INDIA. (From the Hobart Town Courier March 17.)

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INDIA. (From the Hobart Town Courier March 1 7.)

The Mauritius papers received at Port Phillip contain Indian news lo the 22nd JJccember. The tollow.ng aio the most important paragraphs. Lord Gout'h arrived on the 21st November at the seat of war, and on the arrival of tie troops »t Ramnu^ur oider.-d an altHck. In attempting >o talc the enemy's bdUeiies, we los: a gun, and the callaut Gsn eral Cureton and Co'onel Havelock, w th a long list if wounded. Another day's post was expected to convey to Bombay the news of nn attHck on the Seikh army, tie defeat of which, it w«s rxpecttd, would only be achieved with an awful sacrifice of life. Major Lawrence was a captive at the camp of Chuiter Sin^h. Captain Haidinge, A.D.C., hud died ot his wounds. Later accounts announce that Gencial Whee'er had curried Calalwallnh, occupitd by Gidat Sin^b aid Lhundcr biugh, and cut up COO of the enemy. Tlie following graphic account ot the la'e engagement of the Biituh troops wi h the Seikhs is from a correspondent of the Muffatsililc. Raumuegur is siluite in the interior of the FuuJHub, some Jittance to the N. E. of Lahore. Ramnuggur, 22nd November, 1848.—Lord Gou?h and his stuff aimed yest< rday nt the cimp near Alipore, and about 2 a.m. a portion of ihs force received a vci'oal order to march, withou He lound of trumpet, at 3 a.m. The iroups arnved nt Ramnuggnr at aoout 7 a.m., when the entire foice of Shne Singh, conMstinij of \rtiliery, Cavalry, aud Infantry, from fitteea to twenty ih'.usaml m^n, were seen stretching in a rfnrk line along the horizon. The enemy rtoeivd us with hi« heavy guns from a strongly entirnciu'd posmon, to which our artillery replied. Our guns, however, bein h" only 6 and 9 ponuders, wen' (aft u*ual in Indiin warfan-) unequal to the hunvy mo al ol the dinnon of the enemy. Ttie firing cmt hui don bi>th h«ps r^r a c<m sidei'dble time, when a portion ot tUe enemy luivuy come over from fieirentrenchruer>t6> they were charged by the 3rd Dngoons in gallant style, who drove them back to their position. The Comnmidewo-Chief and his staff passed in front of the old Punimu'tr 14.h Dragoons couimandtd by Colonel Havelock, aud in a feir minutes tuey were advanced wichta reach of the euemy'n guns : the Seinhs having reco.^ed a second time the branch ot the siver which was boUveen them aud the B.itis'i, a tremendous fie fio-u ma«l:cd, suppoiled uy the snmll fin is ol Ih I'iiautiy, if a aoliiCnt '«pjncd Ujimj thoni, tlxow n; a tcnili. 1 dn<ji>rff o.i: th«i. he.<»s t.un . Amuisi, a slioiverot t.i "tih "•hoi. which bur.-t \a mu daioii? v.Ueys among th •) jj.it'icni cf tL* !j.*»ooi«r, th.- lrum,-t't stnuui.J, the ordir to dr«>c sword, witt gi pui, fijllowcd by tint, g,il ]■ i), c' a-gc. l'da I'Uli, Witii the (.i-l» ii\ Lhdiiig them t» the fitnf, da.'bP'i into ri,t awisl o» ihf uiioniy, tvho tbio'v i,»cmjc»vc-H u]ioii tbvir faces on ihe epuicecUo

the columns, and rose and fired upon them as they passed. A more feanul sisfht perhaps was nerer witosised on a field of battle, for the British aimy stood dr-twn up, both Arti lery and Infantry, hilent operator* of the .bloody conflct of 450 sabres agtin^t 9n army nmounting to more than 15,000 men with heavy cannon Between the 1 4th Dragoons and tlie beikh Batteries was « deep, wide precipice, and beyond it theie was a null»h. The gallant Colonel Havelock put his charger to the former, crying " Follow me/ and the regiment dashed oicr the brink after him, ing through the water, and forming on the opposite bank in the rery centre of the enemy's entrenchments They charged a second time, and pmed away to their camp, by an order from Lord Gough, who highly eulogised their " noble charges." Such indomitible courage may toch the foe a useful lesson ; but I regret to nay thai Colonel Havulock was Main, and a number of thi> offi 'ers e.ther mortally or sereii'ly wounded. Tn« gallant G- psral Cureton fell by a round shot about th« iniiir time. This d'siiufruished officer coonmennrd 1-fe, ultho'itrh th« «on of a n< « priT^te soldier in ihe King's Dragoons, aud ha» thus ended his military career with the old Hth fighting under his command.