The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-04 00:00:00

THE REBELS AT CALPEE

" Near Cawnpo7o,small partiesolrebels—mutincers
and armed rabble—have appeared at two places in this
district, ono named Solgor, where they plundered the little
local treasury and wounded the official in charge of it. A
large body of the rebels is still at Calpee. The main body,
however, 12,000 strong it is said, has moved out and oc-
cupied Koouclion the Jhansi-road, commanded by Tanteea
Topay, the, fugitive chiefs of Banda and Shahghur, and the
Ranee of Jhansi. There they wero observed by Major
Orr, of the Hyderabad Cavalry—the former to the left, at
a place called Pooch, and guarding the ford of the 13etwa
at Erich; the latter further to the right, guarding the
ford of the same river at Kotra. Occasionally they showed
themselves in some force, the Ranee herself being at once
discerned, dressed and mounted like a native cavalier.
Rose, as you know, was detained at Jhansi for a while after
the storm, fearing for his rear, upon which were the Kotali
fugitives ; but relieved of his apprehension that this body
of rebels had got past him and joined their brethren at
Calpee, or because they were hel tin check near Kolarus
by Captain Mayne,—he marched from Jhansi on the 27tb,
leaving to garrison the place a wing of the 3d Europeans
and a wing of the 24th Native Infantry with some Hydera-
bad Cavalry. Early on the morning of the 3Jth Major
Gale reported movements of largo bodies of troops
from Koonch, towards the ford of Kotra. These were said
tobe the pmple of the Baupore and Shahgnr Rs jah. Sirilugh
would be at Mote, a few miles only from Pooch, by day-
break of that day. Perhaps he pushed or, and on that
day encountered the enemy. That an action has been
fought we know by telegraph, but the date is not given;
nor are there any details, save that the enemy was defeated,
losing 400 or 500 men, and that a stand would probably
be made by the fugitives at some place or places short of
Calpee, of which the names are mangled beyond recogni-
tion. _

To the right of Sir H. Rose's line of advance has lain I
that of General Whitlock, who on the 19th of April fought
a pitched battle with the Nawab of Banda, outside hiF

. We extract the following from the letter of Mr.
Rus-ell, the special correspondent of the Times :

