The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-13 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA.

CRITICAL POSITION OF GENERAL
HAVELOCK.

The following telegram has been received at
the East India House :
" CALCUTTA, OCT. 8, 1857.

" General Outram telegraphs, on the 2d inst.,
that the insurgents are too strong to admit of
withdrawal from Lucknow. Sick and wounded,
women and children, number more than 1,000.
" After making disposition for safety of the gar-
rison, General Outram proposes to retire on Cawn-
pore. He adds, that two additional brigades
with powerful field artillery will be required to
withdraw with the garrison or reduce the city.
Communication between Cawnpore and Lucknow
still interrupted.
" Latest news from Gwalior to 26th September.
" Scindia had brought the mutineers of the
Gwalior Contingent under his control, by arraying
against them his own troops and 10,000 thakoors,
cutting off their supplies, &o.

" Division and dissension among the mutineers,
who were asked for aid by a Shahz%dah from
Delhi on the one hand, and an emissary from the
Nana on the other.

" The mutineers of the Ramgular battalion
were defeated at a place called Chuttrah, on the
2d inst., by a detachment of the 53d Queen's,
under Major English, with loss of guns, 45 carts
of ammunition, &Te. ; some 45 of our men killed
and wounded. " H. JOHNSON."

" Alexandria, Nov. 7, 1857.
" RAVEN."

" Trieste, Nov. 13, 8.10 A.M.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 12.

The Vanguard brings intelligence from Bombay
to the 17th of October.
The news previously received is confirmed.
It was reported that Lucknow, which had been
relieved on the 25th of September, was again be-
sieged by Nana with 50,000 rebels.
On the night of the 21st of September the
Queen's health had been drunk by the conquerors
in the palace at Delhi, the cheers being taken up
by Ghoorkas.
Lieut.-Colonel Burn was Governor of Delhi.

Besides General Neill, Major Cowper, of the
Artillery, Captain Packenham, and Lieutenant
Webster Bateman, were killed at Lucknow.

All the city people found in Delhi were bayoneted
by our troops. Europeans were discovered there
fighting on the side of the rebels.
of indigo was exceedingly
favourableTh
; it
was expected to reach 70,000
waunds, and to fill up the deficiency in the Ben-
gale Madras crop
crop.

MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Valetta has arrived. The mails leave for
London at 10 o'clock.

The passengers report General Havelock's posi-
tion to be very critical. He is surrounded by a
hostile population, is in n want of provision, and
is encumbered with women and children.

The Bombay Presidency is said to be in a state
of great agitation, and if Delhi had not fallen there
is every reason to fear we should have had to de
plore fresh mutinies in the Bombay army.

AUSTRALIA.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 12.

The Vanguard reports that the Eaten, with the
September mail, left Sydney on the 11th Sept.,
Melbourne, the 17th ; the Sound, the .25th ;
Gall% the 9th Oct. ; and Aden, the 18th.
Iu the night of the 20th Oct. she struck on a
coral reef in the Red Sea, got off crippled, and
was run ashore on the East Coast of Nubia, to
keep her from sinking. She arrived leaky at Suez
on the 31 Nov., and transhipped 640,0001. in
gold to the Australasian, for Southampton, from
Sydney and
Melbourne.

All was well at the gold fields. A prolific mine
had been discovered at Aarant, 120 miles from
Melbouine.

No Australian mail has arrived ; it is supposed
to have been taken by the mail-boat Deddak, and
in that case will reach Suez in three weeks.
The wool maiket was very firm, and contracts
was taken at a high rate. The coming clip was ex-
pected to be less than the last. Money tight.
Dist India produce selling at fair prices.
There had been great floods in New South
Wale., and
considerable destruction of property
on the Hunter, Paterson, and other rivers.
Tho ship Dunbar, from London to Sydney, had
been totally lost. The crew and passengers, 140
in number, all perished, except one seaman, John-
son. The cargo was valued at 70,0001.
A collision had taken place between the Lady-
bird and Champion steamers, off Cape Otway,
when the latter foundered, with the loss of from
30 to 40 lives.

Some prolific gold fields bad been discovered at

Nelson, in New Zealand ; 1,500 ounce 3 had ar-
rived thence at Sydney.
The Vanguard brinza the Bombay mail.

TRIESTE, Nov. 12.
Despatches from Teheran, of the 18th of October,
state that the civil war continued.

Two Turcoman columns had entered the country,
and the Ambassador of Russia was urging the
Government of the Shah to consent to an armed
intervention. This the Shah refused, and had sent
an Amblssador Extraordinary to Tiflis, with autho-
rity to proceed to St. Petersburg in case of need.

The tame arrival announces that Farouk Khan
bad been recalled, and appointed Sadra9arn.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

BOURSE, Nov. 12.—The market has been flat
and securities offered, owing to further failures in
Scotland, and a decline of a on the English Consols,
but variations in prices have not been material.
Threes have been done at from 66 70 to 66f. 80c. ;
Mobilier, 760 to 765 f. ; Orleans, 1,260 to 1,267 f.
50c. ; Northern, 862 50 to 865 f. ; Eastern, 612 50
to 615 f. ; Lyon!, 795 to 797 f. 50c. ; Austrian,
661 25 to 657 f. 50e.—The market was very agitated
at the close, owing to reports of a rise in the rate
of discount to 12 per cent. by the Bank of England ;
disturb:►nces among the workmen of Glasgow ;
heavy failures at Vienna, and a measure of the
Bank of Frankfort recalling all their advances on
public stocks, and prices gave way to close as
follows :

Cash. fr. End of Month.
4} per Cents - -1.
3 per Cents 63 55 67
Bank Shares 2950 Credit Foncier 505
Credit Mobilier 760 Roman -
Do. Account 757 50 Austrian
Belgian 44 (ad) 96 Spanish Threes —
Piedm mites° (5) 9O Home Debt —