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      T HE intelligence from India is indeed ominous , and the intelligence in this country scarcely yet rises to the level of the necessity . From the facts which have since been brought forward we can now comprehend something of the scope of the conspiracy , for such evidently it was—long

      prepared , comprehensive , and if it had succeeded , fatal to our power in India . At present the conspiracy does not appear to have extended beyond Bengal . Most probably it has had slight , if any , ramifications in Madias , none perhaps in Bombay . It would be very rash to assume the negative with regard to some of the foreign states neighbouring on Bengal , or even emissaries from states not so neai \ There

      was to have been an outbreak in Calcutta . The King of Oude and his minister have been arrested and consigned to Fort William . In the meanwhile the mutiny has spread . Regiments in Calcutta and Barrackpore have been disarmed , and at ot her places regiments have either been disbanded or have deserted . The mutinous force is now estimated at 50 , 000 , which , we presume , is exclusive of the merely disarmed and * disappeared' soldiers . Delhi has not been taken , but , on the contrary , it lias within its walls , or closo by encamped outside the town , a force of

      30 , 000 . Our own force , 3000 or 4000 strong , has repelled sorties , but without a siege train—which was cut off by a mutinous movement before the previous mail—it was totally inadequate to make any attempt at storming . The telegraph , whoso despatches arc all that we have yet had , while we write , declares that the Bengal army has ceased to exist—a statement that must bo received ' with a grain of salt . ' In the meanwhile , however , en ' orts were made to recruit regiments in the Punjab ; and urgent despatches were sent , to intercept the British force on its way to China . Every

      post was strengthened as much iim possible . Sir Patjuck Ghakt and Sir Cor . iN CampnBtL had boon added l . o the Government ; Sir rATiucit being called to Calcutta , which scorns irom sonic foots to huvo become now tlio point ol t ic greatest anxiety . And naturally so . Horc nre tho largest amount of resident British ; and although in many respects Bombay hns beoonio more important , the loss of Calcutta , oven for n time , would inllict n frightful moral blow upon our powor in Jadm . At present it in evident that the British lorces , or the native forces that remain faithful to

      our flag in the Bengal Presidency , are . not equal to sustain our power in that Presidency . We turn , then , to sec the view which Government takes of this intelligence , and what is the effect of the Parliamentary intervention invoked by Mr . Disraeli . He did not wait for the mail , and indeed he presented a view which was to a certain extent independent of the fortnight ' s news , though his position would have been strengthened by the

      receipt of it . A great part of his speech was comparatively of little value . He insisted tliat the outbreak was not a mere military mutiny , but a ' national revolt ; ' he computed two hundred Princes as likely to defect from allegiance to our rule ; and represented the whole course of reforms as threatening to denationalize the Hindu and'the Mussulman , and hence to render British government alarming and odious . He finished this somewhat discursive

      and not altogether apposite view with a mere motion for ' papers . ' As it was only a ' fishing motion , ' lie ran a chance of catching nothing ; and so it turned out . He asked for two papers—a letter by Sir Charles James Napier to the Duke of AVellinoton on the organisation of the Bengal army , and a communication of some kind by General Anson to Lord Canning on the recent condition of the Bengal army . But the paper by Napier relates to the defence of the frontier , not to the organisation of the Bengal army , and it is not

      suitable for publication . The other lottcr is declared by Mr . Vernon Smith to be non-extant—at least he says lie lias not found it . But the answer on this subject looks more evasive than precise ; and it is generally believed tliat such a paper docs exist . In the course of his speech—which coiv Laincd many points worthy ef consideration by the public , Mr . Disraeli recommended two measures : —the issue of a proclamation in India by the Queen , bringing her in closer connexion with her Hindoo subjects , and declaring that their rights should bo sustained , their grievances examined :

      and th o immediate- issue of a Royal Commission , to inquire into tlm whole state of India , its defect a of organisation , and its grievances . Ministers met thotte propositions by a kind of compromise . They have virtually promised , through Mr . Veiinon Smith , a thorough reorganisation ol ' tlio Bengal army ; and , indeed , to use n vulgarism , it is scarcely conceivable that cvon ofllcinl persona ' should bo such fools' as to reconstruct the army on the very principles which have conduced to its present alarming disruption , Having . in view tlio state of Delhi and the diversion , of the siege train ,

      Mr . Vernon y inexpediency of placing the artillery in Native hands . Ministers assent to the issue of a commission , bat it must be under the authority of the Governor-General ; must not supersede him ; and must be instructed to investigate only particular grievances . The compromise indicates a policy of shortcomings —the very thing that would be most fatal in India . Better abandon Bengal than attempt to trim in the measures for retaining it .

      Remarkably enough , no further announcements have been made respecting the despatch of continuous reinforcements , although the news evidentlj calls for lar ger supports than any which have been contemplated on the receipt of the previous mail . The Emperor of the Trench in a few days will leave his somewhat unsettled kingdom , with the preparations for trying the Italian assassins and the endless intrigues of Paris , to enjoy . a brief visit to Osbornc ; and it is said that he comes in great part charged to re assure our own gracious Sovereign of his fidelity to the English alliance—our emergency in India notwithstanding , —and of his readiness to counteract our old foe of the Crimea .

      This is kind of his Majesty ; the more so since the alliance of the Princess Charlotte of Belgium with the Archduke Maximilian of Austria , —wedded by her father King Leopold in the presence of our Prince Consort and tho head of the Sake Cobueg family , —indicates n tendency of German alliances not peculiarly fa vourablc to the supposed views of

      France . In pursuing , even into tho cradle oCGotha , the last ramifications of the subject of India , wo have beon divcrtc d from China , where our troops arc getting on , at least ' as well as could be expected . ' The countrymen of Willing ton have fortunately succeoded in two actions over the Chinese , whoso fleetis said to have been ' destroyed !'

      Among domestic measures tho Jew Bill , for vnrious reasons , still has tho greatest political importance . It stands in a very curious position , —one that strengthens the Independent party as distinguished from tho Liberal Government ; and , during tho week , it has almost threatened n now combination of tho'Liberal ' Government with tin . ' Tories against tho objeot of Lord Palmehston ^ own Jew Bill and the real Lib j proL ^ vjtjT v Baron Lionkl dk TIotiisojiilp , Imvfcnjfr / ucpepted the stewardship of I ho Chill cm HuH ^ r Hfcf W ^ 3 , ; , proposed and seconded on Tuesday « c 5 ^ onibor ' fpr tho City of London , and ru-deotcd ^ ilhoijit . iiiio . slightest opposition . Tho doctors , ij ^ flcad , worit & th ' -TV' . '

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 1, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01081857/page/1/