The Press. — London, England, 1858-03-27 00:00:00

INDIA. The following telegram from Acting Consul-Gene • ral Green to the Earl of Malmesbury was received at the Foreign•ofllce on the 23rd of March, at 10.30 pUI• ALEXANDRIA, March 19. The steamer Nubia arrived at Suez, from Calcutta, on the 17th inst. at 10.30 p.m. She brings no intelligence from India more recent than received from Bombay by last mail. Her Majesty's ships Shannon, Chesapeake, Pearl, and Pylades, at Calcutta. Yeh, a prisoner on board the Inflexible, was at Hong Kong on the 15th of February, on his way to Calcutta. The blockade of Canton was raised on the 10th. The Russians and Americans have joined the English and French in their demand on the Chinese Government. The letters of the four Plenipotentiaries have gone up to Shanghai, and by the middle of March it will be known whet line China takes. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria by the contract steam packet Eurine at 7.35 p.m. on the 23rd of March. LYONS, Admiral. Tho following telegram was received at the India }loose on Wednesday morning at one o'clock : FROM H. BEADON, ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, TO THE HON. THE SECRET C.)MSITTTEE. CALCUTTA, Feb. 22. assumed the government of the northwestern provinces on the 9th ita., and Mr. Grant has returned to the Presidency and resumed his seat in Council. The commander-in•chief, with his force, consisting of fifteen regiments European infantry, three regiments native infantry, there regiments European cavalry, three regi ments and detachments of two other regiments of native cavalry, with eighty heavy guns and mortars, and sixty three field-pieces, has crossed the river, and is in progress to Lucknow. It is expected that the attack will commence about the 27th instant, when Maharajah Jung Bahadoor's and General Franks' forces, consisting of 12,000 men, will also have arrived. General Franks expected to attack the rebels at Chanda on the 20th, and to be at Sultanpore on the 22nd. The Maharajah was to cross the Gogra at Phoolpore on the 18th. The greatest cordiality exists between Jung Babas:loot and the officer with his camp. _ _ . The road from Mirzapore . to Bombay, by Jubbnlpore and Seghore, and the road from Agra to Bombay via lndore, are opened. Brigadier Walpole commands a force for the defence of the lloah from Futt3ghtir downwards. The rebels are strong and active on the nude side of the Ganges from opposite Futtygnur to Cawnpore. A regular chain of communication is kept up between Barrilly and Lucknow. The rebels in the Etawah district have been defeated by the police and zemindaree levies with the loss of 125 men and all their guns. _ _ _ On the 10th inst., Colonel MeeCausland, commanding the Ghoorkas Regiment at Nynee-Tal, defeated the rebels, about 4,000 strong, at Buheree, in the Betellly district, with a loss of 250 men and four guns. Lieutenant Osborne has taken the forts of Kunwarsa and Tyeragoogurh, capturing seventeen guns. The forts have been dismantled. All well in the Punjaub, Saugor, Hyberabad, and South en India. The fort of Rotas has been occupied by Colonel Mitchell. On Csmmor (?) the mutinous companies of the 34th Native Infantry have been almost entirely annihilated. Some progress has been made in suppressing the insur remion in Jumbulpore. Her Msjesty's 6th Regiment has arrived from the Cape, and will garrison Fort William. Her Msjesty's 04th Regiment marches to Benares. Commodore Watson, with the Oherapeake, is still at Cal cutta. The Py lades is also here, and the Shannon and the Pearl, whose crews constitute the Naval Brigades on service in Oude and Goruckpore. The Petorus and the gunboats of the aqua Iron are at Rangoon. Captain Seymour, with a party of 300 seamen and marines, have gone up the Irrawaddy to the Meaday frontier. Malta, March 23. V. MosTANAno. Telegrams containing similar intelligence have been received at the Foreign-office. The above telegrams anticipate the detailed in telligence brought by the Bombay mails on the 15th. The private correspondence and journals from Bom bay by that mail reached to the 21th February. From these it appeared that the Governor-General had left Calcutta for Allahabad, whence he had as sumed the government of the north-west provinces. On the Ist of the month Sir Cohn Campbell broke up his camp at Futtyghur, 9041 marched back to Cawnpore. He himself, with General Mansfield and THE PRESS, MARCH 27, 1858. his staff, pushed on in advance of the army, escorted by the 9th Lancers and a troop of Bengal Horse Artillery, and, covering from twenty to twenty-five miles a day, arrived at Cawnpore on the 4th. A private letter, from an officer of the staff, describes Sir Colin as in excellent health and spirits. When at their last halting-place before entering Cawnpore—at or near Sheorajpore—the party had intelligence of our detested enemy, Nana Sahib. According to the natives, he was on the opposite side of the river in Oude, in the last extremity of de spair . Deserted by, or having himself dismissed, all his followers, but a few Mahratta Irregular