New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-23

taking Delei BY assault is out Of the question.
He informs u, at the same time, what is re-
ally expected in the camp viz: &" to shell the tosn
for several days and make decent breach "
Now this officer himself adds that, a. st moderate
calculation, the enemy mast muster now neiriy
"fOriy tbousand men beside gus Unlimited aud
"we!l worked, their infantry also fighting We'll.
Iftte desperate obstbacy with which Mussul mans
are accustomed to fight behini walls be considered,
il bee, mes a great question indeed whether the
,msll Drit,h army having rushed in through "a
decent breach would be ALLOWED to rush ost
aeap.
In fact there remains only one chance for sue
ces-ful attack upon Delhi ~ the present British
fcrces-that Of internal dissensiOns breaking out
smcpg the rebels, their ammunition being spent,
their forces being demoralized, aud their spirit OF
sefIeliance giving way. But We must confess
that their uninterrupted lighting from the 3lst OF
July TO the 12'h Of August seems hardly to warrant
such suppositiOn. At the same time, Calcusts
letter gives us broad hint why the English generals
had resolved in the teeth of a military rules, upon
keeping heir giound before Delhi. when" it
| ssye, "a few weeks ago it became question
whether our force should retreat from before
Delhi, because it was toe much harras sed by daily
fighting to support overwhelming fa!igues much
longer that intention was strenuously reaistea by
- Sir John Lawrence who plainly informed the
Generals that their retreat would be the signal
" for the rising Of the pOpulatisns around them, By
which they must be placed in imminent danger.
This counsel prevailed aid Sir John Lawrence
promised to send them al the reenforcements
I" be could muster" Depuded as it has been by
Sir John Lawrence the Panjaub itself may now
riie 10 rebellion, while the troops in the canton
n.ents before Delhi are likely to be laid on their
backs and decimated by the pestential eluvla rls-
ing from the coil at the close of the raby season. or
Gen. Van Cortlabdt's forces, reported four weeks
ago to have reached Hissar, and to be pushing for
va to Delhi, no more 10 heard They must, then,
have encountered serious obstacles, or have been
disbanded on tteir route.
The po,iton Of the English on the Upper Gapges
is in fact, desperate. Gen. Havelock is threat.
eLed by tie operations Of the Dude rebels, moving
from Lucknow via BittoOr and trying at Futtey-
pore, to the south Of Cawnpoie TO cut of his re-
treat: while simultaneously the GwaliOr cOntiu-
gent is marching on CawDpOre from Calpe, town
situated on the right baLk Of the Jumns. This
coDctntlic movement, perhaps directed By Nena
Sahlb who is said to wieli the supreme command
at Lucknow, betrays for the first time some notion
ef strategy on the part Of the rebels, while the En-
elish seem anxious only to exsggera!e their own
foolish method Of centrifugal warfare. Thus we
are told that the 90th foot and the 5th useers dis
patched from Calcutta TO reinforce Gen. HavelOck
have been intercepted a! DinapOre by Sir James
OutIsm, who has taken it into bis head 20 lead them
via FyIzabad to Lucknow. This plan of operation
is lailed by The Morning Adrotiser Of London as
the stroke of master mad, because it says, Luck
now will thus have been placed between two fires,
being threatened on its right from Cawppore and
GA It's left from Fyrzabsd ling to the ordinary
rules of war, the immensely weaker army which,
instead Of trying to concentrate it's scattered mem
be,' cuts itself up into two portions, separated BY
the vi hole breSdth Of the hostile army, has spared
the enemy the pains Of annihilatiOg it. For Gen.
BsvelOck the question in fact, is no longer to
Lucknow, but to rave the remainder Of his Own
ara Gen. Neills little corps. He will very likely
have to fal back upon Allahabad. Allahabad is
il deed position Of decisive i'm pOrtsnce, forming
az il dOes, the poirt of junction between the Ganges
spd the Jupna, and the key to the Doab, situated
between the rwo rivers.
On the fret glance at the map, it will be sten
that the main line of operations for English army
ate mptipg the reconqutst of the North Western
provinces ruDs along the valley of the lower Ganges
The positions of DinspOIe BeDares, Mirzapore,
ano, above ALL Of Allahabsd, from which the real
operations must commence, will therefore have to
be strengthened by the withdrawal to them of the
parrsous of all the smaler and stratescally indif
ferent stations in the province of Bengal Proper.
That this msin line of operations itself is seriously
threatened a. this moment may be seen from the
following extract from Bombay letter addressed
to The London Daily Ne,os:
"The late mutiny of three regiments at Dinapcrs
has cut fl communications except by steamers on the
,iverl between Allahabad and Calcutta. The mutiny
~ Dnapore is the most serious affair that hss happened
latIy, flasmuch az the whole Of the Bersr district,
w,tin 900 miles of Calcutta, is now in blaze To-
dav report has arrived that the Santhss have again
lis D. and the Safe Of Bengal, Oyerrun with l1OOOO
.svsges, who delight in blood, plunder and rapine,
wOEld be truly terrible
The minor lines of operation, as long as Agra
kods out, are those for the Bombsy army, via To-
dore and Gwalor TO Agra, and for the Madras
army, via Saugor and GSslior TO Agra with which
latter place the Pupjaub army, as well as the
corp. holding Alababsd, require to have their lines
Of ccumunicslion restored. II, however the wa
ysripg princes of Central India should opealy de-
elsre .gainst the English, Ard the mutiOy among
the Bombay army assume serious aspect, all mill
ts,v colonization il at an end for the present, and