The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1858.

' EPPS'S COCOA.—EPPS, Homoeopathic
Chemist, London.—This excellent preparation can be obtained
of the principal Grocers in HS. and % lb. packers, Is. Gd. and 9d
Each. packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS, Homoeopathic Chemist,
London.

FOR THE SEA SIDE.
ANGOLA SUITS, £2 155.
Excellence with Economy.
GEOEGE
ESTABL IS HOBSON, 57. Lomb
1796 .ard-street.
HED

MESSRS. NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS
are thus divided :
No. 114, REGENT-STREET, is their Depot for Paletots,
fortw, Ge.: lemen's Evening and Morning Dress.
No. 1 I G, for the manufacture of the Guinea Trousers.
No. 118, for the Half-Guinea Waistcoats.
No. 120, for Waterptoofed Guinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries.
N 0.142 is their new Estab'ishment for Ladies' Riding habits and
Mantles.
No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young
gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and ecodomy whereby Messrs.
NICOLL have secured wide spread confidence.
The Wholesale Wareroorns are at the rear of the Regent-street
premises, viz., 29. 30, 31, and 41, W , RWICK-STREET.
The City Depot is at 21 and 22, Cornhill.
The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the
°lanais of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.;

Ell EVOLVERS for the FRENCH NAVY.—
"Au The French Government, with a view to Arming the Nary,
has had experiments made N, ith the various kind' of Revolvers, bo h
French and Fercige, on board the vessels " Le Suffres",and " La
Bretagne." The Colt's (Americas), Adams' (English), and Lefau-
cheux (French) Pistols, being considered the best, have been the
object of these repeated experiments, the result of which has been to
prove the superiority of the LEFAUCHEUX PISTOL. Since the
Report cf the Commissioners of these experiments, his Excellency
the Ninist r of Marine has entered into a contract, bearing date
Bth May, 1858, with Messrs. LEFAUCHEUX and Co., for the supply
of their Six-chamber Revolver to the French Navy.

CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR GIBRALTAR.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, July 16, 1558.
fp HE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 3d Augnst next, at Two o'clock, they will be• ready to treat
with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and
delivering at Gibraltar,
- - -

CONTRACT FOR CLOTHING FOR ROYAL MARINES.
Department of the Comptrollefor Victualling,
Somerset-place, 14th July, 1858.
1' TIE Commissioners for executing the Office of
ji_ Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY,
the 12th August text, at Half-past One o'clock, they will be
ready to treat with Such persons as may be willing to Contract
for supplyin , and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores
at Deptford, the undermentioned articles of cloths, &e., for Clothing
and Necessaries for the Royal Marines, viz. :
CLOTHS, &c., for " CLOTHING" and "NECESSARIES."

Description of Cloth,

Scarlet cloth (superfine)'

„ cloth ..
Red cloth ..
White cloth (superfine)
„ cloth, No. 1. •.
No. 2. ..
hersey
Blue cloth (superfine)
„ No. 1 (wool dyed)
„ N 0.2 „
Oxford mixture (super-
fine

” mixture

ker.sey ..
Duck .. .. ..
Rattinette .. ..
Shalloon .. ..
Cotton, No. 1 .. ..

„ ]0.2..
Serge, white
Black linen •• ••
Brown holland
Padding cloth • . •
C nvass
Wadding sheets ..
Alpaca • • •• • •
Great coat cloth ..

Weight.

per yard
Ilb 24 on
llb 10 cal
ilb 10% oz 3
Ilb

llb 10 ozs
tlb 814 ozs
11b11%oz;
llb 2% ozs
llb 614 ozs
lib 614 ozs

IN cm
Ilb 94 ozs
11b10,4ozs
9% oz 3.

Ilb 10Nozs

Width be-
tween the
Lists.

inches.

35%
35
30%
34
35%
54
3534

Quantity
required.

7 ards.

