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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1858.

plete as victories could be. He advanced but to con-
quer, and his successes, without a single exception,
have eclipsed those of other generals who have
shared in the campaign :

GENERAL ORDER BY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
" The Commander-in-Chief congratulates Major-Gen.
Sir Hugh Rose very heartily on the successful result of his
rapid advance on Gwalior.
" The restoration of the Maharajah Scindia tohis capital, by
the force under the command of the major-gen., is a happy
termination of the brilliant campaign through which the
Central India Field Force has passed under his able direc-
tion.

" That campaign has beeu illustrated by many en-
gagements in the open field, by the relief of Saugor, the
capture of Rutgurh, Sbahgurh, and Chunderee ; by the
memorable siege of Jhansi; by the fall of Calpee; and
lastly, by the reoccupation of Gwalior.
" His Excellency again offers his hearty thanks and
congratulations to Major-General Sir Hugh Rose and the
gallant trenps under his command.
" It mos- nit be forgotten that the advance of the
Central India Field Force formed part of a large combina-
tion, and was rendered possible by the movement of Major-
Gen. Roberts, of the Bombay army, into Rajpsotana, on
the oae side, and of Major-Gen. Whitlock, of the Madras
army, on the other, and by the support they respectively
;are to Major-Gen. Sir Hugh Rose as he moved onwards
in obedience to his instruc►ions.

"The two major-generals have well su.tained the honour
of their presidencies.

" The siege of Kotah and the action of Banda take
rank amongst the best achievements of the war.
" The C)mmander-in-Chief offers his best thanks to
Major-Gen. Roberts, to Major-Gona. Whitlock, and the
various corps under their command. He is happy in wel-
coming them to the Presidency of Bengal."

Sir Hugh Rose, in taking leave of the Central
Field Force, issued the following order :
"The Major-General Commanding being on the point of
resuming the command of the Poonah division of the army on
account of ill health, bids farewell to the Central India
Field Force, and at the same time expresses the pleasure he
feels that lie commanded them when they gained one more
laurel at Gwalior. The major-general witnessed with
satisfaction how the troops and their gallant comrades in
arms, the Rsjpootana Brigade, under Brigadier Smith,
stormed height after height, and gun after gun, under the
fire of a numerous field and siege artillery, taking finally
by assault two 18-pounders in possession and Gwalior. Not
a man in these forces enjoyed his natural strength or health;
and Indian sun, and months of broken rest with march-
ings, hnd told on the strongest; but the moment they
were told to take Gwalior for their Queen and country, they
thought of nothing but victory—they gained it, restoring
England's true and brave ally to his throne, putting to com-
plete rout the rebel army, killing numbers of them, and
taking from them in the field, exclusive of those in the. fort,
52 pieces of artillery, all their stores and ammunition, and
capturing the city and fort of Gwalior, reckoned the strongest
in India. The major-general thanks sincerely Brigadier-
General Napier, C. 8., Brigadiers Stuart, C. 8., and Smith
commanding brigades in the field, for the very efficient and
able assistance which they gave him, and to which he
attributes the success of the day. He bids them and their
brave soldiers mice more a kind farewell ; he cannot do so
under better aspects than these of the victory of Gwalior."
The Maharajah of Gwalior has resolved on issu-
ing to all the troops concerned in restoring him to
his throne "a silver star of honour," in commemora-
tion of the recapture of his capital by English troops.
The proposal has in the meantime been submitted
for the sanction of the Governor-General of India.
It seems that his highness has conceived such a dis-
trust of his own troops, that on reascending the
throne he dismissed all his guards and servants, and
placed Europeans in their places, and intends for
the future to avail himself of the services of European
officers.

