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1c Worrell Estate was greater than the receipts, | 1 of the financial year in January next ; and it is J] known that the present season is the time, immediately afte® harvest, when payments can and will be made on account reater extent than in Spring or | ‘Tt Beems,’? Continues the Islander, in the paragraph | have already quoted, ‘that the settlers | on the Worrell Estate had been led to believe that no pay or

- ESS '\'t———— % THK EX NER . ‘ 4 4 . 62 l I! Is a A MI ~ : ‘ : “A fe ae + readiness, and assisted ia managing tl the master mad was wanting lience the Sepoys always came supplies of all kinds with the utmost readine ? \ be. | : . pro j a. : : » city ; al into aetion very well, but, as the battle went on, got bothere!, ‘discovering and bringing forw ard Sepoys hidden aa | oO ty a te 4 , : 8 er > deputy | and made a mess of it. Our want of cavalry in these aeti fs wha were hung as they were « aught. In the ev’ . . uy a wi was most seve felt—a couple of squadrons even would have | callector of Cawnpore, was brought into camp. “his ma a i . 4 P = > been of st nn Mussulman, and a lightly-trusted servant of our Governmen", > ° 7 . 1? ‘ ive 8 ' rs Q nrahaan nm ¢ . fhe tire troops camoed down that day on the spot where our) d been one of the Bhitoor Rajah’s most @ tive Ps of land purena d, to a far £g , f ee. Spe erg SEE ‘hing up, this astute] st gun was fired, and got what yey cou d, ha i; and when our fo ‘ 7 mare , ng i lish troops Summer. Sen wale . ate at niehh-s romour enreed through cawp that scoundre! epresad the report thatthe whole of the aoe tia a 1 Z 7 : > s assistance pain | a etill enfigit awaetet ws Onthe morrow, and Curing the ordered Out from! England to the ean eee Poel Te nett -¢ oe) next morning *eetasreh thie Intelligence was confirmed. The Government had been stopped in Bgypt by the Pasha, from whieh we S 7 Ly ei niete th in copseguence whole of the mitineer geciments at Cawnpore—about 4000) permitted to pass through that ceuntry- tat od oe tat : a . ' “ene ie i » sameine malt v Infantry and S00 Horse—had come down with the Bhitoor eight th yusand KEnglish soldiers only remained te be deal

Lajah, otherwise called the Nena Sahib, to meet us, and had

taken up & position at the fork of the Grand Tronk Road, about)

whe branches into

four mites from Czwnpore, ‘te one road cantonments, and the other continugs straight on to Delbt. Hi -re they had strongly entrenched themselves, with heavy, guys placed 80 as t0 Command ther and sv eep it wkh @ flanking fire,

We were then twenty-two miles off, which determined our General to march on fourteen miles that morning, and attack in the aflernoon. Accordingly, the force bivouacked under the trees, cooked food and eat, and at 1 30 p.m. were again on the march, proceeding tothe attack ; for the position of the enemy’s fufces and guns being known, it was determined to make a detour, and attack therm in flank, which required time, This I betieve to have been one of the most severe marches ever made in India. nthe full mid-day heat of the worst season in the year did onr troops start, exch man fully armed and accoutred, with his sixty rounds of ball ammunition on him. The suv struck down with frightful force. At every step a man reeled out of the ranks, and threw himself fainting by the side of the road—the calls fur water were incessant all along the line. At length came the point for the flank movement, and the column turned off into the fields. It had not proceeded half-a-mile before the enemy caught sight of us, and opened a fierce, well- directed fire ftom their héavy guns, by which the 78:h and 64th suffered some loss. ‘Through this storm of round-shot and shrapnel the troops quietly proceeded, till the turning point of the flank march was gained, and then, forming uo in line, with artillery in the intervals, advanced steadily down upon the enemy's position, ‘The artillery first moved forward and engaged the heavy guns—which werg pelting into us all this time--and the remainder of the troops, with the exception of the skirmishers, who were hotly engaged on our flanks, lay down.

