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THE' SUN, LO N4iOS, 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 column, that the Major- General feels it his duty to direct all commanding officers to impress this strictly upon their raen, and he is confident that, after this warning, the men's good sense and discipline will induce tb'em to obey In addition to the Calcutta Mail, the contents of , their officers and keep steady to their duty. It is: t the .t i which we we published in an early . second edition yes_ to be explained to every regimen nate plunder will not be allowed ; tha's prize agents have now received our private have been appointed, by whom all captured pro terday, ere (Times) papers from Bombay to the 3d : petty will be collected and sold, to be divided, ac ofcorresporaderme and cording to the rules and regulations on this head, October. The following as the letter of our Bombay corre- fairly among the men engaged ; and that any man spondent, which gives the particulars of the fall of found guilty of having concealed captured property Delhi and the usn'dl summary of events since the will be made to restore it, and will forfeit all claims to the eeneral prize ; he will also be likelytobe made departure of the las..`. wail : over to the Provost-Marshal, to be summarily dealt " BOMBAY, OCT. 3. with. The Major-General calls upon the officers of "At length lam en %bled to announce to you the the force to lend their zealous and efficient co-ope fall of the revolted.capite'l of North - Wester n India, inrationtobe commenced. He looks especially t o the the erection of the works of the siege now or if that appellation be not strictly correct, of the about ancient chief city of the Ms Irel enet ire, in which a regimental officers, of all grades, to impress upon their men that to work in the trenches during . a g faithless soldiery had sought to re-erect the lode siege is as necessary and honourable as to fi gh t in pendent throne o f the descendant of Baler. De lhi the ranks during a battle. He will hold all officers is once more in possession of the British. Our in-responsible for their utmost being done to carry formation at present is more scant 3 ' than could be o d ut the directions of the engineers, and he collie desired, oveheg partly to the dawk communicatio n hearty from which he ion entlytruAs that all will exhibit a healthy and spirit of emulation and zeal, . being unluckily intercepted between 15,ehore and Mooltan. rut the main facts have reached ns from l b rs " ' has no doubt that the happiest results will follow, in the brilliant termination of all their a ou . a a te so many quexters as to leave no doubt w , .verlth "On the morning of the 14 th , soon after day that the place was assaulted with success on 14 the • break, the assault took place. The attacking co of Sept., when a permanent lodgment was effected, i lumns were—as I gather from a letter that I have that during the. Liar or five following days further seen—written on the following day by an officer of advances and acquisitions on the city were made, rank in the army, whicb, though short, is, as far as and that finally ton the 20th the whole of the space I know, the only communication of so late a Bate enclosedwithin the walls was in our possession. I that has yet reached Bombay—three in number, should observe, however, that we have not received one being held, as I understand it, in reserve. as yet such certain. evidence of the truth of the lat- Their strength is not given. The main point of as ter part of this story as of that of the former. The sault was the breach at the 'Cashmere bastion. One proceedings of the 14th, 15th, and 16th are known column, however, consisting of Ghoorkas and the to us, however, compendiously from the official newly arrived Jummoo contingent, was directed to bulletins issued by the Chief Commissioner at La- make a diversion by attacking the Kishengunge bore, and founded, as you know, on telegraphic suburb, which lies outside the Lahore gate on the messages from Delhi. But of the final occupation western side of the city, and, if it succeeded in on the 20th we have only heard by an express from carrying the suburb to assault the gate itself. But Ille Residency at Jeypore in Rajpootana, which the suburb was occupied by the enemy in force, reached Lord Elphinstone by way of Alameda- with a battery of heavy guns. The Cashmerian bad yesterday. It is dated at Jeypore on the troops behaved indifferently, and in spite of the evening of the 23d, and it is to the effect that efforts of the brave Ghoorkas the column was re the news had just been received at the Residency, pulsed. Its commanding officer, Major Reid, of the both from the Rajah and also from the Vakeel oi Sirmoor battalion, is among the wounded of the Minister of the Nawab of Jhujjur, to whom it may day ; but on the northern side of the city all went be presumed to have been forwarded by his master, well. The troops entered at the breach with no seri a chief resident in the immediate neighbourhood of ous opposition, and spreading to the left and right Delhi. Thus the tidings of our ultimate and corn-' occupied the "whole line of defences from the Water plate success rest at present on native authority bastion to the Cabul gate, including the Cashmere only, but, as the natural sequel and complement of crate and bastion, the Moree gate and bastion, the our undoubted triumph of the 14th, they are uni- English church, Skinner's house, and the grounds versally credited. about." The principal loss sustained by the assail " But to complete, so far as my present materials ants was due to the obstinate resistance they met will allow, the story of the avenging army. When with in clearing their way along the ramparts to I closed my last letter we had heard that the heavy the Cabal gate, and afterwards in an attempt to siege train was expected to reach the camp in a very penetrate beyond that point into the denser parts fe w days, and that works were being erected wherein to mount the guns on their arrival. While the of the city in the direction of the Jumna Musjid. In all the loss amounted to about 500 killed and troops were thus busy, the enemy was inactive. wounded. Five officers are reported to have been There were none of those desperate sallies from the slain—Tandy, of the Bengal Engineers ; M‘Barnet, city that characterised the early days of the siege, of the late 55th N.I. ; Murray, of the Guides ; when day by day successive waves of mutiny were Bradshaw of the 52d Foot ; and Fitzgerald, of shattered against the heights of the British posi- the 57th. Captain Rosse, of the Carabineers, Major tir.n ; and though their artillery was not silent the Jacob, of the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and Lieutenant only success attained was on the night of the Ist of Homfray, Ist Punjab Infantry, are returned as Sept., when a shell from the battery on the further having died of wounds received. Brigadier Nichol side of the river (of which I wrote in my last) burst son was wounded, and his brother, of Core's among a picket of the 61st, in front of the Metcalfe Rifles, and many others—in all about 30. Of the house, killing two men and wounding seven. 