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designed by Colonel Napier, of the Bengal Engineers, were progressing under the superintendeuce of MajJr Crotn melin, Chief Engineer of Oude. The principal intelligence from Bundelcund and Central India is the promulgation of an amnesty similar to that lately declared in Oud , .. lts exact terms I am not ac quainted with, but of the fact of its promulgation and of its avourable character I have reason to be assured. Under the terms thus offered it is, I believe, that the ex Rajah of Shahgur has surrendered himself to Mr. Thornton, one of he commissioners of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories. This man's country lying just north of Saugor, was formally annexed by Sir Hugh Rose and Sir Robert Hamilton after the former forced the Mudinpore pass, and occupied the chief town of the district, Marowra. Regarding the battle at Gwalior, I have nothing to add to the account which I sent yen in my last ; but we have received later and fuller accounts of Napier's action at Joura Alipore, where, two days after the fall of Gwalior, the brigadier caught one large body of the fugitives. When be came up with them he found them 5,000 men, with about thirty guns in position. With a troop of Bombay Horse Artillery, under Captain Lightfoot, and a handful of the 14th Dragoons and 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, in all some 600 men, the brigadier actually charged and routed this vastly superior force of the enemy. The action began by a movement of the Horse Artillery (who had with them bat four guns of the troop) upon the left flank of the rebels. The guns were unlimbered and opened fire, but, after a very few rounds, the enemy's line wavered and broke up. Immediately Lightfoot limbered up and galloped in upon their position, even outatrippiug the supporting cavalry. This charge decided the fate of the day ; the enemy were scattered in all directions, cut up by the cavalry and Horse Artillery, and abandoning to tae victors twenty-five guns, all but three in goo,l order, and numberless wands of arms. Meade's Horse and the remaining two guns of Lightfoot's troop, which the brigadier had sent back for before the action, came up at all speed, but found the battle over. A small force, under Captain Ross, composed of Sikhs and 3rd Bengal Europeans, joined the next day from Dholpore—lucky, perhaps, in not falling in with the rebels before their defeat, having no guns or cavalry, appa rently. This remarkable engagement was the last of the Central India Field Force, which was immediately afterwards broken up. At Moorar, in the lines of the old Gwalior Con• tingent, are cantoned the first (Lightfoot's) troop of Bombay Horse Artillery, three squadrons of the 11th Light Dragoons, a field battery, a company of Royal Engi neers, the 86th, wing 71st Highlanders, and 25th Bombay Native Infantry. In the fort of Gwalinr, the 95th Regiment. At Jhansi, the remaining squadron of the 14th Light Dragoons, a field battery, wing :tril Bombay Light Cavalry, 3rd Bombay Europeans, and 24th Native Infantry. At Seepree and Goonah the remainder of Colonel Smith's Rajpootana Brigade ( the 95th being detached), consisting of wing Bth Hussars, w!ng Bombay Lancers, third troop Bombay Horse Artillery, and 10th Bombay Native Infantry. The bulk of this brigade will be at See pree, Goonah being held by one squadron of the Hussars and a division of the troop of Horse Artillery. Sir Hugh Rose, having taken leave of the force, is on his way down to Bombay, and is expected to arrive iu a few days. But, besides the rebel army defeated by Napier, another body, supposed to &meant to 6,000 men, under Tantia Topee, appears to have crossed the Chumbul in safety, and was, no doubt, joined by the fugitives from Joura Alipore. They bad but few guns, but several elephants and plenty of treasure, including, it is said, Scindia's crown jewels. These men made finally for Jeypore, by way of Shree Muttra and Hindoun. At the latter place they oppressed a detachment of Jeypore troops, and took from them their four guns, which, however, together with the station, they abandoned at the approach of Brigadier Showers from Agra. Then, moving towards Jeypore, they were anticipated by General Roberts's force, of the met•ch of which for that purpose from Nuaseerabad I apprised you in my last. The general had arrived within eight miles of Jeypore on the 4th, when he heard that the rebels bad left Lalbowut, forty three miles from the capital, and had advanced to Dowlut pore. Thereupon, avoiding Jeypore, he struck across to Sungoneer to meet them, and reconnoitred the road in front to a place called Chakaoo, but up to ten o clock on the morning of the sth had seen nothing of theni. At this point we shall probably hear shortly of a fight having taken place. The correspondent publishes letters addressed by the Prince of Oude and the late Moulvie to Jung