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THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. CAPTURE OF DELHI AND THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived Bombay papers of the 17th of Oct. They contain full details of the capture of Delhi and of the relief of Lucknow. The letter of our Born. bay correspondent has not yet reached us. We take the following from the Bombay Gazette of the 17th of Oct.:— THE CAPTURE OF DELHI. The following account of the last days of the siege of Delhi and the assault of the plane will be read with much interest ; it is written by an eye witness : Your readers will have understood, from the intelligence which has been from time to time pub lished, that from the period of the arrival of our army before Delhi, in June last, up till very lately, the position occupied by our troops has been in effect a purely defensive one. It extended from the picket at Metcalfe's house, close to the river on the left, along the ridge facing the north side of Delhi as far as the Sudzee Mundee suburb on our right, where this ridge terminates—the dis tance from the city wall averaging from 1,200 to 1,500 yards. We had from the first no choice as to the front of attack, our position on the north side being the only one that could secure our communica tions with the Punjaub, whence our supplies and reinforcements were drawn. Whether the city might or might not have b.7en carried by a coup de main, as was con templated first iu June and afterwards in July, it is needless now to inquire; but, judging from the resistance we afterwards experienced in the actual assault, when we had been greatly rein forced in men and guns, it appears to me fortu nate that the attempt was not made. The strength of the place was never supposed to consist in the strength of its actual defences, though these were much undervalued ; but every city, even without fortifications, is, from its very nature, strongly defensible (unless it can be effectually surrounded or bombarded), and within Delhi the enemy pos sessed a magazine containing upwards of 200 guns and an almost inexhaustible supply of ammuni tion, while their numbers were certainly never less than double those of the besiegers. Few will doubt, then, that the General in command xercised a sound discretion in refusing to allow a handful of troops, unaided by siege guns, to attack such a place, knowing, as be did, what disastrous results must follow a failure. By the beginning of this month, however, we received the siege train from Ferozepore and further reinforcements of European and native troops from the Punjab, and, it being known that there was no hope of any aid from down country for a considerable time, it was resolved that the siege should be at once commenced and prosecuted with the utmost vigour. Our available force amounted, in round nam bets, to 6,500 Infantry, 1,000 Cavalry, and 600 Artillery, European and natives ; the regiments in Camp being her Majesty's 9th Lancers, her Majesty's 6th Dragoon Guards, Guide Cavalry, Hodgson's Horse, and detachments of the Ist, 2i, and sth Punjaub Cavalry : Her Majesty's Bth Foot (part of), 521 Foot, 60th Rifles (part of), 61st Foot, 75th Foot, Ist and 2d Bengal Fusiliers, Sirmoor and Kumaon Battalions (Ghoorkas), 4th Sikh Infantry, Guide Infantry, Ist, 2d, and 4th Regiments Punjaub Infantry : Four troops of Horse Artillery (Tomb's, Tur ner's, Remington's, and Rennie's), two light field batteries (Scott's and Bonchier's), and some com panies of Foot Artillery, attached to the siege guns, which numbered about 40 heavy guns and howitzers, 10 heavy and 12. light mortars. The means of the Engineers were very re stricted, not in officers but in trained men, of whom there were only about 120 regular Sappers. Some companies of Muzbee Sikhs had, however, been rapidly raised and partially trained ; and a body of coolies had also been collected, who worked remarkably well ; the park had been at work for some time in collecting material, and 10,000 fascines, 10,000 gabions, and 100,000 sandbags were ready for future operations ; field magazines, scaling ladders, and spare platforms had also been duly prepared, and great credit is due to Lieut. Brownlow of the Engineers in charge of the park, whose activity and intelligence contributed not a little to the eventual a ICCE lIN of our operation e. " The north face being the side to be attacked, it was resolved to hold the right in check as far us possible, and to push the main attack on the lift first, as the river would completely protect our flank as we advanced ; second, as there was better cover on that side ; third, as after the assault the troops would not find themselves immediately in narrow streets, but in comparatively opeu ground. " The front to be attacked consisted of the Mores, Cashmere, and Water bastions, with the c:irtain walls connecting them. These bastions had been greatly altered and improved by our own wigineers many years ago, and presented regular laces and flanks of masonry with properly cut embrasures ; the height of the wall was 24 feet above the ground level, of which, however, eight feet was a mere parapet three feet thick, the remainder being about four times that thickness outside the wall was a very wide barn and then a ditch 16 feet deep and 20 feet wide at the bottom, escarp and counterscarp steep, and the latter unrevetted, and the former revetted with stone and eight feet in height. A good sloping g aces covered the lower ten feet of the wall from ad attempts of distant batteries. " On the evening of the 7th Sept., No. 1 ad vAnced battery, iu two portions, was. traced about no yards from the Moree bastion, the right por tion for five 18-pounders and one 8-inch howitzer was to silence the Moree and prevent its interfer ing with the attack oa the left. The left portion fur four 24 pounders was intended to hold the Cashmere bastion partially in check. The working parties were very little disturbed during the light ; the covering parties in front kept the mus ketry at a distance, and ex-est three well-aimed showers of grape thrown from the Moree, which knocked overcome workmen, we received no further annoyance. By the moraing the two por tions of the battery were finished and aimed, though not ready to fire until nearly hilurise ; a trench was also made connect in ; the two portions and cxzending a little to the right and left, so as to give communication with a wide and deep ravine, which, extending very buarly up to our left attack, formed a sort of first parallel, and gave good cover to the guard of Übe trenches, the doo!iev, ctn.!. Fur some time we were well pounded from the Moree with round Slot and grape ; but as our guns in the new bat tery got gradually into play the enemy's fire grew less and less, and was at length completely ovet powered. This battery llecaine known as Brind's, b.ii/ig worked by that officer with !great effect till the end of the siege. On the evenings of the Bth and 9th No. 2 Battery was traced and commenced. T o cur sur prise we bad been allowed to seize this advanced position at Ludlow Castle, within 600 yards of tb 1 city, without even a fight for if, on the previ ous day. In fact, there is little doubt the enemy still thought the attack was to be on the right, where all the fighting had hitherto been, and where all our old batteries were still located. Ludlow Castle and the Koodsee Bagh were now occupied by strong detachments, and formed our c hief support s t o th e l e ft at t ac k. During the 9th a •iharp fire of musketry, shot, and shells were o p e ned on th ese positions by the enemy f rom the jungle