After a few rounds at different ranges, it was found that the pnemy’s guns in the village were so weil sheltered by walls and houses that our artillery could not silence them. ‘They kept up #s hot a fire as ever, and their infantry too, from behind their cover, kept up a constant fire. Hereupon the 78th were ordered to advance and take the village. The Highlanders rose, fired one rolling volley as they advanced, and then moved forward with sloped arms and measured tread, like a wall—the rear rank locked up as if on parade—until within a hundred yards or so of the village, when the word was given to charge. Then they all burst forward, like an eager pack of hounds racing in to the kill, and in an instant they were over the mound und into the village. There was nota shot fired ora shout urtered, fur the men were very fierce, and the slaughter was porportinate. ‘* I’ve just vot three of ’em out of one house, sir!”’ said a 78th man, with a grin, to me, as I met him at a turn of the village.

The English force were now fairly within the enemy’s lines, and they went forward, taking gun after gun, and driving every- thing before them : but, meantime, the enemy’s cavalry and a portion of their infantry had moved round, and part of our artillery had to turn round and hold them in check. At one time, indeed, our small handful of troops were completely surrounded. ‘lhe mutineers fought fiercely and well, and if there had only been a head to guide them, we must have fought hard to save even our bare lives ; but unity of purpose prevailed over multitudes. One by one their positions were carried, and the final advance of the Gith, when they charged and took a heavy gun that had upto that time been playing on our troops with murderous effect, finally settled the business. After that there was no more regular opposition, and, just as night set in, the English force formed up and bivouacked on the plain, jist beyond the grand parade ground of Cawnpore.

This was hard fight. So many fell out on the road, that there cannot have been more than 1000 men of all sorts in actien on our side, opposed to at least 5000 of the enemy. In the furmer actions our artillery and skirmishers did most of the work, but here the brunt of the battle fell on the infantry. ‘The Sikhs are reported to have fought like devils. The fact of their mutineer brethren’s throats having been cut by the Bengal Sepoys had come to their knowledge, and rendered them even more savage than the English soldiery, if that were possible, against the mutineers. Here, more than ever, was our want of cavalry felt; for the enemy’s horse got off comparatively seatheless, besides creeping round to our rear and cutting up our wounded men. They made a dash at a smal! handful of our skirmishers—about a dozen of the Fusiliers—who with ‘heir officer, Seton, had got separated from the rest. Seton called his men round him, and formed square; the cavalry dasted at them, but swerved off from a cool, steady fire, every bullet of which brought down a man, and the little party rejoined their regiment unhurt. The on'y guns the enemy carried away were two Ilorse Artillery guus, which we could not catch—the remainder, to the number of eight, all heavy guns, remained with us.

There wes no supper that night, and no bed but the wet ground, but no man wanted litter to make him sleep afier suel a day’s work. In the middle of the night there was an alarm, and the tired force had to start up and stand to their arms again.

I cannot omit to mention here an instance of coo! courage on the part of a man of the 64th, which came to my knowledge after the action wasover. Karly inthe fight he had his leg shattered by a round shot ; and as he lay there onthe ground the horsemen came down to cut hin up. Lying on hia back he shot the first —they drew back—he loaded again, and shot a second —they began to move, he loaded again, and shot a third —whereupon the treopera went off, and left the wounded man in his glory. This man’s leg was amputated next morning, and he is now rapidly recovering.

Next morning, soon after daybreak, while waiting for the bag- gage to come up preparatory to encamping, as we isy \ily look ing towards the belt of troes and houses across the parade ground, all atonce a linge dense white pillar of smoke slowly rose in the air, unfolding volume upon volume, mounting sull upwards in the sky, like the Genie of Arab story —fullowed presently by @ report and concussion of the air, as when a large mortar is fired, ‘The enemy had blown up the grand magazine and arsene}, four miles and @ half distant.

And now, alas! came intelligence which turned the joy of our victory into mourning. We had learat on the march up that about a hundred of our women and children were still alive at Cawnpore. The thought of releasing them from their cruel bondage had been a matter of happy speculation throughout the eamp. We now learnt from people who came in that the Nana Pabib had caused every sou! of them to be murdered in cold blood the doy before, when he found the fight going against him.

