The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, FEBRUARY 27, 1858.

Child, Smith Ingestre, Viscount Smith, Augustus
Christy, Samuel Ingram, Herbert Smollett,Alexander
Clinton, Lord R. Johnatone, Hn. H. Stanhope, J. B.
Close, M. C. Johnstone, J. J. H. Stanley, Lord
Cobbett, J. M. Jolliffe, Sir \V. G.H. Stapleton, John
Cole, Hon. H. A. Kell), Sir Fitzroy Stewart, Sir M.R.S.
Collins, Thomas Ker, Richard Stirling, William
Coniugham, Wm. Kerrison, Sir E. C. Sturt, H. G.
Conolty, Thomas Kershaw, James Sykes, Col. W. H.
Copeland, W. T. King, Hon. P. J. L. Taylor, Colonel
Corry, Rt. Hn.H. L. King, J. K. Taylor, S. M.
Cowan, Charles Kinglake, A. W. Tempest, Ld. A. V.
Craufurd, E. H. J. Kingscote, R. N. F. Thotupson,General
Crawford, R. W. Knatchbull, W. F. Tomline, George
Crook, Joseph Knatchbull-Huges. Townsend, John
Dalglish, Robert Knight, F. W. Trefusis, Hn. C. H.
Dalkeith, Earl of Knox, Colonel Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Darner, L. D. Langton, W. G. Trollope, Sir J.
Davison, Richard Leslett, William Vance, John
'Medea, William Laurie, John Vansittart, William
Dent, J. D. Lennox, Lord A. F. Waddington, H. S.
Dillwyn, L. L. Lennox, Lord H.G. Walcott, Admiral
Disraeli, Rt. Hn. B. Leslie, C. P. Walpole, Rt. Hn. S.
Dobbs, W. C. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Warren, Samuel
Du Cane, iCharles Lindsay, W. S. White, James
Duke, Sir James Lisburne, Earl of Whiteside, James
Dunlop, A. M. Locke, John Whitmore, Henry
Du Pre, C. G. Lockhart, A. E. Williams, Colonel
East, Sir J. B. Lyall, George Williams, William
Egerton, E. C. Lygon, Hon. F. Wise, J. A.
Elcho, Lord Lytton, Sir B. Woodd, 13. T.
El mley, Viscount Macartney, George Wortley, Major
Elphinstone, Sir J. Macaulay, Kenneth Wyld, James
Elton, Sir A. H. AP Mahon, Patrick Wyndham, General
Evans, Sir De Lacy Maims, Richard Wyndham, Henry
Evans, T. W. Manners, Lord J. Wynn, Colonel
Evart, William Martin, John Wynne, Rt. Hn. J.
Ewart, J. C. Maxwell, Hon. Col. Wynne, William
Ewing, H. E. C. Melgunil, Viscount Yorke, Hon. E. T.
Farnham, E. It. Miles, William TELLERS.
Farquhar, Sir M. Miller, T. J. Gibson, Rt. Hn. M.
Fenwick, Henry Miller, S. B. Bright, John

