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      No. 401, November 28,^.857 ¦] __ • ¦"' T...

      No . 401 , November 28 , ^ . 857 ¦] __ ¦" ' THE 1 E _ ADJ ^ V _ JjJL _

      The Indian Reyolt. J • '"¦¦ ' ¦ • " ' * ...

      THE INDIAN REYOLT . '"¦¦ ' ¦ " ' * ¦ ¦ ' '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' Further news from India has been received during- the "week , and it presents many hopeful features . Previous , however , to the reception of the telegraphic despatches 011 Wednesday , some discouraging gossip had "been brought \> y the passengers from India on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer Indus , which arrived at Southampton last Saturday . The general tenor of their information was confirnia- tory of the previous assertion with respect to Have- lock being surrounded by 5 O ; 000 mutineers under Maun Singli , who Avas supposed to have led the English General into a trap by promising him assist- ance , and then declaring against him ; and was to the further effect that there . was a great deal of difficulty in getting troops up the country , that the whole people of Qude had joined the revolt , and that the Bombay Presidency , and even Calcutta , were in a very alarming condition . "The . telegraphic messages , it will be seen , put a different complexion on these assertions . Two are addressed to the Foreign Office by Lord Lyons ; one to the East India House from another source . We combine them for the ssike of greater clearness;— ' " Havelock is in ' -the Residency of Lucknow -with 1500 men ; 1000 more , with sick and wounded , are at Alutnbar , distant three miles ; communication between the two is difficult . The enemy is said to be in great force , ' -arid very strong in artillery . A convoy of provisions from Cawnpore arrived at Lucknow shortly after its relief , escorted by 250 men , who , it is said , got in unmolested , in consequence of the Sepoys being busily engaged entrenching themselves . Havelock lias been reinforced by the 53 rd and 93 rd Kegiments . By the 30 til of October , it was expected that Greathel would raise Haveloek's army to 7000 men . Reinforcements are being sent up with all speed from Calcutta . De- tachnients , amounting in all to 1200 Europeans , were to have left Cawnpore for Lucknow on the 16 th of October . The garrison at the latter place could easily force their way out , but . the General does not wish to expose the women and children to further clanger . General Outram has urgently applied for large supplies and reinforcements to be organized at Allumbamek , about four miles from the Residency . " The communication between Allumbamek and Cawnpore is quite Open , but not between Alluinbamek and the Kesldency , in . the neighbourhood of which the whole rebel force is concentrated . A convoy of provisions reached Allumbamek safety on October ( Jtli from Cawnpore , About 3000 or ' . 00 fugitives from Delhi , with four guns , -were expected to reach Slieorajpore , near Bhitoor , on October 19 th , but , 0111 lie same day , a force of 600 men , with guns , from Cawnpoie , attacked the rebels , and utterly dispersed them .. ' " Naha Siihib is said , to be near Blutoov again . Nothing was known at Calcutta of his reported capture . by ' the Beloocb battalion ., Maun Singh , heretofore our friend , has turned against us since the storming of Delhi was announoed . Part of the 32 nd Bombay Native ' Infantry mutinied at Decsa [ Dacca ?] , and murdered two of tlieir oflicc . rs : and the Maharajah of Gwalior , is reported to have been murdered by I 113 own people . " Colonel Greathod ' s column , consisting of her Majesty's 8 th Foot and 9 th Lancers , two troops Horse Artillery , one line 4 th Field Buttery , ' live ' 12-incli mortars , two companies of Punjab Sappers , 2 nd and 4 th Punjab Infantry , 125 detachment , of Punjab Cavalry , and 200 llodson ' s Ilnrso , about 3000 in nil , in pursuit of the Delhi fugitives , fell in with the enemy at Bolunclshuliur , and , after two hours' lighting , routed them , with heavy loss of men , two guns , and ammunition . Our loss was 50 killed' and wounded . Malaghur was afterwards taken and blown up . V \ e fought the rebels again successfully at Allyyhur , on the 5 th of October . 400 * were cut up , and two guns taken . The column reached Agra on the 14 th . The enemy made a . sudden and . unexpected attack on the cantonments , were repulsed and utterly dispersed , and the pursuit vran continued up to the Kharee . 1000 were killed ; all the guns ( 415 ) were taken , with plunder , camp equipage , and , five lakhs of treasure . The loss on our side Avas Email . * " Cavalry is much wanted everywhere , and transport animals . 'Two larjjfo ships in tow of a steamer have been sont to Rangoon for elephants . A column undor Brigadier Showers , 1200 men and four guns , have inarched [ through ?]] Bulubghur in pursuit of rebels . 11 The full of Delhi has bad a marked eiFoct hi Meerut * The account of Colonel Grcathed's proceedings given in tUc despatch to tlio Ea . sl India House is so uonfusud that , finding it impossible to reconcile it with tlio above , we hero give it separately : — " Colonel Grcathed ' s column arrived at . Allygurli [ fourth ?] October , defeated the . fnun . et . ic 9 tuore , anil marched on to Akrabad on the 5 tli , which they destroyed , ami reached Agra on the lotli , whoro they were attacked . suddunly by thu mutineers ( Indoro aiul Bhopnl ) whom they . soon defeated , with the loss of Uiirtoun gun . i ami nil their camp equipage , driving the survivwa across Khuroc . Tim lnti'st dntu from lus camp is the 1-lth of October , when ho had crossed tlio •) uiunu ., und wna making the beat of hid wny to Luckuow . "

