The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-13 00:00:00

EVE NIN G, JANUARY 13, lBsa

struck a salutary terror into the minds of the muti 1
neers.

GENERAL WINDHAM'S FIGHT WITH THE
GWALIOR REBELS.
The following is from the Correspondent of the
Daily News :
" Cawnpore had been left under the command
of General Windham, the hero of the Redan. He
had with him about 3,000 men, consisting of por-
tions of the 34th, 64th, 82d, and 88th Regiments,
besides artillery. It is said that his orders from Sir
Colin were on no account to risk an engagement.
However that may
,be, he heard on the 20th that
the Gwalior rebels were advancing on Cawnpore.
On the 25th information reached him that the ad-
-1 vanced guard had arrived at Pandoo Nuddy, about
8 miles from Cawnpore. These were not the Gwa-
lior troops ; they were Koour Singh's rabble, who
I having been beaten out, of Behar, in August by
Vincent Eyre, had since joined the Gwalior disci-
plined troops, and had come on as their advanced
guard. Windham, thinking they were the" Gwalior
troops, went out on the 26th to attack them, and
after a contest of an hour-and-a-half's duration,
beat them. Ho thought, most probably, that this
defeat must so disorganise the 1, ebels that they
would make no more head against us. At all events
all accounts agree in stating that no precautions
whatever were taken against surprise, that our
standing camp remained as though we were in a
peaceful cantonment, and that no attack was anti-
cipated for a moment. But the Gwalior men were
rather enraged than discomfited. Tney had sent
forward Koour Singh's rabble as a feeler, both to
deceive Windham and to mask their own move-
ments. They were very nearly being successful.
Finding from Windham's attack on Koour Sing
that he was prepared to expect them on the east
side of Cawnpore, they moved rapidly on to the
Delhi road, making a circuit, and then on the morn-
ing of the 27th marched on the station from the
westward. Instead, however, of attacking with
promptitude, they contented themselves with as-
suming a threatening attitude at Nawabguiage, a
suburb two miles distant from Windham's standing
camp. This enabled the latter to make prepara-
tions. He ordered out the troops, and marching
at the head of more Europeans than the lamented
Havelock had ever had under his command, went
down confident of success to attack the rebels. Our
troops, accustomed to be led to victory, went on
with their usual dash, the 64th, one of Havelock's
victorious regiments, leading. They charged a
battery in the left centre of the enemy's line, and
gained it, the enemy yielding at every step. By
advancing the other regiments to support the 64th,
the victory would have been assured ; but they
were left alone, and the enemy closing on them
with their left wing they suffered very severely ;
they were compelled to abandon the guns they had
gained. The want of a general was everywhere
conspicuous ; confusion reigned on all sides ; no
distinct orders were issued, and our troops had to
beat a hasty, it may be called a disgraceful, retreat
into the entrenchments, leaving standing camp,
stores, camp equipage, and the entire station of
Cawnpore to the west of the canal in the hands of
the enemy. Our loss was proportionately heavy,
and several of our men, and even some officers,
fell alive into the hands of the enemy. It is stated
in private letters that one of these was forthwith
hanged, a second beaten to death with shoes,
and a third tied to a cart-wheel, which in a few
successive revolutions crushed him to death.
Our camp and stores they burned, and that
evening advancing close to our entrenchment
they took possession of and burned the whole of
the cold-weather clothing for our men, which had
been stored up at Cawnpore. On the following day
