The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-14 00:00:00

LONDON, NO DAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1857.

HE OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we (Times)
have received our private correspondence and file 3
of papers from Calcutta ti the 9th of November,
and from B3rnbay to the 17th of November.

The following is the letter of our Bombay corre-
spondent :

BOMBAY.
"BOMBAY, Nov. 17.
"I have but little to narrate to you by this mail ;
but that little is all of an encouraging nature. In
three several respects it is satisfactory ; districts
lately the most disturbed, now purged of mutineers,
are rapidly settling down; districts lately threat-
ened by the movements of huge bodies of the rebels
are, for the present at least, safe from the anticipated
visitation ;- and further, and especially, the insur-
rection is more and more centering itself in Oude
and about the capital of that province, where we shall
be able to deal it such a blow as must be fatal to its
vitality. Add to this, that English reinforcements
are pouring into Calcutta by thousands, and that.
in the two smaller Presidencies and in the Nizara's
country all is perfectly quiet, while in Rajpootana
alone has there occurred any fresh outbreak, and
we arrive at an aggregate of intelligence sufficieetly
enceuraging•and of itself comparatively unevent-
ful, yet plainly presaging great mute. Of Luck-
now itself, now again, and as much perhaps as ever,
the object of our hopes and aspirations—for again
there is a garrison to relieve, or at least to rein-
force—very little, intelligence has reached us
since I last wrote. This is easily accounted for.
Between the Residency and its vicinity, where
0 utram and Havelock are iutrenched, and the forti-
fied post of Alumbagh, on the Cawnpore road, there
is a distance, you will remember, of some three
fora
Ganges
oderatesttroenAgltuhm, bp3egr
roadrnils, esi Whilehf.ectthlye
clear, the remaining three miles are besot with diffi-
culties formidable even to an army. Here are con-
gregated in masses mutineers of the Oude Irregular
force and of the regular Bengal -army, armed re-
tainers of rebel Pathan or Rajpoot zernindare, and
the loose ferocious population that swarms in the
bazaars of a Mussulmau ciey ; and their position,
though we have no exact details of its nature, is
clearly a strong one, inasmuch as it consists of a
portion of the city, thus involving an attack by our
troops in rarrow streets and upon houses and wal:s
held by the enemy, a mode of fighting in which,
and in which alone, as we know from old Delhi
experience, the mutineers show to advantage.
Through such a barrier as that constituted by this
formidable position it is not surprising that but
little correspondence has been able to force its way.
Enough, however, has by one means and another
reached Cawnpore to show that ()dram and Have-
lock were well holding their own at the beginning
of the present month. You may remember that in
a postscript to my letter of a month back I told you,
as the -latest news from Lucknow up to the latter
d tys of beptember (the garrison having been re-
lieved -on the 25th), that the groator part of the
city was by that time in our possession. This came
by letter from Cawnporo' nevertheless it appears
to have given teo favourable a view of the state of
affairs at the capital of Oude, for as late as the 16th
of October I only read in the report of a spy, or
man of the intelligence department,' that hate
the city was in our power. It was probably against
the remaining half, and in the attempt to cut a
passage to the p Arty at Alumbagb, that the efforts of
the force were directed in the engagement or series
of engagements that ensued. Of the result of this
hard fighting we know nothing-save that Alumbagh
was not attained, and, as we hear of no iurthtr
actions, we ,conclude that Sir James Outraen and
his colleague having experienced an ob etin ate resist-
ance determinrd on remaining quietly in tseir in-
trenchments till the force at Alumbagh should be "!
so s-rongly reinforced as to be able to force its way
through, or to attack the enemy's rear, while 01(1-
egain assaidted his front. And, happily, they wool I
not have long to wait. Indeed, I cannot, doubt
that while I write the great battle is already Tome
days °ITV Tor 'On the 30trof las-, month. tho
column, lately known 'as Col. Greathed's, now
commanded by• Col. Grant, of the 9th Lancer. 4, as
Brig dit me sed into Oude from
.Cawnpote, and
oa the following morning marched -for Al-umbag',.
It mustered 3,500 men, its losses on the march and
'in action having been supplied by about 400 of the
93d Highlanders, and details of the sth Fusileo- s
and the *Royal Artillery. The column reached
Alumbagh uomo'ested, and when last head of,
about the Bch iust., was halted there awaiting the
art ival of Sir Colin Campbell from Catnip re. The
commander-in-chief reached that station a few days
after the ciit.pav tiro of Grant's force, and crossed the
river on the 9th. We do not know what number
of troop he took with him in perm. Indee I, ti:e
fact of his c,ossing into Oude is as yet only known
from Sir Rebatt Eletniltou's brief te'egran to
Lord Elphinstone from Madras, alluded to above ;
hut, what with the 53d, the remaining wing, of,
the 93d, veld artillery; he may have a ided t the-
igalier's column no fewer
than 1,500 men, rais-
ing the aotonnt of the reinforcements to 5,000,
with a numerous artillery. At Altunh ,
igh itself he
would find, perhaps, 1,000 effectives, with largo
supplies of provisions and of ammunition c miveyeel
thither shortly before by Major Burnsten and 500

