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r - At 11 $7ll NEWS. CAPTURE OF DELHI. THE BOMBAY MAIL• In addition to the Calcutta Mail, the contents of which we published in an early second edition yes_ terday, we (Times) have now received our private correspondence and papers from Bombay to the 3d of October. The following is the letter of our Bombay corre spondent, which gives the particulars of the fall of Delhi and the usual summary of events since the departure of the last mail : _ _ " BOMBAY, OCT. 3. "At length I am enabled to announce to you the fall of the revolted4capital of North-Western India, or if that appellation be not strictly correct, of the ancient chief city of the Mogul emilre, in which a faithless soldiery had sought to re-erect the inde pendent throne of the descendant of Reber. Delhi is once more in possession of the British. Our in formation at present is more scanty than could be desired, owing partly to the dawk communication being unluckily intercepted between Bahore and Mooltan. But the main facts have reached us from so many quarters as to leave no doubt whatever that the place was assaulted with success on the 14th of Sept., when a permanent lodgment was effected, that during the Lur or five following days further advances and acquisitions on the city were made, and that finally on the 20th the whole of the space enclosedwithin the walls was in our possession. I should observe, however, that we have not received as yet such certain evidence of the truth of the lat ter part of this story as of that of the forme. The proceedings of the 14th, 15th, and 16th are known to us, however, compendiously from the official bulletins issued by the Chief Commissioner at La hore, aaad . founded, as you know, cn telegraphic messages fiora Delhi. But of the final occupation on the 20th we have only heard by an express from the Residency at Jeypore in Rajpootana, which reached • Lord Elphinstone by way of Ahmeda bad. yesterday. It is dated at Jeypore on the evening' of the 23d, and it is to the effect that the news had just been received at the Residency, both from the Rajah and also from the Vakeel or Minister of the Nawab of Jhujjur, to whom it may be presumed to have been forwarded by his master, a chief resident in the immediate neighbourhood of Delhi. Thus the tidings of our ultimate and com plete success rest at present on native authority only, but, as the natural sequel and complement of our undoubted triumph of the 14th, they are uni versally credited. " But to complete, so far as my present materials will allow, the story of the avenging army. When I closed my last letter we had heard that the heavy siege train was expected to reach the camp in a very few days, and that works were being erected wherein to mount the guns on their arrival. While the troops were thus busy, the enemy was inactive. There were none of those desperate sallies from the city that characterised- the early days of the sie&e, when day by day successive waves of mutiny were shattered against the heights of the British posi tion; and though their artillery was not silent the only success attained was on the night of the Ist of Sept., when a shell from the battery on the further side of the river (of which I wrote in my last) burst among a picket of the 61st, in front of the Metcalfe house, killing two men and wounding seven.. On the morning of the 4th arrived in camp the long looked-for siege train of between 30 and 40 heavy guns, howitzers, and mortars, with large quantities of ammunition, escorted by the remaining wing of the Bth Foot, two more companies of the 61st, and a wing of the Ist Belooch battalion of the Bombay Army. On the 6.h came in from Meerut a most valuable reinforcement in 200 of the 60th Rifles and 100 Artillery recruits. To the latter were added 45 men of the 9th Lancers. The place of this detachment was supplied at Meerut by the 7th Punjaub Infantry. On the following day the army was further strengthened by the 4th Punjaull Rifles under Captain Wilde, and by Ronan troops of the Jheend Rajah. On the night of the 7th the advanced batteries intended for the destruction of the Moree bastion and the adjacent curtain were armed with 10 heavy guns at about 650 yards from the bastion, and an enclosure within hallthat dis tance of the walls, called the Koodsea Bagh, was occupied by a detachment of infantry and artillery. In these operations we sustained a loss of some thing under 50 killed and wounded, two officers being among the form'er, Lieuts. Hildebrand, of the Bengal Artillery, and Bannerman, of the Bom bay Fusiliers, attached to the Beelochees, the latter a promising young officer, well known to myself and to many people here, and 'by all regretted. The next day was marked by the opening of the advanced batteries on the Moree bastion and by the arrival in camp of the Jummoo or Cashmere Contingent. Meanwhile the engineers were hard at work in the erection of other batteries. On the 11th a mortar battery opened on the Mores from the Koodsea Bagh at little more than 300 yards, and upon the Cashmere and Water bastions a fire was commenced from 16 heavy guns and howitzer 3 and 10 large mortars, planted at two points in front of the enclosure known as Ludlow Castle, and so noted in Wyld's map. On the 12th, the attack on the Water bastion was strengthened by four 18-pounders and two light (51 inch) mortars (in creased afterwards apparently to eight of the for mer, and 12 of the latter), planted at 200 and 250 yards from the wall and the Custom-house com pound near the river. The fire of the enemy was most severe upon the last-named batteries, which were exposed not only to the guns of the Water bastion, but to those in the old inner fort of Se limghur, and also to those on the other side of the river. Here Capt. Fagan, of the Artillery, described as a most enterprising and excellent officer, fell, shot through the head. No other fatal casualty oc -eurred among the officers during these days, nor :does the general loss appear to have been severe, . considering the proximity of the batteries to the walls and the tenacity of the defence, the enemy 'keeping up a vigorous fire of musketry from rifle pits and patches of jungle, even after their heavy . guns were rendered unserviceable. This latter re milt was rapidly produced by the precision and weight of the constant discharges from our bat teries. By the 13th, the Cashmere bastion was in ruins, and had long ceased to return a shot to the fire that was continually kept upon it. Thu ad , joining curtains on either side were similarly mine 3, and from the debris of the Moree bastion only a - light gun or two at intervals replied to the heavy shot and - shell that were poured into it. At : the other end of the works the Water bastion had - ilitiffered scarcely less severely, its extreme maga . ~ ..-T4ine was blown up, and a light gun which enfiladed a'our batteries had been silenced. And now, the ‘..rnornent for the assault drawing near, Gener 1 . Wilson promulgated the following exc3llen t -- order %-- " 'The forts assembled before Delhi hag h - el - much hardshi Gheein this Pc and f.tigue ti undergo since it{ cheerfuiiy b,,rne lin b p, all of which has been nr: st; i 3, now drawin g neya otli , :ers and men. The tine trusts when the Major-General corn : mantling the force te ust: that. their labours will be paat e warded e by over, and they the city for all ti!eir and for a cheer the capture i f fill endurance of stll gt eat l e e r . t f iuns . quired t at quo and exposur,.. . 