Bahadoor, to incite him to join the rebellion, on the pleathat "the infidels" must all be killed if either the liimloo or Mahomedan religions were to remain secure. Thu Maharajah's reply is couched in the most loyal language, and concludes by exhorling the writers to make their submission to the British. We subjoin a t.ketch of the King of Delhi : I tried in vain to let my imagination find out Timour him. lied it been assisted by diamond, and cloth of gold, and officer of state, music and cannon, and herald and glittering cavalcade and embroidered elephantry, perhaps I might have succeeded, but as it was I found—l may it with regret, but with honesty and truth—l found only Holywell-stroet. The f.rehea t is very broad indeed, and cornea out sharply over the brows, but it recedes at once into an ignoble Thersites-like skull ; in the eyes were only visible the weakness of extreme old age—the dim, hazy, filmy light which seems about to guide to the great darkness; the nose, a noble Judaic aquiline, was deprived of dignity and power by the loose-lipped, nerve less, quivering, and gaping mouth, filled with a flaccid tongue; but from chin and upper lip there streamed a venerable, long, wavy, intermingling moustache and beard of white, which again all but retrieved his aspect. Its. calling youth to that decrepit frame, restoring its fresh ness to that sunken cheek, one might see the King glowing T Ij E E S S, AUGUST 21, lBOB. with all the beauty of the warrior David; but as be sat before us I was only reminded of the poorest form of the Taraelitish type as exhibited iu decay and penurious greed in its poorest haunts among us. His hands and feet were delicate and line, his garments scanty ar.d foul. Here was this Begnm, a lady of some thirty-five, very aggravating to the ex-Great Mogul, who was both in paia and anguish, and very anxious to get away from him. "Why," said she, the old " (Yes, I believe the correlative word in English is) " fool goes on as if he was a King ; he's no King now. I want to go away from him. He's a trouble some, nasty, cross old fellow, and Fru quite tired of him." Bowstrings and sacks!—was not this dreadful language ? lint the rx-Mogul is a philosopher; he merely asked one of his attendants for a piece of coffee-cake or chocolate, put a small piece in his mouth, mumbled it, smiled, and, pointing with his thumbs over his shoulder in the direction from which the shrill and angry accents of queenly wrath were coining, said, with all the shrug and bonhomie of a withered little French marquis of the old school, Mon (lieu! —I mean, " Allah ! listen to her! " And so we left him alone in his misery. He nuirbers upwards of eighty-two years, but they are said to be only of lunar months, and that his real age is seventy-eight. It is needless to say he will never, if sent, reach Caffraria alive. THE BOMBARDMENT OF JEDDAH. The following telegram has been received at the Foreign•oQice from Consul-General Green:— ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 13. Her Majesty's ship Cyclops arrived at Suez from Jeddah last night. I have received th 3 following telegraph from Captain Pullen : Cyclops arrived at Jeddah *2:lrd of July. liatuik Pasha at Mecca. Satisfaction demanded, and letter sent to liamaik im, under flying seal, saying if no satisfactory answer received iu sixty-six hours, shall pro ceed to extremities. _ On the morning of the 27)th, twenty hours E? forty) having intervened from time of sending despatch, and no reply, commenced bombarding on the town at intervals. Fourteen or fifteen bungalows burnt and destroyed. 11 a.m.—Letter received from Pasha not satisfactory. Resumed operations, and continued occasionally until evening of the 20th, both from boats and ships, with shot, shell, and rockets. 27th.—'troops arrived, 507 Bashi•l3sz mks ; time given to land. 28th.—Gassa [Pasha 'l] arrived; comes on bcard next day ; can come to no satisfactory arrangements ; cannot execute murderers, but has them confined, station [stating?] th3t has not the power of life and death. Time extended to sl!ow pilgrims to embark. 80th.—Lady Canning loaves for Yerubo with Moorish princes. Depositions of murderers sent off, and proved guilty by their own local courts. Their execution insisted upon on morning of the 2nd instant, and not complied with by the evening of the 4th. Commence.l bombarding again on the morning of the flth. Before a reply is received the labari steamer arrived with troops, 4SO Erptims. Ismail Passain [Pasha?] commands, with power to satisfy the just demands of England and France. On the morning of the 6th eleven murderers executed [in] sight of the town and shipping in port, and four more culprits to he sent to Constantinople. The Cyclops left Jeddah on the morning of the 7th instant, and has brought up a messenger from the Pasha, with despatches for Constantinople. Mr. Vice•Consui Calvert has my despatches for the Ad- miralty, and