PRESBYTERIAN BANNER & ADVOCATE. Prophytorlaa Baxamor. Vol. VI9 111% proollytorlas Advomits9 Oaf. XL, 23. I 'AVID McKINNEY, EMT and Proprietor. 7'2 MMS.-IN ADVANCE. Original logetrß.. Proverbs kilt: 24. la God's own Word we thus do read, Who "spares the rod, doth hate the son." But few this warning ever heed, And let their child to ruin run. Ah ! the improvement, in our day, Is, spare the rod, and spoil the child ; Well, let your son have his own way I And your reproofs be always mild. Yon practice then, as Ell did, He mildly did his sons reprove; He never, sternly, them forbid, They onward in their way did move Their sins they could not hide from God, Nor did his vengeance long delay; They both did fall beneath hie rod— Hophni, and Phinehas, in one day. How many to the gallows go, . Who in, their youth, thug wayward were; Their way they ohne, pursued it too, And neither God nor man did fear. Small trees will bend, so children bend, But who can bend the stubborn oak ? Those parents are their child's best friend, Who teach it how to wear Christ's yoke. It's good, smith God, that man should bear My yoke, while he is in his youth ; That he his God and parents fear, And read and love my word of truth, Pour out thy Spirit, Lord, we pray, Upon our youth, throughout our land; Then saints, will praise thee in that day, When thousands in thy kingdom stand. Oakland, Pa., Feb. 12th, 1858 for the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. Letter from Northern. India. [Rev. R. Elliott Williams, missionary, writes to Dr. Elliott, of the Seminary.] FORT OF AGRA, Jan. 1, 1858. MY DEAD, FRIEND :—Your kind letter of the 20th September, I received by the over land mail of the Bth ult. I cannot describe to you how refreshing and encouraging it was, in the midst of the warlike eights and sounds by which I am surrounded, and have been surrounded for the last eight months, to receive so touching a memorial of home, so satisfactory an assurance that I am not forgotten by those distant friends who are often in my thoughts. Especially is it pleasant and assuring to know, that am remembered in their prayers. •In the trying and even terrible scenes through which we have passed since these troubles came upon us, we have all often thought of this with comfort; that our calamities were so con nected with " the cause of Christ," as to call forth the sympathy and intercession, not only of our kindred and acquaintance at home, but of the friends of the RedeeMer everywhere. When looking death in the face, and hearing of the death of our beloved fellow-laborers under the most appalling eir onmetances, there was true and solid consola tion in the remembrance of that great Commu nion, which animates and binds together all the members of his Body. Your letter of the 20th of. March, was re ceived one evening when I was doing duty as a sentinel. It was a time of great anx iety, as besides the danger from without, there were then two Sepoy regiments in Agra, who were believed, with good reason; to be mutinous; in fact, to_ be only waiting for a signal, to do what the native troops at so many other stations had already done— proclaim the English government at an end, seize the treasury, massacre all Christians and burn their houses, and take or destroy their other property. Nearly the whole district of Agra, was in revolt; law bad ceased to reign; the cultivators bad taken advantage of the withdrawal of military pressure, to settle, or revenge their ancient feuds by an appeal to arms; and almost ev ery night, in whatever direction we looked out, we saw the sky lurid with the flame of burning villages. The booming of distant cannon ' heard at intervals, told' us plainly enough that the fires were not.accidental, that we were in the midst of an. insurrec tion. Within the city and the immediately adja cent villages—embracing a population of one hundred and thirty-five thousand—com parative order was still preserved; but it seemed to us most precarious. I think I should have felt quite as safe on a plank, in the middle of the Indian ocean; as I then. felt on this small spot of terra firma, almost the only ground between Meerut on the North, and Allahabad on the South, where English law could be enforced. How little reason we had tolope for a continuance of quiet, or for ultimate escape, will appear from the mention of two or three facts. The two Sepoy regiments I mentioned ,before, about eighteen hundred strong, had already ceased to obey their officers, with any regu larity; in token of their state of mind, they had burned their barracks, and those of them on guard at the Government House, and the Treasury, did not fear, by words and gestures, to insult Eurlpeaus as they passed thew. The policemen of the city evidently sympathized with the native soldiers, and were ready to join them in whatever they undertook. We saw clearly too, that a large proportion of this great Mohammedan, city rejoiced in the calamity which had befallen the English power, and were impatiently waiting for the hour when they could, with impunity, at once gratify their hatred of the foreigner, and obey the precepts of their Prophet. Then the multitudinous mob— " the dangerous classes" of the city, em bracing both Hindoes and Musaulmane— people who live by crime even in quiet times, were on the alert, and in hopeful an ticipation of the speedy reign of anarchy and slaughter. In the Civil Lines, that is, in the midst of the bungalows occupied by the civ ilians and clerks in the service of the Gov ernment, stood the great central Jail of the North-Western