The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 28, 1857.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail from Bom -
bay, we are enabled to give copious det tile of
twitters to which the telegram, already published,
only briefly: referred to—the glad tidings of the
complete relief of Lucknow and the safety of the
fugitives. The work was one of great difficulty ;
indeed far greater than the capture of Delhi, to
which in many respects it bears a striking resem-
blance. The remissness of the Anglo-Indian Go-
vernment in neglecting to make proper arrange-
IN en ta for forwarding the troops from England
immediately on their arrival, was the subject of
serious complaint, and many annoying delays were
the respili—delays that might have been produc-
tive of great evil, but for the indomitable bravery
and skilful tactics exhibited by the officers and
men actually engaged, and only awaiting the ar-
rival of reinforcements before entering on decisive
operations.

From the moment that the column under GRANT
and GRIATHED arrived at Alumbagh—viz., on
the Ist of November, the safety of the garrison
and fugitives was certain. There need have been
but few apprehensions entertained that HATE-
LOME and Orrusx could hold their own, and if
necessary fight their way through the thickest
ranks of the rebels. But unfortunately they
Were heavily burdened with women and children,
silk and wounded, who constituted formidable
44Putinnenta to any active operations. There was
Ciao Inn'Posed to be a chance of provisions falling
short. Indesd
4cciety that
_was the only matter that
oceasionied
• mad the danger been immi-
nent, tux.e can be no doubt that GRANT and
GRILLTHZD would with the troops under their
command have attempted the rescue of their
companions. But, happily, it wan ascertained
thattesan7o
that the beleagured party at the iid
had
ample provisions for several weeks, and e
l
they were suffering comparatively little • •
injury
from the almost incessant fire of the rebels who
inustered nearly 100,000 strong in the space
between the Alumbagh and the Residency. It
was, therefore, prudently decided to delay the
final attack until the force was deemed sufficient,
Considering the difference between Europeans and
natives, to insure a triumphant success.

It was ' on the 3d November that Sir CoLIN
CAMPBELL, after a narrow escape of being captured
by a party of rebels on the way to Cawepore, and
having learned that the safety of the garrison

permitted his wearied troops the much-required
rest and refreshment, he remained until the 9th,
on that day the sth, 53d, 84th, and 93d,
with portions of other regiments, crossed the
Ganges, and were followed by the jolly
tars of the Naval Brigade, who frolicked along,
dragging their 24-pounders as if they were mere
trifles. Sir COLLN followed on the 11th, riding
40 miles in the direction of Lucknow during the
day ! The sick and wounded from the Alumbagh
were sent back under a guard of Sikh horsemen,
and narrowly escaped a serious collision with the
Naval Brigade, which might have led to a very
terrible catastrophe had the mistake not been dis-
covered at the very nick of time. Ample provi-
sions had been sent into the Alumbagh, and all was
ready for the attack, which took place on the
13th. Sir Corm( and his gallant followers moved
onward to the banks of the canal separating
Alumbagh from the town of Lucknow, and, after
a sharp conflict, dispersed the rebels and captured
all their guns in that quarter. On the 15th the
insurgents were driven from the Delkosha and
La Martiniere. They, however, rallied, and
made a severe attack on the British position, but
were eventually repulsed with immense loss.
This appears to have been one of the most severe
struggles of all during the incessant strife.
On the 16th the canal was crossed and Seeun-
derbagh carried, after another terrible conflict,
in which every nerve on both sides was strained
to the utmost. The Samuch was subsequently
attacked, at three in the afternoon, and captured
about dusk. Sir Ceram, an unexceptionable wit-
ness on such a question, describes it as one of the
hardest fights he had ever witnessed. On the
morning of the 17th communications were
opened to the left rear of the barracks,
towards the canal. The Mess-house was
carried by assault at three o'clock, and the Mc-
tee-Mahal
before dusk. Then it was that the
exciting interview between CAMPBELL, OIITRAM,
and ELITELOCK, to which we have already alluded,
took place, and further measures concerted by a
triumvirate such as had seldom, if ever, met under
similar circumstances. The first step was, of
course, to ensure the safety of the non-combatants ;
and this was ensured by despatching them to
Cawnpore, under an adequate escort.
Five officers were killed and thirty-two
wounded, of whom two were dangerously, and
eighteen severely. The later intelligence is very
meagre and incomplete. It only reaches to the
21st, which may be accounted for by the murder

of two telegraph assistants on that day.

