The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

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Sorts ■Walk a.sid , itlos C adlans. 11 UM Tiny ..nos at p=og Mk. Ter Ibione. SWIM, IV LT lb Cribles.—Aall nay SALL& ROW b."4 1M141 isbam.sso reol lbubwa. - t at . 8011114 T. lama ainfia—ommei r WON WATU AT LONDON !JUDOS. a. A . :44=t uk. NAL ANNA." nu sr. LONDON, MONDAY. DleilLilit N. Imo a transfer of the lismilOovernmsot °Melia from a middle-clam, sod thornlike independent Crepe ration, each in the Last lads Company las always been, to the political ad•isms of the &wanton. must eee7 seriously eiwrmant the pewee of the UCTEN mid the Clunties Bomenstnent within the realm, as well as create • great military power ambit tbs British CIOWM is Asia, snot for a somest b. doubted. We is then, it seems, likely to retain is the ■u.t.oth cootsty thot ocestitu- tarsal dram against whisk our anoMitars struggled 'so hard and so nobly in ths eirrantosath and eigh teenth centaries. For we cannot, Mosame, marine the (.town'. Gormsment with complete power mar • peat atils'iary optima la hid* Whirl; has to be eatapowd hereafter more Lamely than seer of British troop, without =oboe another step to '-sing what it boo ►itherto bora iteot wisely or ;obey to avoid—a vett military seta°. ; sad is wbst rest Wake is Europe lead, er• may we in Flom" Austria, Rao* sad Pram& _ . . ilverywhom their teedescy is at the very last to asimest tandem and to depress liberty. At peso wt Chi Logidatnee hem empiete command over the Lad and Bela Fames of the Clown ; it an omaly tus their subset MI Moe the means d meintaisiog them ; tad than the solitary pommel the Cram is limited both as to sat bwe sod time. But Parlimest Me so such authority over the QUEZWI . . . troops is India; it does net A; their cumbers, it ekes sot legislate few their iliecipline, It does not Fonds far their isesatemane. Their cambers, their privileges, their ply, all low from the pleases of the Cloverament in ladle and of the Company at home; and when the trend* of the Home Oosernmeat of ladle from the Company to the Crews is completed, the QUEVea sill :ankles the Legislature should place some roolsis time es their authority in this respect) have power to keep op ifi India a British Army for weeding is streegth that army which Parliament gists the Crows for the defence of the net of the Empire and the preservation of the be:anneal power in Europe. Ibis I OCTIPBSO of the indite:) , strength of the British Crown in ladle mast re-eat on England and Europe. It will re-act on England by inameneely lamming the power of the Political Government of the country; by giving it the moaned influencing and corrupting the Lqialature and the midd'e climes ; by advancing all those schema and plass of centreline /Won which are so fatal to trine in authority themselves, sod so dangerous to national life ; and by enlarging the hold which the aristocracy has over the property of the kingdom to an extent that will damage the aristocracy itself. It will re-act on Europe by reversing the sushi iiibed policy of England; by making England a peat military nation and by providing England with great European armies in India, which can, and will, be resorted to for European purposes. This change in oar military policy will, in all human pro bability, mate a jealousy of England on the Con tinent of Lamps. far greater then has ever beta* existed. Hitherto that josh:may hie arisen chiefly from envy of our riches, material greatness, and transmarine possessions ; if it is to be exag gerated and augmented by an apprehension or a fear of our general policy, it will inevitably pro- duce • combination far more formidabie than any we have hitherto had to contend with in the conr.cils, or combat against in the fields, of Europe. These see beyond all question some of the very pas. OM, end not at all improbable. contingencies in volved in that great alteration in British Indian policy which it is announced will ctaracterite the PitWalasion Administration. That Lord PALNIUM R 701 1 .11 wish to make the British Crows a groat Military Power, both in Ana and Europe, springs from a mistaken patriotism, we are willing to admit. We hare no doubt that Lord PALIIIIILITON 4,m:cord ing to hie lights, making provision in time for that peat struggle between England and Russia on the plains of Penis, which he believes to lie inevitable, and in which England cannot hope to have the co-ope ration of France. But his voice is still for war," even in the cotnideration of an India Bill; and great • Minister as Lord P stimulus, ia,patriotic and pincers though we may consider him, we art not forget that he is aot a Micistee at high emstitational prin ctples; that his policy is eat swayed se directed by • the moat initional traditions et leglaed t that in his conduct of foret,ni Iffaire he Ire ere now preferred giving hie eon' dente to Islington deputations, to submitting to the menet or asking the advice of Parliament ; and that in his proj. chid Indian mea sure he is avowedly orckol an augmentation of the power of the Crown—that is, of the Cabinet, which acts in the same of the Crows. It, then, a wise jeidoesy and distrust of, and not implicit faith and confides's is, the representatives of the Crown, ought to be the tether; with which the free inWli geese of England Inlets to soy schemes for the lieverameet of