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

THE MUTINIES IN LYDIA. AGRA. The following letter is from a lady at Agra : " Fort Agra, August 12. " Here we are still quite well, thank God, but Badly tired of ibeing 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 unburnt 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 gates in the daytime, and some fortunate person whase 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 taken. 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 ad well lately in consequence of the change of life and very great confinement from be ing shut up here, but he is quite convakisAmt, and since we are allowed to take our morning drives he 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 quartets 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 heat, which is then very great. "We 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 t) live in at present. However. we live in hopes that when General Havelock has relieved Lucknow he will come here on his way to DAhi, and the very idea of his being on the road with his troops will quiet down the distret 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.l In fact, the rebels are getting disprited. I shall' not write about the horr,,rs of C twnpore 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." PESHAWUR. The following is from au otii,;er serving iii the Punjab : "Peabawur, July 21. "You will be glad to learn by this mail that though risings have taken place in many parts of India since mylast, here we hive been tolerably quiet, with the exception of the force at Fort Mackisore, which made overtures to the hill tribes, and were discovered intriguing by our indefatigable commis sioner, Col. Edwardee. 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.'3 old adjutant, Captain 8., off he started for the fort, halted half-way, and sent a body of 150 men by another read, 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 had the pl-asnre of hearing the neighing of the cavalry horses ou the other side, just as he reached the place. They were s/1 unarmed and taken back, and being callei upon laid down thir armte Toe chief negoctator, a h wilder, was at that very time in the hills, and when the roll was called was missing. lie was shortly of er 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 hid taken the precaution of seizing the keep, the fort i self h .ving no gates. Had the mu- , tineers been able to get into the keep when the colonel summoned them to I,y down their arm-, they certainly would have fought ; but the day before he sent off a Pathan h+vildar ant eight Se poys with two mules and a couple of empty pan niers. All that be told the havildar was to take the pauniers 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 not to open them again on any account till the son next morning was pretty high. He obeyed hie instruc tions to the let . er, and the appearance of the law nefor L e f the fort next meening Ehowe I him the reason Why* be bad been told to keen the gates shut, "The whole girrison were made pri , oners. All ihe movemen s here have been made wi h consummate wisdom ao far,.but we have a large native force here, although without aims; and nothing but unreinit log vigilance can save us. Thr e regiments are armed, and would doubtless turn against us, and five re g iments are unarmed. I cannot conceal from myself that we are by no means strong, inasmuch as we have the whole of this laige c kntonment to pro tect, and the fort also ; and thus the Europeans are parcelled out iu guards, and not c tccentretel. "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 beat ; 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 reei men's partly to man the Artillery divisOn. " Our accounts of the 55th N. 1., who fled into Swst, and who left that country at the request of the high priest, are very graelfying. Their money is nearly expended and Vietr am:intuition also. They have made several attempts to sl p throngh the range of hills bordering on our territory, but the pastes have been well guarded by the Pethens, who are favourable to us. Half-a-doz,n determined men . could hold these passes against a multitude. I saw a letter ftom the Deputy Commissianer of Hue ira to Col. E-, telling him all that he had been • doing, and he says that the Seeeys number about 503, and that the women of the hills abuse them for sitting down to cook their meals n iked, and that they are now making fer Chiles or Gilghit ; but if I know these paths at all they wall nearly all perish from hunger and e.Dld, a.l the country is without food or inhabitants. Gholib Singh also is destroy ing them, yet Ido 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 sing!e thing except their shoes and turbans and one rupee in cash, have been dreadfully punished ; not being in the habit of walking, they wall reach their homes in a most miserable plight, and will be a warning to others all along the road. "Our power, certainly, is tremendoug. To think that we should be able to stand for one hour against this array, and almost wi hout reinforcements, for they are not yet at Delhi, though nea-. " Our Brigadier is indefatigable in looting after his force here, and be 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 sloured the use of several ammunition carts, and by con :eccing two together he menages to carry 12 men, and even 16 on an emergency, with their arms and some eatables. He will have relays of the Com pany's bullocks at the different stag=s on the road, so as to move on a point without 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 canton naeuts- How the ladies must have suf fered, for there were no springs " Part of myold regiment th : trautinie - 1 and went to Delhi the o-her day, loft it regiment that them selves up; This is the only gave d n aa t t has done so. I don't know what has - Oen w ro l r t h it tleem . ; f e e my - part I would destroy them et possible to believe them sincere in their repentance when we consider the extraordinary actsof treachery e these, people baVe been guilty Of towards us. The 9th 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 odr Government entrusting to