Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-22 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE BOMBAY MAIL,

By the arrival of the Overland Mail, we have
Bombay dates to the 25th December. The Times
correspondent writes as follows

The rumour that the Nana had succeeded in
escaping from Oude, and crossed the Ganges, came
upon the public of this Presidency like a clap of
thunder. To those who had followed with anxiety
the complex movements of our troops in Oude, there
was nothing improbable in the announcement.
Lord Clyde had concentrated the principal corps
of his army at various points east of Lucknow.
His own head quarters were in the capital. Hope
Grant, Taylor, Fischer were at Fyzabad, while
north and west of Lucknow, the only forces at the
disposal of Lord Clyde were Troup's brigade,
advancing across the Goomtee, towards Khyra-
bad, and Brigadier Barker's still lingering at
Benigunge, and waiting for the completion of a
bridge. There was no corps of reserve in
rear or the line of the Goomtee, and Sundeela,
which appeared a strategic point of the greatest
importance, was under civil administration, but
without a garrison. The line of the Goomtee for
70 miles between Lucknow and Benigunge was
completely unguarded. The few, however, who
were experienced enough to feel anxiety for Lord
Clyde's strategical movements appeared to share
in a belief that the rebels north and east of the
Goomtee were too dispirited to venture a final
throw in the game of rebellion, or to retrieve
their position by changing the scene of opera-
tions from Oude to Central India. The very
nature of Lord Clyde's movements, however, sug-
gested such an effort to those at least among the
disaffected in Oude who had no ties of home or
country binding them to the soil. The corps
operating between Lueknow and the GOointee
were necessarily driving the most resolute rebels
westward, and a gathering of these at an un-
guarded point of our line seemed absolutely to
foreshadow the event which ensued. The most
fanatic of the Mussulmans in the rebel cause
assembled together under the leadership of Feroze
Shah, and retired from Oude, leaving the Nana to
vegetate, as he had done for months, in the fort of
Churda, near Baraitch. It was not, however, till
some days after the passage of the Ganges by
Feroze ' Shah, that the Nana was ascertained to
have taken no part in the movements, which I
now proceed to narrate. You have not failed to
notice that while on the south of Oude, especially
in the Baiswarra districts, the rebellion has been
kept alive by the talookdars, or great land-
owners, in the north .• the leaders were
mere adventurers,—Khan Ali Khan, late sub-
andar in the East India Company's service :
Ferose Shah, the last Prince of the house of Delhi;
Fuzl Hug, the Moulvie of Delhi ; and a host of
minor fanatics, sycees, and subalterns in the ser-
vice of the late Court of Lucknow. Feroze Shah,

