The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1858-02-09 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE MUTINY IN INDIA.—A blue-book of 300 pages published on Tuesday, gives the "Appendix" (A) to further papers (No. 5) relative to the mutinies in the East Indies. The papers now printed consist exclusively of brief "enclosures," contained in the more important despatches already published, the contents of which have long sinoe been exhausted. The only point likely to strike the reader is the short "passage of letten" between Mr. Taylor, the Commissioner of Patna, and Mr. Richardson, who quitted his post at Chupra in to extraordinary a manner in the course of the summer. Mr. Richardson, in reply to Mr. Tayler's remonstranoes, complains that his letter is worded very strongly, and says he is perfectly aware that he is in his (Mr. Tayler's) bad books, although he thinks he deserves credit for the way in which he had cleared his treasury of nearly 15 lama of rupees within 10 days, and without assistance. Mr. Taller, in reply, affecte not to know what his correspondent means by being in his "bad books," unless he refers to something about the "institution," and bow Mr. Richardson could mention so paltry a matter  at such • crisis Mr. Taylor expresses his utter incapacity to conceive. This correspondence will be found at pp. 78 and 79. The dates of the letters, Bce„ in this appendix do not extend beyond the month of July. EUROPEANS AND iNDTANS.—At a dinner of welcome given by the wealthy natives of Bombay to the European soldiers recently landed from England, Lord Elphmstone took the opportunity of reading something in the shape of a lesson to those who confound in one common dislike all classes of Indians. He affirmed " that with very few exceptions the revolt had been purely military, and that the great body of the people had nothing to do with it ;" that in Oude only had there been anything like a popular adlision to their cause, while in Rohilcund the feeling had been decidedly in our favour. He added that in /kind, where there were those who owed us no good will, whose greatness had been extinguished by no, and 4hoeo power had been reduced or nullified by our successes, the conduct of the mutineers and their associates had been viewed with disgust and indignation; and he quoted the words spoken by Shen Mahomed, one of the ex-Ameers of Scinde, to the effect "that this was not like meeting the English in the field, and that the fiends who murdered women and children deserved the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah." These expressions Lord Elphinstone dwelt on with pleasure, because he mid he had heard that the professions now made by the natives of Bombay were considered insincere and hollow by some who believed that they should have been publicly made at an earlier period, when the symptoms of the re-establishment of our rule were less decided than they had since become. Against such sentiments Lord Elphinstone considered it is duty to protest, reminding his hearers that the wealthy natives of Bombay had been among the first to come forward with subscriptions in aid of the suffers in the mutinies and expressions of indignation at the cruelties perpetrated in various parts of the country; that Bombay was the oldest possession of the English in India; and during 200 years no attempt had ever been made to subvert our rule. All this, and more to the same effect, Lord Elphinstone urged to his listeners, whom, let us hope, he convinced of the truth of his views.