The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

OUDE.

The province of Oude is, as Lord Clyde truly
says in his despatch, " free from every vestige
of rebellion." The forts are dismantled, the people
disarmed, and the military police in the full exer-
cise of their functions. A new settlement, entirely
on the Zemindaree principle, is in progress, and the
people of Oude, as far as we can judge, are content.
There was only one drawback to the sense of abso-
lute security in this province. The Begum, Nana,
and Beni Madho, at large on the Nepaul frontier,
could, it was said, boast of 12,000 adherents. Jung
Bahadoor had not yet declared his intentions re-
specting them. It was expected that he would not
be in haste to act against them. He might hope
that time would work as a dissolvent upon the
insurgent army. It was probable that a great
many would abandon a cause fallen so low as that
of the Begum and the Nana, and that small parties
of insurgents would for a few months to come
creep back to their homes through the jungles of
the Terai. Even though loyalty to their chiefs
and hatred of Europeans might deter them from
abandoning a standard for which they had, we were
about to say, fought, one great obstacle would, re-
main to be overcome. Armies cannot hold together
without money. The Begum and the Nana must be
pretty well exhaused of supplies in cash. And as
for Beni Madho, the discovery of his treasures
lately made in the ruins of Doondeakheera tended
to show that his military chest must be tolerably
empty also. The existence of the Begum's army
might therefore be considered as a question of
finance, and probability being in favour of empty
treasures, the prolonged cohesion of the rebel forces
was doubtful. This point would not fail to strike
the provident mind of Jung Bahadoor, and it was
very possible that he might trust to time for the
dissolution of a hostile array which could, if at
once attacked, offer strenuous resistance. Jung
Bahadoor, however, was more energetic than people
imagined. He at once took up a decisive positi9n
with regard to the Oude rebels, refugees within
the borders of Nepaul. He issued a proclamation
to the effect that all murderers and rebels in arms,
who entered the Nepaul territory were to be given
up to the British Government, and that all armed
bodies would be utterly destroyed. The spirit of
this proclamation was, in fact, all that could be
wished. Appropriate action rapidly followed words
so much to the point. The Ghoorka army, we are
told, has moved against the rebels, and Jung Baha-
door having applied' to Lord Clyde for the aid of
British troops to assist him in reducing them, Lord
Clyde ordered Brigadier Horsford to advance into
Nepaul. Brigadier Horsford accordingly crossed
the Raptee for the purpose of joining the Ghoorka
army. The rebels under Beni Madho, Nano Sahib,
and others, were then at no great distance from
Bankee, in Nepaul.
Lord Clyde is indisposed. He will not leave
Lucknow till his health is a little restored.

The order by which. the Oude army has been
broken up reduces it from a total force of 35 regi-
ments of infantry, 11 of cavalry, 28 companies or
troops of Artillery, and 5 of Sappers, to 20 regi-
ments of foot and 8 of cavalry, 17 companies or
troops of Artillery, and 3 of Sappers. The Oude
army is thus diminished by more than one-third.
Of the force which remains in Oude, the chief
part will be concentrated at Lucknow, consisting
of Soady's and Mackenzie's companies of Artillery,
the Ist reserve company 6th battalion Bengal
Artillery, and Olphert's company, the 24th company
of Royal Engineers, 15th Punjaub Pioneers, Ist
battalian 23d Fusiliers, 88th Connaught Rangers,
2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, 2d Dragoon
Guards, and al Hodson's Horse. Seetapore will
be garrisoned by Hiddlestone's E troop of Royal
Artillery, the 4th company of the 4th battalion.
Bengal Artillery, the 60th Rifles, Ist battalion of
her Majesty's 90th, and the 69th Ghoorkas, the 4th
and Bth Irregular Cavalry. Goruckpore will be
held by the sth company, 12th battalion Royal
Artillery, with battery, her Majesty's 13th and 73d,
and the Jat Horse. Fyzabad by the sth company
3d battalion J. L. Field Battery Royal Artillery,
her Majesty's 34th, 54th, and 9th Punjaub Infantry,
and the Ist Hodson's Horse. Roy Bareilly by the
4th company, No. 3 Light Field Battery, her Ma-
jesty's 38th and 42d Highlanders, 19th Punjaub
Infantry, and Ist Sikh Cavalry. Ghazeepore by
her Majesty's 37th.
Thus Lucknow in the centre, Seetapore, north-
west, Fyzabad and Roy Bareilly east and south,
are the thief garrisons of Oude.
Of the 11 companies or troops of artillery which
have left or are leaving Oude, Fraser's I troop goes
to Meerut, Calvert's company to Benares, Le Mes-
surier's and Kave's to Allahabad, Smith's to Futteh-
ghur,;Money's to Umballah, Ramington's to Muttra,
the 2d company 3d battalion and the Reserve Com-
pany sth Battalion Bengal Artillery to Cawnpore,
and the A Company of Madras Artillery to the
Saugor districts. Of the infantry corps her Ma-
jesty's 64th and 3d Battalion Rifle Brigade go to
Agra, the Belooch Battalion to Jhansi, her Ma-
jesty's Ist Battalion 6th Foot to Benares, her Ma-
jesty's 79th Highlanders and Ferozepore Regiment
to the Punjaub, her Majesty's Ist Battalion sth
Fusiliers and 77th to Allahabad, her Majesty's
80th to Cawnpore, Ist Battalion Bth Foot to Fut-
tebghur, her Majesty's 97th to Banda, Ist Bengal
Fusiliers and 93d Highlanders to the hills at Dug-
shaie and Subathoo, the Sirmoor Battalion to Dehra
Door), and the Kumaon Battalion to Kumaon,
The 7th Hussars go to Umballah, the 6th Dragoon
Guards to Agra and Muttra, 9th Lancers to Cawn-
pore, and ultimately to England. The Bengal
Sappers proceed to Roorkee, the Madras Sappers to
Banda.
Jones's, Hogart's, Pinckney's,iEvelegh's, Taylor's,
Troup's, and Purnell's Brigades are broken up ;
Barker's, Horsford's, Rowcroft's, and Walpole's re-
main. Maude's Battery goes home to England.
The order directing the return of the 9th Lancers
home has been issued.

NORTH BERAR.

Sir Hugh Rose has resolved to make a final

effort for the destruction of the Rohillas, who hay

so long pestered the province of Berar. Sir Hugh
Rose collected a force with which to reduce finally
the spirit of the Rohillas, and then returned to
Ahmednuggur to complete his arrangements, and
on the sth instant started again for the scene of
operations. The 3d Dragoons and 4th troop Bom-
bay Horse Artillery, on their way from Jaulnah,
were ordered to stand fast, whilst Captain Hardy,
with siege guns and mortars, and Captain Battis-
combe, with the mountain train, are under orders
to march instantly from Ahmednuggur to Jaulnah.
The Rohillas, it seems, occupy two or three strong
forts in the neighbourhood.