The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

THE IXPRS,S, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, MS.

the justice of the capture, the legality of the trial,
and no doubt the amenity of the imprisonment.
And he sends a Secretary of Legation, the son of a
Lord, to be a new and unresisting witness of the
infamous mockery of justice which King BOMBA
has ordered to be played at Salerno for his own
especial glory and our humiliation.

1. ;

Mr. Disraeli, as leader of the Ministerial party in
the House of Commons, has issued a Circular to the
Conservative Members, soliciting their attendance
on the 12th instant. It is understood that there
will also be • strong muster of Liberals on the oc-
casion.

TIM BR-ELZCI7OII3.

OXFORD ELECTION.—(THIS DAY.)
RETURN OF MR. HENLEY.
(IT ELECTRIC TILZOILI.PH.)
(FROM out OWN 00/11.18PONDRNT.)
OXFORD, Evicianar.
The election of a knight of the shire far the
county of Oxford took place this morning in the Town Hall,
Oxford. The attendance of electors was wamezona.
The proceedings having been opal by the Sheriff with
the usual formalities, and the candidate duly proposed and
seconded, Mr. Henley, there being as opposition, was declared
duly elected.

SIR FITZROY KELLY AT IPSWICH.
pt XLUCTILIO TILZOILAPI.)
(ROW OVA OWN 00111111PONDINT.)
IPSWICH, Sartinzat.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly woe re-elected for Rut Suffolk
lids morning. He delivered a deckled], and singularly
liberal address.

ARRIVAL OF
THE BOMBAY MAIL.

We have received advices from Bombay to Feb.
9, in anticipation of the Overland Mail.
The •following is the summary of the Overland
Bombay Standard of Feb. 9 :

CENTRAL INDIA.
SIR HUGH HOBlll3 COLUMN.-RELIEF OF
BAUGOE.

By the mail of the 23rd ultimo, we mentioned the
arrival of Sir Hugh Rose and Sir Robert Hamilton
at Sehore on the 10th, with the disarming of the
Owalior Contingent, and execution of theaepoyswhich
followed. The moveable column having assembled
here in its strength, consisting of the 14th Dragoons,
17th Dragoons, 3rd Lancers, H.M.'s 86th Foot, 3rd
European Regiment, 2 Companies Reserve, de-
tachment Sappers and Miners, let or Leslie's Troop
head quarters, 4th Company Bombay Artillery, Ist
ditto 2nd battalion, sth Company 14th battalion
Royal Artillery and 21st Company Royal
Engineers. The general marched north-west-
ward through Bhopal in the direction of San-
gor, and along the line of the Vindyah mountains.
On the 20th they reached }Miles without opposition.
The siege train was a march behind : it was escorted
by a troop of the 14th Dragoons, the 3rd Madras
Europeans, and Bombay Sappers and Miners,
with Captain Hare's detachment of the Hyderabad
Contingent. The force was expected to encounter
some resistance at • strong force called Ratghur.
On the 23rd, the detachment with the guns was
ordered to pull on and join the main body. They
reached camp about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, but
without their tents ; having bivouacked the following
night, they started on Monday morning under
orders to push on, as the enemy were moving out
to defend the ford by which they were expected to
cross the river. Our troops, however, forded further
down, and the insurgents thus foiled, crossed the
country, and were able to fire a volley into the ad-
vanced guard as they entered the town close by the
fort of Ratghur. A dragoon and native aubadar
were killed. At 8 a.m. on the 25th, General Rose,
with his divisional staff, rode round thefort,lf which
a careful reconnoisance, which occupied the chief
part of the day, was made. It is placed
upon the pear-shaped summit of a hill,
about 700 feet above the plain, the walls
enclosing the entire of the wider end. Nearly the
whole is surrounded by precipitous rocks, the only
approach being by a narrow and steep ascent along
the ridge. A part of the force made a feigned
attack, when the General, with his staff, and 3rd
European Regiment, crept up the narrow ridge.
On the 26th the heavy guns were placed in position,
and the fire opened, while the 3rd Europeans drove
the enemy from the heights. The rebels had pro.
claimed that, as the fort was provisioned for
• year, and was considered strong, they

