The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-20 00:00:00

TUE RELIEF OF AZIMGHUR.

The latest intelligence you have received, even
by way of Calcutta, cannot, I believe, have told
you of the relief of Azimghur by Colonel Lord
Mark Kerr and a wing of the 13th Regiment.
The following account of this operation will be read
with great interest :

" The headquarters of her Majesty's 13th Light
Infantry, 4JO strong, and the detachment of the
glom's Bays, numbering GO sabres, whiCh left
Allahabad on the 27th March, were joined at
Benares by two 6-pounder guns, and the column
marched thence with a convoy of more than 300
waggons, under the-command of Lord Mark Kerr,
On the-2,1 April, and on the sth were within ten
miles of the baaiegel town. The Gth of April is
regardel by the . Sepoys --as unusially auspicious,
and i; was consequently with feelings of the very
highest confidence th:t they had inzde their dis-
p salons for the attack, att.& in a manner which, it'
must be c-nfesse I, reflected considerable credit on
their leader (a well-known subadar of the 40th
N. 1.), who had unlor his cinama,nd, on this
occasion, a body of 3,000 or" 4,000 Sepoys, ntiny
of whom were the mutineers of th'a so-called
fighting reginients'''—the 40th, ith, and Bth.
The road for fear or fivele3 on- the Benares
Bide of the bridge at Azifnghur is skirted by a
Aucceisi,..n of embankments, t:vs, and small
villages, offering a
.series of posttons most ad-
mirably adapted for the operations of irregiar
troops ; and the column and convoy were . per-
initl el to proceed. unmolested along the road until
both their lints and rear bad fairly entered the
chain of p-sitiOns held by the enemy, when a tre-
naendou3 fire was at once opened upon the column
fi.orn.evtfyl36in'. The key of the rebels' position
c .nsistcd in a small village about 50 yards from the
road, strongly fortified and loop-holed, and it was
to obtain possession of this decisive point that the
principal efforts of -Lord Mark Kerr were directed.
But so strong was the position, and so stubborn
was the resistance, that it was not till after two
hours of hard fi;hzing, during which time the two
guns were constantly in action, that it fell into our
hands, our casualties amounting to 28 killed and
woundel, while the loss of the ia be's must have
been very considerable, a help of de.d, full three
feet in height, being found in the na lin build rg of
!he village. At the commencemer:t of the action
Lieut-nant Hall was severely wounded, while en-
gaged in fast tcking a house on the left of the

nony's pcsAion. Meanwhile the sm dl baggage
guard in rear had bten hotly engaged in repelling
the assault of about 330 of the enemy, who, in-
flamed by the lust of plunder, and reckoning on
the small numbers of the force oppoaei, had
attacked the convoy in a manner which showed
tha. they thought the much-coveted -prize was
already with:n their grasp. The. baggage guard,
however, supported by a party of the Bays,
:nanaged to make good their re istanc©
for neatly an hour, until the arrival of a reinforce-
meat front the column, on which, instantly assum-
ing the offensive, they drove the enemy from their
strong Position at the point of the bayonet. It
was at this jrincure,- while bravely charging at the
head of- .his then, that The gallant and lamented
Captain Wilson Jones, of the 13th,- fall, mortally
wounded. His dea!la was speedily avenged, for the
embankment wa-4 carried the next instant, and tho
detachment of the Bays, charging the fugitives,
completed their rout and confusion. The casualties
on our side in the rear amounted to five hors de
combat. The enemy's loss and repulse had -now
been co severe, that he declined to dispute seriously
the further advance of the column and convoy,
though large bodies of the mutineers were seen on
our left moving in quarter distance columns, and
the'r horse in squadrons, parallel to our advance.
Their fire, however, wassail extremely hot, though
their r, for the Enfield rifle prevented our
cas.Jahlea being very numerous. Their disappoint-
ment must have been most severe as they saw the
whole of the convoy, with a very few trifling ex-
ceptions, file slowly over the bridge at three o'clock,
to the gloat delight c f the bieagared garrison.
A lctt,r from Futtehghur, says :—" You will be
glad to hear that the Commander-in-Chief is on his
way to this place. Ono column comes up the left,
-the other the right bank of the Ganges. The chief
is with the latter. The siege train and a wing of
her Majesty's 78th left Cawnpore for Futtelighur
on the 16th."

