The Sun. — London, England, 1858-02-15 00:00:00

. INDIA LV: D CHINA. •--- ~1 ~~--~-~-- LATER NEWS FROM INDIA. We have received the following telegram from ' the India-house : Sir J. Oatram's force w as attacked by the Luck now insurgents on Janus.) 7 12th ; the enemy were repulsed with a loss of 400 men. On January 16th the attack was renewed ad again repulsed. 0 both•occasions the British loss was trifling. Sir Hugh Rose is at Seihore, and is expected to arrive at Sangor on the 2S th of January, He will afterwards advance again to Jhansi. On January_ 13, Sir .Hugh Rose, after disarm ing the Bhowar (? Bhoura) Contingent, tried and executed 149 mutineers.. General Whitelook's force was at Nagpore. The . village of the rebellious Thakur of Rewa was at tacked, and, after an obstinate resistance, taken and burnt on the 6th January. The Panjaub and all quiet, with the exception of Kndesh (? Kandeish). The Bheels assembled in force near the Niz?aa's frontier, and were at tacked on Jan. 20 by Captain Montgomery in the Mindar Junmle-Aronm• An indecisive contest ensued, in which Captains Montgomery and three other officers were severofy wounded, one of whom, Lieutenant Stewart, of the Nizam's Infantry, has since died. of his wounds. Our total loss is stated to be 50 rank and file. The intelligence was received by telegraph in Bombay on the 22d of January, and reinforcements are on their way. No further excessess are reported on the part of the Shorapoor Rajah, suid the Nizam's country is tranquil. H. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bombay Castle, Jan. 23. Malta, Feb. 14. VINCENT MONTANARO. • The following telegram from Acting Consul General Green was received at the Foreign-office, Feb. 14, 8.30 p.m.:— " Alexandria, Feb. 10. The Pekin arrived on the Bth inst. She brings Bombay dates to the 23d ult. The force under Sir James 'Outram at Alumbagb, 4,000 strong, was attacked by the enemy on the 22(1 December, on the 12th January, and again on the 16th January, when, on each occasion, the insurgents were de feated with heavy loss of men and guns, and al most without a casualty on our side. Sir Colin Campbell, with a force of about 8,000 men left Cawnpore on the 24th December, and secured a large quantity of treasure at Bithoor. On the 27th he attackel and defeated the enemy on the Khoree Nudee. On the llth January he took possession of Futisoheim (1), the enemy leaving their guns, baggage and ammunition behind them. Troops are now being pushed through Scinde into the Punjaub. In the course of next fortnight Sir J. Lawrence will have obtained a reinforement of 3,000 to 4,000 men ; he has already provided horses at Lahore to mount the cavalry on their arri A strong column, under Brigadier Roberts, is moving from Deesa into Rajpootana. The first detachment, under Major Rains, captured an in surgent stronghold near Mount Oboo, subs?quently proceeding to Nusseerabad. Other forces are ad vancing to join them. The Mulwa mutineers at Indore having been disposed of, Sir H. Rose proceeded on the 10th to Lechoa, and was followed next day by Sir R. Hamilton. A Madras column, about to be joined by Sir W. Grant, is advancing. The papers state that the country all over is being tranquillised by degrees ; but a vast amount of work has still to be performed. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria, by French packet, at 30.20 p.m., on Feb. 13. (Signed) LYONS, Admiral. ous position, an d subsequently moved on with the C om mander - in-Chiefs force. Hewould be no or dinary loss to his country, and it is to be hoped that his wounds, though severe, may yet be curable. That same night the rebels abandoned Futtehgurh, and crossing the river, retired towards Lucknow, leaving all their heavy guns in position. The light field-pieces they managed to take away with them. Cs the following morning Sir Colin occupied Fut tehgab, and opened communications with Colonel Seaton's force, the movements of which it is now time to follow. 0 to the southward from Bolund- On the 13th Dec. a small force under Col. Far quLar, marchin c , a large village on Bhuhur, Nuddee, 24 miles from Allygurh. The the Kalee - Arrived at Ctaugheree, - re in great force in the neighbour. r e bels, who we. . gemarrival, and of the smallness hood, hearing of te to attack them on the o f their numbers, resos l ved following morning ; bus, before their plans had ' force, consisting of pry portion of which b ee n matured, Col. Seaton :2' 3,000 or 4 , 000 men , a lar g e p re we re cavalry, arrived at Gaugheree, pn its way to Futtehgurh. They had scarcely been alnoamped 2 hours when a large body ad the enemy's cavalry, unaware of the reinforcement which had come up during the night, appeared in froi2 t of our camp and prepared to attack it. Instantly el': e Carabineers, Hodson's Horse, and some Horse ArNierY went at them, and drove them off in confusion. e_. heavy fire was almost immediately opened on our adv2llc ing horse, from two 6-pounders and a 9-pounder. The Carabineers at once prepared to charge them. As they advanced, three charges of grape were poured into them at 150 yards, which told fearfully. But our gallant troops were not to be daunted ; they pushed on, charged home, sabred the gunners, and seized the guns. The enemy lost in killed alone between 400 and 500. The Carabinoers lost 25 horses out of 70, and our other cavalry in a nearly equal proportion. Our loss in men was 12 killed and 50 wounded. On the following day, Col. Seaton pursued his Tiarch towards Futtehgurh ; on the 18th he found the enemy at Puttialee, a town about 60 miles north west of Futtehgurh. When within three miles of their position Col. Seaton halted and formed his line. The Horse Artillery he placed on either flank, the cavalry on the right and rear. He then advanced. As he came on, the enemy opened fire from a battery of twelve guns, which they had formed in front of the town. Our artillery replied, and under cover of their fire the infantry advanced. But the enemy did not await the charge of the "thin red line." Our light guns sufficed to silence their artillery, and then it was settee qui peut. Our Horse Artillery and cavalry dashed on with a cheer, and completed the rout. Their guns, standing camp, ammunition and supplies were all captured, and 700 or 800 men were killed. The rebels were on this occasion commanded by Ahmed Yar Khan and Mohson Ally, two Mahommedan Zemindars, whom the Nawab had appointed Lient.-Governors of the eastern and western districts of Futtehgurh. It is almost needless to add, that they were the first to fly ; one of their subordinates, Hakinsjee, was not so fortunate. He fell into the hands of our army, was tried as a traitor, condemned, and shot. Our loss was almost nominal. This victory opened the road to Futtehgurh. On the arrival of the Com mander-in-Chief at that place on the 2d January, Col. Seaton, who had on the 27th December re occupied Mynpoorie, after a brief contest, was able to open communications with him, and we era ex pecting to hear every day that a junction has taken place between the two armies ; it is thought that they w:11 thoroughly clear the Doab, and then move into Oude. We must return for a moment to Cawnpore, to recount the movements of another Brigade which has likewise been doing good service. When Gen. Windham was removed to Umballah, the Cawnpore command was made over to Brigadier Inglis : there were left with him to guard Cawnpore the 32J, 34th, and 88th Foot, with the faithful remnants of the Lucknow Native Corp , . Another Column, consisting of two battalions of the Rifle Br: gad', the 38th Foot, Bouchier's Battery, Blunt's Horse Artillery, Ist Punjaub Cavalry, and 9th Lancers, proceeded, under the command of Brigadier Wal pole, towards Etawah en the 18th December : they have been engaged in settling the intervening country, and restoring our authority in the vil lages the inhabitants of which had given themselves up entirely to plunder. Another Column under Brigadier Grant