Cawnpore, furmerly the largest, handsomest, and wealthiest @tation in the north west, was now one desolate wilderness of roofless, gutted houses, ‘I'races of the most wanton devastation met the eye at every step—every door and gate was pulled off ite hinges. Some offivers of the force visited the place wherein the fearful tragedy of the day before had been enacted. It was a nitive house of the bettermost kind, having rooms on either side, round an enclosed inner court-yard, where those unfortunate ladies and-soldiers’ wives, and their children, had been confined ; and it was told to me as an actual and literal fact that the fluor of the inner room was too inches deep in blood all over —it came over men’s shoes as they stepped. Tresses of women’s hair, and children’s shoes, and articles of female wear, broad hats and bonnets, books, and such like things, lay scattered all about the rooms. There were the marks of bullets and sword-cuts on the walla—not high up, as if men had fougin,

but low down, and about the corners, where the poor crouching creatures had been cut to pieces. ‘The bodies of the victims had been thrown indiscriminately down a wel! just behind the house, and were there to be seen a mangled heap, with an arm or leg protradjng bere and there. Ifthe Biack Hole of Calcutta brought down such retribution on its perpetrator, what ven geance can be meted out for this?

That same evening inte!ligence came in that the Nana Sahib had destroyed himself in despair {he js still alive and im Oude,) that his palace at Bhitoor was evacuated, and that the Cawnpore

insurgents had dispersed in the wildest fear, A detachment was instantly sent out to occupy Bhitoor—they returned next dy with sixteen guns from thence.

‘The inhabitants of Cawnpore appeared right glad to get back their old masters, Laving leagnt the difference between the rule of e native prince aud the Euglich Governineat. They brought

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(in India, and they might easily be harrassed to Here, for the present, my loug letter eude. engaged in crossing the broad Ganges—a most ardmueus task at this time of year—preparatory to marching on Lucknow. i he | Highlanders and some guns are over—the rest are coming fuat.| It us hardly too much to say that tlavelock’s column has recon- | quered India, In eight days it has marched 125 niles, fought | four actions, against greatly superior numbers, in the most | arduous and trying season of the whole year, and taken 45 guns.

You may observe that I give no retarn of killed and wounded —I do not pretend to do so. All I relate is from my own ob servation—the returns will give the rest. [ only know that no man of the enemy was ever spared that was caught.

Che Examiner.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.L, OCTOBER 26, 1857. THE ATTACKS OF THE OPPOSITION PRESS ON THE LAND OFFICE.

Ir was certainly a fortunate thing for the Opposition Press that the Land Office was established, and the Worrell Estate purchased. Often dull and stupid enough as it is, the condi- tion of the Islander and Monitor would be pitiable in the extreme, if the Government's land speculations did not give them an opportunity of displaying their talent for scolding and ealumniating their opponents at least once a week. Scold-

ing, we know, is very improper; but when there are a set of people whom we dislike, and whom we want to displace — most of us are frail enough —and if inclined to Toryism, es- pecially frail— to relish now and then a bit of abuse at their expense. Political Opposition Journalism would receive no support from your thorough-going Obstructives, unless it kept up an unceasing fire against the Government ; and as the Land Office is supposed to present the most vulnerable spot to the attacks of outside barbarians, we cannot be surprised at the continuous pelting of the foe in that direction. But the Op- position has been far more prodigal of fire and discretion than the results of their attacks would justify. They have effected no breach, or anything approaching to it, and when we come to reckon up the number of the wounded, we can find none but their own people in the list. .

To speak a little more plainly, and to show the reckless spirit in which the Islander —always foremost in attacks of this kind — misrepresents the conduct of the Government in

the matter of the purchase of the Worrell Estate, we need only refer to an article in the last No. of that paper, wherein the editor makes an impotent attempt to apologise for Mr. Douse in his practically refusing to comply with the instrue-

regarding the sale to the Government of the Selkirk estate. The /slander cannot understand for what purpose the Govern- ment wants the £100,000 sterling loan, because no terms have been agreed upon for the sale of the Selkirk property, and that he hears of no other proprictor willing to sell at the rate limited by the Land Purchase Bill, Mx, Douse has a reason eqtially as strong for declining to propose any terms on behalf of Lord Selkirk. ‘ Where is the use,’’ says he, ‘ of my entering into any negotiations with the Government when they have not yet got the cash to buy the land?” We are quite certain, that, with one exception, there was never a land agent yet in this Island willing to become a party to the sale of any estate over which he exereised control. The only

