The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-20 00:00:00

lish officers accompanying the force gives the 1,,i.
lowing personal description ofJung Bahadoor and his
troop :

Yesterday we went to see the Maharajah in full Durtar.
He is a very fine fellow, and made most favourable ire:
pression on us all. He was most magnificently dressed, but
at the same time in the very best taste. He is accompanied
by two of his brothers, one of them second in command,
and the other without any specific appointment. The
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army, which consists of about eleven thousand men, is
formed into divisions, commanded by the Jung's half
relations Indeed, half the Durbar was composed of his
blood relations. After the Durbin., which did not last half
an hour, we went out to look at the troops. They Were
drawn up in lines of regiments, one behind the other, the
best of course in front, but we were very agreeably surorised
both as to their state of discipline, physique, and equip-
ment. They marched as steadily as any troops I ever saw.
Their double march was singularly steady, and they formed
column and square, deployed, and passed in review in a
most gallant and steady manner. Far from realising oar
preconceived notions of Ghoorks diminutiveness, they, at
any rate in the crack corps, were giants, and even those
in the non-selected regiments were very much larger than
in our Ghoorka battalions. I inquired about their com.
position, and General Ilumheer Singh, the second in com-
mand, informed me that with the exception of seventeen,
they were all pure Ghoorkas. The Jung is most anxious
to get at the enemy.
The state of affairs in Goruekpore is frightful.
The people, released from all restraint, writes a corre-
spondent, are indulging in true Asiatic thirst for
blood. Mohammed Hoossein, the rebel chief, cut
off quiet folks' heads because they would not pay
their revenue. His assistants cut off heads because
those who do pay revenue will not pay taxes in excess
of revenue. Jung Bahadoor is now cutting off the
heads of Hoossein's followers. While, to crown the
scene, the villagers massacre each other to reconcile
long-standing feuds. Turning to Oude, General
Outram, by the last accounts, was safe at Alumbagh.
On the 22nd Dec. he executed a brilliant right
movement, by which the enemy in an attempt to
gain possession of the Cawopore road were corn-
pletely defeated, with the loss of four guns, and 100
killed. The defeat of the Gwalior rebels at Cawn-
pore by Sir Colin had had a marked effect upon the
Oude peasantry, who now supply Sir James
Outram's camp with every provision.
It is reported from Agra that the surrounding
districts are still in a disturbed state, that revenue
has to be collected by force, and that justice has to
be administered under the protection of a regiment
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of Europeans.
From Bareilly, to the sth, we learn that Khan
Bahadar Khan, who was Principal Sadder Atneen
or chief native judge at that station before the rebel-
lion . broke out, is the chief of the rebels. He
has, it is stated, thirty-five guns, 18,0(X) infantry, and
4,003 cavalry, 2,000 of the latter being old suwars,
and the remainder new levies.

At Delhi executions are of daily occurrence. On
the 23rd Dec. the Nawab of Jhujjur was hanged in
the presence of a large number of spectators, prin-
cipally Hindoos. Very few Mussulmans looked on.
He is described as a fine-looking man, and is said to
have submitted quietly to his deserved fate. His
jaghire, which was granted to his grandfather by
Lori Lake for services rendered against the Mali-
rattas, is of course forfeited to Government. Nothing
has been heard respecting the trial of the King,
whose life, it is now asserted by a writer in the
Lahore Chronicle, was guaranteed to him on the
express authority cf General Wilson. Most probably
the gallant captor of Delhi acted under orders from
superior authority. Newspaper correspondents con-
tinue to assert that Mahomedan scoundrels are
admitted into the city without the least inquiry, and
some even go so far as to say that many of those
who are known to have fought against us have been
re-employed in their old places.
Several petty engagements had occurred in Behar
and on the frontiers of Bengal. The Chittagorg
mutineers had been almost destroyed by the Sylbet
battalion. The Dacca mutineers were still trying to
push westward by Boman, but their case was hope-
less, and their doom certain. In the Punjaub Sir
John Lawrence continues to exhibit anxiety ; be
has, it is said, written for the 6th Hussars, and he
his brought together sufficient horses to mount that
and another regiment of cavalry. A letter from
Lahore, of Dec. 30th, says :
We are drilling the troops here as fast as we von
.get
them. Sir John Lawrence has already raised some thin y-
five infantry and cavalry. The Guides who were before
Delhi returned yesterday; truly a splendid body of men.
They are marching through to their station up in the bilis,
loaded with a decent amount of booty. The Lahore volun
leers have been broken up. They mustered a body of
200 men. We have fteeivell no new European troops in
the Punjanb yet. This is strange. I assure you Sir J.
Lawrence is looking out most anxiously for them, for her
Majesty's slst and the Artillery at kleean Meer are wor-
ried night and day, locking after the two regiments of
Pandies. We want British trocps here, and cannot afford
to be much longer without them. There are 13,000 dis-
armed troops in the Punjaub, and 3,000 scattered Europeans
to guard them. We have one native regiment stanch—
only one, the 21it Native Infantry, at Pesbawur. They
have retained their arms altogether to this time, while four
others had their teeth drawn.