The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-13 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LOINDON, WEDNESD A Y

fusion. They were pursued for 14 miles along the
Calpee road, and lost all their guns except eight,
all their battery carts, waggons, ammunition
stores, grain, bullocks. and baggage. But one
officer was killed, Lieut. Salmond, aide-de-camp
to General Grant, and the loss in men was not

great. We captured one 18-pounder gun with
limber, eight 9-pounder guns with limber, nine 9-

pounder waggons, one 9-pounder carriage, two
24-pounder howitzers with limber, one 24-pounder,

one 24-pounder waggon, one 24-pounder spare
carriage, one transport cart with gin, three 18-
pounder limbers, eleven store carts, three 8-inch
mortars, two si-inch mortars—total, 16 pieces of

ordnance, and 26 carriages of different sorts.
The Commander-in-Chief holds the lives of his
soldiers dear, and never expends a man where a
bullet will serve his turn. The victory is the most

decisive of the war. Ten thousand men must have

escaped, but without guns they are paralysed, and
the loss of the baggage will irritate the armed,

half-disciplined scoundrels who form the bulk of
the force against each other. It completely clears
the road up to Cawnpore, and leaves Sir Colin
Campbell time and means to reorganise his force.
Meanwhile Jung Bahadoor has descended from his
mountains with 9,000 picked men. He has passed

S--gowlee, and is marching straight for Goruck-
pore. His men are much more than a match for

Senoys, and after clearing that district he wilt
probably turn southward and attack the rebels
who have flooded Azimghur. Colonel Longden,
who was just holding his ground there, has been

compelled to retreat by a large force, report says
of 20,000 men, and no Europeans can be spared.
I say none, for there is, I fear, some delusion at
home as to the actual strength of our European

army. We have, no doubt, a splendid foree on
paper—no less than 36 regiments of Infantry,
fuur of Cavalry, and most of the Royal Artillery.
But the entire force, rely on it, does not repre-

sent more than 25,000 effective men. Thus, we
have the 82d, 34th, 88th, 93d, 10th, 37th, 35th,

97th, 53d, 29th, 38th, 42d, 54th, 72d, 19th,
20th, 27th, 70th, 87th, 24th, 52d, Bth, 76th, 61st,
84th, 64th, 78th, sth, 90th, 32d, Ist Co.'s
Bengal Europeans, 2d Co.'s Bengal Europeans,
3d Company's Bengal Europeans, Ist Madras
Fusileers, and the 2d, 6th, Bth, and 9th Cavalry ;

but the 27th, 70th, and 87th at Peshawur have
been reduced by sickness to about 900 effectives.
The 24th, at Umritsur, is not 350 strong. The
Bth, 52d, 75th, 61st, 60th, and two Bengal Eu-
ropeans passed through the siege of Delhi, and do
not average 300 men a regiment. The 3d Bengal
Europeans, at Agra, are reduced one-half. The
32d, 84th, 64th, 78th, awl Madras Fusileers
were in Lucknow and cannot average 300 men.