THE COSTUME OF THE ARMY.
How good Sir George Brown, for instance, would staid
aghast at the sight of these sun-burnt " beshi bazouks,"
who from heel to head and upwards set at defiance the
sacred injunctions of her Majesty's Regulations Except
the Highlanders, not a corps that I have seen sport a nem -
sel of pink or show a fragment of English scarlet. The
Highlanders wear eccentric shades of gray linen over their
bonnets—the kilt is discarded, or worn out in some regi-
ments, and flies, mosquitoes,. and the sun are fast render-
ing it impos ible in the others. Already many officers who
can get trews have discarded the ponderous folds of wool-
len stuff tacked into massive wads over the hips, and have
provided some defence against the baking of their calves
by day, and have sought to protect their persons gainst
the assaults of innumerable entomological enemies by
night. The Artillery have been furnished with excellent
head-covers and good frocks of light stuff. Lord Cardigan,
in his most sagacious moments, would never light on the
fact that those dark-faced, bearded horsemen, clad in
snowy white, with a +gloss lands glittering in the sun, we
the war-hardened troopers of her Majesty's 9th Lance's,
or that yonder gray tuuicked cavaliers, with ill-defined
heal-dresses, belong to the Queen's Bays. The 7th
Hussars, the Military Train, have vestiary idiosyncrasies
of their own, but there is some sot t of uniformity among
the men. Among the officers individual taste and phan-
tasy have full play. The intantty regiments, for the
mo:t part, are dressed in linen frocks, dyed carky or
gray slate colour—slate blue trousers, and shakoes pro-
tected by puggerees, or linen covers, from the ann. The
peculiarity of curdy is that the dyer seems to be unable to
match it in any two pieces, and that it exhibits endless
variety of shades, varying with every washing, so that the
effect is rather various and pleasing on the march or on the
parade-ground. But the officers!, as I have said, do nkt
confine themselves to 'mirky or to anything else. It is
really wonderful what fecundity of invention in dress
there is, after all, in the British mind when his talents
can be properly developed. To begin with the headdress.
The favourite wear is a helmet of varying shape but of
uniform ugliness. In a moment of inspiration some Cal-
cutta hatter conceived, after a close study of the antique
models, the great idea of reviving for everyeay use the
awe-inspiring headpiece of Pallas Atheue, and that re-
markably unbecoming affair—Minerva was above caring
for appearances—became the prototype of the Indian tops
in which the wisest and greatest of mankind looks simply
ridiculous and ludicrou4. Whatever it might be iu polished
steel or burnished metal, the helmet is a decided failure
in felt, or wickerwork, or pith, as far as external effect is
concerned. It is variously fabricated, with many varieties
of interior ducts and passages leading to escape holes for
imaginary hot air in the front or top, and around it are
twisted infinite colours and forms of turbans with I.! ing td
ends and laced fringes. When a peacock's feather, with the
iris end displayed, is inserted in the hole in the top of the
helmet, or is stuck in the puggery around it, the effect
of the covering is much enhanced, and this style is rader
patronised by some of the staff. The coat may be of any
cut or material, but shooting jackets hold their own in the
highest posts, and a carkey-coloured jerkin, with a few
inches of iron curb chain sewed on the shoulders to resist
sabre cuts, is a general favourite. The sword is of all de-
scriptions, except the regulation, which is not much in
vogue, and it is slung in many ways in many belts, of
which the reglation again is rarely seen. There are native
tnlwars with English handles and guards, old cavalry
sabres with new hilts, Damascus blades in leathern sheaths,
anl these are hung by broad shoulder belts at the hip, or
depend from iron hooks fixed in broad buff waistbelts.
The revolver—scarcely a " regulation" weapon fur the
army yet—is universally worn, and I have seen more than
ono pistol in one of the cummerbunds or long sashes which
some of our officers wear round the stomach iu the oriental
fashion. As to the clothing of the nether man, nothing
bat a series of photographs could give the least notion of
the numerous combinations which can be made out of the
leg, leather, pantaloons, and smallclothes. Long stage
boots of buff-coloured leather, for the manufacture of which
Cawnpore is famous, pulled over knee breeches of leather
or regimental trousers, are common. There are officers
who prefer wearing their Wellingtons outside their panta-
loons, thus exhibiting tops of very blight colours, and the
boot and bevy trousers of the Zouave officer are not un-
known.

CAMP GROUPINGS.
Our camp, indeed, presents the most picturesque group-
ings in the world. At night when the camp fires light up
the swarty faces of the native followers, or the moonlight
falls on their motionless bodies, wrapped in shroud-like
folds of white, each lying by his camel, his bullock, his
elephant, or his master's tent, and so thickly that one can
scarcely step without rousing a slunile,ring Hindoo—iu the
heat of the day, when the trees cast their dark shadows on
the parched yellow plains, and afford a shifting shelter to
the syces, bheesties, kelassies, and all the various tribes
dependent on the march of armies—at every hour, all
around us, there are objects which possess that extraordi-
nary combination of form and colour which has induced so
many men to deceive themselves and others, and to tell
untruths about " the gorgeous East,- that Orientalism
which bigins in Turkey in Europe and ceases with Burmah
and China. What it is I cannot describe, but I feel and
know that it exists. Just before my tent at this moment
there is a group which could not be met with in any part
of the world beyond the regions I have indicated. Suke-
ram, the gym, is superintending the shoeing of a horse. In
order to do so he has complicated himself with that ani-
mal's hind legs in a fantastic and traditional manner won-
derful to behold. He has seated himself on his haunches as
only an Oriental can, between the horse's legs, one of which
he has pulled over his shoulder so as to present the hoof to
the farrier ; while his disengaged arm is passed round the
other leg of the animal, which "accepts the situation" as
it has been handed down to him for thousands of years.
Sukeram is a grave, handsome fellow, with a white turban
on his head, one end of which floats over his shoulders,
and a white piece of cotton wrapped round his loins, leav-
ing his brown body and legs to shine in the blazing sun.
He looks as intelligent as most Englishmen, but in reality
he has no idea, or will not have one, of any earthly duty
beyond the care of that horse whose tail he has just
fastened to a strap passed round the fetlock. His wife—
for he has a faithful attendant in all his marches—whose
arms are covered with brass rings from wrist to elbow, and
on whose ancles jingling bands of metal make pleasant
music as she walks, is mixing up his rice and curry in a
bright brass pot, covered in one long fold of cotton, so
that only her arms and feet are visible, and on her hip a
small imp is perched, obs►reperous for his meal, and see he
gets it, so delicately and decently that our ladies at home
might envy the process, for a fold of the robe is opened,
the tawny body disappears inside and is covered by the
robe, and onle a pair of legs are left visible, which soon by
their easy modulations give tokens of the satisfaction of
the youthful proprietor with the treatment he is receiving
inside.