the rebels attacked the entrenchment, commencing
with a very heavy cannonade from the right and
left of their line. Windham attempted a sortie, in
which, after some hard fighting, the rifles managed
to capture two guns, but our right were driven
back with much loss. It was the sound of the
firing on this day which reached the ears of Sir
Cohn Campbell ; a messenger at the same time
arrived with accounts of the critical state of Wind-
ham's party. Had the rebels at this time cut the
bridge of boats, which affords the only means of
communication with Oude, Sir Colin would have
found it a difficult matter to cross the Ganges, but
the rebels not expecting his return, and making
sure of Windham's force, were probably anxious
to avail themselves of the bridge of boats to crush
Sir Colin Campbell. At all events they let it re-
main, and by so doing were lost. The movements
of the favourite lieutenant of Sir Charles Napier
were too prompt for them. With his artillery and
cavalry, he marched 38 miles in 15 hours, crossed
the Ganges by thebridge of boats on the night of the
28th, on the next day fell upon the rebels, drove
them back, in a way which made the troops feel
that they once more had a general at their head,
into the town, and then returned toescort the ladies
and wounded across the river. Although harassed
in this operation by the rebels, who poured in a
desultory fire from the town, and threatened on the
left bank by the Oude insurgents, he in the space
of two days successfully effected this very delicate
operation. He did not at once attack the enemy.
Commanding from the entrenchment, the head of
the road to Allahabad, he made arrangements for a
safe escort for the ladies, sick, and wounded, as
far as that station, 'remaining meanwhile on
the defensive. On the morning of the, 6th, the
last wounded man having left the entrenchment,
11 be turned his attention to the rebels, and at 11
o'clock moved out to attack them.
" No details of the action have yet been received
in Calcutta, but it is known that the enemy were
totally and completely defeated. They lost im-
manse quantities of stores, grain, bullocks, and
baggage, 16 guile, and their camp. They were
pursued that day for 14 miles along the road to
Kalpee, in a south-westerly direction. The Chief
then returned to Cawnpore, leaving Brigadier
Hope Grant to follow up his success. This officer
continued to follow them up ; but the rebels, mak-
ing a sudden detour, .left the Kalpee-road, and
endeavoured to cross the Ganges into Oude. They
reached Joorag-ghat, 22 miles in the direct road
from Cawnpore, but much longer by the route they
had taken. Here they procured boats, and were
about to cross over their yet remaining guns, when
our pursuing force appeared upon their rear. It
was Brigadier Grant. He at once attacked them
,
with (Treat spirit, and after half-an-hour's cannon-
ading took 15 guns, large quantities of ammunition
and stores without losing a single man hinDelf.
The Brigadier alone was slightly wounded. This
is the latest intelligence. The details we receive
are but scanty. Sir Cohn is himself a determined
enemy to newspaper correspondents, and even
private letters abounding with news, of which pre-
vious a, Ivice has been sent, frequently miscarry.
With respect to General Windham's conduct on
the 27th and 28th, every account received from
expresses but one opinion. By some it
has been placed under arrest for
is the
saidc camp
phat he
fighting contrary to the express orders of his chief ;
by others, that disgusted with the sentiments ex-
pressed by Sir Colin, be has thrown up his appoint-
ment .on the staff of the Indian army. But both
these statements should be received with caution.
I send them to you, as they are mentioned in let-
ters received from Cawnpore.

