The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA. ~:~b (From the Bombay Times.) The right wing of her Majesty's 33d (or the Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot, under the com mand of Lieut.-Colonel J. D. Johnstone, C. 8., arrived at Bombay from the Mauritius on Aug. 4, in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pottinger, which left Port Louis on the 23d of 'Tray. The ship Canning, which left the Mauritius yin the 25th of July, also arrived on the same date, with another company of the 33d Regiment, be sides a company of Royal Artillery. The whole of these troops have been brought on the strength of the Bombay garrison, and will be located in the Town Barracks. rri:he following officers were at Neemuch on the 7th July :—Major Burton, Capt. Showers, Capt. Lloyd, Lieut. Ritchie, Capt. Laurie, Lieut.Barnep, Capt. Sir J. Hill, Lieut. Ellice, Lieut. Stapleton, Lieut. Williams, Dr. Murray. (From the Bombay Telegraph.) The news by this mail is of a more cheering na ture then any we have yet sent home since the mu tiny commenced. Although Delhi is still in the hands of the mutineers, and the most dreadful atrocities continue to be committed in various parts of India, yet the broad wave of victory is speeadiug itself over the land. The advance of Gen. Havelock's column from Allahabad has been one chain of victories. In our last we mentioned that Gen. Havelock had reached Cawnpore, but we Were unable to give details of its capture. The column marched from its encamping ground at day light on the morning of the 16th, and after a 13 miles' journey halted to breakfast within 2 milts of the e nemy's position in front of Cawnpore. After resting 3 hours it advanced to the attack. General Havelock had with him 1,300 Europeans and about 70( or 800 Sikhs against 13,000 mutinous Sepoys armed and disciplined in every respect like his own 'soldiers, and commanded by the arch fiend Nena Sahib in person. The General, seeing the enemy's position, determined to take him in flank. For this purpose the 78th Highlanders were sent to the front with some of the Madras Fusileers on the left flank to cover the movement. Her Majesty's 64th and th e remaining companies of the 84th Foot, with the guns, were on the right of the column out of the enemy's view. While performing this flank movement the Highlanders and Fusileers were un der a heavy fire from the enemy's artillery, which, however, did no damage, save killing the horse of Col. W. Hamilton. When: our troops had got properly on his flank the columns were wheeled into line and advanced, under a heavy tire of grape, shell, and musketry, to within 50 yards before they fired a shot. Oar men then opened fire and the 78th charged up to the muzzles of the guns and captured them—three 24 pounders, loaded as they were. Leaving them in charge, on they pressed— nothing but death could stay their avenging hands when once raised to smite. The 78th next carried a village at the point of the bayonet. The Lolumns then moved on to their left position after clearing the village. As soon as they got clear of the vil lage the enemy again opened fire upon onr troops from a gun he still had, when we had to lie down and wait for our artillery; but the bullocks being quite knocked up, only one small gun of no use against the enemy's big one could be got into position. General Havelock saw at once the difficulty, and instantly gave the order to take the gun, which was done in brilliant style by the Light Company of the 78th under a heavy fire, which was well kept up. This ended the affair, and our victory was most complete. In the absence of cavalry the line was halted, and the General went up to the Highlanders and paid them a well merited conaplimen.t on their performances. The whole force behaved most nobly, and every sol dier was eager fur the fray and did his du'y man fully. On the evening of this engagement the column encamped outside the wall of Cawnpore, and on the morning of the 17th our soldiers entered the city. Accustomed as they had been to scenes of slaughter, the spectacle that met their eyes petrified them with horror. They marched straight to a place where they were told 175 women and children were confined, but on their arrival they found that they had come too late. They only found the clothes of the poor victims strewed over the blood-stained ground. The scene of this horrible catastrophe was a paved court-yard, and one of the Highlanders in writing to a con temporary says, ‘.‘ There were two inches of blood upon the pavement, and from the reports that we got from the residents of the place it appears that, after we had beaten the enemy the evening previous, the Sepoys and Sowers entered the place where the unhappy victims were, killed all ladies, and threw the children alive, as well as the ladies' dead bodies into a well into the compound. I saw it, and it was an awful sight. It appears from the bodies we saw, that the women were stripped of their clothes before they were murdered." A feeling more ter rible than vengeance arises in the heart at reading this, and even the most reverent shudder when they think that Omnipotence could have deemed such a terrible ordeal necessary. The history of the world affords no parallel to the terrible massacres which during the last few months have desolated the land. Neither age, sex, nor condition has been spared. Children have been compelled to eat the quivering flesh of their mur dered parents, after which they were literally torn asunder by the laughing fiends who surrounded them. Men in many instances have been mutilated, a .d, before being absolutely killed, have had tog ize upon the last dishonour of their wives and daugh ters previous to being put to death. But re illy we carnet describe the brutalities that have been com mitted ; they pass the boundaries of human belief, mid t a dwell upon them shakes reason upon its throne. If ever a nation was made the instrument of vengeance of an insulted Deity, that nation is England ; and we trust that she will strike and spare eot. We hope that by this time her ships are Lot only on their mission of vengeance by way of the Cape, but that thousands of her soldiers are by this time marching across the desert upon Suez. Not a moment should be lost, and long before Caristmas the whole of India will be lying at our teat. Before evacuating Cawnpore Nena Sahib blew lip the magazine. He then retired upon Bithoor, to which he was followed by a portion of our troops. On arriving at the palace, however they found that the bird had flown. They fired the place, razing it to its fountlatiowsri.nd carried away at the same time 15 gots. Nana Sahib, it is said, had an intent . on of goring to Lucknow, but when he got as far as the r:TI-r his cavalry and infantry deserted him. Ru tr.our has it that ho then destroyed himself and family, but the general belief is that he is still alive, and the sum of 5,000r5. has been offered for his cap ture. Nena is the adopted son of the late Peishwa 13 . . a.lee Rao, who from th e ti me o f hi s d e p os iti on till 118 death, lived at Bithoor, in the neighbourhood eiv'tepore upon the eic'ion allowed him by the N l Government. P On - the death of the ex teletein from the India's but without success,. to to hini,elf of th e Government a continuance pension allowed B ije3 . Rio. Failieg in this, he pa a tcrd an agent to agitate his claims in Englaned n transmitted, it is said, a to B C i C I el piecetd t O expense s m of ee c t o a m he ' panysp, of such a mission r o of the l value of five lacs of rupee'. The mission to to o En io g a and was theas Government rosy " veisii:cessful as the attempt local Government. .The Ind . a some inea,u e thank it , e . lf for havin g n man to acquire the local influence he peasesaesa this is we' t known that for years back, since the d.eati of I:ale° Rao, Nena has kept the Beget" of. the 13.1,je - ;, the rightful heirs to the Property of th e d e _ yeas el chief, in cl.,se ,ntineweat tile Z so th ,t none likely to take steps relative to rescu ing them from con fi ne ment or restoring to them their Property could obtain access to where they were. It cannot be said that Nena is not a venturoustrai tor, H e h as s t a k e d hi s a ll , w h . c h is not a little, oast u the die. His game might have be ii pl eyed " , is not to have entirely deprived him of the syln . voath y of those he fought against, but, like every illseoltaier the present in surrec ti on h as b ro ught to te, be was unable to resist that propensity to cold-blooded, dastardly murder which seems to