Provinces, and in it were, at that time, congregated about four thousand five hundred prisoners; most of them such wretches as only a heathen land can produce; miscreants, in comparison with whom the worst convicts in the Western Penitentiary are decent men, or "good sort of people.. ' This Jail was gnarded,hy Sepoys, and one of the first steps, of the mutineers , slip was, to open the prisons, and release, and arm the convicts. These were some of our, dangers. Our human means of protection, may be men tioned in a few Words. Our European force consisted of one regiment of Infantry, num bering about seven hundred and fifty men, of whom about six hundred were fit for duty, and one light field-battery ; not a troop of horse-artillery, as is stated in the Record, in a letter from Agra. A troop of horse artillery would have been a much more po tent and effective arm of defence. To this force must be added about four hundred. or four hundred and fifty men and boys, the male Christian population of the station, able to bear arms, but never trained'to the use of them. I must; not, forget the Fort, to which, as a refuge at last, under God, we owe our lives. At the time -of which I speak, this strong-hold was garrisoned by Sepoys. When the outbreak at Meerut oc curred, a mild attempt was made by the Brigadier in command here, to remove the Sepoy garrison, and to substitute Europeans; but the Sepoys protested that they were gi true to their salt"—that they would be disgraced by a removal ; and threatened ;to kill themselves, if they .were deprived, of their honorable post on mere suspicion. And so the . Brigadier yielded, and let there ye main in the Fort, with all the ammunition, cannon, mortars, &c., at their command. Daring this time, the intelligence we re oeived from other stations, and from the country generally, through, native sources, was at , once vague and alarming. So much was clear—that the country, for hundreds of miles around us, was up, and that, while the land-holders and villagers were at war with one another, they were nearly all hostile to us. From time to time, some poor Chris tian fugitive, or small band of fugitives, succeeded in making their way hither, to to a place of safety. Now, it was a native Christian, who had witnessed the conflagra tion of the Mission premises to whick be-had been attached, the murder of his pastor and family, and of his own wife and children; and who had himself escaped, only by as suming the disguise of a Hindoo mendicant, or Mohammedan pilgrim: Now, it was. an East Indian boy, from some isolated collo°. Orate in the , country, or tolhouse on the Grand Trunk Road, dressed like a native, or with no dress at all, who came to say that -a mob of villagers, or company of native soldiers on their way to Delhi, had burned the collectorate, and put to death his father, moth er brothers and sisters, and that he alone had escaped. Now, it was a wounded Eng lish officer, nearly dead from loss of blood and exposure to the sun, but whose pitiable condition-was not sufficient to move the ten der mercies• of the heathen. He had thrown off his European clothes, put on ,a few rags of native dress, and blackened his skin and . in this way had been saved. He told how the regiments, of which he had lately been so proud, . and, which , he had been so unwil ling to 'distrust, had mutiniedz—had shot their officers, and had massacred all the- Christians of the station which they had been paid to protect. Now, it was a com pany of ladies—some of them highly edu cated, and always accustomed to ease and luxury—whose husbands had been shot or bayoneted before their eyes and who, with little clothing, had performed a journey of many days, through by-ways and jungle, ex posed to the Indian sun. of, June, and pro tected from the violence, though not from the insults of the rabble, by a few Sepoys more humane that their fellows. Now, it was a Hindoo Faquir, or• a holy beggar, with a little European child, an infant, inhis arms, which he had picked up somewhere, ,and through a freak of kindness or hope of merit, bad saved; probably the only sur vivor of what had been a happy family a few days before. To return to ourselves. The English ofli ()era of our native regiments still continued to hope that their men would remain staunch, until an incident occurred which made it Josepu KiiL impossible any longer to trust them. A de tachment, consisting of men from each of these regiments, was stationed at Multra, a large Elindoo city, thirty-five miles from here, as a guard over the Treasury there. An order was sent out for the removal of the treasure to Agra.- When this order was made known to the Sepoys, they :proceeded as directed, to place the ; money on camels Tor . transfer; but no sooner had this been done, 'than they discharged their muskets at - the officers, killing one or two, and then pH laged and burned the station. Directly, they marched off for' Delhi with 'the treas ure. Word of this was brought .to Agra about two o'clock on Sunday morning, .by a loyal native officer, who informed the Brig 4 adier in command, that our regiments in. tended to mutiny on that. day. Their plan ' was, to surround the three places of Chris tian worship, where most of the Europeans of the station, including the soldiers, would be assembled; and after. overpowering and killing all, to proclaim the Bing of Delhi, and occupy the city and Fort for him. No: time was to be lost in disarming, or attempt. ing to disarm them—a most hazardous un dertaking with our small European force. Accordingly, all