The Press.
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THE PRESS, JANUARY 80, 1858.

posed to be faithful—l think with reason. It corn-
prises very few Hindostanees, and has many Ghoor-
kits, who of course look to Jung Bahadoor as their
guide. The principal effect of this has been to
close the roads :

During the past fortnight all our roads, except those
into Eastern Bengal, have been closed. The Sumbul-
pore fracas has closed the old Bombay road. The new
one is shut up by the insurrection near Jubbulpore, and
the third route, vii Madras, is scarcely yet organised. The
Sambulpore affair occupies a very important place in ►he
papers, but is really very insignificant. A man named
Sander Shaw, with a gang of ruffians, and perhaps a few
sepoys, occupied the place. The few troops in the can-
tonment held oat. Three companies of the 40th Madras
Native Infantr3 were sent up, but all fell sick of the local
fever—always very bad in the cold weather. The Sheks-
wattes have now been despatched to their aid, and their
commander, Colonel Forster, has a habit of success. He
has certainly kept his regiment together wonderfully,
chiefly by his own personal authority. It is almost pa-
triarchal. The other day he was ordered to arrest the
Rajah of Pachete. He gave him twenty minutes, at the
end of which time be threatened to hang him unless his
tort were surrendered. A quarter of an hour expired—
eighteen minutes—and the tort was 3ielded up. He will
doubtless restore our communications.—Tinta eor.

The Englishman gives the following account of
General Havelock's death :

He first suffered from an attack of indigestion, which
was speedily got under, and no apprehensions were enter-
tained before midnight on the 20th November, when un-
mistakeable sins of dysentery made their appearance.
On the day following the general, however, felt so far better
as to be removed to the I)ilkoosha, where the change of
air seemed to have produced some further improvement.
Early on the morning of the 22nd, unhappily, a change
for the worse set in, and symptoms of malignant deacrip-
tion appeared in rapid succession. It is some consolation
to know that the attack throughout continued free from
bodily suffering. In full possession of his faculties, about
nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th November, the
good, the illustrious Havelock closed, in his sixty-third
year, his career, at the very goal which, once attained, was
destined to become his mausoleum, by the side of a Law-
rence, and of so many others of the beat and bravest of our
countrymen.
The death of Colonel Campbell, of the 90th, is
confirmed. The colonel was an officer of high dis-
tinction. He rendered gallant and valuable services
in the Kaffir war, where he was in the 73rd Regi-
ment ; on several occasions in the Crimea his ser-
vices were prominent, especially at the capture of
the Quarries on the 7th of June ; and more recently
his promptitude was strongly manifested in the
manner in which he disarmed two native regiments
on his way up from Calcutta. Colonel Campbell
entered the army in 1837.
From Central India we learn that the whole
country south of Cawnpore—u it may also be said to
the northern boundary of the Nagpore province and
west, as far as the eastern limits of the Bombay Presi-
dency (observes the Phoenix), is in a disturbed and
disaffected state. The Princes of Gwalior, Indore,
and some few others, have remained, as far as we
can learn, faithful to British interests, but a good
many small rajahs to the south have almost declared
war against ns, while some few have unmistakeably
done so. The country about Sangor, Jubbulpore,
and generally in the vicinity of those places, is in-
fested with Bundeelas, and bandits of every possible
description."
Nagpore still continues quiet ; there is, however, a
pretty strong force of Madras troops in the province,
which cannot safely be spared out of it
Madras and Bombay are both tolerably quiet; and
from the Punjaub there is no intelligence.
Some curious details are related by the different
correspondents. One writing from Calcutta re-
marks :

At this present time the disarmed sepoys at Barrackpore
and Alipore look an officer full in the face and then spit
on the ground as they pass him (a native mode of testify-
ing the utmost contempt), and no notice is taken of it.
Some of these very men have lately been deprived of even
their ramrods because they were found sharpening the
ends, and thus turning them into excellent pikes, but no
punishment has been inflicted. During the Mohurrnm
last August in Calcutta the European and Christian por-
tion of the community were insulted by a warning that any
interference with a nati►e procession involved a penalty of
six months' imprisonment with hard labour, while the
European police marched at the head of the Mahomedan
processions, and English gentlemen were turned back, and
not allowed to proceed along those streets which the
Moslem chose to occupy. The traditionary policy of in
all things giving natives the uppet hand is exemplified
in the fact that our men at Barrackpore are at this
moment on half batta, while the disarmed sepoys at the
same station are on full batta!
Another gives an anecdote of Colonel Wheeler's
affair with the mutinous sepoys of the 34th :

I must not omit to tell you that the case of Colonel
Wheeler ha■ been considerably misrepresented. The
guard refused to arrest Mungul Pandy at his orders.
They had previously shown themselves to be in open
mutiny by striking the adjutant and sergeant, one of them
having fired at Lieutenant Baugh; and Colonel Wheeler
thought it advisable to report this to the brigadier. When
General Hearsay came, with a good many other officers, on
foot and horseback, the jemadar of the guard replied to his

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order, but not in his hearing, " Kri Purive—that "
What matter?' and on the general's approach Idugn
Pandy sat down and shot himself, and thus cut the
Gordian knot of the difficulty. Colonel Wheeler had been
only three months with the 34th Regiment, and therefore
is clearly not chargeable with its mutinous condition. His
old regiment, to which he constantly preached, is the one
that has behaved so well at Saugor, so his cue rather tells
in favour of " missionary colonels."

