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

HE OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we (Times)
have received our private correspondence and files
of papers from Calcutta t, the 9th of November,
and from Bombay 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 large bodies of the rebels
are, for the present a'.; 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 Nizam's
country all is perfectly quiet, while in Rajpootana
alone has there occurred any fresh outbreak, and
we arrive at an aggregate of intelligence sufficiently
encouraging and of itself comparatively unevent-
ful, yet plainly presaging great events. 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 tgrein-
forca=very little intelligence has reached us
since I last wrote. This is easily accounted for.
Between the Residency and its vicinity, where
Outram and Havelock are intrenched, and the forti-
fied post of Alumbagh, on the Cawnpore road, there
is a distance, you wilt remember, of some three
miles. While from the Ganges to Alumbagh the
road is, for a party of moderate strength, perfectly
cle ir, the remaining three miles are beset 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 zemindars, and
the loose ferocious population that swarms in the
bazaars of a Mussulman city ; arid 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 narrow streets and upon houses and walls
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 Outram 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
days of September (the garrison having been re-
lieved on the 25th), that the greater part of the
city was by that time in our possession. This came
by letter from Cawnpore, nevertheless it appears
to have given too 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 half
the city was in our power. It was probablyagainst
the remaining half, and in the attempt to cut a
passage to the party at Alumbagh, 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 further
actions, we conclude that Sir James Outram and
his colleague having experiencedan obstinate resist-
ance determined on remaining quietly in their in-
t! enchments till the force at Alumbagh should be
so strongly reinforced as to be able to force its way
through, or to attack the enemy's rear, while they
again assaulted his front. And, happily, they would
not have long to wait. Indeed, I cannot doubt
that while I write the great battle is already some
days old ; for on the 30th of last month the Delhi
column, lately known as Col. Greathed's, and now
commanded by Col. Grant, of the 9th Lancers, as
Brig ,dier, crossed into Oude from Cawnpore, and
ou the following morning marched for Alumbagh.
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 Fusileors
and the Royal Artillery. The column reached
Alumbagh unmolested, and when last heard of,
about the Bth inet., was halted there awaiting the
arrival of Sir Colin Campbell from Cawnpore. The
commander-in-chief reached that station a few days
after the departure of Grant's force, and crossed the
river on the 9th. We do not know what number
of troops he took with him in person. Indeed, the
fact of his crossing into Oude is as yet only known
from Sir Robsit Hamilton's brief telegram to
Lord Elphinstoue from Madras, alluded to above ;
but, what with the 53d, the reniaining wing of
the 93d, and artillery, he may have added to the
Brigadier's column no fewer than 1,500 men, rais-
inethe amount of the reinforcements to 5,000,
with a numerous artillery. At Alumbagh itself he
would find, perhaps, 1,000 effectives, with large
suppliesa
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a force, Sir Cohn would doubtless proceed at once
accordingly it is, as I have
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and a second central file of insurrection been
trodleu out.
" But it will of course be long ere the province
is tranquillised though the capital may be now
expected to
wholly in our power. Oude may be
be for a time one great battle-field. Indeed, the
more it becomes so the better it will be for us. The
more of the mutineers we can get across the Ganges
the less difficulty and delay there will be in tran-
quillising the North-West and the less danger for
Central India. Aud 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 not, therefore, be alarmed
because Oude has proved so attractive to the
main body of mutinous soldiery still at large. On
the c- ntrary, I should, for the sake of Malwa, and
even of the Deccan, be inclined to fear that the
capture of Lucknow might avert from Oude the
threatened visitation of the Gwalior mutineers.
But of these presently. They are not yet, and may
never be in Oude. The Divapore regiments, how-
ever, with Kooer Singh and his retainers, who
have long been quiet at Banda, uucertain 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 53d, and Captain Peel,
who were on their way to Cawnpore. The 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 loss, 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
Allahabad, I will glance at the aspect of affairs in
Behar and Bengal Proper before returning to the
North-West. But there is little to tell, save of the
upward march of the British reinforcements from
Calcutta. Seven hundred a-week is the average
number of mon expected at Allahabad. It would
be endless to write the names of all the ships that
have arrived in the Hooghly. It may suffice to men-
tion that the Alma, 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 Rifle Brigade, and same
of the corps which, leaving later, were despatched
in swift screw steamers. I observe in the Friend of
India a happy suggestion, that before this large
body of troops is broken up from Calcutta a review
of them should be held upon the fort esplanade, but
the low Mahomedan 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
Ramghur mutineers since their defeat by Major
English, and Oomer Singh and his rabble are still,
we suppose,..-4 indeed, they are yet holding to.