Although we have made such satisfactory pro-
gress, it is obvious that the snake is merely
scotched, not killed, and that far more remains to
be done with the remnant of 100,000 armed rebels
scattered through the country. The most vigorous
measures must be resorted to.

The proceedings at Rohilcund by Corrores
brigade and of Saowsaits' column, were eminently
satisfactory. The death of the brave Colonel
GERARD, in the very hour of victory over the
Joudpore mutineers, is confirmed. It is to be re-
gretted that he did not live to receive the honours
he had so nobly won.

It is said that at Delhi the mock sentimentality
of the civilians is in the ascendant, and that the
octogenarian misoreant, the mock King, is
maintained in a species of state. He
now occupies the Palace, with a guard and re-
tinue assigned to him, while his youngest son, a
lad of 18, parades the town on a state elephant,
with British officers of rank (one of them Colonel
HosGE) in attendance or accompanying him. Col.
ROGGE states that it was " at the request of the
Commissioner" he had submitted to what ought
to be considered a degradation by a British offi-
cer. Notwithstandiog this ill-timed leniency, the
work of the public executioner still goes on, and
24 members of the Royal Family were all
hanged together on the 21st November. We
trust that measures may speedily ba adopted at
head-quarters to prevent the evil ex tmple of the
exemption of the chief delinquent from being
allowed to carry with it honours. If his life
must be spared in consequence of any inconsiderate
promise, he should be consigned to a prison, not
a palace, and the gaol attendants should be his
only guards of honour, and he should be made
to conform to all the stringent rules of the esta-
blishment.

A very brilliant affair took place between Briga-
dier STIJART's colutnn and the insurgents near
Mundesore, in which the latter were completely
routed and with, considerable loss. During the
contest the garrison of Mundesore made a sortie and
attacked our rear-guard, but were repulsed by the
rear-guard. In consequence thmeof Alundesore was
abandoned during the night by the rebels, who
retired on Nagurh and in the direction of Ruin-
poore. In this brilliant affair which lasted fAir

clam Lieutenant REMUYNE was killed, and Lieu
tenants JAMES and MARTIN severely, and five

other officers slightly wounded.
On the whole the news is eminently satisfactory
and will, we trust, be followed by other intern-

gence of a siraillr character.

The Earl of HARROWBY has retired from the
Cabinet, and is to be replaced by the Marquis of
CLANRICARD; as Lord Privy Seal. The office is
a complete sineoure, and yet the Noble Earl re-

linquishes it "on account of the state of his
health, which debars him from active ezertions,"
and certainly not on account of any political dif-
ference with his colleagues l Somehow it always
is " the state of the health" that creates the diffi-
culty in such cases. It is like Mr. SNODGLLSS'S
salmon at the celebrated dinner after the match
between all Muggleton and Dingley Dell !
Lord HARROWBT did, however, differ with his
colleagues on a very important measure last ses-
sion. He swelled the adverse majority is the
House of Lords against the Jewish Relief Bill,
and there were general complaints against Lord
PALMERSTON for permitting a subordinate to ma-
nifest such contumelious indifference to the wishes
of the Government. Indeed, his continuance in
office was considered as ♦ery strong evidence of
the Premier's lukewarmness on the Jewish ques-
tion ; and it was remarked that should the Lord
Privy Seal repeat the offence with impunity, a
numerous and infuential body of independent
Members would be very seriously offended. It
was with great difficulty that they were restrained
from active operations last session, that might
have led to an awkward collision between the he-
reditary and representative branches of the Legis-
lature. The " indisposition" under which Lord
H.►xEowsz was suffering was manifestly an " in-
disposition" to support Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
Bill, which must receive the greatest possible
amount of Government aid.

the Ministers in the Upper House. He will like-
wise prove useful on the Reform Bill and Jewish
question, on both of which Lord HARROWBY
would be really detrimental. There is no doubt
that Lord PALMERSTON has made a good exchange
between the solemn insipidity of the one and the
wit and intelligence of the other. He was fortu-
nate in obtaining the services of the Marquis of
CLANRICARDE at so easy a rate.

