The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-13 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA AND CHINA. We have received, by Extraordinary Express, our usual letters and papers in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The following is the letter of the Times' Cal cutta correspondent " CALCUTTA, DEC. 10. " The present mail carries home the greatest calamity and the greatest victory of this most disastrous war. On the 25th November Sir H. Havelock died at the Alumbagh. On the 7th of December Sir Colin Campbell utterly defeated 14,000 mutineers. Although one is, of course, inclined to describe these events by themselves, it is perhaps better to adhere to the chronological sequence of the narrative. 1 left Sir C. Camp bell just arrived at the Residency. It appears that his victories, though terribly destructive to the enemy, were achieved with comparatively slight loss to ourselves-600 is said to have been the total loss in killed and wounded in the three great assaults. The enemy, however, notwith standing these victories, still numbered 60,000 fighting men, still show no symptom of retreat, still showed a determination to defend the city proper street by street. To attack them was to sacrifice a force already reduced and risk the ne cessity of a third relief. The Commander-in- Chief, therefore, encumbered with women and children, sick and wounded, determined to evacu ate Lucknow. Accordingly, on the 22d of No• vember, the whole of the garrison, the State pri soners, and the treasure were withdrawn 'in the presence of the whole force of Oude.' Many of the guns were destroyed, the remainder were car ried off, and then the Residency, the scene of such terrible suffering and such heroic endurance, was abandoned to the enemy. They did not ven ture to oppose the evacuation, but they harassed the retreat, and I am told made an attack upon the force just outside Lucknow. No particulars are known, but the attack must have been re pulsed, for on Nov. 24 Sir Colin reached the Alumbagh. Here he halted for several hours, col lecting his scattered forces and arranging for the permanent defence of the position ; and here he sus tained a loss which in India has spread universal gloom, and in England will cloud the great victory of Cawnpore. Sir Henry Havelock, worn out with fatigue, exposure, and mental suffering, ex pired at the Alumbagh on the 25th of November. How he died no one in Bengal yet knows. Accord ing to one account, his toil never remitted, how ever his health might be impaired, brought on an attack of acute dysentery. According to another his death was the effect of wounds received in action. The Government has published no par ticulars, and has noticed him only at the tail of a General Order about the garrison. No private inquiries are of any use, for the Commander-in- Chief has very properly seized the telegraph, and will suffer nothing to pass but his own messages to the Governor-General, " The deceased General has been a prominent character in Indian history for nearly 20 years. He was one of the few who passed through the Affghan campaigns with added reputation. In the first Punjab war her-wersturd Hardinge's most trusted friend. A slight spare man, about 5 feet 5 inches in height, with an emaciated face and an eagle eye, he belonged emphatically to the class who have never to contend with disobedience or mutiny. As a General he was the beat tactician we have had in India ; arid as an officer, 'though stern and sometimes exacting, his antique heroism made him the idol of his men. He was, indeed, perhaps the bravest man in his own army, and was never so chatty or agreeable as under fire. Like most of our Indian statesmen and soldiers, the Lawrences, Edwardes, Nicholson, Montgomery, and many others, he was a Christian of the old stamp—a strong Good-fearing Puritan man, who thought often in scriptural phrase, and deemed it no shame to teach his soldiers to pray. ' out the saints,' said Lord Gough on one occasion - when he anticipated desperate work ; Havelock never blunders, and his men are never drunk.' The loss created a most painful impression In Calcutta. We are all a little hardened here. We have seen so many Generals fall, have been so accustomed to misfortune, have learnt so completely to expect misma nagement, that nothing moves us now. Yet even here a Government telegram announcing, `All going on well at Alumbagh ; General Have lock died two days ago,' excites a little disgust. The press dare not complain under penalty of con fiscation, but the public voice is pretty audible. We have now but two Generals left in whom the public have any confidence whatever—Sir Colin Campbell and Brigadier Cotton, of Peshawur. Should an accident happen to the former, who has a habit of placing himself in the hottest of the fire, our prospects will be poor indeed, Neill is dead, and Wilson, of Delhi, is sick unto death, Sir Healy Havelock we are now mourning, Sir James Outram would not supply his place, General Windham is under a cloud, Sir Hugh ] . tone is wanted at Bombay, and the many young men equal to the occasion have not sufficient rank. "On the 26th Nov. the Commander-in-Chief, leaving 3,500 men at the Alumbagh under Sir J. Outran), continued his march towards Cawnpore. It was unexpectedly accelerated by a disaster which even yet is only partially explained. On the 26th Nov. Gen. Windham, left, in command at Cawnpore, heard of the advance of the G stalior mutineers. These men have been hovering about Calpee for months, obviously afraid to advance, yet aware of the advantage of detaining troops at a distance from Lucknow. Had they advanced with their splendid park of artillery a fortnight before Cawnpore must have been lost for the time, and the relief of Lucknow would have been all but impossible. At last they moved, the first division, some 3,000 strong, advancing to the Pandoo, within eight miles of Cawnpore. On the 26th Gen. Windham attacked them, and after a combat of an liour and a half dispersed them. Pursuit was impossible without cavalry, but three of the four gnus with the division were captured. We lost only some 57 men. The Gwalior men, however, were in no degree disheartened. They attacked our camp on the following day, carried off all our tents, and 'the British troops retired int the intrenchments.' There they were evidently besieged, for on the following day the enemy attiicked the intrenchments from the canal and the Subadarla tank. A sortie made against the as sailants from the canal was most successful ; the Rifles teat back the rebels, and brought in two of their 18-pounder guns. The fire of the rebels from the Subadar tank was also quite silenced, but our extreme right and her Majesty's 64th Regiment suffered very severely.' In other private accounts it is stated that the affair was a surprise, and the retreat on the intrenchments very sharp work. The 641. th and 88th were terribly cut up. The former lost four officers, and two more were taken prisoners. One of them, I am told, was hung, and the other slowly beaten to death by the mutineers " with shoes." Brigadier Wilson was among the , slain. On the 29th Sir C. Campbell, who had fortunately heard the firing, pressed on his encumbered force with such rapidity that he marched 43 miles in 31 hours. Leaving all en cen!heances on the Oude side of the river he crCese4 and, after a ,h4ef but decisive engagement awe " the enemy out of their position in front of the i eas . ns—ncementsand the judgment h e ik a s ° captured 16 guns. With everywhere displayed he at tempted no Pursuit Quietly keeping the enemy at bay with his heavy dedguns, he crossed the whole into Cawnpore. Then ce , enwsrnen, and children a sufficient escort, they were forwarded to Allaheb 's . , after six months of where they arrived in safety on Dec. hardships such as I hop e English women will never again in this age be ca ll ed upon day t° , sustain. These preparations occupied some hut by the 6th of Dec. the Commander-in-Chi s e l was ready for the attack. It began at 11 o'clock. The enemy was first apparently shelled out of the native town, and then attacked with the rifle. The loss of the mutineers was fearful, and the whole army, 14,000 strong, fled in utter con- IRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY fusion. They were pursued for 14 miles along the Calpee