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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15.

Tilt. more detailed accounts tram the seat of war
in Indi► do little more than fill up the outline pre-
viously communicated by telegraph. The most sad.-

reprerientatirce of British feeling in India cannot
forbear from retlecting how much suffering, and sus-
pense, and death might have been averted bad its
arrival not been delayed by the hesitations of office.
People on the spot cannot understand why the Home
Government should have spent " four months in dis-
" covering the fact that troops could be sent in
"safety through Egypt, and the men who have
" taken ninety days by the Cape, base reached in
" thirty or forty rid Alexandria." To them it ap-
pears that if such a coarse had been adopted, "the
" honour of the Bombay army would have been
" saved, the Mehidpoor and Kotah outbreaks have
" been avoided, and Lucknow spared the agonies of
" sin weeks' siege, which we can as yet only hope to
" have ended in the safety of the beleaguered." In
all thews points we agree with the Bombay Times:
but this discussion is for another season. The im-
mediate object of eager and confident anticipation is
that the next telegram may communicate the tidings
of the utter overthrow of the (hide mutineers and of
the triumphant relief of Lucknow.

factory item of additional intelligence thus conveyed
to us is the fact that Sir COLIN Csurout. had re-
ceived a letter from Sir JAMES OCTRIM declaring
that the garrison could hold out for some days yet,
and begging that no fear of its danger might
interfere with a complete victory. The date at
which this letter was received is not stated, but it is
fair to presume that it was either shortly before or
shortly after the arrival of Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL
at Cawnpore. The energetic Counsel:feign-
Cuter had made an astonishingly rapid journey
from Calcutta to Cawnpore. In six days, from the
28th of October to the 3rd of November, the pliant
veteran, travelling like a courier at express speed,
had accomplished the distance of 628 miles which
separates the two cities. The precipitancy of his
movements led him on one occasion into the greatest
danger. Pushing on without a guard, he came, a
little beyond Shergotty, upon a large body of the
cootie/ere of the 32nd Regiment, who, mounted on
elephants, and flanked by parties of light hone, wen
in the act of crossing the Trunk Road, not far
in advance. Sir COLIN, perceiving at a glance the
full extremity of the danger, gave instant orders
for • rapid retreat, and galloped back ten miles
along the road he had just ?ravened, till he fell in
with • bullock train, whose friendly escort enabled
him to pursue his route to &nun. Nothing but the
urgent and extreme pressure of the crisis could excuse
--even that can scarcely justify—the heroic rashness
of this unguarded advance. Arriving at Cawnpare
on the 3rd of November, Sir COLIN had not balm
able to leave it till the 9th. The interval was of
course actively employed in collecting with all pos-
sible speed such a body of reinforcements as should
enabk him not only to relieve I.ucknow, but tostriks
a decisive blow at the beleaguering army. It appears
highly probable that the reassuring letter from Sir
tuts; Octave had been received by the Com-
m %tenet-Is-Ours either oa or before his arrival at
Cawnpore, and, his mind thus set at nee as to the
immediate extremity of the garrison, it would
naturally become his object and his duty to assemble
wider his command such • force as to enable him not
only to rescue the besieged but to crush the besiegers.
The exact amount of the effective force which Sir
CoLIN would find under his order at Alumbagh
appears to be as yet a matter amine doubt. It can-
not, upon the most liberal computation, exceed in all
10,000, intanding Europeans, Sikhs, and Choorkas ;
probably 0,000 men in fighting order would be
Nam the mark. The peewees of our arms in India
has been each that nu odds stem formidable in the
open field; wen this not so, the work
cut oat for Sir Cot t s CAMPBELL would
have appeared not • little arduous. The force
of the enemy is currently estimated at 30,000;
their position was • strong one; they had site) gene;
the whole population appears to have been with them.
8o vigilant had been their guard, so dense their
number', so feeble our garrison, that between the
2:ith of September and the Std of November—a

Cbc Court.