Infantry, he wanders about the country with such precipitation and im patience of delay that, in the expressive native phrase, " He dines in one place and washes his hands in another." By thus constantly shifting his position, and by equally constant changes in his dress and accoutrements, he seeks to lessen or to counteract the increasing chances of cap ture by an enemy against whom he knows that he has sinned too deeply to be forgiven. Sir Colin having pushed on from Futtyghur for Cawnpore, the troops followed him with all possible speed. The 82nd, with Sikh horse and foot, re mained at Futtyghur. Walpole's Brigade was withdrawn across the Ganges from the right hank of the Ranigunga, on the further bank of which river he had been watching a large but inactive body of Rohilcund rebels and the bridge removed to Fatty ghur. Hope's Brigade, which on the S3th January overthrew with loss a body of Mussulman fanatics at Shumsabad Mhow, twenty-five miles from Futty ghur, marching on the Ist, reached Cawnpore on the 7th. The Calcutta Government supplied the Cal. cutta press with the following details concerning this brilliant little affair : Extract from a telegraphic message from the commander- in-chief, dated FUttyghur, 27th January, 1838. I despatched Brigadier Hope, the night before last, to Shunedhabad to break up a body of rebels which had been crossing the river for several days in small parties. He found them about 4,000 in number, attacked them instantly according to my orders; and dispersed them, killing a great number, and took four brass guns, eight-pounders. His pursuit seems to have been very sharp and successful. Officers wounded—Captain Hodgson severely, Lieut. McDonald dangerously, Lieutenant Gough severely, Ilodg son's horse, Captain Steel, 9th Lancers, severely, Surgeon 4th Punjaub Infantry several. Pursuit not yet ended at the date of Brigadier Hope's despatch. The credit appears to belong to the Cavalry and Horse Artillery. General Walpole, after bringing up the bridge from the Ramgunga, marched on the 41h, and arrived at Cawnpore on the 10th and 11th. His strength was the 2nd and 3rd battalions Rifle Brigade, the 23rd Fusilier;, 2nd Punjaub Infantry, Hodson's Horse, four of Captain Peel's guns, two troops and two field batteries of artillery. Sir Cohn went down on the Bth to see and confer with t'e Gfive►nor.General at Allahabad, but before that date two bridges had been thrown across the river, and the movement into Oude had commenced. A brigade under Colonel Campbell of the Bays crossed on the 4th, composed of the 7th Hussars, 79th Highlanders, and Major Anderson's troop of Horse Artillery. On the 6th went over the 9th Lancers, Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and Remington's troop of Bengal Horse Artillery ; on the 10th, the 42nd and 93rd Highlanders, Hodson's Horse, and another troop of Horse Artillery. On the 12th, Sir Colin had returned from Allahabad, but appears to ha‘a crossed into Oude at once, at the head of from 12,000 to 15,000 men, and about 140 guns, some 80 of them pieces of heavy metal, and the remaining sixty field-pieces, the whole under the command of Sir Archdale Wilson. The road to the Alumbagh he would find quite clear, strong bodies of troops being stationed at Oonao, Busserutgunge, and the Bunnee-bridge. The Hurkaru states that the town of Lucl:now is to be destroyed : Palaces, domes, mosques, temples, all are to be levelled with the ground. The orders are definite. No exception is to be made. Powder and shot are to do their work alike on the dwelling of the noble and the peasant. fhe Lucknow which in years gone by we raised to the dignity of a kingdom is to be hurled from her proud pedestal. Dust to dust we commit her to her final rest. In future time some shepherd boy may whistle his lay on some mound of brick and mortar which once composed the palace of a king or the dwelling of some proud Eastern noble. From the Alumbagh itself our latest news is of the 21st, when all was well. An attack had been made by the enemy, the first since their bloody repulse on the 10th of January, and had been again repulsed. Meanwhile, Jung Bahadoor, with his Ghonrkas, who was left lying before Fyztbad, in Eastern Onde, but, fur want of ammunition, was unable to take the place, had received supplies from Benares, and was to cross the Gogra on the 18th. General Franks was expected to be at Sultanpore on the 22nd, and, having formed a junction with Jung Bahadoor, to reach Lucknow by the 27th, wheu it was hoped the bombardment would com mence' Rumours, writes the Daily News correspondent, were flying about concerning the wishes of the Oude zemindars to surrender; and Maun Singh, the grkatest of all the zemindars, had sent in to Jung Baliadoor some fifty English and Anglo-Indian captives, whose lives and honour he had protected since the outbreak, with a request to be permitted to retire and end his days in Nepaul. A correspondent of the Englishman confirms a statement made some days before by the Phenix, relative to the actual capture of Maun Singh. He says You will be glad to