road, and lost all their guns except eight, all their battery carts, waggons, ammunition stores, grain, bullocks. and baggage. But one officer was killed, Lieut. Salmond, aide-de-camp to General Grant, and the loss in men was not great. We captured one 18-pounder gun with limber, eight 9-pounder guns with limber, nine 9- pounder waggons, one 9-pounder carriage, two 24-pounderhowitzers with limber, one 24-pounder, one 24-pounder waggon, one 24-pounder spare carriage, one transport cart with gin, three 18- pounder limbers, eleven store carts, three 8-inch mortars, two sk-inch mortars-total, 16 pieces of ordnance, and 26 carriages of different sorts. The Commander-in-Chief holds the lives of his soldiers dear, and never expends a man where a bullet will serve his turn. The victory is the most decisive of the war. Ten thousand men must have escaped, but without guns they are paralysed, and the loss of the baggage will irritate the armed, half-disciplined scoundrels who form the bulk of the force against each other. It completely clears the road up to Cawnpore, and leaves Sir Colin Campbell time and means to reorganise his force. Meanwhile Jung Bahadoor has descended from his mountains with 9,000 picked men. He has passed S , gowlee, and is marching straight for Goruck pore. His men are much more than a match for Sepoys, and after clearing that district he will probably turn southward and attack the rebels who have flooded Azimghur. Colonel Longden, who was just holding his ground there, has been compelled to retreat by a large force, report says of 20,000 men, and no Europeans can be spared. I say none, for there is, I fear, some delusion at home . as to the actual strength of our European army. We have, no doubt, a splendid foree on paper-no less than 36 regiments of Infantry, four of Cavalry, and most of the Royal Artillery. But the entire force, rely on it, does not repre sent more than 25,000 effective men. Thus, we have the 82d, 34th, 88th, 93d, 10th, 37th, 35th, 97th, 53d, 29th, 38th, 42d, 54th, 72d, 19th, 20th, 27th, 70th, 87th;24th, 52d, Bth, 76th, 61st, 84th, 64th, 78th, sth, 90th, 32d, Ist Co.'s Bengal Europeans, 2d Co.'s Bengal Europeans, 3d Company's Bengal Europeans, Ist Madras Fusileers, and the 2d, 6th, Bth, and 9th Cavalry ; but the 27th, 70th, and 87th at Peshawur have been reduced by sickness to about 900 effectives. The 24th, at Umritsur, is not 350 strong. The Bth, 52d, 75th, 61st, 60th, and two Bengal Eu ropeans passed through the siege of Delhi, and do not average 300 men a regiment. The 3d Bengal Europeans, at Agra, are reduced one-half. The 32d, 84th, 64th, 78th, and Madras Fusileers were in Lucknow and cannot average 300 men. The Fusileers at one time had not an unwounded man. The sth and 90th, which advanced with Sir H. Havelock, suffered awfully, the sth in par ticular. The 23d, 82d, 34th, 88th, 64th, 93d, 37th, and 64th have suffered more or less, three of them very severely indeed. There are only about 5,000 moro to arrive, so that if we can collect 28,000 men in Bengal it will be as much as we can do. This force, supposing even that Sir John Lawrence holds his own kingdom with the forces at Kurrachee. has to do work which I may thus summarize. It has to conquer Oude, defended by 60,000 soldiers, aided by the armed " budmashes" or bravoes, numbering 20,000 more. It has to conquer the North-West, now overrun by armed ruffians animated by the bit terest hate. It has to garrison a country as large as Austria, filled with armed men. It has to protect Bengal, a country 10,000 square miles larger than Great Britain. It has to garrison Calcutta. It has to watch 20,000 disarmed but unpunished sepoys. It has to restore our autho rity in Eastern Bengal, lost by events I am about to narrate. And all this time it is losing numbers at the rate of 150 per battle, or about 30 per week, exclusive of the losses caused by sickness and drinking, which at Calcutta at least are fearful. "Turn we to Bengal Proper. On the 18th o . Nov. the 3 companies of the 34th at Chittagong roke out, as I told you, burnt their lines, blewg up the magazines, plundered the treasury, and commenced a search for the Europeans. The latter escaped, chiefly in boats upon the river. The would-be murderers, sadly disappointed, released the convicts, turned them into pack-horaea, and de camped. They moved steadily northward, and, finding their progress impeded by the women and sick, murdered them and pressed on. It seems certain that their object is Tipperah, where a local Rajah keeps his Court. To him they will offer the sovereignty of Tipperah and Chittagong, and with his forces return to plunder Comillah. Fail ing his assent, they will strike northward, for Nepaul. The whole of this plan is so unlike Sepoys that it seems purely absurd. It is, how ever, the story related by a doyen or two of the convicts who have escaped, and have been caught by different magistrates in different districts. The magistrate of Chittagong, with some forethought, sent an express, announcing the mutiny to Dacca,. It was immediately arranged to disarm the two companies of the 73d Native Infantry there sta tioned. Unfortunately the Sepoys heard of the mutiny even before the Europeans. They were, consequently, prepared. The European volun teers were ordered under arms, and on the 30th of November the work commenced. The volun teers disarmed all the scattered guards without resistance. A body of 100 English sailors then approached the Sepoy barracks, and the Lieute nant in command of the Sepoys advanced. He was immediately shot, and the Sepoys began to work two find 6-pounders, which had been left in charge of 26 native artillerymen. The sailors also had two howitzers. The Sepoys opened a terrible fire of grape from the guns and of mus ketry from the barracks, the verandahs of which they had loopholed. The sailors became exas perated, left the guns, and dashed sword in hand up the mound on which the barrack is built. They were received with a warm fire ; but they were Europeans, and the Sepoys were driven headlong out of the barracks. Forty-one were killed on the spot, and of the 136 who got away many are supposed to be wounded. This body in , stantly began its march for the head-quarters of the regiment at Julpigoree, 60 miles north of Dinaj pore. The greatest alarm was felt lest they should attack the stations en route, as there is not in Bengal any station which could resist 1 . 00 men. As yet, however, they have avoided them, and contented themselves with plundering the villages in their road. The planters turned out armed, but they are too few to do more than stand on the defensive, and the rearch of the ruffians is unop posed. Meanwhile the question arose whether the Julpigoree regiment, toe 73d, would not also revolt. Strange to say it did not. Colonel Sherer, a man of the bureau only, has from the first to last displayed extraordinary julonent. He told the men frankly what had occurred, struck the companies off the regiment, gave the promo tions, and called on them to attack their comrades. They assented and went out, European officers arid all. Nothing further is yet known, or can be for a day or two. If the men remain firm all is well. They are, however, accompanied by a body of Mussulman cavalry, and the latter are known to be always disaffected. If they turn, God help the officers, for vain is the help of man. Dinajpore would in that ease be their route, and it contains amegu who whoithdi:oo life convicts, and a Nujeeb guard, say their cond uc t depends on the olonmfaenttoryt.he worst 73d ,, a n t o i w ve The Lieutenant-Gov ernor of Bengal,partof though the a sto ry. a u with a strong predilection for Mussulmans, is by no means inclined to see his districts ruined. A month ago he implored Lord Canning to send some Europeans—a company would suffice— to Chittagong, to disarm the 34th. There were eight or ten steamers in the river. The dis tance is a three days' run, with a fine harbour at the end. Lord Canning peremptorily refused. He was then asked to disarm the 73d at Dacca. He refused again, though when the mischief had been done he sent 400 Rifles to Dacca in a swift steamer in six days. He has again been besought to send Europeans to Julpigoree, and has again ref used- In the last case he is possibly in the right, as t h e men would, perhaps, brea k ou t, expecting to be