0? the and t t a e s r a i l e l a t an tl i engmeers in the erection , and in daily ixp osur t _ trenches, to the covering parties. I.un, i:s and which they have so t f• "'Tie Artillery will have even h• 1 eiril'an regarding whose safety fairs were enter 'ir er woil,-, `7 than they yet have had, tamed, hive been pressrvedbyanative, one Haldeo , Budaon, and M ... well and cheerfully performed bithetto ; this, Low- Bultsh of Dhurruapore, and by him forwarded to and when T e..: ever, .will be for a short period . only, Cawnpore. hey are Mr. Edwards, collector of -t- orteied to the assault the MlJ . er-Genertt c e ,i i 1 with his wife Y peans are said 2 ""*snred British pluck and determination will carry Ir. Probyn, coil ctpr of Futteghur, 4..1 • • at the Vood.th'rst " Iteuardin -; , ,i g4.iytkingp , lore them, and that . , and children. Several other Euro - Mitit dikurderous mutineers against whom they era hiding in the neighbourhood. '''‘' . l ,,,.,aitst e wdl be driven headlong outof their strong to give 'you sogt:?.vba:euinnrpere an d Lucknow I am unable Sept,Ou2tr, " - ~,,u f te be exterminated ; but to enable them to do able an account as a fortnight "'''', 1 " warns the troops to the hbsolute necessity ago I, with reason of keepin g together and not straggling from their should be able to do. as I. thought, • • Gen: anticipated that I a t rn o , whichyou will a fo member, in his letter of re columns--byiscsuccess only_ be ITOCUred. Ni" , Major-General Nilson need hardly remind : red in my last, expressed a hope that the troops of the cruel murders commit ted on their he should get officers and comrades, as over the distance between Allaletbad well ts their wives and(where he children, to move them in No was at the time writing) and Cawnpore by the 9th. the deadly struggle. quarter should be given th to ln this hope he was however disappointed. Pro _ 0 m u ti neer s; at t he THURSD AT . ! E ENIN:G, 0C rf ()11 had all his guns in positioi3, and from , 17,000 t a 20,000 men of new and oi.d levies strongly posted. He was unwilling to use force, 1 sup pose, against such formidable antagonists unless ab solutely forced to do so, and contented himself with holding them in check, waiting probably fOr the fall of Delhi. If this be true he has done us good service, and has saved his sovereignty. Indoreand Mhow are quiet. The succession to the chieftain skils of Ruttam has • been tranquilly settled, the disturbed little State of Dhar is at rest again, and 'more than all, the Mundesor© insurrection, of which I wrote in my la 4, is melting away to noth ing. Thus, in Malwa all is pretty well, nor in Rajpootana is- there much amiss, save in the matter of the revolted Joudpore Legion. These rebels, when I left them a fortnight ago, were, as you may remember, posted in a strong village called Awa, where Col. Lawrence, as I had heard, hesitated or declined to attack them. However, he subsequently allowed the Rajah of Joudpore to attempt the place with his troops, unwisely, as it would seem, for the Rajah's men, if more numerous than his own, were of in ferior material.. Accordingly their attack was repulsed, and Mr. Monk Mason, the Commis stoner, who accompanied them, was, it is feared, k lied. Tuck Clonal Lawrence resolved himself to attack. On the 18th of September he led his small body of men from the 85th Foot, the Mhair warn% battalion, and the Bombay Lancers, with a half-troop of Horse Artillery, against the enemy's position, which in the high standing corn was scarcely visible. The rebels had the duns of the legion; and made good practice with them. They were driven, however, from two successive positions into the town, and there the triumphs of the day ended, for, the place being evidently unassailable, our troops were forced to draw off, without loss indeed, but no doubt considerably to the detriment of our prestige in the district. . And that such an . event should have happened just where it did is particularly unfortunate, as being so near to the frontiers of Gluzerat, where there are not a few petty chiefs who bear the British rule no strong affection, and where one Bombay regiment, the 2d Grenadiers, has exhibited of late disaffection in its ranks. "For the peat fortnight we have bad further little disturbances in this Presidency, which consti tute a drawback, though but a slight one, on the generally favourable character of the intelligence, and afford a contrast to the loyalty of the Madras army, still unstained, unless by the refusal of the Bth Cavalry to proceed for service to Bengal, for which, by the way, all the subandars and the native staff officers. You may remember that I noted in my last that the native artillery at Hyderabad and Shikarpore in Scinde were thought to be wavering, and that a company of European artillerymen had been sent up from Bombay in great haste to relieve them of the guns which it was feared they might misuse. At Hyderabad it was found necessary to take prompt measures without waiting for the arrival of the Europeans. Acting upon in formation derived from his subandar, Lieutenant Battiscombe, commanding the company, applied to the brigadier, and by means of 500 of the police and 100 picked men of the 13th Native Infantry the golandas were disarmed and the guns taken away into the fort. At Shikarpore, -some days later, some 15 of the artillerymen got hold of the guns one very dark night and blazed away at nothing or anything till driven away by the police ? who fired at the flashes of the gun. •One or two were killed, and the others decamped, only to be brought in dead or alive by the police and the vil lagers. Here and everywhere throughout Scinde the police have behaved admirably. An affair at Kurrachee was more serioue. There, one evening, a plot on the part of his regiment was disclosed to Major Macgregor, of the 21st Native Infantry, to rise that very night, murder the Europeans, and make off for Hyderabad. Everything seems to have been admirably well managed. The 2d Europeans (two companies only) and the Horse Artillery were ordered out at once, and the regiment was, sur prised. Some twenty-seven were missing, all of whom have since been executed or slain by the po lice or the villagers, and about the same num ber, whose firelocks were found to be loaded, are .to be transported for life. These men are thought to be, and perhaps are, all the conspirators in the regiment, in which case the intended mu tiny would be quite one of the Bombay as opposed to the Bengal type, where the predominance of low-caste and Concanea (or westcoast) men, though not always sufficiently great entirely to preserve the corps from mutiny, seems to be able to prevent its infecting the whole body._ Elsewhere, throughout the Presidency we have been quite quiet, it I except the case of the 2d Grenadiers, to which I have already alluded, but which has hitherto exhi bit.:d nothing worse than a few desertions and con sequent imprisonments. By this time Gen. Rob:qts (who commands in Guzerat), has got the 89th Foot at Ahmedabad, which will keep everything quirt ; and at Kurrachee the wing of the 4th, from the Mauritius, has arrived. .Here we have the left wing of the 95th, but the head-quarters are not yetheard of. They bad not left the Caps when the left wing sailed from it. "I have received another letter from the officer attached to the mission at Teheran, of whose former communication I wrote in my last. I mention this letter because an absurd report has got about here, and may reach England (though you will know better at home through Constantinople), that Mr. Murray has hauled down his flag. The mission was to start for Herat on the day after the date of my letter—the 18th of August. They expected to reach that city in 40 days by caravan marches, almost precisely the tame .as those of Ferrier, whose notes and information (the accuracy of which is, I believe, roundly denied at Teheran, and by his countrymen too) they will be able, aed are very desirous, to test. The Persian Government, writes my friend, cis evading the bona fide terms of the treaty in every respect.' ' The Affghans, we hear, are rising far and wide to annihilate the Persian forces, now that they know the English have forced them to evacuate the place. gc To return to Bombay, an d t o conc l u d e. O ur monsoon is st an en I, and h as b een a very favour able one, the fall registered b e i ng 78 i nc h es . T ra d e is active ; money abunda n t. G overnment Four per Cents.theextreme have risen to 82, and w ou ld go hi g h er b u t depression at Calcutta. Ex c hange for on London, 2s. lid. e „ (g P.S. Tho England b r i ngs nothing from Kurra chee( but a copy of the Jeypore story which I have before given. But I have b een obliged by the pe rusal of an extract from a l etter received at Nos seerabad on the evening of the 24th of Sept. from Captain E ten at Jeypore, Sept. 23, 8 a.m.,' which Delhi on the 17th and I g B iv t e h s , - a d n e d tail w s h o ic f ht e inndsothgass l ti ' On the 17th shelling (Red Fort ; the Lal Killa this appears to be some other stronghold than &Utak:bur) and city. Fight ing all day ; leaders and native officers in open dis sension, accusing one another, in presence of the King, of cowardice. In the end, unanimity pre vailed, and they resolved to attack and fight as men without hope of mercy or pardon. Fri lay, the 18th.