EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume I, Issue 5, 24 October 1857, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Although the news by the July mail has already been received via Wellington, fuller details have reached us from Auckland. In England the all-engrossing question of the day was the revolt of the native army of India, and the steps to be taken in retrieval of the great errors that had led to this disaster. An adequate steam fleet, and ten thousand additional men had been ordered to the East, whither that fine old soldier Sir Colin Campbell had been dispatched to take the command. Whilst energetic steps were being taken in England, Lord Canning, the GovernorGeneral of India, had been no less on the alert. Troops had been into action with the rebels, with happy success — and steam cruisers had been dispatched to intercpet the transports for China and to turn their prows towards the Hooghly, — the regiments intended for China being about to be replaced by an. adequate force of ma« rines. We — says the Auckland Weekly Register, from which we condense this summary, — learn (although by report only) that steamers had been sent after the Palmerston and Orwell, with the 77th Regiment for Sydney ; and the Beechworth and Polmaise with the 95th Regiment for the Cape, whence they were to have conveyed the 89th Regiment hither ; with instructions that the four ships should proceed direct to Bengal. In such case, the relief of the 11th and sSth Regiments will needs be indefinitely deferred. In the interim, trie insurrection had spread widely, and scenes of the most revolting atrocity had taken place, the wives and children of the Europeans, without respect of age or calling, having been butchered with relentless barbarity. The town of Delhi had been besieged and taken, the rebels losing 7000 men and 26 guns. About 3000 took refuge in the palace, from which it was expected they wor.ld speedily be turned out or destroyed. At Jhansi, the insurgents had taken the fort, murdering all the Europeans, men, women, and chiidren, who had sought refuge there." All the sepoys in and around Calcutta had been disarmed without any demur on their part. At Allepor, the mutineers had been defeated with considerable slaughter. Some of the troops at Sangor mutinied and fled to Eamoll, where they were attacked and defeated by two companies of sepoys. Saugor was defeated by the 31st N,L, who had proved good and loyal soldiers. The Sealkote rebels were completely destroyed, having been previously defeated with a loss of 200 lo 300. The 78th Highlanders marched into what had once been Cawnpore after a severe action on the 17lh June. Brigadier Chamberlain had been blowing rebel Brahmins from the muzzles of his guns. This, he said, was out of respect to their caste and religion. Sir Henry Lawrence, on the other hand, had been much less punctilious, having erected a gallows on which a score of Brahmin icurderers might swing comfortably, outside the gates of Lucknow. In Europe the ground-swell of political convulsion appears, to be beginning to be felt. In France — especially in Paris, which gives the tone to the country— the elections had been adverse io the will of Louis Napoleon, and that in spite of all the adjurations and objugrations in the power of a^despotic government to employ. Cavaignac — the Parisian idol of 1848 — with others, who look more than coldly on the existing regime, had been returned for the fair city. The Press had been more strictly fettered — rseveral journals had been interdicted — numerous arrests had been made in several of the departments — a plot to assassinate the Emperor had been timeously discovered — and the country had been placed under the most rigid military surveillance. In Italy there had been a premature rising, under the leading of Mazzini ; . the kingdom of Naples appears to have been the scene of the outburst. Two actions between the insurgents and the royalists, had taken place, ending in the defeat of tke former. Mazzini escaped in an American ship, disguised as a quaker, to London. An amalgamation had taken place between the Royal West India Mail Company and the Australian Royal Mail Company, by which means it is thought that the early opening of the Panama route will be satisfactorily effected. The Great Eastern steamship had been completed. Her estimated cost amounted to £650,000. Her first trip will be 1 to America.