gether,— in the'neighbourhood of Rotasghur. The
mutinied companies of the 32d are wandering
about somewhere between Sheergotty.
.and the
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 co-operate with the
Ghoorka auxiliaries of Jung Bahadoor at Jaun-
pore. These gallant little soldiers hate had a se-
cond opportunity of distinguishing themselves.
On the 19th of last month they engaged a body of
Oude rebels at a village to the westward of Jann-
pore, called Koodwall, and routed them with loss.
Their brethren at Azimghur have also done good
service, and havo recovered captured boats on the
Gogra, 'collecting them on the right or southern
bank of the river against the day when their united
forces, aided by Riropeaus 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 Allahabad, has also been strength-
ened, I imagine, by Europeans. At any rate, it is
strong enough to spare from its garrison a consi-
derable portion of the Madras colimn which has
marched down to the hills that border the territory
of the Rajah of Revrah, to guard the passes, and to
hold in eheck the ill-fated Jageerdars, fur whom
their Rajah is no match unassisted

" Avoiding for the present Bunlelcund, I e.)me
back to Jaunpore, and must na longer delay to
trace the march upon the station of Col: Greathed's
column, which my last letter leftat Agra, after the
brilliant action of the 10th of October. Of this
.10e*litat I gave
oa effit icoenr s Iprheasveet7tmotayad furthater apeounc to in 'letters of
• yed; in .my iitat,,,thebitti rise
rti of 't&=
enemy was complete, and upon troops less inured
to war than the men of the storm of Delhi it might
have operated very unfavourably. But the vete-
rans, English and Sikhs, readily recovered them-
selves. A desperate charge.of a party of the Lan-
cers, and a rolling fire from the 75th aid 2d Pun-
jabees in squares, checked and repelled the enemy's
horse, and then the troops formed in line and at-
tacked his infantry. So complete was the rout
that the mutineers of 'adore and Mhow have
ceased to resist as a body. For a time a party oF
them held together, and occupied some buildings
at Futtehpore Sikti, 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 ?' asked an enginesr officer at Agra
of a soldier, when the force cams) back. There
were none wounded,' replied the :flan, with a look
that could not be mistaken. But to return to
Greathed's—now become Grants—column. On
the 14th it crossed the Jurnna, and marched for
Mynpoorie. The petty chief of that place made his
submission to the brigadier and was graciously re-
ceived,
but his little fort was blown up, and his
three or four guns destroyed. Thence the column
proceeded towards Ferruckabad. In my last, you
remember, I anticipated that the punishment of
the Nawab of 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 pressing, so Futtyghur stands over for a
time, and the column went on clown the Ganges
for Va wnpore. Near Kanorije it fell in with
some 300 Delhi fugitives, making for Oude,
and destroyed 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 written, crossed into
Oude for Lucknow. Meanwhile, the other Delhi
column, under Brigadier Showers, has been circling
about in the districts to the west and south of the
capital with the most re-assuring and settling effect.
When I last wrote this little force—composed of
portions oft he Ca rab ineers, Hodson's and the Guide
Cavalry, a field battery, two or three heavy guns
and mortars, the 2d Bengal Fusiliers, Ghoorkas,
and Punjaub Rifles—after pacifying the Rewaree
district, was moving upon •Jhughur. The Nawab
of that ilk was captured at his hunting-box (shikar-
gah), and was sent into Delhi to stand his trial,
which, as be has (so writes an officer from Agra)
' been against us from first to last,' can, we may
hope, only end one way. Thus the town and fort of
Jhughur was occupied with its stores and ammuni-
tion, and a further movement upon the strong fort
of unoud was equally successful. ThEre the bri-
gadier halted for a while, preparatory to a sweep
back towards Delhi in another direction. His last
service is the arrest of the Nawab of Furrucknug-
gur. Nor is Agra idle in the work of pacification.
Of its small garrison of the 3d Europeans and one
battery, one detachment hulds Muttra and another
Alighur, with its excellent fort. The restoration of
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his old cantonment atthe Great
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Oude do we look forward for warsseriously
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Where, threatening
then,ra rumours
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in Oude great. Nor is
wars ? Central India and Rajpootana, with the
movement of Bombay and of Madras troops, must
answer this question. And, first, of that formid-
able body of men, the Gwalior Contingent—l sup-
pose 7,000 strong, cavalry, infantry, and artillery,
with a siege train and abundance
of field guns—
you remember that for a long time Scindia cleverly
held them in check at their cantonment of Moorar
with his own troops(such at lea 4 is the version we
accept of the Maharaj
ah's behaviour). Then you
recollect my writing of Nana Sahib's agent, Soou-
teea Soopay, being at work in their camp, of their
intentisn to move, and, finally, of their actual move
to the eastward. The direction of their march im-
mediately
What we had to dread was their turning to the
southward aquestion of great interest.
Bundelcund. Accordingly, when
becameiinto
t o
we heard they had moved in this direction towards
Jhansi, those who gave the subject the attention it
deserved became not a little anxious. A glance at
the map and a slight knowledge of the positions and
numbers of the English garrisons will show what a
have played had he
been
ea uman
is creel and tree-
b pieeing,himsel f at:the head ot these Gwalior
grandeeeer games.
bold Nana
and Sahiba b em iagsh t
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mutineers, he might have moved through Bundel-
ndd ,
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marauding
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Saugor and Ner-
budda
been held against him, the small Madras column,
abandonino. Saugor and Jubbulpore must have
e u
fallen back across the Nerbudda, the' Nana with
atowrerliltßionriugis. dh
ever increasing forces might have followed in pur-
suit, and, proclaiming the restoration of the
Peishwa's rule, might have entered the Deccan
with 50,000 men at his heels, with no European
regiment to oppose him nearer than at Hyderabad.
Does this scheme read a wild one ? Hyder Ali
would not have thought so, nor any men who,
having sinned so deeply against us as the Nana has
done, possessed even an average amount of deter-
mination and ingenuity with which to back his
hatred of the English name. Nor did the danger,
so far as the districts under his orders are concerned,
seem a visionary one to Major Erskine, Commis-
sioner of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories.
Cut off from aid from Calcutta, and aware that
the Madras Government bad done its utmost in the
despatch of the column from Kamptee, he turned
in his need to Bombay, and Lord Elphinstone, re-
c )gnising his critical position, directed the Aurunga-
bad force, then on its way to Mhow, to move to the
north-east upon Hosungabad. It is not to cross
the Nerbudda at present, it is too weak for that ;
but when reinforced it will muster a squadron of
the 14th Dragoons, the 3d Bombay Europeans,
the 24th Native Infantry, a troop of Horse Artil-
lery, and some Sappers. There it will remain at
Hosungabad, unless very urgently called across the
river, until a large column is formed, as it will be
far service in Central India. Meanwhile, at that
Foint the danger is for the present averted by the
eastward movement of the Gwalior mutineers, who,
when last heard of, had turned, and wore making