has remained at Bithoor ; they, too, have done good service, in recovering much of the Nana's property from wells and other hiding places. A large portion of it had been entrusted to the care of a prostitute in the village of Lail ' pore ; this, too, has been recovered, principally through the activity of Captain Thompson. Alto gether it may b© said that the Doab—that is, the country lying between the Ganges and Jumna—is in a fair way to be pacified. This once accomplished, Oude, as yet triumphantly insurgent, will be taken in hand. Proceeding lower down, we have Gan. Frank's two columns still holding Jimnpore and Azimgurb, an I awaiting the movements of the Commander in-Chief to make their advance. On the north east Jung Bahaeloor is moving staadily on Gorusk pore. That able minister stipula+erl, Lefore he would march to our wsis lance, that a European officer should be at'ached to each of his regiments. This was acceded to, and a bevy of oflic ri of all arms, with Gdnerel .111a,...:Gragor at their head, left Calcutta a month ago to join his force. I have been shown a letter from one of these, in which the £ fl I . e6t.ing is. t',.:;, Co::: :L 3 j : - OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. (From a Correspondent of the Daily News.) CALCUTTA, JAN. 9. Although the last fortnight has been less full of stirring events than its immediate predecessors, it has yet witnessed the performance of good work. The Commander-in Chief, with the Bth Foot, 23d Fusiliers, 42d Highlanderi, 53d, 64th, 82d Foot, 93d Highlander; a regiment of Punjaub Infantry, Remington's Horse Artillery, Smith's battery Royal Artillery, the Naval Brigade with six 21-pounders, two 8-inch howitzers, and eight mor tars, the 9th Lancers, two regiments of Sikh Ca- vdry, 1 0,,:;(1, F),l, i ip: ri d V;l3,:;ed towards Futtehgurh on the 24th ult. He arrived at Yesterday we went to see the Maharajah in full Ohowbeepore, 16 miles distant, on the 25th, at Poona a D b7e r h i a m r p . r e I s Le o i n s oanu s fine all. fellow, He and o s made s moat most D. afacevic_.tuir y on the 26th, at U rnow l, 40 m il es f rom C awn p ore , d resse d, b u t a t th e ti me i n th e ver y b es t t as t e . He is ae on the 27th. Teey found the country one sheet of ccmpanied by two of his brothers, one of them second cultivation, altho ug h th e v ill ages were deserted. iii oJmirand, and the other without any specific appoint• It was the practice to send Sikh skirmishers in ad- :3: went, The formed army, iLi t) divisions, which e com"msaintd6eodf aboutby the e l J l u ,o n 3o 0. 9 5 : f l e an l , t vance and on the flanks ; they had been very sun- brothers. Indeed, half the Durbar was composed of his cessful in bringing in prisoners. As many of these blood relations. After the Durbar, which did not last as were prov e d t o h ave been in arms against us half an hour, we went out to look at the troGp3. They were brought to a drum -head court-martial on the o w t e h re r drtahwnb e up in t. li o nes of. n re t gim n e t nt b s, at one bwahei e r nd y th spot, and were at on ce di spose d of. These salutary agreeably surplisedcboutrhsae l itot r b o ei; stato w o e f eiscipli e f r io y agreeably, proceedings had been attended with the best pos- pbytique, and equipment. They marched as steadily as sible effects. The rebels had at last begun to feel l a rt n r y l tro s o te ps d l ever d saw. Their double march was singu that we were in earnest, and desertions fr o m th e i r depfeyed, andy an n asse t Pl review in co a lum m u ost a r ,n a d ila s n ci t ga and ranks had been numerous. On the 29th ult. the stead manner. manner. Far fro m rea li s i ng our prec : nce i ve d notions t ofGe o o r r p k s h a force reached Jellalabad, a small village two in he crack corps, diminutievenes the at an rate , y wereg ant s v , er a y n d 4, m a e c v h e ny larger tliose thani n file ,n marches from Futtehgurh ; here, for the first time, non - se l ec t e d regiments w ent e s r an enemy made his appearance in the shape of a our Goorkba battalions. I inquired about their com ntivarnthewerittSl in t g e h, the t s . eCon f d l in Large body of matchlock men with several guns. pcoomsitmioanrida'indfoGrmenensi me ed No particulars of the affair have reached Calcutta ; t h ey were a ll pure G oor kh as . Th e Jung exception c m ep oL l t o a n nxiou 7 s , it is only known that Sir Colin Campbell instantly to get at the enemy. attacked th e re b e l s , an d after a nominal resistance We are in dailyexpectatioa of hearing that he has defeated . th em , cap t ur i ng 18 guns and a large quan- re-occupied Goruckpore. He was at Bettiah on ' e lY t eef small arms . O n th e f o llowing day he Christmas-day. continued his route to Futtehgurh, but cn Lower still in the Sarun district, about 70 miles reaching the Rake Nuddee, about 15 miles north-west of Dinapore, the rebels have sustained this • side of the Cantonment, the suspen- another defeat. Captain Sotheby's naval brigade, Rion brides, was found to have been broken some Georkhas, and a small body of Sikhs, the down, and all the boats had b een remove d. A whole commanded by Colonel Rowcroft, wore sta working party w as at once se t t o work to open corn- tioned at Marowah ; they ascertained that a numb: r munication with the repairs had almost beu opposite bank. The n e c essar y of armed men were coming down the Gogra river completed wh en th e re b e l s f rom L uc k now , a nd that they were assembling in came down upon our party in great attacked two or arliforce. three hours e Had they f or ce at Mujhowlie in the Goruckpore district ; in from the nature of the ground on the other might, fact, they had already driven a body of Sikh', 50 side of in number, from one of the villages on the Saruu the Kalee, have caused us considerable annoyance. frontier. Colonel Rowcroft resolved to attack them Fortunately they delayed till th e bridge Was n tril, before th e i r num b ers s hould become too formidable; working party than our troops, defili ng over the re- , accordingly on the 26th ho advanced with the Naval Brigade, two Goorkha regiments, and a few Sikhs— paired bridge, attacked them. To borrow a noble \ about a thousand men in all. He found the enemy and ‘ most just expression of Lord Ellenboroueh's, , strongly posted at Mujhowlie, and numbering about ' the lions were led by a lion," and in an incredibl we thousand. They could not, however, resist Vie short space of time the rebels were put to flight, andy ' onslaught of our troops, but fled before we could all their guns, eight in number, captured. Two of come to close quarters. Forty of their bodiei we? counted on the ground ; them were 18-pounders, OUr loss was comparative) Out of their four slight in numbers, but amongst the wounded a Y. guns Col. R o o a l r ve l r o o s f a t was t two. re d pears the name of Captain H. Maxwell, one of the ' three. This officer's force ween that advancing unfodrear s j t u h n e g eonnectino• lii.k Gen. Frank's columnsi3aila most scientific and distinguished officers of the Ben- ' bst d a o t o A r ' f z r i 7 l m l gal Artillery. This officer had lately returned to Goruckpore and G India ; he had made the campaign of the Danube gurh and Juanpore. In the general advance it will t;ll is quiet. Theam with Omer Pacha, and had subs e quent l y devoted ' probably t a k e the line e and o of the Calcutt a Gcgra hi m self to a study of the Frenc h and German Between Dinapore systems of warfar e. He arrived in India in suffi- ' Decca mutineers are, it is tr ue, r c ient time to march to Luc know with Sir Colin ' country, but they are dispiritedo roaming about th e and brok en Campbell's relieving f orce ; for his services there receive no sympathy from the inhabitants . I and n ) 7 ni he was thanked by Capt ain Peel, to whose brigade last I mentioned the reception which the Chitta he was attached, in the presence of the whole bat- gong rebels met from the Sylliet battali on , result tery, and was likewise