0 n less of the mutineers I do not observe even an the morning of the 4th arrived in camp the long estimate. It is only said that bodies of them were looked-for siege train of between 30 and 40 heav3 seen to be retreating both to the south of the city in guns, howitzers, and mortars, with large quantities of ammunition, escort e d b the remainin wing of the direction of Kootub, and also across the bridge y g of boats, and that our cavalry had moved round the the Bth Foot, two more companies of th e 61 s t, and city to intercept and destroy the former. Our vic e wing of the Ist Belooch battalion of the Bombay torious infantry, prudently recalled from too hasty Army. On the 6th came in from Meerut a most an advance into the close lanes of the city, occupied valuable reinforcement in 200 of the 60th Rifles the comparatively open space inside the Cashmere and 100 Artillery recruits. To the latter were gate, and the walls which they had won upon either added 45 men of the 9th Lancers. The place of side of it. Head-quarters were established in the , this detachment was supplied at Meerut by the 7th house once occupied by the renowned Irregular Punjaub Infantry. On the following day the army Horseman, Skinner, and now known to us by his was further strengthened by the 4th Punjaub name, to the natives as Secunder's. Preparations Rifles under Captain Wilde, and by some troops of were at once made for shelling the enemy out of the the Jheend Rajah. On the night of the 7th the Palace, the Selimghur, and the other strong places advanced batteries intended for the destruction of of the city, and the firing commenced next morn the Moree bastion and the adjacent curtain were ing, the 15th. By the evening of that day a breach armed with 10 heavy guns at about 650 yards from was effected in the wall of the magazine enclosure, the bastion, and an enclosure within half that die- which was held in force by the enemy, and the tance of the walls, called the Koodsea Bagh, was place was stormed the next morning by the 61st occupied by a detachment of infantry and artillery. Foot, and detachments of the Beelooch battalion In these operations we sustained a loss of some- and Wilde's Rifles. In it were captured 125 pieces thing under 50 killed and wounded, two officers ' of cannon. The Palace being now well exposed the being among the former, Lieuts. Hildebrand, of guns and mortars opened upon it from the maga the Bengal Artillery, and Bannerman, of the Bona- zine enclosure, and the enemy appears to have bay Fusiliers, attached to the Beelochees, the latter fallen back at all points. Thus the Kishengunge a promising young officer, well known to myself battery, which had repulsed the Jumrnoo troops, and to many people here, and by all regretted. was abandoned and occupied, and the guns there The next day was marked by the opening of the taken swelled the total number of captured pieces advanced batteries on the Morse bastion and by to upwards of 200. The battery on the further side the arrival in camp of the Jummoo or Cashmere of the river seems also to have been abandoned, and Contingent. Meanwhile the engineers were hard at the date of the last certain and official news-7 at work in the erection of other batteries. On the p.m. on the 16th—an attack upon the magazine had 11th a mortar battery opened on the Mores from been repulsed, a chain of posts had been established the Koodsea Bagh at little more than 300 yards, from the Cabul gate to the magazine, and the and upon the Cashmere and Water bastions a fire enemy some hours before dayfall had been maintain was commenced from 16 heavy guns and howitzsre ing only a detached and desultory warfare from the and 10 large mortars, planted at two points in tops of the houses. Many townspeople had come in front of the enclosure known as Ludlow Castle, and and received quarter, which was of course refused so noted in Wyld.'s map. On the 12th, the attack to every Sepoy. All this is so satisfactory that we on the Water bastion was strengthened by fair may well credit the tale from Jeypore, that on the 18-pounders and two light (51 inch) mortars (in- 211th the place was entirely in our hands. But I creased afterwards apparently to eight of the for- shall keep this letter open to the last in the hope of rarer, and 12 of the latter), planted at 200 and 250 fuller intelligence, as a steamer is just in from Kur yards from the wall and the Custom-house com- rachee, where Mr. Frere was keeping ready for an 1 pound near the river. The fire of the enemy was emergency, and which he would not have despatched most severe upon the last-named batteries, which unless he had something worth sending. I must 1 were exposed not only to the guns of the Water not omit, by the way, to mention that the Jeypore bastion. but to those in the old inner fort of Se- report asserts—though Ido not assert it—that the limghur, and also to those on the other side of the King of Delhi escaped to a neighbouring shrine in river. Here Capt. Fagan, of the Artillery, described the disguise of a woman. Scindia, it is moreover as a most enterprising and excellent officer, fell, reported, was raising 15,000 men to intercept fugi shot through the head. No other fatal casualty ec- fives. curred among the officers during these days, nor "To • does the general loss appear to h ave b een severe , the north-west of Delhi, is the Hurrianah district, Gen. Van Cortlandt is still busy repres considering the proximity of the batteries to the sing disturbance and resettling the country. On rho walls and