The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-04-29

W.T. Dul we DOUBT his readiness to
step beyond.
TWO GREAT VICTORIES OVER
TIE Skis.
TLEMlNATloN OF THE WAR IN IND1A.
Since the despatch Of our paper by
The " \ III; Irn." our adyiccs from Bonn
bay nform us OF two more great battles
having been io'irnt in India between
the Eri;ish ANA Sikh armies, both tcrmi-
natia:; in decisive victory to the former.
The first was under the command OF
81: Ii. Smith. aud the latter Sir Hugh
Cough, which was, perhaps, one Of the
!,oSt bloody on record. In Sir II.
s.n;h's battle, the whole army Of enc
my has been driven hcadlong over tie
difficult ford of & broad river his camr.
cannon: go picces,) baggage, stores Of
! ammunition and Of grain-his all, in
fact; wrcStcd from him by the repeated
charges OF cavalry and infantry and in
that of Sir Hugh Cough tic Silhs lost
l2,O0O men and G5 pieces Of artillery.
The English had 500 killed, Is OF
whom were officers, and $500 wounded,
of whom l1I were officers. Tivr Ma
jesty;;s 533,; and GA regiments suffered
enormously. General Dickc anal I5riga-
dior Iaylor arc among tho dead
The action commenced in TIC morn
inc, and the work of destruction had
cl sad BY II o'clock in the forenoon.
Sir Hugh Coughs account of his battle
proves il to have been, while it Lasted.
one ct the most terrific OH record. I'm
like the able mannuvering Of Sir II.
Smith, this affair seems to have owed its
success to the daring intrcpidity of our
men; who siormcd the cncmy's cntrcnch-
nlents: Layonct in hand, defended, as
;hcy were. by $4,000 SiIihs and 70 pic
ccs Of artillery. The slaughter was i'm
! mcnsc, for Gu: troops bravcd the cncmy's
fire by rcscrving their shot until they
got within his cntrcnclmcnts.
POLAND.
The intelligence from Russian Pc
land is still mcagrc, but it is official.
Field Marshal paSkcvitch has been aD-
pointed TO the chief command in tic
kingdom Of Poland and the governments
OF Nolhynia and Podolia. Martial law
has been proclaimed in those three
provinces. Orders have been issued to
call out Immediately for active service
in the Polish provinces all the soldiers
residing on unlimited furlough, or fur
! lough Tor year; in tho governments Of
Wilma, kcyno, Grodno, VoIhynia, Podo-
lia, kicv, and the kingdom of Poland.
The leaders Of the insurrcctionary
movement at Sicdlcc, near Warsaw,
! have already received their punishment.
Potozki has been hanged at SicdIcc :;
kocishcvski and Zarliski have been
hanged at Warsaw; Dobrytsh and
Rupprecht sentenced to be hanged, had
their lives spared, but are degraded
from their rank, and condemned to exile
and hard labor in Siberia; Mirezki and
Dcskur were made TO pass. under the
gallows, and sent to Siberia to be kept
at hard labor. Travellers arrived in
| Prussia represent the number of arrests
IN Warsaw as far more numerous than
those which have taken place in Poscn,
and the number of troops under arms
and in motion in the Russian at much
greater than in the Prussian territories.
The military, however, is still kept on
the alert in posen and the soldicry,
though concentrated in great masses in
the province, much harrasscd with
marches and countcrmarcLcs.
In Galllcla the pcasantry still give oc-
cason Tor much anxiety. The roads
throughout thcprovincc are said to be
rendered unsafe by their predatory
bands. 4 considerable force is repre-
scnted as having drawn to head under
village notary at Neumarkt, in the
Carpathians, near the Hungarian from
tier. Lcmberg is still held in state OF
siege. The disturbances among the
pcasanry are understood to be extend
ing across the Vistula into the Russian
provinces.
IRELAND.
| In debate in the House Of Com
mons, on the 9Th of March, MIR. O'Con-
nell stated that the accounts which he