take possession of most natives simultaneously with their achieving po wer to stratify' it. 0:1 being joined by ¶1- _se. Neil, Gen. Havelock determined to leave 'ite place in his hands and march at once upon Lucknow, distant about fift y miles from Cawn pore. The victorious column ar_%ordingly com menced its march upon Lucknow on the 20th THE S'UN, LQNBON, THURSDAY EVENING of July. The road was found to be perfectly clear until our troops were within about twenty miles of Lucknow. Here they were met by the enemy on the 30th of July, numbering about 10,000 men, who were repulsed with great loss, leaving in our possession 15 guns. Our losses are not known, but we suppose thy must have been heavy, as the fight was a very obstinate one. It was expected that Gen. Havelock would enter Lucknow on the 31st of July. After garrisoning the place and securing its safety, he would resume his march Delhiward , , in the direction of Agra ; so that the rebels must make the most of their time, as before the present month is out we believe that they will be driven from their last stronghold. The Highlanders are covering themselves with glory. No power on earth can resist the fury of their charge, and they give no quarter. From Patna we learn that the 7th, Bth, and 40th Regiments of Bengal N. 1., whom every one thought stanch, mutinied at Dinapore the other day, and that her Majesty's 10th Foot killed 800 of them. It was only very lately that several conspirators were executed at Patna, and the city kept from rising by these very troops. Tho whole of this revolt is the most mysterious, unaccountable affair that ever happened in the history of this country. Here aro regiments breaking out at the 11th hour, when the tide was turning in our favour, and when Euro pean troops were passing continually up the river, thereby rendering the destruction of the mutineers certain, as if they waited for some mysterious order, just like the Bareilly troops. Altogether, the more we ponder over it the more mysterious the whole matter appears to us. There has been a good deal of fighting at Delhi since our last in the shape of sorties by the besieged and repulses by the be siegers. We have been enabled to defeat the muti neers in every engagement, but this does not in the least damp their ardour. Reinforcements from the Punjaub to the number of about 4,000 fightine. men, 1,300 of whom are Europeans, were expected to join General Reed to-day (the 15th), and we are therefore led to believe that on their arrival no time would be lost in carrying the place by storm. On the 14th of July the muti neers, to the number of 9,000 men, with four guns, made an attempt to capture our batteries. They fought under cover from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., when they came to the front, and were beaten back into Delhi. Our people, too eager, followed them close under the walls. The enemy opened fire with grape and musketry. Our loss in killed and wound ed was heavy. It is a pity our troops followed them, as up to the time of their retreat we had only about six men hit. Major Turner, artillery, had his horse killed under him ; Thompson, artillery, wounded in the thigh ; Brigadier-General Cham berlain, Adjutant-General, in the shoulder ; Ches ter and Daniel, of Goorkahs, wounded ; Burns and Faithful, her Majesty's 75th, slightly, the former on the knee, the latter in the arm. The cavalry was not engaged. Altogether our loss in this action was 171 killed and wounded. From the 14th to the 23d the rebels remained under cover. On the 24th of July, however, they came out in force with field guns round by the Cashmere-gate, and moved upon our position at the Metcalfe Batt Ty under cover of the fire of heavy guns from the city walls. They were taken in flank by a force under Briga dier Showers, when they fled precipitately, saving their guns only by the rapidity of their flight. Our loss was small, but we had a few officers wounded —Colonel Drought, 90th Rifles ; Colonel Seaton, 35th Native Infantry ; Major Turner, Artil lery ; Captain Money, Artillery. Lieutenant Law, 10th Recr,ment Native Infantry, was killed. Our troops have now been engaged in no less than 23 sanguinary engagements before Delhi, yet their courage is as high as ever it was, and they can beat the mutineers even when they are a hundred to one ! General Reed in consequence of severe illness has been obliged to hand ovec the command of the Delhi army to General Wilson. The Punjab re mains tranquil. The remnant of the Sealcote mu tineers have met with condign punishment. Bri gadier-General Nicholson crossed Her Majesty's 52d Light Infantry in boats to the island in the Ravee,on which they were posted, captured their gun, and slaughtered or drove the whole body of them into the river. A. quant:ty of plunder was recovered. Numbers of the fugitives continue to b 3 seized and brought in by the police and people of the country, and also from the territory of Ma harajah Gholab Singh. The accounts from Raj- pootana are most satisfactory, and all the Rajpoot chiefs have given undoubted proofs of loyalty to the British Government, and have afforded substan tial support to the troop•. Colonel Dixon, who has done so much for Mairwarrah, was, from our last account, fast sinking at Beawr, and little or no hopes were entertained of his - recovery. He must, however, have derived some satisfaction from the good feeling manifested by the Mairwarrah bakhlion, who have resisted the greatest temptations to betray their trust. • The arsenal at Ajmere has been placed in a perfect state of defence by Lieut. Carnell, of the above corps, who has under his command a detach ment of 100 men of her 1114jesty's 83d Regiment. Two mortirs placed in position to shell the city on the least symptom of a disturbance have overawed the large and fanatical Mussulman population, who are discontented and ripe for a revolt and the de struction and plunder of the Hindoos. The district . . around is in a comparatively quiet state, and no further symptoms of disturbance have taken place than an occasional dacoity, but the surrounding population would instantly rise on any symptom of weakness being shown. Lieutenant Mildmay is raising a body of horse in Bikaneer, and he will doubtless effect a junction with Captain Hardcastle, who, with a large body of Marwar and Jeypore horse and foot, is on his way to Agra. The force cantoned at Nusseerabad consists of the Ist Bcmbay Lancers, 270 foot and 50 horse of the' Joudpore Legion, the 2d Troop Bombay Artillery, 2d Regi ment of Bombay Cavalry, 450 men of Her Majesty's 83d Foot, and the 12th Regiment of Native Infan try. Every precaution for the preservation of order has been taken, and additional Mairs are being en tertained, for the Mair warrah bat talion and another company of Bheels is being added to the Joudpore Legion. The Nizam, true to the policy of his house and to his hereditary loyalty, which has affected so much for him, will remain quiet. For Madras there need be no fear ; the hopes of the rebels in Oude are at an end, and those in the Delhi district may well despair. But our forces are yet scarcely equal to the task, all India is on the tiptoe of expectation, and the speedy capture of Delhi will alone determine whether every regiment may with perfect safety be despatched from Calcutta to share in the easy task of putting down disorganized bands of marauders, or whether the disaffected taking heart shall again place us in jeopardy. The moveable column of Brigadier Steuart has reached Mhow, and will be sufficient to keep in subjection the whole of Central India. Holkar remains stanch, and his loyalty will no doubt be appreciated as it deserves to be. All continues tranquil in Calcutta, although, as in Bombay, the inhabitants are not without alarm re • garding the approaching festival of the Mohurr um. We believe, however, that the authorities both there and here have taken every precaution to secure the public safety, and in the event of any cmcute taking place it will be promptly and sternly put do wn. Several arrests have been made lately in Calcutta, which have placed Government in full possession of information on alt points concerning the Mahomedan conspiracy. The Moonshee Golam Hossein, or Golam Khan,—we are not sure which is his proper name—who was arrested near Welles ley-square, is a personage after whom the Govern meat has for some time been making inquiries. He is said to be one the most active of the con spirators, and a platter whose arrest was of the greatest importance. He contrived to escape. from Calcutta