AN INDIAN SMITH.
The smith, a brawny fellow in a short pair of drawers
and a yellow turban, whose muscles stand out like those
of a bronze Hercules, is using the most extraordinary-
looking implements of farriery with great skill, but any
motion of the horse's heel must inevitable catch him right
on the bridge of the nose. A young man, who may be a
perpetual out-door apprentice of the smith, and whose
only business seems to be the abstraction of smoke from a
huge pipe, is seated on the ground watching the operation.
But, as watching is an act on the due performance of
which every Oriental operation in a great measure depends,
it is not left to the apprentice alone— a tame monkey and
a parrot take an intense interest in it, and a great tall
Sikh, all black eyes and whiskers, moustaches and beard,

and shining white teeth, with& real awash-buckler swagger
and stride, is coming over to join them.

town, which lasted from half-past sin the morning till 14. We append the announcement of Sir Wllilatte Pear.
The superiority of the enemy in numbers was probably six death as wo find it in the—illerfugrilits of the 80th ult.'—
to one, but they were driven off the field Stith the loss of " News was received in Agra yesterday of the death of
four guns and 50) killed. Horse Artillery and Cavalry captain Sir William Peel, R. N., at Cewnpore, on Wed.
followed in pursuit. The town was occupied, and the nesday, the 27th instant. His disease was small% ox,
little brigade advanced upon Calpee the next day, which attacked him seven days previously. The lots of
Little, rot I have said, is known with certainty of the this intrepid officer will be deeply felt wherever his name
late proceedings of the Kutch fugitives. Nor is the fact of was known. He was one of the finest specimens of our
their getting off so easily, to which I alluded in my last, countrymen that ever came to these shores, and had all
yet explained. The force is broken up between Nussee- that real
grestness of inspiration which belongs to the
rabad and Neemuch, some Cavalry and Horan Artillery true hero. He was of the same grand old type to which
still keeping the field, in tha track of the fugitives, ender Nelson belonged. and will live like him in the hearts of
Colonel Smith, of the 3d Draeoons, as B; igadier. the English. It is the fate of most great men, And parti-
All is well in the Punjab. Cotton's force out in the hills cularly those of Indian fame, to have their deeds douhtel
near Peshawur, was engaged on the '22th and 26th of last and denied by many, even when the voice of the world is
month, and burnt a rebel village, tsking much spoil. One ringing with their praises. Were we to believe raze,'
of the newly raised Punjab regiments, under Lieut. Thel- statementsof greatapparant respectabilityandimpartiality,
wall, here distinguished itself. ! wo should be compelled to come to the conclusion that
The Bombay Presidency is quite quiet, but, as usual,nearly all of our Indian heroes upon whom honours are
for the Bbeels. Another fight in the Satpoora hills with being bestowed are 'over-rated men,' if not much worse ;
these troublesome little men, and their wore dangerous that their great deeds are solemn delusions, and that some
allies of Rohilla or Afghan blood we look shortly to jof them deserve punishment rather than reward. Envy
hear of. of mum has something to do with such assertions,
and misapprehension something more. But as far as
Captain Peel is concerned his expleits have been so
conspicuous and unmistakeable, that envy has been for
once silenced, and misapprehension has been impossible.
There has been but one opinion of his actions, as
there will be but ono feeling for his death. It is here
worthy of remark th et Captain Peel, when remonstrated
with for es posiog, himself with the wonderfulcourage and
impunity to the thickest fire, declared that
hohoreachv hari•eh he
charmed life,
,and that there was no bullet which
could bring bier down. His thousand escapes from the
most imminent danger in the field might altnostju if;
this conclusion, and as far as the fortunes of actual warfare
were concerned, Captain Peel braved them all, and on -
recently sustained any serious injury. He and his Meech
had net calculated upon the greater enemy that he would
have to encounter, and hsfore whom he fell.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIC;Ega.

