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DIA : PROGRESS OP THE REVOLT , ii had not fallen up to the 27 th June . , in brief , is the substantial intelligence 1 we gather from the Overland Mail irrived . But even this curt announcehas a painful significance Our readers loubtless bear in mind that the preceding bin ran thus : — " Delhi still held out on . 7 th June . " Thus it appears that the ary interval of at least a fortnight , which ist advices clearly indicate , has furnished
ben days' later news from the British before the beleaguered city . In other 3 , we have a fatal assurance that the means of communication are becoming and more impaired by the spread of ler . For , at such a juncture , the arm il authority is of necessity more or less yzed , and a moral rather than a physical : was earnestly looked for , as the hapmeans of repressing extreme licence , capture of Delhi would have all the L effect desired ; and its continued occua by the mutineers cannot but have an
proportionally sinister . Under such instances , it is impossible to suppose that ilatory proceedings can have been authovely sanctioned . The rainy season , sver , commences in the North-West nces about the middle of June , renderjt ive military operations almost impos-( so that even nature supplied arguments st delay . 3 on a former occasion , expressed our lingness to enter on a minute criticism r H . BAjtNjyan ' s military conduct ; we 3 same time pointed out the injustice of ig that officer responsible for neglects hortcomings apparent in a force of which ta summoned to take command at a
mos notice . But , after makiug every j able allowance , we cannot but feel surprise at the passive line of proceedvhich the General seems advisedly to > . [ Rejecting all the fabulous nonsense i has obtained too extensive currency , *
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THE EXPIRING SESSION . The new Parliament has made its trial trip , and the Government puts into the recess in rather a leaky condition . At first the engines worked smoothly , the wind blew fair , and Mr . Haytbb , who carries the grease-pot , went to his work evening after evening with smiling serenity . By-and-by , the House got among the estimates , and here navigation was not so easy . Bulky millions , of course , were voted without much consideration , but the
independent members on both sides have evinced a disposition to criticise the minor items . Moreover , the Cabinet stood upon ground this session which will not support it the next ; it can scarcely hope to draw the state salaries of 1858 without a policy . At fir ^ fc Lord PAiiMEnsTON was aafe , T ) ecause the new Parliament was not in working order ; next , the majority of four hundred took a start , and followed its leader like a riding-school cantering over jthe Sussex- downs . Then .
came the Indian revolt , and Government asked for nothing but power , and the Souse of Commons could not give less than support . But before the close of the recess , the country will expect that something decisive shall have been done in Bengal , and that the Ministry shall have determined upon large political plans applicable to domestic as well as to Eastern affairs . Otherwise , it will meet a House of Commons not at all disposed to be driven like a team of superannuated cattle . The independent Liberals would be p owerful , if united ; and we have already indicated certain apparent tendencies to this essential union . Mr . BaiaHT is once more in
Parliament , and he carries with him the suffrages of the nation . A man so vigorous and experienced must materially assist in the conduct of an opposition to any laissezfaire or deceptive policy ; besides , there are the new members ; and these , far from dumb during their first session , will be far from insignificant during their second . Mr . Aybton , of the Tower Hamlets , has taken up a conspicuous position ; Mr . White , of Portsmouth , is a man to whom the Liberal party looks with some degree of anticipation ; Mr .
CoNiNGha ¥ , of Brighton , has struck one or two hard blows at ' the system ; ' Mr . Cox , of Finsbury , has been a judicious colleague of Mr . Duncombe—no longer , unhappily , the Dttncombe of former days , since he has sacrificed his health no less than his time to the service of the Liberal cause . Of Mr . Locke , the new member for Southwark , a satisfactory report may be made ; but other gentlemen there are whose promises were sweet upon the hustings who may be useful in the sense that vaults and foundations are
useful in the construction of a house , but who have not shown above ground , and are certainly neither decorative nor terrible . The net results of the Session have been singularly insignificant . Among the best is the new Divorce Bill . The vote . on Civil Service Superannuation has been satisfactory to a large class of deserving gentlemen , although it was opposed by some Liberals on the ground that it was a little piece of legislative jobbery , perpetrated in the interest of such officials as Sir Chables TBEVEiiTAN " ,
who is understood to put into his purse , in consequence of the innovation , a clear annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds sterling . But why begrudge Sir Charges this little golden whittling when the same resolution that brought an affable beam upon his purist countenance sent a smile through Somerset House ? But the great collapse of the session has been Lord John Bfsseli ., who has a faculty for collapsing . Any man , with three fingers and a smattering of grammar , could have made a better mess of it than he did with his Oaths Bill and his committee . Did
he mean , however , to do more than fail r At all events we know whp gains by the trickery Lord John Russexi . has a popular topic ready for next session which he has ingeniously taken out of Lord Palmebston ' s hands ; Lord Palmebsxon has hung a sfcone round the neck of the Earl of Debby , and we are not quite sure that the Tories would regret to see the question altogether sunk in a royal assent . Of one thing only we are sure— -that Lord Paimebston ' s paiLicular friends consider us dupes if we expeot that next February he will come down with a Reform Bill .
