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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26.

Tut news from India, which we published in
yesterday evening's Express, is by far the most
cheering that has been received since the outbreak

of the Mutiny.

In so far as Lucknow is concerned, it would
appear that our fears for the inmates of the Resi-
dency may now be entirely dispelled. It is true

that the most recent direct intelligence from that

city represent. HAVILLOCK u detained there by hie

nnwillingnem to leave the sick, the women, and the
children of the Residency behind. It seems, more-

over, that the sick and wounded of his own force had
been left behind—At a place four or five miles distant
from Luclmow—after the action in which General

in the

NEILL fell ; and that the swarms of mutineers and
insurgents around Locknow had made the communi-
cation between the Residency and the disabled left
in his rear &Emit. But from Lord LTONe post-
script we learn that two regiments of the Qrri..x's
army had reached Lacknow about the 24th of
Octotwr, that GIMATUED might be expected there
on the 30th, and that his arriral would raise HAN-s-
-tock's force to 7,000 men.
This

....ioreement under the command of
GILEATIIID was important, for more reasons than its
numerical strength. Its arrival at Lueknow would'
imply the opening of communicatious between Deihl
and Cawnpore—io other words, the re-establishment
of British ascendancy in the southern parts (LI
the Doel--as the country between the Ganges sad
lamas is designated. The advance of GRILATII7eII
column from 1/..thi appears to have been indeed a
triumphal march. On the 2; th of September he
routed the insurgents at Bolundsheher. After cap-
turing the fort of Nlalighur, he again defeated them,
Ail. mist.... On the iuth he
~bad Agra, and took up his quarters in the Can-
tonments, where he was attacked—apparently
by the Indore mutineers, who, as we learned
by the prey icos mail, had separated from
the °walla( Contingent and crossed the Chumbul
at Dholpore. The assailants were defeated
by the three thousand men under 011EeTnED,
thrown isto utter rout, and pursued as far as the
Kharse—a river which tows eastward to the
ininna, about twelve miles south of Agra. Oa the
14th of October GatAritau had again aisseed the
Janina, sad was pushing on towards Camila...with
every prospect, as we have already intimated, dpi
reaching Lacknow on the 30th. Meanwhile the'
enigma detached from Delhi in pursuit d the
mutineers whist kept to the west of the Jew, h
',ported to have passed through BoUubghur.
The Bomb, honorer, was not the only quarter from
which early relief might be expected by our gallant
sountrymen in Oude, and the interesting charge of
women and children who relied upon them for pro-
teetion. It was calcutated that of the troops pushed
onward from Calcutta, 1,200 would be able to leave
Cawnpare for Lueknow on the 16th of October.
A mall body of 2.l4tmen, which. it was announced by
last mail, was about to leave Cawnpore with a con-
voy of provisions, had actually reached Lueknow.
At Calcutta, too, two steamships, with troops from
England, bad nevi. ed before the mail was despatched,
and two sailing streets, with troops, were understood
to be off the Sand Heade. The arrival of several
steam-ships and *ailing vessels with troops at Galls
had been iutirneed, and steamers had been des-
patched to that port from Calcutta, to take on board
such soldiers as had been embarked in sailing we-
mks, with a view to expedite their arrival. This
was not the only symptom of additional energy
sad forethought imparted to the Government at
Calcutta Billet. the arrival of Sir Cokes, Coernekt..
To compensate fur deficient mesas of conveyance, a
requisition fir elephants had been forwarded to
Rangoon ; and steamers had been despatched to Sues
to take on board any troops sent overland from
England or the Mediterranean. Bir Coux was
also organising a camp of 2,000 men at Raneegunge,
which would serve at once as a protection for Cal-
cutta, and a check upon the mutiatersand insurgents
in the Ram Our and Sonthal districts.'
Not the least encouraging portion of the intelli-
gent received yesterday is the assurance that in
tleernt and the adjoining districts, since the fall ail
" revenue was being brought in very rapidly.•'
The mass of the population in Ilindostan will, with• ,
out moratariog and hesitation, pay the customary
amount exacted by Government to any if. fade
power whatever, and to none other. The payment
of revenue is their most unequivocal declaration of
submimion or loyalty—of their belief that the Go-
vernment to which they pay it is firmly esta-
blished. And there is reason to hope that the defalca-
tion of this year's revenue in the North•Weetern Pro-
vinces will be much lees than might have been anti-
cipated. Letters received by the previous mail re-
marked that the young crops around Alighar were
remarkably promising. This circumstance appear

to have surprised the writers, but it will not be
astonishing to any who have had opportunities of
°been ing the state of affairs in Oudo previous
to the annexation. Notwithstanding the utter
anarchy that then and there prevailed,
agriculture continued to flourish. The KING'S
soldiers and those of the great Taloolidare
had all the fighting to themselves; the peasants
continued to till the soil as usual. When they
could not safely do so by day, they did by night.
So it was in this country in old times, during the
wars of the Roses ; so it was in France, during the
volcanic heaving' of the first Revolution; and so it
appears to ha.e been throughout Hindustan during
the eruption of the mutiny. The Neapolitan trims
his .

vines and watery his garden while Vesuvius
pears oat its lava and earthquake* shake the sur-
rounding country ; and moral convulsions are equally
incapable of interrupting the routine operations of
bread-seeking toil.

