The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

INDIA.

The Ti correspondent -Wilting from the Head
Head-quarters Camp, Cawnpore, April 17, says :—lt is
most probable that we shall march at daybreak for
The die is cast. We mut have a summer
campaign,—a short one I hope,—and when Bareilly is
ours it remains to be seen whether the revolt is sup-
pressed, or whether it is independent of site and locality
and has deeper roots than we imagine. Even now the
want of troops is deeply felt. In my next whioh I hope
to send by the same mail, I hope to be able to give you
• brief sketch of our proposed plan of operations. At
present Sir Colin is running a race with the Gangs.,
which is rising every day. Brigadier-General Jones
has crossed the Ganges at Rowkee, and thus the Rohn-
ound campaign hes commeneed so far. On the 19th the
Commander-in-Chief will join the Head-quarters Camp,
17 miles from this (Cawnpore) on the road to Futtyghur,
which he expects to reach on the 22nd.
BUIINICR IN INDIA.—A correspondent, writing from
Luoknow in the beginning of April, thus describes the
state of the atmosphere in India during the warm
weather :—The thermometer at 108° in the shade, and
inside the tent at noon three days ago, was a warning of
umnietakeable cogency that "summer was coining."
Since that time the heat has not been quite so great, but
the hot winds, which set in about 10 o'clock daily and
last till sunset, are all but intolerable, charged as they
are with dust of a revolting nature, which fills every
pore and fires the blood—which seems to penetrate the
internal mechanism of the body, as it does in reality
force its way into the works of a watch—which renders
all out-of-door exercise a sort of severe penitential
infliction, and makes dwelling in tents utterly miserable
and hopeless. By the time this letter reaches you—and
when that may be I have not the slightest notion—you
will be enjoying the rigours of the merry month of May,
and, in common with the rest of the English army, I
shall be experiencing the pleasures of an Indian summer;
but already has the premonitory symptom of the latter
satisfied me that campaigning can only be conducted at
an enormous cost. The hottest day that comes, let some
one who is sincerely desirous of understanding what the
dry winds are like repair to any iron-foundry in full
activity, and let him stand in front of the fire when the
furnace-door is opened; but unless he can add to it the
odours procurable by standing over the grating of a
Strand cookshop in the dog-days he will have but a poor
idea of the nastiness' of the blast, which, sweeping over
burning sandy plains covered with putrefying remains,
whisks clouds of pulverized animal matter along with it,
and rashes in dense yellow volumes all over the city
and the plains around it.
PRICE OF BEER, ADO. AT CAWNPOBE, April 1858.—
The camp sutlers have manifested their spirit of avarice
and their want of enterprise here as in Europe. Bad
beer is 24e. a down, • better quality costa 30e. I paid
the other day 70 rupees, or 140 shillings, for a dozen of
brandy of ordinary quality. Gin is nearly as dear.
There is no wine fit to drink for any money. The con-
coctions called port and sherry are ludicrously bad. A
small tin of biscuits costs • pound, and so in proportion,
or out of it, for every article of the few that can be had.
The beer issued by the Co nmisaariat, or rather sent up
by the Calcutta authorities, is so harsh and sour that it
is, I hear, all to be condemned—a fitting punishment,
if the price came out of their pockets, for the author-
ities, whoever they were, who rejected an offer of
Allsopp to supply the army with the best ale at a few
shillings above the usual price paid by the Government.
A GOD-SEND.--An Indian paper contains a letter
from Luoknow, which, referring to the escape of Mrs.
Orr and the other ladies who were rescued from the
then place of confinement in the city, when it was
captured by the forces under Sir Colin Campbell, says:
—" I cannot master my feelings sufficiently to tell you
at present of all they had to endure. Suffice it say that
—barring the last outrage—they were subjected to
almost every indignity that a met of cowardly, black-
hearted, and foul-mouthed devils could offer. But God
was with the dear creatures in their captivity. He sent
his Holy Spirit to console them. And inset marvel-
lonely did he interpose all His Almighty power in their
behalf on one occasion. Their greatest privation was
that of God's word.; their Bibles had been taken from
them. In vain had they endeavoured to procure even 1
Testament ; and they were compelled to rely upon
their momories for their scriptural exercives. At length,
in answer to their reiterated and earnest entreaties for
little medicine for poor little Sophy Christian, a powder
was sent wrapped up in • small, dirty piece of paper, torn
from the corner of an English book. To our dear
friends the smallest scrap of print was indeed • treat,
and on examining it they found it to be literally a God-
send. It contained verses 12 and 13, and part of verse
14, of the 51st chapter of Isaiah. Theme are the blessed
words that their Clod thus miraculously sent to our dear
countrywomen in their extremity :—" I, even I, am
He that oomforteth you. Who art thou that thou
shouldest be afraid of • man that shell die, and of the
son of man that 'hall be made as gram? And forgettest
the Lord thy Maker that bath stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth ; and
heat feared continually every day, because of the fury
of the oppressor. The captive exile hasteneth, that he
may be loosed," dm. Have you, in the whole course of
your life, seen or read of • more wonderful instance of
God 'quaking to and comforting his elect in the midst
of their tribulation I confess that were I to read of
such a thing In a newspaper, or even in • religious
biography, I would not believe it. But as surely as I
pen these words, as surely as I shall have to answer to
God at the Great Day, I have seen, and read, and with
grateful adoration kissed the blessed fragment of God's
word, above quoted, which carried comfort to our dear
friends in the Kaiser Bagh, and sustained their faith at
a time when hell had put forth its whole powers to
induce them to curse God and die. I rejoice to say
that, though weak, and not altogether free from ail-
ment, the dear noble minded creatures are likely in •
few week' to recover their former health and vigour."
GENZRAL JACOB ON NATIVE INDIAN ARNIEB.—The
following is from • private letter written by General
Jcoob, the famous commander of the Soinde Horse:—
In spite of all the delays and lost opportunities which
have occurred, I am now ready to create and organize
Native Indian Infantry which shall be perfectly faithful
and orderly, and which shall (leaving Anglo-Saxons out
of the question) be ready and fully able successfully to
encounter in arms, in any country, any enemies on earth
regular or irregular, European or Asiatic. I am abso-
lutely certain that, with full power to select and die-
oiplace, and promote and radar's all men under me, I
could before long call into existence Indian troops very
far superior to the Relieves of France. But I cannot
hope to do anything to any purpose if a particle of the
old poisonous regulation leaven be forced into my
material—a very little would corrupt the whole taus.
But I cannot undertake to form regiment. unless
allowed to proceed after my own fashion, and to work
with those laws and principles which I know to be sound
and of lasting force. Let Government place at my

