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• elegrapine despatehes arrived from, Botilety early in 'the Week,1 'eared 'yesterday by the faller adviCei: 'The latest date fent Bombay in ctober 28i
'The journals and correspondence report a variety of military incidents, Arming the prelude-M the winter campaign now supposed, to ;have, Cigar rearmed. In Oude there had been several combats. A lnicTy cif IAs, 12,000 strong, crossed the Goomtee and' seized a part of ' Cap- 4itin• Eaaaon and his Polite .garrison ;retired withinht filitified post and bent to-Luck:mist for aid. - A small column wasinstantly deepetched,i and assailing the enemy drove him back across the Goomtee and inflicted great loss upon him-h1t/00 men, it is said. Another band of rebels tried to interrupt the communication betweeu CaWnpore. and :Luekncivi, taking , post at Itfehaliglinge. Brigadier Eveleigh fell upottthem, took their • guns, and killed and wormded-200 :men. Tsto -similar • conflicts have takenplace on the Gogra. A British force bad moved from Sultan- pore to Daoucipore; and had driven out the rebels, capturing guns and elephants, and the fort of Burrah. On the Rohildund frontier of Oude BrigadierSeithn, has encountered rebels and chastised them. Coining down to Behar we'' find accounts Of • rebela defeated near- Sasseram, and Brigadier Douglas occupying Jugdispiore 'without opposition.
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In Central India, Tantia.Topee.and the Nawab of Banda•have Shown mat, but not successful; agility in avoiding the British, columns. When driven out of Esaghur by the rapid march of Brigadier Shoith and Ceptein Mayne from Goma,' the movement of General Michell:Mon ge,- range, and the advance of Colosieli- Liddell and Seudintiore Rem Enna and Gwaliorr,- Tantia Tepee turned Southward to Chimdaree whither he arrived on the 6th October. The • fort, garrisoned, by Seintlia'a trqople repulsed him, but be plundered, the -town. The rebel's, neat design ems to force his way through the country between Jhansi arithGvfalier. "He accordingly moved to 'Piehore, which he occupied and plundered. Mayne, who had previously stopped 'there, was at this time on his way to join General Michel, Scudamore's detachment from Gwalior being consider- ed sufficient to check any advance of the rebels from Piehore in inertia.- easterly direction. Tonna Topee, learning that Seudamore was in his way, fell back at once from Piehore to the Sims Ghent, on the Betwa, about twelve miles below Tal Behut. He thought it, doubtless, possible to crofts the Betwa and surprise Tehree, especially if he were well seconded by a di- version to be executed by the Nawab of Banda. The passage of the .Betwa was effected on the 8th and 9th of October, but the diversion of the Nawab of Banda failed, as I shall presently show you, and Michel was enabled to cross the Beta-a, while a detachment, under Colonel Liddell, headed Tantia in the direction of Tehree. The failure of the Nawab of Banda's movement arose in this way :—he had moved up the left bank of the Betwa to Euu- growlee, when he was met by Michel's force on the 9th, at the morning halt, near the village of Berenia. The force had but just arrived, and were en- joying the cool shade of some trees in anticipation of the arrival of their tents, when the enemy were observed at the distance of a mile, advancing with their cavalry in front. The alarm was instantly sounded. The art& Imen sprang to their guns. The enemy's cavalry formed in line about a mile in advance of their main body, and waited. Michel's guns unlimbered at 600 yards with shell, and threw the rebels into immediate confusion. A charge followed, during which numbers of the enemy fell. The in- fantry then advancing, bayonetted the dismounted men who lay concealed in the bushes of the jungly ground, and deployed in front of the main body of the rebels, formed up on the right of the village of Berenia, with a thick jungle all round them, two guns on their right, three in their centre, and one on their left. Not a shot was exchanged till the English line was within 400 yards range, when the rebels opened from their artillery, sending their shot far over the heads of our men. The 92d and 71st then charged, carried the position, took the guns, and dispersed the enemy, who were then well plied with shrapnell by the artillery. The fight 'lasted till 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the rebels bad all dis- appeared, and General Michel retired to Mungrowlee. After a halt on the 10th, General Michel crossed the Betwa, and marched in the direction of Tehree, meeting Tantia Topee as he was retiring from that place towards the Sims Ghent, on the Betwa, on the 19th of October. The place was Sindwah, half way between Tehree and the Betwa. - In the action which ensued the rebels were again beaten, lost four guns, and were driven towards the river, Colonel Liddell, from Tehree, following them shortly after in the direction of Tel Behut."