Adenine, H. J. Foley, H. J. W. Osborne, Ralph
Atherton, William Foster, W. 0. Ossulston, Lord
Bagshaw, It. J. Fortescue,Hn.F.D. Paget, Charles
Bagwell, John Fortescue, C. S. Paget, Lord Alfred
Baines, Rt.Hn.M.T Galwey, Sir W. P. Paget, Lord C.
Baring, A. H. Gavin, Major Palmerston, Vie.
Baring, H. B. Gifford, Earl of Patten, Colonel W.
Baring,Rt.Hn.SirF Glyn, G. G. Pease, Henry
Baring, T. G. Goderich, Viscount Perry, Sir T. E.
Barnard, Thomas Greaves, Edward Phillips, J. H.
Bathurst, A. A. Greer, S. M. Pinney, Colonel
Bentinck, G. W. P. Gregory, W. H. Pryse, E. L.
Bethell, Sir H. Gregson, Samuel Pugh, David
Biddalph, R. M. Grenfell, C. P. Pritchard, John
Blake, John Greville, Col. F. Puller, C. W.
BIRO, L. H. Gray, Captain Ramsden, Sir J. W.
Bourerie,Rt.Fln.E. Grey, Rt.Hn. Sir G. Itawlinson,SirH.C.
Bouverie, Hon.P.P. Grey, R. W. Raynham, Vis.
Bowyer, George Grosvenor, Earl Repton, G. W. J.
Boyd, John Gurdon, Brampton Richardson, Jona.
Brady, John Gurne, Samuel Ridley, George
Bramston, T. W. Hall, Rt. Hn. Sirß. Russell, Arthur
Brocklehorst,John Hanhury, Robert Russell, F. W.
Browne, Lord J. T. Hankev, Thomson Rust, James
Bruce, Lord Ernest Hsnmer, Sir John Schneider, H. W.
Bruce, H. A. Harcourt, G. G. Scrope, G. P.
Buckley, General Harris, J. D. Seymour, H. D.
Bulkeley, Sir R. Harrington, Mq. of Smith, M. T.
Buller, J. W. Hatchet, John Smith, Rt.Hnn.R.V
Burke, Sir T. .1. Heatheote, Hn. G. Smith, Sir Fred.
Calcraft, J. H. Henchy, I). 0. Somerville, Sir W.
Campbell, R. J. R. Heneage, G. F. Spooner, Richard
Castlerosse, Vis. Herbert,Rt. Hon.H. Stafford, Marquis of
Cavendish, Hon.W. Holland, Edward Steel, John
Cavendish, Hon.G. Howard, Hon.C.W. Stuart, Colonel
Cayley, E. S. Hughes, W. B. Stun, Napier
Clarke, J. J. Ingham, Robert Sullivan, Michael
Clay, James Jermyn, Earl Tattered, H. W.
Clifford, C. C. Jervoise, Sir J. C. Thornely, Thomas
Clive, George Keating, Sir H. S. Thornhill, W. P.
Codrington, Gen. Kendall, Nicholas Tollemache, Hn.F.
Cogan, W. H. F. Kinglake, J. A. Trueman, Charles
Colebrooke,SirT.E Labonohere, Rt.Hn Turner, J. A
Collier, R. P. Langston, J. H. Vane, Lord Harry
Cowper,Rt.Hon.W. Langton, H. G. Verney, Sir Harry
Coate, Sir C. H. Legh, G. C. Villiers,Rt.Hn C.P.
Cotterell, Sir H. G. I,eyinge, Sir R. Vivian, Hon.J.C.W.
Crossley, Frank Lewis,Rt.Hn. SirC. Waldron, L.
Davey, Richard Lincoln, Earl of Walsh, Sir John
Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Walter, John
Deasy, Richard Luce, Thomas Warre, J. A.
De Vere, S. E. Macarthy, A. Weguelin, T. M.
Devereux, J. T. M`Cann, James Western, Sutton
Divett, Edward Mackie, James Westhead, J. I'. B.
Dodson, J. G. Maguire, J. F. Whatman, Jam es
Duff, M. E G. Mangles, C. E. Whitbread, Samuel
Dunbar, Sir W. Marshall, William Wickham. H. W.
Duncan, Viscount Martin, C. W. Wigram, 1,. T.
Duncombe,lion.A. Martin, P. W. Williams, M.
Dundee, Frederick Massey, W. N. Williams, Sir NI .F.
Dnnne, Michael Matheson, Alex. Willyams, E. W. B.
Dutton, Hon. R.H. Matheson, Sir J. Willoughby, Sir H.
Ebi ington, Vis. Mellor, John Wilson, James
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Mills, Arthur Winnington, Sir T.
Ellice, Edward Mitchell, T. A. Wood, Rt.Hn.SirC.
Ennis, John Moncrieff,Rt.Hn.J. Wood, William
Esmonde, John Morris, David Woods, Henry
Fagan, William Mowbray, J. R. Woraley, Lord
Ferguson, Colonel Newark, Viscount Young, A. W.
Ferguson, Sir R. Norris, J. I'.
Finlay, A. S. North, Frederick TELLERS.
Fitzroy, Rt.Hon.H. O'Brien, Patrick Hayter, Hon. W.G, li
Foley, J. H. Ogilvy, Sir Join, Brand,Hoo.H.B.W

