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strengthened. Neemuch is relieved, and the remnants
of this formidable insurrection are now occupying the
fort and town of Mundesoor, and are said to amount to
twothousand men, much dispirited by their repeated
defeats in this battle of Mundesoor. The troops of all
arms, natives and Europeans, behaved admirably. Oar
loss is not heavy considering the work done.
According to another message reporting the above
particulars, the casualties are :—Lieut. Redmayne, 14th
Dragoons, killed, and 8 rank and file ; Lieut. James,
wounded severely in the arm ; Lieut. Martin, ditto in
leg; Lieut. Prendergast, slightly; and four other officers
very slightly, and 68 rank and file.
Calcutta E. T. Office, 9th Dec., 1857.

An Extraordinary-Vdiette, published at Calcutta,
on the 9th of December, contains Brigadier Inglis's
narrative of the events at Lucknow, from the first
attack on the garrison to the arrival of the force
under Gens. Havelock and Outram. This deeply in-
teresting narrative is prefaced by a general order
in council, in which the Governor-General specifies
numerous officers and civilians who distinguished
themselves during the defence. His Excellenby
" believes that never has a tale been told which
will so stir the hearts of Englishmen and English-
women as the simple earnest narrative of Brigadier
Inglis. It rightfully commences with a soldier's
testimony, touchingly borne to the chivalrous cha-
racter and high deserts of Sir Henry LawrenCe, the
sad details of whose death are now made known.
There does not stand recorded in the annals of war
an achievement more truly heroic than the de-
fence of the Residency at Lucknow, described in
the narrative which follows." _

His Excellency also mentions the names of Birch,
Polehampton, Barbor, and Gall amongst the noble
women who distinguished themselves, and at the
close of the order his Excellency refers in terms of
deep regret to the death of General Havelock. Six
months' batta is awarded to every officer and
soldier who formed part of the garrison, and to
civilians who shared in the defence.

The Englishman says :
We understand that letters have been received in town
announcing the arrival, on the 2d inst., at Segowlee, of
a large body of Ghoorka troops, mustering 9,000 men,
under the command of Jung Bahadoor. They are
accompanied by as many camp followers, who are said
to be half soldiers themselves. Jung Bahadoor was
marching upon Goruck pore, and it was said he intended to
proceed to join the main army with the Commander-in-
Chief at Cawnpore It is probable he may have sane
work at Fyzabad, before he joins Sir Colin Campbell.

The Bombay Times observes in its summary of
the 10th ult. :—" The section 9f our summary
which ought to have been most abundantly filled,
must to-day, in a great measure, remain a blank.
For a fortnight the mails betwixt Lower Bengal
and Bombay have been cut off, the news reach-
ing us by the circuit of Madras ; and for once—•
only for once, we trust—the English reader
must depend for Lucknow and Cawnpore
intelligence on our Calcutta contemporaries,
which can on all ordinary occasions be supplied
four days later in date at least from Bombay than
from any other point."
The important parts of the summary of the
Bombay Times have been already conveyed to us in
various telegrams. _

In its commercial summary we read :—" The f
import market has continued languid during the
fortnight. We have no change to report in our -
money market, and the rates of interest remain the
same. Government securities continue dull of sale.
The rates-of freights have again slightly declined."

The following is the summary of the Bengal
Hurkaru, Dec. 10 :

