The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-01 00:00:00

880.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 1848. [THREEPENCE.

Otheejlthese the /thee ot largo trees, ea-
manmis. AI Ms date head meters
weee—rotio mile ham the oast corner of the fore s.
IfiritMilesty's Ma, tibia arrived in camp with ninety
elth. In a week were, like the other troops, in the highest
bath and etbirils. The beaten* faros now stood pretty
mad/ as : Her Majesty's 10th and 32nd Regiments,
ell about 2,000 ; the Bth, 49th, 61st, 62nd, and 72nd N. 1.,
116200-6,700 in all , the 11th Light Cavalry, sad 7th
did 11th Irregular Horse. The artillery portion of the
Ewe etheieted of the siege dein of thirty-four guns, two
tow of hone, sad company of foot artillery, with sappers,
emilesithee,thil atoll engineer scops—the whole British portion
asemenlarajoinsmaig? 7,00
the :rimmi.of str
that uzgth of the fares
(ice. Whisk
theme to have Mood as follows: The troops of the Behave!
nth at 6000 to 7,000; those accompany* Cordon&
"aid B4war4sa, 4,000 to 6,000 probably 12,000 in all, with
empty gams, though sons elitilliSolll Wag them up to
MAO helms disjunction of Maar Uttar Meek with 6,000
sums. M gaga, and two mortals, email* of July. These
guessed Ia all therein, at probably not stagier
lass will thirty pas. Brides
thaw, Shen, Sloth,
the Herber leader, sent out in May from Lahore, bad 3,000
Viet under his esthunacd ; so that the total number, regular
lasi kragaisr, was tersely fall meek short of 32,000 men,
with Imo Nigellva pieces et ordnance, of one sort or
atotbor _Myatt. If we are imamate' of the streogth
stair awn army, we are wholly la the dark as to that of the
OftlftmLatest aceouthe reckon it at from 7,000 to 12,000,
Ida -two guns. *the morning of the 4th the siege
Web aaeerrllaid, consisting of thirty.four plthes of heavy oed-
emas',
_thesespashol by so escort of the 11th 'envier Horse
sini 40th 21.1. Oa the 6th a grand parade of all the troops
Mani. eat a royal salute was fired in honour of the
dearessation was now distributed about the
• that for the next twenty-four hours such of
aiesithired it would dal protrotioa 418=P;
turrlh.tGM swab! be sallorod to pass the pm. On the
~hag of the 6th September we had begun to throw shells
late the town. The troops were ordered to assemble at
three o'cioek ea the morning of the 7th. Some time
before daybreak the 72w! Native Infantry, three'
aim under Captain Andereen, and the greater part of the'
11th Irregular Horse, prtheeded to take possession of a
hamlet sad mooed where a gun had been placed, from which
ski enemy used to fire on our picquets. flo loonies daylight
allowed them the 72nd threw out its skirmishers, and the
ertWery got lath a position well sheltered from the guns
both of the fort and city. After some sharp firing, in which
the RAN played a conspicuous part, the enemy, at least
lye times as numerous as their assailants, were driven from
their position. They took shelter in a village right under
the guns of the city and fort ,• front this they were quickly
driven at the bayonet's point. The Dewan continued to play
his guns unceasingly from the walls ; the shots passed over
the heads of the parties for whom they were intended, and
earth rolling dowu towards the camp. The sappers and
miners continued inceseantly at work in the trenches, 800
Europeans taking the place overnight of a corresponding
number of sepoys kept at work throughout the day. On the
morning of the Bth the 62nd Native Infantry made an attack
upon another outpost: they fired a heavy volley into the vil-
lage, and then drove the enemy before them at the bayonet's
point; scarcely any injury was sustained by them.
Throughout the day it was held by three companies of the
62nd. On the following morning the 52nd was relieved
by the 49th and the post previously held by the three
of the tonnes was now occupied by a like num.
ber of the latter corps, amounting to 120, under a captain
end a subaltern. The enemy were in possesaion of a
LI?el
apoisit about 100
ropping i/hlardoiskiLfroontlifroiontiiVe d they m
irectd ist
the moment a man showed himself he we. sure to be hit.
It afterwards appeared that they had here strongly en.
trenched themselves, and as soon as night drew on, and the
European soldiers of the 10th began to excavate a new pa-
rallel, a furious and deadly fire was opened upon them.
