The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA. AGRA. The following letter is from a lady at Agra : " Fort Agra, August 12. " Here we are still quite well, thank God, but sadly tired of Ebeing cooped in the fort, and the worst of the matter is that we do not know when we shall be able to get out. Not that there is any enemy near to be afraid of, but there are no houses left to live in. In consequence of all the fighting men being in the fort the ill-disposed villagers burnt and plundered the whole station. There are only about 20 houses nnburnt M cantonments, and not more than two or three in the civil lines, so we are likely to remain in the fort some time longer. We are, however, allowed to go outside the ' plea in the daytime, and some fortunate person whose houses, being close to the fort, have not been destroyed, are gone out to live in them. We tried very hard to get one of the houses near the fort, but they were all ttken. We, however, got out for a drive every morn ing, which is very great pleasure after being shut up so long. Dear o—, lam sorry to say, has not been at all well lately in consequence of the change of life and very great confinement from be ing shut up here, but he is quite convalescent, and since we are allowed to take our morning drives be is getting strong, and has regained his appetite. We have been very well ever since we came in the fort, indeed we have nothing to complain of on the score of health. The fort, thank God, is very healthy considering how many human beings are crowded in it. Including servants we have 5,000 persons sleeping every night within the walls. We are all very cheerful considering the circumstances, and when we assemble outside our quarters we are almost a merry party. We are much with our kind friends, whose quarters are next door to ours, except in the heat of the day, when we are all obliged to retire to our own dens to escape from the beat, which is then very great. "e drove down yesterday to look at our house, which, being a Puchah house, is not much injured —doors taken away, punkahs destroyed, so that it might be made habitable in a few days ; but is is considered too far from the fort for us to live in at present. However, we live in hopes th a t w h en General Havelock has relieved Lucknow he will come here on his way to Delhi, and the very idea of his being on the road with his troops will quiet down the district and make any part of Agra safe to live in. We were much cheered last night by the news from Delhi of the destruction of the powder manufactory with 500 gunpowder makers. In fact, the rebels are getting disprited. I shall not write about the horrors of Cawnpore and Delhi ; we can but humbly thank God Agra has been spared. I hope you will get this letter ;we are only allowed to send very small light letters, as the dak is now carried by men, instead of horses." PESHAWIIR. The following is from an officer serving in the Punjab : "Peshawur, July 21. "You will be glad to !earn by this mail that though risings have taken place in many parts of India since mylasr, here we have been tolerably quiet, with the exception of the force at Fort Mackisore, which made overtures to the hill tribes, acid were discovered intriguing by our indefatigable commis sioner, Col. Edwardes. As soon as he heard what was going on, he told the negotiators in the hills to ask the Sepoys of the fort to give them a written promise to deliver up the fort. Then he had them; and one night, with a considerable body of cavalry and two guns of the mountain train, under my friend Col. S.'s old adjutant, Captain 8., off he started for the fort, halted half-way, and sent a body of 150 men by another road, so that they might get to the rear of the fort by the grey of early dawn. These arrangements, 'cleverly made and well executed, enabled him to surprise the mu tineers. The Colonel arrived before the fort before daybreak, and Ind the pl asure of hearing the neighing of the cavalry horses on the o her side, just as he reached the place. They were all unarmed and taken back, rind being ca!lel upon laid down thir arm.. Tine ohief nogoeint - .)r, a h tviliar, was at that very time in the hills, and when the roll was called was missing. Ile was shortly after brought in by the hill chief, and, two days after, blown away from a gun. "Edwardes deserves great credit for this peace ful termination of his expedition for, knowing the fort, he had t a k en th e precaution of seizing the keep, the fort itself h tvine no gates. Had th e mu tineers been able t o get' into the keep when the colonel summoned them to lay down their arms, they certainly would have fought ; but the day before he sent off a Pathan havildar and eight Se poys with two mules and a couple of empty pan niers. All that be told the havildar was to take the panniers into the keep and make them over to the officer who resided there and who commanded the garrison. The Pathan was further instructed to be very particular to close the gates at night, and net to open them again on any account till the sun next morning was pretty high. He obeyed his instruc tions to the letter,and the appeaiaoc3 of the force before the fort next morning showe I him the reason why he had been told to keep the gates shut. "The whole garrison were m ide prisoners. All the movemen . s hero have been made wi h coneurnmate wisdom so far, but we have a large native force here, although without arms; and nothing bat unremit lag vigilance can save us. Thr. e regiments are armed, and would doubtless turn against us, and five regiments are unarmed. I cannot conceal from myself that we are by no means strong, inasmuch as we have the whole of this large c tntonment to pro tect, and the fort also ; and thus the Europeans are parcelled out in guards, and not c )ncen' . rated. " Besides them, we have Pathan levies, not yet equal to their work, and some Sikhs, together with a good number of Mooltani horse, who will stand by us. So we must hope for the best ; but we have sent away a troop of European Horse Artillery, a horse field battery, and 63 European Foot Artil lerymen. This has weakened us and we are mak ing shift by using the officers of the disarmed regi ments partly to 111411 the Artillery division. " Our accounts of the 55th NJ., who fled into Swat, and who left that country at the request of the high priest, are very gra dying. Their money is nearly exp:.nded and their aminuaition also. Tuey have made several attempts to slip throngh the range of hills bordering on our territory, but the pas ies have been well guarded by the Pathins, who are favourable to us. Half-a-doz2n determined men could hold these passes against a multitude. I saw a letter from the Deputy Cornmissi suer of fluz tra to Col. E-, telling him all that lie hid been doing, and he says that the Sepoys nu ebsr about 50), and that the women of the hills abuse them for sitting down to cook their meals naked, and that they are now making for Chiles or Gilghit ; but if I know these paths at all they will nearly all perish from hunger and cold, as the country is without food or inhabitants. Gholab Singh also is destroy ing them, yet I do trust that half-a-dozen of them may eventually escape to tell their countrymen what they have undergone. The 10th Irregular Cavalry, from whom we took every single thing except their shoes and turbans and one rupee in cash, have been dreadfully punished ; not being in the habit of walking, they will reach their homes in a most miserable plight, and will be a warning to others all along the road. "Our power, certainly, is tremendous. T o thi n k that we should be able to stand for one hour against this array, and almost without reinforcements, for they are not yet at Delhi, though near. "Our Brigadier is indefatigable in loosing after his force here, and he has just hit upon an expe dient by which he will be enabled to despatch 400 Europeans in a few hours to any place. He has snared the use of several ammunition carts, and by convecting two together he manages to carry 12 men, and even 16 on an emergency, with their arms and some eatables. fle will have relays ofthe Com pany's bullocks at the different stags on the road, so as to move on a point withou' a halt. "The first one was tried by the brigadier last week. The party consisted of four ladies, the bri-• gadier, Colonel Edwardes, the chaplain, and four other officers. They harnessed six artillery hors s, each ridden by an officer, and they galloped all over the cantonments. How the ladies must have suf fered, for there were no springs. " Part of myold regiment that mutinie and went to Delhi the other cfay, left it again and gave them selves up. This is th e only eegineaut that has done so. I don't know what has been done w;th them ; for my part I would destroy them all, for it is im possible to believe them sincere in their repentance when we consider theextraordinaryactsof treachery these people have been guilty