Letters from Shahjehanpore mention that orders
have been sent by Government to the Commissioner
there to ply the sum of 50,000 rupees (.0,000) to
the Rajah of Powayne and his brother fur capturing
the Moulvie, who, it will be remembered, was killed,
together with the Ranee of Jhansi, on the retreat
after the defeat of Gwalior. This reward was
offered by Government for the capture of the
Moulvie alive; but in what way the Rajah has been
instrumental in killing the Moulvic is not exactly
known. It would, however, have been bad policy
at present to have withheld the reward, and quibbled
over a distinction the natives would not have under-
stood. Other chieftains may now be induced to
follow the Rajah's example, and hunt down other
proscribed wretches, especially Khan Bahadoor
Khan, who is still supposed to be with the fugitive
rebel e.

I give you the only details which have reached
;his of the dreadful massacre at Shabjehanpore

" About 13 of the inhabitants of Shahjehanpore succeeded
in getting out of the station arid reached the fort of the

Rajah of Powayne (the Rajah whose name is just now so
prominently before the public) in safety. But the Rajah
not having the mans for, or net daring to protect the poor
fugitives, wrve to Mr. J. G. Thomason, Deputy Commis-
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sinner of Mohomdee, telling him of his position. Of course
Mr. Thomason did not hesitate a moment in giving the poor
fugitives such shelter as he could. It is not known hew
long they remained at Mollorndee, but it is certain that,
with the exception of Capt. 0:r, who was aPer-
watAs murdered at Imeknow, the whole party thus
assembled at Mohonade, fell victims to the trea-

chery or a party of the 41st Native Infantry, who allured

them away from the Mohomdee fort under the false
pretence of escorting them to Seetapore. The fragment of
an official letter which we publish below was lately found in
Mohomdce in Mrs. Thomason's writing case. It is evidently
written by one of the Shahjelianpore fugitives, and seems to
have been finished abruptly. At any rate it serves to show
what a cowardly set of hounds the Shahjehanpore mutineers
must have been, and who that reads this account of one
armed Esglishman with a few servants (probably unarmed)
putting the whole crew to flight, can doubt the issue of the
present conflict. We now give the fragment in question :
e, Fragment of an official letter found at Mehonadee in a
writing-case belonging to the late J. G. Thomason, Deputy
Commissioner of Mohomdee—evidently written by one of
the Shabjehanpore fugitives, who afterwards fell vicims to
the treachery of a portion of the 41st N. 1., from Seetapore.
(Copy.)
" ' To Secretary of Government, N.W.P.
" 'Dated Mahorndee, June 2.
cc sir,—l have the honour to report that on the 31st
ult., while the civil officers and officers of the 28th N.I. were
at morning church, they (we) were murderously attacked
by tbe mutineers. Mr. M. Ricketts, collector, was cut
down and killed in trying to escape through the vestry
door. Mr.,Le Maitre (?), the magistrate's clerk, was also
cut down, Capt. Lysagth (Lysath ?), Lients. ScJtt, Ro-
bertson, and Rutherfsrd succeeding in closing the church
doors against the ruffians, when Capt. Sneyd, of the 28th,
with his gun and some servants coming up, the murderers
Led."
From Goruckpore I hear that the Domree Babons
have committed another murder, and cut off the
the nose of another peon, who went out collect-
ing the rents of their confiscated estates. The
Ranee of Amhora, who fled to Oude, being convicted
of rebellion, returned to her place with the inten-
tion of settling there, but a party of yeomanry
cavalry and Madrasees ousted her in quick time,
killing some 50 of the sepoys who came to re-estab-
lish her. The amnesty ordered to be promulgated
by Government seems not to have had any effect
yet. The commissioner returns from Bustee very
llortly, where he has been now more than three