Mus-ul mans and Bindoes any authority in the country. Those very reoplo, our own servants, educated by us and placed in situations of trust, have turned against us. Such treason hasrarely been witnessed. " The mouths of babblers at home will be stopped, I hope, and India henceforward ruled with the strong hand. How absurb the folly of placing any authority in the hands of such miscreants. "You will be glad to bear the news of the almost total annihilation of the 55th N. 1., who were trying to escape towards .Gilghit ; .eehey were attacked by the Mahomedans in the moun t a i ns, m any were drowned in crossing a mountain torrent, 60 taken prisoners, and the rest Sail in every direction. THE SUN, LoNDON, MONDAY 14_,1f N LNG, OCTOBER 5, 1851 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 longtime, and knowing by experience that they would not easily be forced out, began to, 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, witich 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 unawares, and the whole army, with very few exceptions, having united to expelus, they find us still able with a few troops not only to keep but to wiu 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 1,000 natives, even those disciplined and taught by ourselves." These 60 will probably be blown away from the guns in Huzara. " There is a fight going on now in Eusofzaie. 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 Maj. 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 tenfold value. It has been a hard fight, and hundreds have been murdered—men, women, and children ; at Cawnpore and Futty ghur alone fully 350, 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 yon a batch of extracts from the Lahore Chronicle, which, horrible as they are, may give you some ratisfaction in reading, as giving proof of the de servedness of the puLishments we are inflicting, and shall inflict. Never since the beginning of the world have such acts been perpetrated as have been committed hero, and by the men we fed and were kind to. Nearly 80 men have been hun g , 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 r e,trained, and they are like demons lot loose. We have had more than 20,000 men attacking 3,000 or 4,000, and they have fled losin g 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 fur a moment ; 18 gentlemen mounted (ail the cavalry we had oc this occasion) checked 500 hundred cavalry, and 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,—viz., Goojurs,' and I believe every Mussulman is the country. We have found many here whom every one would have supposed incapa ble of it, and they have been some of the principal leaders in the riots. The Sepoys have lost all spirit (if they ever had any when opposed to us). The "Endow; and Mussulmans quarrel, and the Hindoos reproach them and say, This all your fault.' No matter, we care not. We only know their lives are forfeited, and that not one shall be spared. Many innocent may be killed, but they have brought the curse on themselves. Think of their cutting up children before a father's eyes and putting the pieces in his mouth, and putting other babies alive into boxes and burning them I 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 had 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. Columns will be formed to move about all over the country, and the Sepoys will be hunted down like beast,. " 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 loader, and stuck it on a pole. They are soon put to flight, their (head of the ' gora log,' or white people, is so great. They are armed with match loJks, spears, and dwords." THE BOMBAY ARMY. The following is from an officer in the 12th Bom bay Native Infantty : " Camp near Deesa, August 18. "sow dearest mo her, I Will tell you a piece of news which . you are sure to sze much exaggertted in the papers, so don't believe a word there about it exceptiwhat I tell you. The detachm,ntjaf my re2i ment of 250 men which was sent to Nussee; abad (the very sink of mutiny) has mutinied. The facts were these :—After they bad received their pay Captain Holbrow, who was commanding them, heard the bugle blow the alarm for the troops in garrison to assemble. So he commanded our men to fall in, which they did without a murmur. There he lef, 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 I mat cism, being stimulated by bang and other things, and told our men that the Bombay Ist Lancers had mutinied and taken posseision 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 mar the guns our men believed it, and when Ciptain Holbrow came b Lek with the Brigadier's orders to march to the artillery lines our men re lu.ed to move, and, notwithstanding all his o.ssur anc3s that it all was all s de, only three would move out of the 250. Holbrow sent bat's to the Brigadier and told him that his men were in a state of mu tiny, sa he ordered down 100 men of the 83d Regi 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 Lanc:rs that they had inutiued and taken the guns. Bet while Holbrow was away this 'man of the Lancers came back to our in-en and tr:ed to kill tae Europeans when they c 'me up. But Swanson shrA him with a pist)l, and 193 of °rumen wore dh , artne I. Tce worst part of the matter is that they were all found with their muskets loaded, which certainly looks very suspi cious ; but it is alleged they leaded them in self defence against the Lancers. Our men here (350) are stanclL 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 Lincers h..d taken the (Yens and mutinied. I have not the least doubt that if it had not been for that the men would have been as loyal as could be. Do' not believe anything you see more. than thii, as you will be aura to see it is made a great deal of in die - papers ; there was every ex cu.4e for them. It is s ye:y bad that our regiment Sir Cnarles Napier's favourite'—who fought so well and gallantly at Meeitiee and Hyderabad, should be the first Mmbay regiment to set the ex ample" of mutiny. It is reported the 25th have also - mutinied. Ours and the 25th were Sir Chas. Napier's two pet regiments. We are most anxiously waiting for more men from Nusseerabad. I think It will not turn