The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

OPERATIONS OP GENERAL KaVALOCIL

(Nom the dthriay Irvine of this day.)
We have been favoured with another very into.-
metirig commanicallos from the Am M wham eez readers
have been more than see indebted for dear end graphic
serratime of Gamest Havelock's campaign. A portion of
our friend's letter we omit, as it relates to matters with which
the public are shindy sufliciestly acquainted ; but the fol-
lowing admit will be toyed of peculiar value
"Camp, Cawupore, August 20.
"It is greatly to be desired that the people of England
should rightly understand the mature of the struggle now
gulag onto their Eastern Empire. It is • Meg" not
between the people and that roles but between the he-
limate Government, which we, the laid* eneblebeil
in right of our conquest of the country of SladrYm, gad
en upstart power—the Bengal sem rarer--sleales et the
usurpation of spears authority. There is not ea atom of
ratriottem in the movement—it is just a light for the loaves
and fishes. Indeed, the patriotism, if any, may be said to
lie on the other side—on the side of the English ; else how
can each a fact se the following be semeemied Ike? • letter
has jute found its way here ben ea elleer, blared • sie
fuse, now in hiding somewhere oe the lehdoued Ratios
stating that the Thakoors' (landed proprietors) only ash
the orders of the English government to else en
ease, requesting Permission to raise a mimed est
at the man who have come forward to offer their emits
at Ss rupee a month—that le, at two rupees ler der
the pay of a soppy. It winds up by saying.
Ili 11, Ihe
goemeasat cea sad 300 Bangers to Pattygker, the The.
keen of Radom) will tele wen themelme the taic d
collecting carriage and 'applies kir the as the rim sidle at
the river ; sad in conjunction with the Ilr arra lore, they,
the Thakoore, will undertake to .enrage Jane
the English government—that is to say, then Maier wee
war spinet the frfahomedans in our rhea The Bram
have, in the flush of their temporary eapromeey, outraged
the Mlles of the Hindoo community of Reldlesed, by
desearsang and destroying ltindoo temples; lease the
libidos devilling to rid toe man in favour of that govern-
mat which they know, by experience, has ever been tolerant
Id all religions.
"This is the feeling of the entire people of Hindostan,
g;.reor them as a whole, may be called • Hindoo
s. Maboordam, though numerous, mama,
Ara eergred with the other inhabitants of the Indian
pearedeOre gilled a people. And it le the conviction of
Ms rig whiki hes led the English in
_ha the midst
dad thole iewelim, to feel secure of the of their
t, end of Its ultimate imam Sash am as the
rilismalliskib and the Bonder. Hinds theejgh they be, sue
net Wheaton into account. The hems mesas Ie ee an
old grudge. He holds himself to has been walled he a
arre's Wagerer point—his pocket. The latter as a see
et bora edema, who always have rim, end SIMS Wel
Ala where" the. ie • thence of getting anything by the
✓em Ira.
dem la Oodo, where the laud tenures of the Zambian
bon be redly affected by the nest introduction of the
•▪ illgialleyelem of govesermea,the rug landed proprietors--
Or Derr Doed se& liserrerelhad of the country—
and Shen Om thew who rare act aual stake in it, have,
up le pereat dr, tem pathertily still—stanMng at
gem The weer fry—the ma who have lost, and the
men whe have =Meg in ke•WII they who hare taken
sewn ar.z ea . I mown as so on the abject with
I conceive the* no se but • h4h fano-
=7 of government, who hos some to all the sources of
Idemedes bearing on both Mee or the question, is compe-
tent to fins a reliable ognotodon; but I must my there
apposes es me to be great Ml:he arguments of those
who dins 'that were the government
to sanction
the iatmeharke of the T setem Pato Crude, the
beragemed genie= of Labs might much oat,without
dreg a shot:
" The gin of the Talookdaree system, as applied to the
torsos settlement of the country of Oude, is just this .
That every man shall keep what he hes got, and then slut
fair on a fresh more • and `the bearings of this obeervadon,'
to quote Captain iltirisby'• favourite remark, will be under-
stood at see by any one who has red Major Herbert
Edwards's scooted of Bamboo end its landholders, in his
Year es dm Amite Frostier. Now the date of things there
elesen'bed might, word for word, be applied to e
lan its
landholders, era since the days of Ammer/be, ast
"eel Mews ef Indte. The good old rule, the Maple plan,'
lee he the real law of the lend ever since, as it me in
Dana. But in the settlement of the Burma estate, and
revennes the wise Lawrence., taking into ormiderstion the
ebaroeier of the people they had to legislate kr, sad the
otter state of enarchy under which they had till that time
lived, laid down as the primer rule of the esttheest thin
'lye pea' possessing was a good title to lend.' The result
of We policy is seen in the prawn aped of the
PSI* when every other pert of our roditulempire is MOM
or
wrenhisurbed. In Oade, the government hes interfered
bet laadlowd and tessat, and some of the realm ere
Moody before us.