wren the ex-King of Oude was taken into the fort, and it is said proceeded with haste to Lucknow, where his presence gave additional vigour to the insurrection. What brought him back to Calcutta we can only guess at, but he did not arrive there without his coming hav ing been notified to Government by the military authorities. His arrest, it is said, was attempted mere than once since his return, but without suc cess, until Friday night, the 23d of July, when a number of town sergeants and some soldiet s, all in gharries, proceeded ti the neighbourheod of Wel lesley-square to the house of a wealthy Mahomedan, where the Moonshee was reported to he. The man was pointed out t the Commissioner of Police—who as a magistrate was present—disguised as a bur kundanze, and so well disguised that his master failed torecog,nise him. There was not the slightest resistance made, and had there been there was an ample f irce within bugle-call to put down any oppo sition. The Zenanah was searched for papers, and all found brought away. It is worthy of remark that the services of a European woman had been provided beforehand for this part of the business. The other arrests took place in Eutally and at Gar den Rea-h. In the former suburb Mr. Montressor succeeded in a trei ti ng the scribe or secretary to the conipirwora and all his papers. This man P l eaded pitiAbly in the usual style of found-ou' native rogues, saying that he was a poor man and oily wrote what' and did not 111 had been ordered to write, harm. ' ue t bla thi i_ ek he had been doing any taken off i o 1 , ,, r ° ,, 0r) 1 .1 ..) paper', &c., were also was made at Gard illiam. The third arrest Captured is one e n Reach. The p"rson here of the mixed of the ex-King's household, and is als o with the to what extent we are not aware conspiracy to overthrow the British Indian G3verenteut and esta- Wish a Mahomedau empire on its ruins. against be lieve that it now turns out that the task Governraising ofWe the country and organizing forces ment in the different parts of it was shared by two grand parties of conspirators. Calcutta Wa'', it is said, something I.ke the head-quarters of ono 01. those parties, to which the organisation of revolt in the country between the metropolis and Lucknow was entrusted. To the other party, that of Delhi, fell the management of revolt in all other parts of the country. The Grand Jury of Calcutta leaving sent in a pre sentment to the Governor-General in regard to dis arming the town of Calcutta, the following is his Lordship's reply : " Sir,—l have had the honour to receive and lay be fora the Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council your letter of the 22d inst., transmitting, by direction of the hon. the Judges of the Supreme Court, a presentment made by the Grand Jury, recommending that the native population of Calcutta and the suburbs should be dis armed, and that the unrestricted sale of arms and am nunition should be prohibited. The measure is proposed with a view to allay apprehension of danger on the part of the public, to preserve the peace, and to prevent crime, with reference especially to the approaching Ma homedan holidays, which are usually a period of excite• ment. "2. To this subject, which has been pressed on his attention from other quarters, the Governor-General in Council has given his most careful consideration, and he is of opinion that the important object the Grand Jury have in view can be more securely provided for by other means. " 3. The places in Calcutta where arms are to be had and the quantity in store are known to the Government, and the Grand Jury may be assured that effectual mea sures will be taken to prevent any of them being used by evil disposed persons for purposes of mischief. " 4. Strang parties of European soldiers from one of the regiments now arriving in Calcutta will be posted in the town, and every other precaution that the occasion requires will be taken to prevent the possibility of an outbreak in Calcutta or its vicinity during the approach ing Mahomedan festivals.—l have the honour to Le, sir, your most obedient, "CECIL BE A.DON, " Secretary to the Government of India. " Council-chamber, July 25." A memorial very similar in its purport to that of the Grand Jury, but signed by about 300 European residents of Calutta, was forwarded to the Governor- General on Saturday, the 23th of July. A reply has since been received, which, besides indicating the general measures of precaution intended to be e taken by Government during the coming Mahome dan festivals, contains the following paragraghs " I am directed to add that the Governor-General in Council has now under his consideration, and proposes to bring before the Legislative Council at an early da•e, a general measure for the registration of arms through out the country, and for prohibiting the possession of arms, except under certain restrictions." At Madras all is tranquil, and, although the in habitants are not without apprehensions of danger, yet we are glad to learn they are all prepared to meet it. The troops are loyal to a man, and great numbers of them are taking their departure for Calcutta to cross bayonets with the mutineers of the Ganges. Regarding the Bombay Presidency we cannot speak so confidently. At Poonah, at Sattara, and in the Southern Mahratta country, symptoms of revolt have manifested themselves ; but in nearly every instance the germs of insurrection have been nipped in the bud. The Mahomedan conspirators of Poonah are now securely lodged on board the Hon. Company's receiving ship Akbar, and the Junglee Rajah of Sattara, as he is called, with the Ranees, is quietly domiciled on Butchers' Island. In managing the Sattara affair Mr. Rose, the Commissioner, has acted with much penetration and determination. As soon as he was aware that treason to the State was being hatched ho resolved upon the arrest of the parties impli c ttol. Accordingly a force consisting of two guns under Lieutenant Reid, a party of Her Majesty's 14th Dragoons, a party of the 3d European Regt., a party of the Southern Mahratta Horse, and a party of the 22d Native Infantry, the whole under the command of Colonel Malcolm, accompanied by Mr. Rose, the Commissioner, and his aAsistantg, marched into the city of Sattara before daylight on the morning of the 6th August and surrounded the palace, placing the artillery in position in front. Agents of the British Government were sent in to tell his highness to pack up, and phaetons from Poonah were in attendance to hurry the Rajah away. After a little delay he saw there was no alternative and consented. He and the Ranees were on their way to Poonah before 8 o'clock. They were quite taken by surpriie, and never anticipated anything of the kind. It is said that the people at Sattara are very sorry for the departure of the Jungles Rajah, as they call him. The other great event was the blowing away, from the guns of the battery at Sattara, of the six Punderpoor prison ers. These two events have struck terror into the minds of all the Sattara people and people about the districts where they have become known. The disturbances in the Southern Mahratta country are, we believe, by this time put down. There is a large European forc3 now in the Southern division, and we understand that the little revolt has been entirely quelled. As, however, Government have not as yet laid any information before the public, we do not feel justified in publishing what the State has deemed advisable to keep secret for the present. The mutineers of the Guzerat Irregular Horse have been hanged, as they deserved to - be. They were tried by court-martial, found guilty, and sentenced to death accordingly. The sentence was duly car ried into effect near "Shair Bagh," close to the po lice lines. The troops left camp at 3 o'clock in the morning, consisting of 100 men of her Majesty's 82d Regiment, under Capt. Jones ; a wing of the 2d Grenadiers, under Capt. Moyle ; a detachment of the 7th Regiment N.I. , under Cap t.Widdicombe ; two guns under the command of Lieut. Beamish of the Artillery ; the whole of the Police Corps ; and the Guzerat Irregular Horse, commanded by Capt. Pym. The force was drawn up iu line ; the Guzerat Irregular Horse were in frost of the troops, facing the gallows, so that had they dared to attack the force they would have caught it in style. The cow ardly rascals, before being launched into eternity were allowed the undeserved privilege of addressing the men formed to witness their ignominious doom. One (,f the traitors said to the Guzerat Irregular