Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-03 00:00:00

Most of the officers have escaped, it is believed, to the
hill station of Nynee Tal or elsewhere ; but the Briga-
dier Sibbald is said to have fallen, and many civilians
are missing. Cawnpore, we believe, has been saved by the
arrival of the 84th and of the 64th, the latter from Bom-
bay. But the 12'h Native Infantry has mutinied in Bun-
dlecund, and at Allahabad, the 6th Native Infantry, which
had been loud in its protestations of loyalty, and of its
desire to be led against Delhi, rose and murdered Captain
Bird, the Adjutant, and all the Europeans they could lay
hands upon. The rest took refuge -in the fort, where
they are still in sefetv, the mutineers having marched for
Delhi. At Benares the 37th Native Infantry mutinied on
an attempt being made to disarm them. Joined by the 13th
Irregular Cavalry and the Sikh Regiment of Loodhiana,
they killed Capt. Guise, of the cavalry,and attacked the guns
of the European company of artillery, but were repulsed
by a eischaige of grape. and by the resolute attitude of a
hendful dale Queen's 13. h, and of the Madras Fasileers.
At Azingur the 19th mutinied, tte.l shot their adjutant,
Lieutenant Hutchinson. At Ghazeepore the 65th has
been disarmed. At daunpere the detachment of the
Loodhiana Regiment follewed the examplo of the head
quarters at Benares' killed Mr. Cappage, the civilian, and
badly wounded Lieutenant Mara, their commanding
officer. All this in the Benares district. The test of the
Dinapore division has been oilier, with the exception of
one deplorable occurrence at Rohuee. Major Macdonald,
Sir Norman Leslie, and Dr. Grant, three offieera of the
sth Irregular Cavalry, were attacked one evening when
sitting in the verandah of the Major's house. Sir Norman
was killed on the spot, and the other two severely wounded.
The assassins, at first supposed to be disbanded Sepoys,
belonged, it now appears, to their own regiment,
and neva been given up for execution by their comrades.
The Barrackpore or Presidency division, as you will hear
more fully from Calcutta, was so much agitated as to
render it advisabl 3 to disarm all the troops at head-
quarters, consisting of the 2nd, the remaining three com-
panies of the 31:.b, the 43rd, anti—the loyal 70th, which
the authorities, with the treachery of the 6th before their
eyes, probably thought " dokh protest too much." Our
78th Highlendere, so lately facing Persian guns at
Xhooshab, an the companies of the 37th brought up from
Ceylon, superintended the proceedings. At Calcutta the
native militia was disarmed and volunteer corps raised.
The King of Oude was arrested, and his alleged complicity
with the rebels may, if proved, somewhat affect the case
which is being pressed at home by the august lady in the
New-road. Turning back to the north west we pause for
an instant in 011ie to sae the gallant and able Sir
Henry Lawrence grimly busy in hanging the mutineers at
Luella ow, with loaded field p.eces and lighted port fires on
either side the scaffold, and to hope that there is no truth
in the report that he has been forced to abindon the
capital, and fall back upon Cawnpore. Pass rapidly
through the Doab, nothing new has happened to detain us,
thouffh it will tfie w "- c
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the Sutlej we find, as I have already intimated, Jullundar
deserted by its native forces, the 6th Light Cavalry and
the 36th and 61st Native Infantry ; and Ph Ilour vacated
by the 3rd. Throughout the Punjaub the flying column,
of which the nucleus and main strength are the 52nd Light
Infantry, has been doing its work well. No further out-
breaks have taken place. Many mutineers have been hanged
or blown from guns at Peshawar, Farozepore, Lahore, and
Mootan. Near the first of these stations the 64th Native
Infantry have been disarmed ; at the last, the 621 d, 69th,
and a native troop of Horse Artillery. Of the march of the
Bombay Fasileers I shall speak presently. It remains to
consider the position of the great tract of Central India to
the southwarl and westward of Delhi, with its numerous
independent chide. Approaching this district from the
north, I have fist to note that the contingent of the
Jheend Rajah has been doing true and loyal service under
the walls of Delhi. In his neighbourhood are the British
stations of Hansi and Hisser. Here the Hurrianah Light
Infantry battalion has mutinied, killing, it is feared,
Lieutenant Berwell, and other Europeans. The levies of
the Rajah of Bhurtpore, to whom was committed the
charge of keeping open tho road between Delhi and
Agra, proved faithless, and their officers, Captains
Nixon and Minims, of the Bombay army, scarcely
regained Bhurtpore with their lives. The liltvar
Horse are, it is feared, equally false. The Kotali
contingent, was, at the latest dates, still loyal,
posted between Agra and Mutera, with two guns. Of the
United Malwa Contingent the cavalry regiment has gone.
Despatched, the head quarters of it, from Mehidpore,
to follow up and attack the Neemuch mutineers, itself
mutinied, slew its officers—Brodie and Hunt—and, return-
ing to c trap, endeavoured, but in vain, to induce the infan-
try and artillery to fellow their example. The other wing
stationed at Indore abandoned their quarters, but without
committing any acts of violence. Ajmere is safe, garri-
soned partly by the flying Bombay column from Deese,
partly by the Mhairwarra battalions. Tee deserted
station of Nasseerabad has been re-occupied by
the Bombay Lancers. But what is Scindia doing ?