This they hardiately returned, but with small effect, in

roption, had told the Ernie bee= et enpu'imitY
hi
reese in eadist the lambs leM trig:
fill--f.d!! either end mere
Mw meemminem The losaabetertem wee
Revere. •fiefififillbandleekdearly 230 ad tresmfied.
iodates Ave adhere and tweety-ose weimistL
The officers who fell were Lieut..Q.L R. T. R. Pat-1
time and Quartermaster 0. Taylor, H. M. 82nd foot;
Major 0. S. Montisambset, 10th foot; ESanka C. 0.
Lloyd, Bth N.I. ; and Lie t. T. Cubitt, 49th XL A
list of the wounded will be found in the annexed
summary of the siege operations.
Immediately ou the retirement of General Whisk
expanses were despatched in all directioes requiring
reinforeements, and the preparations whisk are an-
nounced from all parts of India seem as • seale
of magnitude calculated to meet any amtiapime7.
Troops were being poured into Sande by NI bin
Bombay, to occupy the line of the Miler lefitm•
and to march, should their services be required,
upon the Punjash. The Bombay faros whim united
would amount to about 10.000 asso. Sams of the
Madras regiments would occupy the Bombay
stations. At the lame time a 'nerd advance
was preparing from the iliotafrartier. From
the latter direction • well-appointed bon, srammt
Mg to about 20,000 men, wont march upon Moan%
Rader Gen. Gilbert. No troops could, it apple% be
spared from Lahore, but it wan considered the
regiments still left in Ferozepore wonid be quite
giant to keep open the line of communicative with tbi
mop of Ora. Whist; in other worde, tafrestriste any,
Bing hatersim bib MOE IIN %hie *NO-
circumstances, the position of the British fame is the
field, strongly entrenched, with a large 'park of ar-
tillery, and their flank on tie river, at nine 15
miles from Mooltan, may be regarded as secure under
any contingency.
The latest from General Whish's camp is from a
correspondent, writing on the 19th of September, as
follows:
Yesterday a royal salute was bred from the fort The
natives .ay it wu to welcome in some forms sent to Moolnj
by Chutter Singh. I have just heard, but know not how true
it way he, that the Idahommedan portion of Shere Singh's
Was has not gone over to Moolrej. They have in a body, it
Issaid, joined Courtlandt's force.
The Moolraj, by Shore Singh's defection, had aug-
mented his adherents to about 20,000 men, with the
probability of further accession of nearly as many
mere. Chutter Singh, the rebel leader in the HMI-
Ilk was marching with about 10,000 men to join
the Dewar, and, although Gholab Singh had not
mere positively than heretofore gone over to
the conspiracy, two of his regiments, with
stores and baggage, had left to join the Hszareh
Sikhs. At Wire several Sirdars of the Durbar bad
been found to be implicated, and the resident, on
receipt of the intelligence from Mooltan, had at once
secured under • guard the person of Dhuleep Singh,
as • hostage. He had also laid hands on the famous
Koh-i-noor diamond, as a measure of similar precau-
tion.
A letter from Lahore, Sept. 18, says : "The palace
gun has ceased to fire, and Dhuleep Singh is literally
a prisoner in the palace of the Moghuls. A European
there, and is relieved • twelve

guard
mounts , . every _... they houne..—
ZOTTin, and the guards on every part of the Summum consequence of the daimons of the thicket and the slither
Boorj are of company's Repays. The city seems, how- around. The officer commanding in the trenches at length
ever, quiet ; but the dusserah is at hand. annoying us. Some companies of the 72nd here joined in
attacked the garden and village from which the enemy were
Respecting the state of affairs in the Heaareh die- the fray, and at first the enemy were driven out of their
tricta, it would appear that Capt. Abbott and Lieut. cover. The post in the garden was a strong one. In
Nicholson, were still at Hassan Abdall. There had the village, one large house, fell of men, wan
been some fighting between the troops under Lieut loopholed ; and though the door was forced by Lieutenant
manownhilweerowasomothpeogored orof the
seek
semorthaaat
dthligurotorer a
Nicholson, and the rebels with Chutter Singh, but hich`rd". the troops failed t° effect an entrance. 8° bet
with no very decisive result on either aide ; and by
the last accounts the position of the British officers retire. The enemy premed on them until they hadl
fallen
gave hope that they would be able to hold their back on the entrenchments ; they then moved off
first hems
in line to
ground till the arrival of reinforcements, provided re-occupy the garden from which they„ had at
these were expeditiously despatched. In Peshawar driven. The fire was not, it Is
said, surpaseed in fury et
the Sikh troops had not, as yet, complied with the woundednrkadortob- ".2: marzrt. vhe-ter.A.,
invitations of Chutter Singh, to join him and his men, 28. Brigadier Markhate,;Lieutenanta Hollinsworth, masa.
