The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-28 00:00:00

TO OUR READERS.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be published on the FIRST SATURDAY in the
Parliamentary Semion, and continued on such weeks
as the length of the Parliamentary Debates shall
render desirable.

Tax detailed accounts from India, received by the
Mail, though they render our knowledge of what has
been passing more precise and accurate, can scarcely
be said to add anything to what we knew be-
fore. It is allowed on all hands that in the
fighting at Cawnpore, previous to the arrival of
81r COLIN CAMPBELL. the English had been,
not only out-numbered, but out-gemeralled. The
subsequent defeat of the rebels appears to
have been facilitated, in some measure, by their
having allowed themselves to be surprised in turn.
Though they lost the far greater part of their ar-
tillery and baggage, they seem to have had compa-
ratively few killed ; a large number made good their
escape across the Ganges into Oude, a number
at least equally large across the Jumna into Bundel-
cund. The former will of course mix with
the insurgents in the lately annexed kingdom;
and the latter will be reinforced by the nu-
merous petty Rajahs and Nawabs who have
risen against us throughout Bundelcund, Malwa, and
the eastern districts of Rajpootans. It is not likely
that these insurgents of Central India will venture
to encounter an English army in the field, but they
may long harass us with a guerilla warfare, for the
waging of which their country affords peculiar
facilities. The south-western districts of Bengal

—between the Beane and the Mahanuddy—
are in a disturbed state. All communica-
tion between Cuttack and Nagpore is in-
terrupted, which means that the postal com-
munication of Calcutta with Bombay has not yet
been re-established. To the east of Calcutta

the Chittagong mutineers have made an irruption
into Sylhet. The 11th Irregular Cavalry have in-
deed been defeated ; but the officer in command of
the party that defeated them writes that for want
of cavalry he cannot follow them up and complete
their discomfiture. It would seem that we are
threatened with a guerilla war in the provinces
immediately under the Lieutenant-Governor of
Bengal, as well as in Central India. The universal
ery from India is " more men from England."

We scarcely need say that it is no sympathy with
those who embark in such enterprises u that of the
Rue LepaHeller that makes us demur to some posi-
tions in the very able and plausible address of
M. PU.SIONY to the Corporation of London. We
have repeatedly expressed oar abhorrence of the
means to which that class of fools and fanatics re-
sort in the hope of promoting their political views
and denounced them for compromising by their
reckless attempts the safety of political exiles in
general. And it is precisely because we are conscious
of feeling indignant beyond measure at their crimes
and follies that we are on our guard against allow-
ing ourselves to be induced to adopt or advocate
measures of general applic►tion with a view to reach
them alone.

M. PEBAIGNY skilfully disclaims any intention to
complain of the refuge afforded in England to poll-
boil' exiles. "We are glad," he says, speaking in
the name of the French people," that here illustrious
" princes, fallen from the throne, should find the
" respect due to great misfortunes ; and we honour
" you for the protection and asylum you give to all
" the sufferers from our political struggles, to what-
" ever party they may belong." And having by this
adroit flattery gained, as he hopes, the ear of the
English nation, be proceed' to explain what it is
of which France—perhaps he would have been
nearer the mark had he said the French Go-

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