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TUE SU:N, ous position, and subsequently moved on with the Commander-in-Chiefs force. He would 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, On the following morning Sir Colin occupied Fut tehgurh, and opened communications with Colonel Seaton's force, the movements of which it is now time to follow. On the 13th Dec. a small force under Col. Far quhar, marching to the southward from Bolund ahuhur, arrived at Gaugheree, a large village on the Kalee Nuddee, 24 miles from Allygurb. The rebels, who were in great force in the neighbour hood, hearing of their arrival, and of the smallness of their numbers, resolved to attack them on the following morning ; but before their plans had been matured, Col. Seaton's force, consisting of 3,000 or 4,000 men, a large proportion of which were cavalry, arrived at Gaugheree, on its way to Futtehguih. They had scarcely been enoamped 2 hours when a large body of the enemy's cavalry, unaware of the reinforcement which had come up during the night, appeared in front of our camp and prepared to attack it. Instantly the Carabineers, Hodson's Horse, and some Horse Artillery went at them, and drove them off in confusion. A heavy fire was almost immediately opened on our advanc ing horse, from two 6-pounders and a 9-pounder. The Carabineors 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 Carabineers 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 march 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 ArtilleFy 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 sauve qui peat. 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, Hakirejee, 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 ' wander-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 are ex ' petting to hear every day that a junction has taken place between the two armies ; it is thought that they will 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 Utnballah, the Cawnpore command was made over to Brigadier Inglis : there were left with him to guard Cawnpore the 32d, 34th, and 88th Foot, with the faithful remnants of the Lucknow Native Corps. Another 'Column, consisting of two battalions of the Rifle Brigade, 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 Lall pore ; this, too, has been recovered, principally through the activity of Captain Thompson. Alto gether it may be 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 INDIA. in hand. (P,ont a Correspondent of the Daily News.) Proceeding lower down, we have Gen. Frank's CALCUTTA, JAN. 9. two columns still holding Juanporo and Azimgurb, Although the last fortnight has been less full of and awaiting the movements of the Commander stirring events than its immediate predecessors, it in-Chief to make their advance. On the north has yet witnessed the performance of good work. east J ung Bahadoor is moving steadily on Goruck- The Commander-in-Chief, with the Bth Foot, 23d Pore. That able minister stipulated, before he Fusiliers, 42d Highlanders, 53d, 64th, 82d Foot, would march to our assistance, that a European 93d Highlanders, a regiment of Punjaub Infantry, officer should be attached to each of his regiments. Remington's Horse Artillery, Smith's battery This was acceded to, and a bevy of officers of all Royal Artillery, the Naval Brigade with six arms, with General MacGregor at their head, left 2t-pounders, two 8-inch howitzers, and eight mor- Calcutta a month ago to join his force. I have tars, the 9th Lancers, two regiments of Sikh Ca- been shown a letter from one of these, in which the Yalu, besides Sappers and Miners, advanced first meeting is thus described : towards Futtehgurh on the 24th ult. He arrived at Yesterday we went to l see the Maharajah in full Ohowbeepore, 16 m il es di s t an t, on the 25th, at Poore is a D h u le rb i a m r. pre li ss. e on a fi ne f al f t. () w it sanwdasmamdsesta magnificently most v u favour able on us on the 26th, at Urnowl, 40 miles from Cawnpore, dressed, but at the time in the very best taste. He is ac on the 27th. T'Aey found the country one sheet of compani ed by two of his brothers, one of them second cultivation, although th e v ill ages were deserted, in command, and the other without any specific appoint. It was the practice to send Sikh skirmishers in ad- e f n o t r . me T d io h n e t arsey, which the ut llJung 's ,O0 0 m b e n n i , f divisions,is com m anded Vance and o n the flanks ; they had b een very suc - b rot h ers . I n d ee d, h a lf th e 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 proved to have been in arms against us half an hour, we went out to look at the troops. They were brought to a drum-head court-martial on the o w t e h r e e r , d r t a h w e n h es of up in course lines in o f front, butvr one e behindwer very spot, and were at once disposed of. These salutary agreeably surprised both as to their state of discipline, proceedings had been attended with the best pos- physique, and equipment. They marched as steadily as l