slowly and heavily for Calpee, on the .1 umna, and
eventually, as it would appear, for Oude.
" The course of the other Bombay force in Cen-
tral India, long known as the Mhow column, under
Colonel Steuart, who succeeded 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
some 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 Steuart found work to do
at Mehidpore. There, on the Bth, the infantry
and artillery of the contingent (the cavalry muti-
nied long ago, killing their officers) were attacked
by some 4,000 mercenaries and scoundrels of all
kinds. After a gallant fight the guns were
captured, when, we are told, that the Mussulmans
among the contingent joined the insurgents.
Captain Mills Dr. Cary, and two sergeant-nrajo:
were killed. Major Timmins escaped to the Malwa
field (Colonel Steuart's) and a sergeant-major,
with a few faithful men of the contingent, to In-
dore, where Holkar received them with all kind-
ness. Brigadier Steuart's force, however, fell in
with the victorious enemies on the 13th, and in-
flicted severe loss on them. The cavalry of the
Hyderabad Coutingen', under Major Orr, per-
formed this service. The party of the rebels
attacked were a strong rear-guard. The cavalry
detachments of the I,Z, 31, 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 sent
round tolls from Calcutta; red may be daily ex-
pected. It will also receive two companies of the
86th from Belgaum, where they are relieved by the
rest of the 2d Europeans from Kurrachee. 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 Engi-
neers, who arrived from England by last mail.
Thus, in three several directions is the Western
Presidency pene' rating, or preparisg to penetrate,
Central India. I have no fear but that full justice
will be done at home to the foresight and energy
of the Government of Bombay when the time comes
for taking a general review of the insurrection.
" The Presidency is quite quiet, except where
the vexatious little Bheels are up in the hills, not
doing much damage it is true, but doing all they
can and keaping out of the way of retribution. 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 in the same locality, and it has
been as regularly repaired by the station master at
Akbarpore, 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 Dragoon Guards, four troops at least,
have arrived, and are gone 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 Kurrachee off
the harbour two days ago. The Scotia, with part
of the 72d, and other ships are daily expected.
Madras also has its arrival of troops. The Royals
go to Masulipatam for Secunderabad. Part of the
31 battalion of the 60th have arrived, and two
companies of artillery—Major Godby's and Capt.
Palmer's.