India. each a taming ought especially to he active when the plan cams from a Minister of lord Petwaseron's chem.:ter and principles. And this jealousy and di•treat become more than eve the duty of popular leaders and independent jour mak when there is go strong an inclination abroad in quarters from which bent r things sight have been ex pected, to give an unreseer.ing and • saneeless support to Lard P.u.nzastxts to Camels the Indian question solely with rev rents to the revolt ; to be influenced in its settkiMeat amply by administrative considers tiom ; sad to look at the subject irrespective of its nestitatimal bearings, its probable European effect', and the principle an4. teniencies etas Minister who proposes to hand o whole Government of India to a Department under the Crown. It is not in such a way that the pa:ogres of dememmey at be *mists& t bat it is in this manner that the foundations of a gnat military system, hazardous to freedom, may uncon sciously be laid. For a progressive nation there is required a progressive policy. To augment the Mumma of the Crown is not progress, but retio poseicia. .....aearrently with the preparation of the India Bill for increasing the power of the Crown and its Windt, the consideration of a Reform Bill has also been occupying Lord PALMERSTON'S time; and it will, we venture to suggest, be only right and pro w for the Legislature, before it augments the iallamee of the QUERN'S Oovernment in England, to hare satnnitted to it the measure for increasing, as a counterpoise, the power of the QUEEN'S subjects over that Government. We have, indoed, been told that it is unwise and unpatriotic to require from the Cabinet a Reform Bill in the same Session that it undertakes to give Parliament an India Bill. To us wisdom and patriotism appear to consist, before everything else, in taking care of the rights and privileges of the people of England—in providing for their free and good government—in extending to their growing intelligence the functions of citizen ship. And after the statement made by Laid PALMERSTON to Mr. Msnotiss and Sir FLEDLIICIC CTILET, the pruderies and necessity of a Reform Bill thin Session becomes greater than ever. -• - _ But, stye rumour, which may be just u correctly informed on the one sobjeet as it has been on the ether, while Lord Petsezarrolen India Bill has to be thus liberal in its provisions to the Crown, hi Reform Bill bag to be meagre and miserable in its soneeesions to the people. A twenty pound rental and areennent in counties, a tire pound rental in • throng* sement, end no disfranchisement, no redistribu tion of the representation, no vote by ballot, are, it is confidently semerted, the leading features of Lord Entnenetott's Reform Bill. If this really be the policy contemplated by the Cabinet in regard to Parliamentary Reform, the forthcoming session may be pregnant with greater changes then the in tended augmentation of the power of the Quitor's Government ; for to such a proposition se this the emintry will not seriously listen ; and though it they, if brought forward, be intended by Kimble. ally es a mode of getting rid of the quostios far •few, pare more, the probability is that there will Is Apse and spirit enough in the House of Con woe to frustrate any such subterfuge, and to bring the qthetion of immediate legislation for the im provement of the Legislature on a large and com pnehensire basis to an immediate issue. Lord P.itiezeirron is still a popular Minister, more popular, in OW opinion, than either his policy or his measures merit. But any Reform Bill that coseedee lees than was offered by Lord Joan Rcesett, the P.arl Of ABEIDTCS, Sir lone G1L11.411, Mr. SIDNEY HERSIRT, Mr. OLADVEO7IB, and Lord reiainairrox himself before be was Prime Minister, will dissipate his popularity and open the door for new and better combinations than new exist. The country has up to this time indulged in enthusiasm, but it has not surrendered its reason. It is quite prepared to keep Lord Paulin- STUN in office, but the reciprocity must not be all on one side. To seek to extend largely the influence of the Crown, and at the same time to keep " cribbed, eabined, and confined " the controlling pewee of the people, is to light the political candle I at both ends, and such extravagance ea will not be tolerated by the English people, even in one at whose hands they ere disposed to put up with , s us& €.urt. WINDSOR, SArr SDAT. Her Majesty's Maw party yesteday included 41 Dachas of Heat, the Primo, ref Warr, sod lbs Priam. Royal, the Priam el labissea, Lady Lase Marla Dawson, lady Conlin' Baniastea, Lady Assist* Reuse, the Hos. Mee. Orgy, the Hon. Cohost sad Yes. Phipps, the Der of Windsor, sod the Hon. Mrs. Wel/Wiry, the Boa. Mn. BLldulph, Sir Owego Casper, end Me. Mover. The taming had Um honour of Wag Welted after Mery —The Rev. Lad and Lady Wrlothestry Ruessil, Mite Rowell, Lieut.-Colonel the Ilea. I. Stmts. 7ocelys, fleets Fusilier Ono*, Lady sod Mile Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. I. Cooper, Lieut. Cowol, R E., Mies Elba leyesour, sod Mbe Hawk. Phi's.. The Qom, with ties PAWNS R ysl w>hd and dregs thb monism and Asked the Dubow of Kest et Presences. The Prises Consort west out shooting. The Doke of Awned., the Costal of Paris, sad tho Doke of Chartres "wind early, sod eccolepenied hie Royal Highs's.. They left Windsor strata fa the afternoon, after visities hr Majesty. The Nino, of Wales and Priam Alfred wont shootiss la the Ilona Park. P4C1.111 Aldo took • carriage dries. The Pleas.. of Salerno, thee Dachas. of Orlon., dm Doctors of Auroale, sad the Panes sad Primes of Join. Title, Wised Der Mabety to-day. The Prises of liabgen left the Cutlet to-day tor Frog . wore, on a vial to the Duelers of Emit. SCIIDAT, Dsc. 27. 