out half so b:das it seem. We were before quite the top of the tree in the Bum ly-iy 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 lAter is from an officer of rank : "Belgaum, Aug. 23. "Since I last wro t e t o y ou a angular event has occurred. The mutiny of the 27th Regiment of Bombay Native Infentry 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 c!ear away towards Wagotun, on the coast by the Phooada Ghat. No native com missioned officer accompanied the mutineers, but no confidence could be placed by the commanding officer iu the remaining men to enable him to fol low the murineers, of whom, however, some 30 or 40 prisoners were taken. Perhaps the most re markable feature is that only one-third of the mu tineers were Hindostanee men, the rest being Mahraitats and Konkan and Deccan Hindoos. The trials are now going on, Colonel G. S. Jacob hav ing been sent there with Europeans and guns. H e disarmed the 27th, and shot and hung 21 of f xbe mutineers immediately after his arrival. Aede tachment of the 27th Native Infantry at RAntag h.rry has also le, , en disarmed by two cmpauies of Her Majesty's 86th Regiment, who then passed on to Goa, en route to Belgaum, and they are et pected hero to-morrow. Their approach has per mitted of th 3 despatch of a company Europeans this raotn . ug to Dharwar, where there asure, and a gaol o is consideratle treasure, of 600 pri- seners. The Mallowdof the 2,d e an pupula ion are ripe fin revolt. Four sepoys are now under trial for ex pressing mutinous and seditious intentions ; and last week two outside' traitors were blown away from guns. The European force is now sufficient to disarm both the native regiments at Belgaum, if it were necessary, which is net expected, as only a few men in one of the regim.entr are disaffected." The following is an extract of a letter from Bel• ganm, dated Aug. 23 : "None of the native officer; f the 27th Regi ment Lave rebelled. This is a gcol sign ; the rot of the sepoys will, I hope, remain firm. The Kola poor mutineers had to travel some distance ; 25 ware captured at Sawunt Warree. " Aug. 10. " Intelligence reached us to-day of the slaughter of 20 of the Kolapoor mutineers 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, an 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 Unman, a (Treater rogue than th e M ons h ee . 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 raanyothersubjects discussed inthe epistles, but the pith! have given 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 Monshea'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 witness was the adjutant of one of the regiments, and his testimony was corroborated by the Jemidar. 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 intentions, 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 Perdassie, and the adjutant took d own on paper the mutinous conversation. Under such circumstances 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 had those letters of the Monshee not been intercepted, we should all have! had our throats cut, it takes away all 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. S---- has been indefatigable in getting evidenc3 and keeping spies. It was through his means that these letters were intercepted. These are indeed exciting times. God grant all may yet be well in Bengal, and th at no suth 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. "Aug. 14. " This thy 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 police, and in the direction in which the guns were pointed were the rabble, and at the other face were the 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 wat present, from the g-meral downward. The Adjutant-General read the sentence out to the prisoners, and they were then led to the guns, and at a given signil off they went. That rascal of a Moonshee was drawing 150 rupe .1s a month for instructing officers of regiments in Hindostanea at the very time he was plotting their death. I should have mentioned that a Ha 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. He informed me on the previous night he bad left the mess with a friend who had driven him home, but the shares he was to have gone in was stopped near a Mussulman musjid, near a tope of treis, by two men, who had ka Jilin over their heads. They asked if there was a Sahib inside, and, on the driver replying No,' det rmined to look themselves, and got into the cart and poked about with a stick. I sew the marks. The Mus su'mans are said to want to kill a European, to sacrifice him to the newly-made saint who was exe cuted yesterday. I accompanied S----- this evening on the rounds. " Aug. 16. "I went down to the lines, and was present at the parade assembled to promote the Jemidar, Havildar, and Naick respectively, on account of the painful discharge of their duties in making known the plot got up by the Perdassie. The Ganeral addressed each of them ; he also called out the adjutant and complimented him, and informed h:m he had brought his conduct to the notice of tt,e ' Comma ider-in Chief. This was a more gratifying spectacle than that of the day before yesterday. The General has been indefatigable ; he told aile 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 the judicious mea sures taken by Geueral L., and the sudden throw ieg in of detachments of European troop. Gen. L. has throughout acted promptly, firmly, and judiciously, and, aided by Mr. S---, the superin tendent of police, has frustrate I the plot, which, had it not been discovered, would have caused the rising of the native regiments in the division." MI7SSOUREE. Extract of a letter from a lady, dated Mussonree, August 9 : aWe are very busy working flannel clothes for our army before Delhi. They are very badly off for these things, and being Eo 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 be provided for by us. " Mrs. C. and myself have collected 350 rupees here for this purpose, and are const.