mi-n.
"At
force,A t fsliier hceeal oin wf
osnoue admoptiabcriteasrsi dp
rwoeclel
edat equippedu one
yvtoiriedibnlgolwy iiti.ai:,ba7senl hav e
eai'f probabletdealt
and a second central fire of insurrection been
agi,ns the enemy,
that and
al;e ad a
trodien out.
" But it will of course be long ere the province
is tranquillised though the capital may be now
wholly .in our power. Oude mty be expect-d to
be for a time one great battle-field. Indeed, the
more it b,comes so the better it will be for tY. The
morn of the mutineers we can get across the Ganges
the less difficulty and delay there will be tran-
quillising the North-West'and the less danger for
Central India. And the river once crossed there
would be little fear of a return in force, for those
who escaped the sword in Oude would be inter-
cepted by the English troops who by that time
would be pouring up the great roads to the North-
West. We need net, therefore, be alarmed
because Oado has proved so attractive .10 the
main body of mutinous Soldiery still at large. On
the c.,ntrary, I shotil,), for the sake of Mafwa„ and
even of the Deccan, be inclined to fear that Cie
capture of Luck-Dow might avert from ()vie tie 2
threatened visitation of the Gwalior inutine-rs.
But of these presently. They are not yet, and may
never lie in ()ode. The Dinapore regiments, how-
ever, with Kooer Siugh and his retainer:3, who
have long been quiet at Bands, uncertain probably
whither to betake themselves when Delhi fell, have
been making their way to the Ganges in detached
parties, and have for the most part, I suppose,
joined the rebels at Lucknow. One body of them
was fallen in with on the Grand Trunk Road, just
upon Futtehpore, between Allahabad and Cawn-
pore, by a detachment of 500 men and two guns,
under Colonel Powell, of the 53,i, and Captain Peel,
who were on their way to Cawnpore. Tile enemy
were strongly posted near a village called-Kudpore,
but, as usual, their position was carried, their camp
plundered, and two out of the three guns captured.
Our lose, however, is described by Captain Peel as
severe, the list of killed including Colonel Powell,
the leader of the detachment.

"Having got so far to the southward of Luck-
now, the great point of interest, as Futtehpore and
Allahaba'd' I will glance at the aspect of affairs in
Behar and Bengal Proper before returning to till
North-West. But there is little to tell, save of the
npwcrd march of the Brifirh reiefor.-TEDN)I,,
ca!,Th : the
II '). of expAr.l:l(l at Alla al.ad. I i.
be endless to write the Lames 0.0 all !hips ;lid::
have arrived in the Hooghly. It may suffice to men-
tiom that the. Alms, with the English mail of ten
days ago, passed off the Sand Heads and in the
river no fewer than 36 transports under sail or
steam, and that it is thought there are at, this mo-
ment in Calcutta fully 12,000 Europeans. The
arrivals include some of the earlier departures, such
as the 88th and 3d battalion Rifie Brigade, and s me
• of the corps which, leaving later, were despatched
in swift screw. steamers. I observe in the I f riend of
India a happy suggestion, that before this large
ody of troops is broken up from Calcutta a review
of them should be held upon the fort esplanade, but
the low Alahotnedan population may have ocular
demonstrations that their masters are come. When
the troops are despatched up the Great Trunk Road
to Benares they
will find the patch clear before.
them. We hear nothing of the movements of the
Ramghor mutineers since their defeat by Major
English, and Owner Singh and his rabble are still,
We suppose,--if,
indeed, they are yet holding. to-