eople who make fortunes out of the Township lands in this country are the agents of non-resident proprietors. They per- fectly understand the process of enriching themselves, and it is too interesting—too great an auxiliary to ship-building, and too productive of social and political influence, to be lightly abandoned for any considerations of a private nature—for the applause of the press or the rejoicings of the crowd. Pro- prietors, too, especially non-residents — who have not been nearly beggared by the possession of estates in this country — but who, having no middlemen, are able to: derive hand- some incomes from their lands— will always, as well as the agents, find excuses as plenty as blackberries in August for declining to sell their properties. If they can command from thirty to eighty shillings an acre for land sold ingmall quan- tities, they will rather continue to dole out their estates in that way, than part with them wholesale for about a dollar an acre. Government competition in land speculating is, there- fore, to be decried by all means. It has a strong tendency to place the agent’s occupation in the same category with Othello’s — puts an end to jobbing, to cooking accounts, to timber dealing, to speculating in various ways on one’s own hook— lessens the value of lands generally, and makes too many in- dependent frecholders in the country on easy and advantageous terms. Besides, so long as the Island is allowed to swarm with poor tenantry—dependent on the agent or proprietor for indulgence in the payment of rent—so long will the political rights of the former be controlled and directed by the latter. The Agency or Middleman System has had the honor of making members of Parliament of such men as Mr. Yeo and Mr. Douse. Let us do away with the system, and we are sure to lose the invaluable services of this class of legislators.

We shall now turn to the article in the last issue of the Islander which suggested these remarks, and show, by two or three extracts, the reckless and unprincipled manner in which the chief organ of the Opposition usually assails, for the reasons we have already adduced, the conduct of the Govern- ment in almost every matter connected with the operations of the Land Purchase Bill.

*¢ We learn,”’ says the Js/ander, ‘‘ on what we consider very good authority, that the amount of receipts for the present season dues not cover the mismanagement of the Estate by a long chalk, as we long since foretold would be the result.’’ The Islander invariably considers any ‘* authority’’ “ good” which gives an unfavourable account of any Government transaction, Bat where could he havegearned that the amount of receipts his season isnot equal to the expenditure incurred in the Land Office? The on/y persons who could bo suspected of giving him any information on the subject, are the Auditors

oi the Public Accounts ; and eyen were they disposed to make an improper use of their position—which we are not inclined

tions of his principal and the earnest desires of his tenantry, | considerations, already re

instalments would be exacted for the land sold them in fee simple.’? There is not the shadow of foundation in fact for this absurd statement. If ‘‘¢he settlers on the Worrell Estate had. been Jed to believe’? such an improbable thing as their getting their lands for nothing, not one ef them would have paid a shilling of instalments without being coerced to do so; whereas, in fact, they pay their money with alacrity, and in as largo proportions as could bo expected, perhaps, from any other class of settlers in the Island.

The next assertion of the Is/ander is equally untrue. ‘It is said,’ we are told by that veracious journal, * that Mr. Aldous, having prosceuted some of them,’’ (that is, the settlers) “one came to town, asa representative of the others, we suppose, and calling on Whelan took him under his wing to the office of the Land Commissioner, whom he abused in fine style.’ Qur readers will observe that whenever the Islander hazards a statement which the editor has reason to believe is untrue and ridiculous, or both, it is announced as a public rumour, beginning with such words as—‘* We learn on good authority that soand so,”’ or “ It seems,’’ &e., &e , or “It is said,’’ &e., &e. Show the /s/ander that its story is quite groundless, and it will indulge in any amount of quibbling— will say, porhaps, that its announcement, if not true in every particular, was partly true ; but, in the meantime, many per- sons easily deceived, or willing to be deceived, and not seeing the exposure of the falsehood, will suffer their minds to be prejudiced and influenced by the deception.

Now, here are three falsehoods from the Js/ander, in a space of as many lines. 1—Mr. Aldous did not prosecute any of the settlers on the Worrell Estate. 2—One of those settlers did not come to town as a representative of the others. And 3—The Commissioner was not abused by the person who was accompanied by ** Whelan’’ to the Land Office. The subse- quent slang about ‘* Whelan” and the settler being shown the door by Mr. Aldous, is of a piece with the Is/ander’s previous assertions, totally and literally false from beginning to end. On every occasion that we visited the Land Office—and we have been there on many, in company with settlers from the Worrell Estate—the most courteous and affable demeanour has been shown towards us and our friends by the Commissioner ; and we are certain that he never had occasion to complain of the slightest impropriety of conduct on the part of any person by whom we were accompanied—much less having to submit

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to ‘* abuse.”’