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MURDER WON'T OUT . The murder of Mr . Lmxw is still a mystery , A poor inoffensive gentleman is brutally beaten to death by some ruffian in a railway station , while trains were coining in and going out , while housekeepers were going bheir rounds to see that everything was safe ,
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mongst other wild communications , wo have aeon it a letter in which the -writer ( professedly an speaks of a meditated night assault , which was ted because tho Brigadier commanding the outpickets had been kept unacquainted with tho d movement ,
and which , if correctly reported , would stamp Sir H . Babnabb and his Staff as unacquainted with , the first principles of soldiership , we cannot but think that the tactics hitherto pursued are ultra-Fabian . Delhi , at all events , is not a Sebastopol . No inner mystery , no inexhaustible resources , lurk behind that ' garden wall , ' which—however impregnable to hordes of Mahratta cavalry , unsupported by heavy ordnance—has no pretensions to resist the appliances of modern warfare . The number of the mutineers -within
the city is wholly inadequate to garrison the wide circuit of its defences ; and General Babnabi >' s force is as clearly inadequate to the undertaking of a formal siege . There is , at the same time , little , if any , doubt that the numerical superiority is on the side of the Government force . Regarding the strength of the rebels , we have noticed that the most gross exaggerations have been put forth ; whereas , it is an ascertained fact that their muster-roll has not at any time exceeded eight thousand men ( Sepoys ) , if , indeed , it ever reached that amount . On the other hand , a formal siege can never have been contemplated : an army of seventy thousand
strong would not more than suffice for such an object . The place , whether sooner or later , must be carried by a coup de main . What excuse , then , can be assigned for a delay which is not only unseasonable but ruinpus in its moral consequences , we cannot undertake to say . Ghuznee was a harder nut to crack , and the exigency scarcely greater . It is most devoutly to be wished that the next mail may bring us tidings of more decisive import . We cannot but mistrust vague accounts of' tremendous repulses' ' awful slaughters . ' Had the rebels really suffered to the extent which such phrases imply , in six or seven successive actions , there should
have been none of them surviving by this time . In the meanwhile the progress of disaffection has received no check . Scarcely half a dozen regiments of the Bengal army have stood aloof from the revolt . The Bombay Sepoys remained firm . But remembering that about half the Bombay army is composed of the same materiel as that of Bengal , we cannot but wish that a favourable turn of events should , as speedily as possible , operate to resolve all doubts and difficulties .
Apart from matters connected with the revolt , the most curious item of Indian intelligence is that which exhibits the first fruits of Lord Canning ' s Press Gag Act . The ever decorous Friend of India , & staunch advocate of Government , has been the first to receive a formal ' warning' from the authorities . The offensive matter was contained in an article entitled " The Centenary of Plassy . "
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NOTICES , CORRESPONDENTS . -WereKret that we cannot infringe our rule , ; which struMn the name and address o ? a « "TO ^ S £ " ! » communicated to us in confidence . . A leilteT * lg ™* ^ initials and dated from aclub is not in <» mpl ™ e h this invariable requirement . » ° ^ . ° "WE ? " * ild do us the favour to read our repeated articles on subject of his communication a little more closely , he Lid perhaps be willing to perceive that his objections a ^ SttSSSS- ^^ Sl ^ H-e diseussic ^ of nature apparently so precious to our correspondent at mham .
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e the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to room for correspondence , even the bneiest . apossible to acknowledge the mass of letters wejre-) . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a prera atter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reaquite independent of the merits of the commumcatice can Tie taken of anonymous correspondenceteveris intended for insertion must be authenticated le name and address of the writer ; not necessarily ublication , but as a guarantee of his good faith , mot undertake to return rejected communications .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 781, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2205/page/13/
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