The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

LETTERS PROM INDLI.

The following letter is from a gentleman long and
intimately acquainted both with Calcutta and Bom-
bay:
I had no letters from any one but mail, so suppose you to
be out cruileng somewhere. I hear, however, indirectly,
that B. has thrown op the route, col the Cape, and
intends coming out overland by the coining road, which I
inn well sifted to learn, ea he is better here than at am for
!sr montlia.

Asa the winker, I think matters look worse every day
and, hinged of bolsi embed, re daily gaining strength and
pewer. Agra sad Lisaktow we so critically situated that
every day may being as sews at the fall of one or both of
three important girth Otheral Havelock, after retaking sal
lIISTIZir Cawspenas hi way to right'', Locknow, bad to retreat,
the rebels being is nth foram as to put it beyond the power
`of hie little column et age thounad men, with a long troth
lof Sok sad wounded, to tiros a pnesse. The road was cot
I woe, bridges brakes down, and every village entrenched.
Agra, the mat of goverment of the North-West Province.,
▪ Ithen, sad the catiela and Europeans them are defending
thamsdne a the flirt The native troop. throughout Bi."
bareeell wirathiki She whole of ourNceth- Wen Province., in.
endiag Imelosen,any ba viroodly said to beseparned humour
Lana penile s, and our hold upea the dietriete between
Alloisood ed Wenn be bin by a anal ; in foot, the into
mew et three regemsto roMewl bas en of mensival-
oathm, wept by eeremen on the river, between Alishabed
end Hekatta. The rentlay et Dlespeni is the roost serious
silk that bee Imppeeed lately, lormoch as the whole of
theadkeriet—Bene-aeithintivo hundred miles of Calcutta, I.
wla a bine, sod troops intended for the north-west sad
Debi hovo am to bo halted there to protect Become, Patna,
Graopen, and other important towns. • • • •
Serelsy a report hes strived that the Santhala hare
agate ii.., and the sea* of Bengal—overrun with 150,000
savages, who delight in blond, plunder, and
lodged be terrible. In the bends of such • rag Begat will
become a howling &rem. From Shergotty, in the month, to 190
rate north of Meerut in the north, and from the condor of
Nepaul in the emit, to Indere sod Mbow in our Presidency,
the whole country, excepting the few thou held by
Europeona, ia io theleods of • savage and ineetiable soldiery
It is most 'streamliner, that in a country many times larger
than the British Ides in which were many thouaands of
othindeetoued Mons, den sensate, commissioners, col-
hones, registries k courta,judges, police, de., innumerable,
so we ditedd be.. been found to tell the government of the
Oman plot ',Ma hes been risibly hatching since last
learry, when the celebrated Chowpattie cakes were
elretdated throe/hoed the country. The fatuity and blind.
, we of the Oonnimant oflkisla continue to the present day,
and they bare mail after mail, It Is now discerned, hem I
*Maly misleading the Queen's Minietere a. to the real
state of affairs In UM country ; in fact, they do not appear
able to realise It to this present day, and, like the ostriches
hiding their heads, fancy there is no danger became they are
it not. Before Delhi, our little force is the besieged, not the I
besiegers, and the utter absurdity of the mail boats having
bath detained time after time that intelligence of the
111 of Delhi might be conveyed home by that oppor-
amity woo apparent to all but the government. I
Away we have an the but of the East India Com-
pany, and it is time. Excess and abuse of patronage,
nearly every member of the Company's service being
nearly related to the directors, who promote according
to stupidity, Inothanty, and osaroses of relationship, when-
ever the latter is combined with the former—maladminia-

talks sf India s seasprweimmig will aka sound their
dying knell, and time It 1111141. Lase Mesa several Fame
(or religions mendicants) tamed end beememrei, were ob-
served to be travelling ell over Bengal end the aseth-weet
me elephants, obi( h excited general remark from everyone
bat the government official'. They allowed they to
pass unquestioned, and it now turn. out they were the King
of Delbi's sone and nephews calling for the Chapattis
cakes and settling arrangements for the mutiny. • • • •

