The Press.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul-
General Green was received at the Foreign-office
August 15 :

MALTA.

ACTING AGENT AND CONSUL•Gk:NERAL GREEN TO THE EARL
OF MALMESBURY, LONDON.

ALEXANDRIA, August 9, 1858.
The steamer Madras arrived at Suez on instant dates
Bombay, 19th July, six p.m. ; Aden, 31st July.
The Gwalior army has been broken up, and gone into
quarters.
Sir H. Rose resumes command of the Poanals division
of the force from Nusseerabad, and General Roberts
reached Jeypore on the 2nd of July ; the enemy becoming
alarmed halted, and withdrew to the southwards, General
Roberts following in pursuit.
Sir Robert Hamilton has reached Indore, as have nearly
all the European troops despatched from Bombay and the
Deccan in apprehension of an outbreak.
Matters seem settling down in all parts of India,
although there are twenty to thirty thousand rebels in the
field.
The rainy season has commenced favourably.
GREEN.

Malta, August 14, 5.25 p.m., 1858.
MONTAGUE STOPFORD, Vice-Admiral.

SUNDAY, 15th August, 1858, 11 a.m.
The following telegram has been received at the
East India-house :

TO J. D. DICKINSON, ESQ., INDIA•IIOUSE, LONDON. FROM H.
L. ANDERSON, ESQ., SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, BOMBAY
19TH JULY, 1858.
Mr. Edmonstone's message has not yet reached Bombay.
GwAmon.—The fugitive rebels from Gwalior had
arrived in the neighbourhood of Palace I.?) on the 7th of
July, and on the llth had occupied the town of Tonk.
The Nawab holds the fort of Tonk.
General Roberta was prepared to advance against the
rebels on the 11th July.
On the 9th July the Rajah of Shahgur surrendered
himself.
Brigadier Smith has been directed to return to Contah
(?) with a part of his force, and hold that position.
Sir Hugh Rose relinquished command of the Central
India Field Force, and arrived at Mhow, en route for Poona,
on the 13th July.

Napier has been appointed by Sir
Colin Campbell to succeed Sir Hugh Rose.
Information just received states that the rebels fled pre•
cipitately from Tonk on the approach of a flying detach•
went thrown forward by General Roberts.

The Bombay correspondent of the Times writes
For the first time I think since the commencement of
the insurrection a mail leaves Bombay without tidings of
a single fresh engagement—if I except a little fight, of
which 1 have this moment heard, as having taken place on
the sth between Rattray's Sikhs and some of the Jugcles-
pore rabble, at a place called Kusma, near Sherghotty, with
the usual result to the latter.
Intelligence from. Oude comes down to the Bth of the
month. At that date the troops at Lucknow and else-
where were busily employed hutting themselves for the
rains, which had just set in. Part of Grant's column
appears to have returned to the capital, but cover for
3000 men was being hastily thrown up at Nawabgunge,
the scene of its recent victory. The effect of that well-
fought action has been to clear the whole country between
Lucknow and the Gogra. The beaten rebels crossed the
river, and proceeded probably northwards, to join the
Begum at the fort of Bundee, now the gathering-place of
the disaffected At this place are collected the Regum,
her son, Birjiz Kudr, now self-styled Ikbal Shah, King of
Oude, and Mucomoo Khan, the Begurn's paramour, con•
stituted Prime Minister of the new Sovereign, with a
string of high sounding titles. At other points to the
north of Lucknow are Lukker Shah and Feroze Shah,
fugitive Princes of Delhi, and a Moulvie recently elected
to fill the place of our old enemy, who, as I mentioned in
my last letter, was slain in attacking a village belonging to
the Rajah of Powaeen. In some groves of trees near
Mohumdee this new opponent was said to be encamped
with 1,800 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, and three guns,
breathing vengeance against the slayer of his predecessor.
To the southwar:l of the capital lies Beni Madho Singh,
as before at Poorwa, threatening the Cawnpore road at
Oonao, which has been strengthened sufficiently to defy
him. To the eastward, in his castle near Fyzabad, Shah-
gunge by name, Maun Singh is still besieged by Mehudie
Hoosain, with a rabble of 15,000 men. Khan Bahadoor
Khan, of Bareilly, the ruffian unpardoned and unpardon-
able, was, when last heard of, at Baraitch in a state of
great destitution. At Lucknow the great uulitory works

designed by Colonel Napier, of the Bengal Engineers, were
progressing under the superintendeuce of MajJr Crotn-
melin, Chief Engineer of Oude.
The principal intelligence from Bundelcund and Central
India is the promulgation of an amnesty similar to that
lately declared in Oud,.. lts exact terms I am not ac-
quainted with, but of the fact of its promulgation and of its
avourable character I have reason to be assured. Under
the terms thus offered it is, I believe, that the ex Rajah of
Shahgur has surrendered himself to Mr. Thornton, one of
he commissioners of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories.
This man's country lying just north of Saugor, was formally
annexed by Sir Hugh Rose and Sir Robert Hamilton after
the former forced the Mudinpore pass, and occupied the
chief town of the district, Marowra.

