The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

THE DOAB.

A body of rebels had threat3ned Etawab, bu
have since recrossed the Ganges.

REWAII.

It is reported from Rewah that the rebels have
taken Cheomar (?), and that the Rajah and the
Deputy-Commissioner, Mr. CAViLI, are prisoners.
CENTRAL INDIA.

Sir 11. Rose occupied Bandapoor on March 10.
The Rajah had fled to Chuuderee.

RAJPOOTANA.

No intelligence.
SOUTHERN MA.HRATTA COUNTRY.

The rebel Dessayees are still in the Carrara
jungles, but large reinforcements have been de-
spatched to the magistrate by the Madras Govern•
ment, and the Bombay frontieriscarefully guarded.
The following telegraphic despatch dated Alla-
habad, March 17th, 7 p.m., has just been re-
ceived :

" It is reported from Futtvqhnr, under date
March 15, that the Nana is still at Jehanpoor,
and chief rebels ate with him. The rebels have
again entered the Futtyghur district, attacked the
Thannahs, and driven off the police posted theie.
uen. Penny must be el,)se at hand on the J umn a
side. The rebels who had entered the Ghatuin-
pore Pergunnah have recrossed the river to Hu-
meerpore.

Tae Commander-in-Chief sends the following
inteligence to-day from Lucknow :
" Yesterday the bridges were secured, and the
troops advanced, and occupied the Muchee Bawan
and Great Iwambarra. Large bodies of the
enemy crossed the stone bridges an hour before
the attack was commenced by Sir J. Outran]. The
resistance was slight compared with the previous
day. A Ghoorkah division seized the enemy's
Position in front of Alumbagh last night. Numbers
of armed and unarmed men are evacuating the
city by the outlets ; they passed to the north.

"Our advances to-day are gradual:y pushed on
all sides of the line occupied by the troops, par-
ticularly towards Goolghat and Moosabah, in
which direction the enemy are advancing. Tire
point they intend to make for is not known.
" thmbay Castle, March 18, 1858.
" 'H. L. ANDERSON,
" 'Secretary to Government.;
"Malta, April 8, 1858.
"From V. G. MONTANARO."

DESTRUCTION OF TLI3 EARL OF
MORAY'S RESIDENCE BY PIHE.

(Prom the Caledonian Mercury, of April 7.)

It is our melancholy duty to announce the total de-
struction by firs of Donibristle House, the charming
ci I residence of the Earl of Moray, and the ancient seat
of the Moray family, on the Firth of Forth. The fire
broke out between seven and eight o'clock yesterday
morning ; and by ten o'clock, such was the devouring
nature of the flames, the whole building was a notes of
ruins, Lofting remaining save smouldering wood and
blackened walls. How the fire originated is not known.
None of the family were resiing in the house
at the time, and the servants who took charge
of the mansion lived in a building apart. Fires,
however, were put on in it, almost every day.
and it is supposed that the conflagration originated in
some of the chimnies. It was first discovered breaking
through the roof, and assistance not being immediately
to be had, it soon Rained such power as to defy all efforts
to extit guish it. Fire-engines were obtained from Dun-
fermline, and one was shipped from Edinburgh. B-fore
they arrived, however, the flames had such a hold of the
building that they proved of no essential service. A
great number of people from Inverkeithing, including
the Magistrates, were present at the earliest moment
to render assistance. When the fire was firet
covered, Mr. Ted, farmer, Latham, with his servants,
hastened to the Scene; and, with the assi,tauce of Mr.
Smith, forester, and the gardeners and other servants
on the estate, caved the whole library and a number of
valeablo paintings (the Courts of Charles I. and IT., by
L.ly) from one of the drawing-rooms. Most unfortu-
nately, however, the rare and pricele,s paintings in the
dining-room, including the fate& p, r rai s, were lost,
with the exception of an original portrait of the Regent
Moray, and ono other saved by a slater named Young,
from laverkeithing, and a roan named MAO el, at he
risk of their lives, part of their clothes having been
burnt if.
Donibristle, from the Firth of Forth, formed a pro-
minent object, and although by no means a fine house,
arc'nitec.urally speaking, was one of those thee Hos
so associated with the ancient history of Sco land,
g
as to make its destruction a matter of regret to all Nolo
have ever seen it. To the Moray family it is, in a cert:
twin terse, irreparable. The house was once burned
vefore by th Eert of newly, at the ins, igation, it is
suppose', of King Jame-, when the " Bonnie Earl of
'ray," of whom the King was je,leus, was
attempting to escape. Frona Messrs. Fellarion'slain in
s "Im:
serial Gaz-tteer of Scotland," we tske the followieg
brief not of Donibristle :
" The house of Donibristle, a seat of the Earl of
lyl :rah, eas formerly the residence of tie Abbot of
St. Combo, but it has since been grea'ly re'aiged and
improved. D.:nibristle was, in 1592, the scene of
the cruel murder of the Bonnie Earl,' whew, per-
sonal attractions and accomilishmente, it is alleged
oV some historians, had impressed the heart of Anne of
Denmark, and excited the jealousy of her royal spouse.
f aim at least was the popular notion of the t me

`He was a braw gallant,
And he play'd at the gluve ;
And the bonny Earl of Murray,
Oh ! he was the queeno'.:ov...'
The 1-ss rusiained, besides Invaluable family relics,
roast ho very great. We understand that the property
MU covered 24 insurance,