The Press. — London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 20, 1858. column sent from Lucknow attacked the rebels a t i b sm oo, near Sundella, and routed them, taking three guns. The pursuit was kept up for ten miles, Endlooo rebels were killed. Our loss—Europeans, officers and 7 privates wounded ; police, 4 killed, ant woun ded. On the s th of October Brigadier F,veleigh encountered a body of rebels at Meeahgunj, near the Cawnpore road, took two guns, and killed and wounded 200 men. Our loss trifling. The liapoor.tbella Contingent have again distin• guished themselves in an attack on the town ot Bun doree, near Bairam Ghat, on the Gogra River; 400 of the rebels were killed, without any loss on our side. A strong column, under Brigadier Wetherall, is being formed at Soraon, in the Allahabad district, on the left bank of the Ganges, and will advance into Oude immediately. NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES. BENARES DIVISION. The districts of Benares, Jounpoor, Mirzapoor, Ind Azimghur, are quiet ; the northern frontier of Azimghur is, however, still threatened from Oude. The Litiazeepore . district is generally quiet, but a f ew sepoys are still hanging about the village of Burragaon. GORIJCKPORE. The rebels, who had again advanced on Bansee, were driven off, and the country east of Bansee is now in a great measure cleared of rebels. The territory bordering on Gueth (?) continues to be disturbed. ALIAHAI3.4.D Nothing of importance to report. ROHILCUND DI VISION This division continues quiet, with the exception of the northern frontier of Shahjebanpore, which suffers from occasional runs by the Oude rebels. A force from Shahjebanpore, under Sir T. Seaton, en. countered a body of rebels at the voltage, of Banga• maon, on the Oude frontier, on the Bth of October, took two guns out of three, and killed 300 men. Our loss about 12 killed and wounded. On the same day another body of rebels attacked Powaeen, but were repulsed. The Agra, Meerut, and Kumaon divisions are quiet. JHANSI DIVISION. This division has been generally quiet ; but the approach of 1 antia Topee, who was last heard of on the banks of the Betwa, on the borders of the Sullut• poor district, has caused great uneasiness. Captain Fenton, the deputy commissioner of Sollutpoor, has had to abandon his district and fall back on Jhansi. It appeared uncertain whether Tantia Topee would move in the direction of Altus'. The Jubbulpoor division tolerably quiet. CENTRAL INDIA. On the 2nd of October l'antia Topoe attacked and took Enaghnr. The troops of Scindia, who held the place, are believed to have fraternized with the rebels. The post of Thundegree, in the Jhansi division, was attacked by a portion or Tantia Topee's force from the 7th to the Oth of October. The rebels were beaten off by the garrison, which was composed oP Scintlia's troops, and retreated to Seel (?), ten . miles off. On the 9th of October General Michell surprised a division of the rebels under the Banda Nawab at Mongrenlie (?), killing 150 of them and taking six gulls. The Rao Sahib is said to have gone towards dhansi with another division. PUNJAUB. DELHI TERRITORY. The King of Delhi left Zeenut INlahul, and Auvan Burl left Delhi on the 7th of October, under escort of her Majoity's 9th Lancers, a troop of horse artillery, and a police battalion. BENGAL. PATNA DIVISION. A party of Repoys were attacked near D3omdaon, In the Arrah district, and about 30 men killed. Our loss two officers—Captain Nason, Military Train; Captain Douglas, Madras Cavalry—killed. G. F. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General. The following is a supplement to Mr. Secretary Echnonstone's Message, dated the 16th of October, OUE. A force was despatched from Sultanpoor the 20th of October to Daodpoor, where it completely defeated the Nusse era b a d rebels' brigade, taking three guns, three elephants, and all the enemy's materials. The fort of Burr a h was t a k en on the 21st. The British loss on these occasions amounted to about 40 wounded and a few killed. BENARES. The Deputy Magistrate of Sassaram reports that the column under Colonel Turner engaged a body of the enemy at the village of Baja (?), Captain Sir H. Havelock at th e same t i me press i ng t h e i r rear with his cavalry. Th e enemy was comp l e t e ly routed, losing 500 in killed ; the British, one officer killed and two Wounded, acd seven or eight men killed and sounded. CENTRAL INDIA. On the flth of October the Mhow field force, under the command of Major• General Michell, sur prised near the town of Mongrenlie a body of the Gwalior rebels, numbering from 4,000 to 5,000 strong, and utterly defeated them, takillg their six guns, the British loss very trifling. On the 12th of October the force under Brigadier Smith joined that of Major-General Michell, and on the 