ai ys a d y a r n d Bible effects. The rebels had at last begun t o feel a n r y tro o t e ps I eve r an double march w d as singu- Mat we were in earnest, and desertions from their d e pl o y e d, an d passe d i n y review in ce a m m n o t a g n aila s n q t a n ar n e ci ranks had been numerous. On the 29th alt. the steady manner. Far from realising our preconceived force reached Jellalabad, a small village two i notions o r o a f o k G o o o o r r p k s h a w e d r i o na g i 'Lu n t e n a e o s d s , e t v h e e n y , thaot s e e n? , r n t a h t e e marches from Futtehgurh ; here, for the first time, non-selected regiments were very much larger than in an enemy made his appearance in the shape of a our Goorkba battalions. I inquired about their corn large body of m a tchlock men with several guns. Position, and Genera l that, w h e e r ith th ge h ' the excep tionsecondl7, in No particulars of the affair have reached Calcutta ; c omm an d, i n fo r m ed me e they were all pure Goorkhas. The Jung is most anxious it is only known that Sir Colin Campbell instantly to get at the enemy. attacked the rebels, and after a nominal resistance We are in dailyexpectation of hearing that he has defeated them capturing 18 guns and a large quan- re - occupied Goruckpore. He was at Bettiah on tits o f small arms. On the following day he Christmas-day. continued his route to • urh, but on Lower still in the Sarun district, about 70 miles Fuitehg reachi ng the K ale e Nuddee, about 15 miles north-west of Dinapore, the rebels have sustained this side o f the Cantonment, the suspen- another defeat. Captain Sotheby's naval brigade, down, and all thebo a ts f fondu nd to have been broken some Goorkhas, and a small body of Sikhs, the working party Was at o nce had been removed. A whole commanded by Colonel Rowcroft, were sta g with the oppcoesistet e b to work to open cow- tioned at Marowah ; they ascertained that a number repairs had almost been complet e d when The necessary of armed men were coming down the Gogra river came down upon our party in gr ea t for th e rebels from Lucknow, and that they were assembling in attacked two or three hours earlier, e t i i :lad they force at Mujhowlie in the Goruckpore district ; in from the nature of the ground on the other sid e fact, they had already driven a body of Sikh, 50 the Kalee, have caused us considerable of in number, from one of the villages on the Sarun Fortunately they delayed till the bridge was annoyance.tr frontier. Colonel Rowcroft resolved to attack them a versable. No sooner did they open fire o n the before their num b ers s h ou ld become too formidable; 'working party than our troops, defiling over the re. acc ordingly ß. on the 26th he advanced with the Naval Paired bridge, attacked them. To borrow a noble ab rlgade, two Goorkha regiments, and a few Sikhs-- about most just expression of Lord Ellenborough's, str out a thousand men in all. He found the enemy the lions were led by a lion," and in an incredibly fiv ° ll glY posted at Mujhowlie, and numbering abut short space of time the rebels were put to flight, and I onel thousand. They could not, however, resist the all their guns, eight in number, captured. Two of cos aught of our troops, but fled before we could them were 18-pounders. Our loss was comparatively wemre to close quarters. Forty of their bodies alight in numbers, but amongst the wounded ap- Out e ocruted on the ground ; our loss was two. pears the name of Captain H. Maxwell, one of the three.th e i r four guns Col. Rowcroft captured This officer' most scientific and distinguished officers of the Ben- between that a force forma the connecting lit,k advancing under J gal Artillery. This officer had lately returned to Goruckpore and Gen. F ran k'sung Bahad oor f rom co 1 India ; h pore e had made the campaign of the Danube gun and Juan umns at Azi :n . In the general advance it will with Omer Pacha, and had subseque n t l y devoted p robabl y take the line of the Gog ra . of the French and German Between Dinapore and himself to a study Calcutta all is quiet. The ,roaming He arrived in India in su ffi - Decca mutineers are, it i s t ru e , systems of warfare. about the are but i country , Lucknow with Sir Colin the y di sp i r i ted and cienb time to march to broken, and force • for Lis services there i receive no s y m p ath y from the inhabitants. In ray Campbell's relieving , last I mentioned the reception "which the Chitta to whose brigade he wa s thanked by Captain Pee l, f the whole bat - go n g rebels met from the Sylhet battalion, result he was attached, in the presence o tory', and was likewise mentioned in Sir Colin ing in t he untimel y death of their commandant, Can spbell'a despatch. He returned with the army Major Byng. The affair wa s most creditable to and sper.ks highly for the t joie to rescue General Windham from his peril - tho s e en g a g ed on our side, ' INDIA AND CHINA, LATER NEWS FROM INDIA. We have received the following telegram from the India-house : Sir J. Oatram's force was attacked by the Luck now insurgents on January 12th ; the enemy were repulsed with a loss of 400 men. On January 16th the attack was renewed and again repulsed. 