The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

INDIAN MUTINIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY WINING, OCTOBER 3, 1857.

LETTERS FROM INDIA.

We have been authorised to publish the following
interesting and important letter:

CALCUTTA, AVOUST 23.
Since the despatch of my last letter the aspect of
affairs has, on the whole, improved. Our army
before Delhi is strongly entrenched, and is only
waiting for a favourable opportunity to make a final
attack on the city. The insurgents within it have
commenced fighting amongst themselves, and are
thoroughly disheartened. They have lost the whole
of their hoarded supplies of sulphur and saltpetre,
and it is morally impossible that they can hold out
much longer. It is said that they have already
offered to surrender on conditions, but as those con-
ditions principally referred to the lives of some of the
authors of the revolt, they were at once and peremp-
torily rejected. It is fortunate that Brigadier-
General Wilson, the officer at the head of the
besieging army, is a man of determination and
energy, and it is fortunate also that he is beyond the
influence of the magnates of Calcutti, who have
chosen the present opportunity to display the
strongest sympathy for the natives. Our latest
letters from Agra are dated the 29th July. At that
period the place was entirely secure from molest..
tiou. The rebels had taken no advantage whatever
of the vista./ regarded in my last, bet had lett
almost es soon as it had been achieved. It I. be-
lieved that a very preening message from their
fellow-insurgents at Delhi influenced them to
this step. However, whatever the canoe, the result
is to us most satisfactory. Mr. Colvin, the Lieutenant-
Governor,has written to General Havelock,offering to
co-operate with him in opening a communication
between the two stations, and there is little doubt
but that General Havelock will respond to the offer
as soon as he may have eucoeeded in relieving the
beleaguered garrison of Lucknow. That city still
continues the black spot on the Indian horizon. A
second time has General Havelock been compelled
to retreat to Cawnpore. Although invariably de-
fatting the enemy in front of him, yet, so great were
their numbers, that they still, by movements on his
flanks and rear, obstructed his advance. At every
forward step his difficulties increased, his sick and
wounded augmented, until finally he found ad-
vance impossible. He had not traversed more than
16 of the 62 miles which lie between Cawnpore and
Lucknow, when he came to this conclusion. Know-
ing, however, that a retreat before a barbarian
enemy would be attended with the worst ree=e,
lon the 12th inst., advanced to the enemy,
and defeated them, with a loos to them of 300 men,
and to himself of 33, and before they could recover
from their panic he had made good his retreat into
Cawnpore. On arriving there he found that Dhoon-
doopust Nanajee had taken advantage of his move-
ment, not only to re-occupy his old psition at
Bithoor, but also with a larcicrtiott his force to
apprstationoach
atrelailetaet f
ps. rty wasn a‘ithin sea miles
ttacked and de-
feated by the_ gallant Neill, and on the following
day General Havelock, advancing to Bithoor, again
drove the enemy from it, and captured two guns.
His men were so fatigued that they were unable to
follow up their conquest, and the Nene again se-
impel General Havelock's demonstration against
Lucknow had at least one good effect, it enabled the
garrison to obtain a fresh supply of provisions.
Taking advantage of the cessation of the attacks on
their position, caused by the departure of a great
portion of the assailants to oppose Havelock, they
made a sally and succeeded in capturing nearly a
month's supplies. They are now, therefore,. we trust,
in a position to hold out until, by the arrival of re-
inforcements, General Havelock will be enabled to
make a third effort to relieve them.

In the ordinary coarse of events, the 90th Regi-
ment would be at Allahabad on the 20th, at Cawn-
pore on the 26th inst. The greater portion of the
6th Fusiliers would be close behind them. The
arrival of these two regiments would enable Have-
lock to advance upon Lacknow. I cannot help
thinking it unfortunate, however, that another gene-
ral officer, Sir James Outram, is proceeding up the
river to supersede Havelock. It is rumoured
already that he intends to move upon Lucknow,
rio Azimghur and Fyzabad—a route which
I do not -hesitate to assert is impracticable at
this season of the year ; the whole country is under
water, there are no roads, and carriage could not be
supplied under a fortnight. Meanwhile Havelock,
deprived of his reinforcements, would be left idle at
lAwnpore, and Lucknow would fall. Of Sir James
Outram's talents and capabilities sal general there
are two opinions, both very decided. By one party
he is lauded up to the skies as bold, dashing, end
energetic by the other he is looked upon as en im-
postor. This campaign will prove him.
. . _ .

The rebellion in Behar has received another check
by the total defeat of Koour Singh and the insur-
gent Sepoys by Major Vincent Eyre at Jugdeespore.
It was there proved that the Sepoys cannot stand
the charge of Europeans. Excellent as light troops
or behind walls, they are worth nothing against an
European enemy in the field. On this occasion they
were opposed by a detachment of the 10th Foot—
the same men whom they had on a former occasion
surprised at Arrah—and who were, therefore, burn-
ing to revenge their comrades. There was, in fact,
no holding them back : they charged as soon as
they came within distance, bat they were not
waited for • the Sepoys turned and fled, losing
many of their number from the fire of the guns and
Enfield rifles. I wish I could state that the fury of
the 10th Foot had stopped here; but impartiality
compels me now to relate a tale of a different cha-
racter. Almost the last act of that imbecile,General
Lloyd (who, by the way, along with General Hewitt,
is to be brought to a court-martial), was to order the
remnant of the 40th Native Infantry, consisting of
about 100 men who had not mutinied, into the can-
tonment square at Dinapore; they were even allowed
to encamp opposite the 10th Foot, who had lately
suffered so severely at the hands of the men of this
very regiment at the enrich* at Arrah. That
surprise had embittered the feelings of the
men of the 10th to the very utmost, and they
could not complacently behold Die very comrades of
their enemies—of the men who had slaughtered
their brethren, and who were believed themselves to
be watching he comps—petted and rewarded
under their very noses. I do not pretend to excuse
the act, simply to account for it. On the evening of
the 18th inst., about 9 o'clock, a party of Europeans
first fired into the 40th (native) encampment, and
then attacked it with the bayonet, but made them-
selves scarce before any of the authorities could reach
the spot. Ten of the natives were killed or wounded,
and the whole of them declared that they had been
attacked by Europeans. It is a lamentable affair
the blame of it is primarily due to the officer who
placed such a temptation in the way of men exaspe-
rated by the defeat and death of their comrades.
We have received one spark of sunshine in the
arrival of Sir Colin Campbell. It seemed to us all a
proof that the home government was in earnest ;
they could not have gratified the army to a
greater extent than by sending out to it the
favourite lieutenant of Sir Charles Napier.
He, at all events, will show no lack of
energy. It is unfortunate that, owing to a red-
taps informality—the failure of the Court of
Directors to send out his warrant as Commander-in-
Chief by the last mail—he has as yet been unable to
take his seat in council. It is the more important
that he should do so, as he is supposed to be in
favour of more vigorous measures than those to which
the sexagenarians, who ought from their position to
wield the collective wisdom of this empire, incline.
Sir Patrick Grant leaves for Madras to-morrow
morning. He was long enough here to show
that he was not the right man in the
right place ; he proved himself too will-
ing to give up his own ideas in deference to
those of a occupying a superior position.
He was welrar accurately gauged by the late Sir
• Charles Napier. Lord Elgin, whose arrival 1 men-