Europeans and East Indians -not soldiers—were quietly warned to as semble in three or four houses with strong, walls, which were furnished , with muskets and swords,-and slightly fortified with em bankments and sandbags, and which, for some time,: had, been appointed; as places of rendezvous,, in case of alarm. The Sepoy regiments, were, ordered to, meet for parade, on the usual 'ground, at morning gun-fire. In the meantime, masked cannons were planted so as to command the ground. The native regiments, expecting nothing.unusual, came to the place, were drawn up in the customary order, with the European regi ment and fieldhatery in their, front, as if for a general parade. The Brigadier then told them how reluctant he had been to think them false, but that he had heard of their intentions, and the conduct of their comrades at Maitre, on the day before, made it impossible for him to confide in them longer. He, then commanded 'them to lay down their arms. They heaitated for a moment; but the sight of the guns, and the Europeans prepared to enforce obedi ence, had its effect.. They obeyed. As I stated before, the Fort .was garrisoned, and the Jail guarded, by Sepoys. It was neces sary to disarm these men simultaneously with those in the cantonments. For this purpose, two small forces had been detaehed from the European regiment. ThePort garrison, being distributed in ,plaall guard .. "ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD:" "THIS . ONE THING I DO." PUBLICATION E r NA: I I I , , :Cr poit I: 1, : :Tr : , FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 3 1 1855. parties at the different gates and magazines, the company appointed to disarm them, ef fected their object by passing rapidly rom point to point, so that no time was allowed for concert among the Sepo) - s. It was ef fected without bloodshed. But the jail guard, consisting of about two hundred men, were together. When the few Europeans, about,fifty,. bad been drawn up in front of them, and, they were ordered to lay down their arms, they flatly refused. The officer of the Europeans began to remonetrate, , when they broke their ranks and ram• off in small, bodies, with their muskets. They made for their lines, in cantonments, in fg norance that their comrades there had al ready been disarthed. As they ran throngh the Civil Lines, they cried out that the Eng lish government was down, and called on the. servants whom they met, to fire the bungalows. Any, mischievous. effect from this call, was prevented by Mr. tirummeod, the Magistrate of the city, who was follow ing'the felloivs closely with a few mounted men. When _they reached their lines, and saw . ; their comrades unarmed, they quietly gave epfilei.tekuslietc. Titus, to our mat relief, we were delivered from. our pro. Wawa. The disarmed soldiers were much enraged, of. course. The . regiments broke up into companies, some of which , immediately set off for Delhi, while others went into the na: tive towns and the neighboring villages, seeming, undecided whether they should fol. low their comisdes, or make an attempt here, , with such weapons as they could pro cure. Gradually, in the course of . a day or two, they all disappeared. As ,may be sup posed, the temper of the people had not beenimproved or quieted by what had taken place: On the contrary, it became: more and more :evident that they intended to rise; the excitement among them was intense, though suppressed. I can compare their sullen tumult to nothing so fitly, as the surging and seething of the troubled sea. Our , European force via now' rendered less, effective by being divided, one hundred men hapng been placed in charge , Of the Fort, and another hundred in, charge of the , . Jail. Fa' of the Christian population ven tured any longer to sleep in their owri houses. The Lieut. Governor, Mr-Colvin, with great fortitude, perhaps wisely, determined ,to holdthe ot a tion as long as possible. te therefore refused to admit people into the Fort, as he knew that whenever we should leave our houses, the city would rise. We spent the nights in the fortified houses mentioned already, taking turns of duty, as sentinels. Our hope was, that should a rising occur we could hold out in these places until the regiment could come to our relief, and esoort us to our stronghold, the. -Fort. This:otate of • painful insecurity continued' for' several, weeks. Fires, the work of incendi aries, were almost daily occurrences within the station, and hardly a night passed with out an alarm, now that the prisoners were breaking the jail, and now that a ban& of insurgents had entered the lay. The, reports received, from our,little army before Delhi, soon ,destroyed all hope of the speedy fall of that city. Indeedit was clear enorigh that the besiegers were ' besieged; that they-were compelled to act altogether on the defensive; that we might, any hour, -hear that theyhad been driven away, per hapo overwhehned by the great rebel host arrayed against them. the mutineers Who had possession of the city, with its immense magazines of ammunition and ordnance, were aided by the people of Delhi, ; _ chiefly Mussilmano, and besides were frequently strengthened by the accession of fresh regi ments. They made almost daily sorties against the English force, who were suffer ing fearfully from sickness and- sunstroke. The prospectof relief for us from,the. South, was not bright. . Vague rumors of the mas sacres at Cawnpore, at Fumickahad, at Luck now, at Allahabad, reached us from time to time ; enough to oliciw that nearly the whole valley of the Ganges was in revolt, and .to render it .probable that when, troops should have arrived from England, they would have to.fight their way from Calcutta to Agra. ; About middle of Jane, ruined became current that a rebel army was advancing on Agra, from the direction of Indore, in Cen tral India. These reports we, did not fully: . believe, .as we thought they had originated in the movement of mutinous regiments from thit '4:itiarter, telard` Delhi. The rumors grew, hoivover, more rife, and by degreei assumed a more definite form. On the let of July; there was no doubt that the Neemuch and D,ltesseerabad brigades, consisting of in.