disposal the moans of equipping the men in the firet
instanee, and then leave all arrangements to be made by
me; aiding ms where I may require saddens', but not
opposing me. They have seen my handiwork in the
&Ind* Irregular Horse, rather not my work at all) but
they have seen the effect of working by natural law,
and of depending on Shoes feelings and powers which
are common to all mankind, and I feel that on Ilth sub-
ject I have nothing to learn from 'authority.' Let
Government be prepared to supportme throughout, and
I will slake my oonuniaalon, my life, and reputation on
the result. gnomes will be certain, and will be inde-
pendent of my individual life, for my lioutenants are
this to take my plea."
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Tea OUDI PIOOLANATION.—The oommunloations
between Sir J. Outram and Lord Canning, which settled
Mr. Cardwell's motion with reference to the proclama-
tion, by showing the propriety of Lord Ellenborough's
despatch, have been published. The Chief Commissioner
of Code strongly condemns the confiscation of the pro.
pristary rights in that kingdom. Sir Janie' Outram,
through his secretary, says:—" The effect of the pro-
clamation will be to confiscate the entire proprietary
right in the soil; and this being the ease, it 11, 01 course,
hopeless to attempt to enlist the landholders on the side
of order; on the contrary, it is the Chief Commisaioner's
dm conviction that, as soon as the °hide and talookdan
become acquainted with the determination of the Govern-
ment to confiscate their rights, they will betake them-
selves at once to their domains, and prepare for a des-
perate and prolonged resistanoe." Lord Canning,
through his secretary, Edmonstone, acknowledged the
receipt of this emphatic rebuke, and gave Sir James
Ontram authority to modify the proclamation by the
Insertion of • clause stating that, to all the chiefs " who
shall promptly come forward, and give to the Chief
Commissioner their support in the restoration of peace
and order, the indulgence will be large, and the Governor-
General will be ready to view liberally the elaims which
they may thus acquire to a restitution of their former
rights." Lord Canning tells Sir James Ontram that
"this clause will add little or nothing to his discretionary
power, but it may serve to indicate more clearly to the
--talookdars his lordship's meaning." Lord Canning
follows up this correspondent* by a review of the situa-
tion of affairs, controverting Sir James Ontram'e opinion,
and setting forth the reasons which led the Govenor-
General to abandon the system of clemency to which he
had consistently adhered, almost up to the date of his
proclamation.
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THS GINTLI Serov.—The Madras Athena:um relates
the following use u a proof that Madras sepoys, at
least are capable of all the atrocities which some people
in England now deny were ever endured by our country-
women in Bengal :—, 'Some time last year, in the month
of February, • sepoy of the 311th Regiment Native In-
fantry, at Htirryhur, Was offended about some trivial
matter with a young woman of loose oharaoter named
Jamablee, and resolved on revenging himself. He found
no difficulty in getting six of his comrades and • bheesty
of his corps to join him in the perpetration of the con-
templated outrage. Measures having been preoonoerted
the above-niiiii sepoy and one of his oo,nrodee doom"
the footetepo of Jansahlee one evening, when, seeing
their intended victim seated in a hamar, they went up
to her, and, greeting her omirteously, asked her to come
itipartiake of Aglaia of wrack with them. She unman-
ngly consented to their proposal, and accompanied
hem. They wended their way, talking cheerfully, out
of the Bazaar lines, to the bell-firing plain, in doing
which they happened to meet, sail sesidentay,the other
five sepoys and the ' bbeesty.' Hem a bottle of arrack
was produced, and while all seemed to partake of the
intoxioating stuff, oars was taken to nuke Joinable'
drunk. No sooner was this result produced, than every
one of these monsters abused their poor violins, carried
her to a ruined temple on the banks of the Toombudra
river aloe. by, stripped her of all her olothu and jewels,
lit a fire and roosted her alive stomach downwards,
pointed a bamboo stick and pierced her ear and other
parte of her body with it, beat her with a rattan,
and tortured her to death. Not satisfied with
all this, they brought the corpse bulk, and threw it on
the ball-firing plain in the cantonment, in order, it ap-
pears, that " all who pass by might spit upon it." Two
of those sight wretches have been sentenced to death,
and the remaing six to transportation for life,"