The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

and four days hence I hope we shall be at Lucknow
triumphant."

BEITARES.

The Poonah Observer of July 28 publishes the
following letters from Benares, dated the 19th :
"We have just received General Havelock's des-
Patch, telling us of his having recaptured Cawn-
Pore, talon many gims-26 in number—after a
hard fight of 3 hours and 40 minutes. Some of the
guns are siege ones. But the unfortunate women
andr, children had all been murdered by order of the
-"a.jah Nena Sahib before the fight commenced. At
first there must have been 500 women and children,
all starved out and afterwards ill-treated, sold by
auction, and finally murdered. It. is horrible to
think of their fate. Four companies of the 78th
ilighlanders, viz., Grenadiers, No. 3,6, and Light,
ale the only ones with Havelock-. Nos. 1 and 7
are a,t Allahabad, No. 8 at Gazeepore, and the rest
here (Benares) with Major Haliburton. They ex-
Peet to move on in a week or ;ess."

The same journal, of the Ist of August, says :
We are greatly rejoiced to hear that news
Of General Havelock having again beaten that
ruffianly scoundrel the Nena Sahib, and taken his
fort at Bithoor from him, scattering his forces in
all directions, and taking thirteen of his guns.
This cowardly villain is now a houseless wanderer
and a fugitive in the jungle, with a price set upon
his head, and the 78th Highlanders on his trail.
Gen. Havelock is, as well he may be, highly pleased
With that glorious Regiment the 78th Highlanders.
In a speech that he made to them after the last
thrashing he gave the wretch we have above al-
luded to, whose, name it is 'pollution to mention
more than is absolutely necessary, Gen. Havelock
said—' I have been in 27 fights, and never saw a
regiment behave better. I will say more, I never
satin a regiment behave so well !' It appears that
ill the fight which took place near Cawnpore,
Which led to its re-capture on the. 16th ult. and the
first flight of the Nena the 78th charged the guns
three different times. No officers were killed, but
or the mea 17 were killed and wounded. Major
Stirling and three other officers of her Majesty's
filth Regiment were wounded."
The alcutta Englishman of 21st of July says :
A plot was discovered here yesterday, and
three of the worst characters in , the town, and a
banker with • 8 lalths of rupees apprehended.
Letters of a highly treasonable nature were disco-
vered ; they purported to be from a certain great
one,' and called on the inhabitants to rise and de-
stroy Messrs. Tucker, Gubbins, Lind, and all
uropeans. The plan was, that these three were
to raise the disaffected characters, and having made
away with those I named by treachery or night at-
t,aelc, were to polish off all the rest of ur. The ban-
ker was mentioned by name as the person from
Whore they were to get funds, and in his house
some 200 swords, guns, &c., were found. Gubbins
is trying to get some further information out of
these prisoners, but I fear they will Lot peach. The
banker actually offered the Darogah a government
promissory note for Is. 10,000, if ho would allow
2301 to escape. The Darogah played him a pretty
'rick : he told the banker he could not trust him,
and that he must sign the note, which be did, and
Ras then taken away, note and all, to Gubbins. I
',alley all four will ornament the gallows in a day or

l'he following items of intelligence were placed
"Y Government at the disposal of the Calcutta
Press

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BENARES July 23.—Azioghur with the rest of
e thdivision continues tranquil.
~„" Major Erskine writes from Jubulpore on tbe
"Lb, all the officers from Sehorbe have safely
reached Hoosungabad ; also the following :
lajor Macpherson, Captain Ryall, Dr. Lillifant,
Cartor, Captain McDougall, Dr. Wilson,
captain Lemarchand, Mrs. Lemarchand, and four
~,12ildren, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes, Captiin and Mrs.
Barris and three children, Mrs. Capt. Burlton and
children, Overseers Watts and Wakefield, their
Wives and children.
" Colonel and Mrs. Durand have gone to Poona.
)," All safe at Nimar, Hoosungabad, Baitool,
mnrsingpore, Seonee, Naff6ode and Saugor.
"Capt. Pinkney, leputy-Commissioner of Jub-
raper() who had gone out to bring in the treasure
jc)el ..ISumoh to Saugur, has safely reached Jub-
uulpore.
" Nagpore, July 20. —AIWA quiet."

MEERUT.
A. letter in the Lahore Chronicle, dated July 13,
ijaYB:---" All well here, the battle of the 9th ap-
Pears to have ended in a complete victory over the
Insurgents ; upwarda of 1,000 of whom lay dead on
'l3O field. Our loss wastritling, one officer killed and
two
wounded. The Mahomedans in Rohilcund are
have
to show what their intentions are ; they
'gave already destroyed all the Hindoo temples in
and around Bareilly. This fact alone should open
the eyes of the Hindoo population of India as to
;What they might expect from Mahomedan masters.
The ;fats in this division are fully aware of
What their position would become under such a
L ule• The Sikhs before Delhi are said to be be-
having splendidly ; and, together with the Goork-
s) are the admiration of the force. Would that
e Commander-in-Chief had a few more pf them
With him. We hear from good authority that the
~-1-11 g of Delhi wishes to make overtures to the Go-
;ternom.ent, and is getting tired of war, now that his
1114 Y • are running short of percussion caps, and
4;;Nn to convert their muskets into matchlocks.
The last shells fired from the walls are evidently of
Zn. inferior character, they seldom burst, have port-
fires stuck in them insteadof fuses, and the powder
13 evidently of native manufacture. Should the
I.,l.,ative report be true, that Wheeler, with a large
European force, is a few marches off Delhi, the
reign of the insurgents in the Imperial city is
4 short one. I believe I told you that Mr. Fleet-
ttood Williams has been appointed pro tem. corn-
kissioner of this division. He has already done
much good, and is without doubt the right man in
,`le right place ; and it is a thousand pities he was
11'4 appointed before, as it is absurd to suppose
that Mr. Greathed, who is with the army before
could have much influence over'a district in
a state of insurrection, with two almost impassable
le
separating him from the principal part of
is charge."

SATTARA.
SA.TTARA, July 31, 1857.-111 appears quiet
acre just now, but the civil authorities are not at
411 confident that some evil disposed people are
110 t still at work, trying to induce the disaffected to
strike a blow. . . . The Punderpoor
Dlrisoners have been tried, and I imagine will be
;Tug, as a guard of the 3d Europeans has ben
Placed over them. One or two of them are rich
iOtluentialmen, and, had not European troops
lieen at this station, an attempt might have been
Made to rescue them.
Tho Mamlutdar they kilted at Punderpoor was
said to be the best and the oue most attached to
the British governme-nt in this collectorate. Some
anxiety still :exists about Punderpoor, as a com-
pany of the 22d Regithent, under Lieut. Drum-
ihas been ordered out there on out-post
duty. •