the tenacity of the defence, the enemy 6th of September an insurgent village near Hansi keeping up a vigorous fire of musketry from rifle- was surprised and its occupants driven out and dis pits and patches of jungle, even after their heavy parsed, with the loss of one of the ringleaders in guns were rendered unserviceable. This latter re- the mutiny of the Harrianah battalion and 25 of suit was rapidly produced by the precision and his men. I read, too, of what appears to be the weight of the constant discharges from our bat- destruction of another village at a later date, when bat teries. By the 13th, th e C as h mere b as ti on was in a number of the mutinied 10th Cavalry fell, and ruins, and had long ceased to return a shot to the several prisoners, formerly of the same regiment, fire that was continually kept upon it. The ad- were forthwith executed. On this occasion a large joining curt a i ns on e ith er s id e were s i m il arly ru i ned, and from the debris o f th e M ores b ast i on only a into the hands of the General men. From Meerut amount of booty in horses, cattle, and money fell 's light gun or two pt intervals repli e d t o th e 1 heavy shot and shell that were poured i n t o i t. At we do not hear of any more raids against insurgent nor d the other end of the works the Water bastion Lad chiefs, oe3 our news from Agra report any suffered scarcely less s2verely, its extreme maga- further proceedings on the part of Major Mon tgo mery since his very successful engagement at zine was blewn up, and a light gun which enfiladed Hat trass with Ghose Mahomed Khan, the self-styled our batteries had been silenced. And new., the i Soubandar of the King of Delhi, which I mentioned moment fur Cie assault draw lug near, Gsnen 1 in Wilson promulgated the following excellent my last, and w h i ch a pp ears t o h ave qu i ete d t h e country about Allygha r . I n d ee d, our i nte lli gence orde r a .— Lora Agra is well-nigh con t a i ne d i n t h e single an " ' The force assembled before Delhi has had n111(:h hardship nouncement of the death of Mr. Colvin, Lieut.- mach of the North-West Province, on the 9th arrivali in this camp and f stigue to undergo since its e is ee n e o rf w eel y Lorne by camp, all all of which has been most Sept. This Eminent, and at the commencement of ors and men. The time drawing near when the Majer-General com- the outbreak , most p o p ular public servant sue over, and they thwill a that th e i r labours will be c umbed to an attack of dysentery, a disease t o th e the city for all eir peastewardod. by the capture of growth of which the confined limits of the crowded ful endurance cf stile grea e t xertton s and for a cheer- - fort must have been only too favourable. ler. The troops will be reqtaredr fatigue and exposure, ' engineers in the erection ,of aid and assist the Meade, the senior civil servant present, assumed trenches, and in daily expos the batteries ant temporary charge of the Government upon the death tare to the , ' covering parties. ' u p , as' of his chief. On the other side of the Doe'', two ‘c ' The Artillery will have even harder voile; eivilaue, regarding whose safety fears were enter than they yet have had, and - which they haves taiued, hive been preservedbyanetive, one Haldeo well and cheerfully performed. tithe! to ; this, Low '°- Bakal), of Dhurruepore, and by him forwarded to ever, will be for a short period only, and w h en , ( - 1 .""npc,re They Mr. Edwards, collect er of ordered to the assault the Major-General f es i e ' B udao ' are assured British pluck and determination will carry withr of Futteeliur, filen, and Mr. Probyn, roll ct • ' everything before them, . and that the bloodthirsty wife and children. Several other Euro and murderous mutineers against whom they are peens are said to be in hiding in the neighbourhood. lighting will be driven headlong outof their strong- , give you Cawnpore and Lucknow lam unable h old„ or be exterminated ; but to enable them to do to give you so favourable as a fortnight an account e Lu ; •8 he warn s th e troops to the absolute necessity ago I, with reason as 1 of together kee ps g 1 Lotstraggling from their should be able to do. Gthought, anticipated that I am. col,umns—by this can success only be secured. member, in his letter of S en. Outram, you will re g `Major-General Wilson.need hardly remind Se Out, 2, to which I refer she troops of thered in my last, expressed a ho cruel murders committed on their Pe that he should get officers and comrades aswell as their wives arid over the distance between All h a abed (where ho children, to move them in thedeadly struggle. No was at the time writing) and Cawnpore by the 9th. quarter should be given to the mutineers; at the In this hope he was however disappointed. Pro. LATEST NEWS. CAPTURE OF DELHI. THE BOMBAY MAIL• ,~~ f (T 1L S -7 bably after enduring so much rain, r ordinary ' —lore than the or dinary difficulties embarrass ..nis march ; and on on e occasion at least his - an armed force, or advance was impeded by necessity his progress hindered by the : e asing it. A party, esti ma t e d by its übseciu of char destroyer at about 300 s t rong , w ith a sm, •feW grans (the number is not mentioned), crossed the Ganges from Oude, presumably for the purpose of plunder, at a point ahead 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 Lad 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 5 th 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 Cawnpore direct 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 Ganges from 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 n 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 resistance encountered by histrcops. Certain it is at least that the enemy were in great strengti, and o:.