The Times published on Tuesday analarming telegram from Bombay about
a plot detected at Kelapore, a native State re.
gelded as the centre of Mahratta feeling. The natives were to rise, to murder the Europeans, to slay the " native officers " of the regiment stationed there, and to induce the Sepoys to Mutiny. The plot was said to be detected through the arrest of some dacoits, who were plundering to obtain money for it. 'The story was so nearly identical with one that was true last year, that it looked odd, and it is now denied by the Viceroy, and by the Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, though reaffirmed by the Standard's correspondent. We suppose some subordinates engaged in the old plot were arrested -at Kolapore, and the reporters fancied they were accused -of a new design. The blunder marks a sense of alarm which we have for three years past remarked as prevalent in Bombay. Every dangerous rumour refers either to Mahrattas -or to the Sepoys of the Bombay Army, in which Mahrattas are numerous. They will have more difficulty than the North-west men in coalescing with the Mussalmans, who are not going to be shot in order to rebuild the throne of Sivajee. They do not want to be hanged again for killing cows.
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