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were determined to maintain it to the last.
On the morning of the 28th a large body of
mutineers, concealed in the thick jangles around,
attempted to relieve the fort. They assailed the
rear of our camp and the videttes guarding the
right rear of the force. They were at once attacked
and driven across the river with severe loss by Cap-
tain Hare with the Hyderabad Contingent. The
garrison now fairly lost heart, and two hours before
daybreak on the 29th a portion of them endea-
voured to sally oat of the main gate, when
they were driven b►ck by Captain Lightfoot's 9-
pounders. The great body of them escaped by lowering
themselves over the walls by ropes and scrambling
down the precipice. Mahomed Fuel Khan, and
another rebel Nawaub, were hung over the gate ;
the utmost kindness was shown to the women and
children. Sir Hugh Rose marched on the 30th in
the direction of Saugor, leaving Ratghur in charge
of the troops of the Queen of Bhopal, who
had undertaken to keep open our commu-
nications. The enemy were understood to be
concentrating at the village of Banda, eleven miles
in advance of Ratghur, with a view of cutting
off our communication with Mhow. They were at
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once attacked and driven with loss from their posi-
tion in difficult broken ground and jungle, which
they obstinately defended. Captain Neville, of the
Royal Engineers, who had distinguished himself in
the Crimes, and had here volunteered as aide-de-camp
to Sir Hugh Rose, was killed by a round shot. On
the 2nd the force marched for Sangor,where it arrived
the following day. This fort had been beleaguered
since June, in constant fear, and not infrequent
danger. It was reached and relieved without opposi-
tion ; upwards of one hundred women and children
being amongst the number of those shut up. Twenty
rebels were executed on the spot.
RAJPOOTANA FIELD FORCE UNDER
GENERAL ROBERTS. CAPTURE OF
AWAH.

We gave in our last summary particulars of the
storming, on the 6th January, of Rowe, near Aboo,
by a detachment under Major Raines, des.
tined to form a portion of the Rajpootana field
force. Since then 5,0001, worth of gold and silver
coins have been discovered in the ruins, while fifteen
fine caparisoned horses were captured in the neigh-
bourhood. We have to trace Raines's further pro-
gress in swelling up the detachment to the dimen-
sions of a column, consisting of the Bth Hussars, lit
Lancers, H.M.'s 72nd Highlanders, 96th Regiment,
51st Regiment, Detachment of H. M.'s 83rd Regi-
ment,llth Company Royal Engineers, 2nd Bombay
Cavalry, 2nd Troop Artillery, Capt. Aitkin's Bat-
tery, Ist Company 2nd Battalion Artillery, Leslie's
troop, 10th and 12th Native infantry, with the siege
trains. Sending back his sick and wounded to Deeps,
Major Raines resumed his march on the 10th. On
the 19th he was joined at the village of Jaitpoora,
two miles from Awah, by a detachment from
linaseerabad under Colonel Holmes, consisting of
two companies of her Majesty's 83rd, under Major
Heatley, Captain Browne'. Batteryof Foot Artillery,
600 of the Seinde Horse, two squadrons of the Ist
Bombay Lancers, and a portion of the 12th Native
Infantry, or including the siege Artillery from
Ahmedabad, 14 guns, 840 sabres, and 1,100
bayonets. They had now reached the town
of Awah, the fort of which was said to be
garrisoned by 2,000 men. On passing near
the walls the Nusseerabad detachment was fired
upon, when Captain Aitken's Battery, and a detach-
ment of 11. M.'s 95th proceeded to their assistance,
and soon compelled the enemy to withdraw within
the walls. A reconuoisance was made during the'
afternoon round the fort, the enemy keeping up •
heavy fire from all points. It luckily proved
harmless, and the camp was established in
the course of the afternoon, 1,600 yards hom
the walls of the fort. The defences con-
sisted of a mud and wattle embankment about
forty feet base, sloping upward to the height of
nearly fifty feet. The wall was loop-holed for
matchlocks and jinjels, and was nearly impenetrable
either by shot or shell. This was flanked by bas-
tie= mounting from two to three guns each.
Some twenty yards in advance of the inner wall,
WWI a high bank, also loop-holed, and protected
by thorns and branches. And in advance of

