Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-09-11
FOREIGN INTKlLIGENCE.
AFFAIRS IN INDIA.

FOREIGN INTKLLIGENCE.
AFFAIRS IN INDIA.
From the London Mer. Gazette. Aug. 81
Last right the Foreign Office received, through her
Msjesty's Consul at Cagliar, telegraphc despatch
in anticipation of the India Mail, which arrived at
Suez en- the 18th. The intelligence il from Calcutta
to the 2lst, and from Madras TO the 18th OF July No
dates from Bombay or Delhi. The Britsh pnoIc Will
learn with deepest concern that death has deprived
US of the services. at this important uncture OF Sir
Henry Lawrence and General Barnard. Sir Henry
10 reported to have died Of wounds received IN sor
tie from Lucknow and Gen. Barnard to have cue
cumbed at bis yost TO an attack of cholera. About
the latter report there is some doubt, and We may
still hope that il will not be confirmed but We may
fear there s no room for doubt TO the correctness
of the report that Sir Henry Lawrence has passed
from the scene iu which he valued and dlstin-
vuishsd an actor Ii is also stated that Delhi Lad not
been taken but the ds1 Of the dispatch from that
place is not given, this statement should not be &C.
cepted without further and sufficient confirmation. 1t
seems that the report Of the capture OF the CawDpore
by the rebels aud the of the Europeans rs
given in the last mail, true; and Il IL further an
nouuced that all the troops in Dude as well as the
Gwalior Contingent, have mutned, and that the la.
ter forcs has marched southwark upon lndore.
So much for the unpleasant side of the narrative
On the other hand We read that in the very neigbor
hood Of this very Cawnpore, and between it and Al
lahabad the rebels In force have been encountered
and routed on three several occasions by the troops
under General Uavelock, by whom several guns have
been rs.taken from Neva Sahlb. whom the General
was pressing up TO Bithoor, within ten miles OF Gavin
PORE 30 that in the district where the rebels appear
to have shown the greatest determination in the field,
they have got very much the worst OF it. and giving
way In all directions. As 10 the detection Of the
Gwalior Contingent, and the spread of the mutiny in
Dude, these are events which have been looked for
by every acquainted with the progress of the re-.
volt. For a considerable time the Gwalior troops
haun tnan MAJ arin nd nj sht
course, that it was in the capital OF Dude that the ill.,
surgent spirit fret manifested tself in the Bengal
my There 10 nothing whatever in the dispatches to
lead us to suppose that the muiny is extending be
yond the provinces to which it may be said from the
rirst to have been confined.
On the whole, therefore, excepting the loss we
have sustained by the death Of two valuable officers,
our position ia much the came as it at the date
Of the intelligence received by the last mai Indeed
the message just received is so meagre and confused
that it Is In respects hardly Ineligible; but
collect sufficient from it to see that the Government
forces have lost ground nowhere, while they have
obtained several striking successes over the rebels.
All accounts lately received from Delhi agree in
stating that the insurgsnt garrison, although fighting
with the energy Of despair, have been invariably
beaten in their attempts to force position; and
there 10 no second opinion as 10 the terrible losses
sustained BY these miscreants. The Government
troops have only been waiting for renfurcements be.
fore they renew the assault.
The Paris Pays says that Sir Colin Campbell had
Delhi, and the same journal, in ausion to the
strength of that place, says that General Barnard
wrote few days before his death, II cannot disguise
from myself that am before a new Sebastopol."
Nothing had been received additional to the Gov.
eminent despatch via Cagiari, taken out by the last
mail, but press dispatches moInentarily looked
for via Marseilles.
Government could afford no explanation of the un.
certain aud meagre portion OF their despatch,
give any particulars in regard TO the lost transit ship
EFFECT OF THE LATE NEWS FROM INDIA.
