Details of Colonel Wilson's Rescue

A telegram has been received announcing that Lord Charles Beresford has returned to Dubat, bringing Col. Wilson and party. General Wolseley telegraphs that about eleven o'clock, Beresford's steamer had gone down the river three miles when a battery of the enemy on the left bank opened fire.

The steamer returned the fire, and Col. Wilson, with his small party, took four guns and landed on the right bank. The party marched down the river till they came opposite the battery. They put the guns in position and opened fire. Much assistance was thus rendered to Lord Charles Beresford in keeping down the fire of the enemy.

At sunset Colonel Wilson and his party marched on three miles farther and halted for the night. They were joined by Lord Charles Beresford the following morning. The steamer, meanwhile, had another engagement with the rebel battery, but passed it without serious harm. Colonel Wilson and party were again taken aboard, and the steamer proceeded to Dubat without difficulty.

In the passage from the island to Dubat one man was killed and seven injured. Of the injured, four were natives, who were scalded in the engine room.

Lord Wolseley telegraphs as follows: "I cannot speak too highly of the pluck of Charles Beresford and all his party. Colonel Wilson's men likewise behaved admirably, and with the usual determination of Englishmen."