the whole an &battle, constituting Awah one of the
strongest towns in Rejpootana. Colonel Holmes, on
the troops being united, as senior officer, took command.
He considered the place much too formidable for an
assault until a good breach had been established,
and on the day the forces united, mortar and
howitzer batteries were established 1,000 yards from
the town. On the 20th and 22nd;tsto other bate_
ries, six and seven hundred yards in advance,
were constructed. That nearest the walls wee
armed with two 18-pounders and two 8-inch
howitzers. The bombardment commenced on the
21st, and continued with increasing vigour as our
batteries came into operation. A mortar battery was
now advanced to within 300 yards of the wall.
Preparations for breaching, with a view to an
immediate assault, began on the 23rd. Meanwhile
the storm which prevailed over the greater part of
India descended with terrible fury in Rajpootana.
The night was pitchy dark,Olie wind blow a hu, ricane,
the rain poured in torrents, and the thunder and
lightning overmatched the roar and blaze of our
artillery. In the midst of the tempest, the
enemy managed to escape, despite the chain of
posts of infantry and cavalry, which had been drawn
so carefully round that it seemed almost impossible
to evade them. Their flight was first discovered by
a portion of H. M.'s 95th concealed in riflepits
within forty yards of the wall. The defence,
considering the inadequacy of their weapons, was on
the whole an obstinate one, an incessant but very
ineffective fire having been kept up upon us from
the first, which failed to occasion a single death
casualty. About 170 prisoners were taken, of
whom twenty-five were executed, sixteen guns,
the whole of his park, with a large quantity of
ammunition stores, grass, and grain, fell into our
hands. On the Ist February the remaining wing
of the 9th, with Sappers and Miners, about 500 in
all, and a portion of the 2nd Native Cavalry, pro-
ceeded from Dena under command of General Ro-
berts to overtake the advanced force.

FUTTEYOHUR.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEFS FORCE.
For the put three weeks the Commander-in-Chief
has stood fut at Futteyghur, accumulating an

enormous park, with ordnance stores, and means of
carriage for an army of 15,000 men, consisting of
H.M.'s 9th Lancers, 2nd Seikh Cavalry, four troops
Horse Artillery, Battery of Royal Artillery,
the Naval Brigade, with six 24-pounders, two
8-inch howitzers, 8 mortars, 2 companies Madras
Sappers and Miners, 2 Bengal and 2 Punjaub ditto,
9th Lancers, Punjaub Irregulars, 11.M.'s Bth, 23rd,
42nd, 83rd, 64th, 82nd, 93rd, and a Regiment of
Punjaub Infantry, with some 70 or 100 pieces of
ordnance. Though nothing has been said as
to his future measures it was quite plain from
the first what his plans must needs be. His
rear and flanks required to be cleared of the
enemy before he could wheel round on Oade
at Purruckabad, Calpee, and Bareilly, and
while this was being done by himself; by Walpole,
Windham, and Seaton, Jung Bahadoor was settling
Ooruckpore, and establishing poets on the Nepaul
frontier of Oude. Outram was maintaining him-
self at Alumbagh, and Cawopore and Allahabad
were being strengthened. About the end of the
present month Oude will bo invaded on all sides,
the great overwhelming force under Sir Colin
Campbell pouring down upon it from the north, the
others closing in all around. Meanwhile the insur-
gents, still about 100,000 in strength, are for-
tifying Lucknow to the uttermost. The
streets are being barricaded and the walls
loop-holed everywhere. Earth works have been
thrown up, and garden within garden strengthened,
and the haughty Bengal Sepoy, who would
not touch a basket, mattock, or spade in oar
service, and who in the Punjaub mounted guard
while the Europeans were throwing up entrench-
ments, now chews what he can do when he has no
longer the indulgence of English officers to fall
back upon. It is doubtless in consideration of this
Sir Colin Campbell delays advancing until he has
accumulated an artillery so overwhelming as
to avoid as far as possible the necessity of a
hand-to-hand conflict with an enemy posted
with such advantage. He is expected to march
about the 25th of February, and probably six weeks
will suffice for the completion of the Oude cam-
paign. It is to be hoped that by May our
war-worn troops, many of whom will by thin time
have been a twelvemonth under arms, will be able
to retire to cantonments, and seek rest for
the events of the coming year. Since the
mutiny at Meerut, the 6th Carabineers and 9th
Lancers have lived in their saddles, while the 34th,
81st, 64th, and 78th, have scarcely since the same
date been off their feet, or spent three days on end
when they were not under fire. With all the dis-
play of determination, the Lucknow insurgents we
saia to be losing heart. A proposition of rood itional sur-
render is said to have been received, with the reply that
every mutineer would be shot or hanged,that the rest
must depend upon our mercy. The country people
are said to be friendly to as ;it is the great in-
dare and Talookdars, the land proprietors, and great
tenants, whom we reduced to order and obedience,
that are our enemies.

