The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-20 00:00:00

INDIA.

Toe ECROPEAN DISAMFECeIoN.—The Commander-in-
( 'hie( has issued the following order to the men of the late
t 'ompany's army :—" The Cominiuider-in-Clsief deems it
right to inform such men of Her Majesty's Indian regi-
ments as may take their discharge under the Governor-
General's order, No. MCI, of the 30th ult., that lie nut
only cannot hold out any hope to them that ia case of
their re-enlistment thea forim r service will be count
in their favour, but that be is confident that any such
slain, to reckon former service on re.enliitment made
by the men minded to will certainly be &plied by Iler
Majesty's Govermuent. The Commander-in-Chief se-
ourdingly, with the sanction of his F:scellency the Vice.
roy and flovernor.General in Council, desire 3 that the
last portion of the declaration signed by the soldiers on
discharge, beginning immediately after the words 'pen-
sionary benefit,' shall be omitted in the case of men
taking their discharge under the Goveroor-General's
order above quoted. Mein; uttered this warnins, the
t'ominander-in-Chief hopes that the old soldiers of Her
Majesty's Indian army will be wise enough not to throw
away, without due reflection, and in a moment of ex-
citement, the advantage of former services. They are
precisely in the swine position as regards pay, pension,
clothing, and other regulations, as the men in Her
Majesty's regiments of the line. Let them think well
on the mischief they may incur by a false step now
taken in consequence of the option of discharge, which
has lately been given them under the orders of the
Government." But the tide is too strong to be re-
sisted, and 5,391 men have formally recorded tin ir
applications for discharge. The shipmasters at Calcutta
are raising difficulties about taking them, believing the
men will be inaubordinete. The difficulties, however,
only increase the rates of passage-money, and the men
are to be sent home armed. The last provision is the
consequence of a direct order from Lord Stanley, in-
ritructing all the Indian Governments, " in the dis-
turbed state of Europe," to send all invalids and dis-
charged men home with their arum.
Reettut.—The latest report of the rebels locate
their greatest numbers, said to be some 8,000 men in all,
in the Nepaulese Hills. Two small bodies of them have
been surprised, and to some extent. cut up in the Tran
Henke district. The Odrulta Eng/MA/aims says :
They are not in theinselvea so important as in the
fact that they are in comparatively comfortable quarters
and well fed by our Icepaulese friends; by no means an
insignificant indication." Encouraged, perhaps, by the
escape of the Narrab of Furrackabad, Nina Sahib him-
belt has written to the Lieutenant-Governor of Agra,
that if the Government will give him Poona Setters Le
will desist from hostilities.

ONE Or THE LAET JUNGLE FIGHTIE—The Gazelle of
Friday week contains the following despatch :—" For
the information of Major-General Sir J. Hope Grant,
K.C.11., commanding in (Nile. I have the honour to
report that, having ascertained from my spies, that
two leaders named Bullee and Bulkurreem Sing, with a
body of rebels, were located in the village of Chain-
pore, on the edge of the jungle under the Nepaul
Hills, about twenty :idles north-east of Dhubeeree, I
resolved to make a night march, and surprise them if
poaaible. I accordingly marched at 5 p.m on the 31st
ultimo, leaving my camp under protection of a com-
pany of the 3r4 Sikh Infantry, with instructions to
move up to Siswa early the next morning. At nine
p.m. I had arrived within six miles of the position
supposed to be occupied by the enemy. As I consi-
dered it would be unadvisable to reach it before day.
light, I bivouacked for the night, marching again at
two o'clock, a.m., and succeeded, just as the day
broke, in surprising and capturing 20 rebels, 3 ele-
phants, 2 camels, 17 horses, besides a large quantity
of arms of all descriptions. Amongst the prisoners
captured were sepoys of the 42nd, 60th, and 67th Regi•
',lents of Native Infantry. 1 was now informed that
the remainder of the rebels, with Buller and Bulkur-
reem Sing, occupied • line of topes running along the
edge of the Terrine, and within half a mile of it. ,
Leaving the prisoners in the charge of • small guard,
1 at once pushed on with the remainder of the troops ;
hut fearing that the enemy might obtain information
of my appniach, I &dement with the cavalry, with a
view to getting between them and the Terraie, to cut
off their retreat, and keep them in check till my in-
fantry could come up. This I succeeded in doing, but
the rebels, apparently all regular scpoys, and about
tliti strong, turned out and attacked me in • most
determined manner. Seeing this I at oncecharged them.
I was received by a volley of musketry and before I
could rally my cavalry the enemy had made • hasty retreat
into the dense jungle in their front. When the infantry
came up I followed for some dibtance. but, losing all
trace of them, was obliged to give up the pursuit, and,
marching westward along the edge of the Terraie,
reached this at 5 p.m yesterday, having gone over
upwards of forty miles in twenty-four hours. I cannot
speak too highly of the conduct of the detachment. All
exerted themselves and endured with equal cheerfulness
the fatigue of ii'ong and harassing march in one of the
hottest days I ever experienced in India.—lL RENNT,
Captain, commanding 3rd Sikh Infantry.

A NEW CAMTE QvARRISL.—One Of those cute quarrels
hitherto almost peculiar to South India occurred last
month at Gallo. The people of the daggareo caste, an in•
dustrious class, began the habit of wearing mobs.
The Wellsla and Fisher castes, holding, like the upper
cutes in Travancore, that one of their peculiar privi-
leges was invaded, assaulted the Juzaros, and great
disorder and bloodshed ensued.