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Telegrams are a frequent source of "blunders ; anil these "blunders are often of a most painful natui-e . ¦ It . wis stated in a message from Alexandria , ¦ which we published lust week , that a detachment of the 37 th , under Colonel Milman , liad been " cut up at Azunghur . " This , happily , turns out to "be an error . The force did , indeed , receive a repulse ; but
for " cut up" we are to read " shut up . ' The rebels , however , are pressing Colonel Milman very hard . One gun , espceialPy , lias caused him great annoyance ; and a sortie was made , though unsuccessfully , to take it . Iu this affair , Captain Bedford , of the 37 th , was killed . On-the 29 th-of March , one hundred men of the 97 th and 20 th Foot , and one hundred and ten Madras Rifles , were sent on from Benares . The 13 th 3 ? oot from Allalialxul have proceeded ' via Ghazeepore .
The East India House received a telegram at the close of last week , containing a rather fuller account of the o 2 Jerations . ' described , in the "Foreign Office despatch ( which we gave in our last issue ) , and also \ adding some further points of news from several of \ the disturbed ' 'districts . We here read : — ¦ I "Jiiaxsi . —The two hrigades , forming Sir Hugh j lioseV force , combined before Jhansi on the 27 tli of i March . The rebels , about 12 , 000 strong , including 1500 Sepoys , retired ( to ) the fort ; an investment was niade , and the siege commenced on Match , the 28 th . On the 1 st ' of ¦ April , a very strong force , under Tantia Togee , a relative of tho Nairn , attempted to relieve Jhansi . Without abandoning the investment , Sir Hugh Rose attacked the relieving army , and gained a glorious victory , taking eighteen guns , several elephants , and all . the camp equipage . Tan tin Togee is said to be killed . Oa the -1 th of April , after a severe struggle , in which our less was severe , the town was stormed and taken , and on the 6 th of April the Eorfc was occupied . The Rnn . ee fled towards Jaloun with a few attendants ; but tlio cavalry were in 'hot . pursuit . The enemy lost 3000 men in the battle of the 1 st ,- and in . the assault of the 4 th . Our loss is not yet fully reported , but the following officers arc among the killed and wounded : —Killed : Lieutenant-Colonel Jindtill (?) , commanding . . Artillery ; Lieutenant Meiklojohns , Lieutenant Dick , Bombay "Engineers ; Lieutenant Park , 2-ttli Itegiment ; Doctor Stack , her Majesty ' s 8 (> th Regiment . ; Captain Sinclair , oi-d ' Hydenibud Contingent . Wounded : Major J Heard (?) , Lieutenant Pox , Lieutenants Dartncll , 11 . Olrord (?) , Prendcrgast , Dardy , . Clery ; Dr . Omickshank . 11 IiAjpoo'USA . —The -rebels made a desperate ; attempt t ;> take the Palace of the Ifajah of Kotah , on March 25 th , bv escalade , but were repulsed with great loss . , On the oOth , General liobcrts carried the position of the rebels bv assault , and occupied the town of Ivotali . The rebels fled , and a great slaughter occurred in the pursuit . All their guns , with the exception of two , have been taken . Our loss was nhout' twenty-five killed and ¦ wounded ; among the latter , two officers—Lieutenant Cameron , her Majesty ' s 72 nd Highlanders , and Lieutenant Hancock , Bombay Engineers . " GuzKn . VT . —Some disturbances have occurred in the Guicowar ' s district of Okamundul , and the small island oT llcyt has been occupied by the rebels . An unsuccessful attempt to dislodge them was made on the tfrd ol' April , when six were killed , and twenty-six wo muled ; among the latter , Captain Dacley (?) , Koyal Artillery , and two other o Hi cord not nnmed . Intelligence has since been received of the evacuation of the island by the rebels . " Mviiisis Caunta , —The Thakoor of the petty State of Moon lietta (?) has gone into rehellion—a ( net which may cause embarrassment in Guzerat while tiie important measure of disarming the population is in progress . " Kolaihikk . — Tho brother of the Rajah has been arrested on . suspicion of conspiring against the British Government , and is now on his way to Bombay . " SoimiuuN MA . mtA . TTA ( Jocntky . —Tho insurgent Dessaloas , after committing muiiy outrages , have been