The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUG (1)1' 17, Itifq.

Naval and Military intelligence.

An Qrder has been received at Chatham by Col.
H. Jervis, commandant of the Provisional Batta-
lion, directing that reinforcemen's for the 64th
Regiment, 78th Highlanders, and 83'1 Regiment,
numbering 11 officers and 400 men of all ranks, ar
to be held in readiness to embark at Gravesend for

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India on Wednesday next. Reinforcements for the
74th Highl enders are also to be held in readiness
to -embark for India.
The depot of the 3d battalion of the 60th Royal
Rifles, under the command of Captain J. P. Bat-
tersley, the head-quarters of Which have been em-
barked for India, is ordered to move from Dublin
and join the provisional battalion at Chatham:
The depot of the 7th Royal Fusili€ra is also ordered
to proceed from Portsmouth to Chatham this day.
The following officera have joined their respec-
tive Indian depots at Chatham garrison :—Lieut.
T. Madden, 24th Regiment; Ensign F. Venour,
27th Enniskillens ; Ensign H. C. Talbot, 43d
Light Infantry ; and En4,-n W. L. K. Ogilvy,
let battalion 60th Royal Rifles.
Fifty-three men of the'3lst regiment embarked
on Saturday at Liverpeol on board the screw steam
transport Lebanon, which yesterday took on board
250 men of the 92.1 and 2d regiments. She is ex-
' pect-d to sail for Gibraltar t-,-day or to-morrow.
The screw steamer City of Manchester' taken up
,i)y the East India Company. to convey troops for
Calcutta, left Liverpool on Saturday afternoon to
embark the troops at Grav,send, where she is ex-
pected to arrive to-morrow. Though only taken
up on Saturday week, and surveyed on Friday, she
left on Saturday with all her stores on board, and
1,000 tons of coals. In orderto give her full supplies
of coal., her owners, on Saturday, despatched the
steamer Bosphorus, which they have purchased for
the purpose, from Southampton to S'. Vincent,
there to await her arrival.

On Friday evening 10 officers awl 173 rank an-1
file of the 60th Rifles, and 2 officers and. 67 ser-
ge,nts and privates the 56th Regiment embarked
at-Kingstown for India. •

The-steam transport Australian left Spithead
about 4 p.m. on "Saturday for C Jcutta, wi.h the
f.tllowing officers and ,men, constituting the head-
quarters of the 42d Highlanders—Lieut.-Colonels
C meron and Th, rola, Captains M L od, Drysdale,
and Grove ; Lieutenants Lawson, Farquharson,
Ccckburn, Bramley and Boswor li ; Surge m Fur-
long, Paymaster Bazalge:t., Lieutenant and Ad-
jutant Wcorl, Eosiati Ceoly, At-sistAnt-Surgeou
Hooper,- QaartermaZr M‘G-regcr, 24 sergeants, 17
drurninerzi, 12 corporals, and 237.pri
The DutAman steamship disemb ‘rked part of
the 68th Foot at Port•mouth on Saturday morning
from the lonian Islands.

e Victoria steamship arrived at Portsmouth on
Saturday (wilh Artillery for India) to ship ammu-
nition and stores for the Indian army.
The Sydney steamship arrived at Spithead on
Saturday morning, from Wo iwich, and proceeded
dir•,et for India will Royal Artillery. .
The Oh ers'illese, Queen of the South,, and Hur-
sutia Eteanash'ps will embark the 44th acid 66th
Reim-nts at Pier sinfiu-h f r India to-morrow.

A battalion of the Guards (Scots Fusiliers) will
proceed to Port mouth from . the camp, and form
part of the permanent garrison of that fortress on
the Ist proximq.

Tile Leopard, 18, paddle frigate, Captain Wain-
wt ightarrived .at .Spitheai at nine o'cluck on Friday
night to report the loss of the first :335 miles of the
AtlantiC-telegraph cable. She remains, and will be
joined by the Cyclops.
The Black Eagle and Banshee, 'Admiralty steam
yachts, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday evening
from oolwich.

