The Press. — London, England, 1858-04-10 00:00:00

INDIA. The following telegram was received on Thursday afternoon at the India-house, from Malta : J. L. DICKENSON, ESQ., INDIA-HOUSE, LONDON. LUC KNOW. On the Bth or March the arrangements on both alas of the Goomtee for the attack were completed. On March the 9th Sir J. Outram turned the enemy's first great line of defences by an enfilading tire, and the Martiniero was stormed by the second division, under Sir E. Lugard. On the lath of March Sir Colin Campbell seized the Bank House, and took up an advanced position in front of it. Sir J. Ontram plashed forward his advances on the left of the Goomtee, the resistance of the enemy being ob stinate. On the 11th of March her Majesty's 42nd and 93rd Highlanders stormed the Begum's Palace, and Sir J. Outram crossed the Goomtee and occupied the buildings in front of the Palace. In these operations our loss was under 100 killed and wounded. Among the killed are Gaptain Macdonald, her Majesty's 93rd; Captain Cooper, Rifle Brigade; Captain Moorsom, Staff. On the 13th of March a sap was run up to the Imaum barrah, which is close to the walled inclosure of the Kaiserbagh. On the 14th of March the Imaumbarrah was stormed, and the troops, following close on the retiring enemy, entered the Kaiserbagh with them; the contest lasted until three o'clock p.m., by which time Sir Colin Campbell was in full possession of the Kaiserbagli. On the 15th of March the enemy, after the fall of the Kaiserbagh, having commenced their flight from the city, Brigadier Campbell, with a brigade of cavalry and horse artillery, was despatched iu pursuit. Sir Hope Grant also advanced to Seetapoor, on the direct road to Rohilcund, with 1,000 sabres, to intercept the fugitives who might be forced in that direction by Brigmlier Campbell. Up to the lath of March the euetny still occupied some parts of Lucknow, iutelligea.ce of Sir C. Campbell's reduction and oecupatio.. of the whole city is hourly expected. THE DOALI. A body of rebels had threatened Etawah, but have since recrossed the Ganges. LEWAH. It is reortrted from Rewah that the rebels have taken Cheomar (?) and that the Rajah and the Deputy Com missioner, Mr. Cavin, are prisoners. CENTRAL INDIA. Sir H. Rose occupied Bandapoor on March 10. The Rajah had fled to Chunderee. RAJPOOTANA. No intelligence. SOUTHERN MAHRATTA COUNTRY. The rebel Dessayees are still in the Canara jungles, but large reinforcements have been despatched to the magis trate by the Madras Government, and the Bombay frontier is carefully guarded. The following telegraphic despatch, dated Allahabad, 17th of March, seven p.m., has just been received : It is reported from Futtyghur, under date the 15th of March, that the Nana is still at Jehaupoor, and the chief rebels are with him. The rebels have again entered the Futtyghur district, attacked the Thannabs, and driven off the police posted there. General Penny must be close at hand on the Jumna side. The rebels who had entered the Ghatnmpore Pergunnah have recrossed the river to numeerpore. The commander-in•chief sends the following intelli- gence to-day from Lncknow Yesterday the bridges were secured, and the troops advanced, and occupied the Muehee 13awan and Great Imaumbarrah. Large bodies of the enemy crossed the stone bridges an hour before the attack was commenced by Sir J. Outrage. The resistance was slight compared with the previous day. A Glioorks division seized the enemy's position in front of Alumbagh last night. Num bers of armed and unarmed men are evacuating the city by the outlets ; they passed to the north. Our advances to-day are gradually pushed on all sides of the line occupied by the troops, particularly towards Goolghat and Moosabah, in which direction the enemy are advancing. The point they intend to make for is not known. Bombay Castle, March 18, 1848. H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to tiovernment. Malts, April 8, 1858. From V. G. NONTANARO. CHINA. Ilra% es were mustering iu large numbers round Canton, determined on an attempt to retake the city. The representatives of the allied powers were preparing for their departure northwards, but it is said that all thought of visiting Pekin this year is given up. The Infle.rible, with Yeh as a prisoner, arrived at Singa pore on the Ist of AI)F.N. The Arabs in the vicinity of Aden had stopped the roads and intercepted supplies on their way to the fort. The commander of the garrison attacked diem on the ISth of March. His force consisted of (it) men ■nd two Wills. Twenty or thirty of the enemy are saiti to have been killed, without a casualty to the British. The roads, however, were again interrupted, and the Arabs assembled in larger THE PRESS, APRIL 10, 1858. numbers than before. The Candle reports that another successful sortie had been made; that the Arabs had sub mitted, and that they were again admitted into the fort on a friendly footing. Before the Candia left Aden the Oriental had arrived from Bombay with passengers. Her Majesty's steamer Cyclops bad left for Suez, to be engaged on sur• veying service in the Red Sea. The Pylades is likewise on her way up to receive the Siamese Mission. The Oriental's mail has been brought forward by the Candia. By the arrival of the Bombay mail, our detailed intelligence from Lucknow comes down to