LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM MADRAS.

Colonist, Issue 4, 3 November 1857, Page 4

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM MADRAS.

It appears that the mutinies in the upper Provinces of India are not yet at an end, and we. suspect they will last until there is not left one Bengal corps to rebel-—to this result it appears coming, and better it is that it should be so, as disarmed regiments become a mere rabble set of Dacoits or Pindarre robbers, who without efficient arms are utterly contemptible. So long as the mutineers possess artillery and the colors of their former regiments, which now exist but in name, so long, they may hold together. Take the one : and destroy the others—the disgraced colors—with ignominy, and let it be made known throughout India that the British Government of India thus expresses. its abhorrence ;of the very existence of banners which have been steeped with the blood of innocent females. The following we take from the Madras Spectator of the 2nd September :— [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM BOMBAY.] OUTBREAK AT FEROZEPORE. Spectator Office, 2 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 2. Intelligence has just reached from Lahore, dated 21st August, of an outbreak on the 19th, on the part of the 10th Light Cavalry at Ferozepore. About one hundred of the men mutinied, and having murdered Mr. Nelson, the veterinary surgeon, made a rush on the guns of Captain Woodcock's European Battery, but failed to capture them, although the men were at dinner at the time. Having killed one gunner and wounded another, they made off from the cantonment with but little loss, having possessed themselves of a number of the horses. They were being pursued and shot down by the Horse Artillery, Bombay Fusiliers, and Seikhs. The Syce native drivers refused to mount, and are in confinement. No news from Delhi, but it is said that an immediate assault would be made on the city. These gentry have therefore made nothing by their move. Tlie following is from the same paper :—• . ..■■■■' The Rifle Companies of the Ist, sth, 16th,-24th, 36th, 49th, and two companies from the 34th Regiment N. 1., are to be temporarily formed into a corps for service in Bengal, to be designated the " Madras Rifles." Brevet-Major Carr, of the 16th N. 1., has been appointed commandant, and is to nominate his own regimental staff of adjutant and quartermaster. The Mofussilite has received authentic intelligence that Ghose Mahomed Khan, of Secundra Rao, at the head of four hundred Sowars and two hundred infantry, has taken possession of Coel and Allygurth, and proclaimed himself Soubahdar for the King cf Deli, of the country between those towns and Allahabad. ' The following information received by Government from the Commissioner of Umballah, and dated 13th August, was communicated to the Press yesterday afternoon :—- ---"All quiet in the Punjaub and Cis Sutledge States. The enemy's battery of four field guns outside, the town was captured yesterday, with the loss of 120, of whom 8 are officers. None badly wounded, except Lieutenant Sheriff, 2nd Fusiliers. The reinforcements under Brigadier Nicholson were halted near 'Delhi to concentrate. They march in camp to-morrow 2700 ; men, of whom 1200 ar^e Europeans. The King has shut himself up, and is anxious to.escape to the Kootub. The Doonah is quiet

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as low as Bolendahuhur, and order will soon be restored in Roh'ilcurid." ■ We have received the official accounts of Major Eyre, of the re-taking of Arrah and the rescue of the little band shut up for nine days in a fortified house. It appears that the miscreants hanged upon trees the wounded of the 37th, the 10th, arid the Seikhs who fell into their hands. The last that was "heard of them was that they were twenty miles from Arrah, and had been attacked ; but although routed they could not be cut up, owing to the difficulty of j getting the guns over the bad roads for the artillery. It was supposed they had all made off for Delhi. The Mohurrum both in Madras and Bombay has passed off quietly, the higher classes of Mahomedans in both places expressing the most loyal attachment to the respective Governments. "The Mahc-nedan community at Bombay, just before the commencement of the Mohurrum, forwarded through the Cazee an address to Lord Elphinstone, expressing their indignation and disgust at the horrible deeds of their countrymen in Bengal, and offering their services for the protection of property and the preservation of the peace." They say that to a "man the Mahomedan population would, in case of need, come forward to aid in the preservation of peace." Lord Elphinstone... says—-"Em-ploy this influence to counteract mischievous falsehoods and allay groundless apprehensions." In our extracts will be found some deeply interesting accounts of the terrible doings of the arch-fiend Nonagie, with the names of others who are added to the list of the massacred. It is much to be feared that with Miss Goldie there, are many English ladies in the hands of this villain and his followers, a fate worse than death. In the retreat from Cabool in 1843, the Affghans treated the female prisoners with the utmost delicacy and attention. Let us hope that the miscreant Nana has yet some spark of humanity left in treatment of his hapless and helpless captives. The following we take from the Columbo Observer on the tragedy at Cawnpore. Probably but few details will ever be known, as the poor murdered dead can tell no tales —but much may be eventually got from captured miscreants who, in the hope of saving their felon lives, may be induced to tell of the dreadful deeds of others, which they, of course—poor innocents!—took no part in at all.