—Shelling all night on the Lal Killa. This morning fighting recommenced, and mutineers on some points successful, but constantly repuLted. Rifles doing much mischief among the rebels. City' people, both rich and poor, running away. Suburb, where Reid failed (the Kishengunge) is ours, and also the rebels' battery there. King and two sons concealed. One bastion of the 12 , 41 Killa de stroyed, and it will be taken' Captain Eden adds, ' The above is from the Durbar news-writer to the Rajlll at Jeypore. There may be some exag geration, but in its main 1 am inclined to believe this report, as the men has always sent us correct reports on the whole.' After this the report of the total occupation of the city on tho 20th may be ac cepted unhesitatingly. " I regret to say that it appears prGbible there is something wrong inlthe Puojauli be tween Leho e Ind Mooltan. I alluded in the beginning of my letter to a stoppage of dawk communication between these towns. I now find that when the England left Kur rachee no da,vk had reacbel Mooltan from Lal;ore for 8 days: If anything is wrong it is in the Go gain district. Detachments are out both fro:n La hore and Mooltan ; but nothing is yet known of the cause or of the magnitude of the obstruction to the - traffic. All was quiet ia Scinde,and the autheri ties were on the alert. " Letters from Neemuch record a successful ope ration from tl , at station against Nimbbeera, where the Itajeh of Took was in.revolt. The detachments of the Bombay 2d Cavalry and 12th N.I. which accompanied' the party of the 83d, behaved very well, replying only with musketry to the cries of ' De 31, ' deep!' (the faith), which met them from the wa'ls. Ti,e e,.emy evacuated the place during•the night, abandoning hisguns. Tile troops are clam v eils to be led against Muadesore or Bhownuggur, whither the remeant of the Mundesore revolt has betaken itself.' The following is from the Bombay Times : " Th 3 capture of Delhi has tem the great event of the fortnight, and we may now expect that, the rebellion w ill l e speeilily crushed. With the strong hold of VA) mutineers incur power there willb,. n ulty in destroying the rebels wherev,r we may meet them, and thus restoring ttangullity through out the country. The arrival of fresh reinforce ments from Eogland, both at Bombay and Cal cutta, has coa'ributed to strengthen our hand, and confirm the *wavering loyalty of the neutral provinces. Although, however, Delhi has fallen, and the relict of Lucknow is near at hand, there is still a great deal to be done before India is p( r. featly settled, and order restored throughout its .bloochtlitted provinces. For the gigantic work 133- fore us all our efforts and resources will bo required, g e time, for the sake of humanity, and the honour bably after enduring so much rain, more than the o f the country they belong to, he calls upon them ordinary difficulties embarrassed his march ; and on to spare all women and children that may come in one occasion at least his advance was impeded by their way. 4 " It is so imperative, not only for their safety, ; but for the success of the assault, that men should not straggle from their column, that the Major- General feels it his duty to direct all commanding ' officers to impress this strictly upon their men, and he is confident that, after this warning, the men's good sense and discipline will induce them to obey their officers and keep steady to their duty. It is to be explained to every regiment that indiscrimi nate plunder will not be allowed ; that prize agents have been appointed, by whom all captured pro perty will be collected and sold, to be divided, ac cording to the rules and regulations on this head, fairly among the men engaged ; and that any man found guilty of having concealed captured property will be made to restore it, and will forfeit all claims to the general prize ; he will also be likely tobe made over to the Provost-Marshal, to be summarily dealt with. The Major-General calls upon the officers of the force to lend their zealous and efficient co-ope ration in the erection of the works of the siege now about to be commenced. He looks especially to the regimental officers, of all grades, to impress upon their men that to work in the trenches during a siege is as necessary and honourable as to fight in the ranks during a battle. He will hold all officers responsible for their utmost being done to carry out the directions of the engineers, and he confi dently trusts that all will exhibit a healthy and hearty spirit of emulation and zeal, from which he has no doubt that the happiest results will follow, in the brilliant termination of all their labours." "On the morning of the 14th, soon after day break, the assault took place- The attacking co lumns were—as I gather from a letter that I have seen—written on the following day byitu officer of rank in the army, which, though short, is, as far as 1 I know, the only communication of so late a sate that has yet reached Bombay—three it number, 1 one being held, as I understand it, in reserve. Their strength is not given. The main point of as sault was the breach at the Cashmere bastion. Oue column, however, consisting of Ghoorkas and the newly arrived Jun n noo contingent, was directed to make a diversion by attacking the Sishengunge suburb, which lies outside the Lahore gate on the western side of the city, and, if it succeeded in carrying the suburb to assault the gate itself. But the suburb was occupied by the enemy in force, with a battery of heavy guns. . * The Cashmerian troops behaved indifferently, and in spite of the efforts of the brave Ghoorkas the column was re an armed force, or bis progress hindered by the necessity of chastising it. A party, estimated by its subsequent destroyer at about 300 strong, with a few guns (the number is not mentioned), crossed the Ganges from Oude, presumably for the purpose of plunder, at a point aheaA of Sir James'S line of march. As soon as they were heard of Major Eyre, of old Affghan and recent Arrah celebrity, was sent on with part of his own battery, detachments of the sth and 64th Foot, and a troop of irregular horse, to attack and disperse them. On the major's approach the enemy hastily betook themselves to their boats, pursued by the cavalry, upon whom, when they had re•embarked, they kept up a smart fire. Even when the infantry came up and poured volley after volley into the crowded boats,the rebels still made what defence and return they could, but when the field-pieces opened with grape they threw themselves into the river, to perish almost to a man under the fire of all arms that rained upon them from the bank. The boats were sunk and the guns with them. This was on the 10th September. On the 15th, the head-quarters of the sth Fusiliers and .the remainder of the 78th Highlanders reached Cawnpore, and Sir James, with the rest of the force, being inspected on the following day, orders were given by General Havelock to prepare to commence the crossing of the river at half-past 2 the next morning, This I know from a private letter from one of the officers of the 78th, and nothing, so far as I am aware, has arrived from Cainpore &red to lead us to suppose that counter orders were subsequently issued, and that the crossing was delayed. But when the Calcutta steamer for Suez called at Madras three days ago, Lord Harris, as the result of the in formation broughtto him by that vessel, telegraphed to the Bombay Government thus—" General Havelock's force crossed the Gangesfrom Cawnpore on the 19th ; skirmishing was going on"—a message which, I must think, might have been made a little fuller and more explicit. It is possible, though I hope it is not true, that - the crossing did not