1 JUNE 1867, Page 2

The telegram from India on which we commented last week

is now stated to have originated in the report of an insane person that a mutiny had been resolved upon. The name of the place at which the mutiny was reported (written "Great" in our telegram)" was, as we conjectured, Meerut, and the collector of the district evidently believed that it would occur, as on Sunday evening, May 12, all the women and children were sent from Meerut to Delhi The telegraph says that the writer of the letter in which this inten- tion to mutiny was reported had arrived at Meerut, and was found to be out of his mind. If this be so, it is a satisfactory ending; but it is not quite impossible that the information, though vague, was founded on some actual basis, and that the early discovery of

the intention may have had the effect of postponing the mutiny. There is no reason, of course, to apprehend this seriously, in the absence of any fresh cause for anxiety; but if sepoys with mutinous intentions find themselves anticipated they would certainly post- pone the attempt and give no sign, and any one who had believed in it would assuredly be put down as mad.