The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-07 00:00:00

ARRIVALS OF REINFORCEMENTS

We have received the following telegram from
the Eaat India House :

TO SIR JAMES C. MELVILL, EAST INDIA-HOI7SE.

MALTA, JAN. 6.

Political intelligence by Nubia.
SUEZ, JaN. 1, 1858.
From her British Majesty's Vice-Consul, Suez,
to Acting Consul-General Green, Alexandria :
General Havelock died on the 25th November,
from dysentery, brought ou by exposure and
anxiety.

On the 27th November an affair took place
near Cawnpore between General Windham and
his division and the Gwalior mutineers, in which

the British troops retreated, with the total loss
of the tents of the 64th, 82d, and 88th Regi-
ments, 3,000 in number, which wore entirely
burnt by the enemy. The 64th Regiment is re-

ported nearly cut up.

A message received by the Governor-General
from Sir Colin Campbell of the 7th December,

contains an account of an action fought by him
with the Gwalior Contingent near Cawnpore, in
which the latter were totally defeated, with the

loss of 16 guns, 26 carriages of different sorts,

an immense quantity of ammunition, stores, grain,
bullocks, and the wholo of the baggage of the
force. The British loss was insignificant, one
officer only killed, viz., Lieutenant Salmon.
All the women and children, sick, Jtc., from
Lucknow, have arrived in safety at Allahabad.

The Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary contains a

very deeply interesting detailed account of the
defence of Lucknow, being the official report of
Brigadier Inglis. The privations endured by the
heroic garrisOn, and particularly by the ladies,
were fearful.

Colonel Rooke, 19th Regt., died at Calcutta,

from cholera, Nov. 30. Captain Day, of the
64th, is reported killed at Cawnpore.

The following regiments have arrived at Cal-
cutta :-Bth Regt., 87th Regt., 79th Highlanders,
7th Hussars, 21 Dragoon Guards, 3d Battalion
Rifle Brigade, and a detachwent of artillery.

Very little news from China. The Adelaide,
with the last detachment of 500 marines on board,
passed ou from Singapore on the 2d Dac., and an
attack on Canton was expected to take place on
their arrival.

The telegram arrived. at Malta by her Majesty's
steam-vessel Caratloc at noon on th© 6th instant

from Vitic.

TROOPS TO INDIA.
[EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

LIVERPOOL, THUR.RDAY MORNING.

The Lightning, with the 7th Hussars, arrived at
the Sandheads (Calcutta) on the 23d November, in
87 days. She landed all her men in perfect health,
with tha exception of one private. The transports
Blenheim and Monarch had also arrived.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVE RPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Anglo-Saxon has arrived with advices from
Portland to the 26th, and by telegraph from New
York to the 25th.

She experienced very heavy weather.
At New York cotton was dull at 97-3 for middling
uplands : flour was firmer ; wheat dull, and lower.
Sugar quiet, but steady. There was but little busi,
ness doing in stocks, but prices generally were
firmer. Money without change, and moderately
active.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Union Screw Steamship Company's mail-
packet Dane, Commander William Strutt, arrived
last night.
She left Table Bay Nov. 30, St. Helena Dec. 9,
' and Ascension Dec. 13, and brings from the Cape
50 pipes of wine, 252 bales of wool, 409 elephants'
tusks, 2,820 horns, eight cases of ostrich feathers,
68 cases of arrowroot, and 30 cases of sundries, and
specie, 3,5001. ; from Ascension, specie and bullion,
604/.—total, 9,5001.
The Dane has 11 passengers, viz., Gen. Baron
Royal German Legion, Dr. Way,
von Stutterheirn,
Emigration Commissioner from the colony, Rev.
John Gorham, Mr. and Mrs. Biccard, Captain and
Mrs. Juta and Mrs. Maurice, Joseph Hovil, and
Schaltz.
The intelligence by the Dane is most satisfactory.
The colony is peaceful and prosperous. About
30,000 Caffres have taken shelter within its boun-
daries. Some of them make good servants. 1,147
are engaged on public works.
At King 'William's Town all the troops from
England have arrived in good health, and the
steamers appear tohave been coaled with expedition
in Table Bay.
The surveying vessel Hermes was in Simon's
Bay. The hulk Seringaptam, and the Boscawen,
Captain Fo w ell.
The Sappho had passed on for India. The Castor
left, Nov. 1, for the Mozambique. The Assurance
gun-boat sailed, Nov. 1, for the eastward. At
Ascension, the Tortoise and the paddle steamship
Medusa, refitting. The French frigate Virginia,
from China, has sailed from the Cape for Havre.
The gun-boat La Bourdonnaise was at Simon's
Bay, en route for Monte Video. The screw steam.
ship Italian arrived in Table Bay November 3,
coaled, and left on the 7th ; the ship Hersalia
arrived on the 6th, and sailed on the Bth ; the
screw steam-ship . Hydasnes arrived in Simon's
Bay on the 7th, coaled, and sailed on the 10th,—
alt three with troops from India. The screw ship
Himalaya, bringing joyful news of the fall of Delhi,
arrived in Simon's Bay on the Bth, took in 1,100
tons of coals, and was ordered to proceed on the
4th of December to Port Elizabeth, to embark
horses for India.

The screw steam-ship Ireland arrived on the 16th
and sailed on the 18th, witli troops for India.
The brig Exc,l sailed for England on the 13th,
and the ships Stamly_;ul and Chilhia on the 17th.
The screw steamship Calcutta arrived in Simon's
Bay on the 20th, and sailed for India on the 26th ;
and her Majesty's screw frigate Chesapeake on the
19th, sailing on the 25th.
The steamer Southampton, outward, arrived on
the 28th, and would sail on the 2d of December.
The brig Lard Hardwicke and the Star of Peace
would leave about the 2d of December.

The baaque Samuel Boddington, 86 clays from
Kurrachee' was appointed to sail frcm St. Helena
December 9, for Eogiancl.
The steam ship Sabrina, from the Chincha
lands, with a leak iu her stornpost, was at Aseen.
sion.

About one-third of the troops in the Cap© gar-