The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

INDIA.
THE BOMBAY HAILS

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamahip
Ripon, Captain H. W. Powell, bringing the heavy por-
tion of the mails from Bombay, arrived at Southampton
Friday afternoon about 4 o'clock. Her dates are :
Alexandria, August 26th; Malta, 30th; and Gibraltar,
September 4th.
The Turkish sailing line-of-battle ship Shadie, Captain
Moowlafa Bey, 30 days from Constantinople, and 22
from Gallipoli, arrived at Gibraltar on the 3rd instant,
and saluted the garrison at 10.30 cm, She is reported
to be on her way to Plymouth, for the purpose of being
converted into a screw steamer. After taking in fresh
water and provisions she was to resume her voyage.
The Wale Lee, from Cardiff, with coals for b ibral tar,
arrived on the third.
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The Flora and the Tonic, from Alexandria, with
beans, for Cork, arrived at Gibraltar on the morning of
the 4th,
A letter from Gibraltar, dated 11 cm, on the 4th,
says: The 48th Regiment, under orders for India, yid
the overland route, have been medically inspected.
Every preparation is now making to start about the
15th init., when the second battalion Bth Foot is es.
Faded from Dublin to relieve them. The invalids,
women, and children of the 48th have been ordered to
hold themselves in readiness to proceed to England in
Her Majesty's troop ship Perseverenoe, expected from
Corfu in about 10 or 12 days. Colonel Riley, who oom•
mend, the 48th, expects • reinforcement from the depot,
under the command of Major Chapman, who only •
fortnight ago proceeded to England on leave. The
Turkish liner Bliadie I. 0411 in harbour, and expects to
start soon for England.
On the 4th the Ripon passed the Royal mail steamer
Teviot, homeward bound, with the Australian malls and
passengers; oth, at midnight, passed a steamer bound
to the southward, about 25 miles south of Cape Finis.
tern ; Bth, at 7 p.m., passed the Tagus steamer with
the outward Peninsular mails,

SIR HUGH HoBll.—We hive VO/1011 to believe that
the telegram from Bombay of the 4th of August, in
which it was stated that Sir Hugh Ron had resigned
the oommand of the Poonah division of the Bombay
army, should rather have been that he had resumed it,
as letters have bon reeeived from him of that date
mentioning that he had resumed that command.

Platioue POILITIOIC—A young LOAD from Brentwood
named Tyler, a sergeant In the 23rd Fugileers in India,
has written home to his father :—" I had • narrow es.
cape • few nights sines. I was in the jungle on an out.
picket at night, with instructions on no amount to fire
my musket, noise, under the most urgent necessity, for
fear of alarming the enemy, who were in the immediate
neighbourhood. A very large tiger mine suddenly after
me. I had but just thus to receive him on my bayonet
and I gave him • severe wound. He reared up, and
was preparing to make • spring at me, when I fired my
rifle and shot him through the heart. IRS few minutes
a picket was down, and I we. taken a prisoner for dis-
obeying orders, and next morning brought before nty
officers. I related my tale, and a party we. sent out in
search, and, • short distance from where I we. placed,
the tiger (a very large one) WU found in the jungle
dead. Some of our men had been lost from the same
*pot when out on night picket.—
THE VICTORIA CROSS womb EARSID.—The Queen
has conferred the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
Lieutenant (now Captain) Frederick Robertson Aikman,
4th Bengt.' Native Infantry. "This officer" (we quote
the Gazette? commanding the 3rd Sikh Cavalry on the
advanced piquet, with 100 of his men, having ohtai nod
information, just as the force marched on the morning
of the Ist of March last, of the proximity, three miles
off the high road, of • body of 500 rebel Infantry, 200
horse, and two guns, under Moushib All Chuckbdar,
attacked and utterly routed them, cutting up more than
100 men, capturing two guns, and driving the survivors
into and over the Gointee. This feat was performed
under every disadvanUr of broken ground, and par-
tially under the flanking fire of an adjoining fort.
Lieutenant Aikinan received a severe sabre out in the
feat in a personal encounter with several of the enemy."
The cross has also been conferred on Gunner William
Connelly, Bengal Horse Artillery, for his gallantry in
actionwith the enemy at Jhelum, on the 7th July,
1867. Lieutenant Coolies, Bengal Horse Artillery,
reports that "about daybreak on that day I advanced
my half troop at a gallop, and engaged the enemy
within easy musket range. The sponge-man of one of
my guns having been shot during the advance, gunner
Connelly assumed the duties of second sponge-man, and
he hadbarely assisted in two discharges of his gun, when
a musket-ball, through the left thigh, felled him to the
ground. Nothing daunted by pain and loss of blood, he
was endeavouring to resume his post, when I ordered
a movement in retirement, and, though severely
wounded, he was mounted on his horse in the gun-team
and rode to the next position which the gime took up,
and manfully declined going to the rear when the neces-
sity of his so doing was represented to him. About 11
o'clock a.m., when the guns were still in action, the
seine gunner, whilst sponging, was again knocked down
by a musket-ball striking him on the hip, thereby
sensing great faintness and partial unconanouaness, for
the pain appeared excessive, and the blood flowed fast.
On seeing Wu I gave direction* !coins removal out of
action; but this brave man, bearing ink, staggered to his
feet, and said "No, Sir; not go there whilst I
can work here;' and shortly afterwards he again re-
sumed his put as spongemain. Late in the afternoon of
the same day, my three pun were engaged at 100 yards