gether,— in the neighbourhood of Rotasghur. The
mutinied companies of the 32d aro wandering
about somewhere between Sheergotty and '-ithe
Sone, where, a party of them narrowly missed sur-
prising and. capturing no less a person than the.
Commander-in-Chief of India.
" Benares is the point where the reinforcements
reach the Ganges and turn westward for Allahabad.
This important station is now held in sufficient
strength, and at our latest dates was about to send
a small
.force of Europeans to' coeoperate, with the.
Ghoorka anxiliaries of Jnng Baha'loor at Jaun-
pore.con Thesegal
of
gallant little soldiers have had A se
d opportunity
On the 19th of laatbody of
monthdistitniguleyiseh4gaget(hi themselves.
Oude rebels at a village to the westward of Jaun-
pore, called lioadwall, and routed them with loss.
Their brethren at Azimghur have also done good
service, and have recovered 'captured boats on the
Gogra, 'collecting them on the right or southern
ban of the river against the day when their united
forces, aided by EaropeauS from Benares, shall
cross the stream and advance to wrest Goruckpore
from the Mussulman rebel -who now holds it.
Mirzapore, lying as it does on the Ganges, between
Benares and n llahabad, has also been, strength-
erred,. I imagine, by Europeans. At any rate, 17 is
s•reng enough to spare from its garrison a cousi-
derab'e portion of tha Marina column which has
marched down to the hills that border the territory
of the Rajah of Rewah, to guard the passes, Kid to
hold in eheck the ill-fate 1 Jageerdars, fur who:n
their Rajah is no match unassisted.
" Avoiding for the present Bundelcund, I o
back to Jaunpore, and must no longer daisy to'
trace the Maid' upon the station of Col. Greathed's
co'umn, which My last letter left at Agra, ales the
brilliant action of the 10th of October. Of this
action I have read further accounts in letters of
officers present, but they add little to what I give
you in my last. •The surprise on the part of the
enemy Was complete, and upon troops less inured
to war than the men of the storm of Delhi it might
have operated very unfavcurahly. But the vete-
rans, English and Sikhit, readily recovered them- ,
selves. A desperate charge of a party of the Lan-
cers,
and a rolling fire from the 75th at d 2d Pun-
bees in squares, checked and repelled the enemy's
horse, and then the troops formed in lino awl at-
tacked his infantry. So complete was the rout
that the mutineers of ludore and Mhow have
ceased to res!st as a body. For a time a party or
them, held together, and occupied some buildings
at Ftittehpore Sikri, but when a small force moved
against them from Agra, under Colonel Cotton, all
fled and dispersed but a few desperate men, who
were . cut to pieces. 'How many of the enemy
were wounded ?' a,ked an eng;ner officer at Agra
of a soldier, when the 'force came back. 'There
wore none wounded,' replied the man, with a look
that could not be mistaken. But to return to
Greathed's—now become Grant's—column. On
the 14th it crossed the Jumna and marched for
Mynpoorie. The petty chief of that place 111 adelis
submission to the brigadier and was graciously re-
ceived, but his little fort was blown up, and his
Voice or four guns destroyed. Thence the column
prociieded towards Ferruckabad. In my last, y oil
remember, I anticipated that tbo punishment of
the Nawab *f Futtyghur in that neighbourhood
would be a primary object of the force ; and so it
was, but the calls from Lucknow for aid were still

