The Press.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

THE PRESS, JULY 17, 1858.

NIZAM'S DOMINIONS.

The 11441 d detachment from Poonah and Ahmeevinugger,

under Major Cole (?), occupied Jaulnah on the 13th of
June. No fresh excesses have been committed by the
Arabs and Rohillas in the Aurnngabad district.
H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle, June 19.

Malta, June 14, 8.15 a.m.

A. MONTANA2O.

The following telegram from Mr. Acting-Consul-
General Green was received at the Foreign office on
July 15, at 12.15 a.m. :
ALEItNDRIA, Jaly 10.

The steamer Ottawa brings Bombay dates to the 19th ult.
On the Ist of June an engagement took place between
the Calpee rebels and the troops of the Maharajah Soindia
near Gwalior. The right and left divisions of Scindia's
force gave way and joined the enemy. The centre, com•
posed of the Maharajah's body-guard, fought well, but
were beaten with a considerable loss of men. Scindia fled
to Agra.
Sir H. Hose reports, on the 4th of June from Calpee, that
our Itroase (forces ?) are marching as fast as they can to
Gwalior.
In Rohilcund and the Doab all is quiet.
Sir Colin Campbell was about to join the Governor-
General at Allahabad ; in Behar the insurrection has been
crashed, and Sir E. Lugard's force available for duty
enhere (anywhere ?).
The people at Lucknow begin to come in. Disarming
proceeds quietly on both sides of India.
The disarmed aepoy regiments in Bengal have been
discharged in small parties.
The Chief of Nurgoond has been hanged at Belgaum
for the murder of Mr. Manson.

This telegram arrived at Malta by the Euxine at 8 a.m.
on the 14th of July.
A. FANS HAWM, Vice• Admiral.

The Times correspondent from the camp writes
as follows :

being now on the main road,

and within the system of telegraphic communications,
seems inclined to rest for some time at Futtelighur, not
indeed inactively, for he is constantly occupied, but to
arrange his plans for the ensuing months. The malcontents
in Oude under their active leader, under Beni M adbo, Nirput
Singh, and the Begun], must for the present be left till the
cold weather comes. But it is to be hoped the rains will
dissolve their gatherings ; the voice of the harvest will
certainly exercise its influence, and when seed time comes
many of these irregular levies will steal away to their
villages to engage in agricultural pursuits, and many more
would do so if they thought their lives were safe. These
bodies are held together by fear of their own countrymen
as well as bj the dread of the cord and the sabre, because at
last the tide seems to be turning, or rather the dull stagnant
waters of popular feeling—which lay inert and motionless
while the contest went hard with us—seem as if they are
beginning to flow with a lazy roll in our direction. The
villagers in the l)oab recently had cut up small parties of
the rebels, impelled thereto by hope of reward from us, the
plunder of the dead, on whom they find small stores of
rupees, and the desire of saving their villages tram outrage.
Near Cawnpore they killed sevetal and took more prisoners
of a body of Calpee rebels, and news has just reached us
that a large party near Bewah received a defeat at the hands
of the people of the district, who threw themselves into a
little mud fort and best off their assailants with lofts. These
are cheering instances of reviving belief in the power of
our arms and the permanence of our rule, but as yet they
are exceptional. The day before yesterday Hurdeo Bux
(or Buccus) a great Oude Thakoor, who saved so many of
our men, women, and children, came in to see Sir Colin
Campbell, and to ask for assistance against the Moulvie,
who had sent to him to demand immediate supplies of men,
money, and stores, and to require his presence in his camp,
threatening him with dreadful vengeance in the event of
refusal. All Sir Colin could do, however, was, I fear, to
give him fair words and promises, but it is believed that
Hurdeo, who is of a high Hindoo family and of large pos-
sessions, will be able to defend himself should the Moulvie
really attack him. We must not flatter ourselves that
Hurdeo Buccus loves the Company or oar rule. It lies been
said that he distinctly stated he was animated by no
friendly feelings to either in his exertions to save the lives
of our countrymen—on the contrary, he declared our rule
was as bad as it mild be—but he knew one Englishman
who had been just and generous in his district, who had
stoo I between him and oppression, and for the sake of that
man he had protected those of his race whom he could find
in their hour of need.

The fall of Calpee took place on the 9.3 rd, and a portion
of the troops under Rose will now be available for Gwalior
and for the reinforcement of posts and stations which have
hitherto been feebly occupied. . .

Brigadier-General Jones, who has shown so much
activity and intelligence in the field, will, I regret to say,
go back to the command of his 60th Rifles a simple
colonel ; but it is certain that he cannot be long left in
the pursuit of rich a crablike career, and that he will re-
ceive the reward he so well deserves on the score of his
services. His column, however, will be reduced by the
march of the 79th and filth Regiments to Futtehghur,
where Brigadier M`Causland will take the command vacated
by Sir Thomas Seaton in consequence of his appointment
to the Shnhjehanpore force.

