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London, England, 1858-03-12 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1858.

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Programme :—LECTURE4 by Dr. K k lIN, on the "Philosophy of
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Dr. SEXTON', on "The Chemistry of Respiration, at a quarter past
one ; on " Skin Diseases," at four ; on the " Hair and Beard," at
ftve; and on "The Relations of Electricity," at nine. The Lectures
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! ST. JAMES'S HALL INAUGURATION,'
The Opening* of the Hall will be celebrated by TWO GRAND
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES, in aid of the Funds of the MID-
: DLEs EX HOSPITAL, on Thursday Evening, the 25th March, and
on aaturdav Evening, the 27th March, 1858, under the Special
Patrottage Of Her Most Gracious _Majesty the Queen, A.R.H. the
Prince Consort, K.G., H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, H.R H. the
Duchess of Cambridge, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. K G., H.R.H.
the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and also His Grace the liuke of
Nortbumbe, land, K G.; the President of the Middlesex 'Hospital.—
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Madame Sherrington Lemmens, Madame Borchart,: Miss Dolby,
and Miss Arab-lla Godda d; Signor Lucliesi, Mr. Montem Smith,
Mr. Lockey, Mr. weiss, Mr. Santley, Mr. Thomas, Herr Deck, Sig-
nor Platt!, Herr Moiique, Mr. Ben,dict. and the Vocal Association
(consisting of 300 Voices). Programme tor Thursday, March 25.
Part 1.-- "The National Anthem ;" "Hymn of Praise," atendeissotin.
Part 11. Coronation Anthem, " The King shall Rejoice," Handel ;
Cantata, "God, thou art great," apohr ; Trio. "Benedictus."Cheru-
bini ; Solo .and Cho, us, " I deli immenai narrano," Marclllo ;
Motett, " Ave Verum," Mozart; Final Chorus, " Hallelujah "
(The Mount of Olives), Beet .oven.—Programme for aaturdaY,
March 27th. Part I.—Overture, " Le-onora," Beethoven ; Quar-
tett, " Over the dark blue waters " (Oberon), C. M. von Weber ;
Aria. In diesen heiPgen Hellen " (Zauberfiote), Mozart ; Part-
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performance), Meyerbeer ; Duet, " Fans les defiles des Montagnes"
(Les Diamants de la Couronne). Auber ; Concer stuck, Pianoforte ;
C. Si. von Weber ; Part-Sono, " Sleep, gentle lady," air H. Bishop ;
the Music to Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendels-
sohn. Mr. Albert Smith has most kindly offered to introduce a song
between the parts. Part 11. - Festival Overture, Bene act; Quartett
and ''horns, " Alziam eli evviva" (Euryanthe), C. M von. Weber :
Canzonet, "The spirit's Song," Haydn; Solo, Violoncello, Platt!;
Rec tative, "The Queen's Greeting ;" Song with Burden," Beautiful
May" (Stay Day), G. A. MacfatTen ; Part-Song for Male V ices,
" The Three Rose. " Suabian National Air ; Duet, " 0 la belle lm-
mantinente " (Belly), Donlzetti ; Fandango, Violin, with Orchestral
Accompaniments (first time of performance), Molique ; Dnet," Sull'
1 aria" (Nozze di Figaro), Mozart; Song, "I am a roamer" (son and
Stranger). Mendelssohn ; Coronation March (Le Prophete), Meyer-
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A Berlin journal has the following :—" A military
officer a few days ago entered the chop of a printseller
in Utter den Linden, in this city, and asked for copies
of all engravings representing the fetes of the marriage
,of the Prince and Princess Frederick William. After
exemining them he remarked that they appeared to have
bean made before the events which they represented
tb e ahopman admitted that an engraving of the aelebra-
tison of the marriage bad been, but none of the others.
On this the officer ordered him to send a copy of each.
'To what address, sir ?' asked the shopmen. 'Oh r
answered the officer, with a smile, am the person who
is represented as seated here!' and be pointed te the
figure of the Prince in the state carriage in the engrav-
inv of the entrance into Berlin—he was the Prince
Frederic William in person."