period of nearly Ni weeke—aot • single messenger
had been able to make hie way anus the three mile.
that separate Luckier ham Alambagh. On the other
side the commesiestra, though extremely dillicalt,
appears to hare her Mee hermetically closed. Bat we
are very rich is the dark r to the actual state of
Lacher after the day on which the closing manes
of the enemy Woke down the bridge over that deep
canal which 1,1 eat beer's Alagebegh aad the
Remarry. There are researe that desperate fight-
ing task plate oa the lath sr 19th of October, with
the object, se it is sappred, of opening op ern.
arn.catioa Intros the Parrearry and Alashagb.
The rose retaleed an nimareeed to have been ex-
ceediagly hoary, and the attempt dor not appear
to hen hen renewed. The ladies, the children, the
hundreds of sick and wooded, would of course
reader any griever to eat • way through the
enemy err madams. The rearering thing is Sir
JANE, OITIAN's letter, followed by Sir Cotv
(' confident derrick " Lecknow is
" ere." Cala that great deliverance is arcompliated
—of which the sett telegram, as we finely believe,
will berg as fall reurance—eo light ran be
therm sa the terrible safferinp sad benne cre-
nate of ear wientryetaa and coon t ryinnles is Lath-
sow. Lea( bare the time at which we in wow
writing the battle of Locknow, we feel tordent,
has her heir lad was; we read dear that he
sompleteare and *army it will at hut real
say purge earns that has hitherto takes pima ia
thole IPUTIVIrdi Miry cenirigns.
Whether the farce present with Sir COLIN CANN-
BILL at Lecturer in the middle of Roviewilier will
be each as to enable him at once to undertake the
campaign of Onde a • matter of more doubtful spe-
calatisa.4 Hs will probably deem it expedient to
await the arrival of those miefareinneete which, at
the mailing of the last steamer, had been for some
time pouring rapidly into Calcutta. By the
middle of November mow than 12,000 British
troops were collected in the metropolis of
British India. It is to be presumed that so time
wad be last in mnring these reinforarments up to the
base of operations at Cawnpore, to sear is that
which is aow the mar strategic bearer of the
campaign—the reargued of Ore sad the satire
destrustion of the mein body of the rebels, who
have now congregated from all parts within its fron-
tiers. Amid the natural exilltatioo arising from the
presence in the capital of a force so imposing, the

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1857.

pursuance of orders given him by Madame de
'edema and her sons, he had tired a gun to frighten
Guillot, who had been in the habit of coming into
the park at night, but ho said ho never intended to
kill him. lie added that he had been told to charge
his gun with small shot, and that, having a double
barrelled gun, he had by mistake fired the barrel
which was loaded with grape shot. This line
of defence was anticipated by the indictment, which
alleges, however, in reply to it, that both Madame
de Jeufosse and her sons had repeatedly told Crespel
that they had a right to kill anybody who got over
the park wall in the night, and that both the Pro-
cureur-Imperial and the Judge of Instruction of
Bernie had told them so. It is also observed in the
indictment that the barrel which was not fired was
found to be loaded with shot No. 4, which was quite
heavy enough to kill a man. The despatch states
that Madame de Jeutosse, on taking her scat at the
bar, shed tears abundantly. licr two sons were very
fashionably dressed. Madame Guillot, the widow
of the murdered man, sat by the side of her advo-
cate, M. Cresson, of the Rouen bar. She wee
dressed in deep mourning and kept her veil down.
Since writing the above I have received a copy of
the indictment, which I enclose. It is very long
and you will not probably be able to find room for
it, but it bears out in almost every particular the
narrative above given. It states, among other
things, that M. Guillot, when first he
became a constant guest at the Chateau
de Jeufosse, made love to the governess, and that
Madame Jeufosse shut her eyes to the liaison. But
that he afterwards made love to Madlle. Blanche de
Jeufosse, and then she resolved to have him put out
of the way. It is distinctly stated in the indictment
that the letters placed in the tree were addressed to
Msdlle. Blanche; but it is also said that the mother
alleges that she received them all, and tore them up
without Msdlle. Blanche seeing them.

There are rumours of grand financial schemes es
being in contemplation among the princes of finance.
It is said that M. l'ereire is negotiating a fusion of
the Credit Mobilier, the Credit Foncier, the Comp-
toir d'Escompte, and an important though less
known establishment than the three foregoing—the
Ws*. St. I'aul. MM. Rothschild, Bartholony,
and others—who are called the syndics' of the
banker—have on foot a rival scheme, according to
which the Comptoir d'Eacompte would be reorgan-
ised and started afresh, with the enormous capital of
200,000 millions of franca.

In consequence of the serious mistakes which
sometimes occur in the telegraphic reports of the
price of Consols, the government has, I am assured,
molted that in future these telegrams shall not be
delivered out unless they are sent in words, and not
in figures.

Tie Bourse has been quiet, and without any re-
markable feature. The Rents left otf at yesterday's
prices, 66fr. 20c. and 66fr. 70c. Mobilier fell 6fr.
It was announced that the Northern Company
would pay interest both on its old and new shares
and obligations on Jan. 2. The shares on this
line nee 12fr. 50c., Western rose 10fr., and Eastern
sfr. Lyons fell 6fr. 25c., Southern 3fr. 76c., and
Orleans 2fr. 60c.

DENMARK.

(►SOM 0011 owl 001111SPONDINT.)
HAMBURG, Mo]uA• ETYNINO.

A despatch just received from Copenhagen informs
us that the Danish Council of State has authorised
the Minister lferr Krieger to bring in a bill for a
loan of 300,0001. sterling, at 8 per cent., secured on
the finances of the whole kingdom.