The Calcutta Phoenix, of the 10th ult., says of
the death of General havelock :
"It is uncertain on what date General Havelock
received the wound from the effects of which he died
It is indeed uncertain, here in Calcutta, whether his
death was the vomit of a wound at all. All that we
know of the lamentable and unfortunate orcurrence is
derived from the telegraphic message received by
Government from Cawapore, and dated the 27th Nov.
In that message General Windham says General
Havelock died two days ago,' "

The same paper summarises the various important
events at Lucknow and Cawnpore as follows :
On the night of the 22d of November, the Residency
garrison, with tl.e women, children, &c., moved out for
the purpose of leaving the city. This movement wee
covered by Sir Cohn Campbell's force, and effected " in
the presence of the whole force of Oude." All wastaken
away. The King's treasure, amounting to 230,0001.,
the state prisoners, all the serviceable, guns, in fact
everything worth removal, was removed. Sir Colin's
force then fell back on the Dilkhoosa, following the route
by which it had advanced, and ultimately i left the
vicinity of the city altogether, for the Alumbagh, some
miles at the Cawnpore side of the canal which runs to
the south of Lucknow. From all this it is evident that
at the time of the departure of the Commander in Chief's
force, the rebels, and in great strength, hel4 the streets
of the town. They are apparently determined to make
the struggle a desperate one, and have fought better—
far better—against the East India Company than ever
they fought for it.
On the 28th of November Sir Colin Campbell appears
to have marched from the Alumbagh for Cawnpore,
leaving at the latter post a division under Major-General
Outran. The chief object was to engage the Gmalior
mutineers, who, according to some accounts, had seized
the native city of Cawnpore, and who, according to the
government news, were at least threatening the sta-
tion. General Windham—the hero of the Redan—
commanded at Cawnpore, and had marched out on the
26th November to attack a portion of the mutineers in
position on the bank of the Pundoo river, 8 miles from
Cawnpore. The general met with sharp opposition, but
after a fight routed this body, taking all their guns but
one. General Windham returned to Cawnpore that
evening and it was most lucky that he did so. The force
on the Pundoo river seems to have been either a decoy
held out to draw him from the entrenchment, or but the
advance guard of the main body of t,11,, Gwslior troops,
swelled by the additiw, oi sit the tui writs of the
large extent of country they had marched through, by
Kooar Sing's men, and by vatiqus details of irregular
soldiers from different parts of Central India. This aggre-
gated mass of rebels and mutineers attacked " Nawat.

gunge, near Cawnpore," on the 27th November, and they
seem to have been in such numbers as to have rendered
the retirement of the British force into the entrenchment
a necessary measure. That night they burned down
the tents of three regiments—an easy feat, as probably
there was not a British soldier there to oppose them. On
the following day, emboldened by the unpunished incen-
diarism of the previous night they attacked theentrench-
meat. On this occasion they, however, counted without.,
their host. They were met by a sortie, two of their
heavy guns taken, and themselves beaten. It was on
this occasion that Brigadier Wilson, the commandant of
the 64th Queen's, was killed.
Cawnpore thus threatened, and threatened by a force
of such superior numbers, nothing remained for the
Commander-in-Chief but to turn towards it, and
dissipate the army which was attempting to cut eft
his reinforcements and communications. This Sir
Cohn Campbell did, and in his usual effective
style. He marched, leaving, as we have before men-
tioned, Gen. Outrain with a division at aie Alumbagh,
on Cawnpore, reached that city, or rather the British en-
trenchment outside it, perfected hie arrangements for the
safe convoy of the women, children, and. wounded, to
Allahabad, and then went out and attacked the Gwalior
Contingent and their allies. The men of -the Contirgent
are just as good soldiers—if we may apply the term to
wretches who murder women and children—as were any
of the men of the regular Sepoy regiments. The Con-
tingent itself consisted of four batteries of artillery, two
regiments of cavalry, and seven regiments Jf intantry,
all as highly disciplined as any native troops of any
arm in the service. This force was not all that Sir
Colin Campbell had to oppose. Amalgamated w►th it
were the remnant of the Dinapore mutineers, the con-
tingents of all the ill-disposed Rajahs between Gwalior
and Culpee, the bad characters—the murderers, thugs,
and dacoits—of Central India, and all thusee who dread-
ing the advent of the Madras column to R.ewah and the
contiguous districts, had pushed north it, order to try
and escape into Oude. Tais was the description of
army which Sir Colin Campbell attached at Cawn
pore. They were routed with but trifle lig less, their
camp was captured. They were pursued along the
Culpee road for fourteen miles, all their baggage taken,
their munitions of war of must deseriptiocee, and 16guns
follihg into the hands of the victors.
This is our latest news from Lucknow seed Cawnpore.