" Exchange on London has advanced to 21. 24d.
The Bank of Bombay has raised its rate of discount
(3 per cent.) to 10 per cent. on Government
paper."

BENGA T .
" CALCUTTA, Nov. 9.

" I sent you a letter on the Ist of Nov. by the
extra steamer, 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 strong, reached
Cawhpore on the 28th of October. He crossed the
Gangts on the 30th, with 18 guns, and his arrival
at the Alumbagh has been already reported. He
met with no opposition on the road, which, indeed,
during the late operations has always been clear,
the enemy concentrating all their forces around
Lucknow. The column will remain at the Alum-
basrli till the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief,
who left Calcutta on the 28th of October. Sir Colin
Campbell travels like a courier, and on the 3d of
November he was at Cawnpore. He had, however,
a most narrow escape en, route. He persisted, in
spite of the warm remonstrances of his friends, in
travelling with his personal staff without an escort,
and when near Sheergotty came upon the mutinous
companies of the 32SNative Infantry. They were
leisurely crossing the road, the men sitting on
elephants, with parties of horsemen, probably of
the 12th Light Cavalry, Holme's • murderers, to
protect each flank. The coachman announced their
approach, add the Commander-in-Chief, resisting
a wild proposal to show fight, retreated for 10 milts,
till he came up to a bullock-train filled with Euro-
peans. They escorted him to Benares, whence it
is believed he again pushed on without a guard.
This daring push excites some admiration, but there
was more than life hanging on the Commander-
in-Chief's safety. Had the 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, however, safe, and
every available detachment is concentrating behind
him. Colonel Berkeley's column is on its road.
Colonel Flinde, with his force in Rewah, is said to
have received his orders ; so has Colonel Lougden,
who, with 620 Europeans, had marched to quiet
Jauuporo. Colonel Wroughton, with most of
Jung Bahadoor's Ghoorkas, is already on
the frontier of Oude. Sonic, Sikhs are on their
march from Delhi, and altogether Sir C. Campbell
ought to have at east 5,000 Europeans, and some
3,000 Sikhs and Gboorkas at his disposal. He
will not have to many for the actual relief of
Lucknow, and has received a letter from Sir James
Outram, declaring that the garrison can hold out
for some days yet, and begging that no thought of
its danger may interfere with a complete victory.
It is understood that Sir Colin will, when all is
ready, cross 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, wi.l be-
come his head-quarters, whence, inch by inch, he
may 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 letter quoted ; but an accident, the explo-
sion of a mine, or the loss of any of the powder in
store, may upset all calculations. Secondly, can
Sir Colin silence with the guns at his disposal the
batteries the rebels will erect on their own side of
the river ? The sepoys work their artillery well,
and possess quantities inexplicable to men who
forget there are 400 fortresses in Oude, nut ono of
which has been dismantled since t'le 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, and 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 information for the
Cabinet without publishing it in this country.
" It is generally understood that Nana Sahib,
self appointed Peishwa, has assumed the command
in chiof in Oude, and some profess to see traces of
ability and plan in the more recent movements of
the rebels. That some idea of concenti ation prevails
among them is obvious from the manner in which
the detached bodies have quitted Bengal. It
is certain, too, that they fight harder than they
did. Government has published a telegram an-
nouncing a victory at a place called Burdee, near
Allahabad. Captain Peel makes the best of his
story, but it seems clear that the enemy fought
with desperation, that our loss was severe, and that
it was not considered prudent to retain so advanced
a position. At Futtehserai again, near Agra, the
rebels were dislodged by a party from the garrison
on the 29th of October. Most of them fled, but is
party seized a building on the heights and died like i
men with the halter round their necks. Lieut.
Glubb and 17 privates were killed.
" Several other engagements have been reported
during the week. The greatest occurred in Jaun-
pore. Colonel Wroughton, who was moving to-
wards the eastern frontier of Oude with some 1,500
Ghoorkas and two guns, was met by some 5,000 of
the enemy with seven guns. The mutineers de-
ployed with beautiful accuracy, displaying at last a
solid line nearly two miles long. They did not,
' however, charge, but opened a heavy fire upon the

