The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-24 00:00:00

NEWFOUNDLA.ND.

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By the steam ship City of Baltimore we have
papers from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the 6th
inst., inclusive.
The commercial advices are unimportant.
The Governor had mado the following appoint-
ments, subject to the approval of her Majesty
The Hon. Philip F. Little (late Attorney-General)
to be senior Asssistant Judge of the Supreme Court
of the Island ; Bryan Robinson, Esq., Q.C., to be
second Assistant-Judge of the Supreme Court ;
George James Hogsett, Esq., to b 3 Attorney-
General, vice Little ; John Hayward, Esq., to be
Solicitor-General, vice Hon. G. H. Emerson, re-
signed. Several new appointments to the Execu-
tive Council are also reported.
The following vessels from European ports had
arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland, July 2 :
Merlin, from Cadiz ; Ann Johnston, from Liver-
pool • Favourite Lass, from Lisbon.
The following vessels had cleared :—July 2,
Three Sisters, for London ; sth, •Hollyhock, for
London. —.

G cvALroR.

Somet set Grove, Esq., late colonel of the Gwalior
Contingent, says :
The fortress is one mile and a quarter long, 300
yards broad, tapering at the ends to 70 or 80 yards.
It rena nearly N. and S., is 600 feet high, of solid
rock, on the top of which is a simple stone wall,
about ten feet high. The only approaches to it are
by the gate at the foot of the grand staircase in the
northern town, and on the centre of the western
face, where Popham entered. In almost all other
parts it is nearly perpendicular.
At the southern end is the Maharajah's city and
the Phool Bagh, or flower garden.
Our advance is now being made from Agra,
Jhansi, Calree, and Sippree ; in fact, from all
quarters cxcept the extreme west. Having gained
the northern town the gateway may be secu
and, while preparations are made for blowing it
up, it 500 men escalade Popham's Post—which
they cannot only secretly approach, but enter with-
out serious difficulty—the enemy will be taken in
rear. Once in, there is the open ground before
us, and no guns in battery to oppose our advance
to the head of the staircase, distant about 800
yards.
Of course the enemy willthink our attack will be
made by the gate and staircase, and there he will
place his heavy guns. Make your feint at that spot
and your actual entry at the west, and the fort will
not only fall, but not 20 men will escape.
I have tried every inch of the fort for the pur-
poses of ingress and egress, and bsyonil the points
I have described I have found it impregnable,
except in one spot, where I made a solitary soldier
ascend and descend without his arms—an affair he
accomplished with much difficulty.
Your correspondent is in error when he states
the fort is out of repair. It was perfect when we
made it over to the Maharajah, three or four years
ego, and from my description you will agree with
me in the belief of the difficulty of throwing it " out
of repair,"
Never was such a fatal mistake committed as to
leave the faithful Maharajah and his incomparable
Minister Diukur Rao without the advice and assist-
ance of a British officer, who would at the last
moment have retired into the fort with the Prince
and his body-guard, and closed the gate until
troops could arrive from Agra. As it is, in addi-
tion to the flight, of course the guns and ammuni-
tion have fallen into the hands of the rebels.
A thousand men could hold that fort for the
moment against all Asia, for the Sepoy has n ever
been a good hand at attacking, and is worse at es-
calading.