The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY E

' whether, how, or when we shall obtaia emu to the
Earraoe ? And will any man living undertake to
say how long any negotiation may dog cm, if we
are not prepared to quicken it by well applied force
Is that force ready ? Have we Calculated 'what will
be neosmary to hold Canton at one end of the empire,
and to enforce the inferences from that act at the
ether? Are there fortes on the way at this moment
ID Illetain the enterprise? And have we contem-
plated the consequences of a retreat from Canton
after having captured it? What business have we
with such enterprises, if we do not prepare for any
porible Mae of them? And what must be the
effect in India et OM the slightest doubt about our
carrying all beton min China? Where is the
limit to the onasectuseass in Europe of any
miaad-
vealare with a ami-barbarons foe in the But ? If
time quistima are mammary, it is highly desirable
that we should know it In that case, Ministers
sun have nothing but satisfaction in explaining
themselves. If they have not a thoroughly sada-
tutory answer to give, it is not only necessary to
ask the questions, but an urgent duty to see that
our legation is not left wandering in the Bast
like a lost caravan in the dated. Our inquiries are
abundantly justified by the notorious English prac-
tice of getting absorbed in one interest, so se to be
fair game for the fates on every other side.
We might be a good deal more provident without
being at all lem breve. Sir COLIN CAMPBELL gives
us that lemon to-day, as WELLINGTON did in the
Peninsula half a century ago. When disaster comes,
we *crumble through it, or over it. But there soma
an end to that 'oft of credit ; and we have really
done it so oftea, we have endured so many preven-
tible calamities that we shall lose our honour if we
do not seek it in the other direction—of preventing
disaster. If our enterprise in China requires two or
more regiments, they mast be had, and we know that
they can be had by this, that if disaster did happen,
twice two, or ten times two, regiments would be
fortheomieg to repair it.

The miscbief that may be prevented by due and
timely inquiry is that of the question being—not
shelved, for we have gone too far for that—but pat
at of sight for the time , under cover of the general
interest about India. This will not do. The presence
at four Plenipotentiaries frost thefour leading nations
of the world, in Hongkong harbour, testifies to the
vital character of the controversy. Became it was
so great an one, we urged temperance and coolness
at the outset; and, now that its magnitude is become-
isig troublesome, if Government seek first to veil its
importance, in order to escape inquiry, and then to
allow it to collapse with a recreancy equal to their
first rashness, it is time that the cause of the national
honour should be vindicated by all who have it at

heart—whether they advocated or opposed the war
with Chine when it was a matter of choice. The
China seershuits are urging Lord Exam about open.
ing up the interior. Merchants and everybody else
should learn first whether we have made sure of oar
footing on the crest. There is much to be done
before retching the interior. We can do it, no
doubt. Are we doing it, with a wisdom which may
spare as the security of running the gauntlet of •
hundred digesters P

ARRIVAL OF
:E BOMBAY MAIL,

The Bombay mail arrived in London this morn-
ing, bringing intelligence ap to December 24. It
adds but little to what we have already published.
The following is the letter of our Bombay corres-
pondent:

BOMBAY, Dsc. 24.
We are here at present as far from Calcutta prac-
tically as from London ; the latest intelligence we
have received from the capital of India being no
later than the 30th of November, and therefore
giving us no additional news from Cawnpore.
Through Agra and the Madras telegraph we
have, however, received a few items, insufficient,
however, to afford a connected narrative of the pro-
ceedings of our army against the 'walk,. mutineers.
Still, such as they are, I transmit them to you.
A letter tells us that one of General Windham's en-
gagements was fought on the 28th of November at
a place called Akberpoor, a few miles from Cawn-
pore. The writer says:
The Grenadier Regiment at the °maim Contiegent
charged within our held battery, under Me hermits up-
patently that we were retreating--thie regiment was ensilti•
Wed, and to mid to have left 800 lulled reel wounded ea Ike
pond. Fighting wee continued for two wiessedhe dais.
We sr, 'radially retiring to oar ealmaeltawate—the

army dimes -as the oily mad babe It ap M the in
scotials. Tim wire aided by satat IMO Disidlita awl
by mom d tow reeks regiumis la their rear. the
brie of their ern opera/Jou being.Calpia Up le the Nth
war cceniassicaticat with Allmhated a yea. The esti-

iroderia-ehist of the rebel troop le wad to.be a brothente-
law of the Nana Sahib.

From the statement of an harken', who his come
from Cawnpore, and who left that station on the let
December, it appears that there wee an uninterrupted
fight between the English and mutinous force from
the Seth to the 30th November ; that the insur-
gents placed their guns on Nunhey Newab's
Hamlet and the Church ; that the Lucknow force in
the meantime arrived at the bridge of boats on
Monday (30th November), and after fighting with
the enemy for the whole day, succeeded in crossing
over the bridge, and encamped in the plain ; that
the whole English force in the entrench-
ments, including that in the plain, is esti-
mated at 6,000 strong, and the enemy
double that number; that, besides the 12 infantry
and three cavalry regiments of the mutineers they
have • large number of budmashes from the vil-
lages of the Cawnpore and Orei districts and the
0 walior territory with them, that reinlrcement wu
daily expected from Allahabad, and a detachment
of the insurgents was sent towards Futtehpore to
oppose the reinforcement on its way.

