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Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News ♦gents; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IVE, HO, Strand, London. vrrxig+ LONDON, SATURDAY. DEC. 20, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. PARTICULARS OF THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. We have Leen favoured with the following tele gram, 'received by the India Board at a late hour yesterday morning Lucknow was taken on the 17th of November. Sir Cohn Campbell arrived at the Alumbagh on the 12th. The fighting commenced on the 13th. Two guns were captured from the enemy, and the fort of Jellabad destroyed. On the 15th, after a contest of two hours, Sir C. Camp bell succeeded in occupying I)elkhosah and Martiniere. The enemy attempted to recover their position a few hours subsequently, but were repulsed with heavy loss. On the 16th the Commander•in-Chief advanced across the canal and took Secunderbagh, after an obstinate struggle. The heavy artillery then opened on the Samuch for three hours, and the position was carried at dusk, after a desperate fight. Early on the 17th communications were opened with the barracks ; a long cannonade was commenced, and the Mess-house was carried by assault at three o'clock p.m. The troops pushed on and occupied the Motee hlohal before dark. Sir .J. Outram and Sir H. Havelock then met Sir Colin Campbell. The following officers were killed and wounded on the 16th and 17th ; former losses and losses of men on the last two days have not been yet stated:— Killed.—Midshipman Damien, Naval Brigade; Captain Hardy, ltoyal Artillery; Captain Dalzell, 93rd High landers ; Captain Lumsden, 30th Native Infantry; Lieu tenant Franckland, 2nd Punjaub Infantry. Wounded.—Sir Colin Campbell, slightly, and thirty officers. CAWN PORE. The Gwalior rebels had advanced to within fifteen miles of Cawnpure, but had again retired to Calpee. Uenetal Windham is stated to have marched to attack them. DELHI. Twenty-four inferior members of the Royal family were executed by sentence of a Military Commission on No vember the' oth. Zukeen Abdoolab, an influential rebel chief, was executed on the next day. A force under Colonel Gerard proceeded to intercept the Jo Ihpore Legion, which with other rebels had appeared in Shekawattee. The force met the enemy- on the 25th of November near Kurnaul, and defeated them with great ala igliter, and the loss of all their guns. Our loss was 15 killed and 45 wounded, but Colonel Gerard was among the killed. AGRA. Tho detachments under Colonel Riddell and Major Old are employed in cleating the 1.311.y0ur districts ; Major Old on t e 19th of November fell in with and dispersed a body of the Rohilcuud insurgents, All was quiet in the Punjaub. The Gogatis rising has Men entirely put down. Neetnuch has been besieged by do iduhdisore insurgents for nearly A fo•toight. On the THE PRE S S, DECEMBER 26, 1857. 21st of November an attempt was made to take the fort by escalade, but the enemy were repulsed with great loss, and the siege was raised on the 22nd. The Mnow column, under Brigadier Steuart, was attacked near Mundisore by the insurgents on the 21st of November. The insurgents were repulsed. On the 23rd the column advanced to the north of Mundisore, on the Neemuch road, and found the rebels in a strong position, with five guns. The position was immediately attacked, and the rebels defeated with the loss of all their guns. While this battle was in progress the Mundisnre garrison came out and attacked our rear, but they got well beaten also. The rebels in the fights of the 21st and 23rd lost _ . 1,500 men, while our loss was inconsiderable. Lieutenant Gedmayne, of her Majesty's 2lth Dragoons (?), was killed, and Major Robinson, 25th Native Infantry, mounded. The column afterwards took Mundisore on the 25th, the rebels having evacuated it on the night of the 24th. The fort and town of Saugor remain untouched, but large parties of rebels are in the surrounding di-ariet. A part of the Madras column defeated a body of the insur gents near Sconce, on the Jubbulpore road, on the 10th of November, and took two guns. Captain Fomenham, of the 4th Madras Cavalry, was killed, and Lieutenant Clarke, the Deputy-Commissioner of Jubbulpore, severely wounded. The liheel disturbances in Khandeish con tinue, bat the Bheels are confined to the hills, and will be attacked in their strongholds when the jungle is cleared. The Minister of the Kolapore State was stabbed in his cffice on the 23rd of November by an Arab soldier. The wounds are slight, and the Arab was actuated by private motives only. SOUTHERN MURATHA COUNTRY. Intelligence has just been received of a rising of some Beruds near Moodhole. A force was advanced from Bel. gaum to restore order. The state of things in t hat part of the country is not satisfactory. The remaining part of the Bombay Presidency is quiet. Reinforcements have arrived in the Warrior Queen and the Dalian, but more are urgently required. All is quiet in Madras and the Nizam's country. H. ANDERSON, Secretary to the Government. Bombay Castle, December 4, 18.57. MALTA, Dec. 23. The steamer Eusine arrived here at eight o'clock this evening. Intelligence has reached Vienna of the death of Iskender Pacha, who had distinguished himself in the war between Russia and Turkey, and who lately accompanied Omer Pacha to Bagdad. The following is a brief sketch of his career, which since the days of Scanderbeg has not been surpassed in daring action : He was born in Bessarabia in ; his name being Count Ilinaki. Obliged to leave his country on account of complicity in political plots, be served on the constitutional side in the civil wars of Portugal and Spain, and ob tained decorations. He afterwards went to Algeria, then to Herat, and afterwards to China, serving in all three places in a military capacity. He afterwards returned to