INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 563, 27 March 1858, Page 3

INDIA.

The following extracts are taken from late numbers of the ' Calcutta Englishman:— ■

Rungpore.—A correspondent, whose is dated the 4th instant, >hvs :—" In your paper of the 18th D,'Cemt>(M-, I perceive an account of the doings in- Run«;i»>ro. which is not quite correct: the following are the facts :—On the 30th November a report was received that the Dacca mutineers had crossed the Burrampooter, looted the Chelmarrie Bazaar, killed a Thanna Peon, and were in full march for the station, where they might be hourly expected. This put people into an awful commotion, the married gentlemen very wisely and properly left the station for the jungles with their families ; the others remained. The report proved false; and all was peace and quietness until the 2nd December, when Pucka Kubber, it was said, had been reached, and the foe was within a few hours' march of the station: a hurried consultation was held, and it was resolved to remove the Government treasure to a place of safety. Messrs. Featherstonehaugh and Proby volunteered to take charge of it, see it safe to its destination, and remain in charge until all danger was passed. Accordingly, with eight elephants laden with treasure, they started at 11 p.m., for a place called Toolseeghaut, distant about 42 miles. After a very tedious, disagreeable journey, they reached their destination at 9 the following night: having seen the coin, &c, safely deposited, they looked about for their comforts. After some trouble they got housed in a dirty thinly-matted house; their food was such, poor stuff as could be procured in the village; here they remained for six days, without even a change of clothes, the Pandies having passed to the north of the station, and the Jacks having arrived at Bugwah Ghaufc. Messrs. Featherstonehaugh.and Proby were ordered back with the treasure, which they made over to the collector on the 9th. Such conduct is deserving of notice, and it is to be hoped Government will not allow these gentlemen to go unrewarded. All I hear is quiet at the station: the Jacks having cooled down, are behaving- tolerably well, praying that they may have a share in handling the ChittagoDg mutineers."— Englishman, Jan. 9. Extract of a telegraphical message dated Allahabad, 6th January, 1858, from Brigadier Campbell to Lord Dunkellin .-- —" I had a fight with the rebel Nizam near Secundra. We killed upwards of 350 rebels; our loss was one private killed and one sepoy wounded ; fifteen horses killed and wounded."— Englishman, Jan. 8: Cawnfore.—The following is dated from the Field Hospital, Cawnpore; December SOfch, 1857 : —"I have to inform you that I am, thank God, just recovering from a wound. Mv health lis good, and I be out ofho-jrt il '" > ''• days, to \\Ak into Lii'-km.w l <y 'f\ '>_ Commander-in-Chief hi* s I and has I'^! .i-s'l *n- '.i1 >_~ _ *•- trup. Ti ere ae7o~* im ; We intend to „'t-.cK Li v three diffeient p'a'el* lex i c*" ■ jui \\\\ {' before the Commander-1. Ulnei hpim^ * .'• lumbaug. I have-been in several sharpen^-*-;:----fnents since I left Calcutta. I.ofren rhiuli o: my night patrols round Government House and elsewhere during the panic, to say' nothing ut* my drilling, &c."— Englishman, January 7th. Kedgeeee.— The following is from the Mauritius steamer, dated Kedgeree, Ist January : —" We have arrived quite safe at Kedgeree, and the sepoys are in' excellent spirits, but are greatly crowded owing to -the men's bedding taking up much more . room than Europeans'would; but the captain is doing his best to remedy this evil, having turned the lascars out of the forecastle. .There was a case of cholera this morning, the man dying after a few hours' illness. Eighteen revolvers were sent on board for the captain and the European portion of the crew, but I don't think that they will be required until we reach China; and then only for the "Fanqui."— EhffUshman,oth Jan. Futtypoke.—A private letter, dated the 31st December, remarks that Mr. Bensley Thornhill's name ought not to have been left out of the Lucknow despatches. When Haveloek's relieving force arrived, he volunteered to. go out and bring in the, sick and wounded. He went under a heavy "fire, and brought in, among others, General Haveloek's son. He went out a second and a third time, and then had his leg smashed by a cannon shot, of which he died a few days afterwards. The writer adds:—" The wives and, widows of the 32nd Regt. at Allahabad " are driving about in carriages, and are known to have an immense quantity of plundered jewels; but the Brigadier will not have them searched, and the army are cheated out of the pmo money they'ought .to get. The Madras officers are repairing the dilapidated Cutcherry, to make it into a theatre, and are going to have theatricals'. There is a report here that Grant and Gubbins, the Commiarionois, are to be hero to-morrow, on_their way to Cawupore. -—12ii(/liskitian,Jiin. o.