hear that information htla been re ceived of the capture of the great zemindar, Maun Singh, who was surprised at a village one march from our in trenched camp at Alumbagh. This is a most enceuraging piece of news, and cannot fail to dishearten his rebel ad herents. Two cther men of note were taken at the same time. Maim Singh was a must powerful man, and had some seven or eight thousand sepoya in his pay when Oude belonged to the Nawab ; lie also owned several forts, and about twenty guns. He has two brothers —one, I:am Udditi, who is older than himself, and who used to live in Benares, is described as being poor and unambitious. The youngest brother, named Rugbur Diall, is his direct oppo site, and is, the natives say, proud and haughty, and a great rascal to boot. The father of thew three worthies, Dhursun Singh, now dead, was one of the Nawab's chnkle dam. No wonder he left money behind him. In the Doab and Rchilcund, which yet remain to be tranquillised, we find that five Sikh regiments of foot, with horse and artillery, are moving down the roads from Lahore ; and already within the bounds ries of the province, and without the aid of the Sikh force, a considerable blow has been inflicted upon the rebels of Bareilly. In fact, we have had three engagements, all of which were of the utmost in fluence on the plans of the commander in•chief. They were all successes. On the 10th of January Major Ramsay moved out of Nynee Tal with the 06th, 30 Ghoorkas, 300 of Jung Baliadoor's men, and some irregulars—in all about 1,200 or 1,400 met. The whole force united was under the orders of Colonel M'Causland, and attacked Khalee Khan's army, posted some fourteen miles distant, and utterly routed it, killing 500 men and taking three guns, with a loss on our side of 35 killed and wounded. The two other engagements were with Calpee rebels, near Etawah and Calpee, and though only partial, were yet successful. The Calpee rebels evidently begin to feel the pressure of the advance made by Generals Rose and Whitlock from the west towards them. There is not much besides these two engagements to notice in the Doab. The rebels were up to the latest date quietly in possession f the other side of the river, though their reign was con sidered likely not to last many days longer. Abdool Luteef Khan, who assisted in arming and strengthen ing the fort of Malaghur close by, which was taken on the 29th of October last by Greathee's column, was to be tried by a military commission. His vast possessions will, of course, be confiscated to Govern. ment if the char e is proved. Further to the eastward in Central India, Sir Hugh Rose and General Whitlock ere pressing on, helping to confine into an ever-narrowing circle the yet blazing or smouldering fire of rebellion. S:r Hugh, after relieving Saugor, before proceeding up wards, moved to the eastward against a strongly situated fort called Garrakotta, some twenty five miles off, supposed to be occupied by the remains of the mutinied 52nd Bengal Native Infantry. He was proceeding to invest the pleze—which, such was its strength, a far larger force than lie would have found it difficult or impossible completely to effect—when it was abandoned by its occupants. " Before the fort of Garrakotta could be invesz.ed," says Sir Hugh in his despatch, "or any arranue ments for its attack be completed, the rebels fled from the fort in a south-westerly direction, inclining round, I believe, to the north of Saugor " I had time and no more to invest the north-west anti north-east, which were the probable points of the garri son's escape ; but it is fair to state that such is the im practicable nature and extent of the ground round Gsrra kotta that no investment made by a three of my numbers could have been complete. Two flying detachments are in pursuit of the rebels. Garrakotta is a place of extra ordinary strength, between two rivers, with a large finest on its north side. Brigadin. Watson, in 181 4 , failed in making a practicable breech in the tiefenc s of the fort with twenty-eight pieces of artillery, anti Major Boileau, commanding engineer, is of opinion that if the garrison had made a resolute defence, its capture would have cost much time and involved a great loss of life in infantry. There are twelve guns in the fort, and large supplies of ammunition and grain. The left flank of Saugor is now free from denger ; the villagers show a very friendly feel ing, and come out to meet the troops. The enemy re sisted our advance to the fort, but were completely driven from their positions by my artillery and infantry. A flying detachment under Captain Hare, consisting of horse artil lery and I ith Light Dragoons, which I sent after the rebels retreating from Garrakottn, came up with their rear and killed from seventy to a hundred. Many of them were eepoys of the :11st, 42nd, - - )2nd, and iOrh Bengal Nanite Infantry. Their English muskets and quantities of copper caps have been taken. The country people showed our trocps the way. Major Boileau is demolishing Garrakotta as much as he can. Great supplies of wheat and wain.