Horse:— " Why do you not do as they did at Neemuch and charge ?" but a low voice ran through the noble and gallant line of the corps, upbraiding the rascal as a " namak hararm." The arrangements for the execu tion were well got up, and the wretched creatures in a few moments ceased to be. As far as this Presi dency is concerned we entertain no apprehensions. In Bombay some alarm was felt during the Maho medan festival of the Buckree Eed, but everything passed quietly over. The 83d, from the Mauritius, has arrived, and with troops in garrison, the sailors iu the harbour, the police, and the European resi dents, we are prepared for everything. In fact there ire many who would not regret to see a row at the Mohurrum just to show the rascals what we are made of. The people of London have had no occasion to dread anything from Chartist demonstrations sine 1848, and neither would we have to apprehend any thing for years to come from Mu3sulman fanaticism if it once had a touch of the cold steel. We have had a fortnight's heavy rain, bringing the fall for the season up to 42.03 inches. The island is, how ever, generally speaking, healthy. The Governor continues to reside at the Prosidincy, to which the army head-quarters has also been removed. and barracks, is crossed by a bridge on the route from Allahabad to the city. Although the cantonment is the head-quarters of the Benares DiviQion of the Bengal army, only a handful of our troops appear to have been left there, consisting of two companies of her Majesty's 10th Foot and a wing of the Madras Fusiliers. We cannot but look with the grea , est apprehension on the fate of this gallant little band, especially as we are without information whether the many women and children of our military and civil ser vants had been sent down by steam to Calcutta. We Lave, however, every hope that Govern ment, on hearing of the march on Benares of the four armed Regiments who mutinied on the 23rd of July at Dinapore (145 miles east from Bonares), has immediately sent every available man by steam from Calcutta, to the rescue of the hundreds of our countrymen and women, who were evidently in the most imminent danger. The fanatic Brahmins would readily lend the Sepoys a helping hand to make a Hiudoo Delhi of Benares.—Advertiser. RECAPTURE OF CAWNPORE. A let,er dated Cawnpore says,— " The heading of this will show you that we were the victors in yesterday's fight ; the enemy numbered about 7,000, with about 1,000 cavalry. Their guns were three 24-pounder?, two 12-pounders, and two 9-pounders, be sides some horse artillery, which they took off, as we had no cavalry to pursue them. We marched 12 miles in the morning, and encamped 9 miles from Cawnpore. At 2 p.m. the fighting part of the force again advanced, leaving the baggage with a guard at the camp. We heard that the enemy had thrown up an intrenchment across the road, so, instead of advancing straight upon their guns, we obliqued to the right, when about three• quarters of a mile from them, for the purpose of taking them in flank, a manceuvre that saved us some hundreds of lives. Soon after we left the road they found us on", and did a good deal of execution with shot and shell be fore we returned their fire, as we had determined not to commence till within 800 yards. It was rather unplea sant progressing slowly, as we did, through very heavy marsh and ploughed laud ; but when we got within range, which we did in about a quarter of an hour, we soon silenced their heavy guns, viz.,the two 24-pounders and two 12-pounders, which had worried us so much in ti e intrenchment across the road, and the whole line advancing, we soon drove every man away from them. As we got into their battery they commenced firing on us with two 9-pounders, concealed in a village in front, and I took up my three guns to silence them with the 84th, while the other guns and regiments wheeled off t) the right, and peppered the retreating infantry. We then all came back to the main road, as both men and cattle were tired, having marched about 33 miles since morning, and over some very bad ground. This ended the first part of the business ; we had carried the ene my's position and taken six of their best guns, but they still had one 24-pounder about 1i mile nearer to Carr.- pore, and the horse artillery. The 24-pounder was taken by the 78th Highlanders and 64th, our leading guns advancing to help them, and although the 64th were a good deal cut up with the grape, as the rebels fought to the last in this action, and their firing was undoubtedly excellent (though it rarely is so), the enemy were ultimately driven right away into Cawnpore and through it, a few parting shots being administered to the cavalry, who, during the whole time, had been harassing us on our flanks and towards the rear, though always repulsed. This was the battle of Cawnpore. I did not get touched, but the killed and wounded are about 1 in 15 of our whole force. " We had two fights on tho 15th, one in the morning and one in the evening, capturing three light guns in the morning, and two in the evening." The following is an extract of a letter from CAM] pore, dated July 19 : " The accounts men give of the state of the canton ments are fearful. They have visited the house where our women were murdered. That house and well are described by men of not weak nerves as the most fearful, sickening sight they ever saw. Four women are saved, Mrs. Greenway, wife of a merchant, and three half castes." The following is anothor extract of a letter, dated July 17th : " We marched on the 16th, and then learned that the enemy had come out from Cawnpore to make their last stand at the place where the grand trunk road forks to Cawnpore and Delhi ; that they had there intrenched thorns elves in a very strong position, with heavy guns in front and flanks, to sweep the road, and that all the force, upwards of 4,000 men, had turned out to make their last stand. So it was determined to try and turn their flank. Accordingly we struck off the road at an angle, and then turned down towards them again. We bivouacked under the trees, and started at 1.30 p.m. The heat was fearful. Many men dropped from the effects of the sun. At last the enemy caught sight, and opened a very heavy and well-directed fire on us, which we had to pass till we got to the turning-point. Then we moved down in line upon them, and opened fire on their guns, which were in a very strong position in a village. We silenced two with our artillery, but all we could do we couldn't get at the third heavy gun, it was so well masked. The 78th were ordered to charge and take the gun. I never saw anytbiog so fine. The men wont on, with sloped arms, 1 ke a wall ; till within a hundred yards not a shot wan fired. At the word `Charge,' they broke just like an e3.ger pack of hounds, and the village was taken in an in-taut I was up almost as sown as they, and one man told me, with a grin, he had just killed three men out of one house. The enemy were .now in retreat, for we had turned their position, but the fight was still hard, for their cavalry came round down upon our rear, and the guns had to be halted and opened on them. After that we got so far ferwerd towards Cawnpore that, with out knowing it, one of their heavy guns in position was passed, and they managed to slew it round and open fire on our rear. So we had to turn, and go back and take it, This was done by the 64th. It fact it was, in point of heavy fire and fatigue, a very hard fight, het the end was that we took eight guns in all and utterly routed the enemy, who evacuated Cawnpore during the night and blew up the arsenal and magazine. We bivouacked on the field, with little bed and supper, and marched into Cawnpore this morning, where we hold a position—the barracks. All the force is knocked up, and must rest a day. "Alas, alas ! all the women and children were mur dered by these devils yesterday, when they found the day going against them. BENARES. The city of Beuares, to whic!l our attention since the arrival of the last telegraphic despatch from India has been specially and anxiously directed, lies on romantic heights on the northern or left bank of the Gauges. Deriving its name from its ancient appellation Varanisi, from " Var," best. and " Anas, ' water, it t ekes the first place in India for sanctity amonAt the hundred of millions of Hindoo whose r i and elect make it a sacred point to have bathed once in their lives at least, from the splendid ghauts of Benares, in the all-hallowing anent purifying stream of "Mother Gunga." _ _ To the traveller