take place till the 19th, or it may be that on that day the operation was completed which was begun three days earlier, for the stream was running like a mill race, and there were 24-pounders and elephants to be got over. But the word " skirmishing" inade quately, as we may fear, represents the amount of pulsed. Its commanding officer, Major Reid, of the Sirmoor battalion, is among the wounded of the day ; but on the northern side of the city all went well. The troops entered at the breach with no seri ous opposition, and spreading to the left and right occupied the " whole line of defences from the Water bastion to the Cabul gate, including the Cashmere gate and bastion, the Moree gate and bastion, the English church, Skinner's house, and the grounds about." The principal loss sustained by the assail ants was due to the obstinate resistance they met resistance encountered by histroops. Certain it is at least that the enemy were in great strength, and oc cupied an intrenched position on the opposite bank. A few days before the 15th a small steamer, moored off Cawnpore, was sent out to cruise in the riverend reconnoitre. While so engaged she got aground. The - enemy at once opened fire upon Ler, and turned out, as was discernible through the glasses of the officers on the other side, marching down the bank in a regular column, that betrayed their former profession, wearing their belts and pouches, with in clearing their way along the ramparts to the Cabal gate, and afterwards in an attempt to penetrate beyond that point into the denser parts of the city in the direction of the Jumna Musjid. In all the loss amounted to about 500 killed and wounded. Five officers are reported- to have been slain—Tandy, of the Bengal Engineer; M‘Barnet, of the late 55th N.I. ; Murray, of the Guides; Bradshaw, of the 52d Foot ; and Fitzgerald, of ' the 57th. Captain Rosse, of the Carabinsers, Major Jacob, of the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and Lieutenant Homfray, Ist Punjab Infantry, are returned as having died of wounds received. Brigadier Nichol son was wounded, and his brother, of Coke's Rifles, and 4 many others—in all about 30. Of the less of the mutineers I do not observe even an estimate. It is only said that bodies of them were seen to be retreating both to the south of the city in the direction of Kootub, and also across the bridge of boats, and that our cavalry had moved round the city to intercept and destroy the former. Our vic torious infantry, prudently recalled from too hasty an advance into the close lanes of the city, occupied , the comparatively open space inside the Cashmere gate, and the walls which they had won upon either side of it. Head-quarters were established in the house once occupied by the renowned Itregular Horseman, Skinner, and noyr known to us by has name, to the natives as Seamy:lee i s. Preparatons were at once made for shelling the enemy out of the Palace, the Selimghur, and the other strong places 1 of the city, and the firing commenced next morn ing, the 15th. By the eTeningof that day a breach was effected in the wail of the magazine enclosure, which was held in force by the enemy, and the place was stormed- the next morning by the 61st not, and detachments of the Beelooch battalion and Wilcie's Rifles. In it were captured 125 pieces of cannon. The Palace being now well exposed the guns and mortars opened upon it from the maga zine enclosure, and the enemy appears to have fallen back at all points. Thus the Kishengunge battery, which had repulsed the Jummoo troops, was abandoned and occupied, and the guns there taken swelled the total number of captured pieces to upwards of 200. The battery on the further side of the river seems also to have been abandoned, and at the date of the last certain and official news-7 p.m. on the 16th—au attack upon the magazine had been repulsed, a chain of posts had been established from the Cabul gate to the magazine, and the enemy some hours before dayfall had been maintain ing only a detached and desultory warfare from the tops of the houses. Many townspeople had come in and received quarter, which was of course refused to every Sepoy. All this is so satisfactory that we may well credit the tale from Jeypore, that on the 20th the place was entirely in our hands. But I shall keep this letter open to the last in the hope of fuller intelligence, as a steamer is just in from Kur rachee, where Mr. Frere was keeping ready for an emergency, and.which he would not have despatched unless be had something worth sending. I must not omit, by the way, to mention that the Jeypore report asserts—though I do not assert it—that the King of Delhi escaped to a neighbouring shrine in the disguise of a woman. Scindia, it is moreover reported, was raising 15,000 men to intercept fugi tives. " To the north-west of Delhi, is the Hurrianah district, Gen. Van Cortlandt is still busy repres sing disturbance and resettling the country. On the 6th of September an insurgent village near Hansi was surprised and its occupants driven out and dis persed, with the loss of one of -the ringleaders in the mutiny of the Hurrianah battalion and 25 of his men. I read, too, of what appears to be the destruction of another village at a later date, when a number of the mutinied 10th Cavalry fell, and several prisoners, formerly of the same regiment, were forthwith executed. On this occasion a large amount of booty in horses, cattle, and money fell into the hands of the General's men. From Meerut we do not hear of any more raids against insurgent chiefs, nor does our news from Agra report any further proceedings on the part of Major Montgo mery since his very successful engagement at Hat tress with Ghose Mahorned Khan, the self-styled 1 Soubandar of the King of Delhi, whi c h I men ti on ed. in my last, and which appears to have quieted the country about Allyghur. Indeed, our intelligence from Agra is well-nigh contained in the single an nouncement of the death of Mr. Colvin, Lieut.- 1 Governor of the North-West Province, on the oth Sept. This eminent, and at the commencement servant isu o c f - I the outbreak, most popular public cumbed to an attack of dysentery, a disease to the growth of which the confined limits of the crowded fort must have been only too favourable. .e.r. Reale, the senior civil re: vent present, assumed temporary charge of the Government upon tie death of his chid. Oe the other side of the Doab, two though not the red uniform. The bank on the Cawnpore side being higher than the other, their proceedings were easily observed, and a few shots were thrown at them from the 24-pounders, but without Producing any effect—indeedi . without reaching across the river. Eventually the stesuier got off and returned uninjured. Meanwhile, of the imprisoned garrison of Lui,know we have heard but very little. That little, however, is all encourag ing, though vague. They had undermined and blown up a house near the entrenchment, with a number of fanatics who occupied it, and then sally ing out had spiked the two 18-pounder guns which the enemy had brought to bear upon them, though without doing much damage. Of the amount of provisions we hear nothing one way or the other. On the whole, I may repeet that we know of nothing tendingto destroy, or even materially to affect, the confidentlopes which, when I last wrote, were so generally entertained, not only on this side of India, but also at Cawnpore and Allahabad, that this rongr beleagureti city will be relieved in time to save many valuable lives and the honour of English women and of the English name. "By this time there is little doubt that CAptain Peel, with the naval brigade, has reached Allaha bad, though we have not yet heari of his arrival. At Calcutta considerable reinforcements have Ar rived—the rest of the China force, the 23d, 93d, and 82d ; the Penelope with 200 artillery from the Cape, and the Sanspareil with two companies of the same corps from Hong Kong. From the capi tal to Allahabad the country on both sides of the river appears to be perfectly quiet again. What has become of the mutineersfrom Dinapore and Ramghur seems far from clear. Some accounts had represented them to be moving upwards