" September 9th.—We look forward to another move
shortly, for (need Outrom ha. left Allshabsd with I,WA
meo, end is coming up by forced marcher. Mastics our
force ts liviug quietly in the long ranges of meshy stables
which border the grand parade ground, with their tens
pitched oat on the plane before them. The troops divert
themselves alter the manner of their nation, with nom,
football, soapy-tailed swine, and ouch like amusement.;
while on the opposite olds of the river the rebel army may
be descried with a glass busily engaged digging, and throw
fog up strencheseuts to oppose our landing, se if there was
but one ceasing to the Outset It amuses them, and does
not tan, us; we make up little parties to go and see, from
our ride, how they are getting on. There are about 6,000
of our old acquaintance encamped between our old place,
Mesulwarre, end the river, waiting fur us to walk into
their mouths.
" A strange sort of fatuity seems to mark the pro-
ocediem of the disaffected Indian troops. We have
just received Intelligence here, that the whole of the
troops of the Revak Itejeh—ei petty prince whom
torritory lies between Mireapore end Jubbulpore,
in Central India, bordering on the land of the Boucle-
las—hays rims in mutiny, and are supposed to ve
moved towards Delhi. Now had these men risen ono month
ego, when Caws:ors was needy denuded of troops (they
were only two hundred miles off), and when the greater part
of Central India was destitute of defence, they could have
very seriously embarrassed the small force of English fight-
ing men on whom the salvation of the English supremacy
in India depended. Instead of that, they have chosen to
wait till • *tree( fighting force from the Mathes army has
penetrated into the heart of Central India, and till the mem
tars of the Cseinpme force have been needy doubled by re-
inforcements; so that they have avowed their enmity when
it was no longer to be feared, and afforded the government
a fair pretext for crooking out one of the few remaining
independent chiefs of Ilindestan.
Since the above was written, more accurate Stairs*
of the Reath movement has come to heed. It is not se
general • mutiny as se summed ; but in effete it %just the
men thing. The Rejth ham fled to his stronghold al Ban-
doghur, is the inaccessible jungle', and his troops have shown
their teeth ; but the young subaltern, who was these la the
capacity of political agent, has weathered the storm, and is
at this present moment the actual Mos in Remelt.
" September 10111.—ThisrB01 ping Havelock's fore, hailed
the morel of Major-General Outram with, In round num-
bers, 1,400 lighting men (English) and elz ems, and
preparations were immediately made for effecting the pomp
of the river. The total breadth of the Osage, at Cava-
pace is about 1.400 yarde, but this is in places much Mel-
Meld by islands in the centre of the stream. Three such
islands see situated immediately onodte the entrenched
camp, whereby the I,readth of the meth channel of the river
I. reduced to about 600 verde. The Compote bank of the
river is a seder of earths cliffir of various heights, which
completely command the opp,site sidr—n low fist expanse of
waving elephant gram and cultivation, dotted with •illegm,
amongst which slam the white tali of the mutineer ormY•
Puttee of the soldiery ere to be men all day hog moving
about the country, but more especially In the morning, when
they all come down to the Ganges to bathe. They have been
busily engaged for some time past in throwing up entrench-
ments behind a teapot low eandhills, which form the left
bank peeper of the trete; but latterly, having discovered
that the woks are within range of our heavy battery on
the other side, they have been Assisted.
" At first it was intended to throw • force of gnus and in-
featly mom the river In boats to occupy the first blend,
while a bridge of beds was befog eseistrurted from them,
to the resinland. But this plan was abandoned, owing to
the stems to which it would have subjected tbe men
at this most unhealthy season ; and it woe determined to com-
mons the hedge of boats at once, under cover of the heavy
battery. It was begun two days ago, and pushed forward
with extraordinary activity by the engineer Aims, till it
was completed nearly two-thirds of the way mesa. Then
for the OM time the enemy spewed to have en inkling of
what was intended, end opened a galling firs from the long
gram on the workmen, which effectually stopped all work for
that time, till they were dislodged by a party of Sikhs sent
over in boats for that purpose.
18th—This missing the earning of the troops began in
earned. A party of 'Highlanders. Sikhs. and four gum
passed the river at break of day, sad ensconcing themselves
In the lost asp proceeded to throw up • hasty entrench-
ment, hailed which they see now enugly posted. During
the arty part of the morning there wan a dropping fire of
nousimery hem the grass to front of them, to which our men
lICIIIIIIy deigned to reply. Towards the middle of the day,
however, the enemy Sought down a couple of heavy gone,
sad • desultory distant manmade hem oammenced on both
=lath will do very little hum, I expect. In feet, our
soy now be antedated secure, though various local