Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-08


recon of their fight is unfortunate that it prom
ises little service to them and comparatively little
trouble to ourselves 1t not at all desirable that
they should into the still fermenting districts
Of Bundelcund, or disturb the populous and pro-
ductive provinces of Behar and Bengal. The degree
Of irritabity still surviving in those parts may be
easily inferred from the report communicated by
this very mail to the effect that Calcutta itself
in panic as late as the third of March, and that
volunteers were called out and cannon planted
against anticipated attack from the disarmed Sc
poys of Barrackpore. Under such circumstances it
is obvious of satisfaction that the rush of
the fugitive rebels should have been made towards
the west rather than the east, and indeed the
ures of the Commander in Chief seem to have been
expressly taken with the view of placing at least
this result beyond doubt. All avenues of escape to-
wards the east were carefully closed against the in
surgents by the columns under Jung Bahadoor and
Brigadier Franks while the main army itself was
interposed between them and the South. What
may be the fortune reserved for these thrice beaten
bands in the district of Rohilcund to which they
have retreated, we shall not be long in learning. The
province itself was undoubtedly one of the worst
seats Of the original rebellion and of the most
fragrant examples of mutiny were furnished by its
garrsons. But the capture of Delhi, the incessant
march Of reintorcements from Meerut to the east,
and more recently the successful operations of Sir
Collin Campbell himself against the rebels at Fut-
tehghur, must have inundated the turbulent, and
brought the country to great extent under control!
There force, too of Sikh leves lately organic
ed, and placed under the command of Brigadier
Chamberlain, which was to descend from the north.
west upon this very province, and which, if we mis-.
take not, should at this time be somewhere about
Barely and therefore well placed to intercept the
fugitves. Finally, two strong detachments from the
army of Lucknow, well provided with cavalry and
horse artillery, already their heels, so that
little time, it may be hoped, will be given them eth
to recognize their forces to establish themselves
in any fresh position for another stand.
Although our satisfaction might have been more
complete If the Indian revolt had been terminated
by definite surrender the part of the Lucknow
garrison, the actual result certainly desir
able than the only remaining alternative Of despe-
rate and sanguinary struggle We might have de-
stroyed more mutineers, but we should have lost
many more of own soldiers whereas at present
the capital of Dude has been captured at little cost
to our army, while the prospects Of the rebels are
unpromising in the extreme. How tenaciously the
fGsgna %1tnssrs Their
of this contest and it is improbable that one or
two such assemblages that still existing at Calpee
may call for distinct expeditions the part of our
commanders But the main body of the fugitives,
hemmed in between their immediate pursuers on the
east their friendly Sikh Chiefs backed by the entire
force of the Punjab on the west, and the columns
advancing through Rajpoot:na on the South must
be speedily reduced to despair nor need antici-
pate a renewal of any such contests as have been
sustained at Lucknow and Delhi. The mutineers
have now no stronghold or asylum remaining They
are at large in a country where they have nothing
but indifference hostility to expect from the gem
eral population, where ascendency has been al.
ready established, and where their few allies have
paid the penalties of their treason. We may still
experience some trouble, but Sir Colin ampbells
victorious campaign has exempted us from any fur
Their risk of disaster and has terminated the condi-
tons Of regular war by the final dispersion of the
enemy.