The Fusileers at one time had not an unwounded

man. The sth and 90th, which advanced with

Sir H. Havelock, suffered awfully, the sth in par
titular. The 23d, 82d, 34th, 88th, 64th, 93d,
37th, and 64th have suffered more or less, three
of them -very severely indeed. There are only
about 5,000 more to arrive, so that if we can
collect 28,000 men in Bengal it will be as much
as we can do. This force, supposing even that
Sir John Lawrence holds his own kingdom with
the forces at Kurrachee. has to do work which I
may thus summarize. It has to conquer Oude,
defended by 60,000 soldiers, aided by the armed
" budmashes" or bravoes, numbering 20,000
more. It has to conquer the North-West, now
overrun by armed ruffians animated by the bit-
terest hate. It has to garrison a country as large
as Austria, filled with armed men. It has to
protect Bengal, a country 10,000 square miles
larger than Great Britain. It has to garrison
Calcutta. It has to watch 20,000 disarmed but
unpunished sepoys. It has to restore our autho-
rity in Eastern Bengal, lost by events I am about
to narrate. And all this time it is losing numbers
at the rate of 150 per battle, or about 30 per
week, exclusive of the losses caused by sickness
and drinking, which at Calcutta at least are
fearful.
"Turn we to Bengal Proper. On the 18th of
Nov. the 3 companies of the 34th at Chittagong
roke out, as I told you, burnt their lines, blewg
up the magazines, plundered the treasury, and
commenced a search for the Europeans. The
latter escaped, chiefly in boats upon the river. The
would-be murderers, sadly disappointed, released
the convicts, turned them into pack-horses, and de-
camped. They moved steadily northward, and,
finding their progress impeded by the women and
sick, murdered them and pressed on. It seems
certain that their object is Tipperah, where a local
Rajah keeps his Court. To him they will offer
the sovereignty of Tipperah and Chittagong, and
with his forces return to plunder Comillah. Fail-
ing his assent, they will strike northward, for
Nepaul. The whole of this plan is so unlike
Sepoys that it seems purely absurd. It is, how-
ever, the story related by a dozen or two of the
convicts who have escaped, and have been caught
by different magistrates in different districts. The
magistrate of Chittagong, with some forethought,
sent an express, announcing the mutinyto Dacca.
It was immediately arranged to disarm the two
companies of the 73d Native Infantry there sta-
tioned. Unfortunately the Sepoys heard of the
mutiny even before the Europeans. They were,
consequently, prepared. The European volun-
teers were ordered under arms, and on the 30th
of November the work commenced. The volun-
teers disarmed all the scattered guards without
resistance. A body of 100 English sailors then
approached the Sepoy barracks, and the Lieute-
nant iu cornmeal of the Sepoys advanced. He
was immediately shot, and the Sepoys began to
work two fine 6-pounders, which had been left in
charge of 26 native artillerymen. The sailors
also had two howitzers. The Sepoys opened a
terrible fire of grape from the gnus and of mus-
ketry from the barracks, the verandahs of which
they hid loopholed. The sailors became exas-
perated, left the guns, and dashed sword in hand
tip the mound on which the barrack is built.
They were received with a warm fire ; but they
were Europeans, and the Sepoys were driven
headlong out of the barracks. Forty-one were
killed on the spot, and of the 136 who got away
many are supposed to be wounded. This body in-
stantly began its march for the headquarters of the
regiment at Julpigoree, 60 miles north of Dinaj-
pore. The greatest alarm was felt lest they should
attack the stations en route, as there is not in
Bengal any station which could resist 100 men.
As yet, however, they have avoided them, and
contented themselves with plundering the villages
in their_ road. The planters turned out armed,
but they are too few to do more than stand on the
defensive, and the march of the ruffians is unop-
posed. Meanwhile the question arose whether
the Julpigoree regiment, the 73d, would not also
revolt. Strange to say it did not. Colonel
Sherer, a man of the bureau only, has from the
first to last displayed extraordinary judgment. He
told the men frankly what had occurred, struck
the companies off the regiment, gave the promo-
tions, and called on them to attack their comrades.
They assented and went out, European officers and
all. Nothing further is yet known, or can be for
a day or two. If the men remain firm all is well.
They are, however, accompanied by a body of
Mnssulman cavalry, and the latter are known to
be always disaffected. If they turn, God help the
°Moen., for vain is the help of man. Dinajpare
would in that case be their route, and it contains
a gaol with 900 life convicts, and a Nujeeb guard,
men who alt
say their
" I now come t
73d Native Infant
The Lieutenant-Governor
conduct depends on the
with a strong predilectiornoffor
tor the worst part of the story.
Bengal, though a man
no means inclined to Mussulmans is by
Canningoul
to
ffi send
Beebrisd districts ruined.'
suffice.—.
A. month ago he implored Lo
some Europeans—a company
would
to Chittagong, to disarm the 34th. There were
eight or ten steamers in the river. The din,
twee is a three days' run, with a fine harbour
at the end. Lord Canning peremptorily refused.
He was then asked to disarm the 73d at Dacca.
He refused again, though when the mischief had
been done he sent 400 Rifles to Dacca in a swift
steamer in six days. He has again been besought
to send Europeans to Julpigoree, and has again
refused. In the last case he is possibly in the
right, as the men would, perhaps, break out,
expecting to be slaughtered. The former cases,
however, are without excuse, and resemble those

acts which our forefathers used to interpret as
proofs of `judicial blindness.' It was the same with
the Dinapore mutiny, but nothing can teach this
Administration. If Bengal were lost to-morrow,

they would consider that to suppress an account of
the facts•was to suppress the mutiny itself. As it
is, we have Eastern Bengal and its revenue in
danger. One hundred men, half sailors, have gone
from Bhaugulpore to Purneah, and a force of in-
valids, I hear, has been ordered down to Darjeel-
ing. Ohittagong and Akyab also have each received
100 sailors after the mutiny. The papers, of course,
scarcely venture to remark that all these disasters
might have been prevented.
. .