in front, and from Cashmere and Water Bastions, and the Seliroghur, but no great damage was done. During the nights of the 9th and 10th No. 2 Battery was completed and partially armed, but not yet unmasked. It was in two portions —one immediately in front of Ludlow Castle, for nine 24-pounders, to open a breach in the cur tain between the Cashmere and Water Bastions immediately to the left of the former, and to knock off the parapet to the right and left for some distance, so as to give no cover to the mus ketry; the other portion, some 200 yards to th e right consisting of 7 8-inch howitzers and two 18-pound ers, was to aid the first position, and work with it for the same end. No. 3 Battery was also com menced on the left, and No. 4 Battery, for 10 heavy mortars, completed in the Koodsee Bagh, but not yet unmasked. Major Tombs was in charge of this battery ; the light mortars, under Captain Blunt, were afterwards worked from the rear of the Custom-house. During the nights or the 10th and 11th No. 2 Battery was strengthened, armed, and unmasked, and No. 3 Battery completed. This last was made in the boldest manner within 180 yards of the Water Bastion, behind a small ruined house in the Custom-house compound, and under such afire of musketry as few batteries have ever been ex posed to ; it was for six 18-pounders, which were to open a second breach in the Water Bastion, and was worked by Major Scott. The enemy also went to work to-night and made an advanced trench parallel to our left attack, and about 350 yards from it, from which at daybreak they opened a very hot fire of musketry, which was main tained throughout the rest of the siege; they had previously got some light guns and one heavy gun out into the open on our right, which caused con siderable annoyance by their enfilade fire. On the 11th our batteries opened fire, a salvo from the nine 24-pounders opening the ball, and showing by the way it brought down the wall in huge fragments what effect it might be expected to producelafter a few hours. The Cashmere Bastion attempted to reply, but was quickly silenced, and both portions of No. 2 went to work in fine style, knocking the bastion and adjacent curtains to pieces. Majors Campbell and Kaye, Captains Johnson and Gray, had charge of No. 2. No. 3, however, did not commence fire till the following day, when the full power of our artillery was shown, and a continuous roar of 50 guns and mortars pouring shot and shell on the devoted city warned the en emy that his and our time had at length come. Night and day until the morning of the 14th was this overwhelming fire continued. But the enemy did not let us have it all our own way. Though unable to work a gun from any of the three bastions that were so fiercely assailed, they yet stink to their guns in the open, which par tially enfiladed our position ; they got a gun to bear from a hole broken open in the long curtain wall ; they sent rockets from one of their martello towers, and they maintained a perfect storm of musketry from their advanced trench and from the city walls. Oa the night of the 13th the Engineers stole down and examined the two brauchei near the Cashmere and Water bastions, and both being reported practicable, orders for the assault were (nee issued, to take place at day-break the fol lowing morning. The arrangemnts for the storming were as follows :- Ist Column—Brigadier-General Nicholson. H.M. 75th Regiment, Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and 2d Punjaub Infantry—To storm the breach near the Cashmere bastion, and escalade_ a the face of the bastions. Engineer Officers attached—Lieutenants Med ley, Lang, and Bingham. 21 Column—Brigadier Jones, C. B. H.M.'s Bth Regiment, H.M.'s 61st Regiment, and 4th Sikh Infantry—To storm the breach in the Water bastion. Engineer Officers attached—Lieuts. Greathed, Hovenden, and Pemberton. 31 Column—Colonel Campbell. H.M's 42d Regiment, 2d Fusiliers, and let Punjaub Infantry—To assault by the Cashmere gate, after it should be blown open. Engineer Officers attached—Lieuts. Home, Salkeld, and Tandy. 4tth Column—Major Reid. Detachment of Europeon Regiments, Simmoor Battalion, Guide Infantry, and Detachment of Dograhs—To attack the suburb Kissengunj, and enter the Lahore gate. Engineer Officers attached—Lieuts. Maunsel and Tennant. sth Column—Brigadier Longfield. H.M.'s 60th Rifles, Kumaon Battalion, and 4th Punjaub Infantry, the reserve. Engineer Officers attached—Lietits. Ward and Thackeray. At 4 a.m. the different columns fell in and were marched to their respective places, the heads of Nos. 1,2, and 3 columns being kept concealed un til the moment for the actual assault should arrive. The signal was to be the advance of the Rifles to the front to cover the heads of the columns by skir m'shing. Everything being ready, General Nicholson, whose excellent arrangements elicited the admira tion of all, gave the signal, and the Rifles dashed to the front with a cheer, extending along and skirmishing the low jungle, which at this point ex tends to within 50 yards of the ditch. At the same moment the heads of No. 1 and 2 columns emerged from the Kodsee Bagh, and advanced steadily to wards the breach. Our batteries had maintained a tremendous fire up to the moment of the advance of the troops, mad not a gun could the enemy bring to bear on the storming columns ; but no sooner did these emerge into the open than a perfect hailstorm of bullets met them from the front and both flanks, and officers and men fell fast on the crest of the glacis. For 10 minutes ii was impossible to get the ladders down into the ditch to ascend the scarp, but the determination of the British soldier carried all before it, and Pandy declined to meet the charge of the British bayonet. With a shout and a rush the breaches were both won, and the enemy fled in confusion. Meanwhile the explosion party advanced in front of the column straight upon the Cashmere gate. This little band of heroes (for they were no less) had to advance in broad daylight to the gate way in the very teeth of a hot fire of musketry from above, and through the gateway and on both flanks the powder bags were coolly laid and ad justed ; but Lieutenant Salkeld was by this time hors de combat, with two bullets in him. Sergeant Carmichael then attempted to fire the train, but was shot dead. Sergeant Burgess then tried and succeeded, but paid for the daring act with his life. Sergeant Smith, thinking that Burgess tco had failed, ran forward, but seeing the train alight had just time to throw himself into the ditch and eacape the effects of the explosion. With, a loud crash the gate was blown in, and through it the 31 column rushed to the assault, and entered the town just as the other columns had won the breaches. General Wilson has since bestowed the Victoria Cross on Lieutenants Home awl Salkeld, on Sergeant Smith, and on a brave man of H. M.'s 521, who stood by Lieutenant Salkeld to the last, and bound up his wounds. General Nicholson then formed the troops in the main-guard inside, and with his column proceeded to clear the ramparts as far as the Mores bastion. It was in advancing beyond this, towards the La hore gate, that he met the wound which his since caused his lamented deatb, a death which it is not too much to say has dimmed the lustre of even th's victory, as it has deprived the country of one of the ablest men and the most gallant soldiers that Eng tan 1 anywhere numbers among her rankl. The 4th column, I regret to say, failed, but as it was too far for me to know anything of its real pro gress, I prefer leaving its story to be told by an other, instead