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LONDON, TUZeDdr, SEPT. 29.

The fate of Locknow still hung in the balance
whew the last mails were despatched from Calcutta
and Bombay. On the 4th of August General
HAr►LtICR had made a second attempt to advance
to the relief of the Europeans beleagsered is the
Residency there; and a second time he had been

obliged to fall back for reinforcements. The cause
of his lint retre►t, we are given to understand, was,
that the insurgents had contrived to destroy the
bridge over a river, which is at this season broad,
deep and strong, on the read from Cawnpore to Luck-
now, sad occupied the Ltieknow side of the river,
with heavy guns m position. The proved character
of Genera: Havu.oce is a guarantee that he bed only
demisted bon the attempt to term a passage be-
comes it was impossible. lb own situation having
toesine extremely hazardous, be bed been obliged to
n-eross the Ganges. With a tone of only 900 men
le was in expectation of an attack from bodies of
the Owalior mutineers and the rebel' of (lode, while
ten days or a fortnight would, it was feared, elapse
before any considerable reinforcements would reach
him.

Captain HII.L. with 400 seamen, and ten 88-
pounders, left Calcutta, for Allahabad, on the 18th
of August, in a steamer towing fiats. But the
Europeans at Locknow, according to the most
reliable accounts, had only provisions to last them,
oa famine rations," to the 21st of August.
We fear the English public will be obliged
to undergo the agonies of suspense with
regard to the fate of Loci:now for two
Of three weeks longer. This uncertainty respect-
ing 1,000 of our kindred, many of them women and
children, is a fearful strain upon the powers of human
endurance. If NANA SAUDI, indeed, commands
the besieging force, the very worst may be expected.
Oar last faint hope for our ill-starred countrymen
and countrywomen rests upon the possibility that
Yam. SING and MADHO PERTAI:I may be with
the assailants, and that their superior wisdom
(if not their greater humanity) may over-rule the
savage counsels of the NANA. From the Choorkas
at Gorrnckpore nothing is to be looked for at pro-
ses,- The" We three times as fez from Lucknow as
lisraiocx ; the country between is at this season
far more impracticable than that which he has to
traverse ; and it does not appear that the English
officers appointed to command them had been able
to join. But for the dancing-master etiquette of
Lord CANNING they might have been at Lacksow
before the whole country had risen and the rains
had set in.

The events in the Bombay and Madre Presiden-
cies may attract leas ootice than the position of
Locknow, for they appeal ler to the imagination, but
they are far more pregnant with danger. Though
the mutiny in the 27th Bombay Native Infantry
is said to have been suppressed, it is intimated that
a plot to attack the 2nd Europeans on their arrival
at Belgium bad been discovered. It is added that a
regiment stationed at Rumagherti had been die.',
armed. According to the Bombay Army List, that
station wee occupied by a local corps—the Rutna-
gberri Rangers. The Mairatta country thus
appears to continue in a feverish state. But
so, also, does that portion of the Presidency
which lies to the north and cut of
Bombay. The disarming of the 12th Bombay
Native Infantry does not, indeed, take an by sur-
prise. for suspicions of their loyalty had begun
to be entertained before the previous mail
was despatched from Bombay. Ilut, viewed
in connexion with the partial revolt of the

Joudpore Legion, their disaffection is fall of
menace. Erinpoora—the station of the Legion, on
Mount Abso—i, only en miles northeast of Dec...
the station from which the 12th Regiment was
marched to Nameerabad after the mutiny of the
Bengal troops there. There is an appearance of
pretancert in the mutinous deportment of two corps
which had been each near neighbour'.
The necessity of disarming a Madras Regiment is.
however. far more alarming, became kes expected,
than any similar necessity in the Bombay or Bengal
Armies. And there is too much reason to fear that
the necessity may have been real. An officer high in
rank la the Madras Army has been heard, whilst
stating his confidence in its general loy►lty, to ex-
press suspicion of three cavalry regiments, of which
the .nth is one. Our knowledge. however, of events
which have eve now happened in the Madras Army
prompts as uneasy suspicion that the refusal of the
nth Cavalry to proceed to Bengal may h►ve been
cemaioceed by some niggardly and, at such a crisis,
unwise hinting of the Cavil Authorities about baths.
The details of this uglylooking Madras affair will
be espected with the utmost impatience. More
than one Madras regiment has already reached the
valley of the Gear.: Madras regiments (among
which ia one of the suspected cavalry regiment.)
are in dose contact with the Bear* muti-
neers on the line of the Nerbuddit; and the two
Madras regiments which, according to se and wont,
occupy •he Bengal station of Cuttack, am known to'
have been tampered with by the Mahometan inhabi-