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GhOorkas. The little men—they are not above
five feet, disapproved Iheproceerling and with their
usual pluck flung themselves forward on enemies
tbree times their own number. The curved knives
made quick work. Ten -minutes after their charge
the enemy had disappeared, leaving four guns, and
700 bodies on the field. Thee Ghonrkas are the
men for whom Sir Charles Napier had so strong
and, as it has proved, so well grounded an admira-
tion. Both they and the Sikhs despise the Sepoye,
and close in with them at once, without an at empt
at tactics. One thing is quite clear. We can never
use Sepoys against native levies again. Their pres-
tige has disappeared fur ever, and a Sikh, an Arab,
an Afghan, or a Ghoorka, will now charge a Sepoy
regiment as readily as an Englishman would do.
They have thrashei them at olds of three to en?,
while fighting with our discipline, on our tactics,
and iu our uniforms.

" On the 15th or 16th of October again Some
cavalry despatched by Brigadier Showers, attacked
the remnant of the
men,
force near Kanoud.
The enemy lost 400 men, and were ignominiously
diverted. Another body was then despatched to
Kanoud,
,whiCle- on the 19* Oct., occupied the
lass
troeis;ste
,rsauesizrher. 1,.n0
g.lB'gumbust,i-nmeeirisit,a.uryndsetroKoreos. arnsdin.fighve,
the Bougslee Zemindare who were in possession of
,Bandee, a!e lso reperted to have been cut up by
zeinindars.. He -himself has departed, it is said,
Gwa!ior, where he will probably be hung by Scin-
diah as soon as the.scale tutus a little in our favour.
His forces are-said to have been annihilated, but
that.stat:,ment rests. on native authority, and may
or may not b 3 cr-Tree+. •
"About Jtiblinleore all is said to .be in a state of
anarchy. There are two regiments of Madras cava=lry
here, but the rebels are in every direction, like flies
in summer, and the force cannot leavo toe station.
Your' O)i-reapondent at Bombay will send you intel-
ligence thence and from Saugor and _Eudora mu:-.11
lst,r than any I can procure. I may mention, how-
ever, some. facts he cannot yet have heard. Sir R.
Hamilton, the active Resident at Indori• leaves
Oalcuttaby this steamer for Bombay.. There he will
find a column of Enropeane, with whom he will
march straight on Indere,ere-establish the authority
of Holkar, crush the rebels, and cleanse central
India. There is no danger of hie showing an unwise
leniency. Another celumn. moves as soon as possi-
ble from Bombay -throegh Sanger and Bhopal, re-.
building our shattered iereetigethere also. It seems
to be thought in England that we .shall have almost
too many men for the work before us. It is for-
gotten that the territory t i bo reconquered is larger
than France, Austria, Prussia, and Spain all put
together, with no means of communication, anti a
population at b. st passive. At the present moment,
Oude with its forts, its chiefs, arid its armed
populace is in open insurrection. In several dis-
tricts of the- North-west the authority of the
Britidi is limited to the ground they stand on.
Central India is in horrible anarchy, anaictiy such
as Englishmen will, I hope, always fail to realise.
Anarchy in India is not merely the absence of
the constable. It moans the rule of banditti
springing in every direction out of the ground,
the tubjugation of the merchant, the artisan, reed
the cultivator to the cla-ses who live by plunder,
and who in their hour of triumph invariably die-
play the cruelty innate in the Asiatic. Lr Bengal
Proper, the richest of our provinces, there is not
out of Calcutta a disposable European. Assam,
province. as large as Wales, is guarded by 100 sail-
ore. Dacca, a country the exports of which alone'
last yea=r were worth 2,000,001)1. sterling, has an-
other hundred. Dinagepore and Rungpore, dis-
tricts about the size of Yorkshire, have not a man.
The troops are wanted in fifty points at once, and
until the North-west is subjugated they cannot he
spared. The number of deaths, too, will b 3 -very
great both from battle and exposure, and reinforce •
meats ought to be poured in to the extent of at
least 30 per cent, of the original force.
" The troops are arriving fast. The Alma spoke
36 ships near the mouth of thl river, and we have
already had the Sydney, with 320 men of the Royal
Artillery ; Ulysses end Surrey, with 650 men of
her Majesty's 88th Regiment.; Australian with 306
mvit of her Majesty's 42d Regiment ; Lady Joce-
lyn, with 700 Of her Majesty's 54th, Rifle Brigade,
and Royal Artillery ; ICendia, with 692 of ht•r
Majesty's 19 h. 2 and 34th Regiteiente ; Sutlej,
with 281 of the Rifle B•igade, aed. her Majesty's
97th Rereimmt ; 'Adelaide, with 236 of the Hon.
Feast Ldia Company's recruits. Scotland and
Urd'ed Kingdom not kno sn yet.
"The men as they land are sent to Barr.aekpore,
Raneegunge, Chinsurah, or Dumdum, or lodged in
(3,lclitt a till carri.ge can be procured. The arrange-
ments for carriage are improving. Two hundred
men a-day will soon be fez w3rde.d in 1)&1m...1c tra•ii
and horsed carriages, and "the eix little flats now
building will, if they succeed, t die up 2,000. I
say, if they succeed,' for the Government lacking
machinery have put loeetnotive engines into them.
If they prove stiong enough to stern the tide they
will have solved a problem. I am also t;:ht that
the G werninent of Bengal ie abeut to give up its
scruples about compul-ion, and take carriage where
it can.
" It would appear probable that the amount of
actual treasure in the revolt has been greatly over-
rated. lam told that the treasure etelea in the
N-Orth-west was not more than a milion and a quer-
:6F, and that the revenue r. f Bengal Proper, Bem-
bay, Madras, and half the North-west Provinces is
co ring in as-usual. Tee opium revenue has indeed
ineteesed, the panic in Behar inducing buyers to
give higher prices ; at one sale 59 and .60 per cent.
Toe difficult-quee iota of sepoy een-ions will also, I
i.elieve, be speedily settled. The majority of the
penqonerait is cer:ain have borne arms against us.
It-is intended there-tole, 1. believe, to stop all pen-
sions payable to men who have at any time belonged
to. the mutinous regiments. Tie fate of those who
belonged teethe disarmed regiments is still unde-
cided.
I enclose an official list of the casualties before
feticknow—the first, I believe, that has been pub-
lished by GoVernuaent, since the mutinies began."