It is not difficult to understand why. falsehood and mis- representation are so freely used by the Opposition Press in discussing the affairs of the Worrell Estate, apart from ferred to, which prompt hostility to the purchase of Township lands by the Government. The vendors of the Estate in question claim a balance of £6,000 from the Government. The latter is willing to give no more than £2000, reserving the difference to make up for the value of fishery reserves not fully accounted for, and for payments received from the tenantry on account of purchases and back rents, not credited at the time the estate was handed over to the Government. A remarkable instance of foryet- fulness in the latter respect has recently come to light, and our readers will shortly be afforded an opportunity of learning all the facts connected with it. Now, if the Government can be written down by the Opposition Press—if its land policy can be shown to be ‘‘ ruinous ”’ to the country—if people can be frightened out of their senses by a continual cry of taxation ! taxation ! taxation !—why then the next general election may result in giving a majority to the Tories, and Messrs. Pope, DesBrisay and Morton will not only get the full amount of their claim from the next Government, without reservation or deduction, but they will be spared all unpleasant disclosures for the time to come, in the form of uncredited payments, as the new Governnient would scorn to scrutinize tuo closely the

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« Lives there the man With soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said— I'll get a line, a hook and lead And go a fishing?” —Scott—slightly altered.

Tur Reverend George, having, since his editorial connection with the ‘‘ Sanetified,’? duly qualified himself for his thregt- ened fishing ‘info the troubled waters of the Islander and

lxaminer,’’? by the acquisition of a tolerable acquaintance with the sporting phraseology of Billingsgate fish market — has now announced his intention of essaying his hand at hook- ing two ata time. It occurs to us as just possible, that how- ever congenial it may be to his reverence, and however com- patible with his office as a Christian Minister, to fish into troubled waters, he may find that his line may not have ‘ fallen into pleasant places,’’ and that he will require no common tackle for his sport. He is too small a gentleman, both nhysi- cally and mentally, to bear much resemblance to the worthy of whom we read that,

«* Wis hook was baited with a dragon’s tail, He sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale.”

The first piseatorial success of the editors of the Protector was the hooking of their former printer, Mr. Burris, but he speedi- ly found that the bait was decidedly small in quantity, and spit out the hovk ere the barb had entered his vitals or victuals. All we can promise our reverend angler is, that we shall rise at his first cast, and trust to be able to make his arms ache with the contest he has provoked. We could have wished, how- ever, that he had not made the pompous announcement of his terrible intention, as it may possibly raise expectations in the minds of his admirers and the public generally, which the re® sult of the sport may fail to realize. When we read the threat, not perceiving the appropriateness of the metaphor, we ineon- tinently bethought ourselves of our old copy of Johnson’s Die- tionary, to find out what weapons we might have to contend with in the coming onslaught, and to our surprise we found, as the definition 6f the word ‘‘fishing-rod:” “A thing with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”’ ‘* Surely,”’ we exclaimed, *‘ his Reverenee has been as unfortunate in the selection of his figures of speech, as he will be awkward in the use of the article from which he derives his illustration.”? The disclosures likely to be made by him, as the result of his fish-

i +i z ——== of his plication to fisherman himself of the proverbial ‘ fisherman's luck »

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sanctified co-editors, result in the ay

his return from-his sport may bring tears into the eyes of as friends by the pitiable exposure of himself in a me state of wetness and hunger. Wowever, if the worst eam the worst, if the Islander and Examiner are both to be anni. ~ hilated, we must console ourselyes with the’ old saying, meaning of which his worthy father can explain to the fishing

parson :

*« There was wair tint at Flodden.’’

While yet our fate has not overtaken us, we avail Ourselves of the merciful muttering which indicated the coming disaster, as the lowering sky and heavy grow! announce the approge). _ ing. thunder to make a request, pot so much for merey to , selves as charity to our memory, and we now prefer the to our destroyer, that after having hooked and killed th editors of the Islander and Examiner, he will, in respect of our having died gaméPhave us cured and put up ina wey headed barrel, (some heads of the Sutherland make are very soft and sappy), and let us be branded as No.1. The ; of the Islander, with a copious application of salt, will pas muster as No. 2. : Should our fears not be realized, and the fisherman have in truth the peculiar luck to which we have referred, we under. stand that he will ‘‘im»prove the occasion,’’ on the fires, opportunity after his defeat, by preaching from John 21, 3dy,

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, _

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM INDIA. « Tux English Mail was brought over from Pictou on Fridey evening last. The news from India is not of a very encoury. ing nature—the mutiny in the Bengal Presidency being appa. rently nearly as formidable as ever, and other parts of Indig are considerably disturbed. In our present No. will be foung the latest intelligence furnished by our files.

