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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1858.

.• EAST INDIA HOUSE, BTti OCTOBER, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
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That A GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be
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giment, and said, "he 'was highly pleased with
everything, and that he should have much pleasure
in making the CoMmander-in-Chief acquainted with,
the high degree of efficiency 'which the Elthorne
had reached." This regiment expects to move to
Dublin at the end of the month.

The sth West York Regiment of Militia, after
undergoing 21 days' exercise and training at
Knaresborough, were dismissed' on Monday. On
the previous Saturday the regiment, which is
upwards of • 400 strong, was reviewed by Colonel
Ellice, of the 24th, who at the conclusion compli-
mented the officers and men on their efficiency.
At the • close of the review several of the men
volunteered into the 4th Regiment of Infantry and
the 60th Rifles.

LORD CLYDE'S CAMPAIGN -IN INDIA.

We extract the following interesting account of
the relief of Lucknow .from Blackwood's Ataga-

sine

It is said to have been the Commander-inXhiers
original intention to have crossed the Goomtee, and
move up its left bank opposite to the Residency—
there established his - heavy guns, under cover of
their fire, thrown a bridge, and then drawn off the
garrison. But upon this being submitted to Sir
James Ontram, both he and-his chief engineer had
so earnestly dissuaded him from it, on the-ground
of local obstacles, that, yielding to their superior
local knowledge, he had given it up, and determined
to move by•the right bank: An additional reason,
probably, was :also found .in the great extent of
country which. the army must have gone over to
reach the-point originally intended, and the danger
of leaving a fordless river in its views of
-'3ir James Outran' were brought, and an invaluable
guide "secured,qto Sir C. Campbell, by Mr. Cavenagh,
who,.quitting the Residency in the disguise of a
native, passed throUgh the enemy's lines without
being discovered, and reached in safety' the camp
near Biinnee Bridge. An attempt more daring in
conception, and more hazardous in execution, was
never made.

