The Washington union., 1858-03-21
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i'HE WAR IN INDIA.

The latest from India although containing moth
ing OF exciting character is nevertheless satisfactory
and encouraging, and gives TO believe that the
great struggle between the British and the native rebels
ss'owy but surely APPROACHING lis termination Every
day the district occupied hs the idtheei was becoming
more eircYmscbed, and II Is thought that the next mail
viii bring Information thai they confined enrey to
the contiguous districts o Dude and Robilcund prepar
ing TO make their great stand at Lucknow. Sir Colin
Campbell 1t is said has assembled force of l5, coo men
at Fueghur about three miles distant from Furrucka
bad the scene OF his last victory with which be intend
ed shortly to the Ganges and attack the enemy In
front Sir James Outram was intrenched at Alumbagh,
close TO Lucknow with considerable force ready to
operate with Sir Colin whenever he desires it Jung Ba
hadoor and the Ghoorkas occupying Goruckpore Jaun
PORE and Azmghur, the left OF The insurgents, and
whenever the British rofianer in gives the signal
they VIII advance by the left bank of tue Goomty and
ATTACK Lucknow in the rpar, while the British attack il In
'front.' It Is reported tha the strength of the rebels at
this point amounts TO hundred thousand men that
they actively employed in orying their position
and that the siege of Lucknow will be likely to be
rotractod and bloody operation the siege of
the ancient capital of the Mogul empire There is
NOR that the insurgents i'll supplied with and
ammunition but it would that the chief ground
for this supposon is that in the most engage
mens with the British troops the rebels have suffered
very severely while the latter have escaped with
paratvely ng oss 1t IL certain that the in the
hands of the followers of the Dude landlords and the ban
dts who have helped TO swell the enemy ranks far
inferior to the excellent rifle muskets of the Queens sol
ders, and that these Ill trained ragamutns match
for steady, well-dsciplned British regiments. But it
must be remembered that very large proportion Of the
arms and aocoutremens of the sepoy army of Bengal
now in possesson of the rebels and that making every
allowance for loss and breaase, they must still have
very formidable armament
1t is thought in England that the coming battle of
Lucknow will be the extinction of the rebellion and may
he considered the end of the We think from the
description of Sir Colin Can,pbells proposed plan of
tack and Judging from the invariable success hitherto
of the British the rebel troops that there
son TO doubt that the rebel cause utterly hopeless but
we fear that the end Is not IL supposed and
that even If the defenders of Lucknow completely
routed, Sir Colin Campbell will have great deal of rough
work To perform before he say that the Is over
The revolted scpoys know that they doomed in any
event. and will prefer to die fighting their foe rather than
suffer the disgrace Of death the gallows Despair will
give them courage aud if but twenty thousand of them
remain, and constitute the main body of the mutncers
at Lucknow, it Is not probable that in battle how
disastrous il may be- they be totally annih
lated to render all further resistance impossible In
mountainous country like Dude peculiarly adapted for
proracted guerilla warfare and In the midst of popula
on anatcaly hostile To the British the rebels give
good deal of annoyance after they driven from the
capital of the province although, practically. the rebel
lion may be sbdued and the supremacy of British rule
to all intcnts and purposes, firmly recstablishcd.
In Central India at Saugor which had been bccagucr
ed by sepoy mutnces for six months the British troops
under Sir Hugh Rose have achieved important victory
in relieving the garrison, and releasing about hundred
and children from the dread of the fate that
befe their unhappy kindred ut Cawnporc
In the northern provinces whittier the general
reported to have gone in person. il is said that order is
being completely restored and that the mness discm
mating clemency, and unswervng Justice displayed by
Lord Canning, contributing largely To the submis
sion of the population to British dominion and British
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