.^J^ttGbH.—The--following is dated 17th Dec: We are all still safe in tlie fort at Saugor,. 31st Regiment N.I. are holding the and>canfcenments -as usual. Many officers ■ '-with, their' Families spend itheir days in the can-; »i»nment, but all take their morning and even>ing'3rtves; some few are bold enough to sleep •out of the fort in their bungalows. A detachment of 200 men and three nine-pounders were sent out on a dour, under ■ Captain --Finch, 31st Regiment, N. 1.; theyleft during the night of the loth, and arrived at Bopyle or the morning of the 16th, about six miles from the Saugor Fort, where the rebels ware in great force. The artillery opened or the enemy—who were all ready for the fight,—and kept up a magnificently steady fire for three hours, when the infantry were ordered to advance, and, from all I hear, the town was taken in splendid style. Everybody praises the Sepoys for the noble and steady way they advanced and took the town unaer a heavy fire. As the detachment had vacated the town, and was about to return to Saugor, the Buudelalis were reinforced by the Neriowlie force, and as our party was very small, and had fired off nearly all their ammunition, having been fighting for five hours, the order to retire was given. Upwards of 100 of the <jnemy were killed, and our own loss was 10 sepoys killed and wounded, and one European Artillery-man missing. In the meantime the •whole fort was in the greatest alarm, reports Tiaving reached Sangor that our party were surrounded and cutoff: every available man was ordered ont to our assistance, with two more guns; and the old Brigadier himself was going to the rescue, but just as they were about to start our party came in sight, much to their delight. The Bopyle rebels who had been annoying us for some time past were well paid off. We have since heard that-their Commander-in-Chief and four other chiefs were killed*" Dabjeeling. — Extract of a letter, dated 27th December, near Darjeeling :—

" Our fellows cannot get hold of the Dacca crascals, although they are within a few miles •of them, but on the other side of the Teesta

driver. It is said that the Bhootias are trying to seize them, to get the 50 rupees offered for the capture of individual mutineers. Two of the native officers who have gone to the Soubah *to try and get him to assist in-the mutiny have %een detained by him. The Bhootias are afraid

•■of firearms or they would soon dispose of these scoundrels. Captains Murray and Curzon, with •tour Sappers and Miners and Europeans, are about six miles from Silligoree, at Phulbaree, and Mr. Yule is at Mutteagurrah, with some sailors and Fusiliers, so that if our friends cross sthe Teesta to get away westward they must of a certainty fall into our hands/ iTbm Action at Gr/XGEEKEE.—IBth Dec. —The following particulars regarding the action at Gungeeree may be of interest, as explaining the unusual proportion of loss amongst, .the Carabineers and Hodsou's Horse. It is letter of Sapte, who, with Colonel Farquhar and the little Bolundshuhur column, had reached Gungeeree the day before:—On Monday morning Seaton?B column arrived afc that tplace, and encamped two miles in advance of .JTarquhar's; about two hours after his arrival, ;a. large body of cavalry suddenly appeared on = some rising ground .in front of his camp. The Carabineers, Ho'dsori's Horse, and some Horse ;■-Artillery, got-ready .sharp and went at them; -and away they bolted, but a heavy fire was -opened on our -advancing troops from two sixpounders and one nine-pounder, wbich the gallant Carabineers charged and took, but not ■^without heavy loss. Three <jhaTges of grape 'were poured into them at about ISO yards, which told fearfully. Wardlaw, Hudson, and ':Vyse, of the Carabineers, were shot by musket : shots. Head, 9fch Lancers, wounded by-a shell, i (said to be mortally) is doing well. B'Gyly, • who charged with them, had a very narrow * escape of being cut down, but his English hunting cap saved hira= Our total loss was . about 12 killed and 50 wounded. The Carabi- : neers lost about 25 horses killed and wounded • out of 70. Hodson's Horse suffered too. The - enemy lost between 400 and 500 killed, and 5 their three guns which the Carabineers -took, j The two six-pounders are the post guns ef ! and the nine-pounder the last I -of the Bareilly Battery. As it has turned out, \ -our move on Gungeeree was a good one, .for it i * brought the rebels into the open, which they ! would not have done had they known of ihe j proximity of Colonel Seaton's army. KasKjurij j ■^va^ evacuated during the night, the rebels '.'-having,fled towards Puttialee. We were ordered to halt here to-day, and to-morrow we ..-* retrace uur steps towards Boolundshuhur. f shave now recovered 60 guns in aIL aud hope I J -Rhaai up some more in my wanderings, i My own/district (Boolundshuhur) has been per- ! iectiy quiet in my absence. ' At-sfHEBE.—The following copy of a service : message, received by electric telegraph from Benares on the 30Ui December, has been communicated to the Bengal papers :— "Osborne writes on the 29th instant:—We .earned the City of Myhere by storm last ni^ht taking two guns; we are now driving a mine -imdqr one Ride pf the gateway of the ;fbrt and •hope it will be m our hands "in a couple of days 3ly advanced party a$ Goonwarra will be pnsjied . ««n to Jekhaiiee, which will open 36 miles of;the 'road "as soon as the fort is taken. My njsijn ;body will be sent to besiege -Bijiras jooglmrh'." ■SlMUA..—Extract of iiletter trom Simla, dated '12'ith November:—"l.am happy to inform you <that all is quiet-up here at present, but many •people, in'this neighbourhood have apprehensions ' perhaps not kwown to you), that as soon ,as summer -sets in,"and the ■jsnbw somewhat ', inelteil -in theinpuntiiin passes, that we shall • iliear-of something that will jperhajj's surprise fhe

