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ill u zia a small Etre
a-wollinly alai .up 'country-
VI-Riff" front; the=
bridge was destroyed, and it was:. only by great
exertion and dragging over theierbaggage by ropes
that thpy, managed, on the 14111,.tiriEadi the post
which they were intended to reach 'en-the day pre-
view. As it ii Tu.() certain -that Abe. eijallpy are
moving about the fords on the left bank of- the
Ganges, between Futtehpore and Cawnpore, an ex-
peditionary column has been ordered to set out ti -
mortow_from the force stationed between Cawn-

mander-in-Ohief does not set an example to his
officers by any extravagance in baggage. • He lives
in a small subaltern's tent, and his chief of the staff
is equally moderate. • I believe his Excellency's
personnel is contained in a couple of small port-
manteaus, and during this abort campaign he has
Slept on the ground among his men on more than
one occasion without cover of any sort. He is ap-
parently in excellent health, :although hie labours
are arduous and incessant, as he and,his chief of
the staff manage all the details connected "with *the
disposition of his force, and to a great extent dis-
pense with the usual services of Adjutant-General
and QuartermaSter-General. At pie sent all the
artillery, except a couple of guns, arebeyold the
in
Ganges. • n.fre small delay was caustd by the
breaking of the bi idge of boats, but the greater part
of the infantry are -beyond the river, and are on
the nvirch to or are stationed between Cawnpore,
Bunnee, on the road to Luekniv, and the Alum
bagh. Meantime the enemy are l becoming
more and. mnre uneasy, end, as we are closing
upon them, the diAieusious iu Lecknow are env-
mented. A night or two hefore my arrival a body
of 200 h rat c_oss ,d the Ganges upon our left,
and managed to get past oiir position, and have
escaped, as it is eupp-sed, to Calpee, where 1114
remnants. of the Gwalior Contingent are strongly
posted on the right b ink of tie river Juinna.
At fir t it wits reported that Nanta S slash was
with them, but more accurate informaion leads me
to believe that the Nana is s ill on' the left bank
of the Ganges, and that it was his nephew who
got over. However, there is reason.tO think that
the Nana is maucenv:•ing with a tyely of 2,000
men, a large portion of whom are cavatry, to get
over- the Ganges either to join he Calpe- en: my or
to fall upon the-convciys which are constantly pass-
ing between Agra and Cswripore slog the Trotik
Road. If these s-poys at Calp:e tand firm, the)*
are likJy to feel the ac: i• al of t, he .13,Jui hay coluton
under Sir Hugh Rose, which has already 'pa-sed
Saugor, at:d is id,artog the country up to the Juruna
very rapid y. That there is iticonventence iu leav-
ing these fellows bAinti us is very evil, nt, but it
cannot be helped, and at present they are watched
in front by a portion of the 88th
,Regiment. A
convoy on the ro ad to wards Agra has been recalled,
and Walpole's biigade will be sent in that direc-
tion to-morrow, .so that if the enemy attempt to
cross they will be soon and effectually distrised of.
They Nava reason to dread our means of attack;
some must appear to them Min°, t thiracaloui. A
short t'me agO a body of sepoys 'cromid the Ganges
just below t. e junction wit,. i's waters of the Grand
Canal. The river wits low, and they.forstel it with-
out difficulty, but, finding that there was a small
force waiting to rcceive them, they retired precipi
tatelyafter a hrief encounter, and prepat ed to re-ft ,rd
the river. As they were contending with its s w
waters, the officer in 'charge of the canal suddenly
turned down the sluice gates, arei•in a-few mo-
ments the immen e body of water which had been
diverted from its channel returned to its bed with
fury, and swept away 200 of the mutineers in its
course. Ere this mail closes I hope to give you
some jntelliget.ca of the operatitns of Walp.de's
column, as well as an account of the prep trations
for the attack on -Lucknow. There are reports of
great dissensions in the city, but no one doubts that
there will lie a severe fight, unless the sepoys_ are
driven out by our bombardment.- Mann Singh has
sent in an Englishwoman and her child who were in
his pcssessiolt, and is making overtures for p ace.
There is a good deal to be said in his favour, and,
although he has p.ohably been playing a double
game, and trying to .be fast and lo,•se with ut, he
certainly iu trying times protfctecl our women and
n, and up to September the 24th last year
rendered us services. Sir Robert Garr tt, who
arrived here on his way to Lrinballe, is nut able to
get on at present, as the mad is not safe.