REPORT ON TIIE STATE OF TIIE BOMBAY MARKET FROM TEM 24TH

OF APRIL TO MR 7TII OF MAY.
( Prom the Bombay Time 4
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ganges, with the English mails of the 2d April, arrived
here in the night of the 2&h April.
Our money market continues very tight.
IMPORTS.
Cotton Piece Goods The inactivity in the market
noticed in our last has increased, and the prices of almost
all de •criptions of ga ay goods have exhibited a downward
teudency. Thii decline might fairly be attributed to the
late I eriod of the season. In gray jaconets, however, the
transactions have been to a large extent, as also in gray T
sloth.

Bleached and Fancy Goods—Bleached shirtings are in
less inquiry than before ; of Meached jaconets moderate
sales are reported ; bleached madapollanis are quite dull of
sale.

Marino Stored.—Cordage is very dull of sale, the demand
for consumption bah.. limited csuvas, is abundant in the
market, and very dull of sale. A few transactions in
twind.

EXPORTS.
Cotton.--From the latest unpromising advises fpm
England the prices of this staple have conside►ably fluctu-
Wel during the for night ; and a general decline has to be
no iced. Broach has be.n sold on European account; and
oouerawuttee is also in inquiry.
Oil Seels.—There has been no material alteration in .the
prices of the different sorts of seeds, and the transactions
have been to a fair extent during the period of report.
Eareseed has advanced from 1 to 2 anus.
Pepper.—This article is in demand, and the prices have
undergone no noticeable decline.

Hemp.—Very little business is 'being transacted in this
commodity.

Tonuage.—Tho rates'of freights continue deprepsed, and
h ,ve further declined. We quote V. to 1/. ss. to Liver-
pool and London. To China, rupees 4 per candy, almost
nominal.

Exchange.—The rates for London have advanced to 2s.
lid. to 2s lid. at six months' sight; on China, we quote
rupees 214, at 60 days' sight.

THE BAST INDIA COMPANY AND LORD
CANNING'S PROCLAMATION.

Yesterday was i-sued, as a return to Parliament,
the following copy of a letter from the Court of
Directors of The East India Company to the Gover-
nor-General in Council, dated the 11th day of May
last :

PoiiticalDapartmEnt, 18!,b of N.Tay(No 20), 1858.

Our Governor-General of India in Council,
Paragr.iph 1. The Secret Committee has communi-
eat. d to us the Governor-General's secret letter, dated
sth March (No. 9), 1853, with its enclosures, consisting
,rf a letter addressed to the Chief Commissioner of
Oade, dated 33 of March, and of the proclarnati..n re-
ferred to therein, which was to be issued by Sir James
Outram to the chiefs and inhabitants of Oude as soon as
the British troops should have possession or command
of the City o:Lucknow.

2. We have also received communication of the letter
addressed to your Government by the Secret Committee,
under date the 19th of April last, on the subject of the
draft of proclamation.
3. Our political letter of the sth of May has apprised
you of our strong sense of the distinction which ought to
be no,intained between the revolted sepoys and the chiefs
and pe ple of Oude, and the comparative indulgence
with which, equally from justice and policy, the insur-
gents of that country (other than sepoys) ought to be re-
garded. In accordance with these views, we entirely ap-
prove the guarantee of life and honour given by the
propot.ell proclamation to all talookdars, chiefs, aid
landholders, with their follow, r 4, who should make im-
mediate submission, surrender their arms, and obey the
orders of the British Government, provided_ they_ ham
not participated in the murder of Englishmen or Englieh-
wonicn."