      j 5 ^ 8 c f ^ j c , t ( ( < , i \ 1 1 1 l ( l < j c ] ] and contiguous districts . Revenue has been . brought in ' very rapidly , and loyalty is the order of the day . Com- j mander-in-CMef has ordered that a standing camp of 2000 men be instantly organized at Konugunge . " A Peninsular and Oriental steamer maybe expected at Suez , to convey troops to Calcutta , on the 24 th inst . The Bentinck met the Pottinger and the Hindostan on the 12 th , and the Emeu on the 14 th inst . All well . ¦ '" Two more of the King of Delhi ' s sons have been sentenced t » be shot , and execution was to take place on 13 th of October . Important papers have been found in the Palace at Delhi . Nothing , however , of date anterior to the outbreak , at Meerut . A commission has been issued for the trial of the King , and it is uncertain whether any promise of his life had been made . Sir John Lawrence superintends the administration of the Delhi territory . . " The mutineers of the Gwalior contingent are said to be marching towards Cawnpore via Jhansi . " Maun Singh , it is certain , has turned against us , and it is stipposed that most of the Large Talookdars have also done so . Accounts from Rewah , of the 16 ta of October , state that Lieatorrant Osborne ' s house was threatened with about 2000 rebels , who were deterred attacking him from , th-e preparations lie had made . A wing of the 17 th Madras ¦ Infantry , with two guns , was ordered to march to his relief ^ and arrived at the Cuttra Pass , so that his position is improved . The Europeans at Saugor are still in the fort ; and relief is urgently required . " The protraction of the contest before Delhi lias begun to tell on the population of the Punjab . " . The Bheels at Chandpoor have dispersed , and tranquillity prevails throughout Goujerat . The Bheels , however , are still in rebellion at Nassick , on the frontiers of Candeish . All is quiet in Scinde , Bombay , Madras , and the Nizam ' s dominions . " Reports are rife of threatening disturbances at Hyderabad , and of the critical position of the mutineers , Bundeelalis ( 7 ) . " The steamer Caledonian has been ordered from Calcutta to Masulipatam , to land her troops there . " Transport ships , bearing 6000 troops , have arrived at Calcutta , Madras , and Galle . Some long official despatches , relating to the early periods of the struggle , have been published during the week . THE CHARGE OF CROELTV AGAINST OUR SOLDIERS . ¦' . ¦ ¦ .. ¦¦ .: ¦ ; ; ¦ AT DIXIII . ' :: '¦ ' '¦' ¦ : A letter , signed "An Englishman residing in Paris , " has been published in the Presse , with a view to refuting certain statements made in the Pays to the effect that our troops committed great excesses at the taking of Delhi . Tims wrote the Pays : — " When the city was taken , bodies of cavalry stopped all the issues , and prevented nny one from leaving , and all were put to death . That lasted three days , and the number of women and children who perished 011 that occasion was tlircc hundred and seventeen . " The " Englishman" replies as follows : — " The English press is unfortunate enough not to possess , the wOndrous sources whence the Pays so often derives its information . It appears to me , however , that these assertions would have acquired ' infinitely greater value had tbe Pays deigned to make known whence it obtained the precise number of three hundred and seventeen , and how the corps of cavalry , which only consisted at most of one thousand men , could , while pursuing the fugitives , have blocked up the issues of a city measuring two miles in length , one and a half in breadth , and five and : i half miles in circumference . Yet , admitting the correctness of tbe number of three hundred and seventeen killed ( but of which tlie correctness may well be doubted , as even the loss of the English army is not yet officially known ) , how can the Pays prove that they were massacred ? A town is bombarded for six days , and when attacked the streets are defended inch by inch , and yet astonishment is felt that three hundred ami seventeen women and children were killed . As cannonballs , when fired , do not go precisely where it is wished , there would be much greater cause for astonishment had it been the contrary . " The writer quotes from the Indian papers , and from General Chamberlain ' s despatch , and other official documents , to show that the women and children were invariably protected ; and ho concludes by denouncing the article in the Pays as nothing else than u calumny . A correspondent of tho Times communicates to that journal an extract from a letter from his son who was present at , and took part in , tho assault of i ^ jo luiuuiu