0 both occasions the British loss was trifling. Sir Hugh Rose is at Sehore, and is expected to arrive at Saugor on the 28th of January. He will afterwards advance again to Jhansi. " On January 13, Sir Hugh Rose, after disarm ing the Bhowar 0 Bhoura) Contingent, tried and executed 149 mutineers. General Whitelock'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 Punjaub and all quiet, with the exception of Kndesh (? Kandeish). The Bheels assembled in force near the Nizam's frontier, and were at tacked on Jan. 20 by Captain Montgomery in the Mindar Junmle-Arottm. An indecisive contest ensued, in which Captain Montgomery and three other officers were severely wounded, one of whom, Lieutenant Stewart, of the Nizam's Infantry, has since died of bis 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 ffirther excessess are reported on the part of the Shorapoor Rajah, and the Nizam's country is tranquil. H. ANDERSON, Secretary t• 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, 8.36 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 22d 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 assured a large quantity of treasure at Bithoor. On the 27th he attacked and defeated the enemy on the Khoree Nudes. On the 11th January he took possession of Fulisoheim (?), 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 th2ir arrival. A strong column, under Brigadier Roberts, is moving from Deesa into Rajpootana. The first detachment, under Major Rains, captured an in surgent stronghold sear Mount Oboo, subsequently proceeding to Nusseerabad. Other forces are ad• wincing 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 10.20 p.m., on Feb. 13. (Signed) LYONS, Admiral. OVERLAND MAIL. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1858 state of disei:pline of the Sylhet battalion. The facts may be thris summarised. The detachment, 150 in number, 'marched in the first instance from Sylhet to Perta'bgurh, a distance of 80 miles. Not finding the enemy there, they proceeded to Latoo, 60 miles distant—the entire journey of 140 miles having b e en performed in 58 hours. On arriving at Latoo, they suddenly found themselves within 250 yards of the mutineers, double their number. These at first assailed them with persuasions, calling on them to leave the " Christian dogs, their officers," who were prepared to take away their religion. In stead of an answer the Sylhet Light Infantry obeyed the command of their officers, and poured in a roll mg volley. Major 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-head 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 had been previously held under subjection, has no doubt contributed to this result. This has especially been the case in the prbvince 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 com plete apathy ; the fact probably 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 ments 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 boef and mutton, the best of bread, the best of ale and porter (equal to Bass's pale ale ; in fact, Bass and Allsopp in hogsheads), and very good rum. Every morning the commissariat 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 cenderan 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 out. They have no trouble whatever. Everything goes on well, and without any inconve 'llene° or annoyance to them. The fact is, the commissariat officers are men trained to their work; they have had experience 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 expetience ►hat 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 pdtisible arrange ments have been made. When the arrival of so many European 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 required 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 were 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, wore 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 in the conveyance of troops up country. This re sult 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 been more satisfactory. BOMBAY, J. 13. Three days only have elapsed since the despatch of last mail, and there is little news t• givo you in consequence. One of the Columns prepared to act in'Rajpootana has at last moved northwards. Major Raines with the field force under his cammand left Deesaon Jan. 2, en route to Nusseerabad. Besides the wing of the 10th Native Infantry, the wing of her Ma jesty'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 2d Light Cavalry, with a large quantity of engineer and park tools. On the Gth a portion of the force was detached at a place called Muddar, to a village in the hills 10 miles distant, called Rowa, in the Seroli district, the residence of a disaffected Thakoor, who had en trenched and fortified himself. We hear that the orders 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 gun°. The party o L