driven into tho Goa . territory . From the llmvnaru districts si reward of 10 , 000 rupees hud been ottered for the apprehension of each of the three Desaalecs . " 1 Juni ) I'U . CUNi > . —Calico is filled with rebels ( fugitives ) , unil a great panic prevails . Mahomed , now a principal adherent of tho Nuna , has iled to tho Maharajah of Owalior for protection . " Cawni'ouk . —A strong column proceeded from Cawnporo on the -It-li of April into Oudi 1 , to attack Ivurroh . A detachment from Colonel Maxwell ';) force made a demonstration at the Kmmirpol Ghat on tho 4 th of April to draw out tho enemy ' n strength . Jt is believed they have only three guns . " FiriTHiiuiiim . —Tho rubels arc , eroH . Hinp ; at tho Bicheuniero Ghat some way between Purraekabud mid Slunushiibad . Ivulhda . K . hau is reported to have joined them . " ltoHJMJiiND . — Tlin robi'ls , who bad threatened NyncoTnl , are reported to have fiillcn back . " Tin : iia . iaii maun sinuii . Wo road in tho Times : — " Some reports from India relative to tho protection
* ° Cc , * J ^ \ \ j ' , ! ' : ' afforded by Maun Siuyli to fugitive Europeans at the outbreak of the Indian mutiny were published on , Saturday . Maun Singh appears to have played a very fast and loose game throughout . He is thought by Mr . C . J . "SVingfteld to luive been ' staunch' up to the month of July , having exerted himself in every way to protect the women and children left at Fyzabad ; and at that date the llajah himself writes to the Commissioner of Benares , professing , in rather affected terms , great loyalty towards the British Government , of which , he says , he is ' entirely a well-wisher . ' After his exertions in saving several women and *' children , for "which lie received a present of 50 , 000 rupees , with the thanks of the authorities , he began tke game of making overtures on his own behalf , and last February the Secretary of . the Government of India -wrote to -Sir . Wingtield from the camp at Allahabad on the subject of the . terms to be conceded to him should he renew those overtures . The Governor-General , in acknowledging the Knjah ' s undoubted services to the British cause , cannot absolve him from the imputation of having participated in the insurrection , and shared in the armed opposition by which the 13 ritish troops were met in their advance to the relief of Lucknow ; bathe nevertheless expresses his readiness to guarantee him security-of life and honour on his unconditional submission to the justice of the British Government . The llajah told a woman ( a half-caste ) , whom he recently uvula over to the English , that 'he ¦ did not mean to tight against us , for he saw how hopeless it was , and he wished to save his life ; ' and Mr . Wingfield ( on the 2 nd of February ) wrote to the Secretary of Government of India , that , if Maun Singh saw no hope of mercy lie would fight , but , if he thought that lie lnul not sinned past forgiveness , he -would remain neutral . Mr . Whigtield thinlis Maun Sint > , * li the very last man that ouyht to ha selected as an object of clemency . On the 12 th of 1 / obruary , Maun Singh ' s conduct was still regarded with distrust , although in a I letter , dated 12 G 5 I ' uslec ( the Sth of-February , 1 S 5 S ) , he professes his attachment in every respect to the interests of the Government , and pretends that lie had only been obliged to keep up an -appearance of am it v with tho rebels ' for the fear of his honour and dignity : ' " . " . .. PBOGKESS OF KVES . TS . A . lueid statement of the general position is given by the Bombay correspondent- of the Daily JVcwj , whr > w-ritos : —
" The month of . March has passed ; we arc on tho eve of the great heats , and we have . still a vast amount of territory to recover from thu insurgents . The capture of Lucknow , by depriving the enemy of a rallying point , has scattered tho rebels—not only over ( hide and Kohileund , whither it ivas expected they would ily—but southwards into the districts of Ghorruekporc , A / iimghur , and Juanpore , so that wo . have now on our hands on the eastern shore of the Ganges valley a considerable number of rebels to deal with , and in the last-named , districts very few troops to meet them . We bad hoped that by the judicious distribution of the forces under Franks , Jung Bahndoor , and Itoweroft at various points , the bands led by Mohumdee