Whilst these preparations were being made at
Lucknow, others not less significant were in pro-
gress in the direction of Rohilcund. Coke's brigade,
with the GOth Rifles added to its force, broke
ground from Roorkee, and crossed the Ganges to
attack the Bynore district. We may expect soon
to hear of action against the Bareilly people, of
whom the following is an authentic list :—Khan
Bahadur Khan, Chief Ruler ; Sobba R9lll, Prin-
cipal Dewan ; Fciz Alee, Meer Moonshee ; Gho-
latn Naib Moonshee ; Syfoden Khan, Jail
Darega and Superintendent of Buildings ; Melhoo
Khan, Taxing-officer of Bankers ; Dhuhoree Loll
Kishen, Paymaster of the Forces ; Bi►jiore Pundit,
Davran Alee ; Mudar Alee Klaan, Sipeh Saiar ;
Akbur Alee Khan, Cctwal of Bareilly ; Mob r k
Sha Khan, Nazim of Barelly ; Kabeer Shs. Khan,
Naib of Bareilly ; Fuzul riuk, Nazim of Pellee-
bheet ; Ahmed Shah Khan, Naib of Pellebheet ;
Abdool Ruhman Khan, Nazim of Badaon ; FuQsa,-
hut Oola, Naib of Badaon ; Neaz Mahomed Khan,
'Commander-in-Chief ; Rurainut Hooscrin, Com- 1
mandant of Cavalry ; Kala Khan, Alee Khan, and
Nizam Khan, holding military commands ; Walee-
dad Khan, of Malagurh ; Nana Rao, of Bithoor ;
Feroze Sha and Mirza Kochuk, Shazadas of Delhi;
Nawab Raess of Futtelighur ; Mahomined Shaffte,
Ressaldar of Cavalry at Bareilly ; Gooljar Aloe, of
Uniroba, in Morradabad.
Nana ,Sahib's chances of escape are becoming
narrower daily ; a, price of a lac of rupees and a
pardon are offered for his apprehension. But the
Government notificatim declares the reward is not
to be given to the Nawab of Furruckabad, the
Nawab of Banclas, Tej Singh, the rebei Rajah cf
Mynncorie ; Khan Bahadoor Khan, of Bareidy ;
and Waleedad Khan.

OUDE.
(From the Postscript to the Bombay Standard of

Saturday, April 24.) -
We regret t) learn from our Lucknow COMB-
pondents that the present condition and prospects
of Oude are most unsatisfactory. On tins point
their testimony is unanimouF. They differ, how-
ever, materially as to the func!it naries on whom
the responsibility of this state of matters rests.
Borne maintain that had Lord Canning car-
ried out the p licy pressed cn him by
Sir Colin Campbell, and, by a generous
treatrnint of the talookdars and great zemin-
da,s of Oude, detached them from the rebel
ranks before the commenu m(nt of the operations
a;ainst Lucknow, wo should not only have reduced
the num: rival ,trength of the enemy by more than
' two-thirds, but we should baye recruited our own
nearly
force by a valuable irregular and police contingent
of many thou-ands, and have closed up
every cno of those points to which the di
sepoys ar ad budmastres have made, and Per"
they are now re-organising themselves. which
Sl C h
liberal measures, practised before
hand hal fallen in vengeance on the "doomed
Uplifted
city," would have exhibited •no element of weak-
ness. They would have been hailed
ing the generous forbearance as manifest-
of a strong power,