I see by twoisks geneiel orders that General Lloyd is at
lot relemed bum his easmosnd, and °mutant reigns in his
Mead. An then as mere General Lloyds or Hewitt. to be
remewel hem it is too late and the mischief is
Ear, I wander f I know of one general here who tot.
kw shout like a child eixtten months old-1 tem
going le fay ewe yore, but that would be too steady)—who
ought to be shelved at our.. 11 the staff allowed he would
have a Ranyess raglarat d his garden, so nervous is he.
Tire have beau queer drip M Deem, in Gamest, with the
12th Native Infantry and 3rd Cavalry, but then the 200
Earopenne were handled with energy, sad the whole regi-
mental disunited and dismounted Is twelve minutes, forty-five
being killed is trying to bolt after being made prisoners,
sad for the prompt things seem quiet there. The Bth Madre
Cavalry Termed to embark at Madras for Calcutta, and they
wens dissemed sad dismounted; and the Government Gene-
ral Body Gard, the Praetorian guerds of India, have had
to be treated ia the ram way. They would not, they raid,
go le Isla against their countrymen. Our Bombay °Mier'
say they couldnet depend upon their men to draw trigger
spun the sandmen, so if once they were brought in contact
wish them thaw would be • grand explosion, with murder and
revolting enmities as usual. Here we are going through an
anxious period, the festival of the Mohurruni, which *ode
to-morrow. Luckily we have bad several bodies of troops
from the Mauritius in lately, and have about 1,000 men, in-
fantry and artillery, to awe the population, if riotoue, and
every proper precaution has been taken. They are not such
fools, however, as to take us when prepared for them, but
will doubtless try to catch the "weasel asleep,' if they in-
tend trying It on at all. The Poonah and &liars Moult-Ms
sad Batters Rajah, who ware found plotting and
were quietly captured, end are now awaiting their
fate on Loud a man-of-war in this port. Rumours are
&brood that the 10th Native Infantry here were disarmed
yesterday, being in an excited state, but this is untrue ; their
Lo:echts and amine-titian only were collected by a European
sent into their lints for the purpcae, but this is kept
dark, and stoutly denied by the Mean and authorities, under
pad al • swan penialunent if found divulging it; but bow
they elm lc op it quiet Ido not see. All of us are armed, and
1 end my friends near about are ready to mount, fully
equipped, with sabres end revolver., at any time at night, to
moist in the orgies. The formatlon of a volunteer corps le
strongly wished for by all, bit pig-headed nol•tapists oppoes
It, and sell, with a sneer, " Where to the danger ?" Colonel
weed this very 'lore at.. a few days since at a meeting
called to propose • volunteer corps being formed. Of such are
the kings of India:

I must now conclude, aa it grows Itrk. We are all die-
oppooded at the apparently cool way in which the English
public ta►e one trouble*, end leisurely do...patch a ship or two
with troop now sad them, rid the rape ; but the Government
deepatchee hare canoed this, expecting the itontolistc fall of
Delhi, which they most have known could nut possibly occur
so MO or so wily. All the ladies far op country are flying
down here and homewards, but an yet the raha hare put
tieselling( from disbud motions out of the question. Now,
hoverer, they will be able to move. I have written the fore-
going supi.eing you would nut objoct to hear the views and
°pinkies of one on the spot, or rather M the country when,
all this is going on, and, me I owe you many a long letter,
I thought the euhject would interest you quite as much as the
weather or crops, se penomil Dews 1 hare none.—W, 7. R.
Bombay, Aug. 30.

THE BOMBAY ARMY.
The following is from an officer in the 12th Bom-
bay Native Infantry : .

Camp near Doer, Angsuit IP.
New, learnt mother, I will tell yin a piece of news whkb
you are sure to we ninth exaggerated in the peperv, so don't
lwn 11 wind there about it except what I tell Sou. The
detacbment .1 my regiment of 2io men wha\ was sent to
Itusaverabad (the very sink of mutiny) has mutinied. Tim
teem were them : —Alter they had received their Fay CaOilo
Holbrow, who was contomaing them, beard the bugle blow
the Won; Ise the troops in garrison to smoothie. SO he
°MINIMS our men to fall is, which they did without a
mermer. Thera he WI them while he went to the bit-
= for orders. Owe of the Bombay Lose.'" (Ist) bad
ridden to our hams In a state of fentuiciant, being
Manilla by law add othee things, and told our men
that the Booby It Lean hod mutinied, and taken
peemaket of the gem, sad that if they were commanded to
smelt to the ortilkny lines not to obey, en the gum world
be turnal_npon them. As Grim, tree lusd near the guns
sew men boomed it. and when Captain Ilidbrow rani* hock
with the °Mira to much to the artillery lines
ear men tcid to more, and, notwittrituoin .11 hi.
NOMMOIS that it was all safe, only three would move out of
the V,O. Holborn, sent bark to the brigadier and told him
that kr nom von is a Matt d mutiny, so be witted down