General Wyndham arrived at Delhi en route to
Umhalls, on the 21st January. 13rigadier Hope Grant, bar
Majesty's 9th Lineere, and Captain Norman, Assistant
Adjutant General, also paged through Delhi, en route to
Umbals, about the same time.
A letter from Delhi mentions that there is very
little chance of the es-Hind's recovery. He is end to be
fast sinking.—Delhi Omens.

The telief of Sanger was made known to the
Bombay journals by the following from Lord Elphinatsee:
" By a message from Bangor, dated February 3rd, we WIZ
that Sir Hagh Rose's force reached that place on the
3rd, and relieved the fort and station. A Nit
of Europeans who were there will be sent se MOM
as possible. Upwards of one hundred are women sad
children. No opposition was met with by our force betweett
Ratghur and Saugor. Twenty rebels were hanged, beast
those executed over the gate at Bateau'. Our troops are
very healthy."
A letter from Ferorepote, dated Wednesday,
January 27, 1858, 9 p.m., says:—" A salute of thirtest
guns, from the entrenched magazine, has just =nomad
the arrival of Sir John Lawrence. His camp is pitched near
the Kutcherry. The chief engineer in also here. The Rajah
of Fureedkore, with retinue, is cutting a great swell with
his 9-pounder guns after him,"—Lahors Chaoniele.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOMBAY, Fes. B.
The: Hon. Company'a steamer Feroza, with the Eng Wit
Mails of the 9th J.auery, reached us on the evening of the
7th instant.
The demand for money during the last fortnight hie
greatly eubsided, and it can be easily had on first cla.s moss
rides. We have to quote • deduction of 3 per cent. in tile
Bank of Bombay rate&
IMPORTS.
Coteries Prices 000D0.—Our import market has pot on •
rather active during the fortnight ; end pieces of
all deseriptions we edemas-IL The prime of all they Goods
have considerably imgroved.
BLE•CDED AND FANCY 000DIL—BUILAKI
are In good demand, se also Bleached Jaw:mete Book
Muelins, of low quantities, continua In fair enquiry. In
Bleached M•dapoilanwroso sale has been reported to us.
Y•IiNS. —Both 4 mule and water • good amount of bud..
nine has been dons. Orange and green are also inquired for.

EXPORTS.
Corron Woot..—The ratan are higher than what we lad
reported, though we have not heard of any purchases an
European *comet. We quote Rs. 140 to 143 for Dar
Broach and Surat; Dhollera Rs. 131413; Oomervuttee
130-31 ; Ktiandeish Re. 120; and Verevell Re. 120-22.
TONNAGE.—Thera has been a very alight improvement ie
he noted in the rates, our prevent quotations Was IL lee.
to IL 12e. 6d. for Liverpool and London ; end Rs. 6 to 6 pa.
candy for Chins.
EXCHANGE.—Exchange on London remains the many
and we quote 2s. Otd. fur six months' bank bills and 2s. ljd.
fur documents. The prima of government sororities have
improved, and we quote 4 per cent. loans at 16k dircount, and
6 per cent. loans at 7 discount.

An earthquake has destroyed thirty persons at
Corinth, and done touch damage to the town. The Limas
were still going on and were exceedingly violent.
Accounts from St. Petersburg state that Baron
de Witinghof, captain of the eta and member of ea swami
family, has bran condemned to the toss of his title MI rah,
and sentenced to serve in the army as • pirate BAIL IS
ooneequestos of having stolen registered letters el wag
destined for soldiers.