mentioned in. Sir Colin ing ia the untimely death of their commandant, Major Byng. The affair was most creditable to Campbell's despa s ch. He retuned wit h the arm y and Speaks highly for the i time to rescue General Windham from hir3 peril- those engaged on our side, state of discipline f the Sylhet battalion. The facts s a t the a no ,stance o r f s first oa il instancemiles. from Not findingSyl et may be thus sum= trised. The det ac h men t , 1 50 i n V hey proceed e d t o L a t oo, 60 miles n to u Da P e b r e t r a , b m g u a r r e a d cl the enemy there, distant—the en'eil:e journey of 140 miles having been performed. in 58 hours. On arriving at Latoo, they suddenly found themselves within 250 y ar d s of the mutineers, double their number. These at first assailed them with persuasions, calling on them to leave th e " Christian dogs, their officers," who were preps red to take away their religion. In stead of an ails/ rer the Sylhet Light Infantry obeyed the command r,f their officers, and poured in a roll ing volley. Mitjor Byng then, raising his sword, or dered them to follow him and charge, when he was struck down by a ball in the groin. Lieutenant Sherer supplied his place, and drove the mutineers out of the jungle with a loss of 32 killed and many wounded. The loss on our side was confined to four killed and one wounded. Major Byng was of the former. A curious incident, showing the spirit of the Sylhet men, occurred after the action. One of the sepoyshad been taken prisoner. Lieut. Sherer tried him by a drum-bead court-martial, and he was condemned to death. As soon as the sentence was known Lieut. Sherer made a short pithy speech to the men. With one voice they replied, " May a like fate happen to us if we desert our colours !" The behaviour of the inhabitants of these provinces throughout the rebellion has been very satisfactory. Our easy conquest over the Burmans, by whom they hatl been previously held under subjection, has no doubt contributed to this result. This has especially been the case in the province of Assam, the inhabi tants of which, although of a martial race, have never attempted any ,disturbance. The system of administration is a good one. It is governed by mi litary civilians, men to whom the quiet of the Pun jaub, Scinde, Burmah, and Assam is mainly to be attributed—men who are equally ready with their sword and at their desk, whose previous occupation in the army has made them familiar with prompt and active duties, and who consider a close inspec tion of the districts under their charge, galloping 40 or 50 miles a day, as more of a pleasure than a duty. This conduct, moreover, has the best effect; it familiarises them with the inhabitants, and the inhabitants with them ; these latter see that they are under the control of a man whom they can re spect for his manly qualities. A desk-man they would not appreciate. It is the same with Asiatics all over India ; the proof of it is to be found in the state of the provinces I have referred to compared with the condition of those which have been under purely civil rule. It is a very satisfactory circum stance that in their transit through Eastern Bengal the men who rebelled at Dacca and at Chittagong have met with no open sympathy from the in habitants ; but it must be recollected that they never had a chance of success. The tide had long previously turned in our favour; and even from the stations in which they revolted they fled rather like a % beaten army than a revolting force. In Sylhet, the inhabitants betrayed the most coin pieta apathy ; the fact probalely being that they did not dare openly to pronounce for either party. I observe that some of your weekly contempora ries have been very severe in their strictures on the transport and commissariat arrangements in this country. They are very unjust, for those arrange ir.eu ts may well challenge comparison with any that have been in force in any country. In fact, the sol dier in this country is treated more like a gentleman than a private. Everything he can possibly require is provided for him by the Commissariat. He has the best of beef and mutton, the best of bread, the best of ale and porter (-gull to Bass's pale ale ; in fact, Bass and Allsopp in hogsheads), and very good rum. Every morning the commissa,riat agents bring the daily supply for a regiment to the barracks : the orderlies, two from each company, meet to in pect it ; if anyarticle, either meat, bread, tea, coffee, sugar, or vegetables, should not be in their opinion of the best quality, a committee of officers meets to condemn it, and it is instantly replaced. I know for a fact that officers lately arrived, who have been in the Crimea, have expressed themselves surprised at the excellence of the men's rations, and more parti cularly at the facility with which all the complicated arrangements connected with the commissariat are carried aut. They have no trouble whatever. Everything goes en well, and without any inconve nience or annoyance to them. The fact is, the commissariat officers are men trained to their work; they have had exptrience of campaigning for the last fifteen years, of the wants and requirements of soldiers in all conjunctures, and they are prepared for every emergency ; they know from experience what is required beforehand ; they leave nothing to accident. Hence work goes on smoothly and satisfactorily to all parties. The transport arrangements have been equally satisfactory. They may be considered under the heads of land-carriage and water-carriage. With regard to the former, the very best possible arrange ments have been made. When the arrival of so many Eur pean troops was first made known, the Lieut.- Governor of Bengal, in communication with the chiefs of the commissariat, appointed a civil officer, of known suavity of demeanour, as superintendent of supplies. It was necessary to appoint a civilian to this post, because Bengal is a civil government, and a military man placed in a civil position would have been looked upon as an interloper. The people whose carts were requited would have been encou raged to appeal against him, and business would soon have come to a dead lock. But a civilian was sure of support—hence, for the sake of peace, it was necessary to appoint one. This officer, then, in con nection with the Commissariat, collected immense supplies of draught bullocks and carts ; officers ware stationed along the road at convenient dis tances to arrange for supplies of provisions at each stage, and for replacing decayed or damaged carts., All the resources of the post-office, and of the pri vate dak companies, were placed in requisition. The vans hitherto used for luggage, the dak car riages also, were all made over for the transport of troops. The result was that from 150 to 200 Eu ropeans have been able to leave Raneegunge (the railway terminus) daily for the north-west. Nor has the river line been less useful. With the resources of the private Companies at their dis posal government organised a flotilla of 16 steamers, and the same number of flats, capable of conveying 6,000 troops per mensem, or allowing for the re turn trip, they would average for the year 4,000 men per month. The consequence is, there has been, neither trouble, delay, nor mismanagement iu the conveyance of troops up country. Thi., re suit is due mainly to the exertions of the commis sariat office Captain Holiday, and to Mr. Halli day, the lieutenant-governor of Bengal, or rather to Mr. Ward, by him appointed superintendent of supplies. Short of a railroad, the transport ar rangements could not have bean more satisfactory. BOMBAY, JAN. 13. Three days only have elapsed since the despatch of last mail, and there is little news to give you in consequence. Ono of the Columns prepared to act in:Raj pootana has at last moved north tvards. Major Raines with the field force under his command left Deesa on Jan. 2, en route to Nusseerabad. Besides the wing of the 10th Native Infantry, the wing