4. We are prepared to learn that in publicly declaring
that, with the exception. of the lands of six persona whe
la I been steadfast in the allegiance, the proprietary
right in the soil of the province was confiscated to the
Briti h Government, the Governor-General intended ne
more than to reserve to himself entire liberty of action,
and to give the character of mercy to the confirmation
cf all rights not prejudicial to the public welfare, the
owners of which might not, by the'r conduct, have ex-
elided themselves from indulgent consideration.
5. His lordship must have been well aware that the
words of the proclamation, without the comment on it
which we trust was speedily afforded by your actions,
must have produced the expectation of much more gene-
ral and indiscriminate dispossession than could have
Leen consistent with justice or with policy. We shall
doubtless be informed, in due c mrse, of the reasons
which induced the Governor-General to employ those
terms, and of the weans which, we presume, have been
taken of making known in Oude the merciful character
which we assume must still belong to y our views. In
the meantime, it is due to the Governor-General that we
should express our entire reliance that on this as on
former occasions it has been his firm resolution to show
to all whosa crimes are not too great fcr any indulgence
the utmost d, gree of leniency consistent with the early
res oration awl firm maintenance of lawful authority.
We ace rdingly have to inform you that, on receiving
communication of the papers now acknowledged, the
Court of Directors passed the following resolution :
" resolved--That in reference to the despatch from
the secret committee to the Governor. General s f
the 19 ult., with the documents therein alluded to,
and this day laid before the Court of Director!, this
coart desires to express ifs continued confidence in the
Governor-General, Lord Canning, and its conviction
that his measures for the pacification of Oude and the
other disturbed districts in India, wi:l be charaeterised
by a get.erous policy, and by the utmost clemency that
is found to be consistent with the satisfactory smut.
plishment of that important object."—We are, &c.,
(Signed) F. CURRIE,
W. J. EASTWICK,
&e., etc.

London, May 18, 1858.

AUTUMN TRAVELS.