- fantiy, cavalry, and one of the two best trained artillery companies in the Bengal army, had been joined by the troops of the Nawab of Thou, and were then within a few marches ,of this ; place ; the whole force under the command of a !Undo° General, named Heera Singh . . How we then came inbAlle Fort; how our small European force went out tOmeet the foe, which outnumbered them by .thowainds ; a how their tumbrils of I ammunition were blown up by the enemy's 1 shells.;, how they were compelled to .retreat I to the Fort, leaving some of their dead and wounded on the field; how the Mohammedans of the city raised the green flag, the emblem of holy warfare.; and what a bonfire they and the rabble-made of our houses and goods ; all this has been told vividly enough by Mr. Fullerton in a letter published in the Pro'. byterian. Many, 'about thirty Europeans and East Indians, who imprudently remained out of the Fort until the battle began, were murdered. Among these was Professor Hub bard of the Government College, whose acquaintance I valued greatly:He , had gone to his own house in the morning, 'Where he stayed till he heard the firing; he :then started for the. Fort, but in;passing through the, city was shot by a company of policemen. ' Mr. H. was educated at Caine College, in the University of Cambridge—a very able man, and, besides, generous and true. His brother, a missionary of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel, had fallen in the massacre at Delhi, on the 11th of May, and another brother, also a missionary, has since died at lienares broken-hearted, it is said. •`.. We were now in the Fort, and behind its' , cannon we knew that we should be safe for a • w hile ; but we had really little reason to con gratulate ourselveoimour position or prospects; ' little reason to hope for more than a reepite, a short postponement of our doom. As to our position. Unless you had felt the cli mate of India in the month. of July, and knew cthe applianges which,. are thought necessary to • Ander it tolerable, I . should despair of giving you such a descriptipn is would enable you to form an idea of our condition in the confined quarters to which we had been driven. With reference to our prospects, great mortalityifiorn common die. wiles seemed inevitable;` and those of us who had spent the hest hot season here, had recollections of a visitation ,of the Indian ,plague, cholera, which did not tend to bright en our hispes. In four iresks, it had carried off sixteen thousand souk ' And then in anticipation of a siege, it had not much confidence in the strength of our place of refuge. -This fortress, within which I am now writing, was built nearlyibreebundred years ago; by'the Emperor'Akhar, with little knowledge of 'or regard'for' thisiirineiples of European fortification. It hishFonly hy the.; ,, garrison, which oceripiedaitA4the&h. P' July, Vauban or Todtkben with ,five thou-- sand French or Rtissiani 'would' have r taken it in a morning. The upiiiihtivalls of sand: stone, very massive certainly and formidable enough to look •at, would cerunble„eway to a . breach, in almost any part ; before a Awo hours' heavy cannonade.. When is 1808, it was gatrisoned by ten thousand ; Mahrattas,, and was belieged by'Lord Lake at the head , of his =English and Sepoy army; the impres, seen made on, one of thehastieng, by three or four pennon balls, prnmpted the garrison to sir - render at discretion. And even on the ~, supposition that - our enemyhad not a batter ing train, 'we could not 7feel Emmet), The smallness of our force, andthe great eireum fereneato be•defenden,,(*e miles or more,) rendered it no very diffi cul t or daring ex ploit fora determined ' ad numerous body of assailants to take it - y essialisde. The force 'which had driven in our , garrison on ' the sth of July, had not hntered the city, ; acting had, orders fromihe Sing of Delhi, they had proeeeded , toward . khat place on the next day. Within serritir ' miles of"us, however; to the South, was a body'of mutin ous troops, numbering I eleven thousand, thoroughly disciplined and , furnished with all the appliances of modm warfare, includ ing a battering train and liege tools. " This was the Gleaner Coritizigiatt; 'troops levied and officered by the East India Company, and paid by the Maharajah of Gwalior for the maintenance of mien in! his - dominions. They had mutinied two weeks before, and the few officers and ladiei whO had escaped from their murderous whims were im'ong the refugees in the Forit' We knew that these men had intended , toroome here-at the time they mutinied, and...had _delayed their march only on account, of some difficulty , among themselves about the division of their spoils. But this difficulty had been' settled, and we fully expected that 4hey would now execute their purpose; oessupy. Agra, and lay siege to our fortress. That they did not come, we owe to the interposition . of. Soiii diah,the Maharajah of G wailer. 