Ghoorkas. The little men—they are not above
five feet, disapproved theproceeding and with their
usual pluck flung themselves forward on enemies
three times their own number. ' The curved knives
made quick work. Ten minutes after their charge
the euemy had disappeared, leaving four guns, and
700 bodies on the field. These Ghoorkas are the
men for whom Sir Charles Napier had so strong
and, as it has proved, so well grounded an admira-
tion. Both they and the Sikhs-despise the Sepoys,
and close in with them at once, without an attempt
at tactics. One thing is quite clear. We can never
use Sepoyaagainst native levies again. Their pres-
tige has disappeared for ever, and a Sikh, an Arab,
an Affghan, or a Ghoorka, will now charge a Sepoy
regiment as readily as an Englishman would do.
They have thrashed them at odds of three to one,
while fighting with our discipline, on our tactics,
and in our uniforms; -
" On the 15th or 16th of October again some
cavalry despatched by Brigadier Showers, atticked
the remnant of the Jhujjur force near Kanoud.
The enemy lost 400 men, and were ignominiously
dispersed. Another body was then despatched to
Kanoud, which, on the 19th Oct., occupied the
fortress, seizing 18 guns, military stores and five
laos of treasure. The mutineers, under Koor Singh,
the Bengalee Zemindar, who were in possession of
Bandee, are also reported to have been cut up by
zemindars. He himself has departed, it is said, for
Gwalior, where he will probably be hung by Scin-
dish as soon as the scale turns a little in our favour.
His forces are said to have • bech annihilated, but
that statement rests on native authority, and may
or may not be correct. •

" About Jubbulpore all is 'said to be in a state of
anarchy. There are two regiments of Madras cavalry
there, but the rebels are in every direction, like flies
in summer, and the force cannot leave the station.
Your carreszondent at Bombay will send you intel-
ligeneitiffirce-and from Sanger and Indere much
later than any I can procure. I may mention, how-
ever, some facts he cannot yet have heard. Sir R.
Hamilton, the active Resident at Indore, 'paves
Calcuttaby this steamer for Bombay. There he will '
find a column of Europeans, with whom he will
march straight on Indere, re-establish the authority
of Holkar, crush the rebels, and cleanse central
India. There is no danger of his showing an unwise
leniency. Another column moves as soon as possi-
ble from Bombay through Saugor and Bhopal, re-
building our shattered prestige there also. It seems
to be thought in England that we shall have almost
too many men for the work before us. It is for-
gotten that the territory to be reconquered is larger
than France, Austria, Prussia, and Spain all put
together, with no means of communication, and a
population at best passive. At the present moment,
Oude with its forts, its chiefs, and its armed
populace is in open insurrection. In several dis-
tricts of the North-west the authority of the
British is limited 'to the ground they stand on.
Central India is in horrible anarchy, anarchy such
as Englishmen will, I hope, always fail to realise.
Anarchy in India is not merely the absence of
the constable. It means the rule of banditti
springing in every direction out of the ground,
the subjugation of the merchant, the artisan, and
the cultivator to the classes who live by plunder,
and who in their hour of triumph invariably dis-
play the cruelty innate in the Asiatic. In Bengal
Proper, the richest of our provinces, there is not
out of Calcutta a disposable European. Assam, a
province as large as Wales, is guarded by 100 sail-
ors. Dacch,, a country the exports of which alone
last year were worth 2,000,0001. sterling, has an-
other hundred. Dinagepore and Rungpore, dis-
tricts about the size of Yorkshire, have not a man.
The troops are wanted in fifty points at once, and
until the North-west is subjugated they cannot be
spared. The number of deaths, too, will be very
great both from battle and exposure, and reinforce•
manta ought to be poured in to the extent of at
least 30 per cent, of tile original force.
" The troops are arriving fast. The Alma spoke
36 ships near the mouth of the river, and we have
already had the Sydney, with 320 men of the Royal
Artillery Ulysses and Surrey, with 650 men of
her Majesty's 88th Regiment ; Australian with 306
men of her Majesty's 42d Regiment • Lady Joce-
lyn, with 766 of her Majesty's 54th, Rifle Brigade,
and Royal Artillery; iCandia, with 692 of her
Majesty's 19th, 20th, and 34th Regiments • Sutlej,
with 281. of the Rifle Brigade, and her Majesty's
97th Regiment ; Adelaide, with 236 of the Hon.
East India Company's recruits. Scotland and
United Kingdom not knoWn yet.
"The men as they land are sent to Barrackpore,
Raneegunge, Chinsurab, or Dumdum, or lodged in
Calcutta till carriage can be procured. The arrange-
ments for carriage are improving. Two hundred
men a-day will soon be forwarded in bullock trains
and horsed carriages, and the six little flats now
building will, if they succeed, take up 2,000. I
say, if they succeed,' for the Government lacking
machinery have put locomotive engines into them.
If they prove strong enough to stem the tide they
will have solved a problem. I am also told that
the Government of Bengal is about to give up its
scruples about compulsion, and take carriage where
it can. _ _