We perceive Buenos Ayres has just taken mea-
sures to wipe off a disgrace and a stigma, which
for nearly 30 years have been a reproach to her
honour and good name—we might, with equal
truth, add, destructive alike to her credit and
thus to the development of her rich and almost
boundless resources.

Her revenue has greatly increased. The re-
turns officially made show an increase of a quar-
ter of a million dollars for 1857 over that of
1856. We have, then, at length the pleasure
(and it is an unfeigned one) of at once congratu-
lating her enlightened Ministers, and also her two
Legislative Chambers, as well as our own country-
men who, under trying emergencies, supplied the
young Republic with a loan on the liberal terms
of 85 per cent., so far back as 1824 (33 years
ago), and who have been almost ever since doomed
to bear patiently a fate far more severe than any
other class of creditors that we know of ; for the
enormous accumulation of arrears upon their un-
paid capital proves that they have been for a
long series of fears her suppliant, ill-treated, and
totally neglected creditors.
A reference to the proceedings at the London
Tavern, on the 17th inst., satisfactorily proves that
a new era has at length arrived, and the present
Ministers of that section of :South America seem
resolved that Buenos Ayres shall in financial
matters, no longer be left behind the sister
republics of either Chili or Peru. The able and
indefatigable chairman, Mr. David Robertson, of
Ladykirk, stated emphatically that, all circum-
stances considered, he looked upon the arrange-
ment or compromise of the debt to be one as
liberal and satisfactory, or even more so, than the
very best on record, both as regards the character
of the arrangement, the original capital (no easy
matter to deal with after such a lapse of time and
accumulations of arrears of interest), and the
unpaid coupons due upon that capital.
Our object in referring to this subject, inte-
resting and important as it must be to many, is
no longer, as has been our wont for years gone
by, to stimulate the committee and bondholders
to energetic exertion, but to offer them our best
wishes at the accomplishment of a great and signal
financial victory. For this, we believe, they are
greatly indebted to the press of this metropolis,
and to the untiring perseverance of their able
chairman, and very much indeed to the Messrs.
BARING, who, contractors of the said loan, have
most unceasingly ! advocated the claims of
the creditors under it, until those efforts
have been happily crowned with success.
There are other names that we have
on many former occasions singled out for special
praise—that of Mr. Pews; as well as the able and
indefatigable Mr. JAMES Gino, who are entitlsd
to great commendation ; and, in the later stage
of the negotiation, Mr. Goo WRITE has ex-
erted himself with a zeal and ability that could
scarcely be surpassed. All this proves that
union, energy, and active co-operation should be

the motto of %11 persons similarly circumstanced.
There are in this country too many in this
predicament, holders of various foreign Bonds,
and the two great delinquents at this moment
are, laeyoad. cleuht "Venezuela and Spain. The

former has in a measure added insult to injus-

(tiee, sending over from Gammas troops of
Ministers and Commissioners to tell the defrauded
creditors that some 400,000 or 500,000 dollars are
voted annually for the English creditors, and yet
for ten years not as many pence paid to them,
seem to forget that this is a mere mockery. Prac-
tical men look on, and would designate a Govern-
ment so acting as guilty of the compound crime
of perjury and plunder.
Returning from a consideration of the conduct
of Veneauela to that of Buenos Ayres towards her
creditors, we once more congratulate the Republic
as having taken a step dictated by honour and
sound policy, and the English creditors at the
prospect of obtaining justice in part, if not their
full rights.

