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THE OVERLAND MAIL. THE INDIAN MUTINIES. By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have re ceived our private correspondence and files of papers, from Calcutta to the 22d of Oct., and from Bombay to the 3d of Nov. Our letters are as follows " CALCUTTA, OCT. 22 . : " With this mail you will probably receive Gen. Wilson's account of the capture of the Palace and the King of Delhi. It has been suppressed in this i country, and will not be published till after the 1 departure of the mail. The object of this proceed ing is, doubtless, to secure to the Cabinet the ear liest information. The practice, however, is in jurions, and should be stopped by the President of the Board. It creates a feeling of uneasiness, as no merchant is able to calculate the probable effect of despatches he has not seen. Trade is sufficiently embarrassed already without the addition of arti ficial uncertainties. For the rest, the information before the public is decidedly satisfactory. The Golden Fleece, the Thebes, and the Columbia have arrived, and the remainder are expected daily. A great depot of Europeans is to be formed at Bar rackpore. Five thousand men will be encamped on the Calcutta maiden (plain), and about that number at Raneegunge. As soon as these arrange ments are completed security will be re-estab lished in the metropolitan counties. Travelling up the Grand Trunk Road, we find that order has been re-established at Hazareebagh and through out the greater portion of Chota, Nagpore. Bands, rather of Dacoits than rebels, however, still harass the valley of the Soane, and, strange to say, a por tioa of another regiment, after all hope of success had disappeared, mutinied and murdered its officers. Two companies of the 32d were stationed at Doog hur, in the Santhal district. They ware believed to be faithful, and retained their arms. On the 9th of September, however, Lieutenant Cooper, then in command, was shot at on parade. Lieutenant Cooper, Mr. Ronald (the Deputy Commissioner), Lieut. Rannie, and perhaps one Sepoy fled into a house. The house was immediately set on fire, its inmates driven out and murdered, under a shower of balls. Lieut. Rannie, however, was asved by a havildar, who was wounded in his defence, and is now safe at Bbaugulpore. The body of Lieut. Cooper was then chopped up, the treasury plun dered, and the mutineers set off for the Grand Trunk Rc ad. It is believed they will be met by her Majesty's 13th, just sent up by railway. Lieut. Cooper was remarkable for his attachment to his men, in whose sports he often shared, offering prizes to the successful. The fact increases the horror of the event, but in truth the power of feel ing horror has died out of us. After hearing of an English girl found hanging by the hair in Nana Sahib's palace, with her flesh sliced from her bones by swords,. the murder of an officer seems almost nothing. In truth, it excites no feeling whatever, all sympathies being swallowed up in a craving, burning thirst for vengeance. In Behar the position of affairs remains as before, the scattered parties of mutineers pressing slowly northward, evidently to reach districts where the population are more sym pathetic. Ameer Ali, the Mussulman appointed by Mr. Halliday, with the sanction of the Government of India, to put down the Mussulman movement in Patna, has, it is said, resigned. Another Mussul man will probably be appointed as a " measure of conciliation." It is impossible to describe to you the feelings with which these appointments are received by Europeans, official and non-official. Still pro ceeding northward, we find Benares still safe under the protection of some Europeans and a Madras re giment. Her Majesty's 53d, or rather a wing of that corps, is clearing the road thence to Allahabad. A more important movement is, however, in pro gress, to describe which I must carry you further northward. " After the fall of Delhi Gen. Wilson despatched a column under Col. Greathel in pursuit of the fugitives. Marching rapidly southward, on Oct. sth he came across the Gwalior mutineers, then me nacing Agra. He cut them up, inflicting a loss of 500 men and 11 guns. On the 10th he reached Ap.a, and was attacked again by the mutineers, reinforced by the Delhi fugitives, but the enemy were repul sed with immense slaughter, and driven headlong as far as the Kharee. Few particulars have reached us, but it is presumed that this victory has finally relieved Agra. A second body of fugitives made for Oude, as I reported last mail, but their arrival at Bithoor was notified to the British at Cawnpore. .The officer in command, Col. Wilson, sallied out with a very small force, attacked and routel the enemy, but was unable to attempt a pursuit. In all these engagements the want of European cavalry is bitterly felt. The mutineers display the pol troonery which might be expected from their cruel ties, but they march fast, and in this war slaughter, not mere dispersion, is our main object. They are as dangerous in small parties as in great b 'dies, and in this country no man forgets that the scoun drels are murderers running from the gallows. Cawnpore itself is believed to be safe, and, strange to say, the road between that place and Lucknow seems to be open. At all events, a great convoy of provisions, guarded by only 250 men, reached the Alum bagh in ssfety. Gen. Havelock, with about 1,000 men, and all the women and children, is be lieved to be with or near (for accounts differ) General Outram, who, with 1,500 men, is in Lucknow itself. Sinister rumours of all kinds are floating about, but I believe they are wholly without foundation. Gen. Outram can hold Luck now, though he is fearfully outmatched, and he has received provisions and ammunition. I ques tion if there is a force in Oude which will attack this party while Gen. Havelock is alive, but an accident to him might alter the position of affairs. The Sepoys, like all other Asiatic; hold the de ith of a leader a signal for ♦ictory, and invent all kinds of rumours to that effect. You will very likely hear many such, but they were up to the latest accounts mere falsehoods. Even the story of General Have lock's sickness rests apparently on native talk. There is a statement circulated that General Have lock is cut off from communication with General Outram, but this appears improbable. All that is certain is, that Outram waits eagerly the advance of Colonel Greathed's column. General Wilson remains still in Delhi, but he has appointed Colon,l Burn Military Governor, and another officer Go vernor of the Palace. I can give you no news from the Punjab, as my intelligence comes via Bombay, and your Bombay correspondent will anticipate me. Indeed, he ought to have the latest from the North-West, as the roads to Western India ate open and the post still travels ; our post does not, ex cept on Government account, and Government wil give no detailed information to any one. "The moral effect of the fall of Delhi has been great, but we are still too few to strike great blows. No great body of troops can be available for another month, and even then there will be great difficulty in finding carriage. The Government ii adopting every expedient in its power to collect means of transport. The zeminda.rs have been reque tad to furnish e l ep h ants,and bullock carriages are building in Calcutta. This will, h owever, b e t h e great (Ili ytand it ought to be supplel from England. It is not t oo l ate even now. We want a dozen little a tearaers, regular Thame s ferry-boats, and 5, 000 light vans, with covers, and wheels of iron withcut tires. It is difficult in place s to mend tired wheel.. A few thousand tents, t oo , would be - very mu c h i n place, if sent in swift steamers. It has b een su, - Bested that Government might seize a ll private ca'r riages, and compel every zemindar to give up his elephants ; but all revolutionary energy is wanting. The Press Law is still in active operation. Tile Calcutta papers have been warned for roptthli , 4hin e articles from the Press, and the Friend of India was compelled to expurgate t: e Times (f the 31 t August. It