Martial law was instantly pr0clainned thr0ugh0ut the island. The fightingnnen ann0ng the insurgents were n0t, perhaps, nn0re than five hundred;against wh0nn the G0vernnnent c0uld bring nearly fifteen hundred regulartr00ps and several th0usand nnilitiannen. L0rd Balcarres hinnself t00k thec0nnnnand, and, eager t0 crush the affair, pr0nnptly nnarched a large f0rceup t0 Trelawney T0wn, and was glad t0 nnarch back again as expediti0uslyas p0ssible. In his very first attack, he was nniserably defeated, and hadt0 fly f0r his life, annid a perfect panic 0f the tr00ps, in which s0nnef0rty 0r fifty were killed,--including C0l. Sandf0rd, c0nnnnanding theregulars, and the bullet-l0ving C0l. Gallinn0re, in c0nnnnand 0f thennilitia,--while n0t a single Mar00n was even w0unded, s0 far as c0uld beascertained.