f i a e b n, o t u . i m 4oo acci m u e a n y , who were commanded by Major R O , c a l i o n c e k s , i a ri n p d e r r e s t o u n r , n a ed cco to m e p a l m isl p ie a d t 3, th in e d t d a a s r k b b y y n f in ou e r . Capt. Proster, Peapu. Macgown , ' 2oth Burd, Native Infantry, 95t E h n R g N i e n a e l e tm. rs e , nt w , o s u l n ig d h e t d ly s ; ev L er i . e 4 u y t : Regiment, slightly Infantry, ly. t.w m e severely h : one dangerously, receiving &Ye s 2 abre cuts (two on 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 Deesa 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 mon, under the command of Major Heatly 83d, two 12-pounder (howitzers), a squadron of the Ist Lancers, and 153 of the 12th Native Infantry. The whole under the command of Col. Holmes, 12th Native Infantry. The only news from Indore is that the Amesr of Mehidpore, who was deeply concerned in the mu tiny there of the Malwa Contingent, who killed their two officers and two sergeants, had been tried by drum-head court martial, and blown away from a gun. There had been many executions, both by hanging 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 hidden treasure and ornaments, joined Sir Colin Campbell in his upward march. The country along the read was rich in cultivation, but entirely deserted, peasants and Sepoys having alike abandoned the Doab, seine 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 Mee run k ee S era i , w h ere 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 ghur 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. It 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 agra of January Ist 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 Sinai, about 50 or 60 miles this sid e o f C awnpore. C apt. H odson fell in with a large body of insurgents flying from 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 throughout the Doab. From Allahabad 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 Kotwah. The Naval Brigade and two Ghoorka regiments 5 , 0 00 reb e l s, i nc l u di ng attacked l,lOO Sepoys, near Goruckpore on the 26th ult Of the enemy, 140 were killed and many wounded. The enemy were completely routed, the whole of their tents, bag gage and ammunition falling into our hands ; the loss on our aide, but one native killed and one wounded. Goruckpore was taken on the 6th 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 Artillery at Meeau Meer are worried night and day, looking after the two regiments of Pandies. We want British troops here, and cannot afford to be much longer without them. Thera 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 Peshawar. nay have retained their arms altogether to this time, while four others had their teeth drawn. THE CAWNPORE AFFAIR. Sr Con Campbell h as t ransm i tted the follow ingsupplementary despat c h t o C alcutta : To the Right Hon. the Gov ernor -G eneral. Headquarters, Camp near Cawnpore, Dee. t 0 20 bri 20, 1857. ng My Lord, —I have the honour to your lord. ship's notice an o miss ion , which I have to r egret , i n my despatch of the 2 d December, and I beg t o b e a ll owed now to repair it. I desire to make my acknowledgment of the great difficulties i n which Major-General Windham, C. 8., was p l ace d during the operati ons h e describes in his despatch, and I recommend him an d the officers whom he notices as having rendered him assistance, to your lordship's pr otection or good o ffi ces. I may men tion, in concl us i on, that Major-General Windham i s ignorant of the contents of my despatch of the 2d of December, and that I am prompted to take this step solely a s a matter of justice to the major general and the other officers concerned.—l have the honour to be, m y lord, with the greatest respect, your lordship's most obedient humble servant, C. CAMPBELL, Gen era l, Commander-in-Chief. B. r. H. BIRCH, Colonel, Secretary to the Government of India in the Military De partment. The Governor-General has followed this up by the general order here given: — The Right Hon. the Governor-General in council has received the accompanying despatch from his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and hastens to give publicity to it. it supplies an omission in a previous despatch from his Excellency, which was printed in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 24th inst. Major-General Windham's reputation:as a leader of conspicuous bravery and coolness, and the rce e ntation 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 i n council will not fail to bring to the notice of the Government in England the opinion formed by his Excellency of the difficulties against which Major-General Windham, with the officers and men under his orders, had to contend. The following General Order has been published : Headquarters, Camp Cawnpore, Dec. 9, 1857 Officers commanding 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; but 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 service must proceed accord ing to the orders and precedents of that service with which the Royal Artillery has been lately associated. ( Si gned) H. NORMAN, Major, Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Army. By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. EDWARD LUGARD, Colonel, Adjutant-Gener, 1 of H.M. Forces in India. ARRIVAL OF LUCKNOW FUGITIVES AT --- LUCKNOW. 