The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-15 00:00:00

the rebels at Hattara and Bunee, and by nightfall
had succeeded in taking " one of the enemy's eu-

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received by the O'verland Mail corre-
spondence and papers from Wilt
.anal China of the
following dates:—Calcutta,• June 4 ; Madras, June
10 ; Hong Kong, May 22 ; Shanghee, May 17.
The following summary of nerve from'the Bengal
Hurkatea of June 3, though it contains some facts
already known, will be read with interest :
Let not the British public ,deieive itself or be
den_ived by any communications from this country.
We want more men from England. • . •
During the 16 days which have elapsed since our
last overland summary theremarzliable, change which
we then announced as impending overthe whole
character of the revolt has established itself more
clearly, and indeed in a manner which is now dii-
.cernible upon the most cursory sixatriination.i
We said that the insurrection was about to lose
the quality which it had hitherto.more or less main-
tained " of a concentrated struggle for mastery on
a smaller number of important
,points." and to be
seecceeded by a " multiplicity of sthall and harassing
ac ions scattered over animmetteely widened area"
This prognostication has been verified: to the letter.
The change is anything but au advantage to. us.
Soldiers can endure an incredible amount of hard-
ship, fatigue, and privation, in the excitement pro-,
duced by the prospect of an engagement an d decisive
results within a 9karly limited and caleattialgtinte;
but notch ieeersaiting amongqiiitttirideis-sodujitri-
ously affected by the heart-sickness of hope deferred.
They. can far more easily:bear the vicissitudes and
alternations of a fierce campaign on a grand scale,
oallie g out all the mighty passions of military struggle
—nay, even the most tremendous reverses, pro-
vided it be "upon the cards," to repair them by
those fervent exertions in which, inspired as they
are by splendid hopes, all pain, all anxiety, all cares
are forgotten. But when nothing decisive is hoped
for or deemed possible in the nature of the struggle,
and yet the desperate effors and the unspairing toils
which such a result would deserve, would obtain,
and would reward, are equally necessary without a
chance or an expectation of it, the soldier quickly
loses heart, health, and moral buoyancy.
If any one circumstance could increase the fearful
mortality which is the inevitable attendant of a
European force obliged to keep the field during the
heat and rain of the season now opening in central
and upper India, it would be the necessity of long
forced marches, incessant changes of quarter, and
small ignominious conflicts simultaneously in a
thousand spots to day, and nobody can say where
to-morrow, with neither honour nor a conclusion
consequent upon the most complete victory, but
deep disgrace and real danger upon the slightest
defeat.
Let Government, then, and lot the British na-
tion look the truth honestly in the face. We want,
we need more soldiers from England. It is no
longer the case of a great struggle, in which the
energy of our men might compensate their fewness,
and perhaps the skill of a single commander bring
home a glorious decision from a hard-fought field.
It is no longer the case of a struggle which can, in
its nature, be decided thus by any great conflict
whatever. Nay, the very circumstance which may
dispose the nation at home to imagine they can
now, with safety, relax in their exertions; is the
circumstance which, of all others, should most
impel them to redouble their efforts, and which
would the most surely and infallibly operate in
rendering any relaxation fatal—we mean the dis-
persion of the insurgents.
Oar forces are able to crush them in a great
battle, and they know it. But are those forces, in
this climate, at this season, for two-thirds of the
Indian year, able to patrol half India, to keep the
communications open, to maintain the security of
trade, to repress a universal guerilla warfare, or
even to make bead against it, and to show a front
wherever it may choose to break out ? Are those
forces able to remain at once an army in order to
avoid being destroyed, and yet to-become a police
in order that the Indian empire may avoid falling
into chaos ?
