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to fall to the rear. I was merely struck on the hip bone
with only one ball, therefore I ran on, not heeding it. Mr.
Crowe and Mr. Campbell thought 1 was ki/led until I
jumped up and ran after my comrades.
" We crossed the Ganges this morning in small boats,
being unable to do any more in the kingdom of Oude until
we ale reinforced."

" I assure you," writes an officer of the Ist Madras
Fusiliers, "we are all very well knocked up, march.
ing and fijhting all the day in a blazing hot sun.
Our regiment is very much reduced in numbers ;
indeed, killed and wounded we have lost very little
short of :200 since we left Madras. Poor Major
Renaud has died of his wounds."
Between Cawnpore and Calcutta communication,
after the mutiny at Dinapore, was at an end. At the
moment of the mail leaving it was partially reopened,
but there is no doubt that G.nieral Havelock's posi-
tion is really very perilous—his brigade reduced to a
handful men and thousands of rebels swarming
around him.

With regard to Lucknow, reliable intelligence has
been received that the fort could hold out until the
24th of August. Sir J. Outram, on the 10th, was
"about" to stmt up the Goomtee and Gogra to
endeavour to reach them by that route. It is just
possible that he may save them if favoured by
lortune.

Much reliance is assumed to be felt by some
writers in the friendly aid for Oude of the Ghoorkas
from Nepaul. The following is an extract from a
letter from the medical officer in charge of the
Ghoorka force marching towards Lucknow :
Gboorka Camp, liurowna, July 20.

Here we are, and I am well, and. that is about all I can

say.
We have had a terrible outbreak of cholera; many
hundreds of cases, and vast numbers of deaths. I have
had no help, almost no medicines, and no hospitals ; the
mei lie on the wet ground; they have almost no covering,
no proper food, and no attendance at all.
Tula is au out of the way place, thirty miles from
Goruckpore and sixteen from the river tiunduck, which
was an obstacle of four days to our march. The elephants
swam over, but the river was three and a half miles wide,
running a torrent, and we had only twenty-tire boats for
all the men and baggage,—t3,ooo men (3,000 soldiers and
:OHO camp followers), 430 carts, with 000 bullocks and
•-.);i0 horses.

I don't believe we are destined to see any active service.
I think they never will be mad enough to trust such a set
of ba-bariana in the field. They will do the work of 1e•
stroying villages and settling disturbed districts well
enough. They suffer much from the heat ; quite as much
as we do. They march with umbrellas, and often with
fans. They have no notion of keeping together, and are
the dirtiest set I ever saw in my life. They eat ra•
venously, and their food is uncooked, or nearly so. They
take no care or notice of their sick, 400 of whom we had
to leave on the other side of the river.

We are living (three of us) in tents, amid hordes of all
kinds of vagibonds; but externally at least all is quiet
about here, and the name of these Ghoorkas may possibly
do a good deal.
The whole interest of India centres in Cawnpore
and Delhi, but there are other spots which demand
our earnest attention. Neither Bombay nor Madras
are considered safe. The mutiny of the Bth
'tient of Madras Light Cavalry at Streepormutore
and their refusal to fight against the rebels
has caused the greatest excitement in Madras,
and a very painful and general feeling of inse.
curity. The Times correspondent says,—" The
force is thought to be most inadequate. The Mus-
sulman inhabitants of Triplicane are notoriously
disaffected ; so are those of Arcot and Vellore ; and
since the plague spot has touched Madras, it is
impossible to predict how far it may spread. Every
one is hoping, ratla r than believing, that this mutiny
is the beginning and the end of a rebellion in
Madra-."

At Bombay the most serious doubts are enter-
tained of the Presidency, the disturbed state of the
Southern Mahraita country, where it is reported the
Rajah of Akulkote has risen, and with 20,000 men at
his back is moving the heart of the country against
us. At Dhawar, Beejapore, Sahara, Belgaum, and
at Kolapore, many executions have taken place, and
the native regiments themselves have punished the
mutineers. " But the time is passed," writes a
correspondent, " when native troops can be trusted
to keep their brother sepoys in check, and nothing
will reduce our present volcanic position, with uncer-
tain troops in garrisons, disaffected people about,
and a mass of vagrant Arabs amid Rohillas plunder-
ing districts, except the arrival of Europeans whom
tie Court 01 Directors and the English Government
have so unaccountably delayed to send us. Serious
doubts may well be entertained as to the safety of
the Presidency. The Nizam's territory, lihanileish,
and the Deccan generally, may be up in arms before
three weeks expire. The M9hurrum, a great Ma-
homedan festival, takes place in that interval, and
it is in itself sufficient to create disturbance ; but I
bslieve our affairs are at such a pus that festivals
have little to do in one way or the other. A solid