The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

dered you as the nose of the army; but you gave up your
arms without fighting. However, it is not too late to
retrieve your characters. It is true you have no arms ;
but hasten up, and Rain will give you arms. You will,
each sepoy, get twelve rupees per month and two hundred
bighas of land. The King of Delhi has ordained that no
more cows shall be killed in the land. Should any one
intercept this messenger, curses will bo upon his head;
if a Mahomedan he will eat pig, if a Hindoo he will eat
cow. The King of Delhi sends salaams, and says the
enemy outside the walla number 10,000; after we have
conquered them, we will come to Calcutta to try if the
Feriughees can fight.
The messenger was seized by an officer of the 70th
Native Infantry, and hanged forthwith.
The rest of the intelligence from India we regret
to say is far from satisfactory. The Calcutta Eng-
lish»utn of September 24 says :—" Although so
little has been effected, although almost every day
brings accounts of fresh insurrection, the fashion
among official men is to say that the mutiny is in a
state of collapse. We acknowledge we can see no
indications of it. Here and there the mutineers
quarrel among themselves, and our very latest report
from Cawnpore is, that two regiments have offered
to come over. But the whole of Behar is in a disor-
ganised state, and in no part of the upper provinces
can British authority be said to exist beyond the
reach of our guns. We therefore repeat that, how-
ever much these men may quarrel among themselves,
and however desultory their efforts may be for the
want of a recognised leader, yet their numbers are
so great, that it cannot be expected the country will
be tranquillised till the arrival of large reinforce-
ments."

These accounts of " fresh insurrections " refer
unhappily to a wide extent of country. To begin,
then, with Bengal. The Dinapore rebel, Koer Singh,
who by the last mail was reported to have been
utterly annihilated by Major Eyre, appears in the
field at the head of 4,000 men, traversing the country
with impunity. A letter from Jubbulpore, Sept. 18,
says : _ .

You will be sorry to learn that the arch-fiend Boer Singh,
at the head of the Dinapore mutineers and the Ratughur
battalion, is now in full march for this place. About a
fortnight ago we received the intimation that he had as
cended the Kutra Pass, and had entered the Rewah States,
the Rajah of which sent him word that if he attempted
to pass through his territories he must fight every inch
of the way. Not liking this, he descended the ghat
again, and we were in the hope that he had gone away
towards Oude. lt, however, now appears that he merely
went round the outer boundaries of the Rajah's territories,
returning via Banda and N igode, at which place he was
expected yesterday. Whether the tiOth Regiment will join
his band, which now numbers some 4,000, it is hard to
say; but I am afraid the sepoys will not be able to with-
stand such a temptation for loot, and if they do not, I do
not see how the officers of that regiment can possibly
escape with their lives, as Nagode is in a most isolated
position, and surrounded by petty chiefs, who will be but
too happy to murder them, even should they escape that
fate at the hands of their own men.

The 50th Regiment has mutinied ; the 52nd,
stationed between Saugor and Jubbulpore, followed
their example, and the whole body of the Rajah of
Rewah's troops have joined the rebels to a man.
" The effect of all this is very bad," writes the Times
correspondent; " it may cost us for a time the whole
of the Saugor territories north of the Nerbudda.
The Bundelas are up in renewed spirits. General
Millar attacked a body of them, and slew eighty
without the loss of a man. But another party de-
feated a sally from the fort of Saugor, killing Colonel
Dalzall, of the late 42nd, who headed it, and several
men. The Madras column abandons Dumoh and
concentrates itself for the protection of Jubbulpore.
If the 52nd join the Bundelas in strength, the
column may have to recross the Nerbudda. If Koer
Singh comes down it must; but I hope and think that
when tidings of the fall of Delhi have well filtered
through the country many a now formidable-looking
band of marauders will be dissipated even more
rapidly than it was formed."

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It is not easy to believe that the intelligence of
the fall of Delhi will so easily dissipate the rebels.
The writer from Jubbulpore, Sept. 18th, continues :
A plot was laid by the Gond Rajah, Rugnath Sha, and
others round this place, to burn the cantonments of Job-
bulpore, and to roast all the Europeans they could catch
alive. Fortunately it was discovered, and Captain Clerk,
our energetic deputy-commissioner, went with a few
sowars and took the man and his accomplices unawares,
before they could carry their plans into execution ; and
this morning, after a fair trial, the Rajah and his son were
both blown away from a gun, in front of the Residency-
house. A few nights ago some of the bad characters of
the regiment stationed here armed themselves at night
with their muskets, with the intention of breaking into
the gaol and releasing the Rajah and his followers. Inti•
minion to this effect being given to the civil authorities,
they sent down a small guard of the 33rd Regiment
Madras Native Infantry to the gaol in the middle of the
night, and brought the prisoners away to the Residency,
where they were kept under a strong guard till executed.
The sepoys, on learning that their plans had been baffled,
returned to their lines, with the exception of some eight