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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13.

IN the masterly letter of oar Special Correspondent
at Calcutta will be found a lucid and detailed nar-
rative of the operations at Lucknow and Cawnpore.
We learn from it that the sick and wounded, and the
women and children, who were so long shut up in
the Residency at Lucknow, have had a narrow
escape since they were removed from it. As Sir
CoLIN CAMPBELL wu nearing Cawnpore with his
precious charge, liberated at so heavy a ransom, he
heard heavy tiring in front. This wu found to
proceed from the guns of the Gwalior rebels, who
were besieging General WINDHAM in his entrench-
ments. That ofßcer, it appears, had, a few days be-
fore—contrary, it is said, to the express orders
of the Commander-in-Chief—marched out and given

battle to the insurgents under Boos Smolt, some
3,000 in number, whom the Owalior mutineers had
sent on as their advanced guard, or to mask their real
movements. Over this rabble General WINDHAM
obtained an easy victory. But the next day he
was surprised by the main body of the Gwalior
mutineers. He ordered out his troops, but
pushed on the 64th regiment without pro-
viding for its support, thus exposing it to be
almost entirely cut off. Confusion ensued, the
want of a General was everywhere felt, our troops
were driven in upon their entrenchments, our
tents were burned, a large portion of our stores
plundered, and the whole of the warm winter
Clothing in store for the troops destroyed. The
enemy then proceeded formally to invest the camp.
Luckily, they do not appear to have been
se.. a tt,.. near approach of Sir COLIN CAMP-
BELL, and, more bent upon preserving an easy
amen to Gude than intercepting succour to the be-
sieged, they neglected to destroy the bridge of boats
across the Ganges. Sir COLIN CAMPBELL was thus
enabled to come to the rescue. No sooner did he
place himself at the head of the English troops than
the fortune of the war was changed. The English
felt that they had again a real General
to lead them on ; the enemy felt that
they had a man opposed to them. Humane as
brave, Sir Coral's first thought was of his precious
charge. He plated himself between the enemy and the
non-combetaata whom he was conducting to a place
of safety, and he remained on the defensive until the
latter were far enough on the road to Allahabad to
be safe from pursuit. Then, without a moment's
hesitation, he stooped on the foe, hie an eagle on
its query, beat them down, trampled them under
foot, sad scattered them like chaff before the wind.
When all resistance was at an end, he left General
Hops GRANT to follow up and harass the dismayed
fugitives, and the General overtaking them
in the act of creasing the Ganges, completed
their discomfiture.

The intelligence that the insurgents in the
south of Oude had compelled the Goorkhu to
fall back, and had rendered a pause necessary in the
advance of the European troops upon Allahabad, is
confirmed. Add to this that the fortnight's
stoppage of mail communication between Bom-
bay and Calcutta appears to have taken
place somewhere between Nagpore and the
latter city, and it will be apparent how much
has yet to be done before law and order are

re-established in Hindostan. The mancenvring
of the Owalior Contingent, both before and after the
affair at Cawnpore, indicates a development of the
compreheasion and capacity for command among
the mutineers which was to be expected from a pro-
longation of the struggle. These men are brave enough
after their fashion ; the whole history of the rebellion
shows that they have been thoroughly imbued with
habits of regimental discipline; if to these qualifica-
tions, natural and acquired, the more talented among
them are enabled, by a protracted strife, to add
the skill of commanders, they may yet give us
even more trouble than could have been anticipated.

THE noses undertake' to prove that India will
continue to be as much the field of the middle classes
under the QuzzN'a u it has been under the Com-
pany's government. This is grappling with only
one-hell of the question. The objection to vesting
the Indian patronage in the Ministers of the day is
the danger of its being employed by them to
strengthen their political position. This would ne-
cessarily lead to two evil comequences. In the first
place, from the preponderance of the aristocracy in
our political parties, there would be danger of all the
prizes worth having falling to the Waltham, who had
good family connexion', even though they had no
other recommendation. In the mooed place, the indi-
viduals of the middle climes selected for appointments
would be apt to be not the most able, but thus whose
friends possessed inflames in parliamentary am-
stituencies. Both of these misapplication of