POSTSCRIPT.

SATURDAY.

Telegraphic despatches from India, forwarding summaries of the Bombay mail of the 24th December, arrived in London yesterday even- ing. One is addressed to "Sir James Melvill, East India Heise," and is signed by Mr. Anderson, the Bombay Secretary ; the other is from the . Malta correspondent of the nnes. 'Ile intelligence forwarded is of no cresertroment: The oflkial despatch is as knows— The garrison of Futtehpore, pressed by insurgents, have abandoned part of their intrenchments, and have taken up another and more secure position: •

"A edema from Delhi, under Colonel Seaton, attacked a body of in- surgents at -emigre [Genoa/reel on the Neemuddy [?] river, and de- loptect.m. killing 160, and takibg,threoguns out of four. . Three officers were luTed-and,one wounded on our side. .

." Brigadier Whitelock'i,columieladarrived at Secunderabad on Decem- ber:14, et route for Sanger- Time insurgents in the neighbourhood of Jlibbulpore were attacked on the 25th of November by a detachment of the 47th Madras Native Infantry,. ,without any decheve- result: Rein- forcements were advancing to Jublulpere. •

"lime Rajah of -.Amjh,egra twit his Minister have been tried and aenteneed to death.. The Minister, has been rhengcsi. The sentence. on the Itajah dataits the confirniatiOn of the 'Government of India. Other executions have also teheriplace.

"Punjanbrbeinde,-and-Bombay all quiet. No-furtheraheel depredations are reported, andiquist prevails gewr.ally.."? e • •

The newspaper despatch adds, that the column on thee/beech from Delhi wsui the guarttof the large conatitrof- stores en 1)0116310 .e.avinpore. Madras, • Bombay, and the Punjsrub•were tranquil; The only scrap of news from eawnpore (unlearrthe Futtehpore referred to in the•India House despatch be the Futtelipore in the Doab of the Ganges and home) is that Brigadier Great% victory over the Gwalier men as won at Sheoraj- Pore, Whieh- is rgigat4OWEA• With la bazaar on the .Rangefis tWentysone miles North-west of Cawripore. The absence of Calcutta news, ityis sup- posed, has been caused by the breaking of the telegraph somewhere in the

Nagpore district. " •

The following letter from Cawnpore—interesting•as a pietlire, and is filling up an hiatus in the recent actorints—hat been placed in our hands by a friend at present in London, 'who has extensive relatiord with India. The letter Was addressed to an eminent house in' Calentta; - 'and . although the writer speaks with the ardour and keen sight of a military enthusiast, he is himself a merchent of high. /tending.

'" • • Caipiipbre, Dpeember 2.

" My last was dated '26th Norember; In it I mentioned- an engagement with the enemy Some eight miles nut of the city. Thatiiiotory, if I may so call it, ended •bv our •foroe changing their position from: a good to a bad en- campment.. asuI falling back -nearer the coy. Altleaugh' the 'enemy got a drubbing; and we'pursuedabout truffle and a half, still it f, some evening they followed up our troops, and had very strong reinforcementsiduring the night. Next day, the 27th. I had hardly got througlinly morning's work - when a number of Natives reported to me that the nisitmeers were down upon us, and advised, linked urged ice, to rush intothe.intretichment. I delayed, to have nir breakfast, to fortify myself for &Y.; and' afterwards weal to see the authorities ; all of Whom laughed at any idea of danger, -al- though we heard the fighting going on distinctly about half a mile from my house. It was so near that Captain Sankey of the Madras Engineers and myself went to see thefuu. I could not resist the temptation of witnessing an eegagement-u near. Our force must have been nearly 2000 strong ; but the etrengtli. of the enemy was unknown, I may say; despised, until they completely outflankedus. About this time, one of the aides-de-mum eame up with a report' to General Windhain that the rebela were attacking the fort ; wtien the order for a retreat Was given: Soon after this, however, they found out that it was a falte alarm, and an attempt was made to re- cover our position. But it was too late; and our ground was log, the enemy having taken advantage immediately of our move. A general panic followed, and every one who could . rushed into time intronchnientie on the 27th about

4 p.m. ' •

" We have been here orer since, besieged by an army of from 20,000 to 30,000 nien. No mails have gone out or oome-in since the 20th ; conse- quently I could not write. An attempt is being .niade today to send a wa-

nd ; and I write these few lines in the hoPe they may reach you. .