The Falcon, 17, Commander Campion, went
nto Portsmouth harbour on Saturday to refit. -

The Lords of- the Admiralty were expected to
arrive at POrtsinou h last night, ands to con:Li:wilco
the inspection of that establishment this morning.
The Sarah Sands Steam-ship embarked the head-
quarters of the .54th Foot at Portsmouth on Satur-
day, and will sail with tly,.qn at daylight for
India., •

The James Baines and Champion of the Seas,
clippers, havi,,g on boar d the 79th Highlanders, the
20th Foot, and part of the 42d Highlanders, were
towed by the seam-tugs Resolute and Blazer to
48 deg. 40 min, north, and 9 deg. west, and left
them all well on the 11th, except a south-west
wind,'which was the worst they could possibly have
met with, but plen,y of S:-a room.
The gunnery ship Cambridge, 78, Captain Jer-
ningham, from Spithead, returned to Plymouth on
Friday and Went up Hamoaze.
The paddlewheel steam vessel DevaßtatiOn, 6, Com-
mander Marshal!, from Spithead, which arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday, &lied. on Saturday with
the floating battery Terror, Captain Frederick
Hutton, in order to assist her to Bermuda, where
she is to be station d.
The steam ston-ship Dee has arrived at Wool-
wich from the western yard, and is again under the
sheers to embark a Cal go of steam gear fur the same
destination.
The Queen of Holland is to embark from Wool-
wich to-day for Holland. ,•
•

THE MOORS AND FORESTS.

(From the Inverness Courier.)

There is not more excitement about the Derby
itself than among one class of sportsmen as to the
success of tho moors. They long for the 12th, as
school-boys for their vacation, and swarm over the
heather with at least as much glee and expectation
as urchins feel when the, are released from the
hateful task. Have you plenty of grouse this sea-
son ? Are the young birds numerous? How are
the moors turning out ? The 12th has come and
gone, and we have very little information on the
subject. Last year, it will be remembered, the
echo from the moors was most uncertain until the
14th. Scarcely a brace of grouse had arrived in
Inverness, and the ,most pitiable rumours were
abroad that there were no birds to be had, and that
the species was becoming extinct. The same is the
ease this ye ir ; hardly any birds arrived by the
teaches last night, and there is very little informa-
tion except from shootings within a few miles of the
town. These indicaie a fair amount of sport: Mr.
Dunbar bagged 25 brace to his own gun at Holme.
Mr. Sutherland Walker, Aberarder, shot 10 brace
in the course of the afternoon. Colonel Fraser and
Mr. Rose shot 181 brace on the Cant ray moors in the
course of 4 hours. The Hon. H. Fraser and Mr.
Mostyn, at Beaufort, 374 brace ; Major Hirst, at
Tullech Castle, %brace, besideshares and wild ducks ;
Lord Saltoun, 8 bract., on a little moor, near Ness
Castle; General Cracklow, 9i brace, at Culduthel;
Mr. Cherry, 28 brace, at Gask ; Mr. J. B. }lathe,
15 brace at Largs, &c. These are better bags than
were anticipated, of er the decimation, last year,
and they do not support the rum urs that are fly-
ing about as to the absence of game in all direc-
tions. No one exie cued that birds would be as
numerous asformerly, but there is this swisfaction,
that, so far as we have learned, the assurances are
most comforting as to the quality of the broods.
If the moors are not what they have been, the
forests are full of deer, fatter and carrying larger
antlers than for many years past. Some stags have
been seen with -their heads clear of velvet, which
seldom takes place till about the Ist of Septenhber.
About a fortnight ago, three splendid stags were
stlwroot
of
ft GtLenm h Driibgidtale Forest, by Mr. Ed ward Ross,
and left shots, one royal, the
other with ten • tines. The royal stag weighed,
when perfectly clean, 20 stone 4 lbs. ;" the other,
15 stone 9 lbs. The tops on one set of antlers
were 11, 9, arid 7 inches ; on the other, 104, 8, and
6 inches. The first was shot at 110 yards—the other
ga loping at 130 yards' distance. Two such shots
are seldom made by the most experienced deer-
stalker, and, in this case, it is the more remarkable
saßs
onlyo th
og neen t.
weighing
sixteene
ema
yearsni who
5t
gshteaold•el "Other
bet
srbe
wtrhoi fie
setoatsghosehrwaleviel
since been shot in the same forest, by Mr. Horatio
stone 101bs. Colonel Inge had a deer-stalking
party at Glencannich last week, when several fine
stags were shot ; one of their heads sent for preser-
vation has royal antlers. Some large stags have
been sent doivn from Glen-Stratbfarar, which were
shot by Lord Lovat ; and a very goosdhohtebayd.hlirars.
go-ts fired since
onnl
btibeel killedt 12th
sLa.yosrdthAe bsperocrtro
beenjhopurchasedhnsent f
Fowlerr ombt
17;31
gepnraommphoesrnetgrya.
then—
first
h sets stag
was very good, but the birds were strong and wild,
'The Stirlingy Journalgotat.
2115dbrijaocte easily
A. C. Spiers, of Calcreuch, bagged
274 brace with one barrel ; Mr. James Morrison,
of Livilands, killed 11 brace ; and Mr. Ramsay, 01.
Barnton, killed two brace;
The Carlisle Patriot reports—Grouse and pt ir-
migan shooting commenced on Wednesday. The
Weather was delightful. Grouse are not very plen-
tiful in the north, although healthy and strong on
the wing. The coveys not numerous, but of gocd
size, some containing eleven birds, although nine
is the average. In Westmoreland, we are informed
the sport was good generally. On Wednesday