PAIRS.
FOR GOVERNMENT. AGAINST.
Ashley, Lord Hudson, Mr.
Carter, Mr. B. Lowther, lion. Colonel
Wyvill, Mr. Lowther, Captain
Vivian, Mr. Gilpin, Colonel
Mainwaring, Mr. Hill, Hon. R. C.
Vansittart, Mr. G. 11. Verner, Mr. W.
Slaney, Mr. Thesiger, Sir F.
Mangles, Mr. E.. Wrightson, Mr.
Mills, Mr. T. Butler, Mr.
Emlyn, Lord Cox, Mr.
Egerton, Sir P. Joao, Captain
Haddo, Lord Herbert, Colonel
Sandon, Lord Burghley, Lord
Gordon, Major Steuart, Mr.
Handley, Mr. Hill, Lord E.
O'Connell, Captain Percy, Hon. J.
Cubitt, Mr. Holt, Mr.
Drummond, Mr. Lovaine, Lord

Agnew, Sir A. Blackmure, Mr. B.
Sheridan, Mr. H. B. Cooper, Mr.
Denison, Hon. H. W. Booth, Sir B. G.
Mostyn, Hon. J. Burrell, Sir C.
Watkins, Colonel Jones, Mr. D.
Ellis, Hon. A. Hayes, Sir E.

The following Conservatives appear in the minority
against Mr Gibson's amendment:—Mr. A. Bathurst, Mr.
G. W. Bentinck, Mr. J. Boyd, Mr. J. J. Clarkt., Hon. A.
Duncombe, Mr. E. Greaves, Mr. J. R. Mowbray, Viscount
Newark, Laid Ossulston, Mr. S. W. Repton, Mr. J. Rost,
Sir F. Smith, Mr. R. Spooner, Mr. N. Stun, Sir H. Wil-
loughby, Mr. T. W. Bramaton, Sir W. Galwey, Mr. A.
Mills. Lord Jermyn, Col. Wilson Patten, Mr. Harcourt,
Mr. G. Clive, SirJ. Walsh, Mr. N. Kendall, Mr. T. B ar-
nard, Mr. L. Wigram, Mr. G. C. Legh, Mr. G. H. Vansit-
tart, Viscount Evelyn, Sir P. Egerton, Mr. Cubitt, IMr.
Drummond.

Viscount Goderich, Mr. James Clay, Mr. Frank Cross-
ley, and Mr. J. D. Harris, who usually votE with the ad-
vanced Liberals, voted with the Government.

The majority was composed of Al Liberals, 118 Conser-
vatives, and 4 Peelites, viz.—The Right Hononrables E.
Cardwell, W. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, and S. Herbert.

successful, and so far has achieved his victories with.
out much loss ; but the conquest of Oude is delayed
for want of force. The rebels are " terribly strong,"
writes a correspondent from Calcutta :
Hour by hour they receive accessions of men from Go-
ruckpore, from llohilcund, and even from Central India,
The leaders, driven from Etawah, Allyghur, Futtyglitir
Goruckpore, and Banda, are swarming to Lucknow,
with
picked bands of desperadoes. The force there concentrated
will in a few weeks be not less than 60,000 fighting men,
with at least eighty guns and plenty of ammunition. The
walls are being repaired, the streets intrenched, and the
houses freshly loopholed. Everything indicates that the
insurgents, driven to bay, intend to die fighting, and with
the means at their disposal they may hold Lucknow as they
once hell Bhurtpore. They themselves believe that the
attack will end in the destruction of both parties. An
officer engaged in executing a party of them asked each
before he died why he had fought, and what WRS to be the
end of it all. Each gave the same answer—" The slough.
ter of the English was required by our religion. The end
will be the destruction of all the English and all the erpoys,
and then—God knows."
All the loopholing in the world, he remarks, will be
of no avail against Sir Colin's artillery, which is
" magnificent "

It is easy to talk of 87,000 men in India, and the state-
ment has had an excellent effect upon the native mind,
which the Indian journals wisely decline to impair. But
the truth is just this—when the revolt broke out we had
not 18,000 Europeans in Bengal, between Calcutta and
Peshawur. As I told you, during the struggle of six months
whole regiments have been annihilated, and we have not
24,000 European infantry south of the Sutlej, calculate
them how you will. At every station reoccupied we have
to leave at least a wing to restore the authority of the civil
power. There are 20,000 disarmed sepoys to be watched.
There is Rohilcund to clear, and the commander in-chief,
with all his persistent energy, cannot collect 13,000 Ett•
ropeans.

