The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

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r °mined unmolested during the day, when, finding
that they were left to their own will, they formed
up, and marched quietly out of Dinapore, reached
the Grand Trunk road,and cut off the communication
between Calcutta and Benares. They marched south-
ward along the Sone, and on their way cut down
the telegraphic wires. They calculated that they
should be able to cross the river and make their way
up to Benares, which being weakly garrisoned they
might hope to surprise. Fortunately the river was
too much swollen to give them a passage, and the
delay may render active measures against them suc-
cessful. General Lloyd, having let them go, started
in pursuit with the 10th and a battery of artillery.
There are reports of an engagement, but they require
confirmation. Here, again, is a repetition of the old
disaster. Benares and Allahabad, denuded of troops
to furnish General Havelock's columns, have scarcely
a hundred men each to defend themselves from the
attacks of the disaffected round them, and but for
the providential swelling of a river, they would have
to endure the attacks of three thousand men fully
armed, a foolish persuasion of their loyalty having
prevented our authorities from taking measures long
since to deprive these men of their weapons. It
cannot be said that an English regiment and a bat-
tery of artillery were insufficient for this purpose
when we see how similar operations were performed
in the Punjaub.
We have not been without our panic at Bombay.
Oa the Mossulman festival of the Backrest Eed
families retreated to ships in harbour, and other
symptomsof trepidation were manifested, but nothing
came of it, and the arrival of her Majesty's 33rd and
a battery of European artillery has made everything
secure. The Bazaar gate of the Fort has been closed
" for necessary repairs," and the most timorous are
now quite re-assured, even with respect to the ap-
proaching Nlahomrnedan feast of Mohurrem, which
occurs on the 23th inst. _ _

Three new batteries of artillery are ordered to
be formed of Europeans at Poonah, Ahmednuggur,
and Kumehee.

The Persian force will be here in a few days. One
regiment of Bombay Native Infantry will garrison
karrack,and the rest of oar possessions in the territory
of the Shah are now tobe abandoned. In the meanwhile
our affairs in l'ersia are likely to suffer most ma-
terially from the effects of the mutiny in India.
Mr. Murray, who left Bagdad on the 10th of June
with his suite for Teheran, is said to put but little
faith in the assurances of the Shah, that the treaty
shall be observed. The conduct of that prince has
not been free from suspicion, with regard to Herat;
and it is reported that his nephew has secret orders
to keep the city, which was the caused the war. In
the treatment to which the Affghans of llerat were
subjected we have a fair example of Oriental
dealings. The Affshans surrendered Herat on
condition that their lives and property should
be spared. Two of them were deprived
of life on the road to Teheran ; the third,
Shazade Youssuf, reached the capital in safety;
but on the very day when the treaty of I'aris reached
Teheran, Youssuf was beheaded by order of the Shah.
Such animosity as the people of the Persian terri-
tories are capable of was dreaded for our expedition
to the Caspian, and accordingly it has been aban-
doned for the present.

The 4th ltegiment, from the Cape of Good Hope,
is shortly ekpeeted here.
The Hon. J. G. Lumsden, member of Council here,
has resigned in consequence of ill-health, and returns
to Europe by this m.ul. He is succeeded by Mr.
Reeves.

Colonel Jacob, of the Scinde Horse, is to have
chief command of operations in the I leccan.
The latest news from Calcutta is to be found in
the following extracts :
The new steamer Nemesia was lately launched by the
Honourable Company, affording a good opportunity to the go-
vernment of sending a larger number of men than their troop
boat. can convey to Allababal. She has been fitted out and
leavee in tow of the G. S. N. Company's ate:toter Mirsapore,
and will, with the I. G. S. N. Conipanja flat Khrislina and
a•earnor Calcutta, hike the whole of her Majesty's 90th Re-
gitaent. lately landed from her Majesty's ship Siteoom.
TheCianges Company's flat Gamma, in tow of the Honour-
able Company's steamer Kriorlyne, left Allahabad on the
20th, and the 1. G. S N. Company's ateanter Bombay and
flat linoghly on the 22nd instant.—Fortylishmsn, July 27.
On ',ridsy night three more state prisoners were added to
the number alrewly in Fort William. They were taken into
custody by the police under instructions from the govern-
ment secretariat, but further we are not at present in a posi-
tion to state.—lbid.