towards Agra by way of Banda. o.hers stated that their main body, under Kooer Singh, had turned south ward from Banda towards the Rewah territories ; others again, that being warned. off by the Rajah of Rewah, they had skirted his country and meved down into Bundelcund. This last account may be, perhaps, the true one. If not, it is only the mere rumour of their approach that bas caused the mu tiny of the 50th Bengal Native Infantry at Nagode, in that province ; for this regiment, which has re mained quiet so long, has gone at last. Its batter temper, however, and better discipline stood by it we may perhaps say, unless it was were caprice, to a certain extent, even to the end. Before dismis sing their officere which they did without attempt ing violence, they allowed them to blow up the magazine, to destroy some spare muskets, and to spike the two or three guns that were at the sta tion. They then moved off—perhaps in search of Kooer Singh-=after destroying the public buildings, while the officers retired to Jubbulpore. But the contagion of disaffection reached that station also. The corps quartered there was the 52d Native Infantry, which, like the 50th, had never hitherto shown any signs of ill-feeling. But about this time it was discovered that a plot was ha' ch ing, in which some of the Sepoys and many of the loose population of the town were con cerned, to break open the gaol and release cer tain prisoners lately confined there. This scheme was frustrated. Shortly afterwards an old chi ,f of one of the neighbouring Gond clans was arrested on suspicion of instigating an attack upon the Euro peans and their property, and being convicted was blown from a gun, his son suffering with him for the same crime. A little while longer and the 52d mutinied, taking advantage of the slattered condi tion of the Madras col imn, w hich was stationed at intervals between Jubbulpore and Satigor, keeping open the road, and was in no great strength at the former station. Their mutiny had in it something of originality. They dismissed all their, officers but one, Lieut. Macgregor, whom . they retained as a hostage for the safety of their comrades in the two companies that were in advance with the head-quar ters of the Madras column under Gen. Millie at Dumoh. This little arrangement they explliced in a respectful letter written either to Gen. Millar or to their own commanding officer (the latter I think, but am not quits sure, as I have only heard of the letter, not seen it), in which they sail that in leav ing cantonments they by no means considered that they were quitting the service of the Sircar ; that they remained, and proposed to continua to remain, true and goad servants of the Government : but that they had heard and believed that the Si - car intended to destroy them, and had brought in the Madrasees -for that purpose. Hence they thought it better to withdraw till the Sircar eh at!Li be more properly and kindly disposed towards them. They were taking away the Sircat's arms and ammunition, it was true, but, then, had they not left all their own property behind, with which the Sircar might indemn if y itself t An d so the re.i -! mweernet with Generalr i chedoff, all m il b la u r t , twhehotmwothce General fe l th- companies whsel i with cleverly and quietly disarmed.. But the effect of all this is very bad. It may test us for a time the whole of the Senor territories north cf the Nebradda. The Bundelas are up in reeewed spirits. General Millar attacked a b3dy of them, and slew 80 without the loss of a man. But ano ther party defeated a sally from the fort of Ban gor, killing Colonel. Mizell, of the late 42d, who headed isa and several men. The Madras column abandons Dainoli and conclntra`os itself for ihe protection of Jubbulpore. If, as in spite of their remarkable letter may be arricipate I, the 52d join the Bundelas in etreneeh, the column may have to raeross the Nebrudda. ° lf Kooer Singh comes delve it must ; but I hope and think t'.at when tidings of the fill of Delhi have w.l! fi:tered through the country many a now formidable -looking bend of marauders will be diss'petecl even more rapidly than it was formed. "Farther to the north and west, in the great province of Maiwa, things are looking sufficiently well. I have already alluded to the report of Scindia's raising new levies to intercept fugitives from Delhi. A bet`er from an officer at Indere, just received, les before me, - Upon information which he considers reliable, be w!itse , that on the 25th, and for five days previous, S;:in , lis. and t' e mutinied Contingent were at Galio-, face to hire, each seeking to coerce the other, The Maharajah THE SUN, LO 29,0 • { and our energies cannot be aliated until the fabric of our power is set upon a firmer basis than hereto- 'are. " In our last summary we gave news from Delhi to the 3d Sept., when the siege train was daily ex pected in camp. It arrived on the sth Sept., and active preparations were immediately made to cow: mence offensive opara,tions. Several I;atteries, armed with heavy guns, were established in commanding positions, within a short distance from the city walls, so that the bastions could be destroyed by our fire. This was successfully accomplished, but with the loss of two officers, Lieut. Hildebrand, of the Ar tillery, and Lent. Bannerman, of the Belooch Bat talion, who were killed. Having thus established batteries in advanced positions the bombardment of the city commenced, and the Cashmere and Moree bastions suffered severely from our shot and shell. The enemy replied smartly with grape and mus ketry, but our loss was inconsiderable, and our fire was kept up with undiminished vigour. On the 10th and 11th Sept. one or two sorties were made by the enemy, but without any result, notwithstand ing the proximity of our batteries to the walls. For two days longer our artillery continued to play on the city, until, on the 12th, the Cashmere bastion and half the adjacent curtain were in ruins. Pre parations were now made for the assault, and Gt-n. Wilson, in an order issued a few days previous, laid down the line of conduct to he pursued by the troops. No quarter was to be given to the mw 'leers, but the women and children were to be spared. On the 14th Sept. the assault was made on the city, which was entered by a division of our troops, who succeeded in effecting a lodgment and driving the enemy before them. The following telegraphic message from Col. Durand, at Mhow, to Lord Elphinstone, at Bombay, gives particulars of the _successful assault on Delhi : " Capt. Eden, at Jeypore, sends, by an express dated the 18th, the following from Col. Young, writ ten from head quarters, Skinner's-house, Delhi, 15th : —The assault took place yesterday morning soon after dayhreak, and the storming was entirely successful. We were soon in possession of the end of the fort, with the Cashmere, Cabul, and Moree gates, which we now hold, with the church, college, and other large buildings near this one, in which the head-quarteis are. Preparations are making for heavy batteries to knock the mutineers out of those parts of the city in which they now are. Many of the city people have come in• for and received quarter ; Sepoys wanted to come, but not permitted. Casualties said to be heavy. No atillery officers killed or wounded. A gre It many of the nautinecrs escaped. Cavalry left last night, it is said, towards Rewaree.' " The following extra of the Delhi Gazette, pub lished at .Agra on the 18:h of September, gives further details of the storming operations on the 14th : " ' Delhi, Sept. 14.