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 Extraordina r y :— Fort Willi am , Home Department, Jan. 6. Notification --Within the next few days, the river steamer Madras, conveying the first of the ladies and children, and of the sick and wounded officers of the Lucknow garrison, will reach Calcutta. No one will wish to obtrude upon those who ,are under bereavement or sickness any show of ceremony which shall impose fatigue or pain. The best welcome which can be tendered upon such an occasion is one which shall break it as little as possible upon privacy and net. But the rescue of these sufferers is a victory beyond any price ; and i n t est i mon y of the public j.y with which i t is bail e d , aa d o f t h e 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 Madras to.Prinsep's Ghaut a royal salute shall be fired from the ramputs of Fort William. The Governor-General in Council further directs that all ehips of war in the river shall be dressed in honour of the day. Officers will be appointed to conduct the passengers on shore, and th e state barges of the Governor-General will be in attendance. * _As soon as the telegraph shall announce that the madraB has Passed Atcheepore, two signal guns will 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 kora the Madras ammo; 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, J. 13. Exchange on London—Six months' sight, 21. 11(1, to 2a. 14d. for document bills ; six months' sight, 2.1, lid. for credit bills. Freights—Cotton : to London, 11. to 1/ 53. per ton to Liverpool, 1/. to 1/. ss. per ton ; to China, re. 6 to per candy. CALCUTTA, TAN. 8. The bulk of the last English mail reached us on the 30th nit. 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 complete stagnation of business in some of the markets here. Things were dull enough before, but since receipt of the last advices they have assumed a much more gloomy aspect. In the produce market we have to report another fortnight of great dulness, which will doubtless continue to increase unless 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 Beale 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 shirtings 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 must be neglected. The Money Market.—We have no 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 1-14 to 2-2 per rupee. Our quotations are :—On London : Treasury and Bank Post Bills , 2s to 2s. Old. ; 60 days' s i g ht C o l on i a l an d ot h er B an k Bills, 2s. Old. to 2s. Oacl. ; Oriental and other Banks, 6 months' sight, 2e. ld. to 2s. 11d. Freights.—Notwithstanding the large amount of available tonnage in the river, little business is doing, in consequence of the extremely dull state of the produce market. The American business has received a check, and business does very slowly on tbat 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. Ia the dark and drizzling night of the previous day I had 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 to the tide. The splash of oars and the hail of the watch, and lights dotted here and there, told that other ships were around us; but nothing more of this mysterious enemies' country 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 aro in the middle of the hostile city. We are anohored, it is true, off the westward point of Henan, just where the river breaks into two streams to form the island. We look down the channel whioh divides Honan 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 wafer we can see ; the rest is covered with boats—not such as we see on the Isis, at the bottom of Christ Church meadowF, 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 I have already described as being in the 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 drifts 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 they 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 themselves 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 Canton has removed itself without molestation or i n jury. They are gone to seek a safer shelter 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 ditch s es 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 Rotherhithe—the warehouses of Hunan ou 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 htaild ing rubbish, but having no structure standing but a newly-built Chinese gateway—a sort of triumphal arch, whereon is writ 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 hongs 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 iu 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 the melting floating city. Now it is gone, she passes on after it. We watch her with intense anxiety. Will our friend Yeh