of sending you a vague and imperfect account. Ha 1 this column succeeded, its posses sion of the Lahore gate would have saved us much subsequent trouble. I regret that my account must stop here, as, being wounded myself at this stage of the proceed ings, I was unable to witness the subsequent cap ture of the mnazine, the Burn Bastion, the Palac.., and finally of the whole city. Some one else will, doubtless, conclude my story i, i a more worthy manner than 1 have told it. On the day of the assault, we had 61 oeffiers and 1,178 killed and wounded, being nearly one-third of the whole number engaged. The Ist Fusiliers THE s'UN, L N alone lc,st nine officers, and other regiments, I be lieve, in proportion. The Engineers suffered hea vily ; the three officers conducting Nos. 1, 2, and 4 columns (Lieutenants Medley, Greathed, and Maunsell) we to all struck down early in the fight, and of the 17 0 fficers on duty that day 10 were put hors de combat. The loss of the enemy is never likely to be cornlctly ascertained, but at the end of the operations it is probable that at least 1,500 men must have been killed between the 7th and 20tb, and a very large number wounded who were carried away. For the complete success that attended the pro secution of the siege the chief credit is undoubtedly due to Colonel Baird Smith, the Chief Engineer, and to Captain A. Taylor, the director of the at tack. On this latter officer, in fact (in consequence of the Chief Engineer being wounded), devolved the entire superintenJence of the siege works ; and his energy and activity will doubtless meet with their due reward. Throughout the operation he seemed to be omnipresent, and to bear a charmed life, for he escaped without a wound. The plan of the at tack was bold and skilful ; the nature of the enemy we were contending with was exactly appreciated, and our plans shaped accordingly. Pandy can fight well behind cover, but here he was out manceuvred—his attention being diverted from the real point of attack till the last, and then the cover which might have proved such a serious obstacle to us was seized at the right moment without loss, and all its advantages turned against him. With plenty of skilled workmen the siege works might have been more speedily constructed, but with the wretched means at our disposal the wonder is that so much was done with so little loss. If the siege of Delhi was not a regular siege in the same sense with that of Bhurtpora or Seringa patam, it may yet bear a fairer comparison with a greater than either, that of Sebastopol. In both the strength of the fortifications was as nothing— it was the proportion of besieged to besiegers, the magnitude of the arsenal inside and the impossi bility of a thorough investment that constituted the real strength of the place ; in fact, neither were properly speaking sieges, but rather attacks on an army in a strongly intranched position. THE CAPTURE OF THE KING. ( From the Bombay Gazette, Oct. 17.) We had the gratification of announcing the Fall of Delhi in our last despatch. In the brief and fragmentary notices then alone available to us, it was stated that the assault had been made on the 14th ult., when a lodgment was effected at the north end of the city, and that after six days of hard fight ing, from house to house, and from street to street, the mutineers had been finally driven out of the place on the 20th. Later and fuller accounts verify these statements, and show that on the evening of the 20th the capture of the place was completed by the seizure of the palace, Selimgurh, and the bridge. Details of the operations leading to this glorious result will be found elsewhere. The mutineers seem to have contested every foot of ground so long as they could fight under cover ; and though it appears that very many of them have been killed, the loss on our side was necessarily great. We have, however, no trustworthy statement of the entire number of killed and wounded. Between 10 o'clock a.m. and noon of the 20th the palace, which had been cleared of its defenders and inmates by the shells of our force, was taken possession of by our troops. The King and his sons had fled in disguise along the road to the south, and large bodies of the mutineers had effected a timely escape in good order before the beaten remnant were driven in headlong rout from the city. Delhi, after its capture, is described as a perfect picture of desolation. Its Louses in ruins, and valuable property lying about the streets, while living figures were few and far between, the victors having allowed the non-com batant inhabitants safe conduct out of the place. On the night of the 21st September, the con queror, General Wilson, proposed the health of Queen Victoria in the Dewan-i-Khas, the beautiful white marble durbar hall of the palace, where once stood the famed peacock throne., and which bears the well-known inscription, meant to apply to the palace and its gardens generally, and which now reads like a mockery,— 'Oh if there's an Eden on earth it is this.' Here, in the palace of the Great Moguls, the health of our Queen ;ma drunk by her victorious soldiers with enthusiastic cheers, which were taken up by the gallant Ghoorkas who formed the per sonal guard of the General. On the 21st the old King surrendered to Captain Hodson and his cavalry near the Kootub Minar, which is about 15 miles south of Delhi. He was accompanied in his captivity as in his flight by his chief wife, the Begum Zeenut Mahal, the " orna of the palace." The King is said to be nearly 90 years of age, and it is probable that he is scarcely in any way responsible for what has been done in his name, so that, as at present informed, we can not condemn the clemency which has spared his life. He is now a prisoner in what was once his own palace. Two of his sons and a grandson, however, who were captured also by Captain Hodson, at the tomb of Humayoon, about five miles from Delhi, and who are known to have been leaders in the rebellion, have received the reward of their treason. They were shot on the spot, and their bodies were brought back to the city and exposed at the Kot wallee or chief police-office, where it is said so many of our countrymen were brutally murdered. On the 23d two columns of our troops started in pursuit of the fugitives, one under Colonel Great hed, of H.M. Bth (King's) Regiment, marching .on Allyghur, the other proceeding down the right bank of the Jumna towards Muttra and Agra. We have no precise information as to what these pur suing forces have done, bet by accounts from Agra one appears to have reached the neighbourhood of Allyghur, and the other that of Muttra on the 28th ult. We are also, as yet, uninformed of the desti , nation or fate of the fugitives, but it is thought that some are making for Oude, and others for Gwalior. We trust that, numerically weak as our loyal forces are at present, the mutineers driven from Delhi may not be found more troublesome elsewhere than they we-e there. " Foramost in the list of officers who fell in the • capture of Delhi, we regret to state, is the name of the able awl gallant Brigadier-General John Nichol son, whose distinguished but too brief career was olosed by a mortal wound received in tho storming of the city. The following is the substance of a letter from the Chief Commissioner, dated Labor°, 20th Septem ber, 1857 : The Palace of Delhi was found to be 'evacuated this morning, and is now i❑ our possession. The mutineers had lost all the gates of the city but the Turkoman and Delli;. The Ajniere gate was taken without loss, the mutineers deserting fast. The King and Royal family have fled. Mr. Greathed, the Commissioner, died of cholera list night at Delhi. A t:legraphic message from Colonel Durand an nounces the arrival of an express from Neemuch, Ist inst., containing a cppy of a letter from Delhi of the 22d nit., from Col. Beecher to Capt. Nixon, and giving further particulars of the capture. It says : All going on wonderfully well at Delhi. The Princes MUOTZI illoghul, Abu Bukhur, and Khey ear Soultan, were brought in by Hodson flora Hu ma3- oon's tomb, and shot at the Delhi gate on the 221. Their bodies are lying at the Kotwallee, where so many of our poor countrymen wore mur dered and exposed. A pursuing column under Col. Greathed (MM.'s Bth) of 1,600 infantry, 18 guns, and GOO c2valry, was t' leave on the 23d. Delhi is a perfect picture of dezolation, com pletely abandoned, and a vast amount of property left behind. We !egret to learn the death of the gallant Ni cholson. The officer appointed Governor of Delhi is Lieut.