The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-06
FROM EUROPE.

The royal mail steamship Asia arrived at
New York on the nth ult We extract
the following from the Liverpool Times:
The Future of Indid.-Affairs in India are
evidently progressing from bad to worse
The news by the last overland mail is decide
ly the least favorable which has come to
hand since the commencement Of the out
break, and we must be prepared for weeks
TO come TO receive intelligence of new dis
asters. The probability, almost the certain
ty is, that before the great bulk of the
troops which have been sent from this coun-
Try have arrived out the Presidencies of
Bombay and Madras will be in the same
fame of rebellion which is now sweeping
over Bengal. There is no use in concealing
the fact that without the greatest possible
exertions which England can make in this
crisis of her fate, we shall be driven ignomi-
niously out of India, and lose thereby the
prestige which we have SO long and so no
bly, maintained amongst the natives. As a
proof that the danger is imminent, read the
following description, by no unfavorable
hand, of the pefilous position 10 which the
brave Havelock is now reduced.
ION the 1th of July, when he marched
out of Allahabad, this heroic band numbered
some 1900 men of all arms. When Neill
effected the junction at Cawnpore il was
slightly reinforced, On the l7ih of August
it had beer reduced TO $40 survivors, thor
oughly worn down by sickness and disease.
II is probable that no soldiers IN the world
have ever gone through the same amount of
arduous work in the same space al times
In the course of these five weeks this ininn-
try brigade-for except a few volunteers il
has throughout been deprived of horse-bas
fought at least eight different actions with us
many armies of well disciplined troops, plenti.
fully supplied with cavalry aud artillery, and
generally outnumbering il in the proportion
at the lowest calculation, Of six 10 one. Ii
has done this in the worst season in the
year for military operations. It's victorious
marches have been made through land of
rice swamps, in the midst Of hostile pop
ulation, without Il eommssariat, without a,
tent. From the moment they crossed the
Ganges, on their way to Lucknow, these
men had to bIvouac at night under deluges
of rain, to fight frequently up to their mid
dies in water, and more than once to snatch
a hasty meal in the face of the foe, on broad
unsheltered plains, with the MONDAY sun
blazing down on them with vertical glare
1t was on the Stth July that Havelock first
crossed the Ganges; on the 4th of August he
was compelled by sickness to fall back, On
the 9th he advanced again, and fought two
more actions with the usual result. His
further advances was checked by an obstacle
which it would have been madness to attempt
surmountingl $4,000 men, entrenched ln d
position Of great strength, on the other side
of deep and rapid river, rendered the re-
lief of Lucknow impossible, and made instant
retreat imperative. The retreat was conduc.
ted in perfect order, and on the 18th Have
lock re crossed the Ganges. But the labor
of this indefatigabe band were not yet over.
Bithoor had been re. occupied oy the enemy,
and on the 18th Havelock attacked it, car
ried the position and captured two guns"