—Mr. Greathed writes : " 'Delhi was stormed this morning, and the British forces are in possession of the line of do fences from the Water bastion to the Cabul gate, including the Cashmere eate and bastion, and the Mores gate and bastion, the English church, Skin ner's house, the college, and the grounds about. Preparations are being made to turn the guns from the captured bastons on the city, and to bring up other guns and mortars to commanding points. " The enemy for the present retain the Lahore and other bastion s, the palace, Selitughur, and tie chief part of the city ; but our hold of the position that has been secured appears firm, and the fall of the remainder is to be expected. " `General Nicholson, Colonel Campbell, 52d, and Major Reed, Sirmoer battalion, are among the wounded officers, who are numerous. Lieutenants Bradshaw, 52d, and Fitzgerald, 75th, were killed. " 'A. body of troops were observed to march eff by the bridge, but pursuit is impracticable until Selimghur and the river front have been occupied. " ' The chief losses were experienced in attempt ing to reach the Jumma Musjid and to penetrate beyond the Cabal gate.' "The following description is from a letter from Colonel Becher : " ' The troops entered at the breach near the Cashme.e gate without serious opposition, and gained possession of the large buildings in the neighbourhood, and advanced along the ramparts to tie Moree bastion and Cabul gate, in progress to which the resistance was very obstinate, and the loss consequently has been severe ; but we are ad vancing gradually within the city. " ' Large bodies of the enemy have been seen re treating both in the direction of the Kootub and over the bridge. Arrangements are in hand for bat teries to be made in the city, and their own heavy guns have beau turned against them.' " We are indebted to Government for the follow ing official bulletins from Lahore, giving the parti culars of the assault on Delhi to the 16th of Sep tember, together with an express from Gen. Roberts at Ahmedabad, stating' that the whole of the city was in our possession oe the 20th, and that the King of Delhi had beau taken prisoner. " Chief Commissiouer's-office, Lahore, Sep". 10. "Tee following messages Were received from Delhi during the course of yesterday, and this morning from the office of the Adjutant-General of the Army:— "'Sept. 15, 9 a. m. "We continito to hold the city horn the College to the Cabal gate, and the enemy holds the maga zine, which we are now shelling. The palace is also being shelled. Many of the mutineers ha l fled yes terday. The following officers were killed :—Lieut. Tandy, Engineers ; Lieut. Fitzgerald, 75th Foot ; Lieut. Bradshaw, 52d Foot; Capt. M‘Barnet, 55th Infantry; Lieut. Murray, Guile • Corps ; Major Jacob, Ist; Fusiliers, has died from his wounds. About 30 officers have been wounded, including Brigadier-General Nicholson, Lieut. Nich o lson, of Coke's Rrgiment ; Greathsd, Maunsell, Chesney, Salkeld, Brownlow, liovendon, and Medley, En gineers ; Waturs and Curtis, 60th Rifles ; Ross, of ; Carabineers (dangerously) Anson; Aide-de-Camp ; Baynes and Pogson, Bth Foot ; Greville, Wenlysi, and Owen, Ist Fusiliers ; Reid, Sirmoor Battalion ; Boisragon, Kumaou Battalion, and several others whose names have not yet been received ; but our total loss is estimated at 500.' . . Another message (hour not given) states that the captured guns on the Mores and Cahill has ti9ns are also in play on the Burn bastion and La hore gate—new positions occupied by mutineers. Some cavalry and infantry have left since yesterday evening, but the garrison still show every intention of disputing our further entrance.' CC '8 p . m . " g All well. We have made a breach in the magazine, and stoim it at dawn. The enemy's musketry fire is much reduced.' `‘ No official account has yet been received of the successful attack by a portion of General Vau Cortlandt's force on the rebel village of Mungella, but a number of the 10th C.i.valry men have been killed, and 13 of them, with some others, made prisoners, were immediately executed ou the spot. About 20,000 rs worth of plunder is said to have fallen into the hands of our men, and 80 horses and some 2,000 head of other cattle.' " Sept. 16, 7 a.m. « P. S.—The following message has jus t been re ceived from Delhi :—' The magazine was stormed at daylight by the 61st Foot, Beloch Battalion, and part of Wilde's Regiment. W e h a d only a few wounded, and the enemy about 40 killed. 125 guns were taken in the magazine." . ` Sept. 17. " The latest message from Delhi- is up to 2 p.m. yesterday. Our mortars continue to play upon the Palace from the magazine enclosure. The enemy entirely abandoned the Kishenguni,e battery, and we have found in if, in p:mition, five 18-pounder mortars, making the total number of pieces of ord.• nance taken in and before Delhi upwards of 2(0. " The battery neross the river opposite King hur, is alto reportd to have been aband( zed by the mutineers, who are in detached groups fighting from the top( of houses ; their organisation into regiments is fast being broken up. "" Dewan Hurrea Chunk, the commandant of the auxiliary force of his Highness the Maharajah Runhheer Singh, died of cholera yesterday ; his death is much to be regretted. He was the trusted servant of the. Maharajah, and a man of great experience. ' "' A supplementary list of casualties received ' yesterday mentions that Captain RoF , s, Carabineers, and Lieutenant Homiray, 4th Punj ub Infantry, died of their wounds. WoundeJ, 14th of Septem bor.—Ptmberton H. Gustavinele, Sappers; Cup- Mgt., 6th Cavalry ; Bayley and Atkinson, 52d Foot ; Sliehheare, Guides ; Graydor., 16th Grena diers ; Specs, 65th Native Infantry ; Lambert, Ist Fusiliers ; Gimb'e, 33th Light Infantry ; Hay, 60th Native Infan ry; Prior, Ist Punjaub Inantry. " General Van Cordandt reports the destruction on the 13th inst., by a portion of the Hurrianah Irregular force under his command, of the iusu, gent village of Mungulpera. The rebels drew up a force of from 700 to 800 horse, from 400 to 500 infantry, and s9m.ejgurie, to defend the village, but after the exchange of a few shots they broke and , fled with the utmost rapidity, leaving their camp in our hands, just as it stood, some ammuni tion,-and five cattloads of Sepoys' things, such as coats, pantaloons, &c. " P. S. The following has just been received from the Assistant-Adjutant General of the army " 'Delhi, Sept. 16, 7 p.m. " ' We have now established a line of posts from the Cabul gate to the magazine. An attack was made on the magazine to-day, which was repulsed ; but we had some men killed and wounded. J. D. MACPHERSON, Lieut.-Colons', Military blecre'ary to Chi e f Commissioner.' " fbe following was received by express from Gen. Roberts, commanding the forces at Abmeda- bad, who despatched the intelligence to the Geyer- I to endure a warm mus k e t r y fir e f rom th e wa ll s an d nor on the 29th of September : shot and shell f rom S u l eymgur h, an d f rom across " By express through Dr. Derinzy, REsldency the rim; Surgeon, Jeypore, the 23d of September, 5 a.m.— " The army has suffered a severe loss in the Weliave this moment receivedinformation from the death of Captain Fagan of the Artillery. He Durbar of our troops having occupied the entire was an admirable officer, and has been the life of city of Delhi on Sunday last, the 20th. The Vakeel the camp. His daring was unbounded, and he of the Jhujjur Nawab had been here a little while could not be restrained from exposing himself over before with the same intelligence, so you may rely the breastwork to observe the lino of fire from the up in it. The King is said to be in the Durgali new battery, and was shot through the head. Nizam-oodeen, about six miles from Delhi. He _ " The other casualties are Lieut. Earle, Artil-_ and his two sons escaped disguised as women, and tL• women of the Zenama, in men s clothe..' "It was reported at Ahmedabad, upon the strength of letters from Ajmere, that the King of Delhi had been captured." We take the following from a Supplement to the Madras Atheneum of the 29th of September : BOMBAY, SIFT. 28. " A telegram waa received yesterday from Colonel Durand, at Mhow, announcing the receipt there of an express from Captain Eden, at Jeypoor, despatched on the 18th, and giving the following extract of a letter from Colonel Young, dated at Head-quarters, Skinner's house, Delhi, 15th first. " It is as follows : " The assault took place yesterday morning, soon after daybreak, and the storming was entirely successful. We were soon in possession of the end of the fort, with the Cashmere, Cabul, and Moree Gates, which we now hold, with the Church, Col lege, and other large buildings near this,—Skin ner's-house, in which the head-quarters are. Pre parations are making for heavy