The last news from Madras tells of an act of
insanity, inexcusable in any military man—namely
that the mutinous troopers of the Bth Cavalry have
been distributed among the seven other cavalry
regiments of the Madras army, thus stopping pro.
motion, and both causing and spreading discontent.
" Supposing these regiments to be loyal, this is truly
doing the devil's work, and sowing tares among the
wheat. Perhaps the authorities look upon mutiny as
a necessary disease, less fatal when communicated
by inoculation ! It was by a similar stroke of policy
that Lord Dalhousie introduced dissatisfaction into
the Nizam's famous cavalry, disbanding the sth
Regiment just after it had done excellent service in
the field, confiscating all death vacancies, to the
ruin of many a widow and child, and sending the
survivors to stop promotion, and spread heartburning
throughout the whole branch of the service.
Brigadier Johnstone, at Jullundur, was smitten with
the same mania, and endeavoured to induca the
commanding officer of one of the loyal Sikh regi-
ments to receive 200 mutinous rascals among his
men. He utterly declined, and the next day had to
fight these very men and their comrades in the
proportion of three to one. Lord Harris is not
answerable for this most p'rnicious absurdity, for
though a governor he will take advice ; but what are
we to think of his military advisers'"

SIR COLIN CAMPBELL'S GUIDE TO
LUCKNOW.

An interesting account is given in the Indian
papers of the adventures of one of our man attached
to f,Outram's division, and who, when Sir Colin
Campbell was advancing to Lucknow, undertook to
carry despatches to Sir Colin, went out of the
Residency, passed through the rebels' lines, and
reached Sir Colin at Alumbagh. The man's name
is James Kavanagh, but it does not appear to what
regiment he belonged. Having disguised himself in
native dress, and coloured his face and bands with
lamp black, he started, on the evening of the 9th
November, in company with a native spy, one
Kunoujee Lall. Having reached the right bank of
the Goomty, they undressed, forded the river, and
reached the enemy's outposts

My courage failed me while in the water, and if my
guide had been within reach I should perhaps have
pulled him back and abandoned the enterprise. But he
waded quickly through the stream, and reaching the oppo-
site bank, went crouching up a ditch for three hundred
yards, to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond, where
we stopped to dress. While we were here a man came
down to the pond to wash, and went away again without
observing us.
My confidence now returned to me, and with my tulwar
resting on my shoulder, we advanced into the huts in
front, where I accosted a matchlocktuan, who answered to
my remark that the night was cold, " It is very cold, in
fact, it is a cold night." I passed him, adding that it
would be colder by-and-by.
After going six or seven hundred yards further, we
reached the iron bridge over the Goomty, where we were
stopped and called over by a native officer who was seated
in an upper storied house, and seemed to be in command
of a cavalry picket, whose horses were near the place
saddled. My guide advanced to the light, and I stayed a
little back in the shade. After being told that we had
come from Mundeon (our old cantonment, and then in
the possession of the enemy), and that we were going
into the city to our homes, he let us proceed. Vie
continued on along the left bank of the river to the
stone bridge, which is about eight or nine hundred
yards from the iron bndge, passing unnoticed through
a number of sepoys and matchlockmen, some of whom
were escorting persons of rank in palankeena preceded by
torches.

Recrossing the Goomty by the stone bridge, we went
by a sentry unobserved, who was closely questioning a
dirtily dressed native, and into the chock, or principal
street of the city of Lucknow, which was not illuminated
as much as it used to be previous to the siege, nor was it
so crowded. I jostled against several armed men in the
street without being spoken to, and only met one guard of
seven sepoys, who were amusing themselves with some
women of pleasure.
When issuing from the city into the country we were
challenged by a chowkeedar, or watchman, wbo, without
stopping us, merely asked who we were. The part of the
city traversed that night by me seemed to have been dt-
serted by at least a third of its inhabitants.
T was in great spirits when we reached the green fields,
into which 1 had not been for five months. Everything
around us smelt sweet, and a carrot I took from the road-
side was the most delicious 1 bad ever tasted. I gave vent
to my feelings in a conversation with Kunoujee Lall, who
joined in my admiration of the province of Oude, and
lamentation that it was now in the hands of wretches whom
misgovernment and rapacity were ruining it.