71ve Q.—end Prises Cower, t►e Prime of Wars, t►e Primer Sepal, and Prince Alfred, attended Divine wean to-day in t►. private chapel al ilts Castle. MINISTERIAL CHANOES.—Lord Harrowby has swiliasd the office of Privy Seal, ant from soy political &fa ille' with his cellsagues, hat soiely oa account of the state of his Issidth, which readers It wwwwary fo► hint to abstain hr awes this boo all balsam He is to be succeeded by Lord Ciaaricaede.—Pfseu. Lora Namara is at Brachia Castle, but is sot 'spoofed to be abort frost hlo om:id dotir boyood this Lord Chief Justice Campbell is spending the letgoas eA Hertriege floats The Itight lion. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have WI blade= Pert far liesbeaden Maser, Becks. The Bay. Willem Sanders, M.A., of Magdalen eelbpre, Ottesed, bee bra metaled by the Dien of Christ ian,* to a claiiiima et Christchurch Cathedral, (Weld. • Cnairn's Misirrairui Imo Oil Saturday Visited W • very large •dare, el holiday seekers of antuartnent who estoned perfectly eetftad with the quantity sad quality St SW Wide w►ieh a to be found at the Polygraphic H.Y. The Wastrels me ease a tbe bat iseloitee with trlllag dint, and were mostly esereeetul ti their sore canto efforts Hoop dee donde= do." and • buriogne of t►e Hutchinson fanny. wen received literally with Mel of applause. Wyld's Globe, through the enterprise sod spirit of Its CaStitl^loT, Wh) *Sy/ COStrifte to muter his eot.r• satsumas p, rtisest to the toyle at the day, vas behind so Oboe inotitntion, as astanlisy, is scoria( for itself a share et patAtt Furores. Latins wore glum throughout the doy opus the smelt yroulausi future of Th. Lhiarstooe's eaplorationn Mulualsi by volloseas us the "Chest Glabo itorif,," to ars gets *Ned by thsdester. Added to tbis di* willows we, by the sY eldionssio vine, transported to the turitorise el theism has Company, awl yin thus enabled hpietors to thsurstsus theme sista *Web recent ealarulty his side so tamer. A 80mo•IISCLItT Daavnizo.—Os Friday mora ls. the body of 11 Weeds, aged slaty. el:, • maiden Indy, hassely IM.$ ht Ke•Wee-lsos, Liewar Lund It *tag is the Milers, ow New wad rimmed only la are stale now. AMR 6.a Het morels, ems ofilagers hot sees a %we Is whiles walkiag from the tine tom of tar diraines \awe as the /wry, the Matsu. hi. times the too Wog shoal 101 l • mils sa d before the body had boo d,rovird flay pre net dot they bed goes • loot. WLen the other litanies of the house erne et the rod than the here door Imo bard epa and the t h,...d adatoa from hod, which bed evidently Goa compd.— .Ironvoloool THE IMPRESS, MONULT EVENING, DECEMBER 28. 1857. ARRIV,A I / 4 OP Till • BOMBAY MAIL. We have received by special exprma, in anticipa tion of the Overland Moil, our despatches from Bombay, dated December 4. The following is the summary of the Bombay Times of that date : THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. In oar hat we mentioned the arrival of Grant's column at Cawnpore, on the 27th October. When crossing the Ganges, they arrived at Alumbagh on the let November. It bad now become known that Outram and Havelock were not only holding their own, but were suffering comparatively little injury from the almost unceasing fire kept upon them _ . by the enemy. They were provisioned for weeks, and as there we. understood to be above one hundred thousand rebels in arms around, Sir Colin Campbell wisely resolved to delay the final attack until the force ►t his die- real should have sasembled in suffisient strength to bs irresistible. Ilia Excellency and staff reached Cawnpore on the 3rd, having, as formerly stated, narrowly escaped being captured gy the enemy on the road. Although it was known in August that 90,000 men were on the way from Eng land, the arrangements for pu•hing them on hp pear to have been deferred till close upon their larrival. To this source of detention, the teasing delays that followed are mainly ascribed. Troops were now mastering in strength at Cawnpcmi. On the 9th. the sth, 53rd, 54th, and 93rd, with portions of other regiments, crowed the Ganges, and were speedily followed by the Naval Brigade, who dragged their 24 guns along with them, as if they had bees toys. Large sup- plies of prevision had by this time been wig into Alumbagh, and arrangements of all sorts were made with the caution required, and deliberation per mitted by the occasion. Sir Colin Campbell left Cawopore on the 11th, and rode forty miles at a stretch in the direction of Locknow. The sick and wounded, left by Havelock at Alombagh, were sent into his camp, with the view of returning to Cawnpore, under a guard of Sikh horsemen, an arrangement that nearly proved fatal. As they approached the British camp, they were mistaken by the seamen of Peel's Naval Bri gade for the advanced guard of the enemy, when the guns, loaded with grape, were levelled and about to be find. Luckily, the face of the European surgeon was recognised in time to prevent