batteries to knock the mutineers out of those parts of the city in which they now are. Many of the city people have come in for and received quarter. The Sepoys wantcd to come also, but were not permitted. The casual ties are said to bo heavy ; no Artillery officers, however, were killed or wounded. A great many of the mutineers have escaped. The cavalry left last night, it is said towards Rewaree.' " The news of the fall of Delhi, which arrived by the Ajdaha on the night of Thursday last, reached Le Governor of Bombay whiles a. largo diunor.party was being entertained at Government House. Lord Elphinstone immediately announced the joyful tidings to the assembled company, and called upon them to fill their glasses, and drink to the health of " General Wilson and his brave Army." This was done with much enthusiasm, the hand striking up ". The British Grenadiers." The screw steamer England arrived at Kurra chee on the 25th September, with the wing of her Majesty's 4th (King's Own) Regiment, which had been dispatched from Bombay, consisting of 16 officers, 312 rank and file, 7 drummers, and 4r followers. The regiment marched into canton ments the same evening. DELHI-OFFER TO SURRENDER. (From the Bombay Gazette Extra of Sept. 22.) lery, and Chancellor, 75th, wounded. among the men is held to be moderate. The loss " The centre batteries have continued in increas ing fire against the Cashmere Bastion and Curtain. and the mortars keep up a searching fire on its neighbourhood. No. 1 still grinds away at the Moree. " The enemy have mounted a heavy gun in two places on half moons in the wall, and are perseve ing in their infilade from the right, and are doing their best to defend the place. " The officers never leave the batteries, which ars open to the sky. But the only men who are dispi rited are those whom sickness of wounds keep in camp. " I have had no intelligence from the town since the evening of the 11th. " General Nicholson will command the moveable column to be sent from this. We may expect to hear of the assault in a day or two. CAMP DELHI, SEPT. 2. The drama is drawing to a close, and the bloody rebels are well aware of such being the case, as on the 31st ult. they sent in a white flag to ask for terms, offering to give up all actual murderers. The answer was as follows :—" The British Govern ment will hold no terms with murderers, rebels, and mutineers. Surrender must be unconditional. Any other rebel coming to propose other terms will be hung. All future negociations will be carried on at the muzzles of our guns." GENERAL WILSON'S ORDER TO THE TROOPS AT DELHI. (From the Bombay limes of Oct. 3.) PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE, Lahore, Sept. 4. The siege train was at Sursowlie on the 2d, and will be in camp either to day or to morrow. The Hill Sanatarium of Muree has been threat ened. A number of men of some of the adjacent villages, allured by the hope of plunder, assembled to attack it. They had, however, been repulsed, and assistance sent up from Rawulpindee. Elsewhere all remains quiet in the Punjaub. P.S. The following intelligence has just teen re ceived from Delhi :—" It is four p.m., the 3d September. Nothing of moment to report from this to-day. The siege train will be in to-morrow, and the detachm en t. of artillery and rifles from eerat, on the 6th instant." Lahore, Sept. 5. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 4 :—" The siege train arrived this morning, together with a detach ment of her Majesty's Bth Foot, and a wing of the Beloooh Battalion." Lahore, Sept. 6. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 5 :—" Active pre parations are going on for offensive preparations. Lieutenant Tytler, 60th Rifles, and Lieutenant Somerville, Artillery, have both died since lest message was sent." Lahore, Sept. 7. The following from Delhi, four p m., Sept. 6 " 200 men orithe GOth Rifles and 100 Artillery re cruits from Meerut arrived to-day. The 4th Pun jaub Infantry comes in to-morrow." Lahore, Sept. 8. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 8 :—" Wilde 'g Rifles and the Jheend Rajah s troops came in to day. Last night the new advanced light gun bat tery was armed, with the loss of one man wounded. To-night further operations will take place towards establishing offensive batteries. General Havelock was still at Cawnpore on the 27th August ; 300 of the sth Fusiliers landed at Allahabad on the 24th August, and the 90th Foot daily expected. Sir Cohn Campbell is coming up country.' Lahore, Sept. 9. From Delhi, five p.m., Sept. 8 Last n ight parties of our troops took possession of the Kood sea Bagh, within 320 yards of the city walls, and batteries for ten guns were estabashed at about 650 yards from Moree Baston, to put a stop to its fire and that of the Cashmere Bastion. Everything was successful, and the batteries are firmly estab lished in their advanced position, our loss up to thilt time being under 50 killed and wounded. Lieut. Hildebrand, Artillery, and Lieut. Bannerman, Belooch Battalion, killed. An accidental e xple" sion took place in our park, but fortunately only four natives were killed. The Jummoo Contingen t arrived to-day." Tho force assembled before Delhi has had much hardship and fatigue to undergo since its arrival in this camp, all of which has been most cheerfully borne by officers and men. The time is now draw ing near when the major-general commanding the force trusts that their labours will be over, and they will be rewarded by the capture of the city, for all their past exertions, and for a cheerful en durance of still greater fatigue and exposure. The troops will be required to aid and assist the engineers in the erection of the batteries and trenches, and in daily exposure to the sun, as • covering trenches. The artillery will have even harder work than they yet have had, and which they have so well and cheerfully performed hitherto ; this, however, will be for a short period only, and when ordered to the assault, the major-general feels assured British pluck and determination will carry every thing before them, and that the bloodthirsty and murderous mutineers, against whom they are fighting, will be driven headlong out of their stronghold, or be exterminated ; but to enable them to do this, he warns the troops of the absolute necessity of their keeping together, and not straggling from their columns. By this can success only be secured. Major Wilson need hardly remind the troops of the cruel murders committed on their officers and comrades, as well as their 'wives and children, to move them in the deadly struggle. No quarter should be given to the mutineers ; at the same time, for the sake of humanity, and the honour of the country they belong to, he calls upon them to spare all women and children that may come in their way. It is so imperative, not only for their safety but for the success of the assault, that men should not straggle from their columns, that th 6 major-general feels it his duty to direct all commanding officers to impress this strictly upon their men, and he is confident that, after this warning, the men's good sense and discipline will induce them to obey their officers and keep to their duty. It is to be explained to every regiment that indiscriminate plunder will not be allowed; that prizeagents have been appointed, by whom all captured property will be collected and sold, to be divided, according to the rules and re gulations on this head, fairly amongall men-engaged —and that any man found guilty of having con cealed captured property, wilt be made to restore it, and will forfeit all claims to the general prize ; he will alsobe likely to be made over to the provost marshal to be summarily dealt with. The major genei al calls upon the officers of the force to lend their zealous and efficient co-operation in the erec tio❑ of the works of the siege now about to be com menced ; he looks especially to the regimental offi cers of all grades to impress upon the men that the work in the trenches during a siege is as necessary and honourable as to tight in the ranks during a battle. He will hold all officers responsible for their utmost being done to carry out the directions of the