The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-15
] DAILY DISPATCH.
THURSDAY MORNING f,t,r0arR !, .:

HE NEWS FRea IyDis.--The Ionden Times evil
dentiy regards the Indian news with gloomy an
prehension. In its issue of Wednesday, September
30, 1t thus comments: -;
The additional particulars received by the For
egn oifce, in the form of q dispatch from the In
dian Governinent 70 the secret committee Of the
East India directors, throw new, and we must add
gloomy light on the state of affairs.
For the present, and for several weeks more from
the last date. We must make up our minds to in-
creasing difficulty, aud the consequent probability
OF fresh disasters, ~ one quarter another Here
and there II lie may be aed ia air,fayor. An
heroic act, desperate advance or still more des-
perate defence, brilliant yictory2or miraculous
relief, timely panic In the foe or an unhopedfor
ald may serve TO console US for casualties of an
opposite character. But when things are pushed
to the extreme, and everything everywhere is
| staked on the cast Of die, We cannot expect the
| chances to be always in our favor,
1t Is not Delhi that is now the chief point of
| anxiety. Nor yet do Lucknow aud Agra, with their
gallant defenders and their hundreds Of women and
children, molopolZe interest. The whole line of
communication is threatened and disturbed. We
have had to retreat-to surrender points which
till lately we were sure of holding, 10 detain re-
Inducements, to p:ov d against new dangers and
| reduce our position TO the least and most man.
| ageable nuil-us of dominion.
All this. Of course, Is ouiy for a time Give MS
the single month of September,--let us ride over
those thirty days. and there is small cause of fear
But it is terrible to think what may happen in that
interyal,-how much that is absolutely Ircmedia-
ble Such il the distance that we are now almost
powerless spectators. Whether the British Govern
ment has done well or i'll, it can do little more
BY and By We will venture to suggest what may
be done; but first for the anxious particulars before
y f5r -
1t is much to be feared that General HayeIock
has thus far gained substantial advantage in re-
turn for the loss of many valuable lives. At the
last date, the 13th he was still at Cawnpore, with
his force reduced to 900 men, worn out with fa-
IT cOult he rpinfnrepd m Iass fhau o.
days fortnight-that is in effect, till the be-
ginning of September, the msmanaged Affairs of
Dinapore and Arrah having had the effect of de-
tanning below the Queens 5th and GOTH that were
otherwise going up the river. Instead of advancing
and making good his progress, General IIavelock
was seriously threatened even at Cawnpore. He
| expected 10 be attacked on three sides-bys he
| Dude insurgents on the North, and from Futtey
| pore, andby the Gwalior mutineers from Calpee.
1t is almost a novelty in this war to hear of the
river navigation being employed for any other pur
pose than the quiet transport of men and material
| and it certainly is a melancholy reflection that
while We are encircling the earth with belt o
big ships, and have innumerable gunboats, and
| other craft, of all Sizes r0tting and rusting no
body knows where, there Is not such thing on
| the Ganges, or its tributaries, steamboa,
adapted for the purposes of war. No doubt, the
navigation of these rivers, supplied by mountain
torrents, flowing through immense alluvial plains
with frequent inundations and changes of channel
il not very easy or always possible. But in August
and September there is at least depth of water
vessels, capable of stormng with two three guns
and hundred or two men.
Had the Company but dozen of such vessels at
this juncture! How gladly would England give
twenty of the ships of the line now lying in ordi
nary at half dozen harbors and estuaries fer as
many vessels of onetwenteth their tonnage
moving up and down in the Ganges and its tribu-
taries 1t appears that there is one such steamer
at the command of General IIavelock, and he had
dispatched ii to prevent the Dude people, if pos.
sille from crossing at Futteynore: Int he had mn
means whatever OF preventing the Gwalor mutt
neers from crossing the Jun,ma at Caipee Indeed,
it is too probable that by the union of these three
bodies he would soon find himself much be-
sieged at Cawnpore as Wheeler had been before
him. and as our pc )ple are at Agra, Luck now, and
half dozen other places.