The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

THE RELIEF OF LUCK-NOW.

The Dona Pastes contain' the following extract
of a letter from Brigadier Hope Grant's camp :
Camp, 6 mils from Altnbagh, Noe. 3,1867.
We bad our fist fight in Oude 'stinky, but it
was the mildest affair that has taken place aims we SR
Delhi. We marched from our Isat ground at 7 o'clock,
with Us intention of inoemping on a large plain 4

mile ran' Lucknow, there to await Sir ColtCarap-
bill. We hid not gone • mile before our ad-
vanced 'nerd wee fired upon by the enemy, who had
taken tip • position in. • large village neer the road. We
were moon in the thickest of it and win not long in taming
our friends the M•tt•deena out of their position, alter which
we could not persuade them to come within muaket shot.
It wee with greet difficulty our cavalry managed to come
up with their rem. We begged upwards of 100 of them in
the village, and afterwards took the only two gum they had.
One for ammeter!! to 1 killed and about ten wounded.
Some of the 44th N•tl'e Infantry eats were killed fighting
against no, and actually had their leave certificates on them.
We hare taught the Zemiliderc • number of whom were
opposed to as yesterday, • lemon they ere not likely
to forget in • burry. Every village for miles round haa
been burnt to the ground, and the whole toiletry emus se if
it wee on fire. After penning the fugitives to within two
milts of Alundiegla, we retired to this place. Si, Colin is
imposed out to-day, and If he anima weaken probably move
on to Aleonbegh to-morrow zooming. We can Year the
Locknow guns quite distinctly. There bee been very heavy
firing there this morning. The men of the Punjab refit-
ment. are delighted with the 93rd Highlander*, who are
certainly splendid men, and always march in their kilts and
boom• The Pasjabase call them "Tape wallas" and the
" Tamesba la Sultan." They admire the bagpipes mere
than anything, and want to have • Bajab like it.

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The following is from a correspondent of the
Eforkaro, with the relieving force in Oude :
Camp about 12 miles from Loam+, 4th November.—
We have bean encamped here for three days waiting foe
Sir Colin, who fa expected in camp to-day.
We bare hitherto met with no oppoition, though our

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movements are meet narrowly watched by the dope. tine
enemy. Oa the 3rd they expected as to ward se we always
do at four oe three in the morning and had Sled a village
on the road with infantry, Intending, it is suppeeed,
to allow our column to pass and then to attack
end to loot ourluggage. As luck would have it, an order
caws which caused as to break up our camp and march at
deylighr, ao we disappointed our friends, and instead of
plundering as they expected they were killed and burnt oat
themselves.
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Teeterday some sixteen villages were burnt round our
camp. We ham never dons this where unopposed, but op-
position rules the men, and Inoendlerlem is a sure ovum-
queue,. Now we are in Oude we can scarcely make a mis-
take. The whole country Is risen, under their chiefs
wind no ; and unless we show that to be
• toeing genie, they will fancy that we ere
week and unable to punish ; from what I saw on the lird,
the enemy we have to deal with here is utterly to be deepterd
away from their loopholed wills end mem. I never saw
large bodies of men steguotulats on suddenly in my
life ; like ilmires is a magic lantern, they ere
here end in a moment vanish emir*. This le
a good deal to be accounted for by the fact of the greater pert
of the country being covered by high jowl crops, so high
that an army can hide Itself although CIAO to you. The
sugar-cane luta are also splendid cover, and save hun-
dreds of wretches from the sabres of our cavalry.
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Sir Colin Campbell creased the Ganges into Onde
on the 9th ult. opposite Cawnpore, en route for
Luckuow, and arrived at Alumbagh on the 12th.
We had at the latter date about 9,000 fresh troops
(Europeans), between Caw:Tore and Lneknow, and
in the latter place. The Thstkaru of the 14th inst.
says:

A letter from Caverns, dated oth instant, informs no
that the Commander-in-Chief had left for Lucknow at 10
o'clock that morning, keeping his departure mg quiet, and
taking with him half of the 9th Lancers and some Punjab
cavalry that had been left there for him. Tea force now In
Oude, including Mom under General Havelock, amounted t„,
about 9,000 men, of whom 2,000 were cavalry. The heavy guns
Under Captain Peel sad the Jack Tare bad gone n, and
It was believed that Sir Colin Campbell intended
giving our gum a chance at 'helm this time, end wiring his
infantry as mush as ha could. This, no doubt, is the most
prudent course that could be adopted. It was rumoured
that in the street light at Lueknow, the 90th L. I.
had lost fourteen offlosre, including their commanding officer
Colonel Campbell. The Gwallor force was still believed to
be hoveriae about the place, Mat it was bopel rather than
famed that they would attack IL The 53rd and Tare had
had • pretty sharp affair on their way up from
Allahabsd. They attacked with about 600 men • body of
ilve thousand rebels in a strong position. The letter stood
and cheered our men as they Mlle on , they moat have
fought very well, as our lose was 100 killed and wounded ;
and though they are said to have lost 230, the great bulk
got away. It is believed that Sir Colin wee not well pleased,
for be hoodlum given orders that troops coming up are only
to defond themselves, and not to go out of their way to attack
rebels.

°Moen who have rerently arrived from England led
thin very different from the Crites', where they had no
marching.

We hear that news was received in Calcatta yea-
terday to the of that all was going on well

at Lucknow. The Commander-in-Chief was shell-
ing the city on two sides. He had enough

artillery to pound the place to atoms, and
sufficient cavalry to follow up any &dm.
tage. It was said to be Sir Colin's intention to
make the best age of these arms, and spare his in-
fantry for close quarters. It is added that Sir Cohn
had communicated several times with Sir James
Outrun, who said that he could hold out for some
time, and advised his friends not to begin work
until they wire strong enough to do it decisively.—
, Hurkorso, Nov. 16.

The following intelligence from Oude has been
supplied by the government of India to the press at
Calcutta : _

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From Catrupore, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.
From General Windham to the Goverto.r-General.

News from the

.chirrs nmp at AID.

bash, Yam. at the 19th; after several skirmieheiii the der,
meting in the ceptere of two se ma, the foit at Jolla/abed was

takenand blows up,

L-Chiet haA om.

inualeatsi with di; Janes Outwit.

From Cawnpore, 16th Nov., 11 a.m.
From Captain Braes, by order of his Boadicea the Com-

msoder-in•Chid, to the Governor-Owel.

t•Chid oecapiel the Dilkhooeth end

the Ma:tinier* after • running tight of two hours ya•
terday at noon. The enemy came forward to at-
tack at 3 p.m. After a struggle of an hoar he was beaten
beck; repulsed heavily. An advanced Wean banag
cloned seem villages across the canal, we took post
there for the night. Oar to.. was very trtiling—Liestannt
Mayne, Horse Artillery, Quarter-Master-Gosseers Deport-
ment, sad Lieutenant Wheatcroft, Carabbsears, killed.