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      city and the mutineers . In a very abort time , Jarge portionrof three native regiments had burned down the native lines and . bungalows , and killed the few Europeans tliey came across . They were ultimately defeated and driven off . " The tide of revolt seems to have reached the city of Hyderabad . Placards were posted all over the city on the 12 th June , signed by certain Moulavies , calling upon the faithful to enrol themselves and murder the Feruighees , and at five in the evening three guns from the Horse Artillery , with a detachment of the Cavalry Contingent , went down to the Residency . Each regiment had a company under arms at their * barracks all night , which , however , passed away without any alarm .

      "A troop of Major Gall ' s Irregular Cavalry ( Oude ) , which had been detached on duty against the insurgents in the Mynporee and Etawah direction , has mutinied , and killed three out of four officers attached to them—Lieutenants Barbar and Fayrer and Captain Fletcher Hayes , military secretary to Sir Henry Lawrence . The mutineers were supposed to hare gone off in the direction of Futtygbur . The 45 th and 47 th had been disarmed at Agra , and the 5 th and 60 th were reported to have been blown to pieces by the force with the Commander-in-Chief , for mutiny . " At Benares , likewise , there has been a mutiny . It was put down by the fortunate arrival of Colonel Neill and the Madras " Fusiliers . He and his little band of

      heroes , 180 in number , withstood , not only the attack of the 37 th Regiment , B . N . I ., but the desperate assault of a whole Sikh regiment and the traitorous charge of the Irregular Horse at Benares . " Brigadier-General Chamberlain is reported to have thus addressed the 35 th Regiment , Native Light Infantry , on the occasion of the punishment of death being inflicted on two of the Sepoys , on the 9 th of June : — " Native officers and soldiers of the 35 th Light Infantry ! You have just seen two men of your regiment blown from guns . This is the punishment I will inflict on all traitors and mutineers , and your consciences will tell you what punishment they may expect hereafter . These men have been blown from a gun , and not hung ,

      because they were Brahmins , and I wished to save them from the pollution of the hangman ' s touch , and thus prove to you that the British Government does not wish to injure your caste and religion . I call upon you to remember that each one of you has sworn to be obedient and faithful to your salt . Fulfil this sacred oath , and not a hair" of your heads shall be hurt . God forbid that I should have to take the life of another soldier ; but , like you , I have aworn to be faithful and do my duty , and I will fulfil my vow by blowing away every man guilty of sedition and mutiny as I have done to-day . Listen to no evil counsels , but do your duty as good soldiers . Yon all know full well that the reports about the cartridges are lies , propagated by traitors , whose only desire is to rob and murder . "

      The Overland Englishman publishes a supplement , dated June 20 th , which professes to contain the very la-test news that bad then reached Calcutta . We neve find a communication from Allahabad , under date June 15 th , which says that » U was welt there on that day . A Sikh Sepoy had been murdered in the town ; but the regiment was let loose on the place , and thoroughly avenged itself . The Englishman adds : — " We have received the following cheering news from Mirzapore ; the letter of our informant ia dated the 15 th : 1 douv of our magistrate , St . George Tucker , against the village of Gawrah , has been most successful . He with of th 47 th

      and the deput y-magistrate , fifty Sepoys e . Itogiinent , arrived at the village early yesterday morning . The steamer with a hundred Europeans had not yet reached the ghat , but was in Bight . The villagers , an seeing our small force , assemblod to tho number of some three thousand . In the meantime the steamer anchored and landed the English bulldogs , who , to a man , without orders , rushed at the insurgents , fired into Ahein , and killed thirty or forty ; the rest took to thoir Iwela . The village , which was quite deserted , was burnt to the ground . The murderers of Sir Norman Leslie have been apprehended « nd hanged . They turned out to be three men of his own regiment , one an old band , and tho two othera recruits . ' "

      Tho Legislative Council lins passed a law whereby summary powers over all deserters are given to the looal authorities ! The Colombo , which arrived at Southampton from India , ou Tuesday morning , brings a few additional facts and rumours . The Daily News soya : — " Those passengers on boo . ru the Colombo who have - come from India urntty believe that Delhi line fallen . When the Madras passongors loft , an tmeute was fully expected in that presidency . Tho Europeans were under

      arms . " The passengers think tliAt tho mutiny is not considered In England eo serious na it roully is . They , glvo aonio frh * htful details of ntrooltioa committed by tho mutineers . In Delhi , six Euroipoau ladies hud taken refuge in a room ; one of thorn , very young And beauti ful , concealed horsolf under a aota . Tho othor . five woxo BttUeotqd to outrage by tha mulinona wlOiorjr , and then

