The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-06 00:00:00

KOLAPORE AND SAWUNT WARREE.

We have received tidings of the 27th ult., being a month later
than those formerly sent home, from various portions of the dia.
turtsed country ; and though the success of the troops has in the
main been uniform, and their conduct invariably excellent, we
regret to say the insurrection continues apparently as far as eve
from being subdued. The war in which we are engaged is a
paltry and an ingloriciss one, and it is eminently harassing and
unpopular. It was not commenced voluntarily, nor, probably.
with much idea of long continuance, and its objects were just and
honourable, without view to the gratification of avarice or ambi.
Lion. The troops under General Delarnotte and Colonel Wallace.
having advanced in separate detachments to the edge of the table
land, remained in the end of December posted on the verge of the
mountain range which separates the plains of Kolapore from the
low country towards the sea. After describing various skirmished
of little interest the writer in the Bombay Times, whose opinions
and assertions should be received with caution, thus concludes hie
narrative :—The Kir wa ttee Pass, where we had en a former om.
casion suffered so severely, leading from Sussadreog, was still in
possession of the enemy. Its occupation by our troops having
been considered matter of much importance, a party of two
hundred Europeans and one hundred natives, with one nine.
pounder, under command of Major George, of her Ma—
jesty's 9.9. d, were ordered to advance against it on the
18th. They were warmly met by the enemy ensconced
behind the stockades, and, after a few volleys, fell back, the
insurgents following closely in their rear. Colonel Caruthers
meanwhile attacked the pass on the 19th from below, and the
enemy were speedily driven from all their stockades; 8 of them
were killed and 30 taken prisoners. On the 21st Munohur wa
closely invested, and this fort, which was filled with insurgents, to.
gether with that of Musentosh, were expected to fall into the hands
of Colonel Out raer's detachment. On one of those oceastons Car
lain Taynton, of the Bth M. N. 1., had being picked off; he was a
gallant officer, and is said shortly before to have killed nine of the
insurgents with his own hand. He was In revenge particular!,
marked out for destruction. He Is the third offices who has in the
course of the month been cut off—the seventh who bag fallen since
the commencement of the insurrection. On the 25th an attempt
was made to take the fort by escalade ; this proved unsuccessful.
On this occasion Captains Munbee and' Jacob, and Lieuts. Gar-
diner and Peyton were wounded ; but none of them severely. The
insurgents who had sought refuge in the fort, finding the position
untenable, abandoned it after the first attack ; and on the 27th we took
possession without resistance. This is one of the last of their fortified
strongholds ; but their real strength lies In the jungles, front which
it is next to impossible to drive them. It is proposed to fire the
brushwood covers so soon as the advancing season will permit.
The roads are everywhere obstructed, and no man, or party et
men, can proceed, without the certainty of being fired at from the
jungles. Colonel Outram is sweeping over the country, as of yore,
spreading the terror of his name, and diffiising the feeling of
universal insecurity, but efficting little more. In these trackleac
and unmeasured jungles, it is impossible to seethe enemy, howevef
near—still more so to follow him. Shots are fired at us, travellers
are robbed, and hamlets destroyed, before our eyes ; the perpetratona
of these things elude us as we approach. While a desultory.
harassing, and unimpressive war was thus raging on every
side, in the ravines, and in the low country at the bottom
at the mountains, a state of comparative tranquillity had
settled down at Kolapore, the centre and the source of
original disaffection. This state of listlessness and inactivlti
was, en the 20th, interrupted by the appearance, :within
.twenty
miles if the capital, if a body of some 1,500 insurgents, under a
noted malcontent chief, Lail Geer Gosain. On the 21st, Captain
Western, with a troop of her Majesty's 14th Dragoon., and Cap.
taro Clarke, with a company of Grenadiers and 40 Irregular
Horse, was laid on the track of the marauders ; and on the 234
Captain Stuart, with another troop, arid a small detatchrnent of her
Majesty's 22d and !id Grenadiers, followed in the same direction:
The headquarters of the sth Madras Cavalry were dispatched from
Sholapore •n the 25th to ce.operate with the troops just DM.
Hissed. The latest intelligence received regarding the gang ran
present them as committing great devastations in the neighbouli
hood of the Bheema river. No tidings have as yet reached us 4
the results of the pursuit, though the troops had been fire dal.
absent at the date of our latest letters.

NORTHERN CONCAN.
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suppression has hitherto defied the efforts of Government. Theo
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who carries on Wilt
name of the chief freebooter is ltagoiee Bangria,
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some 500 square miles in the 'mew
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operatious over an area of
audacious and wholesale manner that can be imagined. His mr
complices are chiefly drawn from the lowest and poorest portiird
of the people—men who hold life very lightly; and who, beside.
life, have little or nothing to lose. His plan is to send notice to the"
wealthier men in the villages to have certain sums, for which
will grant them a receipt, ready by a specified day ; when he will
call for it, and burn their houses, cut off their ears, and slit thellr
noses, if they tail to comply with his demands. He usually keen
his word, and the amount of mutilation that has in thilk
way been inflicted is perfectly frightful. The road*
everywhere ore unsafe; travellers are waylaid sod atript4
almostot
thdeos
jeurntegdles,btry
trusting
whoof htahvee betaken themselves are
of all they possess, and mutilated it suspected of cor.coa;.
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rather to the wild beasts of the forest than to the tender mercies of
Maggie* Bangria. Detachments of troops, regular and irregular,
and strong posses of police, have for nearly a twelvemonth beca
Continually in the field, but all to no purpose. The mischief is et:*
of the fruits of the war policy of the last four years. We de.
nuded the country of troops at the very time we provoked discern.
tent, by screwing the last shilling we could get in the shape of re.
venue. Government, meanwhile, was too exclusively engrossed
by foreign war, to think of the domestic condition of its subjects.
We had a victory and a proclamation, and what mattered it that a
district was in want, and ready for revolt ! The result has been
that the people, reduced to destitution, and careless of the neglec
wherewith they were treated, have betaken themselves to robber
in the belief that the absence of troops from the country would see
cure them, at least, a temporary immunity from punishment.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Calcutta Englishman, Jan. W.)
No later dates from Europa having reached us since our last
issue for dispatch per Ilindostan, and nothing of consequence
having occurred here that could materially affect our markets for
either imports or exports, we have only to notice, on the whole
rather less activity, although transactions in the Bazaar still con..
tinue to a fair extent, and exports have gone forward on the usua
scale.
The large shipments of indigo which have had to be drawn
against having caused rather an abundant supply of bills, we ha,.-e
to quote a rise in exchange of about a farthing.