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INDIA. GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHS. The following telegraphs were received at the Foreign-office on Tuesday : CAGLIARI. The Rear Admiral at Malta to the Secretary at the Admiralty at London. (Received at Foreign-office through Admiralty at 12.45 p.m.) 25th September, 1557, 6 p.m. The Potlinger arrived at Suez yesterday with dates from Bombay 31st August Aden 11th September. The latest date from Delhi is the 12th of August, when that city was still in possession of the rebels ; but an attack was expected to be made shortly, as General Nichol• son was within a day's march with considerable reinforce• ments. General Havelock's force has retired towards Cownpore, being unable to reach Lucknow. A second advance was made on the 4th of August; the general was again obliged to retard for reinforcements. During these movements several actions were fought with the enemy, who were invariably defeated and lost many guns. The 26th Native Infantry mutinied at Lahore on the 20th of Jaly, and murdered the commanding, dficer, Major Spencer, but the mutineers were wholly destroyed. Maharajah Gholab Singh died at Cashmere the 2nd of August. Phe 12111 Bombay Native Infantry, at Nus serabad, have been disarmed, as the men exhibited symp toms of disaffection. Most of the remaining regiments of the Bengal army have been disarmed. The Nth Madras Cavalry refused to proceed to Bengal, and were immediately disarmed. The mutiny in the 27th Bombay Native Infantry at Colapore has been suppressed. The remainder of her Majesty's 33rd Regiment has arrived at Bombay from the Mauritius. Central India is tranquil, all being reported quiet at Magoaa (?Nagpore), Sangore, and Jubbulpore. A part of Janspoore legion has mutinied at Mount &boo, but no mischief was done at the station. This intelligence, received from Acting Consul General Green, at Alexandria, dated 20th instant, for the Earl of Clarendon. _ _ . (Signed) M. STOPFORD, Bear Admiral, Cagliari, 27th September, 7.50. a.m. Consul• General CRAIG. ( Signed) The following telegraph was received at the Foreign-office, September 2g, 6.25 p.m., from the :British Vice-Consul at Trieste, September 28, 11.13 :- ALEXANDRT.t, Sept. 23. - . The Bengal reached Snez on the 21st inst., with dates fmm Calcutta August 23 ; Madras, August 29 ; Galle, Sept. 2; Aden, Sept. 14. The dates from the north-west provinces are the same as those already received via Bombay. Great anxiety is felt as to the fate 3f Lucknow, where a thousand Europeans, a large proportion of whoa' are women and children, are blockaded by the rebels under Nana Sahib. ..... The sth and 00th Regiments were on their way up the river to reinforce General Havelock's division, hut it is doubtful whether the garrison of Lucknow has provisions to enable it to hold out. _ _ _ Lord Elgin has made over the Shannon and the Pearl to the Indian Government, and was about to return to China in the Ana chartered steamer. . _ ... Captain Peel, with 400 seamen and ten OR-pounders, left Calcutta in a steamer towing fl.tts, on the 18th of August, for Allatiabad. The dates from Hong Kong are to the 10th of August. On the 3rd of August declared the river and port of Canton to be placed in a state or strict blockade. Five hundred gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery, arrived by troopships Nereus and Muorsforth, were to leave Hong Kong for Calcutta in her Majesty's ship Sampson on the 12th of August. (Signed) JOHN GREEN. (Signed) EAvEN. The following form the summaries of official news compiled by the Governments of Calcutta and Bom bay. They were received at the Foreign-office on Tuesday morning. BOMBAY GOVERNMENT SUMMARY. The following telegram was received at the Foreign office, from the British Vice-Consul, at Trieste, Sept. 20, 2.45 a.m. : DELHI. The mutineers made great preparations for an attack on the 31st of July, the eve of the Bukree Eed festival, but nothing occurred beyond some desultory skirmishing. On the evening of August Ist they attacked the right of the British position, and maintained the contest through the night, and up to the afternoon of August 2nd. Our loss was very slight—ten killed and thirty-six wounded — the men being kept well under cover. Captain Traveri, 32nd Native Infantry, serving with the Lokos Rifles, was On the 6th of August the enemy's cavalry, supported by artillery, attacked the Metcalfe-house picke', but not in any force. Lieutenant Brown, 33rd NJ., attached to the Kumaon battalion, was killed ; Lieutenant Venion, ar tillery, and Lieutenant. Temple, Kumaon battalion, wounded. THE TRESS, OCTOBER 8, 1857. On the 7th of August, skirmishing, with cannonades at intervals. A powder magazine of