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London, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

pore mutineers than that they are still at Banda.
But, as confirmatory of the suspicions entertained
by Scindiah, as I told you in my last, regarding the I
temptations held out to his mutinous contingent to
move upon Banda—temptations urged by Santeea
Soopay, agent of Nana Sahib—and of the report
that the Nana himself was in the neighbourhood,
I note the report that the Gwalior Contingent has
moved off from its cantonments to the eastward.
This is well worthy of observation. I shall not be
surprised to hear of the Nana being ere long at the
head of the combined bodies of mutineers in thee
parts. Holkar has not yet been relieved (I write of
him as an innocent man, which, in my belief—l may
almost say to my knowledge—he is) of the incubus
of his insolent and mutinous soldiery. But for them
a day of retribution is at hand. I mentioned in my
last the half of the Mhow column when on the
point of marching for Indore, on account of dis-
turbances near Dhar. Since then it has marched
upon that town, beaten the enemy who protected
it, occupied the town itself, and was prepared to
storm the fort, when the enemy evacuated it
during the night. Now, both the force at
Aurungabad and that of the Hyderabad Contin-
gent at Edlabad are on their way to Mhow,
and on their arrival a strong force will at once
march on Indore to punish and to protect. In
Rajpootana we have another murder, or series of
murders, to regret. At Kotah the Resident, Major
Burton, and his two sons have been murdered by
the men of two of the Rajah's regiments—not of the
contingent, which you know mutinied long ago and
was engaged in the first batch of Agra. It is said to
have been a salute fired by order of the Resident on
the occasion of the fall of Delhi that led to this
deed of violence, which must be bitterly avenged.
Of the revolted Jaudpore legion we hear little but
that it has abandoned its strong position at Awa,
and probably moved into the Shekawattee country
to the north, with the view of raising the battalion
maintained in that State. Ajmer. and Nusseera-
bad are quiet. From Neemuch we have just heard
of an unfortunate and apparently ill-managed at-
tack by the Bombay forceat the station upon a body
of rebels at Jeerum, in the vicinity. It was con-
ducted, I believe, without any orders on the part of
Captain Showers, the Political, and somehow or
other was a failure. The 83d lost Captain Read
killed, and the 2d Cavalry Capt. Tucker, and five
officer. were wounded. We wait for further detail.
of this untoward affair.

" From Saugor and Jubbulpore there is little
news. The Madras column is at the latter station,
and the fort of Saugor is in no danger unless from
the possibility of an irruption by the Dinapore and
Gwalior mutineers. The small Madras force from
Hoshungabad in these territories, of whose march
down the Neibudda I spoke in my last, attained
its object in preventing the rebels opposite Hindla
from crossing to the southern side, and then, cross-
ing itself, drove them out of the town of Nimawur,
which they had seized and grossly ill-treated, and
c iptured and banged three leaders of note—one a
deserted jamadar of police, another a self-styled
officer of Seindiab.
"All is well in the Nizam's country and in the
Madras Presidency. At Madras itself more and
more troops have arrived, and either landed
there or gone on to Calcutta. In all have arrived
the whole of the 34th (now at Chinsurah, near
Calcutta), and parts of the Royals, 38th, 19th,
42d, and 97th. One of the regiments destined for
the Madras Presidency is intended for Hyderabad
to relieve the 3d Madras Europeans, which then
goes to Kamptee • another for Cannanore to set
tree the wing of the 74th for Bellary, where are
the head-quarters ; another for Bangalore to relieve
the 43d, which goee to Pegu, and so on. I hear too
from an officer of the 43d, ;hat the 7th Hussars,
which left England for Calcutta, are nevertheless
to land at Madras, and he sent up to Bangalore,
instead of the 12th Lancers, who will be passed up
to Secunderabad.