corning from the south, the city ris33 from the ghauts or sloping approaches so as to form a vast amphitheatre, presenting a noble view to the spectator from the opposite side, which is much lower than the northern bank, the river being about 600 yards wide, but now, during the rains, extending to the breadth of half a mil e . Toe lengtla of the city along the banks of the river is about three miles ; its depth not more thr.n. a mile. The population consists of about 200,000, lyrist f them Hiudoos, and the Brahmins alone are esti mate] as foim;ng one-tenth of that number, Tesey live on the superstitions and alms of the myriads who yearly flock to the holy city on pil grimage, and may be daily SO3II performing their ablutions at the foot of the beautiful ghauts, or broad flight of steps of fine freestone, which line the embankment of the river to the whole extent of the city. Above the numerous and crowded houses, which are mostly built of stone, are seen the pinnacles of innumerable small Ilindoo pagodas, but ab,,ve all rises the beautiful mosqua of Aurungzebe, built by him from the materials of the detnoli , hed Hiudoo temple Bind Madhu, to signalise the triumph of Islamism over Brahminism. A curious feature and obstruction of the narrow and dirty streets is formed by the many fat and lazy bulls who roam uncontrolled and unmolested in the streets, procuring abundance of gratuitou , food from the stalls of dealers in grain and vege tables ; while troops of monkey-, equally sacred, scamper over the houses, and make feat fel razzils from the shops of the confectioners and fruiterers. These doings, and the many horrible and dis torted religious ascetic, who squat by the pagodas, Imsk3 Benares a sight to the new corner from Eng land, which baffles his comprehension, while it exceeds all ho has ever conceived in his wildest fits of imagination. Tho - military cantonment of B3iiare3, Secrole, adjoins the city on the wee. It is traversed by a small stream, which, iz the midst of bungalow_ DELHI. The following letter r.achel us by the mail yes terdly :-- "Camp near Delhi, July 28. "We are still remaining in the position we took up on the afternoon of the Bth of last mo n th a f ter fi j b t i ng t h e i battle of Ladle-Serai ; it sa.very st rong one . W e li e about two miles from Delhi , s&parated by a long ridge of hill, that rises in broken ground on the banks of the Jumna to our left, and, smoothing down at its highest point, extends to our extreme right, where our batteries are placed. It is crossed towards the left by the grand trunk road from the North-west, marked here and there by the telegraph posts, from which still bang broken pieces of wire. A little further to the right, on the ridge of the hill, stands the tower called the Flagstaff ; and still further along an old mosque, both occupied by pickets of our men. To the extreme right is the hill on which are placed our heavy batteries. Its top is crowned by a building called Itao s lluuse, from an old Mah ratta chieftain who lived there. All th ese p o i n t s are connected by a road which runs along the summit of the hill. It sides are covered by outcropping strata of sandstone, which rise tier above tier. Part of the slope towards our camp is occupied by the ruined huts of the mutinous regiments and the Lollies of their unfortunate officers. " Behind the camp is a email river, which separa'es us from the plain, commanded by three of our heavy guns. It flews into the Jumna on the north side of Delhi, and is of great ad santage to us, as its banks, which are faced with stone, are too steep to allow the enemy to brit) , their horse artillery over, to attack our rear, as they did on the 19th of June. Profiting by the severe lesson of that night we have blown up all the bridges save the two in the rear .of our camps. Our left flank is covered by the Jumna, which is now much swollen by the rains. " To our right is a mound on which are paced three beivy guns, and about threc-quarters of a mile beyond this is the suburb called the Subzi-raundi, full of country houzes, enclosures, and gardens," in which a number of de-perate kilts have taken place between our into and the enemy. We are encamped oil the ell parade ground the native regiments, and are perfectly sate from everything but their shells, which fall into our camp al most every evening. without doing any great harm. " We are lying on the defensive ta we receive rein forcements, only firing from our batteries when the enemy provoke UR by opening theirs or coming out at the gates. They are c)ntinually getting in r,inforce inents. It is ILA known certainly whether the troops from Neemuch have yet reached Delhi. Our spies state they are losing a goad many by desertion. Their money is failing, and it is generally believed their stock of per cuszion caps is nearly exhausted, and they cannot make new ones. They have four separate cumutanders-in• chief, and have shown in every attack a want of con centration, which has helped us much in driving them back. " We were not troubled after the affair of the 6th till the 15th. The day before they fired a salute cf 21 guns for the sack of Agra and the reverse we had experienced there. They vowed to carry our batteries next day, and came out in great force to storm the pickets under Hin du° Rao's house and in the Subzl-runndi. They brought two guns to bear upon our right. Oar men, under good cover, kept them !wick fur several hours, only losing 12 Men, when Brigadier theadjutant-general, ordered out our infantry and two troops of Horse Artil 'cry into the Sul zi•mulidi. The infantry went in to clear he thickets and gardens in front of Maio° Rao's hi:l and the Subzi.muncli. As they came upon the enemy they gave a tremendous cheer and dashed on. The Delhi wallahs turned their backa and ran in crowds to the zates. Tho artillery galloped up and poured a shower of grape into them. Our Lrco was within 200 yards of the walls. Such a shower of grape and musketry fell upon us that we were compelled to fall bask. Castuber lain had his arm shattered below the shoulder. Oar loss was as heavy as 200 men killed and wounded, including 13 officers. We retired in good order. The enemy cli.l not follow us far. Our men are getting very discontented ci.h this kind of work. Tbey are ready to carry any po,ition, however strong, the enemy must be driven from. rut to carry a strong position a dozen of times only to see it abandoned and reoccupied next morning s what no colliers will do without losing heart. " Since General Wilson has assumed command ‘2v have remained more strictly on the defensive. We are S P IVI I I3 Ellt 17, 18 5 7 strengthening our position every day, and demolishing the houses, and clearing the thickets in the Subzi-mundi. " We had a skirmish there on the 19th, and lost about 40 men in our eagerness to pursue the enemy. They, attacked our picket at Metcalf's house, is front of our left flank on the 231. They were easily repulsed. We lost very few men, but unfortunately three officers were severely wounded and one killed. f' Since this date we have remained without annoy ance. Oar attention is kept up in discussing various re ports of reinforcements arrived at CaNinpore, or reached Agra, or lingering at Allahabad, or whether it is true Sir Hugh Wheeler's force has been destroyed. Oar com munications from below nauatry, even from Agra, are few and uncertain. The Punjaub is now quiet, and likely to remain so. Our Sikhs, Affghans, and, Ghoor khas fight for us as well as our best Europeans, and seem to bear a deadly hatred to the Delhi-wallahs. " A great many people in camp are indignant we did not make an attempt to escalade the walls at the very beginning. We were not strong enough to attack at first, and before we got oar reinforcements they got theirs. In any ease the attempt would have been hazar dous and rash. Our chance of surprising them at night is small. They keep good watch, and our camp is full of people who wish them well. One night three regiments were ordered under arms, and the alarm was sounded an hour after in the city. in case our approach was disco. vered iwe should have to advance under a heavy fire. cross a ditch, and then try to scale a wall manned by a desperate enemy, and force streets guarded by barri cadeds and honey-combed by mines. " Oar success in the end is certain ; reinforcements are coming up the Ganges ; reinforcements are coming up the Indus • reinforcements are crossing the ocean. The country behind us is clear. The rebels are consuming their money and ammunition. Every day they are grow ing more