The summary of the other Calcutta papers are
but imperiect. The int'lligence which they convey
will be found in the following Gorernmeut mes-
sages ;
Copy of Service Niesgage received by- Electric Tde-
graph from Lucknow, 23d November, via Cawnpore
27. h November :
From the Commander-in-Chief.
To Calcutta.
To the Governor-G,neral

Last night I caused the garrison of LI ick now to exe
cute its retreat from the residency, c 'vs red by the re•
having force, which then fell back on Dilkhoosa, in the
presence of the whole force of Oude. The women,
wounded, and state prisoners, and king's treasure, ana
23 lace of rupees, with all the guns are in my camp.
A great many guns were destroyed before the Residency
was given up, .those that were worth bringing
having been transported with much labour and made
available for our own purposes. Tao state prisoners
were brought with us.

From Cawnpore, 26th Nov. 1-50, p.m.
From General Windham.

To Calcutta.
To the Governor General.
this morning attacked the Ist divisiot t of the Gwalior
Contingent, amounting to upwards of 3,000, with two
18.-inch iron howitzers, and two light field guns, upDn
the Puudoo River; eight miles from Gawnpore—after
a sharp fight for one hour and a half, we completely
routed them, and captured all but one light gun. I
will write particulars on my return this afternoon.

Copy of Sonia.. Message received by electric
telegraph :
From Cawnpore, Nay. 27, 10 a.na.
From General Windham.
To Calcutta.
To the Governor-General.
All going on well at Alumbagb. General Havelock
died two days ago.

From Cawnpore, Nov. 27, 10 a.m.
From Captain Bruce, by order of his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief.
To Calcutta.
To the Governor-General.

I am desired by the Commander-in-Chief to transmit
the following to your lordship, dated ,ft lumbagh, Nov.
24. I have arri►ed here with all the long convoy at-
tended upon the rescued garrison. I propose to march
the day after to-morrow for Bunhee, leaving Sir James
Outram with a division.—Bengal Hurkaru, Nov. 28.

Service message received. by electric telegraph.
From Lieut.-Governor, C.P.
To Calcutta.

To C. Beaden, Esq.
The following Message received from Futtehpore at
3:a p.m. is lorwarded for your information. Message
begins :--From Futtebpore, lot December, Tuesday;
from Magistrate to Ballarat' to Ron. the Lieut.-Governor,
O.P.—No direct news from Cawnpore today, but a
native report agrees in saying that on the 28th and 29th
November we were successful in our sortzie and captured
several grins. Ladies and children, I behove, came in on
the morning of the 29th. Grand Trunk 'Road in Cawn
pore district infested with sowars, and c.)samunication is
very difficult. No enemy in t,is bet the .K.ul Ran-
pore Tehutelee and Thannah have been plundered by
villagers. One hundred Oude men covered the Grand
Trunk Road from north to south the day before pester
day. Heavy firing in Oude this mornings, and about 15
miles off. Hardly any firing in Ca wnpsore direction.

Service Message received by electric telegraph.
From Benares, Dec. 1, Tuesday, 9 p.m-
From Lieut.-Governor, C.P.

To Calcutta.
To C. Beadon, Big.
The following message from Futtehpore at 7.15 p.m,
is forwarded for your information :
"I have just received one line froinCapt. Bruce. Be
says the Chief has reached, and we are all right now,Nov.
30, 4 p.m. Tne betwer, who seems to be speaking the truth,
says that we have driven the enemy out of Cawnp..re,
and we have taken 16 guns, and are still following them
up to the west. The ladies and children arrived on the
morning of the 29th Nov. Baboo Rambuksh and Rugo-
nauth Sing, Oude Zemindars, are, I expect, up to mis-
chief. They have closed the Ghauts.

Service message received by electric telegraph.
From Allahabad, 14 Dec., Tuesday, 8.30 a.m.
From C. Chester.
To Calcutta.

To C. Beadon, Esq.
The Gwalror Contingent attacked No wabgunge near
Cawnpore on the 27th ult. The British troops retired
into the entrenchments, and on the night of the 27th
the rebels burnt down the camp of the 34th, 82d, and
88th regiments. On the 28th day they attacked
he entrenchments from the canal and the Suba•
d tr's tank. A. sortie made against the assailants
from the canal was most successful ; the Rifles
beat back the rebels and brought in two of their
18-pounder guns. The fire of the rebels from tb,
Subadar's tank was also quite silenced, but our extreme
right and the 64th Regiment suffered very severely.
Brigadier Wilson is killed, and Major Streling badly
wounded. Sir Colin Campbell arrived at Cawnpore at
five p.m. of the 28th. The ladies and children of the
Lucknow garrison are encamped four miles from Cawn-
pore.

