By a singular fatality which may or may not be
a mere -accident, a telegram from India of May 9th recorded something like a mutiny. The Colonel of the 17th Bengal Infantry—a .relic of the old Army, stationed at Agra—finding his men, we suppose, not well disciplined, imported some men from the 13th Bengal Infantry, and gave them the non-commissioned appointments. The men of the 17th took this as an affront, and -two of the companies paraded without orders to remonstrate. Their ringleaders were arrested, and the same two companies paraded again and demand their comrades' release. That is, of course, mutiny, but they do not seem to have used threats ; • and the end of the affair will not be known in time for us to relate it. We hope and believe it is a mere coincidence ; but if the men, as is probable, are Beharees, it is an ugly symptom. It is from that overcrowded and dangerous province that we should expect the beginning of serious trouble. It is not loyal, it is full of Mussulman preachers and Hindoo devotees, -and its population have a traditional aptitude for fighting. They used to swarm in the Bengal Army, and we should like to know what has become of the descendants of their old ehief, bet Singh, who thought himself unfairly rained by the British Government.
