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LONDON, THURSDAY, SHPT. 17.

FA CV in the splendid annals of British prowess in
India few things more heroic have ever been achieved
than the brief and brilliant campaign by which Or-
anal HAVELOCK has rolled back the tide of mutiny,
mewed the prestige.' our arms, and averted the more
imminent perils of our Indian Empire. On t he 'all July
the gallant baud under this resolute and determined
commander—the .Nth Highlanders, her MAJELITT.E
filth, and the Madras Fusiliers, accompanied, but, as
It soon appeared, not aided, by a small body of
Native Cavalry—marched out of Allahabad. The
rain was then falling in torrents; when it
ceased the sun of India blazed out on the
rapidly advancing column with such intensity that
some eight or ten of these hardy warriors were at
once smitten down with a sun stroke. When by
found marches of from 20 to 30 mile a day under
such a climate as this they had left Allahabad about
SO miles behind them, they first came in sight of the
enemy, some 12,060 strong, drawn up in a strong
position, with a eonsiderable park of artillery, to
oppose the further progress of the 2,000 Europeans.
"Highlanders," maid Hsi-rims: to the 713th," when
" we were going to Mohamtnerah I promised yon a
" field day ; I could not give it you then, as the
" Persians ran away ; but, Highlanders, we will have
" it to-day, and let them see what you are made of."
"At it they went," says the officer whose narrative
we are here following, "and our men did show them
" what they were mule of—for after some hours'
" hard fighting the rebels fled, and our fellows
" charged and captured eleven guns at the point of
" the bayonet, with the ammunition and treasure."
On the occasion of this first engagement the Native
Cavalry showed that no reliance could be placed on
them. They disobeyed orders, and fired in the air.
The engagement was no sooner over than they were
disarmed and dismounted ; " so," says the letter of
another officer in recording the fact, "we have no
" more trouble vrithfellowsof this kind." Thus purged
of these faithless yet:rotate and reduced to a mere
infantry force the gallant brigade held on its way.
About 20 miles beyond Futteypoor it " came across
" the scoundrels " a second time, and in the course of
one day fought two several actions, taking four
guns in the former and three in the latter. The
fourth and severest encounter still awaited them.
On the 16th of July they again came in sight of the
forces of Ne.ASAttta,drawn up some five miles from
Cawnpore, and prepared for a desperate resistance.
This was the " hardest day's work of the whole."
The enemy had six or eight guns in two separate
batteries. "We advanced straight against them,
" and they poured grape and round shot into us like
e• hailstones." The advancing line lay down.
The iron storm swept comparatively harm-
less over them. They rose, charged, and the
first battery was carried at the bayonet point.
The advance was then made against the other bat-
tery. The mutineers this time had got a better range,
and of the British who thin lay down, many never
rose again. " When they saw us down again, they
" thought we were afraid to advance, so they
" sounded the advance, and then the double." Then
H sveioex gave the word, "Rise up, advance;"
and then with such a cheer as the British soldier
only knows how to give, under a rolling cross
fire, in unbroken order, " with sloped arms like a
" wall," the irresistible line bore down on the se-
cond battery. Long before it was reached, its mis-
avant defenders fled in wild dismay; the British
(they had no cavalry, alai! to pursue) "find into them
" till they were out of range i" then rushed up the bill
before them, and found Cawnpore scarce a mile in
frost.

In nine days (this was the 16th of July, and they
had left Allahabad on the 7th) this gallant force bad
marched 126 miles, fought four actions, and taken
24 guns—and this in July in India, sometimes under
drenching rains, sometimes ander a sun so fierce,
that on the very day of that last action, many men,
in spite of the animating and sustaining excite-
ment of battle, dropped down on the field ander
its overpowering glare. On that hill top over-
looking Cawnpore they were compelled to halt for the
night, and in that night was wrought out the most
fiendish of all them deeds that will make this Indian
mutiny a very proverb of atrocity to the end of
time. When day dawned, the town was seento
have been abandoned by the enemy, and the British
marched straight to the place, " where they heard
" that 173 ladies and children were canasta." The
horrors that met them there not a man of that
forte will ever forget to his dying day. The
place was a paved court. The pavement was
two inches deep in blood ; there were " long
" trews of hair—dresses covered with blood—here
" and there a work-box or bonnet;" in a well in the
compound were the stripped, and mangled, and bead-
le= trunks of the wives and daughters of the de-
feeders of Cawnpore, and heaped above them were
the scarcely cold corpses of the children whom the
Sends had Hung down alive into that pit upon the
bleeding bodies of their mothers. Such was the
work of the Sepoys and Sower, of NZMA
Santa on that night of the 16th of July, when
driven hem the field by the prows= of their
indomitable foes. We beg to make a present of
that night-piece, to be framed and glazed Ms me-
moriam by those whose false and feeble palings
would stay the upraised arm of the avengers of
blood.