mischief. Th. Commander-in-Chief bad with him a European . . Horse Battery, two troops of Hone Artillery, silty Royal Artillerymen, with two 18. pounders sod two 8-ineh mortars; 320 of the 9th Lancers, detachments of her Majesty's 6th, Bth, 63rd, 76th, and 93rd, and 300 of the Naval Brigade, se including the 900 joining him from Alumbegh, above 3,000 Europeans in all t besides a squadron of Sikhs and of Hocison's horse, 1,000 Sikh Infantry, Sappers and Miners, B:c., or an additional 2,000 natives. On the 13th, he advanced to the banks of the canal, dispersing the rebels who approached him, and capturing all their guns. On the 15th, the rebels, after a running fight of a couple of bows, were driven from the bilkosha and La Martinicre. They shortly after rallied, however, and made an attack on the British position, when a severe repulse was enitaissd by them- During these three days Lieut. Mayas, Horse Artillery, and Captain Wheatcroft, Carabiseers, wore I killed. We had chiefly depended on oar artillery, wisely avoiding the needless exposure of our In fantry to desperate men. On the 16th, the canal was crossed which separates Alambagh from Lacknow, the Chief advancing on Secunderbagh, which wan carried after a severe struggle, the enemy suffering terribly. Having garrisoned each position as we advanced, the - Sddibeh was attacked about three o'clock in the afternoon, and after a tremendous manmade, was carried about. dusk. Sir Colin Camp bell describes it as ems of the most severe fights he had ever witnessed, and few men have seen more of hard fighting than he. Early on the morning of the 17th, communications were opeaed to the left rear of the barracks towards the easel. A heavy cannonade having been kept up all the morning an the mess-house, that very strong po sition was carried by assault at three p.m., when the troops, pushing on rapidly, were able to seize the Motet Mahal before dark. Sir Cohn Campbell now approached the brave garrison, who had been closely beset since the 25th of September, when Generals Outram and Havelock came out to meet him. Although the enemy was net yet com pletely subdued, the communications with the rear were alt re-opened, and the sick and wounded, the ladies and children, were despatched under escort to Cawnpare. Our lose, though considerable, was less so than might have been looked for. Captain Herdly, Royal Artillery, Captain Dalsell, 93rd Highlanders, Captain Lumeden, of theists 110th Bengal Native In. Pantry, attached to the 93rd, Lieutenant Fraaikland, 2nd Punjaub Infantry, and Midshipman Damien, Naval Brigade, were killed. Thirty-two officers wise wounded—two dangerouly, and eighteen se verely. Our latest tidings extend only to the 21st, and have been supplied by electric telegraph alone, so as to be in the last degree meagre and incom plete. On that date, two telegraph assistants were murdered at Alumbagb, and we must now wait for further intelligence. The routes from Cawnpore westward are still so inter rupted, that the mails are in the last de gree irregular, or we should before now hove had full particulars by letter. It is more than probable that tidings, considerably later than any we can at present give, will be forwarded for our London con temporaries ►y the steamer this evening. There is mach yet to be done in (hide, but the Commander in-Chief has now a numerous force at his disposal ; and Lucknow being relieved, can consult his own convenience in matter of time. We have no longer any ocession for those headlong and deadly assaults, which, heroic and irresistible as they are, are accompanied with frightful sacrifice of life, which greater caution, and the full use of our artillery, may avoid. The force in all now in Oude amounts to close on 12,000 men, con sisting of the 9th Lancers, the Naval Brigade, the Ist Madras Fusiliers, H.M.'s sth, Bth, 23rd, 32nd, 53rd, 84th, 75th, 78th, 82nd, 84th, and 00th Itegte., with a magnificent park of Artillery, a portion of the Rifle Bilged', Royal and Madras Sappers and Miners, the Sikh Infantry and Cavalry—ably com manded and in the highest state of efficiency. ROHILCUND. The tidings from Rohilmind, sent home by the mail of the 171 h November, came down to the sth, sod were in general very satialactory. They con tinue of the Dame complexion, and extend. fortnight further on. In the end of October, Colonel C,otton's force, having captured Fottehpore Sikree, a place thrice the size of Agra, reached Iluttra on the let of November. After a day's rest they left again on the 3rd, 'parching twenty mike on a stretch, to a town ealled Ihet. The place was surrounded by our cavalry, when the rebels were found to have de camped several hours before. Pushing on be yond this a camelman was killed by the rebels in a village close by, When they were immediately at taked and dispersed, and the place destroyed. On returning to Agra, the force was taken charge of by Colonel Riddell, who marched on the 14th, in the di rection of Allyghur and Soluudshuhur, with the view of watching the movements of the rebel chief Wal leedad Khan, who was encamped, with a large fol lowing, on the left bank of the Ganges. Here, united with Major Eld's detachment, they were to push on to Mynpoorie, where the Rajah had been trouble some. On the 17th they reached Secundra Ran, on the Grand Trunk road. Beyond this our informa tion does not extend. On the 