SINGULAR EXPLOSION AT MA.NOHESTEIL —There have
recently been erected in Manchester a number of pillar
letter-boxes in the streets. They are very simple in
construction, consisting of an upright cast-ir in cylinder,
at the top f which is an opening for the insertion of
letters. This openieg has a brass lid over it to keep out
the wet and dirt, opening with a hinge. The post.i ffice
officials take out the letters by unlocking an iron door
at the side. At an early hour yesterday morning (about
2.30), poiee-constable 76 A, on night duty near the
Corn Exchange, observed a man run away from one of
these pillar letter-boxes, erected at the junction of Cor-
paration-street and Hanging-ditch, and suspecting some
mischief had been attempted the officer went to the spot.
Lifting the lid from the aperture into which the letters
are dropped the policeman flashed the nak+d lie ht of tiie
lantern ecross the aperture to look into it, when a loud
explosion immediately succeeded, teed the officer was
severely burnt and otherwise injured. Had he stood in
front of the iron door at the side of the pillar he would
in all probability have been killed, a large piece of iron
from one of the angles of the door being torn eff by the
explosion and carriee to a distance of nearly 150 yards.
The officer was so much injured that he was obliged to
go off duty, and was led to the Royal Infirmary, but it
is believed the result will net be serious. It was at first
supposed that the man who had been seen to run away
had placed powder or some explosive sub dance in the
' letter-box, but this turns out not to have been the case.
The pillar was placed over a gas main in the strett,
and there is little doult that a leakage of gas from this
main had ascended tbreugh the earth end filled the hol-
lowth
at otfhehe
peoclyi cylinder r which
flingthe raene
de ptthareol ewfionrizl eht
itse rne
a,
kand
light across the aperture at the top of the pillar, unwit-
tingly caused the explosion which was near destroying
him.

DESPATCBES PROM INDIA.

A supplement to the London Gazette of March 9,
published last night, contains further despatches
which have been received at the East India House.
The whole of them are of remote date, and refer to
events which have been already described with
more or less minuteness in the London papers. The
despatch subjoined, however, will be read with
interest

BRIGADIER STUART, COMMANDING MILIVA FIELD FORCE, TO TUB
ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF rI ARMY, BOMBAY.
Camp, Mundisore, Nov. 30, 1857.
Sir,—With reference to my telegrams of the 25th and
26th inst., I have now the honour to. forward the reports
and to communicate, for the information of his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief, full particulars of the successful
operations in which the Malwa Field Force, and the Field
Force Hyderabad Contingent, under command of Major
Orr, were engaged on the 21st, 22d, 23d, and 24th instant,
against the rebel enemy in the vicinity of Mundisore.
On the morning of the 21st November this force, accom-
panied by the Field Force Hyderabad Contingent, which,
as I have already reported, is co-Operating with me under
command of Major Orr, arrived within three- miles and a
half of Mundisore, about 9 a.m , and as I had no good in-
formation as to the roads or the. country in the immediate
vicinity of the town, noras to the fords of the river So wna,
which it was necessary to cross before reaching the town,
I determined upon encamping until a good reconnoi-
sauce had been effected. The rebel enemy at Mtindisore,
hearing of our approach, had posted piquets entirely
covering the country over which •we were advancing,
and observing our piquets thrown oat they mustered in
some force outside the walls of the town, and appeared
ieclined to attack. I, however, contented- myself with
reinforcing the piquets, and leaving the:Whole charge of
the front to Major Rohertrion, 25th Regiment Native In-
fantry. The field officer of tkte,deFerpurpfal to camp “b9ut,
3 tertiock. P.M. I received itAituation from him. that the
enemy were advancing in force, and threatening both our
flanks and centre at the same time. I accordingly moved
out to meet them. They advanced steadily, with banners
flying, and appeared in great numbers. On approaching
our right front, however, they were most gallantly charged
by Lieut. Dew, her Majesty's 14th Light Dr igootta, who
with some of his men, occupied that ground as a piquet.'
Captain Orr, commanding 3d Regiment, Cavalry Hydera-
bad Contingent, supported Lieut. Dew, and the enemy
were driven back with great lots; and before our guns,
which had quickly moved up, cbul open upon them, the
attack on our centre was repulsed, whilst that on the left
was successfully met by the field force under Major Orr.
The enemy, having been thus driven back at all points,
were pursued for some distance—in fact, until ,hey nearly
reaohed the walls of the town; and nothing further oc-
curred that day.