- 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 river and reconnoitre. While so engaged she got aground. The enemy at once opened fire upon her, and turned out, as was discernible through the glasses of the officers on the other side, marching clown the bank in a regular column, that betrayed their former profession, wearing their belts and pouches, though not the red uniform. The bank on the Cawnpore side being higher than the other, their 1 proceedings were easily observed, and a few shots were thrown at them from the 24-pounders, but without producing any effect—indeed, without reaching across the river. Eventually the steamer got off and returned uninjured. Meanwhile, of the imprisoned garrison of Luckuow 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 repeat that we know of nothing tending to destroy, or even materially to affect, the confident hopes which, when I last wrote, were so generally entertained, not only on this side of India, but also at Cawnpore and Allahabad, that this longr beleagured eity 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 Allalia bad, though we have not yet hear.' of hit arrival. At Calcutta considerable reinforcements have ar rived—the rest of the China fuzee, the 23d, 93d, and 82d ; the Penelope with 200 artillery front the Cape, and the Sauspareil with two companies of the same corps from Hong Kong. From the eapi- tal to Allahabad the country OH both sides of the river appears to be perfectly quiet avin. What has become of the mutineers from Dinapore and Ramghur seams far from clear. Some accounts had represented them to be moving upwards tewards Agra by way of Banda. 0 chers state i that their main body, under Kooer Singh, had turned south ward from Banda towards the Rewah terrieeriee ; others again, that being warned off by the Rajah of Rewah, they bad skirted his country and moved down into Bundelcund. This last account may be, perhaps, the true one. 'lf net, it is only the mere rumour of their approach that has e tused the mu tiny of the 50th Bengal Native Infantry at Nagode, in that province • for this regiment, which h as re mained quiet so long, has gone at last. Its better temper, however, and better discipline stood by it we may perhaps say, unless it was mere caprice, to a certain extent, even to the end. Before dismis . sing their officers, 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 ofiHperhaps in search of Kooer Singh—after destroying the public building, 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 hatch 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 chief of one of the neighbouring Gond clans was arrested ou 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 52.1 mutinied, taking advantage of the scattered condi tion of the Madras column, which was stationed et intervals between Jubbulpore and Saugor, keeping open the road, and was in no great strength at the former station. Their mutiny had in it sometbiug 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. Millar at Dumoh. This little arrangement they exphiced in a respectful letter written either to Gen. Millar i r to their own commanding officer (the latter I think, but am not quite sure, as I have only heard of the ' letter, not seen it), in which they said that in leav ing cantonments they by nc:emeans considered that they were quittin g the service of the Sircar ; that they remained, and proposed to contieuOge remain, true and good servants of the Government : but that they had heard and believed that the Si , - car intended to destroy them, and had brou;lit in tip Madrasses for that purpose. Hence they thouaht it better to windraw till the Sircar should be more properly and kindly dispoed towards them. They were taking away the Sircar's arms and ammunition, it was true, but, then, had they not left all their own property behind, with which the Sircar might indemnify iteelf 3 And 's° the re.i ment marched off, all but the two companies wh . ch were with General Millar, whom the Gen era l f,i th with cleverly and quietly disarmed. But the effect of all this is very bad. It may Cest us for a time the whole of the Saugor territories north of the Nebrudda. The Bundeles are up in renewed spiritF. General Millar attacked a body of them, and slew 80 without the loss of a man. But ano ther party defeated a silly from the fort of Sau gor, killing Colonel adze'', of the late 42d, who headed it, and several men. The Madras column abandons Durnoh and cone nitratei itself for tha protection of Jubbulpore. If, as in spite of their remarkable letter may be anticipatel, tie 52d join _t the Bandelas in streng: h, the column m ay have o recross the Nebrudda. If Kooer Singh conies down it must ; but I hope and think Vera when tidings of the fall of Delhi have well filtered through the country many a now formidable-looking band of marauders will be dissipated even more rapidly than it was formed. • "Further to the north and west, in the great province of Malwa, things are looking sufficiently well. I leave already alluded. to the report of Scindia's raising new levies to intercept fugitives from Delhi. A letter from an officer at Indore, just received, Le's before me. Upon information which he considers reliable, he writes, that ou th 3 25th, and for five days previous, Scindia and tl e mutinied Contingent were at Gwal:o-, face to face, Th e m a harajah eaoli seeking to coerce the other, had all his guns in position, and from 17,000 to 20,000 men of new and old levies strongly posted. He was unwilling to use force, I sup pose, against such formidable antagonists unless ab solutely forced to do so, and contented himself with bolding them in check, waiting probably for the fell of Delhi. If this be true he has done us good service, and hassaved his sovereignty. Indore and. Mhow are quiet. The succession to-the chieftain slair, of Ruttam has been tranquilly settled, the disturbed little State of Dhar is at rest again, and more than all, the Mundesore insurrection, of which I wrote in my last, 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, be 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 materials. Accordingly their attack was repulsed, and Mr. Monk Mason, the Commis sioner, who accompanied them, was, it is feared, k Let luecn C .lonel Lawrence resolved himself to atl eels. On the 18th of September he led his small body of men from the 85th Foot, the Mliair warra battalion, and the Bomb a y L ancers , w i t h a half-trcop of Horse Artillery, against the enemy's position, which in the high standing corn was scarcely visible. The rebels had the guns of the legion, and made good prat : ice with them. They were driven, however, from two successive positions into the town, and there the t r i ump h s o f th e d ay ended, for, the place being evidently unassailable, our troops were forced to draw off, without loss indeed, but no doubt considerably to the defTiment of our prestige in the district. And that such an event should have happened just where it did is particularly unfortunate, as being s o near t o Vie frontiers of Guzarat, 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 ]ats disaffection in its ranks. "For the past fortnight wo have had further little disturbances it 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 1 : 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 1 to take prompt measures without waiting for the arrival of the Europeans. Acting upon in formation derivel 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 tile 13th Native Infantry the golandas were disarmed and the guns taken away into the fort. At Skikarpore, 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 guns. One or two were killed, and the others decamped, only to be brought in deal 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 serious. 