contained a suppo:ition religi( n might be at the bottom of the Sepoy cruelties, which is strictly the truth, but is calculated to interfere with religious prejudices. The Government is on this point strangely sensitive. You are aware that by law the publication of a Bible is now a penal offence, punishable by seizure of the presses. Of course the law i 4 not eufcrced in such eases, but it exists, to the contempt of the natives. No native journal has been warned, much less suppressed, and I enclose a copy of the Hindoo Patriot, a native journal, whose railing against the English is not even noticed. lam told, but Ido not personally know, that the Christians of Krishnaghur recently offered to supply coolies for the army, who are much wanted. Their petition was rejected because they applied not as subjects, but as Christiana. I enclose my authority for the story. No ono here believes that religion had anything to do with the revolt, and this is perhaps the place to give you the belief of the community on that point. "The revolt is in their opinion a great Mussulman conspiracy, organised by - (I give the name privately). This individual, partly by working on their religious feelings, partly by large bribes and larger promises, secured the principal Mussulmans of most regiments. They industriously spread the report that Lord Canning intended to convert the Hindoos, and that the Enfield cartridges were in tended to break the caste, and so render further measures easy. Having succeeded in obtaining the support of the influential Hindoos, they pro ceeded to plan the massacre of the Europeans. Every European in Bengal was to have perished on the night of the centenary of Plassey. The pre parations were nearly complete, when Gen. Hewett's blunders at Meerut saved the empire. But for the mutineers' success at Meerut not a European could have survived to tell the tale. By the mercy of God the telegraph was in existence, and in a few hours the danger was understood from Peshawur to Travancore. You know the rest, but I must also record the universal belief that unless the ven geance of England is as mighty as the crime our Sicilian vespers may yet be repeated. " The Government, I believe, is still of opinion that the movement has been a sudden and unintel ligible burst of fanaticism. In that case two cir cumstances remained unexplained. First, the juncture of Mussulmans and Hindoos ; secondly, that the native Christians, except at Delhi, have sot suffered. The people of Jaunpore, moreover, have offered voluntarily to rebuild the missionchurch and schools, and in no proclamation issued by natives is there any mention whatever of the missionaries. " No plan whatever has yet been announced here for the reorganisation of the army. Tt is not be lieved, however, that Government will object to the English' plan, or will attempt to rehabilitate the Sepoy force. The great difficulty will be the pressure of class interests upon Government, and the existence of a desperate conflict of opinion among its officers. The result will be inaction, un less orders are issued from England so clear as to require obedience instead of discussion. " At present public opinion is concentrated on the question of vengeance. The following sentences from the I riend of India are understood to repre sent the universal idea " 1. That in districts under martial and durinu actual warfare, the loss of life and property should be regulated by military necessities alone. " '2. That every mutineer who has taken up arms or quitted hie ranks should die. " ' 3. That every rebel who has taken up arms should " 4. That in every village where a European hag been murdered, a tele;raph out, or a dak stolen, a swift tribunal should exercise summary justice. " 5. That every village in which a European fegitive has been insulted or refused aid should be heavily fined.' "It is believed the Government measure will fall short of this as regards the villagers, but not as regards the mutineers. Thera is as yet no sign of Lord Canning's intentions, but I do not believe that upon this point he will be found wanting. It is, however, impossible to tell, as the policy of Govern ment varies every week. The Disarming Act has not been put in force. When it is, it is believed that whole classes will be exempted from its opera tion. If they are the measure is nugatory. If any body can buy weapons except Europeans they wi I soon be as common as at present. Who is to decide how many revolvers a Bengalee Zetnindar ought to have ? " The greatest difficulty now pressing on Govern ment is the disposal of the disarmed mutineers. There are more than 20,000 men in this position. One party would put them to death as mutineers ; another, and a much larger one, would send them to the Andaman Isles ; a third talks of disband ment ; a fourth,'of reorganisation. The views of Government are not kno 'ID, but it is most impro bable that these men will ever again be trusted. One or two regiments may, but the remainder must at least be dismissed. At present they are draw ing pay for detaining European troops in inconve nient positions. This, however, is not the fault of the Administration. Government cannot issue its decree until the European troops have arrived. " P.S.—Sumbhulpore has been seized by a man named Sunder Shah, a released convict, with 1,000 ruffians, not Sepoys. It is this disorganisation which is so dangerous, more so even than mutiny. There is a report that the troops of the Rajah of Travancore have shown symptoms of disaffection, but it requires confirmation. The precise number of men slain and wounded at Delhi stands as fol lows :—During the assault, 1,170 men, 66 officers ; during the siege and assault, 4,000 men, 220 officers. The original force was only 3,000 men and 160 officers, and the number of officers never reached 400. This statement will enable you to perceive how necessary incessant reinforcements have be come. OCT. 23. The latest intelligence received confirms the state ments given above. The two divisions of the Luck now force have, it seems certain, effected a junction, and General Outram has now therefore some 2,300 men with him in the Residency. This force is strong 6nough to defy any native enemy, but it is doubtful if it is sufficiently provisioned. A desperate attack on the Queen's palace, headed by Outram himself, seems to have been repulsed, and the British force now rem ins for the moment inactive. Round them lie immense bands of armed Sepoys and pea santry, numbering in the aggregate at least 40,000 men. With one exception, every landholder in Southern Oude has declared against the British, not from any dislike, for the same men saved British officers ; but from a desire to share the spoils of a failing dynasty. If General Outram has or can obtain provisions he may hold out for any time ; if not, he must cut his way to Cawnpore sword in hand, with I fear frightful loss. Col. Greathed has gone into Agra again. Thence he proceeds to Alynpeorie, and so to Cawnpore. But he cannot hope to reach Lucknow much before the end of this month, and meanwhile men, soldiers esi_ e ciAlly, must eat. There is no force to send to Lis aid, except this column, and the whole question turns on its arriving in time. " The Rewah Rajah, it is reported, though still faithful, has fled from his palace to some fort. Tl.e plitical agent, Lieut. Osborne, is therefore left alone. His position and conduct are an excellent illustration of the so nes taking place all over India. He is a young Madras officer, and till this outbreak but little known to any one. He is now living in Rewah in a tent, without a single companion, with out a friwnd within a hundred miles. H e is so ill with liver complaint that he cannot lie down, taking rest only in a chair. He has no guard, no soldiers, sen tries, or reliable servants. Every day and night the soldiery surround his tent, threatening to put him to death by torture. He admits their power, but tells them he can take at least six lives before he dies. And so, day by day, there be lives, sick almost unto death, all alone, and with murderers all round, confident only that his duty is to remain at his post, and that God is above him still. It is not such men as these that sepoys can subdue. So magical, indeed, is the influx nce of character, that to this moment Lieut. Osborne, the sale European alive in Rewah, is felt by the natives to be at least a match for the regiment around him. To this hour, therefore, they are willing, when not stopped by force, to convey his messages and obey his com m ands. " Two more companies of the 32d Native In- an try have muti n i e d at Rampore Hat. Their office's got away safely. The remaining companies Bowses have demanded to be led against the mutineers—a somewhat dangerous experiment. THE Stiii‘, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOAVEMBER 30, 1. 