Engalish and Foreign.
The English August mail has arrived, bringing dates from London to Aug. 17th. There Is no European news of much interest. We are obliged to postpone details of domestic occurrences to a future issue. The session of Parliament was expected to close on the 22nd Auv.
Ten thousand militia were to be immediately embodied for the defence of the country, which the large drafts for India and China had left almost unprotected.
The Atlantic telegraph scheme had failed; for the present at least. The cable broke at about 400 miles from the shore, and 300 miles of it were lost. The ships had returned. Proghess of the Sepoy Rebellion. Our advices from Bombay are to the 29 th of Aug., and from Madras to the second ult. The intelligence now received is fraught with the most painful interest. Scarcely a corps in the Bengal native army had remained faithful to its allegiance, and the revolt had spread to the Bombay Presidency, although the latest accounts from Bombay state, that the mutiny which broke out among the 27th Native Infantry, stationed at Kolapoor, had been entirely suppressed through the timely arrival of a large European force. A cavalry regiment in the Madras army had also, according to the ' Spectator,' shown a disinclination to march to Calcutta. Delhi still held out, and it was reported that it was the intention of the British Commander to reduce the rebels by famine. Other accounts, however, state that the city would be assaulted immediately the British General found himself strong enough to risk an attack. The most frightful anai-chy prevailed within the walls. The orders of the puppet King of India were never obeyed, and the rebel army was in the worst disorganised condition. The city itself had suffered greatly from the fire of the besiegers. General Havelock, who at previous advices had retaken Cawnpore, and advanced upon Lucknow, had been compelled, through the sickness of his small army, to return to the former city. Humours had been spread of the suicide of Naira Sahib, the instigator of the Cawnpore atrocities, but the report was not believed. The British General had terribly avenged the barbarous massacre of the unfortunate garrison—one account stating that fully ten thousand of the rebels had been slaughtered. The details of the horrible murders of the European women and children, after the defeat of Naira by General Havelock, on the 15th July, are sickening'in the extreme, and fully account for the severity, of the reprisals. Reinforcements for the British army are slowly arriving. Gholab Singh, the Maharajah of Cashmere, and. a firm ally of the British, was reported to be dead.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 523, 7 November 1857, Page 5
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443Engalish and Foreign. Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 523, 7 November 1857, Page 5
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