19th November the Allyghur detachment, under Major Eld, moving up the Katcha Ghaut, and finding a body of the Rohil mind insurgents on the opposite bank, opened fire on them, killing 28 and wounding 30. SHOWERS' COLUMN. The accounts of the operations of Showers' column contained in our last, extended to the 31st of October, when, having swept the country round, a little breathing space was required at Kanoud. From this he returned to Rewaree, where a subadar and company of the Guides were in charge of the town. Showers next marched on Goorgaon, twenty miles from Delhi, where the main column halted. A detach ment of the Cerabineers were from this sent off to Farrualcauggiar, where twenty rebel troopers were taken and shot. They had hitherto been skirting the hills—they now entered them, and passed through a range of fine valleys, flanked on each side by elevations from three to six hundred feet in height. The object weal to punish the Mar war mountain tribes, branches of which extend in this direction • long way from their customary hones. The villages were burned, and the rebels shot in all directions. They found the uniforms of European soldiers, of officers, and of Sepoys in profusion everywhere—proof sufficient of the share the mountaineers had taken in the revolt. The column returned to Delhi on the 9th. It started again almost immediately for Meerut, on route to Bewar, where the enemy were said to be mastering in strength. In the beginning of the month, Colonel Gerrard as ordered to make a demonstration towards Re- wares. By the 13th ho bad reached &mond, in pur suit of the Joudpoor Legion, said then to be at Nar neut. Ile was joined on the way by a detachment under Captain Stafford, when they attacked, and after a severe encounter defeated Ike thousand of the enemy, capturing all their gnus, six in number. The enemy advanced to meet to about eleven o'clock, and the oontest lasted till late in the afternoon, when the Seri on which they rested was captured at sun set. Our loan amounted to about seventy killed, CoL Gerrard amongst the number. DELHI. The doomed city, though no longer the mom of our anxieties, continues the centre of activity in the North-West. It is here, the chief scene of rebellion, where the sternest vengeance might have been looked for; and here unhappily, we find that mawkish humanity which every Englishman condemns, and every native ascribes to fear, most prevalent. It is said that the unwise or ders of Mr. Colvin, Wiled when his once powerful mind was failing him, had never been cancelled, and that a timid dread of responsibility had disabled the local authorities from thinking for themselves, or rising to the occasion. The first manifestation of this was in sparing the life of the King of Delhi, and the princes who were shot were so dealt with to prevent a rescue, or they also might hays been spared. The hoary royal traitor now occupies the palace, has a guard and retinue assigned to him, and insults the British officers who visit him. liis youngest son, a lad of eighteen, has, on the ground of his youth, been declared innocent, and tr►- verses Delhi on an elephant of state, with a couple of English °Boars in his train. A military commission has meanwhile been sitting to obtain formal legal evidence against men caught in the fact. Twenty-four of the junior members of the royal family, having been convicted on evidence that might h►ve satisfied a Chancellor Eldon, were on the net hanged all together; and if we are to extinguish the mutiny, and convince the insurgents that we are not at all afraid of them, we must con tent ourselves oocuionally with presumptive evi denee, or strong moral proof. Your murderer seldom bungles his work so as to leave living witnesses to testify against him. MALWA. We gave in our last tidings, of the outbreak at Mehidpoor, in which Captain Mills and Dr. Carey were slain on the rising of part of the contingent. Brigadier Stuart's column was then moving rapidly in this direction. On the 11th the cavalry, under Major Orr, occupied Mehidpoor, the rebels basing left the previous day, On the 12thhe marched out with 337 men of the Ist, 3rd, and 4th Hyderabad Cavalry, and overtook the insurgents to the number of about 300, with two guns, at Its where they had resolved to make a stand. f6ey were im mediately attacked and dispersed by our cavalry, who cut up above a hundred of them, two nine pounder guns, with a large number of carts loaded with ordnance stores, being captured. In the course of the pursuit, the enemy abandoned the three guns they had taken at Mehidpoor, with two others of large calibre, seised by them at Burnaggur. Our casualties were inconsiderable; Lieutenant Samuells was dangerously wounded, and Captains Murray and Clarke bad their horses shot under them. The enemy were dispersed in all directions; seventy-sit prisoners were taken, cad tried four days afterwards by drumhead court-martial at Me hidpoor, and shot, as having been found in the field against us. On the 1 lthlpart of the totes crossed the Chumbul and encamped on the other aide, two marches from Mundesore. Some 8,000 rebels were said to have taken up a position in this neighbour. hood. On the 21st, the enemy attacked our left front and threatened our right. They were driven l into Mundesore with heavy lees. The cavalry pur sued Meer* Singh, with his horsemen, and drove