Colonel Lowther, at "The Pen," bagged 13 brace
of grouse, and Captain L.)wther and Lord Rano-
lagb, ou. Shap Fells, obtained 38 brace of very fine
birds.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.

JAMES SPOLLEN.

This personage seems to t'aink that the slight de-
monslration of approbation which followed the an-
nouncement of the verdict of acquittal on Tuesday
was intended as a public expression of sympathy in
his behalf and of belief in his innocence. He would
probably form a more correct estimate of its mean-
ing if he attributed that gentle "buzz"—for it
amounted to no more—to the prevailing obinion
that there had not been given a sufficiency of legal
evidence to warrant the jury 'in cdmiug to any
other conclusion. The verdict has c rtainly met
with general approval, but the public cannot divest
their minds of the fact that Spollen was arrested on
the confession of his wife, and that it was she
who pointed out to the police the place where
the bulk of the plunder was concealed. The in-
sinuation, or rather direct allegation, thrown ou by
his counsel, that the unhappy wire had conspired
with some man unknown to have her husband exe-
cuted fur a crime of which he was innocent, might
be deemed fair—" as all's fair in war"—for the pur-
poe s of the defence before the jury, but the-charge
is utterly repudiated out of doors. Spollen is now
doing the martyr ! Think of his expecting a public
subscription ! The following paragraphs on the
subject are from the papers of this, morning
,Saunders states states that—" Yesterday James Spol-
lin the younger entered the railway premises and
presente I a letter from his father to Mr. Osborne,
the s:orekeeper, asking that a contribution might
be made for his son, who. he said could not be de-.
serted, as he was to accompany him on 'a long
journey.' The application was met with disgust and
a flat denial from every 111111 in the establishment.
Shortly af;er he and his son Jame, called on a car at
Mr. Kommis's house in Kildare-street ; he, it ap-
peared, was not at home, but late r in the day, about
four o'clock, they again cal:el, but Mr. Keminis
,annodt
ktltroywn,
bu went away. The
r, is supposed.
mwooutilvdenoort theirsee m them,
is
to be either a solicitation for pecuniary assistance,
or in reference to his wile, with whore he strongly
desires an interview. She, however, resolutely
refuses to see or hear from him."
From the IlYecrnaies Journal.—", For. the. last.

two d-tys, we underitaud, this man has been going
about in Vie most aucticious manner, soliciting sub.
script ions to conipensAte him for the loss he has
sustained during his imprisonment. Stories of the
strangest. and most starting character are widely
circu!ated about him, some of which, we believe,
are not without foundation. The cottaze in which
he reAdtd is still occupied by his wife and younger
children, and is in charge of 5-x. police-constables."

COLLISIONS IN TIIFi CHANNEL AND
THE KORTH SEA.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY
The Elizabeth Jane, screw, ste uner, of Glasgow,
on her way down the channel last night, at about
11 o'clock, .when between the E lclystone and Fal-
mouth, was run into by a Spanish barque and
lost her bulwarks on her starboard side. The
b trque does not appear to have keen injured,
but the Elizabeth Jane put in here for repairs ; she
has a general cargo and some choice specimens of
agricultural stock, and is bound to Montreal,
Canada. Many of the stalls of the bullocks were
knocked down in the colision, but none of the
ca the or stock are lost or injured.
Information' was received at Lloyd's on Satur-
day, per telegraph from Leith, of a meat fearful
collision having taken place in the North Sea on
Thursday nigh, about ten o'clock, which resulted in.
the foundering of the Zou ive-sc re w steam-ship. The
ill-fated vessel was from Stettin, with a cargo of
grain, bound to L-ith,. and when some 150 miles
fro:.n the land she came in collision with the Elf,
another powerful screw steamer, which was on a
voyage to Stettin, from Grangemouth.. The wea-
ther is reported to have been foggy, which would
account for the lights of the ..ve:,sel mkt. being seen
in time to avert the collision. Inimediately on-the
ships clearing each other, the Z wave was found to
be rapidly filing, and she shortly afterwards went
down in deep water. The crew had just time to
take 'to the boats, and were eventually picked up
by the Elf, which put back to Leith and landed
them on Friday. The Elf has sustained consider-
able darriage; arid, considering the force with which
they came together, and the weather that prevailed,
it is providential that both steamers were not lost
with their crews. The usual notice of the disaster
has bean forwarded to the Marine Depot of the
Board of Trade; and an inquiry into the collision
will be in,t:tuted by the Local Marine Board of the
port. The loss of the Z.:uave and her freight will
amount to, some thousands.