Having received intelligence from the Governor-Gene-
ral's agent that the portion of the rebel army before Nee-
much, amounting to about 5,000, would probably raise the
siege of that place and endeavour to effect a junction with
their head quarters atMundisore, I determined to frustrate
this by intercepting them. Accordingly, early on the morn-
ing of the 22d inst. I moved forward my force in order of
battle. Our advance was unopposed, and on my left flank
reaching the village of Kuijepora 1 made a flank movement

to the left, as previously determined on, leaving the ad-
vance guard to cover it end to reinforce the rear guard, as
we crossed the Bakri ford of the river Sowna, about
1,400 yards to the south-west of the town of Mundisore.
Thus secured, the movement was safely effected, opposed
only by a slight and ineffective fire from a gun on one of
the south-west bastions of the town. I then encamped,
facing the west of the town, my flanks well protected by
the two branches of the river, and my line running at right
angles to the right of Sir Thomas Hislop's camp in 1817.
Just previous to the camp being marked out, it was re-
ported that cavalry were seen on the left, and Major Orr,
taking the let Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, under
Capt. Abbott, and 4th Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent,
under Capt. Murray, saw about 300 horse, supposed to be
under Heera Sing, endeavouring to draw them off in a
north-westerly direction, but keeping at too great a dis-
tance to allow of being attacked. Reinforcement >of ceavalr y
were sent for, and whilst the left wing of her Majesty's
14th Light Dragoons under Capt. Gall, and. 3d Cavalry
Hyderabad Contingent under Lieut. Clerk, were moving
up, intelligence was brought to Major Orr that Hoare
Sing's baggage had just left the village of Gora-la, on the
Neemuch road. The object of Heera Sing's party to draw
our cavalry away from his baggage thus being apparent,
her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, the Ist Cavalry
Hyderabad Contingent, and the 4th Cavalry Hyderabad
Contingent, galloped (din pursuit, the 31 Cavalry Hydera-•
bad remaining as a reserve. They caught up the enemy
about two miles south of Peeplia, and, after cutting up
about 200 of them, halted at a nullah a mile to the south
of that village. On perceiving it strongly occupied by the
enemy's infantry, who showed many standards, they then
returned to camp.
Feeling assured that the infantry seen in Peeplia formed
the advance guard of the enemy, I moved at eight o'clock
a.m. on the 23d instant by my left ,and crossed the northern
branch of the river Sowna. I then halted my column,
and collected all my baggage on the reverse flank, then
moved on to my proposed camp on the Neenauch and
Mundisore road, ready to oppose the enemy either from one
or the ether direction. On coming on to the ground, the
enemy appeared in great force to the north ; so, ordering
my b.,22..de ta be collected oh a strong mound, I strongly
reineereed my rear-guard and proceeded to meet them.
After a short advance, I formed line to neeefront, facing
northwards, and found the enemy occupying a very strong
ppeition, with their right Id and beyond the village of
Goraria, their right centre covered by a date initial and
lines of date trees, their battery of six guns on rising
ground, with a large mud hut protecting their gunners,
and their left stretched along the ridge running (east from
the village. My line advanced, covered by skirmishers ;
the enemy's infantry, with banners flying (many of them
green), moved down to meet us through the immediate
field of high jowarree, and their guns opened fire. I im-
mediately halted my line, and replied to the fu e with Cap-
tains Hungerford and Weolcombe's batteries, at a rangeof
about 900 yards. After a few rounds I again advanced the
line, and permitted Cepa Hungeiford o move his half
battery to a position on our right front, from which he
could enfilade the enemy. After an advance of about 3,0
yards our line was again halted, and tiring resumed, that
from both batteries being very
effectiee, A most gallant
charge was then made on the enemy's guns by the escort
of her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons attached to Captain
Hungerford, under Lieut. Martin, who found, however,
that the position was still very strongly held by the
enemy's infantry, and was compelled to retire, he himself
being very severely wounded. Cepa Hungerford's half
battery was again tidy-tel:a to within a hundred yards,
numbers and, after a round or two of grape, the guns were at once
again eh ged and captured, the enemy flying in great
in the village to their right-
Cavalry He derab.el The 3d Regiment
Contingent, wider Capt. S. Orr, was
just at this moment rapidly advanced by our right front,
and, having been wheeled to the left, it swept down upon
them in their retreat, and killed great numbers. Our line
then changed front about the eigh th ofa circle, right thrown
forward, and moved steadily on the village, which evidently
held great numbers of the enemy ; their skirmishers dis-
puted our advance, but were soon driven back. Having
halted within about 300 yards of the village, our artillery
opened upon it with shot and shell, after which I directed
the infantry to advance and carry it. Tao men of the 86th
and 25th Regiments dashed forward in the most gallant
mantic; and, having entered the village, commenced to
drive all before them. They soon met, however, with
very warm opposition,
the enemy having taken possession
in great force of many houses, from which a most harassing
fire was kept up on our Dieu. Under these circumstances,
p
and as, moreover, I could get no satisfactory accounts of
what was passing in my rear, which I knew, from the
firing I heard, as also from the teasing
applications I had
received for reinforcements ha
strop had boon warmly engaged, I
recalled the infantry, and
g piquets all rolled
the village, and meved the remainder of the men a short
distance off, to where the baggage had been passed up from
the rear. I then learnt that during the afternoon, when
we were hotly engaged in the front, a strong body of the
enemy from Mundisore attacked our rear, and endeavoured
to carry off the siege train, baggage, 4:4' ; they were, how.