leaves immediately. worthy a nation which has preserved its elistenee the sn o reign over us and be our emperor !" they out changing dynasties for countless of " Hail, great king ! welcome, o h l a u g u e g s ' and, with crie s of European civilizetion China would fare 3. ! broughteem and poultry and vegetables down as nreseu Y t cattle 'the Pioneer acted on the principle of timeo Danes's. O th e z'th u AIY if he May the Staunch end Bustard, g n - g u of taming the Marines and small-arm teen ofroof Furious, under Captains Sir Frederick N ttle P lsull and °lwwin"e Sherurd Osborn, sighted Tiensin, an d the f I d ry the admirals in their respecti ve s hi ps, Co ,;;j t s h o at they exceeded far pu sh d Avalanche, anchored opposite the town. Tr/wrae'iel ,„eir s ,;:, h! t p h e e e r t t l o i t ohni, sd their most simp les etyoul 1" towards Toongchaw, the port of Pekin, and ten miles from that city. The largerdistant only g brought to a standstill very shortly after er " Tiensin, but the K,strel, of 40-horse power, with the }eatingthe ships' boats in tow, succeeded in reachi ng a village shout miles above this town. Meantim e ot h er gut&'° el -et employed clearing the junks out of th e r i ver between li Tie were sin and the mouth, so as to render it impossible fur Chinese to bar our egress by sinki ng j un k s. The the owdof these making their escape in ob e die nce to or d ers times so great as to cause as hopeless a jam as n sionally be seen inside Temple-bar. Thus wes% - flees. plished in a few days, and without the slightest dilli e Cll7 ll. 4 en operation which the French admiral bad declared itil • possible unless supported by a land for ce o f 4,000 men, as which might have been as succes s fully undertakeas mouth sooner had not obstacles existed of a far graver cha racter than any which the Chinese have it in their poser to interpose. At this time of the year the loss of that mouth, the finest in the year, is most deeply to be regretted Already we have most disagreeable evidence of the prod. inky and probable temperature of a Pekin summer. As soon as the ambassadors were made aware of the complete success of the admirals, they determined to follow then to Tiensin, in pursuance of their original iutention, awl reached that city on the morning of the 30th of May. spacious temple, occasionally used as a resiience by a former Emperor, commanding a view of the river st its junction with the :.'arand Canal, anti opposite the city, wie appropriated for the accommodation of the French and English Ambassadors. Numbers of Chinese servants were in attendance ; many of the rooms bad been newly papered, And the work of furbishing up was going on briskly. Baron Gros and Lord Elgin occupy two light and airy pavilions on the summit of a mound, ascended by a pathway of orna mental rockwork. Their respective buffs are scattered in sundry fragile buildings of quaint construction, with paper walls, or have made their bedrooms in a joss -house, is which gods and goddesses are the principal articles of furniture. A spacious garden, inclosed by a wall, surrounds the whole. English and French guards occupy the out houses and stand sentry at the principal entrances. The national flags float proudly over all, and a line of gunboats are moored within twenty yards of the windows. These consist at present of the Coromandel, Cormorant, Stasey, and Opossum ( English), the Avalanche, Fusee, end Dee gonne (French). The Staunch, Bustard, and Kestrel are anchored a mile above the town, and the Leven, Woodcock, and Firm are somewhere between this and the fleet. The Woodcock and Kestrel, both 40-horse power, arrived a few days after the capture of Tungkoa. A party of engineers have also arrived from Hong Kong in the Sampewt, and are engaged in blowing up the forts, after whirls it is ex pected they will come here. Numerous pintails afford abundant barrack accommodation. Notwithstanding the great variations in the temperature (the thermometer ranges from 65 deg. to SO deg. in the twenty-four hours), the health of the men continues excellent; supplies are abundant, although some little reluctance has been apple rent on the part of the country people lately in bringing them in, through fear of incurring the displeasure of the authorities. Ice is a luxury in which the Chinese tea classes freely indulge during the summer months; boats and coolies carrying large blocks of it are constantly seen passing to and fro, and the barbarians have not been slow to avail themselves of so refreshing an article of con sumption. The interior of the city has been explored, but offers few attractions to the stranger. The streets are broader than those in southern cities, the houses poorer, and the curiosity shops not to be discovered at all. The city is nearly a square, situated on the angle formed by the junction of the Grand Canal with the Polio River; each face is about a mile long, the wall, which would offer