" It would appear probable that the amount of
actual treasure in the revolt has been greatly over-
rated. lam told that the treasure stolen in the
North-west was not more than a million and a quar-
ter, and that the revenue of Bengal Proper, Bom-
bay, Madras, and half the North-west Provinces is
coining in as usual. The opium revenue has indeed
increased, the panic in Behar inducing buyers to
give higher prices ; at one sale 50 and 60 per cent.
The difficult question of sepoy pensions will also, I
believe, be speedily settled. The majority of the
pensioners it is certain have borne arms against us.
It is intended therefore, 1. believe, to stop all pen-
sions payable to men who have at anytime belonged
to the mutinous regiments. The fate of those who
belonged to the disarmed regiments is still unde-
cided.

" I enclose au official list of the casualties before
Lucknow—the first, I believo, that has been pub-
lished by Government, since the mutinies began."

NARROW ESCAPE OF SIR COLIN CAMP-

BELL.

The following is from Benares, dated Oct. 31 :

" The Commander-in-Chief has come and gone.
He arrived to-day, at 9 a.m., and put up at Col.
Gordon's where he breakfasted and saw some
officers, whence he paid a visit to the Lieutenant
governor. He started for Allahabad at one p.m.
On this side of Sheregotty the Commander-ir.-
Chief's party came across, most unexpectedly,
a detachment of the fugitive and mu-
tinous 323, and were very nearly caught by
them. Had the harries been five hundred yards
further on the road, the whole party would have
been cut off to a man, for they were proceeding
without an escort of any kind. These gallant se-
poys were seen travelling like gentlemen on ele-
phants, of which fourteen were counted, and were
also escorted by twenty-five Sowars, who hovered
some time about the carriages. As soon as this
cavalcade was perceived, the carriages turned back
and retraced their steps for ten miles, till they came
up with a bullock train party. This accounts fur
the delay in the Commander-in-Chiet's arrival, who
otherwise would have been here yesterday.

" You may imagine how exciied people became
here, when coupled with the non-arrival of Sir
Cohn, it became known in the afternoon that the
electric communication was interrupted between
this and Sheergotty ; but little did the good folks
think how near their suspicions were to realisation,
for it is not to be denied that to use a common
phrase, the Commander-in-Chief was as nearly
nabbed' as possible and all his staff with him.
Now, why were' elephants allowed to be retained
for the use of these miserable traitors and mur-
derers, called sepoys,' when brave British soldiers
sadly wanted them to carry their baggage and tents
to the north-west ? Sir Colin looked uncommonly
fresh and well, and intended to be at Cawnpore
the day after to-morrow."—Eitglishmait, Nov. 4.

THE LOSS AT LUCKNOW.
The following is an extract from a. message from
the Private Secretary of the Lieutenant-Governor,
Central Provinces, to the Private Secretary to the
Governor-General, dated Benares, sth of Nov.,
8 p.m. :
Nominal Roll of European Officers on the Staff and of
Corps of all arms who were killed and wounded with
General Havelock's force since leaving Cawnpore to the
20th of September, 1857 :
General Staff of Major-General Sir James Outram—
Major-General Sir James Outram, G.C.8., ball wound
through right arm, and Capt. Dodgson, Deputy-Assistant
Adjutant-General, contusion of right side from grape.
Field Force Staff of Brigadier-General Havelock
Captain Havelock, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General,
severe musket shot through right arm ; and Lieutenant-
Colonel Tyler, Quartermaster-General, severe bayonet
wound in the right groin.
Volunteer Cavalry—Captain Flinch, her Majesty's
70th
Regiment, severely
Lseiveetirte.lypawnoisuinerd,edubthy
Irregular amusket
C shot
Cavalry,
eight
eh
grazed by a musket ball inside right L. thigh •
Bengal Cavalry, wounded severely by , lent: Birch,
leg; and 12th Irregular cavalry, Lieutenant
a musket ball in the
Warren, killed. Lieutenant and Adjutant