of towards us. "The 91h Irregular Cavalry, now before Delhi, allowed the enemy's cavalry to enter camp the other day and cut down many of our people, and yet they are trusted. What infatuation ! " But now nothing can prove in a stronger light the folly of our Government entrusting to Mus,ul - and Hindoos any authority in the country. Those very people, our own servants, educated by us and placed in situations of trust, have turned against us. Such treason has rarely been witnessed. "The mouths of babblers at home will be stopped, I hope, and India henceforward ruled with ! the stron g hand. How absurb the folly of placing any authority in the hands of such miscreants. "You will bq glad to hear the news of the almost total annihilation of the 55th N. 1., who were trying to escape towards Ga g hi t ; th ey were attacked by the Mahomedans in the mountains, many were drowned in crossing a mountain torrent, 60 taken pria9ners, and the rest Sod i n ever y direction. THE ,SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVRNING, These 60 will probably be blown away from the guns in Huzara. " There is a fight going on now in Eusofziie. Our Deputy-Commissioner, Capt. James, has taken a force to a large village known to be rebellious. Nothing but bloodshed all over the country. A friend of mine in Cashmere has offered to raise a corps of Dogra Rajpoots for the British. They are Hill Rajpoots of the same tribe as Maharajah Gholab Sing. He seems to think that the ladies had better all go to Cashmere for safety, as a few men could hold that country against an army." MEERUT. The following is from an officer at Meerut : " No. 2, Barrack, Meerut. "I have not even now received one letter since the 10th of May. What has become of them I can't say. This has grieved me very much. Situated as we all are, and have been, letters from England are of t en f o ld va l ue. It has been a hard fight, and hundreds have been murdered —men, women, and children ; at Cawnpore and Futty ghur alone fully 850, if not many more. Mothers murdered before their children, and even babes hacked to pieces on their mothers' breasts. The massacres there have been dreadful—horrible — more than any accounts I may have given. I send you a batch o f ex t rac t s f rom t h e L a h ore Chron i cle, which, horrible as they are, may give you some ratisfiction in reading, as giving proof of the de servedness of the pu n i s h men ts we are inflicting, and shall inflict. Never since the beginning of the world have such acts been perpetrated as have been committed here, ana by the men we fed and were kind to. Nearly 80 men have been hung, and nearly 1,000 killed in the district. We are strongly fortified here, and do not fear an attack from any number. Delhi has not fallen, but thousands have been killed. Our men cannot be i estrained, ald they are like demons ht loose. We have had mere than 20,000 men attacking 3,000 or 4,000, and they have fled losiug hundreds. 500 men at Agra thrashed 5,000, the mutineers being entrenched, and having 12 guns playing round shot and shell. They cannot stand our charge for a moment ; 18 gentlemen mounted (all the cavalry we had or. this occasion) checked 500 hundred cavalry, end these are but two out of hundreds of instances of gallantry displayed all over the country. This has saved us, by God's mercy. I am going to Delhi to the camp. I shall be with a Sikh corps. These (the Sikhs), as also the Ghoorkas (hill men) have fought with us like Europeans. Had it not been for them we might have been all murdered and turned out of the country. Had European troops been sent as asked for and advised, thou sands of lives would have been saved. You will learn more than I can tell you by the papers. Should God spare my life I will give you news of the total destruction of thousands of Sepoys assembled in Delhi from all parts of India. This is near at hand. Among our enemies are thousands of the worst sort of people,—vie., ' Goojurs,' and I believe every Mussulman its the country. We have found many here whom every one would haves supposed incapa ble of it, and they have been some of the principal leaders in the riots. The &Toys have lost all spirit (it they ever had any when opposed to us). The Hindo is and Mussulmans quarrel, and the Hindoos reproach them and say, This all your fault.' No matter, we care nor. We only know their lives are forfeited, and that not one shell be spared. Manyinnocent may be killed, but they have brought the curse on themselves. Think of their cutting up children before a fathet's eyes and punting the pieces in his mouth, and putting other babies alive into boxes and burning them ! Would any one believe this ? Acts like this produce such as the following. The Highlanders and others passed. through Cawnpore the other day, where those bru tal murders hid been committed, and they killed every native they could find. And they did but. justice, for all were implicated. They either helped or remained passive. °alumna will be formed to move about all over the country, aed. the Sepoys will be hunted down like beast e " We have a corps here of mounted volunteers, in number about 30—gentlemen, a few officers, and tradesmen. They went out not long ago against 3,000 Goojurs, people of the villages near here ; they killed a great many, cut off the heads of their leader, and stuck it on a pole. They are soon put to flight, their dread of the ' gory or white people, is so great. They are armed with match loJks, spears, and sword?." THE BOMBAY ARMY. The following is from an officer in the 12th Bom bay Native Infantry Camp near Deesa, August 18. "Now, dearest mo her, I will tell you a piece of news which you are sure to see much exaggerated in the papers, so don't believe a word there about it exceptlwhat I tell you. The detachrw ntiof my reel ment of 230 men which was sent. to Nussee! abad (the very sink of mutiny) has mutinied. The facts were these :—After they had received their pay Captain Holbrow, who was commanding them, heard the bugle blow the alarm for the troops in garrison to assemble. So be commanded our men to fall in, which they did without a murmur. There he left them while he went to the Brigadier for orders. One of the Bombay Lancers (Ist) had before ridden to our lines in a state of fanat.cism, being- stimulated by bang and other things, and told our men that the Bombay Ist Lauct-rs had mutinied and taken possession of the guns, and that if they were com manded to the artillery lin-. s not to obey, as the guns would be turned upon them. As firing was heard near the guns our men believed it, and when Captain Holbrow cause back with the Brigadier's orders to march to the artillery lines our men re fused to move, and, notwithstanding all his assur ances that it all was all s tfe, only three would move out of the 250. Holbrow sent Lack to the Brigadier and told him that his men were in a state of mu tiny, 93 he ordered down 100 men of the 831 Rei ment to the guns, under Lieutenant Swanson, of the Horse Artillery, to our lines. Of course it was a'l a lie of this man of the Lane , rs that they had mutined and taken the gnus. Bit while Hoibrow was away this man of the Lancers came back to our men and tried to kill toe Eurepeavas when they cime up. But Swanson shy t him with a pistol, and 103 of our men were disarmed. Toe worst part of the matter is that they were all found with tilt it muskets loaded, which certainly looks very suspi cious ; but it is alleged they loaded them in self - - defence against the Lancers. Our men here (350) are stanch. I can't the least fancy their ris.ng ; but these are certainly anxious times. You see by my account it was more of a panic than a mutiny, as they believed the man who told them the L tuceri la.A.d taken the guns and mutinied. I have not the least doubt that if it had not been for that the men would ban been as loyal as could be. Do not believe anything you see more than this, as you will be surd to see it is made a great deal of in the papers ; there was every ex cuse for them. It is so very bad that our regiment —` Sir Charles Napier's favourite'—who fought so well and gallantly at Mee ~ nee and Hyderabad, should b 3 the first Bombay regiment to set the ex ample of mutiny. It is reported the 25th have alsi mutinied. Ours and the 25th were Sir Chas. Napier's two pet regiments. We are most anxiously waiting for more men from Nuss3erabad. I think it will not turn out half so 133 d as it seems. We were before quite the top of the tree in the Bom bsy army, and now I suppose none are lower. Such is life. I am great friends with our sepoys here ; they like me very much, I hear. I hope it is true." The following letter is from an officer of rank : " Belgaum, Aug. 23. "Since I last wrote to you a singular event has occurred. The mutiny of the 27th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry at Kolapore, which is in the command of the southern division of the army, about 70 miles