We cannot conclude without adding that
too much credit cannot be given to the chair.

man, Mr. ROBERTSON (himself. as he stated in our
hearing on Thursday, a holder of no less than
some 80,000 of the Bonds), and also to the coin-

mittee generally, who, as acknowledged by Mr.
JAMES CAPEL, have worked hard and well, and
have, besides, found funds to carry on negotia-
tions, which mus,-, otherwise have perhaps failed
at the critical moment. The chairman, Mr. Ro-

BERTSON, 1 ikewise aided both with his advice and
his purse ; and one of the speakers on Thursday
(either Mr. LAPEL or Mr. TASIEER) gave Mr.
ROBERTSON unhesitatingly, jointly with Messrs.
BARING, credit for the great ameliorations secured
since the former (and, by-the-bye, not illiberal)
offer tendered in 1856.

These ameliorations and improved conditions,
we find, will now secure to the creditors, in the
first place, the full and immediate annual interest

of six per cent. on the principal of the debt, and
a gradually augmenting scale of payment from
1 to 3 per cent. on the enormous accumulation of
arrear or back interest, which is between 160 and
170 on every 100 Bond. The first payment of
1 per cent. is to date from 1860 ; 2, from 1865 ;
and 3, from 1870.

The disgraceful system of bonfiscotion (adopted
by Spain constantly, and copied by Peru, to an

extent of 25 per cent, on all arrears) does not
enter into the plan of arrangement offered by
Buenos Ayres. Though offered tardily, there are

many circumstau ces that on the whole redound
much to the honour of the Ministers who have

so recently succeeded to office, and have gracefully

made this one of their very first legislative enact

ments. It is an example for other South Ameri

can, and some European Governments, to follow
with advantage to themselves and their ruined

creditors.

The general support of the Marquis of CLAN-
IIICARDE will unquestionably be far more valuable
to Ministers. He is a smart and effective
sPeaker, thoroughly up on questions relating to
of Which it was some time since supposed
he would have been Governor-General, in place of
hi
3 brother-iii-law, Lord
CAN NIN G. He would
prove a very ustfal friend, a very troublesome
foe ; and it would not be convenient to allow such
a powerful auxiliary to array himself under the
same banners with Lord ELLTaizoßouoli. They
'Nu
Id prove very awkward Customers to any of

IHE SITN,', LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DE,CEIzBER 28, 1857.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

The following telegram, which was received at
the East India House this morning, gives the Cal-
cutta version of the relief of Lucknow. It will
be found to correspond with that from ,Bombay,
published on the 26th inst., but contains a few
additional particulars :
The Commander-in-Chief crossed the river and
entered Oude on the 9th inst. He was reported
from Cawnpore on the 12th to have reached Allum-
bagh, and to have opened communication with Sir
Jas. Outram. Between the 9th and 12th one thou-
sand three hundred troops of all arms crossed the
river at Cawnpore to join the Commander-in-
Chief. Oa the 12th three companies of the 82d
marched for Allumbagh, and on the following day
three companies of the 13th, the military train
and Crawford's artillery were to move in the same
direction ; further, it was intended to send on
Carthew's brigade of Madras sepoys, expected at
Cawnpore, unless the Gwalior mutineers should
cross the Jumna ; the latter on the 12th inst.
numbered 3,000, or, by native accounts, 5,000
effective men, with 8 heavy and 30 field guns.
By the last telegram, dated 23d, some por-
tion of this force had crossed the Jumna and
entered the Doab. On the 13th the Commander-
in-Chief commenced operations by blowing up the
Fort of Jhullawan, near Allumbagh ; on the 15th
inst., he occupied Dilkoosha Park and Martiniere,
fight of two hours ; in the even-
after a running
ing the enemy again came forward, but were
heavily repulsed, and the operation ended in our
taking the post across the canal. Our losses small.
Lieut. Mayne, Horse Artillery, and Lieut. Wheat-
croft, Carbineers, killed.
On the 16th the Commander-in-Chief advanced
across the canal in force ; on the 17th he attacked
Bagb, which was occupied after a severe struggle.
The enemy suffered enormously, 1,500 dead
bodies of sepoys having been counted in one place
only. The Nhah Manxill was then cannonaded
for three hours, and was carried at dusk, after
one of the severest fights ever witnessed.
On the 16th the Mess-House was carried by
assault, after a heavy cannonade, and the troops
then pushed on rapidly and seized the Motee
Mahu before dark.

