The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1858.

HONESTE AUDA I.

THE intelligence received during the past week
from India, although it brings tidings of victory,
is not unmixed with losses and reverses by
which the nation is more than usually affected.
Amongst the many brave fellows who have
fallen nobly in their country's cause, there is one

Whose gallant spirit bath &spied the clouds
for whom one great and universal feeling of
unaffected concern is felt and expressed through-
out the length and breadth of this country. A
telegraphic despatch was received by the
Government on Thursday announcing the DEATH
OP GENERAL HAVELOCK, the defeat of General
WINDHAM by the Gwaliors mutineers, and the
subsequent route and dispersion of the whole
Gwalior Contingent by Sir COLIN CAMPBELL in
a great battle near Cawnpore. The death of
General HAVELOCK, which is universally re-
garded as a national calamity, was caused by
dysentery, brought on by exposure in the field
and by the protracted anxieties of his position.
It took place on the 25th of November, the day
before the Gazette published the announcement
that the QUEEN had elevated him to the
baronetcy, and only six days after the women
and children, the sick and the wounded had been
released from the Residency at Lucknow. He
died therefore without knowing the high value
which the country set upon his achievements,
and without receiving the honours and rewards
conferred upon him by the Queen and Parliament.
General WINDHAM'S defeat took place on the 27th
November in the neighbourhood of Cawnpore.
It will be remembered that the Gwalior Con-
tingent had previously threatened Cawnpore,
and had fallen back on Calpee when General
WINDHAM advanced and offered them battle. It
is supposed that the Contingent, which consisted
of a complete army of more than 8,000 men con-
taining infantry, cavalry, and a strong park of
artillery, had again 'marched upon Cawnpore,
when General WINDHAM attacked them with his I
small force of 2,000 men, comprising three Queen's
Regiments—the 64th, which had fought in Persia
and had been transferred to Calcutta at the com-
mencement of the mutiny; the 82d, which had
been sent out to join the China expedition; and
the 88th, which was the first regiment sent from
England after the intelligence of the outbreak.
Whether from a disparity of force or from sur-
prise, General WINDHAM was compelled to retreat I
with the loss of 3,000 tents, which were burnt by
the enemy, and with heavy loss on the part of
the 64th Regiment, which is reported as having
been "nearly out up." Sir COLIN CAMPBELL,
on receiving intelligence of this disaster, marched
from Lucknow to Cawnpore, and falling upon
the Gwalior Contingent on the 7th November,
10 days only after their victory, utterly routed
and dispersed them with the loss of all their
guns, ammunition, stores, and baggage, and
with trifling loss on his own side, only one officer
being among the killed. All the women and
children from Lucknow have arrived in safety
at Allahabad. A large body of troops had ar-
rived at Calcutta from England since the last
mail, but there was still a deficiency of transport,
and it was feared that the want of reinforcements
would prevent the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF from
striking an effectual blow for some weeks
to come. The welcome intelligence was
received yesterday (Monday) of i second defeat
of the Gwalior Contingent by Her Majesty's 9th
Lancers, under General Herz GRANT, who at-
tacked the rebels with his cavalry and artillery
with great spirit, and after half an hour's sharp
firing took 15 guns, including one 18-pounder,
eight 9-pounders, three 12-pounder howitzers,
two 4-pounder howitzers, and 6-pounder native,
with all their stores, carts, wagons, large
quantities of amunition, bullocks, hackeries,
General GRANT estimate. the loss of the enemy
at about 100. He did not lose a man in the
operations, but was himself slightly wounded.
—Prom China we learn that the last detach-
ment of Marines left Singapore on the 2nd
ult., and that the attack on Canton was to take
place as soon as they had joined the force already
assembled for that purpose. Our Continental
news this week announces the death of three
distinguished personages,—Marshal Raurrzxy,
the most illustrious soMier of Austria, —Ram-
CHID DACHA, the most eminent statesman of
Turkey,—and Madlle. RACHEL, the greatest dra-
matic artist of modern times.

WE have this week felt it our duty, as on many
other similar occasions, to lay before the public
a very full and careful report of the civil buai-
noes transacted at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions
of this county on Tuesday last. Those proceed-
ings are of a very remarkable nature ; and, we
are sorry to say, present no improvement what-
ever with reference to those important transac-
tions which have for a long time pressed upon
the anxious attention of the ratepayers. The
new year has brought with it no solution of
apparently interminable difficulties, in matter