from Belgaum. Without advanc ing any grievance, or giving any inkling of their purpose, about 169 men of the regiment broke out into open mutiny at 10 o'clock at night, plundered the treasury of 45,000 rupee', and made for a dur gah (religious edifice) in the town, and in the early morning marched clear away towards Wagotun, on the coast by the Phoonda Ghat. No native com missioned officer accompanied the mutineers, but no confidence could be placed by the commanding officer in the remaining men to enable him to fol low the mutineers, of whom, howev,r, some 30 or 49 prisoners were taken. Perhaps the most re irkabla feature is that only one-third of the mu tineers were Hindostanee men, the rest being Mahrattas and Konkan and Deccan Hindoos. The trials are now going on, Colonel G. S. J aco b hav inot been sent there with Europeans and guns. H e and shot and hu ng 21 o f the immediately 2t after his arriv a l, A de tachment mutineers disarmed the o 7h of the 27th Native Infantry at Ratnag h•-rry has also been disarmed by two companies of Her Majesty's 86th Regiment, who then passed on t) Goa, en route to Belgaum, and they are ex pected here to-morrow. The:r approach has per mitted of the despatch of a company of the 2d Europeans this morniug to Dharwar, where there is considerable treasure and a gaol of 600 pri soners. Th e Mahomedan s tr e a cl i i t t o io r us s last pressing w e ek mutinoustwo,outsai 'outside' under t r i a l for ex popula;ion are ripe for revolt. Fo ur sepoys are now werein te n i o o w n n s ; awayand bl ,! from guns. The European force is nowsu{; 4- to disarm both the native regu nen.ts at _uesgaum if it were necessary, which i s no t expected, as Only' a few men in one of the regim en t s aro disatfectei.', The following is an extract of a letter from Bel ga,um, dated Aug. 23 : " None uf the native °facer.; f f the 27th 11,gi wont have rebelled. This is a gcol sigu ; the rest of the sepoys will, I hope, remain firm. The Kola poor mutineers had to travel some distance ; 25 were captured at Sawunt Warree. " Aug'. 10. " Intelligence reached U 3 to -day of the slaughter of 20 of the Kolapoor nautinet rs by their own regi ment. It appears these men could not get on at all below the ghat where they at first went. They could get no money and no food, so they came back, and on being observed barricaded themselves in a temple. The officers led out the regiment, who broke into the place where the men were, and, after a sharp hand-to-hand fight in close quarters, they bayonetted the whole. A few of the men of the regiment had trifling wounds. Now, there are but 25 of the mutineers loose in the country. "Aug. 11. " Two companies of the 2d European Light In fantry came in this morning. The poor fellows were drenched to the skin, and had eaten no food for two days. The officers all marched on foot, and they were for the most part lame when they arrived. These companies are to go on to Dhar war on being relieved by two companies of the 86th. We have now 400 available Europeans, and I think with them and the artillery we are equal to anything. I attended the court-martial on Sheik (Jsman, a greater rogue than the Monshea. He appears to have directed his letters in English. I saw the letters written inside in the native charac racter, and also the English translation, to the ef fect that everything was in readiness here. Seve ral leading men in the town and in the native regiments (no names) were ripe for the insurrec tion. The plan for taking the fort, making the prisoner commander, and cutting the throats of Christians, was also laid out. The English were a parcel of fools and did not 'smell the rat.' There were manyothersubjectsdiscussed inthe epistles, but the pith I havegiven you, and if these had not been inter cepted we should not have been inthe land of the liv ing. I afterwards rode up to the camp and passed the European lines. The soldiers looked much more comfortable with their clean kit, and were enjoying their pipes. " Aug. 13. " To-day most exciting events have happened. Two men have been sentenced to death, and are to be blown away from guns to-morrow. The Monshee's trial came to a close to-day, when he was found guilty. Another man, a Perdassie, was tried by a court-martial at the artillery messroom. The chief witne4s was the adjutant of one of the regiments, and his testimony was corroborated by the Jewidar. This man, it seems, had come to try and incite the Sepoys to insurrection, and the Jemidar, a Havildar, and Naick, directly they were aware of his in'entions, informed the adjutant who accompanied them to the lines, when they hid him in a hut behind a plain deal door with chinks in it. They then introduced the Perdas.4e, and the adjutant took down on paper the mutinous conversation. Under such eircam.stauces the ras cal was of course convicted, and to-morrow will meet the fate he deserves. I shall go and see him executed, as I think that every European ought by his presence to show to the natives his concurrence with the justice of the sentence; and I am sure, when we consider for a moment that bad those letters of the Monshee not been intercepted, we should all have] had our throats cut, it takes away ail pity that one might otherwise have felt for these wretches. I read the translations of the Moonshee's letters, three in number. Like those of the Perdassie, their plans were all arranged as nicely as possible. One was to the Moulavie of Poona, telling him the English were quite in igno rance as to what was going on. He also wrote to Kolapor, and the mutiny in that place is attributed to him. 5-- has been inderatigable in getiug evidence and keeping spies. It was thr , ugh his means that these lett:Ts were intercepted. These are indeed exciting times. God grant all may yet be welt in Bengal, and teat ro su:h insurrection may break out here. S - had to break the tidings of the sentences to the prisoners this evening, and to ob tain a confession, which I believe he got. a Aug. 14. " This day the traitors were blown away from guns at 4.30 p.m. I mounted my horse, and on the way met the prisoners in a cart guarded by a de tachment of the 64th ; presently we arrived at the place of execution. It was on the little course. There was a square formed. On one side were the Mahratta horse, on the other some Shetsandi poli. e, and in the direc. ion in which the guns were pointed were the rabble, and at the other f ace were th e 29th and 15th Native Infantry, and the 2d Euro peans drawn up, and between them and the guns all the Sahib-log stood. Every one was present, from the general downward. The Adjutant-General read the sentence out to the prisoners, and they were then led to the guns, and at a given sign d off they went. That rascal of a Moonehee was drawing 15J rupees a month for instructing officers of regiments in Hindostanee at the very time he was pitting their death. I should have mentioned that a H vildar and four men of the 29th were given up by the regiment this morning for plotting against Go vernment. " Aug. 15. " I visited. S - this morning on the way to the Symkhana. Ho informed me on the previous night he had left the mess with a friend who had driven him home, but the sharee he was to have gone in was stopped near a Mussulman musjid, near a tope of tree, by two men, who had ka nliu over their heals. They eked if there was a Sahib and, on t.e driver replying No,' dtt rmined to look themselves and got into the c ar t a n d p o k e d about with a stick. I saw the marks. The Mus sulmans are sail to want to kill a European, to sacrifice him to the newly-made saint who was exe cuted yesterday. I accompanied 8-- this evening on the round s . " Aug. 16. "I went down to the lines, and was present at the p trade assembled to promote the Jemidar, Havildar, and Naick respectively, on account of the painful dicharge of their d u ti es i n ma ki ng known the pl o t got- up by the Perdassie. The General addressed each of them ; he also called out she adjutant and complimented !Ain, and informed h.m he had brought his conduct to the notice of the Comma ider-in Ceief. This was a more gratifying spectacle than that of the day before yesterday. The General has been indefatigable ; he toll me of the number of providential interferences that had occurred for our benefit ; but under Providence nothing has tended more to the safety of the Southern Mahratta country than tote judicious mea sures taken by General L., and the sudden throw ing in of detachments of European troop. Gun. L. has throughout acted promptly, firmly, and judiciously, and, aided by Mr. S--, the superin tendent of police, has frustratel the plot, which, had it not been discovered, would have caused the rising of the native regiments in the division." Extract of a Iette M r USSOUREE from a lady, dated Mussouree, August 9 : " We are very busy working flannel clothes for our army before Delhi. They aro very badly off for these things, and being so