Copy of service message :
From Cawnpore, Dec. 7, 12 noon.
From the Commander-in-Chief.
To Calcutta.
To the Governor-General.

finally
Having yesterday morningnally completed the ar-
rangements for pitting the remainder of the si, k and
wounded, 860 in number, in safety, the Gwalior Con-
tingent with its allies were attacked at 11 a.m. The
affair ended io the complete route of the enemy, whose
camp, captured was pursued for 14 miles along the
Cslpee road, and we captured 16 guns of different
calibres, 26 battery, carts, waggons, &c., besid-s
an immense quantity of ammunition of all sorts,
parkstoree, grain, bullocks, and the whole of the bag-
gage of the force. Our loss was insignificant, and I
have not heard of the death of any officer except Lieut.
Salmond, A.D.C. to General Grant. I halt here to-day
to reorganise the force. List of ordnance, &c.:—One
18. pounder gun with limber, eight 9-pounder guns with
limber, nine 9-pounder waggons, one 9-pounder carriage,
two 24-pounder howitzers with limber, one 24-p,under,
one 24-pounder waggon, one 24-ponnder spare carriage,
one transport cart with gin, three 18-pounder limber,
eleven store carts, three 8-inch mortars, two 6-inch
mortars. Total-16 pieoes of ordnance, 26 carriages of
different sorts.

From Allahabad, Dec. 8.
From Brigadier Campbell,
To Lord Dunkellin„
Military Sec. to the Gov.-Gen.
All the women and children from Lucknow have
arrived safely.

From Mundesoor, via Seerpoor, 30th Nov.,
7.35 a.m. •
From Colonel Durand.

To Governor-General.
21.8t—Encamped four miles south of Mundesoor. The
enemy came and attacked our left front, and threatened
our right. They were repulsed and driven into Munde-
sour with some loss. On the 22d the column advanced
on Keloheepore. The enemy gave the right bank of the
river, and confined himself to round shot fire from the
fort and suburb,, which proved harmless. Column
crossed the river by Bakrel Ford: camped at 2,000 yards
from Mundesoor ; clvalry pursued Heera Sing and his
horsemen, and -- loss into a village on
Neemuch road, about 10 miles from Mundesoor, where
the enemy's force showed its standards ; on 231 column
marched to a position north of Mundesoor on the Nee
much road, and met the enemy advancing. They took
up a position with strong village of Golrrassela
in their centre, and overlapped very considerably both
flanks of our position. Our artillery silenced the five
guns on the enemy's left centre, and a party of her
‘lajesty'g 14th Dragoons tOO% th,
driven from his position hits iiCahVy ;)u, a !,ody
them threw themselves into the village and continued to
hold it tenaciously ; whilst engaged in front the garrison
of Mundesoor sailed out and attacked our rear, but were
' repulsed with loss by the rear-guard, which was timely

strengthened. Neemuch is relieved, and the remnants
of this formidable insurrection are now occupying the
fort and town of Mundesoor, and are said to amount to
twolthousand men, much dispirited by their repeated
defeats in this battle of Mundesoor. The troops of all
arms, natives and Europeans, behaved admirably. Our
loss is not heavy considering the work done.
According to another inossa).-je reporting the above
particulars, the casualties are :—Lieut. Redmayne, 14th
Dragoons, killed, and 8
_rank and file ; Lieut. James,
wounded severely in the arm ; Lieut. Martin, ditto in
leg; Lieut. Prendergast, slightly; and four other officers
very slightly, and 68 rank and file.
Calcu,ta E. T. Office, 9th Dec., 1857.