-Col. H. P. Barn, Ist Bengal Native In fantry and Superiat3ndent of Army Clothing. Colon 1 Hugh Fraser, C. 8., Bengal Engineers, has been appointed Chief Commissioner for the districts of Agra, Delhi, Meerut, Rohileund, Ajmere, Mhairwara, Nimar, and Neemuch. We have to add another large instalment to our E V !7' NfNC list of casualties, occasioned chiefly by the late vic torious operations at Delhi and Lucknow : Engineers—Lieutenant Ferris. Artillery—Majors George Larkins and George Lewis Cooper ; Lieutenants Burnett Ashburner and James R. Martin. Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Sotherby. Her Majesty's 32 d.Reziment—Lieutenant Fred. Wainwright ; Ensign Hill. Her Majesty's 64th Foot—Lieutenant Bateman. Her Majesty's 78th Foot —Lieutenant Webster. Her Majesty's 84th Foot—Captain Packenham and Lieutenant Saunders. Ist Bengal Fusileers—Lieutenant Hanwall. Ist Light Cavalry—Captain Charles Vanbiugh Jenkins and Lieutenant Sterling. 2d Light Cavalry—Major Edward Vibart ; Lieutenants Quin, John Hammond Harrison, Wm. John Manderson, Franois S. Montagu Wren, Mur ray George Daniell, Balfour, Mainwaring, and Boulton. Ist Native Infantry—Captains Athil Turner, Edward John Elms, and Henry Sydney Smith ; Lieutenant Richard Murcott Satchwell and God frey Richard Wheeler. 14th Native Infantry—Lieutenant Charles Battine. 28th Native Infantry—Captains Marshall James, Henry Wilder Lambie Sneyd, Cornelius Lysaght, and Mordaunt Money Salmon ; Lieutenants Alex. Key, Colin Alexander Robertson, Charles Fred. Scott, William Wilberforce Pitt, and George Wil liam Rutherford ; Ensigns Thomas George Hope Spens, Scott, Johnson, and White. 42d Native Infantry — Lieutenant-Colonel Thos. Dalyell. 52d Native Infantry—Lieutenant A. R. M. M 'Gregor. 53d Native Infantry—Captain Henry Belson ; Lieutenants F. Gilbert Jellicoe, Herbert Holmes Armstrong, Gilbert Augustus Master, and Oliver Simpson Bridges ; Ensign Alexander D3WSOII and Thomas W. Forman. 56th Native Infantry—Capt. Gaorge Kempland ; Lieutenants Charles Reilly Goad, Horuby Fagan, William Lucas Gordon Morris Henry John Gre gory Warde, and J. W. Henderson. 67th Native Infantry—Lieutenants Philip Hayes Jackson, Robert Robinson Harris, and Ensign Lindsay. 74th Native Infantry—Captain George Henry Monk Mason. Ist Madras Fusiliers—Brigadier-General J. G. L. Neill. 12th Irregular Cavalry—Lieutenant Warren. 3d Bombay Europeans—Lieut. J. W. Henry. Civil Service—Lieutenants Cockerel], M. C. Om maney, and Leopold Berkeley. Medical Service—Surgeons Nathaniel CAlyer and Henry Hawkins Bowling; Assist 4nt-Surgeons R. W. Macaulay, J. B. Allen, H. P. Harris, and J. P. Bowling. Ecclesiastical Establishment—E. T. R. Moncrieff. AT DELHI. 6th Carabineers—Captain Rosser. Her Majosty's Bth Foot—Lieutenants William Waldegrave Pogsoa and John Yore W. Henry Webb. Her Majesty's 52d Regiment—Lieut. Bradshaw. Her Majesty's 60th Rifles—Lieut. Tytler. Her Majesty's 75th Regiment—Lieutenants Jobn Richard Sherlock Fitzgerald and Edward Villiers Briscoe. Engineers—Lieutenant F. L. Tandy. Ist Fusiliers—Capt. George Ogle Jacob. 11th Native Infantry—Lieut. Thuillier. 17th Native Infantry—Lieut. Robert Popkin Homfray. 26th Native Infantry—Lieut. Davidson. 27th Native Infantry—Brigadier-General John Nicholson. 42cl Native Infantry—Lieutenant Alexander W. Murray. 55th Native Infantry—Capt. George Gordon M. Barnett. Artillery—Lieutenants W. T. Somerville and Edward Henry Hildebrand ; Captain Robert Charles H. B. Fp.g3n. let Bombay' Nativ Infantry—Lieutenant Ban nerman. AGRA FORT, SEPT. 28. A force of about 400 of all arms is going out this evening with the view of intercepting the fugitives from Delhi, now said to be passing Muttra. I do not pretend to be an authority in military matters, but nevertheless I venture to consider it an unwise movement sending out so small a party as 400 men, whereof one-half are Inefficient—that is to say, undisciplined, though brave enough to cut off what may prove to be 10,000 or even 20,000 desperate and well-trained soldiers fighting to save themselves from a pendent halter. The expedition is an act of madness, and will lead to no good re sult under any circumstances. Two flying columns have left Delhi in pursuit of the mutineers. One, said to be under Col. Great bed, Bth Foot, is supposed to have been close to Muttra yesterday evening,land according to native) report, marched onwards towards Agra before day light this morning. The other column is know to have been near Allyghur yesterday, and will, I imagine, go down the Grand Trunk Road leading to Cawnpore, and join Havelock's force in Oude. DETAILS OF THE SIEGE OF DELHI. OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. CHIEF COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, LAHORE, SEPT. 18, 1857. FROM THE ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE AR MY, DELHI, 10 A. M., SEPT. 17. Early this morning we took possession of the Bank-house, and we hold the position of the city between it and the magazine. Skirmishing has been going on near the Bank, but we are firmly established there : our guns command the bridge and Selimghur entirely. The Palace and Selimghur are under a constant fire of shells. The enemy are flying in bodies of 100 and 200 men towards Gwa lior via Muttra. Property of every kind left in the city immense. All the streets we occupy have been abandoned by the inhabitants. The number of dead Sepoys in wry quarter is very great. Another message, of an hour previous, from the Adjutant-General, from Skinner's house, Delhi, says,—" We have advanced our line of posts to the Canal, and on the left as far as the Bank. The Palace is to be broached as soon as possible, and all our mortars are to pity upon it ; it will be our first point of attack. Selitnghur only fires occa sionally, and without—effect, our fira keeping down that of the enemy. The report is that the Royal family, the King's three regiments, regiments of Native [nfantry, and some Light Cavalry troopers hold the Palace, and intend to fight out to the last. The mutineers are less active to-day. The Bareilly and Neemuch troops are said to have come in t o the town, and h ave started off their baggage, under an escort, down the Muttra road towards Gwalior, intending to follow by forced marches when the baggage shall have had a fair start. The towns people continue to fly to the I a' ace, and numberless women have come into our camp. No attempt will be made to occupy the whole town until the Palace and Selimghur are taken. The magazine ii full of stores of eve r y d escr i p ti on exc ept powder, and, not withstanding the enormous quantity expended by Vie rebels duri ng the last three months, no impres