more pres,ing, so Futtyghur stands over for a
time, and the column went on down the Ganges
for Cawnpore. Near Kanorije it fell in with
some 300 Delhi fugitives, making for 011ie,
and destrOyei two-thirds of them, capturing
their five guns. This was on the 23d. Five days
later; on the 28th, the Brigadier entered Cawnpore,
and on the 30th, as I have writt Ai, crossed into
Gude for Lucknow. Meanwhile, the other Dtai
column, undiir Brigadier Showers, has been circling
ab mit in the districts to the west and south of the

capital with the most ra-assuring and settling eff,et.
When I last wrote this little force—composed of
portions oftb e Carabineers, Hocl.ou's and the Guide
Cavalry, a field battery, two or threo heavy guns

and mortars, the 2d Bl,,engal Fusiliers, Ghoor-kas,
and Punjaub Riflos— fter pacifying the Revv•
T:
N. arc°
dofis:lriV'ilwkawsalsncoivtpitnugrendpaotnhjihsull'u'lln't7ing-bole(slilkwaarb-
gall), and was sent into Dt'll4 to stand his ttill,
which, as be has (so writes an officer from Agra)
`bees against us from first to lase,' can, we may
4h
hope, only end one way. Thus the town and fort of
was occupied with its stores and ammuni-
Jllll,,',.hur
tsrat:
Roatrhtis&stew
ltbeaorestiptt_
ti en and„ a fur! her moveh , t
of Kuncsuel was equally- sien 1-flpon the
haa.2llcit.riolw)aatrtedds Dfoerlhai i la while,
anotheree e it
preparatorydirection.i.T
service is the arrest of thein N awab of Furrucknug-
Of its small garrison of theti
aci)eleratendtirflb
Alighur, will its excellent gur. Nor is Agra idle the3d work of
apparic;ifiacoadtioonee.
Rajah of Bhurtpore,
p tranquillityuls e ap early
rt
b ittery, one detachment lodyist.t2ehleTu'itra,e,atrietasuntddoer4antoinfctnthrherf
pital is again awhsoalfee
yisof the De ii fog:tires, and whose ca-
weiio
residenceh a tl. thefor prudence
British to r
officers.-
Agra I may say,
ligent officer of lone,
Pro-
vinces, that ' the sti-bs
upon countryth between Delhi and
eau more rapid than its rise ;'
Inched, of the
experienceid in the Upper
everywhere excellent, obsatsibn t. eel,
of°
Delhi,'
old. i
h country labtl
leS
Ifallentr city
°ac
as it may appear, this 'ohf°lthielroefvaollut
ablest entirely saved that the .crops are
all the coirmotiland that, alinitt incredible
gale about their ordinary
cdolilliensgfor making their The
o.llaitvoe:ufeed)rptahyemimen,sttsptaLret,
w
»iTnein'gkuhseb ()t 1.1 11 re lin) o oadssettling down in
the • happily is the
hiegul—of ' putrid as a wounded officer
who had been moved f ,orn it to the cool breezes of
his.-)1d at cantonment Meerut wro:e the other day.
Nor is there much to attract our attention to the
northward in the Punjab, or down the valley of the
Indus to Scindo. Between M.)oltrtn and Lahore,
indeed, a force is still in the field, and the rebel
hordes are troubl
get hold of them. But
bee Anse it is so difficult to
the cowagion does not
spread, end, though annoying, the danger is not
great. Nor is Rebii cund seriously thi eatening the
hill stations on its. frontier. Where, then, except
forward in °tido do we look for wars or rumours of
wars? Central India awl Rajpootana, with the
movement of Bombay and of Madras trope, must
