The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

INDIA.
ras BOMBAY MAIL.

The following telegram is from Malta, dated Malta,
February 28, 7.30 p.m
The French steamer from Alexandria has just arrived,
bringing accounts of the arrival at Suez on the night of
the Mud of the Bombay mails. There was nothing new
at Malta, save the arrival on the 24th of the Vulcan
from Portsmouth, with the 2nd battalion of the 2nd
Regiment for garrison duty. The following is the
substanee of the Indian news :—The Commander-in-
Chief was at Futtyghur, preparing for the invasion of
Gude, which would probably be made from several
points about the 25th. His own column is nearly
15,000 strong, with about 100 pieties of ordnance, while
at least 10,000 men from other points will be ready to
co-operate with him. General Outram has remained at
the Alumbagh undisturbed since the 16th of January.
100,000 insurgents are said to be in arms and around
Lucknow, which is being strengthened in every possible
way. Sir Hugh Rose, at the head of the Central Indian
Field Force, captured Ratguth on the 29th, defeated the
enemy at Banda, and finally relieved the garrison at
Bangor from a six months' siege on the 3rd of February.
The Rajpootana Field Force captured the strong fortress
of Awah on the 24th of January, and was marching on
Kotali, where disunion reigns. Delhi has been placed
under the authority of the Punjab Commission. The
authority of the civil power has been restored, and the
army declared broken up. The Punjab and Feroze,
with the 72nd Highlanders, had reached Bombay, but
large reinforcements of European troops are still re-
quired. Trade ia improving ; freights on the advance;
all public securities rising. The Governor-General is
on his way to the Northern Provinces.

The following telegram, from Mr. Acting Consul-
General Green, was received at the Foreign-office, roid
Malta, March 1,6.15 a.m _

ALIMANDRIA, Feb. 24, 1858.
The Pottinger arrived from Bombay at Suez yesterday
evening, and the following intelligence has been tele.
graphed to me :
The Commander-in-Chief, at the head of the force
of 250 (25,000?) men, with about 70 pieces of ordnance,
continues collecting supplies and means of conveyance
at Fattyghur. He is expected to move on. Oude
be invaded by masses of troops advancing on all sides
about the 25th. The enemy are fortifying Lucknow by
this time in great strength. There are about 100,000 of
them in arms. They are said to be loosing heart and
anxious to negotiate. Sir James Outrarn has been left
undisturbed ainoe the 16th. He was reinforced on the
22nd by Her Majesty's 34th, from Cawnpore, a convoy
of stores. A party of Rifles have taken up a post on
the Lucknow road, one march from Cawnpore, where
they will remain to keep open communication. Sir H.
Rose, with Central India Field Force, captured the
strong fort Ratgurh on the 29th, the enemy having
escaped over the walls. He relieved Saugor on the
3rd, and released about 100 Christian women and
children. The garrison had been shut up for six
months. The Rajpootana field force captured Avas on
the 23rd ; it was the strongest town in Rajpootana.
The garrison escaped over night in a frightful storm of
thunder and rain. The cultivators busily employed
everywhere cultivating their winter mope, and the
revenue being collected in the districts around Delhi as
if nothing had happened. The 72nd Regiment arrived
at Bombay on the 7th, and the 18th Regiment reached
on the same day, vitt the Cape. This telegram arrived
at Malta from Alexandria by the French steamer, 28th
February, at 6.50 p.m.
LYONS, Admiral.
The commercial intelligence from India by the present
telegraph is again satisfactory. At Bombay, apparently,
there has been no material alteration in the rate of ex-
change, but an extraordinary reduction of 3 per cent, is
announced in the bank rate of discount, with an increase
of activity in the demand for imported goods. At Calcutta
there had been a further favourable movement of about
1 per cent, in the exchange, and an advance of 1 per
cent. in Government securities. The prospect, there-
fore, is greatly strengthened that it will be found prac-
ticable henceforth to raise all needful financial supplies
without an appeal to this country for any sum in excess of
the £8,000,000 now contemplated. Confidence is shown
to he steadily reviving, not only at Bombay and Calcutta,
but in the interior. It is alleged, however, that, through
an examination of the papers of the King of Delhi,
several individuals among the native merchants of good
standing have been discovered to have been implicated
in the insurrection.

LADIES IN LUCKNOW.—Perhaps you have not heard
that three ladies are known to be m Lucknow, where
they are confined in one small room, but protected by a
Vakeel. Two of them are widows of officers who have
fallen ' • but it is supposed that they have not heard of
the death of their husbands. A letter froro one of those
has reachee its destination; it was affecting to find that
the writer had lost all note of the passage of time, ask.
ing when it would be Christmas? As soon as Sir James
Outram became aware of the facts he offered the rebels
£15,000 for their ransom, which Lord Canning imme-
diately doubled. Calcutta correspondence of ~tho
Examiner.
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NANA SAHIB'S TREASURES.—A young officer who
assisted at the recovery of some of the Nana's treasure
near Bithoor, writing to his father, under date the 30th
of December, says —"I: wrote in the beginning of the
month from Cawnpore, and since then another Engineer
officer and myself, with • few Sappers, have been fish-
ing treasure out of one of Nana Sahib's wells at his
palace at Bithoor, about 10 miles from Cawnpore. The
well contained about 25 feet of water, but by getting
200 of the line to work half-a-dozen buckets we suc-
ceeded in getting it down to three feet. Two or three
Sappers then went down, and, after emptying the well
of three feet of rubbish which the fellows had thrown
in one top, we managed to get about £2,000 worth of
silver plate and about £6,000 worth of gold vessels.
Some of the gold plate was magnificent. Two large
plates were two feet nine inches each in diameter, and of
solid gold, and weighed together 70Ib. The other gold
articled consisted of chalices, cups, do., spurts for
throwing rose water, massive spoons for the Ganges
water when worshiping, fic. It was difficult work, for
we had no implements for working the well, and the
water came in at the rate of 90 gallons • minute. This
mine is not quite worked out yet, and • few Sappers
were left at Bithoor to get at the rupees, which they say
are still at the bottom. The Nana's palace is in corn-
lets ruins, and everything belonging to him in the vil-
lage we have burnt."