Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-23

The Indian Nutinies-Hor Lueknor ~
Won, &c. DC.
Bombay tDec. a Correspondence Of L1adSs Tines-
When closed my last letter our in.
telligence Of affairs at Lucknow and
its vicinity came down to the 9th o.
Nov, IN which day, as we had just
heard, Sir Colin Campbell had crossed
the Ganges from Cawnporc into Dude
on his way to the capital. The column
under Brigadier Hope Grant had. you
will remember, preceded the Comman-
der-in-Chief by some days, and was
known to have attained the fortified
post Of the Alumbaugh, three miles
from Lucknow, with but trifing oppo-
sition.
Meanwhile Outram and Havelock,
after experiencing severe losses in the
attempt to clear a way back through
the city from the recovered Residency
to the Alumbaugh, were quietly wait
ing within their entertainments to be
relieved, secure against any assault
irom the enemy, though too weak for
offensive operations against him. The
report that out of the officers OF this
gallant little force sixty-three had, up
to the end of September, when their
active movements appear to have ceas-
ed) been killed and wounded, / hoped
might be IN exaggerated one. But
the official list that has since appeared
only too fully confirms it. OF the staff
Sir James Outram and Captain Have
lock were each shot through an arm,
and Col. Tytler wounded by a bayonet
thrust. The Goth have had ii officers
hit, Of whom Lieuts. Num-, Graham,
and Mouitrie were killed, and Colonel
Campbell, a hero of the Caffee war,
MORALLY wounded. The 18th, 9Th
Fusileers, s4th, and Madras Fusileers
he'd also suffered severely.
Weakened by these losses, and, as |
have said, in no anxiety for the safety
OF their position, the Generals awaited
the arrival OF the relief which they
knew to be at hand and, accordingly
within the first few DAYS of November,
a force amounting apparently to not
less than 5000 men, and probably ex-
ceeding that number, was massed at
various points along the Alumbagh.-
Hope Grants column was there, the
men Of Delhi and Of the battle under
the walls of Agra; and there was Peel
with his naval brigade, ready and will
ling as ever, and the stalwarth Hiland-
ers of the 93d, at whom as also at the
sailors, the sleek Bengalese whom they
encountered on their way up the coun-
try had gazcd with awe and wonder,
and the sd, savage with the recent
loss of their Colonel Powell. There
was a respectable little force of cayal-
ry, and the artillery was very strong,
both in field guns and peices of heavy
metal, s-inch guns and mortars, and "a
Founders. Joining the main body Of
this force on the 10th, Sir Colin moved
on towards the Alumbagh on Thursday
the 18th.
A little skirmishing took place, and
a fort called Jel!alabad, lying off the
road, a short distance to the right, was
taken and blown up. The Alumbagh
obtained, communications were opened
with Sir j.. Outram, and Sir j. Have
lock at the Residency. OF the opera
tions that ensued, 1t is not easy to give
an account that will be intellicible
without the aid of plan of the city,
such as that OF which a copy now lies
before me, which. however, will doubt
less be reproduced in England, having
been prepared from official sources es-
pecially to illustrate this fierce struggle.
You are already aware that to reach
the Rcsidency by the direct route from
the whole breadth of the
city has to be trayersed. 1t was desi-
rable therefore, to approach it, if posi-
bic by a clrcnltous route, turning the
city either OF the right or on the left.
To the right, or east side, such a pro-
ceeding appeared practicable. There,
between the suburb and the river Com
tee, ton which the north side Of the
rcsts,) was comparatively open
space, between which and the Kesiden-
CIV there was nc continuous streets or
of buildings, but only some
mosques, palaces, and other ediiiccs
and Enclosures, capable, indeed, OF be-
ing strongly held, but still offering less
danger to an attacking force than the
deep, narrow lanes of the centre OF the
city. Accordingly, it was BY this
quarter that the Commander-in-C Chief
determined to advance upon the Resi-
On Sunday, the 18th, leaving the
main road at the Alumbach, he march
ed across the country to his right till
he came to the house and park Of Dix
hoosha, Hearts delight,) abuting up
on the canal, northern, boundary of
the city. This Enclosure, with that Of
the neiyhboring Martsniere College,
founded by the eccentric old French
ad%vcnturer. General Claude Martin,)
was carried by Sir Colin after a fight
of two hours. Later in the day, the
whom this flank movement
may have taken by surprise came across
the canal and attacked us in force
The open space of which | have spo-
ken now lay just in the front of our
troops, with only the canal between it
and them. An advanced picket at
cleared and occupied a position
the further side of this barrier, and
the operations Of the day, during
which the English loss in officers had
Lieutenants Mayne, ofthe Quartermas-
ter generals Department, aud Wheat
croft, tf the Carbiners, came to an end.