'His high ness is hippy in being served by a most en- . ; lightened Irake:et, or Seeretary,,of State, a, Hindoo. This man, from his knowledge of Indian history, wee aware,that,themuccesp of the King of Delhi the re-e stablishment , of n Mohammedan dynasty, would not be a faiorable event for "the Hindoos generally ; , and the Hindoo Princes in particular. -Be sides his knowledge of English history, char aoter, and resources made it clear to him that even should the rebels ultimately suc ceed in throwing off the foreign yoke, in the meantime a terrible, vengeance would on the chiefs of the revolution. These views induced the Maharajah to delay taking any step hostile IC the English, either in , aid of the Great Mogul or in assertion of his own independence. With his own small and comparatively illesppointed army, however, he, did not feel stile to cope with the strong and disciplined bi4alions of the Contingent;' _or or Company's troops. He, therefore used artifice ; he took the Contingent into his 'own perional service and told them that, as Agra had formerly belonged to Gwalior, it must belong to Gwalior again • he would, in dife time, after the Diem festival, which occurs - in the second week 'of 'October; beail them himself in an expedition against Agra. Still very many of them soon began to suspect that he was not acting toward them in good faith; his own.troops too began to show a mutinous, spirit, and, for a time, there was danger that the Maharajah would be com: polled either to flee for eafety from his own capital, or head the rebels' in an immediate Attack on our garrison. This state of ; things in Gyvalior was at once a aourceof,incessant anxiety tows, and in encouragement to, the disaffected and dangerous population around to, who were bat little overawed by our few troops. But thanks be to_ God, we were not besieged. The , guns of the Fort gaye ns a certain control over , the eity,,and we were able to procure the needful supplies of fresh provisions, so as to spare the garrison attires. There was a good deal of sickness and mor tality, but much less than the most ,hopeful had, dreaded, as almost certain to reetritfrotir the confinement, privations, and, anxiety of our situation. Our cirCumetances,"ditismal ' as they seemed (and Mark Tapley 'hiiiiielf, would have claimed some Credit for jollity had he been here,) were not admitted to be desperate or utterly forlorn, by more than a few. Two or three antiqUe majors and two or three billions civilians, darkly intimating that just one hundred years had passed away , since the battle of Plessey, did not hesitate to say that all was :over; the British rule in In dia at an end; and that , as to the Agra gar.' rison, it was merely a question Of time, whether the Cawnpore tragedy should be enacted here in August, September, or • 00.-, tober. These gentlemen were rewarded fox; their frankness and candor, with, the title of Croakers, and at once became the most nu: popular men in the Fort: Nothing could have been more admirable than the conduct of most of the officers, civil and military; nothing more perfect than their exemplifies', don of awns aqua in arduia. Their en ergy, cheerfulness, foititude, and quiet con fidence in their countrymen at home, to whom we all looked for rescue, were assur ing in a high. degree, well adapted to inspire the timid and desponding with courage and hope. The power of religion to sustain its pos. lessor in' dangers and trials, was beautifully illustrated in many. How often have I heard the remark made, with the happy con fidence which could proceed only from con viction, " God who by his wonderful provi dence planted his Church in this land, will not suffer it to be destroyed; he will not leave unheeded the prayers and , ascribes of his people." And as I have aeon delicately nurtured and feeble women, twine up, into, cheerfulness by the power of a living faith; - under' present liardship and prospective horrors, Ilave remembered , what Minneins Felix says of "the inviral patience of the martyrs? whom he had seen. suffer. I could not doubt that the same gracious.influenees which in other times and countries, had enabled the young, and =thee aged, and the infirm to witness a good confession were hire as'a present help. , But , iny-letter is lemming ;unreasonably . long ; I , have written much more than I in tended, and more, I fear, than you willeare, to read. - I-must beaten to a close: ' July passed awey,_ and k Ang . ust, And Delhi still remained in the precision of the, mutineers.' , We heard of Havelock's wonderful march from 'Allahainidl` his brilliant suocessee at Frittehpore,,and hiiireeeenpatien ,Cesin- , pm. I .W;enow , began;to entertain lopes of speedy relief from that eilattentepee which were soon cleated. When we were every hour expeoting to tear, that IlaVelock had succeeded in , reliecring the garrison at Luek now, which had been in a state of siege since the middle of Juilei word was brought, .us,,that he , had heen .compelled 3 to fall back Citiaporimith, heavy, loss, and that all, the re.inforcenicnta, •troops froin,Ceykin.ind Mauritius, whiekwere aiming up.the Minn try, had been stopped =at Dinapora on the lowerGanges to arrest, rebellion there. In course- Of - tithe, honever, we learned that some more neldiertlied arrived at Cawnpore; , that Gen. - 11avele4 had 'again marched to the relief of Lueknow, and that.after a ter rible battle, he -haiLsnoceeded in reaching the, nearly starved and eiheusted, garrison. But our rejoicing was soon cut short