Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

PEPORTED

PALL OF AGRA.

The Paris Journal, Des Debats, of yesterday
(Thursday), which has been remarkable for its
intelligent appreciation of the crisis in India, and
for the friendly character of its remarks, contains
the following paragraph, though neither the
latest despatches from Bombay or Calcutta
appears to warrant the writer's conclusions :
`` Although the official despatches represent
England as still holding out, we have reasons to
believe that this intelligence will not be confirmed,
and that the heroic garrison has hera been des-
troyed, along with the women and children under
its, protection."

GOVERNMENT DESPATCH.

ARRIVAL OF LORD ELGIN AT CALCUTTA.

EXPEDITION AGAINST ARRA.K AND

HEAVY LOSS.

REINIOVAL 0141 GEN. LLOYD.

13ISIIIMAMENT OF THE GOVERNOR-

GENERAL'S BODY-GUARD.,

The following telegram was received at the
Foreign-office through the Admiralty, Sept. 17,
8.2.5 a,„,.
" Cagliari, to the Secretary of the Admiralty'
London.
"The Bentinek arrived at Suez on the 9th inst.,
I,t 101.3. m. The dates from Calcutta, Aug. 10. ;
Madras, Aug. 17 ; Point de Galle, Aug. 21 ;
4den; Sept. 3.
"Lord Elgin reached Calcutta on the Bth
August, in her Majesty's ship Shannon, accom-
panied by her Majesty's ship Pearl. These
lressels had 300 extra marines and 300 soldiers
co. board.
"After the mutiny at Dinapore a small force,
consisting- of 160 men of her Majesty's 10th.
Sgt. and about the same number of the 37th,
Was despatched to relieve some eight Europeans
besieged by the mutineers at Arrak. The
eXPedition was not successful, and our less very
heavy.
"General Lloyd has been removed from his
e"linand and General Outram invested with the
command of the Dinapore and Cawnpore di-
visions.
"The 63rd N.I. Regiment was disarmed at
II
• eraznpore on Ist August. The 11th Irregular
havalry and the Governor-General's body guard
4V e also been disarmed.
140 Himalaya left Calcutta on the 10th of
A,
4811-$t for the Mauritius.

4This intelligence is rec.ived from Acting
(Consul) General Green, at Alexandria, ,under
date 1 th September, 1857, 10 p.m.
(Signed)
" M. STOPFORD, 112ar-Admiral.

" Consul CRAIG.

" For the Earl of Clarendon."

RETURN OF GENERAL HAVELOCK TO

CAWNPORE.

The following important despatch was received
fr°ra Lord Clarendon at half-past two this after-

~~on.

‘c To Lord Clarendon.
"Received, Foreign Office, Sept. 17. 12.50.
" ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 12.

"General Havelock had advanced twenty-
Ive milez from Cawnpore towards Lucknow, but
after defeating the mutineers [in] three engage
dents, with loss of twenty-one guns, he was
obliged to retrace his steps to Cawnpore, for the
:Purpose of leaving his sick considerably in•-
creased from cholera, and was waiting for rein-
forcements at Agra.

The Krok contingent and other rebels had
'been entirely dispersed.

"A detachment of het Majesty's 10th and
7th regiments, 300 strong, had made a night
attack up.on the men of the Bth and 40th N. 1.,
who had mutinied at Dinapore, but was repulsed
with loss of 200 killed.
`The irregular corps at Legowlie had mutinied
and killed their officers.

" A plot to murder the Europeans at Jessore
"and Benares had been discovered at lAidnapore.

" The Shekawanti battalion was wavering but
Ilad not been disarmed yet.

"Martial law had been pr)claimed in Bhai.

" Great uneasiness was felt in Calcutta of an
`outbreak during the approaching Mohurruw, and
the body guard had been disarmed, but allowed
let retain their horses.
" Lord Elgin arrived on the Bth August with
41130 marines and a company of her Majesty's
liniment, and another steamers had brought
'some of the troops of the Transit.