sion appears t o h ave b een made on the huge piles still left. Brigadier-General Nicholson is a little better; sick and wounded doing pretty well." " SEPT. 17, 6 p. ?J. " Our position is the same as this morn'ng, the mortar battery has bee❑ keeping up a continued and heavy fire throughout the day, and will do so throughout the night ; the King reported to be in the Palace still. If so his residence must be a very warm one, for our shells ate pouring into the whole length of it from noon to sunset. Great flumb,rs of the inhlbitants of the city have come in, and are being passed out of the t by mt, and he lo tk-out at tlindoo It to's house reports streams of people and animals as having issued from the Ajmer° gate. A correct return of guns captured in the magazine and on the works will be sent to-mor to ,v." " SEPT. 19. The news from Delhi to 2 p.m. yesterday is, our position the same as last reported. We are strengthening ourselves at the Bank, and the Sap pers are working towards the houses which com mand the Burree Bastion; no suitable plAco h' s yet been found from which to breach the Palace, which we continue to shell. Selimghur has only fired a few shAs to-day, and does no harm. Few people have crossed the bridge ; no townspeople have come in to us to-day, nor have we any real in formation as to the movements of the rebels. Yes terday the Delhi gate of the Psla3e was reported to be open, and covered carts passing out from it. No certain intelligence of the King and his family 3 •, The following is the number of guns taken :—On the works and in use by the enemy, 55; in the ma gazine, 171. Total, 226. Immense stores of shot and shell, but very little powder. Large quanti ties of percussion caps. The whole of tho build ings of the magazine remain uninjured, excepting that part which was blown up by the explosion : no increase of sickness in camp. The report of General Nicholson to-day is not favourable ; his brother, Lieutenant Nicholson, doing. well. A fall of rain since the eclipse has cooled the atmos phere floely, which is good for the wounded. The report of the death of Captain Ross (Carbineers) was incorrect, but he is dangerously wounded. Lieutenants Pogson and Webb, Bth Foot, have died of their wounds. SEPT. 20. From Delhi, 9 a.m., Sept. 19, the following has been received : Our mortar batteries continued to fire during the night towards the south of the Palace and in the direction of Duryao Gunge. We have now turned in the direction of the Jumna Musjid and neigh bouring Mohullas, as they have not yet been sub iocted to our fire. Abbott's house was occupied at dawn without opposition, and our advanced picket is now at Khan Mahomed Khan's house. We are securing ourselves in that position, preparatory to going at the Palace. On our right the Sappers have worked about 360 yards through the house, and are getting opposite the Burree Bastion, and once we take the guns upon it we shall have the Lahore Gate. Selirughur has not fired at all this morning. Parties of armed men and townspeople have been seen crossing the bridge, and the report is that the town is being completely evacuated by the popu lation ; that the King has gone to the old fort (ou the Agra road). The Palace is being emptied. We shall push on a small party during the day to ascartiin whether this is the case, and, if sc, at once to seize the gateway. All our cavalry sent out this morning under Brigadier Grant to recon noitre the western and southern faces of the town, and it is hoped this demonstration may hurry the evacuation of the town. DELHI, SEPT. 19, 7 P.m. We have not yet got the Bare," Bastion. On the left we are strengthening our position, prepa ratory to bringing up our mortars and heavy guns. The Palace has not been abandoned by the muti neers, as reported by spies. They have a field piece behind a breastwork, in front of Chandnee Chouk gateway of the Palace, from which they fire on the Bank, &c., but without much effect. The report of the Kiag and family having left the Palace is still doubtful. More of the mutineers have fled from their colours, and have taken the Muttra road. We have had hardly any casualties to-day. SEPT. 21. The capture of the city of Delhi, of the Palace, and the Fort of Selimhgur, was completed. yester day. All honour to the noble army which, under command of Major-General Wilson, has effected this most important conquest, by which the wide spread rebellion of the mutinous Bengal army has received a complete defeat in Upper India. The days of Clive and Lake are again ravived among us. Neither the devastation of that terrible scourge, the cholera, nor the deadly stroke of an Indian summer's sun, which have so grievously thinned the ranks of our small arm during the past three months—the harassing and almost incessant duties of the camp, the ever-recurring combats with a highly-trained and veteran enemy, who out-num b2red us by thousands in men and by hundreds in guns of all calibres—the stubborn and desperate resistance offered by the mutineers during and since the assault on the 14th inst.—nothing has abated the ardour of our troops, European and native, nor quelled that indomitable courage and persevering energy which take no denial, and will brook nothing short, of 811C3eSS. It will be a - for a grateful Government to acknow ledge, as they deserve, the services of Major General Wilson and his army to the British Empire in India, but the Chief Commissioner cannot refrain from offering the warm tribute of his heartfelt ad miration. Sir John Lawrence requests that a Royal salute may be fired at the principal stations in the Punjaub, in honour of the capture of Delhi. The follo wing are the messages received since last precis from the Adjutant-General of the Army : Sept. 20, 9 a.m. The Baree Bastion was assaulted yesterday evening, and six guns and one mortar captured, without loss. Lahore gateway has been occupied this morning. The Ajmer() gate and outworks do not fire ; they appear deserted, and our people are going ou to take possession. The townspeople are all leaving the city ; the mutineers blew up a ma gazine, in their camp this morning, and our cavalry patrols, who moved round towards the southern face of the town, report that they saw nobody in the camp. We hope to establish our line along the Chandnee Chouk in the course of the day. The mutineers are offering much less resistance, and are evidently &creasing in number. The whereabouts of the King and Royal family is still unknown. SKINNER'S -HOUSE, SEPT. 20. It :is now 10 a.m. We have taken the Ajmer.- gets and outworks, without opposition, and scoured three heavy guns and one 8-inch howitzer. We are sending up heavy mortars to the Buree Bai tion, to shell the portion of the town not yet in our possession. A continuous mortar fire was kept up on the town throughout last night. On our loft we hold the same position as last evening, but we have have just spiked the mutineers' guns in front of the Palace. Wo are going to form a column to go into the Palace. NOON'. Wa have possession of the Palace, Juma Mus jid, and Ajnaere gate. 7 guns were found at the gateway of the Palace. 