by, the inforMation that he had been able to effect , nothing more than_ strengthen `the garrison by adding his own ireops to tbeirs, and that they were all hard , pressed by.the rebels, and - iii'coMpletely hemmed in, that :cominunica doe With CaWrlPOrfi. was;,cut ,off. Lucknow was still to be eelieved,.and no troops for the service. At this, time the clouds began to gather around Agra darker than ever. A large body of mutineers from Indere, with heavy guns, took-up a position at Dholepore, thirty miles from here, ,an the : Gleaner road. They had come through Gwalior, and , were understood to belle advanced guard of , the Contingent, who were waiting for the Desem festival to initiate their march on this place. But, true to the proverb, " the darkest hour iethe , one that precedes the dawn," cheering intelligence now began to come almost daily, from Delhi. Incurring great . risk, Sir John Lawrence, the Chief Com missioner of - the 'Punjaub, had almost de nuded his:territory. of European troops, raised new, regiments of Sikhs, and had ' even brought auxiliaries from Cashmere, and had pushed them all on, to reinforce the:, army 'before Delhi. On' the 20iii ef 'Sep tembervthe city was stormed, ';and 'the mu tineers expelled. A great body of them came down the Jumna, enthe Agra side, a part of whom joined the mutineers at Dholepore: We now learned, through spies, that they intended to'attack' Agra; without waiting for the contingent, who were still lingering : at. : . Gwalior. 'Uppity, by this time, a strong force of Europeans and .Sikhs,, from Delhi; under Col. Greathed, were moving 'down the country toward Cawnpore, to aid in the relief of Lucknow. On the morning of the 9th of October, word was brought that the Dholepore muti neers had come within, ten miles of us. This filet was made known to CoL Greathed, who wiedistant thirty miles on the other side of the river. By a forced night-march, he arrived'here on the morning of the 10th, joist in time to meet our enemy as they were entering the station. ,They ; were completely routed, with the loss of all their guns, and camp. Since that day we have felt compar atively safe here; but as our troops have not yet been strongly reinforced, it is thogght,betterto, remain in ,the Fort, even if , we had houses to occupy outside. In regard to the state of the country gen- , erally, ICM say only a word. The neck of ' the rebellion seems to be broken, and we lope that order 'will be everywhere estab lished during this year, 1858. But much still remains to be, • accomplished.' The' whole of the recently annexed Kingdom of Onde, except one spot near Lucia:low, occu pied by Sir James =Outran, With four thou- - sand nien,li held : by the rebels. The whole of .Furrockabati, the , : whole ,of liohileund, and the whole of Suudelcitrid t are still in their possession.`` The immense' tract of country' lying between this and Indere, is in a very disturbed state. On' the other hand, .many regiments have arrived from England, and Sir Colin Campbell, the new Commander-in-Chief, has gained great, sue cess Wherever he - has encountered the in sargents in large numberi. - About the Ist ' of Deiember, the 'Gwalior Contingent (eo long;dreadedly us,) having ,been joined by other troops, en as to form an arniyof, eighteen thousind`men - attacked Ciwnpore. Own pore was held, two thousand English soldiers under Gen: Windham of Redan, • fame, and the Commander-in-Chief was at Luoknow. WimPiam was defeated," and driven into his entrenched camp, and was so hard pressed, that:* second massacre was prevented only by a rapid mare his re lief, by the Commander-in-Chief. ' Sir Colin Campbell was thus compelled to abandon Lucknow to the enemy; but, leaving Sir James 011traM ,with the force 1 mentioned before, at Alum BO,: between . Litoknow and Cawnpore, came to the help of Wind 'ham, bringing the women and children of the rescued , garrison with him. With great difficulty he got across the river, And after making arreosenients for their . safety, he attacked "the ineirgents, who •haa held the city of Cawripore eight days. They` were'. utterly 'mashed, and lost about forty-pieces of .ordnance. A native, letter-writer in the service et, the., .Maharajah of Gwalior, giv ing an account of the battle, says, 1 4 the , English fought as none but - Beduin and, &feudist ever fought before."- may Mention one characteristic incident, which does not rest on _native . authority.. The Grenadier regiment of the. Gwalior Con: tingent consisted of picked 'Melt and had been often told' by their officers that - they were equal to a European regiment. These men, to sustain their reputation , ; undertook to capture one of the English fi eld-batteries, They charged upon it, and every man of the regiment, eight hundred strong, was killed I, I mention the incident as pharacterietio of this terrible war, in which quarter is neither' given nor taken. And who that knows anything of the .conduct 9f these military savages, when they had, it in their, power to do as , they please, and to gratify with. imp pushy thebt brutal his& ets, 'blame =I these Englishmen, or wonder thatlbey fight well this war With all its faults and shortcomings the English government of this country has been a just and humane government; and the iniurgents themselves do allege oppreision or patriotism as the motives ;which promptetT them in attempting to, overthrow it. But r have not space to enter on this Subject.' In regsrfll4 the effect of the insurrection on the missionary Work,, it is too soon to form an opinion. My imileciien at present is,. that it will bi Mohiainnedau pride-` and - insolence Will be:broken, and Hinder) caste henceforth treated With leas: mistiest, perhapi in a 'good' :degree: ignored, by the' etratere of the government. Hitherto they. have been encouNed. , r 0 I'am not give• you any additional, information touching the fete of the 'Futteli guilt Missionaries:; We know that they were put to , death 'either in BithOor, orCawnpore, and that is all we know.. I never Saw either Johnson or MactMullen, but the. Freemins and :Caropbells I knew: very Well. r Mr'. Freeman was moat useful man, a:-zealous missionary,, and a kind and steadfast friend: ,was -very practical in Ida habits and views, and Was able to prep.