Regarding the battle at Gwalior, I have nothing to add
to the account which I sent yen in my last ; but we have
received later and fuller accounts of Napier's action at
Joura Alipore, where, two days after the fall of Gwalior,
the brigadier caught one large body of the fugitives. When
be came up with them he found them 5,000 men, with
about thirty guns in position. With a troop of Bombay
Horse Artillery, under Captain Lightfoot, and a handful of
the 14th Dragoons and 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, in all
some 600 men, the brigadier actually charged and routed
this vastly superior force of the enemy. The action began
by a movement of the Horse Artillery (who had with them
bat four guns of the troop) upon the left flank of the rebels.
The guns were unlimbered and opened fire, but, after a
very few rounds, the enemy's line wavered and broke up.
Immediately Lightfoot limbered up and galloped in upon
their position, even outatrippiug the supporting cavalry.
This charge decided the fate of the day ; the enemy were
scattered in all directions, cut up by the cavalry and
Horse Artillery, and abandoning to tae victors twenty-five
guns, all but three in goo,l order, and numberless wands of
arms. Meade's Horse and the remaining two guns of
Lightfoot's troop, which the brigadier had sent back for
before the action, came up at all speed, but found the
battle over. A small force, under Captain Ross, composed
of Sikhs and 3rd Bengal Europeans, joined the next day
from Dholpore—lucky, perhaps, in not falling in with the
rebels before their defeat, having no guns or cavalry, appa-
rently.
This remarkable engagement was the last of the Central
India Field Force, which was immediately afterwards
broken up. At Moorar, in the lines of the old Gwalior Con•
tingent, are cantoned the first (Lightfoot's) troop of
Bombay Horse Artillery, three squadrons of the 11th
Light Dragoons, a field battery, a company of Royal Engi-
neers, the 86th, wing 71st Highlanders, and 25th Bombay
Native Infantry.
In the fort of Gwalinr, the 95th Regiment.
At Jhansi, the remaining squadron of the 14th Light
Dragoons, a field battery, wing :tril Bombay Light Cavalry,
3rd Bombay Europeans, and 24th Native Infantry.
At Seepree and Goonah the remainder of Colonel
Smith's Rajpootana Brigade ( the 95th being detached),
consisting of wing Bth Hussars, w!ng Bombay Lancers,
third troop Bombay Horse Artillery, and 10th Bombay
Native Infantry. The bulk of this brigade will be at See-
pree, Goonah being held by one squadron of the Hussars
and a division of the troop of Horse Artillery. Sir Hugh
Rose, having taken leave of the force, is on his way down
to Bombay, and is expected to arrive iu a few days.
But, besides the rebel army defeated by Napier, another
body, supposed to &meant to 6,000 men, under Tantia
Topee, appears to have crossed the Chumbul in safety, and
was, no doubt, joined by the fugitives from Joura Alipore.
They bad but few guns, but several elephants and plenty
of treasure, including, it is said, Scindia's crown jewels.
These men made finally for Jeypore, by way of Shree
Muttra and Hindoun. At the latter place they oppressed
a detachment of Jeypore troops, and took from them their
four guns, which, however, together with the station, they
abandoned at the approach of Brigadier Showers from
Agra. Then, moving towards Jeypore, they were anticipated
by General Roberts's force, of the met•ch of which for that
purpose from Nuaseerabad I apprised you in my last. The
general had arrived within eight miles of Jeypore on the
4th, when he heard that the rebels bad left Lalbowut, forty-
three miles from the capital, and had advanced to Dowlut-
pore. Thereupon, avoiding Jeypore, he struck across to
Sungoneer to meet them, and reconnoitred the road in
front to a place called Chakaoo, but up to ten o clock on
the morning of the sth had seen nothing of theni. At this
point we shall probably hear shortly of a fight having taken
place.

The correspondent publishes letters addressed by
the Prince of Oude and the late Moulvie to Jung
Bahadoor, to incite him to join the rebellion, on the
pleathat "the infidels" must all be killed if either
the liimloo or Mahomedan religions were to remain
secure. Thu Maharajah's reply is couched in the
most loyal language, and concludes by exhorling
the writers to make their submission to the British.
We subjoin a t.ketch of the King of Delhi :
I tried in vain to let my imagination find out Timour
him. lied it been assisted by diamond, and cloth of
gold, and officer of state, music and cannon, and herald
and glittering cavalcade and embroidered elephantry,
perhaps I might have succeeded, but as it was I found—l
may it with regret, but with honesty and truth—l found
only Holywell-stroet. The f.rehea t is very broad indeed,
and cornea out sharply over the brows, but it recedes at
once into an ignoble Thersites-like skull ; in the eyes
were only visible the weakness of extreme old age—the
dim, hazy, filmy light which seems about to guide to the
great darkness; the nose, a noble Judaic aquiline, was
deprived of dignity and power by the loose-lipped, nerve-
less, quivering, and gaping mouth, filled with a flaccid
tongue; but from chin and upper lip there streamed a
venerable, long, wavy, intermingling moustache and beard
of white, which again all but retrieved his aspect. Its.
calling youth to that decrepit frame, restoring its fresh-
ness to that sunken cheek, one might see the King glowing