Government, although it ought not, as they have had'timely warning. The fact is, news has just arrived here from the interior, that a large body of Russians, Kehmin Tartars, jind troops from Bokara, have invested Yarkund, a place about 40 marches from Simla across the Himalaya mountains, and on the borders either of Thibet or Chinese Tartary. It was well known some time ago, that a large body of Russians were making their way by land towards India, although the English papers denied the practicability of their being able to do so. I should feel not at all surprised if they attempt to take Cashmere, and march on to Simla along the very road we have made." The following is from Cannanore, dated 17th December: —" Her Majesty's 66th Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Law, arrived at Cannanore, on board of the transport steamer Queen of the South, on Sunday, the 13th, and the troops landed the next morning; the strength is as follows:—29 officers and 728 non-commissioned rank and file. Two detachments of this corps marched this morning to Calicut and Malleapooram, for the relief of the detachments of the 74th Highlanders at those stations. The strength of-the detachment for Calicut is, one captain, two subalterns, and 105 non-commis-sioned rank and file. Lieutenant F. N. Woodall, of Her Majesty's 74th Highlanders, appeared before a Board of Medical Officers this day, and obtained a medical certificate for leave to proceed to Europe, who will embark from Cannanore early next month, in charge of the invalids and time-expired men of that corps. The left wing of Her Majesty's 74th expects to march from Cannanore to Bellary about the 10th January.

ExECtmoxoF Mr/TIjfEEBS.—An Indore correspondent of the " Bombay Times," writing on the 21st December, states that the mutineers there are being tried and executed daily in numbers varying from 13, 14, up to 16 and 17. 670 prisoners still awaited their trial. They all belonged to Holkar's army. The Mhow column has returned to Indore. The Eajah's troops were to be disarmed, and the correspondent says:—" Yesterday, by some means or other, they heard that they were all to be disarmed, whereupon they came to the conclusion that it would be well to attempt to make a bolt for Gwalior. This they tried to do this morning about 2 o'clock; but the General having received intelligence of their intended elopement, caused all the force to get under arms immediately, whereupon the 25th Native Infantry were sent to surround the town, and a half battery belonging to the Bombay Artillery were also planted opposite to the palace. The 14th, with Irregulars, accompanied by the General, went after a lot who, they had heard, succeeded in getting off upon the Mundesore direction; and it is just now they have returned, 11 a.m., bringing in about 150 of the scoundrels, whom they succeeded in apprehending in a village about six miles from here. The whole of the troops are now under arms."

Sib Colix Campbell's General Oedeb ox the Death of Genebal Hayelock.— Head Quarters. Camp Cawnpore, 17th Dec, 1857.—The Governor-General in Council has expressed his deep feeling of grief at the demise of the late lamented Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, X.C.8., who died a martyr to duty, two days after he bad left tlie Residency of Lucknow. The Commander-in-Chief would fain join in that expression of heart-felt sorrow. During the long Indian career, the late Major-General was ever distinguished. The campaigns of Burmah, of Afghanistan, of Gwaltor, of the Sutledge, and lastly, of this eventful year, testify to his constant presence wherever hard service was to Tie done, and honor was to l>e gained. But his march of this year frona Allahabad to Cawnpore, his frequent victories, gained over immensely superior numbers when he was nearly without artillery -and cavalry, and almost destitute of the means of feeding his troops, under the sun of July and August, with cholera and fever in his camp—concluded as it was by the onslaught on and forced entrance into Lucknow —have established axenown which will last as long as the history of England. Such is the glorious heritage Tie leaves to his children. Such a'life and such a death "have recollections preg» nant with the brightest example to the armies of her Majesty the Qneen and of the Hon. Company. By order of His Excellency the Cora-mander-in-ChieC—W. Mahew, Major, DeputyAdjutant General of the Army.