This is a question of grave moment. and one not
readily to be answered at present. We knew that
the 7 h Infantry Regiment of his contingent mutinied
at Neemuch. We know that the telegraph wire has
been cut near Sepree, and all regular communication with
Agra, beyond Indore, interrupted; and we have reason to
beliere that both at Sepree and Anger the regiment of the
contingent hive risen Indeed, I know that fears are en-
tertained in the best informed, quarters that the whole of
the contingent ( which consists of four companies of
artillery, two regiments of cavalry, and seven of infantry)
have turned against us, with the exception of three com-
panies wh!ch garrison the isolated fort of Asseeghur in this
presidency. Then, what wilt Sc:ndie do? Will he be
allured into beieving that our power is on the wane, and
into declaring against ne, or wilt he, at the head of such
troops as may remain feithfnl, resist the strong temptation,
and oppose disloyalty even to the deelh. Like his fathers
before him, he is a sturdy little Mahretta; he is young and
active, riling his 50 or 69 miles a day when necessary ;
and energetic too, as he showed on one occasion, when his
then newly raised artillery hesitated to fire upon a body of
the old levies who had refuse .l to disband. Sciudia jumped
off his horse, seized a lighted portfire fro m the hand of a
gunner, and himself discharged the first gun. Such a man,
with the command, moreover, of considerable treasures, his
the stuff in him to work us much good or ill. Indore, the
seat of his rival Holkir, is perfectly tranquil, and is likely
to remain so. The British station of Mbow, in its immed•
fate neighbourhood, is garrisoned in part by the head
quarter wing of the Ist Bengal Cavalry, of which the other
wing mutinied at Neemuch. It ia, however, safe at present,
and the approach of the Bombay column from Poonah will
probably keep it so. With this sketch—hasty indeed, but, I
think, tolerably complete, and I hope, with the aid of a map,
intelligible-1 quit the Bengal Presidency and turn to those
ofMadras and Bombay. The chief, perhaps the only danger to
be anticipated by the government of Fort S. George is a rising
in the NizSM'S country. One regiment of that sovereign's
contingent, as we shall presently see, has shown itself
disaffected, and been punished am ordingly, but one only;
and the Nizem himself is, in all probability, too much
overawed by the powerful force cantoned at Secunderabad,
close to his capital, to entertain a thought of revolt. At
Ranaptee, in Nagpore, a regiment of the newly-raised con-
tingent showed unpleasant sym?toms, bat the regular
Madras troops are there in force, and are thoroughly to be
depended upon. Indeed, the want of sympathy between
the Bengal and the Madras armies amounts to positive
hatred. I read the other day in an English paper of
eminence that the division of the whole force in India into
three distinct armies is " a dewy anomaly." That may
be so ; bat the clumsy anomaly had the streimous support
of no less able a man than Sir Thom is Munro, and I much
question whether it has not in this emergency saved India.
'She separate army of Madras remains perfectly stanch, so
does the separate array of Bombay. The latter, indehi, learn
its position in regard to the disturbed provinces, is able to
give something more than a mere pru,ive display of loyalty.
No- only have Lord laphinstone and his councillors had
the prudent temerity to despatch to Caleatia two of the
four English regiments of the Bombay establishment, but
on three several points in Central India and the Purjsb
Bombay columns, each comprising a portion of native
troops, have marched, and with the best ()Met The Ist
Tusileere and the Ist Laelech battalion have proceeded up
the Indus from Kerrachee to Mooltnn, portions of the
Queen's sherd and the 12th Native Infantry, with three
Horse Artillery guns, have reached Ajmer() from Deese,
and GeneralWoodhurnhs column from Poonah is advancing
upon Mhow. The prioress of this latter corps up to this
time may be traced in some detail Malligaum, on the
great high road frbm Bombay to adore, was the rendez-
vous for the troops of this column. There is stationed the
19th Native Infantry, and thither proceeded the 3rd
Cavalry of the Hyderabad Contingent from Arungabid
by a bad cross-road of 100 miles, which, however, they
got over in a couple of days. So far all was well, aid
General Woodburn, with his dragoons, 25th Native
Infantry and Artillery, had reached Ahmednugger from
Poonah on their way across the country to Malli gentle, when
he heard that, the Ist Cavalry of the Hyderabad Con-
tingent, which had eucceeded the 3rd at Arungabad, was
in a sta'e of mutiny. So instead of turning off to Matti-
gum, he took his troops straight on to Arungabad,
attacked the mutinous part of the regiment, some 150 in
number, diepersed them, and captured about 60. The ring-
leader, a noted native officer, was hanged at once.
Whe her any others went) executed I have not yet heard
From Arungabad I imagine the General will proceed to
Mhow by the Ajunta Gliaut and Barhampoor, calling, the
troops at Malligeura across the country to join him before
leaving. We have not been without our little alarms either
in Bombay, or in Poonah or elsewhere. Bat no outbreak
has taken place (for the Mahomedan riots at Broach, some
time back, though ending in bloodshed, arose only cut of
-4a local patrol between that people and the Pareses), nor