The Press.
London, England, 1858-04-24 00:00:00

THE PRESS, APRIL 24, 1858.

INDIA.

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parapet and bastions up to the Second Cavalier.
At 4 p.m. Sir Colin sent orders to Sir James Outrattl
place his mortars in position to shell the Kaisrrb ht°
ag
soon as possible, and soon afterwards the Highlanders
and
a party of the Sikhs, turning to their right from tlie
Martiniere, seized upon the enemy's abandoned works,
and established their pickets in the second bastion.
Our loss was trifling—five killed and twenty-two
wounded. The next day Sir Colin pushed on his
successes, and the whole line of the enemy's works
from the canal beyond Banks' House were won. Ou
the 11th the Secunderabagh was carried, and day
by day Sir Colin, with little loss and under cover of a
tremendous artillery fire, swept the rebels gradually
from before him. By the 19th the whole city was in
hie
.possession. Scarcely was this consummation
attained, when a triumph of a different character was
achieved. Two English ladies, Mrs. Orr and Miss
Jackson, regarding whose fate the gravest apprehen-
sions had been naturally felt, were brought safely
into Jung Bahadoor's camp by two officers from the
house of one Meer Wajid Ali, by whom they had
been protected and well treated.
Up to the latest dates Sir Colin Campbell remained
near the captured city, engaged in the selection of a
proper military position, and in arrangements for
the future garrison. The non-combatant portion of
the fugitive inhabitants would be reassured and
invited to return to their dwellings—the combatants
followed up as speedily as possible.
The rebels who have escaped number, it is
reported, from thirty to fifty thousand. They were
making for Rohilcund, the Doab, and Bundelcund :
At one point, between Futtyghur and Cawnpore, one
party is already reported to have effected a passage, but to
have recrossed after a skirmish with a party of cavalry.
On the other or eastern bide of Oude the rebels, beaten
by Franks in his advance upon Lucknow, and afterwards
by Captain Sotheby, of the Pearl, with part of the Naval
Brigade, are threatening Goruckpore from the Fyzobad
direction. To protect their lately recovered station the
13th Light Infantry are oalered up from Azimghur, where
they are replaced by the 37th from Ghazeepore. No great
harm can be done on this side. it is 13undelcund that
gives us anxiety. This great province has long, as you
are aware, been in a disturbed state. In every direction
its lawless inhabitants, the Bundelas, are ready to join any
leader who promises them plunder. Such a one they are
said to have just now in the person of one Bala Sahib,
brother of the Nana, who is now abroad in Bundelcund
seducing the disaffected, or oppressing the loyal chief.
tains of the province. Thus, the Rajah of Chnanpore has
been mulcted of seven lams of rupees. The Rajah of
Churkaree, refusing a similar demand, had his town de-
stroyed by fire, and had to take refuge in his fort, where,
by the latest accounts, he still held out. An Englishman
with him, a Mr. Carne, a Government agent, I believe in
some degree, managed to escape to Punnet), where the
friendly chief of that district housed him. Who are the
people that Bala Sahib has with him is not clear; rebels,
it is said, from Humeerpore, on the Juwna below Calpee,
or possibly some of the notorious mutineers from the
latter place. The latter, I think, is the most probable
conjecture. The Gwalior Contingent always worked to-
gether, anal with something of a purpose ; and I anticipate
that when the Caloee remnant of that contingent does
move it will move in a mass. At present it is, no doubt,
watching the movements of Sir Hugh Rose.
Sir Hugh Rose, by the last accounts, was advancing
on Jhansi, where it was expected serious resistance
would be offered him.
The rest of India appears to be as tranquil as we
can expeet. The Punjaub was quiet, and fresh
native levies were being pushed down towards the
Doab, while reinforcements of British troops were
being rapidly despatched from Bombay to take their
place in the Punjaub. Bombay and Madras were
both tranquil, but in the Southern Mahratta country
there were incipient symptoms of a fresh outbreak.
At Calcutta, the effects of the recent panic were yet
experienced.

foreign an (Colonial ptelligtnce.