slaughtered. The former cases, however, are without excuse, and resemble those acts which our forefathers used to interpret as proofs of 'judicial blindness.' It was the same with the Dinapore mutiny, but nothing can teach this _ . Administration. If Bengal were lost to-morrow, they would consider that to suppceas an account of the facts was to suppress the mutiny itself. As it is, we have Eastern Bengal and its revenue in danger. One hundred men, half sailors, have gone from Bhaugulpore to Purneah, and a force of in valids, I hear, has been ordered down to Darjeel ing. Chittagong and Akyab also have each received 100 sailors after the mutiny. The papers, of course, scarcely venture to remark that all these disasters might have been prevented. " The arrangements for the transmission of troops to the North-West are improving. The daily rate now sent is 300 men, and this may be in creased. The Government is still, however, averse to compulsion, and if zemindars asked to send carts do not send them there is no punishment. I know one great man asked for 100 who has never sent one, or answered the letter. The Government will not irritate native feeling. As a consequence two addresses are now being hawked about among the Baboos, extolling the Government to the skies for not making any difference between them and the Europeans. They will soon be presented, but I hear efforts are being made to keep them back. " I enclose the pension order. It is the only de cisive thing Government has done in the campaign. All the mutinous regiments are struck off the pension list. The disarmed regiments, however, are not. " I enclose, also, the Lucknow despatches. Any comment of mine upon them would be impertinent ; no such record has been published in this world since the facts of the siege of Londonderry were first announced to William 111. All India waits eagerly to hear the expression of national feeling at home upon deeds which will raise our name as long as the English language shall endure. The order of the Governor-General is excellently toned, but you will notice that it is the natives who receive the highest rewards. You see, also, that the order anticipates the decision of the Home tir overn meat by retiabilitating a native regiment of the line.' lam inclined to believe, though I do not know, that orders are being sent out designed to frustrate the action of Parliament as much as pos sible, by pledging Government to acts from which it cannot recede. Thus all the Sikh levies have been permanently officered. Moreover, the list of promotion is out, which I enclose. You will ob serve that the fiction of a Bengal army is still kept up. Not one regiment has been blotted out, even for crimes which have made Europe ring. As I have repeatedly told you, the policy here is con ciliation,' and that dictated the clemency order, the disarming theories, and the exemption of Delhi from punishment. The property in that city was declared by General Wilson to be prize, and the in habitants suffered to redeem it on payment of a million sterling. The Government of India have cancelled the order, and declared that Delhi is not prize, and given the troops six months' batta, or about 50/. to a subaltern and 41. to a soldier. The arrangement will cause very great discontent, the siege having lasted six months and been frightfully destructive to life and health. "It is not often I turn your columns into beg ging letters. I hope, however, you will permit me to point out one object which appears to have es caped the notice of the nation. I allude to Mrs. Willoughby, the mother of the young hero who, by blowing up the Delhi magazine, struck the keynote of our glorious resistance to the foe. This lady was entirely dependent on her son and his brother, who perished immediately after. She has been suffered to remain for six months at Landour in such dis tress that the Relief Committee the other day sent up 1001. to her. Under the compensation order she may possibly, by special application, receive a pension, as if she had been a subaltern's widow. "P. S. I have just been told that as the full tide of the rebels poured into the evacuated Residency at Lucknow it was blown up. Hundreds of ruffians were shattered to pieces. The deed was performed by two European soldiers, who it is feared sacr' ficed themselves in the attempt. "DEC. 11. "The following telegram has been received : " 'lt is reported that 50 men of the 73d have deserted in a body, but without bloodshed.' " bourhood of so much wealh and Europ m ean woen I and children. By the bye t , something of the sort will, I suppose, be ordered to be done—of course like all Clemency Canning's measures, when too late. The scoundrels are openly boasting that they can be off when they like ; and when they bolt, having no cavalry to pursue, no Europeans could catch men who are light and active as monkeys— perhaps tigers would be a more suitable comparison. I saw a letter yesterday from J u l pigoree , where there is another, and I believe the last armed com pany of loyal Sepoys. The writer says :—" They have not mutinied yet, and keep loyal and in good humour. We play at cricket with them every clay with revolvers in our belts." I need say nothing on this. Now, it appears there are two things for John Bull to do—first, to give up. bragging about the army of retribution he has sent, and to lose no time in sending another. His boasted army is all here, or nearly so. Calcutta swarms with soldiers, reel ing about the streets under the influence of cheap grog, or rolling in the gutters, to be robbed there by cowardly natives of their hard-won Crimean medals. Yet, all included, we have not between I this and Allahabad 20,000 men. I doubt if Sir Colin will ever be able to head this force. He must see his danger, as two steamers are to leave imme diately for the Cape for troops. If our army were diubled there would be work for it just now, and we shall require annual supplies of 10,000 men to make up for the ravages of war and disease. Re collect, we have a rebel army to oppose of 100,000 men, well trained and disciplined by ourselves, be sides hordes of armed fighting men from Oude, the hotbed from which our rebel Sepoys sprung. Se poys ! The name revolts us, and as I sea the grin ning scoundrels strutting up and down, ramrod in hind, playing sentry before Government House and the Treasury, as if on purpose to disgrace the sturdy armed European at his side, who really guards the buildings, I turn from him with loath ing hatred. The second thing for John Bull to do is to recal Lord Canning. The Times-serving Times has been hitherto throwing dust in his eyes, but he is begin ning to see at last. Of one thing I can assure him —his lordship has no friends here. There is but one opinion ; go where you will, from the dinner table of the big wigs to the merchant's office, he is never mentioned but with dislike and derision, furious denunciation, or cool contempt. The petition sent home against him was not the work of a clique, as some would have you suppose; it was eagerly signed by all who knew it was going forward, and had it b-en publicly put forth (which it was not thought expedient to do) I will engage that it would have' been signed by 99 per cent. of the English in India. You may not agree with me in this, but I can as sure I only repeat the common sentiment here. Wavering and undecided, yet obstinate when he does decide —always deciding either wrongly or too late—rejecting all advice at first to act upon the worst afterwards, he is the very man to lose India for you. We want a bold, quick man and a soldier. His very exercise of justice (and he is a very just man) is questionable; whether in the treatment of the mutineers, or the distribution of prize money, he contrives to blunder. Ido not know what the people at home may say to the ' Delhi prize money' proclamation, but I know what our allies, the Sikhs, will say, who only forsook the eepoys because they would not let them share their loot.' I'hoae Sikhs will give ns trouble yet, loyal as they at present appear. " DEC. 9.