& in-Urda Hindee :with':`greats fluency, .and fervor.' Mrs.. Freeman wee , one. of.the loveliest char acters I ever knew.; gentle,: eifergetio; and wise; so strong.ine faith that•she- could look with serenity on.the ,worst tronbles of life, and, t deutt not; on, Aisthilielf. Indeed her, last letter showsat death } ' had no er inni- for her'. I can hardly' trust 'myself to speak of Mr. - and. Mrs. - Carapbell. You knoi,elat intimate friends O. and I need to be, and we fre4tiently exchanged lettqrs after coming te. this country.' I saw him hist in Agra, on his return from the Hills, in November, 1856. He seemed much Changed. SinCe I had first knoiii tin, I had always thought him radically; earnest man, animated 12Y:real lovO for the, • BeVionr, truly devoted to, the .intereste of , his kingdoxii, and the good of mankind;'but none of ae who had - knolin lire in former days, were prepared to see, such evidence of growth in the Divine life; as were manifest in him. No one who now tie* hint, and heard him talk and pray, could' doubt •that he was a devout man, with a•single,aliject in life—to hOnor.Ockl and do good. to his felloir men. He and Mrs. (L were much ' beloved and honored by.their ;.colleagues; at Futtehgurh. Their oldest ohild—Davidson —who was in, feeblehealth, they had left at Landow, in the Hili t s , underthe care of the AeT.; Mr- Jay, c haplain there, a *lnd' friend of, eamphell'e., This child is. still alive, but too young to know his lose. All the rest. of the . . fandlYfathei, motheri ,brother, and sister-were together,: and, and,-49ubt 07 0) are now. ti;fiethCX,.! in , heaven. . • - -T anis 4.8 slyayst afrochonatelY Yours, WILLIAms , Front our London Correspondoni. Lord Derby Instalk-=.l4mannAling of, the Cole, • ions-Change of Plaeu The &mein the lbws of Leide--Thel Prityramtne ,Goiefy and' the 'Orie plot "—State of PoraPs--Rf.W.elang learels 63 l7 Politice—Hengetenberes'Antreke on the /hanged teal APiance.- 7 -Adrne_ Review of jit Noble Tia gfolonY Truth=o*Man Revival and s nich- Churehient:L{lirtieit' Semi inistot' i and its lie mate—The "seaktv meth Con:: • caption and. Radek Pl'ertseo-L.Preebyterian inn :at iffziks—Turklit and; asriloo.olM7P7, Dwight Londr:The ahrih al igo4tOY and American TEpito4h . Amur eani i n Fsi r k t ; '; -•• : • ' LONiON, P!ebruail 5th,1.8_58. The POLITICAL CRISIS is over, and- Latd Derby and his Cabinet' Polar, Intense **66 interest` and•expechition. associated with the-announcement that ' "the. new Premier would 'deelaie his phlicy:6n, Monday last I at- WeCtMilisief in, time to 'look in upon the Raise of ' . Cora-: mona, which always meets an. bow' earlier than the' tipper' 'House. It was both cu rious and amusing to see thetranepoiition, of parties;' the recent Opp6iition now on the 'Treasury Bench, with their ConserVatiVe Wapporters behind` them, and `the recent Ministers' now on' the :"shady Bide" Of 'the Speaker's chair, yet with a muster of beakers stronger'by far than theit salmi/gig opponents. And then—While Disraeli, and other notabilities, were away in the country' to ag after their ie-eleciticmi (for eines always involves resignation of membership irk the Cominimili and fresh appeal. to the copstitnenoies,)-rit was immething new to hear the Speaker call npdn Sir 'Wm. Joliffe, the new Secretary tothe Treasury, a She . 16oklig • man, iiho 'succeeeively, moved for new writs for vacant counties `or ` tiorongbs; "in room of the Bight Honorable Benjamin - Disraeli," &I:, • But the Commons was not the Beane of I interest tonight, and to the,ea-C Peers' 'Henn 1 bo th., adjoritz Common pres s ed ettgerh- low the bar; to the iiidleritai,a l . l 4 - 0, 1 , 1 the Pa* of the eldest "Pears;tPittir'Oeitiiiir lon, and - others,)-to - the space in front 'of the throne.. Conducted by a trusty friend, who rules the shgthand writing department, of the - terds ongthe, olbl es, me a crow oepersone, among Whom I recognized Lord Clarendon pale and anxiona-looking t , and Napier, the • new Chilean& of, As I ascended the staircase to the gag lery, I found, when at the top, ,that, eye* mat. was occupied, ancri4c7Were standing: Among the latter I ttickray : place, eat glanced down and around. — Never'did I gee the peere'so numerous in their muster;' nor peeresses `so plentiful in the aide-galleriat' There too, sits • that fine old Puritan-1110c grey-haired, gentle, and Much-liked Ambari: sailor-of the United States, Mr. WIN!, With' the ladies of his fa,mily around him. Sit F. Thesiger, the new Lord Chancellor, is on . the woolsack, vice Craiiwortti, resigned., He looks his offtec T irilli and see how the' i lawl lords and othenrgb up and congratulate him with a hearty shake of the hand. First, up rises the notorious Clanrioarde, whiyamid the noise and crushing, is scarcely heard, as ;he intimates that he will, on a certain make a statement on matters affecting his personal character. Then rises old Brougham, and speaks in a loud voin. HI tempt/tat he is about to ask a question of - tlle F oi : e i g n Secretary, Lord Itlabruibury,;.and:lid „ ds that in this case the thing that ie ie also :great. Great is the expectation? 