900
22,000

900
1,300
13,030

400
6,000

100
1,000
24,000
60,000

150
50
114,000
27,200
1,500
13,000
20
1.700
200 shts
4 yrds
11,0130 „

Rate,&c,

per yard
, ~

pr.d z. ah
per yard

GARNITURE, &c , for making up Clothing and Necessaries for
the Royal Dlarines.

Description of Garniture, &c.

Quantity
required.

Rate, &c.

104 in number
14 „ '

4 palrs

100
310 „

G'lo „
150 „ 1
20 in number
5 01
20 yards -
)50 ,„
100 p firs
100 skeins
100 ~
400 „
50 ~

18 y-rcs

2 gross
3 t.
1,260
1,500 „
135 „
220 gross (prs)
340 gross
1,900 yards
4 0 1,
250 In number

40 ~
1,740 gross

each

per pair

OP
each

300
1,550 ~
220
4 0 lbs
800„
500 ~
17,030 yards

6,000 ,i

per yard

~,,
Per dozen pairs
per doz. skeins

I per yard

per gras

(pairs)
per gross
per yard

3,000 ~
900 ~

each

,per kyom

r 9P
'per 14.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

We have received by extraordinary express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our usual de-
spatches and papers from the East. The dates
brought are Bombay, June 19 ; Madras, June 11 ;
and Calcutta, June 8. We take from the Bombay
Standard the following excellent summary of
news :-- ,
SOUTHERN MAHRATTA COUNTRY.
Nothing but the extreme prompitude and deci-
sion of our measures has saved the Southern Mah-
ratta country from rebellion. Each successive
effort has been met at once, each budding treachery
nipped before it could bloom, each rising crushed
before treason had acquired strength or consistency
enough to do harm. Two of the great causes of the
utter alienation of the na•ives which has protracted
our disquietudes, as it threatens to protract them
to infinitude, is the extent of our recent annexa-
tions, and much more especially the system of our
refusing permission to Hindoo princes to adopt
heirs—a system which scam ly dates ten years
back, and in the indulgence of which Bombay has
a peculiarly evd. eminen:e. By the Blue-book on
the rights of native princes, published in 1.849, it
appears that up to that year all interference on our
part with adoption was repudiated as a thing unjust
in itself, opposed to all our treaties, which bound
us to respect native institutions, and in the last
degree inimical to our influence with the people.
Since then we have on this point broken throngla
every rule which, until then, the Government of
India in all its departments, whether in El's:g-
land or the East, deemed most sacred. Tho chief
of Nurgoond, a small principality to the eastward
eee •
of P . --, being e-:thout .male iss-re -- flii-'il -peti_
Cass. sse-i Bombay Government fe . ~ . ssion-
to adopt an heir—a privilege, as alreaay °sated,
held till within the past ten years inviolable.
Memorial follo d . memorial, but in vain ;
and then the ee •,:
f
• ratta, disgraced, as
.
he considered hi ---celeeci in the eyes of his sub-
jects and brother prlnieg,'s awaited the opportunity
of being avenged. It must be remembered that,
even up to the present time, a large portion of the
discontented are under the belief that theirs is the
winning cause, and that they have only to per-
severe long enough to be secure of victory. Mr.
Manson, the political agent, having heard that
there was some danger of an outbreak, that the
chief was being tampered with or misled, and was
making preparations for hostilities, resolved to
meet him in person, convince him of his folly, and
dissuade him of his purposes before he became
finally committed. He accordingly left Belgaum
(lithe 26th May. They had been on terms of in-
timacy, and Mr. Manson believed his own personal
influence might be sufficient to avert bloodshed.
On the evening of the 22d he reached Ramiroog.
Having outridden his escort, he was now accom-
panied by a single orderly, and the Ramdroog
chief endeavoured to dissuade him from proceeding
further, his kinsman of Nurgoond being already in
arms, so as to render negotiations hopeless. Tho
escort having now come up, the unhappy gentle-
man pushed on late in the evening, halting for a
short time at a village betwixt the two places. He
had gone to sleep in his palanquin. He was here
surrounded by about 800 of the Nurgoond rebels,
and wheP.l."l. 'eig oat of fir - equin, was mur-
dered ; r ' ~-.,-.:2 of the , eying at the same
time been killed. The movements of the rualcen-
tents had all along been carefully watched, both
from Bellary and Belgaum, From the former
place a Madras force, under Major Hushes, pro-
ceeded northward, defeated the enemy at Kopal,
