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wards Lucknow.
A wing of the 23d Infantry,
from the Mauritius, had arrived at
Bombny.
At Tinbalpore the 31st native,
40th foot, and the Sd irregular
cavalry, under native officers
only, attacked on the 18th of Au-
gust the mutineers, consisting of
the AID native infantry and Sd
irregular cavalry, and completely
routed them.
Gen. Woodburn is sick at Co.
lombo.
Col. Stewart has gone to Nj
how. |
We learn that a plot has been
discovered, and that amongst the
conspirators were the son of the
well known Ameer Gundfya, and
and Malvie Ally Kureem, who
were arrested.
A plot has also been discover
ed at Benares.
TWAS reported that Agra had
fallen into the hands of the rebels.
A dispatch was received at the
India House, from Alexandria,
dated Sept. 8, which says Gen.
Havelock's forces, after reoccu-
plying Cawnpore, finding Rethoor
evacuated, burnt it to the ground.
On the 29th and Both of July
they found the rebels at Bupeerel
Gunge, about eighteen miles from
Cawnpore, numbering ten thou
sand whom they defeated, with
loss Of Is guns. They expected
to reach Lucknow the next day.
Sir Colin Campbell has assum-
ed command of the Indian army,
Tranquility is restored in Cen
trail India.
The It'll, Sth and 10th regi-
ments, which mutinied, at Gavin
pore July %, threatened Benares.
The 18th irregular cavalry,
which mutinied at the same time,
murdered their commanding Off
Ger, Major Holmes, and his wife.
The disarmed Goth Bengal in
fantry mutinied at Meean Near
the Both of July, and murdered
their commanding officer, Major
Spencer,
(By telegraph to the Cork
Constitution, from London, 18th
inst.) Gen. Havelock's force fo1
the re-occupation Of Cawnpore had
f in eight days marched l26 miles:
l fought four actions with Nena Sa.
hib's army, against overwhelming
5 odds, in point Of numbers, and
: had taken twenty four guns Of
light calibre, and that, too, in the
: month of July, in India. On the
: morning of July 18th, the force
marched into Cawnpore. The
souI-harrowing spectacle which
there presented itself to them
|. beggars description, =
\ = A wholesome massa
= ere had been perpetrated by the
S fiend, Nera Sahib. Eight officers
d and ninety men Of Her Majesty
84th regiment, seventy ladies ant
e 121 children of Her Majesty
32d foot, and the whole European
d and Christian population Of tn
h place, including civilians, meI
chants, pensioners and their fami
/ lies, to the number of 400 person
$ were the victims Of this satan
The courtyard in front Of tn
e assembly rooms, in which Men
Sahib had fxedhis head quarter;
and inwhich the women had bee,
i imprisoned, was swimming wit
d blood. A large number Of W.
men and children who had bee
d cruelty spared, after the capitula
ton, for a worse fate than instan
h death, had been barbarousl
he slaughtered on theprevious NOR
u ing-the former having bee
stripped naked, then beheade
in and thrown into a well the la
IS ter having been hurled dow
IN alive upon their butchered mot
ers, whose blood reeked on the
b, mangled bodies. Only four e
IS capped, viz, the wife of a me
chant and three others.
q Gen. Havelock, in a dispatc
ry to the Governor General, say
10 that Nena Sahib has browne
IS himself, with his family. He hf