      . 1 / 1 : 1111 ; aim cunuuiTCa tuui » it miiy ^ ruin . an explanation of the charge [ of cruelty ] in some of the French papers . " It runs thus : — u I um sorry to say thut we lost a good many men at first , owing to . the largo quantity of liquor which the Sepoys bail left purposely in the houses , and with which many of the Europeans became intoxicated ; aud wore cut nil" by thu rebels conuculud in tho houses , " Tliu correspondent asks : — " What can bo more probable than that in ono or two inst uncos this diabolical device wnn discovered , or iueffV'ctually ultoiupU'il , but promptly avenged ?" TIIK DUIJII 1 MUNO 1 CS . A letter from a young ollicer tolas friends in

      England is published in the Ayrshire Express , And ^ contains a story . . ' which we here repeat , though it is hardly probable . The letter is dated Dugshaie I ( about forty miles from Delhi ) , September 29 th ; and the story is this : — - < f A few days ago , Captain Hodgson ( of ours ) went out and . captured the King , and brought him ia a prisoner . He is at present confined in Ms own palace . A few days later he went out again , and came up with , the King ' s sons and grandaoa . He had only one hundred nadve horsemen of hie own regiment-with , him , and the enemy about ten thousand , three thousand of whom were fully armed Sepoys . Hodgson saw it was of no use attacking them ,- so he sent an emissary to tell the princes that the game was up with them , and that they had better surrender , which they did after some time , and came up ' . ' to Hodgson , who immediately sorrounded the carriage with his men . He sent . for their arms , and , after hesitating some time , these also were given -up , with , seven elephants and lots of stores . On reaching the gaol , Hodgson ordered tbe princes out of the vehicle ; they , imagining ail was right for themselves , 1 > egan ( native-like ) to talk , and say they hoped there might be an inquiry into their conduct . Hodgson said , ' Gbeeproks ! ' ( be quiet ) , and ordered them , to take off all tlieir fine clothes- When this was done lie said , ' Now get in again . ' and ordered the driver to proceed . He then beckoned to one of his men , and asked for a carbiite , and : with his owtt hand « hot each and all of the three princes . He then took their bodies into the city , and laid , them out for inspection in front of the Kot 6 wallie , where these wretches had laid out their victims during the massacre . There are lakhs upon lakhs of treasure , and prize property in the city , and , if the city itself was put dp for ransom , it ^ vould fetch upwards of fifty lakhs . "

      Me. Coningham And His Constituents. {Abr...