From the London Times, August 24.l
The arrival Of news from Calcutta this morning,
I'VE days before the anticipated period, took the
public by surprise, and a. owing to its confused and
imperfect character it seemed at first TO be very
favorable, the funds experienced decline of half
per cent, from which there was slight tendency to
recovery before the close Of business. The announce
ment that Delhi remained in the hands of the mutt.
nsere that CaWnpore had temporarily been seized by
them, and that the baad Of two three hundred Eu.
ropoans who had held out in the fort at that place,
under Sir II. Wheeler, have most probably persisted;
that General Barnard has died Of dysentery and Sir
Henry Lawrence from wounds; that the whole of the
troops in Dude, as we'll as the GwaliOr Contingent,
have Joined the outbreak aud finally, that q large
government steamer has been totally Iost, seemed to
present an unrelieved catalogue OF disaster. But it
was soon seen that the news was not 80 bad as it
looked and that its worst features consist rather Of
painful individual losses than Of anything threaten.
ing to alter the ultimate termination Of the struggle.
Although the death of General Barnard will proba-
bly, have delayed the attack upon Delhi, it still
possible, in the present instance, that the fall
OF that place may be heard Of, since the Bombay
telegraph, which will be as late rs to the 30th Of July,
while that from Calcutta is only to the 2lst has yet
20 arrive. With regard even to the fate Of the Eu
ropsans at Cawnpore, there ID also some room for
hope although it may be slight and the fact Of that
station having been retaken by General Havelock,
and Of the rebels being in flight before him, after
seriss Of defeats, shows positive turning of the tide,
which can hardly have failed to exercise great in.
huence, especially as there was now uninterrupted
steam communication from Calcutta TO Alahabad.
The arrival of the China forces will likewise have
stimulated further revival of confidence at Cacut.
ta and it is to be regretted that the telegraph gives
no quotations thence, since the price of government
paper and the rate of exchange would tell more in
short compass than anything else. The mutipy Of
the Gwalor Contingent. and of the whole Of the
troops in Dude merely completes n series Of events
which we're in progress at the previous dates and
for which every one was prepared, while the loss oil
the government steamer, as no lives appear to have
been sacrificed, will be hailed almost as an advan
tage, the vessel having been the Transit which, with
the Admiralty predictions in her favor might other
wise have been reserved to bring about come more
terrible calamity.
Finally, on the present as on the former occasion.
It s the negative intelligence that is most cheering
Not doubt il thrown upon the continued loyalty OF
the Bombay and Madras armies, and If these should
remain faithful until the 80 600 men despatched from
power on the part of the government If any of the
Bengal Offenders escape unpunished
II likewise appears that Luck know, regarding which
the most intense anxiety prevailed, has not merely
been able hold out but to srike blow against the
insurgents and, although this effort has cost us life
which seems to have been regarded as the nobest in
India the sadness Of that event ia greatly mtgated
by the circumstance that Sir Henry Lawrence Is un.
derstood to have been suffering from chronic and
painful diseases, to which, in the course Of few
years. he must have succumbed, and that the death
he has met is such a. he most desired.
Surprising the later news which HAY be expected
from Bombay on Monday or Tuesday next, together
With the corrected details Of the Calcutta despatch
abould contain nothing to impart a worse aspect to
that just brought, there will consequently be no rea
eon increased apprehension as ~ the nal result
however much the state Of suspense may be prolong
cd.
Consols for money which left on yesterday at 90;
were frat quoted gu TO l. whence they soon recsdsd
10 9Oi to I. There was then recovery of cont.
dsnce and the latest transactions a, 500 to for
MONEY! and 9O} to / for the account, Bank stock
closed at ol4 to 2l5 reduced 90i to Il new three per
cents 81 to i; India stock 2ll to 2l3 India bonds 22s
to lis discount; and Exchequer bills, 10 discount to
par. The rate for loans In the Stock Exchange to.
day wss Al per cent. Iu the course OF the morning
the failure Of broker was declared, but his liab'
ties were not large.
JUDGE HALLIBURTON on THE CHARACTER
OF THE SEPOY MUTINY.
At slarge meeting held In London to take measures
to relieve those who have suffered from the ravages
OF the mu,insers In India, Judge Halliburton, former
~ OF Nova Scotia. said
Perhaps a. an old Judge, accustomed to vndicste
the criminal Law Of the land 10 which lived might
be allowed 10 Say that throughout my life-my Judi
cal hie-l nave considered that crme should be fol.
lowed With punishment cheers aud that the certain
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