and captured the stronghell, slaying some of the
chiefs. On the evening of the 31st of May a force
from Dharwar, consisting of two compapies of the
74th Highlanders, one company of the 28'Lln....Tative
infantry, with two guns—a howitzer and a -
pounder, commanded by Capt. Paget, of the Royal
Artillery, joined a body of Mahratta horse under
Colonel Malcolm, at Noolgoond. On the morning
of the Ist June they advanced on Noolgoond, a
strong fortress on the summit of a rock, 800 feet
above the plain, with the town at its ,base. The
force having halted, a reconnaissance was made.
The enemy, to the number of from 1,500 to 2,000,
were encamped about a mile outs.cle the village. On
observing our approach they wihdrew, but when
they saw our reconoitring party retiring on the
main force, they believed we had fled, and so ad-
vanced into the plain. The chief, mounted on au
elephant, was conspicuous amongst them, brandish-
ing their swords in defiance. The Mahratta Horse
now advanced in a body, the European artillery
and native infantry followed. The horse next.
charged, and drove the rebels before their into the
town, cutting up about 40. They now halted for
a little till the other troops came up, and when
about 500 yards from the town our artillery opened.,
This distance being considered to great, they went
to within 150 yards, when the practice became
most destructive. The Highlanders and seP°Y5
making a considereble detour to the left, entered
the place by an old gateway, which they found open
and undefended, and by four o'cicck the whole
place was is our hands. We had six men wounded
or scorched by
gunpowder—nO deaths. The fort
frowning over them had hitherto done nothing but
fire a gun occasionally, which did no harm ; a mo-
derately active enemy in possession of it might
either have kept us from the first at bay, or ren-
dered our position untenable after we had ap-
proached. . As we had no means of knowing the
strength of the defences,
or number, or intentions
of the garrison, Colonel Malcolm considered it
wiser to wait till next morning, his men had had
enough work for one day, and nothing was to be
gained by needless h'tste. At seven o'clock on the
following morning (2d June) tee storming party
proceeded to ascend the steep and rugged pathway
which leads from the plain to the main gate, proposed
to be blown in by powder b igs. , They approached
unmolested, not a shot was fired nor man seen
on the Walls until they were Within a few yards
of the when a single held peeped over. The
m
saluted by a couple of rifles, but without
effect,ia
gate,aans dhe then commenced throwing stones on
tl
sprung forward from our advance ; ho scaled the
asailants.enw A fleet Maharatia horseman nowt
wall in an instant, unbarred the gates, and the as.
sailants were admitted without resistance. Three
men were found inside. We ends avoured to satisfy
them that if they gave themselves up they would
be spared, when, not Urlderstauding us, in sheer
panic they jumped over the wall, and were dashed
to pieces. The Brahutia in charge of the temple
had drowned himself in the well on our approach.
Nurgoond used to be held famous for its strength,
and had at one time bid defiance to the armies of
Tippo ; it now fell into our hands without a blow
being struck in its defence. After one day's rest
the victorious troops marched in the direction of I
Gunduck, to co-operate with the Madras det tell- 1
ment, alreadymentioned as advancing froml3.Alary.
They quickly learnt that Kopel had been taken,
and that all the leaders of the rebellion had either
fallen or were in our hands. The moment the
murder of Mr. Manson wets heard of at Belgaum,
Mr. Souter, superintendent of police, with a
reounte I party under him, proceeded in quest of
the murderers. The chief, as already stated, had
been seen mounted on an elephant at the head of
his army during Colonel Maleolm'a reconnaisance
on the Ist. He seems to have fled early in the
day, probably as soon as our artillery opened. He
himself, with seven of his principal followers, all of
whom had been present at the murder, were first
heard of by Mr. Souter at daybreak on the 2d.
The chase continued till sunset, when they were
thefound
1i skulkingui
p urb!,
iinc a
near • r, belt
ain ofai -n the banks of
The chief, with
r
s'x out of seven, were captured just as they
i
itorongl.e
were about to start for Punderpoor. They
were sent to Belgaum, where they were tried
by special commission, and convicted of rebel-