      beheaded . The blood trickled under the sofa , and the young female -concealed there betrayed herself by uttering & shriek . . She was seized and taken to the liarem of the King oF Delhi . " 1-700 armed men were found about the residence of the King of Oude when he was taken prisoner , although according ± o treaty he was not allowed one armed attendant . - " Sir Colin Campbell was treated with the most profound respect by the authorities in Egypt . His passage through that country was an ovation . He purposes dividing the Indian army into five or six flying divisions , with a General at the head of each . " The writer of a letter from Aboo , June 19 th , says : — « "We have just received intelligence of a breach having been made in the wall of Delhi , and the rebels panic-stricken . ..... Nusseerabad and Neemuch are burnt and destroyed "—apparently by the rebels .

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      THE ORIENT , CHINA . Elaborate official reports have been received of the three expeditions against the Chinese vessels , which we briefly notified last week . The most important of these was the one against the Fatshan fleet , which took place on the 1 st of June . It is thus related by the China Mail : —r " The approach from Bleinhain Passage towards the nearest detachment of junks visible was commanded by an old fort , which has recently been armed and repaired . This was stormed about daybreak by a party under Commodore Elliot , accompanied by Sir Michael Seymour himself , at whom the defenders are stated to have pitched cold shot as he came under the walls . Different divisions of boats , in the meantime , under Commodore Koppel and other officers , pushed up the stream at a number of junks lying about the confluence of tho Fatshan branch , with a creek to the south , ; or on the left hand , so to speak , in rear of the fort . By this branch subsequently advanced Oommodore Elliot upon some junks , the crews of which stood with great coolness till he was within short range ; They then feed and fled , pursued by the marines , who had descended from the fort taken in the first instance . Commodore

      Keppel meanwhile had pushed ahead with his boats , dashing at a fleet -which , it would seem , had escaped the attention of the rest of our force . A tremendous iire was opened on him , at the sound of which the Hong-Kong , and , at an interval of some distance ,. the Starling gunboat , moved up to support him . Before they could reach him—indeed we believe the Hong-Kong ran aground *—the Commodore ' s gallant little boat squadron had suffered severely . On approaching the outer and lesser of two islands below Fatshan , l » e found the passage to the southward barred , and , attempting to pass

      by the northward , received the fire of some twenty junks in position . He had fallen back on the Hong-Kong when the alarm was given that the junks were in motion , that is to say retiring ; and , being now reinforced by the arrival of some more boats , Commodore Keppel chased the enemy not only up to , but into , Fatshan , capturing four or five of the junks that were attempting to escape by a creek or channel which divides Fatshan . The Fatshan braves turned out , waving flags , &c , and met with a warm reception from our soainen and marines . "

      Admiral Seymour states in his report : — " Tho result of tho expedition was the capture of between seventy and eighty heavily armed junks , mounting on an average from ten to fourteen guns , many of them long 82-pounders , nearly all of European manufacture . As no object would have been gained by removing the prizes , I caused them , with a few exceptions , to be burnt ; nud tho flames and numerous heavy explosions must have been heard faT and wide . This engagement opens a new

      era in Chinese naval warfare . Great judgment whs shown in selecting the position for tho fleet , and the Chinese , particularly tho last division , attacked by Commodore Keppel , defended their ships with skill , courage , and effect , I cncloso a list of the equalities , which I regret to state is largo , amounting to three officers and ten seamen and marines killed , and four officers and forty seamen and marines wounded ; but it is to me a matter of surprise that under tho circumstances of the case tho loss was not greater . ' "

      Per . It is stated that Persia , taking advantage of our troubles in India , and of our inability to spuro troops for any further operations in tho Shah ' s dominions , refuses to evacuate llerut , or to acknowledge tho treaty . Tho Pays , of Paris , states that Mr . Murray , the JEngliah minister , arrived at Teheran on Juno 7 , and was received with tho honoura previously agreed upon . It was said that Mr . Murray , after reorganising his legation , would leave for England en oonyS . JUKDJA . Maharajah Gholab 'Singh , of Caahmoro , ia dead , and has been succeeded by his son , JRunbcor Singh . Another of oar allies , the Khan of KUol * t , has Also died , loaving

      the succession to his brother . . Ensign Daunt , of 70 th N . I ., at Serampore , near Calcutta , has sho railway official who interfered in an altercation wh took place between the ensign and a civilian . The jured . man . is not expected to live . Mx . Daunt is belie ' to be insane . ¦ The latest news with respect to the Indian , revolt give under a separate head .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTESFHANCE . Eighit Italian refugees of the working class , compi miseel by the statements of the individuals now in ci tody in connexion with the alleged plotj have be ordered to quit France . The Government has suppli them with money to perform their journey , and has pi mitted them to choose their place of exile . The Emperor has declared that Michel Ney , Duke Elchingen , a Second Lieutenant in the Chassei d'Afrique , shall assume the title of Prince de la M < kowa .