+ntly at work in consequence, for, with the exception of our own tailors, and one or two others ladies have given up to us, we can get inn?. Money is scarce, servants ditto, and everything at ruinous picas. Mr. -, the clergyman here, is also collecting for the same purpose, and has got same 500 rupees ; Mr. -, at Landour, 900 rupees ; add to this the collections at Simla, Kussowlee, 'and Meerut, and our poor soldiers, and the little Ghoarkas too, will get many comforts, you will see. Wonderful to say, though I never did such a thing in my life before, I have the management of our portion of the businesA, which keeps me employed from early morning till late at night. We meet, with several other ladle', 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 5. " Since I wrote yesterday news bas coma that the Hindoos have risen against the Mahomedans and seized Moradabad and the guns there, and that they have also split and are ready to go at one_ anothees throats in Bareilly. - The Mahomedans have been oppressing the Hindoos terribly, and the worm has turned. The Hindoos are numerous enough to win tee day if they are stanch. " They are also very well affected to us (at least in this neighbourhood), and have been sending us constant messages to come back again, which we sh'iuld have done if we had had any force here at all—l man even two available field guns and 200 or 330 cava'ry to go with the Ghoorkas and us. The Hindoos rea'ly _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—and which ever lost , s, Hinrloo or Mahomedan, we ought to wi'i. It also makes us at Nynee Tal quite secure from any attack, for some time to come at any rate. I have sent a copy of this letter to my mother." Tue following is 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. The telegraph communi cation has been restored to, Benares, and the post ?face now is op en to Oaw n p ore . News has been just receive.' that Luckuow is safe. Gen. Have lock, although he could no t r each the place, has slved it. The enemy went out to oppose him, and TEE EgLIEF 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 join Gen. Havelock, with a view to attempt sending them to Lucknow through Fyzabad. Such a project would 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 Gogra, from 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 unwise. But let us suppose the troops arrived at Fyzabad. They would there be as far from Lucknow as at Cawnpore ; they would have no such road to travel along as between Cawnpore and Luck now; and they would find the oountry which they had to pass one great quagmire. This review, however, un favourable though it be, leaves the most prominent feature of the telly of the scheme attributed to Sir 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 bead against Havelock's 900 and Outram's 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 both 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 ea masse; whereas the tactics of the inferior force ought to be to concentrate itself, break the enemy's line (if we may borrow a phrase from naval warfare) and cut him up in detail. If Sir J. Outram bas really taken upon him, at the eleventh hour,to change the plan of operations which General Havelock has hitherto been acting upon, in this absurd manner, we may abandon all hope of the rescue of the Europeans shut up in the Residency at Lucknow, and we must also 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 fedora the battle of Meanee he endeavoured to obtain Sir Charles Napier'a assent to a childishly absurd and im practicable movement proceeding on the same false prin. ciple. But, however it may be w ith thi s ma tt er, th us muc h is certain. Sir James Outram has been appointed to the command at Dinapore, at the same time as Mr. J, P. Grant is sent forward to Allahabad. Both of them were members of the council from which their appointments emanated ; both proceed to their respective destinations prepared to carry out the same policy. Now, what that policy is, in the case of Mr. Grant, is well known. That gentleman repairs to Allahabad 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 moat for the carriage of troops—a system indispensable in what is at present to all practical purposes an enemy's country, and doubly indispensable from the utter ineffi ciency into which the Commissariat service in that dis trict has been allowed to lapse by the Civil Government of India. Mr. Grant goes to Allahabad for the purpose of putting an end to the trial of all native; by courts-mar 'l .l, and re-establishing, amid the anarehy of a military revolt and plundering insurrection, all the cumbrous, complicated and retarding forms, which, even in the most quiet times, have rendered the criminal Courts of the Mofussil a laughing-stoc't and a bye-word o 1 acorn to the aggregate crime-class of India, Mr. Grant, who has been nominated by himself and his colleagues to initiate this Unwise policy, is ex aztly the man to do a thing which must be intolerable to , all soldiers', in the most offensive manner; for his whole career has been a series of wanton insults and ob structions to the military service. And Sir J. Outram, whose experience in the political department is much greater than in the military, is not the man to assert the rights of his own branch of the service against his pedantic red-tapist colleague. The antecedents of both gentlemen leave little room for doubt that their presence in the disturbed districts will utterly paralyse the opera tions of the army. Nor is this the wore. The system 'upon which they are sure to act will be an entire change from that, upon which Generals Havelock and Neill have I.;sen acting ; and if Sir Colin Campbell i s th e man he is understood to be, he will insist upon the Grant-Outran policy being departed from, and the Neill-Havelock pOlicy resumed. Even tbough the measures understood to be contemplated by Mr. Grant and Sir J. Outram were as sagaciens as they are unreasonable, this inces sant change of counsels would be m o st i n j ur i ous to our cause in India. It will be regarded by the native sol diery and population, and by all the native princes, as symptomatic of weakness and irresolution. L will prc. long the crisis and iucrease 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. •diree may nd foras io ignorant fornl a t o i o f nliirdesiapeacot respecting glndianthatl heill nci l— shortas c h o i m s i friends u allege