We can antlerstand the eagerness with which
‘ratura's conquering column followed on the
track of the saiscreant Nedra,. Hhitoor was aban-
doned ere they reached it, and oar gallant fellows
were forced to content themselves with the
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poor revenge of burning the palace of Ncv4
and capturing fifteen additional guns. A letter
dated the 22nd of July brings a rumour that

this atrocious villain, deserted by his fol-
lowers, had sought refuge in self-doutroctioe.
The rumour, however, requires confirmation ; and
we have not so entirely lost all the instincts of
" wild justice" is not to trust it may prove false.
On the 20th of July, Colonel (or as he is now,
General) NEILL, a man of the right stamp, the iron-
willed trampler-out of mutiny at Allahabad--effected
a junction with HAVELOCK at Cawnpore with what
the latter describes as " a strong reinforcement
"of British soldiers." On the 21st HAVE-
LOCK writes : I am fete to cross the
• usages. A portion of my troops and live guns
▪ are already in position at the bead of the road to
" Lusk:how." From Cawnporc to Lucknow is 33
miles. The country is marshy. The rains were
desesoffing in torrents. The strength of his column
(before NEttt's junction) had been reduced one in
fifteen by the result of the last action. HAVELOCK
pushed on. He seems to nave crossed the Ganges
with his main force at Cawnpore. On the 29th
of July he is before Oouao—a town with loop-
holed houses, and protected on its flanks by an
unfoedable swamp; in front by the enemy (the
Oude mutineers apparently), aided by a por-
tion of NENA.II force, and supported by 13
guns. The position was earrie I—the guns
captured, and the town taken by assault.
After four hours' halt the indefatigable brigade
pressed on. Another swamp was waded through,
another engagement fought, another town carried
by assault. These successes were not purchased
without hard fighting and • lass on our side of
eighty men killed and wounded. The last public
accounts from General HAVELOCK'S camp are dated
the 30th July, the day after the last-mentioned
engagement, at which time he was at Bupeergenge,

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16 miles from Cawnpore, with a considerable force
of the enemy about two miles in front of him.
At this date we know that the Goorkhas were
rapidly advancing on Lucknow, and after what
11“FL(Xi has already achieved, we can feel no
doubt that however formidable may be the nuntherl
opposed to him, the next mail will bring us the
cheering intelligence that his long and brilliant
career of =ewes has been crowned by the triumphant
relief of Lucknow.

tit court.

BALMORAL, SzrT. 16.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the
Princeea Helena, Princess Louisa., and Prince Arthur, and
attended by Lady Churchill and Earl Granville, drove Tenter•
day to Cortie hluiltie, and honoured the Count.... of Fife
wit► a visit. Her Mojeaty then continued her drive to the
Lynn of Dee, over the Queen's-bridge, and through the
Forest of Mar.

The Princess Royal and Princess Alice, attended by the
Boa. Flora Macd odd, drove to the Burn of the Vat, !attun-
ing by Birithall And the Lynn of litakk.

The Prince Consort went deer stalking au Loch-pa-war.
In the eveniog the Durham of Kent, the Lori and Lady
James Murray. and Lady Augusta Bruce were included in
the royal dinner grey.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday et the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in llowning-street. The Ministers present were—
Visemint Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of liarrowby, Sir
George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Pan-
more, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
Hon. it. Vernon Smith, and the Right lion. M. T.
Baines.

Despatches were seat from the Colon yeotorday to
the Governors of the Australian cokaies, and the Governors
of the Went India lolanda.

NOIWICiI JIMICAL 77STIVAL.

NORWICH, Berl. 16.

Oar festival commenced last e.•ening with a grand

tniacellaneons concert. After Mendelasobn'Soverture Roy
Wes" had hem played, the National Anthem ma in by
the pindpil voculisla and the choral,. A quartett " Orer
the dark Um waters," sung by Mr. end Madame Weise and
Mr. rod Mn. Lot key, followed, when a eerie. of selections
hem Dars Cistern. brought up Millie. riecolonsini, Signer
Obaglbsi, Signor 13411etti, Mdlle. Leonhardi, Mdlle.
Piceolomini a:primed"! a my warm reception, and her
"Betts, betti, o bri Meertio," elicited much appLsure. Signor
Oinglinl obtained an encore in .11 rale tesoro intante," as
did Millie. riceolonsint and Signor Belletti in the duetto
between Don Giovanni and Berlina, "La ci darem la
111111110."