answer this question. And first of that formiti
able
,body of men, the
alGwalior Contingent---I
I sup-
pose 7,000 strong, infantry,. and artillery,
with a si ge train and
abuudlnce of field guns—
you rememr.er that for time Scindia cleverly
held. them in check at their I.llg
eir cantonment of Moorar
with his own troops Ouch at lea,t is the veraion we
accept of the Maharajah's behaviour). Then you
recollect my writing of Nana Sahib's agent, Soon-
teca, Soopay, being at work in their camp, of their
intentisn to move, and,
The finally, of their actual move
to the eastward.direction of their march im-
mediatAy became a question of great interest.
What we had to dread lvi their turning to the
southward inintoßundelcan.ads. Accordingly, when
t'
we heard they had moved in '
iis direction towards
Jhausi, those who gave the subject the attention it
deserved became not" a I:ttle A glance at
the map and a slight knowledkne,iPus.
the positions and
numbers of the English garriso-na -
will show what a
grand game Nana Sahib might leave played had he
been a man bold and able as he is
cruel and trea-
cherous. Placing;himhicif at.the head otthesoGwalior
mutneers, he might have moved throughuantity of
Bundel-
cund, swelling his numbers b
marauding .Bundelas upon theysany q
augor and Ncr-
budda territories. These distracts could not have
been held against him, the small Madras column,
abandoning Sanger and JubbulPere'mustmt have
fallen back across the Nerbuddi,the Nana with
ever increasingforces might have -followed in pur-
suit, and, proclaiming the rest
oration of the
entered
Peishtva's rule, might have the Deccan
with 50,000 men at his heel-, no European
regiment t) oppose him nearer Owl:"
a wild.
one n at Hyderabad.
Does this scheme read
? Hyder Ali
would net have thought so, nor men who,
!'-i,-• ,771r0l ~, ,1.,!pl y nail-m iv, any
l•i 1 .•• - 1 ,•-,,,,,, :In ;A voi.a,e ' 43 "1° Nalli, 1113
1::in:LI) :kii,l i 1,., n.i11., ~y;:.,ii' „'"Thllint of deter-
-1,,, 1
ea
of
the
1,,,,,,,
li,iii 0
wt..
our
to back itis
• did the danger,
so far as the distracts under hip urd •
jeiTs are concert-wit,
seem a Vis;onary one to Major
siorier of the Saeger and Not.t:r'kin", C"l3lis-
udt.la territories.
Cut off flout ;lid from CAloutta
do, and aware that
the Madras Government liaa ne its utmost in the
R:
despatch of the column from imptee, he urned
in h s ne B
ed to Aubay, and. Lord Ellll.l •
i 3.,
011 C, re-
c Yr°nising his critic il psition, directed
the Aurunga-
bad force, then on its way to Mb
olv, to move to the
north-east upon Hosung4had. t is not to cross
the Nerbudda at present, it is t:i
weak for that ;
but when reinforced it. will to u:'o
,t er a squadron of
the 14th DragOons, the 3d Bombay
the 24th Nitive infant iy, a °
tro EllrOpe3l.lS,
Therel3 of Horse Artil-
lery, and some Sappers.it will remain at 1
1109.ungabad, unless very urgent
is ! called across the
river, until a large column , es it will be
for service in Central India. Meanwhile, at that
t oint the danger is for the present averted by the
eastward movement of the Gwalior mutineers, who,
when last heard of, had turned, and were making