Algeria, and, accepting service from the French, distin- guished himself in the operations against Abd-el-Kader, and gained the cross of the Legion of Honour. In 1848 and 11.449 he fought with distinction in Hungary. He then went to Turkey and entered the service of the Porte. He took part with Omer Nebo in the expedition against Montenegro. He distinguished himself on the breaking out of the war with Russia, but was soon wounded, and. was kept for some time inactive. Subsequently he orga uised the Bashi•llszouka, and recently accompanied Omer Pacha as stated above. ptlantr. THE Mayo Constitution announces a case of mer cantile embarrassment in that county, which appears to have caused very general regret there. The old and respected firm of Pinkerton and Thompson have been compelled to suspend payment. Mn. JUSTICE JACKS ,N died last week in Dublin. THE Evening Post states that Mr. Justice Moore, one of the judges of the Queen's Bench, whose state of health for some time past had been anything but satisfactory, is now considerably better. It was believed that, in the event of a continuance of his illness, he contemplated a journey to the south of Europe. THE hopes of a conclusion of the great slander case before Christmas are becoming more faint. No less than eight witnesses were examined on Tuesday on the part of the defendant, and it is said that the liq is not yet exhausted. The trial was resumed on Wednesday morning. The trial is altogether of a most singular nature. It has been before the Dublin Court of Exchequer for the last nine days, and is likely to occupy many more. The plaintiff is Mr. George Strevens, nephew of the unfortunate Mrs. Sarah Kelly, whose barbarous murder yet remains a mystery, so far as any knowledge of the perpetrators 1 is m question. The defendant is Mr. Christopher Campion, a Dublin attorney, who for many years acted as the legal adviser of the murdered woman, and who was residing in her house upon the day she met her untimely end. The action having arisen out of circumstances connected with this tragedy natu rally excited more than an ordinary share of interest, and the court has been donsely crowded during the whole day. The damages were laid at 6,000/. The pleadings averred that Mrs. Sarah Kelly had been murdered by two persons on the Bth of April, 1856, and that after that occurrence the defendant spoke and published of the plaintiff words to this effect : " This is the man who got it done." " Well, Mr. Strevens, how was that job done; where did they come from, or where did they go to? When you say they did not pursue you any more, you were not the man they wanted to shoot." The inuendoes were to the effect that i he plaintiff had conspired with two men to shoot Mrs. Kelly and likewise the defendant. The defence consisted in a denial of the use of the words ascribed to the defendant in the defamatory sense alleged, and a justification, stating the circumstances from which the defendant believed in the guilt of the plaintiff, and that he spoke the words believing that the plaintiff had conspired to murder Mrs. Kelly. The defence comprised two branches usual in such cases—namely, that the defendant had rea sonable and probable cause for believing that the plaintiff had murdered Mrs. Kelly, and that the communication in which he represented that he had murdered her was a privileged communication. The issues which the jury had to try were whether the defendant had spoken the words in a defamatory sense ; secondly, whether the matters stated in the special defence were true in substance and fact. The Dublin Freeman says that the long-expected affidavits in the case of" Kingston and Sadleir " have been filed on both sides, and that they exceed in extent any that have ever been filed in Ireland in any one case. The affidavits, it is computed, coves 7,000 folios. The Morning Post announces the departuao from town of the Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, to pay an "interesting visit " to his constituents. The Daily News of yesterday designates the appointment of the Hon. W. A. Tollemache to the vacant Treasurership of the Kent County Courts as " discreditable to Lord Palmerston personally, as it is unsatisfactory to the Liberal party." INDIAN FINANCE.—A return, moved for by Mr. A. Mills, of the revenue derived annually from all sources of taxation in India from 1852 to 1855-56 was published yesterday. In 1855-56 the net receipts from the land, Sayer and Moturpha revenues, amounted to 16,002,3631.; salt, 2,038,8831.; opium, 3,961,975/. ; Post•ofce (a deficiency), 21,5151.; stamp duties, 519,731/. ; Customs, 1,982,2751.; Mint duties, 130,0471.; miscellaneous, 1,369,8921.; and charges, 23,539,0241. Total receipts, 30,817,5281; charges, 28,372,9011.—5urp1u5, 2,444,6271. In 1852, the surplus was 3,329,8611.; 1853, 1,299,2841.; 1854, 1,391,3291.; 1855.56, 244,6271. SECOND EDI'T'ION• SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE We learn by telegraph from Trieste, Dec. 24th that intelligence has been received from Constanti nople to the 17th. A note, addressed by M. Boute nieff to the Porte, declares that the occupation of Perim by the English is contrary to the integrity of the Turkish territory. The commission appointed to examine the consolidation of the home debt is engaged in devising measures to lessen the effects of the financial crisis. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. TEIE return of the Bank of England for the week ending Wednesday last, the 23rd inst., show the following changes compared with that for the week prece.ling : Decrease in Circulation Increase in Public Deposits Increase in Other Deposits 74,390 Increase in Government Securities 46,625 Decrease in Other Securities „ 1,176,754 Increase in Bullion 1,302,426 Increase in Best Increase in Reserve _1,688,866 Bullion in both Depari 'swots 10,753;281 Circulation, including Bank Post 20,188,60