The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

uN, MONDAY EVENING, NOAVEMBER 30, 1.8N7.

west, we find General Von C/ortlandt at Rhotulc,
and all the Hurrianah country rapidly settling
down. To the north-east, in the Meerut district,
things are no less satisfactory. The revenue of the
district is coming in rapidly. The road between
Delhi and Meerut is clear, and the horse-dawk traffic
upon it has been re-established. So also is the road
from Meerut to Agra yen, and again frequented by
public travelling cars. In this latter case the change
from disorder to tranquillity has been mainly
brought about by Co Greathed's column, whose
progress we must not follow. In my last I brought
his column as far as Boolundshuhur, where on the
27th it defeated a body of mutineers, said to be the
old Jhansi brigade, with the loss of a few men
killed and wounded among the Artillery and 9th
Lancers. The fort of Malaghur, evacuated by the
rebel Wulleedad Khar, was forthwith occupied
and its defences Hewn up—an operation
which unfortunately cost the life of Lieutenant
Home, of the Engineers, one of the heroes of the
Cashmere-gate at Delhi. The column—cif which
the strength, by the way, on leaving Delhi was
about 2,800 men, with 18 guns—after halting a day
or two at the scene of this victory, and despatching
its sick aid wounded to Meerut, marched on down
the Great Trunk-road. On the sth it reached Ally-
ghur, where opposition was again experienced, but
in no formidable degree, the guns of the enemy
being only a 4-pounder and two tubes, which had
acted in more peaceful times as sockets for the tele-
graph posts. Thus armed the rebels did not stand
an instant, and breaking into the plain beyond the
town were caught and tut up in great numbers by
the Lancers and other cavalry, who did not lose
a single.man. On the9th the Colonel reached
Heiress, about 30 mien from Agra. At that
station his presence VW much needed. Three
days before, on the 6th, the Indore and Mhow
mutineers, so long laying idle at Dholpore, only 36
miles south-West of Agra, suddenly broke up their
camp and marched for the capital. What induced
them to take this step is not known with certainty,
but it is said that they wets joined by the Nee-
much mutineers who escaped from Delhi;and if so
they may have been induced to move by the coun-
sels of their new allies. At any rate, to Agra
they came. Colonel Greathed pushed on from
Hatrass by a forced march, and crossed the Jumna
to Agra on the following morning, the 10th. He
had hardly pitched his camp when he was attacked
by the Dholpore mutineers, perhaps 5,000 meu,
1,500 of them cavalry, w.th 12 guns. It is said,
though I think it is diubtful, that the rebels
thought they had only ths little Agra garrison to
deal with. If so, the 3 must have received a
terrible surprise. For, although at first they
created some confusion in the camp, and even
captured a Horse Artilery gun, their success
was but temporary. the gun was retaken by
a party of the Lancers; charging in their shirt
sleeves, headed by Lieutenants French and Jones,
of whom the former was killed, the latter despe-
rately wounded. The infantry formed in line and
advanced, and the memy retreated, in an orderly
manner at first; then, as the cavalry and Horse
Artillery pressed them, in the wildest confusion.
The route and the pursut lasted for 12 miles, as far
as the Khara River, which the enemy managed to
cross, and which arrestec the progress of the worn-
out horses of the pursuers. But all his guns, am-
munition, baggage, and treasure fell into the hands
of the victors, and his '.oss is computed at not less
than 500 men, ours amounting only to 13 killed
and 54 wounded. After this brilliant victory, of
which the effects would be felt far and wide towards
Central India, Col. Greathed recrossed the Jumna
and proceeded to Mynpiorie. Thence he was in-
tending, it is said, to march down by Etawah
towards Cawnpore. But it seems, I think, more
probable that he would cross the Dooab to -Fur-
ruckabad, and the ruined cantonment of Futty-
&lir, now lorded over by the Nawab of the place
—a wretch whose deeds of blood have been scarcely
inferior in atrocity to those of Nana Sahib. To him
it is possible that some of the Delhi fugitives may
have betaken themselves. Otherwise they have in
allprobability crossed the Ganges into Rohileund.
There they would unite with the armed and lawless
Pathans of Babadoor Khan--some of whom, near-
ing the bill station of Nynee Tal one day in the
middle of September, were attacked by a little force
of the 66th Goorkhas, and others got together at
the station, and were welif.L..t.o anti picpaeo to
make a final stand against es, either there or in the
ueighbouringcoun try of 0 IY/e.