months.
The Begum of Lucknow is at Boundee, where she
is protected by the Rajah, and where she has been
lately joined by Nana Rao, of Bithoor, of infamous
celebrity, the Nawab of Furukhabad, and a Prince of
Delhi, but not with any very large force. They have
brought their families to Nanparah, a Mahommedan
talook, in the Oude territories.
A letter from Oude states that some rebels got
hold of a man who bad been a servant to a gentle-
man at Bustee, and tied him up to a stake and burnt
him alive. This seems a horrible circumstance when
in juxta position with the amnesty issued by the
Government.
The Government have offered a reward of 10,000
rupees for the apprehension of the Rajah of Banda,
and have conferred on the Chief of Bansee (Gur-
rukpore) a kheelat, or dress of honour, of the value
of 5,000 rupees, and a portion of the confiscated
estates of the rebel Itajah of Nuggur, for his loyalty

and valuable services to the G, )vernment. The
Supreme Government is dealing of It rewards with a
liberal hand to those natives who have done good
service to the State during the mu tinicE.

The Governor-General has pri)claiined that those
rebels who will surrender themselves as under sen-
tence of death, will not have their sentences carried
out without reference to Government; and those
who will give evidence will have their sentences re-
mitted. This intimation will doubtless have the
effect of inducing thousands of the rebels to sur-
render themselves, and it was a wise policy that dic-
tated the issue of this order.

A body of 500 Thakoors, from Rohllound district,
been enlisted in the service of the G overnment.
They are a well-known warlike clan, s.nd it is cer-
tainly a wise measure to adopt this conciliatory step.
The Bengal Government has prudently resolved
on garrisoning all the principal military stations with
European troops, immediately on the termination of
the campaign. At Barrackpore and Fort William
(Calcutta) there will be 3,000 Eurc::ea:i solaiers
located ; and other minor stations, such as Ham-
reebaugh, Berhampore, Dinnapore, Darjeeling, &c.,
are to have each from 500 to 1,000 men. The
reorganisation of the Bengal army has evidently not
yet been decided upon, bat it is apparent that
Government do not intend to place much reliance
for the future on native troops.
Three hundred of the sepoy convicts who had
been transported to the Andaman Islands made
their escape into the interior from Port Blair
shortly after they had been landed, with the
view, as they thought, of taking service with
some neighbouring rajah ; and who they imagined
would join them in extirpating the English. They
were, however, obliged quickly to return and give
themselves up ; for the moment they were perceived
showers of arrows fell thick and fast upon them

from a large body of the savages. A goodly number
of the convicts were taken and roasted alive, and
those who surrendered, about 80 in number, were
hanged—a sepoy acting as " Jack Ketch," although
they begged hard for their lives, and promised to
become Christians. A private letter states that the
mutinous convicts are paid daily two annas each
man ; with this he has to provide himself with tools
and provisions. The prices of provisions are very
exorbitant. It seems that the Andamans is not such
a bad place, for the writer says :

" I like this place well; the air is pure and bracing, and
the soil is good for cultivation of all sorts. Yams, potatoes,
and sugar cane, and, in fact, all sorts of vegetables, would
thrive very well here. There are plenty of what the Bur-
mese call cannazoothec, a few cocoanut trees with fruit,
any quantity of cane, wild mangoosteins, mangoes, canin-
bins (from which is extracted the caninzee or oil), good
padouk wood, betel leaf ,)r pawn, wild cotton, Lee.
" On my cruise round the island some days ago, I dis-
covered some cocoanuts, seemingly Nicobar, and the wreck
of a katoo. Two days ago I found a teak square, marked
B. P. and Co.' Kindly mention this to Mr. Tod."
Another person writes :
" Dr. Walker tolerates caste among these scoundrels.
He fined a European for lighting his pipe opposite a Brah-
min's fireplace. * * * One of the men who were hung
the other day abused the English Government and Dr.
Walker in most foul and filthy terms, and said that the
Government would not last long.
" Caste shluld never be tolerated among these men, for
it is the fostering of their prejudices en this point which
encourages a mutinous spirit. We would have high caste
and low caste and out caste all thrown together and set at
the hardest work, and my attempt at demur either to wcrk,
cook, eat, and sleep together forced at the point of the
bayonet, or punished by being instantly shot. Wtuld not
the suggestion meet the taste of those who scruple to re-
ward except for merit, and whose consciences are so tender
as even to refuse the promptings of j ustice, because forsooth
some of her features nay have hard lines and look like
vengeancen ?"