Leonhard) followed in the recitative, " In quell
eormai. o Nunn:" and the ens "Mi tradi Rime in-
roue." Mdlle. Lombardi's voice it soft and pleasing, but
the expremion was somewhat marred by an apparent timidity. '
The youUshd diberman received, however, the •yropattietie
applestas of the audience. A slight deviation was made here
from the order of the programme, Madame Clara Novellas
essilertakimg the part of Mdlle. Leonhardi in tbo semMto
' from Dee Gimemi, which followed, instead of preceding,
the or from Oberon, " OIMIGII. thou mighty monster : "
This beautiful scene was given by Madame Novollo with
great elect. The menet., from Gtoranai, in which
Mdlle. Piccolos:Mai, Madame Clara Novelle, Mr. and Marlmte
Weiss, Signor ()initial, end Signor Bellettl took pert.
and • butte dust, " All' idea," from the Barher of
Soil., esinained by Signor (Madan end Signer Bellatil,
provoked loud laughter. Mr. Howard Glover's deeeriptin
and diereeterietic mutate, "Tam O'Shantre," followed, Mr.
Mimed* sustaining the mks. Mr. Miranda did full justice
to tine well known tenant orsadon of the &cob bard.
This «included the diet part of the contort. The so
coed cernmenoed with ltomini • overture, "Guillaume Tell,"
sad Mdlle. Lombardi was more aucomeful in the moue,
"Thos evening bells." which she gave with much
pathos. Signor Gardoni Nang the barcarole, " Atoka
it &riot lento," ably. Two ~rawer from La Tlorrerre
followed. A duet*, " Parfet o care, mi laece-
nom," by MdUe. Piocoloasini and Signor riiuglini. With the
rommen " Di Pommes II mot, itsnot chi dal car ti can-
celler Signor Heiken, and the Favorite del Re,"
from Le Rewrite, by Signor Gimbal, the audience ware
well placed ; end they emended an equal meed of ameba-
the to the rthettino, " Selt aria," front Lr Now di-Fifare.
Mr. Was the way Miming meg, the" Battle Meg,"
la a agktls&~
alltlre meaner ; and the quartette and thorns
td tram," from Lou Lassearresser," was well
received. liftwart's overture, La Neeta fi Fiyale closed the
ante, it sheet hellion eleven.
The beo wee well Ailed, with the exception of the patrons'
gallery and the ennasermil meta, The aide galleries appeared
to be fuller than at the corresponding concert of 1854.
The performance this morning comprised Spohr's sacred
cantata, "God, Thou art greet," Mendelsaohn's Lobgesang,
or, Hymn of Pniae ; sad Morn', Itequiens. The Agana
Da, gal kith. parcate nmb," are mill ringing in on•'•

The hall wee net an well filled, on the whole, this morning
as bat mcnieg. The patroes galkry was unusually full,
hot there one antra vacancies among the neerved seek,
sad the sameereed places were almost unoccupied.
The Iota! atteedanee to present time has been 2,071. Total
receipt', 1,223 L 12e, it is elm steed that the estimated
gmea expenditure of the festival hea been reined to 3,6001.
Ile weather ocattlesse exceedingly flee.

VISIT OF TFIE MAE or CAMBIUMS TO TOE
FRIINCIICarr.—Hie Bard Highness the Coonander.in-
Chief, etcompanied by Leed Burghers\ and two aides-de-
camp, MA town on Tawdry night, and errand over from
Done So Caiala in the Royal mail packet Ondiue, specially
ordered far the Gerrie*, no /wee to the French camp. Cap-
tain Ilmitheet attended hie Royal Highness across the
Ch■ral.

TVS BIATIOP ON Nottivl(ll AND TEE INDIAN
Mt-rum—Dr. Pelham, the newly appointed Bishop of Nor-
wleit, los Weed the 6illovrieg cirrialar, which is said to here
Oyes rent Wham to limey high church clergy of his dio-
cese :—" iliship of Norwich requests the atkedance of
thickly and non.enntsvvoist minieters, together with the
cluschwardens sod other lay °Mows of the &cache. sad
dhspels of the City ►t the palace on 'Monday neat (this day)
M lear o'clock, to consider how far it may be feasible or ea-
"edited to bold a epeemil serrios in all the places o' worship in
tie Myer an opportenity for united prayer and humiliation
beton God la ocianection with the present &Studious events
la bac"

On Sunday haat the Rey. John Davies, rector of
Ctsseeet's chars* Worcester, reed to hie eonaregation In
the soressing a serene ee t►e preesat crisis. The sermon we.
mitten by the Bishop of Calcutta, who ie brother to As.
Make. The balmy bd acemenead preaching this *arm=
et Seraniy,,e. when tiliap were brought lira the troops
had been Palled oat, sad he TM urge] to return to Calcutta
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