slowly and heavily for Calpee, on the J umna, and
eventually, as it would appear, for Oude.
" The course of the °the B unhay force in Cen-
tral India, long known as the Mhow column, under
Colonel Steuart, who succe,ded Brigadier Wood-
, burn, has been and is to the northward since the
occupation of the fort of Dhar, mentioned in my
last. The point which it desired to obtain was
Mundesore, where, as you know, there has for
tome time been collected an armed rabble against
which the Neemuch force made that unfortunate
move of which I wrote a fortnight ago. But in
marching north Colonel Steaart found work to do
at Mehidpore. There, on the Bth, the infantry
and.oxt;llery of the contingent (the cavalry muti-
niel long ago, killing their officers) were attacked
by some 4,0U0 me:cenaries. and scoundrels of alt
kinds. After a gallant fight the guns were
captured, when, we are told, that the Mussu'maus
among the contingent joined the insurgents.
Captain Mill P; Dr. Cary,' and two sergeant-nshjo.s
were killed. Major Timinin-escaped to the Malwa
field (Colonel Steuart's) and a. sergeatit-major,
with a few faithful men of the contingent, to In-
dove, where Hoikar received them with all kind-
ness. Brigadier Steuart's force, howevLr, fell in
with the victorious enemies on the 13th, and in-
flicted severe loss on them. The cavalry of the
Hyderabad Centingent, under Major Orr, per-
formed this service. The party of the rebels
attacked were a strong rear-guard. The cavalry
detachments of the I-t, 3d, and. -4th Regiments,
Hyderabad Contingent, charged on both flanks
and doubled them up, capturing all the guns
and stores taken from the contingent at
Mehidpore, together with two of their own guns.
One officer, Lieutenant Samuel, was dangerously
wounded in this excellent piece of service.
" This column of Brigadier Steuart is to be re-
inforced by the 38th, which corps is being scut
round to us from Gacutta, azd may be daily ex-
pected. It will also rec.-Ave two companies of the
86th from Belgaum, where they-are relieved by the
rest of the 2d Europeans from -Kite-melee. The
force in Guzerat and Rajpootana is to be at once
strengthened by a wing of 95th from Bombay, with a
battery of artillery and a company of Royal Enpi-
neers, who arrived from England by last mail.
Thus, in three several directions is the Western
Presidency penetrating, or preparing to wnetrate,
Central India. I have no fear but that full jus,ice
will be done at home to the foresight end energy
of the Government of lombay when the time comts
for taking a general review of the insurrection.
" The Presidency is quite quiet, except where '
the vexatious little Bheels are up in the hills, net
doing much damage it is true, but doing all they
can and ke ping out of thq way of retributint A
dozen or so have been caught near Ahmedabad, and
are to be hanged at once. Their chief amusement
now is cutting the telegraph wire. This they have
done repeatedly iu the same local.ty, and it has
been as regularly repaired by the station master a-
Akbarpote, on the Nerbudda, with his own hands.
At last, finding the service a hazardous one, he
applied to Government for a revolver, requesting
that the price might be stopped out of his pay.
The Government thereupon made him a present
of the requisite weapon.
" The 3d Drageon Guards, four troops at Past,
have arrived, and ate gono up to Kirkee. The
horse market is busier, and the prices higher than
ever. The Roman Emperor, with drafts of the
61st on board, was taken in tow for Kurracheo off.
the harbour two days ago. The Scotia, with pait
of the 72d, and other ships are daily expected.
Madras also has its arrival of troops. The Royals
go to Masulipatani for Secunderabad. Pert of the
31 battalion of the Oth have arrived, and two
companies of artillery—Major Godby's and Capt.
Palmer's. _ _