8 57. BOMB-AY. " BOMBA.Y, Nov. 3. " Tithe events of the pa s t fortnight which I am now about to narrate to you seem slight in interest and importance by comparison with those which gas two mails of last month reported to you, it is be muse the progress of the work of retribution, now fairly begun, is, under the circumstances, of neces tray somewhat tardy. The enemy at Delhi, beaten and ',broken, but very far from annihilated, fell back before our advancing columns as day after day and after street they planted a sure foot upon the revolted city, and when at last our success was complete the rebel hordes were already far on their way in search of other strongholds or fresh centres of insurrection. The movements of their main body were so rapid, and the start it bad got so con siderable, that it escaped without further damage than it had met with during the assault of the city, and consequently its punishment is for the present deferred. If, however, there has not yet occurred, and was not to be looked fur, such a meeting in the fair open plain between the British army and the whole mass of escaped and unpunished mutineers as would annihilate the rebellion in North- Westrn India, still our prospects continue to brighten, and we have not failed to receive one or two more instalments of that debt of vengeance, the full pay ment of which we so eagerly and as we believe right fully long for. A body of rebels has been routed in the field with no slight loss. Outram and Havelock maintain themselves at Lucknow. Reinforcements are fast arriving at Calcutta from England, and are being poured up the country. The districts imme diately surrounding the recovered capital of the North-West are settling down into order. The Punjab is tranquil ; the Madras Presidency un disturbed ; while that of Bombay is troubled only by the movements of the aboriginal hill tribes of Gujerat and Kandeish. Thus much of good news have I to tell you, clear almost from any shade of ill, for the days of suffering and of humiliation are ended, and British supremacy, for a while rudely shaken, is reasserting itself with irresistible majesty. " I proceed to survey more in detail the present position of affairs in the various provinces of our Indian empire, and, following the old track, halt first at Delhi. When I wrote last I told you that General Wilson's despatches to the Governor-General were on their way down from the captured city to Cal cutta by way of the Punjab and Bombay. A day or two afterwards the officer who had charge of them arrived here, and was at once forwarded on to the seat of the Supreme Government. But, in the meantime, as soon appeared, a native messen ger, or cossid, to whom another despatch, written after the assault, but before the final capture of the place, was intrusted, had succeeded, where au Englishman unless very strongly escortedmust have failed in penetrating the disturbed districts be tween Delhi and Cawnpore. Thus the news of the first successes at Delhi appeared in an authoritative form at Calcutta as early as the Bth of last month, and the Gazette containing the despatch reached you, I imagine, by last mail. It is, there fore, only by way of reminder and recapitulation that I now mention that after six days of open trenches the assault was delivered by four (not, as I previously thought, three) columns and a reserve that the first column, under Brigadier Nichol son, with 950 men of the 75th, Ist Bengal Fusi leers, and 2d Pnnjab Infantry, carried the breach on the proper right of the Cashmere ; that the second, led by Brigadier Jones, with 850 men from the Bth, 2d Bengal Fusiliers, and 4th Sikhs, stormed that on the proper left of the Water . Bastion ; that the advance of both these bodies of assailants was covered by the 60th Rifles,—men of whose conduct throughout the siege every letter I have seen or heard of from the camp speaks in terms of the high est admiration ; that Colonel Campbell, of the 52d, with the third column of 200 of his own regiment and 750 Punjaubees and Gourkhas, forced an en trance at the Cashmere-gate, so gallantly blown open by Lieutenants Salkeld and Home, of the En gineers, as I wrote in my last ; that the reserve, under Brigadier Longfield, 1,500 strong, entered subsequently at the various points of assault, and enabled the three other columns to clear the walls and to push on into the city ; and that the fourth column, of Goorkbas, the Guides, and the Jummoo Contingent, under Major Reid, assaulted, but with out success, the Kishengunge suburb, covering the Lahore-gate of the city. The total of killed and wounded on this day in the wh )1e force was con siderably above what I had believed it to be, amounting to no less a figure than 1,145. Of this the European loss was 8 officers and 162 men killed, 52 officers and 510 men wounded, and 10 men missing. Of the natives 103 were killed and 310 wounded. Regarding the progress of the as saulting force between the 14th and the 20th, 1 have nothing to add to the details contained in my last letter, except in confirmation of the slight amount of loss sustained on the days suc ceeding that of the assault, which, as I heard from one present, hardly rose above five men a day. Of the captured city we only hear that it remains a scene of solituje and desolation. The British head-quarters were still in the Palace, General Penny commanding in place of General Wilson, who as I mentioned in a postoript to my last letter, had resigned the command in consequence of failing health, and who has since gone up to the hills on leave to recruit. In the same building, or pile of buildings, remained many of the wounded officers removed thither upon its capture. Stange, yet full of meaning, seemed the heading of aletter which I read a few days ago reporting the progres towards recovery of one among the sufferers, a very valuable officer, Capt. Rosser, of the Carabineers—' Palace, i Delhi.' Simply, and as a mere matter of course, was given the place of writing of the letter, the locality of the hospital of the wounded English officers. To that it had come at last through long years of imperial splendour, of squalid dependence, of debauchery and intrigue, of rebellion, and of despair. This was the end of Mountains of Light and peacock thrones, and marble and ivory and gold. Metre, Mene, Tekel, Uphar sin.' " Deserted as it was by its mutir ous garrison and by the vast majority of its inhabitants, it,was un necessary to detain the whole British force within the city. Much of it might be employed to prevent disturbances in other directions or to pursue the rebels in their flight to the southward. Thus in early days after the fall of the place the 52d Light Infantry marched off for the Punjab, probably to be stationed at Lehore or Mooltan, and to con tribute to the preservation of peace in the district lying between the two cities. ißut even before the departure of this corps for the north troops were out, as I mentioned in my last, to the southward. You may remember that our information regarding the movements of the pursuing column or colunns was at that time somewhat vague and conflicting. It soon appeared, however, that Brigadier Showers had taken the right, Colonel Greathed the left bank of the Jumna. The party commanded by the for mer officer was at first but a small one, and was em ployed for a special purpose. Moving outof the camp on or about the 26th of September, it proceeded to the tomb of the Emperor Ilumayoon, where