Meantime Sir Colin'Campbell is busy clearing the
country; by the last accounts he was moving on
Bareiliy. Far away to the south of the commander-
in-chief Jung Bahadoor is aiding his operations. On
the 6th of January he re entered Goruckpore, and
the Nazim Mahommed Hoossein fled without a
struggle :
Jung himself, it is said, intends as soon as he can
obtain carriage to join the commander-in-chief in time for
the attack upon Lucknow. He is said to have asked for a
slice of Oude in independent sovereignty for himself, not
his master. He imagines that an independent crown,
however small his territcry, would afford him new weight
among his countrymen. The appanage, moreover, would
afford him a safe retreat in the event of a revolution in
Nepaul. The request is very Asiatic, and the story may be
correct, but I cannot vouch for its authenticity. I can for
the following one :—Jung Bahadoor has required that all
executions should take place at a distance from his camp,
as he cannot prevent his soldiers from resisting the execu•
tion of Brahmins That is not a pleasant hint from our
most powerful ally in a war commenced upon a question of
caste pretensions. The majority of the Goruckpore men
have fled into Oude.

There was one report about that the great Oude
zemindars have offered to surrender on condition of
immunity. They offer to reveal the entire plan of
the revolt from first to last, and to surrender every
man guilty of any atrocity, receiving in return im-
munity for themselves.
A second report, and one upon which more reliance,
it is unfortunately believed, could be placed, was that
Sir Mountstuart Jackson, Captain Patrick Orr, Lieut.
Barnes, Sergeant Major Motion, Miss Madeleine
Jackson, and Mrs. Petrick Orr, who were known to
be in the hands of the Oude rebels, have been
massacred :

It s as hoped that they would be spared as hostages, but
the thirst for blood is still unslacked. All the males were
blown from the guns in the first week of this month. The
ladies are still alive, but in confinement, and have lost,
they say, all reckoning of time. The Governor-General
has offered a lac of rupees fur each of them, but, 1 fear,
without effect—Times cor.

On the 12th of June Sir James Outrain was
attacked at the Alumbagh by a force which be
estimates at 30,000 men. No details have been
published, but the contract was protracted, as Sir
James Outram, though he has strengthened his
position, has barely 4,000 men. The enemy were
defeated, and retired, leaving 400 dead upon the
field, while the British had not lost a single man.
Only six were wounded--a fact which has occurred
only once before in this war, in the engagement at
Futtypore. On the 15th the enemy came on again,
led this time by a Hindoo fanatic, most probably,
from his name, a faqueer of the Monkey Temple in
Await'. They kept up a desultory fight from ten a.m.
to nine p.m., eleven hours, but retreated at nightfall,
leaving their leader in the hands of the British, and
a great number of wounded on the ground. Our loss
was again reported trifling—a fact due (writes a cor-
respondent) partly to generalship—our leaders being
fairly awake to the value of European life, and partly
to the withering power of the Enfield
In Central India and the Deccan, matters were
not so satisfactory as we have been led to belive

Nana Sahib is hovering about Futtelighur, with somo
800 horse. The general belief is that, he has gone to


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sangor, where there is a European garrison in consider-
able danger, and consequently a chance of gratifying his
lust for murder. It would not. be matter of surprise if he
turned up in Bombay. He is the representative of the
Peishwas, and his natural strength is in Central India and
the Deccan, where, as you will perceive from the inclosed
statements, all is not so pleasant as we have been accus-
tomed to believe.—Times cor.
From the west of India there is no news of im.
portance. Lord Canning was going to Allahabad in
a few days.