of her Ma jrsty's 95th, Captain Aiken's battery of Artillery, and the 11th Company of Royal Engineers, he was joined at Deesa by a siege train of six guns from Ahmedabad under Lieutenant Reechell, Artillery, and Major Taylor's troop of 21 Light Cavalry, with a large quantity of engineer and park tools. On the 6th a portion of the force was detached at a place called Muddar, to a village iu the hills 10 miles distant, called Rowa, in the Seroli district, the residence of a disafftctecl Thakoor, who had en trenched and fortified himself. We hear that the o-ders were to destroy and burn the place, which was accomplished, though not without much resis tance on the part of the natives, who are said to have been 1,000 strong, with two gmr. The party pt of ab ou t 400 men, w h o were comman d e d by Major " Raine s i n person, accompl i shed the tas k b y f our ,g a e t ro v u e s i i yn, 9f u o'clock, and r e t urne d t o camp a t M t rdd ar by nine. Capt. Ma cgown, . M acquay, E ng i neers, wounded severAy ; 20th Native imen t Infantry, slig ht 1y rseverelyr,ient. Burtl d,al Native ; Capt. F roster, :rneticrey, Regiment, receiving .g li slightly sabre one cuts (two on TUE SITA .LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, F.EBR UARY 15, 1858 the head), and one severely ; one major and five privates 10th Native Infantry (one since dead), and one civilian (Mr. Kelly), severely. The whole of the severely wounded have arrived at Deese, for treatment. The force proceeded on its way on the Bth ; its destination is we believe Kotah and Awah. A party from Nusseerabad marched on the Bth to form a junctionat Pallee with that going up from Deesa. It consisted of two companies of the 83d, 130 men, under the command of Major Heatly 83d, two 12-pounder (howitzers), a squadron of the let Lancers, and 153 of the 12th Native Infantry. The whole under the command of Col. Holmes, 12th Native Infantry. The only news from Inclore is that the Ameer of Mehidpore, who was deeply concerned in the mu tiny there of the Malvva Contingent, who killed their two officers and two sergeants, had been tried by drum-head court martial, and blown away from a gun. There bad been many executions, both by h ang ing and blowing from guns, of the Maharajah's mutineers, and other trials were going on daily. The Commander-in.-Chief, whose departure from Cawnpore I announced to you in my last, marched up on the 24th of December and reached Urnoul on the 27th. The force under Brigadier Hope Grant detached in the first instance to Bhitoor, where it completed the demolition of the town and the rescue of much . hidde n t reasure and ornaments, joined Sir Cohn Campbell in his upward march. The country along the road was rich in cultivation, but entirely deserted, peasants and Sepoys having alike abandoned the Doab, same flying to Calpee doubtless, others to Furruckabad. From Urnoul Sir Colin proceeded towards the Khalee Nuddee, with the intention of crossing it at Khoodagung. On the 30th he reached Meerunkee Serai, where he learnt that the bridge at Khoodagung had been blown up. A pause will, therefore, be necessary at this point before the march is resumed on Futtke gbur and Furruchabad. It is only at the latter place that resistance is anticipated, the town, which can hold 50,000 inhabitants, being protected by a large mud fort. ft is now asserted that Sir Colin will cross the Ganges after he has taken Furruchabad, and that he will march down from Rohilcund towards Oude. A letter from tAgra of January lst states that Colonel Seaton's force went on the previous day to Bewar, about 16 miles east of Mynpooree. The day before he despatched Capt. Hodson with 100 horse to communicate with the Commander-in-Chief. Capt. Hodson found him at Meerunkee Serai, about 50 or 60 miles thi s s id e o f C awnpore. Capt. Hodson fell in with a large body of insurgents flying frog Etawah to Furruchabad, but he lost only one man. Brigadier Walpole occupied Etawah on the 29th, almost without opposition, the rebels having made their escape the night before to Furruchabad. That city is now the only place that remains to be re duced throug:iout the Doab. From Allaaabad we learn that 500 Europeans, with two guns, went off on the morning of the 19th, to attack a large body of rebels who have entrenched themselves in and about a fort on the Jumna, some forty miles off, called Kotw a h. The Naval Brigade and two Ghoorka regiments attacked 5,000 rebels, including 1,100 Sepoys, near Goruckpora on the 26th ult Of the enemy, 140 were killed and many wounded. The enemy were completely ranted, the whole of their tents, bag gage and ammunition falling into our hands ; the loss on our side, but one native killed and one wounded. Goruckpore was taken on the Gth by the forces under Maharajah Jung Bahadoor. The enemy had. entrenched themselves strongly, but made a feeble resistance. Seven guns were taken and 200 men killed. Our loss was only two Ghoorkas killed and seven wounded. Sir John Lawrence continues to show anxiety for the Punjaub ; he has, it is said, written for the Bth Hussars, and he has brought together sufficient horses to mount that and another regiment of cavalry. A letter from Lahore, of Dec. 30, says : We are drilling the recruits here as fast as we can get them. Sir J. Lawrence has already raised some 35 infantry and cavalry. The Guides who were before Delhi returned yesterday: truly a splendid body of men. They are marching through to their station up in the hills, loaded with a decent amount of booty. The Lahore Volunteers have been broken up. They mustered a body of 200 men. We have re ceived no new European troops in the Punjaub yet. This is strange. I assure you Sir J. Law rence is looking out most anxiously for them, for her Majesty's 81st and the Artillety at Meean Meer are worried night and day, looking atter the two regiments of Paudies. We want British troops here, and cannot afford to be much longer without them. There are 13,000 disarmed troops in the Punjaub, and 3,000 scattered Europeans to guard them. We have one native regiment staunch—only one, the 21st Native Infantry, at Peshawur. Ti ey have retained their arms altogether to this time, while ft ur others had their teeth drawn. THE CAWNPORE AFFAIR. Sir Colin Campbell has transmitted the follow ina s upplementary despatch to Calcutta : To the Right Hon. the Governor-General. Headquarters, Camp near Cawnpore, Dee. 20, 1857. My Lord,—l have the ho nour to b ring to your lord ship's n otice an omission, which I have to regret, in my despatch of the 2d December, and I beg to be allowed now to repair it. I desire to make my acknowledgment of the great difficulties in which Major-General Windham, C. 8,, as havingand I' recomm en d hi m and the officers whom he r o was p laced during the operat i ons he describes in his rendered hi m ass i stance, to your lordship's protection or good offic s. I ma y mention, in conclusion, that Major-General Wi n dham is ignorant of th e contents of my despatch of the 21 o f Decem ber, and that I am prompte d to ta k e t hi s step solely as a matte r c f j ustice to the major general a nd the other o ffi cers concerned.—l have the honour to he, my lord, w i t h the greatest respect, your lordships most obedi ent h umble servant, despatch i, ice , B C. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in:Chief. R. J. IT. BIRCH, Colonel, Secretary to the Givernineut of India in the Military De partment. The Governor-General has followed this up by the general order here given itie R e set lion, the G overnor-General in council has Commander-in hastens to give publicity despatch from his Excellency It supplies an omission in a previous despatch from his Excellency, which was printed in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 24th inst. Major-General WinLifiara'e reputation'as a leader of c onspicuous bravery and coolness, and the reputation of the gallant force which he commanded, will have lost nothing from an accidental omission such as General Sir Colin Campbell has occasion to regret. But the Governor-General in counc 1 will not fail to bring to the notice of the Government in England the • • formed by his Excellenoy of the difficulties r t t e hece :t ei . v:uld opinion against which Major-General Windham, with the officers and men under hie orders, bad to contend. The following General Order has been published : Headquarters, Camp Cawnpore, Dec. 9, 1857. Officers cominanding batteries and troops in the Royal Artillery must conform in all things to the usages and orders of this army as regards supply, organisation, management of horses, native servants, &c. Doubtless there are many points which are new to the officers of the Royal Artillery, and perhaps in some reform may be desirable; hut this is no time for change. Hereafter the Commander-in -Chief, under the instruc tions of Government, will receive any representation that may be made by the officers of the Royal Artillery, but in the meantime the serv:ce must proceed accord ing to the orders and precedents of that service with which the Rieil Artillery has been lately associated. (Signed) H. NORMAN, Major, Deputy-Adjutant-Gencrel of the Army. By orde r o f hi s E xce l lency t h e C omman d er -i n -Chi e f. E D WARD LuGABD, Colonel, ces in India. Adjutant-Genere 1 of H.M. For ARRIVAL OF LUCKNOW FUGITIVES AT LUCKNO W. In anticipation of the arrival of the Europeans who were so long pent up in Lucknow, the follow ing notification was published in a Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary:_ Fort William, Home Department, Jan. 6. Noti▪ fication—Within the nex: - , few days, the river steamer Madras, conveying the first of the ladies aud children, an d of the sick and woun d e d o ffi cers o f th e Lueknow garr i son, will reach Calcutta. No one w ill w i sh to o b tru d e upon those wh o _ Are under ber eavement or s i c k ness an y show of cerem ony which shall impose fatigue or pain. The best welcome which can be tendered upon such an occasion is one which shall break it as lit•lo as possible upon privacy and rest. Bat the re , cue of these sufferers is a victory beyond any pri▪ ce ; and in testimony of the public j , ar with which it is hailed, and (,f the admiration with which their heroic endurance and courage have been viewed, the Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council directs that upon the approach of the MaJraa to.Prinsep's Ghaut a royal salute shall be fired from the ramparts of Fort William. The Governor-General in C )uncil further directs that all ships of war in the river shall be dressed in honour of the day. Officers will be appointed to conduct the pa3senger4 on shore, and the state barges of the Governor-General will be in atte,dance. As soon as the telegraph shall announce that the Madras has passed Atcheepre, two signal guns wiil be fired from the fort. By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council. CECIL BEADON, Secretary to the Government of India The Lncknow fugitives accordingly landed from th© Madras steam w on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 9, under a royal salute, and amid the cheering of some hundreds of the Europoan community of Calcutta. INDIAN COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, JAN. 13. Exchange on London—Six months' sight, 2s. Id. to 2e. 14d. for document bills ; six months' sight, 2s. lid. for credit bills. Freights—Cotton : to London, 11. to 1l 51. per ton ; to Liverpool, U. to 11. 53. per ton ; to China, rs. 6 to 7 par candy. CALCUTTA, JAN. 8. The bulk of the last English mail reached us on the 30th alt, by the steamer Bengal. The commercial in telligence received on that occasion was of such a gloomy and dispiriting character that it has caused almost a cpmplete stagnation of business in some of the markets here. Things were dull enough before, but since receipt of the last; advises they have assumed a much more gloomy aspect. In the produce market we have to repert another fortnight of great dulness, which will doubtl ess con ti nue to increase unl ess more favourable news are received from home, and that does not appear likely for some time to come at least. With the exception of saltpetre, rice. and jute, which have been moving off from purchases made previously, the market has been quiet and inactive. The general soale of value is declining, and we can hardly say when this downward tendency will end, not withstanding that stocks are far from being anything like heavy. In the import market we have not such a dismal account to give, and considering all circumstances we may look upon the state of the market as pretty healthy and promising. Mule twist has for some time been very dull, and scarcely any business has been done in it. In gray goods both skirtings and jaconets of heavy make, a good business has been on foot, and in some instances value has advanced a shade, and continues generally steady. As regards metals nothing of consequence has been done, and so long as the means of transit are un procurable metals mast be neglected. The Money Market.—We have ne alteration to report in the position of monetary matters. Rates of the bank continues as before, and the cash continues on the in crease. In the bazar capital is abundant and procurable on pretty favourable terms. All reserve and diffidence have however not passed away. Exchange.—Rates on England remain unchanged, and we have to report no more than a trifling scale of opera tions generally at to 2-2 per rupee. Our quotations are : —On London : Treasury and Bank Post Billy, 2a to 2i. ogd. ; 60 days' sight Colonial and other Bank Bills, 2s. Oil to 2s. Oid. ; Oriental and other Banks, 6 months' sight, 2 , 4. id. to 2s. lid. Freights.—Notwithstanding the large amount of available tonnage in the river, little business is doing, in consequence of the extremely dull st'.te of the produce market. The American business Inis received a check, and business does very slowly OP_ that account, notwith standing the large number of American vessels now in port. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON. (Prom Special Correspondent of the Times) CANTON RIVER, DEC. 19. It is yet uncertain whether the siege of Canton will terminate in a surrender, an easy victory, or a sanguinary assault. But, whatever the event, it must always be a curiosity in the history of sieges, so I shall chronicle our proceedings from day to day in some detail. It was on Saturday, the 19th of December, that I had my first near view of Canton. Ira the dark and drizzling night of the previous day I hid left our watch tower at Macao Fort and steered right up the reach towards that vast suburb and those ruined Shameen forts whereof we had taken so many four-mile-distant surveys from the top of the pagoda. We went on, and on till the confused mass of lights separated into individual twinkles. We were so close that I could see a Chinese lantern through the sight of a rifle when we dropped anchor and the ship swung round t 3 the tide. The splash of oars and the hail of the watch, and lights dotted here and tin re, told that other ships were around us; but nothing more of this mysterious enemies' cduutry was visible through the murky night. We wrapped ourselves in our blankets, and fell asleep wondering what the morning's light would show us. Day dawns, up sleepers, up, or the buckets of the deck-washers will souse ye. We rub our eyes, and the first sensation is to expect to hear the swish of a shower of grape. We are in the middle of the hostile city. We are anchored, it is true, off the westward point of Honan, just where the river breaks into two streams to form the island. We look down the channel which divides llon_in from Canton. But Honan and Canton banks are almost equally covered with buildings ; the channel is not really 300 yards wide—it does not appear to be 20 feet. A thin, meandering line is all the wa'er we can see ; the rest is covered with boats—not such as we see on the Isis, at the