Hod son had previously captured and shot the three princes, and the neighbourhood of the Kootule Minar, which was swarming with the loose, dis orderly rabble that had escaped from the city. At the tomb he was fortunate enough to capture two more sons of the King, whose names are given as Mirza Mendoo and Mirza Bukhto war Shah. These notable prisoners were tried by a military com mission at Delhi and sentenced to death. They wtre to be shot cn the 13th of last month. The King, moreover, is to be tried by a Military Com mission ; his life will be safe if it has been a , ,sured to him before his surrendr r or capture, as I wrote in my last. Shortly after this first successful raid a larger force, consisting of the 2d Fusiliers, lst Punjab Infantry, and Kumaon Battalion, with the Carahineers, Guides, and other Irregular Horse, and a field battery, was assembled for service under the Brigadier. On the Ist of October it left the Gimp, and proceeded into the district of Gooragaen itnalc diately in the south-west of Delhi. At ih - chief town of that district a promient rebel, named Buktour Singh, was taken and hanged. Moving , on to Rewaree it occupied the fort with its maga tines and guns abandoned by Tooley Rain, a rebel leader, on its approach. In the neighbourhood oF, and still retaining his hold upon their strong io!d, and engaged in scouring and pacifying the country, with the intention ultimately, perhaps, of bringing to a reckoning the Nawab Jhujhur, our in telligence at present leaves the Brigadier. Return ng to Delhi and turning our attention to the north- west, we find General Von Oortlandt at Rhotuk, and all the Hurrianah country rapidly settling down. To the north-east, in the Meerut district, things are no less satisfactory. The revenue of the district is coming in rapidly. The road between Delhi and Meerutis clear, and the horse-dawk traffic upon it has been re-established. So also is the road from Meerut to Agra open, and again frequented by public travelling cars. In this latter case the change from disorder to tranquillity has been mainly brought about by Col. Greathed's column, whose progress we must not follow. In my last I brought his column as far as Boolundshuhur, where on the 27th it defeated a body of mutineers, said to be the old Jhansi brigade, with the loss of a few men killed and wounded among the Artillery and 9th Lancers. The fort of Malagkur, evacuated by the rebel Wulleedad Khan, was forthwith occupied and its defences blown up—an operation which unfortunately cost the life of Lieutenant Home, of the Engineers, one of the heroes of the Cashmere-gate at Delhi. The column—of which the strength, by the way, on leaving Delhi was about 2,800 men, with 18 guns—after halting a day or two at the scene of this victory, and despatching its sick and wounded to Meerut, marched on down the Great Trunk-road. On the sth it reached Ally ghur, where opposition was again experienced, but in no formidable degree, the guns of the enemy being only a 4-pounder and two tubes, which had acted in more peaceful times as sockets for the tele graph posts. Thus armed the rebels did net stand an instant, and breaking into the plain beyond the town were caught and cut up in great numbers by the Lancers and other cavalry, who did not lose a single man. On the 9th the Colonel reached Hatrass, about 30 miles from Agra. At that station his presence was much needed. Three days before, on the 6th, the Indore and 31how mutineers, so long laying idle at Dholpore, only 36 miles south-west of Agra, suddenly broke up their camp and marched for the capital. What induced them to take this step is not known with certaiuty, but it is said that they were joined by the Nee much mutineers who escaped from Delhi, and if so they may have been induced to move by the coun sels of their new allies. At any rate, to Agra they came. Colonel Greathed pushed on from Hatrass by a forced march, and crossed the Jumna to Agra on the following morning, the 10th. He had hardly pitched his camp when he was attacked by the Dholpore mutineers, perhaps 5,000 men, 1,500 of them cavalry, with 12 guns. It is said, though I think it is doubtful, that the rebels thought they had only the little Agra garrison to deal with. If so, they must have received a terrible surprise. For, although at first they created some confusion in the camp, and even captured a Horse Artillery gun, their success was but temporary. The gun was retaken by a par y of the Lancers, charging in their shirt sleeves, headed by Lieutenants French and Jones, of whum the former was killed, the latter despe rately wounded. The infantry formed in line and advanced, and the enemy retreated, in an orderly manner at first; then, as the cavalry and Horse Artillery pressed then], in the wildest confusion. The route and the pursuit lasted for 12 miles, as far as the Khara River, which the enemy managed to cross, and which arrested the progress of the worn out horses of the parsuere. But all his guns, am munition, baggage, and treasure fell into the hands of the victors, and his loss is computed at not less than 500 men, ours amounting only to 13 killed and 54 wounded. After this brilliant victory, of which the effects would be felt far and wide towards Central India, Col. Greathed recrossed the Jumna and proceeded to Myupoorie. Thence he was in tending, it is said, to march down by Etawah towards Cawnpore. But it seems, I think, more probable that he would cross the Deoab to Fur ruckabad, and the ruined cantonment of Futty ghur, now lorded over by the Nawab of the place —a wretch whose deeds of blood have been scarcely inferior in atrocity to those of Nana Sahib. To him it is possible that some of the Delhi fugitivei may have betaken themselves. Otherwise they have in all probability crossed the Ganges into Rehilcund. There they would unite with the armed and lawless Pathan* of Balladeer Khan—some of whom, near ing the hill btatimi of Nynee Tal one day in the middle of September, were attacked by a little force of the 66th Goorkhas, and others got togsther at the station, and were weq beaten—and prep ire to make a final stand against tee either there or in the neighbouring countly of Oude. "From enwepore we have news down to about the 22d of last month. The station was quiet, and reinforcements were rapidly artiving. On the 18th, Colonel Wilson, hearing that a body of mu tineers was gathering at Bithoor, marched upon them with a small force of the 64th, sth Fusiliers, and 90th, drove them out of the town, and fol lowed thorn a mile or two on the road to Sbeo rajpore. But from Lucknow we have scarcely any further intelligence than we had when I closed my last letter. Between that city and Cawnpore toe road is greatly beset, or rather between Lucknow and the fortified post of Alumbagb, three miles from it on the Cawnpore-road s Here, when march:llg on Lucknow, Havelock placed his sick and wounded and camp followers., with a powerful guard and in a strong position. From this point backwards to Cawnpore the road is clear enough. But the three miles that lie between it and the capital are untraversable except by a strong force. Hence the deficiency of our int e lli gence . A long list Outramwomen:and children was at Calcutta, and has e ßut of the onward p r og re s s o f been receivede e n of p t r h o m e f c ou rescued rgGeneralte men, the army, since the relief of the Residency, towards the complete subversion of the city, we know next t) nothing. There are rumours of a considerable loss in officers and men, the former including several of the 90th and two of the 78th, but I hesitate to give their names before the reports receive autho ritative corroboration. At the same time we must expect to hear that our losses have not been incon siderable, though, of course, I do not for a moment doubt that considerable success has been achieved. Possibly, even though we do not knew such to be the fact, the whole of the city is in our hands. But, if so, Outram must undoubtedly have been consi derably crippled, and, though able enough to hold his own, would have to wait for reinforcements before ho could execute his plan of taking or mid i:4g the women and