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" deep indignation in France," and throws " a scan.
dal on public morality ;" while as to Mr. E. James's
speech, if "
it were to be circulated in the towns, bar-
racks, and rural districts of France, it would be diffi-
cult for Government, with the best intentions, to
stay the consequences of public indignation." The
Patric, Univers, and Pays all follow the same tone,
but in less dignified terms.
Al. Louis Fould, an eminent financier, and brother
of the Minister of State, died on Monday after a
short illness.
The three candidates for Paris—M. Lionville
(Batonnier of the Order of Advocates, for the third
electoral district, for which the late General
Cavaignac had been chosen ; M. Ernest Picard (Ad-
vocate, for the fifth district; and M. Jules Favre
(Advocate), for the sixth district—have signed their
formal oath of fidelity to the Emperor and the Con-
stitution.
SW ITZ E RLA N D.

The Federal Council has just presented to the
high Swiss Federal Assembly a report on its proceed-
ings during the year 1857. This document, whicb
is to be submitted to the Chambers, contains a long
detail of the affair of Neufchatel. It declares that
the attitude of France, at the same time firm and
conciliatory, contributed not a little to the amicable
solution of that important question.

TURKEY.

Constantinople letters of the 14th confirm the
statement that Fuad Paella has been definitively
appointed to represent Turkey in the Paris Con
gress ; he will leave about April, and, during his ab-
sence, Mahmoud Pacha, Governor of Smyrna, will
take the portfolio of foreign affairs ad interim.
M. de Talleyrand received orders to leave on the
12th. The Constantinople journals announce that
the Conference will not meet before May 10, and
that the powers are agreed upon the subject of the
organization of the Danubian principalities.
An agent of Rothschilds, of Vienna, has proposed
to the Porte to establish a bank, and there is some
hope of an arrangement.

PIEDMONT, AUSTRIA, AND FRANCE.
A MOST interesting debate having arisen in the
Sardinian Chamber of Deputies at Turin on a
Conspiracy Bill introduced by the Government,
Count Cavour, in an excellent speech, last week
replied at great length to the opposition of the
Liberal party. He declared that the bill was not
introduced under the pressure of France, and he
drew a sketch of the foreign policy of Sardinia since
1t448. The King, Victor Emanuel, he said, bad accepted
the melancboly but glorious inheritance of Charles
Albert, bit had abandoned neither hopes of the
future nor the glorious traditions of the House of
Savoy. He admitted that the policy inaugurated by
Charles Albert, and since pursued, was not without
its perils. There was danger of attack from a great
power, which behAd with displeasure the success of
a political system diametrically opposed to its own.
Hence it was necessary to make friends, to form
alliances. But perhaps, he said, Signor Brofferio
might be of opinion that before seeking the alliance
of France it would have been well to wait for a change
of government in that country. For his part, while
entertaining great respect for the French nation, he
thought it one of the least suited for republican insti•
tutions. And if there were a Republic in France,
what would there he to hope from it? All Republics,
he remarked, had an egotistical policy, and were
more prone to tyrannize over other nations than to
iud them in conquering free institutions:—
Have we not the example of the French republics?
Roth the first, which was warlike, and the second, which
was pacific, always had, with respect to Italy, a worse than
egotistical policy. The first drove out the Germans, but it
was to make a market of the zonquered provinces. It gave
yenice to secure itself the Rhine. And the second
There were in the Government representatives of the most
advanced revolutionary opinions, the Ledrn Rollins, the
Bowles ; nevertheless, not only did they refuse us the
assistance of men, of money, of armies, hut even the loan of a
general (disdainfully) which we committed the fault of ask-
ing them for. When, the form of the government having been
somewhat changed, we turned for assistance to its head, do
you know what happened ? Nine years have elapsed since
then, and I do not think I shall be indiscreet in telling it.
The head of that Government was disposed to give ettica-
cons assistance to Charles Albert in his war against
Austria, but he was prevented by the chiefs of that national
assembly and by his' Ministers, among whom were ancient
and present Republicans. I can confidently affirm this,
because I heard it from the lips of a celebrated writer, who
had the sal courage to boast to me of the part he took in
that resolution of the Imperial Government.
The Government of Napoleon 111. be declared had
ever shown itself more favourable to Italy ; and he
concluded by declaring that the Ministry made this
WI a Cabinet question, as the Ministers who pre-
sented it considered themselves incapable of
bringing in a measure contrary to the dignity of the
nation.
The following day (Saturday) Signor Brofferio
replied to some parts of the speech made by Count
Cavour, and, referring to the charge of selfishness