—We 'save a success to chronicle, and a most complete one too. Sir Colin (if we may trust the telegram) has given the rebels who hemmed him in, when hampered with women and children, a most complete drubbing, chased them for 16 miles, taken their guns, ammunition, carriages, cattle, baggage (N.B. a sepoy'a baggage is a brass pot, a lotak—or as Mr. Disraeli will have it, a lotus) — and a hookah. Our loss, he says, has been in significant. God grant this may but be the first of a series of such victories. I have also seen. letters from Benares ; the rebels have not reached the place, and. the panic there seems subsiding. The women and children from Lucknow are also said to have reached Allahabad. Letters from head-quar. ters speak in terms of unqualified praise of the heroism shown by our countrywomen throughout the dreadful siege. The garrison is stated to have been mined more than once—often so close to their assailants as to hear all that was said, and to be obliged to have recourse to all sorts of devices to conceal the smallness of their num bers. Yet our noble-hearted countrywomen — and. let England be proud of them—never flinched. and devoted themselves most nobly to the care of the wounded—many of whom, unfortunately, were the poor little children, who were part of the ap parently devoted garrison. Next mail will take home some stirring accounts of the siege. " It is difficult to write a fair letter, as the events of one day oblige us to cancel what we had written the day before, so rapidly do events, hopes, and fears succeed each other. This must be evident to you from what I have scribbled above, but I prefer sending it as it is, written in ignorance of tne future, to sending you a letter written after the event, proving myself to be a perfect prophet. "DEC. 10.—We have all been electrified this morning by the publication of the dispatches from Brigadier Inglis, giving s thrilling account of the heroic defence of Lucknow. It sends the blood bounding through one's veins to listen to the tale of unsurpassed bravery. The defence of Lucknow must ever stand foremost throughout the world as a brilliant instance of cool, devoted courage, and patient endurance,"unsurpassed, if not unequalled, in history ; and that the garrison should have been relieved at all seems little short of miraculous. " Had the mail left on the 7th, as originally in tended, gloomy indeed would have been the accounts you would have received. Its detention enables us to speak of the relief of Neemuch, and the ap parently complete discomfiture of the rebels in that quarter, and 2,000 only of whom now remain together, and who will no doubt shortly be dis persed ; our loss, abo ut 70 rank and file, and 7 or 8 officers. "The Julpigoree sepoys have bolted with their arms. I every day expect to hear of the Barrack pore sepoys following in their steps. " DEC.ll.—lhave kept this back to send by after-packet. News was in town last night that General Hope Grant had followed up the Gwalior Contingent rebels wi ththe9thLl their stores,ancers,andattackedcarts re the with cavalry and amrtainllerhyimatseSlfe.rajgThhaits, while crossing the Gang es, and after killin g 100 in half wtmlritnits'ootounktollwossbigneigicnOam' p and completely smashed. NEEM.UCH AND MUNDESOR. Letters and despatches have been received de scribing with sufficient fulness the operations at Neemuch and Mundesor. The details of the last fight with the rebels at the last-mentioned place are interesting. After the skirmish in front o f th e town the column under Brigadier Stuart marched up the Neemuch road and encamped, so as to cut off the enemy's communication. The march fr om thence against the enemy is described 118 beautiful to be hold. The line, covered by skirmishers of cavalry infantry, extended ful l y a mile, the Brigadier lead bag in front, towards the village of Ghario, situated in the midst of lofty trees and fertile fields. The rebels had excellent cover in both for skirmishers, and they availed themselves of it as our force ad vanced, throwing •ut men to the front, who fired from the trees or the corn-fields as we advanced. Our right was first engaged with the enemy, who was speedily thrown into confusion by Capt. Hun gerford's guns an d her Majesty's 86th, Her Ma jesty's 14th Light Cavalry charged at the artillery, but were at first checked by a heavy column of infantry rising out of hidi ng pl aces b e f or e them. Capt. flungerfo rd, how ever , c l eare d thi s obstacle by a few well - directed rounds of grape. The Dm goons charged again, took the rebel guns, and drove tke enemy precipitately into the village of Ghario, the rub .1s covering their retreat with matchlock men, who seemed to jump like squirrels from tree to tree as our advance continued. Ghario was now fairly surrounded, but at the same time the rebel garrison of Mundesor was rapidly approaching our rear, where lay our stores, our sick, wounded, and upwards of 70 prisoner s , un d er an escort of the Malwa Contingent. The native officer in command, feeling the neceSsity of action, and perceiving that the rebels would attack before aid could arrive from Brigadier Stuart, ordered all the prisoners to be shot, which was done. The sick and slightly wounded took up what a rms th e y c ould and awaited the attack. Lieut. Matlock, of the Bengal Artille r y , with a couple of gunn ers and a sub-division of Madras Sappers and Miners, came up just in time to open on the rebels with an 8-inch howitzer, which did considerable - execution, and checkwl their advance until Captain Sinclair's battery, with a suitable number of infantry and cavalry, came up from the front, attacked them, and drove them rapidly back into Mundesor. Ghario in the meanwhile obstinately resisted. Captain Hungerford battered it on the north of our line, Captain Woolcombe on the south. The 86th, with the Enfield, dealt deadly destruction on the rebels, and vast numbers fell in the village without inducing the remainder to yield. Night came, and the rebels still held out. It was not till morning that 150 men, the remnant of upwards of 2,000, who had been surrounded, gave themselves up as prisoners. Our ca sua lti es were : —Major Boileau, field engineer, slightly wounded ; Lieut. Red mayne, 16th Dragoons, killed, and three privates wounded ; 86th, three killed, and nine wounded ; the 25th Bombay Native lof-kntry, six killed, and two offs sera and 19 men wounded, and a few of the Hyderabad Contingent killed and wounded. Such was the affair of Ghario, which seems to have The following is the letter of the Herald corres pondent : CALCUTTA, DEO. 7. "The papers from England, of the 26th of Octo ber, sing exultingly over the changed tide of affairs in India, and are already bragging in anticipation over a "long roll of splendid victories" to be achieved. The news going forward by this steamer, I regret to say, must check these bounding hopes —silence the va►n boasts. You at home will learn before we can do the exact extent of our disasters, as Lord Canning, who alone could enlighten us, most sedulowly conceals all information, and the despatches from the seat of war, known to be re ceived, will first meet the eye in India through the medium of the English newspapers. "From what,we cangather, however, from private letters and from little scraps of information which leak out upon `good authority,' enough has trans pired to prove that, since the commencement of the rebellion in May last, no mail has taken to England such disastrous intelligence as will the present — never, perhaps, has our power in India appeared in so precarious a position. I hope, before closing this letter, I may be able to chronicle some slight success, but I also fear to hear of further disaster. "As I said before, exact intelligence you must not expect ; but we know enough to show that the glowing telegrams of successes sent home by the last two mails have been completely deceptive, and serve but to swell the list of misrepresentations, or worse, with which our Government have so frequently de luded us. It was with great difficulty that Sir Colin Campbell succeeded in getting into Lucknow ; and he only managed, with much loss, to get round the place to the Residency and effect a junction with General Sir H. Havelock (whom England has now to mourn as decd), and then evacuated the place, taking with him the women, children, baggage, &c. From that point government has told ttle public nothing ; but every native in the Baz sr knows that po )r Sir Colin, wounded, and overpowered with difficulty and enormous loss, fought back his way to Cawnpore. He has managed to send on the women and children to