The Madras Government has resolved on opening
another exhibition in February, 1859, of all the new
products of this country, by collecting samples of
every article of this kind now in use, or capable of
being employed in supplying the wants of man,
obtaining along with the articles their correct
nomenclature, and all possible information in regard
to their cost, places of produce, quantities available,
&c. The Madras Government deserve very great
credit for their energy in such matter, being in
striking contrast with the Bombay Museum, which
is, or was till lately, a heap of undistinguishable
rubbish collected in the Council-room of the Town
Hall.

The following notification from the Court of
Directors of the East India Company in London to
the Bengal Government, in reference to her Majesty
confering a baronetcy on the eldest son of the late
Major-Gen. Sir Henry Lawrence, is a befitting tribute
to the distinguished services of the deeeased :
"We have to apprise you that, it having been intimated
that it is the gracious intention of her Majesty to confer the
dignity of baronet on the eldest son of the late Major-Gen.
Sir Heary Lawrence, K.C.8., we have resolved that, as a
special mark of oar high appreciation of the qualities which
eminently distinguish Sir Henry Lawrence as a soldier, an
administrator, and a statesman, and of his services during
his long career, and especially in the defence of the
Residency at Lucknow, the success of which is mainly to be
tributed, under Divine Providence, to his exertions, judg-
ment, and professional skill, to grant to Alexander Hutchin-
son Lawrence, Eq., of your civil service, an annuity of one
thousand pounds (i 1,000), with reversion to his yosnger
brother, Henry Waldemar Lawrence, in the event of the
death of the elder brother without heirs male."

A heavy earth-slip, occasioned by the rains last
week, descended on the rails about 40 miles down
from Bombay, and for a few days obstructed the
traffic of the line. The obstruction was soon re-
moved and the traffic resumed.
A valuable quarry of lithographic limestone has
just been discovered in Lower Scinde.
The coal diggings on the Indus, of which so much
has been said lately, has turned out to be a failure.
It seems that it is a common brown coal, and would
cost about double the price as fuel, estimating this
by the amount of steam produced, as coal imported
from England, which in point of economy and con-
venience is found to be more than a match for the
Bengal beds themselves.
Mr. Albert Smith, of Mont Blanc notoriety, has
signified his intention of paying a visit to Bombay
in the next cold season, with a view of turning the
magnificent scenery around us to some good account.
I regret to announce the total loss of the fine
ship Golden Era, of 1,600 tons burthen, which
vessel left Bombay for Akyab in April last, after
having been for upwards of 12 months with the
Persian Gulf expedition as a cavalry transport. It
appears she was totally lost at Pooree, near the
Temple of Jaggernath on the 22d of June. No
lives were lost. The ship went to pieces 12 hours
after she struck, and nothing could be saved of her
cargo, which consisted entirely of rice. She be-
longed to Messrs. Wilson and Chambers, of Liver-
pool, and was one of their " White Star" line of
Australian packets.
The Ilyctilla Club have come forward to arrange
for a festival in honour of Sir which
will command universal approval.
it Active pre-
parations are being made to render worthy of the
distinguished individual it is intended to honour.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE REBELS
WITH JUNG BAHADOOR.

The Bombay Gazette publishes the following cor-
respondence, showing a fruitless attempt of the
rebels to obtain the alliance of the Maharajah Jung
Bahadoor. His Excellency, immediately on the
receipt of the letters, showed them to the British
Resident at Nepaub and Lord Canning not only
expressed his cordial acknowledgments of this new
proof of loyalty, but signified his warm approval of
the terms in which the reply to the proposal of the
traitorous Moulvie was conveyed :
" Translation of a letter from Moulvie Mahomed Surfraz
Mee, the Ambassador of the King of Cowie, to the