Besides the columns already engaged in hunting this flying foe, the Rajpootana Field Force under Roberts, and detachments from Stinger and Nagode, are ordered to take part in the campaign. Cavalry rein- forcements, not before they were wanted, have arrived in Central India. The Guzerat and Guicowar Horse, under Captain Buckle; the Southern Mahratta Horse, under Lieutenant Kerr; and the whole of the Seven- teenth Lancers under Colonel Benson.
Reinforcements had arrived out from England at Calcutta and Bombay.
The King of Delhi, Zeenut Mahul, and Jewan Buxt, left Delhi, en route to Calcutta, on the 7th October, under escort of her Majesty's Ninth Lancers, a troop of Horse Artillery, and a Police Battalion. . All India, says the Bombay Times, is on the tiptoe of expectation for the Royal proclamation, which is supposed to have arrived in Calcutta by the English mail due there on the 17th instant, and is consequently expected in Bombay by the end of the present month. As the proclama- tion will doubtless be announced simultaneously in every part of the country, it is not likely that an earlier day than the 10th of November will be fixed fur the purpose, and the presidencies are busy in the meantime in making preparations to do it honour, by the exhibition of a little enthusiasm in the shape of a general illumination. The proclamation itself excites the intensest interest, and we are not without fear that it will disappoint the expectations of many. It is to be hoped that some happy inspiration has decided its terms, for it will have to run the gauntlet of a very sharp cri- ticism. The friends of the old East India Company cannot reconcile themselves at all to the prospect of an illumination on the occasion ; and the strong feeling which exists in many quarters against any demon- etration being made, affords singular evidence of the gulf which separates our public men, who have passed their days in' exile in this country, from the class of English statesmen at homd. , that 'fitellity of rug,serrefigodatiosig betaken/0'31M change which 'eohbat trithl powerful frevently suerseful opposition brings along. with it. • 14id I. ntstithe ;sitting of the Belgian Chamber:of :ilepresentatives on the 19th, a large section of the extreme right, headed by the Comte de. Then,. showed their respect--for -Parliamentary__Gowernment by quittig :tie" Chamber. These Belgien Terms ,wcre,,nfve ion that the address k Theaz thought that to absteui from -ffischeinonifini,'Tinder stieli" ii,.....„,„, r aninveu to .tim King's . sneech.' was insulhff to them. M. de the; bOt emirs°. The Ministers etc:ha-their ground, and the answer was
voted by 63 to 9. . . - .
- Tini,Eng,liali and French ContiMisioners arrived at Jeddah on the 12112 November., ,,Neraik,Patha, Who was at Mecca, immediately runnel ro,,fuMalr, ,The'`Bhatieli Cmandiusioner landed at 'once, but the Eitte Commieshmerremmeed- on. board. ' In the roadstead there Were English: glitii, of war. The-Queen has appointed Di. Herieyhtfatili;' the famous African ha. yeller, to be a Companion of the itiido of theifirtli.' Baron A.niliony Rothschild has Succeeded to the post of ConsutoGene. ral in,Landose for Austria. The Convocation of the Prelates and clergy of the province of Canter. bury was yesterday formally prorogued until-the 14th January. Mr. John Crawford, late Governer: dMingapore, delivered a lecture at Leeds on Wednesday, upon " China aiidftsfrade."
„.. - , New colours were yesterday .presentoil to, e 47th Regiment now at
Aldershot: • The old colours, whieh saw latest of many hard-fought fields, in the Crimea, are to -he sent to Manchester. ' The new colours were preeented by-Major-General Scerlett.
A meeting of the Royal Geographical Society will be held on Monday next, the 224 iiiiMilktit'BUiliagtoil House, Pied/anti, at half-past eight, p. m. Sir Roderick I. Matehisbn,- President; in the Ohne. Papers to be read —1. Notes, Geographkel and Conimereial; on the 4nlf of Peel-all and the Pyiliii Fiver, by ,CalittiiitSheryird Osborn' ,' R.hh-, F.R.G:S., H.M.S. 7u. moue. 2. Leiehaidt and the Anstriiliaii Desete, by thellevemnd W. B.
Clarke, of Sydney, F.R.G.S. - ' • - '
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