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THE PRESS, APRIL 10, 1858.

numbers than before. The Candle reports that another
successful sortie had been made; that the Arabs had sub-
mitted, and that they were again admitted into the fort on
a friendly footing. Before the Candia left Aden the Oriental
had arrived from Bombay with passengers. Her Majesty's
steamer Cyclops bad left for Suez, to be engaged on sur•
veying service in the Red Sea. The Pylades is likewise
on her way up to receive the Siamese Mission. The
Oriental's mail has been brought forward by the Candia.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail, our detailed
intelligence from Lucknow comes down to the
Bth March. The rebels, it seems, are determined
to defend Lucknow to the last. Their attacks upon
the Alumbagh on the 21st and 25th February were
very determined, but their repulse on each occasion
was decisive. On the 21st an assault on a very
extensive scale was planned, but the rebels were out-
manoeuvred, routed and driven back with heavy loss,
and on the 25th their repulse was not less signal,
and included the capture of three guns. The Times
special correspondent writes from the camp, Cawn-
pore, Feb. 27, eight a.m. :

The head-quarters camp is breaking up, and in an hour
or two I shall be on my way to our first halting-ground at
Oonau, in Oude, ten miles from this, and on the road to
Lucknow. Walpole's Brigade, Tombs's troop of Horse
Artillery, and the greater portion of the bead-quarters
staff, crossed the Ganges this morning • and the com-
mander-in-chief, who is anxious to wait here till the last
moment, to see it the Calpec enemy really intend to move
against Cawnpore, will start with his personal staff to
Bunters (about forty-five miles hence) to-morrow morning
early, and will ride the whole distance in one march, so as
to overtake us before we reach the same camp. The
garrison of Cawnpore, strengthened by the remains of the
75th Regiment, will he under the command of Major-
General Inglis, who has received precise instructions for
his guidance in case of an attack; and a small corps of
observation, consisting of the 88th and 82nd Regiments,
some Irregular Cavalry, and a field battery, under Colonel
Maxwell, are patrolling the country between Cawnpore
anti Calpee. The heat is very considerable to-day.
I have already reported to you that the enemy attacked
the Alumbagh in the forenoon of Thursday last. But
they were not satisfied with the result of their first essay
on the 25th. Again they came out in force about four
o'clock, and, animated perhaps by the uncertain light of
the moon, continued their abortive efforts on our position
at the Alumbagh till ten o'clock at night. They came up
repeatedly within range of our guns and rifles, but they
fell in files again and again, and retired quite disheartened,
with very heavy loss. Our casualties in the two engage-
ments were six killed and thirty wounded. Colonel
Berkeley is shot through the right arm, Captain Moorsom
has a sabre-cut in his left arm, and Lieutenant H. Gough
has a musket-ball through his leg.
Brigadier Franks's last success is most decisive. The
Nazim, whom he beat on the 19th, rallied his forces, and
made a forced march to seize on the strong pass of Badyan,
but Franks out-manceuvred him, and seized upon the pass.

The Nazim then, by a long detour, swept round Franks,
and took up a strong position at Badshabgunge, two miles
from Sultanpore. Ou the 23rd, Franks made the same•
manmuvre, swept round the enemy's right sank in a march
of ten miles, attacked them in the rear, heat their army
( which consisted of 25,000 men, including 5,000 sepoys
and 1,000 cavalry), drove them off the field with the loss of
1,800 slain, and captured 20 pieces of artillery out of 25, of
which 10 were heavy, viz.—one :3•!-ponnder, two 24-poun-
ders, two IS-pounders, four 12-pounders, and one 9-pounder;
and took all the enemy's amtunnition, their baggage, and
standing camp. This great success. which leaves the road
to Lucknow open from the right, was achieved at a very
small loss—two killed and ten wounded in all the three
actions.

It appears that it was the Nana's brother, Bake Rao,
who crossed from Oude into the I)oab the other night. As
be was foll Owed by 200 regular cavalry, by a body of infantry,
and by several elephants and waggons, containing his
harem and baggage, he must have made some noise in his
passage across the stream ; but the policemen who were
specially stationed at the very point where he crossed,
because it was a likely place to make the attempt, pretended
not to have heard him, and the only information given to our
officers in charge of a cavalry detachment near Bithoor
was brought by a chowkedar, who ran in to say that, from
the noise at the opposite side of the river, he thought the
Nana was going to cross. At the time he brought in this
news the Rao had got safely over, and when our cavalry
arrived it was only to find the traces of his passage. t►n
investigation it became evident that the policemen were
accomplices in the fact, and that they bad been bribed to
keep their ears shut ; and so, after due investigation, the
whole party, eleven in number, were hanged. The Rao's
party continuing their flight across the l)oab, cut up the
men of two police-stations, which is a strong collateral
proof of the guilt of the men at the river-side station, and
got into Calpee in the morning. He is said to have
obt►ined large levies of men, and to be enlisting sowars at
30r. a month, and infantry at 10r. and 15r. a month. The
most painful effect of our inability to defend those who
are faithful to us is, that they with justice reproach us
with their losses and with the insults heaped upon them.
These Calpee sepoys have been enabled to do great wrong
and injury to our fast friend the Rajah of the little State
of Churkaree, south of the Jutnnt. They invaded his
territories, beat hie troops, carried off his guns, insulted
his palace, and carried off three lacs of rupees, or 30,09010
front his treasury.