lion and of murder. On the 12th the chief was
_banged. The ntighbouring Pojah of Dumbull
was blo.vn from a gun ; six of his confedrates were
hanged. Thus by determination and activity was a
rising, obviously expected, from the outrage with
which it commenced, to swell out into a great and
general rebellion, crushed at the outset, and within
a fortnight of the first .manifestation of treason
every traitor had paid the penalty of his crimes.
The promptitude an vigour of the measures
re-
sorted to on the spot, and the intrepidity and shill
with which they were executed, are beyond all
praise. And yet surely it would have been better
had Mr. Manson still been alive, and the men we
have tratsformed into traitors, and punished as
such, continued our friends and allies, lending
their assistance to put down disorder, and tran-
quillise the country. This, in all probability, they
would have been, had we observed the obligations
to which we are bound by a hundred treaties, to
respect the usages of the country, and avoided that
most obnoxious of all forms of annexation—un-
known till within these doz‘ n of years—that corn-
passs4 by the refusal of permission to adopt heirs.

GWALIOR.
It will he remembered tha& early in July last
nearly the whole of Scinlia's army, the Gwalior •
Contingent, numbering close on 12,000 as well
armed and disciplined as any troops in India,
joined the insurrection, and from that time forth
they formed one of the moat formidable bodies we
have had to deal with. It was these men chiefly
wlisishut up Windham in Cawnpore in Noverniser,
and were dispersed by Sir CAmpbell a fort-
night afterwards. A large portion of them were
b.lieved to have joined the garrisons of Jhansi and
Calpce, strongholds considered peculiarly fitted for
maintaining an obstinate and protracted resist-
ance. Same three or four thousand troops had
continued faithful around Ssindia to the last, and
have only now gone over to the enemy. From
the time of their defeat at Koonch, Gwalior was
obviously the city of refuge to which all Pandy
eyes were turned, and so soon as Calpee fell, a
rush in that direction was made. Though Scindia
had abundant cause to suspect his regulars, he
had really no choice but to try to make the best of
them ;he had none others to fall back upon. On
the Ist of June the rebels were reported as ap-
proaching in great force, having obviously come
straight from the scene of their disasters on the
23d. The Gwalior troops went out to meet them.
They consisted of some 600 of the body guard, with
some cavalry, 6,000 infantry, and 8 guns. The
enemy had 4,000 cavalry, 7,000 infantry, and 12
guns. They met shortly after daybreak. The
rebels were headed by Tana% Topee, the chief of
Bandab, Rao Sahib, Ram Row Govind, and the
Rsneee of Jhansi. So soon as the battery of
Seindia opened, about 2,000 of the enemy's cavalry
charged
bur atnrd carrieduops,all
of
fie
which save
waavehetnhe2b,ooodo of h
y guard
hal hitherto remained inactive, at once joined the
rebels. The body guard fought with great gallantry,
and bad above 200 killed ; the rest of the army
continued from the first listless spectators of the
scene, and quickly afterwards joined the enemy.
It was vain longer to attempt to keep the field, and
so the body guard retired with precipitation. The
action occurred close under the wails of Gwalior,
when Scindia, finding his caso hopeless, retired on
.Agra, hotly pursued by the cavalry of the enemy.
The Baez Ranee, the widow of a former sovereign,
who had been thrice since 1824 permitted to adopt
an heir to the throne of Gwalior, with Sciudia's
family, had meauwbilo escaped towards Sepree,
whitherward they were for a while hotly pursued,
but managed to escape. The fort of Gwalior is
built upon a rock rising abruptly from the plain to
the height of about 300 feet. It- is difficult of
access oven by the gate ; everywhere else it is
precipitous, or in sonau. cases overhanging. It is
about 300 yards across at its great st breadth, and
a mile and a half in length. It would be difficult
to storm, but is very easily botnbarded, the
guns from the walls not being capable of suf-
ficient depression to command mortar batteries
under them. The chief difficulty fur the enemy is,
that though it might for a little space be held by
them if they once enter it, they can never get out
again. We have only to guard the entrance, and
keep pounding away from under cover, when the
garrison must either capitulate or be extinguished
by us, without so much as the gratification of a
sortie. They are said io have strengthened the fort
by additional men and guns; but considerations
such as those suggested will probably force them-
, selves upon them as the British troops approach.
They have already plundered the town, and so ex-
cited the inhabitants against them, while the prin-
cipal men are repairing to Agra, not only fur the
sake of safety, but to tender us their services. The
movement of the rebels in Gwalior may, perhaps,
after all, be considered an auspicious event, esta-
blishing, as it does most effectually, a permanent
and irreconcilable quarrel betwixt the insurgents
and the people.
SIR HUGH ROSE'S FORCE.