" The arrangements for the transmission of
troops to the North-West are improving. The
daily rate now sent is 300 men, snot this may be in-
creased. The Government is still, however, averse
to compulsion, and if zemindars asked to send carts
do not send them there is no punishment. I know
one great man asked for 100 who has never sent
one, or answered the letter. The Government will
not irritate native feeling. As a consequence two
addresses are now being hawked about among the
Balms, extolling the Government to the skies for
not making any difference between them and the
Europeans. They will soon be presented, but I
hear efforts are being made to keep them back.
" I enclose the pension order. It is the only de-
cisive thing Government has done in the campaign.
All the mutinous regiments are struck off the
pension list. The disarmed regiments, however,
are not.

"I enclose, also, the Lucknow despatches. Any
comment of mine upon them would be impertinent ;
no such recJrd has been published in this world
since the facts of the siege of Londonderry were first
announced to William 111, All India waits eagerly
to hear the expression of national feeling at home
upon deeds which will raise our name as bag
as the English language shalt endure. The order
of the Governor-General is excellently toned, but
you will notice that it is the natives who receive
the highest rewards. You wi►l see, also, that the
order anticipates the decision of the Home Govern-
ment by rehabilitating a native regiment `of the
line.' lam inclined to believe, though I do not
know, that orders are being sent out designed to
frustrate the action of Parliament as much as pos-
sible, by pledging Government to acts from which I
it cannot recede. Thus all the Sikh levies have
been permanently officered. Moreover, the list of
promotion is out, which I enclose. You will ob-
serve that the fiction of a Bengal army is still kept
up. Not one regiment has been blotted out, even
for crimes which have made Europe ring. As I
4ave repeatedly told you, the policy here is ' con-
ciliation,' and that dictated the clemency order,
the disarming theories, and the exemption of Delhi
from punishment. The property in that city was
declared by General Wilson to be prize, and the in-
habitants suffered to redeem it on payment of a
million sterling. The Government of India have
cancelled the order, and declared that Delhi is not
prize, and given the troops six months' batta, or
about 501. to a subaltern and 41. to a soldier. The
arrangement will cause very great discontent, the
siege having lasted six months and been frightfully
destructive to life and. health.

"It is not often I turn your columns into beg-
ging letters. I hope, however, you will permit me
to point out one object which appears to have es-
caped the notice of the. nation. I allude to Mrs.
Willoughby, the mother of the young hero who, by
blowing up the Delhi magazine, struck the keynote
of our glorious resistance to the foe. This lady was
entirely dependent on her son and his brother, who
perished immediately after. She has been suffered
to remain for six months at Landour in such dis-
' tress that the Relief Committee the other day sent
up 1001. to her. Under the compensation order
she may possibly, by special application, receive a
pension, as if she had been a subaltern's widow.
"P. S. I have just been told that as the full tide
of the rebels poured into the evacuated Residency
at Lucknow it was blown up. Hundreds of ruffians
were shattered to pieces. The deed was performed
by two European soldiers, who it is feared sacr
ficed themselves in the attempt.

"DEC. 11.
" The following telegram has been received :
" 'lt is reported that 50 men of the 73c1 have
deserted in a body, but without bloodshed.' "

The following is the letter of the Herald cones,
pondent :

CALCUTTA, DEo. 7.

"The papers from England, of the 26th of Octo-
ber, sing exultingly over the changed tide of affairs
in India, and are already bragging in anticipation
over a " long roll of splendid victories" to be
achieved. The news going forward by this steamer,
I regret to say, must check these bounding hopes
—silence the vain boasts. You at home will learn
before we can do the exact extent of our disasters,
as Lord Canning, who alone could enlighten us,
most sedulously conceals all information, and the
despatches from the seat of war, known to be re-
ceived, will first meet the eye in India through the
medium of the English newspapers.
"From what we can gather, however, from private
letters and from little scraps of information which
leak out upon good authority,' enough has trans-
pired to prove that, since the commencement of the
rebellion in May last, no mail has taken to England
such disastrous intelligence as will the present—
never, perhaps, has our power in India appeared
in so precarious a position. I hope, before closing
this letter, I may be able to chronicle some
slight success, but I also fear to hear of further
disaster.

