INSURRECTION IN INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 323, 5 December 1855, Page 8

INSURRECTION IN INDIA.

The intelligence contained in letter? from tho interior, published in the papers of this day, 2oih July, regarding the insurrection, is increasingly alarming. The Englishman gives a letter from Midnapore, stating that Mr. Bright, the magistrate, having been applied to for a wing of the Shekiiwattee Battalion, represented that he bad received information that ihe Sounds only waited the despatch of the troops to rise A letter from -Monghyr states that 20,000 of the rebels were said to be on their way to Bhaugulpore and that 160 of the Hill Rangers had been sin*' out_to meet ihem. Every one is flying from ih'e station. The civilians had determined toreroov 0 the treasure, and this has served to increase th alarm. From eSoorcre we learn that Rampore Haul had not fallen into the hands of the insurgents, but il is expected to be attacked on the 21st. On all sides oT Sooree, the villages at the distance of six, seven, and eight miles were in flames, but the Commissioner could afford no assistance through the 'paucity of troops. At Bancoorah, the residents were in dread of a rise of the hill tribes ; and, in short, in every direction, over an extent of an 1 undred miles, in the heart of Bengal, the Company's Government .is suspended, and what is worse, the prestige of its name is gone, and the public confidence is destroyed. It is slated in the Citizen, that 300 men of the Calcutta Militia have started for the scene of action, and that an equal number of the Body Guards is to follow. The Englishman has been informed that the Lieutenant-Gover-nor made an official application to the Supreme Council to place the disturbed districts under martial law ; but it wastefused. We fully concur with our contemporary in the remark, that "if anything could give the .insurgents a chance ot success, it would be ibis playing at cross purposes on the pare of these 'district authorities.'' We are thrown on n crisis which demands unanimity. The Hurkaru states that some of the European residents at Raupegunge have caught the general panic which prevails in the districts within reach of the insurgents, and that several ladies—-some say twenty—have arrived in Calcutta from that station.' Also that Government has ordered half a dozen assistant surgeons to join the troops moving towards Rajmahl.— Sydney Herald.