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~~, enemy did not desist until they had forced him to take refuge in the open plain. The chief of the staff too was attacked and utterly defeated in a few seconds. Colonel Althorp, after a gallant stand, was obliged to fly with the loss of his spectacles. Mr. Mackinnon, using a large mango branch as a claymore, resisted his foes with great activity and courage for some time, but finally he was obliged to fly, wounded in several places, and to take refuge in a neighbouring tank. The guard over the treasure was also obliged to abandon their post; the natives wrapped themselves up in their cotton robes, and lay flat on the ground, and in a short time the bees were completely victorious. During the struggle all the head quarters staff arm.- 1 . themselves with green boughs, so that it looked as if %h.. : were rehearsing a sezond march to Dunsinime. As kG• nas the tents were pitched we had shelter from mi ••einy. These mango groves are, indeed, most welcome eater to man and beast, and bird, and every living thing. * - -im the relentless cruelty of the Indian sun. The trees e• • , ;n a great size, and they stand As close together as their branches, clothed with -^h dark greeriembrageoue foliage, will permit. At this , I k - son of the year they are laden with fruit, each hanging leo,' a long slender stem and resembling in size and 0 !),Ir an unripe greengsge plum. The fruit is not con• ripe until after the rains have set in, hut the natty" 'it it even now. I tried the experiment very un sereeesh• v, for it struck me that the fruit was like a lump of ita hinted turpentine. The mess cooks, how. i . ver, make * wry respecta bl e com p oun d, called ''mango out of ti fruit. The tree seems subject to a curious sort of decay, a.ich is betokened by large deep holes in the trunk and over branches, without any apparent influence upon its #oliage or vitality. In these recesses large and beautiful .right blue jays, small green parroquets, three or four kinds sr gaudy woodpeckers, bees, snakes, and the smell brown terned owl, reside during the greater part of the year. A dist-coloured squirrel with brown bars, and a large bat cm.red with dark brown fur and having fine and extremely silicate membranous wings, also frequent them,—in fact, tines topes abound with life. All day they are mute, but st night become vocal with discordant sounds, not redeetnal by the call of the gaudy mango bird, the pleasant note of the bulbul, or the inces sant chattering of the minors. It may be easily imagined bow anxiously each man surveys the trees about his tent as the site is marked out, and calculates what shelter it will give him, and at what time the sun will find out his weak points during the day ; and indeed the rays do strike through every interstice like red-hot shot. There is no indecision of shadow, no infirmity of outline, for wherever the sun falls on the side of the tent it seems to punch out a fervid blazing pattern on the grey ground of the canvas. It is a poor consolation to see that the birds themselies, " to the manner born " though they be, seem to suffer in. convenience from the sun as well as ourselves. The grey. headed black pie, uncommonly like our own meg, and properly called a crow or rook, comes from the fields during the heat of the day, and seeks shelter in the tope, and there he sits with his bill wide open and his tongue out, uttering sultry calls from time to time, gasping toe breath, and looking decidedly as if ho wanted some iced claret. Parrots, kites, and all the natives of the groves give similar evidence of their suffering from the heat, and the natives seek for shade wherever it is to be found. As a measure of precaution the chief of the staff ordered some of Tombs's guns from the battery to be placed in position on our flank, and the cavalry and infantry were ordered to be ready to turn out at * moment's notice ; but, although the natives brought in reports that a portion of the enemy were in our immediate neighbourhood, and one of our picket saw, or thought he saw, a party of sowers in the distance, our repose was not disturbed during the day. Our next march will be to Shahjehatmore tomorrow morning, and I have no doubt that measures will be taken to dissipate the enemy who have so long held together at Mohunidee. THE PR THE ROHILLAS. The enemy's horse were rather more steady than I ez• petted under this iron shower, and seemed determined as the day advanced to get down to the ford upon our left. Here, however, our field•battery met them. and opened with shot and shell, while a party of the 60th advanced along the front in open skirmishing order towards the river, and drove hack the enemy on the other aide till they were beyond title range. The latter were now sent down upon their right, which took post near a small ♦illage and opened tire upon 'is, but after ten or twelve rounds they retired or ceased firing. Notwithstanding my crippled leg, I managed to get on horseback, and, sitting lady fashion, got to the Rifle picket, from which I had a good view of the enemy and ourselves. Fortunately for our men the day was uncommonly cool, and the sun was veiled by white fleecy clouds which had been left in the sky by the departed thunder-storm. It was not my fist sight of the Rohilla horsemen, but I confess 1 watched with great interest the aspect of these wild cavaliers, and I could have almost ad mired their aspect as, like leaves careering in the autumn breeze, they whirled in light eddies along our front, if T had not known that among them were the cruel assassins of the 12th Cavalry, and the troopers of other corps equally false, cruel, and