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London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

sidering the inadequacy of their weapons, was on
the'W}iole an obstiliale one, an incessant but very
ineffective fire having been kept up upon us from
the first, which failed to occasion a single death
casualty. About 170 prisoners were taken, of whom
25 were executed, 16 guns, the whole of his park,
with a large quantity of ammunition stores, grass,
and grain, fell into our bands. On the Ist February
the remaining wing of the 9th, with Sappers and
Miners, about 500 in all, and a portion of the 2d
Native Cavalry, proceeded from Deesa under com-
mand of General Roberts to overtake the advanced
force.

(Bombay Correspondent of the Times.)
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BoMBAY, Feb. 9.--The great central fire of the
insurrection is to be compressed within the limits
of Oude and Rohilcund, and there to be trodden
out to its last smouldering cinder. It wculd not
suffice that every body of armed rebels in the
open field should be dissipated, or even that
every vaunted stronghold should be laid low.
Great as these gains would be, they still are not
all that we require. We seek that within the limits
of these two great provinces the revolt should be
not merely broken, but annihilated. No fugitive
bands must be permitted to straggle back across
the Gogra or the Ganges, and spread desolation
anew in districts that have so lataly with great toil
and bloodshed, been relieved from their hateful
presence. In a word, the insurgents now in Oade
must not be allowed to get out, and those now ho-
vering on the external frontier must not be allowed
to get in. Hence the necessity of drawing a con-
tinuous and powerful cordon round the province
before striking the great blow at its mutinous
occupants. How well this has been done a very few
words will suffice, with a reference to the map, to
explain. Sir C. Campbell was, on the 28th January,
still encamped with his powerful force of all arms at
Futtehghur, a grand central position, from which
he was able to observe at once Rohilcund, Oude,
and the Doab. Above him was about to move down
upon the upper waters of the Ganges a column
from Lahore, commanded by Neville Chamberlain
as Brigadier. Below him, along the Ganges frontier
of Oude by Cawnpore and Futtehpore to Allaha-
bad, are bodies of English and Sikh troops watch-
ing every ghat, or place of passage, of the river.
Then upwards from Allahabad on the eastern fron-
tier of the rebel province are three columns of
European soldiery and the victorious Ghoorka bat-
talions of Jung Bahadoor. Thus when the revolted
stations of Rohilcund, Moradabad, Bareilly, and
Shahjehanpore have successively been recovered,
when, advancing into Oude, the Commander-in-
Chief has once again, and for the last time, gathered
to himself the gallant defenders of the Alumbagh,
and has reduced to a heap of desolate ruins the long-
resisting rebel capital, the survivors of the great
slaughter, broken and dispersed, will find no line of
escape unguarded by their watchful enemy, save
where, on their northern frontier, the pestilential
jungles of the Serai afford an inhospitable shelter,
scarcely less terrible than the bayonets of the
English or the knives of the Ghoorkhas.

Sir Colin was still at Futtehghur on the 28th.
He was waiting for the siege train from Agra,
which left that station on the 22d, but marched
but slowly, detained by heavy rains. The
train consisted of seven 24-pounder guns, one 10-
inch and three 8-inch howitzers, and as many 10-
inch mortars, with 750 rounds of ammunition for
each gun and 500 for each howitzer and mortar ;
shot and shell on the same scale were also sent from
the Agra arsenal for the guns, howitzers, and mor-
tars which the chief already had with him, whicb
is ratod at 68 pieces of all calibres.

(From the Bombay Gazette.)

"It would have been difficult for a Commander
to choose a more excellent position than that of Fut-
tehghur, in which Sir Colin Campbell still lay en-
camped on the 28th of January. To the north-east
commanding Rohilcund, to the south-east Oude, to
the south and south-west the Doab, and bothbanks
of the Jumna, it enabled Sir Colin to meet emergen-
cies in whatever quarter they might arise. He could
order columns to bear on the Calpee rebels, rein-
force the garrison of Alumbagh, or face the insur-
gents of Khan Bahadoor. The enemy were in
such positions as to render any contingencies pro-
bable. Calpee, the rallying point of the Doab, was

still held by a large force whose movements threw

ened Futtehpore. Alum bagh was surrounded by an
army, daily on the increase, from which detached
parties ravaged the country along the Cawnpore and
Luoknow road up to Oonao. The Chief of Bareilly,
whose troops were at one time believed to have re-
tired into Oude, had taken a position opposite
Walpole's brigade, about 6 miles from Futtehghur,
on the Rohilcund side of the Ganges, and num-
bered 7,000 fighting men.
Sir Colin Campbell wisely stayed at Futtehghur
to watch these enemies, and at the same time pre-
pared himself for rapid action by completing his
supplies of guns, ammunition, and transport.
A division, under Sir Hugh Rose, which has lost
the name of the Nerbudda Field. Force to assume
that of the Army of Central India, advanced from
Sehore, duo north in the direction of Jhansi, and
opened the communication from Indore through
Gwalior to Agra. From Goona, the site of an old
Pindarrie camp in the great campaign of Warren
Hastings, Orr's brigade is advancing upon Jhansi,
thence to proceed against the Gwalior insurgents, if
they have courage to wait for him.

The Nagpore force at the same time is opening up

the country between Jubbulpore and Mirzapore,
and a combined attack is meditated upon the Rajah
of Bijrajooghur, 80 miles from Jubbulpore, in the
hills at no great distance from the pass of Kuttingee.
The enemy is supposed to be 5,000 or 6,000 strong.

Thus in Central India simultaneous efforts are
made both north and south of the Nerbuddo to
drive the insurgants to wards the Jumna. Symptoms
are already apparent that the pressure so created is
acting on the rebels. Part of the Calpeo insurgents
have again crossed the Jumna, in thehope of forcing
their way to the Ganges through the country that
lies between Cawnpore and Futtehpore. We expect
to hear shortly that this attempt has been frus-
trated. A force left Cawnpore and Futtehpore si-
multaneously to attack these rebels, and on the 17th
of January the two parties were likely to be very
near each other. The result of an engagement
cannot be doubted, inasmuch as our troops at
Futtehpore have been reinforced by an English
Cavalry and her Majesty's 79th Regiment. Yet a
few days, and we shall see the Gwalior and other in-
surgents along the Jumna completely at our mercy.
Alunabagb, a source of constant at'ention on the
part cf the Commander-in-Chief, has been rein-
forced by the despatch of her Majesty's 34th ; a
timely and necessary aid, when we consider that,
in the action of the 12th of January, 0 utram's force
was reduced by the despatch of escorts for convoys
and other causes to 2,000 effective men for the
field.

Fresh troops advancing in this direction must
clear the road to the Bunnee-bridge, and dispose of
the gangs of marauders which infested it even in
the vicinity of Oonao, and the rebels of Oude will
be kept to their lines of Lucknow until Sir Colin
Campbell thinks fit to move.

Jung Bahadoor's men hft Gorruckpore and
marched tiwards Fyzabad through Bustee, on the
10th of January. We may expect to hear of an
action in that quarter also at no distant date.
The circle, as we have before said, is closing on
the rebels, and Sir Colin is wisely waiting for the
moment to stiike an effective blow.

The siege-train which he required has already
left Agra, and proceeded on the 22d of January
towards Futtehghur, whither also Sir Archdale
Wilson took his departure from Meerut. We may
therefore expect a move shortly.