The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

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first, a rising of 200 Saabsls within sixteen miles of
Hazarebaugh, and their defeat by a body of Sikhs,
and, lastly, the first symptoms of a❑ outbreak in the
hitherto peaceable valley of Assam, one of our
frontier stations.
The following is from Assam, dated September
10th :

The fearful rebellion bag cast its dark shadow over our
hitherto peaceful valley, although as yet we are spared its
dread reality. The first intelligence that a conspiracy had
been discovered in Upper Assam came upon us like a
thunder clap, and immediate and energetic measures were
judiciously adopted at all the stations, and the crisis, we
now trust, has passed. Colonel Halms), has intrenched
himself with his Ghoorkas at Debrooghur, and sent off his
Hindoostanee sepoys to Jerhat, where there are no Euro.
peon residents. Actual mutiny has not broken out at any
station, but all feel that they are on a volcano. All is out-
wardly quiet just now, and everyone tries to feel secure,
although great alarm actually exists, for there is not a
European soldier in the province. It is said that Koer
Singh is the instigator of the plot discovered here.
The ladies have left Nowgong for Gowhatty. There a
volunteer force has been formed, consisting of the residents
and some few natives in high position. We are hoping a
steamer may soon be up, and that things may be kept so
till then, but our position is certainly very shaky.
It is said that the Rajah of Assam has been deported
from Upper Assam to the large gaol in Central Assam.

With respect to the arrival of reinforcements from
England, the steamers Cleopatra and Thebes had
arrived at Galle, and were at once to sail for Cal-
cutta. The Belief.'le, with the 93rd, reached Calcutta
at the moment of the mail leaving. lier AlHjesty's
ship Sansparell, and other vessels, with the re-
mainder of the China force, had arrived. _ _

Sir James Outram, G.C.8., has been reappointed
Chief Commissioner in Oude, vice Sir Henry Law.
rence, deceased. Mr. W. J. Money, of the Bengal
Civil Service, has been nominated private secretary
to Sir James Outram as a temporary measure.

The Poonah Observer understands that Colonel
Lugard, C. 8., does not go round to Calcutta for the
present, and that he will return to Poonah in about
a fortnight hence. We believe the reason fur this to be
that General Havelock will contiaue to hold the office
of adjutant-general of her Majesty's forces in Bengal
until his proinctiou to major general comes out. It
is quite possible that this may be received by the
next mail; but under any circumstances the delay
cannot extend be3ond a few weeks.
Major• General Mansfield has assumed his appoint-
me•nt of chief of the stall in the East Indies.

The commissariat floes not appear to be very effec-
tive in India. Here is a description of a voyage up
the Ganges in a river fiat:—

We have been very much crowded on board these flats
and steamers, and altogether a perfectly miserable voyage—
black biscuit and stinking meat, cooked by a miserable lot
of dirty looking blacks ; no place to lie hut on the deck,
exposed to the weather night and day, and almost eaten up
with sand flies, and mosquitoes, rats, and beetles running
over yon all night long. After leaving Dinapore we went
as far as a place called Ban, about 120 miles from Dina
pore, which took us about five days. When we arrived
here we were ordered back to Dinapt:re--what for we never
could find out. Sickness had now broken aut. We lost
one of our surgeons the second time we were at Dinapore,
he, poor fellow, having been carried off by cholera. You
would have pitied the poor fellows to have seen them
lying about the deck half dead, afflicted with fever,
diarrheas, dysentery, and cholera, and no soft bed or hos.
pital accommodation, or any other comfort at ell. I thank
God 1 managed to keep in good health, with the exception
of a slight bowel complaint now and then. We arrived at
Allahabad on the 4th of September, after a voyage of
severe trial, having lost nearly thirty men coming up the
Ganges. Some of the poor fellows we had to throw into
the river, for, dying of cholera and such diseases, they would
not keep until we got into a station. The voyage up here
certainly would have been very delightful if we had had
proper accommodation.