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

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

EAST INDIA COMPANY'S DESPATCH.

The following telegram, which was received at
the East India House this morning, gives the Cal-
cutta version of the relief of Lucknow. It will be
found to correspond with that from Bombay, pub-
lished on the 26th instant, but coutaina a few
additional particulars:
_ _

The Commander-in• Chief crowed the river and
entered Oude on the 9th instant. He was reported
from Cewnpore on the 12th to have reached Alum-
bagh, and to have opened communication with Sir
tames Outram. Between the 9th and 12th one thou-
sand three hundred troops of all arms crossed the
river at Cawnpons to join the Commander-in-Chief.
On the 12th three companies of the 82nd marched for
Alumbagh, and on the following day three compa-
nies of the 13th, the military train and Crawford's
artillery, were to move in the same direction;
further, it was intended to send on Carthew's bri-
gade of Madras &pus, expected at Cawnpore,
unless the Owalior mutineers should cross the Jamas;
the latter on the 12th inst. numbered 3,000, or, by
manse accounts, 6,000 effective men, with 8 heavy
and 30 field guns.
. .

By the lasi telegram, anted 23rd, some portion of
this force had crossed the Jamas and entered the
Dash. On the 13th the Commander-in-Chief

cosameseed operations by blowing up the Fort of
llnillawae,' near Alumbagh ; on the 16th inst., he
occupied Ojai:calla Park and Mertiniers, after a
running fight of two hours; in the evening the
enemy again came forward, but were heavily re-
pulsed,and the operation ended in our taking the
post across the canal. Our losses small. Lieutenant
Maybe, Horse Artillery, and best. Wheateroll,
Chahlseeee, killed.
Oa the 16th the Commander-in-Chief aniseed
wen the canal in force ; on the lith he attacked
Hugh, which was occupied after a severe straggle.
The enemy suffered enormously, 1,300 dead
bodies of sepoys having been counted in one pleas
only. The Shah Huarill wan then cannonaded for
three hours, and was carried at dusk, after one of
the severest fights ever witnessed.
Oil the 16th the Men-boon was carried by as-
sault, after a heavy cannonade, and the troops then
pushed on rapidly, and seized the Motes Mahn be-
fore dark.

Outrun and Havelock came out then and joined
the Commander-in-Chief.
The Commaader•in-Chief was very slightly
wounded, and of his staff Major Alison, severely ;
Captains Alison and the Hon. A. Austen slightly.
'l"he following oaken; was killad :—'-Midshipman
Damien, Naval Brigade; Captain Headley, Royal
Artillery ; Captain llak,U, 93d ; Captain Lansaden,
30th Native Infantry, doing duty with 93d; and
ILirateuant Frankland, 2nd Panjanb Infantry.

Twenty-seven other oillcers were wounded. The
lint gore by this mail. The Commander-in-Chief re-
pute that the garrison has been removed, sad that
he is engaged in conveying women and wounded
to the rear. The city of Luckoow will be held in
cheek by a straw moveable column, with geld and
heavy artillery, occupying a good military position
°guide the town. The Fort of Antrowahas eva-
cuated by the enemy, and razed to the ground by
Colonel Southden, who intended returning instantly
to the Jaunpore frontier, as it wu still threatened
by a large foree from Oude.

Lieutenant Osborne, political agent in Revak,
has been =thorned to detach a fora to
suppress the insurrection in Bijerargoogurb,
and to take the administration ia his own hands. I
He reports that certain chiefs of Majber have
broken oat in rebellion at Rewah itself. The missal
seems to be all right now. A body of mutineers
reported on the 10th to have advanced from
Gliorawal or Megaspore district, and to have
crossed the Beaton into Itewah territory. The
fort of I)hur occupied by our troops on the Itith,
but the rebel garrison escaped.
It is appreheadad that the mutiny of the Cotsh
troops and the disaffection among the feudatories of
Meyer and Marries/ may cease serious disorder in
Rajpootana. The force there 6 very weak, and Euro-
pean troops are urgently called for. From other
native states there is no new intelligence of an
unfavourable nature. The following 'remelt have
arrived since the despatch of the last mails : Nov.
8, Barham ; Nov. 13, Victoria and John Bsll ; Nov.
113. Octavio, Agamemnon, and Urwick Castle ; Nov.
17, Cressy, and Champion of the Seas; Nov. 19,
James Baines; Nov. 20, Hammond; Nov. 22,
Chartage, and Sir Robert Sale; Nov. 23, Allen-
borough; March 24, Calabar; Nov. 24, Monarch,
Calabar, and Aliquis.
0. F. EDMONSTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India.
CHLN A.

CALCUTTA, Nov. 24.
Prom F. Edmoostone, Eq., Secretary to the Go-

verament of India.

Political Intel Hence ex Alma, Suer, Dee. 22.
General Ashburnham was to leave China in the Ave,
and an attack on Canton was contemplated to take
place in a few days after the steamer should have
arrived from Aden,hy the Ajdaha, the Alma having
broken her main shaft.

MALTA, Dec. 27.
The steamer Vectis arrired here last night at half-
past 11.

P. G. MOSTANARO.

The following telegram, dated Dee. 27, 1 a.m., was
received et the Fortign.office, yesterday, at 6.40 a.m.,
from Lord Lyons, at Malta:—" The Venetia lass
brought the Calcutta Mail of the 24th November,
fully confirming the relief of Lucknow, but nothing
more.—LioNs."

AUSTRALIA.

(BY IRLICTIWC Tll.2ollAtn.)
(TOOK 081 own COSZINPONDEXT.)
PLYMOUTH, UOWDAT.

The Suffolk, Captain Martin, was off this
port last night, from Australia, with 240 pas-
sengers. One hundred landed here. She Ma
14)000 rel. of gold (over flit tons)—the lemma
and most valuable freight ever brought by a sailing
vessel.

I have just heard Nena Bahib, with all his men
A.T.,, I. lc., hasp/sed the force at Jeloun.—Leilteltesan,

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COMPEISATION.—We believe we may state with
emadence that the government of In.lis hays received in-
artistic.* from home to grant componsatima to sll Forams
.ho have luez property through the anoints... We have not
heart the precise news of the arrangement, obit•la
we believe Is to be beetled by a CM1113410111.1% but
we have beard that the eurapeneation is to be awarded upon
• certain r•Fulated wale, sevording to the rank of the perms.
Of comes, by !hie roams sores persons might receive Is, sad
others mere than they bars loat, but the plan boa the advan-
' laic of being simp!e, end apredy b operation.—Rwrivret,
Nov. 19.