Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
LATEST INrELI1erNcE FROM INDIA.

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The British screw steamer "City of Washington " ar
rived at New York on Tuesday, bringing London and
Liverpool papers to the 2ad of September.
The overland mail steamer, which sailed from South
ampton the Goth of September, had instructions to
take 200 troops from Malta to Alexandria to be sent to
India through Egypt. Several hundred more troops
are to be forwarded by the same route in succeeding
steamers.
Gen. Haveock, it is reported, had received some re-
Inducements at Cawnpore and resumed his march upon
Lucknow
Lord Elgn had proceeded from Hong Kong to Calcut-
ia for the purpose of rendering the services Of the Euro
pean troops in China in exchange for of the native
Bengal regiments it being considered that the Indian
troops would prove sufficiently effective and trust
worthy at Canton than in their own country. Lord
Egin took with him to Calcutta 1700 troops and ma
rines and naval brigade had been organized from his
vessels to proceed forthwith up the Ganges.
Another mutiny in Bombay regiment at Dharwar
reported just before the departure Of the mail The
Madras troops and the Sikhs remained perfectly loyal
Fears we're entertained for the great indigo district Of
Tlfhsu Two tsctories it Tas Said, had xreaay been
burnt.
letter from London in the Paris Patre asserts that
Nena Sahib marching upon Lucknow at the head Of
days ahead Of Gen. HaYelock it considered certain
that he would affect junction with the Dude rebels be-
fore the English Generals arrival The fert of Luck
now, however, deemed impregnable, and it was
well supplied with food and water. Gen. Banks, who
assumed command of the Lucknow garrison the death
of Gen. Lawrence had been killed by she'll The re-
ported death of Gen. Reed before Delhi is confirmed
FROM THE LONDON TIMES OF SEPT. q.
The struggle in India resolves itself with terrible
pcity into single question, that of time-of time
measured not by years seasons, but by weeks and
| even days. Can countrymen hold cut till succors
reach them against the raging fends around? There
not doubt about ultimate neutrality-suspicious. the
reconques if necessary of all India step by step aid
province by province In the volumes of correspondence
reaching from all quarters and expressing every shade
of opinion, have yet met with single misgiy
ing about the eventual issue of the contest India will
British and British will be its lords established in
greater strength and dignity than ever. Such is the
keynote of Indian opinion even in the crisis of peril
and the very who hold their lives by hourly
tenure, and know not what destines single day may
DISCLOSE rely with unbounded and imperturbable conf
dencc the power and energies of their country Nor
is this assurance in the least degree misplaced. Ts
are the nation before has been proved
beyond question The relative superiority of race
is as incontestable century ago; indeed
more Havelock and his troops fought Plassey five
times between Allahabad and Bthoor, and not
whstanding all the disadvantages of position there
has been only single instance throughout the whole
struggle in which British soldiers have been worsed
At Arrah alone has there been any miscarriage Of this
kind and then it was in the darkness of the night and
| the tolls of ambuscade Give only chance of
| fair fighting, and the day is our own.
But up to the moment when the latest despatch left
Calcutta not single battalion, be it remembered, had
reached India from this country. Three months had
elapsed since the outbreak Of the mutny but during the
whole of that period we had been maintaining desper-
ate fight against overwhelming odds, with only such
could be picked from distant colonies
or struggling expeditions. Our countrymen must have
felt surely enough in the middle of May that the aid
they appealed for gould not be forthcoming before the
middle of Septeg1r and what to be the event of
the interval ewas the question For three-fourths
of the period prude and heroism of Englishmen
have kept the scale our favor but the struggle has
been dreadful. We still masters of the field but it
is agonizng to think of what might have been saved by
the presence of even single additional regiment, few
weeks earlier, under the walls of Cawnpore.
General Havelocks march is the very expression and
| type of our position in Hndostan. He advances, he
fights, he conquers-every thing goes down before him
as long he stand; but it is desperate work to
make head against twenty to What kind of task he
found may be very distinctly collected from the
brief notifications of the telegraph. After crossing the
Ganges he had about fifty miles between himself and
Lucknow. He had got only twenty-five of these.
and yet he had fought three actions all successfully and
captured twenty guns. 1t is plain thatthe enemy
be swarmng along the whole road like hornets and
at the end there is Lucknow ITSELF with dense popua
on and all the mutneers of Dude Our latest accounts
inform that this dauness little column, reduced by
incessant combats to hundred eight hundred
men, but reinforced by the handful of troops which could
be spared from Cawnpore, had again recommended its
eventful march On the 4h of August the advance
be renewed and all the hopes and the prayers of
countrymen went with them. With time the whole work
would be but child's play month or two more would
place 5000 troops at Cawnpore instead of 500 but
| month two would have left Lucknow to the
rebels, and the game had to be played whatever the
chances, with the cards which we held
1t is of the worst effects of the Dinapore mutny
that it threatens intercept from the northwestern dis
tricts such the Government of Calcutta
otherwise have sent up We do not anticipate that the
great line of communication will be seriously interrupted
but troops which could otherwise have gone straight
Allahabad and Cawnpore may be detained by work
of their at Pana Benares. With the exception
however, of this misfortune affairs exhibit promising
aspect could be looked fer In the Madras Pres
dency neither Nagpore nor Hyderabad-the chief
tres of dangerhad given any cause for alarm In Bom
bay the mutiny of single corpsitself exceptionally
circumstaneed-had not been followed during whole
fortnighs interval by any other example of disaecton
the revoers had found little encouragement reinforce
ments were arriving, the Government was strong and
the community confident. Central India had been brought
under command and was tranquil; it still the
Jumna and the Ganges that the struggle was pending
and here if the outbreaks in Lower Bengal do not
terialy divert the efforts of Government the chances
seem turning against the rebels.
There two quarters from which the British force
before Delhi may receive eectua succorsthe Punaub
the northwest and Calcutta the southeast At the
beginning of the insurrecon the Punaub contained the
bulk of the European forces stationed in the Bengal Pre-
sdency and of the best corps of rregulars Little
time, in point of fact lost in dispatchng assistance
from these parts to the camp at Delhi but the province
itself had of to be secured before much could
be done for the aid of others These preliminary pre-
cautions however have now been taken. Every Sepoy
battalion in the Punaubhas either been disarmed cut
to pieces the Sikh population has furnished and
trustworthy levies and what with the European reg
ments thus dsengaged and the Sikh troops enrolled
renfOrCemepS
Delhi from the northwest in the month last past would
represent little less than half the effective strength of
the Bengal army it remained after the detection of
the Sepoys. No such resources these be dis
patched from Calcutta until the arrival of from
England but it is gratifying to observe that the inter-
val is marked by most seasonabe reliefs from other
quarters OF the troops composing the Chinese exped
tion only single regiment-the 90th-had been disem-
barked Calcutta before the date of the last dispatches
leaving the 23d 3d. and the 93d still to follow BY the
mails just received two vessels the Pearl and the Lance