INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 629, 17 November 1858, Page 3

INDIA.

■■'Wfl IfeW*> sf°™e :d*|aMs dfuirfFartis (lin:lndia/at fa&kls%ltiofa '^'tKe1 depa^ure Lof thec»afceWt M^fe: j;r:-' ! l-1-','''-r.;"!.:''::';' ,:';"- '.'■■ .:; ■■" ;;Concdrnin?' ;th^iWte^fj^ff<|rftt,;tlif^ r;B6ihV^ Tjelegrapli 1 9^A!*J?^ ?$ .'F ewar;fajy^TKe. 'reirciit has> almqst^ceasea ; fcb?beyiriteresting.J During the. Wfc' two■Tiiontiiß opei<ations,-oa both -sideH, have' beanlllanguid in^ the extreme. -The wea- j thet^'ha«J--iio dou6fci!naatei'j»llyr,cpntribufced to i this, but it is unmistakeable that the; rebel ' lead«Fs' regard 'thejf*caWe '-aW hwpeless;: Raj - i poMaha'they Btill1 Manage Jtbel*d(&(i\irbdluttiiiß prittcjpHlly, 'we believe;:owWg Jts'a^fti;i«j6y of cackt^:;They liaire'to ■ I^hdergjirh^wihere Colbn^l imagined' he had them, completelv7a<^ .'lt i«"said > they shave, fled .in different -SirectioWs^but'the greater number hayejdirected the^flight Jpud« poorrwards. Major-steneral f Roberts*: we <l«iarn from' a» letter from Rajpootana,.is(dose at:their heels.' To enable; him.; to! ;?nove/i from Sewara with cele'tfty, he sent into-■Nusseetiibadil;w^o?flßi poundeV'gntis. 'andprie:Brinch- howitzer^ taking •with' HiW] drily two' tJB” inch rndrtars;and;bn'e '8 inchrjf,^tzer.' Ac' ieft:, JS&waf a-drt: the'2ri'd: in--BtantjJ,an)iris said to hWe cpnieJup witlvjthiti j rebels''on,,the 'Bth-at Sarigaheer," arid" bVdright them ,tq ..ani. ; engagement. .TUerebe guns,-with. them;butrtrhey ,arei reported to Have TOaderfvery poor practice,;theiri shot all gojng fcovHieh: hThe-'EnfieldtriflesOtold well amoffg rthe 'rascals. ■It is a'pity that Colonel Holmes scbuld ribt'corhe up at'the!thrie. > 'Hewas^expeci- ' ted T^xt' day1 with 'his 'column'; consisting of H.M.'s'^2n^i 2nd Trqdp/Horae^rtiUeryi; 15th ! TJ^in&rit Bbittbay Native Irifaritryj and sonic i •"•of the v'istJ Regiment "Bombay, Xancers. Before ; 'he,"^riyed the^rebels; were.in fiijlvflight. They j took; advantage of the - darkness to escape, and j iblfore halting, hadpnf fulHwenty koss between | them, arid iGen.eral Roberts', force, ; A want of cavalr.yjfand /light artillery is, we understand, the-Ve&sonof the rebels getting off with: jtheir } guhßl: f allthe preparations -that ';have :la<;e]jr?bfeen: made? in ! tlie;Ajniere"arsenal, it is npV'Ktel^ -that ariythirig;is;tbbe apprehended j ih'tfia^^arttir. Hai3^^ thiSTebeis paid af visit to I that r pl^ce, they wptij'd have' found niqre' guns j "ready !fpr ,'^hena thanXthey^ were aware of-^th, ere | being sixteen "pieces^ of heavy arid six- I -teen;;light7field piecesrißa^y;mounted, with am- ) munition of every description prepared for them,s Bhells being filled iand-fuze*; set for the above to ; the>an«*Urtt( of upwards of-^ighthundred," rang- j ing^frorn three id eightr:hundred yards, saying j nqthlHg.of roijnd.shyt/light'ballsf'earcftssesv&c. j Th4rb is, one want that |«ybuld 'have been; felthad \ thfe-'eriiettly; ;a:ppe'ar^d "in that^ <juarter:;and'that; Wasar^i^rte/ri^-Wtprje■b^ing Jcinly'%ir^>tv five ;^, %X ni of the^e>yice. and jit^os'e .jihe^/w^rrant/^n^ oj&C(R^gf:^ WithVabout onejihtmdi^ifs&Mvs $3,rdl regiment.: -These composed tbeentire,;European force of the place. Iri