over, most gallantly repulsed on every occasion, In one of
these attacks I regret to say that Lieut. Redmayne, H.M.
14th Light Dragoons, was killed while most bravely lead-
ing his men again 4 the enemy. Notwithstanding the
many attempt's made by the enemy to press upon and
harrass our rear, it gives use great satisfaction to be able
to state that not a particle of baggage was lost, nor a fol-
lower injured. On this occasion Lieut. Leith, command-
ing a squadron 14th Light Dragoons, appears to have done
good service ; as also Lieut. Fenwick, 25th Regiment N. 1.,
in charge of the baggage. Gunner Maitland, of the Ben-
gal Artillery, and Gunner Thomson, of the Bombay Ar-
tillery, also distingu'ehed themselves by assisting to work
the heayy gnus most effectively against the enemy.
On the 24th inst. I arranged with Captain Hungerford,
commandant of artillery, that the village of Goraria, in
which the rebels had taken refuge, should be well shelled
and again assaulted by the infantry. Accordingly I moved
up to it about noon, and found that the enemy were as I
had left them the preceding evening, excepting that a few
had attempted to escape, nearly all of whom were killed.
After a heavy fire of three hours' duration, the detach-
ment, ELM. 8 th Regiment, under command of Major
Keane, and the 25th Regiment Native Lafantry, under
Major Robertson, again stormed the village, and carried
it, killing great numbers of the
enemy, they themselves
also suffering severely. At sunset I withdrew the troops,
intending to move against the fort of Mundisore the next
day. Early, however, on the morning of the 25th inst. in-
telligence reached me that the enemy had during the night
completely evacuated Mundisore, and were scattered in
flight throughout the country in various directions, having
lost, it is computed, about 1,500 of their number during
our operations against them. I accordingly removed my
camp to Mundisore, and am uoer eugaged in dismantling
the fort, destroying the guns, &Q.
before leaving this
neighbourhood.
By the successful operations of the Malwa Field Force
and Field Force Hyderabad Contingent in the vicinity of
Mundisore, the Neemuch garrison has been relieved from
the assault with which it was trreateue.l o insurgent
rebels h
;
t
rebels have been dispersed from their stronghold, in which
for months past they have been daily collecting all those
disaffected to our rule, and peace and order will now, it is
to be hoped, be re-established in these districts.
I must now, in conclusion, place on record my grateful
aelenewledgernente to Cel. Durand, Officiating Agent to the
Governor-General
for Central India, for his cordial assist-
ance to me on all occasion'. He was pr •
esent in the field
throughout the operations, and gave rue the benefit of his
advice, which proved of greatiservice to me. Major Orr,
Commanding Field Force I yderabad Contingent, most
ably co-one 'a
ted with me on all occasions ; and to him,
and all under his comm. nd, lam very much indebted. To
Major Boileau, Field Engineer, and his assistants, ly woun'ed
Lieu-
tenant Prendergast (severe ) and Gordon ; to
Captain Mayne, Intelligence Department ; to Captain
Coley, Major of Brigade . to Lieutenant Macdonald,
• Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General; to Lieutenant
Thais, Sub-Assistant-Commissary-General
; and to Sur-
geon Mackenzie, Staff Surgeon, nay warmest thanks are
renderedby these officers left
me
nee
duo ; the assistance r Y.
nothin to wish fo •
A perusal of the report made
Captain Gall, commanding left wing her Majesty's 14th
in-
Light Dragoons, will convey to his Excellency the Co
idea of the good service performed
mander-M-Chief some•n
Cas command. I most full concur
by
pt ell
Gall's report,ranks under
and beg to commend to the =lidera.