`` The Bentinck met two steamer coming up
the river with troops-

"The Himalaya left on the 11th, for troops
from the Mauritius.
• The report of General Havelock's retreat
`e,..°l3les by the Suez telegraph. The Calcutta
.4491i.shman of Bth of August does not mention i
(Signed) " F. JOHNSON.
Trieste, Thursday, 5.55. a.m.
(Signed)

f, RAVEN."

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THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

We are in receipt of still further details of the
news per the Overfand Mail, the more interesting
portions of which we proceed to supply our readers
with. The following graphic account of the state
of affairs appears in the Bombay Telegraph :
The news by this mail is of amore cheering nature
than any we have yet sent home since the mutiny
commenced. Although Delhi is still in the hands
of the mutineers, and the most dreadful atrocities
continue to be committed in various parts of India,
yet the broad wave of victory is spreading itself
over the land. The advance of General Havelock's
oolumn from Allahabad has been one chain of vic-
tories. In our last we mentioned that General
Havelock had reached Cawnpors, but we were
unable to give details of its capture. The column
marched from its encamping ground at daylight on
the morning of the 16th, and after a 13 miles'
journey halted to breakfast within two miles of the
enemy's position in front of Cawnpore. After rest-
ing three hours it advanced to the attack. General
Havelock had with him 1,300 Europeans and about
700 or 800 Sikhs against 13,000 mutinous Sepoys
armed and disciplined in every respect like his own
soldiers, and commanded by the arch fiend Nena
Sahib in person. The General, seeing the enemy's
position, determined to take him in flank.
For this purpose the 78th Highlanders were
sent to the front with some of the Madras Fusiliers
on the left flank to cover the movement. Her
Majesty's 64th and. the remaining companies of
the 84th Foot, with the guns, were on the right of
the column out of the enemy's view. While
performing this flank Movement the Highlanders
and Fusileers were under a heavy fire from the
enemy's artillery, which, however, did no damage,
save killing the horse of Colonel Walter Hamilton.
When our troops had got properly on his flank
the columns were wheeled into line and advanced,
under a heavy fire of grape, shell, and rnuaketly, to
within 50 yards before they fired a shot. Our men
then opened fire, and the 78th charged up to the
muzzles of the guns and captured them—three
24-pounders, leaded as they were. Leaving them
in charge, on they pressed--nothing but death
could stay their avenging hands when once raised
to, smite. The 78-11 next carried a village at the
point of the bayonet; this was on the right of the
enemy's position, and his flank was thus completely
turned. The e Autnns then moved on to their left_
position after clearing the village. As soon as they
got clear of the village the eaemy again opened fire
upon our troops from a gun he still had, when we
had to lie down and wait for our arallery ; but the
bullocks being quite knocked up, only one small gun
of no use against the enemy's big one could be got
into position. General Havelock saw at once the
difficulty, and instantly gave the order to take the
gun, which was done in brilliant style by-the Light
Company of the 78th under a heavy fire, which
was well kept up. This ended the affair, and our
victory was most complete. In the absence of
cavalry the line was halted, and the General went up
to the Highlanders and paid them a well-merited
compliment on their performances. Ihe whole
force behaved most nobly, and every soldier was
eager for the fray, and did his duty manfully: On
the evening of this engagement the column en-
camped outside the walls of Cawnpore, and on the
morning of the 17th our soldiers entered the city.
Accustomed as they had been to scenes of slaugh-
ter, the spectacle that met their eyes nearly patii-
fied them with horror. They marched straight to a
place where they were told 175 women and children
were confined, but os their arrival they found that
they had come too late ! They only found the
clothes of the poor victims strewn over the blood-
stained ground. The scene of this horrible
catastrophe was a paved court-yard, and one of
the Highlanders in writing to a cotemporary says
—a There were two inches of blood upon the pave-
ment, and from the report that we got from the resi-
dents of the place it appears that, after we had
beaten the enemy the evening previous, the Sepoys
and So wars entered the place where the unhappy
