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London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22.

Indian telegraph, which we publish else-
, is undoubtedly fraught with tidings of
disaster, not however wholly unrelieved. The
important portion of the despatch is that
_ relates to Cawnpore. At the date et
__ last intelligence, the fate of Sir Hum
WEIEELEI and his gallant garrison, straitened for

provisions, encumbered by a considerable number of
Ntwombatants, and surrounded by the mutineers,
Jhansi and Maar, headed by NANA
the dastardly RAJA a of Bntrrooy.—was peen-
critical. It appears that before effee-
. succour could be received, the defenders
' Cawnpore succumbed under these overwhelming
There is too much reason to fear that the
success of the rebels was signalised by the same un-

sparing and calendar atrocity that has hitherto
narked all their proceedings; and that thaw

Europeans who have escaped from the devoted city
been few indeed compared to those who
perished. As far as we can make our

through the somewhat confused jottings
the telegraph, Brigadier liAvEtocs—whom
last intelligence represented as invested
_ the supremo command of the flying
squadron, consisting of her 'MAJESTY'S 64th,
(Highlanders), and filth—appears to have
moved up from Allahabad too late to prevent
fall of Cawnpore, but with sufficient
celerity to make signal reprisals on it/ cap-
defeating NANA SABIB in more than one
encounter, taking several of his guns, and finally
succeeding in again planting the British flag within
• walls of Cawnpore.

From Lucknow the worst news is--and it is
indeed scarcely less clisastrons than any other which
sinister despatch has communicated—the death

Sir H. LAWRENCE from wound. received

a sortie. Such a man can ill be spared at
such • time; but his loss, though great, is

absolutely irreparable. No higher or jester
encomium can be pared on the officers of our Indian
army than to say, that even such a death as that of
.e 11. LAWRENCE leaves no gap in the rank of our
able chiefs in Asia, which may not be filled up
worthily and well. This great blow had not in
volved the fall of Lneknow, which still held or.
and if General HAVELOCK is sufficiently reinforced, I
may in all probability be effectually relieved.
Delhi was still untaken, and here again the news
iladen with death. General was stated
have sunk under an attack of dysentery—a piece
.1 intelligence not less melancholy fur the individual
loin of the Commander, than for the painful prober
bilities it suggests as to the effect of the elixir*
upon the sanitary condition of his forces.
The additional European force placed at the db.
pont of Lord CANNING by the arrival of the Welt
detachment of troops originally destined fur China
wee 1,300, who had been conveyed to Calcutta 1,1
the Simoom and the Himalaya. At soother Hair
would have stirred the popular indignathmaida
A blaze to leans that the wretched Transit wr beak
lost in the Straits of Sunda. Here again it
consolation to learn that the force with which this
luckless bark was freighted had escaped with the
lives, and when the despatch left Suez were safe. Is
the sterner drama of the peat Indian aslamity 6111
miserable piece of nagi-coneely emy Pr be a doe
comparatively unnoticed. The anticipated meth, d
all the native forces in Oude, and of the Gaoler
Contingent is confirmed. At Agra all was quids
and the native troops bad been disarmed.
Such is the brief summary of the latest Indian in.
telligenee; to deay that its import is grave sad Its
septet disagrees would be a palpable enderoar to
bird the eyes of the nation to the truth. On the
ober band, it is a fair topic of consolation that •
Barepsaa Erse, at the date of the last despatches, was
spgasently meter of the position between Allakareil
rid Delhi. If Genera Hiteiraora could effect a 1
issitisa with the foes besieging the capital and
admit the rebellion, beim the season rendered
halibut spiediese be the bid impipstiesble, the