and Maj. Lawrence was maid to be of opinion that they ardaou, and Irwin, were all wounded. The post wailed
would remain staunch. It was reported that Sultan war about 600 yards from our outworks • the math was
Thitottiatretr iitheoafttlat was strengthened by snail
Mahomed Khan, hitherto a firm ally, bad been de- boldly meth, but the place wits much too aeon, for 20.21•08. 1
and
tected corresponding with Sirdar Chatter Singh, ro-
raising that if the latter could only obtain poasession the 72ayel. All nightslonithe enemy continued tou'aPnairaile
of Attack and cross the river, he would jointim. At, cum, but lankily wi oat doing mush aisclikt. At
Noorpore and Puthan Rote, the spirit of rebellion daybreak en the 10th some guns were pot into petition, I
and • tremendous discharge cf round shot, grape, and
had likewise manifested itself. Troops were promptly
despatched to the disturbed districts; and Ram Singh, wan 'Wan" me tars° Mut.. • • • Is tra•
of
who was at the head of the Noorpore rabble, found course the forenoon a battery was got advanced to
within • very short distance of the pest, and a heavy fire
himself unable to cope with his assailants, and re- recommenced, but without better results than that which
treated into the territory of Maharajah Golaub Singh. had preceded. During the whole of the Ilth • virtual
The Delhi amen* extra, dated the 25th Sept., armistice was maintained on both aide*, but the insurgents
were now aware of the strength end importance of their
says that the party under Ram Singh was attacked position, andof the effects of night attacks epic us, and began
on the 19th, in the position he had taken up in the oestablish„gam in the garden. An order was
neighbourhood of Noorpore, by the troops in pursuit now issued by innettiteghish directing an attack to be
off him, and defeated with' considerable loss. Sub- made on them about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 12th.
joined are the details: . , . . The attacking force to consist of a troop of hens
We attacked the enemy on the morning of the 19th. Tbt artillery, a squadron of cavalry from each of the throe
Wasp moved out of camp at hours eorresponding with the regiments, twelve companies M European and two roffi-
esepothive distance a they had to go. There were four par. menu of native infantry—above 2,600 in all. About seven
Wes The Sikh Infutry, under Major Hodgson, and the in the moron/ they began I. prepare batteries near the
sompaniu of the 29th, under Lieutenant Johnson, attacked building from which they had on the 9th repulsed us; they
the hill on the west by two paths. The 71st, under Captain were attacked by ens European and two native regiments.
Rind, attacked the south side, and the hill men, under The Europeans, remembering bow their comrades had been
Lieutenant Wallace, attacked the north aide. The two latter toiled, and how guff had suffered, fought like furies. They
forces, meeting at the top, went along the ridge, and thus got found 400 men in a nen ow nuses. and shot or bayoneted
the enemy in front and rear. Ram Singh's pi.uuet most oh- every one of them. A mine had been blown up by
the advancingthem,
and hundreds of scorched and shattered bodies were foun
atinately defended their pints, Bring steadily at
troops, and while they were retirinft, stopped to re-load and piled over the ground. Sixty of those who had cut down
Ensign Lloyd, when parleying with them, were destroyed
fire again. The loos on the part of the enemy, which mu
her Majesty's 10th—only five of the party escaping. The
tared 250 or thereabouts, was between 50 aril, 60 killed and by
artillery destroyed 100 in one mac Col. Fattoun and
wounded. Our loos was as follows:—The 29th, 1 killed end
4 wounded ; the Sikh corps, none killed, but 4or 6 wounded. Quartermaster Tarter, of her Majesty's 32nd, Major Monti-
The Irregulars skirmished along the toot of the hill, and sambeet of her Majesty's 10th, Ensign Lloyd of the Bth
took 15 et sixteen prisoners, but unfortunately Ram Singh Native Infantry, Lieut. Cuhitt, 49th Native Infantry, are
escaped sad to have fellea. Wounded : Capt. Balfour, her Majesty's
The oelebrated fortress of Govindghur has been 32nd Foot, slightly ; Lieut. King, do., slightly; Lunt
taken possession of by the British. Swinburne, do., sliebtly ; Limit Birtwlstle, do. • Capt.