"As I said before, exact intelligence you must
not expect; but we know enough to show that the
glowing telegrams of successes sent home by the last
two mails have been completely deceptive, and serve
but to swell the list of misrepresentations, or worse,
with which our Government have so frequently de-
luded us. It was with great difficulty that Sir Colin
Campbell succeeded in getting into Lucknow ; and
he only managed, with much loss, to get round the
place to the Residency and effect a junction with
General Sir H. Havelock (whom England has now
to mourn as dead), and then evacuated the place,
taking with him the women, children, baggage, &c.
From that point government has told the public
nothing ; but every native in the Bazir knows that
po .r Sir Cohn, wounded, and overpowered with
difficulty and enormous loss, fought back his way
to Cewnpere. He has managed to send on the
women and children to Allahabad, with the sick
and wounded; amounting, we hear, to 2000 mon.
He himself, with what force we know not, is now
behind the entreuchmente of Cawnpore ; the town
itself is in possession of some 14,000 of the enemy,
whom he was firing upon all Sunday (sth instant)
with what success we have yet to learn. Some days
previously General Windham with rash courage
twice attacked the Gwalior rebels who, just before
Sir Colin returned, were surrounding Cawnpore.
The first attack was successful—at least Govern-
ment House tells us so ; but in the second he was
beaten back, forced to retire behind the entrench-
ments, with a loss of 700 men and the tents and
baggage of three regiments.
"Lower down the Azimgleur rebels, instead of
flying in terror to Fyzabad, as Government House
would have us believe, are by last accounts on the
march, some 20,000 strong, towards Banares, and
as the place is but feebly garrisoned, and can have
no reinforcements but the small parties of 200 to
aeit me* who are going forward daily from this, we
are all most anxiously awaiting the news of the
next fe w days.
" Still nearer home I regret to have to chronicle
a further disaster—this at least to be clearly traced
to the ' clement' Canning. It is the shameful blun-
der of Dinapore over again on a smaller scale. At
Dacca and Chittagong there were some companies
of the 34th Regiment, the remainder of the corps
disarmed at Barrackpore in May last. Will it
be believed at home, except by those who know
Lord Canning well, that, notwithstanding re-
peated representations these companies were
allowed to remain armed ? Months ago, and
frequently since, Lord Canning was urged to
treat them as their brother rebels were treated,
but he turned a deaf ear to the hint. He was
entreated then to send 100 Europeans to protect
Chittagong ; but he neglected the request, though
he could readily spare a few hundreds of the
European soldiers or sailors now staggering about
the grog-shops of Calcutta. The result might be
expected ; but a few days back theloyal scoundrels
" looted" the treasury and bolted. At Dacca
there were 100 sailors who charged and soundly
thraskad them ; but still they managed to bolt,
money and all, and the bands from the two places
lare now wandering about the country levying con-
tributions upon the villages they pass through,
burning and destroyingiwhen they leave.
Nearer home still, at Barrackpore, Lord Canning
is keeping a pet body of 4,000 convicted and dis-
armed mutineers, I suppose to give them an oppor-
tunity of looting the " first city of the East"
whenever they think their chance comes. There
are 2,000 European soldiers lying idle there watch-
ing the scoundrels ; when these are sent up country
I Suppose we shall again have cannon in the
streets of Calcutta, and the merchants parading the
streets all night with arms in their hands. Why
t
'e +scoundrels should be allowed to remain so close
to Calcutta is one of the mysteries whioh his lord
ahiP will
cEinlignlnd
8°316 day be called upon by the voice of
explain. Why not have sent them to
garteheirne 'mere than one regiment volunteered to
twwlodenalionths ago, and there are troop ships
the whole might be embarked in a
day—anything to
get them away from the neigh.'