whose head-quarters were Seetapore for many
months, had also rallied to his standard Sukkur
Shah, a district officer in the pay of the Begum,
who incurred the displeasure of the Princess of
Oude by rapacious exactions in the district of
Sundeela, and by withholding_ contributions due
to the exhausted exchequer of Bowree.
On the Ist of December, Brigadier Troup, who
had already beaten Feroze Shah on the 19th of
November, met him again in the neighbourhood of
Biswa, where he occupied an advantageous posi-
tion. The rebels endeavoured, as usual, to out-
flank us with their numerous cavalry, but a
vigorous charge from our horse, and the crushing
effect of the artillery, produced the usual
result, and Feroze Shah retired. Rallying the
whole of the Mussulman chiefs of those parts, he
then conceived and executed the bold movement of
retiring to the Ganges. A direct road lay open to
him southivards through Sundeela. He had to
ford two small rivers, to cross the Goomtee, avoid
the column under Barker north of him, pass
by Sundeela, and cross the Ganges. All this he
did successfully in six days, and on the evening of
the Gth of December he encamped on the Doab,
within 12 miles of Kiinnonj: From the North,
as was proved by the event, he had little to fear.
Brigadier Showers, who pursued him from: Agra,
was too late ; but Brigadier Herbert from Cawn-
pore, was more successful. There was also a small
detachment at Etawah, commanded •by a most
indefatigable magistrate, Mr. Hume. That gentle-
man, having under his orders about 400 Etawah
Horse, started on the Gth in the direction of
Bela. On the 7th he learnt that Bela had been
plundered, and that Feroze Shah was beseiging
Hurchundpore, the fort of a friendly zemindar,
situate near the banks of the Aimee, a tributary
of the Urrund Nuddee. He advanced towards
Hurchundpore on the morning of the Bth, and
attacked Feroze Shah with great vigour. - It was
a bold enterprise. Audaces fortuna juvat. The
motto nnhappily was not realised. Lieutenant
Doyle and several Sowars were killed, and Mr.
Hume retired into Hurchundpore, while Feroze
Shah pursued his march towards Puhpoond and
Ooriyah. Already Brigadier Percy Herbert was
advancing towards the latter point from Cawn-
pore. H entered Ooriyah on the 10th inst., just
after the rebels had left it. Lieutenant Angelo,
thrown forward in pursuit, caught up their rear
11 miles distant, killed some men, and took
the only small gun (zumbooruk) that Feroze
Shah could boast of. On the 11th, the pursuit
continued from Ooriyah northward along the left
bank of the Jumna, but the main body of the
rebels had crossed the river before Lieutenant
Angelo, with the Towana Horse, came up. A few
men, • however, were killed, and several horses,
camels, and some baggage captured. The quick-
sands, which render the Jumna below Etawah
particularly dangerous, prevented Brigadier Her-
bert from attempting the passage. The rebels
accordingly proceeded across the tongue of land
formed above the junction of the Jumna and Chum-
bul, crossed the latter river at Palee, the Sind at
Labor, and made their' way across country due
west towards Dutteah and Runnode. The nearest
force at our command was that of Sir It. Napier,
at Gwalior. That officer received intelligence of
Feroze Shah's approach on the 13th. Some
excitement was created by it in Gwalior, and a
small detachment of troops was thrown into
the city. Sir Robert in person assembled the
remainder, and with a column of 300 men,
including portions of the 14th Light Dragoons
and 71st Highlanders, marched almost due south
140 miles to ltunnode, where he arrived before
the enemy on the morning of the 17th.
A little after dawn Feroze Shah was seen
advancing from the eastward towards Runnode,
and his force was completely surprised by a charge
from the 14th Dragoons, who issued unexpectedly
from an orchard, and dispersed them. Feroze Shah,

however, soon rallied- his men, and advanced
towards the Mhow and Goona roads. Avoiding
Colonel Seudamore's brigade, moving from Seepree

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to Amora to cut him off, he crossed the road and
is now on his way to Kotah, where he hopes to •
meet Tantia Topee. Our knowledge of his inten-
tion
to reach that point is derived from the, reports
of spies captured after the action of Biswa in
Oude. Whether he will ever join Tantia. Topee
is doubtful. That chief, it is true, has shown a
determination to enter Rajpootana again, butlie
will require more than his usual energy to evade
the numerous detachments sent out against him
from Baroda, Nusseerabad, Neemuch, and dhow.
In my last letter, after describing the action of
Chota Oodeypore, I informed you that Tantia
Topee had gone to the north-east of Baroda.
It was then made evident that he had no intention
of trying his fortune in Gu7.erat. On the sth of
December he was past Dohud, at Simree, and on
the road to Bans.warra. The Bheels, who are out
in this quarter, instead of aiding him, seem to have
been anxious to secure some of his wealth. They
broke up the roads before him, thinking to impede
his progress, but with cavalry, elephants, and
comets only, Tantia does not care for roads,
and the only result produced by the Bheels was
to retard the movements of our columns, Ort the
10th,aiis waTantiarra,where Topee,ee
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CUR DAY, JANUARY 22, 1859.