Allahabad, with the sick and wounded, amounting, we hear, to 2000 men. He himself, with what force we know not, is now behind the entrenchments of Cawnpore ; the t )wn itself is in possessiola of some 14,000 of the enemy, whom he was firing upon all Sunday (sth instant) with whit success we have yet to learn. Some days previously General Windham with rash courage twice attacked the Gwalior rebels who, just before Sir Colin returned, were surrounding Cawnpore. The first attack was successful—at least Govern ment House tells us so ; but in the second he was beaten back, forced to retire behind the entrench ments, with a loss of 700 men and the tents and baggage of three regiments. " Lawer down the Azimghur rebels, instead of flying in terror to Fyzibad, as Government House would have us believe, are by last accounts on the march, some 20,000 strong, towards Benares, and as the place is but feebly garrisoned, and can have no reinforcements but the small parties of 200 to 300 me* who are going forward daily from this, we are all most anxiensly awaiting the news of the next few days. " Still nearer home I regret to have to chronicle a further disaster—this at least to be clearly traced to the clement' Canning. It is the shameful blun der of Dinapore over again on a smaller scale. At D scat and Chittagong there were some companies ' of the 34th Regiuient, the remainder of the corps disarmed at Barrackpore in May last. Will it be believed at home, except by those who know Lord Canning well, that, notwithstanding re peated representations these companies were allowed to remain armed 1 Months ago, and frequently since, Lord Canning vas urged to treat them as their brother rebels were treated, but he turned a deaf ear to the hint. He was entreated then to send 10J Europeans to protect Chittagong ; but he neglected the request, though he could readily spare a few hundreds of the European soldiers or sailors now staggering about the grog-shops of Calcutta. The result might be expected ; but a few days back the loyal scoundrels " looted" the treasury and bolted. At Dacca there were 100 sailors who charged and soundly thraskad them ; but still they managed to bolt, money and all, and the bands from the two places are now wandering about the country levying con tributions upon the villages they pass through, burning and destroyingiwhen they leave. Nearer home still, at Barrackpore, Lord Canning is keeping a pet body of 4,000 convicted and dis armed mutineers, I suppose to give them an oppor tunity of looting the " first city of the East" whenever they think their chance comes. There are 2,000 European soldiers lying idle there watch ing the scoundrels ; when these are sent up country I suppose we shall again have cannon in the streets of Calcutta, and the merchants parading the streets all n i g ht with arms in their hands. Why t le scoundrels should be allowed to remain so close to Calcutta i s one of the mys t er i es w hich his lord • ship will souse day be called upon by the voice of England expl a i n. to Why not have sent them to China? Mo re than one regiment volunteered to go b e r t e h e i r n e two wb nt months a the wholego and mightthere are be embarked troop s i h n i ps a day—anything to get them away from the neigh- EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1858, struck a salutary terror into the minds of the muti neers. GENERAL WINDHAM.'S FIGHT WITH THE GWALIOR REBELS. The following is from the Correspondent of the Daily Hews : " Cawnpore bad been left under the command of General Windham, the hero of the B.edan. He had with him about 3,000 men, consisting of por tions of the 34th, 64th, 82d, and 88th Regiments, besides artillery. It is said that his orders from Sir Colin were on no account to risk an engagement. However that may be, he heard on the 20th that the Gwalior rebels were advancing on Cawnpore. On the 25th information reached him that the ad vanced guard had arrived at Pandoo Nuddy, about 8 miles from Cawnpore. These were not the Gwa lior troops ; they were Koour Singh's rabble, who having been beaten out of Behar, in August by Vincent Eyre, had since joined the Gwalior disci• plined troops, and had come on as their advanced guard. Windham, thinking they were the Gwalior troops, went out on the 26th to attack them, and after a contest of an hour-and-a-half's duration, beat them. He thought, most probably, that this defeat must so disorganise the It ebels that they would make no more head against us. At all events all accounts agree in stating that no precautions whatever were taken against surprise, that our standing camp remained as though we were in a peaceful cantonment, and that no attack was anti cipated for a moment. But the Gwalio r men were ' rather enraged than discomfited. They had sent forward Koour Singh's rabble as a feeler, both to deceive Windham and to mask their own move ments. They were very nearly being successful. Finding from Wind'iam s attack on Koour Sing that he was prepared to expect them on the east side of Cawnpore, they moved rapidly on to the Delhi road, making a circuit, and then on the morn ing of the 27th marched on the station from the westward. Instead, however, of attacking with promptitude,, hey contented themselves with as suming a threatening attitude at Nawabgunge, a suburb two miles distant from Windham's standing camp. This enabled the latter to make prepara tions. He ordered out the troops, and marching at the head of more Europeans than the lamented Elavelock had ever had under his command, went down confident of success to attack the rebels. Our troops, accustomed to be led to victory, went on with their usual dash, the 64th, one of Havelock's victorious regiments, leading. They charged a battery in the left centre of the enemy's line, and gained it, the enemy yielding at every step. By advancing the other regiments to support the 64th, the victory 'would have been assured ; but they were left alone, and the enemy closing on them with their left wing they suffered very severely ; they were compelled to abandon the guns they had gained. The want of a general was everywhere conspicuous ; confusion reigned on all sides ; no distinct orders were issued, and our troops had to beat a hasty, it may be called a disgraceful, retreat into the entrenchments, leaving standing camp, stores, camp equipage, and the entire station of ' Cawnpore to the west of the canal in the hands of the enemy. Our loss was proportionately heavy, and several of our men, and even some officers, fell alive into the hands f the enemy. It is stated in private letters that one of these was forthwith hanged, a second beaten to death with shoes, and a third tied to a cart-wheel, which in a few successive revolutions crushed him to death. Our camp and stores they burned, and that evening advancing close to one entrenchment they took possession of and burned the whole of the cold-weather clothing for our men, which had been stored up at Cawnpore. On the following day the rebels attacked the entrenchment, commencing with a very heavy cannonade from the right and left of their line. Windham attempted a sortie, in which, after some hard fighting, the rifles managed to capture two guns, but our right were driven back with much loss. It was the sound of the firing on this day which reached the ears, of Sir Colin Campbell ; a messenger at the same time arrived with accounts of the critical state of Wind ham's party. Had the rebels at this time cut the bridge of boats, which affords the only means of communication with Oude, Sir Colin would have found it a difficult matter to cross the Ganges, but the rebels not expecting his return, and making sure of Windham's force, were probably anxious to avail themselves of the bridge of boats to crush Sir Colin Campbell. At all events they let it re main, and by so doing were lost. The movements of the favourite lieutenant of Sir Charles Napier were too prompt for them. With his artillery and cavalry, he marched 38 miles in 15 hours, crossed the Ganges by thebridge of boats on the night of the 28th, on the next day fell upon the rebels, drove them back, in a way which made the troops feel that they once more had a general at their head, into the town, and then returned to escort the ladies and wounded across the river. Although her tssed in this operation by the rebels, who poured