arsetfal'lilce • Ajifiefe" J'rf-'tfo'pfecWto>leaveiwithouthrtillerynven and^b;bye^llVn4vtlJtery4sSi6ißr. •'-•'•■ Us* axi* been pr^ent'iitT <tliiH^\iles^HHanH^evi^''bf''-'eial>t^K'ui»dre: d fuzes wftuid;hay.e Veen, made to suffice^arid iiljed .sand 'bags' ysi .iis§i<l;iPpb(wdr^B \duf side of the "gate, on 'iKfr-putHc'rpa^^ready;,l/:an,.enemy"hM made ah attack on'r-Jbhe magazineif tocpme -in handy for them toierejcttsome.smaH ow!n faWhidn;': Butjmistake^Hkethisiwill'sonietimftji happen, '.where there is noJproper head to directj-fiii ; shaptf of an 'Engineer or J Artillery 1" i>-yKH\-:L'' A ! y! .'" ■■■"■ :;' The ";jsJoTussilite"~pf the 513fch' cinstant has alt?q letteXs"fr^-RajpJiptana, in con:firm|j^pn; of-the aiodv;?,- The followmgVis pur contemporary's vWsipn of tHe, affair. :— " %. oejieral -Roberts.came up^ith■■ the^ehemy on-'theievening of ;tlie;Bth, instanti near Bheeli warab ,* on > the • Neerrtuch i and • 'iKTesseefabad ? road. -AftW-a skirmish :in -which ;seven nmen fdf the enemy were killed and many wounded j theyretir^d'^pwards Poor in-*he-di^ot^^ \p66f? JEittle cbuid-be:a^ Colonel*' 'Hplnies'^^'division';tjnqt/being present. H^^;fwaiCexp^ct^dl'pn^th^^tJt instant /There were,"no casualties,^^^d^ojap'stde^'"though it;is said for the short timeTjthe'jaffair lasted Ithe'eripmy woifked their four T grins,-Veil..^^ rThey.were in -three divisions, and« outrnumbered the General's force rsix^to one.*'. "The.put&aitiwould? be-con-timved;? ;;: -i ■'■ > ■ ■'•■•■• : .■■•. •.■:•■:.- .■"•• : ••.•■• ■ ■'Iw Ottd« 'no net*, movements -haye1 taken -^plai*k £•• ' '■■■■■ '■■'■ ■■■■ '.■■ ■ ■''■■ ■; - ■■'■■■:' '■■-= ~ JPhu^{^«fT)f f«8 ihO»iae; 'haß'=not iti'the l€^3(lmproved;.; Captain Daw son,; with apolice for^i.haa encounteredPeroz^hahyat Sundella. Theoipiis.qn! the,part>of^ifctie •fley.ere. iJungßahadoor is reported to be making oy ; er tp us all the tebel fugitives in the Ne,panle,B«!^Brritpry.., „ „.• ■ „ .. ■■ t „. ... \ Jopdhur ,^ing. some six hundred men,,Vfttfa<?Xed- {Miisre^gupge,, on. • Isi,.^August, . aiid iaend^c^njfij^t, of jß^r^y'.BKSeikhs-rrpne ;hVnd % r'e"dym^^repulsed .'him. r Theyj.;lost;;one min^killpd ithjree'ian^wouiided,seven." iCorpnel 1"*1^/the same:nigh^, •■"a^UeHfeyea .^henij;' rebels hadTalien oW.ejerrattacted away,.large qu^.'^n|ities'.ofiami^^mtidn.- . ,Fii4m. a ; fJipm- th>" r ,officer'cpinn^ari,dj ' ing.ajt w,^earn*,th;at. v he:%'archeC enemy, however, relraatea as Uplqnel n^ultera appt'Qached,,and he w<w|,unaye to erigngb" ilieir | pS®/Muta^Weyl^em' ftQf WiMed'lVim su^oW,WuIM^aVAto:w^'tUVfeate^d;

He at once marched/witb cavalry and artillery, and 60 picked men on,elephants; They reached! the town at; 2 r o'clock. -They found.,the, pri-: sopersf all released j but thanks < tothe<townß- ;- -people, who had driven the ; rebels off, the sta-i tion had v sustained,no ; damage.. This "we con-; Rider, tp be a ;r narrpvy. escape,; ar|d we .have no j ,hesitation, 'in.V.s^yin^. that' Lieutenarit-.Colonel i .Walters^df-her; Majesty's 35th* 'Itegiineiit,de•■se^ves : 'to. ; be, cashiered ,'fpr leaving. his canip .wi.tjioutsa j guard for ; its protections (is nperfectly.-;inexcusable, iandv.might | ihave>i led '■ to '» vcatastrophe ':-- similar to-- the :orie j which !