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At Agra all was quiet.

Al Agra all was quiet.
Fears were entertained Of a new outbreak ut Assam.
A conspiracy to restore the ex -Rsjah had been detect
ed. One hundred and fifty prisoners taken by Gen-
eral Neill at Cawnpore, are said to have been liberated
by the government. 1t is also said that the Supreme
Council had sent up to the disturbed districts one OF
its members to control the generals in command, in
the execution of martial law. The leniency Of the
government was strongly condemned both IN India
and England.
The Intelligence from the Bombay Presidency is
favorable, though a few cases of disafection had oc-
Cured in the army in Scinde. At Kurrachee, the
Dist Bombay Native Infantry had been disarmed, and
about twenty men Of the regiment had been convicted
of q serious plot to murder all the Europeans, and
executed. Al Hyderabad, in the same province, a
company ofnative artillery had been disarmed.
The whole Of the northeast frontier is said to be in
a disturbed state.
Considerable reinforcements had arrived at Calcut-
The country between Calcutta and Allahabad was
perfectly quiet
was busily depressing disturbances and r~esettling the
country.
The mutineers of the Joudpore Legion defeated the
Rajah Of Joudpore's troops, killing the general and
taking three guns, ON the 9th of September they then
Joined the rebellious Thakoor of Arrah.
General Lawrence proceeded, on the 18th Septern-
Der, with q detachment from Behar, and attacked
the rebels. He compelled them to take refuge in the
town of Gaya, but found the place too strong for an
assault to be risked, and accordingly fell back on
Behar.
Benares, Sept. IA letter from General Outram,
dated Kurreem, Sept. IL, states1'sI have just re-
ceived a note from Cawnpore of this date, from which
1 extract the following: 1--WE had good news from
Lucknow yesterday fierce cannonade at gun-hre,
and towards noon the enemy exploded a mine. but
by some mischance it went off just under the feet OF
those advancing to attack, killing, it is said, nearly
400. The garrison then made a sortie, which COM
pleted their discontinue"
Benares, Sept. 20.@Generals Outram and Have
lock report from Cawnpore on the 10Th, at 6 P. NJ,
~ = - -Aoe11 %Iak a~prn rfhn nnpoC
ton, skirmishing only with advanced posts
Letters from Lucknow of the 18th or 18th, report
all well. The assault of the 9th was repulsed with
great loss to the assailants.
All quiet in the Punjaub. From Rewah nothing
fresh.
The Liverpool Mercury gives the following sum-
mary Of the late news
Our great triumph of the Goth of September-ad day
which will now be doubly memorable in the annals
Of British valor-was not achieved an hour too soon.
1t is evident, from the general tenor of the news
brought by the present mail, that difficulties and
perils were multiplying and thickening upon US; and
had the rebellion held its ground Mt Delhi but a few
weeks longer, the consequences might have been in
calculably disastrous 1t is increasingly apparent
that the fidelity of the Bombay, army was rapidly
giving way under the temptations presented by the
prolonged success and IMMUNITY of the Bengal Sepoys.
Though the Presidency itself (s well as that OF
Madras) continued tranquil, the Bombay troops
stationed in Scinde were clearly no longer to be de-
pended upon. At Kurrachee, Hyderabad, (not to be
confounded with the place of the same name in the
Nizam's dominions, SINGAPORE, and elsewhere, plots
had been discovered, regiments disarmed, and conspi-
rators and mutineers executed
There seems no reason to doubt that the authorities
were well able to hold their own in that quarter; but
assuredly it was more than time that the restless
spirits throughout India should receive some striking
proof of the supremacy of British power. The Dina
pore rebels-previously stated to have been dispersed
as well as defeated by Major Eyre-are again heard
Of as threatening Saugor and Jubbulpore in Central
India, far away from the scene of their original out
break. The mutineers of the J~oudpore Legion have
seized the little town of Gaya, and hold it in defiance
of US; and we are told of similar acts of successful
audacity committed elsewhere by other bodies of in
surgents. Malwa is reported as disturbed. The
mutineers of the Gwalior Contingent are said to have
crossed the Chumbul, together with some of the Mhow
and Indore rebels, and to have been threatening Agra.
In Behar we hear of the Ramgur insurgents having
interrupted the communications below Benares.
Even from the extreme east of Assam we have vague
rumors of conspiracy barely kept from exploding.
Altogether it is but too plain that rebellion was gain
ing both in numbers and daring. 1t is undoubtedly
true that time was fighting in our favor, but it was
also at many points fighting against us. We cannot
be sufficiently thankful that the insurgents have at
length received a signal and decisive proof of the IRE
slstible might of England, and of the blank and utter
hopelessness of their cause.