NARROW ESCAPE OF SIR COLIN CAMP-

BELL.

The following is from Benares, dated Oct. 31
:
"The Commander-in-Chief has come and gone.
He arrived to7day, at 9 a.m., and put up at Col.
Gordon's where he breakfasted and saw soma
(Albers, whence he pail a visit to the Lieutenant
goVernor. lie started for Allehabad at one p.m.
On this side of Sheregotsy the Commander-tie
Chief's party came across, most unexpectedly,
a detachment of the fugitive and mu-
tin)ue 321, and were very nearly caught by
them. Had the genies ,been five hundred yards
further on the road, the whole party would have
been cut off to a man, for they were proceeding
without an escort of any kind. These gallant se-
pays were seen travelling like gentlemen on ele-
phants, of which fourteen were counted, and were
also escorted by twenty-five Sowars, who hovered
some time about the eariage?. As soon as this
cavalcade w-is perceiVed, the carriages turned back
and re-traced their steps for ten miles, till they came
up with a btillock train party. This accounts for
the delay in the Commander-in-Chiet's arrival, who
other wise would have been here yesterday.
'll You may imagine how excited people became
heie, when coupled with the non-ertival of Sir
Colin, it became known in the afternoon that the
electric communication was interrupted between
this and Sheergottv ; but little did the.good folks
think how near their suspicions were to realisation,
for:it is not to be. denied that to use a common
phrase, the Commander-in-Chief was as nearly
':nabbed' as possible and all his staff with him.
New, why were elephants allowed to be retained
IJr the use of these miserable traitors and mur-
derers, cllled sepoy:2,' when bravo British soldiers
sk.ily wanted them to carry their baggage and tents
to the north-west ? Sir Coln looked uncommonly
flash and well, and intnidecl to be at Cawnpore
1 the day after to-morrow."—Engtishenetn, Nov. 4.

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Nopaival Roll of Eurol ea!: Officerz on the Staff and ei
Corns of ell arms who 'Were killed and wounded with
'.General klavelo:lea voice since leaving Cawnpore to the
-20th of ,',3ept),mb6r, 1857
qeneral Staff of Major-General, Sir James Outram—
Maor-Geneial Sir James Outran, G.C.8., ball wound
thrbugh right arm, :,nd Capt. Dodgson, Deputy-Assistant
Adjutant-General, contusion of right side from grape.
Wield Forge Stiff of Brigadier-General Havelock
ea,tain Ilaveleek, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General,
severe musket shot through right arm; and Lieutenant-
Coro Coro ael Tyler, Q ea* ter a:aster-General, severe bayonet
wound in the right groin.
. Volunteer Cavalry—Captain Flineb, ,her Majesty's
a
70th Regiment, severely wounded by musket shot on
right shoulder • Lieut. Pelliaier, 13th Irregular Cavalry,
Lieut. grazed by a musket ball inside right thigh • Birch, Bengal Cavalry, wounded severely by a musket ball-in the
leg; and 12th Irregular Cavalry, Lieutenant and Adjutant
I Warren, killed.

Artillery—Brigadier Cooper, commanding, killed;
Lieutenant Ciump, Madras Artillery, and Major of Mi.-

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