An Extraordinary Gazette, published at Calcutta,
on the 9th of December, contains Brigadier Inglis's
narrative of the events at Lucknow, from the first
attack on the garrison to the arrival of the force
under Gene. Havelock and Outram. This deeply in—
teresting narrative is prefaced by a general order
in council, in which the Governor-General specifies
numerous officers and civilians who distinguished.
themselves during the defence. His Excellency
" believes that never has a tale b3en told which
will so stir the hearts of Englishmen and English-
women as the simple earnest narrative of Brigadier
Inglis. It rightfully commences with a soldi'3r's
testimony, touchingly borne to the chivalrous cha-
racter and high deserts of Sir Henry Lawrence, the
sad details of whose death are now made known.
There does not stand recorded in the annals of war
an achievement more truly heroic than the de-
fence of the Residency at Lucknow, desoribed in
the narrative which follows."

His Excellency also mentions the names of Birch,
Polehampton, Barbor, and Gall amongst the noble
women who distinguished themselves, and at the
close of the order his Excellency refers in terms of
deep regret to the death of General Havelock. Six
months' batta is awarded to every officer and
soldier who formed part of the garrison, and to
civilians who shared in the defence.

The .E'uglishman says :

We understand that letters have been received in town
announcing the arrival, on the 2d inst., at Segowlee, of
a large body of Ghoorka troops, mustering 9,000 men,
under the command of Jung Bahadoor. They are
aco,)mpanied by as many camp followers, who are said
to be half soldiers themselves. Jung Bahadoor was
marching upon Gdruckpore, and it was said he intended to
proceed to join the main army with the Commander-in-
(Net at Cawnpore It is probable he may have aortae
sork at Fyzabad, before he joins Sir Colin Campbell.

The Bombay Times observes in its summary of
the 10th ult. :—" The section of our summary
which ought to have been most abundantly filled,
must to-day, in a great measure, remain a blank.
For a fortnight the mails betwixt Lower Bengal
and Bombay have been cut off, the news reach-
ing us by the circuit of Madras ; and for once—
only for once, we trust—the English reader
must depend for Lucknow and Cawnpore
intelligence on our Calcutta contemporaries,
which can on all ordinary occasions be supplied
four days later in date at least from Bombay than
from any other point."
The important parts of the summary of the
Bombay Times have been already conveyed to us in
various telegrams.

In its commercial summary we read :—" The
import market has continued languid during the
fortnight. We have no change to report in our
money market, and the rates of interest remain the
same. Government securities continue dull of sale.
The rates of freights have again slightly declined."

The following is the summary of the Bengal
Hurkaru, Dec. 10
The news of the mutiny of the portion of 34th
and 73d Regiments at Chittagong and Dacca, must
have reached England by last mail, in private let-
ters, dispatched after the publication of the Over-
land journals. The last report in .connection with
these events is that the remainder of the 73d, at
Julpigoree, are to be disarmed.