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, arrd make off for Hyderabad. Everything seems to have be, n admirably well managed. The 2d Europeans (two companies cnly) and the Horsy Artillery were ordered out at once, and the regiment was sur prisei. Some twenty-seven were missing ' all of whom have sinc e b een executed or slain by the po lice or the villagers, and abut the same num ber, whose firelocks were found to be loade', are to be transported for life. These men are thought to be, and perhaps are, all the conspirators in the regiment, iu 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 Concanee (or westcoast) men, though not always sufficiently great entirely to pre-erve 'lie corps from mutiny, seems to be able to prevent its inft2cting the whole body. Elsewhere through nit the Presidency we have been quite quiet, if I except the case of the 2d Grenadiers, to which I have already alluded, but which has hitherto exhi bited nothing worse than a few deeri,ions and con sequent imprisonments. By this time Gen. Roberts (who commands in Guzerat), has got the 89‘h Fo at Ahmedabad, which will keep everything quest ; and at Kurrachee tee wing of the 4th, from the Mauritius, has arrived. Hero we have the left wing of the 95th, but Vie head-quarters are not yet heard of. They had not left the Cape when the left wing sailed from it. "I have received another letter from the officer attached t 3 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 Const intinople), 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, almc'st precisely the Fam e as t h ose o f F err i er, whose notes and informatio n (the accuracy of which is, I believe, roundly denied at Teheran, and by his countrymen too) they will ba able, and are very de 'irons, to test. The P ers i an Government, writes my friend, is evading the bona fide terms of the treaty in every respect.' The Afghans, we hear, are rising far and wide. to annihilate the Persan forces, now that they know the English have forced them to e iacitate the pl ace. "To return to Bombay, and to conclude. Our monsoon is at an en I, and h as b een a very favour able one, the fall registered being7B inches. Trade is active; inewry abunda n t . G overnment Four per Cents. have risen to 82, and would go higher bat for the extreme depression at Calcutta. Exchan England bri ngs nothing from Kurra cheege on London, 2s. fact• , but a cops of the J eypore story which I have fr a lett er rece i ve d a t N us bJore given. But 1 have b een o bli ge d b y the pe rusal of an 6 extract cen seerabad on the evening of the 24th of Sept. from Captain Sept. 23, 8 a . m .,' w hi c h dives Delhi on the 17th an d 18th, and which runs thus;_,' On the 17th sh e lli ng details E e n of at th J e e d y o p i o n r g o s , i the Lal Killa (Red Fort ; this appears to be s o m e other stronghold than Seliin g h ur ) an d c i ty. 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 reolved to attack and fight as men without hope of mercy or pardon. Friday, the 18th. —Shelling all night on the Lal Killa. This morning fighting recommenced, and mutineers on Rifles doing much mischief allying the rebels. City some points succeEsful, b u t cons t ant l y re p u ls e d. people, both rich and poor, running away. Suburb, where Reid failed (the Rishengunge) is ours, and also the rebe!s' battery th ere . King and two sans concealed. One bastion of the Lid Killa de stroyed, and it will be tak en ' C ap t a i n Eden adds, The above is from the D un b ar news -water to the Rajah at Jeypore. Th ere ma y b e some e3Fag geration, but in its main I am inclined to bulieve this report, as the min has always sent us correct reports on the whole.' After this the report of the total ecnipation of the city on the 20th may be ac cept -d unh e it a ti ng l y. " I regret t ) say th a t i t appear s probable there is something wrong in;the Punjaut, between L the e and Mooltan. I a ll u d e d i n t h e b eg i n ning of my letter to a st ippage of gawk communication between these tows s. I now find that when the England left Kur rachee no dairk had reached Moult= from Lahore for 8 days. If a n y t hi ng is wrong it is in flie Go gain district. Detachments are out both from La hore and Mool tan ; but nothing is yet known of the cause or of the magnitude of theobstruction to the traffic. All was quiet in Scinde, and the auth-.Ti ti,s were on the alert. " Litters from Ncemuch record a successful ope ration from that station against Niniblieera, where the RajA of Tonk wAs in revolt. The detachnnts of the Bombay 2d Cavalry and 12th N.I. which accompanied the patty of tho 8 3 .!, b,haved v er y welt, replying only with musketry to the cries of Dem, Been!' (the faith), which met them from the wa!ls. Tue eiemy evacuated the place during the night, abandoning his guns. The troops are clam -.)r ous to be led against Munde3ore or Bhownug,nr, whither the r-mnant of the Mundesire revoA as betaken itself." • The followin g i s f ro m the Bombay Times : " Tha capt ure o f D e lhi has t.o .n the great event of tilt) fortnight, and we may now expect that the rebellion will l e spee lily crushed. With the strong hold of th e mut i neers in our power there will b 3 n . ) difficulty in destroying fly, rebels wherever we may meet them, and thus restoring tranquillity through out the country. The arrival of fresh reinforce ments from England, both at 13(mbay and Cal cutta, has contributed to strengthen our hand, and confirm the wavering loyalty of the neutral provinces. Although, h o wever, Delhi has f a ll en, is still a and th e re li