bottom of Christ Church meadows, nor even barges such as we see upon the Thames, but wooden house-like structures. Some are gay, flaunting flower boats, bedizened with paint and hung with lanterns and lustres. Some are Mandarin passage boats, with high poops and elaborate carvings. The great mass, however, con ists of floating huts and houses, some two stories , high, and covering cargo boats. The habitations of 100,000 people are crowded in this river, and give our position the appearance .1 have already described as being in th© very midst of the hostile city. Our little squadron steams and fumes (situated just as if we were a dozen vessels in Chelsea Reach, and the river towards London-bridge crowded as I have said), and the Cruiser, in obedience to a signal from the Coromandel, detaches herself, and proceeds into the little thread of channel. There is a flutter and a panic among the dwellers upon the water. The outside boats cast off, and the strong tide (Lifts them rapidly away before our steamer. How it happens that the channel is not hopelessly blocked we cannot imagine. But the current is very swift ; down 1113 go, and the channel is wider by their removal. Then another tier, and another, and another is detached, and the tide sweeps them still more rapidly away. Surely all Canton is going to vanish down the river. Houses that looked firmly established on the land detach themsel.ves slowly, and then send off. Give them time—why should we hurry these poor people ? An hour, and an hour, and the channel suburb of Cantonhas removed itself without molestation or injury. They are gone to seek a safer shelt , -r in the numerous creeks which the Chinese only know'. Perhaps some of them are gone round to the back of the city. If so, I fear we shall have to disturb them once more ; but there thousands of back waters and ditches and canals in which they can find safe habitation. And now the channel is clear. We have an un interrupted view along it. It is not nearly so wide as the Thames at Wapping, and moreover there are no bridges to interrupt the line of sight ; but the buildings on each side are much of the same cha racter as those at Wapping and Rotherbithe—the warehouses of Hunan on the right, the low buildings of Canton on the left. About half-a-mile up there is a wide interval, covered only with heaps of llaild irag rubbish, but having no structure standing but a newly-built Chinese gateway--a sort of triumphal arch, whereon is wait in Chinese characters " The site of Hog Lane." Beyond this interval, as large or larger than the Temple-gardens—an interval which will be readily recognised as the location of the destroyed factories—there are ruins. High square, brick-built pillars start up from the debris of their fallen roofs. These are the remains of the bongs and warehouses, battered or buried during the retaliatory attack of the British fleet. A little further on, where the stream slightly widens, there is an islet in mid-channel. It is covered with the wreck of masonry. Stones and brickwork are lying about in shapeless masses ; but nine trees, which have survived the deed of violence these ruins tell of, rise in the interstices and shake their leaves and offer shade. This islet shuts in the view and closes the vista. It is the site of the Dutch Folly Fort. The Cruiser has paused before themelting floating city. Now it is gone, she passes on after it. We watch her with intense anxiety. Will our friend Ych suffer this ? Or shall we have the contents of tlif)se 200 guns which he is said to have brought to bear upon this channel down upon our decks ? The excitement among the Chinese is not less than that among us. The roofs of the houses are crowded. They know that we are not going to fire, for our proclamations have told them that until the time given to Yeh has expired we shall only fire in defence. But the steamer is nearing the Dutch Folly, the scene of the last operations, and the Chinese spectators are as uncertain as we are whe ther Yeh will allow the presence of a British man of war with 300 yards of his own yamun. "Never do to-day what you can put off till to-morrow.' Surely this ralxim iy to be found in Confucius, for in fighting or in yielding it is a Chinaman's only rule of conduct. Yeh, although he has rejected Lord Elgin's demands, is determined to take his full period of respite. Not a solder appears upon those small patches of the walls that are not hid den by the houses. Even the guns are, as our glasses show us, clumsily concealed by matting and wicker shields. The steamer passes through, and others follow. They cast anchor in mid-stream and make themselves snug and comfortable, as if they were at Spithead.' Imagine a row of ships of war moored stem and stern broadside to the shore at the Tower stairs and half-a-mile up and clown the stream, and you will have some idea of the pcsiVon of the Nimrod, the Hornet, the Cruiser, the Bittern, the Actaeon, and the Acarn. Half an hour after they had anchored the gunboats were running up and down, and the gigs, and cutters and dingeys were rowing to and fro, and the Chinamen were going from boat to boat with oranges and bananas for sale, as though we had been settled here for a lifetime. Having thus satisfactorily settled matters on the river, let us go ashore. Not to that left-hand shore to which you might jerk a biscuit from this poop now swinging to the tide, jor our deaths are worth dollars there. If any accident were to drift us there our heads would certainly be set up in company with that of the poor fellow whose head was cut off in that unfortunate expedition of Lieut. Pym. To repeat a bad pun made by a friend at my elbow, "it would not be pleasant promotion to become head of the staff on that side of the river." On the Ronan side there are broad stone landing-places and ranges of warehouses, which by right of conquest, or perhaps we should rather say by " special occu pancy" (a phrase which wants a situation, as the law has just discharged it), belongs to us. There it a small Union Jack upon the roof of one of these, and a larger tricolor upon another. fore, then, let us land. There is a part of the "'long shore " of the borough of Lambeth which, according to a super stition rifa among London cabmen, forms a short cut to the Dover Railway. The streets are of a preternatural narrowness, and zig-zsg about at angles of the greatest possible acuteness. Ware house walls rise high and windowless on one side, and wretched shops exude frowsy odours on the other side. There is a perpetual block of cabs and carts, a clamour of angry voices of men whose hope of catching the train grows fainter every moment, a jostling of pedestrians, a Dutch con cert of oaths, and a general mass of confusion closely packed. We must allow for some change of circumstances. Substitute laden fatigue parties for cabs and carts, rushing orderlies for impatient travellers, marching detachments for a struggling populace, and then our Borough waterside tho roughfare will not be unlike the new British and foreign conquest 'n the Island of Holm,. We are scarcely landed before we are swept into the tide of human beings which rushes and eddies in this narrow lane. The warehouses to the left aro ~11 open, let us take refuge in one of them. It is a strongly built brick building more than 200 feet long by 100 feet broad. At the other end there is 4. doorway leading to the river, and a loft divided off into compartments. This storehouse is about 30 feet high, and its roof is supported by rows of square brick pillars. It offers a great area with comfortable accommodation for a numerous body of troops. More than half-a-mile of river front is occupied by these packhouses ; and when we have filled all these there are plenty more upon the island. As we visit several others we find great stores of tea and bales of English cotton. One is already occu pied by a battalion of Marines. Nice beds of junk matting have been made up along the sides of the budding, arms