discontented and disunited. The only chance they have of getting a new gleam of success, of exciting the other two presidencies to revolt, and gaining the in dependent chiefs to join them, is for us to make a rash assault on Delhi, and to be driven back with a loss of 1,000 or 1,500 men. " On this account I hope the people at home• will not blame our commanders if we cannot take Delhi by a coup de main,. If there is any one to blame it is those who, from motives of parsimony, left an immense magazine in a mutinous city guarded by native soldiers ; who pre ferred their army to be commanded by worn-out old men rather than bear the expense of paying their servants a decent retiring allowance." THE MAGAZINE AT, DELHI. The following official account of the capture of the Delhi magazine by the mutineers has been pub lished by the Calcutta Government Gazette:— "GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HON. THE GOVER NOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. "Fort William, July 24. " The right hon. the Governor-General in Council is pleased to direct the publication of the following authen tic report of the occurrences at the Delhi magazine on the 11th of May last when attacked by mutineers, and of the noble and cool soldie rs hip o f it s ga ll an t defenders, commanded by Lieat G. D. Willoughby, commissary of ordnance. "The Governor-General in Council desires t. offer his cordial thanks to Lieutenants Raynor and Forrest and the other survivors among the brave men mentioned in this report, and to (xprees the admiration with which he regards the daring and heroic conduct of Lieut. G. D. Wiloughby and the warrant and non-commissioned officers by whom he was supported on that occasion. Their names are Lieutenants Raynor and Forrest, Con ductors Shaw, Buckley, Scurly, Sub-Conductor Crow, Sergeants Edwards and Stewart. " - The family of the late Conductor Scully, who so devotedly sacrificed himself in the explosion of the magazine, will be liberally provided for, should it be ascertained that they have survived him." " From Lieut. G. Forrest, Assistant Commissary of Ordnance, to Colonel A. Abbott, C. 8., Inspector General of Ordnance and Magazines, Fort William, " Meerut, May 27. _ _ _ " Sir,—l have the honour to report for the informa tion of Government, and in the absence of my command ing officer, Lieut. Willoughby, Artillery, supposed to be killed on his retreat from Delhi to this station, the following facts as regards the capture of the Delhi magazine by the mutineers and iesurgents on the 11th inst. On the morning of that date, between 7 and 8 a.m., Sir Theophilus Metcalfe came to my house, and requested me to accompany him to the magazine for the purpose of having two guns placed on the bridge, so as to prevent the mutineers from passing over. Oa our arrival at the magazine we found present Lieutenants Willoeghby and Raynor, with conductors Buckley, Shaw, Scully, and Acting-Sub-Conductor Crow, and Sergeants Edwards and Stewart, with the native estab lishment. On Sir Theoplelus Metcalfe:alighting ft om his buggy Lieut. Willoughby and I accompanied him to the small bastion on the river face, which commanded a full view of the bridge, from which we could distinctly see the mntineers marching in open column, headed by the cavalry, and the Delhi side of the bridge was already in the possession of a body of cavalry. On Sir Theophi Ins Metcalfe observing this he proceeded with Lieutenant Willoughby to see if the city gate was closed against the mutineers. • However, the step was needless, as the mutineers were admitted directly to the palace, through which which they passed cheering. On Lieut. nant Willoughby's return to the magazine the gates of the magazine were closed and barricaded, and every possible arrangement that could be made was at once commenced. Inside the eats leading to the park were placed two 6 pounders, double charged with grape, one under acting Sub-Conductor Crow and Sergeant Stewart, with the lighted matches in their hands, and with orders that if any attempt were made to force that gate both guns were to be fired at once, and they were to fall back on that part of the magazine in Lieut. Willoughby and I were posted. The principal gate of the magazine was similarly defended by two guns, with the cheveuede freize laid down on the inside. For the further defence of this gate and the magazine in its vicinity there were two 6-pounders so placed as either to command the gate and a small bastion in its vicini y. Within 60 yards of the gate and in front of the office, and commanding two cross roads, were three 6-pounders and one 24-pounder howitzer, which could be so managed as to act upon any part of the magazine ia that neighbourhood. After all these guns and howitzers had been placed in the several positions abovenamed they were loaded with double charges of imp?. The next step takon was to place arms in the hands of the native establishment, which they most reluctant:y received, and appeared to be in a state not r niy of excitement,but alio of insubordination, as they refused to obey any orders issued by the Europeans, particularly the Mussulman portion of the establishment. After tte above arrangements had been made, a train was laid by Conductors Buckley, Scully, and Ser geant Stewart, ready to be fired by a pre-concerted signal, which was that of Conductor Bucliley raising I l i hat from his head,.on the order being given by Lieut. Willoughby. Tine train was fired by Conduct a. Scully, but not not until such time as the last round trom the howitzers had been fired; S) soon as the above arrange manta had been made guards from the Palace came and demanded the possession of the magazines in the name of the King of Delhi, to which no reply wag given. - " Immediately after this the subadar of the guard on duty at the magazine informed Lieut. Willoughby and me that the King of Delhi had sent down word to the mutineers that he would without delay send scaling ladders from the Palace for the purpose of sealing the walls, and which shortly after arrived: On the ladders being erected against the wall the whole of our native establishment deserted us by climbing up the eloped sheds on the inside of the magazine, and descending the ladders on the outside, after which the enemy appeared in great number on the top of the walls, and on whom we kept up an incessant fire of grape, every round of which told well as long as a single round remained. Previous to the natives deserting us they hid the prim ing pouches, and one man in particular, Kurreem fluke), a durwan, appeared to keep up a constant cotn munication with the enemy on the outside, and kept them informed of our situa lon. Lieu`. Willoughby was se annoyed at the man's conduct that he gave me an order to shoot him shoal I be again approach the gate. " Lieut. Rey nor, with the oilier Europeans, did everything that possibly could be done for the defen(eef the magaiine, and where all have behaved so bravely it is almost impossible for me to point out any particular However, I am in duty bound to bring to the notice of Government the gallantry of Conductors Buck:ey and Scully on this trying occasion. The former, assisted by myself, loaded and fire d in rapid succession the several gnus above detailed, firing at least four rounds from each gun; and with the same steadiness as if standing on parade, although the enemy were then some hundreds in numbers, and kept up a continual fire of musketry on us, within 40 or 50 yards. After firing the last round Conductor Buckley received a neusket ball in his arm, above the elbow, which has since been extracted here; I, at the same time, was struck in the left hand by two musket balls, which disable Ime for the time. It was at this critical moment that Lieut. Willoughby gave the order fur firing the magazine, which was at once) responded to by Conductor. Scully firing the several train,. Indeed, from the very commencement ho evinced his gallantry by volunteering his services fur blowing up the ma gaz i ne ,' and remained true to his trust to the last moment. As Boon as the exelosion took pace such as escaped trim beneath the ruins, and none escaped uishur, retreated through the sally port on the river face. Lieutenant Willoughby and I succeeded in reaching the Cashmere gate. What became of the other parties it is impossible for me to say. Lieut. Rlynor and Conductor Eilekley have escaped to this station. Severe indisPosition pre vented my sending in this report sooner.—l have, &c., • "G. FORREST, Lieutenant, _ Assistant-Commissary of Ordnance. "N.B.