much exposed at such a season of the year, and in such a prover bially unhealthy locality, and fighting as they have done so nobly, they really deserve to b 3 provided for by us. " Mrs. C. and myself have corected 350 rupees here for this purpose, and aro constantly at work in consequence, for, with the exception of our own talors, and one or two others ladies have given up to us, we can get none. Money is scarce, servants ditto, and everything at ruinous prices. Mr. —, the clergyman here, is also collecting for the same purpose, and has got some 500 rupees ; Mr. —, at Landour, 900 rupees ; a dd t o th is the collections at Simla, iussowlee,'and Meerut, and our poca soldiers, and the little Ghoorkas too, will get many comforts, you w ill see . Wonderfulto say, though I never did such a thing in my life before, I have the management of our portion of the busines=, which keeps me employed from early morning till late at night. We meet, with several other ladie , , at Dr. C.'s house every day, and as many tailors as we can collect, and stitch away." NYNEE TAL. The following is from an officer at Nynee Tal : " August *. " Sincei I wrote yesterday news has come that the Hindbes have risen against the Mahomedans and seizel..Moradaba,d and the guns there, and that they have als) split and are ready to go at one another's 'throats in Bareilly. The Mahomedans have been oppressing the Hindoos terribly, and the worm has turned. The Hindoos are numerous enough to wirrtee day if they are stanch. " They are ale) very well affected to us (at least in this neighbourhood), and have hem sending us constant messages , to Come back again, which we sh ul.cl have done if we had had any free here at all—l nrfan even two available field guns and 200 or 390 cavalry to go with the Ghoorkas and us. The Hindoos really seem to mean fighting now. " This is the best news we have heard for a long time. The religious split will spread like wild fire —into Delhi itself in all probability--aud which ever loses, Hindoo or Mahomedan, we ought to win. It also makes us at Nynee Tal quite secure from any attack, for some time to come at any rate. I hate sent a copy of this letter to my mother." Tire following ij an extract from a letter received from an Artillery officer at Calcutta, dated August 23 : ". Things are on the whole looking much brighter than when I last wrote. Ths telegraph communi cation has been restored to Benares, and the post office now i s open t o Cawnpore. News has been just received that Luckuow is safe. Gan. Have lock, although he could not reach the pla,co.;:!ias saved it. The enemy went out to oppose him, and the garrison, taking advantage of this, immediately sallied out, took a large quantity of provisions, and went back again all right. The enemy, finding that there was then no chance of starving them out for a long time, and knowing by exper ence that they would not easily be forced out, began t:) quarrel among themselves and to move off. Col. Inglis, of the 32d Queen's, now commands at Lucknow ; he has done good service. " The mutineers at Delhi are on their last legs ; they are quarrelling among themselves, and have been dreadfully defeated every time they have come out. They are now entirely surrounded, and are begging for mercy, which of course has been refused. Disease is carrying them off by hundreds, and death by the sword or halter awaits the survivors. " What will the natives now say? With every advantage on their side, they having chosen their own time, and having succeeded in taking us en tirely unaware, and the whole army, with very few exc options, having united to expel us, they find us still able with a few troops not only to keep but to win back the country, even before the home re inforcements shall have arrived. The Sepoys have often said that they had won and kept the country for us. Now they see their mistake. It has been proved over and over again that 100 Europeans will easily beat 1,030 natives, even those disciplined and taught by ourselves." THE RgLIEF OF LUCKNOW. (Prom the Daily News ) It is believed, in the beet informed circles in Calcutta, that the 90th Foot and the sth Fusiliers have been in tercepted.at Dinapore by Sir J. Outram on their way to jo - n Gen. Havelock, with a view to attempt sending them to Lucknow through Fyzabad. Such a project oull be little short of insanity. There are only two ways of reaching Fyzabad from Dinapore—by the Gogra, or through Gazipore, Jaunpore, and Azimghur. The latter is at all seasons a difficult route, owing to the want of made roads ; and at this season the greater part of the country to be traversed is under water. The Gegra, f:om its volume of water, is no doubt navigable, but it has never been surveyed, and to send a steamer up it on an expedition where speed is a main object would at present be most unwire. But let us suppose the troops arrived at Fyzabad. They would there be as far from Lucknow ae at Cawnpore; they would have no such road to travel along as between Cawnpore and Luck now ; and they would find the country which they had to pass one great quagmire. This review, however, un favourable though it b e, l eaves t h e most prominent feature of the Illy of the scbeme attributed to bit. James Outram entirely untouched. The revolted soldiers in the vicinity of Lucknow are estimated not to be under 20,000 well-armed men, at the lowest figure. They are so concentrated that they can with ease be made to face either way—to resist an assault from the Cawnpore or from the Fyzabad side. They are sufficiently numerous to make head against Havelock's 900 and Outran]'.. 2,000 at the same time, if they do not advance in one united column. It would be a hazardous attempt for Havelock, even were the sth and the 90th added to his force, to cut his way through the superior numbers of the mutineers to Lucknow ; but for either or bah of the detachments to reach that place before they are united will be next to impossible. The scheme attributed to Sir James Outram is alike in defiance of every principle of the art of war, and of common sense. It is an attempt on the part of an infinitely force to surround one vastly superior, and attack it sec masse; whereas the tactics of the inferior force ought to be to concentrate itself, break the enemy's line (if we may borrow a phra e from naval warfare) and cut him np in detail. If Sir J. Outrain has really taken upon him, at the eleventh houatech inge the plan of operations which General Havelock has hitherto been acting upon, iu this. absurd manner, we may abandon all hope of the reecue of the Europeans shut up in the Residency at Lucknow, and we must al-o entertain the most serious apprehensions for the safety both of the troops under Havelock, and of those which Sir James Outram is sending on such a wild-goose er rand. And it is to be feared that Sir James Outram is just the man to make such a blunder; for immediately before the battle cf Meanee he endeavoured to obtain Sir Charles Napier'e assent to a childishly absurd and im practicable movement proceeding on the same false prin. cip'e.. But, however it may be with this matter, thus much is certain. Sir James Outran] ha; been appointed to the command at Dinapore, at the same time as Mr. J. P. (he t et is sent forsard to Allahabad. Both of them were members of the council from which thi-ir appointments einenated ; both proceed to their respective destinations prepared to carry out the same policy. Now, what that pel , cy is, in the case of Mr. Grant, is well known. That gentleman repairs to ..41!ahabal avowedly for the purpose of transferring all power from the military to the civil authority, in a province where civil war is raging, and every principle of law in abeyance for the time, Mr. Grant goes to Allahabad to put an end to the impress ment for the carriage of troops—a system indispensatd;3 to what is at p resen t t o a ll pract i ca l purposes an enemy s country, and doubly indispensable from the utter ineffi ciency into which the Commissariat service in that die trict has been allowed to lapse by the Civil Government of India. Mr. Grant goes to Allahabal for the purpose of put ing an end to the trial of all native • by courts-ruar i tl, and re-establishing, amid the anarchy of a military cumbrous, complicated and pl un d er i ng i nsurrect i on, ale the compLcated end retarding forms, which, even in the most (plot times, have rendered the criminal Courts of the Mefußsil a laughing-stoc'c and a bye-word of scorn to the aggregate crime-class of Judie. Mr. Grant, who has been nominated by himself and his colleagues to initiate this unwise p they, is cx aetly the man to d ) a thing which irsuet be intelsrable to all soldiers, in the most cffeesive manner; for his whole career has been a series of wanton insults and ob tructions to the military service. And Sir J. Outran], whose experience in the political depa r t ment i s usuch greater than in the military, is cot the