THE INDIAN MUTLIIES.

We have already explained how the Overland
Mails from Bombay and Calcutta having been sent

from Alexandria by different steamships, that from
Galcutta, though it was despatched last, arrived first

at Marseilles, and ensequently in London. By
this mail neither the Government nor the India

House received any intelligence from Bombay,
and their dates from. Calcutta reached only to the
4th ult., whereAs those from Bombay were to the
14th. Fortunately, our agent at Alexandria, with
most praiseworthy caution, sent us a copy of the
Bombay Times by the steamer which carried the
Calcutta mail, although the who'e Bombay
mal had been despatched sevarAl hours be-
fore, and it was this single copy which enabled
us on Friday to give our readers later intelligence
by ten days than bad reached either the Govern-

ment or the India House. The Bombay mail has
bin ce arrived, the slow steamer to which it was in-
trustd having been left far behind by that which
carriedtbe Oalcutta mail, and we are now enabled to.
publish the letter of our Bombay correspondent,
which, notwithstanding it detention, will be found
most interesting, as conveying the best sum.nary of
the details of the insurrection. It is dated Bombay,
July 14 : _ _ .

‘lf you recollect what I wrote in my last letter
of the strength and extent of the city of Delhi, of
the numbers and resources of the rebels, of the
comparative smallness of the force brought against
them, and of the consequent nece:ssity of postponing
an attack till reinforcements in considerable strength
should have arrived, you will be prepared to learn
that no news has yet reached us of the capture and
demolition of this great stronghold of revolt. Mitch
indeed may have happened, and I am disposed to
think has happen], since the date of our lat?stin-
telligence from the camp. Tidings of the progress of
events reach us but slowly, for, as I mentioned the
other day, the direct communication betwe n this
and Agra being interrupted, we are dependent upon
communications from Lahore, to which city the
t legrrph is at work from the camp, but from which
letters are 10 or 12 days getting,to us. . Thus we
• have noth:ng from Delhi later thanAhe 27th or 28th
of last month. But we learn from various points
of the Punjab that at that date reinforcements of
troops of all arms were rapidly converging upon
Delhi. By the end of the month th 3 General
expected to find himself strengthened by fu'ly
3,500 men, including the Bth Fo A and a wing of
the Gist, a troop and two batteries of Artillery,
and some Punjab and other Irregulars, horse
and foot. Within a week or ten days from bis
receiving this augmentation to his force—that is to
say, in all probability two Or three days ago—he
would, it is believed, deliver the grand assault.
No regular approaches had been or would he made,
there has not been strength enough for that ;
the affair would, I am credibly informed, be.
managed by blowing open a gate and entering
at the point of the bayonet. But come when
and how it m;ght., I know that at the date of the
latest accounts from the camp those b:st qualified

t.) judge entertained not a doubt tht.t the •assaul t
would be successful. Our men, both ,Europeans
end natiaee, though Lard were well and
in capi,al spiri,s, while Vie pluck of the mutineers
was evidently on the wage. Their attwks which,
as we shall i-ee presently, were at first of almost
daily occurrence, and wera conducted- with great
determination and perseverance, had become rare
and feeble: Nor does thi.. show only that the flame

