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LONDON, MONDAY. SEPT. IL

THE home pablii appear. scarcely alive to the full
danger of the mutinies at Dinapor• and Segowlee.
They must be viewed in their bearing upon the
position of General HAVILLOCIA at Cawnpore. Ge-
neral HAVELOCK, it must be kept in mind, has been
obliged, by the amount of sickness in his army to
fall hack upon Cawnporc, and wait for re-inforee-
meats. The amount of his Imes are unknown, bat
dm mach es certain His numbers originally were
under 3,000. Letter. from (*swapper, of an earlier
date than his advance upon Lucknow, mention
that cholera was weakening his maks, and
that he had also lost more men in his
actions with the mutineers than the puling
accounts would lead us to believe. The
Madras Ist Fusiliers alone had lost upwards el
150 men between their suing from Madras sad &girl
reaching Cawnpore. They ...pprar to bays ccolccd
severely in the two actions fought on the seml bum
Cawnpore ti Leskoow. There an, thimehm•beßttle
doubt that it would be next to inagosesible flar Mars-
LOCO to resume his advance epos Latimer. wadi
be had received considerable nrinkresommts. This
delay not only left the defenders of Ludlam is
jeopardy ; it woakl also inspire the imurgents ei
all clams in Owde, Rohileund, and the Dash,
with fresh courage.
Previous to the mutiny at Dinapore, troops
could be forwarded from Calcutta to Allahabad,
both by the Ganges and the Great Trunk
Hoed. The effect of that mutiny upon the
latter of these lines of communication may be
inferred from the following narrative. On the
28th three satin regiments of infantry, and one of
irregular cavalry, broke out into mutiny at bins-
pore. They were allowed to march off unpureued.
One party crowd the Sone, and advanced upon
Arrah, burning and plundering air they advanced.
Another appears to have marched upon Gaysh,
which is 33 miles to the south. Twenty miles
still to the math of Gayah is Shergbotty.
• tows through which the Great Trunk Road
from Calcutta to &mares passes. Sherghotty is
counseled with Pates and Bleepers by a branch of
the Great Trask Road which passes through Gayah,
The distance from Calcutta to Bemires by the Orme
Trunk Road is about 430 miles. About 240 miles
from Calcutta and 190 from Benares, a branch, 20
miles in length, leads southward from the Great
Trunk Rood to the military station at Hasareebegb.
Two companies of one of the regiments which muti-
nied at Moore, were stationed at Hazareetsgh.
and as soon as they received intelligence of the
mutiny, they rose also. 'their officers and
families escaped, but the station was burned, and the
inmates of two polo liberated. We return to
Arrah. Immediately after the mutiny at I)inapore,
the people of Amh and the district of Shahabad, of
which it is the heed station, revolted, and with the
aid of the party of the mutineers which marched
westward, besieged the Europeans in • hour in
which they had taken refuge. A few of the
European reaidents in the Sh.thabad district tied to
Dinapore; a greater 'number to Sherghotty. Bat
those who reached Sherghutty found the Euro-
peans there paralysed by consternation at find-
ing thiamine surrounded by insurgents—at
Hasareebagh,al Gaynh, and throughout the district
of Shahabad. At Sherghotty there war only •
small force of some eighty Europeans, and with
these it was proposed to march and arrest the pro-
grey of the mutineers at Oayah. The failure of the
expedition sent from Dinapore to relieve the Euro-
peans at Arrah is knowu. A detachment of 150
Europeans had been stopped on their way up the
river at Gazipoor, and sent back to lunar, with a
view to check the advance of the mutineer upon
Beams ; it might prevent them from advancing,
bat could not well do more. At the time when the
last mail was despatched, not only the whole of the
Great Trunk Read between Ilazareebegh and the
meridian of Baxar—a distance of 140 miles, hut the
whole of the surrounding &griefs, was in the pox
session of the insurgents. One route, therefore, by
which reinforeements could be forwarded to General
HAVELOCK, was, for the time, effectually closed.
Let as now cross the Ganges and contemplate the
effect of the mutiny at Segowlee. That cantonment
is situated near the Nepaul frontier, about 130 mile j
meth of Dinapore. A town of the ion. al
Chapra is situated on the north bank ed
the Ganges, about 21 miles to the west of Itinapore. I
The Segowlee mutineers, after creasing the Gunduelte
had advanced to within twenty miles of Chives,
and threatened it with an assault; and by this)
movement: they had brought themselves into the
immediate vicinity of the mutineers and insurgents
in the British districts of Arimgliur and Jaunpore
is (hide. On the north of the Ganges, there-
fore, as well as on the south, any land routes that
might exist for the advance of troops from Calcutta
to the North-West were for the time closed against
the English.
Nor is this all. At Benue' there appear to
hare been about 390 or 400 European troops ; at
Diaspora.. from 21)11 to 100: at none of the other
great towns along the Ganges were there
more than 100. Such small forces would be
unable to make any pmtracted defence against
attacks from numerous bodies of mutineers, sup-
ported by all that was lawless in the surrounding
districts. The Ganges, it was true, was open, and
relief might be rent by it from Calcutta. But there
remained the question., how far it might be safe to
leave Calcutta without a stronger body of European
troops than is at present stationed there and at
Barrackpore. A plot is said to have been disco
vend at Midnapore, some 70 miles west of
Calcutta; and the magistrate at Inure—
about the same distance to the north-east

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THE EXPRESS, MONDAY-. RyENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1857.