.

tion of his Excellency all the officers and men mentioned
by him. Of Capt. Gall himself I must in justice add that a
more able, zealous, and hard-working officer I have never
met with, nor one more worthy of distinction. Of Capt.
Orr, 3d Regiment Cavalry Hyderahad Contingent, and the
officers and men under his command, I have already had
reason to send the most favourable report to the Resident at
Hyderabad. On this last occasion nothing could surpass the
bravery shown by all ranks of this regiment. Capt. Orr him-
self is, I consider, a first-rate cavalry officer ; his daring
courage is admired by all, and in -very affair in which he
is engaged his perional combats are most prominent fea-
tures. To Capt. ' HungerfOrd, Commandant of Artillery
Malwa Field Force; and to Capt. WOolcombe, commanding
No. 4 Light Field Battery, and the officers and neen under '
their command, my best thanks are due. I do not think
artillery practice could have been better; andthere can be
but little doubt that the successful issue of operations is
much to be attributed to their assistance. Of the conduct
of Capt. Brown, and the officers and men of the B Company
Madras Sappers and Miners, I have much pleasure in
speaking in the highest terms ; whether as sappers or as
infantry, they have distinguished themselves on every oc-
eattion. They have undergone an incredible amount of
hard labour during our late march with a siege train over
a country without roads;..nor muss I omit to mention
that they accompanied the storming parties into the vil-
lage of Goraria, and proved of the greatest service. My
best thanks are also due to Major Keane, and the officers
and mm of the detachment of her Majesty's 86th Regi-
ment ; the gallantry of -all minks. was Moat conipicutmit
and, on both occasions that the village was assaulted, the
coolness and daring of the officers and men, at 'whose head
Major' Keane placed himself, elicited the praise of all.
My despatch from Dhar will have made his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief aware of the very high opinion I
held of Major Robertson, and the officers and men of the
25th Regiment Native Infantry. During the late opera-
tions nothing could have been finer than the behaviour of
all in this regiment. Major Robertson distinguished him-
self on the 21st inst. as 'Wild officer' of the dayein the dis-
position of this pie,au(sts, Whieh duty I entirely confided ,o
him, and by the skilful manner in which he met the attack
made upon him in force on the afternoon of that day.
Dating the succeeding days Major Robertson rendered ens
the greatest assistance; the manner in which he fed .his
regiment on two occasional° storm the village of Goraria
is beyond praise, and I consider thatthe admirable conduct
of the 25th Reigiment N.I. fully attests the worth of this
officer, who will, I hope, meet with some mark- of dis-
tinction. In the praise conveyed to Captain Little, 25th
Regiment Native Infantry, by his commanding officer, I
quite concur; and trust that his Excellency may be able to
grant some mark of favour to this deserving officer. In the
two attacks on the village of Goraria, I could sea no dif-
fei once between the conduct of the men of the 25th Regi-
ment Native Infantry and their comrades of her Majesty's
86th Regiment; the same daring,and gallantry character-
ised both. `eir list of casualties will show how warmly
they were engaged : and Nrust his Excellency will recog-
nise the merits of this regiment. Before closing this de-
spatch I bPg to report on the admirable conduct of Assist-
ant-Sargeon Butler, 4th Company 2d Battalion Artillery,
who during the engagemant on the 23d instant, though
suff.ring severely from sickness, left his dooley, and was
engaged in the most active manner during the whole day
in assisting to administer comfort to the wounded. The
conduct of this officer has been brought to my notice by the
Staff Surgeon of the Force, and will, I trust, meet with
some reward.—l have, &c.,
C. S. STUART, Brigadier,
Conatnnnding Aialwa Field Force.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE.

The report of the directors states that an intermediate
dividend at the rate of 2/. 10s. on the 1001. shares, and so
on in proportion for those of a minor value, subject to de-
duction of income-tax, was declared and psid for the half-
year ended the :30th of June last ; q.nd they recommend that
a dividend at the rate of 31. per share bo made for the half-
year ended the 31st of December last, to be paid on the
25th of March, subject to deduction of income-tax, making
the dividend for the year 51. 10s. per cent.