The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

arms in every hand. The day broke with a report that
the 2nd Grenadiers and the 70th had risen at Barrackpore,
and were marching on Calcutta, and that the Queen's 37th
had gone out to meet them. The 37th did march at one
a.m., in consequence of alarming reports from Barrackpore
of the intentions of the sepoys there ; they, however, made
no move, and in the evening were disarmed to a man.
This was performed only at Dumdum and Calcutta; the
militia and bodyguard excepted. This 70th is the gallant
and loyal regiment who desired to be sent to Delhi, and
to thank whom tite Governor-General posted to Barrack
pore the other day. Since these men were disarmed they
have openly been selling everything and deserting in
parties. If the Government had taken these decided steps
three weeks ago, there would have been no panic in Cal-
cutta ; but, after pooh.poohing all offers of assistance sa
politely as possible, and affirtning no danger, and its full
and sufficient powers to put it down at once if it should
show itself—after all this to call for volunteers and to
disarm every sepoy within reach were quite sufficient to
throw the public at large into a state of consternation, par-
ticulatly as the Government bad shown its own ❑nmta-
takeable alarm by bringing in and hurrying through at
one meeting a bill for putting the entire press, European
and native, into the hands of the Governor General in
council. On the Sunday they had in the fort, in irons, a
spy belonging, as alleged, to the King of Ott le's party at
Garden Reach. On Monday morning itefore daylight they
had his highness and five of his principal people seized
and lodged in Fort William.

Of the general results of the movement, it may be
briefly said that, while almost the entire Bengal
army has ceased to exist, nearly the whole of the
north-west provinces may be said to have gone, in-
cluding Ouio, across to likipootana, down away to
the Bombay presidency. The Times correspondent
writes :

When I closed my last I calculated that, in one way
or another, some 28 regiments of regular infantry bad
ceased to carry arms for the Company. I now count up-
wards of 40—perhaps as high as 46. In Rohllcund
probably all the four regiments are gone, certainly the
two at Bareilly—the 18th and 68th, with the Bth Irregular
Cavalry and a Company of Native Foot Artillery. Most of
the officers have escaped, it is believed, to the hill station
of Tynee Tal or elsewhere, but the Brigadier, Sibbald, is
said to have fallen, and many civilians are missing.
Cawnpore, we believe, has been saved by the arrival of
the 84th and of the 64th, the latter from Bombay. But the
12th Native Infantry has mutinied in Bundlecund, and at
Allahabad the 6th Native Infantry, which had been loud
in its protestations of loyalty, and of its desire to be
led against Delhi, rose and murdered Captain Bird,
the Fort Adjutant, and all the Europeans they could
lay hands upon. The rest took refuge in the fort, where
they are still in safety, the mutineers having marched.
for Delhi. At Benares the 37th Native Infantry mutinied
on an attempt being made to disarm them. Joined by
the 13th Irregular Cavalry and the Sikh Regiment of
Loodhiana, they killed Captain Guise, of the cavalry, and
attacked the guns of the European company of artillery,
hut were repulsed by a discharge of grape; and by the
resolute attitude of a handful of the Queen's 13th and
of the Madras Fusiliers. At Azinighur the 19th muti-
nied, and shot their adjutant, Lieutenant Hutchinson-
At Ghazeepore the 65th has been disarmed. At Jaun'
pore the detachment of the Loodhiann Regiment
followed the example of the head-quarters at Bermes,
killed Mr. Cuppage, the civilian, and badly wounded
Lieutenant Mara, their commanding officer. All this in
the Benares district. The rest of the Dinapore division
has been quiet, with the exception of one deplorable
occurrence at Itohnee. Major Macdonald, Sir Norman
Leslie, and Dr. Grant, three officers of the sth Irre-
gular Cavalry, were attacked one evening when sitting
in the verandah of the major's house. Sir Norman was
killed on the spot, and the other two severely wounded.
The assassins, at first supposed to be disbanded sepoys,
belonged, it now appears, to their own regiment, and have
been given up for execution by their comrades.
In the north-west, the mutiny of Lucknow wag
most serious, but Sir Henry Lawrence had suppressed
it, and was " grimly busy in hanging up mutineers."
A report was, however, prevalent at Bombay that Sir
Henry had been compelled to evacuate the city, and
fall back upon Cawnpore. The mutiny broke out on
the night of the 30th May :

Every day of the week the Chief Commissioner, Sir H.
Lawrence, had been informed that the regiments would
certainly rise at night, between eight and nine o'clock, and
as often the hours passed over without the slightest dis-
turbance. When, therefore, the same story was repeated
to the Chief Commissioner on Saturday, the 30th of May,
he did not attach extraordinary importance to it, and
merely took the ordinary precaution of doubling the sen-
tries and directing every officer to be on the look out.
Nine o'clock struck, and the Chief Commissioner was in
the act of remarking that the rumour had proved itself as
unfounded as its predecessors, when shots were heard in
the 71st Native Infantry lines. The Chief Commissioner
immediately mounted his horse, and proceeded to the
encampment of the 3'2nd Queen's, and then moved up to
the corner of the Lucknow•road with two guns and a
company of Europeans, to prevent the mutineers from
coming down to the city. The remaining six guns re-
mained in position at the encamping•ground, guarded by
Europeans. Bungalows now began to blaze and the firing
to become hotter, when General Handscombe was killed
by a shot from the 71st lines, up to which he had ridden
quite close, in the hopes that his presence and speech
might have the effect of bringing the mutineers to reason.