"The Punjaub is all quiet, still with the little
exception of the country between Lahore and Mool-
tan, whore, however, the disturbance does not be-
come more serious. Senile, too, is quite at rest.
Elsewhere in our Presidency we are, as I have said
troubkd only by the Bheels and Coolies. These
little hill men are up at various points along the
line of ghauts and in Kandeish. What has roused
them we do not yet know. They bad nothing to
complain of ; on the contrary they have never been
so well off. A certain tender or disdainful pity is
felt for these poor little remnants of an earlier race
and many a small cess and duty has been of late
remitted tothem. Yet that something has roused
them has been proved not only by the simultaneous
character of the outbreak, it so it may bec illed, but
by the fact t hat among a party of them, cleverly and
speedily dispersed in the Guicowar's country near
our own border, wd caught a fat Banian, or Hindoo
trader, with a large puree, of the contents of which
he had been lavish. The Bheels therefore have, as
we may conclude, been induced to rise, credulous
little fools, by the blandishments, promises, and
bribes of the Bahian and w here. But by whom the
obese agent was bionsolf employed is what we yet
desire to know. The victims of his delusive arts
will be speedily put down. At present, however,
they are rendering the roads unsafe, and doing a
good deal of mischief.
"No fut ther mutinies or plots have broken out or
been discovered in the ranks of the Bombay army.
Punishments, however, have dining the fortnight
been inflicted on many prisoners charged with coat-
plicity in those that had previouily taken place or
been detected and prevented. At Ahmedabad no
fewer than 18 men of the 2d Grenadiers were exe-

cuted in one day and at one moment, three being
shot, five blown from guns, and ten hanged. They
were all Hindostan men, and among the finest
looking soldiers in the corps. The plot in which
they were distinctly proved to have been concerned
was of the most thorough-going and bloody charac-
ter. All met their dooms without uttering a word.
Such has been usually the case with the muiineeis,
In the executions atKolapore no fewer than 50 men
had suffered at various times before one was found
to acc4pt the proffered boon of life on condition of
telling what he knew of the mutiny. Near Hindia;
on the. Nerbudda, the Madras troops were hangino,
a man when the rope broke. He himself adjusle7l
the rope round his neck with a double turn, and
was then finally turned off. Here, iu Bombay its-elf,
we have had no more military executions. The

jemadar to whose coming trial I alluded in my last
of the 11th Native Infantry, who was sentenced to
death. The Brigadier commanding confirmed the
was acquitted. Then came the trial of a soubandar
etit and might under the provisions of a
recent Act of the Legislative Council, have carried
it out at once ; but, owing to what was afterwards
found to be a misconception, the papers were laid
before the Governor in Council. Lord Elphiu-
stone recorded a minute on the subject, reviewing
the evidence, which was weaker than that in the
two former cases where capital punishment had
been inflicted, and deprecating the carrying out of
the capital sentence. This interposition on the
part of the Governor wi-s afterwards, on reference
to the low officers, found to be unwarranted. The
Brigadier, however, after this expression of opinion
declined the responsibility of ordering the man for
exe,ution, and comtnunted the sentence to trans-
portation for life. Here it appears to me that he
was wrong. Filling, as he did, a judicial position,
and havinz pronounced for death as his solemn '
judgment, he should not have been iudueed to with-
draw from his decision by au opinion, however re-
spectable, which was irregularly brought before
him. And, further, I venture to think that the
resolute and honest man at the head of the Go-
vernment in this case erred. Of the soubandar's
moral guilt—nay more, of his being the very
offender, the very life of the plot, if life it can be
said to have had—there can be no doubt whatever.
To such a criminal, a native officer, moreover, and
of influence among his men, the justest judge might
ba pardoned for de3liniug to apply the nice and
technical rules of legal evidence. Certain it is that
the commutation of the sentence was received with
universal dissatisfaction by men of all manner of
minds, and is generally ascribed, though errone-
ously, to a morbid feeling of pity on the part of the
Governor.

" Reinforcements from England should be reach-
ing us ere long—the 3d Drago in Guards, the 56th
and 72d. As we are to Cave the Bth and 17th
alio, we shall have three Dragoon regiments hert'y
and but few horses other than those the two latter
bring with them. Hence tenders are out for ships
to go to the Cape (where, however, they have a
murrain among the horses) and to Australia. The
head-quarters wing of the 9.5 th arrived from the
Cape two days ago.
" Sir Hugh Rose is to have the Poonah Division,
the present General (Schuler) going for the re-
mainder of his term to Kurraclic e to replace General
Scott, removed by the Horse Guards.
" Trade is lively. Symptoms of a tightness iu
the money market. Exchanges on LtAidtin, 2s. 1 id.