>hap9enfedibtArrahlast -yearii 'Had the! tPwHspeoWfi' joinedl iJ thre ;• <rebels; -'> Lieutenant- i Walters forte^ronld. have been su'r-j rounded andy ciit to;pieces, as. ha had with him! ;n4ither.pr6yisipns nor airiniunitipn; This kind! of j generalship is, perfect' in idsuniriier madness.; Jit- is- rashness .without. an jatoni of judgment,j and recklessness destitute >pf daring. Were it j not for Providence, acfew quixotic leaders would; soon dose>all.tliat:;we; have'Wtthiso:much toili and bloodshed: gained;/ We-repeat; Lieutenant-: Colonel' Walters is; according to his own show-' irigi tPtallyiinfitted^or the-cbriimand:at Arrah, and the1 sooner he is: removed the;'better will it \ ■ be'for the braVe mett who are statibned there/ !lt' seems that the mutiny is not;yet over.' The' 39th 'N. I. have 'niutinied at Dherat Ish- i| uael'.Khan. They'have-flea1 into the. Dejarat, i but : escape is .impossible. - Brigadier, Chamber-; lain has gone down after them,vand there is every -certainty of their being annihilated or captured. The ' Madras Athenaeum .'gives the following >, resume" of news for the-fortnight ending August 28:— ..-.-■". : .The principal event of.the fortnight has been = the discovery of >a conapiraoy in the- 10th regi- ■ nientof Punjaub f infantry to murder their offi<iers.i 'Ofthis affair we have as yet but imperfect; accounts, but those which have.been: recei-; rved ;are ! much to. the isarne -effect . . The most; (Circumstantial-version has .been spublished in the ! ' New^Era,'-a Calcutta weekly journal. From rtbis we;learnfthat the'mutiny jtook place so far ; bat-k aS-the night of the 19th ultimo, at Debra Ismael Khan. The plan of the conspirators, as disclosed/at the Court of Enquiry; and the manmer Jin which it; was frustrated, seem to have ' ■been, as follows :—" A-portion of the 10th P.I. chad been told off <for the murder of all the offi- I cersj after,/wiiich the fort was to be seized, and -the, :39th,: which bur readers will remember .were >. disarmed some time back, was to be rearmed! out ofy it* magazines and stores. Taking with;them the guns and treasure, the mutineers were- then to embark-in-boats for Dara Ghazee Khan on- the Indus, where they expected to be joined by the troops of the place; they were to cross the Indus-andl hasten to Mooltan, arm the :two rregiments2 there? and, march "updn Lahore. ;No'«Jdoubt is entertained that -the .'6th- Police Battalion and Punjaubßattery/were.in the plot; and imqredver T the conspirators reckoned :upon being! joined! jby rßehny'sr Regiment, the 3rd Seikhs from BunnqOi-tneTregiment from which the mutineers ongin'ally came, v Providentially, iiiformatidn -was^given^sto iMajor Gardiner;(l6th -N'.-I.)V before j the scheme: was ripe for. executioni. -He iristaritly went: down" to the' lines.'so late as 10 o'clobk at night;!arid sent for the ringleaders. One, a'seppy, came5 first. He'was di^eretl at pnce' to be confined/ .but no sooner heard the order'thari he turned aiid bolted;pursued by some of the .guard. Just -as; the', guard had overtaken and,was;laying.hold of him, a Jema-dar-I—the. other of those for whom, Major Gardiner- had :serit—^rushed out, cut down one of the guard, arid wounded) the^Subadar .