children back to the safety of Cawapore. Of the 2,500 men he took over into Oude he left 1,000 at Altunlytgh, so that he hail at the Residency, including the rescued garrison, about 2,000, with plenty of guns, ammunition, and pro visions. Of the number of his enemies we can wake no guess, but we know they must bo numerous. One Malin Singh alone, who, lung reckoned friendly, to hive brought into the field 9,000 ar med retainers. has s v n e o rtZl i e t appears,se,btheotlintel against us, is sad odds ever so great, there is no fear but that Havelock will hold his own till rein forced, as ho shortly will be, by men of the 531, 9z€l, 82d, and other regiments fast hastening up to the scene of action, The post of AluniCash has already been strengthened tram Cawnpor e by 260 men of the 64th, with a convoy of provisions. " The province of Behar is feeling the eff .cts of the presence of the increased numbers of h triops who are being passed up every day from CA cutta Raneegunge by railway, whence they pro ceed along the Trunk-road 'for Benare3 and the upper stations, tending by their march to quiet the districts lateiy disturbed by the mutiny of the sth Irregular Cavalry and the Raenghur Battalion. The movements of the former of these corps and of the rebel leader, Oomer Singh, remain uncert sin. It is supposed that when last heard of they were in the nsighbourhood of Rhotasghur. But the Rani gliur Battalion were met by Major English, of the 53d, with 180 men of his own corps and 140 of Bat tray's Sikhs, at Chuttri, not far from tlle'r abau done I station of Hazareebagh, and utterly broken, with the loss of a third of their number and alt their guns, ammunition, and plunder. Thus we might report the province and the frontier of Bon g,l proper as tolerably tranquil but for a hte mutiny in a regiment which had hitherto remained to all appearanc e loyal—the 32d Bengal Native In fantry. This corps was quartered in the Santii' country. One of its detachments, at Deogtiur, c:insisti-ig of twocoa,panie3, mu tinied with no e :,eily assignabl caus e , on the morning of the 7t h Oct. , ,n 1 the frightful old story of bru tal murder w s re, e , ted in tl: e cases of Lieut. Cooper and M. Ronald, dt-puty-commissioner. The Se p o y s then plu udered th e s t a ti on , moved on to Rohriee, treated hat de=ei tel c int,mment in t s ;me fa-him), and then wandered away—whither is not yet' known. fir „her detachment, also of two companiee went off at Rampore Hat, but without in j urin g their officers. F or th e q uieting of this Sa n aa ! district, th e 13 t h , litely brought from the Cape, re likely to b e emp l o y e d. They were at Ranee -4"T) on the 18th, with the Benga l Yeomanr y Cavalry and some o f th e Madras column, of whom ihe res: had gone on with CA. Fischer to Denares. Bit .ar has received a garrison of seamen frdm Peel's Brigade. " Turning back to Bundelcund and Gwalior I . have nothing further to write to you- - of the Dina- pore mutineers than that they are still at Banda. But, as confirmatory of the suspicions entertained by Scindiah, as I told you in my last, regarding the temptations held out to his mutinous contingent to move upon Banda—temptations urged by Santeea Soopay, agent of Nana Sahib—and of the report that the Nana himself was in the neighbourhood, I note the report that the Gwalior Contingent has moved off from its cantonments to the eastward. This is well worthy of observation. I shall not be surprised to hear of the Nana being ere long at the head of the combined bodie3 of mutineers in the , e parts. Holkar has not yet been relieved (I write of him as sn innocent mar, which, in my belief—l may alnao3t say to my knowledge—he is) of the incubus of his insolent and mutinous soldiery. But for them a day of retribution is at hand. I mentioned in my last the half of the Mhow column when on the point of marching for Indere, on account of dis turbances near Dhar. Since then it has marched upon that town, beaten the enemy who protected it, occupied the town itself, and was prepared to storm the fort, when the enemy evacuated it during the night. Nov, both the force at Aurungabad and that of the Hyderabad Contin gent at Edlabad are on their way to Mhow, and on their arrival a strong force will at once march on 'adore to punish and to protect. In Rajpootana we have another murder, or series of murders, to !egret. At Kotah the Resident, Major Burton, and his two sons have been murdered by the men of two of the Rajah's regiments—not of the contingent, which you know mutinied long ago and was engaged in the first batch of Agra. It is said to have been a salute fired by order of the Resident on the occasion of the fall Of Delhi that led to this deed of violence, which must be bitterly avenged. Of the revolted Jaudpore legion we hear little but that it has abandoned its strong position at Awa, and probably moved into the Shekawattee country to the north, with the view of raising the battalion maintained in that State. Ajmer° and Nusseera bad are quiet. From Neemuch we have just heard of au unfortunate and apparently ill-managed at tack by the Bombay forceat the station upon a body of rebels at Jserum, in the vicinity. It was con ducted, I believe, without any orders on the part of Captain Showers, the Political, and somehow or other was a failure. The 83d lost Captain Read killed, and the 2d Cavalry Capt. Tucker, and five officers were wounded. We wait for further details of this untoward affair. " From Saugor and Jubbulpore there is little news. The Madras column is at the latter station, and the fort of Saugor is in no danger unless from the possibility of an irruption by the Dinapore and Gwalior mutineers. The small Madras force from Iloshungabad in these territories, of whose march down the Net budda I spoke iu my last, attained its object iu preventing the rebels opposite Hindia from crossing to the southern side, and then, cross ing itself, drove them out of the town of Nimawur, which they had seized and grossly ill-treated, and ,ptured and banged three leaders of note—one a deserted jamadar of police, another a self-styled ofti.er of Scindiab. " All is well in the Nizlin's country and in the Madras Presidency. At Madras itself more and more troops have arrived, and either landed there or gone on to Calcutta. In all have arrived the whore of the 34th (now at Chinaurah, near Calcutta), and parts of the Royals, 38th, 19th, 42d, and 97th. One of the regiments destined for the Madras Presidency is intended for Hyderabad to relieve the 31 Madras Europeans, which than goes to Kareptee ; another for Cannanore to set tree the wing of the 74th for Bellary, where are the heal-quarters ; another for Bangalore to relieve the 43d, which goee to Pegu, and so on. I hear too from an officer of the 43d, that the 7th B.ussars, which left England for Calcutta, are nevertheless to land at Madras, and Le sent up to Bangalore, instead of the 12th Lancers, who will be passed up to Secunderabad. "The Punjaub is all quiet, still with the little exception of the country between Lahore and Mool tan, where, however, the disturbance does not be come more serious. Scinde, too, is quite at rest. Elsewhere in our Presidency we are, as I have said troubLd only by the Bheels and Coolies. These little hill men are up at various points along the line of ghauts and in Kandeish. What has roused them we do not yet know. They had nothing to complain of ; on the contrary they have never been so well off. A certain tender or disdainful pity is felt for thee poor little remn-ints of an earlier race and many a small cess and duty has been of late remitted tothem. Yet that something has roused them has been proved not only by the simultaneous character of the outbreak, it so it may bec tiled, but by the fact that among a party ofthem, cleverly and speedily dispersed in the Guieowar's country near our own border, wd caught a fat Banian, or Hindoo trader, with a large purse, of the contents of which he had been lavish. The Bheels therefore have, as we may c , ,nclude, been induced to rise, credulous little fools, by the blandishments, promises, and bribes of the Bahian and oilers. But by whom the obese 2gent