t t hs whenbe known: they seek to peen b t e —that his Council advis ed and sanctioned the scheme of action upon which Gen. Havelock has been proceeding, seek extenuate his Council—as u and that hat the sane Council now advise the diametricaley opposiie scheme of action u p o n which Mr. Grant and o his Sir J. Outran are to proceed. His common sense told him that a military revolt and insurrection can only be put.doeto by the army ; that so long as war i s rag i ng i n our provinces the authority of the Civil Courts must be suspended—the orfinary forms of civil procedure inter mitted ; and the same common sense must tell him that t > hamper and obstruct the operations of the army by the interference of red-tape bureaucrats is to render it utterly ineffective. .Lord Canning, it is clea r , l ac k s th a t strong persistent will which is requisite i n suc h a cr i s i s as that through which British Tillie is now paeaine. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any mere c i v ili an i s ade quate to the task of wieldi ng the destinies of India at Via I present moment. There is much plausibility in the set ;gestion .that the offices of Governor-General and Cc mmander-in-Chief ought to be vested in the same per [ol-at least until the revolt has been thoroughly and iin ally suppressed. 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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 Bahiana went to Spithead yesterday morning, and after taking in her powder, Sac., 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 weeka nearly 1,000 recruits have joined the various Indian regiments as Chatham, and arrivals are taking place almost daily. Considerable progress has been made 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. Nott, 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 Regiment, 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-Surgeon W. M. Trestrail and Second-class Staff-Surgeon R. C. Martin have also joined the provisional battalions at Chatham for garrison duty. The Abeona steam transport on her late voyage from Gibraltar, with troops, performed the passage in five days 17 hours, not eight days, as stated. in our notice of her arrival. The Topographical and Statistical Depot of the War Department has for the present been placed by Lord Panmure under the direction ofLieut. -Col. H. 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., hoilted his flag (white at the mizen) as Commander-in-Chief of the squadron on the Pacific station, on board the Gauges, 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 good service pension in his gift, by the promo tion to flag rank of Capt. E. H. Scott. Capt. Stop ford was commander of the Phcenix at the bom birilment of St. Jean d'Acre. Capt. T. A. Anson (1841) is appointed to the good-service pension in the gift of the Admiralty by the promotion of Capt. J. Kingcome to flag rank. Capt. Anson was commander of the Pyla'ies 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 to 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 Moolsom, C. B deranged some of her machinery on Friday on h-r first trial, which prevented a satis factory report of the result. She realized a speed of betweeu 11i and 12 knots. The Hood, 91, s.s., at Chatham, will shortly be " reported" to the Admiralty as fit for launching. The Mersey, 40, is also in a very forward state, and is to be completed and launched as soon as possible. The officers and men of the fleet in Portsmouth harbour have contibuted a day's pay towards the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the rebellion in India. The steam transport Duc do Brabant, which arrived at Woolwich on Friday in charge of a Bel gian crew, will in future he known under the name of the Prince Albert, which has been substituted ' for that of the Duc do Brabant since her engage ment troops h i e n e c h o a n n v d e , y w a n h c a e Sove reign in the transport servica during the late Rus sianmaonodpesd t t o h e India. war, aed whose experience of 16 years' service C ul a e p u t t . Y f O )r un t g h afloat has rendered him eligible for the post, has been appoint :d to the command of .the Prince Albert, and has succeeded in engaging an efficient body of officers and crew. who will consist of about 10) 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 expected that o v u i t ng at h S ee o n ut t l e ia n m de p r t e o d n, to n h a e n w d ho ncle c of she will reach Bombay in, and p ro b a bl y under 60 days, a voyage hitherto unp rece d en t e d . The Princess Charlotte, another of th e C ompany ' s yes se:tibedirrb y the beinglndia fitted steamers hn House. wiTcht7hDa;ifnengcabeceonnveicotndheurnlkn, condemned inandfiotckfoartfurWtohoelr eeoreftni m o l ti m s de anyd during se, dexftur the p th e fia y r eeoa considera tion ! board ti been e t r e y d xi s of the Admiralty, have service, is ordered to be forthwith broken up. The riggers, o wo stleie were leading man to be presented with a donation 'of 5 g t h ra a n t ten vessel t w ah The Defence is the last convict vessel now l. remain ing .at Woolwich, the sister ship W • arrior having been broken up and di by public realising about 3,000/. s p o sed of The iron screw steam storeship Industry, Master- Commander G. J. H o d ges, and the Admiralty er yacht Black Eagle, M aster-Commandp have arrived at Wool w i c h f rom Por , smoll,h. et T le t y ie , from Industry, laden with v i c t ualling stores -Asce nsion, was on her arrival on Saturday ordered to Deptford to discharge cargo. About 1,000- extra hands were taken • rub the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich last week, to be em ployed in the War Department for the supply of tile East India C ompany, principally inall ' iron ordnance, and preparing cartridges and eascastingamm u nition. About 300 additional hates are ordered to be engaged for the Royal C ' Carriage -square to morrow. The m:litary stem vessel Balalilava arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from the west, laden with returned st oreS. Mr. W. H. Clyme, assistant -paymaster, was on Saturday appointed to the Gang -3s, as secretary's clerk to Admiral Baines. Capt. Shawe, late