The news of the mutiny of the portion of 34th
and 73d Regiments at Chittagong and Dacca, must
have reached England by last mail, in private let-
ters, dispatched after the publication of the Over-
land journals. The last report in connection with
these events is that the remainder, of the 73d, at
Julpigoree, are to be disarmed.
We mention these facts here, because they come
first in chronological order ; but they are by
no means prominent among the events of the fort-
night. For many days past the public attention
has been fixed upon the Commander-in-Chief and
his gallant force, and their operations have been of
a sufficiently dangerous and doubtful character to
justify the intense anxiety which has been felt con-
cerning them.
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to have been really and satisfactorily
accomplished. The event has shown that we
were justified in making that assurance. But the
task has been a hard one, and the success pur-
chased at a heavy cost. We have no doubt,
from the subsequent movement of the rebels,
which it must be admitted have been conducted
wick considerable skill, that their plan was far
more deeply laid than had been supposed. Know-
ing, as we now do, the immense force at their dis-
posal in Oude, it is impossible to credit the fact of
the feeble and impoverished garrison of Lucknow
having been able to hold out for so long, unless the
besiegers also found or fancied an advantage in the
delay. Our belief is, that for a considerable time
past, the rebels have had it in their power to
annihilate the garrison whenever they chose to
do so ; but that their object would not have
been attained by the means. The garrison, with
the women and children' once slaughtered, the
relieving force would have had no work but that of
revenge, and unembarrassed by other cares that
would have been terrible indeed. The rebels thus
found it far more desirable to allow the garrison to
hold out, and to draw as many of our troops as
masterlyprey. This plan was
operations of
possible into Oude, trusting to cut off their com-
munication with Cawnpore, and, in the end, to find
ttfohhreetmlem,oagmteanirlrya defeatedinsodnerainadahlbl,reafhfeoearsy which the rebels were
unprepared, and which, under Providence, was the
sole means by which the work could have been ac-
complished, and our arms saved from an appal-
ling disaster. The attempts to cut off the com-
munication between Lucknow and Cawnpore, and
between Cawnpore and Calcutta are plain enough.
Electric telegraph has been broken and repaired
and broken and repaired again, and the roads made
impassable for days together. Nevertheless the re-
sult has been in the main favourable, and although.
Cawnpore has been attacked, and its neighbour-
hood been made the scene of determined contest,
the main object of the expedition has been attained,
and the women and children of the Lucknow
Garrison have been brought out of Oude suc-
cessfully and sent down in safety to Allahabad.
The particulars of these proceedings will be found
briefly detailed in the service messages of the Go-
vernment. The information thus afforded is, as will
be seen, extremely unsatisfactory, and affords very
little material for a connected narrative. It is
shrewdly suspected that some portions have been
withheld by the Government, in which case fuller
particulars will go home by this mail, and duly
appear in the English papers. But it is clear that
whatever the extent of the intelligence which may
have reached Calcutta up to the present time,
there is still great ground for anxiety, and even
apprehension. It is due to the Government to
notice that when the news of fresh dangers and
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Calcutta
aketroops were promptly
sent
just in time,
joisi
the signal victory obtained by Sir Colin
Campbell
over the Gwalior mutineers at Cawn-
pore;
of which we hope to receive some further
details before going to press, are to a great extent
encouraging, and it is sincerely to be hoped that
the worst is over in that direction. Nevertheless
the loss of General Havelock and Brigadier Wilson.
—both of whom have fallen in the course of the
contest—is a hard blow, and all will agree that
though the advantage is great the sacrifice has been.
immense.
Nevertheless, it becomes more and more evident,
as one outbreak succeeds another in places least
expected, that the rebellion is not so near an end
as many have sanguinely supposed in this country,
and as, we fear, the Government have been san-
guinely led to suppose at home.

BRIGADIER INGLIS'S NARRATIVE OF
THE SIEGE OF LUCK-NOW.
(From the Second Supplement to tho Overland Friend
of India.)

GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HON.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN
COUNCIL.
(No. 1,543 of 1857.)
Fort William, Dec. 8, 1857.
The Right Hon. the Governor-General in Coun-
cil has received from Brigadier Inglis of her Ma-
j vsty's 32d Regiment, lately commanding the garri-
soo in Lucknuw, the subjoined report of the defence
of the Residency in that city, flout the first threat-
ened attack upon it
On June 29 to the arrival of
the force under Major-Gen. Sir J. Outram, G.C.8.,
and the lamented Major-Gen. Sir H. Havelock,
K. C. B. , on Sept. 25.
The Divisional Order of Major-Gen. Sir James
Outram upon the report accompanies it.
" The Governor-General in Council believes that
never has a tale been told which will so stir the
hearts of Englishmen and Englishwomen as the
simple, earnest narrative of Brigadier Inglis. It
rightfully commences with a soldiers testimony,
touchingly borne, to the chivalrous character and
high deserts of Sir Henry Lawrence, the sad detail
of whose death is now made known. There does
not stand recorded in the annals of war an achieve-
ment more truly heroic than the defence of the
; ;0; i'denoy v t Luckliow described in the narrative
which. folioNs, 6. fh%t defence has not only called
forth all the energy and daring which belong to
Englishmen in the hour of active conflict, but it has
exhibited, continuously, and in the highest degree,
the noble and sustained courage which, against