lloossein , amounting to several thousands in number , would be thrown back to the Goomtue . and forced to join the Lucknow rebels in their ( light northwards . Franks ' : * victory at Sultanpore . seemed to have attained tliat object . But the rebels , instead of Jailing back on Lucknow , retired eastward on Bolwn and Fyzabad , crossed the Go ^ ra , near Howcroft ' s position , and engaged tliat oilicer . Tlie usual result was produced as far as the engagement is considered . The rebels wore beaten at Amora with great lo . s . s , Colonel L ' oweroft with only twelve hundred man haviny killed upwards of one
thousand and dispersed an army of fifteen thousand . Hut , after the action the insurgent masses neparatcd ; apart remained at Bulwa entrenchments , whilst the remainder , by a movement to the westward , down the course of the Gogra , throw themselves across at Tun * la , and penetrated into the Ghorruclqioro and Azinighur districts , where they were rallied by Ivoor Singh , tho old arch traitor of Slmluibad . Elated with tins possession of so fine a force , Kuor Singh resolved on a inarch towards 11 enured , by way of Azimghur , and on the 2 . * Jid his vanguard was within twenty miles of that place . " Tho garrison of Azimghur—a wing of her Majesty " * 37 th , under Colonel Mlhuiui , and a wing of this * llh Madras cavalry—hearing of the approach of a body of insurgents , wont outjj ) ni <> et them , and came to action near Atrowba . The victory was coini * IeU * , but was dourly paid for . Colonel Miliuait hud committed the same mistake u « General Wimlhnm , i \ l Onwupen-e . Had ho . been content to wait for thu enemy iu the entrenched gaol of Azimyhur , he would have been aufe . There were ample meuu . s of defence there . Tho gaol was surrounded l > y thick wullrt and a deep ditc . h ; provisions could have been brought in , and proparations made for a Mont re . si . stancc . Colonel Mihnini , after bin victory , retired . slowly , bearing doubtless c > L" tho advance of a superior force . But the enemy came down upon him in overwhelming number * , llu lost his camp , and hud to hurry into A / . imglnir , and niukohusty preparations for defenci ' . Koor Singh lui . stoned to attack , and on Ihe 2 Hh had completely surrounded our loreo and opened battenon on the eutreuclnncald . No thuo had been lost in the
meanwhile iu sending " news of the disaster to Benares , and the news arrived there late on the evening of the 26 th . Fifty dragoons were immediately sent out iu bullockcarts , drawn by coolies towards the scene of action . Telegraphic messages were forwarded to Allahabad , and from thence to the Commander-iu-Chief at Lucknow . Awing of tiie 13 th and the depot of the 2 nd . Bays left Allahabad by forced marches on the 27 th for the scene of the disaster , by way of BenarcH . The Connnanderin-Chief , on his part , took decisive and lapid measure *; . On the 28 th , Sir Edward Lugard , with the iJ-Jth , S 4 th , and 20 th liegiments , the Military Train , some native cavalry and artillery , marched rapidly towards Azimghur . There can be no doubt of the final result . Koor Singh will be beaten ; but great anxiety is felt in the meanwhile for the garrison of the beleagured entrenchment , as well as for the lifty dragoons . sent out in the strange conveyances I'have described . " Nor is this the onlv unfavourable intelligence that reaches us from this part of the country . A letter from Benares of the 27 th ult . says : — ' I have another reverse to chronicle . Two companies of her Majesty ' s 51 th , with Madras cavalry and 100 Sikhs , and two guns , I believe , went out with the magistrate , at a place near Suraon , between Allahabad and . Gobeegunge . As usual , our information was ' most- wretched , which always will be the case under the present system . The force came up suddenly to a spot surrounded by a jungle . A large body of rebels were comfortably settled therein , and ' opened' on us with six guns . After sustaining the tire for ; m hour , we were obliged to retreat with the loss I -of the olneer in command of the Madras cavalry , aiul i very many others , killed and wounded . Just fancy six guns under the nose of the magistrate , and he altogether ignorant of the fact . This occurred the day before yesterday . ' ' - '
