The Press. — 1857-10-03 (London, England)

CANVNPORE. From Delhi we turn to Cawnpore, and hero the intelligence is far from satisfactory. General Havelock, after the most gallant advance upon Lucknow, and the defeat of the rebels at Busseerutgunge, was compelled to retire upon Cawnpore, on the l,t Aug., to relieve himself of his sick! and wounded. It was at this point that our former narrative left that gallant officer and his little band of heroes. Reinforced by General Neill with two guns—he had no infantry to give him—Havelock once more advanced to the relief of Lucknow. He marched on the evening of the 4th of August, and encountered on the sth an army of 5,004) men, whom he engaged and defeated, cauturing three guns. He then pushed on to Busseerutguage, the scene of his former exploit, and there received information that full 3,000 men were between him and Lucknow, with three fortified villages and one broken bridge, strongly intrenched, on the road; and that the enemy had a large body of artillery and irregular csvalry. General Havelock had but 90J European soldiers in all, and but little or no carnage fur his sick and wounded. He therefore decided upon again retiring upon Cawnpore, and holding that post until reinforcements arrived. The possibility of his making his way to Lucknow was out of the question, but the certainty of sacrificing his men and failing iu the relief of the garrison was evident. Thus in all probability the three parties, viz., those at Lucknow, at Cawnpore, and his own, would have been cut off in detail, whereas by retiring upon Cawnpore he secured that place, and there was still the chance and the hope of the Lucknow garrison being able to hold out until reinforcements arrived. General Havelock and General Neill will, I hope, be able to bold their ground until reinforcements reach them. In the meanwhile I tremble for the fate of Lucknow, which has had strong assaults to repel, and heavy losses, iu the death of Colonels Banks and Reed, to deplore. The Ayr Observer has been favoured with the following extract of a letter from General Neill, dated Cawnpore, August 1: Since I arrived here I have been hard at work to get order reestablished. I have now put a atop to the plundering I found going on by reorganising a police. I am also collecting all the property of the deceased, and trying to trace if any have survived, bat as yet have not succeeded in finding one. Man, woman, and child seem all to have been murdered. As soon as that monster Nana Sahib heard of the success of our troops and of their having forced the bridge about twenty miles from Cawnpore, he ordered the wholesale butchery of the poor women and children. I find the officers' servants behaved shamefully, and were in the plot, all but the lowest caste ones. They deserted their wasters and plundered them. Whenever a rebel is caught he is immediately tried, and unless he can prove a defence he is sentenced to be hanged at once ; but the chief rebels or ringleaders I make first clean up a certain portion of the pool of blood, still two inches deep, in the shed where the fearful murder and mutilation of women and children took place. To touch blood is most abhorrent to the high-caste natives, they think by doing so they doom their souls to perdition. Let them think so. My object is to inflict a fearful punishment for a revolting, cowardly, barbarous deed, and to strike terror into these rebels. The first I caught was a subadar, or native officer, a high-cute Brahmin, who tried