victims were, killed ail the ladies, and threw the chil-
dren alive, as well as the ladies' dead bodies, into a
well in the compound. I saw it, and it was au awful
sight. It appears from the bodies we saw that the
women were stripped of their clothes before they
were murdered." A feeling more terrible than ven-
geance arises in the heart at reading this, and even
the most reverent shudder when they think that Om-
nipotenee could have deemed such a terrible
ordeal necessary. The history of the world affords
no parallel to the terrible massacres which during
the last few months have desolee 1 the land.°
Neither age, sex, or condition has been spared.
Children have been compelled to eat the quivering
flesh of their murdered parents, after which they
were literally torn asunder by the laughing fiends
who surrounded them Men in many instances have
been mutilated, and, before being absolutely
have had to gaze upon the last dishonour of their
wives and daoghters previous to being put to death.
But really we' cannot describe the brutalities
that have beon committed ; they pass the
boundaries of human belief,' and to dwell upon
them shakes reason upon its throne. If ever a
nation was made the instrument of vengeance of
an insulted Deity, that nation is England; and we
trust that she will strike and spare not. We hope
that by this-time her ships are not only on their
mission of vengeance by way of the Cape, but that
thousands of her soldiers are by this time march-
ing across the desert upon Suez. Not a moment
should be lost, and long before Christmas the whole
of India will be lying at our feet. Before evacu-
ating Cawnpore Nena Sahib blew np the magazine.
He then retired upon Bithoor, to which he was
followed by a portion of our troops: On arriving
at the palace, hownier, they found that the bird
had flown. They fired the place, razing it to its
foundations, and carried away at the same time 15
guns. Nena Sahib, it is said, had as intention
of going to Lucknow, but when he got as far as
the river his cavalry and infantry deserted him.
Rumour has it that he then destroyed himself
and family ; but the general belief is that he is
still alive, and the sum of 5,000r5. has been offered
for his capture. Nena Sahib is the adopted son of
the late Peiehwa Bajee Rao, who from the time of
his deposition till his death lived at Bithoor, in
the neighbourhood of Cawnpore, upon the peasion
allowed him by the British Government. On the
death of the ex•Peishwa, Nena strove hard, but
without success, to obtain from the Indian Govern-
ment a continuance to himself of the pension
allowed to Bajee Rao. Failing in this, he
despatched an agent to agitate ifs claims in Eng-
land, and transmitted, it is said, to Calcutta to
meet the expenses of such a mission a single piece
of Company's paper of the value-of 5 lace of rupees.
The mission to England was as unsuccessful as the
attempt made to. influence the local government.
The India Government may in some mea-
sure thank itself for having allowed this man to
acquire. the local influence he possesses. It is
well known that for years back, since the death of
Bajee Rao, Nena has kept the Begums of the Bajee,
the rightful heirs to the property of the deceased
chief, in close confinement in the Zenanah, so that
none likely to take steps relative to rescuing them
from confinement, or restoring to them their pro-
perty, could obtain access to where they were. It
cannot be said that Nena is not a venturous traitor.
He has staked his all, which is not a little, upon
the die. His game might have been played so
us not to have entirely deprived him of the
sympathy of those he fought against, but, like
every leader the present insurrection has brought
to notice, he was unable to resist that propensity
to cold-blooded, dastardly murder which seems to
take pOssession of most natives simultaneously
with their achieving power to gratify it. On being
joined by General Neil, General Havelock deter-
mined to leave the place in his hands and march
at once upon Lucknow, 50 miles from Cawnpore.
The victorious column accordingly commenced its
march upon Lucknow on the 20th of July. The
road was found to be perfectly clear until our troops
were within about 20 miles of Lucknow. Here
they were met by the enemy on the 30th of, July,
nnmberingabout 10,000 men who were repulsed with
great loss, leaving in our possession fifteen guns.
Our losses are not known, . Out we suppose they
must have been heavy, as the fight Wag a very
obstinate one. It was expected that General
Havelock would enter Luokuow on the Slat of