sth Dragoon Guardi, bareack master at Aberdeen, has been appointed in a simi lar capacity at Preston, Lane tsbire. Captain J. Forbes, late 11th Foot, barrackmmter at Dundee succeeds Capt. Shawe at Aberdeen. THE MILITIA. The officers of the Ist Royal-East Middlesex Mi litia have, through their commanding officer, Col. Wood, forwarded to Lord Patunura an offer of their services. This regiment is now upwards of 1,000 rank and file. Recruiting has proceeded actively for the East Suff. , lk 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 Glamorganshire Artillery Militia has assem bled at Swansea, and the men are regularly drilled 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 fast. • The staff of the Shropshire Militia have received orders to recruit for 40 regiments of the line. The Royal MeCionetbsbire Regiment of Rifle Militia have assembled at .Bala- for training. The regiment has , attained its full cetnplement. REINFORCEMENTS Fon 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 liens 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 wil► be remembered that at the very eve of thEeprorogatioia of Parliament an act was passed to enable the green to embody the whole of- the militia force of the Ueitcd Kingdom if necessary. At the same time, a sum of 200,0001. was voted to aid in the payinent of so much of this force as was likely to be required. At that time it was supposed that fenn 10 000 to 15,000 men would be required of the militia. It is now fouled that a larger 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 toge ther before the usual time? We believe that strictly for the embodiment of the militia it will not be neceeiry to summon Parliament in November, inasmuch as Parliament has already given authority for teat purpose. But if the course of events should render it necessary to call Parliament together the Government will not shrink from their duty. although, of course, they will not retort to such a step unless rendtrad more necessary than as yet seems likely to be the case.—Sunday paper. THE RIGHT HON. SIR J. S. PAKINGTON, M,P., ON INDIAN AFFAIRS. The annual dinner of the Woccestersh;re Agricul tural Society was held at Wore ster on Friday even ing, at the close of the exhibition of stock. The chair was taken by the Hon. F. Lygon, M.P., and among the company were Ear: Beauchamp, Viscount Elmley, the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, Bart., J. H. H. Foley, Esq., M.P., Sir Thos. Winning ton, Bart., M.P., &c. 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. PAKINOTON 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 for 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 valour which had never been exceeded, were barely able to keep their ground in tome few of the chief strongholds of that country, and were utterly unable from their paucity of numbers to protect our coun trymen—and, alas ! he must add our countrywomen —from the most dreadful cruelties and atrocities ever committed. Politics—that was, mere party politics—were excluded from these meetings ; but he thought it would hardly be becoming iu a large body of Englishmen like the present to assemble together without 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 in their power to conduct thestruggleto a triumphant issue. (Cheers.) He confessed that he felt very anxiousthat 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 the crisis. He thought that the greatest fault that the Government bad 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. (Rear.) 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 from 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 an 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 sanguine 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 over the Hindoo was now as great as it was when the great Ciive won the battle. of Plassy. It was extraordi nary that it should be sosvheu they considered that the soldiers whom the Europeans had now to con tend with were soldiers whom they had trained up thernselveq. 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 shouldhave 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 private letter received a few days since from the Governor of Ceylon, who said we had great reason to 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 for that India had been save d b y the prematiad not u ' re sout break at Meerut. I n anot h er fortnight, that outbreak tsken place, ther e we l have been a simultaneous 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 tall 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 Pall events to support the throne ; and this done, he believed the triumphant rrsult would be to re establish our dominion in India. With regard to the atrocities of the Sepoys, Justice must be vindicated, crime must be punished, the power of England must be asserted, and the horrible deeds committed must be treated as they deserved. Englishmendemanded this ; but be would say let it be done in no vindictive spirit. Lst justice be tempered with mercy. It might bo perhaps not an acceptable sentiment to them, but it was a senti ment deep in his heart, and when they came to deal with the matter after the victory had been gained, let them bear in mind that our own hands were not clean, (Rear, hear.) India had not been governed as it ought to have been. It was only yesterday he submitted to the astods led eyes of a large par yin a country house official proof that in collecting the revenues of India there had been practised inthe name of England—he would not say by the autho rity, but he feared not without the knowledge of Englishmen—there ha l been practised tortures iit'le 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 in mind these two great cardinal objects—first, that as a great nation we must re-establish the au thority ofthe sovereign in India, and secondly that when that authority is re-established India must be better governed. We muss take care that our past errors are corrected, and our mission so fulfilled that we may not onlyreap the bona tin the govern ment of that great empire, but so do it as to pro mote the happiness, 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 Rzozins —The traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom published for the week' ending September 26 amounted to 513,507/., and for ':he cor responding week. of 1826 to 488,2431., showing an increase of 25,2641. Toe gross receipts of the eight railways 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 en increase of 4.4591. The increase on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to 2,121/. ; on the Great Northern to 2,413/. ; on the Great Western to 1,1331 ; en the London and North-Western to 2,0491. ; and on the London and Black wall to 68/. ; 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.