      ME . CONINGHAM AND HIS CONSTITUENTS . { Abridged from the ' Brighton Guardian . ' ) On Monday evening , a meeting of the electors cf the borough Of Brighton was beld in tlie large room of the Town Hall , for the purpose of hearing from " William Couingham , Esq ., M . P . for * the borough , a . n account of his parliamentary stewardship during the last session . Notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather , the attendance was ; we might almost say , ¦ multitudinous , every available spot not only in th « large room , but also in the . south room , and on the landings , being occupied . We believe we are rather below than above the estimate when we say that there were quite . 1400 persons ' present . Mr . ' Cohingham ' s entrance was the signal for three hearty and prolonged cheers , accompanied by craving of hats and other demonstrations indicative of the most enthusiastic approbation . Ou the motion of Lieut .-Col . Tawcett , seconded by I . G-. Baas , Esq ., Mr . Alderman Alger was called to the chair . He said- ' he thought it would be scarcely necessary for him to lemiiul the electors of the object for . 'which ' they were assembled . He had no doubt but that most of them would participate in his own feeling at that moment , which was one of great delight , at seeing their highly esteemed and valuable member amongst them , in the enjoyment of health and good spirits . Qllear , hear . ') Most of them were aware that at the laic election Mr . Coningham had several times stated that lie would be at all times happy to afford opportunities to his constituents to question him respecting his parliamentary conduct ; and in unison with that genuine honesty , which he was proud to see was a characteristic of Mr . Coningliam—( Jiear , hear )—in unison with that open patriotic feeling which that gentleman had always evinced , he was there to > meet them on that occasion . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Coningham , on rising , was greeted with a renewal of the flattering demonstrations wliich had been evinced on his entrance . For several minutes he found it impossible to proceed , so loud , so continuous , and so hearty was the applause . Silence having at length been obtained , Mr . Coningliam proceeded to say ;— " Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen , electors of the borougli of Brighton , tho last time 1 had the honour of addressing ' you , was immediately after you had dono me tho honour of electing mo as ono of your representatives iii Parliament . On that occasion you took me upon trust . You have since had some opportunity of seeing how I have voted , and , on sonic few occasions , how 1 have spoken ; and I ujapeal to you , gentlemen , to givo it verdict whether 1 have honestly aud truly fulfilled tlio pledge I gave you —that I would in the House of Commons uphold reform : and retrenchment , that I would resist in the most of won 11 / vnc ] ¦ - " » ¦ » n miiii * / wmy * wr ¦> ( f ntn >\ f t- *¦* nr . t * n » * 1 i t *< * 1 % < - * ¦• ¦ I il 1 j * 0 tii \ Miuiiuui viv wi ili iuimk

      . jiv > w .-n * fj v « ijv < iiiijl tv oi | uainn ; i tin | < money—{ applause )—and that I was prepared to uphold every attempt to carry out the great principle of ri'lorm ; and I am happy to say that 1 sue . already apprtnn-Iiiiig a groat movement in that direction in oonsoiiuemuu of the groat dissatisfaction that uxists throughout llu ; country with the existing sy . stctn of ; i < hninistnH . ion . { Hear , hear . ) You aent me to Parliament , gentlemen , as your represent alive . Very shortly afterwards I hixl > bn honour of presi'iiting iny . idU' within tho walls of tinpalace ! at WcstmiiiMlcr . Tholiral thing I wia callu < l on to do was to declare my property (| iuilillcatioii . That is ono of our existing institutions that you , thu free and independent olcctor . i of this country , shall not oxorcisu

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28111857/page/3/