After the capture of Calpee on the 23d May, the
force under Sir Hugh Rose, which had fought their
way from one side of India to the other, and part
of which had well nigh lived in harness since Octo-
ber, might naturally have looked for some shelter
and repose. Further toils were awaiting them.
The eyes of the rebel', if driven from their !al
stronghold, were long believed to have been turned
towards Gwalior, where they knew that the hearts
of the bulk of Sciudia's army, which had already
contributed so largely to their ranks, were on their
side. On the 24th, the morning after the capture,
a party was sent in pursuit of th 3 fugitives. It con-
sisted of a regiment of Hyderabad cavalry, some
infantry, and a wing of the Bombay 25th N. 1.,
commanded by Col. Robertson, of the corps last
named. The rebels seemed inclined to make for
Jaloun, astrong fortress north-west of Calpee, which
Sir H. Rose had at one time intended to fake on
his advance. They speedily changed their minds,
and proceeded nearly north in the direction of the
Jumna. The third day of the pursuit they appeared
disposed to fight, when the pursuing column, being
too weak for resistence to the enemy en masse,
some tea thousand strong, with cavalry and guns,
assistance was summoned from the rear. He was
joined accordingly on the 31st by portions of the
14.11 Dragoons and her Majesty's 86th ; but the
enemy had once more taken to their heels and now
outstripped him. They reached Gwalior on the Ist
of J une. Leaving Calpee in charge of a sufficient
garrison under command of Capt. Hare, until the
arrival of General Whitlock with the Madras
Brigade. Sir Hugh Rose, accompanied by Sir R.
Hamilton, who had attended in his civil capacity
all through with a portion of the First Brigade,
started for Gwalior at two a.m., on the 2nd ofJone.
He was followed on the sth by the last portion of
the force. On the Bth we find the head-quarters at
Indurkee, two-thirds of the march having
been ac-
oin the
cuonndteprl
adTiehre
Hicks,secondwas ordered to j brigade foam Jhansi,
Brig
other troops near Gwalior ; they had about the
same distance as the Calpee force to traverse. The
three towns just named occupy the angles of an
01t100,0en slthoe
etahcch:estuii side.
We veq tea i lma te en rt lo triangle.l
ed
in
uorf assblooup
ort
the
lion of Chundaree by Brigadier Smith, and his
subsequent advance on Se
r,,ached this on the 7th, and left it on the 10th iu
the direction of Gwalior, to form a portion of the
attacking army. From the interruption of our
communications with the north-wes', We have not
yet learnt what ase'stan33 may b 3 looked for from
Agra, a distance, of only 65 miles, and where
Scindia himself arrived on the 2nd. Whatever men
they may be able to spare, they can supply any
amount of ordnance and ammunition. The various
positions of the attacking force would in all likeli-
hood be in communication by the 15th ; the newt
stage of the proceedings would depend on the policy