>uth Western ; and 2,3651. 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 c irre spending period of 1846 to 273,1331. showingan increase of 23,805/. 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 aTISISII ENT .1— SIGHT AND HEARING -- SPECTACLES POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —S. and B. Solumons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly.. Obsekve—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 possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-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 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, IwBithifeAreZing poWers accArdinAy. The Royal Exhibition, 5L able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waisteoat-pocket be Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every i'ur- i pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scener y and ships are clearly seen atil2 t o 14 miles. They are luvaluable for shooting deer-stalki ng, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers and tourists. Camp, Perspective, and Race- course Glasses, with Opera, powers.—lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of wonderfule erea , :est transparent p ower. The great Advapcage derived f:em this invantion is, th a t v i sion impaired becomes pre served and strengthened ar.d very aged persons are enabled to employ their si4ht at th m e . t m tch ost le m ss inuteutiou—can see with those lentos of a magnifying power—and they dO not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of furtber powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the moat remote part of the world by send. ing one of the glazses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the dist awe from the eye they can read small pint with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their aye. Peafness.—New Diseorery. — The Organic Vibrator, an ex- traor di nar ily powerful, s, all,-newly-invent e d instrum en t for doneness, entirety different from all otters, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or probably can, 'be produced.. Being of the same colour as the skin, in not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at chnreha.nd at public assemblies; the unpleasant sensation ; singiog --- noises'in the care is entirelv removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-3 c raarle-street, Piectiiilly.—Opposite the York Hotel, W. Country Markets. DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET-00T. I. Qrs. Best. Current. Info kr 2.6 Wheat 62s Od 41s Old 3- Od 1141 Oats 323 Od 2Bs 5(1 ..... .... 16 , Od. 12.61 Barley 403 Ed ats Od 26 Peas & beaus 50i Od 4ss 5d HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—OcT. 2. WLIBA T. BARLBY I (MU. i BHA? , B. First 6Bs Od 43 s 6d 33s 6d 5lB Od Second 43s 6d 1 36s 101 j 29 s 6d ; 483 lld Third 36s Od I 27s Od J 26s 6d 146 Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 634 qrs., 606 sold barley „ 750 qrs.,_ 731 sold oats ,) •312 qrs., 388 sold beans If 51 qrs., 43 sold PP , It PP AVERAGES PER 'Milt/UAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 16 3 6.l2the I Barley, „X. 16 10 7-12 the Oatß, 11. 9 6 2-12ths I Beans, .....21. 811 5-12t1 ABERDEEN—OcT. 2. • Potato oats 24s Od to 25s od 1401bsper bushel Common oats 21s Cd to 23s Od p Bore 30s Od to 3 s Od Barley 30s Od to 31s fid 1 531bs Pt Wheat, red (spring)37s Od to 40s Od 1 621bs , white 3ss Od to 50s Od PO Oatmeal lBs Od to 193 Od per b o ll. Flour 42s Od to 43s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 9d Butter, p lb. is 2d to i s 3d Mutton, per ,lb Ed t o 9d I Eggs, p doz. Os 8,1 to Os 103 Lamb, do., Os 6d to ON 9d I Hen s , p pa i r 2 s 9d to 3 s O d Veal, per lb .. 6d to Os 9d I Chickens,do.2s Od to 2s 6J Pork, perlb...os Od to Os Od Ducks, do., is 6d to 2c 03 Salmon, per lb .........Os Od I Ducklings,do ls 6d to 2s 01 Grouse, per brace.....os to Os Turkeys, each Os Od to Os 0,1 Tallow, p stone, Os to —s 01 Potatoes, pr peck, 8d to 10.1 Rabbits, each Od to Od. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. 109 s to 112 s Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen ..................... 7d to 8d - RETAIL PRICES. - - Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s 4d Barley flour,l4lb.oB to 2s Od Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ dust, Beremeal ....0s Od to ls 8d , per lb 2d t o 2id Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 4d Sid ' s, 7d Cheese, per imperial stone, 45. Od. to is 6d 4-lb. 10af...8d. I 2-lb. 10af...4d. DUBLIN, Om 2. Our market to-day was well supplied, and the cur rencies of Tuesday were generally supported, except for inferior qualities, which towarls the close became difficult of sale, and should be quoted a shade cheaper. Indian corn very dull, at late quotations. White wheat, 31s Od co 33s Od ; red ditto 29s Od to 31 8 6d; ditto new, 30s 6d; barley, ma lti ng, 17s 6d to 225; grind ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15s 6d to 18s; ditto, new, 12s 61 to 14s 6d ; oatmeal, 15s Od to 17s; bere, new, 15s to 16s 31; rapese, d, 28s Od to 308 Od per brl ; bakers flour, 19s Oct to 24s Oct per cwt; luctian corn, 35s 01 to 3£4 Od per 480 lbs. 