If the realer will now take his map and follow
us, be will obtain a clear notion of the transactious
which have occupied the period since our last sum-
mary. Without the map, unless he have already a
familiar picture of Indian localities in his mind, he
will be able to form no clear idea of what has oc-
curred or of what is occurring. The most interest- •
ing military operations subsequent to the 11th of
May are those of Sir Hugh Rose's column. On
that very day he had passed Sundhee, close to
Ottah, and had advanced within ten miles of Calpee,
where the most formidable of the numberless minor
musters of the insurgents had been formed. They
did not mean to offer any desperate or final opposi-
tion to Sir H. Rose, for they hal made a bridge
for their escape across the Jumna ; yet they were
resolved to dispute his progress, for the Nawab of
Banda, with 3,000 fighting men, Tantia Topee, and
the Ranee of Jhansi, had joined them. Meanwhile
Cul. Riddell, with the Etwah column, was moving
down on the 18th to co-operate with the whole of
the field force under Sir H. Rose along the left
bank of the Jumna. Before this movement could
be completed, that is on the 16th, the enemy, with
cavalry, infantry, and three guns, one drawn by
an elephant, attacked the 2d brigade of the field
fore,
and were driven back into their entrench-
meats. The Nephew of Nana S ahib was with them.
Six days later they again attacked with great de-
termination Sir Hugh Rose's right flank and
front, at his camp of Gogowlie. The right was
hard pressed ; the camel corps was brought up to
its relief, and charged bayonets successfully. This
advantage was vigorously pressed, and the re-
pulse of the enemy became a rout. Sir Hugh,
however, then gave his men a few hours' repose,
and it was not till early the next morning that
he assaulted Calpee. There the sepoys, having
(as we just now said) made a bridge already for
their escape, showed the native consistency of
I character ; for they next swore they would die or
destroy Sir 11. Rose's force, and then they ended
by flying in panic at its advance, and leaving it
master of the town and fort of Calpee.
Colonel
of the rebels, and cap •
was unable amounted
ot re
this time been most effeltually shelling the place.
Maxwell, from the left bank of the Jumna, had all
ggruenatsiannarammunition. To what
these damages and etp
and horse artillery were sent in pur-
suit, The cavalry
tured kalillletldmiar
nree
states the our' nten nsi Pt
bteecedr-
asion to havebeen2ooo
pieces.by the zemindars on the
tto iofv
tmei li yee
1,
is tt,
ilp:nnyo
s; ffibs
lcu, i;
tit lna nto
oen
tl
hte
Teel
art'
accountael ne
c
and the number of glllls seized 22. Some of the
to cross the Ganges. A subter-
raneous magazine of 500 barrels of powder and vast
quantities of ordnance stores was discovered at Cal-
pee,were and in the town four foundries of cannon.
Col. Middleton occupied Runt aerpore on the
25th, without oppcsitton. The churchyard was
de=ecrated, and not all article of European fend.-
at ut r
je
tiouru nu idaenru, fa
wheree.tut ewas in the place. Meanwhile
a
coast martial was sitting 35,
se eu pt oe y, i
,s
2o
7of them f the 4th
and 8 blown from guns;
and 7 of the 16th Irregular Cavalry had been trans-
em s iTative Infantry had been exe-
lact,
air A. Rose's first operations
ported.
About the time of
according to a strange message from
smitted by Government, souse ,a againstliab Ca
da I
ts:::
i
en-
gagement, concerning which or its results nothing
b
occurred
Sir Colic Campbell himself and the
further was ceinmanicated to the public,
rebel force at Hattara and Bunee, a little dis-
tance to the east of Shalijelianpore. Our readers
willremember, from our last summary, the surprise
by the rebels, and our recovery of this place.
The government messsge to which we now allude
19 dated the 21st of May, Allahaba,d, and "reports"
a report from Futteinghur that the commander-in-
ch.ef had been engaged all day on the 18.11 with

treuchments."
The Monlvie Liakut Ali attacked, plundered,
and then abandoned Sandee and Palee. We pass
over a multiplicity of minute operatiOns and forays,
cases of plunder and run away, from- which there
has been little effect. To come nearer home Cron.Lugard, writing from Judgespora on the 27th, an-
nounces a victorious attack on the rebals atiDullee-
pore, the capture of two elephants, the re-capture
of the two 12-pounders lost by theArrah party, and
the destruction of Dulleepere and of a large house
helonging to one of the rebel chiefs. The enemy
were drivert out of the jungle, and pursued by some
of the 10th and 84th in a south-west direction.
