The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

FORCED MARCHES IN INDIA.

A letter dated Bombay, Oct. 25, says---." For
the purpose of swelling the force destined to re-
duce the rebels of Central India, General Roberts
has been placed on the divisional Staff of Bombay,
and the'division under his command is under orders
to join General Michel. This measure will throw
such a force into the districts now occupied by
rebels that their rapid reduction may be con-
fidently anticipated, nor can it be said that the con-
centration thus obtained is unnecessary. The ex-
perience of the last year has shown that English
troops cannot successfully pursue insurgents like
those under Tantia Topee, whose treasure and
baggage are under the care of cavalry, and who
are far less encumbered with impedinzenta than
Europeans, because their food is of the simplest
king, and easily found at every camping place.
Such being the fruits of past experience, it is
obvious that the proper course to be pursued
in attempting the final annihilation of the rebels
is to head them in several directions by movieg
ammerous columns on every point where the enemy
is likely to pass. To effect this a larger force
is required than our Generals in Central India
have up to this time been able to command, and in
this view the junction of the Rajpootana field force,
whose presence is no longer required on its old cam-
paigning ground, with the division under General
Michel, is most desirable.
" That European troops cannot keep up a vigorous
pursuit in this climate has been made painfully
evident by the losses which General Michel in-
curred in his effort to intercept Tantia Topee at
Rajghur. With the particulars of the action at that
place you have been for some time acquainted, but it
has only been known lately at what sacrifices this
victory was achieved. General Michel lost 200
Highlanders, dead or hors de combat from sunstroke,
and he forced the marches so severely that his bag-
gage fell gradually to the rear, where it was cut off
and carried away piecemeal by the insurgents. Mili-
tary men will, I think, agree that it is better to let
the enemy escape than to jeopardise by rash haste
the safety of supplies on which the health, nay, the
very existence, of European troops depends. Apart
from these considerations, however, General Michel
must be allowed the credit of having kept up with
his enemy as closely as the nature of the localities
would permit ; and, while he has incurred the heavy
losses mentioned, he has dealt the enemy two very
severe blows, calculated in a great measure to pro-
-1 strate his strength and impair his efficiency for fur-
ther efflarts."

Our able contemporary, the Continental Review,
has just now published a very truthful and mos
happily-timed translation of the famous pamphlet
recently penned by M. de Montalembert. It
extends to 64 pages Bvo, and is preceded by a brief
explanatory notice in regard to the approaching
State prosecution, in France, of the gifted author
of this very brilliant and masterly record of an
Indian Debate in the English Parliament.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing-street. The Ministers were:—The Earl of Derby,
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secre-
tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington,
the Right Hon. J.W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.
THE MONTALEMBERT ARTICLE.—The article re-
cently written bp the Count de Montalembert, which has
given rise to so much discussion in this country, anl is at
this moment the subject of a State prosecution in France,
has just been published in the form of a pamphlet by Mr.
Effingham Wilson, of the Royal Exchange, under the title
of " Montalembert on Constitutional Liberty."
MADAME RISTORI IN DANGER.—An attempt to
poison Madame Ristori, and so revenge the wrong of the
Austrian representative on the stage, Holophernes, is men-
tioned in a letter from Parma. This villianous act took
place at Reggio, in the Modenese territory, where she
played a part in which a poisoned bowl was to bo quaffed.
Genaine poison had been infused into the mimic draught of
hellebore, which the acuteness of her senses gave her warn-
ing not to swallow.
Mr. Nelson Lee is engaged by Mr. Harrison to
supply the principal comic scenes for the pantomime to be
produced on the 27th of December at Covent-garden.
One scene, expressly for Flexmore, is spoken most highly
of, and expected to create a sensation.—Era. "
Lord Panmure has returned to Brechin Castle.—
We (Edinburgh Courant) are sorry to hear that his lord-
ship has had a slight attack of gout since his appearance in
Dundee.
Sir W. B. O'Shaughnessy, the superintendent of
electric telegraphs in India, has been congratulated by the
supreme government of India for having completed the
electric telegraph line from Kurrachee to Bombay, and for
laying down the Ceylon cable across the Gulf of Manaar,
signals being sent across at the latter place with one call.
CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS AND THE RAGGED
ScuooLs.—A very interesting spectacle was presented at
the Free Trade-hall, Manchester, on Saturday last, en the
occasion of the last performance of Christy's Minstrels.
Some hundreds of the pupils of the Ragged, Lancasterian,
and other free schools, accompanied by their teachers, re-
ceived gratuitous admission ; and the exuberant manifes-
tations of delight exhibited by the children was a sight
that will not soon be forgotten. The hall was crowded.
This act of kindness, we need not add, has augmented the
popularity of this talented troupe in the northern provinces.
EXPULSION FROM A CONVENT.—An interesting
looking girl, Margaret Heaton by name, wee yesterday
brought before the Liverpool magistrates under the follow-
ing circumstances. A police officer, who passing along
Brownlow-street at an early hour the same morning, found
her sitting on some steps and in great trouble. She has
been turned out of a convent, she said, established by the
Sisters of the Good Shepherd, in Prince Edwin-street,
Everton, and which is also used as a penitentiary. During
the hearing of the case, yesterday, it was elicited that the
prisoner had been somewhat irregular in her life, and that
her father had placed her in a convent (depositing a sum of
money towards her maintenance) with a view to her re-
formation. In reply to the bench, the girl said she was
expelled because she had been talking of the "things of
this world" to some of the other inmates. The bench,
after advising her to lay her case before the priest of the
district, dismissed the prisoner. .
THE 78TH HIGHLANDERS.—We are informed
that an order from the Horse Guards has reached the Com-
mander-in-Chief in India to send home the gallant 78th
Highlanders in the beginning of next year, if their services
can be dispensed with, and that it is probable February
next will witness the departure from India of one of the
finest regiments which ever served in the country.---Bom-
bay Telegraph.
IMPORTS OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—The following
cattle were imported into Hull in the week ending 16th
inst. :—From Rotterdam' 60 oxen, 4 cows, and 5 calves ;
from Zwolle, 14 cows, 103 calves, and 2.5 sheep; from
Amsterdam, 4 calves ; from Antwerp, 5 calves ; total, 60
oxen, 18 cows, 117 calves, and 25 sheep.
' THE LATE ACCIDENT AT WESTON PARK.—We
are very glad to be authorised to state that the Ladies Lucy
and Harriet Bridgeman are progressing as favourably as
the severe nature of their injuries admits of; and strong
hopes are entertained of the recovery of both the sufferers.
The Earl of Bradford and Lord Newport are slightly injured
in the hands, but well in health. Lady Newport is unin-
jured, and as well in health as the circumstances of the
accident to her noble sister-in-law will permit.
MAILS FOR SWEDEN.—lnformation having been
received that the steamship London, under contract with
the Swedish Government for the conveyance of mails be-
tAs eon London and Gottenburg, has ceased running for the
winter, no more mails for Sweden can be forwarded by that
vessel until the re-opening of the navigation next spring,
of which due notice will bo given.—By command of the
Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary, General
Post-office, Nov. 17, 1858.
General d'Orgoni, whose departure for the Bin-Ilan
empire has been announced, carries out a brief from the
Pope, which appoints the bishop who superintends the
missions in that country legate of the Holy See. The brief,
wl*.h is written on gold, and is enclosed in a box made of
citron wood of precious workmanship, is to be read to the
Emperor in solemn audience hi presence of the prelate and
of the sf,leral. _ . _ .