2 P.M. We now have Selimghur and the bridge. I hope to be able to report shortly th et we are in posses sion of the Torkman and Delhi gates and 'bastions, and entirely masters of the whole town. 5 P. M. Our struggle has ended hero. We have posses sion of the whole city, therala?,e, Selimghur, and the bridge. Number of guns taken in the town and Delhi bastions are unknown, our loss to-day is trifling. The King and Royal family are said to be in a village four cost from this towards the Kootub. SEPT. 22. " There is nothing further from Delhi. The telegraphic communication is interrupted from Sur sowlee downwards. Captain Elphinstone, the Deputy-Commissioner of G3ogaira, reports, that having received accura'o information on the 20th inst. that Ahmed Khan Khurral and his men had taken refuge a b out 12 miles distant from that station, a party of the Pun. jaub Police Horse and Foot, under Capt. S. Black a detachment of Capt. Wales's Sikh Cavalry, under Lieut. the Hon. F. Chichester, an d o f the Goo !vim Levy under Lieut. Mitchell, wore forthwith ordered against him, and the result, after a some what severe fight, was, that the Khurrals were cut up, Ahmed Khan himself an d hi s son being among the killed. This petty ou tb rea k has thus received its death-blow, it is hoped, Ahmed Khan and his followers are said to have fought stoutly, and Capt. Black and Lieut. Chi chester to have been surrounded more than once during the melee, the country being by no means favourable for the action of cavalry. Our loss was rather severe, considering the small number of men engaged. Abo u t 10 ki lled. b ut particulars not yet received. Sirdar Nehal Sing Chachee (orderly officer to the Chief Commissioner), whose gallantry was conspicuous, was wounded in the leg by a ma'chlock ball. Quiet prevails in all other parts of the Punjaub. " SEPT. 23. The last accounts from Googaira mention the death of Mr. Leopold Berkeley, Extra Assistant Commissioner, a most promising officer, whose loss is much to be regretted. He had been detached with slme sowars, and a party of Kutar Mookheers (3d Police Battalion) to try and open communica tion to wards Mool'an, which had been cut off by the Futtianahs, Bhurmshas, and other tribes, and other tribe 4. Mr. Berkeley attacked the insur gents in a very spirited manner, but in the melee he was cut off from the party of the Kutar Mook heeas, and was overpowered. He MI fighting man folly, and cut down five or six of the enemy with his own hand, besides shooting Rhawul, ono of the Futtianalis ; Moorad, another of their leaders, was killed on the same occasion, and their total loss is estitnaied at not less than 100 men. The Bhurmanahs and Futtianahs have entirely dispersed. The Klitirr Lis have also fled to a place in the Bar, some 40 miles from Googaira. They have p- ()wised to come in by the day after to-mor row, and give over their arms and all plundered property. The news fLom Delhi is that the King was taken prisoner yesterday by a party of Sowars under Lieutenant flodTm, near the Kootub, where four guns w,re also found. No sign of a mutineer is now to be seen at Delhi. They abandoned their camp outside the Ajwere gate, in their hurry leaving all sick and wounded who could not walk, their drums, band instruments, clothing, bedding, cooking pots, luxuries. The report is that a number, and all of them are collecting at Bullubghur. Som e t a lk of going to Luckuow and some to Gwalior. Cholera Iris shown itself in the town. Dead bodie3 and carcases were being removed. The stench in some places is described as unbearable. General Nicholson was slightly better. P.S.—The following has j ust been received from Delhi :—Captain Hodson Las just returned from Hoomayon's 'Tomb?, and reports having killed the King's two sous, Mirza Mogul and Mirza Kiza Sultan, and his grandson Mitzi. Aboobukur. A quantity of the arms of the King's late attendants, the King's personal elephants, carriages, and horses have been taken. SEer. 24. It is the painful duty of the Chief Commissemer to announce the death of Brigadier-General John Nicholson, on the morning of the 23d inst. This officer, it is well known, led the attack on the me morable morning of the 14th instant, when the city of Delhi was assaulted and captured. On this occasion General Nicholson was mortally wounded. General Nicholsou's loss is greatly to be de plored. He was an officer of great promise. He possessed some of the highest qualities of a solder, brave, sagacious, and devoted to his profession. The Bengal Army contains no more able or more noble soldier. A strong column has moved from Delhi down the Doab, in pursuit of the fugitive mutineers, and to clear and settle the country. Lieut.-Colonel H. P. Burn has been appointed Military Governor of the city of Delhi. The following extracts from Delhi letters will be found interesting. They date from the 14th to the 21st of September : The city was stormed, and that portion of it from the river side up to the Cabul-gate taken on the morning of the 14th. The troops were under arms from 3 a.m., and as soon as day broke the work commenced. By 10 a.m. the staff were in the city, and, although the columns were progressing slowly, all was going on successfully. The people of the city camp into camp, and sought protection from the army, craving pardon, and disavowing all par ticipation in the rebellion, saying that they were compelled to remain prisoners in the city, and de nying having taken any active part in the insur rection. They were told to prove their loyalty by removing the bodies of the dead Sepoys, which work they at once commenced upon, and were clearing the city of them apparently with right good wilL Although every step of ground, compara tively speaking, is obstinately disputed, and the guns of Selimghur Fort were firing unceasingly, all was going on ;favourably—the mutineers taking every opportunity of deserting in large numbers. As we have a battery, it is to be hoped that many large parties of them will be cut up The church of St. James's, built by the late Col. Skinner, C.D., was occupied on entering by the General commanding and staff. H.M.'s ath Rifles occupy the Colonel's family house near the church ; H.M.'s 61st the Magazine ; 4th Sikh Infantry the College and Ahmed Ali Khan's house ; and the Beelooch Battalion and Jheeud Rajah's force, the Main Guard. On the morning of the 16th the Magazine was assaulted and taken possession of by our troops with very small loss on our side. The enemy did not stand, but about 40 were killed as they were de camping. We took 125 guns, besides mortars, and contents of the Magazine. The palace is now sur rounded by our troops, and cannot hold out much longer, as our siege guns and heavy mortars are playing incessantly on the walls, which must soon give way, when great will be the fall thereof. At Selimghur the final stand will be made, and then I fear our loss, already heavy, will be considerably augmented, unless -the rabble collected there take warning and seek safety in flight. Our loss is reported 500 of all ranks killed and wounded, but we have been great sufferers in our officers, Brigadier Nicholson, dangerously wounded, heading the list, which contains the names of be tween 30 and 40 officers placed hors de combat. There was something like a panic at the Lahore Gate during the assault, which was made by the Dogr, s, a Got regiment and a few Europeans, and I fancy we felt the effects of it in the slow pro gress of our columns. It was merely temporary, however, and will not interfere materially with the complete capture of the city, which cannot now be long delayed. There were three assaulting columns, two of 1,000 men each, a,nd one of 900. Assault was made on three different points of the Cashmere bastion, one immediately in front, and two from the Custom-house, better known as Smith's garden. These were most successful, and by 10 o'clock a.m. the General and staff were in the city : a nice change to camp life at this season of the year. The buildings in the neighbourhood of the Cashmere gate afford comfortable quarters for our brave troops, as well at