no great obstacle either from its height cr solidity to a n attacking force, is said to mount only eighty cannon. Formerly a large floating population inhabited boats 'in the river and canal, and an extensive water traffic radieted all directions from this point. Since, however, the de struction of a large portion of the Grand Canal by the ec centric course recently taken by the Yellow River , t he traffic upon the smaller channels, which depended !Ly this main artery for their supply, has very much decreases} in extent and importance. The suburbs of Tiensin au'n't a great extent of ground, but the houses are generally inerde mud huts, surrounded by mud walls, betwee u which win narrow dirty lanes Beyonl the suburbs are kitchen . gardens and fruit trees, and then a plain , unbruki n it anything higher than brickkilns, extends to the hormr Four rivers meander through this plain, their cour se market) by groves of trees and far as eye Ca n reach stretches a vast expanse of bearded wheat undivided by fenco or hedgerow. Most of the roads are raised causeways , Al i : great portion of this country is submerged af ter the nil The 'hitches by which it is traceried in every direction are well bridged. Ponies and mules are abundant, and soS 3 e , of the members of the missions already take their eventnt rides along the road to Pekin. The bands of the Cates i a and Nemesis play morning and evening, and collect large crowds of taliniring Chinese. The wholesome effect which thie movemen t on Tiensin. hes vroduccd upon the Chinese Governm ent is already CHINA. Wo select the following from the China correspon dence of the Times : The first duty of the naval authoritios, after the taking of the forts, was to proceed on the exploration of the river for the purpose of opening the way and securing a safe transit for the allied missions of Tiensin. As they antici pated every description of natural and artificial obstruction, anti conceived that the Chinese would offer a most violent resistance to their progress, they advanced at first but slowly. As they proceeded, however, it became apparent that these fears were groundless; the river, winding through flat country with richly cultivated and partially wooded banks, had an average breadth of about 200 yards, with a depth of water at half tide );paging from ten feet to forty. Villages were not very numerous, and consisted merely of a collection of mud huts such as grace the banks of the Nile. So far from the inhabitants attempting t..) oppose the progress of the fillies or showing signs of distrust, much less of active hostility, they collected in crowds upon the banks, prostrating themselves with their foreheads to the ground as the first gunboats passed, and staring at those following with an exprc,sion of counte nance peculiar totbe race in which the most listless apathy is comt,ined with the extreme of wonder and awe. The shore was occasionally lined with these curious spectators, who, as they invariably adopt a squatting attitude, looked like rows of penguins gazing for the first time npon some intrepid Arctic explorer. It was the first time that the " devil ship" of the barbarians had disturbed the muddy waters of the Peiho, or that the agitated pant of a CO horse power steam-engine had aroused from noon-day siesta the placid inhabitants of its banks. But they did not content themselves with gazing at or worshipping the god of steam ; regarding it as the precursor of a power destined to overthrow the present dynasty and raise itself upon its ruins, they faced the decrees of fate iu a spirit ww ce tli ron; , h ap , with er e , th to thou on I Po Ugh tAtll , , aa li e p i oneer to badly if h., is he 2 , )th of tb k iatit, con. th Pique and )3160n tld si lovring day sanded and lo sir success serig qine ar Tiensin listaut only boats wee, ti er leasing the ships' about elan% :boats were sem Thai. ble fur the he crowd of s was ma, may urea• was litleolli• t dilliellilt, Mitred itte 5) men, and lender' a graver elm- their poser 1 loss of that e regretted. the pron. miner. As to complete NI then to ration, awl if May. A knee by a river at its a city, was 'rench and rvatits were rly papered, ikly. Baron y pavilions ray of ores- catered in with paper s-house, is articles of , surrounds py the out. aces. The of gunboats vs. These nl, Slawy, , end Drre Kestrel are !Vow/cork, fleet. The rived a few ! engineers raperan, and cli it is ex- tuns afford ending the ermometer air hours), applies are been am• in bringing tare of the aese titlfer iths ; hosts tantly seen been slow le of con- bat offers re broader and the , t owi iyargbdah,dolyitoeuitsetny t h eihaf itad‘ or r:etnonv m , td, en, the e offer tedi. River, the (Idea upon decreased mina cover ?sally mere vbich wind re kitchen brut.' , n by le horizon• se marked 'Vetches a fence or ways, go the rains. !action are and now it evening e Centralia Beet lege n Tiensin is already . - OM