At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 14th-the flank
march
.began. From the firstitivas evident that the
enemy were taken by surprise: No opposition was
made. Small bodies were seen hastily endeavour- 1
ing to throw up cover near the city on the different .
roads we 'crossed it' 'right IngleS.; whilst our- pro- ".
gress was watched by scouts perched. in the utter-
most branches of the trees which fringed the fields
we were traversing. As the advanced guard ap-
proached the park wall of the Dil Kooshar, a smart
fire of Matchlocks was opened upon our left, but was
soon overpowered by the light artillery. An ad-
vance was next briskly made by a considerable
body of Skirmishers through a 'grove of old
trees inside the park, beneath the' deep • shade
of which their white dresses, gliding on from trunk
to trunk, and the bright. flash of their musketry,
had a strange and striking effect. They were, how-
ever, speedily driven back out of the Dil Kooshar
house, and over the Crest of the plateau, down to
the Martiniere beneath. On our troops reaching
the edge of this plateau, a heavy fire of artillery
and musketry came upon them from the Martiniere,
and the broken ground and enclosures, around it ;
but the fire of our field-batteries and Travers' 18-
pounders soon got the superiority.. The infantry
skirmishers 'rushed down the slope. The Mar-
tiniere was evacuated' at their approach, and all the
ground on this side of the canal was won. An at-
tempt-to turn our left flank *and fall on our rear
was about this time repulsed. Opposite our left
was a bridge over the canal. To its edge, at This
point, the enemy advanced in great strength about
half-past four p.m., bringing up several guns, and
attacking with considerable spirit. Hope's brigade
was here opposed to them. The 93d, lining a mud-
wall opposite the bridge, forbade the passage. On
the high ground to their left Peel's 24-pounders, '
with Bouchier's field-battery, were placed.
Their heavy and concentric fire on the
angle formed by the canal near the bridge
fairly crushed the enemy out of it, while a rapid
advance of the 53d and Sikhs secured a lodgment .
in a part of the suburb on the other side. Con-
centrated round the Martiniere, Hope on the left,
Russell on the right, Greathed in rear—the artil-
lery on the high ground to the left, the cavalry on
the summit of the plateau, around the Dil Kooshar
house, behind the centre. The army passed the
night tentless, and sleeping with their arms by
their side. The commencement of the great attack
had been fixed for the next day ; but the necessity
of bringing up provisions and small arm ammuni-
tion from Alum Bagh, which, by a misapprehen-
sion of orders, had not come up in time, caused 24
hours' delay. An attack upon the picquets posted
on the low grounds by the river, on our extreme
right flank; made by two Horse Artillery guns, and
a considerable body of infantry, was repulsed about
midday, and a reconnaissance was subsequently
made by the Commander-in-Chief of the position
opposite our left, so as to impress our adversaries
with the belief that there our advance was to be
made. The massing of all our artillery in that
directios, and a fire of mortars directed during the
night on the same point, together with the absence
of all outposts pushed forward on our right, served
to strengthen this opinion.
Early on the 16th the army was in motion. The
line of advance was from our extreme right along
the river bank for 'about a mile, and then by a
,‘narrow and tortuous lane," irough thickly
wooded !enclosures, and between low mud-houses,
upen the .Secunder Bagh. A strong advanced guard
of cavalry, with Blunt's troop of Bengal Horse
Artillery, and a company of the 53d, led the way.
Hope's and Russell's brigades followed, the ammu-
nition and engineer park came next, and Greathed's
brigade brought up the rear. The Martiniere and
Dil Kooshar were held by the cavalry and the Bth
foot (detached from Greathed), where the field hos-
pital and baggage were left. The 75th foot and a
Sikh Regime had been left at Alum Bagh. Thus
there remained actually disposable for the relief of
the Residency- only the 93d, and part of the 53d
foot, two weak Sikh regiments, two provisional
battalions of detachments, and portions of the 23d
and 82d regiments, not above three thousand
bayonets ; while before them lay the whole armed
force of Oude, numbering at least sixty thousand
men, concentrated in a central position of great
strength.
The lane or narrow defile through the wood, into
which the advanced guard now plunged, makes a
sharp turn to the left before it reaches the Secunder
Bagh, and then runs parallel to, and about one
hundred and twenty yards from, that building.
The enemy at first had evidently been taken by
surprise, for no opposition was made; but on our
reaching this point, a sharp musketry fire was
opened from the houses and wooded enclosures on
our right. A few minutes before the first shot, an
officer of the staff had remarked to his right hand
comrade, " If these fellows allow one of us to get
out of this cul-de-sac alive, they deserve every one
of them to be hanged." Taken at every disadvan-
tage, the struggle was now most critical. The
company of the 53d lined the enclosures bordering
on the lane with skirmishers, but they were too
few in number to make any way, and it was some
time before the 93d could be got up to reinforce
them. Meanwhile the cavalry, jammed together,
could do nothing, and the high earth banks on
each side offered what seemed to be an impossible
obstacle to artillery.
The Secunder Thigh is a high-walled enclosure
about one hundred yards square, with towers at the
angles, and well loopholcd ; one hundred yards
farther up the lane is another large building, or
serai, also loopholed, and occupied in force. The
opening between these two, exposed to the fire of
bjetli, was the only clear space on which it was
possible -to plant guns to bear upon the former
building. Into this opening, accordingly, up the
steep and seemingly impracticable bank, Blount,
with a wonderful energy both of men and 'horses,
led his artillery troop.. It was swept by a deadly
cross-fire of musketry, hut through it he dashed at
the gallop, and, umlimbering, opened on the Se-
cunder Bagh.
The 93d coming up at the same time, drove the
enemy. entirely out of the houses and enclosures
bordering on the lane, and expelled them from the
large semi beyond the Secunder Bagh, thus secur-
ing an access to the open neck of ground, which
had to be passed over before a point could be reached
open enough for the head or the column to deploy.
Traver's heavy field-battery next 'arrived, and the
sappers and miners having cut down part of the
high bank, two of his 18-pounders were, after great
exertions, dragged up by the infantry, and put in
position against the nearest angle of the Secunder
Bagh. Their fire, in less than an hour, opened two
large holes in it.
The assault was then given by the 4th Punjaub
Rifles and 93d, suppo:ted by the 53d and a batta-
lion of detachments. It was a glorious rush. On
went, in generous rivalry, the turban of the Sikh
and-the dark plume of ,the Highlander. A native
officer'of the Sikhs, waving his tuiwar above his
head, dashed on full five yards in front of his men.
„The Highlanders, determined not to be left behind,
,strained nerve and limb in the race._ Their officers