murderous; Litt for the moat part they seemed very well mounted. The Rohillas are a nation of hot semen ; the native stock of the country is crossed with Arabs and with stud-bred horses, and some of the chargers on the field seemed models of symmetry. Although the great bulk of the cavalry wheeled round and round, as if to avoil the shot which ploughed up long lanes along the ridge in our front and searched out the mango topes, small bodies from time to time retie down towards us, almost within musket range, as it to examine our position. In their last attack upon our position the other day, a small body of them rode right up to our guns. De Kant zow sought to lead his men against them, but he was not well supported. He rode forward, however, almost alone, and encountered the leader of the enemy ; hie pistol missed, and he instantly received two severe outs, one JULY 10, 1858, across the face and another which severed the flesh from his elbow to his wrist. The Robilla rode forward, struck the gun with his sword over the muzzle, as if claiming it for his own, and was shot dead there, as he stood, calling on his followers to come on. With some what similar spirit a few of the enemy to-day con gregated round a tree, which again and again was covered with dust from the shot of our 18-pounders. But they held their own with persistency. It is said, indeed, that the Moulvie and Feroze Shah, both of whom were in the field to-day, are gallant and desperate men, and that our task would not be so easy if their fol lowers partook of their spirit. The Moulvie is described as a tall, lean, and muscular man, with lantern jaws, long thin lips, high aquiline nose, deep-set large dark eyes, beetle brows, long beard, and coarse black hair falling in masses over his shoulders. Ferozu Shah is said to be a handsome, but sinister-looking man, of a flue person, and is reputed to be a most admirable horseman. The old Khan Bahadoor Khan was present at the first, and some of the natives say that the Begum herself was a spectator of the day's proceedings. It is probable enough that the enemy were merely acting on the defensive. However, when these demonstrations on our left were encountered by the fire of our heavy artillery and field battery, they directed their attention to the right. They opened their guns from several topes, and caused some casualties among Tombs's artillery. One of their shots very nearly deprived us of our commander-in-chief. Sir Cohn is a very cool and cautious leader; he is chary of the lives of his men almost to a fault ; but amid the noise of the captains and ti.e shootings he is careless to a fault of his own life. I would not wish to do so gallant and so brave a soldier an injustice, but it is felt by those about him that on the day of battle the commander-in-chief does not sufficiently appreciate the value of his own existence. At Bareilly he was almost among a crowd of fanatics who swept through the ranks of the 4/nd. A sabre cut might have destroyed for ever the delicate web of combinations the key of which is in his possession alone. To-day a round shot passed so close to him and the chief of the staff, striking the earth at their feet, that those of the staff who were near thought an escape scarcely possible. Had Sir Colin Campbell wished to make an offensive movement, no doubt he should have compelled the enemy to retire precipitately, but it was late in the afternoon when the affair commenced, and even if our men had been in a condition to pursue, night fall would have checked them. Our men are suffering very severely from the heat, and the deaths of Captain Forster, Aide-de-Camp to Sir Colin Campbell, and acting as Assistant Prize Agent, from smallpox; and of Major Price, of the Bays, and of Mr. Munroe, brother of the surgeon of the 03rd, are also reported. foreign and (Colonial 3itteligente. FRANCE. r Considerable difficulty ig experienced in the forma tion of the new Algerine Ministry. It is now confidently asserted that Queen Victoria will visit Cherbourg. PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia has at length, after much persuasion, been indncid to set off for Tegernsee. His Majesty and the Queen will make the journey by easy stages, which will thus occupy about four days, and as they intend to travel iu the strictest incognito, under the titles of Count and Countess von Zollern, they will not be required to undergo all the annoyances of etiquette to which, under other cir cumstances, they would have been exposed, and which, in the present state of his Majesty's health might not have been altogether free from danger. Before taking his departure the King granted an extension of the power under which the Prince of Prussia administers the Government, as his Majesty's representative, until the 23rd October, which so far settles that matter for the present, but it daily be• comes more evident that neither Prince nor people will be satisfied with that arrangement beyond the term to which it has now been prolonged. At Weimar and at Baden the Prince will have every opportunity of meeting and consulting with some of those political friends in whose opinions lie has been accustomed to concur, when there can be little doubt measures will be concocted that will enable his Ito)al Highness to take in due time such steps as will secure for him the ready assumption of an un fettered regency. That the Princess considers this point already settled is clear from the determination which she has expressed of leaving Coblentz, and of again taking up her abode in Berlin, where she has seldom resided for any length of time since the re fusal of the King to accept the Imperial Crown of Germany when