M'Oregor, her Majesty's 10th Foot, slightly ;. .
'Colonel
According to the news from Calcutta, the Governor- Franke, do., slightly ; Lieut. Herbert, do , do ;
general would leave about the 9th proximo, on his Major Napier, Engineers, do.; Lieut. Lake, do., do.. Lient.
way to the north-west. It had been rumoured that Burney, Hone Artillery, do. ; Capt. Christopher,
Indian Navy, Capt. Wroughton, Bth Native Infest-
Caktata was to behonoured by the birth of an try, slightly ; cut;L: Turnbull, do.,
heir to the earldom of Dalhousie, bat it seems thatdo. ; Eign Fred. Hen-
tidy, do. do. ; Lent. Vibart, 11th Light Cavalry, do.
the Mauna is to bo the wens of the expected majorainleral Which had i hone shot under Dim. A
event. Those managing the Union Bank af- troop of horse artillery, a squadron of the 11th cavalry, the
fair have declared a dividend of 25 per 7th and Ilth irregular he
five companies of her Majesty's
10th, with as many of her Mensty's 32nd, the Bth and 49th
cent to such creditors as signify their assent to
Native Literary, were the troops engaged. Col. Fromm
the but scheme of liquidation by assessment. The commended one co. luso of five companies of Europeans and
number of shareholders assessed is 433, out of about a native corps; Col. Pattoun another—the whole under
600, the rest being considered hopeless cases, and the Brigadier Haney. The suxem, though dearly purchased,
total amount is somewhat over 52 lace of rupees. was of much importance. It placed all the defensible
point. on this ode the city in our hands, and ensbled
Opinions will no doubt differ widely as to the way in
to the battering guns to be advanced within six hundred
which the principle of assemmenti according
yards of the wall—a pot tion they could not have at-
income, has been carried oat. The aseessors appear tamed by regularapproaches in less than a week. About
to have gone upon the ground that a mere life income two o'clock in the morning of the 13th a 'otiose attack was
ought not to be assessed so highly as an income made on Edwards*. camp, flyfo withetut effect. On
the 14th the British troops car huu ghurreo, Of
derived from property, nor a professional income so
outwork, having previously occupied a position close betide
From this new post the batteries were supposed likely to
highly as that denved from • stated and permanent
salary. be able to fire into the fort and town without impediments,
The Bombay nines has the following particulars of and everything now seemed drawing to an suspicious dom.
the siege of Mooltan : It was hoped that breaching might be begun almost at once,
The intelligence from Meehan given lit our last came end, wad • that we were within almost point blank Ma
down te the 24th of August At this time the columns from taus of the it was supposed that in thirty or forty
Lahore and Feroz9ore had joined close to the scene of fu- boon at the the snub might be commenced,—when
tun operations. The battering train was about ts proceed a 'tideless's& effunthery on doe part of intestine blighted
a all
from opposite Bahawnlpore. The insurgents continued in- OUT Prospects, and essuelled en he robe the liege convert
By the arrival of the overland mail front India, via ei nations, and were every now and then thebesieging
adgeatitgoasedi sedate tha
fewr eSeikke from OUT side, army into one of observation. It hen been re-
and to capture reatedly stated, that Sher. Singh, a Sheik officer and
Marseilles, we have dates from Calcutta to the 22nd considerable numbers of baggage easels and hullo fics. On noblest= of distinction, was despatched early in May, by
Sept. Madras the 25th Sept-, and from Bombay to the the 29th the whole force moved forward a few hundred the Durber, with a force of 3,000 men, with a view it was
3rd Oct The news from theyunjaub is of • moat yards nearer the fort, and encamped in a line, meanwhile said, of keeping the Mooksj in shack. We knew little of
unsatisfactory. kind, especially from Mooltan, the the party engaged in cutting off the upplin of the wa
VW his peontedings until we bnd him in company with Col
e Cortlandt and Lieut Edward's bef Mooltan. It dose
British forces in front of that fortress having suffered troueorses frozotabfe Chltnaolle, w. epreraleatZery
tvrfraarerad
is
lot
appear
that he took any active share in military opera
a check, in consequence of the defection of some auxi- the river and hy a thousand Seikhs under Mallets Singh, bone, and his fidelity was said to be held more than quea
Hal, Sikh troops- Just as the operations of General who wee; defended by heavy guns and entrenchments. The thimble. About seven o'clock on the morning of the 14tb,