The only drawbacks upon the cheerful complexion
of the prevent intelligence from India are the
in of disturbances on the Burhampooter, and
'. A portion, at leut, of the

only two Bengal regiments which had not previously
joined in the Mutiny, had risen at Dacca. There is
not much in this. These mutineers were surrounded
by a loyal population, and could be easily dealt
with by the Marine detachment at Dacca. The

disturbances in the Madras Presidency appear
to have excited more alarm at headquarters ; for
a steam-ship which had just arrived at Calcutta is
said to have been ordered to proceed forthwith to
Munlipetam and land there the troops on board.
The disturbances, however, against which it was the
object of this movement to guard, appear to have
been *maned to the liixem's Territory ; and there
the multitudes of Arab and Rohille military adven-
turers spread over the country rendered it impossible
that a crisis in Bengal like the present should not
be aceompanicd by commotion more or less serious.

A CASE has lately been brought before the
Supreme Court of New Yea, which has excited a
considerable amount of local interest, and which is
in some respects so characteristic of certain phases
in Trans-Atlantic society that it may bo as well to
lay an outline of the facts before our readers.
' '

Mr. OLIN= OTIS WOODMAN, a wealthy mer-
chant of New Orleans, took his wife with him to
Europa in the summer of IM4. The lady was at
that time in infirm health, and Mr. WOODMAN, on

his return to America in the November of
that year, left her behind him at l'aris in
the family of a friend, for the benefit of
the highest medical advice which the science of
the French metropolis could supply. Mrs. Woop-
tset, in the absence of her husband, 6000 contracted
an unfortunate intimacy with one GERARD Fua-
SEes, an American adventurer, who, having tri-
umphed over her conjugal fidelity, speedily com-
menced an infamous system of extorting from
the weakness and the fears of his mistress the

means of supplying his own extravagances. The '
allowance she received from her husband,
though on the most munificent scale; win won
found inadequate to supply the incessant de-
mands of her paramour. Before she quitted
Paris, Fiitxtss had contrived to obtain 1,600 dollars
from her in hard cash. She returned to America,
and the man followed her. His influence over her
smears to have been unbounded, and he exerted his
power by means truly diabolical. At New Or-
-14:11131, having incurred a debt of some hundred
dollars at his hotel, he forced contributions from hie
infatuated victim by threats the most brutal and un-
manly. To satisfy his exigencies the woman sold
lace shawls, jewellery, everything with which she
could part without fear of detection. As time advanced
his persecutions grew yet more intolerable. He ris-
sortell to open plunder and personal violence. He
would go into her room, open her drawers, and carry
off whatever was most valuable. " When I was going
" to a ball in the evening," says lolrs.WooDif Aff in her
affid•vit, "he would come into the room and take
" my jewellery and put it into his pocket, and re-
*. fuse to let me have it to wear ankle I gave him
" money, telling me that, if I went out without it,
" Mr. Woonvot would insist on knowing where it
" was gone ; so I would make every effort to raise
" money for him ; sell everything in my power—
" my dresses, rich embroideries, &c., Most
"of the articles I sold to ladies of my ac-
' " quaintance ; made clones about my health,
" about going back to Paris, &c. I sold moat
of my very handsome handkerehiefe—some of them
" cost twenty-five or thirty dollars apiece, my velvet
" mantilla, my lace, flowers, &e.—in short, I could
" not keep any jewellery or anything valuable in my
. .

" room." All woe in rain. The drain was incessant
and unappeasable, and scenes of fruitlees importu-
nity were frequently followed up by acts of the
coarsest and most unmanly personal violence.
Outing a great part of this time the lady appears to
have teen living in various hotels in New York,
while the husband was immersed in dollar-making
at New Orleans. At length the scandal reached his
sin. He came unexpectedly upon his wife and
her presenter under eireumstiutoes that could leave
no possible doubt of the truth of the worst rumours
that bad reached him.

Now comes the most extraordinary part of the
narrative. The almighty dollar again put in its
claim, and the " wealthy merchant of New Orisons"
was once more hurried southward by its irresistible
exigency ; his a ife's state of health forbade her
travelling with him, even if he had been inclined
, trader the mrcumstances to burden himself with

each a companion. It was necessary, how-
ever, to put her out of the reach of FURNGSA,
aid Mr. Wool) win resorted to the ex pe-
dieat (which but for the recent case of
Mrs. TALBOT in this country we should have con-
sidered original), of shutting her up as an insane
person in the private lunatic asylum of General
M'l)ocALD, at Flushing, in Long Island. Before
going to the asylum the wife, in presence of her
husband, his friend, and his legal adviser, had made
a full statement of her own criminality and of
Fusixess's persecutions, the substance of which
statement was subsequently reduced to writing by
the lawyer, and sworn to by Mrs. 'WOODMAN, in the
preecnee of a commissioner. She had not been long
in the asylum when an application was made to
the Supreme Court of New York—notoriously, if not
avowedly, at the instigation of Fun:ass—for a writ
of habeas corpus to remove her from the custody of
General ICDONALD. The application was sup-
ported, amongst other grounds, on several letter
purporting to have been written by Mrs. WOODMAN
to FURNESS from the asylum, imploring him in most
passionate terms to assist her in escaping from the
durance to which, as the writer alleged, the tyranny
of a husband had consigned her. Whether these
letters were or were not genuine can only
be a matter of conjecture. The probabi-
lity is that they were so, and that the woman
found the constraint to which she was subjected so