The Press. — London, England, 1858-04-17 00:00:00

378 NOTICES OF MOTION. TUESDAY. Mr. Caxwrown—that on that day fortnight he should call the attention of the house to the subject of the communication with India. Mr. L. Krim—that on that day fortnight be should move for leave to bring in a bill to extend the 101. household franchise to counties. THURSDAY. Mr. SPOONZII—that he should postpone his motion relative to Maynooth from Tuesday uext till next Thursday week Mr. L. KING —that on next Toursibly he would move for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the property qualification for mem bers of the House of Commons _ _ . Mr. Dsssv—that ou thr 4th of May he would oall the viten• tion of the house to the justice and expediency of making adequate provision for the religious worship of Roman Catholics, and for the instruction of their children in schools both in the United Kingdom and India; and he should move an address to the Queen on the subject. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. FALL OF LUCKNOW AND FLIGHT OF FIFTY THOUSAND OF THE REBELS. The following telegram, from her Majesty's Acting Consul• General in Egypt, was received at the Foreign office via Malta on the 13th of April, at five p.m. [The date from Alexandria is not (riven.) The steamer Ganges arrived at Suez yesterday evening from Bombay. The following intelligence has been telegraphed from Suez : BOMBAY, March 24, Three p.m. Lucknow fell on the 19th ' • 117 guns captured ; about 2,000 of the enemy were slaiu during the siege. Mrs. Orr and Miss Jackson rescued. Eight officers killed. The townspeople and the villagers, being protected, are resuming their occupation. The submission or the principal landowners has been accepted. About 50,000 of the enemy have escaped, making for Rohilcund and Rundelannd. The army is in pursuit of the rebels. The delay of Sir H. Rue's force for three weeks at Sangor prevented the line of troops, intended to intercept the enemy, from being closed up. Sir H. Rose, with the second division of the Rsjpootana geld force, wu within twenty-five miles of Jhanst on the 21st of March ; 30,000 rebels are said to be in hie front. . General Roberts's force marched from Nusseerabad to Kotah on the 10th and l lth. The distance is 120 miles. The Calpee mutineers have taken the fort of Charhard, and made the Rajah prisoner. Whitlock's force remains in charge of Sangor ; the cavalry only having pushed on to Allahabad. . . . . - Stewart . ' brigade captured Chunderee on the 17th. This telegram arrived at Mesita from Alexandria by mer chant steamer at noon on the 13th of April. LYONS, Admiral. We have also received the following telegram from the India house. We give the names according to copy : To J. D. DICKINSON, ESQ., INDIA-HOUSE. Lucknow was completely occupied on the 17th of March (19?). On that date the sixth (the last) post of the enemy .in the Monsabagh was captured. The enemy had retreated northwards. The cavalry is in pursuit 117 guns have been taken. Captain Mitchell and Lieutenant Boole, of the Artillery, with a party of Ghoorkas, have rescued Mrs. Orr and Mies Jackson. The ladies had been protected by Meer Valeed Alby Derejal, and had been sell treated by him. The restoration of authority in the city has been com• monad, and great efforts are in progress for reassuring the population, which had fled in great numbers to the neighbouring villages. FUTTYGHUR. The rebels, in rgrest force, with four guns, crossed the Ramgunga on March the leth, but have aince retired to Rangoon. CAWNPORE. The rebels, who had crossed into the Rhatterpoor Per. gunnah, had retired before Christie's column, and revenue collections had been commenced. All well at Cawnpore up to 23rd inst. The Second Brigade of the Central India Field Force had laid siege to the Hill Fort of Chundaree, on March 8. On March 17th the fort was stormed and taken. Our loss not great ; one officer (Lieutenant Snoresby, Royal Artillery) is reported as killed, and one Captain (Keating) as wounded. The Second Brigade was to march immediately to Salle Lehut, and join Sir H. Rose's column. A combined movement would then be made on Jhiuisi, which was only thirty-sis miles distance. _ . Si; H. Rose's movements in the rear of the enemy's deftnces had caused great panic, and the whole of the Chundun districts and the Rajah of Banpoor's territory, on the right of the Letwa river, had been abandoned by the rebels. The Rajah's possessions have been confiscated by Sir Hamilton. The rebels under Lida Sahib, brother of Nana Sahib, are in great force in Bundektunl. knuisu o VAN/M.24 ...V O l9ll. a 'eau saoreur— no would ^ drop on" to bans is adjoining tne wanea inciosure of wav are in great force in Bundelcand. I=l of his staff whom he saw tiding about with his sword palace, in which the king used to reside. - • THE PRESS, APRIL 17, 1858. SOUTHERN MAHRATTA COUNTRY. The Chief of Chamk Hundee, one of the great Patwur Dhan family, has been arrested, and his fort occupied. A. D. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bombay Castle, 21th of March. ALLAHABAD, MARCH 213., Commissioner Yeh reached Calcutta on the 22nd inst., and will be under surveillance until further orders. Mehundie Ale Khan, styling himself Prince of Ram. poor, who was arrested on the 2nd, has been released from confinement, and required to live under surveillance. F. G. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to the Government of India. V. G. MONTANARO. By Weiner Eurine, Malta, April 14. We have but few further details than the above of the capture of Luck .ow. A series of telegraphic despatches from the commander-in-chief gives some slight insight into the nature of the dispositions made by Sir Colin, and of the defence made by the rebels. Sir Colin Campbell appears to have been checked in his advance upon Lucknow, first from his anxiety to see the Agra convoy of ladies safe on their road to Calcutta, and next from his desire to hear of Sir Hugh Rose's arrival at Cawnpore, of Jung Baba door's arrival at head-nuarters,and of the force advanc ing from Delhi under Brigadier Chamberlain opening communications. While waiting for the completion of this plan of campaign, Brigadier Franks on the 19th of February crossed the Oude frontier at Singramow. Opposed to him was a force of 25,000 men, with twenty-five guns, under the Nazim Mehndee Hussein. By skilful mano3uvring the brigadier succeeded in completely dividing this force and defeating it in detail in two actions fought on the morning and evening of the same day. On the 21st, by a forced march, he got ahead of the enemy, and took possession of the strong fort of Badhayan. The Nazim followed and took up a strong position in front of the town of Badshahgunge. On the 23rd Brigadier Franks, by making a detour of ten miles, turned the Nazim's right, and, getting into his rear, attacked and defeated his force with immense slaughter, capturing twenty guns and the whole of his baggage and standing camp. On the same day that Brigadier Franks achieved this brilliant success, Brigadier Hope Grant took by storm the fortified town of Meeahgunge, capturing four guns and kill ing some five hundred rebels. On the 25th the enemy attacked the Alumbagh in great force, but were as usual repulsed with heavy loss, abandoning four guns in their flight. On the next day they again made a formidable demonstration, and this time Sir J. Outram, "letting out" his cavalry, in flicted a severe lesson upon the rebels. On the night of the 27th the order of march was issued at Cawnpore, and at midnight the army was in full march for Lucknow It was a strange scene—not to be described or imagined. The moon was shining brightly on the vast array, which, when in motion, became comparatively silent; but the ground, indeed, thundered with the beat of many feet, and now and then the shrill neigh of a charger provoked a thousand responses. The camels, looming to a gigantic size in the light, passed noiselessly like spectres. As we approached the road—narrow for such a host—the clamour uprose again, and dhoolies, haekeries, ox carts, and baggage animals became involved in immense confusion, which was not diminished by the efforts of the baggage gnard to re store order by commands issued in the vernacular, and enforced now and then by the aid of a musket stock—" Will yer keep in line, ye niggers ; don't yer hear me speaking to yer 7' Or," I'll nook yer bairns cot an ye dinna attend to me." At last we got into files upon the road, and rode on in clouds of dust. Presently in front we heard the joyous clash of a brass band playing a quick step, and getting off the road we managed to join our old friends of the Rifle Brigade, and renewed acquaintanceship with talk of old matches in the Crimea. As the sun rose upon one side and the noon set upon the other, the spectacle assumed a weird, unearthly aspect which not all the hard reality around us could quite destroy. We were marching over historic ground. We trod the very earth which had felt the tread of Havelock and Outram's gallant little columns, and be- fore us were positions made memorable by their valour. Oonao was succeeded by Busseemtgunj, and at every few hundred yards spots were pointed out, even trees identified, as the places [were " We caught sight of the enemy's sowers," or "where Havelock gave the men such a wigging for straggling a little in the ranks." Through dust and smothering pillars of pulverized earth we went on, but fast as we went we heard that an hour before Sir Colin, with General Mansfield and a small staff, accompanied by his little escort of Irregular Horse and a solitary English lancer, had dashed on towards Bunthurah. They bad started from Cawnpore soon after midnight, and at a swinging gallop had passed through the regiments on the march.—Times special cor. Sir Colin is by all accounts a man of hard work and—success. " He wears aiserviceahle air," writes a correspondent, "which bespeaks confidence and resolution ": Everything about him is for service, even down to the keen•edged sabre in a coarse leather sheath, not dangling and clattering from his side and hitting the flanks of his horse from gaudy sling belts, but tucked up compactly by a stout shoulderbelt just over his hip. Not that Sir Cohn wishes to be thought a beau sabreur—he would " drop on" to NI of his staff whom he saw tidos about with his sword drawn—bat that he thinks most likely if a man wears 4 weapon it ought to be as handy and as ready as may be ; An d so of his nether man, not clothed in regulation with gold stripes, but in stout brown corduroy, warranted to wear in any climate. The chief