ef of L uo know is near at hand, the re great deal to be done Lefore India is per fectly settled, and order restored throughout its bloodit3ined provinces. For the gigantic work be. fore us all our efforts and resources will be required, - .. -'- " 0 - 1 4 T p , 9 e t , and our energies cannot be abated until the fabric of our power is set upon a firmer basis than hereto fore. " 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 com mence offensive operations. Several batteries, 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 Lieut. Bannerman ; of the Belooch Bat talion, who were killed. Having thus established batteries iu advanced positions the bombardment of the city commenced, and the Cashmere and Moreo bastions suffered severely from our shot and shell. The enemy replied smartly with grape and mus ketry, but our less was inconsiderable, and our fire was kept up with undiminished vigour. Oa the 10th and 11th Sept. on e or t wo sorties were made by the enemy, but without anyresult, 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 haif the adjacent curtain were in ruins. Pre parations were now made for the assault, and Gen. Wilson, in an order issued a few days previous, laid down the line of conduct to be pursued by the troops. No quarter was to be given to the muti neers' but the women and c hild ren were to b e 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 qu ar t ers , Skinner's-house, Ddni, 15th :—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, college, and other large buildings near this one, in which the head-quartets are. Preparations are making for heavy batteries to knock the mutineers out of those pares of the city in which they now are. Many of the city people hare come in for and received quarter ; Sepoys wanted to come, but not permitted. Casualties said to be heavy. No artillery officers killed or wounded. A gre It many of the mutineers escaped. Cavalry left lest 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 : "`Sept. 15, 9 a.m. "We continue to hold the city from toe College to the Cabal gate, and the enemy holds the maga zine, which wo are now shelling. The palace is also being shelled. Ma n y o f th e mineers had fled yes terday. The following officers were killed :—Lieut. Tandy, Engineers ; Lieut. Fitzgerald, 75th Foot ; Lieut. Bradshaw, 52d 1 1 ,:ot ; M‘Baruet, 55th Infantry; Lieut. Murray, Guile Corps ; Major Jacob, Ist Fusiliers, has died 'from his wounds. About 30 officers have been wounded, including Brigadier-Gen.ral Nicholson, Li e ut. Ni c h o l son, o f Cok's Regiment ; Greathed, Maunsell, Chesney, Salkeld, Brownlow, Hovendon, and Medley, En gineers ; Waters and Curtis, 60th Rifles ; RoSs, of Carabineers (dangerously) ; Anson, Aide-de-Camp ; Baynes and Pogson, Bth Foot ; Greville, Wemyss, and Owen, Ist Fusiliers ; Reid, Sirmoor Battalion ; Boisragon, Kumaon 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 Cabul bas tions are also in play on the Burn bastion and L t here 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.' " 8 p.m. " All well. We have made a breach in the magazine, and storm it at dawn. The enemy's muskelry fire is much reduced.' " No official account has yet been received of the successful attack by a portion of General Van Cortlandt's force on the rabel village of Mungella, but a number of the 10th Cavalry men have been killed, and 13 of them, with some others, made prisoner, wt.() immediately executed on the spot. About 20,000r5, worth of plunder is said Co 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 just been re ceived from Delhi The magazi ne was stormed at daylight by . the 61st Foot, Beloch Battalion, and part of Wilde's Regiment. We had 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 li'shenguno battery, and we have found in if, in position, five 18-pounder mortars, making the total number of pieces of ord nance taken in and before Delhi upwards of 21:0. " ' The battery across the river opposite King hur, is also reported to have been abanthned by the mutineers, uho are in detached groups fighting from the tops of houses ; their organisation into regiments is fast being broken up. " Dewaa Hurre3 Ohund, the commandant of the auxiliary force of his Highness the Maharajah Runlleer Singh, died of cholera yesterday ; his death is much to be regretted. He was the trusted servant of the Maharaj %h, and a man of great experience. A supplementary list of casualties received yesterday mentions that Captain Ross, Carabineers, and Lieutenant Homfray, 4th Punj ub Infantry, died of their wounds. Wounded, 14th of Septetn 'bor.—Pemberton H. Gustavinele, Sappers; Cup- Page, 6th Cavalry ; Bayley and Atkinson, 52d Foot ; SThebheare, Guides ; Graydor, 16th Grena diers ; Spece, 650 a Native Infantry ; Lambe. t, Ist Fusiliers ; Garnbe, 38th 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 Hurrianab Irregular farce tinder his command, of the insur gent village of Mangulpera. The rebels drew up a force of front 700 t) 8;;0 horse, from 400 to 500 infantry, and s Jme guor, 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 ca,i tloads of Sepoys' things, such as coats, pantaloons, &re. " 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 magazice. An attack was made on the magazine to-day, which was repulsed ; but we hi-td some men killed and wounded. " J. D. MACPHERSON, Lieut.-Colonel, Military Secre'ary to Chief Commissioner.' " The following was received by express from Gen. Roberts, commanding the forces at Ahmeda- " Delhi, Sept. 14.—Mr. Greathed writes : " 'Delhi was stormed this morning, and the British forces are in possession of the line of de fence; from the Water bastion to the Cabul gate, including the Cashmere gate and bastion, and the Moree gate and bastion, the English church, Skin ner's hous, the college, and the grounds about. Preparations are boing made to turn the guns from the captured batons on the city, and to bring up other guns and mortars to commanding points. " The enemy for the present retain the Lahore and other Lastiot,s, the palace, Selimghur, 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 heed, Sirmoor 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 off by the bridge, but pursuit is impracticable until Selimghur and the liver 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 Cashmei - e gate without; serious opposition, and gained possession of the large buildings in the neighbourhood,. and advanced along the ramparts to Vie 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 been 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 expresg froinGen. Roberts at Ahmedabad, stating that thq whole of the city was in our possession oa the 20th, and that the King of Delhi had been taken prisoner. "Chief Commissioner'L-officc, Lahore, Sept. 16. "Tue messages were received from Delhi during the course of yesterday, and this morning from the office of the Adjutant-General of the Army:— 7. bad, who despatched the intelligence to the Gover nor on the 29th of September : " ' By express through Dr. Derinzy, Res'dency Sur g eon, Jeypore, the 23d of September, 5 a.m.