The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

west, we find General Von Oortlandt at Rhotuk,
and all the Hurrianah country rapidly settling
down. To the north-east, in the Meerut district,
things are no less satisfactory. The revenue of the
district is coming in rapidly. The road between
Delhi and Meerutis clear, and the horse-dawk traffic
upon it has been re-established. So also is the road
from Meerut to Agra open, and again frequented by
public travelling cars. In this latter case the change
from disorder to tranquillity has been mainly
brought about by Col. Greathed's column, whose
progress we must not follow. In my last I brought
his column as far as Boolundshuhur, where on the
27th it defeated a body of mutineers, said to be the
old Jhansi brigade, with the loss of a few men
killed and wounded among the Artillery and 9th
Lancers. The fort of Malagkur, evacuated by the
rebel Wulleedad Khan, was forthwith occupied
and its defences blown up—an operation
which unfortunately cost the life of Lieutenant
Home, of the Engineers, one of the heroes of the
Cashmere-gate at Delhi. The column—of which
the strength, by the way, on leaving Delhi was
about 2,800 men, with 18 guns—after halting a day
or two at the scene of this victory, and despatching
its sick and wounded to Meerut, marched on down
the Great Trunk-road. On the sth it reached Ally-
ghur, where opposition was again experienced, but
in no formidable degree, the guns of the enemy
being only a 4-pounder and two tubes, which had
acted in more peaceful times as sockets for the tele-
graph posts. Thus armed the rebels did net stand
an instant, and breaking into the plain beyond the
town were caught and cut up in great numbers by
the Lancers and other cavalry, who did not lose
a single man. On the 9th the Colonel reached
Hatrass, about 30 miles from Agra. At that
station his presence was much needed. Three
days before, on the 6th, the Indore and 31how
mutineers, so long laying idle at Dholpore, only 36
miles south-west of Agra, suddenly broke up their
camp and marched for the capital. What induced
them to take this step is not known with certaiuty,
but it is said that they were joined by the Nee-
much mutineers who escaped from Delhi, and if so
they may have been induced to move by the coun-
sels of their new allies. At any rate, to Agra
they came. Colonel Greathed pushed on from
Hatrass by a forced march, and crossed the Jumna
to Agra on the following morning, the 10th. He
had hardly pitched his camp when he was attacked
by the Dholpore mutineers, perhaps 5,000 men,
1,500 of them cavalry, with 12 guns. It is said,
though I think it is doubtful, that the rebels
thought they had only the little Agra garrison to
deal with. If so, they must have received a
terrible surprise. For, although at first they
created some confusion in the camp, and even
captured a Horse Artillery gun, their success
was but temporary. The gun was retaken by
a par y of the Lancers, charging in their shirt
sleeves, headed by Lieutenants French and Jones,
of whum the former was killed, the latter despe-
rately wounded. The infantry formed in line and
advanced, and the enemy retreated, in an orderly
manner at first; then, as the cavalry and Horse
Artillery pressed then], in the wildest confusion.
The route and the pursuit lasted for 12 miles, as far
as the Khara River, which the enemy managed to
cross, and which arrested the progress of the worn-
out horses of the parsuere. But all his guns, am-
munition, baggage, and treasure fell into the hands
of the victors, and his loss is computed at not less
than 500 men, ours amounting only to 13 killed
and 54 wounded. After this brilliant victory, of
which the effects would be felt far and wide towards
Central India, Col. Greathed recrossed the Jumna
and proceeded to Myupoorie. Thence he was in-
tending, it is said, to march down by Etawah
towards Cawnpore. But it seems, I think, more
probable that he would cross the Deoab to Fur-
ruckabad, and the ruined cantonment of Futty-
ghur, now lorded over by the Nawab of the place
—a wretch whose deeds of blood have been scarcely
inferior in atrocity to those of Nana Sahib. To him
it is possible that some of the Delhi fugitivei may
have betaken themselves. Otherwise they have in
all probability crossed the Ganges into Rehilcund.
There they would unite with the armed and lawless
Pathan* of Balladeer Khan—some of whom, near-
ing the hill btatimi of Nynee Tal one day in the
middle of September, were attacked by a little force
of the 66th Goorkhas, and others got togsther at
the station, and were weq beaten—and prep ire to
make a final stand against tee either there or in the
neighbouring countly of Oude.