suffer this ! Or shall we have the contents of those 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. Lie 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 aro 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 msxim its 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 soldier 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 down the stream, and you will have some idea of the posit'on of the Nimrod, thellornet, the Cruiser, the Bittern, the Actaeon, and the Acorn. Half an hour after they had anchored the gunboats were running up and down, and the gigs, and cutters and clingeys were rowing to and fro, and the Chinamen were going from boat to boat with orange 3 and bananas for sale, as though we had been settled hero 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 sow swinging to the tide, ;or 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. Pyrn. 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 is a small Union Jack upon the roof of one of these, and a larger tricolor upon another. Here, then, let us land. There is a part of the " 'long shore " of the borough of Lambeth which, according to a super stition rife among London cabmen, forms a short cut to the Dover Railway. The streets are of a preternatural narrowness, and zig-zig 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 carte, 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 rn the Island of Honed,. 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 ar , all open, let us take refuge in one of them. It is a strongly built brick building more than 200 felt long by 100 feet broad. At the other end there is a 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 building, 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 struggle, 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-do-oainp, sit in conclave—the Minos and Rhadamanthus of these regi Ai& Let us stand by a few moments and mark the curious scene. A knot of Chinamen are chin-chiming Alines —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 ginger, but destroying 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 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 theseheAvy 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 sentence of command. By Jov-3 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 marked put by bamboo sticks, mat ting, and piled tea-chests, where, with a chair, a table, and a sofa, the abandoned household gods of some departed Chinaman, I establish 'myself is, peace, within 300 yards of the guns of Mr. Com missioner Yeh. 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 memories and immortal aspirations. The far-stretching dull level of grey roofs is broken only by the squire pawnbrokers' warehouses (just like the warehouses in 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 behind the city. Away to the left this plain of roofs stretches to the horizon. In the foreground, almost at our feet . , lie the waterside houses, almost hovels, and generalty built on 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 Chinese sentry shows the continuity of the wall. The first discharge of the Chinese guns will topple down the iicketty buildings and show the strength or Weakness of the outworks. It will also, as our naval friends take 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 marines do swear A toilsome day brings a weary night. There are all sorts of " shaves " about night attacks, mines under the packhouses, firecraf s, and such like ame nities. But my eal 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 there ?" " Brown." 4. " What Brown ?" " Mrs. Brown." "Halt, Mrs. Brown ; advance one, and give parol." - Confound this family of Browns ! It's a shame (1 Col. Holloway to allow women if, a place like this, and especially such a restless animal a 3 this Mis. Brown. She has kept 2,000 men awake all night. At breakfast next morning I inveighed indig nantly against Mrs. Brown. My messinates with some merriment insist that the respectable name' Brown is not Sn fault. I supp se 1 mu-t take their words for it that the dialogue runs, ." Who goes there ?" "Rounds." " What rounds ?" " Visiting rounds." " Halt visiting rounds ; advance one and give the pawl." But I could still swear any Brown's life away upon the evidence of my ears. SUNDAY, Dec. 20. Confusion has subsided into a regulated busy action. We had Divine service this morning in the largest pack-house. 