in a desultory ilro fL um, the torn, and thicebonod on the left bank by the Oude insurgents, he in the space of two days successfully effected this very delicate operation. He did not at once attack the enemy. Commanding from the entrenchment, the head of the road to Allahabad, he made arrangements for a safe escort for the ladies, sick, and wounded, as far as that station, remaining meanwhile on the defensive. On the morning of the 6th, the last wounded man having left the entrenchment; he turned his attention to the rebels, and at 11 o'clock moved out to attack them. " No detaiis of the action have yet been received in Calcutta, but it is known that the enemy were ' totally and completely defeated. They lost im mense quantities of stores, grain, bullocks, and baggage, 16 guns, and their camp. They were pursued that day for 14 miles along the road to Kalpee, in a south-westerly direction. The Chief then returned to Cawnpore, leaving Brigadier Hope Grant to follow up his success. This officer continued to follow them up ; but the rebels, mak ing a sudden detour, left the Kalpee-road, and endeavoured to cross the Ganges into Oude. They reached Joorag-ghat, 22 miles in the direct road from Cawnpore, but much longer by the route the y had taken. Here they procured boats, and were about to cross over their yet remaining guns, when o ur pursuing force appeared upon their rear. It was Brigadier Grant. He at once attacked them with great spirit, and after half-an-hour's cannon ading took 15 guns, large quantities of ammunition and stores, without losing a single man him'elf. The Brigadier alone was slightly wounded. This is the latest itelligence.. The details we receive are but scanty. Sir Colin is himself a determined enemy to newspaper correspondents, and even private letters abounding with news, of which pre vious advice has been sent, frequently miscarry. With respect to General Windham's conduct on the 27th and 28th, every account received from the camp expresses but one opinion. By some it is said that he has been placed under arrest for fighting contrary to the express orders of his chief ; by others, that disgusted with the sentiments ex pressed by Sir Cohn, he has thr?wß up his appoint ment on the staff of the Indian army. But both these statements should be received with caution. I send them to you, as they are mentioned in let ters received from Cawnpore. The Calcutta Phenix, of the 10th ult., says of the death of General Havelock : - - It is uncertain on what date General Havelock received the wound from the effects of which he died It is indeed uncertain, here in Calcutta, whether his death was the result f a wound at all. All that we know of the lamentable and unfortunate orcurrence ie derived from the telegraphic meseage received by Government from Cawnpore, and dated the 27th Nov. In that message General Windham says :—' General Havelock died twe days age.' " The same paper summarises the various important events at Luokhow and Cawnpore as follows : On the night of the 22d of November, the Residency gareisee, With the women, children, Sec., moved out for the purpose of leaving the city. This movement was cover ed by Sir Colin Campbell's force, and effeoted " in the presence'of Vie whole force of Oude." All wastaken away. The King's treiOre, amounting to 230,0001., the state prisoners, all the seeeiceable guns, in fact everything worth removal, was removej; Sir Colin's force then fell back on the Dilkhoosa, following Lhe route by which it had advanced, and ultimately left vicinity of the city altogether, for the Alumbagh, some miles at the Cawnpore sLie of the canal which runs to the south of Lucknow. From all this it is evident that at the time of the departure of the Commander in Chief's i force, the rebels, and in great strength, held the streets of the town. They are apparently determined to make the struggle a desperate one, and have fought better — far better—against the East India Company than ever they fought for it. On the 28th of November Sir Colia C a pbell app ears to have marched from the Alumbagh f ra or Cawnpore, leaving at the latter post a division under Major-General Outram, The chief object was to engage the Gsvalior mutineers, who, according to some accounts, had seized the native cite of Cawnpore, and who, according to the government news, were at least threatening the sta tion. General Windham—the hero of the Redan— commanded at Cawnpore, and had march ed out on the 26th November to attack a portion of the mutineers in position on the bank of the Pundoo river, 8 miles from Cawnpore. The general met with sharp opposition, but after a fight routed this body, taking all their guns but one. General Windham returned to Cawnpore that evening and it was most lucky that ho did so. The force on the Pundoo river seems to have been either a decoy held out to draw him from the entrenchment, or but the advance guard of the main body of th- , tr s4eli,d by tine addition of 311 G l jeLurlia.eitt .patL6 of the • large extent of country they had marched through, by • Kooar King's men, and by Yaejoue al dlndia. etails o This aggro f irregular soldiers from cliff, rent parts of Cent , : att l 4 - eked " Nawat• gated mass of rebe's and mutineers gunge, near Cawnpore," on the 27th Noveniber, and they seem to' have been in such numbers as to , have rendered the retirement of the British force into the entrenchment a necessary measure. That night they burned down the tents of three regiments—an easy feat, as probably there was not a British soldier there to oppose them. On the following day, emboldened by the unpv.nish€d incen diarism of the previous night they attacks it theentrench• ment. On this occasion they, however, c(sunted withont their host. They were met by a sortie, two of their heavy guns taken, and themselves beaten. It was on this occasion that Brigadier Wilson, the commandant of the 64th Queen's, was killed. Cawnpore thus threatened, and threatened by a force of such superior numbers, nothing rerna,ned for the Commander-in-Chief but to turn towards it, and dissipate the army which was attempting to cut oft his reinforcements and cominunicatiOns. This Sir Colin Campbell did, and in his usu al effective style. He marched, leaving, as we have before men tioned, Gen. Outrain with a division at the Alumbagb, on Cawnpore, reached that city, or rather the British en trenchment outside it, perfected his arrangements for the safe convoy of the women, children, and wounded, to `Aliahabad, and then want out and attacked the G walior Contingent and their allies. The men of the Contirgent are just as good soldiers—if we may apply the term to wretches who murder women and children—as were any of the men of the regular Sepoy regiments. The Con tingent itself consisted of four batteries of artillery, two regiments of cavalry, and seven regiments J f intantry, all as highly disciplined as any native troops of any arm in the service. Tnis force was not all that Sir Colin Campbell had to oppose. Amalgamated with it were the remnant of the Dinapore mutineers, the con tingents of all the ill-disposed Rajahs between Gwalior and Culpee, the bad characters--the murderers, thugs, and dacoits---of Central India, and all those who dread ing the advent of the Madras column to Rewah and the Contiguous districts, had pushed north in order to try and escape into Gude. This was the description of army which Sir Colin Campbell attacked at Cawn pore. They were routed with but trifling loss, their camp was captured. They were pursued along the Culpee road for fourteen miles, all their baggage taken, than - munitions of war of most descriptions, and 16 guns felling into the hands of the victor.. This is our latest news from Lucknow aed Cawnpore. The summary of the other Calcutta papers are but imperfect. The intelligence which they convey Will be found in ttie following Government mes sages :-- Copy of Service Message received by Electric Tele graph from Lucknow, 231 November, via Caivnpore 271 h November : From the Coismander-in-Chief. To Calcutta. To the Governor-General. Last night I caused the garrison of Luck now to exe Mite its retreat from the residency, c vverell by the re lieving force, which then fell back on Dilkboosa, in the presence of the whole force of Oude. The women, wounded, and state prisoners, and king's treasure, and 23 lace of