The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-08

fore the middle OF September and what 10 be the
event of the interval There the question. For
OF the period the ortitude and herosm OF
Englishmen have kept the scale in favor, but the
struggle has been dreadful We still masters OF the
field but il is agonizng 10 think of what might have
been saved by the presence Of even single additional re-
gment few weeks earlier. under the walls oil Gavin
pore
Gen Hayeock's march the very expression and type
of position in Hndostan. He advances he nights,
he goes down before him as long as
he can stand but il is desperate work TO make head
against twenty What kind OF task he found may
be very distinctly collected from the brief notihca
tons of the telegraph After crossing the Ganges he
had about fifty miles between himself and Lucknow. He
had got over only twenty-five Of these and yet he had
fought three actions all successfully and captured IL
guns 1t is plain that the enemy must be swarming
along the whole road like hornets and at the end there
is Lucknow ITSELF with dense population, and all the
muneers OF Dude Our latest accounts inform US that
this dauntless little column reduced by ncessant COM
bats to 700 800 fighting men, but reinforced by
the handful of troops which could be spared from Gavin
pore had again recommended its eventful march On the
4h of August the advance to be renewed and all the
hopes and the prayers counymen went with them
With time, the whole work would be but child play
month or two more would place 900 troops at Gavin
pore, instead of 500 but month or two more would
have Lucknow the rebels and the game had to be
played whatever the chances with the cards which we
held.
1t is one of the worst effects of the Dnapore mutny
that it threatens intercept from the northwestern dis
cts such the government of Calcutta might
great line of communication will be seriously interrupted
but troops which could otherwise have straight to
Aahabad and Cawnpore may now be detained by work
of their at Patna and Benares With the exception,
however of this misfortune, affairs exhibited as promising
aspect could be looked for In the Madras pres
dency neither Nagpoe Hyderabadthe chief centres
of danger-had given any cause for alarm In Bombay
the mutny of single corpsitsef exceptionally circum-
stanced-had not been followed during whole fort
nights interval by any other example OF disaection;
the revoter had found little encouragement reinforce
mens arriving the government was strong, and the
community confident. Central India had been brought
under command and tranquil; it was still on the
Jumna and the Ganges that the struggle was pending
and here if the outbreaks in Lower Bengal do not mate
rally divert the efforts OF government the chances seem
turning against the rebels.
There are two quarters from which the British force
before Delhi may receive eectual succorsthe Punjaub
to the northwest and Calcutta to the southeast AT the
beginning of the instruction the Punaub contained the
bulk of the European forces stationed in the Bengal
idcncy and of the best corps of regulas Little
time in point of fact lost in despatching assistance
from these parts to the camp at Delhi but the province
itself had course be secured before much could be
done for the aid of others These preliminary precau
| tons, however, have been taken. Every Sepoy
battalion in the Punaub has either been dsarmed or cut
to pieces the Sikh population has furnished new and
trustworthy levies and what with the European regi
ments thus sengagcd and the Sikh troops enrolled 1t
is calculated that the renforcements their way TO Del
Iii the northwest in the month last past would rep
little less than half the effective strength of the
Bengal army as it remained the detection of the Sc
poys No such these be despatched from
Calcutta until the arrival of from England but it
is gratifying to observe that the interval is marked by
! most seasonablc reliefs from other quarters
OF the troops composing the Chinese expedition only
| single regiment-the 9Oth--had been disembarked at
Calcutta before the date of the last dispatches leaving
the 23d the SD and the 93d still to follow. BY the mails
Just received vessels the Pearl and the Iancefeld
reported actually at Calcutta with troops from the
Transit two steamers with troops on board were met
| by the Bentinck coming up the river Lord Egin had
| IN Tho nm n
slip published by of the Calcutta journals the 9th
of August says that further very large achievements
expected by the 22d of that month If this refers
to the draughts from the Cape it is possible enough that
Lord Canning may receive altogether 5000 900
cellent troops before the arrival OF any OF those de-
spatched from England If Havelock could do much
with the Gath and the 18th, what not be done with
the half dozen fresh regiments thus coming I'M
We cannot, however, pretend to disguise the severity
with which time must still press upon our beleaguered
garrisons For weeks to come, at the very least every
European detachment in the northwest provinces must
represent against fifty and it is impossible to
say with these sporadic eruptons of muty what fresh
demands may not be created upon the fresh forces which
arrive month hence we may find new Delhi in Ben
gal 1t is clear that want troops to retain in the low
provinces well despatch to the upper and till
the great renforcements arrive the deadly struggle for
time must go with only such help few fortunate
| succors can bring to resolue endurance.
private letter from of the Punaub camps gives
so simple and manly expression to all these reflections
that transcribe its words SIN the mean while place
LIE IN the hands oil wnom
| have unbounded trust Our hope is that England
will not forget that her army in India is actually
keeping the country for her until achievements arrive
and that in doing fighting like bulldogs, and
undergoing with cheerfuness privatons and harships
which be experienced to be described" Of surety
England will not forget these appeals but will exert
every little of her strength for rescue possible or if
| not, for vengeance
| DANGEROUS SITUATION FRENCH INDIA.
The Liverpool Post of September Esd says
The critical position of the French possessions in In
| da (Pondicherry, Chandernagon, Kare Ka and Mabe)
has called forth important demonstration from the
merchants of Bordeaux According to the treaties of
1914 and 1885, these places under the direct potec
ton of England but notwithstanding this protection
the merchants of Bordeaux think that England alb
sorbed in the defence of her territory, longer
grant to the French territory the protection imposed
her by treaties and they ask the chamber of
to nterpose with the imperial government for the des-
patch of armed force to protect the French stations
They sThe relations of Bordeaux with Pondicher-
ry and other stations the Coromandel coast the
numerous French interests involved the fortunes and
| lives of countrymen exposed to the atrocities of
which the northwest provinces of Bengal have been the
theatre call for your Intervention with the government
in order that it may take into serious consideration and
adopt without delay such as in its wisdom 1t
may think desirable for the defence of Indian estab
! lshments"
y telegraph sgsBos from t snass s gafrY Sept u.s.
voling Just OF the London, Manchester and
foreign warehouses resolution agreed to wind up
The company formed at the beginning of last year
| will al NJ in Osbar hcl had