AX IRREGULAR HORSMAN.
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Judging by his turban he is one of Wale's Horse. Light I boldly assert that the pleasure of Continental tra-
velling is not only not overrated, but that it is one of
limbed, sinewy, and active, the air of thosenfellows makes
who crushed I the greatest and purest pleasures which this world can
us appreciate the valour of those Englishme
I the race in battle. I have never seen finer men, so far as
Irregular
the look goes, than many of those Horsemen, give. It is not the travelling, but the travellers who are
or
,
the troopers of the Punjab Cavalry ; but if an anatomical, ,in fault. Our friends in the dusty voiture bad been doing
had been doing too much. Having perhaps but two or
though not an eqnesti ian, object might be made to them,
it would be that their legs and thighs, though exceedingly three weeks to spare, they thought that the best way
straight, are thin acd small, and that their calves are not of ( njnying them was to get over as muesli ground as
well developed. Many of them are exceedingly handsome, possible. Accordingly, they iushed in a few hours
and all have fine eyes and teeth ; they divide their beards from Londou to Bale or Geneva, their impressions of
at the chin and plait them with their whiskers, which foreign countries being thus far limited to sest-sickneie,
they turn up and knot in a bunch on the top of the vesticulation, jabber, gendarmes, passport', billets de
head under the turban to prevent the ends of the hair bay at and sales d'attente. They probably rose in a
splitting, and on state occasions they comb out these 'clock in
masses of black hair, of which they are very proud, stateftter bewilderment at two or three o
Their shoulders are broad and square, their arms mus-
on
the morningou
of the day which it was your privilege
cular, their bands and feet very small and well-shaped. ' to see them ; since which they Lave been in an omnibus, a
mountain pass, and
The general dress and equipment of these irregulars are a railway train, a steamer, over
large turban, the colour of which denotes their regiment ;- fig eor six hours with a voitur;er. Their object wer--4°
a tunic of cal ky, blue or gray, fastened at the waist by a do a great deal, and their co?sola.tiloankeis thato-.-1 'a"
....is pass, the
sash and belt, from the latter of which depends a broa I done it. They have " done' the hay lt igen the sun rise
curved sabre, keen as a razor, which will lop off head or water-fall, the cathedral. They
everybody bears at
thigh at a cut; the former bears at least one pistol, and
everybody drinks at
over the shoulders is slung a carabino, or rifle, and car- one over
pa
lee
oaen, d
dsroa, n like atrhde thewi
ne echolyt II r
Joie out on the clock at
touch-box. Their legs are cased in jackboots, but some
regiment still allow the men to wear their national trousers figures acme
to " do," which is at
fitting closer to the skin from the hips to the sncles. Our another, andl setehnisthines
misery. On his return home
friend the Sikh, however, is not popular in the horse shoe-just as well have stayed there,
ing circle, and after some attempts to get into converse- htabenefisnodost
tohfatth
he
et oinuigr i%..cis t:, ,
one everything, he has seen no-
tion, in which he is more successful with the parrot, than and that having
with 'any other member of society, he walks off, taking thing.
plain of disappointment in foreign travel.
popular than ever. ' Let .0-0)
seer for it, if people would give up the
with him a few nails, the loss of which is presently dis- 1 I will
ystem, and take to the seeing, they would
5,--
covered, whereupon the Sikh is called many names (be- I "deice" it
rnzn remember that a beautiful scene is not beheld
hind his back and out of hearing), and becomes more un-
I
seldom ~,,
MORNING MARCHES. tp the greatest advantage if you rush by it in a steamer,
Oh, the monotony of these early morning marches, the , or if all the time you are looking at it you are panting
same tramp, tramp, tramp, day after day. The first bugle,; with heat or sighing with fatigue, or wondering whether
goes at two in the morning, but an hour before that tdifli. you shall be too. late for the next train. You have no
is such a hum and bustle in camp that sleep is varies are right to travel in this way. You have no right to deny
yourstlf time to dwell on the majesty and beauty of
cult. Camels and elephants and bullock hes:;;lr
crackle
being loaded with tents and equipage -,. cam n "
, 4stits, is spread those f lotions works of God which it is your rare privi-
sharply round your bed, which, these h9-'tamdeen I" and lege, for no desert of your own, to see ; nor to come
under the stars, and mosquitoes, pad,
. - _ and rude dialogues suddenly upon them with a mind in that devotional
stateiil
newspaperswllich is theald resultsedulousef the
attendance daily perusal
on of
to e
tr articles
op o.
" Madree," and "Sam," and Si ,n-
-'..
" SiinAnuell; your tent is
in uncouth tongues break your., il.
octgious size; the camels,
litan dinner-parties. II it werepossible
ready struck and looming to a is
quiet now they are loaded ana their fate is sealed, stalk
A close at hand, where creak-
without th I Should
ern, even
away in long files to the roav, dense clouds of dust, in-have advised you to die-ing hackerics already throw
night ; the horses are saddled, pense with Murray and Bradshaw, and the whole tribe
visible but palpable in th
?ant by his side, and by the light of guidt-books, as dangerous incentives to "doing."—
ea with his sable attcn
servants are getting ready the Fraser's Magazine.
of the camp lanterns thir masters ;
t shouts resound, "Are
stirrup cup of tea 1?7,:-..q-,o's that?" "I'll meet you on the HARVEST IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPE.—The accounts re--
you ready yet, ?"
commences the slow, tedious, inevitable
road ;" and at las;
5,...5e andg man through the troubles of that eeived from the south of Europe relative to the corn
navigation of h
and elephants, goats, oxen, and crops are nut very satisfactory. The prolonged drought
sea of carts, eam'l',
human being,-.4‘ of the month of April militated against the eating of
IYEATH OF SIR WILLIAM PEEL. 1 R heat, and it is thought there will be an undue quantity
(Front the Bombay Gazette.) cf straw. The yield mill, it is believed, be but moderate
test news from Dinapore conveys the melancholy in Lombardy, Komagna, and the hiegmdoeneaceoaf
bNouatp Ilse
The latest
In Algeria the wheat harve,t will cow intelligence of the death
.of Captain Sir William Peel.
He led at Cawnpore on the 27th of April. Having passed middle of the present month. It is generally affirmed
'teal
„--,,,..effathed through the ordeal of the Sebastopol renches that in the provinces of Algiers, Oran, and Con us
214 through the siege of Lucknow, without anything more the harvest will be satisfactory for wheat and barley,
Than a severe wound, this brave and admirable officer -the accounts are
and indifferent far oats, From Spain
died of that fearful scourge of India, tioe emall-pox. contradictorl.