Artillery—Brigadier Cooper, commanding, killed ;
Lieutenant Crump, Bladraa Artillery, gui Major of Sri•

gado, killed ; Captain Olpherts, slightly wounded . Aja
.- --
sistant-Surgeon Bart) um, killed. -
Engineters—Capt!!in Crommelin, slightly rounded. :•,-1 - -"Ii
;,Ist Infantry . ads Staff—Brigadier-General Neill; '
commanding., kil
let Madras ' era—Lieutenaut Ainnid, POTeroly .•
wounded. '
A
Her Majesty's sth Fusiliers-1d aior E. Simmons, killed; ,
Captain J. W. L'Estran.:e, severely wounded; .C..apth,th A
,-._
E, Johnson, severely wounded, since dead; Lieutenant
and Adjutant HaiAcilled ; Lieutenant J. W. G. Acton,
wounded ; and Lieut. W. Carter, wortod-4, since dead.
Detached, her Ms.iesty's 64th Foot—Lieutenant Bate..
man, killed.
Her Majesty's 84th Regiment—:Capt. Pp.kenham, killed;
Captain Willie, wounded ; LLut. Powlp, .killed ; Lieut.
Woodhouse, lots of right arm; Lieut. 0,,,k1ey, wounded;
and Lieutenant Barry, wounded. ' . .
Infantry Brigide Staff—None. ' -
Her Majesty's 78th Highlander3—Capt. G. A. Lockhart,
slightly wn-nded; Captain nesting., severely wounded;
Captain R. L.,.,..e, severely wonated ; Lieutenant "Kirby,
severely wounded, since doad ; Lieutenant Crow, slightly
wounded in fino.er; Lieut. Swanson, severely wounded;
an I Lieutenant Webster, killed. .
Doing duty—Lieutenant Grant, Bth Native Infantry,
forefinger and thumb of right hand amputated, and Lieut.
Jolly, her Majesty's 32d Foot, dangerously - wounded,
sines dead.
Assistant
-Surgeon
ceodn;
Bradshaw,Coloel e astni
it;
hbteilyl ,
Her Majesty's 90th Light infantry—Brevet-Major J. -
wounded;
wounded;L ie t . J
Nunn, killed ; Lieut. Knight, wounded ; Lieut. Preston,
wounded ; Lieut. Graham, wounded by a round shot at
the taking of Alumbagh, since dead; and Lieut. Madrie,
killed. .
Doing duty—Capt. A. A. Beecher, 40th Native Infantry
wounded, since dead.
Seikh Regiment of Ferozepore —None.
Unattached Officers—None.
RoLL'os' OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED FROM 29v
SEPT. TO 21ST OCT. IN FIELD FORCE :
Artillery—Lieut. Dawson, sligtly wounded, Sept. 30.
Ist MadrasFusiliers—Mejor Stephens, slightly wounded,
Oct. 4; Capt. Fraser, severely womudecl, Oct. 5; Captain
Galway, slightly wounded, Oct. 5; Lieut. are:mine, mor-
tally wounded, since dead, Oct. 5; and Lieut. Bazely,
slightly wounded, Oct. 21.
sth Fusiliers—Capt. Scott, slightly wounded, Oct. 6.
78th Highlanders—Major Halliburton, mortally, since
dead, Oct. 4 ; and Dr. 11'Master, slightly wounded.
Oct. 15. •

84th—Lieut. Gibant, mortally, since dead.
90th—Capt. Dennison, severely, Oct. 6 ; Capt. Bing.:
ham, severely, Oct. 6 • and Capt. Phillips, severely.
Loodianab Regiment—Lieut. Crosse, slightly, Oct. 6.
Total, 63 officers killed and wounded.
D. S. DODGSON,
Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General.

Nov. 7.