The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-03 00:00:00

No. 1644

From Cecil Beadon, Esq., Secretary to the Government of
India, to the editor of the Phooenix.—Dated the 16th
July, 1858.

(Home Department.)
am directed by the President in Council to state
that the proclamation purporting to have been issued by the
Governor-General, which was published in the _Plicenix of
Monday last, the 12th inst., and is there said to be taken
from the Bombay Gazette, is a pure invention, without any
foundation whatever.—l have the honour to be, sir, your
most obedient servant, CECIL BEADON,
Secretary to the Government of India.
Council Chahther, the IGth July, 1858.

The Bombay Gazette has not yet seen fit to re-
veal the authority on which this circumstantial,
and apparently malicious story was palmed upon
it, but it is certainly due to the character of the
Indian press to make it known. The last ad-
vices from the province are dated Lucknow, 21st
July, and inform us that the policy of con-
ciliation pursued by Mr. Montgomery was slowly
but surely detaching the Talookdars from the
rebel side, and that the cause itself will collapse,
as soon as we are able to afford efficient
protection to those who openly declare for us.
We are disposed to yield full credence to this as-
surance. At present we are not in circumstances
to afford them protection, and we can hardly expect
—until our influence is dominant in the province,
—that these men will expose themselves to the re-
sentment of the rebel leaders. The Begum is now
besieging Maun Sing in the neighbourhood of
Fyzabad, for his supposed leaning to our cause,
and has offered a reward for his head ; and until
the powerful rebel forces which now hold the
country to the north, east, and south of the capital,
are confronted by our armies, the Talookdars will
content themselves by mere protestations of their
desire to return to loyalty when they can do so
safely. For the relief of Maun Sing and to occupy
Fyzabad, Sir Hope Grant left Lucknow on the
21st ult., with the following force :-Ist M'adraa
Fusiliers, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, MM. ith
Hussars, Hodson's Horse, Ist Regiment Punjaub
Infantry, with 12 light guns and a heavy siege
train.

We now hold the military road between Cawn-
pore and Lucknow ; the route on to Nawabgunge
beyond the capital ; and a strip of country a few
miles broad along the north of this line throughout
its extent. General Grant's advance on Fyzabad
will probably give us the command of that road
also, and little more can then be done until the cold
weather permits the re-opening of the campaign.
It is not improbable that ere then the rebels may
have melted away. The force which the Begum
was organising at Boondee she is unable to retain,
the men deserting in large numbers, leaving their
arms behind them. The latter fact is very sugges-
tive. The rebel treasury we believe is exhausted,
and it is confidently stated that the miscreant Nana
has been compelled, by extreme straits, to sell his
famous ruby of fabulous value to a native banker
for 10,000 rupees. • •

In Behar, writes the Friend of India,
There are three thousand rebels congregated about the
jungle at Jugdespore, which we have been unable to de -
stroy. These men, though badly armed and scantily sappl ed
with provisions, have swept the country from Gya to Patna,
from the Soane river to. the Kurumnassa. They have burnt
bungalows and factories, liberated prisoners, and mutilated
ryots. In the face of Sir E. Lugard, with 2,000 troops at
Judgespore, and in the teeth of Brigadier Douglas, with a
Queen's regiment at Bluer, they have ravaged the whole

country. The last telegram, however, gives more hopeful
accounts. The rebels have retired from Arrah, after burn-
ing Mr. Vincent's house, and Brigadier Douglas has as-
sumed the command of the disturbed- districts. He was
last described as about to establish military posts about the
position of the enemy. At present we regard the tactics to
be employed with but little hopes of success. The enemy
will, we are afraid, evade these posts as easily as they did the
enclosing force of Sir E. Lugard, and the struggle will be in-
definitely prolonged. Still the enemy in all but numbers, the
sympathy of the populace, and the celerity if their motions,
are a contemptible foe. They scarcely have a good gun
amongst them, caps are almost unprocurable, being sold at
4s. the hundred. The rebels have not mach trea-
sure ; their excursions, though they have inflicted con-
siderable damage to us, have been sadly unprofitable to
themselves. Their pay is doled out in pittances of one or
two rupees in alternate months, provisions are scarce, enemies
numerous, and the climate intemperate even to Bhoojpoories.
Our contemporary proceeds, according to custom,
to attribute the delay in reducing this jungle rabble
to Lord Canning's incapacity. It was an amnesty
that was to quiet Oude four months ago, and now
it is an amnesty that is to disperse these Jugdespore
bandits, and convert them into honest men :
They would cease to resist were they certain of immunity.
They would quietly disperse could they be assured that
none would be looked after in their villages. But of this
some are not certain, and others, who have assisted at the
murder of Europeans, know that for them the day of mercy
is past. The "ultimate intentions" of the Governor-Gene-
ral for the one pariy are of no avail, and the others, if they
even hear of them, 'will scarcely credit them. But with
steady, quiet perseverance/ we may even clear Shahabad in I
the rains.

Doubtless, without any amnesty, we trust to
stand in the way of hanging d fair proportion of
hem, for their cold-blooded atr:'►cities upon the
ryt.'ts of the district in the last two nlonths. As an

iiiqta2lnent of this retribution, we learn Try telegram,
dated lOth July, that a party of eight picked men of
Captain I;att;-ray's corps being sent out to catch
Sungram Sing, his brother Raday Sing, and his
nephew and sons, met with entire success. They
disguised themselves as mutinous Sepoys, and suc-
ceeded in bringing .ju Sungram Sing alive, and the
heads of the others :

Sungram Sing having,• Formatted some murders in the