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operations that followed, but a general idea can as
yet alone be given. It appears, however, that on the
3rd the army occupied the Dilkoosha Park—following
the line of Sir Colin's former advance—meeting with
a slight resistance, in the course of which Colonel
Little, of the oth Lancers, commanding the 2nd
Cavalry Brigade, was wounded. On the 4th Brigs_
tiler Franks appears to have joined, after engaging
the enemy in a small fort, when Lieutenant Innes, of
the Engineers, and Captain Pierce Smith, were
wounded. In front of the Dilkoosha, along the
canal, a strong line of defensive works had been
thrown up by the enemy, against which it would be
necessary to employ the heavy artillery. The con-
struction of batter-its was therefore immediately com-
menced. By the evening of the sth two floating
bridges were laid down across the Goomtee, below
the city, and on the following day the river was
passed by Sir James Outram at the head of 6,000 men,
of whom 1,4(X) were cavalry, and thirty guns. Thus
a position was gained on the northern bank of the
river, and all escape of the rebels from the city in that
direction prevented. In this operation an officer of
the Bays was killed. On the 7th the enemy at-
tacked Outram, but were repulsed. The total
casualties from the 3rd to the oth inclusive were, I
am informed, 2 officers and 9 men killed, and 300
and 23 men wounded. (?) "Of the temper of the
rebels," writes a correspondent from Bombay, "I learn
that, though alarmed at the grand scale of our opera-
tious, they appear prepared to fight it out, though
there are reported to be differences among them, one
party inclining to submission. Their spirit would
soon be tested. In a few days (I suppose by the 12th
or 13th) the English batteries will be ready, and a
storm, hitherto unconceived by them, will burst upon
their heads."
The forces under the command of Sir Colin Camp-
bell amount in all to some 50,000 men and 140 guns.
The whole of the Artillery is commanded by Sir
Archdale Wilson, of Delhi. The Brigadiers of the
Field and Siege Artillery ate, respectively, Colonels
Wood and Barker, both of the Royal Artillery. The
Naval Brigade is commanded by Sir William Peel.
The Chief Engineer is Colonel Napier, of the Bengal
army. Sir Hope Grant commands the cavalry, con-
sisting of two brigades, under Colonel Little, of the
9th Lancers, and Colonel Campbell, of the Bays.
The infantry is divided into three divisions, under
Sir James Outram, Sir Edward Lugard (ordered up
for the purpose), and Colonel Walpole, of the Rifle
Brigade. In the brigades of the let Division are the
sth Fusiliers, 84th, 90th, 78th, Madras Fusiliers, and
Sikh Regiment of Ferozepore. In those of the 2nd,
the 34th, 53rd, 42nd, 930, and 4th Punjaub Rifles ;
and in the 3rd, the 23rd Fusiliers, 70th, 2nd and 3rd
battalions of Rifle Brigade, the Ist Bengal Fusiliers,
and the 2nd Punjaub Infantry.
From the rest of India the intelligence is on the
whole satisfactory. The Punjaub was tranquil, and
though in Central India Sir Hugh Rose's advance
from Saugor had been delayed for want of stores, he
had moved out on the 4th March, on which day he
forced the Mudinpore pass, on the road to Jhansi, at
the head of his second brigade. The defile was
vigorously defended by some of the mutineers, the
Bengal 52nd, with Pathans and other irregulars.
They suffered severely, however, and when driven
out into the open were charged by Major Orr 's
cavalry of the Hyderabad Contingent, who cut np
some fifty of them. This success goes far to clear
the Jhansi road, and indeed that part of the country—
the body thus routed offering the only formidable
opposition—and also opens communications between
Sir Hugh and his first brigade, which lies away to his
left between Chendaree and Goonah.

General Whitlock, en route to Rewab, had passed
Sleemanabad, forty miles up the road from Jubbul-
pore, on the 22nd February, with his first infantry
brigade, his cavalry, and siege-train. He is strong
in artillery, and in cavalry he has a wing of the 12th
Lancers and the 7th Madras Light Cavalry. The
4th and 6th—at one time counter-ordered by the
general, owing to a report, which turned out to be
false, that Nana Sahib had crossed the Ganges into
Bundelcund—have gone on to serve at 13enares and
Allahabad. In infantry, however, he is weak. The
Ist Native Infantry show only 54/0 effectives; and
his second brigade, the 43rd Light Infantry and the
19th Native Infantry, only left Secunderabad about
the 15th of last month, and will not be at JubbulPore
till the end of this.

In Rajpootana General Roberts was to leave
Nusseerabad for Kotah about the Ilth March. He
was waiting, it is said, for the 7l2nd Highlanders, who
would reach him about that date. Kotah was held
by 8,000 rebels, with 100 guns ; " and it is at least
certain," adds a correspondent, "that it contains all
the rascality of that part of tho country, or all,
perhaps, but a small portion that still hangs about

Bfundesor, or that occupies (if it really does occupy)
the Mokundarra pass."
In the Bombay Presidency there was nothing new
of interest. The Saw unt Waree rebel is not yet
secured, owing to the difficulties of the country ; but
be is rebtrained within his mountain fastnesses.

TRooPs FOR INDIA.—By the last mail from the
Cape, we learn that H.M.S. Simoom, Commander J.
li. Cooke, was to embark at East London, near
Buffalo Mouth, the 73rd Regiment for Calcutta, as
soon as the ship had undergone repairs, rendered
necessary from ber continued exposure dining three
voyages in the South Atlantic and Indian waters.
This fine ship has conveyed nearly 3,000 troops to
India since the commencement of the mutiny, in
addition to the 33rd Regiment, which she sailed with
from Dublin in February, 1857. The Simoom MRS
the first war•steamer that landed troops at Calcutta,
baying been stopped at Singapore when en route for
Canton.