men to assert the rig:lts of his own branch of the service against his pe !antic red-tapist colleague. The antecedent; of both gentlemen leave litle.room.for doubt that their presence in the disturbed districts will utterly paralyse the ope:A hihficeshiwrGioleinoieinirlsiaislestaHumparov.oneeloti does of the army. Nor is this the worse. The system the e k i a ct n hr d 7o N nti e :to i n l a l th h re f in e s s upon which they are sure to act will be an entire change o b f r e n o e m i been that r a s e t t o i o n d g u P t ; o o a n b n e 7l , policy being departed from, and the Neill-Havelock policy resumed. Even though the measures understood to be contemplated by Mr. Grail and Sir J. Outran] were as sagacieus as they are unreasonable this inces sant change of counsels would be mot injurious to our cause in India. It will be regarded by the native sol diery and populetior, and by all the native princes, as symptomatic of weakness and irresolution. I. will pre long the crisis and increase its danger. Now for all this Lord Canning is responsible. He can not throw the blame on his Council. He is obliged to listen to their advice, but he is not obliged to take it. He may be as ignorant of India and Indian affairs—as dependent for information respecting all that concerns them upon his Council—as his friends allege when trey seek to extenuate his short comings. But this he know. , : —that his Council advised and sanctioned the scheme of action upon which Gen. Havelock has been pr. seeding, and that the some Council now advise the diametrically opposite scheme of action upon which Mr. Grant and Sir J. Outran] are to proceed. His commen sense told hi n that a military revolt and insurrection can only be put down by the army ; that so long as war is raging in e ur provinces the authority of the Civil C iurte must be staipende I—the ozelinary forms of civil procedure inter m tted ; and the same common seal() must tell him that t) hamcar and obstruct the operations of the army by the interference of rod-tape bureaucrats is to render it utterly ineffective. Lord Canning, it is clear, lacks that strong per s istent will which is requisite in such a crisis as that through which British In tie is now passing. In.leed, it i s d ou btf u l w h e th er any mere c i v ili an is ade quate to the task of wielding the destinies oflnd,a, at tics present mome a t. Th ere i s muc h plausibility in the eu;gestian that the offices of G overnor -G en eral and C ennaander-in-Chief ought to be vested in the same per son—at least until the revolt has been thoroughly and finally suppressed. • AN ATLAS GRATIS WITH THE DISPATCH —On and after Sun , day, Oct. 4th, 1857, each copy of the Dispatch will be ac companied with a Coloured Map, a Chart, or the Plan of a Principal Town,so as to furnish to each subscriber, gratis, a most eomprehensive complete, and useful Atlas. The size of the engravin gs w ill b e that of one will be of double the siz g 3 of the newspaper, six maps and two in each year, w It is hoped, i n t h e coarse of a short time that the Dispatch Atlas will contain more names and posititins' of places than any other publication of the kind. The counties will be given separately, and, when large, diVided. 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In canisters, 11b, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b, lis ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, on receipt of Post-OfficO - orrier:Barry Du Butry, ! & Co., 77, Regent-street, London: - IMPORTANT CAUTION . against the fearful dangers of spuri ous linitations :—The Vlce-Chancel. for Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitating Barry's Rl:Maki:4a Arabica Food." OCTOBER 5, 1857 liaval and Military Intelligence. The steam transport Babiana embarked at Portsmouth on Saturday the foll)wing officers and troops, comprising the head-quarters of tlie 98th Regiment, for Kurrachee :—Lieut. -Colonel D. Rainier, Major G. C. Stapylton, Captaus H. Ed war ls, W. Reid, and T. Richmond, Lieut. S. H. Heywood, Ensigns C. H. Griffin, E. F. Gregory, T. T. Simpson, and C. G. Heathcote, Paymaster H. Leigh, Lieut.-Adjutant P. C. Quin, Surgeon N. H. Stewart, Assistant-Surgeon W. Collis, Quartermaster W. Walsh, 32 sergeants, 11 drum mers, 26 corporals, 354 privates-423 rank and file. The Babiana went to Spithead yesterday morning, and after taking in her powder, &c., left for India. On Saturday upwards of 100 recruits arrived at Chatham from London and the Midland Counties for the purpose of joining the Indian depots at tached to the three battalions at that garrison. During the past few weeks nearly 1,000 recruits have joined the various Indian regiments as Chatham, and arrivals are taking place almost daily. Considerable progress has been male in the in struction of the young officers and troops now at Chatham, who are about proceeding to India, in the use of the Enfield rifle, and about 300 officers and men are daily under instruction in the use of that weapon. The instructors of musketry attached to each battalion are Major W. Radcliff, 84th Re giment, Ist battalion ; Capt. C. Lutyen, 20th Regi ment, 2d battalion ; and Capt. W. Not', 83d Re giment, 3d battalion. On Saturday the companies of the sth Fusiliers quartered at Chatham left that garrison, and joined the depot battalions at Colchester, in order to make room for the depot companies of the 18th Royal Irish and 33d Regimens, on their passage to Chat ham. The following officers have joined their regi ments at Chatham previously to embarking for India :—Captain R. Carr Glyn, 7th Royal Fusi liers ; Captain W. L. D. Mears, 20th regiment ; Staff Assistant-Surge on W . Trestrail and Second-class Staff-Surgeon H. C. Martin have also joined the provisional battalions at Chatham for garrison duty. The Abeona steam transport en her We voyage from Gibraltar, with troops, performed the passage in five days 17 hours, not eight days, as dated in our notice of her arrival. Tue Topographical and Statistical Depot of the War Department hag for th© preteo t, been placed by Lord Paumure under the direction ofLieut.-Col. James, R.E., the Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey, the two offices being thus to a certain ex tent consolidated under one officer. Rear-Admiral Robt. L. 'Baynes, C. 8., hoisted his flag (white at the mizen) as Commander-in-Chief of the squadron on the Pacific station, on board the Gtuges, 84, sailing ship, Capt. Fulford, at Spithead On Saturday, and saluted the Port-Admiral. She is still short of her complement of crew. Capt. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford (1840) has been selected by the First Lord of the Admiralty for the go o d service pensi on i n hi s g ift, b y t h e promo tion to flag rank of Capt. E. H Scot. Capt. Stop ford was commander of the _Phoenix at the bom b Ir.iment of St. Jean d'Acre. Cap , . T. A. Anson (1841) is appointed to the go ,d-service pension iu the gift of the Admiralty by the promotion of Capt. J. Kiugcome to flag rink. Capt. Ansoa was commander of the Pylades in the operations against the capture of Canton, and also of Amoy in 1811. He recently was Captain of the James Watt, 91. The newly-built 51-gun screw-frig ,te Melpomene, recently launched at Pembroke, arrived at Spit head on Saturday evening, and will go into Ports mouth harbour to-day to be immediately docked and equipped for commission. The Diadem, 33, 1,000-horse power, .Captain Moo: sons, C. B deranged tome of her mach'nery on Friday on her first trial, which prevented a sa' is f ictory report of the result. She realized a speed of between 114 and 12 knots. The Hood, 91, s.s., at Chatham, will shortly be " reported" to the Admiralty as t for launching. The Mersey, 40, is also iu a very forward state, and is to bt completed and launched as soon as pcsaible. The officers and men of the fiet in Portsmouth harbour have contibuted a day's pay towards the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the rebellion in Indiß. The steam transport Due de Brabant, whit' arrived at Woolwich on Friday in charge of a Be] gian crew, will in future he known under the name of the Prince 'Albert, which has been substituted for that of the Due de Brabant since her engage ment for the conveyance of troops to India. Capt. Younghusband, who commanded the Sove reign in the transport Service during the late Rus sian war, and whose experience of 16 years' service afloat has rendered him eligible for the post, has been appointid to the command of the Prince Albert, and has succeeded in engaging an efficient body of officers and crew. who will consist, of about 100 of every class. Etch of the officers on enter ing the Company's service is provided with a com plete suit of naval uniform free of expense. Ac cording to her rate of speed performed in two trial trips of 16 knots per hour it is expecte.' that she will reach Bombay in, and prob tbly under GO days, a voyage hitherto unprecedented. The