10th the com bined force came upon the enemy, 10,000 strong, at Saiswa (?), south-east from Chundalee, and totally routed him with a loss of 500 killed and all his guns. The enemy fought fiercely. The British loss very slight. The fugitives have fled, it is supposed, to Behut, on the right side of the river Betwa. A force from Jhansi covers the approaches to Tebree. Mann Singh is reported to have plundered Ramgorah, near Gooneh, on the 18th of October. The following cavalry reinforcements have arrived in Central India :—The Guzerat and Guicowar Horse, under Captain Buckle, reached Sarumpoor on the 20th of October, and continued their march. On the same day Lieutenant Ker, with the Southern Idahratta Horse, will be at Bhilsa. On the 28th of October Major Learmouth, with a squadron of her Majesty's 17th Lancers, was on the road to Gooneh. The remainder of this regiment, under Colonel Benson, atrived this morning at Mhow, together with the sth troop Royal Horse Artillery. They proceed towards Gooneh to-morrow. 1125 spirit of mischief for which these young gentlemen are notorious. The Prince made no complaint, but was up like a skylark before gun-fire next morning, and cut away the hammock strings of the two young gentlemen who had served him so, taking the law into his own hands in true sailor fashion. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON has arrived at Compiegne, on a visit to the Emperor and the Empress of the French. Viscountess Palmerston was unable to avail herself of their Majesties' invitation, and remains at Broadlands. THE MARRIAGE OF LORD ASHBURTON WITH MISS STEWART MACKENZIE, youngest daughter of the HOD. Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, and granddaughter of Lord Seaforth, was performed on Thursday afternoon at Bath-house, Piccadilly. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Bath, and a select party were present at the ceremony, which was performed in the draw ing•room. The Bishop of Oxford officiated at the religious solemnity. The Ladies Proby, Miss Austruther, and Miss Dawkins, acted as bridesmaids on the occasion. A dejeAner, to which thirty rela tives and friends were invited, followed. Lord and Lady Ashburton left town at two o'clock for the Grange, Hants, to pass a few weeks, before departing fur a tour in the East. THE MARRIAGE OF LIEUTENANT•COLONEI. ALISON, late Military Secretary in India to his Excellency Lord Clyde, and eldest son cf Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., Possil-house, Lanarkshire, and Miss Black, only daughter of the late Mr. James Black, was cele brated at St. Mary's Episcopal Chapel, Glasgow, on Thursday forenoon. Volittral. ADMIRAL SIR M. F. BERKELEY ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. TIIE anniversary meetings of the three societies by which the memory of the munificent Edward Calston is celebrated were held at Bristol on Saturday evening. The dinner of the Anchor or Liberal Society was attended by Earl Ducie, Lord• Lieutenant of Gloucestershire ; Admiral Sir M. F. Berkeley, K.C.8., the late Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty ; Colonel Berkeley, M.P.; and the members for the city, Mr. Henry Berkeley and Mr. H. G. Langton. The toast of "The Army and Navy " having been given from the chair, Admiral Sir M. F. BERKELEY returned thanks on behalf of the latter service. He commenced his observations by referring to the letters published by Mr. Kingscote in the Times relative to the Deal boatmen, and stated that Mr. Kingscote had written in ignorance of the subject. He asserted that not a single man had been discharged at the end of the Russian war but those who bad served their time and desired their discharge; and he pointed out that no man was receiving a pension for ten years' continuous service, because the system of continuous service had only been in operation live years. The gallant admiral then addressed himself to the observations made uy Lord Hardwicke relative to the condition of the navy. He said : Lord Hardwicke, who was a good sailor and an ornament to the naval profession, had said that the British navy was in a worse condition than it bad been in former days, and that, though this was to be regretted, it arose not from any neglect on the part of the Government, but in the improve ment daily making in science and art. In reference to this observation of the noble lord he would point to Birmingham, Sheffield, and other manufacturing towns, and ask whether science and art had placed other countries on a better footing than it had England ? He admitted that it was not pleasant to pay fur science and art, but if the country wished to maintain its maritime supremacy it must build a new navy if foreign nations did so. Lord Hardwicke said that the navy was " absolutely weaker than that of some great powers near us; " but he