The Moulvie is reported to have gone to Pallee, with
the intention of attacking Jellalabad, which he had been
solicited to do by the Patens of the neighbourhood.

The fugitive rebels from Calpee, who were yesterday in
the vicinity of Bewar, have fled towards the Ganges, and
will probably cross near Kumpil. They have left the roads,
and pass over the fields.

The health of the troops at Lucknow is Indifferent.
General Grant has marched with a force to Nawabgunge.
in the llunnee-road, and there awaits the arrival of the
Rajah of Kupertulls, with his contingent, who i, ex_
pected in a few lays. Ilia people will gerrison Poonah.
The 53rd Foot, which had relieved the 34th in Grain's
column, had sixty-four men ill from sunstroke, and
Olphert's troop had fourteen sick from the same cause,
and four deaths.

The garrison column is in the neighbourhood of Luck-
now cantonments. The •2nd Dragoon Guards are reported
sickly.
Enclosed is an account of Mohnmdee. The 79th and
Tombs's troop of Horse Artillery leave Shahjelianpore to.
morrow, en route to this place. The Belooch Battalion
and two guns form the garrison of Jellalabad.
Sir E. Lugard, at Jugdespore, complains greatly of the
severity of the heat and the number of sick, both officers
and men. He has had a successful affair with the rebels;
Captain or Lieutenant Dawson, of the Military Train,
killed, end two or three casualties.

The Doab is put into a state of momentary excitement
and Denial insecurity owing to the influx of fugitives from
Cal pee on the one side and Rohilcund on the other. Sir
Hugh Rose is for the present at Calpee.
The Calcutta correspondent says:—
At Calpee it is believed Sir Hugh Rose, notwithstanding
some calls on him mentioned below, will halt for some
weeks. His Europeans must have rest, whatever the cense-
quences. Since the 10th of December they have marched.
500 miles, relieved Saugor, taken six fortresses, fought
four pitched battles, and stormed one great fortified city.
Though for the last few days a little healthier, disease has
been fearfully busy with the Europeans, and had: the cam•
paign lasted three weeks more the force must" have become
totally disorganized. " I inclose my authority for an ex-
pression scarcely strong enough fot• the facts. The men
have behaved splendidly, an 3 their commander has per-
severed wonderfully, but the heat is beyond endurance. I
do not often write of the weather, but it is at this moment
the most important element in the campaign. For 20 years
no anch season has been known. The little rains fell a
fortnight before their time, and then ceased ; and the land
is one huge steam bath. At Calpee the thermometer in
tents is 133 degrees ; in Jugdespore it is 130 degrees ; and
in Lower Bengal, within the reach of the sea breeze, it is
126. In Calcutta, in a house hermetically sealed against
the light, and with the punkah going, it stands steadily at
96 degrees. Sickness iv all but universal. The smallpox
is bursting out here and there, half the European com-
munity have fevers, and a moiety of the other half only
escape the curse by an infliction which, though not un-
healthy, is even more unendurable--innumerable boils. In
Allaltatml, out of 1,600 Europeans not 900 are fit for duty,
and the number of deaths from " apoplexy "—that is, sun-
stroke—exceeds the mortality from all other sources. In
the midst of all this there are regiments in which the stock
is maintained, and in which punkahs paid for by Govern-
ment are forbidden. This is a fact, and I inclose the
name and address of a gentleman, who when this letter
arrives will be in England, who can give evidence as to the
tenacity with which some officers cling to European
theories. The Duke of Cambridge should stop all thisby
forbidding the stock in India at once,—its use is optional,
I believe,—and compelling commanding officers to leave
the punkahs alone. England will be not a little Indignant
at the cost of life involved in all this—partly, doubtless,
unavoidable, but partly the result of want of forethought.
The Royal Artillery, for instance, are losing men at the
rate of fourteen per cent. per annum exclusive of fighting
casualties. Again, the men are now dressed in light-
coloured cotton cloth, capital stuff' to resist the climate ;
bat their heads are still unprotected. They receive, it is
true, a white cover for their caps, but it. is no protection,
except so far as its colour is concerned. No planter or
engineer who had to be put out in the sun would wear
such a thing except over the " Rola topee," the only hat
for this climate, which Sir C. Napier advocated till ho
was sick, and which costs just six smts. I am diffuse
on this point intentionally. Routine and the sun to-
gethet are beating us, and I was told this morning that
with all the reinforcements and recruits sent out we can-
not muster even now 28,000 effective Europeans. By
October a third of them will be off duty, for, though the
solliera do not get apoplexy in barracks, they do get liver
complaints and low debilitating fevers.
It is quite clear from the prices at which the five-million
loan was taken up that a vague distrust, an idea that we
may one day lose India, influences English capitalists.
They want four per cent. for subscriptions et 98, while they
will give the British Government money at three. They
appear to all men in India to forget two facts :-
1. Suppose the worst comes to the worst, and we are
beaten in this revolt, what will he the result?
that we must retreat upon Bengal Proper. That province,
which 2C,000 Englishmen could hold against the world,
produces 11,000.000 of the revenue. The claim of the
debt holders is the first charge, and, as far as mere money
goes, we should be positively in a better position than
we are now—that iv, .we should have a larger surplus
revenue.

