Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The Bombay Times of Decembe7.9Th states that
the intelhgence from Oude is extremely gratifying,
the Talookdars universally submitting themselves
wherever our arms appear. The chief and most
active of our opponents is Beni Mandoo Sing, but
Lord Clyde (who entered the city of Lucknow on
the morning of the 27th of November) is threaten-
ing him with an immediate checkmate by the
closing in of our columns upon him. "He may
succeed in forcing himself through the cordon
being drawn around him, but it will be by leaving
his 25,000 men and 12 guns behind him. Serious
fighting is no longer expected in the province."
Oomrao Sing of Kantha, another rebel notoriety,
still holds out, and made an attempt, it is said, to
surprise Poorna a short time since. The work of
reducing the province between the Gogra and the
Ganges is proceeding rapidly, the rebel forts being
demolished as they are surrendered.

The seat of rebel power and influence, Trans-
gogra, is still at Bounree, where the Beghum and
Ikba Shah hold court. The whole, however, are
reported to be preparing for flight. The miscreant
of Bithoor is still, it is supposed, on the confines of
Nepaul.
Brigadier Smith reports having surprised Maun
Sing, and about 2,400 men, on the 14th of Nov.,
at Koondry, and having pursued them to Rajpore,
killing six hundred. A, forced march of twenty
,miles from Mongroulie on the Betwa brought the
troops to within two miles of Attakaria, on the
13th. At four o'clock the next morning the
column started again, and came upon the enemy
at daylight. The surprise was complete,
and the route immediate. The guns of Blake's
troop arrived at the gallop, and poured in round
after round of grape and canister, the 95th Regi-
ment advancing in line on the right of the guns,
and sweeping the insurgents before them. The
Bth Hussars and Ist Lancers were now let loose at
the flying mass, and pursued them for eight miles,
accounting, it is said, for 600 of them. Mann Sing
himself escaped by flinging himself, half naked,
upon horseback.
General Grant,. on the 21st November, en-
countered the enemy on the other side of the
Goomtee, 4,500 strong, and dispersed them, killing
100 men and taking six guns.

Captain George 'Hare, commandant of the.sth
Infantry Hydrabad Contingent, was shot dead by
a Sepoy on the evening of the Ist inst., whilst
sitting in the officers' mess at Ellichpore.
Of Tantia Topee the Bombay Times reports :
The interest of the"war may almost be said to be con-
fined to the pursuit of this man, who with a body of
followers supposed to consist of about 2,500 f?ghting men,
besides women and children, has again contrived to elude
our troops, and is now supposed to be in Guzerat. Parke,
whose pursuit of these insurgents over half of Central
India had been hitherto so constantly baulked, seems at
last to have come up with them by dint of hard marching,
upon the morning of the Ist instant, and to have given
them a severe defeat. The only particulars as yet
received of the engagement are contained in the following
telegram from the Resident at Baroda.

tfrigadier Parke writes as follows from Chota
Oodeypore on the Ist instant.:—
The force under my command attacked the rebels under
Tantia Topee and Rao Sahib at Oodeypore at daylight
this morning. The enemy lost at least three hundred
men, chiefly Irregular Cavalry and Sepoys in British
uniform. Our loss comparatively trifling-, not yet ascer-
tained. No European officers killed. The rebels dis-
persed into three bodies ; pursuit was impossible, my
'troops having marched upwards of 200 miles since 23rd
November, the last twenty miles through the densest
jungle.
The latest intelligence received is that Tantia
Tepee has at last entered Guzerat, where vigorous
efforts are being made to meet.him. Sir Hugh Rose
cannot be far behind Parke, and has with him a
powerful and well appointed force. It will be in the
recollection of our readers, that Tantia Topee was orig-
inally attended in his flight by the Rao Saheb (nephew
of the miscreant Nana) and the Nuwab of Banda The
Rao still remains with the insurgents, but the Nawab
surrendered himself to Lieutenant Kerr's force near
Charwa, on the 17th ultimo, from sheer inability, it is
alleged, longer to sustain the privations and sufferings
of the flight. Whether the hands of this man are stained
with the actual murder of our ecinntrymen seems doubt-
ful, and his fate has not yet, we believe, been decided
upon. The surrender to Lieutenant Kerr was made
upon the single condition that his life should be spared
until the instructions of the supreme government were
received. _

An insurrectionary movement on a small scale
has occurred in Burmah province, in which the
village of Thorantay, distant about ten miles from
Rangoon, was temporarily in tie hands of a band
of insurgents led by a fisherman who announced
himself subsequently as prince. During the affray
the civil officer of the station and his nephew
were wounded, the latter, we regret to add, dying
the day after. The rebels do _ not appear to have

been guilty of the excesses which ha-Ccmarked the
xevolt in India. "To
_prevent the poSsibility of
any assistance being rendered by the Burmese of
Rangoon, the guards were ordered to be
strengthened, and SeNys were piequeted over the
town. Two steamers were immediately dispatched
with all the available troops, and in a couple of
days, fifty-three of the gang were secured. There

was at first a difficulty in c-apturing, the soi disant
prince, but the offer of a reward of a thousand
rupees, induced the villagers to give him up. He
is now in jail, awaiting only his trial and transfer

-to the gallows. In extenuation of his treason, he
pleads instigation on the part of a Burman official
at Wallah, on whom the authorities here placed
much confidence."

DEATH OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN JA(10B

BOMBAY, December 9,

News has just reached Bombay, by electric telegraph,
of the death of Brigadier-General John Jacob, of the
Scinde Horse. This melancholy event took place on the
sth instant, at Jacobabad, Scinde, brain fever being the
cause of death. At a time like the present, a casualty of
this kind is little less than a public calamity. Brigadier
Jacob held Scinde and the entire frontier in his grasp.
The wild tribes regarded him with mingled feelings of
fear and superstition, and even the rudest of their chiefs
respected his authority and obeyed his mandates.

Brigadier General Jacob was an artillery officer, hay-
ing been appointed to the Horse Brigade in 1827. He
was a complete soldier, and like Napoleon had mastered
all the details and duties of his profession. The Scinde.
Horse, of which he was for so many years Commandant,
are regarded as the finest troops in the world. Whatever
he undertook to perform he performed well, and whether
we look upon him as a soldier, a general, an inventor, a
philosopher, or a politician, we perceive only the highest
and most brilliant qualities. ' -
His death will be deeply and generally. regretted.