'Whit is it to be ? left, about France and' friend Louis Napoleon ? No ! It'll`tolisk for the' Annual-Returneaf NP*l Philadelphia, 111 Seta Tenth Street, below Alesinut By or et the OBLoo, SLOG per TV , (S E E Pacuezerve, Delivered in the oiq, L 76 WHOLE NO.kes that was not unimportant; but, with the preface, it seemed not quite it place, and so the' ventilators laughed . 7 Whnieupon the old lion roared aloud; and threatened, if such in indeeeptta were repeated; 'to clear the House i• Lord Derby now rises, and instantly there is a' deep' ush, and intent!. and silent atten tion.; Mr. Della snoops his" head gamest between his knew, and puts both hands be hind'his 'ears, So that he may cat c h every `word. Neeer did 'I hear Derby on a great occasion, or as a Mitditet before. He , ex eeedect my expectatiene. His figure is very griceful, his Manner and those of a perfect gentleman, cagy and 'natural,' while lii voicilizeilvery, and his Oratory flows on I like; &Smellier brook; . With "'Miami a jagged Seek , to OMAHA its current. He begins Ulysseic in a low voice; and with eyes Salt He declares that his are not ,"the feelinge of exultation - or triumph. He Termite' the vote of the House of Commons, which led to his being requested by the Queen to form a new Cabinet. He demean the idee that Conservatism is opposed to real program. Ile acknowledges "the . great JlM `coigne; hae"to contend. He speaks of rintares. As to. India, he and : his friendolia wished-for delay; but a the lionser of. Commons had voted, by a large 'majority, that the'Company Amnia be abol bled, .he andllet Cabinet were prepared to carry out the - wish of the country, and Lord Ellenborougli, the new Indian Minister, , (see bora he !ita l. large in figure, and with ceiling hair, - turning . gray, upon a massive head,) would bring is a bill to es " the Queerer( authority in India. Then touched on the" grand point, the notorious' yiiipateki and , our relations with France: He retesserkd the right of asylum. Bedenouneed those refugees who abused it. Hodeolareslliat the dispatch 'shall be answered, and that he had no doubt the Emperor would reply in terms Satisfactory to this country. terriblea wiy; says Of Lord Climicarde, - -the latest - ,iddition to the Pal mettos Cabinet,' .wie hate leng since said . enough.. - hag 'had - thei=rare fortune, .:rialmost ;inasaisted, to; destay, by his mere presence; a nfinistry ;fortified 'by repeated rotaries, and - stipportedrily the 'largest ma jority known since theyeffint This Marplot itibleinsu I saw on the first night of then session, in tiia 'House of Lords.:- He sat on the ministerial bench, near to Lords Clarendon Panmure. -But neither with-them, nor ;with Lords Oninville or liandsowne, did he's exchangea word, and,he took care not tar open his lips. g.f Thinks Ito thyself," is. I sat iri .the gal lery looking on, if your Lordship_ rise to sip*, what a sensation. would he created if Lord Derby anti ;the opposition peers should take up their hate indleatie the House That, piebaNy,leinild Stet have' been done; hit If it had; the Whelp" country Would have epplanded the, mit'enthi is latdr.eally. Some of the Lords themselves, ' an either side, arc ' not natitinted; or 'rerriehe," as to morals "' Bute they do not obtrude them delves' into off . et es' "this min did. His personal appearance is net .evil-boding, or sinister; Se his a long; coMeal . head, bald On the top, and his pellet* gniet and sub- If Derby bold office for a time, and is 'then overthrma, the Whig party must at lait.liiirn the !mon thatthey are not made '* ale s poke idero4l4lglalld. Already tl„* i .erY l 'r4rot!ritr , atist them on that 10 011 0:-... ''' il Ava_ . irlqili . n his " History," MOWN ale •Wpilit or NI party every where, biinijili'lli t hig tote` very core. On the 'aidr bad, ihe':f'oelite reotion, Si; J. Gra ' IWOlutttinle; ah414457-11erterty while 4 ,, 'elf ~0 rare ;tales '4v* to be trusted .. 01.01.4;4141ti0n whein u tinatilioal interests i t ,effe:iiitaikairi c md. '44tflit:- _the Radical 1141)1°% and clarity ii ip . gipiAtiqq .. iiia '44 scorn and 'W ihtwE ''. , . 'religion There is , however, 11 . ~..,.*i„ , 1 •14.1 1 . 6 !i*. ~ a, >? for good, , t null in .1. Ind' 'Very many , nominally • -• ,- ;'', **; qiiiillit &lasi of the three po ..lige° ' 7 ' . '44Yiailairlooneerned for the ~,...' ',Batilfrbtfithkpopulation. Thank 4 : 106 ; 14 . 1 aW i 1 1 i iiiiervative element of the -tight it4a 4 • erfifim where the Bible -111 ‘ fingilitielfiroboid arid in the family, t i nd ilia ° trap eiance'Cif the great mid dle o bii i ii Indic;'` ;bath to Sabbath educe te)i the preaT: • .. of quickening, it hallow ing'..4nd litit eniel4:4enifilnik liilaireen religious Con .-aeilierciril6'Efallelioal 'Epuscoptdians 'kerierat~ind'ilibgioms Liberals, is far . lest.'" thif 1iq1" , ...i5. ' : ?The 'freemasonry of I -Chriatiai7 l lirotherhood - established by the teaching's:if the " One spirit," and by that faith 'Which, tooling at' things unseen and eternal; ever weighs a nation s interests in the_oeales of the sanctuary, has a'wontirous inflbence In producing a community, of effort toward one grand and patrio' tie'dpign. Thus let it be on both sides of the A.thntie Y. ' Lei politic/be Ipivened with piety,' and let aeon be no longer sectarian, istunigii'sep a,- cam