Princess Charlotta, another of the Company's ves s.lq, is being fisted out at Southampton, the whole of their steamers having been tendered to and ac cep el by the India House. The 15rfence convict hulk, now in dock at Wool having been condemned as unfit for further service, is ordered to be forthwith broken up. The riggers, whose exertions du,ing the fire on board that vessel were recommended for the considera tion of the Lords of the Admiralty, have bean granted a bouuty of 14 days' extra pay each, the leidinc , man to be presented with a•d ona ti on o f 51 . The Defence is the last c , nvict vessel now remain ing at Woolwich, the sister chip Warrior having been broken up and disposed of by publi c auc ti on, realising about 3,000/. The iron screw steam storeship Industry, 'Master- Commander G. J. Hodges, and the Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Master-Commander Paley, have arrived at Woolwich,froln Por smouth. The Industry, laden with victualling stores from Ascen sion. was on her arrival on Saturday ordered to Deptford to discharge cargo. . About 1,000 extra hands ware taken int ) the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich last week, to be em ployed in the War Department for th 3 supply of toe East India Company, principally in casting, :ron ordnance, and preparing cartridges and amnia nition. About 300 additional hands are ordered to be engaged for the Royal Carriage , square tu- morrow. The military steam vessel Balakltva arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from the west, laden with returned stores. Mr. W. H. Clyme, assistant-paymaster, was on Saturday appointed t) the Ganes, as secretary's c lerk to Admiral Baines. Capt. Shawe, late sth Dragoon Guards, barrack master at Aberdeen, has been appointed in a simi lar capacity at Preston, Lane istuire. C.tptain J. Forbes, late 11th Foot, barrackmalter at Dundee succeeds Capt. Shawe at Aberdeen. THE MILITIA.. The officers of the Ist Royal Ea-t Middle3ex Mi litia have, through their commanding officer, Col. Wood, forwarded to Lord Paninure au off.A. of their services. This regiment is now upwards of 1,000 rank and file. Recruiting has proceeded actively for the East Suff.& Artillery Militia, and since the disembodi ment of the regiment a few months since 300 men have been enrolled. The West Essex Militia will not be called out this year. , The Glamorganshiro Artillery Militia has assem bled at Swansea, and the men are regularly drills I three times a-day, viz., from 6 to 7, 10 to 1, and 3 to 5 o'clock, making six hours each day. The re cruits do not come in so rapidly as expected. The North Lincolnshire Regiment of Militia, which has been ordered to assemble for duty at Lin coln on Wednesday next, will muster a day later in consequence of the general fist. The staff of the Shrophire Militia have receivel orders to recruit fur 40 regiments of the line. Tie Royal Merionethshire Regiment of Rifle Militia have assembled at Bala for training. The regiment has attained its full complement. REINFORCEMENTS FOE INDIA..—We do not pretend to be in the secrets of the Cabinet. But what need be secrets no longer are the announcements that the stan- . dard for recruits for regiments of the line is reduced to the lowest limit which it reached during ,the Russian war—that a further addition of 5,000 men is held in readiness . to embark for India; that is to say, 4 batta ions of infantry and 2 of cavalry—and further, that 10,000 more of the militia are to be embodied, in addi tion to the 15,000 already designated for garrison duty to supply the drain upon the troops of the line sent to the East. It wilt be remembered that at the very eve of the prorogation of Parliament an act was passed to enable the Queen to embody the whole of the tnili is force of the United Kingdom if necessary. At the same time, a sum of 200,0001. was voted to aid in the payineot of so much of this force as was likely to be required. 21. t, that tree it was supposed that from 10 ; 000 to 15,000 men would be required of the militia. It is now found that a lager number will be wanted, and Government are resolved to call out the requisite quantity. The ques tion arises, will it be necessary to call Parliament Loge ther before the usual time? We behove that strictly for the embodiment of the militia it will not be necessary to summon Parliament in November, i nasmuch as Parliament has already given authority f or teat purpose. But if.the course of events should reader it necessary to call Parliament together the Government will not think from their duty, although, of course, they • t such a step utloss rendered morn necessary o t t h r u e : o as r t yet seems liltely to he the case. . —Su n ,i a y p,per. THE BIGHT HON. SIR J. S. PASINGTON, M. P., ON INDIAN AFFAIRS. The annu Al dinner of tile Worcestershire Agricul tural Society was held at Worcester on Friday even ing, at the close of the exhibition of stock. The chair wa3 taken by the Hon. F. Lygon, M.P., and among the company were Ear; Beauchamp, Viscount Elmley, the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakiugton, Rtrt., J. H. H. Foley, Esq., M.P., Sir Tues. Winning ton, Bart., M.P., itc. In the course of the evening Sir E. H. LECH MERE, Bart., gave the health of the borough mem bers, on which The Right Hon. Sir J. S. PAKINGTON rose, and spoke at some length. After allusions to the pros perity of agriculture, and to the bountiful crops with which Providence had blessed us this season, he came to the all-engrossing topic of the day—the mutiny in India. He said, while they had all occa sion to be thankful fur the elements of prosperity at home, they could not close their eyes to the fact that a dark cloud had arisen over a portion of the fortunes of England. He hoped and believed it was only a passing cloud ; but a. dark and threaten ing cloud had arisen—and at this moment, in that country where only three months ago the represen tatives of the Queen were exercising power and authority in calmness and security over one of the greatest empires in the world, we saw our own arms turned against us ; our soldiers were now our greatest and most ferocious enemies ; and a small band of English soldiers, by the exercise of deeds of vabur which had never been exceeded, were b irely able to keep their ground in some few of the chief sti onlholds of that country, and were utterly unable from their paucity of numbers to protect our coun trymen—and, alas 1 be must add our countrywomen —from the most dreadful cruelties and atrocities ever committed. Politics—that was, mere party politic;'—were excluded from these meetings ; but he thought it would hardly be becoming in a large body of Englishmen like the present to assemble together wiihout giving utterance to the feelings which all entertained on the subject. The right hon. baronet then explained the steps he had taken to originate apublic county meeting on this question, at which he proposed that they should address her Majesty the Queen, to assure her Majesty that they appreciated the gravity of the crisis, and that they were prepared to offer her the best support iu their power to conduct the struggle to a triumphant issue. (Cheers.) He confessed that he f It very anxious that England should speak out in this crisis of its history. They could not at this moment commit a greater folly than to shut their eyes to the'magnitude of (he crisis. He thought that the greatest fault that the Government had committed—and here he spoke of the Government of India rather than of her Ma jesty's Ministers in this country—had been in un derrating the magnitude of the rebellion, and in speaking of it as only a military mutiny, and a pas sing outbreak which would speedily be subdued. (Hear.) They might depend on it this Was not a mere passing military mutiny, it was a deeply-organised, long-matured conspiracy, with the object of exter minating the English in India. (Hear.) In this aspect they ought to view it; and in viewing it in this aspect was our greatest safety. His advice to the country was : don't let us underrate the danger,. but let us meet it in the spirit of Englishmen de termined to subdue it. (Cheers.) He wished to be clear prom any misunderstanding as to the opinion which he entertained on this subject. Let it not be supposed that in using this language he felt anything like au approach to despondency or despair. On the contrary, he could say with sin cerity that the view which he took of the state of affairs—gloomy and anxious as he admitted it to • be—was a sane-trine' feeling of ultima`e success. There was one fact which they would all have ob served in connexion with this rebellion. He thought it was clear to demonstration that the relative superiority, man to man, of the European oveathe Hindoo was now as great as it was when the great C.ive won the battle of Plassy. It was extraordi nary that it should be Bowl:feu they considered that the soldiers whom the