-of it. The two ringleaders theh'ran,'and nothing more was heard of them till the 22hd, whin news came to one of the. outposts that the sepoy was caught, and that the: Jemadar was being hotly chased! ; '.".''.' The' New Era' adds,that..the authors of the plot belong :to the'Malwa Seikhs, of whohi i there were about 130 in the regiment. Of the two papers-published? at JLahore one is altoge- i ther silent on the:subject,-and theother appar- ! ently considers it not so serious as might have; beeni supposed fipm the ;account ihere given, i This latteii'journal-^the ' Lahore Chronicle'— ■ admits;hdv/ever,^that there was a conspiracy; in thel regimen t, and informs us.that twelve i men were in confinement, these .twelve com-'prising-the ringleaders; but likewise states that. the conspiratore were limited to a "few Malwa • Seikh* from the borders ■of -Hindostan," and thatthePoorbeahsandPimjabeesin the station were not implicated;1 Government has fur- i nished no :intellifience'.to the,press. But no- i thing can be inferred from the silence of the ; a'uthontiesffor just as much from unwillrngness to'inform' the5 public;of this new : ;dang|ef,'as }ftp<tii its5 fancied unimportance. Tins, lto\veVer,; prpyed f thiat theris Ims ■ been a mutiny in) etie- df. our new regih>entß, N and this. fact, in bpnnectionwith^^^he,TOutiny at jAllyghurJnone of the j recentlyJ.raisedlevies,. shduld keep .us fromibefPoling' oursel?es into a belief in the loyalty? of/the' newv.nafcive army, ihat-has (already* sprurigUpki . ; ' < •Geni-Rtfb^rtS-haS icomfrnp with" the;Gwahor fugitives1 pn; twb! occasions^'arid -on both'has "deft4tdd:themV ' Onvthe-'flrst pf ■ these)pccasionsi . opposite, banjk^bf the' Kptiireii'river near Simga^ ;^eavi Our .and rthd Artillery were brought' into playi but darkness, coming on, and theJbifantry: being. too fatigued to pursue, the enemywanffgcd' to make off in a southerly direction. On. the 18th mstant rT the. General, again ejicbuinteifed the rebels at Kqtarea, ajbput (te^niil©*- to .tiia { mijijthVpf. Nuthwarra. !Cli?s timo>th'eyi\>ere. tqtal)y r dofeated, and their four-gunß^ltogethev-! with, ammunition, vcapfc«redjr Their losa'iukillod is! stated to have boon ■ iVery > larger•' Our- casualitles' * wevo 'few; The /rornhfthia: ttibdo 6ff '* in' a ! sDttthei-ly' and

rsouthreasterly direction, followed (by the .Artil.lery and Cavalry. ; General Roberts; has been with her Majesty* 83rd (500)> 13th Bombay Nil. (200),Gnzerat Horse(6o), and three guns. ■It is supposed that* the fugitives are making j for Oodeypore.. The force under Gen.'Roberts; has, had many,difficulties to contend/against— ■ want,of carriage and ;»6 on; but the one diffi- ; culty that-has oajasionedi most delay is the .nature of the,country thrpugh which it has passed. The country: is, described, as. being one unbroken sheet of. watery and the rivers that .had fto be crossed w.ere'breastf-high.'» So great .was <the .inundation, that' not -even . the oldest inhabitant could recollect anything like it. -While oh-this -subject, w© may-mention tliat-n telegram from A ttoek states the fact that the Indus- has risen forty feet in two hours and a half on the 10th instant, cutting off communication with Pesliawur and'Rawul Pindee, and -flooding'the country for miles round. 