Calcutta is not pleased at the southerly part of
this direction. The jungle at Jugdespore has been
consigned to the axe. Meanwhile the roads are
generally infested by marauding banditti ; and
although the telegraphic communications are on
the whole maintained, and the dawks run, pet
these last are by no means safe. Fiom Alla-
habad to Cawnpore, from Futtepore to 0:1W11-
pore, none like to venture except under cover, or
in the vicinity of strong escorts. The murder of one
officer, Ma,jor Waterfield, and the miraculous esclpe
of another, his companion (Capt. Faaihawe), on
„their way to Agra, are significant (MOO, when it
is rernanbered that the road they chose dvafs tlae less
infested and less dangerous of the two. No import-
ant military news have come beyond what we have
now recorded, nor till we receive large reinforce-
ments from England will it be possible to settle the
countty. At Allahabad five ranges of fine barracks
were burnt to the ground on the 231 alt., under
the very eyes of the Governor-General, and beyond
all doubt by an incendiary. Indeed it was in an un-
occupied barrack, supposed to be empty, that the
flames broke out. Ab nit half way between Allaba-
bad and Benares, at Gopigunge, one of the hundred
gatherings of rebels, that now flit here and there,
necessitated in the middle of last month a concen-
tration of troops to clear the road. We tria,y;mention
here that it has been s'ated; on respectable autho •
rity, and that it is generally believed, that Nana
Sahib (while various columns were in hot pursuit
here and there of his imaginary trail) came quietly
to Allahabad the week before last, and sojourned
there at ease for eight days. The impudent caitiff
has doubled his promised reward for the Governor-
General's head, which reward had previously only
equalled that which the Governor-General offers
for his,
Calcutta has not laid aside all idea of a possible
massacre ; and in truth it is not, and cannot b-,
any absurdity to term possible what would be mole
that is—easy.
The Zeiniudar of Packet:', whose family is among
the highest of the ancient native nobility, is still re-
tained in custody as " a state prisoner," although
acquitted °lathe charges of treason for which he was
tried. The Punjab remains quiet., The rebels in
India, are scattered but not subdued ; and, except
the operations we have recorded, there is every whet e
a sore of uneasy smouldering of the revolt rather
then anything that deserves to be called its sup
pressioti.

GOVERNMENT MESS AGES.
The following are the latest Government mes-
sages :
Service Message from G. F. Eclrnonstone, dated
Allehatad, 26th Wine, 11.10 p.m.
"We hear from Jullunder that 35 cep ys of the 4th
N.I. were sentenced to death by a geueral court-martial.
Eight wore blown away from the guns, and the remain•
der were shot by mueketry. Seven men of the Mb
Irregular Cavalry have been sentenced to transportation
for life. A general court-martial is sitting. Celonel
Middleton occupied Hum:erpore on the 25th without
oppoeition. Tne villagers are said to be coming in fast
and bringing supplies. All the houses in the station
were f nind with their roofs destroyed, the churchyard
desecrated, and not an article of European furniture or
manufacture in the place."
Service Message from Commissioner of Patna,
dated May 27, six a an
" The only account of yesterday's fight we got here is
from the Arrah Darogab, who is with the force. He
says that our two guns have been retaken, that the
enemy's leader and a number of sepoys have been killed,
and that our troops were still in pursuit. I shall have
further particulars in the course of a few hours."
From Jugde :pure, 27th May, via Patna, 27th May,
1853, 1.45 p.m.
From Thigadier-General E, Lagers'. to Secretary to
Milita-y Department and Chief of the Staff.
"I attacked the rebels at Dulleepore this morning, '
and recapture.l the two 12-pounder howitzsr guns lost by
the Arrah party. Two elephants were also captured,
and Dolleepore, with a lar;;e house belonging to one of
the rebel chiefs, destroyed. No loss on my side,"
Service Message from the Commissioner of Patna,
dated 27th May, 1853, five p in., to the Secretary
to the Government Bengal.
"It appears from Sir E. Lugard'e letter that he made
a combined movement on the enemy, sending cavalry
and artillery to Dulleepora to drive them out from
Muttahee, where the chief force lay with the two guns
then advancing with infantry and artillery direct 'on to
Muttahee, and sending a strong column through the
jungle, where they came upon tee enemy's rear just as
he commenced retreating with the guns. The 10th, and
a party of the 84th, pursued them to Jetwara, and
drove them out of the jungle in a sonth- west direction.
