The Press.
London, England, 1857-12-05 00:00:00

of Delhi were being arrested, and would be brought
to trial when sufficient evidence against them was
obtained.

With respect to the rest of India, the detailed news
is fragmentary, and cannot be reduced into the form
of a consecutive narrative. Two companies of the
:32nd Native Infantry, stationed at Deogbnr, in the
Santhal district, mutinied on the 2nd of September
and murdered their officers, with the exception of
Lieutenant Rannie, who alone escaped. Two more
companies of the same regiment mutinied at Ram-
pore Hat. Their officers got away safely. The re-
maining companies at Bowsee have demanded to be
led against the mutineers—a somewhat dangerous
experiment. The Kotah Contingent has also muti-
nied, and murdered Major Burton and other
Europeans. It is said to have been a salute fired
by order of the Resident, on the occasion of the fall
of Delhi, that led to this deed of violence. Then
there is a conspiracy among the Bombay troops at
Ahmedabad, and reported disturbances in the Pun-
•jaub, in the Deccan, in Rajpootana, and on the
Coromandel coast. One statemect in the Phoenix is
remarkable, if true, for it shows the kiss which our
Indian Government has sustained in a money point
of view. The newspaper in question gives a list of
the treasuries that have been pillaged by the rebels
in Oude, Bengal, and the north-western provinces,
and asserts that the total amount of specie taken is
estimated at ten crores of rupees—that is to say, at
ten millions sterling.
The Rajah of Kotah, says a letter from Neemuch,
continues faithful to us, and anxiously waits for
assistance. The bulk of his army, consisting of four
regiments of infantry, with all his artillery, had
turned against him. They were the rather
strengthened in their disloyalty by the fact that in
an attack on the 24th Sept. upon some rebels at
Jerum, our Neemuch force had been repulsed with
the loss of several officers and men. Captain
Tucker and Captain Reade were killed.
The Malwa flying column, consisting of three
guns of the Bengal Artillery, three troops of her
Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, 200 of her Majesty's
Roth Foot, seven companies of the 25th Bombay
Native Infantry, Ist Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent,
and the Madras Sappers, left M how on the 20th
October, to attack the rebe's wherever they might be
found, but they, too, appear to have experienced a
check. A letter from Dhar gives a very unsatis-
factory account of their operations. They appear to
have attacked the rebels in Dhar, and after suffering
some loss in forcing the position, suspended opera-
tions for further reinforcements, and recommenced
their attack after some days, to find the rebels had
decamped.

The position of Saugor, with its small garrison of
130 men and 170 women and children, is extremely
perilous. The fort is dilapidated and incapable of
defence, and the 31st Bengal Naive Infantry, form-
ing part of the garrison and hitherto stanch, is re-
ported to have mutinied, and the territories north of
the Nerbudda are completely up and in arms. Bands
of rebels may succeed in crossing, and overrun the
country. On a recent occasion, some of the rabble
insurgents surrounding the fort, Colonel Dalzeil,
commanding, marched out at bead of the 31st to
attack the rebels. The sepoys refused to advance,
Colonel Dalzell was killed, and the 31st marched
back almost without firing a shot. A letter from
Saugor, dated Sept. 23, says :

From that day the officers have lost all confidence in
their men. Since then the mutiny of the 50th and 5.2nd,
in our vicinity, has still more shaken the Saugor sepoys
and encouraged the rebels, and our position is more pre•
carious than ever. Our garrison is at a loss to conceive
what 80,1 Europeans and 4.000 native troops are about at
Alhow. Since we have determined to hold our own, and
s:tve this arsenal from filling into the hands of the rebels,
it will be base indeed to le evil betide us with so large a
force within twenty marches ut• us. Help must come, ur
the worst may he expected.

The Dinapore mutineers, under Koer Singh, are
reported to be at Banda, having burned and plun-
dered Nagode and Kallinger. Koer Singh had not
attacked Rewah, but the troops of that Rajah had
joined Koer Singh almost to a man. The Rewah
Rajah had fled from Rewah, but the British Resi-
dent, Lieutenant Osborne, courageously remained at
hiA post. His position and conduct are an excellent
illustration of the scenes taking place all over ledia.
He is a young Madras officer, and till this outbreak
but little known to any one. He is now living in
Rewah, in a tent, without a single companion, with-
out a ffiend within a hundred mike. He is so ill
with liver co niplaint that he cannot lie down, taking
rest only in a chair. He has no guard, no soldiers,
sentries, or reliable servants. Every day and night
(writes a correspondent) the soldiery surround his
tent, threatening to put him to (bath by torture
He admits their power, bat tells them he can take at
least six lives before he dies. And so, day by day, there
he lives, sick almost unto death, all alone, and with mur
deters all round, contident only that his duty is to remain
at his post, and that God is above him stilt. It is not sash
men as these that repoya eau subdue. So magical, indeed,