— We hate this moment received information from the Durbar of our troops having occupied the entire city of Delhi on Sunday last, the 20th.- The Vakeel of the Jhujjur Nawab had been here a little while before with the same intelligence, so you may rely uplia it. The King is said to be in the Durgab Nizam-oodeen, about six miles from Delhi. He and his two sons escaped disguised as women, and the women of the Zenama in men s "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, SHPT. 28. " A telegram waR 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 inst. " 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 Morse 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 wanted to come also, but were not permitted. The ea:Aral ties are said to be heavy ; no Artillery officers, however, were killed or wounded. A great many of the mutineers have escaped. The cavalry left last night, it is 4aid towards Rewaree.' " The news of the fall of Delhi, which arrived by the Ajdaha on the night of Thursday last, reached the Governor of Bombay while a large dinner-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 band 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 47 followers. The regiment marched into canton ments the same evening. DELHI-OFFER TO SURRENDER. (From the Bombay Gazette Extra of Sept. 22.) 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 lilt, 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 negoeiations 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.) The 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 orderad 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. iciajor Wi's m need hardly remind the troops of the cruel murders committed on their Ofdcorg and comrades, as well as their wives and children, to move them in the deadly struggle. No quarter should b 3 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 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 to their duty. It is to be explained to every regiment that indiscriminate plunder ►ill 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, will be made to r,store it, and will forfeit all claims to the general prize ; he will also be likely to be 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-operation in the erec tion 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 fight in the ranks during a battle. He will hold all officers responsible tor their utmost being done to carry out the directions of the Engineers, and he confidently trusts that all will exhibit a healthy and heartyspiritof emu'ation 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, quickly silenced the Cas hmere 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 hive a flanking fire from field-pieces on the right, and from a hea►y gun and mortar on the other side the river. Sulemghur and the Water Bastion also fire on the left and centre batteries. Rockets are occasionally fired from a Martello tower in front, and there are single light guns on two others. "All this do( 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 ct,ngratu laden. 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 alross the cut of the canal yesterday, to cut off our camels. They retired on seeing a force conaing against them, and might have got off; but they were wet by 80 of the Guide Cavalry, under Capt. Sand ford, and 2 ressaldars and 25 sowais were killed on the field. ~ThesenT s h e e o r f e i s m t got off to Delhi. pendingdanger has roused the energies of the Pandies, and they talk of nothir g but defence, and are making dum-dummas near the magazine, and between the Cashmere and Ca b)olee gates. But experience has hitherto shown th it those energies fail when the moment of action arrives; and I think it is generally a source of con gratulation that the rebels are not availing them selves of the many avenues of escape. The popu lation appears quiescent. "Major Campbell, of the Artillery, was wounded by a grape shot in the ler -, in battery, and Lieut. Lockhar t 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. Greathed's report of the 13th inst. has just been received. " After I wrote yesterday, the left batteries opened against the Water Bastion and curtain, with one gun bearing on the causeway leading to the bridge, and have continued in full play. They have to endure a warm musketry fire from the walls and shot and shell from Suleymgurh, and from across the river. " The army has suffered a severe loss in the death of Captain Fagan of the Artillery. He was an admirable officer, and has been the life of the camp. His daring was unbounded, and ho could not be restrained from exposing himself over the breastwork to observe the line of fire from the new battery, and was shot through the head. " The other casualties are Lieut. Earle, Artil lery, and Chancellor, 75th, wounded. The lop.o among the men is held to be moderate. " The centre b ttt.eries 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 art 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. 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 t eon 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 tn-morrow, and the detachment of artillery and rifles from Meerut, on the 6th instant," Lahore, Sept. 5. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 4 :—" Th e siege train arrived his morning, together with a detach ment of her Majesty's Bth Foot, and a wing of the Belooch Battalion. " Lahore, Sept. 6. