The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

INDIA.

DEATH OF GENERAL HAVELOCK.

The following important despatch has been re-
ceived this week from Malta. It is said to contain
the political intelligence by the Nubia, which reached
Suez, Jan. 1, 1858 :

FROM HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CICE•CONSUL, SUEZ, TO
ACTING-CONSUL-GENERAL GREEN, ALEXANDRIA.
(To Sir J. Melville.)
General Havelock died on the 25th of November from
dysentery, brought on by exposure and anxiety.
On the 27th of November an affair took place near Cawn-
pore between General Windham and his division and the
Gwalior mutineers, in which the British troops retreated,
with the total loss of the tents of the 134th, 82nd, and 88th
Regiments, 3,000 in number, which were burnt by the
enemy. The Otth Regiment is reported nearly cut up.
A message received by the Governor-General from Sir
Colin Campbell, of the 7th of December, contains an
account of an action fought by him with the Gwalior Con-
tingent, near Cawnpore, in which the latter were totally de-
feated, with the loss of sixteen guns, twenty-six carriages of
different sorts, an immense quantity of ammunition, stores,
grain, bullocks, and the whole of the baggage of the fo^ce.
The British loss was insignificant, one officer only being
killed—Lieutenant Salmon.
Al the women and children, sick, &c., from Lucknow
have arrived in safety at Allahabad.
The Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary contains an inte-
resting detailed account of the defence of Lucknow, being
the official report of Brigadier Inglis. The privations
endured by the heroic garrison, and particularly by the
ladies, were fearful.
Colonel Rooke, 19th Regiment, died at Calcutta from
cholera on the 30th November, and Captain Day, of the
litth. is reported killed at Cawnpore.
The following regiments have arrived at Calcutta :
The Bth Regiment, 87th, 79th Highlanders, 7th Hussars,
2nd Dragoon Guarda, 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade, and a
detachment of Artillery.
Vary little news from China. The Adelaide, with the
last detachment of 500 Marines on board, passed on from
Siuigspore on the 2nd of December, and an attack on
Canton was expected to take place on their arrival.
This telegram arrived at Malta by her Majesty's steam-
vessel Caradoc at noon on the Oth of January.

A despatch, word for word similar to the above,
was also given oat by the Government as having
been received at the Foreign office.

The letters and papers by the mail may be
expected to arrive in town on Monday or Tues-
day. The Carodoe, which reached Malta on
Wednesday at noon, only conveyed the telegram
forwarded from Suez to Alexandria on the Ist
in.dant. The boat conveying the mails would leave
Alexandria some time on the 3rd, arriving at Malta
on Thursday, and at Marseilles on Sunday or
Monday.

Tar. Gazette of Tuesday publishes several despatches
item India, some of which contain the last tel -
graphic announcements from Cawnpore and Luck-
now which the Calcutta officials received previous to
the departure of the last mail. The statements they
contain have already been published, but Ri the
latest telegram then received from Sir Colin Camp-
bell is of some importance, as indicating his inten-
tion to evacuate Lncknow at that date, we giro it
verbatim . _ _

TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE.
VIE COMMANDER IN-CHIEF TO THE GOTER\OR•
GENERAL AT CALCUTTA.

Camp, Lucknow, 20th November, 6 p.m.
The garrison of Lucknuw has been removed, and 1 am
nuw engaged in conveying the womei and wounded to the
rear. I propose to more the whole force to an open position
outside the Sown, without further loss of life.

The despatches, which are from Captain Peel,
Captain Boileau, and Captain Banister, relate details
of the three separate engagements with the rebels
and mutinoussepoys at Kudjwa Mundree, and Jeerun.
The despa►ches are important, because they serve to
show not only the nature of the enemy with whom
we have to deal, but the disposition of our allies upon
whom we have to rely. Captain Peel, in his account
of the battle fought at Kudjwa by a small force
en route from Allahabad to Cawnpore on the 2nd
November, states that the enemy numbered in all
4,000 men, of whom " only 2,000 " were sepoys. Our
force mustered about 700 men, including 103 of the
Naval Brigade. After detailing our advance, the men
marching seventy-two miles in three days, Captain
Peel states that the enemy were posted in front of
the village of Kudjwa, and their position defended by
three guns
A round shot, coining down the road, opened the battle
at about 2.20 p.m., and the column was ordered to edge to
the right, and advance on the guns through the cornfields