"From Cawnpore we have news down to about
the 22d of last month. The station was quiet, and
reinforcements were rapidly arriving. On the
18th, Colonel Wilson, hearing that a body of mu-
tineers was gathering at Bithoor, marched upon
them with a small force of the 64th, sth Fusiliers,
and 90th, drove them out of the townl and fol-
lowed them a mile or two on the road to Sheo-
rajpore. But from Lucknoer we have scarcely any
further intelligence than we had when I closed ley
last letter. Between that city and Cawnpore the
road is greatly beset, or rather between ‘Lucknow
and the fortified post of Alumbagh, three miles
from it on the Cawnpore-road. Here, when
marching on Lucknow, Ilatrelock placed his sick
and wounded and camp followers, with a powerful
guard and in a strong position. From this pint
thatthe road islie between it and the
clear enough.
ble except by a strong force.
capitalßu t th ea backwardsrte h touren
etr Cawnporemiles
Hence the deficiency of our intelligence: • A long
list of women, and children was
received
trireme at Calcutta, and has
th e
from rescued
G e n
emraeln o,
been promulgated. But of the onward progress of
the army, since the relief of the Residency-, t Jwards
the complete subversion of the city, we know next
t) nothing. There are rumours of a considerable
loss in officers and men, the former including several
of the 90th and two of the 78th, but I hesitate
to give their names before the reports receive autho-
ritative corroboration. At the same time we must
expect to hear that our losses have not been incon-
siderable, though, of course, I do not for a moment
doubt that considerable success has been achieved.
Possibly, even though we do not knew such to be
the fact, the whole of the city is in our hands. But,
if so, Outram must undoubtedly have been consi-
derably crippled, and, though able enough to hold
his own, would have to wait for reinforcements
before he could execute his plan of taking or send
ieg the women and children back to the safety of
Cawupore. Of. the 2,500 men he took over into
Oude he left 1,000 at Alumbagh, so that he had at
the Residency, including the rescued garrison, about
2,000, with plenty of guns, ammunition, and pro-
visions. Of the number of his enemies we can make
no guess, but we know they must be numerous.
One Mau u Singh alone, who, lung reckoned friendly,
has now, it appears, turned against us, is said to
hive brought into the field 9,000 armed retainers.
Nevertheless, be the odds ever so great, there is no
fear but that Havelock will hold his own till rein-
forced, as he shortly will be, by men of the 531,
93d, 82d, and other regiments fast hastening up to
the Beene of action. The post of Alumbagh has
already been strengthened from Cawnpore by 260
men of the 64th, with a convoy of provisions.
" The province of Behar is feeling the effects of
the presence of the increased numbers of English
troops who are being passed up every day from Cal-
cutta t o Raneegunge by railway,whence they pro-
ceed along the Trunk-road for Benares and the
upper stations, tending by their march to quiet the
districts lately disturbed by the mutiny of the sth
Irregular Cavalry and the Rarnglaur Battalion. The
movements of the former of these corps and of the
rebel leader, Oouner Singh, remain uncert iin. It
is supposed that when last heard of they were in
the neighbourhood of Rhotasghur. But the Ram-
Our Battalion were met by Major English, of the
53d, with 180 men of his own corps and 140. of R at-
tr ty's Slits, at Chuttra, not far from thee. aba.n-
donel station of Hazareebagh, and utterly broken,
with the loss of a third of their number and all
their guns, ammunition, and plunder. Thus we
might report the province and the frontier of Ben-
geil proper as tolerably tranquil but for a late
mutiny in a regiment which had hitherto remains('
to all appearance loy
was quartered in the Santlial
al—the 32d Bengal Native In-
fantry. This corp
country.
One of its detachments, at Deoghur,
corps
c msisting of t wocompauies,
mutiuied with no e.sily
as!.ignable cause' on the morning of the 7t1.. Oct.,
awl the frightful old story of brutal murder wss
re, e ited in the cases of Lieut. Cooper and Mr.
Ronald,
deputy-commissioner. The Sepoys then
plundered the station, moved on to Rohuee, treated
hat deserted cantonment in the same fashion, and
then wandered away—whither is not yet known.
Another detachment, also of tern companie,,
went off at Ram ores Hat but
of this Sautbal
but without injuring
their officers. For the quieting
district, the 13th, lately brought from the Cape,
re likely to be employed. They ware at Ranee-
gunge on the 18th, with the Bengal Yeorn inry
Cavalry and some of the Madras column, of whom
the rest had gone on with CA. Fischer to Benares.
Bu tar has received a garrison of seamen from Peel's
Brigade.
" Turning back to Bundelcund and Gwalior I
have nothing further to write to you of the Dina-