The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

INDIA.

DIFFICULTIES AT LUCKNOW.

the following telegrams are the latest received
from Marseilles, at which port the Calcutta mail
arrived yesterday morning :

CALCUTTA, Oct. 8.

General Outram telegraphs, on the 2nd instant, that
the insurgents are too strong to admit of withdrawal
from I,ucknow. Sick and wounded, women and children,
number inure than 1,000.
After making disposition for safety of garrisor., General
Outram proposes to retire on Ca wnpore. He adds, that
two additional brigades with powerful field artillery will
be required to withdraw with the garrison or reduce the
city. Communication between Cawnpore and Lucknow
still interrupted.
Latest news from Gwalior to 20th September.
Scindia had brought the mutineers of the Gwalior
Contingent under his control, by arraying against them his
own troops and 10,000 thakoors, cutting off their sup-
plies.Sc
Division and dissension among the mutineers, who
were asked for aid by a Shahzadah from Delhi on the
one hand, and an emissary from the Nana on the other.
The mutineers of the Ramgurh battalion were defeated
at a place called Chuttrah, on the 2nd instant, by a de-
tachment of the 33rd Queen's, under Major English,
with loss of guns, forty-five carts of ammunition, itc.;
some forty-five of our men killed and wounded.
H. Joinvsox.
Alexandria, Nov. 7, 1857. RAVEN.
Upon this subject the third edition of the Morning
Post contains another despatch :

MARSEILLES, Friday Morning.
The Valetta has arrived. The mails leave for London
at ten o'clock.

The passengers report General Havelock's position to
be very critical. He is surrounded by a hostile population,
is in want of provisions, and is encumbered with women
and children.

The Bombay Presidency is said to be in a state of great
agitation, and if Delhi had not fallen there is every reason
to fear we should have had to deplore fresh mutinies in
the Bombay army.

The following athliticnal items are from the Daily
News :

Cawnpore on the 2nd of October was quiet.
The English troops are advancing rapidly.
Delhi has been quiet since the occupation—namely,
from the 21st to the 27th of September. In the assault
ou the 14th, 64 officers and 1,178 men, one•third of the
storming force, were killed and wounded.
A column of 2,000 men, despatched on the 23rd down
the west bank of the Junina, towards Allygbur, to cross
over to Agra. drove the enemy before them.
Up to the 27th all was well. Captain Rosser, who had
been reported dead, was recovering.
By the Vigilance, it is stated that on the night of the
21st of September the Queen's health had been drunk by
the conquerors in the palace at Delhi, the cheers being
taken up by the Ghoorkas.
Lieut.• Colonel Burn was Governor of Delhi.
Besides General Neil, Major Cowper of the Artillery,
Capt. Pakenbam, and Lieut. Webster Bateman, were killed
at Lucknow.
All the city people found in Delhi were bayoneted by
our troops. Europeans were discovered there fighting on
the side of the rebels.

The following Bombay telegram was received,
through the Admiralty, at the Foreign-office, on
the 11th of November, at 8 45 a.m. :
The Puttinger arrived at Suez on the 2nd inst.,: having
left Bombay on the 18th ultimo.
Delhi, which fell into our hands on the 20th September,
was entirely reoccupied on the 21st, and the whole of the
enemy expelled. In the assault on the 14th 81 officers
and 1,178 men, being one-third of the storming force,
were killed and wounded. _ _

General Nicholson had died of his wounds on the 21st.
The old King, said to be ninety years of age, surren-
dered to Captain Hudson and his cavalry, about fifteen
miles south of Delhi. He was accompanied by his chief
wife. Their lives were spared. Two of his sons and a
grandson, also captured by Captain Hodson about five
miles from Delhi, were shot on the spot, and their bodies
brought to the city and exposed at the police•offfce.
Two moveable columns were despatched from Delhi on
the 2:ird, in pursuit of the enemy.
By accounts from Agra, one column appears to have
reached the neighbourhood of Allygbur, and the other that
of Muttra, on the 28th of September.
General Havelock, with 2,500 men, crossed the Ganges
from Cawnpore on the 10th of September, and relieved
Lucknow Residency on the 25th, just as it was mined and
ready to be blown up by its besiegers.
On the 20th the enemy's intrenchments were stormed ;
and on the 29th a large part of the city was taken. 450
killed and wounded. General Neill killed.
There has been a slight rising of the rebels near Nes.
sick, in the Bombay Presidency, in the suppression of
which Lieutenant Henry, of the Ahmederagger Police,
was killed.
Madras troops defeated the mutineers of the b2nd near
Kamptee, and killed 150.

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A native of Ricer (?) and a sepoy, having been convicted
of treason, were blown away from the guns at Bom

the 15th of October.
Predatory tribes in the Punjaub, between Moultan and
Lahore, have given some trouble lately, but the disturbance
appears to have been suppressed.
The Emelt arrived at Suez from Australia on the 3rd
instant. having been on shore near Aden.
The Hindustan arrived at Suez from Calcutta this morn-
ing, with Calcutta dates of 9th of October, Madras 11th
of October, Galle 18th of October. News via Bombay
confirmed. This inttlligence received from Acting-Consul-
General Green at Alexandria, No►ember 5, 1857, for the
Earl of Clarendon,

Consul CRAIG.
LYONS, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
Cagliari, Nov. 10, 10 30 soir.
The following was received shortly afterwards, on
the same day, at the India Board:—