Soloomber, an isolated place encircled by tills in
the heart of the Aravulli range. Fears were. en-
tertained-at one moment for the safety of Ooodey-
pore, and measures weie taken to make it safe. On
the 12th, a brigade marched from Neemuch to the
westward. On the 14th, another brigade left Nus-
seerabad,. and General Michel, who had taken some
rest at Mhow, advanced thence with his force,Tapp's
force was also thrown forward from the Taptee to-
wards Oodeypore. Upwards of 1,500 camel's were
ordered to be placed at the disposal of these bri-
gades, for use in sharp pursuits. During:this time,
Capt. Morter, with some cavalry, hung on Tantia's
rear, but marched so fast that, when last I heard of
him, he was (Dec. 17) at Korade, east of Oodey-
pore. As for Tantia, the latest news I have
obtained, places him at Duriabad, 18 miles west
of Pertaubghur, on the 18th. Captain Hutchinson
has telegraphed from Pertaubghur that there are
three roads from Duiriabad—one to Muggara, one
to Chota Sadree, the third to Pertaubghur. It was
expected that Tantia would choose the latter, on
which he will be run into the open from the
Neemuch direction. The attempts hitherto
fruitlessly made to communicate the Royal Pro-
clamation to the men in his camp have at last been
successful, and good results are expected in
consequence.
There is now little fear of what our neighbours call
en retortr offensif from Tantia Topee towards the
Taptee, but if such an event were to happen there
are ample forces at hand to put it down. The
Ahmednuggur brigade is at Seerpore, and the Joul-
nah field force 14 miles from Khull, on the Ner-
budda. Sir Hugh Rose, who was lately at Bourhan-
pore is at present at Mhow. He has entrusted the
command of the Taptee, from Bourhanpore 150 west
to Colonel Warre, of the 57th, whose regiment is at
present divided, part at Seerpore, part at Doolia,
and part at Malligaum. Sir Hugh Rose Was
called to Mhow by the mutterings of a political
storm at Indore, which was weathered without
bloodshed by the energy of Sir Robert Hamilton.
This distinguished " Political," I am sorry to say,
leaves us early next year. To him we owe much
of the quiet which has reigned undisturbed so
long in the states of Holkar and Bhopal.
Gwalior and the surrounding country are
still disquieted by rebels. General Whitelock
has been forced to concentrate his troops
towards Nagode, to destroy a gathering of
rebels, the offscourings of the band lately
separated from the Nawab of Banda. Another
force is to be assembled at Gwalior to put down a
gang of insurgents at no great distance, who hold
a fort not to be attacked without breaching
artillery. The Nagpore districts and Berar are
disturbed by the rebels whom I described as
endeavouring to force the passage of the Ner-
budda above Hosungabad. In spite of all efforts,
2,500 of these got over into the Ellichpore dis-
tricts, where they are only kept in order, not
put down, by Brigadier Hill's Hyderabad Con-
tingent, 4,000 strong, at Hewerkair, detachments
under Captain Shakespeare at Mooltye, and under
Captain Prescott at Shawulmaida. The rebels of
those parts, in conjunction with the Rohillas of the
Nizam's frontier, are yet likely to give considerable
trouble. I have learnt nothing of the column
which lately marched from Secunderabad, but it is
stated that Brigadier Spottiswoode's column has

safely arrived at the Niiam's capital from Bellary.
The natural order of my narrative has taken me
far away from Oude. I now revert to the events in
that portion of our empire, especially with reference
to those events which cannot have come under the
view of your own correspondent, or which are of
so recent a date as not to be within your reach by
means of his letters. After the action at Biswah,
the brigades of Troup and Barber united on the
3rd of December, and proceeded to assist Lord
Clyde's combined movement for the reduction of
the British district. At the latest dates the joint
column was on the banks of the Chowka, above
Goorbux Sing's fort of Bhitowlee, and only
separated from it by the stream. Lord Clyde,
with the headquarters, proceeded from Luck-
now to Beyram Ghaut, on the Gogra, just
below the fork- of the Chowka, and Sir Hope
Grant held Gonda, 20 miles to the eastward, after
an action in which Dabee Buksh was worsted and
deprived of all his guns. I have no direct intelli-
gence of the reduction of Bhitowlee, but I
presume that it has been reduced from the fact that
on the 21st of December Lord Clyde, with the
head-quarter camp, was at Baraitch. •He
had completely surrounded the Begum's
force. The Begum herself had sent in to
sue for terms. Numbers of Sepoys flying
from our columns had crossed the frontier
into Nepaul, where they were surrounded by the
troops of Jung Bahadoor. Nana Sahib, forced to
a precipitate flight from Churda, 30 miles north of
Baraitch, had fled to a jungle fort north-west of
that place. Such in substance is the news from
Oude, which shows that the work of pacification
there is well nigh complete.
In Behar, though Ummur Sing, Seedha Sing, and
HurkiSsen Sing are still at large, their followers
have all abandoned them. _

Lord Elphinstone is at Bombay ; Sir Henry
Somerset still at Poona ; Lord Harris has returned
to Madras.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday

The Fulton steamer, en route from New York
to Havre, arrived in Cowes-roads this morning.
She left New York Jan 8, and brings four days