them into a village about tee miles from Mundesore, en the Neemuch road, where the rebel force ap peared in strength, and showed its standards. On the 23rd Stuart's main column marched in this direction, and found tho enemy advanc ing to meet them. They took up a position, with the strong village of Ooorareea in their centre, overlapping very considerably both our flanks. The guns on their left centre baring been silenced by our artillery, were captured by her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons. They were now driven from their ?rineipal position with heavy loss, a body of them sat the less continuing obstinately to maintain a por tion of the village. While engaged in front, the garrison of Mundesore sallied out and attacked our rear, but were repulsed by the rear-guard. On the Mth the rebels abandoned Mundeeore in the merge of the night, and retired on Nortek in the direction of Itampoora. The casualties of the four days was—Lieutenant Redmayne, 14th Light Dragoons, killed; and eight rank anddlle wounded. Lieutensnt James, severely wounded in the arm ; Lieutenant Martin, severely wounded in the leg Lieutenant Prendergast, slightly wounded, and four other of slightly. Sixty-eight rank and file o other corps were killed and wounded. NEEMUCH. One of the centres of disturbance for many months past has been Ncentnch, a town in the 0 wa lior territory, with a British cantonment, on the north-west border of Malira. The post, though not large, is one of much importance, and has from time to time been occupied by Bombay and Bengal troops alternately, occasionally by both toge ther. Of late it has been lightly garri soned, and long and heavily beset by dan ger from without. In the beginning of the month from 2,000 to 3,000 insorgents had mustered under the walls, with a view of attacking the fort, at this time unusually weak in troops. The garrison, with the exception of the cavalry, were completely be sieged, and compelled to abandon the cantonments and fortify themselves in the square. They had fortunately a sufficiency of provisions, held well to gether, and experienced no apprehension of their position—often half the battle in cases of siege. The fire of the enemy did them little harm, while few of our shots were thrown away ; strange to tell, our own former cantonments afforded the principal shelter for the insurgents. On the 21st the Mundesore rebels attempted to escalade the place, but were beaten off with snob heavy loss that they withdrew altogether on the following day. During the fort night's siege, two European officers and four Sepo) s bad been wounded, none of them severely—the 12th Bombay Native Infantry in particular conducted themselves nobly. On the 22nd the rebels were attacked and defeated by Stuart's column, driven from point to point, with the loss of all their guns, and the neighbourhood effectually relieved of the annoyance of their presence. BOMBAY. MISCILLLANEOIIIB.—Het Mojesty's steam-ship Cor delis has been with as for the past week from the Loori& Moorisa, for which she leaves to-morrow, with water and provision+. She was sent out some months back with the view of keeping order amongst the Arabs while we wen robbing them of their guano. Up to the present date no disorder had oc curred. In a postscript dated Dee. 4, our Bombay corre spondent writes : "The Gwalior mutineers have not thought tit to wait for General Windham to recon noitre them. Letters frost Agra, of Nov. 23, de scribe them in retreat again to Cups.. The Bheels at loonhoor have been d spersed. 200 men of the 18th and 66th arrived here yesterday, and the tit Royals have arrived at Muulipatam on their way to Ilydrabad." THE RELIEF OF LUCK-NOW. The Dona Pastes contain' the following extract of a letter from Brigadier Hope Grant's camp : Camp, 6 mils from Altnbagh, Noe. 3,1867. We bad our fist fight in Oude 'stinky, but it was the mildest affair that has taken place aims we SR Delhi. We marched from our Isat ground at 7 o'clock, with Us intention of inoemping on a large plain 4 mile ran' Lucknow, there to await Sir ColtCarap bill. We hid not gone • mile before our ad vanced 'nerd wee fired upon by the enemy, who had taken tip • position in. • large village neer the road. We were moon in the thickest of it and win not long in taming our friends the M•tt•deena out of their position, alter which we could not persuade them to come within muaket shot. It wee with greet difficulty our cavalry managed to come up with their rem. We begged upwards of 100 of them in the village, and afterwards took the only two gum they had. One for ammeter!! to 1 killed and about ten wounded. Some of the 44th N•tl'e Infantry eats were killed fighting against no, and actually had their leave certificates on them. We hare taught the Zemiliderc • number of whom were opposed to as yesterday, • lemon they ere not likely to forget in • burry. Every village for miles round haa been burnt to the ground, and the whole toiletry emus se if it wee on fire. After penning the fugitives to within two milts of Alundiegla, we retired to this place. Si, Colin is imposed out to-day, and If he anima weaken probably move on to Aleonbegh to-morrow zooming. We can Year the Locknow guns quite distinctly. There bee been very heavy firing there this morning. The men of the Punjab refit ment. are delighted with the 93rd Highlander*, who are certainly splendid men, and always march in their kilts and boom• The Pasjabase call them "Tape wallas" and the " Tamesba la Sultan." They admire the bagpipes mere than anything, and want to have • Bajab like it. - The following is from a correspondent of the Eforkaro, with the relieving force in Oude : Camp about 12 miles from Loam+, 4th November.