rupees, with all the guns are in my camp. A great many guns were destroyed before the Recidenoy was given ap„those that were worth bringing having been t rans ported with much laboar and made available for our own purposes. Tee state prisoners were brought with us. From Cawnpore, 26ch Nov. 1-50, p.m. From General Windham. To Calcutta. To the Governor General. I this morning attacked the Ist division of the Gwalior Contingent, amounting to upwards of 3,000, with two 18-inch iron howitzers, and two light field guns, upon the Pundoo River, eight miles from Cawnpore—after s h ar p fight for one hour and a half, we completely routed them, and captured all but one light gun. I will write particulars on my return this afternoon. Copy of Service Message received by electric telegraph : From Cawnpore, Nov. 27, 10 a.m. From General Windham. To Calcutta. To the Governor-General. All going on well at Alumbagb. General Havelock died two days ago. From Cawnpore, Nov. 27, 10 a.m. From Captain Bruce, by order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. To Calcutta. To the Governor-General. I am desired by the Commander-in-Chief to transmit the following to your lordship, dated Alumbagh, Nov. 24. I have arri►ed here with all the long convoy at tended upon the rescued garrison. I propose to march the day after to-morrow for Bunhee, leaving Sir James Outram with a division.—Bengal Hurkaru, Nov. 28. Service message received by electric telegraph. From Lieut.-Governor, C.P. To Calcutta. To C. Beadon, B.=q. The following message received from Futtehpore at 3 6 p.m. is I orwarded for your information. Message begins :—From Futtebpore, Ist December, Tuesday, from Magistrate to Benares to Hon. the Lieut.-Governor, O.P.—No direct news from Cawnpore today, but a native report agrees in saying that on the 28th and 29th November we were successful in our sortie and captured several gnus. Lathes and children, I believe, came in on the morning of the 29th. Grand Trunk Road in Cawn pore district infested with sowers, and communication is very difficult. No enemy in t its district, but the Kullian pore Teheeelee and Thannah have been plundered by villagers. One hundred Oude men covered the Grand Tiunk Road from north to south the day before yester day. Heavy firing in Oude this morning, and about 15 miles off. Hardly any firing in Cawnpore direction. Service Message received by electric telegraph. From Benares, Dec. 1, Tuesday, 9 p.m. From Lieut.-Governor, C.P. To Calcutta. To C. Beadon, The following message from Futtehpore at 7.1.5 p. m ., is forwarded for your information : " I have just received one line from Capt. Bruce. He says the Chief has reached, and we areal' right now,Nov. 30, 4 p.m. Tae beer, who seems to be speaking the trutb, says that we have driven the enemy out of Cawnvre, and we have taken 16 guns, and are still following them up to the west. The ladies and children arrived on the morning of the 29th Nov. Baboo Rambukdh and Rugo nauth Sing, Oude Zemiudars, are, I expect, up to mis chief. They have closed the Ghauts. Service message received by electric telegraph. - From Allahabad, Ist Dec., Tuesday, 8.30 a.m. From.,C, Chester. To Calcutta. To C. Beadon, Esq. The Gwalinr Contingent attacked Nowabgunge near Cawnpore on the 27th ult. The British troops retired into the entrenchments, and on the night of the 27th the rebels burnt down the camp of the 34th, 82d, and 88th regiments. On the 28th day they attacked he entrenchments from the canal and the Suba dies tank. A. *ortie snade against the assailants from the canal was most successful ; the Rifles beat back the rebels and brought in two of their 18-pounder guns , . The fire of the rebels from th, Subedar's tank was also quite silenced, bat our extreme right and the 64th Regiment suffered very severely. s e jo r a t S t c r e a l n n g p o b r a e d at wounded. wo ß u r n i d g e a d d . ier s W ir il c so o n hin is C k a il m le p d b , eallnad Major Streling badly wounded. Sir Cohn Campbell arriv d five p.m. of the 28 th. The ladies f and children of the Lucknow garrison a re encamped four miles from Cawn pore. Copy of service message : From Cawnpore, Dec. 7, 12 noon From the Commander-in -Chief. To Calcutta. To the Governor-General. s av i n g ye,terday morning finally completed the ar rangements for putting the remainder of the sick and wounded, 860 in number,in safety, the Gwalior Con tingent with its allies were attacked at 11 am. The affair ended is the complete route of the enemy, whose camp captured was pursued for 14 miles along the Celpee road, and . we captured 16 guns of different calibres, 26 battery, carts, waggons, &c,, besid,s an immense quantity of ammunition of all sorts, parkstores, grain, bullooks, and the whole of the bag gage of the force. Our loss was insignificant, and I have not heard of the death of any officer except Lieut. Salmond, A.D.C. to General Grant. I halt here to-day to reorganise the force. List of ordnance, &c. :—One 18-pounder gun with limber, eight 9-pounder guns with limber, nine 9-pounder waggons, one 9-pounder carriage, two 24-pounder howitz-re with limner, one 24 areundr, one 24-pounder waggon , one 24-poender sp cameo, one transport cart with gin, three 18-pounder limber, eleven store carts, three 8-inch mortars, two 54-inch mortars. Total-16 pieces of ordnance, 26 carriages of different sorts. From Allahabad, Dec. 8. From Brigadier Campbell, To Lord Dunkellio, Military Sec. to the Gov.-Gen. A i; the women and children from Lucknow have arrived saL.l7. .--,......-P From Mimclesoor, via Seerpoor, 30th Nov., 7.35 a.m. From Colonel Durand. To Governor-General. 21st —Encamped four miles south of Mundesoor. Th, enemy came and attacked our left front, and threatened our right. They were repulsed and driven into Munde soor with some loss. On the 22d the column advanced on Kelohoepore. The enemy gave the right bank of the river, and confined himself to round shot fire from the fort and suburb', which proved harmless. Column crossed the river by Bakrel . Ford: camped at 2,000 yards from Mundesoor; cavalry pursued Eleera Sing and his horsemen, and drove them with loss into a village on Neemuch road, about 10 miles from Mundesoor, where the enemy's force showed its standards ; on 23d column marched to a position north of Mundesoor on the Nee. much road, and met the enemy advancing. They took up a position with strong village of Go)rrassela in their centre, and overlapped very considerably both ' 'auks of our position. Our artiliery silenced the five guns on the enemy's left centre, and a party of I,,_ r Vlni-s , .y's 14 , i, Drai;oolis took rue gu.z.,;. dri ve n from his poittoki with 'eatly them threw themselves into the village and continued to hold it tenaciously ; whilst engaged in front the garrison of Mundesoor sailed out and attacked our rear, but were which was timely repulsed with lo.is by the rear-guard, strengthened. Neemuch is relieved, and the remnants of this formidable insurrection are now occupying the fort and town of Mundesoor, and are said to amount to twothousand men, much dispirited by their repeated defeats in this battle of Mundesoor. The troops of all arms, natives and Europeans, behaved admirably. Oar loss is not heavy considering the work done. According to another message reporting the above particulars, the casualties are :—Lieut. Redmayne, 14th Dragoons, killed, and 8 rank and file ; Lieut. James, wounded severely in the arm ; Lieut. Martin, ditto in leg; Lieut. Prendergast, slightly; and four other officers very slightly, and 68 rank and file. Calcutta E. T. Office, 9th Dec., 1857. An Extraordinary - Vdiette, published at Calcutta, on the 9th of December, contains Brigadier Inglis's narrative of the events at Lucknow, from the first attack on the garrison to the arrival of the force under Gens. Havelock and Outram. This deeply in teresting narrative is prefaced by a general order in council, in which the Governor-General specifies numerous officers and civilians who distinguished themselves during the defence. His Excellenby " believes that never has a tale been told which will so stir the hearts of Englishmen and English women as the simple earnest narrative of Brigadier Inglis. It rightfully commences with a soldier's testimony, touchingly borne to the chivalrous cha racter and high deserts of Sir Henry LawrenCe, the sad details of whose