      A letter from Marseilles , of the 31 st of July , sta that the heat on that day was so intense that a den heavy mist completely obscured the lights of the lig ] houses at night , and rendered the entrance into p dangerous . The Vectis , with the Indiau mail , wa long time getting in ; the Avenir lost her way for hour and a half . The thermometer marked 36 degr centigrade . The wind rose at half-past ten , but , instc of refreshing the atmosphere , it was hot and sultry , the Tarn-et-Garonne , on the 2 £ > tli of July , a viol * thunderstorm burst over the country . It came from t west , and was accompanied by heavy rain . The ligl ning struck a farm-house and set fire to it . Storms , i eompauied by great heat , have taken place in otl parts of France .

      The weather in Paris has grown hotter and hott On Monday , at two o ' clock , the thermometer ( cen grade ) was " above 33 in the shade ; and the heat tv still greater on the following day . Two fires have b « caused in the outskirts by the spontaneous ignition hav and straw . They were soon got under . The trial of the three Italians , Tibaldi , Grilli , al Saro , and Bartolotti ( says the Globe coiresponden commenced on Thursday morning . Very little inter was taken in the proceedings by the public . Tiba was examined first . He denied all knowledge Mazzini and of his supposed agent , Massarenti . ' asserted that the weapons found in bis rooms belong to a fellow countryman , named Merighi . He also deni

      having pointed out the Tuileries to the two other p soner 3 . Grilli was next examined through an interpret He confessed that he had , through poverty , accept the mission of killing the Emperor , and assert that it was in the house of Mazzini in London , a by Mazzini himself , that he was entrusted with tt mission . Mazzini had given him . private instructio in the presence of Massarenti , and had told him to x the password of " Da par tutto Jove iniporUtj" by inea of which he would be recognized as a safe man Tibaldi . The sum of 40 / . in gold was given him ' Massarenti in a public-house in London , and that the evening of his arrival in Paris he visited Tibaldi , whom he confided the nature of his mission . ] repeated that on one occasion he met at tho hoi called

      of Mazzini a Frenchman , whom Mnzzini I drone Rolline . The Frenchman remained a very elu time in the house , but ho discussed with Mazzini tho hours at which the Emperor left the Tuileru Tho first witness examined was a tailor , named Ge " who had been condemned to four years' imprisonmc for having belonged to a secret society . This 6 vidoji tended to prove that in 1852 he received from Ledi Roll in 500 f ., which he whs commissioned to hand to person who would claim it of him on tho Place do Concorde . The President here stated that this sum wi in fact presented to a former officer named Korsch , wJi had formed tho project of assassinating tho En : peror . Other witnesses wore heard on behalf < the prosecution , but they were without interest .

      BELGIUM . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian nnd tho Arcl dnchess Charlotte left Brussels last Saturday mornirij at ten o ' clock , on their road to Vienna , accompanied pn : of tho way by the Archduke Charles Louis and tl Archduchess Margaret . AUSTRIA . The railway from Laibaoh to Trieste wno opened wit great solemnity on tho 27 th ult . by the Emporor in poraol This completes tho lino between Vienna and Trieste .

      ITALY . Commander Chmveri , half brother of Prince Torloni and partner in hia bank at Komo , died on the 27 th < July . Ho has bequeathed his Immense fortune to tli son of Prince Orslni , in preference to nenror relations . Tho Genoa Gazette contains a short abstract of Mas ziaite article , tho publication of which cuuncd tho floljsui of the Italia del jPopolo on the 29 $ h ult . MasssinJ , «»< describing the part token by himself and his ^ ulhoroni in the late inovemnnta , denies that there w «» any i » t « r tUm of pillaging or . blowing up public edifices . Ho aclc

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      * Fxotn Admiral Seymour !/* report it appears , thwt , all the . gunboats grounded , with two oxoeptiofts .

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      7 &d "" THE LEADIR . [ 3 Sfa . 385 , August S , 1857 ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2204/page/6/