DELHI STILL IN THE HANDS OF THE REBELS —GENERAL HAVELOCK'S RETREAT CONFIXMBD.

The Pottinger has arrived at Suez, with dates from Bom bay, 3lst August, Aden, 11th Sept.

The latest date from Delhi is the 12th of August, that city was still in possession of the rebels; byt an was expected to be made shortly, as General Nicholson was within a day’s march, with considerable reinforcements,

In a prolonged attack by the rebels at Delhi, which i from 6 p.m. on the Ist of August to 2 p. m. on the August, our loss was 10 killed and 36 wounded. The rebels were supposed to have expended 200,000 rounds of shot, The loss of the rebels was severe, and many of them deserted,

General Havelock’s foree bas retired towards being unable to reach Lucknow. A second advance yas made on the 4th of August; but the General was obliged to fall back for reinforcements. During these ments several actions were fought with the enemy, who were invariably defeated, and lost many guns. General Havelock returned to Cawnpore on the 13th,

Great anxiety is felt as to the fate of Lucknow, wheres thousand Europeans, a large .partion of whom arewomem and children, are blockaded by the rebels under Nena Sahib. They entertained hopes of relief from either Nepaul. The 5th and 90th Regiments are on their the river, to reinforce General Havelock’s Divicion, bat B doubtful whether the garrison of Lucknow has provisions to enable it to bold out. ;

Tho 26th Native Infantry mutinied at Lahore on the 200 of July, and murdered the commanding officer, Dlajet Spencer, but the mutineers were wholly destroyed. .

The mutivy in the 27th Bombay Infantry vont kel tirely suppressed. Only 200 men of the regiment had volted, but another, being stationed at Rutnagberry, bas been disarmed. 3

The 12th Bombay Native Infantry have been disarmed st Nusseerabad, in consequence of their insubordination, and of the threatening attitude they assumed while endeavoring protect a trooper of the Ist Lancers, who had openly inet his comrades to mutiny. They did not proceed to activ violence.

Martial law has been proclaimed at Belgaum, and several Mahomedans, who have been convicted of treason, have been executed. A plot to attack the 2d Europeans on their ar rival at Belgaum has been discovered. The traitors wen arrested and executed at Mowat A boo.

SIR COLIN CAMPBELL’S PROCLAMATION Af CALCUTTA. | “ BY THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEP. : “Ter Majesty having been graciously pleased to appoint me Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in India, in the room of the late lamented General, the Hon. George Anson, and Lier Majesty having also been graciously pleased to confer upon me the rank of general in the East fodicgtitiow the command of the army in India. In doing so it F me the highest satisfaction to find under my orders : who have so fully pgoved themselves, in the recent as operations in the field, to be, what I have ever know) British soldiers in every quarter of the globe—courageoss faithful, obedient, and enduring. In former years I hat commanded the native troops of India, and by their side! have been present in many battles and victories in which the have nobly borne their part; and it is to me a subject @ deep concern to learn that the soldiers of whom I have bet accustomed to think so favourably should now be open and defiant mutiny against a Government for the liberality and paternal consideration with whieb has ever treated its servants of every devomination. I join the force now in the field restoring order to the distr disturbed by disaffection of the army of Bengal, I — the head of the British troops, and of those native who, though few in number, have not feared to themselves from their faithless comrades, and to their duty, feel my old confidence that they victory. I shall not fail to notice, and the pow ment which 1 have the honor to serve will not fai every instance of fidelity and’ valour shown by under my command. I call upon the officers both European and native troops zealously to assist task before us; and, by the blessing of God, we again see India tranquil and prosperous. (Signed) « ©. Campprll,

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FEARS AND ALARMS IN CALCUTTA.

Avavusr 9.—Her Majesty's ship Shannon arrives; sit have a reinforcement of 1,700 men, in reality she mi marines, but the whole of her erew is to be made ® - for defence of Calcutta. Numerous armed bodies of thst are hovering about Calcutta, it is sup not oe 70,000 men, exclusive of those known to be hiding

jto think they are—they could not show that the cost of

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town, aud w large number of cavalry.