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The following is written by a gentleman in the
Bengal Civil Service :

" Calcutta, Aug. 23.
" When I last wrote Arrah had just been relieved
by Major Eyre an the detachment of the sth. Since
that Koor Singh has been well thrashed at Jugdes-
pore and driven to the south. He has committed
some plundering about Sasseram, and is said to
have betaken himself, with a small rabble of fol-
lowers, to Rotas or its neighbourhood. Order
will, I trust, soon be restored in the Shahabad
district.

"In Gya there has been nothing more than what
would occur anywhere at any time if all the civil
authorities were suddenly to withdraw, as was there
and elsewhere done under orders. The thieves
and robbers of the neighbourhood plundered the
kutcheries and some private houses, and those who
had grudges against their neighbours began to
hope and prepare for an opportunity of vengeance.
But all this has been arrested by the immediate and
stern disavowal of -'s act, and the prompt
return of the authorities. Ido not think that we
shall have any more serious matter in the Gya.
district.

" Mozufferpore, which was as quiet and un-
threatened as Calcutta, has escaped wonderfully,
and the authorities having returned all is going on
well. The gaol and treasury guards did their duty
stoutly, and the townspeople stood up for them-
selves. There were some 16 of Holmes sSowara in
the place, which were too few to have attempted
mischief if the civilians had remained. When these
latter were ordered away the Sowers robbed their
stables of all their horses and made off. They tried
to liberate the prisoners and to plunder the trea-
sury, but were fired on and driven back by the
guards. They.tried to do a little loot, also, in the
town, bnt were beaten back by the townspeople.
Nine lacs of rupees were in the treasury, and all
has remained safe.

" Chuppra was abandoned with somewhat more
reason, because it was really threatened by a strong
party of Holmes's Irregular Horse. Still the flight
was very hasty and precipitate, and, had a little
more courage existed,it is probable that the station
might never have been abandoned.
"There bas been no outrage and no plunder
there because of the spirit and loyalty of a Maho-
medan resident, well known in those parts, and
(hitherto) always doubted—a certain Cazee am-
zan Allee. He assumed the command on the de-
parture of the European., kept everythinr, quiet
and loyal, and has since delivered ever his charge,
prisoners and all, in perfect order to the returned
civilians. He and others who have similarly be-
haved will, you may be sure, be handsomely
rewarded.
"At Patnah all is in order.

" The houses, pnblic and private, at Gya and at
Arrah have been gutted, and in some cases de-
stroyed ; in Arrah by the mutineers, in Gya by the
prisoners released by their guards.
" All the Ramghur Battalion (except the cavalry)
have mutinied and driven off the authorities, Lut
the country and the Zennindars are thoroughly
quiet and loyal. The following is a sketch of the
state of affairs in those districts :

" Ranches or Doremda.—The civil and military
authorities were obliged to retreat, having remained
tilt the latest moment. The mutineers, having four
guns with them, have remained at Doremda, from
some motive not yet understood. Some say they
are waiting for the arrival of their out-detachments
from the other stations before proceeding westward ;
some that they are endeavouring, vainly, to
get some local Zemindar to join and head them.
They are viewed 'with no kind of sympathy by the
pelple, and if we could move speedily upon them
would be scattered. But our want of men and
means has hitherto prevented us (most unfortu-
nattly) from taking the prompt measures so greatly
required for the occasion. A brigade is, however,
in preparation, and will march some time this week
via the Grand Trunk-road and Hazareebagh.
"At the place last named there was a detachment
of the Bth Native Infantry. These mutinied and
committed some destruction, the prisoners here as
everywhere else being released. The mutineers
have gone off (no one yet knows whither), and the
commissioner is about to reoccupy Hazareebagh
with a small party of Rattray's Sikh corps.
"At Peurulia (Maunbhoom) the small detach-
ment of the Ramgbur battalion mutinied and went
off after plundering and destroying the homes and
part of the town.

