The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

INDIA.

The Governor-General's camp has been entirely
destroyed by Are, which it is said originated in his
Lordship's tent. It is also said that all records and
papers have been lost.
The summary of the Bombay Times of December 20,
gives us the following intelligence :
T b. Government has received • telegram to the
effect that Major Honner, with his sepoys, has gained
• decisive victory over the Waghters at Porebuuder,
and captured several hundred prisoners.
"The Goorkah campaign against the rebels on the
Nmiulese frontier has begun and ended. Towards the
emil of November Jung Bahadoor marched his forces
into the Terai, and in one week he had killed, taken,
or dispersed the forces of the mutineers, and was pre-
paring to return in triumph to Katmandoo. The fate
of one or two of the leading personages in the rebel
camp is still somewhat obscure ; but about the main
fact, that the bands of desperate men who have so long
successfully evaded our pursuit are now finally rooted
out, there is happily no dispute. So strictly kept was
the cordon of the British side of the frontier that, as
soon as the Goorkahs advanced, the rebels had no chance
but to make One rush with their whole strength to
break through the weaken part of tke Nep•ulese line,
and, this failing, to surrender or die. But, worn by
disease and famine, and dispirited with having watched
anxiously but in vain in their jungles during so many
months for the smallest loophole of escape, these men
appear in the closing scene of their career not to have
fought with that determined and hopeless valour by
which the worst of mankind may redeem their names
from hatred and contempt, and attract to themselves at
the last somewhat of human sympathy and admiration.
Their death is as ignoble as their life ; they have been
destroyed like rats in a bole, instead of falling like
brave rildiers. At first, indeed, the Nepaulese troops
had • slight brush with the rebels. Beni Madho, with
1,200 men, "made a stand for some time against • por-
tion of Jung Bahadoor's army, and they must have
fought with wine determination, for they have left their
leader and half their number dead on the field; but
after this the rebels fought no more. Lieutenant Cosse-
rat, with • small party of Onde police, fell in with the
Nusseerabad Brigade, and drove them back into the
jungle ; and the nest day the whole brigade, still, it is
said, about MO or 1,000 strong (it originally numbered
1,600 men), surreadered to the Goorkahs. The Nueseera-
bad leaders Dabee and Gunge Sing, with most of the
prisoners, have been sent into the British camp,
whither, also, were on their way, at the date of our
last &deices from Gude, Ummer Sing, • brother of
Koer Biug, Bullee Sing, and Mummoo Khan, who had
come in separately with small bodies of their followers.
Parties of prisoners, too, were arriving daily, and, as
the rebel force was believed at the commencement of
the campaign to consist of 4,000 men, and between
2,000 and 3.000 are taken, in addition to those that
have been killed in battle, the once formidable army
of the mutineers may be said, without a figure of
speech, to have ceased to exist. Nana Sahib is now
confidently reported to be among the dead. Khan
Bahadoor Khan of Bareilly seems not yet to have fallen
into our hands. This man, who is scarcely second to
the Nana in blood-guiltiness, actually had the audacity
to offer to surrender to the British if his life were
spared. Most of the common prisoners will of course
be released and sent to their homes; but for the leaders
there can be no reprieve.
" The sufferers by the late mutiny will be glad to
learn that their just claims to compensation for pecu-
niary losses are to be no longer evaded or refused. The
Government of India has decided that the million of
money which was fixed as the maximum sum for satis-
fying their claims is to be regarded as the minimum—
that is to say, if, after paying all demands that are pre-
ferred, there should be left • surplus of the million, this
is also to be distributed among the applicants in the pro-
portion of their respective losses."