bourhood of so much wealth and European women,
and children. By the bye, something of the sort
will, I suppose, be ordered to be done—of course
like all Clemency Can.mng's measures, when too
late. The scoundrels are openly boasting that they
can be off when they like ; and when they bolt,
having no cavalry to pursue, no Europeans oould
catch men who are light and active as monkeys—
perhaps tigers would be a more suitable comparison.
I saw a letter yesterday from Julpigoree, where
there is another, and I believe the last armed com-
pany of loyal Sepoys. The writer says :—" They
have n©t mutinied yet, and keep loyal and in good
humour. We play at cricket with them every day
with revolvers in our belts." I need say nothing

on this.
Now, it appears there are two things for John
Bull to do—first, to give up bragging about the
army of retribution he has sent, and to lose no time
in sending another. His boasted army is all here,
or nearly so. Calcutta swarms with soldiers, reel-
ing about the streets under the influence of cheap
grog, or rolling in the gutters, to be robbed there
by cowardly natives of their hard-won Crimean
medals. Yet, all included, we have not between
this and Allahabad 20,000 men. I doubt if Sir
Colin will ever be able to head this force. He must
see his danger, as two steamers are to leave imme-
diately for the Cape for troops. If our army were
doubled there would be work for it just now, and
we shall require annual supplies of 10,000 men to
make up for the ravages of war and disease. Re-
collect, we have a rebel army to oppose of 100,000
men, well trained and disciplined by ourselves, be-
sides hordes of armed fighting men from Dude, the
hotbed from which our rebel Sepoys sprung. Se-
poys ! The name revolts us, and as I see the grin-
ning scoundrels strutting up and down, ramrod in
hand, playing sentry before Government House
and the Treasury, as if on purpose to disgrace the
sturdy armed European at his side, who really
guards the buildings, I turn from him with loath-
ing hatred.
The second thing for John Bull to do is to recal
Lord Canning. Toe Times-serving Times has been
hitherto throwing dust in his eyes, but he is boiin-,
ning to see at last. Of one thing I can assure him
—his lordship has no friends here. There is but one
opinion ; go where you will, from the dinner table
of the big wigs to the merchant's office, he is never
mentioned but with dislike and derision, furious
denunciation, or cool contempt. The petition sent
home against him was not the work of a clique, as
some would have you suppose; it was eagerly signed
by all who knew it was going forward, and had it
been publicly put forth (which it was not thought
expedient to do) I will engage that it would have
been signed by 99 per cent. of the English in India.
You may not agree with me in this, but I cpin as-
sure I only repeat the common sentiment here.
Wavering and undecided, yet obstinate when he
does decide—always deciding either wrongly or too
late—rej-cting all advice at first to act upon the
worst afterwards, he is the very man to lose India
for you. We want a bold, quick man and a
soldier. His very exercise of justice (and he is a
very just man) is questionable ; whether in the
treatment of the mutineers, or the distribution of
prize money, he contrives to blunder. Ido not
know what the people at home may say to the
Delhi prize money' proclamation, but I know what
our allies, the Sikhs, will say, who only forsook the
sepoys because they would not let them share their
loot.' Those Sikhs will give us trouble yet, loyal
as they at presentappear.
" DEC. 9.—We have a success to chronicle, and a
most complete one too. Sir Colin (if we may trust
the telegram) has given the rebels who hemmed him
in, when hampered with women and children, a
most complete drubbing, chased them for 16 miles,
taken their gun; ammunition, carriages, cattle,
baggage (N.B. a sepoy's baggage is a brass pot, a
lotah—or as Mr. Disraeli will have it, a lotus)—
and a hookah. Our loss, he says, has been in-
significant. God grant this may but be the first of
a series of such victories. I have also seen letters
from Benares ; the rebels have not reached the
place, and the panic there seems subsiding. The
women and children from Lucknow are also said to
have reached Allahabad. Letters from head-quar-
ters speak in terms of unqualified praise of the
heroism shown by our countrywomen throughout
the dreadful siege. The garrison is stated to have
been mined more than once—often so close to
their assailants as to hear all that was said,
and to be obliged to have recourse to all sorts
of devices to conceal the smallness of their num-
bers.
Yet our noble-hearted countrywomen—
and let England be proud of them—never flinched.
and devoted themselves most nobly to the care of
the wounded—many of whom, unfortunately, were
the poor little children, who were part of the ap-
parently devoted garrison. Next mail will take
home some stirring accounts of the siege.
" It is difficult to write a fair letter, as the events
of one day oblige us to cancel what we had written
the day before, so rapidly do events, hopes, and
fears succeed each other. This must be evident to
you from what I have scribbled above, but I prefer
sending it as it is, written in ignorance of the future,
to sending you a letter written after the event,
proving myself to be a perfect prophet.
"Dec. 10.—We have all been electrified this
morning by the publication of the dispatches from
heroic defence of Lucknow. It sends the blood
account of the
Brigadier Inglis, giving thrilling
bounding through one's veins to listen to the tale
of unsurpassed bravery. The defence of Lucknow
must ever stand foremost throughout the world as
ian brillianthistory ; iannsdtatnhcaetothe
of cogoalr,ridseovnostheoducloduhraavgee,baenend
patient endurance, unsurpassed, if not unequalled,
relieved at all seems little short of miraculous.
44 Had the mail, left on the 7th, as originally in-
tended, gloomy indeedwould have been the accounts
you would have received. Its detention enables
us to speak of the relief of Neeniuch, and the ap-
parently complete discomfiture of the rebels in that
quarter, and 2,000 only of whom now remain
together, and who will no doubt shortly be dis-
persed : our loss, about 70 rank and file, and 7 or
8 officers.
"The Julpigoree sepoys have bolted with their
arms. I every day expect to hear of the Barrack-
pore sepoys following in their steps.
cc DEC. have kept this back to send by
after-packet. News was in towu last night that
General Hope Grant had followed up the Gwalior
aadrtailfltee rrykilling 100 in half
at Serajghat, while
o
Contingent rebels withthe9th Lancers, andattacked
themc r
s w
cross
n an-hour took 15 guns, and all their stores, catts,
Sc,
z without losing a man himself. This force,
th
th-n, must now be completely smashed.
gi the caGvatlllrs, acid gy e and

