The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-06 00:00:00

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surrounded in the Nisam's dominions, and is i
now suing for terms. This news is from a molt
reliable source; so that the rebellion in Central
India may be considered to be virtually suppressed.
The people generally are very well affected towards
us, Unties army being chiefly composed of Bud-
mashes and mutinous Bepoys. Of eourse the only
terms which he will receive will be unconditional
surrender, but it is not likely that his life will be
forfeited.

The campaign in Oude has commenced, Lord
Clyde having taken the field with a large army on
the lath October. No intelligence of any operations
on • large scale has, however, reached Bombay,
although important telegrams are hourly expected.
The Commander-in-Chief was to marsh by Surraon,
for the purpose of attackiog Beni Madho at
hhunkerpore. The Futtehghur Brigade is clear-
iog the country along the left bank of
the Ganges ; and the Bhahjehanpoor force
is operating in the direction of Lueknow. This
brigade is commanded by Brigadier Troup; and it
had scarcely left the cantonments before it was en-
pged with the enemy, who were in the village of
Muddypoor. Their cavalry were seen in front as
the solumn advanced. They opened fire from •
village for a short time, which was replied to with
the guns, and the road was soon cleared; cavalry
and some field-pieces on either flank going round
the village, and clearing the jungle. The 93rd
Litighlanders took first possession of the place, where
there was a battery erected on one side of the road,
and a dismounted gun lying inside. After pressing
through this and some topes beyond, to meet the
cavalry and guns, which had taken the outside mute,
it was reported that some of the rebel cavalry had got
down among the baggage, on which the Mooltanees,
under Major Curate°, galloped back, and the head
of the column halted. Some of the rebels who were
concealed in the jungle, further perhaps than our
cavalry had gone, came down on the mad and cut ap
a number of camp followers, many of them women.
Only one European soldier was killed, a man of
No. 2 Company, 93rd Highlanders, whose head was
cut off and his person horribly mutilated. The ap-
pearance of the Mooltanees, however, very soon
cleared the road, end when all the baggage had come
up, the column proceeded on toPus-goon. The number
of camp•followers that was killed was about twenty,
but the Mooltanees out up about thirty of the rebels,
among the baggage. Their loss otherwise is not
known. Wherever our columns and detachments
have engaged the rebels a repulse has been the in-
evitable result. Brigadier Douglas has driven the ,
rebels out of Kalish. The infantry could not over-'
take them, bat the cavalry, consisting of a party'
of the Military Train, some of the mounted
men of the 10th, and the Mounted Police, chased
and cut up a good number. The rebels have also
Bien driven out of Chowgaen, with trifling loss, and
have fled to Jugdespoor. There has been an action
at Chukea, west of Seroo, in which &portion of Colo-
nel Turner's column defeated the rebels with a
similar result. Colonel Durisford obtained a signal
victory over the rebels at Kampeangor ; but the date
on which the action took place is not given in the
official bulletins. Major Raike's column fell in with
4,000 of the rebels near Jullalpoor on the 14th
October, and killed 70. There was no loss on our
side. The latest intelligence from Sueeeram is also
satisfactory. Colonel Turner having heard that the
enemy were in fall march on Sacreeta, marched with
his column from Lola, headed the enemy with his
camel corps, at the village of Baga (Sir H. Have-
lock pressing their rear with his cavalry),
killed 300 rebels, and about 200 more in
the day's fighting. The columns are in pursuit. Our
loss was one officer (Striven, camel corps) killed, two
others wounded, and seven or eight men killed or
wounded. Intelligence has also been received of a
force having gone from Sultanpoor on the 20th of
October to Doodpoor, where they defeated the
Nusseerabed brigade, and took three guns, three
elephants, and all their materials. The rebels have
fled towards Kandoo and Jugdespoor. On the 10th
October the fort of Birwa was taken, our loss being
about fifty wounded and not many killed. Lieut.