of their enthusasm is dying out,--it may be taken,
I think as eat abli•hing the fact that they had not
been reinforced of 'Ai by other bands of mutineers
to any considerable extent. Most of the earlier
attaclis were doubtless conducted by successive
fresh arrivals, eager for the fray, and as yet lacking
the experience which their beaten comrades had
dearly bought. The feebleness of the latest demon-
stration from the city would seen to show that
that bitter lesson had been learnt by the whole
mass of the rebel soldiery congregated within it.
"But to give you shortly details of the progress
of the siege, if siege it may be strictly called, so far
as they have reached us :—On the Bth of June it
was, as you are aware, that General Barnard ad-
vancing upon Delhi by the Kurnaul ro id, carried
one after another the fortified positions of the mu-
tineers, and drove them within the walls of the
city. The first of these positions was the strongest,
and there the principal loss of the day was sus-
tained, falling principally upon the 75th, who
charged and captured a battery of heavy guns in
position, losing one officer, Lien-ten-ant Harrison,
killed, and several wounded. It 'avas by a round
shot from one of the batteries posted at this point
that Colonel Chester was killed. The sec nd posi-
tion was in rear of the first, and was const.tuted
by a line of heights between the cantonments and
the city. Upon this ridge, when captured, the
British line was established, will. its left la sting
upon a tower used as a signal-pest, its centre upon
an old mosque, and i s right upon a house with
enclosures strongly placed at the point where the
hills begin to slope down t ;wards the plain, and
known by the name of its former owner, a ah-
ratta chief called Hindoo Rao. Owing to the
oblique position of the line of hills in regard to the
walls the right is in advan e, ther left thrown back,
the mean distance from the city be ng, to judge
from the plan that lies before me, about a mile and
a quarter. In th;s position the army was at-
tacked by a sortie on the very next evening, the
9th, ant lost in repelling it, as I mentioned in my
last, Batty of the Guides, a gallant and valuable
officer. On the IGth came another assault, met and
repulsed like that of the day before, this time priu-
cally by the Ghoorkas, who defeated with. great
loss an attempt of the mutineers to carry our bat-
tery at Hindoo RIO'S h use. On the morning of
the 12th a most determined and well-planned as
was made upon both extremities of our line
at once. On the right, at Hindoo Rao's house, the.
attack was promptly defeated, and the troops at
that pest (60th Ghoorkas and Guides) slew consider-
able numbers of the enemy, 50 of them in one gar-
den, it is said. But on the left there seems to have
been something of a surprise." The battery at the
signal tuwer was surrounded, and would probably,
but for the signal gallantry of a picket of the 75th,
have been captured. The flank of the position was
in imminent danger of being turned. But the nine-
pounder battery in the centre op,ned fire, supports
were brought up rapidly, and at length, though not
till after a hard fight of two hours, the enemy gave
way at all points. The loss on this day fell chiefly
upon the 2d Europeans and the 75th. Captain
Knox of the latter regiment was shot through the
head while leading his men to the tower battery.
On the, day following a large enclosure in advance
of our left, known as Metcalfe-house, was occupied
by our troops,- and the erection of a battery of
heavy guns and mortars commenced. Against this
battery a sortie was directed on the 15th, but was
repulsed without difficulty, as had .been another
earlier in the same day against our right. On the
17th an affair took place in which we were the assail-
ant. That morning a shot from the city struck the
corner of Hindoo Rao's house, and, glancing off,
killed Lieutenant Wheatley, of the late 54th,
attached to the Ghoorkas, and (it is said) six men.
Having this advanced post of ours well under fire
in front, the enemy determined to attempt it also
in flank, arid for this purpose commenced on the
17th to throw up a battery outside the western
gates of the town, at a large buiAiog known as
the Eedghab. There they were attacked that same
afternoon by Major Tom} s' troop of Horse Artillery,
some cavalry, Rifles, and Ghoorkas, and beaten out
of the place with the loss of the only gun they had
had time to bring out, all their ammunition, and,
perhaps, 100 lives. For this achievement the
Major received high commendation ft oat General
Barnard, who rode over to his position for the pur-
pose. Two days later—on the 19th—appeared theb
mutineers from Nusseerabad, the late 15th and 3dhts
Regiments, with the battery of artillery that
andt
Bombay Lancers vainly attempted to resacr
m lines. ade aTnbs
They
w audaciousirruptioners encountered
atb theefihrastv
eb
by
et I
troopsjeueof u r
d extrem ly-
of the Rajah of Jheend, who behaved
Lancers and
well and afterwards by the
the attack, and were finally raeps
however, severe.
Ar-
tillery. On the following morning they
urepnweaaredds
of 200 killed. Our loss w
20th, and Alex-
Lieutenant H
Colonel a ule,uoruf
pthbery9st,hutLtahnecel'artse was killed, and
of the late 3d. The wounded officers were
I—r, Daly of the Guides, and four of
--riles are not given. The 21st
sorties are concerned,
• were busy as
I—id us,"

Colonel Bow._
the Rifles, whose
and 22d were quiet so far tit, .
though the batteries on either Blttu
usual ; but on the 23d " the enemy a+tael...._
so runs the message gent to Lahore, " in great font,