and accoutrements are hung upon the walls and pillars, and in the central parts of the area the men are squatting or lolling round their cooking fires and frizzling their rations. Our object in visiting these places is to obtain a guide to head-quarters. In the narrow thorough fare I see hundreds whom I know ; but all are in a state of straggle, either on duty or looking for quarters. At last we find the place where the senior colonel and his brigade-major, Col.:Hollo way and Major Travers, attended by Capt. Ellis, the colonel's aide-de-camp, sit in conclave—the Minos and Rhadamanthus of these regions. Let us stand by a few moments and mark the curious scene. A knot of Chinamen are chin-chining Minos —a kindly-hearted and gentle spoken Minos. One is complaining that some sailors have broken into his store of preserved ginger, and are not only eat ing the excellent gi nger , buedestroying it. In a mo ment Col. Holloway gives him a Rim and a guard, and explains to him that if his property is not taken away in 30 hours the guard will be withdrawn. So with the owners of tea and with the proprietor of 1 those cotton bales, and so with the stolid owners of the shops and minor storehouses, all of whom have neglected the warning given them to clear out. Fancy the addition which the removal of t lit se heavy goods by a thousand Chinese Coolies must make to the confusion of that narrow lane below. This is only an item of the business done at head-quarters. Fifty soldiers come to copy the brigade orders which the colonel and the major have passed the night in drawing out. Every moment some officer reports himself. Every minute some to me unin telligible difficulty is reported, and is solved by a prompt st;ntence of command. By Jove I These military men get through business quickly. Our little party is dismissed with a word and a scratch of writing, and in two hours I have a small square compartment mark*d out by bamboo sticks, mat ting, and piled tea-chests, when-, with a chair, a table, and a sofa, the abandoned household gods of some departed Chinaman, I establish myself iu peace, within 300 yards of the guns of Mr. Com missioner YE h. Some of us pass the rest of the day on the angular roof of the highest pack-house, and look down on the river and city. There is nothing picturesque about the view of Canton. No domes and minarets rise from the mass of habitations. No lofty temples, no high monuments represent historic memori e s and immortal aspirations. The far-stretching dull level of grey roofs is broken only by the squire pawnbrokers' warehouses (just like the warehouses ru our docks); by the little watchboxes erected upon high scaffoldings of bamboo, and looking like multi tudes of pigeon -houses ; by a few Mandarin poles, and by the mountains and hill forts b:lhiud the city. Away to the left this plain of roofs stretches to the horizon. In the foreground, almost at our fee', lie the waterside houses, almost hovels, and generally built en piles. Masked by these, and only visible on close inspection, are the outer walls of the city. Now and then you can see an embrasure, and the march of a Chin se sentry shows the continuity of the wall. The first discharge of the Chinese guns will topple 'down the ricketty buildings and show the strength Or weakness of the ou,works. It will also, as our naval friends lake care to inform us, knock all our packhouses " into a cocked hat." The riverswarms with gunboats all freighted with closely packed redcoats—a terrible sight for the gazing crowds opposite. These gunboats come up at full speed, disembark their men at the river en trance of the proper packhouse, and in half-an•hour that packhouse becomes a comfortable barracks. Those marines, however, are not so jolly. They are fresh from England, with ruddy faces and sweet blood on the surface of their skins. They are turtle and venison to the Chinese mosquitoes. These des picable enemies have bunged up some eyes and blotched many faces. How the mat ines do swear ! A toilsome day brings a weary night. There are all sorts of "shaves " about night attacks, mines under the packhouses, firecrafts, and such like ame nities. But my real enemies are the mosquitoes and the Browns. Just as intense fatigue overcomes the mosquito bites I am startled by loud voices which every half-hour hold this dialogue : " Who goes th ere ?" "Brown." - " What Brown ?" • " Mrs. Brows." "Halt, Mrs. Brown ; advance one, and give parol." - Confound this family of Browns I It's a shame cf Col. Holloway to allow women in a place like this, and.especially such a restless animal as this Mts. Brown. She has kept 2,000 men awake all night. At breakfast next morning I inveighed indig nantly against Mrs. Brown. My mesmates with some merriment insist that the resp,:ctable name cif Brown is not in fault. I supp se I mu-t take their words for it that the dialQ;ue rens, " Who goes there $" " R- unds." " What rounds ?" "Visiting rounds." "Halt visiting rounds ; advance one and g i ve th e paroi." But I could still swear any upon the evid ence of my tars. Brown's life away St'NDAY, Dec. 20. Confusion has subsided into a regulated busy action. We had Divine service this morning in the largest pack-house. 1,200 mat ines formed the con gregation. Col. Rocker has induced his 13011-C? ID niissioned officers to form a choir, and the ,psalms were chanted in a styl e th at ' would do credit to St. Paul';', there beieg Lo provision for the spiritual wants cf the marines when brigaded ashore. VI Admiral attend e d w ith hi s c h ap l a i n. It was, h think, the most impressive religious service I evee= wituEsed, except, perhaps, that simpler spectacle which preceded the battle of Fatshan. The ma/ drawbacks were that the principal bass wa s on guard, and the tea-chest seats ever and anon brok e down. TUESDAY, Dec. 9 2 . Yesterday and t o -d ay , a ll d ay long, up and do l the river. With a revolver in our pockets we do not hesitate to trust ourselves to a Chinese sanpan These w re t c h e d b oatmen are glad to earn Eng lish shillings, and hav e no t enterpr i se enoug h for <Pe„ ; kidnapping. I pass h ours in watching the Sap pers and Miners (25 o f w h om most opportunely arr ived by the mail steamer) laying the platforms for two 13-inch mortars on - the islet called Du te Fo'ly and for t wo others on the Pop.' sula sula called -Frenoh Folly, about a mile flu' ther down the river. How beautifully these men (aided by the c rews o f t h e Cruiser, 1"", Nimrod, and the Hornet) th row up the i r Wall works among those ruins of the old furts, and how cunningly and quickly th e y construct their inag l c i mile. Chinese guns are pointed on the spot, on, riflemen are perched on the stones about us to re turn their fire should it o p en . B ut Y e h does 12°t 6 disturb us. He prop oses , no d ou bt , to l e t us go , length of our tether an d kill us a ll in t h e c ity Alt mines and musketry and grape. Captain Dew has arranged a barrel which hoi ste up to the truck of hi s mainmas t . F rom t h a t ele vated and uncomf or t a bl e spot I cou l d see i n to tg courtyard of Y e le s y amun . T wo Mrs. Y e h s were e hobbling about quit e c h eer il y , b u t I th i n k signs of removal. WEDNESDAY,. Duo. 0 Last night the Gen era l arr i ve d an d t h e ne ws sw ab spread that a conf erence w as h e ld on Monday,,Ao which the two Plenip o t en ti ar i es , th e two Admir and the Gener a l were presen t , an d t h at t h e diP Te, , matists formally handed over the affair to the /OA" gereuts. The business of to-day was a reconnoissance ili a force to get a near view on the forts to the north itia the city. At 2 o'clock the Dove, the Janus, se Drake. and tls Kestril gunboats, with 70 Mari% and 25 French bluejackets(who are disciplined ll 4 our Marines), started. The two Admirals and th e General, and Colonel Holloway, with their OLT were in the Dove. West of the city, the which washes the base of Canton, makes a sll er P t ;; turn to the northward, so that about