Carnegie, of the Engineers, was badly wounded
while blowing open the gate. A patrol of police
cavalry, under Lieutenant Hawkins, and the detach-
ment of Hodson's Horse, commanded by Lieutenant
Mitford, fell in with 300 of the enemy on the bank
of the Sye on the 16th of October, and killed about
fifty of them. The enemy have also been defeated
at Keera Sugar by the Madras column. The civil
officer at Chubrawile reports that five thousand
rebels and four guns attacked them on the morning
of the 23rd October. The rebels were repulsed,
losing about one hundred and fifty killed, and all
their guns. The cavalry pursued for six miles.
Lieutenant Mitford, of Hodson's Horse, was wounded.
The intelligence from Nepaul is more satisfactory
than it was; and the origin of the rumours against
Jung Bahadoor partially explained. It is expected
that affairs will soon be placed upon their old foot-
ing, but at the expense of a very meritorious officer,
Colonel Ramsay, who has been most unfairly treated
by Lord Canning. It appears that Jung Baba-
door and Colonel Ramsay are not on the
very best terms ; and when the former was
at Allahabad he preferred about thirty charges
against the latter to the Governor-General. Upon
Colonel Ramsay being summoned to answer these
charges before Lord Conning in person, the Nepaniese
minister boasted that he had dismissed the Resident.
His triumph, however, was but of short duration ;
for Colonel Ramsay, on his arrival at Allahebad,
was at once exonerated from all blame, and ordered
to resume his appointment at the Court of Nepaul.
The Nepaulese Durbar, however, peremptorily re-
fused to receive him, asserted that the Governor-
General had retracted a distinct promise given
through General Macgregor, and even affected to
ace in the refusal of so slight a request a hostile
menace. Lord Canning, rather than involve him-;
self with the Nepauleee Court, agreed to change a
Resident who was not generally liked by either the
Premier or the Cabinet. In alluding to the subject,
the Friend of India holds, as a question of State
policy, the Governor-General absolutely in the
right :
The Daher obviously were resoluta not to receive Colonel
Ramsay permanently unless compelled. The employment of
compulsion to a state which had just, from whatever motives,
armed hi our behalf would have been as unwise se unree-
ls!. Lord Canning aompted the only possible compromise, e
aimperery restoration, sod deeply as we may regret that such
ma mat should have occurred at all, sad stW more deeply aa
we regret the appuent injury to a most szaellent officer, we
emeot perceive that the true dignity of the empire hes been
lowered by Its represintatlys.
In the Puojaub all is quiet; and so is all oar whole
line of frontier. The only thing that we have had
to shade the rejoicings consequent upon the inangu-
ratio t of the new regime, has been a terrific gun-
pow ter explo•ion at Korrachee, caused by the pre-
paration of fireworks for the anticipated holiday. A
sub-conducter, of the name of M'Cabe, while en-
gaged in the arsenal, at that station, in
ramming down some of the mixture into a
rocket-tube, gave the rammer a little too hard
a knock, and the mixture thus lighted threw out
sparks all over the room, in which were a number of
boxes of ammunition. WCabe ran out to get some
water, but during his absence the detoured cover
ing of the boxes caught fire. Just as he was oar the
point of re-entering the explordaa took place, and
most miraculously lie escaped with no more injury
than a alight contusion of the elbow. Sergeants
Kelly, Bradley, and Marsh were wounded ; the first
has since died in hospital. A laboratory man was
killed on the spot, as were also three Lascars. Sub-
conductor Laughlin, a most excellent and steady
warrant officer, was buried in the ruins. His body,
or rather a small portion of it, was burnt almost to
a cinder. The loos to government by this accident
has not, of course, been yet fully ascertained ; but
eighteen hundred thousand rounded ball-cartridges,
a considerable quantity of portfires, flume, sulphur,
and canister shot, together with a large number of
shells, are known to have been destroyed.
Trade is brisk and money &busiest ; althoughbut