1,200 ines formed the con gregation. Col. Hocktr has induced his non com missioned officers to form a choir, and the psalms were chanted in a style th a t wou ld d o cre dit t o St. Paul's, there being no provision for the spiritual wants cf the marines when brigaded ashore. The Admiral attended with his chaplain. It was, I think, the most impressive religious service I ever witnessed, except, perhaps, that simpler spectacle which preceded the battle of Fatshan. The only drawbacks were that the principal bass was on guard, and the tea-chest seats ever and anon broke down. TUESDAY, Dec. 22. Yesterday and to :day, all day long, up and down the river. With a revolver in our pockets we do not hemitate to trust ourselves to a Chinese sanpan. These wretched boatmen are glad to earn English shillings, and have not enterprise enough for open kidnapping. I pass hours in watching the Sappers and Miners (25 of whom most opportunely arrived by the mail steamer) laying the platforms for two 13-inch mortars on the- islet called Dutch Fel) , and for two others on the penin sula called Frenoh Folly, about a mile fur ther down the fiver. How beautifully these men (aided by the crews of the Cruiser, the Nimrod, and the Hornet) throw up their breast works among those ruins of the old forts, and bolt cunningly and quickly they construct their maga; zinc. Chinese guns are pointed on the spot, and riflemen are perched on the stones about us to re turn their fire sbould it open. But Yeh does not disturb us. He proposes, no doubt, to let us go the length of our tether and kill us all in the city . with mines and musketry and grape. Captain Dew has arranged a barrel which hoists up to the truck of his mainmast. From that elo" vated and uncomfortable spot I could see into the courtyard of Yeh's yamun. Two Mrs. Yehs were hobbling about quite cheerily, but I think I sot signs of removal. WEDNESDAY, DBC, 23. Last night the General arrived and the news soon spread that a conference was held on Monday, all which the two Plenipotentiaries, the two Admirals and the General were present, and that the diplo matists formally handed over the affair to the belli gerent:. The business of to-day was a reconnoissance in force to get a near view on the forts to the north of the city. At 2 o'clock the Dove, the Janus, the Drake. and the Kestril gunboats, with 70 Marines and 25 French bluejackets(who are disciplined like our Marines), started. The two Admirals and the General, and Colonel Holloway, with their suite, were in the Dove. West of the city, the river, which washes the base of Canton, makes a sharp turn to the no r th war d, so that about four miles up the stream is at the same distance from the forts as it is at the pack-houses. Up these four miles we steamed ; passing Puntinqua s garden with its little white pagoda, and many other well-wooded enclo sures—passing also a dismantled fort on the left bank, and arriving in about an hour at the village et Tsing-poo. This was where Gough landed t° attack the city. The bank consists of elevated ground—hillocks from which batteries might Pro?, the river—and there a re b u ildi ngs an d l oo p-holed walls whence deadly discharges might coran; The leaders jump e d f rom t h e i r b oa t , an d we P al' the French the compliment of allowing the first of heir blue jackets to land a moment before the first of our marines ; then away we all went in' land at a killing pace, for the two Admirals and th e General stretch out like prize pedestrians. It was beautiful breezy walk over a mile and a half of un' dulating country. We were now in front of the forts, which rise before us in extended panorann e view—not confused and foreshortened as we s ee them from the pack-houses. They extend along e spur from the Whi te Cl ou d M ounta i n—a li ne of mamelon-shaped hills which stretch from the moun: tain down to th e nor th o f t h e c it y, an d one o f w hich s extends int) Cant o n it se lf. I t was a pretty Fig's on th a sunny Decembrr day to see the little part°, of redcoats and bl ue j ac k e t s peste d upon different hills to prevent our being cut off, and ready to 5 1 . 1 1 ) : port each eth er , w hil e the reconnoitring P atel climbed the nearest elevation, where, within 1, yards of Gough's fort, an d within 1,500 of a ben" armed bastion, the chi e f s t oo k a survey thron g" their glasses of the heights to be climbed. CaPte i : Bate mapped the country, Major Clifford, whe s ic miniature Victoria Cros s at t racts every eye, Ws plans of the fortifications, and your humble WWnt. made a rough sketch of th e i nterest i ng paeorart before LP. We are within range of all these gung e and tremendous in siz e th ey are. T here are so me fellows in that basti on t ra i ning a gun to beer if f us, and we expect every moment to see the pun o , smoke. The monster guns of the Chinese W e i l solid shot, and, b e i ng f i red upon the non - re ne .t principle, carry to enormoes distances. At Fatah I saw a ball fired from 2,000 yards come on W 2 17, e gunboat, pass through a gun carriage, knockl ri. it into splinters, and gone out through the et,_er ia I suspect, however, that there is some truth at what a deserter told us yesterday. He sari t ha t Yeh is waiting for reinforcements, that he has s s i , e 4 to collect all the forces of the two quango, and given orders that not a gun shall be should precipitate the attack before his succon_r: have come in. This man was disbelieved becell „... ' he was an ill-favoured, hang-dog looking fell" cr an fired lest 1 .. as though a deserter was likely to look like honest man. It