led like gallant gentlemen, shaking itheir broad
s ,vords in the air. Two young ensigns, springing
over a low mud-wall, gave the colours of the regi-
meat to the breeze. Paul with voice and action
urged on his wild followers. Ewart, amongst the
first of the Scots, clambered through the narrow
opening in the wall ; and soon the interior of the
building rang with the sharp tones of musketry,
and resounded with the cries of struggling men.
Theholes through which the assailants were climb-
ing would not give admittance to the supports as
they came up, and great part of them, rushing on
to the left, assailed the gate.. After some time it
gave way to the constant discharge of muskets at
O'clock, and through it, in' they pf,nred. Away
on the right the 53d had also forced in a window;
whilst the sappers and miners had, enlarged the
openings at the angle. But still with desperate
'courage the defence went on. Firing down from
the doors and windows of the rooms which sur-
rounded the great courtyard in the centre, fighting
hand-to-hand with their,tulwars against those who
charged home with the bayonet, the sepoys main-
tained the struggle unabated for hours ; and when
at last the embers of the 'contest expired with the
setting sun, more than two thousand corpses lay
heaped upon one another in the interior of that
vast charnel-house.
Whilst this fierce contest was raging in the
Secunder Bagh, some companies• of the 53d and
93d, supported by two of Blount's guns, had ad-
vanced through. the openino., and Pushed. on across
the open plain beyond to their left front. The 93d,
on the left., attacked and effected a lodgment in the
large building called The Barracks ;" while the
53d, stretched as skirraishers;over the plain, united
the two attacks. ,
After passing between the serai and Secunder
'het, the _road to the Residency leads straight
across an open plain about twelve hundred yards
broad. About three hundred yards eking this
road there is a small village, with garden enclo7
sures round it ; while about two hundred and fifty
yards further on, and one hundred yards to the
right of the road, stood the Shell Nujjeef, a large
mosque, situated in a garden enclosed by a high
loopholed wall. This wall is nearly square, and
very strong. Between it and the plain is a thick
fringe of jungle and enclosures, with trees and
scattered mud cottages, which make it imposSible to
get a distant view of the place until you come close
on it. Between it and the Secwicler Bagh, amidst
jungles and enclosures, to our right of the little
plain, was a building on• a high mound, called the
Kudflum Russell. _
Hope, having now drawn off his brigade from
the Seen-nder Bagh; led 'it -against • the village,
Which, cl he cleareand occupied without much diffi-
culty ; while. Peel brought up. his 24-pounders,
niortars, and rocket-frames, and placed them in
batter), against the Shah
"Nujjeef in an oblique
line, with their left resting on the village. The
musketry fire which streamed' unceasingly from
that building and the
,sturoundingsnclosures, was
most biting and severe; and after nearly three
hours' .battering it was still unsubducd. An at-
tempt, made with great gallantry by Major Barn-
ston, with, his battalion of detachments, to drive
the enemy from the fringe of jungle and enclosures
in front, by setting fire to the houses, proved un-
successful ; but on the right the Kuddum Russul
was assaulted and carried by a party of Sikhs.
In the narrow lane leading up from the'rear mean-
while, the utmost confusion prevailed. The animals
carrying the ordnance and engineer supplies, un-
able to advance from the enemy's fire in front—
unable to get out on either, side, and pressed for-
ward by those in rear—got completely jammed,in-
somuch, that an officer, sent to bring up ammuni-
tion and all Greathed'sl disposable infantry to the
now hard-pressed front, had the utmost difficulty
to get the men along in single file ; whilst some
houses having been wantonly set on fire by the
eamp-followers, the passage was for a time entirely
blocked up ; and it was only when the flames were
abating that a string of. camels, laden with small-
arm ammunition, which was urgently required by
the troops engaged, .could with great risk and toil
be forced through the narrow and scorching pass.
Even then, however, the confusion near the Seem-
der Bagh had got to such a pitch, that all passage
had become impossible ; and had it not been that a
staff-officer discovered a by-path leading into a
broad road which abutted upon the Secunder
Bagh, neither men nor ammunition could have been
brought up.
In frontsof the Shah Nujjeef the battle made no
way. The enemy, about four o'clock, got a heavy
gun to bear upon us from the opposite bank of the
river, and:their very first shot blew 'up one of