the Bth March. The rebels, it seems, are determined to defend Lucknow to the last. Their attacks upon the Alumbagh on the 21st and 25th February were very determined, but their repulse on each occasion was decisive. On the 21st an assault on a very extensive scale was planned, but the rebels were out manoeuvred, routed and driven back with heavy loss, and on the 25th their repulse was not less signal, and included the capture of three guns. The Times special correspondent writes from the camp, Cawn pore, Feb. 27, eight a.m. : The head-quarters camp is breaking up, and in an hour or two I shall be on my way to our first halting-ground at Oonau, in Oude, ten miles from this, and on the road to Lucknow. Walpole's Brigade, Tombs's troop of Horse Artillery, and the greater portion of the bead-quarters staff, crossed the Ganges this morning • and the com mander-in-chief, who is anxious to wait h ere till the last moment, to see it the Calpec enemy really intend to move against Cawnpore, will start with his personal staff to Bunters (about forty-five miles hence) to-morrow morning early, and will ride the whole distance in one march, so as to overtake us before we reach the same camp. The garrison of Cawnpore, strengthened by the remains of the 75th Regiment, will he under the command of Major- General Inglis, who has received precise instructions for his guidance in case of an attack; and a small corps of observation, consisting of the 88th and 82nd Regiments, some Irregular Cavalry, and a field battery, under Colonel Maxwell, are patrolling the country between Cawnpore anti Calpee. The heat is very considerable to-day. I have already reported to you that the enemy attacked the Alumbagh in the forenoon of Thursday last. But they were not satisfied with the result of their first essay on the 25th. Again they came out in force about four o'clock, and, animated perhaps by the uncertain light of the moon, continued their abortive efforts on our position at the Alumbagh till ten o'clock at night. They came up repeatedly within range of our guns and rifles, but they fell in files again and again, and retired quite disheartened, with very heavy loss. Our casualties in the two engage ments were six killed and thirty wounded. Colonel Berkeley is shot through the right arm, Captain Moorsom has a sabre-cut in his left arm, and Lieutenant H. Gough has a musket-ball through his leg. Brigadier Franks's last success is most decisive. The Nazim, whom he beat on the 19th, rallied his forces, and made a forced march to seize on the strong pass of Badyan, but Franks out-manceuvred him, and seized upon the pass. The Nazim then, by a long detour, swept round Franks, and took up a strong position at Badshabgunge, two miles from Sultanpore. Ou the 23rd, Franks made the same• manmuvre, swept round the enemy's right sank in a march of ten miles, attacked them in the rear, heat their army ( which consisted of 25,000 men, including 5,000 sepoys and 1,000 cavalry), drove them off the field with the loss of 1,800 slain, and captured 20 pieces of artillery out of 25, of which 10 were heavy, viz.—one :3•!-ponnder, two 24-poun ders, two IS-pounders, four 12-pounders, and one 9-pounder; and took all the enemy's amtunnition, their baggage, and standing camp. This great success. which leaves the road to Lucknow open from the right, was achieved at a very small loss—two killed and ten wounded in all the three actions. It appears that it was the Nana's brother, Bake Rao, who crossed from Oude into the I)oab the other night. As be was foll Owed by 200 regular cavalry, by a body of infantry, and by several elephants and waggons, containing his harem and baggage, he must have made some noise in his passage across the stream ; but the policemen who were specially stationed at the very point where he crossed, because it was a likely place to make the attempt, pretended not to have heard him, and the only information given to our officers in charge of a cavalry detachment near Bithoor was brought by a chowkedar, who ran in to say that, from the noise at the opposite side of the river, he thought the Nana was going to cross. At the time he brought in this news the Rao had got safely over, and when our cavalry arrived it was only to find the traces of his passage. t►n investigation it became evident that the policemen were accomplices in the fact, and that they bad been bribed to keep their ears shut ; and so, after due investigation, the whole party, eleven in number, were hanged. The Rao's party continuing their flight across the l)oab, cut up the men of two police-stations, which is a strong collateral proof of the guilt of the men at the river-side station, and got into Calpee in the morning. He is said to have obt►ined large levies of men, and to be enlisting sowars at 30r. a month, and infantry at 10r. and 15r. a month. The most painful effect of our inability to defend those who are faithful to us is, that they with justice reproach us with their losses and with the insults heaped upon them. These Calpee sepoys have been enabled to do great wrong and injury to our fast friend the Rajah of the little State of Churkaree, south of the Jutnnt. They invaded his territories, beat hie troops, carried off his guns, insulted his palace, and carried off three lacs of rupees, or 30,09010 front his treasury. Off