the enemy ex• ploded this day, with a loss, it is rumoured, of NO lives. On the Bth of August, a battery, constructed by the mutineers to enfilade our guns, was destroyed. Skirmish ing was kept up during that and the next three days. Our troops suffered very little. On the 12th, guns established outside Cashmere Gate were attacked by a force under Brigadier Showers, and after a sharp contest taken. Limey consisted of one 24. pounder howitzer ; two 7 and one tl pounder. Our loss was severe, 112 killed and wounded. Among the wounded were the following officers:—Lientenant Sheradff, 2nd Fusiliers, dangerously; Brigadier Showers and Major Coke, severely; Lieutenant Lindsay, Horse Artillery; Lieutenant Mansell, Engineers ; Captain Oreville, Ist Fusiliers; Lieutenant Owen, Ist Fusiliers; Lieutenant Jones, 70th Native Infentry, Brigadier-Oeneral Nicholson arrived in camp on the Bth of August. in advance of his force. His troops were expected on the Dith, and all would arrive by the lath, on which (late the army before Delhi would number about 11,000 men. Further reinforcements, it was computed, would, early in September, increase our numbers to 15000 men. It is generally expected thlt the assault on the city will take place on the 20th of August. The King is reported to be sending his Zenana to Rho tuck. The following form the official summaries from the Presidencies : ATM. All well at Agra, Cawnpore, and Lucknow. The greatest anxiety is felt regarding Lucknow. General Havelock, after crossing the Ganges, defeated the enemy at Oonor on the 30th of July. On the 3lst he attacked the enemy in a very strong position in the town of Busserat Gunje, and again defeated them with great slaughter, and took all their guns. His own loss was eighty-eight killed and wounded. He then retired on the Ganges, his small force being bur dened with sick and wounded, and with the captured ar tillery. On the sth of August he again advanced towards Lucknow, and gained two more victories. On the sth and on the 12. h he found the enemy strongly entrenched in their positions, and numbering 50,000 men. Finding it impossible to cut his way to Lucknow in the face of such a force, General Havelock was compelled to retire to Cawn pore and to wait for reinforcements. In the meantime, the position of the gallant garrison of Lucknow is most precarious. Major Banks, who has acted as commis sioner since Sir H. Lawrence's death, has fallen, but the date of this melancholy occurrence is not stated. The (hots above stated are drawn from newspapers and private letters, but they are believed to be substantially correct. No official account has yet been published. BENGAL. A party of the Rerapore mutineers has besieged Anal], and a detachment of her Majesty's 10th and 37th Regiments, advancing to relieve that place, was drawn into an ambuscade, and suffered very severely. Arrah has since been relieved by a force under Major Eyre. BOMBAY. 957 With the exception of symptoms of disloyalty, imme• diately suppressed, in the territory of the INA of Mundi sore, tranquillity has been preserved in Guzerat. KHOLAPORE. The mutiny in the 2.tith Regiment has been suppressed. Thirty of the mutineers have been executed; others are undergoing their ttial. The head-quarters of the re/iment at Kholapore and the detachment at Rutnaqherry have been disarmed. The detachment of European troops thrown into Rutnaglier y Belgannt, Dssnear, and Sanunt Whasree, have pre- served tranquillity in these districts. At 13elgaum three men have been executed for treason able practices, one of them a sepoy in the 29th Native Infantry. . • iu 13:;iubay itself the Mohorruin has passel off quietly. MADRAS. The Bth M Ora, Light Cavalry has been disarmel for refusing to proceed to Bengal. HYDERABXD. All (inlet at Hyderabad up to August 3. Some appre hensions were entertained that the Chameasee "Nab of Siiorapoor was me litating rebellion, but arrangements have been made for crushing him. (Signed) H. A. ANDERSOg, Secretary to Government. RAVEN. Bombay Castle, August 31, 1837. BEI: lIA MPORE. The Gflrd Native Infantry and 11th Irregulars were dis armed on the Ist of August. CALCUTTA. The mutineers in Lower Bengal have again caused great alarm in Calcutta. The Governor-Generd's body guard has been disarmed. Apprehensions are entertained of a rising at the Mohurrum festival, but careful precut tionary measures have been ad ,pted. Lord Elgin has arrived in Calcutta, and the Hon. J. P. Grant has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Allahabad. and Sir James Outram to the command of the troops in the Patna and Cawn pore districts. PUSTAUB. The 26th Regiment, which mutinied at Meeat Meer, has been almost entirely destroyed. All remains quiet in the Punjaub and at Sutby States up to August 14th. Gotten' Cortlandt has possession of Handi and Hisser. 