p .re and Alumbagh to take them in the rear. It
will consist of her Majesty's 3 Ali, '3Bth, and 53d
Regiments, one Squadron of the ith Hussars, one
squadron of the 9th Lancers, one squadron of
Hodson's Horse, one of Watson's horse, of one
troop Royal Horse Artillery and one, troop or bat-
tery Bengal Artillery, one 18-pounder, one 8-inch
howitzer, and a company of Sappers andAtiners.
They will move off the road at a point neir Bun-
nee, a.,;d proce?.d on a line inclining towards the
Gangesso as to cut off the enemy, who will either
have to cross the river, when in all probability they
will meet Walpole's column, or seek refuge either
by acirouitous route back to Luckuow, or by fall-
ing back towards tie north-west of Oude. There
is news from Lucknow ivbioh prepares us to hear of
an attack on Ontiam's force at Alonailagh b)-mor-
row. Tire Begum'a favour its, Murboo Xtiau, or
his creatures, issued a prvlamation stating that
then were only 200 Europ' any at Alumbagh, and
set that no one dared attack them except littanroo
Khao. The sepoys, angry at th s taunt, ;Held a
cputicll of war, and it wa decided that two and a-
half months' pay rihoud be given to, the : troops
of Fd br u try, but the money is nA yet for booming,.
en,2agtd in the aAsailt, wkch w for the 16th
T,ere are 20,000 sepoys in the city, but the force
of matzhlock in,n, very formidable in defending
strcet•; and houses, is enormous ; the juliaitatitts
and the men of valions arms arrayed against us
constitu,e a total probably of 200,000 souli. The
enemy had rent orders to Mann Singh to march
into Lucknow to join in the fight, 'but
th,t chieftain is at present on his es'att,s, and
it is presumed Ufa' he will not comply with
the. demand. It is unfortunate that we cannot
give active support to those who are inclined to be
n utral, for by so doing we should decide them in
our favour. The Itajai of Churkharee has hitherto
'hell out on our side, but very recently the Calpee
fore detached a patty against him, beathiktroops
in two engagements, took two of his guns, and
forced the ft..tati to reti eat to his fortress and to pre-
tend to negotiate. _Video we can help him it is
feared he may have to yield.

FEB. 16. ,
It,is rei sated, certainly, that, there will -be an
attack on Outram to-day, and the natives have a
bazaar report that the camp at Cawnpore is to be
attacke 1. The hot weather is thie.kn ng us. The
sick are to be sent r If without delay. •
_ The condition of the country, even in the districts
wi hire roach of our operations, is much disturbed.
Oar ou'po.ts are ever on the alert, and every week
a small action -of some kind or other occurs between
our troops and the enemy. For. instance, en the
4th of February the Sepoys from Calpee moved
out and attacked the position occupied by.the 88th
Rvg.aneut,- under Colonel Vaughan -Maxwell, at
Bkigneepore, but they were disposed of, with the
loss of 80 tleid on -the field and many wounded,
and were .driven in confusion acmes the river by
five c linpaniea of that regiment, two guns, R0y.41
Artillery, under Capt. Talbo,, and 50 Sowars under
Lii ut. Th meson (who was wounded), our loss
being six wounded men, two dangerously. On
Me Bth of February, Mr. Hume, the magistrate of
Etawah, with his deputy, Mr. Maconochie, having
with them
_6O troopers of Alexander's Horse, 80
E•awah 14,)cal Horse, and 300 matchlock-men,
with one 3-pounder braes gun, the troops being
commanded by Capt. Alexander, attacked a force
of 1,500 men under Roof Singb, wish one gun,
strongly psted near Anuntf ani, defeated them with
the loss of 125 killed in the field, and captured
their gun and all their .b iggage. Our casualties
wet e 12 msn kille I and 18 wounded.