artillery t all itihl e b er e y i 3 n rgoaf tready,fhoertyw-cheriooglshes forty-eight d gad On the Ist of March the commander-in-chief t wG h ia e tnh h g e iet a ss d i - nni r oa a g r ? t 3 e it c dcee. s n ta t pieces (two batteries and six troops), and upwaradrfirnstebolydef eighty heavy guns, was before Lucknow. Of the operations that followed, but a ge nera l id ea can as yet alone be given. It appears, ho wever, t h at on the 3rd the army occupied the Dilkoosha Park—following the line of Sir Colin's former advance —meeting with a slight resistance, in the course of which Colonel Little, of the oth Lancers, commanding the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, was wounded. On the 4th Brigs_ tiler Franks appears to have joined, after engaging the enemy in a small fort, when Lieutenant Innes, of the Engineers, and Captain Pierce Smith, were wounded. In front of the Dilkoosha, along the canal, a strong line of defensive works had been thrown up by the enemy, against which it would be necessary to employ the heavy artillery. The con struction of batter-its was therefore immediately com menced. By the evening of the sth two floating bridges were laid down across the Goomtee, below the city, and on the following day the river was passed by Sir James Outram at the head of 6,000 men, of whom 1,4(X) were cavalry, and thirty guns. Thus a position was gained on the northern bank of the river, and all escape of the rebels from the city in that direction prevented. In this operation an officer of the Bays was killed. On the 7th the enemy at tacked Outram, but were repulsed. The total casualties from the 3rd to the oth inclusive were, I am informed, 2 officers and 9 men killed, and 300 and 23 men wounded. (?) "Of the temper of the rebels," writes a correspondent from Bombay, "I learn that, though alarmed at the grand scale of our opera tious, they appear prepared to fight it out, though there are reported to be differences among them, one party inclining to submission. Their spirit would soon be tested. In a few days (I suppose by the 12th or 13th) the English batteries will be ready, and a storm, hitherto unconceived by them, will burst upon their heads." The forces under the command of Sir Colin Camp bell amount in all to some 50,000 men and 140 guns. The whole of the Artillery is commanded by Sir Archdale Wilson, of Delhi. The Brigadiers of the Field and Siege Artillery ate, respectively, Colonels Wood and Barker, both of the Royal Artillery. The Naval Brigade is commanded by Sir William Peel. The Chief Engineer is Colonel Napier, of the Bengal army. Sir Hope Grant commands the cavalry, con sisting of two brigades, under Colonel Little, of the 9th Lancers, and Colonel Campbell, of the Bays. The infantry is divided into three divisions, under Sir James Outram, Sir Edward Lugard (ordered up for the purpose), and Colonel Walpole, of the Rifle Brigade. In the brigades of the let Division are the sth Fusiliers, 84th, 90th, 78th, Madras Fusiliers, and Sikh Regiment of Ferozepore. In those of the 2nd, the 34th, 53rd, 42nd, 930, and 4th Punjaub Rifles ; and in the 3rd, the 23rd Fusiliers, 70th, 2nd and 3rd battalions of Rifle Brigade, the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and the 2nd Punjaub Infantry. From the rest of India the intelligence is on the whole satisfactory. The Punjaub was tranquil, and though in Central India Sir Hugh Rose's advance from Saugor had been delayed for want of stores, he had moved out on the 4th March, on which day he forced the Mudinpore pass, on the road to Jhansi, at the head of his second brigade. The defile was vigorously defended by some of the mutineers, the Bengal 52nd, with Pathans and other irregulars. They suffered severely, however, and when driven out into the open were charged by Major Orr 's cavalry of the Hyderabad Contingent, who cut np some fifty of them. This success goes far to clear the Jhansi road, and indeed that part of the country — the body thus routed offering the only formidable opposition—and also opens communications between Sir Hugh and his first brigade, which lies away to his left between Chendaree and Goonah. General Whitlock, en route to Rewab, had passed Sleemanabad, forty miles up the road from Jubbul pore, on the 22nd February, with his first infantry brigade, his cavalry, and siege-train. He is strong in artillery, and in cavalry he has a wing of the 12th Lancers and the 7th Madras Light Cavalry. The 4th and 6th—at one time counter-ordered by the general, owing to a report, which turned out to be false, that Nana Sahib had crossed the Ganges into Bundelcund—have gone on to serve at 13enares and Allahabad. In infantry, however, he is weak. The Ist Native Infantry show only 54/0 effectives; and his second brigade, the 43rd Light Infantry and the 19th Native Infantry, only left Secunderabad about the 15th of last month, and will not be at JubbulPore till the end of this. In Rajpootana General Roberts was to leave Nusseerabad for Kotah about the Ilth March. He was waiting, it is said, for the 7l2nd Highlanders, who would reach him about that date. Kotah was held by 8,000 rebels, with 100 guns ; " and it is at least certain," adds a correspondent, "that it contains all the rascality of that part of tho country, or all, perhaps, but a small portion that still hangs about 352