NEEM.UCII AND IVIUNDESOR
Letters and despatches have been received de-
scribing with sufficient fulness the operations at
details of the last
the last-mentioned plaoe are
fiNgehetna withuch th e
and
rebels Mundesor.
at The
interesting. After the skirmish in front of the town
the column under Brigadier Stuart marched up the
Neemuch road and encamped, So as to cut off the
enemy's communication. The march from thence
against the enemy is described as beautiful to be-
hold. The line, covered by skirmishers of cavalry
infantry, extended fully a mile, the Brigadier lead-
ing in front, towards the village of Ghario, situated
ise the midst of lofty trees and fertile fields. The
rebels had excellent cover in both for skirmishers,
and they availed themselves of it as our force ad-
vsnced, throwing out men to the front, who fired
from the trees or the corn-fields as we advanced.
Our right was first engaged who
with the enemy,
was speedily thrown into confusion by Capt. Hun-
gerford's guns
is nd her Majesty's 86th. Lier Ma-
jesty's 14th Lht Cavalry charged at the artillery,
but were at first checked by a heavy column of
infantry rising out of hiding places before them.
Capt. Hungerford, however, cleared this obs eel°
by a few well-directed rounds of grape. The Dra-
goons charged again,
took the rebel guns, and drove
the enemy precipitately into the village of Ghario,
the rebels covering, their retreat with matchlock
men, who seemed to jump like squirrels from tree
to tree as our advance continued. Ghario was now
fairly surrounded, but at the same time the rebel
garrison. of Mundesor was rapidly approaching our
rear, wnere lay our stores, our sick, wounded, and
upwards of
The native officer in command,
70 prisoners' under an escort of the
Mal wa, Contingent.
feeling the necessity of action, and perceiving that
the rebels would attack before aid could arrive from
Brigadier Stuart, ordered all the prisoners to be
shot, which was done. The sick and slightly
wounded took up what arms they could and awaited
the attack. Lieut. Mallock, of the Bengal Artillery,
with a couple of gunners and a sub-division of
Madras Sappers and Miners, came up just in time
to open on the rebels with an 8-inch howitzer,
which did considerable execution, and checked
their advance until Captain Sinclair's battery, with
a suitable number of infantry and cavalry, Caine
up from the front, attacked them, and drove them
rapidly back into Mundesor.
Ghario in the meanwhile obstinately resisted.
Captain Hungerford battered it on the north of our
line, Captain Woolcombe on the south. The 86th,
with the Enfield, dealt deadly destruction on the
rebels, and vast numbers fell in the village without
inducing the remainder to yield. Night came, and
the rebels still held out. It WAS not till morning
that 150 men, the remnant of upwards of 2,000,
who had been surrounded, gave themselves up
prisoners. Our casualties were :—Major Boileau,
field engineer, slightly wounded ; Lieut. Red-
maYne, 16th Dragoons, killed, and three privates
wounded ; 86th, three killed, end nine wounded ;
the 25th Bombay Native Inf. ,ntry, six killed, and
two officers and 19 men wounded, and a few of
the Hyderabad Contingent killed and wounded.
Such was the affair of Ghario, which seems to have