"From enwepore we have news down to about
the 22d of last month. The station was quiet, and
reinforcements were rapidly artiving. On the
18th, Colonel Wilson, hearing that a body of mu-
tineers was gathering at Bithoor, marched upon
them with a small force of the 64th, sth Fusiliers,
and 90th, drove them out of the town, and fol-
lowed thorn a mile or two on the road to Sbeo-
rajpore. But from Lucknow we have scarcely any
further intelligence than we had when I closed my
last letter. Between that city and Cawnpore toe
road is greatly beset, or rather between Lucknow
and the fortified post of Alumbagb, three miles
from it on the Cawnpore-roads Here, when
march:llg on Lucknow, Havelock placed his sick
and wounded and camp followers., with a powerful
guard and in a strong position. From this point
backwards to Cawnpore the road is clear enough.
But the three miles that lie between it and the
capital are untraversable except by a strong force.
Hence the deficiency of our intelligence. A long
list
Outramwomen:and children was
at Calcutta, and has
eßut of the onward progress of
been
receivede e n of
p trho
me f c
ou rescued
rgGeneralte men,
the army, since the relief of the Residency, towards
the complete subversion of the city, we know next
t) nothing. There are rumours of a considerable
loss in officers and men, the former including several
of the 90th and two of the 78th, but I hesitate
to give their names before the reports receive autho-
ritative corroboration. At the same time we must
expect to hear that our losses have not been incon-
siderable, though, of course, I do not for a moment
doubt that considerable success has been achieved.
Possibly, even though we do not knew such to be
the fact, the whole of the city is in our hands. But,
if so, Outram must undoubtedly have been consi-
derably crippled, and, though able enough to hold
his own, would have to wait for reinforcements
before ho could execute his plan of taking or mid-
i:4g the women and children back to the safety of
Cawapore. Of the 2,500 men he took over into
Oude he left 1,000 at Altunlytgh, so that he hail at
the Residency, including the rescued garrison, about
2,000, with plenty of guns, ammunition, and pro-
visions. Of the number of his enemies we can wake
no guess, but we know they must bo numerous.
One Malin Singh alone, who, lung reckoned friendly,
to
hive brought into the field 9,000 armed retainers.
has
svneortZliet appears,se,btheotlintel against us, is sad
odds ever so great, there is no
fear but that Havelock will hold his own till rein-
forced, as ho shortly will be, by men of the 531,
9z€l, 82d, and other regiments fast hastening up to
the scene of action, The post of AluniCash has
already been strengthened tram Cawnpore by 260
men of the 64th, with a convoy of provisions.
" The province of Behar is feeling the eff .cts of
the presence of the increased numbers of h
triops who are being passed up every day from CA-
cutta Raneegunge by railway, whence they pro-
ceed along the Trunk-road 'for Benare3 and the
upper stations, tending by their march to quiet the
districts lateiy disturbed by the mutiny of the sth
Irregular Cavalry and the Raenghur Battalion. The
movements of the former of these corps and of the
rebel leader, Oomer Singh, remain uncert sin. It
is supposed that when last heard of they were in
the nsighbourhood of Rhotasghur. But the Rani-
gliur Battalion were met by Major English, of the
53d, with 180 men of his own corps and 140 of Bat-
tray's Sikhs, at Chuttri, not far from tlle'r abau-
done I station of Hazareebagh, and utterly broken,
with the loss of a third of their number and alt
their guns, ammunition, and plunder. Thus we
might report the province and the frontier of Bon-
g,l proper as tolerably tranquil but for a hte
mutiny in a regiment which had hitherto remained
to all appearance loyal—the 32d Bengal Native In-
fantry. This corps was quartered in the Santii'
country. One of its detachments, at Deogtiur,
c:insisti-ig of twocoa,panie3, mutinied with no e:,eily
assignabl cause, on the morning of the 7th Oct.,
,n 1 the frightful old story of brutal murder w s
re, e,ted in tl:e cases of Lieut. Cooper and M.
Ronald, dt-puty-commissioner. The Sepoys then
plu udered the station, moved on to Rohriee, treated
hat de=ei tel c int,mment in t s ;me fa-him), and
then wandered away—whither is not yet' known.
fir „her detachment, also of two companiee
went off at Rampore Hat, but without injuring
their officers. For the quieting of this Sanaa!
district, the 13th,
litely brought from the Cape,
re likely to be employed. They were at Ranee-
-4"T) on the 18th, with the Bengal Yeomanry
Cavalry and some of the Madras column, of whom
ihe res: had gone on with CA. Fischer to Denares.
Bit .ar has received a garrison of seamen frdm Peel's
Brigade.
" Turning back to Bundelcund and Gwalior I .
have nothing further to write to you--of the Dina-