The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-08-16 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

INDIA. Thu following is from a Calcutta correvondent  CaLcurre, July 4. The affair of the fith Europeans is over, and the quarrel between the soldiers of the old army and the Government may be considered settled. There was something so comic mixed up with the proceedings of the men at Ilerhampore, something so utterly anel unexpected in some of their acts, that you will find even officers dist.* sl to treat the mutiny with contempt. It wail, however. • serious affair. The regiment was about 600 strong. and had expressed its opinion in the matter of the transfer with offensive clearness. It continued, however, to do duty until the arrival of some deserters from Allahabad, who taunted the men with doing unnecessary duty. Nearly 500 of the men hereupon refused to do any duty whatever, upon which the anumanding officer. Major Maitland, ordered the officers to withdraw. This step exasperated the men, as it implied • danger of assassination, and they elected officers of their own, one Marshall being chosen colonel, and assisted by • major, two captains, and four ser,p-ants. Major Maitland now withdrew all servants, punkah coolies, ruin, and, in fact, everything except rations, which it wan impossible to stop without an explosion. Fortunately for all parties, Marshall turned out • man of some capacity and resolution. Ho threatened to flog the first man caught looting, and carried his menace into execution. Another man, guilty of disrespect, received 50 lashes, and the regiment was brought into • state of discipline to which it was entirely unaccustomed. The men played cricket under their officers' noses, but otherwise remained quiet enough, opening, however, a correspondence with the 6th at Hasareebagh. At last, on the 26th of June, Colonel Kenneth Mackenzie, Deputy-Adjutant-Gerieral—not Colonel Cohn Mackenzie, who only went up to Protect Moorshedabad,— arrived with 1,000 men of Her Majesty's 99th and the Buffs, and four guns. He placed his men and offered the mutineers 24 hours to consider themselves. If at the expiration of that time they returned to duty, • court of inquiry would be held into their grievances; if not he should employ force. The men, 39 excepted, submitted, and the recusants were arrested. The court of inquiry is now sitting, but it seems perfectly understood that the men will be simply discharged. I feel very doubtful whether even the ringleaders will be punished. The discharge will apparently be nearly universal. (If 50 recruits at Barrackpore, all demanded it except two. All the men in the arsenal took it at once, and even the Governor-General'a band declared their resolution to "resign." The sth, it is known, will go ea Name, and letters begin to come in speaking of dischargeo by the hundred. We shall, in fact, lose the whole substance of the Company's European army, which has thus, like its native comrade, committed suicide. The men calculate on • pleasant voyage to England without work, three month's holiday at home, and re-enlistinent on fresh howdy. They share, moreover the feeling of dislike to the country, now so lamentably strong even among officers, and have been, finally, idle in the tropics for months. The Govenior-General has ordered that Thursday, the lSth of July, shall be kept as • day of thanksgiving for the restoration of peace in India. There is literally no further news, except that the Supreme is, has been reduced to one man—Sir James Outrain. Sir Barnes Peacock has taken his seat in the Supreme Court, Sir B. Frere is still in Saute and Mr. Ricketts is away sick at the Neilgherries. Harrington, member for the North-West, haa mourningly been called to Council for the nouce,—• step almost without a precedent.