'Brigadier Smith is after'another party of rebels in the Gwaiior J,terntory.*-. His'force, consisting' of half a - troop JH. A.,, two .squadrons of Cavalry (Bth Hussars and Lancers), six companies H. M; 95thj'and- about4oo of the 13th N.l'.,* arrived before Ppwrie on the evening of the 6th instant; ; Powrie is one hundred and seventy-six miles "to the east of Kotah, and lies'between -the latter-place and Calpee. A x-econnoisance.tcok place; early, in the morning of the 7th," and the 'town was found much stronger than was anticipated, with a high wall round it, smd a deep wet ditch outside, with a fort-in fth'e centre of the town1. -The outer wall is strongly loopholed, with ■; bastions at the angles;:'} Maun Sing and ;bis iinele Ahjee Sing aresaid to have 16; guns andSOO men. Brigadier. Smith, it was thought,..would, not attack until reinforcement* arrived^for"rwhich he had sent to Seepree,.and for' heavy siege guns to Jhansi or Gwalibr./-The: Maim Singh mentioned hereis: not the' Oude Maun Singh, about -whom so imuch has been written."; j -. :Itis.stated;in letters from Rajpootana, that AhmedfOollah -Khan,rwho was Naib Nazim of Budaon, was blown,away ;from a gun on the sth instant. f In addition' to "the many other atrocities in which" he \vas concerned, it seems that Ahmed Oojlah was one of the party under (Rahim Ally which murdered Major Waterfield. ;Before executiony it is said, he confessed that it ■was the.custom:amongtheirebels to cut off the noses of all those whose -fidelity was suspected. Nine -Mahomedans,, multilated in this way, were found by Captain Eden's chuprasses. ■ The state of affair^ in Oiide is of a: mixed character;; there is apparently much-activity on the-part of the rebeisVbut the result is not very tangible, while we; bnr;our part, are seemingly step: by step; conqueringr the. country. An engagement . between Ferp'z Shah and a police force,under Captain Bawson has;taken place at Sundella j Captain "Dawsdn's force numbered about four hundred Infantry arid fifty Sowars.ji that "of the 'efiemy'tfife^^thousand." ',The*fight" lasted about two hours1 and a-half,;and-resulted inailoss-to^the enemy oi one hundred Killed, and seventeen: iwounded,/andnone . gun. \ The object of Captain Dawson's expeditipn, was to .place a- very influential- native, chief - .in. charge of Suhdelia,"an'd",thii was accbmplishedli, At Jhalutea near' Nawabgunge' (between Cawn^ pcre and Luclcno w) * forty-fpiij of: our .police have been taken blood.'! Th!is atrocity took place on 1 the Ist instant, under the leadership oi sMiinsub Ali andtFero? Shah, add is mentipnedin 'the:' Delhi'.Gazeltev' In ottier parts of Oude, according,to s the Luck? now coiresp'ondent of the ' Bombay Gazette,' some of the .Zemindars .are preparing to come ; in --but according1; to a correspondent of our ■ own, whd": writes from Fyzabad on the oth instant,:the:Tatbokdai-s are xkeeping, more, aloof; than .ever, and-some;of;the: hithertol neutral; Zemindars-had actually gone over tpthe rebels. ■ Our informant also states that there appears to \ be.niore activijt}' and .more, union among the ; rebels than, there.has been since the fall of; Lucknow;