was a rapid affai r , th a t reconnoisance, mere' turned as swiftly as we came, and were back in 011 r quarters by 6 o'clock. pa To the General it was very use f u l , f or it shn v f c i o him, if I mistak e ne t, that an attack on this sad would cost him 500 men. The blue-jackets are all for going h e lt er - s k e lt er at the forts, and swear b a could carry th em i n f our h ours ; so, in al l P r° . bility they wo u ld • but th e G enera l pre fers c" ,,r tainties to probabilities. fOr To me this littl e expe di t i on was invaluable , it is only little by li t tl e t h at I can hope to gs,ill6lor to convey to my rea d ers an accurate idea 19` great city. Wh en I l ook at It from the Pt k . houses I desp a i r o f b e i ng able to see or he to d esei t 'be the assault. Canton is at least as large as ~„a Surrey suburbs of London ;it is quite as fi a t, `,‘ 1,000,000 inhabitants. it contains Captain Dell pork barrel at the main-truck of the Nimrod „f be occupied by the captain for the purpose? directing 1).;s guns ; but if this were not so, it won not be of much use for close observations t° th dizzy head and swimming brain of a jandstei - es flow can I hope to follow the fortunes of 5,000, 131 penetrating that labyrinth by different routes To-day there was a reconnoissance on the eastern aide of the ci y. Two gunboats at daylight le„" 1 . , to TIIURSDAY, Dec. 2 4 tero the reconnoitring party at a creek about a ras o d the east of the Wrench Folly. We struck '"„Aieci over low hills covered with graves, and soon r e 'd a picket-house, which had twice fired upon ants pulsed previ ous sma ll exploring parties. We en prepared to fo rce it, but the pa r ty was wit:3"-We as we approached. They were about 200. t he crossed a paved causeway leading toward,: a nd city. and conti nue d our trot over the steel' 01 slippery graveyar d s and over the dry, hard P b t he fields until we arr i ve d a t an eminence whicuired leaders se eme d t o th i n k gave the r ec i fool coup cCceil. We were now a b ou t 800 jaru e d the the great eastern gate of the city, outride the, same distance f rom th e eas t ern fort , 1 , 0 for' city. The gate l a y t o th e west of us and• was to the north. Some intervening trees Pa te 1)11 intercep ed the view of the city walls and 0,, ' se en the fort was open to view. The Genera ba:tta°l enough. This is evidently the route of th a t* ing party. The fort before us will be . taken w , rush, and this will give us a strong the wall can be breached or escaladed. Ove r . . o t he wall is the northern half of the city, whe..r public offices and great yamums and pleasUrv r pg. dens are, and where there are no narrow at .3 1 position ttetbot Thence our storming party will assault the r fo ite zine-hill, and thence all th e l ong li ne of hill The we saw yesterday will be taken in reverse- r or General, I am told, ma k es i t a point of honour, rather a point o f ar t , to take that terrible 1,, c e tS Fort without the l oss o f a man. It is luckelne y : t we have not R uss i ans to f i ght with here. el-' hts of hands of the engineers who fortified the I ltering Sebastopol thi s c it y wou l d b e impregna ble • row jed the reconnoissan ce every eminence was with multitudes of Chin' se, and Mandarins 's; bet were running about th e wa ll s . w i th littl e flag_ e s e if they contempl a t e d any attack we were 0.700, gone before they cou ld ma k e their prepare e l l 0 ,0" The reconnoitri ng p ar t y were back to ur t o tir at 11 o'cluck, h av i ng accomplished a " m°l4 factory" survey of the ground. t In the afternoon proclamations were -'s u tstbl i e along the Cantonshore, warning the inbabi.t% the Yeh had rejected the terms offered, and tu'„. ero lll ., city were not surrendered within 48 hours li isso in: be bombarded and stormed. The se t s this proclamation was chosen so that it in4 tito rven;. on Saturday night. Sunday will then tat oleo and thus give th e p eo pl e some more boors °, out, and the auth or i t i es more ti me to 10 the preparations, and make up their minds ' ls futility of resistance. ofu aii o We must have this city. The island ~.b oe te would be in a few months the charll e _ t u d e rfe lly British troops. At present they are vi_u_ are oIZ healthy. In Col. 'locker's battalion ther_c', lo to t he 15 sick out of 700 men. This is at tiibuta", e d, Si t ' ss cold weather, the plentiful fresh ration ,!! ; u u cl . t: e. even Shanghai mut on five times a evee..ic ine W 11 : 0 extraordinary supplies we have of clew nvi enci' t , The intAligent arrangements of the c° lo dgelle ll s e must of course have their due acknowt s ick/ 0 , But all these will be powerless to prev eri e o nlY, o f if hot weather should find us here. I ha v- i d e na scribed the allied position yet, no t the folio t o Ronan. e prck-hotte4 and stores only eeind our fringe of this gt eat Wand. count's 00 10 Lei racks is a swamp. The stagnant water gene'is to the wall at the rear of our quarters. _ co i t ion aspect of the island to the back of our