2. Suppose we lost even Bengal Proper. So long as our
ocean dominion is unquestioned we cannot lose the Presi-
dency towns. They could he held by our fleets if we had
not a soldier alive. Well, the mere duties leviable in those
towns on Indian produce and Indian imports would be
three millions aterlirg, or three times the interest of the
debt. That debt, nominally 50,000,000, is in reality only
30,000,000, and for this reason. We can lose India only

by revolt. „We are not bound to psv either principal or
interest to traitors, and of the total only three fifths are in
European hands. For instance, Nana Sahib owned some
twenty lacs (200,0001.). Principal and interest are alike-
forfeit, and the debt is de facto extinguished. That fact is
one of some importance when the House of Commons con
siders Jndian liabilities.

THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAH.
About sunset on the 15th of June the house of the
English Vice-Consul at Jeddah was suddenly
attacked and invaded by some hundreds of Hadra-
mites (inhabitants of Southern Arabia), who seized
the person of the Consul, wounded him grievously,
and then flung him, still alive, from the window into
the street, where a mob of the same fanatics hacked
his body into pieces. The house was then pillaged,
the servants and two dragomen assassinated, and
the archives' of the Consulate were burnt. While
this horrible scene was going cn similar crimes were
committed at the French Consulate. This Consul,
also attacked by a band of fanatics who penetrated
into the house by the windows, fell mortally wounded
by several satire cuts. His wife was killed by a dagger
thrust in her breast, after having defended herself
courageously, killed the murderer of her husband and
wounded several others. Her daughter,eighteen years
old, succeeded in escaping by a secret door. In the
next room were the Chancellor of' the consulate and his
servant. This latter is a Mussulman, an old soldier,
who formerly served in a battalion of native Alge-
rines. These two men and the Consul's young
daughter defended themselves so heroically that the
murderers retreated for a moment. They soon re-
turned to the charge, but this time employed a
stratagem. A Hadramite, an acquaintance of the
Chancellor's, approached him, and said, " Come out.
Come with me ; I wish to save you from certain
death." Confiding in these promises, the brave
young man quitted the room; he was instantly
struck with a poignard, which only slightly wounded
him in the arm. Knocked down by the blow, his
throat was seized by the assassin, and he was on the
point of perishing when the Consul's daughter threw
herself on the assassin, and bit him so deeply in the
hand that he was forced to let go. Thereupon
another of these wretches attacked the courageous
young girl, and gave her a sabre cut across the
face. She fell senseless, but the Chancellor, who
bad sprung to his feet, inflicted a blow on the last
assassin. Meanwhile, the Chancellor's servant,
struggling with admirable energy against these mis-
creants, Hied three of them, wounded several others,
and so succeeded in covering the flight of the Con-
sul's daughter, of the Chancellor, and of a servant,
who have all arrived this evening, in company with
the brave soldier, at the residence of the Consul-
General of France, in Alexandria. While this car-
nage was going on all the Christians were assailed
in the streets of Jeddah, and massacred. Twenty-
three persons succeeded in escaping under cover of
the night, and, throwing themselves into the sea,
swam to the English steam despatch-boat which was
at anchor in the port. All the other Christians, to
the number of' forty-five, have been killed and hacked
in pieces. In the house of the brothers Sava twelve
persons,including the three brothers, have been
murdered. The number of Mussulmans who took
part in the massacre is estimated at 5,000.

Aortiga 6oLocitial (lattlligtate.

TURKEY.

Accounts from Athens state that a terrible reaction
of the Mussulmans against the Christians has taken
place in Candia. A young Greek of Canea killed a
Turk in self-defence. The body of the Mussulman
Was conveyed to the mosque, and a general rising
soon after took place. The European consulates, AS
well as the Catholic churches, were insulted. The
French flag was fired on, and the hotel of the
Turkish Admiral was threatened unless the Greek
was put to death. The Greek was strangled by order
of the Admiral, and his body was given up to the
populace, and was dragged by them before the houses
of the consuls. The Christians are leaving Canea in
crowds. The Turks at Retimo have devastated the
churches in that town, wounded several of the clergy,
and taken possession of the citadel, the artillerymen
stationed in it taking part with the mob. Disturb-
ances have broken out in the province of Bagdad in
consequence of the recruiting for the army. In seve-
ral villages the authorities have been driven out.
Omar Pasha has sent troops to resture order.
Despatches from Constantinople announce that the
Ottoman Government have sent a general to Jeddah,
to punish the murderers of the Christians by martial
law.

Despatches quoted by the Pays state that the
Turks have attacked the Montenegrins. The latter,
after having been thrice assailed, have withdrawn
into their mountains to await the enemy.

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