four miles ‘, O the stream is at the same distance from the forts a 9 it is at the pack-houses. Up these four mile e . st i o steamed ; passing Puntinqua's garden with its 11 0 , white pagoda, and many other well-wooded ene sures—passiug also a dismantled fort on the l e as bank, and arri sing in about an hour at the v lll l O landed , e a of Tsing-poo. This was where Gough attack the city. The bank consists of eleva te ground—hillocks from which batteries might Il e a the river—and there are buildings and loop - h u e , s , walls whence deadly discharges might CO l ;ja The leaders jumped from their boat, and we P t he the French the compliment of allowing fas e first of thei r bl ue j ac k ets to land a momen t be, the first o f our mar i nes ; then away we all s;° ° , l t t j h a e land at a killi ng pace, for the two Admireds General stretch out like prize pedestrians. It lay beautiful bree z y wa lk over a mile and a half '9 rho forts, count r y. W e were noev in front %too forts, which ri s e b e f ore us i n extended parl° r ses view—not confused and foreshortened as w e r; them from the pack-houses. They extend sloes ea f spur from the White Cloud Mountain—a li t t er* mamelon-shaped hills which stretch from the 01 '1 3 0 tain down to the north of the city, and one of W a Sit extends int, Canton itself. It was a prettY . tZ e s on th sunny December day to see the little ea;: eo t of redcoats and bluejackets pested upon deae s 'ir hills to prevent our being cut off, and reedy t° ar ty port each e th er , wh i le the reconnoitring P, 900 climbed the nearest e l evation, where, within Jevisi yards of Gough' s f or t, an d within 1,500 of a beaugls armed bastion, the chiefs took a survey thr° o o; their glasses of the heights to be climbed. °s loes Bate mapped the country, Major Clifford, utoolg miniature Victoria Cross attracts every el °, Olt plans of the fortifications, and your humble Se r ros ee made a rough sk e t c h of the interesting Pa ll° acs , before us. We are within range of all these g o o and tremendous in s i ze t h ey are. There are 001 s fellows in that bastion training a gun to bee r u ff et us, and we expect every moment to see the P,,beol! smoke. The monster guns of the Chinese u re sei' solid shot, and, being fired upon the no. o ll- 000, principle, carry to enormous distances. At %oar!, I saw a ball fired from 2,000 yards come on e gunboat, pass through a gun carriage, ",,terti• it into splinters, and gone out through the %tu in I suspect, however, that there is some 0 00, what a d eser t er t o ld us yesterday. He o'oo Yeh is w a iti ng f or re i n f orcements, that he bas hag Jrae to collect all th e f orces of the two quangs, t it given orders th a t no t a gun shall be fired lest should pre c ipit a t e the attack before his su ec co oes have come in. Thi s man was disbelieved bee he was an ill-f avoure d , h ang - dog loo ki ng fell as though a des er t er was lik e l y t o l o ok lit' honest man. Wet s' It was a rapid affair, that reconnoisancse turned as swiftly a s we came, an d were bade quarters by 6 o'clock. s ide him, the General it was very useful, for it is s idt; him, if I mistake not, that an attack on 41 „ 1 . 0 0 11 would cost him 500 men. The blue-jackets WI for going helter-skelter at the forts, and sw ear could carry them in four hours ; so, i n all P r o ar bility they would • but the Ge nera l Prefe r° tainties to probabilities. for To me this lit t l e expe di t i on was invains ger e it is only little by little that I can hope to to convey to my rea d ers an accurate idea frao,l, g o a t t hie great city. Wh en I l oo k at it from tu:laserl''' houses I despair o f b e i ng a bl e to see or to so th! the assault. C an t on is at least as larg e ' l afl d Surrey suburbs o f L on d on ; i t i s qu it e as flee,pets,l it contains 1,000,000 i n h a bit ants. - C a ptain D w ell pork barrel at th e ma i n -t ruc k of the Ninirnose of he occupied by the - captain for the luirreoll'a directing his guns ; but if thi s w ere no t so , 't el' not be of much use for close observations all• 4,41:V dizzy head and swimming brain of a M I L - 0 stle' How can I hope to for lew the fe, tunes of s ,'''' es l penetrating that labyrinth by different peaty -24' THURSDAY, Dec' a tes'ri To-day there was a reconnoissance on th e 10, 0 side of the ci y. Two gunboats at dayliP"' ei rle the reconnoitring party at a creek about a il a ltie rt the east of the Freud. Folly. W e struck red over low hills covered with graves and soon r o d r e ; a picket-house, which had twice fired cio :61 0 pulsed previous small exploring pstrties• .0,101„ prepared to force it, but the party was with as we approached. They were about td s ll9 the crossed a paved causeway leading tews"-eop an d city. and continued our trot over the paCT 6 slippery graveyards and over the dry, ht h ich fields until we arrived at an eminence " re sruiv ol leaders seemed to think gave the do from coup d'ceil, We were now about BCO lar a , n a the great eastern gate, of the eith ode the 0 same distance from the eastern fort °I 'tbe city. The gate lay to the west of us au" ar tin was to the north. Some intervening trees P a ter v- is iutercep ed the view of the city walls and gad. 1, the fort was open to view. The Generaj. _ at ta, enough. This is evidently the route of t. ll :_ ao at ing party. The fort before us rush, and this will give us a strong poiitlo . , sk e the wall can be breached or escaladed. 4 -Y i. v ers wall is the northern 11,4.1 f of the city, v"„. 0 0 , public offices and great yarnums and pleas' otr eew te will he . t a is ivbeoto dens are, and wnere there are no narrow 04 0 Thence our storming patty will assault the k„or eo zintehill, and "thence all the long line of bell The' we Raw yesterday will be taken in reve reg o . er, ; General, I am told, makes it a point of 11 °6101 ; rather a point of art, to take that terrible f o r ' ' I Fort without the loss of a man. It is in cl qin we have not Russians to fight with bere'beighte lilt • o t hands of the engineers who forLified. th4 e. Dal o i Sebastopol this city would be impregn a %, s ow, the reconnoissance every eminence, ti ; o solat o f with multitudes of Chinese, and Manee rl f i s gs ; were running about the walls with little co o s° if they contemplated any attack we wer e at i e et j t gone before th e y could make their prePt r wale , The reconnoitri ng p ar t y were backe m ost S si at 11 o'clock, having accomplished a a factory" su rvey o f the grouud. aisti ft, 't In the afternoon proclamations were st a.s to along th e Canton shore, warning the /nil b it a t tb Yoh had rej, cied the terms offered, all ro st v g city were not surren d ere d wi thi n 4$ b° ll iss u w e he bo m b ar d e d an d stormed. Th e time ht this proclamation was chosen so that mfgit it'ter%er ou Saturday night. Sunday will tbr ouro t° fleas and thus give the people slime more jools st o gy out, and the authorities more time to .u.is as t preparations, and make up their fen " • oi l futility of resistance. o f 3 cti inu,t have this city. The islandb° would be in a few nraitlis the charn el- wae de British roes. At pi es nt they are ~ sri to t ee healthy, Irt Col. Hooker's ba'talion.tnb° bUt 3 ' bie 111 j 15 sick out of 700 men. This is arel bee I, t he cold weather, the plentiful fresh rations, e rie va, even Shanghai mut on five times a oree ip i a e ? d i ce s extraordinary supplies we have of q u o gleas l , o t, The int 31lie, nt arrangements of the ew iedg ll ,` o se must of course have their due acku`' a t sicasj e But all these will be powerless te P re e ve ve 001 ,1 c if hot weather sh ou ld fi n d us h ere . I el o igen 4 ,, scribt.d the allied position yet, not 1 ;1, f o rie]t it Honan. Tee pack-houses and stores e'' s o ' a bltai e , fringe of this great i.:l-And. The countilr cora e7 - 1 La. racks is a swamp. The stagnant wa ter get% to ihe wall at the r ear of out qu tt ters• T o s itia aspect of the Wiled to the hack Of our r