wall himself employed is what we yet desito to knoti. The viotan.i of h;s d,lu.ivo arts will be speedily put down. At present, however, they are rendering the roads unsafe, and doing a good deal of mischief. - "No further mutinies or plots ha►e broken out or been discovered in the ranks of the Bombay army. Pusishments, however, have dui ing the fortnight been inflicted cn many prisoners charged with com plicity in these that had prev;onsly taken place or been detected prevented. At Ahmedabad no fewer than 18 men of the 2d Grenadiers were exe- cuted in one day and at one moment, three bling shot, five blown from guns, and ten hanged. They were all Hindostan men, and among the finest looking soldiers in the corps. The plot in which they were distinctly proved to have been concerned was of the most thorough-going and bloody charac ter. All met their dooms without uttering a wen d. Such has been usually the case with the mutineers, In the executions at Kolapore no fewer than 50 men had suffered at various times before one was found to acc.,pt the proffered boon of life on condition uf telling what he knew of the mutiny. Near Hindi t, on the Nerbudda, the Madras stoops were hanging a man when the ripe broke. He himself adjuve 1 the rope round his neck with a double turn, and was then finally turned off. Here, in Bombay we have had no more milit try executions. The jemadar to whose coming trial I alluded in my last was acquitted. Then came the trial of a soubandar of the 11th Native Infantry, who was sentenced to death. The Brigadier commanding confirmed the sentence, and might under the provisions of a recent Act of the Legislative Council, have carried it out at once ; but, owing to what was afterwards found to be a misconception, the papers were laid before the Governor in Council. Lord Elphin _ stone recorded a minute on the subject - , reviewing the evidence, which was weaker than that in the two former casas where capital punishment hail been iefliLted, and deprecating the carrying out of the capital sentence. This in.terpisition on the part of the Governor was afterwards, oil reference to the low officers, found to be unwarranted. The Brigadier, however, after this expre-sion of opinion declined the responsibilil of ordering the man for exe ution, and corm - minted the sentence to trans prtation for life. Here it appears to me that he was wrong. Filing, as he did, a . judicial position, and havin,z pronounced for death as his solemn judgment, he should not have been induced to with draw from his decision by an opinion, however re specta')le, which was irregularly brought before him. And, further, I venture to think that the resolute and honest man at the head of the Go vernment in this case erred. Of the sAtbandar's moral guilt—nay more, of his being the very chief offender, the very life of the plot, if life it can be said to have had—there can be no doub whatever. To such a criminal, a native officer, moreover, and of influence among his men, the justest judge might be pardoni-d for desiliuina to apply the nice and teeinical rules of 1eg..l evidf nce. Certain it is that the commutation of the sentence was received with universal dissatisfaction by men of all manner of minds, and is generally ascribed, though errone ously, to a morbid feeling of pity on the part of the Governor. " Reinforcements from England should be reach ing us ere long—the 3d Dragoon Guards, the sGth and 72d. As we ara to have the Bth and 17th als.o, we shall have three Dragoon regiments here, and but few horses other than those the two latter bring with them. Hence tenders are out for ships to go to the Cape (where, however, they have a murrain among the horses) and to Australia. The head-quarters wing of the 95th arrived fcom the Cape two days ago. "Sir Hugh Rose is to have the Poonah Division, the present General (Schuler) going for the re mainder of his term to Kurrachre to r. , place General Scott, removed by the Horse Guards. " Trade is lively. Symptoms of a tightness in the money market. Exchanges on L'indon, 2s. lid. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNO W. The following summary of the events attending Genera Havelock',l march on Lucknow is extracted from the Bomb:ty g, o, lr pap, r of the 17th ult. cont a i n .ng tidings from Otwnporo to the 2d of o:;tober ' and from Luckr:ow to the 29th of Septemb er . At this hal tt.r date the Residency, which hadbeen relieved on the 25;h, Was k pt possession of, the greeter portion of the city itself having been captured ; but the enemy stall continued in such alarming strength that apprehensions were entained that Havelock, with Ids un , ler-siz d and overworLed arm y, might - be cut off from supplies or succour. Having gal lantly main , ained himself to the last, he must have been joined about the 24th of October by her Majesty's 53d and 93d Regiments from Cawnpore, and within four days afterwards by the whole of Greathed's flying column, so as once more to take the field and hunt down the enemy. We are now enabled somewhat to extend the verylimited amount of information we a fortnight since possessed in re ference to the operations between the 24th and 29th, although our intelligence is still sufficiently imperfect,—it is only from the latter of these dates that it is now. The enemy had a formidable in trenchment thrown up and armed with 50 pieces of cannon at a place called Alumbagh, a country re sidence of the Princess of Onde, about three miles from Lucknow, on the Cawnpore side. It is de scribed as consisting of a large house with a high wall all round, and an enclosure of about 500 yards square. But the convoy was too weak and exhausted to etir, and here the first of a series of contests, which lasted more than 12 hours, began. Having captured all the'r guns and driven the enemy from their outwork, it was found sufficiently strong to be maintained by a party of the 64th Foot, under Major Sibley, and here accordingly the sick, the wounded, and the baggage were left behind. Be tween Allumbagh and Lucknow is an extensive plain traversed by a wide canal. Havelock, with the main body of the force, crossed this by a bridge which the enemy, hanging close upon our rear, im mediately destroyed, occupying a position on the bank of the canal, so as to divide the two portions of our force from each other. Nearly a day was occupied by Gen. Havelock in forcing his way to the Residency through the city. The resistance was determined, and the casualties—nearly 500 out of a force of 2,ooo—very severe. On reaching the Residency, he was still fired on by the enemy, from batteries recently thrown up, and which required to be stormed in succession, and were carded at the point of the bayonet. Here fell the gal lant General Neill—the hero and the idol alike of the army, with Major Perrin, and Lieute nants Graham, Preston, and Nunn, of her Ma jesty's 90th. Here also fell Colonel Hamilton, Captain Hay and Lieutenant F.wansun, of the 78th, Lieut. Haig, of the sth Fusilier*, besides Captain Shute, and Lieuts. Turner and Maternal], of the 64th, with above 30 wounded, many of them severely. The communications betwixt the two portions of our force being thus completely cut off, those betwixt Alumbagh and Cawnpore were very imperfectly maintained. On the 26th severe fight ing continued, and for the next four days heavy firing was almost incessant. By this time above two miles of the town had fallen into our hands, and the weakness of our force alone prevented the re mainder from being secured. Havelock had reached Lucknow with 2,800 in all. Of these nearly 600 had been disabled, and about as many more had been left at Alumbagh, s that when joined to the Residency garr srn, about 1,000 strong, he he d scarcely his original number, to meet a force of above 50,000 in the field against him, though, with courage and menag ment such as could be relied upon, enough to maintain themselves iu the Resi dency, and bombard and cannonade the city. The difficulties of the Residency were such, that Have lock was left no time to wait at Cawnpore for rein forcements, and the original intention ,was to re lieve. the garrison, escort tee women and children to