differed from the noble lord. He held in his hand the official returns of the British and French navies, and he could give a positive contradiction to Lord Hardwicke's statement. He thought ;t unwise to publish the figures, but they were at the noble lord's service. He could prove that Great Britain was superior to every other country in materiel, ships, officers, ay, and men. Lord Hardwicke bad also sail that, notwithstanding the puffing of the British navy and the boast that it was the finest in the world, yet it had done little or nothing to bring the Russian war to a con clusion. Was it nothing to have eighteen sail of the line in the Baltic to destroy Sweaborg, to capture Kertch, to attack the forts of Sebastopol? He maintained that histo rians would have to record that the Russian war proved more than anything else the great maritime power of England. It must be recollected that foreigners were supplied with the greater part of their means of transport by the mercantile marine of this country; and when it was known what the crews, both of men-of•war and merchant ships, had done, it was idle to say that our ships were in efficiently manned. Lord Hardwicke had declared that the British fleet " went to sea in such a condition as to inflict a positive injustice on the brave officers in command of the ships." In reply to that he would read a single letter of many hundreds he had received; it was from ono KANDEISR. Metaram, the leader of the rebel Bheels in Kandeish, was killed on the Bth of October by a party of Holkar's cavalry, under the orders of Captain Keating. Her Majesty's 6th Inniskillen Dragoons arrived in Bombay, per steamship Oneida, on the 16th inst. Cart and tiastion. THE COURT is staying at Windsor. Yesterday the Prince Consort, accompanied by Colonel Phipps, left the Castle for the purpose of proceeding by rail to Southend, to be present at some experiments with improved guns. His Royal Highness was accom panied by the Duke of Cambridge, and some other general officers, and reached Southend about ten o'clock. HER MAJESTY held a Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Saturday afternoon. Present—His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Marquis of Salis bury, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. Major• General Peel, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Lord John Manners, the Mar quis of Exeter, and Earl Delawarr. At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from 'Thursday, the 18th of November, until Thursday, the 13th of January. The six Crown members of the Medical College were appointed. Colonel Tache, from Canada, was presented to the Queen at an audience, and received from her Majesty the honour of knighthood. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES left on Wednesday to pay a visit, as it is stated, to his august sister, her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William of Prussia, at the Court of Berlin, and, previous to hiu departure, honoured Mr. Mayall, the photographer, with a sitting for a full length photographic portrait in his colonel's uniform. PRINCE ALFRED'S ARRIVAL AT LISBON, according to a private letter, caused considerable sensation : Although her Majesty did, I believe, at first express her wish that no reception should take place, and that the Prince should be in no wise distinguished from the other officers of the ship, she, it is said, , yielded to the instance of the King of Portugal, who was determined to make a return at the first oppor tunity for the manner in which be had been received at the English Court. A royal barge was sent along side the Euryalus, and everybody was astonished at the alacrity with which the sailor prince bowled down the ladder and got into the barge. When the barge reached the arsenal, where a regiment of the line was drawn up as a guard of honour, the Duke de Terceira, with several other Portuguese noblemen, the British Ambassador, the other members of the legation, Mr. Smith, H.M. Consul, all en grande tenue, waited to receive him. The Prince demeaned himself like a little gentleman as he is, but looked about as if rather bothered and frightened with all the display and formality. He soon, however, ensconced himself in the royal coach sent for his reception, and was rapidly whirled away towards Necessidades behind six spanking greys. A large crowd was assembled at the gates of the arsenal, where I saw the British Minister, Mr. Smith, our consul, and Major Cowell, respectively pointeu out to inquiring Portuguese bystanders as Prince Alfred of England, probably on account cf the imposing effect of their uniforms. The sailors of the Earya/zia have an anecdote amongst them to the effect that two of the midshipmen during the voyage blackened Prince • Alfred's face while he was asleep in his berth, in that ..;f