FEB. 13.
To-day I went over the so-called intrenchineuts
at Cawnpore, which Were:held by Wheeler'S gArri-
son fur nearly three weeks. lt well a. melatiohdy
sight,—bt.yOnd description sad and desolate. The
position, !f such it can be callei, consists of taro
lofty one-siori d buildings, intended, I believe, to
be barr wk divided into many rooms with out-
ward doors oi.ening itito cortidots. There are two
deep wel,s near ilise par Pelo-,:rams; which are at
the distance of 100 yards or s t frAn each other,
and thr,e detubed outhoui -s•o 1 ,he flails. These
buildings are surr.ntided by ili, reoia:ns of a
mileratdo t, ouch formed by casting up tae ear- h
dug from the a, ..il out on a elope.to warcls.the enemy.
There is no &tell whatever ;,trie trench, could-never
have ben six f-e. dean, and, as t'ie nervywere al
round tie st 4ion,- these open trenches were en-
Waled upork all sides.. The s,v, riv"ot the fire was
excetsve. Every square yard of h . walls is per-
forat,d by cannon shot, the' roofs are kno led to
pi co.' and in peaces have tumbled in ea masse. No
part of-SLhastopol—not even excepting the range 1
of barracks h#hitol the G!eat Roden, is more
battered and shaken than the barracks at Cawnp.,re.
In one small space I connted 73 shotho'es, most ef
which were through and through time walls. The
party walls were perforated and battered in the
same manner. It was a wonder how any one c muld
live inside for an hour. At one angle of a room was
writen in pencil, "Below (his m irk young Wheeler
was k-lied by a cannon b ill, a loch took Off his head.
His blood alit' brains are spatter:A on the wall
h low." Scraps of music-books and .fragments of
women's dt ess,s still lie 'among the tiles, •bricks,
and fiith with which the floors are covered. In
anol her room the following inscription was written
on the wall ; it i.,, on the larger building in the
corridor, between the fourth and fin doors, facing
to the south, on the
-bile upposi'e the dOors :
" U.,un try men and women, remember the 15th of July,
1857! Your wives and families are here, mt. ary ! and at
the di-p.m! of ~avages, who ha. ravished both young and
old. Oh ! my child ! my child ! Countrymen, revenge !"
This is an evident imposition, and is the work of
the same e r of a similar hand, in all probability,
which penned the insc iption on the walls of the
house where the slaughter took place after Have-
lock's victoiy. It need not be said that no atrcciries
or massacres aassaud
cri;ps hteadthteaken date polfa owe
Wheeler's
teiCe7s atnepvoarceua
ti
otliie, -
and the dates prove the falsehood of the inscrip-
tion, which is intended to c..nvey the impres,ion
that it was written by one of The women who were ,
in the place. I am therefore inclined to think
that the inscription on the walls of the house wht re

• FEB. 17.
As far as I can guess, the Commander-in-Chief,
if all 11;s cousbinat ions go right, will cross the river
from C twnpore about the 25th or 26th, at whtch
,nips it is hoped we shall hear of the advance of
Jung Bahad,e r' force in conjunction with the
co, umn Brigadier Ft anke upon some• point
cl ,so to Lucknow, and, if poss,ble, on the north
s d-3 of th- river, so as to cut the tuutint-ers off in
case of a b :it from our bombardment. The actual
state. ,1 ff irs as legards these cembiaati• us is, as
fkras I can jtt Igo uu this; the lait post-day for the
°ye:laud mail from CeLutta, as follows
eßxepte,,a_Aelert,wcersoasst Bastesth
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49
rn a thyeesltt.rhdaiyus.t..,Fainallizss
o.)iutnu was at Sin4arapote, on i s way to Sultan-
p re, whence it was to co-operate meth he Gh,,oi kae
who were t , cross the river a: Tanciah, leasing a
&Ids en to watch the enemy in the strongh id of
z :ba I, higher up, and to keep them in expec-
tation of an attack, while the main body was pass-
ing the • river • lower down: By waiting for these
troop, the Conin:indtr-iii-Chief tail! have 22,000
imfautty around Lucknow, instead of 10,000, and
will b, able to present 4 front to the enemy ost botla
Bides of the Guemt,e. Sir N. Rof,e's column was
still, by last ace Ants, near Saugor, and the Madras
column had reached Jubbulpore, but. there were
st 1, some portions of it on the road. These troops
are not intended to operate with the troops before
Luckno iv, and belong rather to the second system
of operat'ons, by which we expect to clear the
country of the enemy in our rear, and tore-estab-
lish the authority of the civil s•Ervants of the Com-
pany. On the north and west eiders have been
sent to Major Coke to form a movable column of
Sikhs, to which an English field battery will be at-
tscheCl, and to march upon Roorkee. Brigadier
Penny is engaged at Meerut in preparing a c ,lump
fo active opera ions from that point ; and Briga-
dier Seaton wil. b s stationed with an adequate force
in Fattygltur, now tenable against any force the
enemy may bring. We may thus hopeto engage the
attention of our foes in Rohilcund while the army is
before Lucknow. Meanwhile Col. Maxwell, with
the 88th, strengthened by an English field battery,
is ordered to move up anel down continually through
that part of the Doab which lies between Cawnpor,)
and Calpee, not resting for a day in the same place.
The movable column under Walpole is moving bp
the road from C,wepore to Delhi, nearly parallel
to the Gauges, in ord, r to meet
.the Agra convoy
of women and children, which reached Mynpoorie
yest-rdey, and may be expected to arrive here on
the 2d inst. On the other side of the Ganges the
coluthn under Grant is marching upon a place called
Futtehpore (in Oude, and on the cross-road from
Oonao to Moordababad), so as to take in the rear
and disturb t ie parties at the ghauts or fords of the
river. When they reach Futtehpore they are to
burn and destroy the residence of the Nana, who
has resided there for the most part ever since the
destruction of Bithoor, and, returning thence
towards the Luckuow-road in time for the general
colicentration•of the army at the Alumbagh, they
will lay waste the three strongholds of a eative chief
named Mirnseet Ali, who has been levying contri-
butions and receiving the revenue of the d strict pn
his own aceount for the last six months: Thai the
e gratid patrols, the enemy
a
natives iinpl-essed by the
iv ne
perplexed,ti.:eisco e e,.
anded w
tiht
d splay of our power. The attack en our pesitiou
clamouringati we a are told that
th'sregiwye,
at the Aluuibago, which was to have taken place
yesterday,i3vregiwe hia i n nut been
Lucknowm a
adrce',
pay. That there are some chiefs of considerable
intelligence among the enemy, we have proof in
ttss n °€e
the fact that they seem to be organising a sort of
guerilla
warfare, which' may he.salter prove very
tree blesome, if they are not completely crushed b. -
fore the hot weather pets in. All our sick were sent
down towards Allahabad yesterday-, • and all our
guns are across the river. Orders have been given
to blow up some buildings bete which are the re-
sort of some fanatic fakeers and spies.' The beat in
the shade to-day is 85 deg. Outside the tent it, is
106 deg., but there is no dust.
[Aie
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the subsequent slaughter occurred was an imposition
also, inasmuch as it was not seen by any of those
who first examined every inch of the wails, and it
is scarcely possible that any woman in such a scene
of massacre could have calmly traced with firm
hand the words, which for the first time were visible
upon the wills long after atvelock's advance. A
good deal of doggrel writing of various kilids is to
be seen, not only on the visas of Wheeler's in
trenched buildings, but on those of the bungalows
on the line of march.