a place of safety, and then resume the offensive. Here Outram remained will 1,500 men, levelling the various buildings which hemmed them in and commanded them while Havelock operated out side. For a time the force was separated into three —Havelock, at the Bales Guard, being cat off from all communication with Outram. They are luckily once more reunited. On the 3d a convoy of 300 men of the 64th, commanded by Major BingLatn, with provisions, left Cawnpore, but were able to get no further on than Alumbagh, where they left their supplies, returning to Cawnpore without having experienced any molestation either on their advance or return. On the 11th a party of 150 arrived at the latter pace from the former, bring ing with thorn a large number of camels and elephants to assist in carrying back the prove sears. On the 14th a second convoy, under Major Melutyre, of the 78th Highlanders, was de spatched. He was obliged, however, to intrench him self, when within four miles of his destination, re turning his stores, which he was not strong enough to protect, and await reinforcements. Alutuba,h was now occupied by 1,000 men. The approaches e commanded by heavy gnus, and the ground cleared and exposed in all directions to the distance of about 500 yards. CAWNPORE. Between the 2d and 24th of October, the dates from Cawnpore comprised between the last and present despatch, everything continued quiet within and around the tows, the comman:lan , , Colonel Wilson—on whom reinforcements of 200 or 300 at a timt.were daily dropping—attending to the wants Lucknow, and watching the movements of the enemy in the neighbourhood. About the 14th it was reported that the insurgents were mustering in force at Bithoor, to the northward—the former residence of Nara Sahib, supposed not unlikely now to ba at the head of them. On the 17th order, were issued for•,the detachment for some time back oady to start fc)r Lucknow to move off immediately. At 10 o'clock the same evening the order was eau eilltd, and at midnight a field battery with 650 bayonets, and a few native horsemen, provided with four days' provisions, moved off as quietly as possib!e for 13ithoor. This was the native festival the Dewalee, or feast of lamps, when there is a general holyday, and au unusual amount of fes tivity. They approached Bithoor early in the morning, and after short rest moved off about noon. Having marched about six mile they learned that the enemy occupied a grove of trees half a mile in front with a 9 and 24-pounder gun in pus ti.,n. Tne small force deployed, when a de tachment of the 90th, which was in the rear, in commencing to mow off the road, were opened on by the enemy, the fist shell bursting in front of thew, killing two and wounding two or three other s. Our guns were now run up, but the range at first was too long, when they closed in, and, after firing 20 or 3) rounds, silenced the enemy, and our infantry charged and carried every - thin.; before them. The action lasted for an hour. We lost two killed and had six severely wounded. The enemy prob ibly lost about 100—though this is matter of conjecture. Great havoc might have been committed on the fugitives had cavalry been ava lable. Their guns were left behind them, • with two waggons and three country carts laden with ammunition. The 19th was occupied in destroying Bithoor. On the morning of the 20th the gallant and victorious little baud returned to Cawnpore. On tneir way back the village of So..rajpore was destroyed, and iu a house filled with straw live of the rebels were discovered by the men of the 64th probing the mass with their bayonets. They dashed out sword in hand, when thief were immediately despat,led. Two of the prisoners brought in were hart , ed. ; one of them was the bearer of letters f rom ai,_na Sahib to the people in and around Bithoor, calling upon them to provide ammunition and have supplies ready for his arrival, expected in the course of fifteen clays. THE SURVIVORS OF LUCKNOW. (Front the Englishman, (id. 20). The following list of the surviving officers, ladies, and children of the Lucknow garrison is supplied by Government : Lucknow, Oct. 13. General Staff—Brigadier Inglis, Captain Edgell and Wilson, Lieuts. Hai dingo and James, Major Marriott, paymaster, Lieuts. Birch and Barwell, Mr. Couper, C.S., Captain Carnegie, provost marshal. Artillery—Lieutenants Thomas, Bowham, J. Alexander, and McFarlan. Engineers—Lieutenants Hutchinson, Anderson, and innes. 7th Light Cavalry—Col. Master, Capt. Boileau, Lieutenants Warner and Farquhar, Dr. Campbell. 32d Foot—Captains Lowe and Bassano, Lieuts. Edmonstone, Lawrence, Forster, Harmer, Cook, and Clery. 71st Native Infantry—Two Lieutenants Camp bell, Dr. Brydon. 31 Native Infantry—Captain Stuart. 58th Native Infantry—Lieutenant Tulloch. 63d Native InfantryEn - -ign Inglis. 65th Native Infantry—Captain Weston. 18th Native . It, fintry—Ensign Dash wood. Oude Irregular Force—Brigadier Gt ay, CaAain Forney, Drs. Gree i nhow and. Partridge, Lieuts. Graham (cavalry), Clarke (Ist °ale), and S. , ppiit, Dr. Hadow, Captain Hawes, Apothecary Thomp son, Limits. Graydon, Watson, Meehan), and Vail, ninon, D. Darby. Caprains Hearsey and Orr, Mr. Birch, Rev. Harris, Drs. Ogilvie and Fayrer, Mr. Gubbins, C.S., Mr. Martin C.S. Mr. Mr. Ben son, C.S., Mr. Capp er , C.S., Mr. Law . renc. C.S , Mr. Thornhill, C.S., and M r. Boulderson, C.S. Ladies and On ildleit—Mrs. Hayes and .one, Mrs. E lgi 1 and two, and Mrs, Marriot. 32d Foot—Lieu errant , Brown, Charlton, and Geddings, paymast,r ; Quartet waiter Stritlng, Drs. Scot and Boyd. 84th Foot—Lieutenants O'Brien and M'Gratb. 13th Native Infantry—Captains Waterman and German, Lieutenants Aitkin Chambers, Cutat, Phaiii, and Loughoian, and Dr. Pitt. 41.4 Native Infantry—Major Apthorp, Captains Keinble and Saunders, Lieutenants Ruggles, D.,r rah, Inglis, Keir, and Hewett. 48th Native Intlntry—Col. Palmer, Major Bird, Capt. Green, Lieutenants Huxham, Smith, Ouse- Icy, Fletcher, liay, O'Dowda, and Ward, and Dr. 71st Native Infantry—Captains St rangways and Dinning ; Lieutenants La,tignnye, Sewell, and Wonky, Mrs. Inglis and three child en, Mrs. Bar well and one child, one chill of Lieut. Thomas (Mrs. Thomas dead), Mesdames Lewin and one child, Radcliffe and two children, Boileau, 7th Cavalry " and three children, Casa, Miss Dickson, Mesdames Stevens, Geddiugs, Bruere, and four children, Ger mon, Aitkin, Pitt and one child, Apthorp, Darrah, Bird, Huxham, Ouseley and three children, Dash wood and two children, Wells and one child, and Miss Raiford, Mesdames Strangways and three children, Braydon and two children, Banks and one child, S. wart, Fullerton, rnd Miss Bircb, Bar low, Forbes and one child, Graham, Gall, Barber, Clarke, Sappit, Orr and one child, Harris, Pole hampton, Ogilvie, Fayrer, Gubbiup, Ommaney, two Misses Ommaney, Mrs. C o pp er and two children, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Thornhill, Mrs. Boileau and three children, Mrs. Eldridge, Mrs. Staples, Miss Shilling, Mrs. Ander son , Mrs. Ken" dall, Mrs. Bartram ad one child. ' Uncovenant-d Service, &Tc.—Mr. Cameron, pier chant ' • Mr. Hill, ditto ; Mr. Parry, D e lhi Bank ; Extra Assistants Williams, Garland, and Collins. Clerks—Messrs. Kavanah, Wittinhaker, Lincoln, Phillips, French, Anthony, and M'Gunnam. Apothecary Higgins ; Civil Engineer Marshall; Mr. Crea, Mr. J. May. And very many more—iu fact, very few have been killed—whose names will be communicated W e ' after. H. BRUCE, Captain, Commanding sth Punjab Cavalry, Superintendent Police Cavalry. COLONEL GREATHED'S PURSUIT or THE REBELS. (Front the Bombay Times.) From the date of the occupation everything has been quiet and orderly around. We mentioned in our last that two strong pursuing column's had left Delhi to push their way southward on, opposite s des of the Jumna towards Agra. Only one column, commanded by Colonel Great bed, of 1,600 infantry and 500 cavalry, three troops of horse artillery and 18 guns, in reality could be spared. It crossed over the river, and took the direction of Allyghur, a strong fort situated in the midst of swamps and marshes, about 50 miles fro each of the two great towns first named.' They halted at Gliazeeoodeenugger on the 25th, marching on the 26th to Sekundrabad, where a vast amount of English property, amongst which ladies' wearing apparel was conspicuous, being found, the place wee burnt. On the 27th they overtook the enemy at Bolund shultur, were the Jhausi rebels, with a large anis° of other insurgents, had taken up a strong positions which they seemed detertnin3d to defend. This position was well selected, and their guns and men carefully concentrated. They were soon silenced 1)1 our artillery, the whole band being driven from their entrenchments, and immediately pursued by 01 ° cavalry. Some of their horse formed a line to cover the retreat and receive the attack of Watson's sslrre gulars, but were soon dispersed. The 9th Lana" made a brilliant charge, and dashing down •Lb ° street, where they suffered considerably, drove th e enemy through and beyond the town. The rebels appeared to select and single out the officers fo r attack. 