The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-16 00:00:00

TER EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBKR 16, 1857.

REPAVE FROM GENIIIAL HAVELOCK
AT LUCKNOW.

(TROY A 1117PPLIOIRNT TO WM MORT'S &Wm.)
UOLDIZZ-01111IIAL ILATZLOCI TO TR' CHIEF OF
THE ITAFT TO THE 00XIIANDEl-Ilf -CHIEF, RE-
CUPID BY TELEGRAPH FROM CAN% NPORL.
Locknow Residency, Sept. 30, 1837.
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Major-General Sir James Charm having, with
characteristic generosity of feeling, declared that the
command of the force should remain in my hands,
and that he would accompany it as Civil Commis-
sioner only, until a junction could be effected with
the gallant and enduring garrison of this place, I
have to request that you will inform his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief that this purpose was

effected on tho evening of the 25th instant. Bat I
must first refer to antecedent events. I crowed the
Sye on the 22nd instant, the bridge at Bernice not
having been broken. On the 23rd I found my-
self in the presence of the enemy, who had taken a
strong position, his left posted in the enclosure
of the Alum Bagh, and his centre and right on low
heights.
The head of my column at first offered from the
are of his guns, as it was compelled to pass along the
Trunk-road, between morasses; but as soon es my
regiment could be deployed along his front, and his
right enveloped by my left, victory derided for us,
and we captured five guns. Sir J. Outrem, with
hie accustomed gallantry, premed our advance close
down to the canal ; bat as the enemy fired with his
artillery and with guns from the city, it was not
possible to maintain thin or a lee advanced
position for a time, but to become' neces-
sary to throw our right in the Alum Bagh,
and restore our left, and even we were incessantly
cannonaded throughout the twentyfour hours, and
the cavalry, 1,600 strong, swept round through lofty
cultivation, and the sudden interruption upon our
baggage mused in our rear (sic in orig.).
The soldiers of the BOth Regiment, forming
baggage guard, received the charge with gallantry,
and lost some brave officers and men, shooting down,
however, 26 of the troopers, and putting the whole
body to flight.
They were finally driven off by two guns of
Captain Olpherts' battery. The troops had been
marching three days, under a perfect deluge of
rain, irregularly fed, and badly housed in villages;
it was thought necessary to pitch tents, and permit
them to halt on the 24th. The moult on the city
was deferred until the 25th. On that morning
our baggage and tents were deposited in the Alum
Bagh, under an escort, and we advanced. The let
Brigade, under Sir J. Outram's personal leading,
drove the enemy from a succession of gardens and
walled enclosures, supported by the two brigades
which I accompanied. Both brigades were esta-
blished on the canal, at the bridge of the Char Bagh.
From this point the direct road to the Residency is
a little lees than two miles, but it was known to have
been cut by trenches, and mooed by palinodes at
short intervals, the houses also being all loop-holed.
Progress in this direction was opposed, so the united
column pushed and deployed along the narrow road
which skirts the left bank of the canal. Its advance
was not seriously interrupted until it came opposite
the King's Palace, or Kiestwah Bagh, where two
grans and a body of mercenary troops were en.
trenched. From this entrenchment a Are of grape
and musketry was poured, under which nothing
could live. The artillery and troops bad to pass a
bridge partially under its influence, but were then
shrouded by the buildings adjacent to the palace of
Fbureed Bukah.

Ik•knese was coming, and it wu proposed to halt
within the wart of this Mehal for the night but I
esteemed it to be of such importance not to leave
this beleaguered garrison, knowing that succour was
at hand, that I ordered the main body of the 78th
Highlanders and the regiment of Ferozepore to ad.
racer.

This column rushed on with a desperate . . . .
by Sir J. Outram and myself, Lieutenants Hudson
and Harhood,f of my staff, and overcoming every
obstacle, established itself within the enclosure of
the Residency.
The . . . garrison may be more easily conceived
than described ; but it was not until the next even-
ing that the whole of my troop, guns, tumbrils, and
sick and wounded, continually exposed to the attack
of the enemy, could be brought step by step within
this inclosure and the adjacent palace of Fhureed
Buksh.

To form a notion of the obstacles overcome, a
reference must be made to the events that are known
to have occurred at Buenos Ayres and Saragossa : oar
advance was through streets of fiat-roofed and loop-
holed houses, each forming a separate fortress. I am
filled with surprise at thy successor operations which
demanded the efforts of ten thousand good troops;
the advantage has cost us dearly.
The killed, wounded, and missing—the latter
being wounded soldiers, who, I regret to say, have
fallen into the bands of a merciless foe--amouat to
464 officers and men : Brigadier-Genetal Neill, com-
manding lit Brigade; Major . . . , command-
ing Artillery; Lieut.-Colonel Basely, a volunteer
with the force, an killed. Colonel Campbell, com-
manding 90th Infantry; Lieut.-Colonel Tytler, my
Deputy Amisteint Quartermaster-General, and Lieu-
tenant Havelock, my Deputy Assistant Adjutant-
' General, are severely, but not dangerously, wounded.
. _

Sir James Outram received a flesh wound in the
arm in the early part of the action, near Char Duel,
but nothing would subdue his spirit; and, though
faint from loss of blood, he continued to the end of
the operation to sit on his horse, which he only dis-
mounted at the gate of tho Residency. As he has
now assumed the command, I leave to him the nar-
rative of all events subsequent to the 25th inst.

H. HAITLocr,

• Note made at Calcutta Query t—" It beau= aeosolary
to throw our right, de., and retire our Wt."
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