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

INDIA.

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

The Wits arrived on Wednesday at Southampton
with the heavy portion of the Indian, China, and
Australian mails. her dates are—Alexandria, Sept.
23; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, Oct. 1.
She bas brought home about 150 passengers,
many of whom are refugees from India. The scene
presented by their friends meeting these passengers
was one of overwhelming excitement. Many burst
into a flood of tears, and were deprived almost of the

power of utterance.
The Lady Mayoress of London, the Mayor of
Southampton, Mr. Alderman Andrews, and a number
of ladies and gentlemen, went on board the Indus to
receive the refugees. Many of the fugitives were

from Cawnpore, Allahabad, and other places in the
upper provinces of Bengal. Numbers also have fled
from Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta in alarm
About forty children have come home in the humus.
Amongst the passengers is Lieutenant Chapman,
who was shot by the mutineers at Bemires. A
bullet went right through his cheek and carried
away part of the roof of his mouth. His speech is
scarcely intelligible. He is quite a youth, not above
nineteen years of age.
Another of the passengers is Captain Montague,
with his wife; he belonged to the Irregulars, and
was in command of a company of Sikhs ; he is injured
in the shoulder and side. He belonged to General
Havelock's army, and fought on the march to Cawn-
pore. He lost his two children through want and
exposure while coming down the Ganges from Alla-
habad. He knew Nana Sahib, and was present at a
ball given Ir* him at Cawnpore about a month before
the mutiny broke out. It was the most magnificent
ball ever given at Cawnpore; all the English were
present, most of whom were afterwards mercilessly
slaiulitered by the scoundrel. Captain Mont ague
and his wife left Cawnpore before it was captured by
the mutineers.
The passengers say that almost the only man who
escaped the massacre of Cawnpore has gone raving
mad. This is an officer, a Mr. Brown, who after he
got away, suffered great hardships, and lay hidden in
a nnllah, without food, during three days and nights.
A Miss Goldie, a very beautiful young lady, and
daughter of Colonel Goldie, was taken by Nana
Sahib to his harem, and is believed to be alive now.
When the passengers in the Indus left Calcutta
only three thousand troops had arrived there since the
outbreak. Unless Capt. Peel makes his way up the river
very quickly, and before the rains cease, it is scarcely
believed that he will get his guns up to Delhi; but
if he cannot carry his guns beyond Allahabad he
will, it is expected, push on for Delhi without them.
Should the water carriage fail, it would be extremely
difficult, on account of the badness of the roads, to
convey such heavy guns (one of them an 8-I.pounder)
to Delhi by land.
Lucknow, it is feared, will fall before assistance
can reach it.
Between Cawnpore and Luckuow there were
about thirty-five thousand mutineers, and it is con-
sidered doubtful whether Sir J. Outratn will be
successful in passing up the Gogra; the river is
lined with forts, well manned with mutineers.
Outram's advance, however, up the Gogra will, it is
hoped, draw off the mutineers from Havelock, and
enable him probably to escape from the dilemma in
which he is placed.
Nana Sahib has resolved not to fall alive into the
hands of the English. He has a body-guard, who
are engaged to deprive him of life, should he be
likely to be taken prisoner by the English.
No fear is entertained but that the Sikhs will prove
true to the English in fighting against both Maho-
medans and Hindoos ; but the feeling generally in
India is, that unless English troops arrive out soon,
the Sikhs may, atter they have put down the sepoys,
turn against us.
It is believed by msny persons at Calcutta that as
soon as the English troops arrive out in India the
mutiny will suddenly cease. The sepoys will bury
the money and treasure they have obtained, and lay
down their arms. They are in the utmost terror of
the English soldiers.
There were many English at Calcutta when the
Indus left that port who had had perilous escapes
from the upper provinces, and who are expected to
arrive at Southampton by the next India mail
packet.

Letters continue daily to appear in the columns of
our contemporaries. The general tone is that the