Two elephants were taken beside, the two guns, and
none of the men have suffered from exposure, though
they were out till evening."
Service Message from G. F. Edmonstone, dated
Allattabad, May 29, 11 a.m.
"The rebels near Shaejehanpore were attacked on the
24th and driven back to Mohumtlee, which place has
b-en taken by our troop-. Some 200 fugitives from
Calpee attempted to cross the Ganges, between Sheraj-
ps)re and Bilhotr, but were attacked and disperse I by
the zemindars of Pergannib Rue ulabad. The IVloulvia
Liakut Ali, of Allahabad notoriety, has attacked and
plundered Btlgratn. It is this man, and not the well-
larown Fyzebael Moulvie Ahmelollah Shah, who at•
tacked and plundered Palee and Stndhee. A subter,
raneoue magazeie has been discovered in the fort of Cal-
pee. It contains 500 barrels of powder and immense
quantities of ordnance stores. In the town and fort
four foundries and manufectoriee of cannon were dis-
covered, and one 18-pounder brass gun, one brass 8-inch
mortar, and two brass 9-pounder guns, all made in these
manufactories, were found. Colonel Robertson, w:tb a
flying column from Calpee, is foilevoing up the rebels to
the frontier of Shahgurb. The troops at Calpee are
getting much healthier. The Cupoortellan Rajas is to-
day at Urgul, on his way to Lucknow, with some 5,000
men, of whom 1,200 are cavalry. There are said to be
still 1,000 rebel horse and foot at the StreorajporeGhaut
on the Ganges."
Service Message from Sir H. Rose, dated CAlpee,
May 31.
" The troops sent by me in pursuit of the Calpee sepoys
and rebels took eight guns, of which two are Eoglieh 9-
pounders cf the Gwalior Contingent, and two other 9-
pounder horse artillery guns of the rebels. F‘fteen guns
were kept in the fort, of which one wars an 18-pounder
of the,Gwalior Contingent,' and two are mortars made
by the rebels. Twenty-four standards were taken, one of
which is the colour of the liotah Contingent, and
ano her a Velaitee standard, and most of the rest are
the colours of the different regiments of the Gwalior
Contingent. The subterranean magazine contains
10,000 pounds of Eugli-h powder in barrel, 9,000
pounds shot and empty shells, a quantity of 8-inch filled
with shrapnel ; a case shot, siege and ball ammunition
for small arms, entrenching tools of all kinds, wrote, new
and old, boxes of musketsquite new, }lints wet percussion
caps ; all sorts of ordnance stores in great quantities.
The contents of this magazine are supposed to be worth
two or three him There three or four foundries for
cannon in the town, with all the requittes of a wheel
and gun manufactory. Everything proves that the rebels
considered Calpee an arsenal and a point of great it
pertenee, which they intended to keep to the last, and
that they only abandoned it in consequence of the severe
defeat which they sustained at GurdGlee no the 27th
inst., and the panic caused by the UneXpeCr app,ar-
a.nce of my force before Calpee on the following morn-
Pig. Abort 500 or GOO sepoys were killed in the pur•
Repays
Staauhrweei :eyclowhichtheir which
:(1 WI i:: laCllhrbaOteee:nkekeeledl:df
,613aatpnshdineni mredunari
seittodnb7dyaneht;ce intens's heat of
:tes eys, and i threw
guise i
themselves in order not .to be Lnown as t cloy?,"

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE CALCUTTA. 11A.RKETS.
(From the Overland Englishikan.)
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tv
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up: a
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a haveplte s. become.as
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ald:-;g: eP11.1:1
not expect to see any animation in the market. Tao,
indigo season i 7 almost over. A good business lins Ip,en,
done in raw silks, and. we are at present bare ef st :ck9.
A good demand still exists for date sugars at former
fur:
until
homeorH
rates. Saltpetre higher in value. In eorahs only a small
business in .progress, and only really fine goods are sought
for. Linseed rnain'eins value, and is perhaps a shade
higher. In rape, teel, and poppy nothing doing.
+R ce in demand for Grait Britain. Hides still in favour