" On the 28th our troops went out to attack the enemy. H. M. 64th made one of the bravest charges that could be ; having with only 170 min charged and taken four guns, which they spiked. . But, for want of support., they lost them again the cavalry having comedown upon theni, and lined six officers and some '63 men killed and wounded. Thu officers' names Bse Colonel Wilson, Brigadier, wounded through the left cheek severely—he died a few hours afterwards ; Major Stiehne, killed, cut down at the guns; Captain blorphy, Brigade-Major; .Captain or Major Macrae, Quartermaster- General, also killed at the guns ; two officers missing, Lieutenant Mackin- non and Lieutenant Gibbon. It as said that they were taken prisoners, one of them hun,,o on our own gallowathe other tied to a won,-wheel and. long tortured, 'being beaten with shoes upon'the face' 42..c. MI this is very dis- gusting. Colonel Woodford of the • Rifles was also killed on the 28th; and his body, only just now brought in, is being interred a few yards from .me. Colonel Kelly, of the 82d or 34tb, was slightly wounded on the 27th

was close to him at the time. I think nothing now of the shells and round- shot, musket-balls, &c., whisziug about our heads, aud passing through our tents. An officer, whose name I do not know, was shot through the head whilst at dinner.

"Oaths evening of the 27th or 28th, the Commander-in-chief arrived from Lucknow, and came over the river at once, after a march of thirty miles, leaving his camp two miles across the river. They came on next day. Yet nothing has been done beyond keeping the enemy at • a respectful distance with our heavy guns. I hear that Lueknow cannot be taken with less than 30,000 troops ;• certainly not fewer than 20,000 Europeans are required. -Many of the officers who have returned tell rue so. - Could you believe it, nevertheless it is perfectly true, notwithstanding all we have heard about the starving garrison, that the force came away with full four hundred. camel-loads Of provisions—discovered only two or three days ,before they left Lueknow.- Had General -Outruns known they had such a prize, he could have held out easily till January or Februar*. Ladies would. have given gold, in fact any price, to know that they had such supplies, a short time before. Is not all this kind of nituragement dis- graceful

Very few additional details of the attempted aSsaegintition of the French Emperor have come to hand. The 'Daily Yews conospondent, hoar- ever, in a letter dated "Thursday midnight," furnishes an account of the

execution of the scheme— • '

" Just as the Imperial -carriage drew -up to the peristyle of the Opera, a large hand-grenade, thrown, it Is etipposed, from one ofthe houses opposite, fell mpon the pavement within a kw- inches of the vehicle, burst with terrible force, nd flung deadly projectiles in all directions. Two or three seconds afterwards, another shell of the same kind struck the roof of the Imperial carriage, before the Emperor and Empress had bud time to alight- third quickly- followed, launched with deadly aim, and bursting as effect- ively as the former/ two.This closed the murderous campriign. Their Majesties escaped—and their escape is alined miraeuloin--]-veith the slightest possible scratch from splinters of broken glass.:-.. they have each alittle mark on the nose. But the Emperor's hat was knocked to pieces by the

projectiles ; so that he was literally within an inch Of his death The

consternation which this dreadful event mug have occasioned among,* Court .party and the company on .the stepra of the OpernhOuic mmii be'eon-

csived. Besides the noise of the explosion, there weipAire: e Of the briiket'glass which *II like hail both inside and outinde:the Uie./ft

Feast tero'hundeed.paliet Of the glass doori. must have . ' Sonic of the ladies stepping eistof t: heir carriages found theft-7 te.isithi shoes . Mixing .pereotieti9reifed am Conitersini and one Meet: ?II gated

aDert .

steeped in ls of bldo&'4 ' • that "-five nunlike he-U.6111e attempt, M. Hebert, of the Pane, nut it the corner Of the 'iii4;LePelletier an Italian named Pierri,,wheie retain to Fnutee bad only-141inszeitained on Tuesday night. On the arrest Of Pierri, he was found Ao. have *beat him &six-shot revolver; a gremule similar to those that exploded, andaponiard. .In the wane Of the night, thesars to thexesearchee of the:Poliee,- tha authors and accomplices of the

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attempt were arrested." The number of killed, according to the later re- ports, is five..'. • • • A telegraphic despatch from Paris, dated yesterday evening, says- " The Emperor' and Empress drove out today at three o'clock in an open caleche, without any esoort, through the streets of Paris. They were en- thusiastically cheered by the people." M. D'Argent, for many years GOVerner..of the Bank of France; in the reign of Louis Philippe, under the Repiiblic; and the Empire, 'died yes-

terday. .

A new Ministry has been formed at Madrid, composed as follows— -

"M. Isturitz, President and Foreign Affairs ; General Espelata, War ; Sanchez -Ocena, Finances Fernandez-de la Hoz, Justice.;. Ventura Diaz, Interior • General Queseclan Governor-General of, Madrid?' M. leetaiizi, who filled the office,of Minister. of the Interior in Pied- mont, has resigned. Hie successor has not yet been appointed.