'Aut. Blair was severely wounded in the shoulder, as were more slightly Lieuts. Sarel a nd Jones, and Capt. Best, of the Irregular Coal* About 100 of the enemy were left dead upon t e a field ; seven light guns, with shot, all of hammer iron, were captured, with 25 b oxes o f powder, sn''' large quantities of musket ammunition. se enemy are said to have lost 150. O ur ca sualties °f all kinds were under 50, there being six offi cer° wounded. On the morning of the 29th the force Ma rched a on Malaghur, which they f oun d abandoned, av immediately prepared to blow n p th e fort. On th is occasion Lieut. Home, of the E ng i n eers, lost III! life by the explosion of a mine, prematurely fir ed. It was he who, on the 14th Sept., assisted Lie u " Salkeld in blowing up the Cashmere Gate, under* storm of musketry fatal to almost every one within_ its reach. Thus far we are merely giving, for th:i sake of perspicuity, and in a corrected and ampl i a form, the tidings forwarded by the last mail. " 11-d ' column here remained for a couple of days, in e°' 3l " maud of four cross roads, by which the.mutiee re might be overtaken, in whatever direction they should appear. From this the wounded officers and men, with all the camp followers that could be spared, were despatched for Meerut. On the 2d the force was once more ou their way. The fol lowing day they reached Koorga, a distance of 12 miles. The enemy had been there but two days before, but some eight or nine of t he ir numbe r were t aken and shot. On the 4th they encamped at Soomlah, and on the sth reached Allghur. This fort is situate iu the midst of swamps and marshes, about 50 miles front Delhi, as from Agra. Our troops were opposed 1 4 some Mahommedan fanatics and the rabble of the town, by woom our adherent, Goobind Singh and big followers had some time since been expelled. Th e y were quickly dispersed on all sides, the cavalry cut ting up about 400, and two 5-pounder guns havi,_ l4 fallen into our hands. B ourc hi er ' s b a tt ery , with W e cavalry, European and native, to)k a circle of the town, leaving the church uu th e l e ft a nd scouring the corn-fields and gardens, pushed on by the Cawnpore road to the 87th mile s tone. Here t he ? i opened out for skirmishing, and then swept "the again, clearing the villages and cutting down , enemy hid amongst the high crops of millet an; maize. There were supposed to have been 400 .1 the Gwalior Contingent in the neighbou rhWus very few of whom escaped. On the 6th the force marched on to Akuraba4! another stronghold of fanaticism and revolt, th e cavalry rapidly moving in advance. They 14'e accompanied by Mr. Geo. Campbell, as cowl: l ,n sioner, and succeeded in killing two distils:viol% rebel chiefs, Mungul Singh and Mebtab with about a hundred of their followers. Fo nt guns were found loaded, and point ed towards the entrance of the fort. These, wi th a lar g e quantrtY_ of powder and grape-shot, were ca p tur ed. Rumou now ran that the mutineers from various quarter es chiefly from Indore, had congregated at Dholpo t rl 33 mile. from Agra, on the Gwalior road. Oa 101_ 7th it was ascertained that they were p ushin g.: as hard as they could, with the view of surpritaig_ the weakened garrison. The enemy , amouu to about 5,000 disciplined troops, and about io,t lii n , of a rabble, with three siege guns and - 12 or . light field pikce., had meantime crossed the IChs . river, about 12 miles north of Agra, on. the 9th ° October. About noon of that day their advanced guard was within four miles of the eantoninen ty u , where they fired upon the militia cavalry , s ent o to watch their movements. Greathed's colons had on the same date reached Hattrass, on th. western side of the river, and was pushing on the alvance guard of 500 cavalry a nd two batteries o f artillery. They crossed the pontoon bridge little after daybreak, and were then, as it turned out, within five miles of the enemy. The enemy meanwhile were supposed to have disappeared. Oa the morning of the 10th Greathed moveably column marched into the cantonments of Agra, and the troop, wearied with a long and fatiguing march,' just encamped, when they wer e unex pectedlY attacked by the enemy as they were preparing. ° breakfast. The rebels expected to. have nothing wore than the feeble garrison to deal with, and 1 1 : adversaries on both sides we re equa lly taken by surer se. Feu!. Ghazees (Mohammedan fanatics) bearing drums now entered camp, and cut dovru e, ¢ . officer, who was washing, and & sergeant,major, 11 '4; was asleep. Their guns opened on our camp, Vf1111,3 their cavalry the rged on our flank before our m enll6 ' tithe to seize theirarnv, and succeeded in capturi one of our guns. Never was surprise more comple teds nor more rapidly repelled. In five minutes our 111" were in their saddles, and before therfifth shot of th e enemy had been fired our horse artillery were reply' ing. The Sikhs charged' first,, followed by the 9 1 ° Lancers in heir shirts, when the infantry, consist' ing of her Majesty's Bth and 75th, with the Sikhs, came into actan., ani our guns opened fire. Lieut. French was killed, Lieut. Jones severely wounded , when they, with nice of the Lance's, attacked abn o 50 sepoys in pos , e, , sion of the gun, which was il l stantly retaken. Col. Cotton, who chanced to bel l the ground atthe time, as seniorofficerinstantlY t f ° d . command. A stf ut resistance was at first atternPb°ll:. but on the approach of our guns the hearts of jeiur adversaries failed them. Rushing down the GlOl f road, they dispersed themselves over the field s i Z e millet, with which this country is now covered. - u P ss Lancers and Sikh cavalry kept at their heels, and s u' them to pieces, whil-3 the horse at always 1 0 ad vance, mowed thsm down with grape. he crops were too heavy for horse to penetrate,___r were pursued by her Majesty's Bth and 75th 1 1 4,V. Wher meilts, and the 2d and 4th Punjab InfantrY• cite worn out men acquired strength fiom. lll °, e ' w ith went, and the wearied hot ses sympathise°, _tiro, their riders. After a fierce contest of two _o(' during witch great havoc was occasioned .11 ; p a ~etillery, the enemy were completely ro ute " , h oe dri' en en miles along the road to Gwalio r, ;hey only e , caped by being able toreach the r sthe e tiers a body of infantry, drawn up on th e ful e bl b trik to assist the fugitives, were cut to P ie" s od our guns. All their baggage, camp equiPag e ' en ot. treiisut e, their guns (13 in number), with a The y mou , quantity of plunder, fell into our hands' field, are said to have lest about 2,000 dead on th e tbe d'e our casualties amounting to about 80. Gl ea -n oes. force, which had now been 16 days almost _1 __ b s santly on the march, during which they had.f:lt.e_ two pitched bi,ttles, and four affairs of lesser ust in which together about 4,000 of the enemy I i o have fallen, found a brief breathing spa c e _de Agra. A portion of the fugitive insurgents s74 Weir w. y to Bhurtpere, where they were red o s % eight wer.i On c o r i u sl e e i r u e g d t ebydethseo,Rsaijxahert.o,lauybvri: feels arms. whom six were hung at Agra. killed on the spot, 14 were . take n .piersretocreste_rte..,reots