Engineers, and he confidently trusts that all will exhibit a healthy and heartyspirit of emulation and zeal, from which he has no doubt that the happiest results will follow, in the brilliant termi nation of all their labours. The following particulars of the proceedings of the 12th are from Mr. Greathed's letter of that date : _ . It was before reported that the 18-gun battery No. 2, in front of Ludlow Castle, had. with the aid of the heavy mortars, quicisly silenced the Chh haler. Bastion. "That bastion has not since replied, and heavy salvos are continually directed against it. No. 1 battery continues to fire into the Moree ; it is a heap of ruins, but the gunners manage to fire light guns from different parts. "No. 3, at the Custom-house, has not yet opened. Some alterations had to be made in It. It is ex pected it will be ready this evening. - " The enemy have not made any more sorties, but keep up a brisk fire of musketry in front of the bastions from rifle pits and among the jungle, and they have a flanking fire from field-pieces on the right, and from a heavy gun and mortar on the other side the river. Sulemghur and the Water Bastion also fire on the left and centre batteries. Rockets are occasionallyfired from a Martello tower in front, and there are single light guns on two others. "All this dot's not retard, the progress of the siege, or lead to any interruption of fire. And, though the delay about No. 3 is certainly a disap pointment, there is still every reason for congratu lation. A position has been seized and maintained for breaching purposes, which, if worked up to ac cording to rule, would not have been ours for some time, and our fire is very destructive. " A party of the enemy's cavalry, 200 in number, got wross the cut of the canal yesterday, to cut of our camels. They retired on seeing a force coining against them, and might have got off, but they were met by 80 of the Guide Cavalry, under Capt. Sand ford, and 2 ressaldars and 25 sowars were killed on the field. The rest got off to Delhi. Lahore, Sept. 10. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 9 :—" Since DO message the Cashmere and Moree bastions have been severely pounded by our advanced batteries/ and we shall shortly, have more batteries at won' much closer to the wall s . N o twithstanding that, the enemy have kept up a heavy fire, partioularlf of grape and musketry ; our casualties have been small since yesterday." Lahore, Sept. 11. From Delhi, 4.30 p.m., Sept. 10 : —..(4 w e have now two batteries for heavy guns constructed ill front of Ludlow Castle, and ready to open tomor row morning.' We have also a heavy mortar bit' tery completed in the Koodsea Bagh, and haSe, possession of the Custom-hou se , in th e co m pou nd of which another heavy battery is being constructed about 200 yards from the city wall. The eneel A Y keep up a heavy fire of artill er y an d musketry, an d have made some unsuccessful demonstrations with their cavalry.. Our loss during the last 24 hours has been 50 killed and wounded ; including Tilell" tenant Eaton, 60th Rifles, wounded. One If o ur recently erected heavy batteries caught fire to -day' and was rendered unserviceable, but this is of 1 10 consequence, as the guns were to be withdreivls and taken elsewhere to-night. Lahore, Sept. 12. From Delhi , fo ur p.m., Sept. 11 heavy guns and howitzers, and ten large m ortars opened this morning on the Cashmere and Water Bastions and adjoining curtains, and have 1 33 a" - ; tained an effective fire all day. Last night et, to-day one or two sorties have been made by enemy without any result, notwith s t an di n g , 1 -- '1 proximity of our batteries to th e wa ll s , our- 1 09 ' are not heavy. To-morrow mo rn i ng eight n 3 ° 4 '" heavy guns and twelve five-and. a-half inch mortuE will open from the C us t om H ouse co mpoin r Lieut. Lockhart, 7th N. 1., attaohed to the Sirreel, Battalion, wounded yesterday afternoon, and Lie n Gillespie, of Artillery, this morning." Lahore, Sept. 1 3 . 0 From Delhi, five p.m., Sept. 12 :—" Last gig n s the batteries continued their fire at intervals, a nd have fired all day. The Cashmere Bastion 4 1 2 e half of the adjacent curtains are in ruins. - I to Mores bastion is also nearly unserviceable. At c l,th p.m., to-day, Major Scott was able to open h ip four 18-pounders, on the Water Bastion 200 yards, and two light mortars, under CaPtA o Blunt about 250 yards at the same time. ~,s e enemy's musketry fire is still kept up with gt oo vigour, but oar casualties are less numerous tb of might have been expected. Major Campbell Artillery was wounded last night., Yesterday eve n ing a body of the enemy's horse attempted to 0 1 7 1 off our camels, they were routed by some a 0 0 cavalry, and 25 of them killed, i nc luding . t" , native officers." Lahore, Sept til t . From Delhi, three p.m., Sept. 13 ' ne r graphic communic a ti on i s now open t o D e lhi. `;' t ,p batteries are k ee pi ng up a h eavy fi re on the clies and this m orn i ng th e enemy ' s E xpens e Megt e ; in the Wa ter B as ti on was ex pl o d e d by our _ or also the waggon of a light gun which enfiladed I'oo batteries from the Talleewara suburbs. 011r o. was under 50 killed and wounded yesterd boo Captain Fagan, of Artillery, an officer wile h ie earned the admiration of the whole force 11_0 constant cheerfulness, energy, and courage, I,l' killed at the Custom House battery yester, evening. Captains Chancellor, 75th Foot, am Earle, Artillery, have been wounded." R C S h O ie N f c , L i eut.- 6 0 ; h e I r, (Sig il e i t t l a ) ry J s . e D er . e /v ta l r A i C t P o 121 Ethe CAPTURE OF THE CITY. 1, Lahore, Sept. t o , Copy a news just received from Gen. WI dated Sept. 14 :—" Ten a.m., from Delhi ' l v,. Delhi bas been assaulted this morning, but a rr lug going on. Our Column making alwor P gress. " News not very clear, but signaller the attack was successful." ARTHUROffilloßiatiNDng Score MADRAS. t lO The following details are extracted fro th Bombay and Calcutta papers : Bt / i i The following general order regarding vA. -- 0 04 , Madras Light Cavalry, which regiment 0%40 symptoms of disaffection some time back 0r5 .. 5 in the Fort St. George Gazette of Sept. 18 :,chits " No. 29 4 of 185 7. —The commander -in e el - has laid before goverment a detailed report VI the subject of the recent misconduct of th e Light Cavalry. " The Governor in Council has peril' report with deep concern. gie $ 0,1 "Entirely confiding i n th e sepoys of , iit t dras army, and anxious th a t t h e i r loywvogP courage should be openly menifested in tb e conl of all the people o f I n di a, t h e G overno r in 0 0 cil had "solicited permission from the goveg o gilli of India to send a Madras brigade to es ° composed of all arms, as the representa ttv each branch of the service. aar o " Accord ingly, there proceeded *01 33 „odl horse artillery, GJlundauze, and native iliepteo and all oE these embarked with the g alacrity and goodwill. .00 ' 9 3 O ' " A company of Sappers had already 131° - ward byl and to 02°‘ " Thus t h e re remained but the caval l i plete the Madras Brigade, « The Bth Regiment had been SelecteaZ the tit honourable distinction. They had been Ow The sense of impending danger bas roused the energies of the Pandies, and they talk of nothi. g but defence, and are making dum-dummas near the magazine, and between the Cashmere and Ca laJolee gates. But experience has hitherto shown that those energies fail when the moment cf action arrives; and I think it is generally a source of con gratulation that the rebels are not availing them vlves of the many avenues, of escape. The popu lation appears quiescent. "Major Campbell, of the Artillery, was wounded by a gi ape shot in the leg in battery, and Lieut. Lockhart is also wounded. The enemy was quieter last night, and the casualty return for the last 24 hours is, I hope, moderate. The erection of No. 3 costs a good many , men. " All quiet above. ' Mr. Greathecl's report of the 13th inst. has just • bean received. " After I wrote yesterday, the left batteries opened against the Water Bastion andcurtain, with one gun bearing on the causeway leading to the bridge, and have continued in full play. They have