THE CAPTURE OF CANTON.
THE occupation of the heights and walls surrounding
Canton have been followed by the complete occupa-
tion of the city and the capture of the Lieutenant
Governor, the Tartar general, and of Commissioner
Yeh himself, besides a vast quantity of silver bullion
found in the imperial treasury.
Our last intelligence left us at the close of the
second day in possession of the heights, and having
just completed the capture of Gough Fort, with a
total loss of killed and wounded of 140 Eng-
lish and 31 French troops. From that night
(Tuesday) till the Monday following our troops
remained in possession of the ground they had won.
The Chinese, stolid and imperturbable, made no effort
to regain what they had lost. " Yeh," writes a corre-
spondent, " iives much as usual ; he cut off four
hundred Chinese heads the other morning and stuck
them up in the city, to show that, in spite of the pre-
sence of the barbarians, he was still master over the
Chinese." At length a move was made by our
troops. Certain intelligence had reached head-
quarters of the whereabouts of Yeh, and an attempt
to capture him was resolved on. Three columns of
troops penetrated the city early in the morning of
the sth of January. No resistance was offered.
Pehlwei, the governor of the city, was the first
captured. The pioneers broke in the door of his
yamun, the Chinese guards were knocked down or
disarmed, and a dash made on a pavilion seen at
the end of the courtyard :

This third pavilion is a hall of audience, rude and dirty,
but imposing. There is a fracture in the tiled roof, through
which an English rocket had forced its way. There are
curtained portieres right and left, leading evidently to
private apartments. " Halt," " Stand at ease," and the
muskets descend upon the stone floor with a ring which
makes the old shed echo. At this moment one of the
portieres is raised, and in old man, dressed in the ordinary
blue Chinese dress, but wearing a Mandarin's cap, with a
red button, appears in the doorway. He has a black
moustache, a quick eye, and more intelligence in his face
than you usually see in China, and he seems to say, as
plainly as gestures can speak, " What can all this dia.
quie.ade be about?" Every one I.lt that this could be no
other than Peh•kwei. Colonel Holloway put his hand
upon his shoulder, led him gently back into his apartment,
seated him in a chair, and pat a guard round him. The
ohl gentlemen was quietly at breakfast when the English
Marines burst in.

A f.w moments' delay occurred while a Chinese interpre-
ter was got up, and the Governor, seeing he was in no
immediate danger, recovered a composure which he bad
never lost the power of assuming. He was asked for his
seals of office and his papers. It was very unfortunate, but
he had that morning mislaid his keys. " Tell him," said
Colonel Holloway, " not to trouble himself, for I have a
master key;' and at a sign a tall pioneer with his axe
made his appearance. The Governor took up a napkin,
and the lost keys were accidentally found to have been
underneath it.—Times cor.

Another detachment, under the command of Captain
Parkes, makes a dash on the treasury in the street of
"Benevolence and Love." The Tartar guard easily
overpowered, the treasury is entered, and vast stores
of valuables, besides fifty two boxes of dollars, with
sixty.eight packets of solid silver ingots, reward the
finders. No looting is allowed; coolies are called, and
the boxes of treasure are safely removed to head-
(laners. "When the last British soldier left the
!reioury, the mob," writes a correspondent, " poured
in like a countless pack of famished wolves. The
railing and self-denying English could hear their
yells and shouts as they fought over the fur dresses
and other stores that hail been left untouched."
Contemporaneously with these operations a
French column had advanced upon the head-quar-
tars of the Tartar general. The Yamun, easily
discernible from the lofty poles surrounding it, was
quickly reached and entered, and the Tartar gene-
ral, hunted from room to room, is finally pulled out
"f " a filthy closet."
The capture of Yeh alone remained to be
effected :

Mr. Consul Parkes, who was attached as interpreter to
Colonel Holloway's party, arrived too late, and was with-
out an escort. While he was deploring his ill•lucic, he
met with Commodore Elliot, who, tired by Mr. I'arkes
telling him that he had some information as to Yeh's
lurking-place, agreed upon his own responsibility to
accompany him with 100 blue-jackets. As they got
deeper and deeper into the maze of streets some of the
officers seemed to think they were doing an imprudent
'' If the worst comes to the worst," said Captain
hey, "we know the direction of the walls by this coin.
PUB, and can fight our way to them," so on they went.