The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-13 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY ZVICNING, JANUARY 13, 1858,

INDIA.

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to them at 'my step. By Advancing the other regi-
ments to support the 64th, the victory would have
been unwed ; but they were left alone, and the enemy
closing on them with their left wing, they suffered
very severely; they were compelled to abandon the
guns they bad gained. The want of a general was
everywhere conspicuous; confusion reigned on all
sides; no distinct orders were issued, and our
troops had to best a hasty, it may be called a
disgraceful, retreat into the entrenchments, leav-
ing standing camp, stored, camp equipage, and
the entire station of Cawnpore to the west of
the canal in the hands of the enemy. Our loss was
proportionately heavy, and several of our men, and
even same officers, fell alive into the hands of thel
enemy. It is stated in private letters that one of
these was forthwith hanged, a second beaten to
death with shoes, and a third tied to a cart wheel,
which in a few successive revolutions crushed him to
death. Our camp and stores they burned, and that
same evening advancing close to oar entrenchment
they took possession of and burned the whole of the
oold-weather clothing for our men, which had been
stored op at Cawnpore. On the following
day the rebels attacked the entrenchment,
commencing with a very heavy cannonade from the
right and left of their line. Windham attempted a
seats, in which, after some hard fighting, the rifles
. to capture two guns, but our right were
Yea back with much loss. It was the sand of
the firing on this day which reached the ears of Sir
Colin 'Campbell: a messenger at the same time
arrived with accounts of the critical state of Wind-
ham's party. Had the rebels at this time cut the
bridge of boats, which affords the only means of
communication with Oude, Sir Cohn would have
found it a difficult matter to arms the Ganges, but
the rebels not expecting his return, and making
sure of Windham's force, were probably anxious to
avail themselves of the bridge of boats to crush Sir
Cohn Campbell. At all events they let it remain,
and by so doing were lost. The movements of the
favourite lieutenant of Sir Charles Napier were too
prompt for them. With his artillery and cavalry,
he marched thirty-eight miles in fifteen hours,
mused the Ganges by the bridge of boats on the
night of the 28th, on the next day fell upon the
rebels, drove them back, in a way which made the
troops feel that they once more had a general
at their head, into the town, and then returned
to escort the ladies and wounded across the
river. Although banned in this operation by the
rebel', who poared in a desultory fire from the town,
and threatened on the left bank by the Oude insurgents,
he in the space of two days successfully effected this
very delicate operation. He did not at once attack
the enemy. Commanding from the entrenchment,
the head of the road to Allthabed, he made Arrange-
ments for a safe escort for the ladies, sick, and
wounded, as far as that station, remaining meanwhile
on the defensive. On the morning of the 6th, the
last wounded man having left the entrenchment, he
turned his attention to the rebels, and at 11 o'clock
moved out to attack them.

No details of the action have yet been received in
Calcutta, but it is known that the enemy were totally
and oompletely defeated. They lost immense quan-
tities of stores, grain, bullocks, and baggage, sixteen
guns, and their camp. They were pursued that day
for fourteen miles along the road to Ka'pee, in a
south-westerly direction. The Chief then returned
to Cawnpore, leaving Brigadier Hope Grant to follow
up his smear. This officer continued to follow them
up; but the rebels, making a sudden detour, left the
lEalpee-road, and endeavoured to cross the Ganges
into Ands. They reached Joorag-ghit, 22 miles in
the direct road from Cawnpore, but much longer
by the route they had taken. Here they procured
boats, and were about to cross over their yet remain.
ing guns; when our pursuing force appeared upon
their "ear It wee nrielkai•M O,aei Me at once
attacked them wilt great spirit, and after half an
hour's cannonading took 15 guns, large quantities of
ammunition and stores, without losing a single man
himself. The Brigadier alone was slightly wounded.
This is the latest intelligence. The details we receive
are bat scanty. Sir Colin is himself a determined
enemy to newspaper correspondents, and even
private letters abounding with news, of which
previous advice has been sent, frequently
miscarr
news from the Bewares district is scarcely so
favourable as that from Cawnpore. It will be re-
membered that our frontier posts immediately in ad-
vance of Juanpore and Azimghur were held by
Goorkhas lent to us by Jung Behadoor. Inter-
mediate between this and Singramow was a portion
of the 10th Foot, under the command of Colonel
Lowden, ready to co-operate with either body of
Goorkhas. We left them last having captured the
Fort of Atrowlia ; but this advantage had scarcely
been gained before the rebel chiefs, by circulating
lying re of the state of our affairs at Delhi,
to ranee the whole country against
us. ey distributed throughout the districts
the information that we had pare 'on of Delhi for
three days, but that the Europeans having com-
menced to slaughter bullocks in the Hindoo tem-
ples and pigs in the Mohammedan mosques, the
entire population rose, and, being joined by the Put-
tiala and Sikh troops, drove them out again. The
effect of these stories was tremendous. The talook-
dars, or large landholders, who had, after the cap-
ture of Atrowlia, voted for retiring to their own
forts, became at once unanimous for an advance :
they crowded in numbers to the rebel camp, and the
Nazim, who but a week before had seen safety only
in flight, found himself by these arts at the head of
15,000 well-armed and well-disciplined troops,
and • park of artillery. To meet these, Colonel
Linden had not three thousand men in his combined
detachments. To keep them detached, at a distance
of forty miles from one another, would, he felt, be
madness, he therefore retired the Azimghur Goor-
khm on to Juanpore, to which place he marched
himself. Juanpore is forty miles in advance of
Bewares, and presents the only obstacle to the
advance of the Goorkhas on that important
city. Intelligence of the danger in which
Colonel Longden's force was placed had
reached Calcutta before the account of Wind-
ham's disaster. Colonel Franks, lately commanding)
the 10th Foot, was immediately sent off to Bemires,
armed with power to atop any of the reinforcements
proceeding towards Cawnpore. But he had only
sent 200 men to reinforce Longden when the account
of the defeat of the 27th November reached Calcutta.
Orders were instantly transmitted to push on
every available man to Cawnpore, as being the point
most in danger; bat Sir Colin 's arrival saved as from
the impending catastrophe, and the Jump= column
has winos been further reinforced.
In Central India there seems to be a fair chance
of the rebellion being speedily crushed oat. Colonel
Durand, one of Lord Bilenborough's selections, has
effectually beaten the enemy in the neighbourhood
of Numdisore, and reports that they are now shat
up within the walls of that town. The detsils of
these events will probably go home vie Bombay.
Amid all the vicissitudes of warfare there is one
fact which has afforded all unmixed happiness. The
ladies, who for eighty-five days shut up within
the residency at Lucknow, and were exposed to
horrors far exceeding those of ordinary war-
fare, and endured all with heroic fortitude, have at
last arrived at Allskabad. There, humanly speak-
ing, they are safe.

(PROM OUR OFICIAL

BOMBAY, Du. 17.

In the Bombay Presidency the movements of our
columns have given rive to no new incident Bri-
gadier Stuart's column, which was left at Ammarghlsr,
marched. to Horingsbad, and arrived there on the
26th of November. From theses it proceeded to
More, about 60 miles in a north-weetarly directice,
to join the 33rd Maras Native Infaitry sad 6th