(ICTItALT OW A PRIVATE LETTER.)
BOMBAY, AVG. 7.
The most important feature of public occurrences
of late is a very humiliating one u faros the Bombay
army is concerned, and we can no longer say that all
our native infantry regiments are loyal. A portion
of the '27th Native Infantry mutinied at Colapore,
on the night of the 31st, on which the Mahomme-
dans at l'oonah end Belgaum were to have risen,and
murdered all Europeans, it was said, it being the ere
of the Buckree F-ed At those two stations the plot wu
discovered, and the leaders seized. Colapore, as you
know, is between the two places, and it is supposed
that the people, on the 27th, were not aware that
the movement would miscarry, and therefore played
their part out. The officers got warning, and took
refuge with the political superintendent, and the
local corps remained staunch. We have not yet got
all the rights of the story, hut there must have been
some must shameful mismanagement, for there were
only 160 mutineers, no native officers, and only
three havildars ; and yet, after holding out for a
day, they got clean away with their arms and
40,000nipees out of the military chest. The rest of the
regiment seem not to have gone against them at all,
so either they arc utterly untrustworthy or their
office's, a parcel of boys.' are not worth their salt.
Bat the worst feature of the case is, that the muti-
neers are not Purdeysees (Hindustanees), at all
events not all ; for 23 were afterwards taken pri-
soners, and found to be Marathees from the neigh-
bouring districts.
llth.—Matters in the north-west, so far as we can
learn, for we hear very little, continue very much
in stalls quo. Here, in the Bombay Presidency,
they are in by no means a satisfactory state. Three
officers of the 27th Native Infantry are missing
since the mutiny on the 31st alt., and I rather fear
(from a telegraphic message) that affairs are taking
an ugly turn in the Southern Mahratta country : for
some days they were very uneasy about the 28th
Native Infantry at Dhurwar, but it seems to be all
right. Troops were to have been sent from
Beffary. Belgaum has to take care of 400
helpless women and children of her Majesty's 67th,
now with Havelock at Cawnpoor, in addition to
taking care of itself, so that General Lester has an
anxious and responsible divisional command.
At Shalupoor they are by no means sure of the
Madras Cavalry Corps; but last accounts say that
the temper and demeanour of all the troops stationed
there is to all appearance good.
The Buckree Eed passed off quietly enough in
Bombay, and I trust so will the 'reboot ; the 6,000
adult Musulmans know that government is pre-
pared for them. The mortar on the ramparts of
Fort George has the range of the Jumma Musjid,
and a few 56-pounder guns at point blank range
would make some ugly holes in the native town and
its 600,000 inhabitants, although we have so few
Europeans-400 of her Majesty's 33rd from the Isle
of France, and 60 Royal Artillerymen.
In spite of the severity of the monsoon, we have
been despatching steamers to land European de-
tachments on the coast to the southward, at points
hitherto considered unapproachable at this season.
They have made one trip successfully; their return
from the second trip is anxiously looked for.
Lord Elphinstone is worn to a thread paper with
work and anxiety. Ile has shown very great energy
throughout this emergency.
The Madras army appears to be behaving beauti-
fully ; and we feel it to be a great humiliation that
one regiment of the Bombay army should have for-
. gotten itself. I fancy in the Madras N.J. corps
you have not above a very few Pardeysees, foreignirs

(i. c. ilindustanees) ; we lime between 14,000 and
15,000. • • • • • • • •

AUGUST 15.
P.B.—The mail has been delayed till to-day. The
additional news to that which 1 have already given
you is, that dear Havelock has gained yet another
victory within 16 miles of Lucknow, taking some
more guns; so that he is having to tight every inch
of his way.
The 7th, Bth, and 40th Native Infantry have
mutined at l)inapere, and General Lloyd, though
he had her Majesty's 10th, and details of Europeans,
seems to have allowed them to get away, and him-
self went on board a steamer.

Nothing new at Delhi. An emissary from Sara-
poor in Berar,was taken up by some Hindustan men
of our 29th Native Infantry, in the lines, and to be
blown away from a guu to-day, at Belgaum ; also
another Mussulman conspirator.
It is a remarkable thing that in the 27th, our only
mutinous corps, there are fewer Purdeysees than in
any regiment in the service—only 143. My corps,
the 6th, has 411, lam sorry to say. From what I
have just heard Havelock seems to have fallen back
upon the Ganges, it is supposed to secure all the
guns he has captured, and which he cannot take on
with him. The enemy, moreover, are frightfully
strong, and, of course, the Dioapore revolt will add
to their numbers.

The Cawaporr manaere has cut a great emit
over us all-88 officers, 70 ladies, 199 soldiers, all
the wives and families of her Majesty's 32nd, all
the Christian merchants and pensioners and their
families. Telegraphic communication is cut off
between Calcutta and Allahabad. The feeling at
present is decidedly not "cocky," and the reinforce-
ments are very anxiously looked for. Lucknow is
all right.