Outram and Havelock came out then and joined
the Commander-in-Chief.

ing to Cawnpore, under a guard of Sikh horse-
men, an arrangement that neatly proved fatal.
As they approached the British camp, they were
mistaken by the seamen of Peel's Naval Brigade
for the advanced guard of the enemy, when the
guns, loaded with grape, were levelled and about to
be fired. Luckily, the face of the European sur-
geon was recognised in time to prevent mischief.
The Commander-in-Chief had with him a Euro-
pean Horse Battery, two troops of Horse Artil-
lery, 60 Royal Artillerymen, with two 18-pound-
ers and two 8 inch mortars ; 320 of the 9th
Lancers, detachments of her Majesty's sth, Bth,
53d, 175th, and 93d, and 300 of the Naval
Brigade, or including the 900 joining him from
Alumbagh, above 3,000 Europeans in all ; be-
sides a squadron of Sikhs and of Hodson's
horse, 1,000 Sikh Infantry, Sappers and
Miners, arc., or an additional 2,000 natives.
On the 13th, he advanced to the banks of the

canal, dispersing the rebels who approached him,
I.nd capturing all their guns. On the 15th, the
rebels, after a running fight of a couple of hours,
were driven from the Dilkosha and IA Martiniere.
They shortly after rallied, however, and made an
attack on the British position, when a seven, re-
pulse was sustained by them. Durin these three

days Lieut. Mayne, Horse Artillery, and Captain
Wheatcroft, Carabineers, were killed. We had

chiefly depended on our artillery, wisely avoiding
the needless exposure of our infantry to desperate
men. On the 15th the canal was crossed which
separates Alumbagh from Lucknow, the chief ad-
vancing on Secunderbagh, which was carried after

The Commander-in-Chief was very slightly
wounded, and of his staff Major Alison,severely,
and Captains Alison and the H. A. Anton, slightly.
The following officers werekilled ;--Midshipman
Damien, Naval Brigade ; Captain Headley, Royal
Artillery ; Captain Dalzell, 93d ; Capt. Lumsden,
30th Native Infantry, doing duty with 93d; and
Lieutenant Frankland, 2d Punjaub Infantry.
Twenty-seven other officers were wounded. The
list goes by this mail. The Commander-in-Chief
reports that the garrison has been removed, and that
he is engaged in conveying women and wounded
to the rear. The city of Lucknow will be held in
check by a strong moveable column, with field and
heavy artillery, occupying a good military position
outside the town. The Fort of Antrowahes eva-
cuated by the enemy, and razed to the ground by
Colonel Southden, who intended returning in-
stantly to the Jaunpore frontier, as it ' was still
threatened by a large force from Oude.
Lieut. Osborne, political agent in Rewah, has
been authorised to detach a force to suppress the
insurrection in Bijerargoogurh, and to take the
administration in his own hands. He reports
that certain chiefs of Majher have broken
out in rebellion at Rewah itself. The agent
seems to be all right now. A body of mutineers
reported on the 10th to have advanced from
Ghorawal or Mezzapore district, and to have
crossed the Beglun into Rewah territory. The
fort of Dhur occupied by our troops on the 15th,
but the rebel garrison escaped.
It is apprehended that the mutiny of the
Cotah troops, and the disaffection among the
feudatories of Meyar and Marnear may cause
serious disorder in Rajpootan a. The force
there is very weak, and European troops are
urgently called for. From other native
States there is no new intelligence of an
unfavourable nature. The following vessels have
arrived since the despatch of the last mails :
Nov. 8, Barham ; Nov. 13, Victoria and John
Bell ; Nov. 16, Octavia, Agamemnon, and
Alnwick Castle ; Nov. 17, Cressy, and Champion
of the Seas ; Nov. 19, James Baines ; Nov. 20,
Hammond ; Nov. 22, Chartage, and Sir Robert
Sale ; Nov. 23, Ellenborough ; Nov. 24, Cala-
bar ; Nov. 24, Monarch, Calabar, and Aliquiz.
G. F. EDMONSTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India.