Sir Colin Campbell's share in the subsequent
destruction of the rebels is described by a newswriter
of the Maharajah Scindialt, who writes from S.alpee,
on the 6th of December, um follows:
Three ha:karma came straight from Cawspcee to-day, and
reported that the dweller Contingent rebels, having collected
all their force and stone at Bluth, edmamei theme to a Oboe
two ooss nester to Cawnpore, sod left thin, with 60 arta Irk
their camp end hamar. The whale fame, ineluding sepeyeind
chide, with their followers of all moms, emotrated le 15,000
man. Their plea wee to tight with their gum up le twelve
pm., and then to manumit and may the entreirAnnente.
At Mogul bold, bar Cawnpore, the Eagle hod a bat-
tery, end thirst the light began. The rebels beght very
tear* up to twelve p.m., when the English bug= to re-
end the rebels followed them until they wee two
owe frees the rebel map. Then 600 English
with two ruse advancing on the Anaheim* road
attacked the rebel map, end captured it with eel
that wee Ia it Laving a guard there, they the Washed tie
roar of the rebels, whoa the retiring English tuned end at-
lesiod these Ia boat. The rebels could sot imbued& doable
attack, and fled; and the flegtlah ebbed the to techeletes,
sad took on the rued their geas, baggage, magazine,--every-
thing. Ilesawhile, the two greet guns which the rebels had
oast for with anumuthlon from Calpee haring reached
Reanieh, the English marched thither also, and capture!
the.. The three harkens, who report this, were in the
smith, and wilt great difficulty eared their lives, but none
of their propeety. And of the flying &pops no
villege would admit a man within its walls—not :even if
it were him own home. The harkarus put up In the
village of Yettebelptee, sad there, at twelve o'clock
at sight, ems Law Wrist Slag, bet the people
weld sot ha him belt there. I =sot tell how many
wen skis, but gall hear to-morrow. The English
beglt in this battle me }Woburn end Ishedian,
aka r, fought before. The Sahibs diamoonted amid
the Sr. of the guns and slew the ga=ms with their
swords, and, rushing upon the guames, Mopped
them as they applied the match; while the Eo glish
se worked their guns, that winking la a slow opera-
tics compared to the rapidity of their Sr.. They
Ind after the fugitives as their noise directed, sad if they
but awe heed, that head wm mashed. The blood of the
deed ad wounded towed in streams.

Whoever 'hall hoar this sows will rejoins, for these men,
who Miura and trampled on high and low, have received
pnabhatant tram God proportioned to their cruelty. And
pest as was their bravery es *nal has been their flight
end destraceica. The deed are doomed to leaskA.

Balla Sahib, brother of the Nana, who was
wounded in the shoulder, took refuge in
Calpee, where he has been since busy in bring-
ing together guns, ammunition, and provisions.
Curt and unsatisfactory as these disjointed state-
ments are, they leave no doubt as to the great fact
that the Gwalior rebels are completely disorganised
—a fact rendered still more certain by this, in addi-
tion, that Brigadier Grant succeeded in dispersing •
large remnant of insurgents who might to retreat
into Gude. This important sews was despatched
from Cawnpore on the 10th of December by the

As the great want of Sir Colin hitherto has been
carriage, great efforts have been made to mist him
with camels, elephants, and outs from Agra,
Meerut, and Delhi.

On the 7th, a convoy left Delhi, accompanied by
the 7th Punjeab Infantry, Blanes troop of Horse
Artillery, a squadron of the 6th Carabineers, and
500 of Hodson's Horse. From Meerut and Agra
other convoys were sent at the same time ; and the
whole met at Allyghar, on the 11th of December,
Colonel Seal= taking the command.

The trial of the King of Delhi was to take place
on the 14th or 15th. Generally courts-martial had
been very busy, and six or eight rebels were exe-
cuted every morning. On the 9th December com-
menced the trial of the Nawab of Jhuggnr.
The departure of so many troops from Delhi leaves
the garrison numerically too weak, notwithstanding
the arrival on the 11 th of the left wing of the Ist
Belooch battalion, now located in the famous Jnmma
Mosjid. The four regiments in quarters have not
more than 250 men each. The same remarks apply to
Meerut, where the fighting portion of the community
consists of 300 of the oth Dragoon Guards, 120 of
the 60th Rifles, 4 guns of Tomb's Battery, and de-
tachment of Sikhs. How soon it will be pomible to
send a column into Rohilcund, under these circum-
stances, it is difficult to my.
I spoke, in my last letter, of an expedition to-
wards Futtssabsid, and the departure of Mr. Philips
to its aid, with two guns. Here are two letters de-
scribing the proceedings of a force sent to Mr.
Philips' mistime :
Cater Iftrrrznamn, Dec. 3.—We marched from Ape
ea the sondag et the tad to this pima, which le distmet
Whs. Owe reed hy pct the T.J. Neat monthly, at the..
(lackey mateeked oat of Fatteeded about fee ease, and
reached the esawyjeel et daybreak. They wee cipswal era
m m with allkaselebiesks sad Singel. (which Mar any