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 5 :—" Active pre' parations are going gp for offensive preparations• Lieutenant Tytler, BOth Rifles, and Lieutenant Somerville, Artillery, have both died since WS message was sent." Lahore, Sept. 7. The following from Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 6 " 200 men off the 60th Rifles and 100 ArtillerXre" cruits from Meerut arrived to-day. The 4th Pun' jaub Infantry comes in to-morrow." Lahore, Sept. 8. , From Delhi, four p.m., S e pt. 8 :—" Wild e 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. S' r Cohn Campbell is coming upcountry." Lahore, Sept. From Delhi, five p.m., Sept. 8 :—" Last nigni parties of our troops took possession of the Nood; sea Bagh, within 320 yards of the city walls, and batteries for ten guns w ere es t a b l i s h e d at a b ou t 6d" yards from Moree Banton, to put a stop to its fir ° and that of the Cashmere Bastion. Everything was successful, and the batteries are firmly est t a".; lished in their advanced po s iti on , our l oss u p to ill time being under 50 killed and wounded. Vog t Hildebrand, Artillery, and Lieut. Bannerragly Belooch Battalion, killed. An accidental exPlr sion took place in our park, but f or t una tely 0 1 four natives were killed. The Jummoo Contingeu arrived to-day." Lahore, Sept. 10. From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 9 :—" Since 1 0 ! message the Cashmere and Moree bastions halo and been we e e y s e h r a e l l l y s pounded a b v y e o m u ra o red batteries a an tt c e e r d b i e s a a t t t e w r l o c i ! much closer to the walls. Notwithstanding that, the enemy have kept up a heavy fire, particularll of grape and musketry ; our casualties have WO small since yesterday." Lahore, Sept. 1.1. From Delhi, 4.30 p.m., Sept. 10 :-.-“We ball" now two batteries for heavy guns constructed 114 front of Ludlow Castle, and ready to open to-rec e row morning. W e h ave a l so a heavy mortar bet' tery completed in . the Koodsea Bagh, arici have possession of th e C us t om -h ouse, i n the compoll°A of which anoth er h eavy b at t ery i s b e i ng construer about 200 yards from the city wall. The enemy, keep up a heavy file of artillery and musketry, a°,, have made s ome unsuccess f u l dem o nstr a tions wit their cavalry. Our loss during the last 24 he bas been 50 killed and wounded ; including Lie`j r tenant Eaton, 60th Rifles, wounded. One of ° recently erected heavy batteries , caught fire to-d0;1) and was rendered unserviceable, but this is of P s consequence, as the guns were to be withal*" and taken elsewhere to-night. Lahore, Septa o' o From Delhi, four p.m., Sept. 11 Sil t f ar a heavy guns and howitzers, and ten large ni .r . o c' r " t o opened this morning on the Cashmere and "'l i r Bastions and adjoining curtains, and hair() 03°1 0c 1 mined an effective fire all day. Last night t he to-day one or two sorties have been made hi t he enemy without any result, notwithstanding 0 0 proximity of our batteries to the walls, our M oo are not heavy. To-morrow morning eight 13 . 2 4 .0 heavy guns and twelve fiv e - an d. a -h a lf i nc h ote . `" n j, will open from th e C us t om H ouse coraPen oo t Lieut. Lockhart, 7th N. 1., a tt ac h e d t o the Sill° u t, Battalion, wounded yesterday afternoon, and f- , L e Gillespie, of Artillery, this morning." . is Lahore, Sept. ' ; ,ht From Delhi, five p.m., Sept. 12 Last °T o d the batteries continued thei r fir e a t i n tervals, have fired all day. The. Cashmere Bastion The half of the adjacent curtains are in ruins% t Mores bastion is also nearly uns erv i cea ble. p.m., to-day, Major Scott w as a bl e t o open .",00 four 18-pounders, on the Water Bastion 200 yards, and two light mortars, under Capes Blunt about 250 yards at the same time. ;1 o enemy's musketry fire is s till kept up with gl vigour, but our casualties are less numerous ;'; o f might have been expected. Major Campbel:_„, Artillery was wounded last night. Yesterday e 7:4 ted by some of ° cavalry, and 25 of them killed, incl u ding - ing a body of the enemy's horse attempted to on off our camels, they were rouir Sept. 13 :--` 'Sat native officers." Lahore, Sept. , 't ri fl e . D ,thre e s p. n nl o . w , open to Delhi. city, batteries are keeping up a heavy fire on the and this morning the enemy's Expense Meg a i r a ; gra F p r h o i m c co mm u n i cation in the Water Bastion was exploded by our lot also the waggon of a light gun which enfila de d to batteries from the Talleewara suburbs. tw,d a p was under 50 killed and wounded rot!' hal Captain Fagan, of Artillery, an officer ice hV earned the admiration of the whole force Vol constant cheerfulness, energy, and courage , day killed at the Cust om H ouse b a ttery Yeer evening. Captains Chancellor, 75th Foot, Earle, Artillery, have been wounded." (Signed) J. D. MA.CPHERSON, Lieut.•Liv._., e r, Military Secretary to the Chief CorumisOluP CAPTURE OF THE CITY. .L . Lahore, Sept. C o py of news just received from Gen. Wit ftp dated Sept. 1 4 :—" Ten a.m., from Delhi tr Delhi bas been assaulted this morning, but ' l ar'or ing going on. Our column ma r r i ng -slow r gress. s jcl o o " New's not very clear, but signaller . ' the attack was s uccess f u l . " ARTHUR BRANDR.- - t off Officiating Seere MADRAS. - The following details are extracted 0° th Bombay and Calcutta papers : Bib The following general order regarding " L h ° ,o4' o '" Madras Light Cavalry, which regiment 9- „ e arg symptoms of disaffection some time back 0 . 1 :) ,,r in the Fort St. George Gazette of Sept. 1 8 ' . . c hiet " No. 294 of 1857. The commander -ai k 0 0 1 has laid before goverment a detailed reP°, l ,", Bth the subject of the recent misconduct of ‘."'" Light Caval Gove ry. gecl try report The Governor in Council has peril report with deep concern. +h 04 A ‘ ' Entirely confiding iu the sepoys of w i;. B v . sit'; dras army, and anxious that their 'err- 7 0 41i' courage should be openly manifested in tPeCottli: of all the people of I n di a , th e G over nor in vin jell,' cil had solicited permi ss i on f rom the gove v r; n gal of India to send a M a d ras b r i ga de t° " — es °' composed of all arms, as t h e repre sentst iv each branch of the service. w ool "Accordingly, there proceeded fron t Ao tri horse artillery, Golundauze, and native i l3 ol 6tes' and all of these embarked with the 8 alacrity and goodwill. ve l for' " A comp any o f S appers h a d a l re ady r ac ' ward byl and to c °9ld Thus there remained but the caval r y to the Madras Brigade. " The Bth Regiment had been selected f or tli g : honourable distinction. They had been 012° as