—After crossing the river on the night of the 11th I observed the whole of the magazine to be on fire, so that I am in hopes that little of the property fell into the hands of the enemy. Park-Sergeant Hoyle was shot about 11 a in. by the muti neers i n a tt em pti ng t o reach the magazine to aid in its defence. (True cepy) "A. ABBOTT, Colonel, "Inspecti.r-General of Ordnance and Magazines. " R. J. H. BIRCH, Colonel, "Secretary to the Government of India in the "Military Department." LIFE IN DELHI. The 'following statement of a native regarding the interior sate of Delhi in May and June is most interesting : I reached Delhi on the 21st May, 1857, and stayed there till the 23rd June. On my ail ivarthere I saw five Infantry Regi wents and the. Sowars of the 3rd Cavalry, who were stationed in Molitabbagh and Salimgurb. The Setioys were so much afraid of the English forces that they looked quite - pale. The cavalry mutineer's hadlittle - Spirit; dna were wishing to go to Meerut for a fight ; but the footmen did not agree with them, saying, We are hardly sufficient to guard Delhi, how can we go to Meerut ? I will give you a small description of the oppression com mitted by. Sepoys in Delhi. They plundered every rich house and shop in the -city. - They took every horse they found in the stables of the citizens. They killed a number of poor shopkeepers for asking the proper prices for their things ; they abuse the respectable men of Delhi in their: presence. The guard at Jumna bridge looted the passengers crossing it. On the 11th May the magazine was blown up, it did great damage to adjacent houses, and killed about five hundred passengers walking in different streets. The bullets fell in the houses of people to such a degree, that some children picked up two pounds and some four pounds of it from the yards of their houses ; afterwards the mutineers, together with the low people of the city, entered the magazine compound and began to plunder weapons, accoutre ments, gun-caps, &c. The "loot" continued for three days ; each Sepoy took three or four muskets, and as many swords and bayonets as he could. The calassies filled the houses with fine blacksmiths' tools, wea pons, and gun-caps, which they sell by degrees, at the rate of two seers per rupee. The copper shies i were sold at three seers per rupee. In these suc cessful days, the highest price of a musket was eight annas ; however, the people fear to buy it ; a fine English sword was dear for four arenas, and one anna was too much for a good bayonet. Pouches and belts were so common that the owners could not get anything for this booty of theirs. The gunpowder which was kept at Muj noos Tila, more that half of it was plundered by Goojurs and countrymen, and the rest was brought to the city. Since the day of my artival till the day of my departure, I never found the bazaar opened, except a few poor shops. The shopkeepers and citizens are extremely sorry for losing their safety, and curse the mutineers from morning to evening. Poor people and workmen starve, and widows cry in their huts. Respectable English servants have confined themselves to their houses. A Kotwal is changed every second day. The Sepoys plundered every treasury in the city, and put the money in their own pockets ; they did not' give a farthing out of this to the King ; so the Sepoys of four or five regiments possessed thou sands of rupees each, and under the weight of sil• ver they could hardly walk, consequently they were obliged to change their silver for gold. The Mahajuus charged them 24 or 25 rupees for a gold mohur, whiclr is not worth more than 1.6 rupees. Since the bankers were plundered by the Sepoys, they also cheated them by giving them brass coins instead of gold ones. The poor regiments are very jealous of those who are rich, as the rich Sepoys don't wish to go to fight, or to the field of battle simply ; they are very often insulted by their poor friends. lam of opi nion their private feelings will compel them to fight with each other, some day or other, as many times during my stay at Delhi I heard there was very likely to be a quarrel between the rich and poor regiments. One regiment from Allyghur, and Mynpoozie 150 Sowars, and some unarmed Sepoys from Agra, one regiment and 200 Sowars from Hansi and Hissar, some unarmed Sepoys from Umballa, 200 Sowars and two companies of Nizamut from Muttra, Gth Light Cavalry, two regiments from Jullundur, two regiments and artillery from Nusseerabad, reached Delhi before me, and joined the mutineers. I will acquaint you with the names of the sta tions from whence the rebels brought treasure for the King. Moradnuggur Tehseel—toll gate, near Hindun bridge, Rohtuck, Allyghur, Hansi, Mutra, Hur saroogurghie, Tirsaili, out of which his lajesty pays four annas to each footman, and one rupee to each trooper per diem. Tam quite ignorant of the amount of the money, but I know as far as this, that on the 17th of June there was left one lac and nineteen thousand rupees in the King's Treasury. The princes are made officers in the royal army, thousands of pities for the poor luxuriant princes. They are sometimes compelled to go out of the city, iu the heat of the sun—their hearts palpitate from the firing of muskets and guns. Unfortunately they do not knqw how to com mand an army ; their forces laugh at their imper fections, and abuse them for their bad arrange ments. The King sends sweetmeats for the forces in the field, and the guard at the door of the city plunder it like the property of an enemy. The bravery of the royal troops deserves every praise ; they are very clever indeed ; when they wish to leave the field of battle they tie a piece of rag on their leg, and pretend to have been wounded, and come into the city lame and groaning, accompanied by their friends. On the night of the 30th June, at the Hindun bridge, the mutineers were quite out of senses ; good many of them threw muskets and'swOrdi in the wells, and scattering on the road, tan towards villages and jungles, as they thought themselves to have been pursued by English soldiers. Had the English forces taken them they could have taken Delhi the same night, because the Sepoys did not return to the city till next morning, and many of them disappeared for ever ; they were plundered and beaten by Goojurs, and did not bring a farthing back with them. The old King is very seldom obeyed ; but the princes are never. The soldiers never mind their regimental bugle ; disobey their officers, and neglect their duty ; they are never mustered, and never dressed in unform. The noblemen and Begums, together with the princes, regret for the loss of their joyful days. They consider the arrival of mutineers at Delhi a sudden misfortune for them. The princes cannot understand the Sepoys with out an interpreter. The shells have destroyed lots of houses in the city ; and in the fcrt the marble of the King's private hall is broken to pieces. His Majesty is very much alarmed when a shell is burst in the castle, and the princes show his Majesty the pieces of it. Many of the royal family have left the palace through fear. The Delhi college was de stroyed the first day. English books are lying in the streets still. The Sepoys beaten and imprison people for speaking English.—Lahore Chronicle. THE HISTORY OF THE CAWNPORE MUTINY. . (From the Calcutta Englishman, July 28.) We have received the following particulars of the outbreak and massacre at Cawnpore from a person who has just come down from that place and who was present throughout the affair : He reports that some eight days before the mutiny broke out, or say eight days previous to the sth ult., General Sir Hugh Wheeler, seeing the dis affected spirit of the troops, applied to Nena Sahib, of Bithoor, for a guard for the protection of the Treasury. This request was promptly complied with, and Nena sent two gur,s and 200 Nujeebs, armed with matchlocks, and these were placed at the Collectorate over the treasure. A day or two before this Sir Hugh Wheeler had sent elephants to remove the treasure, amounting to about seven lacs, to the intrenchment ; but the Sepoys would not allow this to be done, saying to the collector, who had told them that he was apprehensive of the treasure being looted by the budmashes and muti neers from the other stations, that if there were twice theamount they would guard it from danger. On the sth ult., about 3 in the morning, the Se poys and Sowars commenced burning their lines and shouting, and proceeded towards Nawabgunge, where the tr=asnre was, leaving one regiment to prevent the