of the staff and the officers of the staff for the most part follow the example of the comma. der-in-chief, who leads the fashion in camp. The camp at Bunthurah was reached in three marches, and on the 2nd of March Sir Colin pushed on to Lucknow, and, reaching the Dilkoosha, en camped out of reach of the enemy's guns, covering the advance of his prodigious materiel, and the host of animals which move the train of the COMMißBa riat. An entire week was spent in preparations. Sir Colin, at the Dilkoosha, faced the canal, which had been heavily fortified with earthworks. On his right lay the Martimere. Sir James Outran), by crossing the Goomtee below the Martiniere on a bridge of boats, was enabled to move into a position to enfi lade the whole of the rebel works on the canal and batter the Martiniere from the south, whilst Sir Colin pounded it from the north-west. On the 10th of March the preparations were sufficiently complete to allow of an advance towards the canal. This was done along the road leading from the Dilkoosha to the Residency. The force crossed the canal at its narrowest part, and without much resistance occu pied Banks' House on the other side within the line of the canal works. These movements are thus related in the despatches : Lucknow, Thursday evening, March 11. The commander•in-chief is making gradual progress against the multiplied defences of the enemy in Lucknow. Yesterday Banks' House was occupied, and an advanced position taken up in its front. Sir James Outram has pushed his advances on the other side of the Goomtee. The resistance is reported to have been stubborn, and the enemy to be in great numbers. It was arranged that Jung Bahadoor should move into line to-day. From Fort St George—horn Chief Secretary to Bom bay to Lord Elphinstone.—The following intelligence received from Allahabad, dated 9th of March Sir James Outram'a division crossed the Goomtee on the 7th, and, driving out the enemy, took up a position on the Fyzabad road. On the Bth rebels came out, but were repulsed as usual with the greatest ease. Major Percy Smith, of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, was killed. Sir Hope Grant then, as had been previously arranged, made a wide sweep with cavalry and horse artillery to the north east, through the cantonment : he was unopposed. The '- for attacking from both sides of the Goomtee _ . arrangements are nearly ready, and the ground has been reconnoitred by the commander-in-chief. Marvell's column was to cross into Oude this morning from Cawnpore. N.B.—The word Marvell's supposed to be Markwell's.' On the same day apparently when Banks' House was occupied, Sir James Outram had so effectually operated on the line of the canal works . and on the Martiniere, that those two positions were considered a certain prize. The operation was accomplished with ease, Sir Edward Lugard assaulting the Mar tinidre with the second division, whilst the canal works were occupied by another part of the force. This important result is described in the following laconic despatch : From Allahabad, March 11. Sir James Outram having effectually turned and enfi laded the enemy's first great line of works, the Martiniere was stormed by the Second Division, under Sir Edward Lugard, after it had been heavily cannonaded. The action was one principally of artillery. The line of works on the canal has been seized by our troops. Sir James Outram has been ordered to shell the Kaiserbagh. He will com mence to-morrow ( 12th March). From that moment successes rapidly followed each other. Sir James, having moved higher up the left bank of the Goomtee, shelled with ease the old palace of the Kaiserbagh, towards which a p proaches had been directly made ou the 11th, b 3 the storming of the Begum's Palace : Lacknow, Sunday evening, March 14. The 42nd and 93rd Highlanders stormed the Beguat Palace on the 11th. Captain Macdonald and Sergeant Major Hodgson killed. About 100 killed and wounded ; loss of enemy 500. At the same time General Outram crossed the Goomtee, and cut up a west number of the enemy, losing Captain Cooper, of the Rifle Brigade, and Captain Moorsom, of the staff. On the 11th he took the buildings in front of the Begum's Palace. On the 13th a sap was run up to the Imambarra, which was bleached by artillery. The Ghoorkaa joined in all the operations. Yesterday, the 13th of March, the 93rd Regiment stormed and entered the Kaiserbagh. The fight lasted all day. Twenty-two guns taken. Outram has crossed the iron bridge, and is crushing the flying enemy. Our loss is very small, and them can be no doubt but that Lucknow is taken by this time. FROM ♦LLLHAILD, FROM CI. F. EDMONSTONE, TO CHILE SECRETARY, DOMDAY. March 14th, 7.30 p.m. A message dated three p.m. of to-day bas been received from the commander-in-chief, who reports that a breach having been effected, the linambatra was stormed at nine a.m. The troops, following close on the retiring enemy, entered the Kaiserbagh witty him ; they were quickly sup ported, and the commander-in-chief was in complete oc cupation of the palace mentioned at the time of writing. Sir James Outram has been ordered to cross the iron bridge, and to pass (pursue ?) the enemy. The imam bans is adjoining the walled inclosure of the lisiserbagit palace, in which the king used to reside. - •