsyth and Deputy-Cemmissimer Cowan had lest their heads, wren though they lad the Delhi army within easy 41i4anoo to crush anything in the shape of rebellion.  0111T,D VirRDER. —On kuiday the police arrested S,ral,Ron (25), lauudtmi, Comynetreet Leamingtin, for murdering ter illegitimate child, William Reason, sls mouths old, by drowning him in the canal at Emcote. The child was found, three week's ago, tied up in a black shawl, but stripped of everything that might lead to ilentifieation. The evidence at the inquest showed that death was caused by drowning. The prisoner first mid her child was being nnrsol at Stratford on-Avon, but confessed that the, shawl was hers, and that she, threw the child into the venal, aftsr giving aim:id:um m, because she woe destitute.  IN Eurepo the chief power of the magnet was pertiaps known but never applied for a thousand yeare. An Icelandic writer, Aro Frode, makes the gnat mention of it near the year 1100, stating that, a Ikandred years before, a famous pirgte went in search of Iceland under the guidance of three ravens, trained for the purpose, since in those days sailors of northern regions did not yet know the use of the leadetone." Fir he called it the lead or leading stone, from which our loalistone in derived. Even this historian, however, know only a magnet ono Fended by a thread, and the compass itself was yet undiscovered. At first the magic needle was need with amusing clumsiness, as we learn from a manescript dated 1206 in tho Itoyul Library in Paris. An ugly black stone, called moi-; si 're, we are told, which sailors valued highly, was fibre out when nights were dark, and a needle robbed with it lightly; the latter was then cunningly placed in a straw, and set afloat in a basin, when the point would indicate the 'Borth.