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The Queen retUrned &Buckingham:Palace from Windier Castle yes- terday afternoon. . Soon after her arrival, she gave audience to Lord Stratford de Redeliffe, "on his return from Constantinople. on Leave of absence?' :The -Prince Conaort inspected the arrangements at St. James's Palace ist the course of the • afternoon. Soon after .five o'clock, Prince Frederick Charles, Prince Frederick Albert and Prince Adalbert of Prus- sia, arrived at Buckingham Palace. The Prince of-Wales met them at the railway Station, and 'the Prince Consort received them at Bricking- ham Palace. In the evening her Majesty gave a grand -dinner: • The Gazette' of last night contains a, general order issued by the Corn- ._ inandee-inreltief, promoting Colonel John Fa:snaky.Wilmot.,Inglisi of the Regimentete the rank of Major-Genera, " for his enduring. fo:rtitude and persevering gallantry in the defence-et the Residency of Luoknow, _for eighty-seven days, against an -overwhelming force of thneriemy." • The Gasiatte states that the Queen • has conferred the Victoria Cross npeet Lientenent Joseph .13.• H. Crowe, of the 10th Foot, for being first To enter a 'redoubt in. front of 13uShrut Gunge on the 12th August ; "upon Lieutenant Henry Marshman Havelock, fbr his gallant Volunteer kading of the 64th in hie father's first 'action at Cawnpore; and imen Pill/des ThOnia,S 11ances:1r and . John Purcell, of the 9th Lancers, for gallanili aiding Brigadier Giant When Ids 401'st, was shorbefore Delhi At a taeobis4 of the Surrey Society for the Protection of Discharged Prisoners, at Kingston last night, speeches were delivered by Lord St. Lotman:Is tint Lord JohnRhasell, which will attract considerable•atten- tion. • In describing the difficulties of those who relapse into crime, Lord JOhn_Riitsell &nisi a distinction betWeen.`-thosiewheie position in lifeenables them to obtain help from their reletives, and these who are helpless. It was the gepd fortirne.of persona like those who composed the meeting that they had better means to meet their engegemMits than the peer had, and ED escaped from the penalty of their tuee.s. Lord St Leaner& con- trasted the ease.with.whieh Crime Can he prevented. or punished with the immense diffteulty attending the treatment of a discharged prisoner. He admitted that ticket-of:leave men' are -often guilty ofgreat hypocrisy in prison ; but .gready blunted the- Government for discharging them in letge haMheiriti the Winter tealion; when thelotest could. scarcely obtain a lirelifieed, and tins in .a manner 'forcing them' back upon their former predatory :habits. ...In' default of transportation, Lord St. Leaner& de mended public works, on Which discharged prisoners could fell bitelc.fm

employment. ' _

, A -Murder,. at Over Palmeri, near-Blackburn, isexeiting much attention in the North.. The: bedvofltobert Kershaw, an old man, was found-under a, Of coals in. thweellai. °this awn house on Wednesday. -Infornietian that it wagthereharlbeen given byhis son Robert ; who-stated that he had de- rived the knowledge from his brother Thomas. He says thatThoreasroueed hint .ont of ' his'eleep, and Said-;-" I've. something horrible to tell-thee; but thee•naistirl tell nobody. about it." Robert asked what it was, and Thomas sad, " When& aaine home I „found father dead in the house. • .Mother-did allgettaken up for it." Afterwards he added,. "I look the body down-stairs and buried. it in the. ccials."- Robert got up,:went to the feundelie body, !ran out; and gave !information. Mrs' Kershaw is said to be partially insane. Her son Thomas hits hitherto bikini .ft really

good. chatted:ere! ..; . -

. A -.meeting . oi deputies from various Metropolitan parishes was held yestordayel in the Vestry-room of Ste James's Church, Pierndilly,.to 'vise joint aiestifiti of • action 'fon-Centre:11in g, the tightly Street nuisance, The :-Reilifend E Kemp oecuPkgl•the-cliiiie.',- 'Ft as resolved; that there 'Might To be a more' Stringent adrairliettiatit& of the Police Act; that the law should be so altered that the evidence of five householders and .the: PPlies/S ImP14#°01.4 ,t9 09.11.1/i4 thfi ifpoppre.4 4*(0847 houses;

thatnighteheineesieetf, entertaininentehouliLlerepleced„nriderefilciant eons:

trP.1 ; P9.Wer. Eholfld ' be: giTRP: *11111;c111' alltiafetie14 1`,11 preeecute the importers of foreign womenof immoral charaeteire; ,jiIndepevdwiqe, .4eIge4lueters. lotter-lesnuiAlgiers., reporting: that.M. . sie GU..rtira, the great Row-killer,: lied alleal ended his career, es • he badbeen derouredb,y a 11,014.: It is:candid.V added that there' are no details: The! writer of the letter, et Algiers inlist!ha!ve beenimposelLuPorr : anY- heel -4,914 Wee that he bad Wen M. Gererdelt masts have been:mere brag on *client of:the king of litaatail eithm-intenebid toweilthe:pengs•elan empty etonlgeb,,O: tsisessbow. 1/4149.40Sna-li0WgilLIAilt erisb .3ie Jules Girard was, as ace :WM; alsewberfbut the -Inepting-tOki the:Royal Geographical

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