a severe struggle, the enemy suffering terribly.
Having garrisoned each position as we advanced,
the Samuch was attacked about three o'clock in
the afternoon, and after a tremendous cannonade,
was carried about dust. Sir Colin Campbell de-
scribes it as one of the most severe fights he had
ever witnessed, and few men have seen more hard
fighting than he. Early on the morning of the
17th communications were opened to the left rear

of the barracks towards the canal. A heavy can-
nonade having been kept up all the morning on
the mess-house, that very strong position was
carried by assault at three p.m., when the troops,
pushing on rapidly, were able to seize the Motee
Mahal before dark. Sir Colin Campbell now ap-
proached the brave garrison, who had been closely
beset since the 25th of September, when
Generals Outram and Havelock came out to
meet him. Although the enemy was not com-
pletely subdued, the communications with the rear
were all re-opened, and the sick and wounded,
the ladies and children, were despatched under
escort to Cawnpore. Our loss, though conside-
rable, was less so than might have been looked
for. Capt. Hardly, Royal Artillery, Capt. Dal-
sell, 93d Highlanders, Capt. Lumsden, of the late
30th Bengal Native Infantry, attached to the
93d, Lieut. Frankland, 2d Punjaub Infantry, and
Midshipman Damien, Naval Brigade, were killed.
Thirty-two officers were wounded—two danger-
ously, and eighteen severely. Our latest tidings
extend only to the 21st, and have been supplied
by electric telegraph alone, so as to be in the last
degree meagre and incomplete. On that date,
two telegraph assistants were murdered at Alum-
bagh, and we must now wait for further intelli-
gence. The routes from Cawnpore westward are
still so interrupted, that the mails are in the last
degree irregular, or we should before now have
had full particulars by letter. It is more than
probable that tidings, considerably later than any
we can at present give, will be forwarded for our
London contemporaries by the steamer this even-
ing. There is much yet to be done in Oude, but
the Commander-in-Chief has now a numerous
force at his disposal ; and Luckuow being re-
lieved, can consult his owu convenience in matter
of time. We have no longer any occasion for those
headlong and deadly assaults, which, heroic and
irresistible as they are, are accompanied with
frightful sacrifice of life, which greater caution,
and the full use of our artillery, may avoid.
The force in all now in Oude amounts to
close on 12,000 men, consisting of the 9th
Lancers, ' the Naval Brigade, the let Madras
Fusiliers, her 'Majesty's sth, Bth, 23d, 32d,
53d, 64th, 75tb, 78th, 82d, 84th, and 80th Re-
gimentv, with a magnificent park of Artillery, a
portion of the Rifle Brigade, Royal and Madras
Sappers and Miners, the Sikh Infantry and Ca-
valry—ably commanded and in the highest state
of efficiency.

was failing him, bad never been cancelled, and
that a timid dread of responsibility had disabled
the local authorities from thinking for them
selves, or rising to the occasion. The first mani•

festation of this was in sparing the life of the King
of Delhi, and the princes who were shot were so
only to prevent a rescue, or they also might have
been spared. The hoary royal traitor now occupit-s
the palace, has a guard and retinue assigned to him,
and insults the British officers whoyisit him. Hip
youngest son, a lad of eighteen, has, on the ground
of his youth, been declared innocent, and tra-
verses Delhi on an elephant of state, with
a couple of English officers in his train. A mili-

tary commission has meanwhile been sitting to
obtain formal legal evidence against men caught
in the fact. Twenty-four of the junior members
of the royal family, having been convicted on
evidence that might have satisfied a Chancellor
Eldon, were on the 21st hanged all together ; and
if we are to extinguish the mutiny, and convince
the insurgents that we are not at all afraid of them,
we must content ourselves occasionally with pre-
sumptive evidence, or strong moral proof. Your
murderer seldom bungles his work so as to leave
living witnesses to testify against him.