" Simultaneously with the departure of Sir Kdward L'ugard ' s force towards A . zhnghur , Sir Colin Campbell hail completed hi . s arrangements for leaving a garrison in , Luckuuiv and marching against llohilcund . The greatest activity has been visible in the erection yf barracks and the formation of magazines for provisions and ammunition . The corps d'armco which remains at Lucknow -will , there-tore , be well oil " , it will consist cf the 23 nl , ' . 3 Sth , - -5 ord , OOth , 97 th , 1 st Madras . Fusiliers , 2 nd Dragoons , 'Lahore Light Horse , and a powerful artillery under the command of Sir Hope Grant . The rest of tiie army forming a flying column under Brigadier-General Walpole , and commanded by . Sir Colin Campbell in person , -will go to UohUeund in the following strength : —The . 42 nd , 75 th , O ; Jrd , 2 nd and 3 rd Punjab Infantry , 7 th llussnr . *? , ' 9 th . Laiuvrs , two regiments of Native Cavalry , four troops of Horse Artillery , two field batteries and sioge train , Jsaval and Engineer Brigades . " Sir James Outrnin goes to Calcutta , and is succeeded as Chief Commissioner of Oucle by Mr . Montgomery , lately . Judicial Commissioner in the Punjab , and the same active and admirable oflicer whose energy did so much for us during the crisis at Lahore and the siege of Delhi . " Our news by post from Oude goes to the 30 th of March . 15 y the lUth , all organized resistance had ceased ; but such a vast area of houses could not be held by our troops without great inconvenience , and the inhabitants were invited to return and ransom the rest of the town ; nests of rebels , however , still existed . One of these was attached on the 21 st by the 4 th Punjab Infantry , who sullercd severely in their attempts to capture a gun in a narrow street , Major Wilde , the commandant - , and Captain Hood , the second in command , being severely wounded . The position was subsiquently forced by the 93 rd , who killed one bundled and forty of the . enemy and captured three guns . The sanii ' evening , two youn ^ officers , Messrs . Cape and Thackwell , straying into tins town beyond our pickets , were murdered . On the 23 rd , a force , under General Grunt , l " 0-I coeded < m a three day . s' expedition to disperse sonu ? I rebels in the neighbourhood towards Sei * l : ipoiv , lil ' tcoii guns wi-re captured and two hundred nion -slain . Oik : oilicer , Macdonnell , of the 2 nd Punjab Cavalry , was killed in this alfair . On the tilth , the Grand Army began to break up , the Ghoorkiu inarching towards Fyz / ibncl , and the -siege of Luck now may be considered to have li-nninntod . Our total loss was aliom seventy olliciTr ) and eleven hundred men killed and wounded ; that of the enemy it is impossible to compute , lint it could not have been leas than four thousand killed . "
M . VSSACUK A . T . T 1 IAN . SI . The following details arc contained in si letter tliitCil " CiUiip , Jliansi , March 22 ixl . " They . 'ire painfully interesting ; but it is as well to observe that no names or dittos are given : — " Y ' , of course , are iiwuro of the indi . serhninute ina ? - Hiicris that was perpetrated liy tho Kuniiii ' . i («> f . Hinnsi ) troop . n , of the whole of the J'luropean families iheii m > ideiit aTtliin place , But , us 3-011 very probably nre \ inac . fiuaintcd with tho diitailn of the frightful simih . ^ nbhom * nt and revolting in tlu > . extiv . nu > , that were lien ! eiiiu-. ted , 1 shall enter into a minute recital of them . My infiiriuiition is on reliable authority , having been ( . v iyeii bi-forc a committee by the brother of one u'ho aui . it iniraeiiloiuly elliictcd his escape . 1 'roparatory to this massniTis , a wing of oik ! of the . UtMigul rugiincntH that wi-riJ atutionod hero wuro marching away , when tho Kauce ui-
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. 438 .. \ THE LEADED , , f ^ Q- ^ 24 y May 8 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1858, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2241/page/6/
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