" Chyebassa (Singbhoom) was hastily abandoned
by -- before any show of mutiny had taken
place. But the Rajah of Sereikhela, a powerful and
very loyal rajah of that country, has stepped for-
ward to protect the station, and as far as we know
has entirely succeeded. Both Peurulia and Chye-
basga will be immediately reoccupied by civil offi-
cers backed by a small force of Sikhs.
"From Bhagulpore, which is quite quiet, the
sth Irregular Cavalry have decamped without beat
of drum. They have gone to Dooghur and Rohnee,
and thence towards Gya, where they will fall into
a trap, as they know not that Gya is reoccupied
both by Europeans and Sikhs.
" These runaways tried to raise the 32d Native
Infantry at Bowsee, but wonderful to say, were re-
sisted and fired upon. They have plundered a lit-
tle here and there. I fear from the wretched weak-
ness of our means they will contrive to get away to
the westward uninjured.
"The santhals are perfectly quiet.
" At Julpogoree, the 73d N.I. and two troops of
the 11th Irregular Cavalry are a subject of much
anxiety. There have been several attempts to get
up a mutiny, but on each occasion the persons con-
cerned have been apprehended and sent away
prisoners. On the last occasion a Brahmin
Sepoy of the 73d armed himself and denied
authority, calling on the other Sepoys to join him
and destroy the Feringhees. At the order of the
officer of the day he was shot without hesitation
by a party of the quarter-guard, and his body
thrown into the Teosta.

" Young - has been evincing great judgment
and courage as joint magistrate at Julpogoree. He
has for many weeks carried his life in his hand, and
is yet I fear in danger.
" All the rest of Bengal is quiet.
" The opium advances are about to be made,
and we look for quiet and good order to insure the
crop. With very few exceptions the Zemindara of
our provinces are very loyal, and the people in no
way disposed to tumult."

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ins we could not turn them. out without having
some of our men hurt, which we did not wish, we
resolved to smoke them out, and accordingly threw
a lot of lighted grass before the door. One man,
seeing that they were to be burnt out, sprang out
of the little window like a tiger, with his loaded
musket in his hand, evidently resolved to sell his
life dearly. I happened to be standing close to the
window, and shot him through the head with the
carbine I had used all day. He fell all in a heap,
stone dead. On finding the smoke insufferable they
came out one by one, only to be shot down imme-
diately. The square was now an awful sight, with
eight or ten dead bodies lying on the ground, and
the whole place streaming with blood, and the pri-
soners some of them frigtfully wounded."

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.-04 Tuesday afternoon an
article, which seemed to be a rude box or coffin, was
washed ashore at Beenbane strand, quite close to Dingl
harbour, and about a mile from the town. This shell
or case on coming into the breakers was so knocked
about that it burst open, revealing the body of a female
quite naked. She appeared to be a woman of middle age,
with brown hair. The body was not in an advanced
stage of decomposition, considering the length of time it
had been in the water, which, judging from the length
of barnacles (four inches) on the lower part of the coffin,
has been estimated by seafaring persons at no less than
four months. Mr. Philip Hodnett, of the Coast Guard,
who was day watchman, reported the case to the police,
who placed the body in a coffin got from the work-
house. It was then brought into town, and by the per-
mission of the High-sheriff, allowed to lie in the Court-
house to await au inquest.
STEAM v. SAles.--When the comparative merits of
the clipper ships and steam vessels as transports were
fully discussed a few weeks back we pointed out that the
season of the year was unfavourable to the sailing ves-
sels, which would no doubt have shown the greater speed
had they left England two months earlier, and the truth
of our remarks is now shown by the passages of the Lord
Raglan. This vessel, after fitting out in Liverpool, pro-
ceeded to Kingstown, where she embarked the 4th
Regiment of the line for the Mauritius. She left Dublin
early in May, and made a rapid run out, beating the
mail steamer England from Dartmoor eight days, with
which the authorities of the island were so much pleased
that, upon a favourable report being made of the vessel,
her commander, Captain Heron, and crew, by the offi-
cers of the 4th, she was taken -up to convey the left wing
of the 33(1 Regiment to ;Bombay. By the mail this
week we have advices of her arrival at Bombay, her run
from the Mauritius only occupying 12 days and a half,
beating the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Potinger two days on that passage. The time occupied
in;aailing from Dublin to Bombay, deducting detention
at the Mauritius, is about the shortest this season. Her
run from the Mauritius was during the favourable mon-
‘oon. Had she to make the passage in the month of
November the Pottinger would, no doubt, do it in half
the time. Sailing vessels, of course, require wind, not
too much before the beam, and clippers plenty of it, to
make way through the watt-r Awhile steamers of propor-
tloLa a power are almost independent of it, as shown in
t ie case of the screw steamer City of Manchester, which
left the Downs two days before the celebrated clipper
-hip Lightning. The steamer arrived at St. Vincent's,
Cape Verd, on the 6th of Sept. iu 11 days' passage from
Gravesend, coaled from the steamer Boephofus, which
had been sent out with a supply of fuel for the purpose,
; and lett on the Bth of September for India. The Light-
nen was spoken on the 6th of September, thy, day of the
steamer's arrival at St. Vin Cent, but, owing to light
and contrary winds, she had scarcely got' beyond the
latitude of Cape Finisterre.-m-Liverpool.:o4ll.