We mention these facts here, because they come
first in chronological order ; but they are by
no means prominent among the events of the fort-
night. For many days past the public attention
has been fixed upon the Commander-in-Chief and
his gallant force, and their operations have been of
a sufficiently dangerous and doubtful character to
justify the intense anxiety which has been felt con-
cerning them.
In our last Overland summary we assured our
readers that they might consider the relief of
Lucknow to have been really and satisfactorily
accomplished. The event has shown that we
were justified in making that assurance. But the
task has been a hard one, and the success pur-
chased at a heavy cost. We have no doubt,
from the subsequent movement of the rebels,
which it must be admitted have been conducted
with considerable skill, that their plan was far
more deeply laid than had been supposed. Know-
ing, as we now do, the immense force at their dis-
posal in Oude, it is impossible to credit the-fact of
the feeble and impoverished garrison of Lucknow
having been able to hold out for so long, unless the
besiegers also found or fancied an advantage in the
delay. Our belief is, that for a considerable time
past, the rebels have had it in their power to
annihilate the garrison whenever they chose to
do so ; but that their object would not have
been attained by the means. The garrison, with
the women and children, once slaughtered, the
relieving force would have had no work but that of
revenge and unembarrassed by other cares that
would have been terrible indeed. The rebels thus
found it far more desirable to allow the garrison to
hold out, and to draw as many of our troops as
possible into Oude, trusting to cut off their com-
munication with Cawnpore, and, in the end, to find
them, garrison and all, an easy prey. This plan was
fortunately defeated by the masterly operations of
the Commander-in-Chief, for which the rebels were
unprepared, and which, under Providence, was the
sole means by which the work could have been ac-
complished, and our arms saved from an appal-
ling disaster. The attempts to cut off the com-
munication between Lucknow and Cawnpore, and
between Cawnpore and Calcutta are plain enough.
Electric telegraph has been broken and repaired
and broken and repaired again, and the roads made
impassable for days together. Nevertheless the re-
sult has been in the main favourable, and although
Cawnpore has been attacked, and its neighbour-
hood been made the scene of determined contest,
the main object of the expedition has been attained,
and the women and children of the Lucknovt
Garrison have been brought out of Oude suc-
cessfully and sent down in safety to Allahabad.
The particulars of these proceedings will be found
briefly detailed in the service messages of the Go-
vernment. The information thus afforded is, as will
be seen, extremely unsatisfactory, and affords very
little material for a connected narrative. It
shrewdly suspected that some portions have been
withheld by the Government, in which case fuller
particulars will go home by this mail, and duly
appear in the English papers. But it is clear that
whatever the extent of the intelligence which may
have reached Calcutta up to' the present time,
there is still great ground for anxiety, and even
apprehension. It is due to the Government to
notice that when the news of fresh dangers and
discomfituresreached Calcutta troops were promptly
sent up. These measures, taken just in time,
joined to the signal victory obtained by Sir Colin
Campbell over the Gwalior mutineers at Cawn-
pore, of which we hope to receive some further
details before going to press, are to a great extent
encouraging, and it is sincerely to be hoped that
the worst is over in that direction. Nevertheleo
the loss of General Havelock and Brigadier Wilson
—both of whom have fallen in the course of the
contest—is a hard blow, and all will agree that
though the advantage is great the sacrifice has been
immense.

Nevertheless, it becomes more and more evident,
as one outbreak succeeds another in places least
expected, that the rebellion is not so near an end
as many have sanguinely supposed in this country',
anol as, we fear, the Government have been sail"
guinely led to suppose at home.

BRIGADIER INGLIS'S NARRATIVE or

THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW.
(From the Second Supplement to the Overland Friend
of India.)
GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HON•
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA 15
COUNCIL.

(No. 1,543 of 1857.)
Fort William, Dec. 8, 1857.
The Right Hon. the Governor-General in Coup-
cil has received from Brigadier Inglis of her Ma"
jesty's 32d Regiment, lately commanding the garri'
son in Lucknow, the subjoined report of the defence
of the Residency iu that city, from the first threat-
ened attack upon it on June 29 to the arrival of
the force under Major-Gen. Sir J. Outram G.C. 13,
and the lamented Major-Gen. Sir H. Havelock,
K 0.8., on Sept. 25.
The Divisional Order of Major-Gen. Sir Jameo
Outram upon the report accompanies it.
"The Governor-General in Council believes that
never has a tale been told which will so stir the
hearts of Englishmen and Englishwomen as the
simple, earnest narrative of Brigadier Inglis. 111
rightfully commences with a soldiers testimony'
touchingly borne, to the chivalrous character an?,
high deserts of Sir Henry Lawrence, the sad detail
of whose death is now made known. There doefl
not stand recorded in the annals of war an achieve'
went more truly heroic than the defence of the
i<e.4 'eney at Lucknow described in the narratil
winch follows. That defence has not only cape'
forth all the energy and daring which belong t°,
Englishmen in the hour of active conflict, but it 1I
exhibited, continuously, and in the highest degree'
the noble and sustained courage which, agaiao