The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

rH E PRESS, OCTOBER 24,1857.

peens, with their thrilling " Hurrah !" put the
cowardly cutthroats to flight, and they then marched
on to Arrah without opposition, and met Wake's
gallant little band on the road. One thing I must
not omit. The mutineers undermined the bungalow,
but Boyle dug a countermine and met them. After
the relief they found bags of gunpowder, and in the
mine, ready laid to blow them up.
The mutineers separated into two parties. The
7th and Bth Regiments, with 2,000 or 3,000 bud-
mashes, marched to Chundowlee, burning all Govern-
ment property they passed, and plundering every
village. They then heard that Europeans and guns
were after them, so they took the direction of Mirza-
pore, and are not far from that place, where the
Europeans are waiting for them. The other party
i.e., the 40th Native Infantry—and Koer Singh's
guns stayed at his place near to Arrah, where Wake
got Eyre and 500 Europeans to attack them. They
were driven out of that very sharp; many were
killed, and Jugduspore has ceased to be a habitation.
A mound of rubbish indicates where the rebels'
abode was. The party then taking a south-easterly
direction, have gone to Rhotasghur, on the banks of
the Sone, where there is an old fortress. He will
perhaps make a stand there, and be joined by the
Ramghur Infantry, who have mutinied, and are sup-
posed to have gone to Doorunda, Chota Nagpore,
to take the treasure thence, and with their ammuni-
tion join Koer Singh. It will be difficult to dislodge
them from the hills and jungle.
Jaunpore and Azimghur are at present unoccupied'
and Goruckpore has been deserted by every officer
except Bird, who refused to leave the district. The
others marched with the Ghoorkas (3,0001, who
have been lent by Jung Bahadoor. They were to
have gone to Allahabad, but their destination will
probably be Benares, Jaunpore, or Azimghur, as
Havelock positively refuses their company. A letter
received yesterday from Agra reports all right. They
had about 1,500 fighting men (800 Christian natives),
and the other natives, women and children, make up
about 5,000, yet they have provisions for more than
six months.

Havelock found it impossible to advance as far as
Lucknow ; consequently he returned to Cawnpnre to
await reinforcements. Some 1,000 men and Eyrt's
battery must he near Cawnpore now, but he will
scarcely be able to advance till he has a force of
'2,500 men, with four batteries. H 6 has no cavalry,
and the enemy has, so we cannot follow them up.
When our men charge and capture their guns, of
which they have plenty, they leave them, and scuttle
away, and their cavalry cover their retreat. They
rally a few miles off, and await the approach of our
troops. They swarm in numbers, and are not under
30.000 of all sorts.
During the advance of Havelock the Lucknow
garrison had time to look about them ; so they left
their old intrenchment and took up a better position,
at the same time getting in large supplies.
A wing of her Majesty's 53rd and a Madras native
infantry corps are on their way up the country,
marching.

We are amused to see the cool way they
',except Lord Ellenborongh, Mr. Disraeli, and
Sir E. Colebrooke) are treating the mutiny
at home. They say fourteen thousand men will
be as many as are required, and they are confident
that India will be quiet before they arrive. We shall
have received our quietus before the assistance
arrives, if they don't look sharp. At Chundowlee
the people are very loyally disposed. They long to
see us in power again. They are so annoyed at
being looted by the rebels the other day, they have
now sworn amongst themselves to cut to pieces any
band of rebels or mutineers that may pass thiA.

In connection with the defence at Arrah, of which
our correspondent gives so lively an account, we may
mention that the credit of the success of that defence
is given by Ur. Wake in his official report to " Mr.
B. V. Boyle's engineering skill and untiring exer-
tions." It is impossible to read the above account
without seeing the important bearing this defence
had upon the whole campaign. It delayed for seven
days the advance of Doer Singh at the head of 2,500
disciplined sepoys, and about the same number of
his own adherents, until the rebels were defeated and
the garrison was relieved by the gallant band from
Buxar, under Major Vincent Eyre. The Dublin
Evening Post, referring to the event, justly re-
marks :—" The army and civil servants of the
Government justly engross much the greater share
of the public honours, because they have much the
greater power and opportunity of rendering public
service ' • but when such public service has been
effected by a volunteer, we cannot but think,
especially in such a crisis as the present, that
the Govetnment of this country will but do their
duty in alvising the Queen to bestow upon Mr.
Richard Vipers Boyle some signet malt pf dis.
ttnotioli,"