ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 886, 7 December 1870, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

DISAFFECTION AT ALLAHABAD. Telegrams from India report tbe existence of disaffection at Allahabad, and fears are said to be felt in regard to the condition of a native regiment, and a supposed conspiracy'at Simla for the massacre of the English, the Governor General included. Supposing these apprehensions are unfounded in the present instance, the mere report of such a suspicion excites unpleasant reminiscences, and is, perhaps, so far useful that it serves to remind the English, who have already forgotten the horrors of 1857, that India is still a foreign country, that we are still aliens in the land, and that, with all our wish to do our duty to the natives, there i 3 yet cause for circumspection and care. It may also be useful to direct our attention, not only to the subject of the native army, bus to the native police, a pseudoarmy, just sufficiently strengthened to be, if wanted, a source of real and pressing danger. TJie exposure during the last jten years, of the deep-seated and persistent intrigues of the Wahabees is in itself a lesson and a warning to that mischievous insouciance which led the Government to despise a spirit which wellnigh drove us out of the country; and the revelations made during the trials of those archtraitors, will, we trust, show our present Viceroy the importance of wathfulness even where all appears fo be peace. Is there any ground for believing in a general concert of disaffection or are these mere isolated spurts of local feeling ? Has the conduct of the 4th Native Infantry at Allahabad any connection with the trial of Wahabee prisoners elsewhere ? At first sight, indeed, the Sepoy " strike " at Allahabad has no wide-spread significance. Soldiers will sometimes give vent their wounded feelings; aud plots, especially among Mohammedans, are always going on somewhere against our rule.' But Allahabad, as the capital of the north-west provinces, has of late been active in protesting against the tripled income-tax, and it is possible that the intense irritation which the tax has caused throughout Bengal and the north-west may have encouraged traditional plotters everywhere, and so come to infect the Sepoys themselves.— Indian Mail,

There are now 30,000 French refugees in Brussels, most of them from Paris.

Prussia is prepared for a long campaign, 100,000 furs being ordered for the

Recently Mr Beattie, of the Royal Fish IJall, Dumfries, had for sale a beautiful salmon, thirty-seven pounds in weight, which was caught in the Sol way, near Annan. It measured forty-si* inches by twenty-four.

It is announced that the third son of the Emperor of Russia is to be married to the daughter of the King of Denmark. On Sept. 18, a half-starved refugee, said to be an American by birth, but in business for many years in Paris, arrived in London hungry and penniless, Meeting with a good Samaritan, be was taken into a well-known tavern in Fleet Street, the landlord of which was instructed to supply his wants. The process was tentative; but the result was that he consumed five plates of beef, five slices of bread, two Welsh rarebits, a shilling's worth of pickles, and eight piuts of good ale. General Trochu, when he hears of the circumstance, will,' no doubt, be ex* tremely glad, in view of a close investment of Paris, that the refugee " made tracks." The British Government- have contracted with Messrs. John Elder <fc Son, Glasgow, for the construction of an ironclad having two revolving turrets, to carry guns of the largest calibre. The firm have engaged to complete this armour-clad in 15 mouths. A baking firm in Dundee has entered into a contract to supply thirty tons of bread a-week for several weeks to FraDce, Two cargoes have already been sent to Havre. 4. contemporary says;—lt is positively rumored, but we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the report, that the Galatea is under orders to return to England immediately." Over lives have been lost by a flood in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The floods from the Potomoc, James, and Shenandoah Rivers were very destructive, and the damage caused at Richmond alono exceeds 4.000,000 dollars.