The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE: TELEGRAM..

The following telegram from Her Majesty's Acting
Consul at A lexandria,filated April 27, was received at the
Foreign-office. May 6, 3.1/ a.tn., froniher Majesty's Con-
hul at Marseilles:

MAR!4EII.I.EI4, April 27.

The Peninsula and Oriental steam-ship Northam ar-
rived at Suez early yesterday morning from Ihnubay,
and brings the following news :
on the guil of April Rajah Mann Singh surrendered to
Ileade's five columns, at Mahoodra. Tantia Topee
was captured on time 14th by that force, assisted by the
above-named chief.
lie Kali* and Rich's columns, by a combined move-
ment, attacked the rebels in their dank and rear, and in
one fight killed rilthi of them, including many of their
officers, tii.: chiefs, however, managed to escape.
'F he body of the Oude rebels is still in
Nepaul.
Sir H. Shakespeare succeeds to Sir Hobert Hamilton,
now cm route to England.
Lord Clyde, when last beard of, wasat Delhi, on his
way to Simla.
rite Northam did not inert anywhere the Australian
mail steamer. . .

Iler Majesty's ship Furious arrived at Sues last even.
log with Lord Elgin and suite ; they will embark this
evening on board of the Caradoc, by which conveyance
this telegratu is forwarded to Marseilles.
M.titatittEn, May 5.
Lord Elgin leaves to•night for Paris.
MARstrILLES, May
From Mahoodra, i 4 Supree, April it, Colonel Meade,
writes to Lord Elphinstone : --" Tantia Topee captured
by this detachment, with Mann Singh's assistance, last
night ; be is now a prisoner in camp awaiting orders for
his disposal.
Bombay, April 11, per Caracloc.

THE Pendxn.—A copy of a general report on the ad-
mini,tration of the Punjab territories for the years
18584 and 1857-8 has jtuit been printed. This is the
fourth report, and carries oil the story from the year
!Waite 1858, containing therefore, the terrible crisis of
1857. The convulsions which then rent Hindinitati from
end to end shook the Punjab to its very centre. The
report, treats in detail, of civil and criminal justice,
polled, revenue, education, and finance. The popula-
tion of the Punjab, so far as external acts go, have be-
haved well in relation to the police, and have always co-
operated in the extirpation of mutineers. The general
conduct of the people is orderly; there is no dacoitee or
thuggee except in the Ci-efiutlej States, and even infan-
ticide is yielding. The Punjahees in the first instance
remained quit because they lied no sympathy with the
revolt in Hindostan nor with the mutiny that arose
among the Sepoy troops. The Bengal Sepoys had in
their halcyon days borne themselves proudly towards the
Punjahee soldier, and the Hindus, 011iCiala had made
theiuselvea very unpopular with the people. They had
also agt udge Of centuries against Delhi. The am:* of
English prestige, moreover, were great. Then people
were ptosperoua suit generally contented ; there was,
indeed, a kind of passive sstistiction —no jealous sensi-
tive prejuilice,—no tendency to mistrust the intentions
of Government. Then they were disarmed and become
ing disused to warlike pursuits. This was the case at
first, but as months wore on, and they saw that our
power in the Punjab was wasting as ay, and disnivered
that it was going ill with us elsewhere in India, they
grew excited and mistrustful, and wodld have risen
generally--the Mahoi.m.lans first and Sikhs last—hut
for the fall of Delhi, on learning which all doubts *a to
the stability of British rule vanished, their respect for
our prestige revived, awl they became as good subject*
as ever. The extenial behavi 111 l rof the iwople. on the
whole, and especially of the Sikhs' must be pronounced
to have been goal. At the date of the report, the gene-
ral temper of the people was satisfactory, and there
was more wealth iliffiesed among the people then at any
! Period since annexation. The " fine conduct" of the
otliceni durum the crisis is especially extolled by
Mir J. Lawrence, and several 14 them are went ol by
name. The grand total revenue of the Putijsb of
11457-58 amounted to 2,05.38,710 rupees, and the ex-
penditure to 1,750,757 rupees. The Pets: says that
Government are going to wake Sir John Lawrence a
peer.