" Exchange on London has advanced to
The Bank of Bombay his raked its rate of discount
(3 per cent.) to 10 per cent. on Government
paper."

BENGA- .

" CALCUTTA, Nov. J.

" I sent you a lettsr on the Ist of Nov. by the
extra steauaer, which carried a mail. - The pre-
parations for the relief of the garrison of Lucknow
are rapidly advancing. Colonel Hope Grant with
Colonel Greathed's column, 3,500 strolls, reaehed
Cawnpore on the 28th of Octubee. He etossei the
Gang s on the 30th, with 18 guns, awl his atrival
at the Alumbagh has bee* a!r,a,dy reported. He
met wish no opposition on the load, which, in.lenl,
dtiting the la-•e operations Las always been elea-,
• the en my cencenlrating all their forces arotimi
Lucknow. The column will remain at the Alt:in-
bagli till the arriv. 1 of the Cotutuander-in-Cititl;
who left Calcutta on the 28th of OJtober. Sir Colin
Campbell travels like a courier, and on the 31 of
November ho was at Cawnpore. He had, hewevar,
a most narrow escape en route. He persisted, in
spite of the warm remonstrances of his faends, in
travelling with his personal staff without, an escort,
and when. near Shesrgotty came upon the .mutinous
companies of the 32d Native Infantry. They were
'leisurely crossing the road, the men sitting on
elephants, with parties of horsemen, probably of
the 12th Light Cavalry, Holme's naurderess, to
protect each flank. The coachman announced the r
approach, arid the Commandee-in-Chief, resisting
a wild proposal to show fight, tetreated for 10 tail s,
till he came up to a bullock-Inin filled with Euro-
peans. -They accosted him to Benarcs, whence It
is believed he again pushed on without a guard.
This daring push excites some admiration, but there
was more than life hangine on the Comm ander-
in-Chief's safety.- Had CAI cavalry charged on the
carriage and sabred the inmates Lucknow might
have fallen, for we should not have heard the fate
of the party for weeks!. He is, howe.,:e•-, safe, and
every available detachment is concentra ing bolded
hire. Colonel Berkeley's column is on its road.
Colonel Hinde, with his force in Rewah, is said to
have received his orders ; so has Colonel Longden,
who, with 520 Earopeans, had marched to quiet
Jaunpore. Colonel Wroughton, with most c f
Jung Bahedoor's Ghoorkas, ie ales ady. on
the frontier of Otide. Some Sikhs are ue their
march from Delhi, and altogether Sir C. Campbell
ought to have at least 5,000 Europeans, and toe,e
3,000 Sik-lis: and Geoorkas at his disposal. He
will not have s o many for the actual relief of
Lucknow, and has receivt d a letter from Sir James
Outiam, declaring that the garrison can hold out
for some days yet, and begging that no thought Qf
its danger may interfere with a complete victery.
It is understood that Sir Colin will, when all is
ready; cress the Goomtee, advance on the bank
opposite the-town, and from that vantage ground
shell the enemy out. He will then recros', and
perhaps enter the Residency without the loss of a
man. Lucknow, once secure and fortified, wit be-
come his head-quarters, whence, inch by inch, he
Intay reconquer Oude. The plan is strikingly able,
but its success depends partially upon two contin-
gencies. . The first is the time for which the garri-
son can hold out. That appears to be settled
by the lett3r quoted ; but an. accident, . the expl s-
eism of a thine, or the loss of any of the powder in
store, may upeet all calculations. Secondly, can
Sir Cohn sDenee, with the guns at his dispo,ial the
batteries the rebels will erect on their own side et
the river ? The sepoys- work their artillery well,
liand possess quantities inexplicable to men who
'forget there are 400 fortresses in Oude, n t one of
which has been dismantled since tl,e annexation.
If we may judge at all from previous experience,
the plan of the rebels will be to fire as long as they
can, then evacuate the city, . permit the relieving
force to enter the'Residency, arid close in upon them
again. No man, however, can venture to predict
the movements of: Asiatics. A panic would dissolve
that great army in an hour. ,News is evidently
expected here to-morrow, for the Governor-General
has stopped the steamer. It is quite possible, how-
ever, that he may reserve his iufornsation for the
Cabinet without publishing it in this country.
" It is generally understood that Nana Sahib,
self appointed Peishwa, has assumed the command
in chief in Oude, and some profess to see traces of
ability and plan in the more recent movements of
the tel-41,5. PitPiglitmus idei of coneentTation rwevails
anion: • them is obvious from the maul-ter in slti4:ll
the clinched 14.)41ies hare (witted .reit;;.l.. I t
i-4. cost-tin, too, that thcy fight Birdie than they.
did. Government his - putairehed a telegram an-
nouncing a victory at a place called Bertha, ne:.r
Allahabad. Captain Peel nick-s the best of his
story, but it seems clo sr that the enemy fought
with desperation, that our loss was severe, and that
it was not considered pruclsnt to retain so advanced
a rmition. At Futtehserai again, near Agra, the
„rebels were-dislodged by a party from the garrison
on the 20th of October. Most of them fled, but a
party seized a building on the heights and died like
men with the haler round their necks. Lieut.
Glubb and 17 privates wore killed.
" Several other engagements have been reported
during the week. The greatest occurred in Jean-
pore. Colonel Wroughton, who was trovine to-
wards the eastern ft ontia of Oude with some 1,510
Glroorkas and two gins, was mer, by some 5,000 of
.the enemy with seven guns. The mutineers de-
ployed with beautiful accuracy, displaying atiast a
solid line nearly two miles long. They did not,
however, charge, but opened a heavy lire upon the