The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES,

Our rdvicee and correspondence have arrived from
India. The dates thus received are from Bombay to
the 19th ; Mesas, t 3, h ; and Calcutta, the 10th of .1 uly.
The most intere-ting and only important intelligence
by this mail is that received from Moulin, where
Lieut. Edwardes and Colonel Cortlaudt have been

bravely upholding the honour of the British arms.
Previous accounts had left these two officers, in com-

pany with the force of the Nawaub of Bhawulpore,
on the borders of the Chrnaub, where, after a battle

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which lasted nine hours, victory declared for them
against the troops of Moulton. Since then a second
battle has been fought, our troops being reinforced by
a body of men under Sheikh Emaum-ood-Deep,
and, according to last accounts, Moolraj, who
led in person, had been defeated, and fled with
the remnant of his troops into the city of Moulton.
The fullest particulars of the proceedings of the force
under Edwardee and Corilandt will be found in our

correspondent's letter, which we give below.
Present advices announce the demise of Colonci
Sutherland, political agent in Hajpootana one
amongst the most. distinguished of our Indian soldiers
and administrators.
There is nothing of interest from Affghanistan,
where the old Ameer, Lost Mahomed, seems to be
chiefly engaged in carrying on operations against Ma-
homed Shah Khan, the insurgent Ghilzie
In Calcutta there has been no event more note-
worthy than Mr. Charles Ilogg's withdrawal of his
resignation of the Bengal Bark secretaryship, and Lis
reinstatement in office, to the great discomfiture of a
whole corps of candidates for the succession.
Mr. John Cumin, formerly assay master of the
Calcutta Mint, and who had suffered some unrepaired
wrong at the hands of the government, died suddenly
of apoplexy. Efforts were being made to get up a
mutual life assurance company, partly with a view
to his benefit, and a public meeting bad been convened.
Notwithstanding his death, the meeting took place,
and resolutions were adopted for carrying out the
original design, in aid of a large family whom he has
left altogether unprovided for.
The rule nisi to set aside the judgment for a ecire
facia. agairst Mr. Willis and other shareholders of the
Union Bank has been discharged. Nothing else of
importance with respect to the affairs of the ruined
bank has transpired during the week. The aljourned
meeting had been unavoidably postponed to the 15th.
The following is the letter of our Bombay cor-
respondent :
BOMBAY, JULY 20.
As usual, during the monsoon, au express left Bom•
bay for Madras on the 3rd, with lAters for home by the
Calcutta steamer, which was to call at that port on her way
to Suez. This reached Madras while yet the steamer was :n
the roads getting up her steam, but, such was the
disobligingness, to call it by the milder term, of the post.
cffice authorities, that the stamp "too late " was clapped on
the parcel, and forthwith returned to Bunbsy—to the dis-
appointment of dozens who had been at the trouble and
expense of forwarding letters by the express myself
amongst the number.
On the day of the despatch of my last, a short extra from
the Delhi Gazette informed us that a battle bad taken place,
on the lsth June, on the river Chenaub, betwixt the forces
of Lieutenant Edwardes and the Dzwan Moolraj. For
long the most contradictory reports regarding the ac-
tion continued to be rccetved,—one writer attributing
our success to Edward., ano. her to Cortlandt, and a thi-d to
the timely arrival and gallantry of the Bhawsil Khar.'a
troops. It is unnecessary to repeat what occurred previous
to the 17'h, or. the night of which day Edwardes, with about
3,000 Pathan' (a tribe of Afighans), crossed the Chenaub at
the ford of Oungawalla, opposite to where his allies of
Bahaaulpore were encamped, threemiles from the bark, and
eight from the camp of the insurgents. There were only a
couple of score of boats in all, so that neither guns n, r heroes
seem to have accompanied his force. The crossing must hove
been perlonned in the quietest possible manner, as the
enemy would 11,4 seem to have been aware of it till the tiling
of the sun showed the formidable accession of numbers to the
Bahawulpure force which had taken place during the night.
The Moultanee leader now determined to retrieve his error,
before the remaind...r of the force on the opposite side of the
river shouli have time to cross to the assistance of their
brethren, and he accordingly opened the action at 7 arn. on
the 18th of June, by cannonading the Bahawulpure force,
which were on the right—Edwardes, with his men, b. ing on
the left —and, notwithstanding the fire was returued, our
allies were compelled to fall back. Edwardes was
without guns, and his division, chiefly raw lads, shortly be-
fore enlisted, who bad been trained for cavalry, though now
fighting on foot, maintained their ground manfully,
against vastly soperior numbers, the entire Meehan force
having fallen on them when the Bhawul Khan's troops fell
back. This was the critical part of the action. The insur-
gents, 8,000 in number, with ten guns, attacked Edward's
with his 3,000 raw levies, without guns. But now was seest
advancing from the river's bank two of Cortlandes regiments,
with• couple of guns, which were speedily followed by four
more. The tide of the battle was now quickly turned in our
favour ; thewsuns vomited forth terrible destruction on the
insurgents, en a general charge seems to have been made
by us, which caused the enemy, after a desperate hand-to-
hand conflict, to fly, leaving six of their guns in our hands.
They were pursued several miles, and all their camp equipage
and baggage tell into our hands. Thus ended the" Waterloo
of the Puejaub," as it has been called. Edwardes behaved
himself like an Englishman (remarking, in a letter
to a friend, that no Englishman could suffer him-
self to be beaten on the 18th of June) • but, though tft
fought lite a hero, had he not been reinforced by the brave
old warrior Cortlandt, be must have been l
overpowered by
the numbers and swept away by the artillery of his
opponents, the Bhavulpore
forcefo th
inghioe
loin apparently
looking on at a distance, afraid win the
battle. All honour to Cortlandt and Edwardes and their
brave bands, for between them they struck terror, int
leaeo theing
insurgents, who fled towards Mooltan pell-mell,
evethinz in the hands of the victors. Some of them 11.4
to the fort of Soojaabad, whither they were quickly followed.
The number of casualties in an Indian battle can never be
exaety made eut at the first, thousands were said to have
fallenl in all, but it turns nut that not more than 4000 a
all
sides have been killed. The combined army remained dur-
ing tbe 18th and 19th on the field of battle, when they ad-
minced towards Softjasbad. On the way they w. re met by
the governor, who delivered up the keys of the fort into our
hands. Aho'w 3,000 of the insurgents had taken refuge in
the fort who evacuated it on our approach, and retir on
the capital. Here the army remained till the 26th.ed
On
the 24th a messenger hadireached the camp from the Dewsa