Just as I turned out of the building sad enough,
the crash of a military band broke out close at hand,
and, turning towards the road, I saw ainid.t.
cloud of dust the gleam of our bayone's, and then
long files of camels and elephants ; my old friend,
of the 23d and of the Rides were matching towards
the teae-du-pont, and I could not help tuiuk;ng
how different the scene all around might have been
had those two regitnents been iu that place but
eight mouths before—what 11,-rrors averted, what
bloodehed pi evented, what suffering spared !
FEB. 15.
Colonel D aid Wood, C. 8., commanding the
Brigade of Field Artillery, arrived at the Camp of
Cawnpore this morning. In company with the-
guns which came in with the brigadier were the 3d
Sikh Cavalry Regim:mt, the effic:eitcy of whom as
cavalry mss b.-I best tested by the simple tact that
they marched 70 miles in the last two days. They
are hardy, active, resolute-looking f-llows, well-
arm,:d and mounted, clld in charkey or dtr,t-
coloured tunics, with thick turbans on their heads,
and equipped with sling &docks, pistols, and sharp
broad sables. Of actual news there is very little,
and the position of affairs at present stands thus :
General Rise's column, from the Bombay side, has
passed Saugor, where somett
fstahree
31st
terit4taitnievde
by the Europe,in.s of the fide y.
Infantry, all the more exraoritinary, ittihasetnuch enemy,as
they stood firm wt;eu surrounded t,y
and of the 42d Native Infantry, for whose loyalty
there are no such strong guarantees.
The exact site of the column or the precise nature
of its movemen.a ia, I believe, at present unknown
in Ca.wnpore, but it is apprehended that the General
may have to ov,rcotne some opposition from the
Calpee and Gwalior men at one, if not at two points
on the line of march. Of the Madras column we
only hear that General Whitelock was at Juhhol-
pore ou the 9to, and that if, as was
,iipp,,sed, the
enemy were likely to molest him in Ws march he
might be delayed fur a thy or two in dispoing
of
them. 0 u the Goruckpore side of Oude the intelli-
gencet
went to show that the G.
°c'
theatiie v
eodthtehratthey
sideof the liver, but it wasr‘ sconweiirde-a
b
er,;ssed it yesterday ;the 14th of
February), and, once in Oude, they
were to move
towards Suitanpore to co-operate with Franks a
column in the movements towards -'Luoknow.
Till certain intialligence reaches the Commander
of the P4itiOn Of tile" I"dieB

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