Whish's brigade had commented in the most brilliant river rapidly rose, and twice were buds of wood, stone., Tiller=
stoubwiradbrought to Lir etnot.ttlwerdee thiii:le Raja
mane
Shore Singh, with a force of nearly 5,000 and mud they bed
btrown up hoz? through , t
complete., th
him above 6,000 Stith:, withov: twelve enemy,
yilnd howitzers,
men under his command, went over to the Deccan, evi- Trerrse wooracilmiremsupla,„d•dintd,,ervetlyetchnZgewtsr ran ngh, and eighty of the lighter pieces called samba:rucks. Ther
dently _ upon a pre-arranged plot—an event which with a powerful detachment of Seikhe. Oa the Ist Septena movement appeased to have taken both parties equally by
compelled General Whisk
instantly to change his her the general and staff, with a body of engineer officer., surprise ; latterly we bad in some measure ceased to suspect,—
tactics, raise the siege, and make a retrograde move- cnoitered the fort, end Lieut. Edward's, with L . ieut and so dubious was the Bowan of the trustworthiness of his
ment, in order to unite his forces in to entrenched Lake, Col. Cortludt, and Entam-ood-deen, with nearly the new allies, that be for a time aseigued them quarters beyond
whole of the original attacking force, were sent round to the walls, but under the battenes of the town. With 20
' camp at some fifteen miles from the citadel, and there
a
riteopposite side to make a feigned attack, end distract the formidable a defection from our strength—so large an w-
to await in a more favourable position the jape- ,
attention of the enemy. They proceeded to take possession union to thet of the enemy—it became at once obvious that
lion of reinforcements from Feroxepore and Setae. of a garden, where wee a Moque% of the enemy which it would be imprudent to continue the siege until reinforce-
bensued 'Rents arrived General Whlth, therefore, had his call
This, however, was not effected without some loss, on them. Some sharp skirmishing appears to ave r .
to .a
safe
dia. . P
Spero Singh's desertion took place on the 14th hen the Mooltaneet were driven luck at all points, and ."1 TOM* from their batteries, while
Sept.,9 obliged to peek shelter in a ravine close to the town. The tne gone and all the working parties were celled in.
and the next day the guns were withdrawn from the and our force wee transformed into an army of observer
Dud were at one time hardly pressed, but, being re-
trenches, and the British troops retired to an encamp- in/mod, rapidly recovered their ground The artillery Wont occupying a fortified camp. our rear sou armored,
ment six miles from the town. The retreat was con- force for a short time occupied the position they had forced, but not muck damaged by the enemy. We had been bat
tinned on the 17th, when General Willi& withdrew sport time in our new don when it blame evident
when, as evening drew on, the object of their minion having a apew ,
,ted, The ttat we should find ourselves much MOTO agreeably
his army 15 miles in the direction of Bahawnlpore, hma ww.P,l,"oeftdi, they returned t° catomptille temple where situated a considerable way further from the town • we 220
leaving, according to some accounts, a quantity of the "r°ll
..r. norioe: fad Fn Anderson a y
were murdered, shoat nordingly once more decamped, and on the 17th tools
,:ap a
ammunition and material collected for the siege, ;Kw yards from tbrraLp:o go „„ „ they went per
wool eighteen miles from Mooltan, in the direction of mim- I
Particulars of this movement bays not fifteen
together with a month's supply of provisions, in the oeived a number of guns were be to bear on them.• h
hands of the enemy. The success of the British arms, Major Napier ascended the minaret, sad had a fine view the .
no farther than this—that the material prepared kr
lace wss al ane quantity of ammunition and amonth's su,
up to the morning of the 14th, had been most tom- of at the works. Itanwasti:ir apparent thethatd?
he
fort
of bisouits, had fallen into the hands of the enemy. AnimU-
pkte. Oar troops, in the siege operations, stormed m
about alai?! the city two miles, ha circumference. The Tendons cm the arrangements of General Whisk are very
the outworks of Mooltan, forestalling the necessity of fernier surrounded by a ditch twenty feet wide at bottom, sewers. The moment the tidings of this unfortunate affair
regular approach", and every wrocoutcci without ea- sad the &teams regularly cannactsd. The approaches reached headviarten, reparation began lo be Bade 10 re-