11. H. Mnharahja Gholab Singh died on the 2nd of August. In Rajpootana States, Nusserabad, it had been found necessary to disarm 105 of the 1 - .:th Bombay Native infantry, they having refused to obey their commanding officers on the occasion of a drunken trooper of the Lancers raising an alarm that the European troops wero about to twirler them. A court of inquiry is now invests• gating this affair. N EEMUCH. There has been a disturbance at this place, of which the particulars are not fully known. Twentyone troopers of the 2111 Light Cavalry have deserted. Al3OOll. The detachment of the Joulpore Legion, fifty men, at this place, have mutinied, and are supposed to have joined the Thakoor of Rows, an outlawed chief, who is plundering villages and stealing cattle in the Seroi country Mhow, and the Bhopal Contingent has mutinied at Sehgree. Colonel Durand reports the whole of Western Mahw•a to be in a very disturbed state, and that a large body of men are collected at Mundisore, CALCUTTA GOVERNAENT SUM! UtY. The following telegram was received at the Foreign office, from the British Vice-Consul at Trieste, Sept. 20, 2.10 a.m.. Calcutta, August 21,1957. From G. F. Edmonstone, E.q., Secretary to the Govern• ment of India, to the Hon. Secret Committee. GENERAL HAVELOCK'S COLU\IN. General Havelock, after pushily? on half-way to Luck. now, anti defeating the instil gents two or t'iree times ill the Oude province, was compelled, by the weakness of his force, reduced by exposure, fatigue, sickness, aril constant fighting, to withdraw to Mangotwar, six miles from the Ganges, and ultimately, on the 13th August, to recross with all his force to Cawnpore, where lie now is ; Bhitoor having been meanwhile reoccupied by mutineers from Saugor and others, numbering about 4,000, with five guns. General Havelock attacked it on the lt;th, and carried the position, capturing two guns. His force is reduced to 900 men, who are worn out with fatigue, and need repose, and he considers that to advance on Lucknow until reinforced would be to court annihilation. Adequate reinforcements, it is feared, cannot reach him in less than ten days or a fortnight from the present time. Her Majesty's sth and 90th (China troops) having been moreover here detained below, in consequence of the disturbances in Beshar. No news later than the 22nd alt. from Lucknow, but by more recent native accounts the garrison were holding out well, and it is believed that they have managed to lay in additional provisions. General Havelock expects to be attacked simultaneously by the Me& (Gales) insorgents from the left bank of the river, as well as from the side of Futteypore, where boats were collecting, and from the direction of Calpee, where Gwalior mutineers, strong in artillery, threatened to cross and form a junction with the Oude rebels. A steamer has been sent down by the general to destroy the boats at Futteypore, but his force is too weak to opoose the pasoige of the Wu:nna (durum), at Calpee. The Oude people are making aggressions on our villages to the north of the Uenges, and it is feared that commenication between Allahabad and Benarea may be interrupted. DELHI. Delhi is still in the hands of the insurgents. Our accounts extend to th 3 gth of August. .~ There appears to have been severe fighting on the 30th of July. The Ist and 2nd instant, when the enemy, rein forced by the troops from Neeinuch, attempted to carry our position, they were repulse 1 as usual ; their loss is said to have exceeded 3,000 men, including 900 of the Neemuch force, who did not return to the city after the failure on the Ist, and they ore reported to be really dispirited. On the tith their powder manufactory in the city was blown up by a shell, and about 500 artificers are believed to have been destroyed, together with a large quantity of sulphur and saltpetre. They have been for some time short of English powder and of fusees, and the supply of gun caps is said to be failing; they daily manufacture powder of inferior quality. The Kuin ion battalion of Glioorkas reached Delhi with treasure, ammunition, and stores on, the Ist, and a reinforcement of 1,300 EuroFk ans and 3,000 Punjaubees, from the Punjaub, was expected to arrive on the 15th. Retrograde movement is now not thought of, though at one time it was tallied of. No fighting since the 2nd inst. AG RA, k.'. News from Agra receivnl up to the I Ith instant. All well in the fort, and plenty or provisions. Garrison con. sista of 3rd Enrowan ll•giment and a European battery, both very weak. The whole Christian population is within the fort. Relief from the eastward urgently called There is a want of funds. .A for