capital cover, from which to continue the work already so well begun. Our mortars, which continued to fire to the southward of the palace in the direction of Derio gunge, are now turned in the direction of the Jumna Musjid and neighbouring Mohullas. Advanced pickets at Khan .13abadoor Khan's house. We are securing ourselves without opposition, preparatory to going at the palace. Our Sappers have worked upwards of 300 yards through houses and other buildings to wards the Burn Bastion, situate between the C a b u ll ee an d L a h ore gates of city. We have, furthermore, taken possession of the Begum Sornroo's house, near the canal, formerly occupied by Major Abbott, late Executive officer of Delhi, and more recently by the missionaries. In another direction our troops have progressed a considerable distance up as treat leading into the centre of the Chaudney Chouk, and it is hoped that a house within a few yards of the street will be occupied by us in the course of a day or two. I am sorry to say there has been another repulse at the Lahore Gate ; Capt. Briscoe, of H.M. '7sth Regt., killed. These assaults, wh n unsuccessful, do us harm and I hope they will not be persisted in. Time will do much for us, and without reinforce ments we must fight our way slowly and surely. We can now afford to wait, as the King and Royal Family are reported to have left Delhi Palace and gone to the Old Fort, a building about five miles along the Muttra-road, where, I suppose, another gathering and stand will be made. Alarga party of Cavalry, European and Native, have gone out to the southern side of the city to make a demonstra tration, which it is hoped will hasten events. Armed parties of the enemy are constantly leaving, and I trust soon to be able to tell you that some have been intercepted. On the 17th the Junatna Musjid was-stormed'aml carried without much difficulty, the Lahore gate will, it is expected, speedily follow, and our footing in the city be then secure. Had it not been for the utter cowardice of the Dogras (Jummoo troops) we should be now holding all the gates. These troops were to have driven the enemy out of Kishengunge, entered at the Lahore gate, occupying the Sahiba bad garden ; but they left their guns, and ran like so many hares, leaving the other columns to do the work, notwithstanding that there was a strong party of Europeans with them. It is plain that such sol diers are only fit for chasing runaways ; they can not stand anything like opposition. We hive established a funk at Kisheugunge, the west suburb of Delhi. The Pandies have evacu ated it, and left all their guns, which we are now bringing it. We hive recovered about 200 guns since emeriti. , the city, and there are more yet to come, and skirmishing, not to say hard fighting, is going on all in advance of us. We have made good our position as far as we have gone, and it will trouble Pandy to turn us out. The magazine was taken on the I.6th. A breach was made in the wall on the College side, and with a rush and a cheer it was in our possession. The enemy had six heavy guns, loaded with grape to the muzzle, f icing the breach ; but the whole thing was so suddenly carried out that they had not time to fire them. In this affair we had very few casualties. You may fancy the style of fighting we have had when I tell you that in the reserve column alone the number of killed is 81, wounded 293, and 15 missing—in all 389. Every column had an equal share of fighting. • This style of - fighting from house to house is very harassing for our troops, and our los3 must bo heavy so long as it lasts. But it is hoped that before lung the palace will be stormed and taken, after which all will he easy enough. I aim gltd to say that there is every hope enter tained of Captain Salkeld's leg being saved ; he is doing well considering the severe character of Lis wounds. The ruin and desolation apparent all over the city are indescribable. Valuable property of_ all kinds is lying about broken and uncated for. Our brave troops will not want for prize -money, even if they should not get a Leap of it in the palace. The enemy's killed lie about in all directions, and those who oppose us are losing what little organisation and discipline they had left. Still their obstinate defence is wonderful, and can only be attributed to bhang. A couple or even one flesh European regi ment at Delhi would act like magic, but I fear there is no chance of g-tting it. We are in for it, and must work away with the materials we have, worn though they be. Pandy is beginning to find out his mistake. Day by day, and hour by hour, are we improving our position, while that of the enemy is becoming hope less, An attempt was made on the 16th to retake the magazine, but the enemy was repulsed with heavy loss. The sepoys are lying in heap 3 all over the roads ; and the destruction of almost every house in the immediate vicinity of the gates and bastions, against which we have been directing our mortar guns, proves that our shelling did more mischief than we at first thought. The Cashmere-gate of the city was blown open by an Engineer officer, Captain Salkeld. This was effectually done, hut the gates falling outwards across the entrance the process of getting in was slow. Captain Salkeld lost both an arm and a leg in the explosion at the gate, and cnly one man out of five who assisted him in his duty escaped. An unfortunate European soldier was found tied to a stake, and burnt to death outside the Cashmere gate ; and the scene within, the heaps of mangled bodies of th e enemy, an d genera l ru i n aroun d, baffles desc r ipti on. The Bank -house was captured on the morning of the 17th, which gives our guns complete command of the bridge and palace. The Bank-house entrance is in the Chamblee Chouk, the principal street of the city, and immediately fronting the principal entrance to the palace, the distance being about 250 to 300 yards from the palace walls. The fort of Selimghur is deserted by the enemy, also the Kisserigunge Battery ; the guns in the latter have been taken possession of by our troops. Women are flying frantic illy about in all directions, un molested by our troop, in awful fright ; property of great value lying about the streets everywhere, and the enemy in htradreds hurrying away from the doomed city some say to Gwalior, via.Muttra, where, I suppose, they will make another stand. The slaughter of the enemy has been very great, and in the smaller thoroughfare, where our troops bad to fight from house to house, the sepoys fell where they were found, entreating the Sahib lok, as they called our Europeans, not to give them the cold steel, but to shoot them at once. A good deal of skirmishing is going on in the streets, but Pandy don't stand so firmly as people expected ; arid al though the city, which many supposed was to fall at once into our possession —has taken so long to re cover, I think the worst for us is over, and bad enough it is, as far as loss of life is concerned. Many will be glad to learn that women and chil dred are suffered to go unmolested. This is a stretch of mercy I should not have been prepared to make had I a voice in the matter. It ought to be re membered that many of these very women (or fiends in female form) were foremost in inflicting cruelty upon our own women and children ; and it must be fresh in your memory that when the mutineers came out of the city for a grand attack upon our camp, while Nicholson's force was at Nujujghur, they were followed by crowds of these very women, whose sole object in venturing out was to loot our camp when the mutineers took possession of it, which