Europeans from going to the relief of the collector. By-and-by the treasure having, been packed on elephants and carts, this regi ment joined the others, and it was then about midday, and the mutineers set off to the westward in the direction of Kullianpore, tract towards Delhi, accompanied by the 200 Nujeebs, with the two guns of Nena Sahib, leaving the inhabitan!s re lieved, as it were, by their departure ; and up to that time there had not been destruction of property or loss of life. In the mreering of the following day, about eight o'clock, the murieeers, headed by Nena, with 60 of his follower - s and four guns (having, it seems previously made up their minds to destroy all the Christians, whether European or native), returned to Cawnpore and halted abut two miles to the west of the intrencbment, planted standards, and took up a position, with loud beating of drums. Itnme diatily after about 50 Sowers were despatched to the cantonments to slay all the Europeans, and 50 Sowars to the town where the poorer peop!e lived, to kill all the native converts and clerks. Dur ing this time Nena Sahib hoisted two standarAs, one to the honour of Muhomet, and the other of HuLatnan ; to the former some 2,000 Mahomedans repaired, to the latter but a fey/ Hindoos, none from. the city, but some of the budmashes. The main body of the insurgenti first' attacked the Na wab's palace, and having blown open the gate with their cannon, they entered the place and gutted it, and took the Nawab prisoner, Nenaa S tilt) beiirg under the impression that the Nawab had concealed some Europeans. They then proceeded to the in trenchnients, and from 2 o'clock commenced the attack wi . b. cannon, at first with two of the guns, and on the following day with six. It appears the Eurerearis within the intrenchments were not well suppliertwith ammunition, as it is supposed they did not expe..t an assault with cannon, and thus were Only able to reply with ore gun to 20 of the enemy's. For 17 days continuously the mutineers uselevery now and then to make an assault, with 4.000 er 5,000 men from all quarters, with the view of carrying tho intrenchrneut by storm, but were invariably repulsediwith hr avy loss. By this time the Nena's forces had increased with the t.ddi tion of buclmq shes and mutineers from other statlong to about - 12,000 men. On the 21st or 22d ult. Sir Hugh Wheeler sank under the wounds which he had received, and the garrison, three or four days after his death, being, short both of provisions and ammunition, and re cluced,in number by several casualties, hoisted a flag of truce. Nena Sahib then stopped the assault, and sent to inquire what was meant by the flag. Answer was returned by the Europeans to the effect that they had neither food nor ammunition, and they proposed to give up the country to him on his al lowing them to depart. To this Nena consented, and for two days supplied them with food, and in that time prepared boats for their departure. -At the end of this time Nena gave the Europeans his wordin writing, and he, his officers and head people, confirmed it with an oath. The Europeans then gave up their arms and the treasure in the intrench ments, amounting to about three lacs, and were con veyed in Hindostance gharries and hospital dhoo lies, most of the ladies being in the latter, under an escort of Sowars, to the ghat, whore they embarked in 17 boats out of 19 that had been provided, with the exception of some 32 ladies with children. As soon as the boats had pushed off from the ghat the boatmen jumped overboard and swam to the shore, and then the mutineers opened fire on the boats from a masked battery of eight guns, which had been previously erected for the purpose. All the boats were sunk, and the people on board killed, with the exception of one boat that had passed down, and some 20 Europeans who had managed to swim to the shore. This boat was pursued by 500 Najeebs with tvin guns, who came up with it on the second day, and sunk the boat and destroyed every one on board off a place called Goahein-ka-Seerajpore. The 20 and odd Europeans who swam on shore at Cawnpora were blown away from guns in the course of two or three days, some each day. The 32 ladies and children who were left behind were conveyed by Nona into a pucca-house called the Subhadhur, and kept in custody by Nena Ss' bib's people, but without being insulted. One Portuguese woman, the daughter of a bugler, was made captive by a trooper of the 2d Cavalry, and carried to his house, when the mutiny first broke out ; but when he was absent s h e t oo k his sword and killed his wife and two children, and then herself. Our informant states that when he left Cawnpore on the Ist inst. the ladies and children were fed by Nena's own servant. THE BENGAL NATIVE ARTILLERY AND CAVALRY. The Lahore Chronicle gives the following n ote of the Bombay Artillery and Cavalry ig satisfactory, says the Bombay Gazette, to see that a large proportion of the former remains still, to all appearance, faithful. Of the regu lar cavalry, however, every regiment has either mutinied or been diiarmed. The Irregulars, both horse and foot, are, for the most part, yet loyal :—** NATIVE ARTILLERY. Ist Brigade, 4th troop, Horse, Meerut, with head• quarters, camp before Delhi (1) lst Brigade, sth troop, Horse, Hosheyarpore, moved to Julluuder, 2d Brigade, sth troop, Rawul Pindee, loyal. 3d Brigade, 4th troop, Mooltan, believed btancb. Ist Light Field Battery, Jhelum. 2d ditto, Lucknow. 31 ditto, Thyet Mew. 4th ditto, Dinapore. • sth ditto, Delhi, joined the mutineers. 6th ditto, Umritsur. 7th ditto, Peshawur. Bth ditto, Agra. 9th ditto, Lucknow. 10th ditto, Peshawur. 11th ditto, Thyet Mew. 12th ditto, Benares. 13th ditto, Fyzabad, Oude. 14th ditto, Meerut. 15th ditto, Bareilly, mutinied. -- 16th ditto, Lucknow. 17th ditto, with moveable column. 18th ditto, Nowgong. 19th ditto, Ferozepore. • 20:1 ditto, Dum Dum. • 7th Battalion Foot, head-quarters, Cawnporo. Ditto, let company, Noorpore, Kangra, loyal. Ditto, 2d, Umritsur. Ditto, 3d, Delhi, joined the mutineers. Ditto, 4th Jhelum. • Ditto, sth, Fyzabad. Ditto, 6th, Attock. Bth battalion, Foot, bead-quarters, Sealkote. Ditto, Ist company, Cawnpore. Ditto, 2d, Lucknow. Ditto, 3d, Almorah, mutinied, disarmed, and ivy prisonad. Ditto, 4th, Attock. Dittq, stb, Lucknow. Ditto, 6th, Bareilly, mutinied. 9th battalion, Foot, head-quarters, Dote Don. Ditto, Ist convany, Pegue. Ditto, 2 I, Dem Dam. Ditto, 3d, Dem Dam. Ditto, 4th, Nowgong. Ditto, 6th, Allahabad. . Sappers, Roorkee, six Companies, mutinied, and gone to Delhi , ; the remainder d o i ng d u ty a t Roorkee• Head-quarter:' camp, and on various roads. Mountain Train, Irregular,. No wshera, stanch. NATIVE CAVALRY. Governor-Geberbl's Body-guard, Calcutta, still aimed' Ist Light Cavalry, Mbow, mutinied. 31 ditto, Cawnpore, mutinied. 4 3d ditto, Meerut, mutinied, and gone to Delhi ; a few remained loyal. 4th Light Cavalry, Umballab, at first time, soal sines mutinied and deserted, th e r e st now disarme d at Umballah and Meerut. sth Light Cavalry, P es h awur , di sarme d and dig' mounted. 6th L;ght Cavalry, Julunder, mutinied and dispereci!' 7th Light Cavalry, Lucknow, two troops mutinied' Bth Light Cavalry, Meean Meer, disarmed and diffr mounted. 9th Light Cavalry, Sealkote, wing m u tinied, le ft wing with moveable column. 10th Light Cavalry, Ferozepore, stanch, did goa d service, disarmed. IRRIGVLAR CAVALRY. Ist. IVlooltan, loyal. 2d. Goordaspore and Jullunder. sd. Saugor. 4th. Hansi, mutinied and gone over to enemy, 8 ° 1330 . at Hansi, Hissar, and Moozuffernugger, and lie o quarter's Camp. sth. Rohnee, in Santhal district. 6th. ? 7th. Peshawtir. Bth. Bareilly, stanch, Etawah. 9.'1. Army Head-quarters, mutinied and gone over t° enemy. 10th. Nowebera, disbanded. 11th. Berhampore. 12th. Segowhe, near Nepaul, 13th. Bareilly, mutinied, and gone to Delhi (?) 14th. Jhansi and Nowgong. 15th. Oude. 16th. Moveable column (?) 17th. Wing, at Head-quarter's Camp, Wing in the Pnnjaub, apparently stanch. 18th. Ptshawur, Of the other native troops all are at present loyal , as far as we know, except the few following, knot to have mutinied :—Hu rr i ana h Li g ht InfatitrY , Batallion, gone to Delhi ; part of the Mehidpore (Malwa) Contingent. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and ri l l the Unrivall e d C urat i ves o f the Age.— J ohn S w ift, 0 ' Deptford, in a letter to Professor Holloway, dated SO% 19, 1856, states that his wife suffered nearly four yne r i with an ulcerated leg. 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