it was offered to him in 1t149 by the parliamentary delegates front Frankfort, for it is well known that an estrangement on that occasion took place between his Majesty and the Princess, which has never yielded to the attempts that have been made to produce a reconciliation. The Princess loudly complained of the want of proper spirit and of correct judgment on the part of the King on that occasion, not only because she conceived that her husband and son, the Prince of Prussia, and Prince Frederick Willism, as heirs presumptive to the Grown, were unjustly deprived of a position to which the acceptance by his Majesty of the spontaneous offer of the Imperial Crown by the people would have raised them, but also because she saw the liberal cause in Germany, to which her Royal High. ness has ever been sincerely attached, was, by the conduct of the King, placed at disadvantage, if not in jeopardy ; and the result has proved the correct. ness of those views then entertained by the Princess, which, in her interview with the King, she so em phatically proclaimed. Before the Princess leaves Coblentz, however, it is probable that the Queen of England will be for a short time her guest at the castle there, for it has been generally reported for some days past that before the end of summer there would be a family meeting of the parents on both sides of the Prince and Princess Frederick William, and it is consequently expected that for this pur. pose the Queen and the Prince Consort will meet the Prince of Prussia at Ostend during the usual visit of his Royal Highness to that bathing place, from whence, in his company, they will proceed, via Cologne, to Coblentz, in the neighbourhood of which city the intended reunion will take place, for which at tbat season there are few situations that for beauty and convenience can offer greater local ad. vantages. (ourt an)) jlasOion. THE QUEEN AT ALDERSHOFT. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, arrived at the Camp on Monday evening, and reviewed the whole of the troops, upwards of 20,000 in number, now stationed there, on Tuesday. Over and above the interest which the pageant derived from the presence of royalty, the occasion was still further remarkable from the attendance of the Duke of Malakoff, in whom and in whose every movement throughout the day an amount of curiosity was evinced oniy inferior to that which her Majesty's appeara►►ce in public invariably excites. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and Helena, lett Buckingha►n Palace at half•past tour on Monday afternoon for the Camp. Proceeding under an escort composed of a detachment of Life Guards to her Majesty's private station at Vauxhall, on the South• Western Railway, the Royal party travelled thence in a special train to Farnborough, where they arrived shortly before six o'clock. There a guard of honour, composed of a troop of the 10th Hussars, under the command of Captain Smith, was posted near the station, and General Knollys, Colonel Kennedy, Colonel Chapman, and Captain Blackett were in attendance to receive her Majesty. Entering a pony barouche, drawn by four greys, the august travellers prcceedad direct to the Royal Pavillion in the Camp, the troops lining the road on either side throughout the whole distance from the station. The Duke of Malakoff, attended by Colonel Apper and Colonel Claremont, arrived by the express train about six o'clock the same evening at Farnborough, where the Marshal was received by Colonel Kennedy, who was in attendance for that purpose by the ex press command of her Majesty. A guard of honour, formed of detachments of the 10th Hussars and the 4th Dragoons, was also drawn up at the station, and escorted him on his arrival at the Royal Pavilion. The Duke had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Prince Consort in the evening, as had also General Knollys and several other of the officers in high command at the camp. The troops brought under review consisted of three brigades of infantry, a cavalry brigade, two troops of Horse Artillery, and the Engineers' Train, numbering in the aggregate upward'. of 22,000 men. The first infantry brigade, under the command of Major-General Lord W. Paulet, consisted of the 38th Foot, the 99th Foot, the 2nd Warwick Militia, the Ist West York Rifles, and the Limerick and Kerry Militias. The second brigade, commanded by Major-General Spencer, was composed of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards, the sth Foot, four com panies of the 60th Foot. the 2nd Cheshire Militia, and the Oxford, East Kent, and Stirling Militias. The third brigade, tinder Major-General Lawrence, was formed of the 15th Foot, the 87th, the 3rd West York, the Louth, Donegal, and Dublin Militias. The cavalry brigade, commanded by Major General Lawrenson, consisted of the 2nd Life Guards, the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoons, the 4th Light Dragoons, the 10th Hussars, the 11th Hussars, and two batta lions of the Military Train. There were also two troops of Horse Artillery and four field batteries, com manded by Colone! Warde; ands battalion of mounted Sappers, with pontoons. The infantry were drawn up in the Long Valley in lines of contiguous columns, with the cavalry in their rear, and the artillery on the right and left banks. Shortly after eleven o'clock the Queen, attended by a brilliant retinue, was seen approaching the Long Valley from the Royal Pavilion. Her Majesty was mounted on a handsome chesont charger, and wore a slarlet jacket with a general's sash, and a plume of red and white feathers in her hat. On the right hand of the Queen rode the Duke of Cambridge, and on her left the S S,