Peel's tumbrils, whilst their deadly musketry had
obliged him to withdraw the men from one of his
pieces and 'diminished the fire-on the others.' The
men were falling fast ; even Peel's usually bright
face became pale and anxious. Sir Colin sat on his
white horse, exposed to the whole storm of shot,
looking intently on the Shah Nujjeef, which was
wreathed in columns of smoke from the burning
buildings in front, but sparkled all over with the
bright flash of small arms. It was now apparent
that the crisis of the battle had come. Our heavy
artillery could not subdue the fire of the Shah
Nujjeef—we could not even hold permanently our
present advanced 'position under it. But retreat
to us there was none •, by that fatal lane our reflu-
ent force could never be withdrawn. Outram, and,
Havelock, and Inglis, with our women and chil-
dren, were in the front, and England's honour was
pledged to bring them scatheless out of the fiery
furnace. What shot and shell could not do the
bayonets of the infantry must accomplish. But
the crisis was terrible. Even as the fate of the
Trench empire hung at- Wagram on the footsteps
of. Macdonald's column, so did the fate of our In-
dian doniinions depend that day on the result of
the desperate assault now about to be undertaken.
Collecting the 93d about him, the Commander-
in-Chief addressed a few words to them. Not
concealing the extent of the danger, he told them
that lie had not intended that day to have em-
ployed them again, but that the Shah Nujjeef must
be taken ; that the artillery could not 1;:•:n7
fire under, so that they must win it with the
bayonet. Giving them a few plain directions, he
told them that he would go on with them himself.
To execute this design, Middleton's battery of
the Royal Artillery was ordered to pass Peel's guns
on the right, and, getting as close as possible to the
Shah Nujjeef, to open a quick and, well-sustained
fire of grape. Peel was to redouble his, and the
93d to form in column in the open plain, close to
the village, 'ready to rush on.
Middleton's battery came up magnificently.
With loud cheers, the drivers waiving their whips,
the gunners their caps, they galloped forward
through that deadly fire to within pistol-shot of the
wall, unlimbered, and poured in round after round
of grape. Peel, manning all his guns, worked his
pieces with redoubled energy, and, under cover of
this iron storm, the 93d, excited to the highest de-
gree, with flashing eyes and nervous tread, rolled
on in one vast wave. The grey-haired veteran of
many fights rode, with his sword drawn, at their
head; keen was his eye, as when in the pride of
youth he led the stormers at St. Sebastian. His
staff crowded round him. Hope, too, with his
towering form and gentle smile, was there, lead-
ing, as ever vas his wont, the men by whom he
was loved so well. As they approached the nearest
angle of the enclosure-the soldiers began to drop
fast ; but, without a check, they reached its foot.
There,. however, they were brought to a stand.
The wall, perfectly entire, was nearly 20 feet high,
and well loopholed •, there was no breach, and there
wereno scaling-ladders. Unable to 'advance, un-
willing to retire, they halted and commenced a
musketry battle with the garrison •, but all the
advantage was with the latter, who shot with se-
curity from behind their loops, and the High-
landers went down fast before them. At this
time nearly all the mounted officers were either
wounded or dismounted. Hope and his aide-de-
camp were both 'rolling on the ground at the same
moment, with their horses shot under them ; his
major of brigade had just met with the same fate ;
two of Sir Colin's staff had been stricken to the
earth ; a party, who had been pushed on round the
angle to the gate, had found it so well covered by
a new work in masonry as to be perfectly unas-
sailable. Two of Peel's guns were now brought
up to within a few yards of the wall. Covered by
the fusilade of the infantry, the sailors shot fast 4:
and strong ; fell
but, though the masonry soon;_
_ off
in flakes, it came down down so as to leave the
mass behind perpenicular, and as inaccessible as

ever.
Success seemed now impoSsible: Even Hope
and Peel, these two men, iron of will and ready of
resource, could see no way. Anxious and care-
worn grew Sir Colin's brow. The dead and
wounded were ordered to be collected and
carried to the rear. Some rocket frames were
brought up, and threw in a volley
precision
fthese
fief y projectiles, with such admirable
that, just skimming over the top of the
te
ram-
part, they plunged hissing into the interior of the
building, and searched it out with aer
d destroying
w
force. Under cover of this the guns were
off. The shades of evening were falling fat—
the
could not much longer be. continued, Then,