death are now made known. There does not stand recorded in the annals of war an achievement more truly heroic than the de fence of the Residency at Lucknow, described in the narrative which follows." _ His Excellency also mentions the names of Birch, Polehampton, Barbor, and Gall amongst the noble women who distinguished themselves, and at the close of the order his Excellency refers in terms of deep regret to the death of General Havelock. Six months' batta is awarded to every officer and soldier who formed part of the garrison, and to civilians who shared in the defence. The Englishman says : We understand that letters have been received in town announcing the arrival, on the 2d inst., at Segowlee, of a large body of Ghoorka troops, mustering 9,000 men, under the command of Jung Bahadoor. They are accompanied by as many camp followers, who are said to be half soldiers themselves. Jung Bahadoor was marching upon Goruck pore, and it was said he intended to proceed to join the main army with the Commander-in- Chief at Cawnpore It is probable he may have sane work at Fyzabad, before he joins Sir Colin Campbell. The Bombay Times observes in its summary of the 10th ult. :—" The section 9f our summary which ought to have been most abundantly filled, must to-day, in a great measure, remain a blank. For a fortnigh t the mails betwixt Lower Bengal and Bombay have been cut off, the news reach ing us by the circuit of Madras ; and for once—• only for once, we trust—the English reader must depend for Lucknow and Cawnpore intelligence on our Calcutta contemporaries, which can on all ordinary occasions be supplied four days later in date at least from Bombay than from any other point." The important parts of the summary of the Bombay Times have been already conveyed to us in various telegrams. _ In its commercial summary we read :—" The f import market has continued languid during the fortnight. We have no change to report in our - money market, and the rates of interest remain the same. Government securities continue dull of sale. The rates-of freights have again slightly declined." The following is the summary of the Bengal Hurkaru, Dec. 10 : The news of the mutiny of the portion of 34th and 73d Regiments at Chittagong and Dacca, must have reached England by last mail, in private let ters, dispatched after the publication of the Over land journals. The last report in connection with these events is that the remainder, of the 73d, at Julpigoree, are to be disarmed. We mention these facts here, because they come first in chronological order ; but they are by no means prominent among the events of the fort night. For many days past the public attention has been fixed upon the Commander-in-Chief and his gallant force, and their operations have been of a sufficiently dangerous and doubtful character to justify the intense anxiety which has been felt con cerning them. our th l a a t st t O he v y erl m an i a gh s t um ee m n a si r d y er we th ass e u r r e e l d ief our readersof Lucknow ln to have been really and satisfactorily accomplished. The event has shown that we were justified in making that assurance. But the task has been a hard one, and the success pur chased at a heavy cost. We have no doubt, from the subsequent movement of the rebels, which it must be admitted have been conducted wick considerable skill, that their plan was far more deeply laid than had been supposed. Know ing, as we now do, the immense force at their dis posal in Oude, it is impossible to credit the fact of the feeble and impoverished garrison of Lucknow having been able to hold out for so long, unless the besiegers also found or fancied an advantage in the delay. Our belief is, that for a considerable time past, the rebels have had it in their power to annihilate the garrison whenever they chose to do so ; but that their object would not have been attained by the means. The garrison, with the women and children ' once slaughtered, the relieving force would have had no work but that of revenge, and unembarrassed by other cares that would have been terrible indeed. The rebels thus found it far more desirable to allow the garrison to hold out, and to draw as many of our troops as masterlyprey. This plan was operations of possible into Oude, trusting to cut off their com munication with Cawnpore, an d, in t he end , to find ttfohhreetmlem,oagmteanirlrya defeatedinsodnerainadahlbl,reafhfeoearsy which the re b e l s were unprepared, and which, under Providence, was the sole means by which the work could have been ac complished, and our arms saved from an appal ling disaster. The attempts to cut off the com munication between Lucknow and Cawnpore, and between Cawnpore and Calcutta are plain enough. Electric telegraph has been broken and repaired and broken and repaired again, and the roads made i m passable for days together. Nevertheless the re sult has been in the main favourable, and although. Cawnpore has been attacked, and its neighbour hood been made the scene of determined contest, the main object of the expedition has been attained, and the women and children of the Lucknow Garrison have been brought out of Oude suc cessfully and sent down in safety to Allahabad. The particulars of these proceedings will be found briefly detailed in the service messages of the Go vernment. The information thus afforded is, as will be seen, extremely unsatisfactory, and affords very little material for a connected narrative. It is shrewdly suspected that some portions have been withheld by the Government, in which case fuller particulars will g o home by this mail, and duly appear in the English papers. But it is clear that whatever the extent of the intelligence which may have reached Calcutta up to the present time, there is still great ground for anxiety, and even apprehension. It is due to the Government to notice that when the news of fresh dangers and d r es h r e e a s e measures, h ed e C a a s l u c r u e t s t ,t Calcutta aketroops were promptly sent just in time, jo is i the signal victory obtained by Sir Colin Campbell over the Gwalior mutineers at Cawn pore; of which we hope to receive some further details before going to press, are to a great extent encouraging, and it is sincerely to be hoped that the worst is over in that direction. Nevertheless the loss of General Havelock and Brigadier Wilson. —both of whom have fallen in the course of the contest—is a hard blow, and all will agree that though the advantage is great the sacrifice has been. immense. Nevertheless, it becomes more and more evident, as one outbreak succeeds another in places least expected, that the rebellion is not so near an end as many have sanguinely supposed in this country, and as, we fear, the Government have been san guinely led to suppose at home. BRIGADIER INGLIS'S NARRATIVE OF THE SIEGE OF LUCK-NOW. (From the Second Supplement to tho Overland Friend of India.) GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HON. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. (No. 1,543 of 1857.) Fort William, Dec. 8, 1857. The Right Hon. the Governor-General in Coun cil has received from Brigadier Inglis of her Ma j vsty's 32d Regiment, lately commanding the garri soo in Lucknuw, the subjoined report of the defence of the Residency in that city, flout the first threat ened attack upon it On June 29 to the arrival of the force under M a j or -G en . Si r J. Outram, G.C.8., and the lamented M a j or -Gen. Sir H. Havelock, K. C. B. , on Sept. 25. The Divisional Order of Major-Gen. Sir James Outram upon the report accompanies it. " The Governor-General in Council believes that never has a tale been told which will so stir the hearts of Englishmen and Englishwomen as the simple, earnest narrative of Brigadier Inglis. It rightfully commences with a soldiers testimony, touchingly borne, to the chivalrous character and high deserts of Sir Henry Lawrence, the sad detail of whose death is now made known. There does not stand recorded in the annals of war an achieve ment more truly heroic than the defence of the ; ; 0; i'denoy v t Luckliow described in the narrative w hich. folioNs, 6. fh%t defence has not only called forth all the energy and daring which belong to Englishmen in the hour of active conflict, but it has exhibited, continuously, and in the highest degree, the noble and sustained courage which, against