— We have bean encamped here for three days waiting foe Sir Colin, who fa expected in camp to-day. We bare hitherto met with no oppoition, though our .. - movements are meet narrowly watched by the dope. tine enemy. Oa the 3rd they expected as to ward se we always do at four oe three in the morning and had Sled a village on the road with infantry, Intending, it is suppeeed, to allow our column to pass and then to attack end to loot ourluggage. As luck would have it, an order caws which caused as to break up our camp and march at deylighr, ao we disappointed our friends, and instead of plundering as they expected they were killed and burnt oat themselves. • • • • • Teeterday some sixteen villages were burnt round our camp. We ham never dons this where unopposed, but op position rules the men, and Inoendlerlem is a sure ovum queue,. Now we are in Oude we can scarcely make a mis take. The whole country Is risen, under their chiefs wind no ; and unless we show that to be • toeing genie, they will fancy that we ere week and unable to punish ; from what I saw on the lird, the enemy we have to deal with here is utterly to be deepterd away from their loopholed wills end mem. I never saw large bodies of men steguotulats on suddenly in my life ; like ilmires is a magic lantern, they ere here end in a moment vanish emir*. This le a good deal to be accounted for by the fact of the greater pert of the country being covered by high jowl crops, so high that an army can hide Itself although CIAO to you. The sugar-cane luta are also splendid cover, and save hun dreds of wretches from the sabres of our cavalry. _ Sir Colin Campbell creased the Ganges into Onde on the 9th ult. opposite Cawnpore, en route for Luckuow, and arrived at Alumbagh on the 12th. We had at the latter date about 9,000 fresh troops (Europeans), between Caw:Tore and Lneknow, and in the latter place. The Thstkaru of the 14th inst. says: A letter from Caverns, dated oth instant, informs no that the Commander-in-Chief had left for Lucknow at 10 o'clock that morning, keeping his departure mg quiet, and taking with him half of the 9th Lancers and some Punjab cavalry that had been left there for him. Tea force now In Oude, including Mom under General Havelock, amounted t„, about 9,000 men, of whom 2,000 were cavalry. The heavy guns Under Captain Peel sad the Jack Tare bad gone n , and It was believed that Sir Colin Campbell intended giving our gum a chance at 'helm this time, end wiring his infantry as mush as ha could. This, no doubt, is the most prudent course that could be adopted. It was rumoured that in the street light at Lueknow, the 90th L. I. had lost fourteen offlosre, including their commanding officer Colonel Campbell. The Gwallor force was still believed to be hoveriae about the place, Mat it was bopel rather than famed that they would attack IL The 53rd and Tare had had • pretty sharp affair on their way up from Allahabsd. They attacked with about 600 men • body of ilve thousand rebels in a strong position. The letter stood and cheered our men as they Mlle on , they moat have fought very well, as our lose was 100 killed and wounded ; and though they are said to have lost 230, the great bulk got away. It is believed that Sir Colin wee not well pleased, for be hoodlum given orders that troops coming up are only to defond themselves, and not to go out of their way to attack rebels. °Moen who have rerently arrived from England led thin very different from the Crites', where they had no marching. We hear that news was received in Calcatta yea terday to the of that all was going on well at Lucknow. The Commander-in-Chief was shell ing the city on two sides. He had enough artillery to pound the place to atoms, a n d sufficient cavalry to follow up any &dm. tage. It was said to be Sir Colin's intention to make the best age of these arms, and spare his in fantry for close quarters. It is added that Sir Cohn had communicated several times with Sir James Outrun, who said that he could hold out for some time, and advised his friends not to begin work until they wire strong enough to do it decisively.— , Hurkorso, Nov. 16. The following intelligence from Oude has been supplied by the government of India to the press at Calcutta : _ —.