they calculated would be an easy affair, as our troops were away It must not be for gotten either that these cooly women of Delhi were with the men who looted all the European houses in Delhi, and they are, therefore, to my thinking, equally deserving of punishment. How ever, it is the General's hovum that they should be spared—and I hope he won't rue it. I won der if one of these women would have spared one of our women if she had the chance of mur dering her ? Mercy to such wretches is a mistake they are not human beings, but at best wild beasts, deserving only the death of dogs. The General, Wilson, is feeling the fatigue and anxiety of his post ; he ' has been ailing, but I hope will be able to reap the reward of his suc cessful siege and recapture of Delhi. On the 20th instant the Burn Bastion was taken possession of by our troops without opposition, six guns and one mortar falling into our pos session ; also the Lahore gate of the city, the capture of which gave so much trouble and caused such heavy loss. The enemy when they fight show much less energy and obstinacy than characterised their former resistance, and every thing betokens the closing scene being near. The mutineers who were encamped outside the city blew up their magazine on the 20th, and left, leaving their colours behind them. Our cavalry, which went out to reconnoitre, found all in ruins and the camp deserted. The resistance has been meagre compared with what was shown at the commencement of the assault ; this is perhaps to be accounted for by the fact that their guns were, with the excep- • tiou of seven or eight, in our possession. Occasion ally a shot was fired from a fieldpiece placed in front of the Palace gates facing the Chandne/ Chowk, but this was very feeble, and did very lit tle damage to the Bank House on which it was di rected. At noon on the 21st the Palace, Jumma Musjid, and Ajmere•gate were taken, and soon after the whole city was in our possession. The latter P°r tion of the work has been done with but little 1 05 on our side, and not much on that of the mutiseer s as they only waited a sight of our invincible Euro peanosf the field."decampto in disorder, leaving them ' mas ters Mr . Greathed, Civil Service, formerly Commis sionersircommissioner T. Metcalfe, e t t h e a e Ifie Meerut l: ceaivmi l si diedvn i r s v io i enool: choleraat n a d d a r e smart om e n n a t rt l tyh the attack, i k,ha l . but is recovering fast. Nothing is known of future movements, but I fancy we shall wait for reinforce• moots to pus'i our advantage. • The old King has been taken, that is, he surren dered himself to Captain Hodson, together with his favourite Queen, Zeenut :Mahal. Hodson's party cut up the old traitor's two sons, Mirza Mogul and Mirza Ki,sc) Sultan, together with his grandson, Mirza Abouker—all of whom were found in Hums yoon's Torah, about seven miles from Delhi, A large quantity of " Loyal property," consisting of elephants, horses, camels, carriages, &e., were taken possession of by Hodson's troops. The city is completely deserted by all the muti neers, and, in fact, there are 'esv natives of any sort to be found, excepting those of our army. All the city people found within the walls when our troops entered were bayoneted on the spot, and the number was considerable, as you may suppose when I tell you that in some houses 40 and 50 persons were hiding. These were not mutineers, but resi" dents of the city, who trusted to our well-know° mild rule for pardon. lam glad to say they were disappointed. The mutineers abandoned their camp outside the city in such haste that they even left their sick and wounded to look after themselves • their, band instruments, b e ddi ng, clothing, in fact al: they possessed, f e ll i n t o our hands. It is said they have made off for Gwalior, and that a stand will be made at Bullubghur, where there is an independent chief of doubtful politics. think it most likely they have gone t° their homes in Oude, and it is there we shall require a large force and great vigilance to hunt them nova in the ensuing cold weather. Serr. 15 , No serious attempt has been made by the enemy to recover the valuable lino of defences they lo 3! yesterday. On our part measures have been adopte d o to consolidate the conqu e st, an d t o a dd t o it. been magazine is the first p o i n t. B a tt er i es have „ turned against it, and ten hea v y mor t ars ar e raw ing on the city. The camp which remains on the old ground has not been molested. The enemy'# retention of the suburb of Teleewara prevents it being advanced under the walls of the city. Our flag floats over the Cashmere gate, and head quarters are established in Colonel Skinner's house. Suleywghur still continues to send an occasional discharge of shrapnel or grape into the Church square, and there is a desultory fire of musketry from tops of houses in the distance. Two regiments are reported, to have left the city last night by the Rewaree road. An organised body of troops were seen marching off yesterday morning over the bridge soon after the attack. The column that entered the city yesterday con sisted of 2,000 Europeansand 2,oooNative soldiers. The casualties amou n t to nearly 650. The 10 ,4 among the officers has been very heavy : — N'" officers of Engineers, ei g ht of Her Majesty and nine of the Ist I'll3lleers.. The heaviest raja -. f.:rtune is the wounding of General Ni c holson. Se may perhaps survive, but is in great danger. The killed and mortally wounded among the officers are : 'it Bth, Fitzgerald, 75th ; Bradshaw, 62d ; 'Murray, Guides • Rosser, Carabineers ; Tandy, Engi neers ; Jacob, Ist Fusileers; M‘Barnet, 55th Native Infantry ' • Davidson ' 26th Native Infant r y. This is the correct list. 3J more wounded. Among the wounded officers, besides the names already given, are mentioned General Nicholson's brother, 31st Native Infantry ; Greville, Ist Fusileers, severely; Major Baynes. SEPT. 16. A battery was opened on the 15th 110 ' 31 the Col!ege-garden against the magazine., The breach was comp l ete d d ur i ng th e n i g ht,: - writes Mr. Greathod on the 16th; "and tb morning the magazine was carried wi th the los3 of three men wounded, the enemy aband°ll - the post as soon as the column appeared over the crest of the breach. 120 pieces of heavy ord nance and a vast supply of shot and shells We re found in IL A battery is now construct e d at w e ; Palace end of the magazine, and the e mb ra sures the battery in the College-garden are altered 0 ° that the guns may boar on 8 uleyrnghur and on the Palace. " A great number of dead Pandies, in varioll! stages of decomposition, we re f oun d i n an d a ho°' the magazine. " Mortars will now play our the magazine jut° the palace. The capture of this important poet 1 10 secured our possessic,n of that portion of the toWn• The chief annt,yance now is from musketry from t he palace walls, from a light gun that moves about the foot, of the palace walls and from the Suleymghu r • The road from the Cashmere to the Cabul g ate is now quite safe. That quarter of the town up 0 the street leading from the Cashmere bastion t 0 the Juturna Musjid is entirely evacuated by the in: habitants. Some few old women are found here and there, and aro kindly treated by our welt There is only one instance known of a wom an having been killed, and that was by au a ceide. The force at the Cabul gate have extended t_ occupation along the canal to the point where the road o 1 1 : leads a gate, and ° a lli nd th- h e e direction s t o s f a r t e h e i lion with the outposts from the magazine 01 e• Pala utonitor S A T .- O . R 1 . ) , AY