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 k has made a contract with Mr. Brett, who is to construct a submarine telegraph from Ragusa, by the way of Corfu. Zante, and Candia, to 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 I Or are new bands of hapless victims—brave men, delicate ladies, and helpless children—to glut the savage hate of men, or rather fiends, who have swore, to exterminate every Euro pean, every Christian in Hiodostan ? There is not an inhabitant of this island whose heart has not thrilled responsively to these questions. Would that 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 with 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 now then perhaps be strong enou g h to force his way to Luck- , a would do the distance of 53 miles in eight marches, allowing for the time lost in engagements with the enemy. Let us examine the route. The stages then to Lucknow are as follows :—From Cawnpore to Onao, 14 miles, over a bad arid heavy. road, it being necessary first to cross the Ganges, which is spread out to a great width opposite Cawnpore. Onao is a largo village, and here on the 30th of July General Havelock engaged and defeated an immensely superior force. The next stage is Onao to Rahmatganj, 114 miles, over a bad and much cut up road, passing the large village of Ram.; ganj bait 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, Nuelgaej, 12 miles. The river, Sys must b e crossed half-way on this stage, where Have lock was stopped by its swollen stream, the opposite bank being lined with the enemy. Had he succeeded in cros-ing he wouid . still have bad to travel 10 miles to Badli Ka Takiyah, at the entrance of the city of Luck noel, whence to cantonments is nine miles through the narrow streets of the city, across the Ghooratee river by a bridge, which might be destroyed, and thence over heavy sands. Supposing the march to be suc 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 him to march nrx; on Agra by Mynpoorie, he would in any case have to zetrace his steps towards Cawnpore as far as Meabganj, 344 miles, and he would probably find difficulty in crossing the Ganges, except at Cawnpore, where he has already secured the means, Frem Cawn pore to Mynpoorie the total distance is 107 miles. The road during the rain is heavy. At 47 miles from Cawnpore the Eesane a considerable stream, must be crossed. Mynpoorie is a town with less than 3,000 inhabitants. The Eosan must here be crossed again. There was a bridge, but whether it still exists is unknown. The distance from Mynpoorie to Agra is 7i 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 cue to three feet. From Agra to Delhi, by Allyghur, now in the hands of the enemy, is 139 miles, but this is 'a very cir cuitous route. There is a m )re 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 five weeks must ,elapse bef o re General Havelock's a rm y, even if powerfully rein forced, could, after quitting Lucknow, unite with that before Delhi ; and ere that we trust the English flag will wave over what remains of that detested city. We may .be sure that officers like Nicholson and Ceemberlain will urge on. the assault if there should be a shadow of probability that it will succeed. Shouldlt, 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 case their punishment is not far di , tant, and will be, we doubt not, a signal one.—From the homeward Mail from India., China, and the East, of October 1, 1857. BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIOESTION.—The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our paper headed A Fact for Physiologists'," in which the Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to send free to all apidicants the Botanic Remedy for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by Professor Web,ter, of Philadelphia. [ A DVERTISEMENT,]—.HoIIoway's Pills a most otent remedy for liver complaints and indigestion..—Wiplliam Nlacdonal 1, of her Majesty's Highland Regiment, has gratefully acknowledged to Professor Holloway the won derful efficacy of this astonishing rnedicine ; he suffered with liver complaint and all its attendant evils during 14 years' residence in India ; his constitution was so en feebled that he was compelled to return home, when he was induced to try Holloway's Pills, which effected a perfect cure after the most eminent of the faculty cad failed to do him good.—Sold by 'all medi cine vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway's establishments, 244,, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by. A. Stamps, Con stantinople, A. Q u id ic y, S myrna, and E. Muir, elta. BIRTHS, OF A SON. On the 2d inst., at Sudbory Rectory, Derbyshire, th • wife of the Rev. Frederick Anson. On the 3d inst., at 26, C a rlt on C o t tages, Brunswick street, Dover-road Mrs. B. G. Wilkinson. OF A DAUGHTER: On the 2d inst., the wife of George Long, Esq., of Lin coln's-inn, barrister -at-law. C On he 2d inst., at 14, O nslow-crescent, the wife of E. rosley, Esq. MARRIED. On the 3d inst. at St. P ancras Ch urc h, G eorge Hayes, Esq., of St. Michael's, Azores, to Margaret, daughter of the late A. Henderson, EAq., of 8 a, Park-lane. On the 41 inst., at the parish church, Windleshars, Surrey, Fred er i c k R o bi ns, Esq., to Mary Eli za b et h , the only daughter of John Waterer, Esq., Bagshot, Surrey. DIED. Killed at Gwalior, on the 14th June, Captain Alexander W. Hawkins, Bengal Artillery, aged 44; at the same time two of his children, une of them only three days old, were murdered by the mutineers : his widow, who was holding pis hand when he fell, escaped uninjured, with her three surviving children, to Agra. On the 2d inst , at 11, Hertford-street, Mayfair, Robert K ate, Sergeant-Surgeo u to her Majesty, aged 81. On the 2d inst., at Bicester, Henry Michael Tubb, Erng.i banker. ) • ,Ite 3d inst., at Tottenham, Robert Maynard, Esq.; aged 67. tue 3d inst., at Chelsea, Willi am Drummond Oswald, Esq., of the Board of node, eldest son of the late John Os*ald, Esq., of Croydon. On the 2d inst., Mr. David Wilson, solicitor, only son of David Wilson, Esq., 27, Drunswick;place, City-road, aged 21 On the 9.d inst., at Edinburgh, Jane M. Cumming, the 'Meat surviving daughter o f the late Sir Alexander Pen rose CurnmingGordon, Bart., of Aliyro and Gordonstown. at Brighton, G eorge H erbert Kinder-. ley, the n Esq . ,2a9gtebd TANDON: Printed and Published by MtJRDO YOUN' of No, 112, Strand,. Plintor, at Th,e Sun oEloc, /40. 112, Straz:l, in the Precinct of tly.. savoy, in the county oi ifiddlonx, Monday, October 5, 1451.