— From Catrupore, Nov. 14, 8 p.m. From General Windham to the Goverto.r-General. News from the .chirrs nmp at AID. bash, Yam. at the 19th; after several skirmieheiii the der, meting in the ceptere of two se ma, the foit at Jolla/abed was takenand blows up, L-Chiet haA om. inualeatsi with di; Janes Outwit. From Cawnpore, 16th Nov., 11 a.m. From Captain Braes, by order of his Boadicea the Com- msoder-in•Chid, to the Governor-Owel. t•Chid oecapiel the Dilkhooeth end the Ma:tinier* after • running tight of two hours ya• terday at noon. The enemy came forward to at tack at 3 p.m. After a struggle of an hoar he was beaten beck; repulsed heavily. An advanced Wean banag cloned seem villages across the canal, we took post there for the night. Oar to.. was very trtiling—Liestannt Mayne, Horse Artillery, Quarter-Master-Gosseers Deport ment, sad Lieutenant Wheatcroft, Carabbsears, killed. From Alarnbegb, November 17.9 a.m. From Major Sibley to the Beenotary to Government. The Commander-in-Chief in Letdown; heavy MUM& in the direction of the paws,. Dilkhooneh awl Mart:Wien occupied by our imps. Many Of our readers may not understand the per port of the above despatch from Government about the cannonading in the direction of the palaces ; the object of the cannonading may in consequence be quite unintelligible to them. Being, however, well acquainted with Lucknow, we (Hurkares) are enabled to explain that the palaces consist of a group of buildings called the Makes, or the residences of Wajid Ali Shah's 300 wives. These palaces stand between the Dil Bloom; (Heart's Delight) and the Martiniere, at present in the oc , enpation of Sir Colin Campbell, and the Belly. guard, or Residency, in the occupation of Sir Jamas Outram,is thus placed between two fires, and has to be driven from the Mahal', after which the force under Sir Colin Campbell will join that of Sir J. Outram. Though these palaces are an extensive structure of brick walls and houses, they are of very weak con striction, and would soon crumble under a cannonade of shell and round shot. From Mailman, from Lord Elphinstops, Tuesday Dec. 1, 1837, 9,36 -am, Tia tollowtag sairesp was raoeived this morals ham Laid Harris at Hadar, dated Nor. 30. - - - • Alma arrived yesterday from Calcutta. Some lighting trees 150 to 19th November. Biz Colin Campbell bed taken most tithe impartast fortified posts in thetown. Greet &tigh ter of the rebels, bat they had not yet been entirely beam. Sr Colin Campbell slightly wounded. The British forces wen united. The women sod children from the Bieidreey were en route to Caw:wore. The 93rd litiblandas and the Naval Brigade bad eased esesrsly. finalist Malingers at Cal" and General Windham sup posed to hare NR Cavispors to attack them._ J. J. By. CLLia. Inspector in Chug*. Poosui 1 / 1 811•10elec, Dec. I, 1837; 11.33 a.m. From Allahabad, Nov. 20, Friday, 12.10 p.m. SOY BRIGADIER CAMPI7I.L TO TUB PRIVATE S TO THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Head-qu►rters, Secranderbagh, Lacknow, November 18, 1837. On the 18th the Commander-in-Chief advanced across the canal straight on Secunderbagh, which was carried after a severe struggle ; the enemy suf fering enormously. These positions having been occupied, the &much was attacked with heavy artillery for three hours. It was carried at dusk, after one of the severest fights ever witnessed. Early on the 17th, communications were apenecl to the left rear of the barracks, towards the canal. A cannonade having been kept up all the morning in the Mess hones, that Tory strong position was carried by assault at 3 p.m. The troops pushed rapidly on after carrying the Mess house, and were able to seize the Motes Mahal before dark. Sir James Outram and Sir Henry Havelock then came out to meet the Com rsander-in•Chiet. The Commander-in-Chiefs wound is very slight, and does not interfere with his duty. LIST OF OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. TO TIII BOTTOM OT TUT suOv. ECILARI3 _ Sir,—ln bending to you for publication to-day% news from Locknow, I ought to have informed you, as I now beg to do, that no information of the Caw mender-in-Chief having been wounded had reached the Governor-General, and that its probable that some preview; message may have been interrupted. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, G. TALBOT. Nov. 20, 1837. Continuation of Meesage (of 20th November) to ths Prirsu Semetary. List of officers killed and wounded on the 16th sal 17th November, 1857, in relief of the British garrison at Lucknow. KILLED. Naval Brigade—Midshipman M. A. Damien. Royal Artillery—Captain Herdly. 93rd Highlanders Captain ; Captain Lumeden, 30th N. I. (attached to the 93rd). 2nd Panjanb Infantry—Lieutenant Frankland. WOUNDED. General Staff—General Sir C. Campbell, 0.C.8., Commander-in-Chief, slightly ; Major Alisoe, tary secretary toCommander-in-Chief, severely; Cap tain Alison, A.D.C. to Commander-in-Chief, slightly; Captain Hon. A. Anson, A.D.C. to Brigadier General Grant, slightly. Naval Brigade—Lieutenant Sailed, verety; altipman L. A. Clinton, slightly. Royal Artillery—Captain Travers, slightly; vet-Major Peanyerdok, slightly; Lieutenant Foot slightly ; Lieutenant Milman, slightly ; Assistant Surgeon Veale, severely. Bengal Artillery—Captain Hood, severely; Cept Hammond, severely. H.M.'s 83rd—Captain Walton, severely; Lint. Munro, dangerously. Her Majesty's OWL—Major Baruston, severely Lieutenant Wynne, slightly; Lieutenant Powell, slightly. Her Majesty's Highlanders.—Lieutenant-Colo n& E wart, slightly; Captain Burroughs, slightly: Lieutenant Cooper, severely ; Lieutenant Welch,* verely ; Lieutenant Goldsmith, severely ; Lieutenant Wood, severely ; Ensign Mummers, severely. let Madras Fusiliers—Lieutenant Dobbs, 4114 2nd Punjaub Infantry—Lieutenant Wilton, dd. gerously. 4th Ptinjaub Infantry—Lieutenant Paul,sevelell Lieutenant Macqueen, severely; Lieutenant field, severely. Hodson's Horse--Lieutenant Hackett sevessly. (Signed) H. W. Noloate, Lieut. Assistant Adjutant-General of the Arno Head-quarters, Secunderbagh, 18th November. 1837.—Zrog1ishmen, November 21. 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