Europeans had now to con tend with were solditrrs whom they had trained up themselves. But it was thefact that the superiority of the European over the Hindoo was as great now as it ever was ; and when the reinforcements from England should have landed in India, and marched to the assistance of our army there, he sanguinely hoped that the authority of the Queen of England would soon be re-established. There was another fact on which he grounded a strong hope, and he formed it on a pr i vate letter received a:few days _since from the Governor of Ceylon, who said we had great reason t 3 be thankful that the matter was not worse than it is. The Governor of Ceylon wrote that we in England had hardly yet a full conception of the danger which we had escaped—(oh, oh)--; for that India had been saved by the premature out break at Meerirt In anather fortnight, had not that outbreak taken place, there would have been a situultaneour massacre of all the Europeans in India. (Sensation.) And his correspondent used this remarkable expression, that "he verily believed there would not have been an European left to tell the tale." We had been saved that danger by the premature outbreak at Meerut. This, then, he would say, was the time for Englishmen to prove their ,loyalty, and at all events to support the leb lb el i l is e h ved ou t r h e d t o r m m i t e n i ph oo ar i i n t r tl , i s r t o a n t e ; wo aV id titi e s d t o o n r e e , establish regard to the atrocities of the Sepoys, be vindicated, crime must be p un i s h e d , England must 'be asserted, a n d th e deeds committed must be treat e d as th ey d eser ved. Eng - lishmen demanded this ; b u t h ewou l d justiceth e horriblep n er u s o t f say let it be done in no vindictive spirit. Let j ust i ce b e t e mpered with mercy. It might be perhaps not an acceptable sentiment to them, but it was a senti ment deep in his heart, and wherLthey came to deal wits the matter after the victory had been gained, 7et, them bear in mind that our own hands were not clean( (Hear, hear.) India had not been governed as it ought to have been. It was ,only yesterday he s elomi , ted to the aston:a :ed eyes ()Fa large par yin a a isuntly house official proof that in collecting the revenues of India there had been practised in the name of England—he would not say by the autho rity, but he feared not without the knowledgesof geglislanen—there hal been practised tortures little less horrible than those which we now deplore. This must be borne in mind in the day of reckon ing ; and in dealing with this question let them bear iu mind these two great cardinal objects—first, that as a great nation we must re-establish the au thority of the sovereign 'in India, and secondly that when that authority is re-established India must be better governed. We"must take care that our past et rocs are corrected, and our mission so fulfilled that we may not onlyreap the befieS tin the govern ment of that great empire, but so do it as to pro tr..ots the happi ness, the welfare, and the ultimate civilisation of that vast portion of the human race entrusted to our care. (Cheers.) Other toasts followed in the course of the evening. RAILWAY RECEIPTS —The traffic returiet of railways in the United Kingdom published for the week ending S September 26 amounted to 5135071., and for the cor respondieg week of 1826 to 488,243/., showing an increase of 25,264/. Tne gross receipt.; of the eight etil ways having their termini in the metropolis amounted for the week ending as above to 214 569/ , and for the corresponding week of last year to 210,1101,, showing an increase of 4,459/. The increase on the, Eastern Counties Railway amounted to 2,1211. ; on the Great Northern to 2,4131 ; on the Great Western t0'1,1331 ; on the London and North-Westsra to 2,049/. ; and on the London and Black wall to 681.; total 7,893/, But from this must be deducted 7431. the decrease on the London, Brighton, and South Coast ; 3261. on the London and S ,utla Western ; and 2,8651. on the South Ea.tern, together 3,4341 ; leaving the increase as above 4.459/. The receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted to 208.9331. and for the cone smnding period of 1846 to 273,1331. showingan increa, e of 23,8051. in the receipts of those lines, which added to the increase on the metropolitan lines, makes the increase 25.2641. as compared with the corresponding week of 1856. ADVE STISEMENT. 1— SIGHT AND HEARING— - SPECTACLES PO WERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —S. and B. Solemons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Obserie—opposite the York Hotel, W By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex traordina y improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes poss ess such extraordinary power that some, three and' -half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16A° 20 miles. 18 F 5 o 1 r . the waist_ waistg coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accardin , 4,ly. The Royal Exhibition, valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which ri a l p ey ers a o n n s c w a e n be sen and Country known one and a-half mile distant. 12 to 14 miles, Th • pose on the Race-course and at Opera-houses,theat r every pup_ and ships are clearly seen sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Op are invaluable for shootiag, de . 1 Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses,el-sta kilt' yachting, 0, . to powers.—lnvaluable preserving with wonderful Lora this invaition greai est traps; aront power. served and strengthened at d Spectacle Lenses of . the 1 e great sdvautage derived 1 is, that vision impairednbsecomes pre are enabled to employ their sight at the mosvterYminartel=ktion—ean see with those lenses of a much less magnif3ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of further power f u l assistance. Persons can be suit e d at the most, remote part of the world by send i l l with ioner, of the gimes out of their srlecta cic s in a letter, and stating the dist ince f rom th e eye they can read small print s stating theirat h o. o e s . e Deafness. —New e ho rfnhessa v.e_ni t , r e n D ad is e eo u r s e e r.l o .. f_sp T c h e e tacles Organicbj small, newly-invented i V a i s b t r r t a t t im e s e ., n a t a for e x t r d a e oLd n i c o , a s, ri IL t p l o r o w l y o rfnl, fnl, different from all oth:rs, surpassing anything B e e f in t g he nf ki t n h d e t s h a a n t ie h e a o s lo b u e r en a , s o t r he pr s o k b i a u b , l i can, be produced. e s ll i o , Itutehta.enestaibtl public n . b I l i e t e a n s a se b i l u e i s i d ie e s af ; i t )e h r e so u n n s p t l c o a h m e n ar t s d e is i t s i a n t e i o tl i y i a c ! singing noises in the ears is entire'.r removed, and it afford: all the assistance that possibly could be de,ire(l.-3 •. kil,e Ina:le-street, Piccadilly--Opposite the York Hotel, W.. Country Markets. DALKEITII GRAIN MARKET —Om 1. Qrs. Best. Current. In ret i 0. 2.6 Wheat - 623 Od 1144 Oats 32s Od. 2Bs 5d ... ...... 16, Od 126 E Barley 404 Cd 34s Od 16 Peas & beaus 50s 01 _ 454 sd. HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—OCT. 2. wnsAT. BARLEY I OATB. I BRAN El. 43s First 683 Od 6d 13; • uu i%a 6d 1 33s 6d 1 - 519 01 Second 438 Gd 1 36s 101 1 24s 61 ; 484 1141 Third 36s 01 1 27s Od I 26a 61 146 Od Total quantitrd wheat in market, 634 qrs., 606 sold SP HI barley ~ • 750 qrs., 731 sold ~ , -, oats e ; 312 qrs ., 388 ~Id 14 Of ~ beans 51 qrs., 43 so ld AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 16 3 6-12ths / Barley, ...11. 16 10" 7-12 tbs Oats, ... 11. 9 6 2.l2ths 1 Beans, 2/. 811 5-12 ti a ABERDEEN—OCT. 2. Potato oats 24s al to 25s d } 4olbs per bushel Common oats 21s Cd to 23 s Od Bere 30s Od to 3a Od 1 531bs • Barley 30s Od to 31s Od Hi Wheat, red (spring)37s Od to 408 Od white 35s Od to 50s Od 1 , 1121bs lb Oatleal,4 lBs Od to 19s 01 per boll. Flour 42s Od to 43s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb ........... 6d to 9d I Butter, p lb. is 2d t o I s 3d Mutton, pe r lb ....... Cd to 9d Eggs, p doz. Os 8d to Os 10d Lamb, do., Os 6d to Of 4 91 I Hens. p pair 2s 9d to 3s 01 Veal, per lb ... 6d to Os 91 I Chickens do. 2s Od to 2e -61 Pork, perlb...o s 01 t o Os 01. Ducks, do., Is 6d to 2: 01 Salmon, per lb ... Os Od 1 Ducklings,dols 6d to 2F4 01 Grouse, per brace.....o s t o Os Turkeys, each Os Od to Os 01 Tallow, p stone, Os t o — 3 01 Potatoes, pr pock, 8d to 101 Rabbits, each Od to Od. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. 109 s to 112 s Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen ..... .............. 7d to 3d RETAIL PRICES. Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s 4d I Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2s 0,1 Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ dust, Bereuieal Od to ls 8d j , per lb 2d t o 20. Yeasemeal... Os Od to 2 s 4d I Sids, 7d Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 61 4-lb. 10af...8d. j 2-Ib. 10af...4d. DUBLIN, OCT. 2. • Our market to-day was well supplied, and the cur rencies of Tuesday were generally supported, except for inferior qualities, which towards the close became difficult of sale, and should be quoted a shade cheaper. Indian corn very dull, at late quotations. White wheat, 31b 01 co 33s Od ; rod ditto, 29s Od to 31s ad: ditto now, 3O 61; barley, malting, 17s 6d to 225; grind ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15s 631 to 18s; ditto, new, 12s 61 to 14s 6d ; oatmeal, 15s Od to 17s; here, new, 15s to 16s 31; rtpes,- d, 28s Od to 30s Od per br•1; baleis flour, 19s 01 to 21a Od per cwt; Inoiau corn, 35s 01 to 383 Od per (80 lba. The railroad from Treviglio and Bergamo to Venice will be opened on the 12th October. During the last few days of the month of August 911 b. of gold was found at Veres-patak, Aboudbanya, in Transylvania. The Austrian Government ,has made a contract with Mr. Brett, who is to construct a submarine telegraph from Ragusa, by the way of Corfu, Zante, and Candia, te Alexandria. It is rumoured in Vienna that his Holi ness the Pope has accepted the resignation' of Cardinal Antonel i, but the news is too good to be believed. THE RELIEF OF LIICKNOW.—At the present stage of the terrible drama now being played out in India, the main interest centres in Gen. Havelock's force. Will this General, who in a few weeks has won eight bril liant victories against overpowering numbers, be able to fight his way to'Lucknow before the garrison there, hard beset and surrounded by hosts of furious zealots, succumbs to irresistible pressure Or are new bands of hapless victims—brave men, delicate ladies, and helpless children—to slut the savage hate of men, or rather fiends, who have swore , to exterminate every Eure peen, every Christian in Hindostan ? There is not an inhabitant of this island whose heart has not thrilled responsively to these questions. Would hat we could answer them satisfactorily. Alas !so ar from that, we have now rather to ask whether the column which we hoped would have relieved Luck now will be able to make head at Cawnpore, to which it has retreated, against the overpowering numbers of the enemy which are assembling round it. Reduced to 1.000 efficient men, and witb nothing that can be called a fort, its danger is great. But, supposing Havelock to hold his ground until the 90th Regiment and the sth Fusi liers reach him on, say the let of September, he would then perhaps be strong enough to force his way to Luck no'-.v, and would do tee distance of 53 miles in eight marches, allowing for the time lost 'n engagements with the enemy. Let us examine the route. The stages then to Lucknow are as follows :—From Cawnpore to Onae, 101 wiles, over a bad and heavy road, it being necessary first to cross tlr. Ganges, whi c h is spread out to a great width opposite Cawnpore. °ea° is a large village, and here on the 30th of July General Havelock engaged and defeated an, immensely superior force. The next stage is Onao to Rahmatganj, 111 miles, over a bad and much cut up road, passing the large village of Rain ganj halt way. Here, again, a second action was fought on the 31st of July, and the enemy routed. A bad road leads to the next stage, Noelga, j, 12 miles. The river eye must be crossed half-way on this iitage, where Have lock was stopped by its swollen stream, the opposite bank being lined with the enemy. Had he succeeded in crossing he would still have bad to travel 10 miles to Baal Ka Takiyab, at the entrance of the city of Luck now, whence to cantonments is nine miles through the narrow streets of the city, across the Ghoomtee river by a bridge, which might be destroyed, and thence over heavy sands. Supposing the march to be snc cessfully accomplished in spite of the vast masses of the enemy which are said to be posted along ,it, what will be Gen. Havelock's next movement ? From Lucknow he would probably return to Cawnpore, for, supposing hits to march re X.:. on Agra by Mynpoorie, be would i n any case h ave to ,retrace his step s towards 'Cawnpore as far as Meabganj, 341 miles, arid be would probably find difficulty in crossing the Ganges, except at Cawnpore, where he has already secured the means. Fr , in eaten pore to Mynpoorie the total distance is 107 miles. The road during the rain is heavy. At 47 miles from Cawnpore the Essan, a considerable stream, must be crossed. Mynpoorie is a town with lees than 3,000 inhabitants. The Eesaa must here be crossed again. There was abridge, but whether it still exists is unknown. The distance from Mynpoorie to Agra is 711 miles over a good road in dry weather, but for the first 40 miles it is during the rains and till November under water, varying in depth from ne to three feet. From Agra to Dahl, by Allyghur, now in the hands of the enemy, is 139 miles, but this is a very cir cuitous route. There is a nrire• direct route along the river Janina, but it .is scarcely practicable at this season for large bodies of troops. On the whole, it seems reasonable to expect that under the most favourable cir cumstance a month or flee weeks must elapse before General Havelock's army, even if powerfully rein forced, could, efter quitting Lucknow, unite with that before Delhi ; and ere that we trust the English flag will wave over what remains of that detested city. W e may be sure that officers like Nicholson and. Ceatnberlain will urge on the assault if there should be a. shadow of probability that it will succeed. Should it, however, be necessary to delay, that delay. will be only the more fatal to the rebels, who will then be surrounded without a possibility of escaping. In either cacti their punishment is not far distant, and will he, we doubt not, a signal one.—From. the lioincecard Mail from India, China, and the East, of October 1, 1857. BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our paper headed A Fact for Physiologists," in which the Nottingham Medicel Reform Society propose to send free to ail applicants the Botanic Remedy for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by Professor Webster, of Philadelphia. [ADVERTISEMENT.)— Holloway's Pills a most potent remedy for liver complaints and indigestion.--William Racdonall, of her Majesty's Highland Regiment, has gratefully acknowle , fged to Professor Hollowaythe won derful efficacy of this astonishing medicine ; he suffered with liver complaint and all its attendant evils during 14 years,' residence in India ; his constitution was so en feebled that be was compelled toaeturn home, when he was induced to tsty Holloway's Pills, which effected a perfect cure after the most eminent of the faculty tied failed to do him good.—Sold by all medi cine vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway's estab ishenents, 244, • Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ;by A. Stamps, Con stantinopl; A. f u idi cy, S myrna, and E. Muir, elta. BIRTHS. OF A SON, On the 2d inst., at Sudbory Rectory, Derbyuhire, th • wife of the Rev. Frederick Anson. Oa the 3d inst., at 26, C a rlt on C o t tages, Brunswick street, Dover-roa, Mrs. B. G. Wilkinson. OF A DAUGHTER, On the 2d inst., the wife of George Long, Esq., of Lin ealn's-inn, banister -at-law. C ros O le n the 2d inst., at 14, Onslovr•creseent, th e w if e of E. y,.Es q. On the 3d inst. at St. Pancras hurch, Esq.. of St. Mich' MARRIED. Michael's, A z , res, to C Margaret Ge o, ughder y of the late A. H enderson, Eq., of 8 a, Park-lane. On the :.:i.l inst., at the parish church, Windlesharxi, Surrey, P re d w i c k Robins, Esq., to Mary Eli za b eth, the only daughter of John Waterer, Esq., Bagshot, Surrey. DIED. • w De al I::. g r a , 1 oAnrtthi Artillery, e l ry t , h June, agei 44; at Captainthe same Alexandertime one of them only three days old, were • hia wido holding b c y hi t l h a e ie m n' utineers . w, who was t-F il:b o : h h d dis when be fell, escaped uninjured, with her three surviving children, to Agra. Oa the 2d lust , at 11, Iltrtford-street, Mayfair, Robert litate Sergeant-Surgeon to her Majesty, aged 81. in r u K. rd ilil e lae re lvkaitn? On, the 2d inst., at Bicester, Henry Michael Tubb, Esq., banker. ( ) he 31 inst., at Tottenham, Robert Maynard, Esq ; aged 67. 00. tue 3d inst. at Chelsea, Willi am Drummond Oswald, 6sq., of the Board of Trade, eldest son of the late John Oswald, Esq., of Croydon. On the 2d inst., Mr. David Wilson, solicitor, only son lt David Wilson, Esq., 27 , Brunswick-place, City-road, •ged 29. On the 2d inst., at Edinbu rg h , Jane Cumming, the :!clest surviving IM. daughter of the l a t e Si r Alexander Pen rose Cumming Gordon, Bad., of Abyre and Gordonstowns le On the 29th ult., at B righton, George Herbert Kinder y, Esq., aged 48. LONDON : Printed and Published by MITRDO YO UN of No. 112, St ran d , Pk i ntzr, at 2714 Sun Office, No . 112, &mud, in the Precinct otW Savoy, in the county of MiddleiEx, Monday, October 5, 1331.