Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-16 00:00:00

SmiTHSONIAN HOTEL, B 301,0 WILY, Corner Of lIOUSTON•STREET, NEW YORE. K;sued in honour of the SSItTEISONIAN INSTITUTION, Established at WASRINGTON, by the U.S. CONGRESS, With Funds bequeattsd by JAMES SMITIISIN, of ENGLAND, silviig the Friendship of the 08'1 , 10E13 of the NATIONAL INsTITETION Is conducted on the System of Hotois iII,ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. AMUSEDIENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. MUM^ ROYAL—Professor Anderson-7 p.m.' TOTAL Au purr urEATßE—Dramati3 Performance-7 p.m. Pmt traamoxic BALL—Phomas's Grand Concerts-8 p.m. UEI'7OLE a's CISQU'E VAILI ETE, Dale-street--7 p.m. 1,1732. , 001, ACABEIfI'3 EXHIBITION, Postoffice-place. CoLoss3um—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. For adverti.enisat3 see second page. TO CORRESPONDENTS. *.* We Im'e several commanicationa in type. which shall have Insertknas , cuickly as possible —a portion of them to-morrow. af ty d 5 P 3, ti %,114t1 i 4. ZIONDZY, NO 16, 1837. THE DAY'S NEWS: We to-day devote much space to the details of the news from India. They are of a most exciting •and important character. True, we have already published the- results of the attack upon .Delhi; but the copious extracts which we take from the Bombay and Calcutta journals, to say nothing of the official despatches from General Wilson, Ste., 'will be anxiously dwelt on, and canvassed by the. :people. The definite attack upon Delhi was com menced on the 7th September, the British then numbering some eight thousand before the walls. From this day up to the 11th, a number of batteries were erected. On the 11th, the batteries ' opened fire, and with terrible effect. Huge masses of masonry crumbling before the iron storm, shovied the efficacy of British practice, and con vinced all parties that the hour of retribution was rapidly approaching. Night and day until the Heil was this tremendous fire continued, and then the breaches being reported practicable, it was :sown that the moment of actionhad at length arrived. The .attacking force was distributed into five columns, the first under the lamented Ni cholson, and the others under Brigadier Joees, Col, Campbell, Major Reid, and Brigadier Longfield. The cannonade was maintained until the last moment, and then the Rifles dashed .to the front witha true British cheer. There was a brief delay of some ten minutes, while the ladders were lowered into the ditch, in order to ascend the scarp. At this period there was a perfect hailstorm of bullets, thinning the ranks of the adventurous heroes engaged in this dangerous task. It was, ho never, speedily brought to a conclusion. The men dished -into the breaches, and the .cowardly miscreants by whom they were defended, fled before the British bayonet, wielded by true-hearted. Britons. Atthe Cashmere Gate, a feat of daring valour—seldom equalled, never serpassede—was manifested. It was decided that the Cashmere Gate was to be bloWn down, and the perilous duty was entrusted to Lieutenant Salkeld, of the Engi neers, and Sergeants Carmichael, Burgess and Smith. They advanced cooly and resolutely to . almost certain death. The bags of powder were placed in the most steady and deliberate manner, Lieutenant Salkeld receiving two bullets, Sergeant Carmichael was killed, and also Sergeant Burgess, but not until he had fired the train. Through the gate thus blown down, the third column rushed with irresistible force, and entered the town just as the .first and second had won the breaches. It. was in clearing the Moree Bastion that General . Nicholson received his death wound. The British loss in killed and wounded in the terrible attack alone, azaeueted to 01 offiees, and 1,178 men. The - victory was virtually decided and Delhi won on that day ; but from the 14th to the 20th the British troops were steadily improving their triumph. That day Delhi was their own, the un armed citizeneeand women were permitted to leave the city, but no mercy was shown to any armed rebel According to the ministerial organ of yesterday, the Observer, a Privy Council will be held at Windsor to day (Monday), after which a pro clamation will.be issued, calling Parliament at the earliest possible time. The day in all likelihood will be fixed is Thursday, the 3rd of December. It cannot be much earlier, as fourteen days must elapse before the meeting of Parliament, dating from the publication of the Order in Council. The Observer rerßarks:—" It has been stated, incorrectly, that the law required Parliament to be called together in fourteen days, after what people are 'pleased to. call a violation of the Bank Act. But, in the first place, the Bank Act has not been vio lated at all. It is further considered very likely tbat the Bank will not now find it necessary to use :the permission given to their:, under certain con ditions, of issuing any number of notes beyond those -authorised. Even sheald, they be • cam ,pelled to do so, there is nothing in the law to render the itnineeliate meeting of Parliament ob ligatory In giving their advice to the Sovereign for an early assemblieg of Parliament, the Govern ment have been infineeced by the desire to leave •nothing undone to restore the cenfileace of the commercial classes, which has been so much shaken by the very serious mercantile agitation itt Liver pool, Glasgow, and elsewhere, Ceefidene is already returning. Let us hope it will be completely established by the assembling of the great council of • the nation." It is generally- believed that Parliament will at once acquiesce in the indemnity bill, but that very powerful efforts will be made to induce the Government to introduce a new Barak Act. That such is imperatively de manded by the state of Commercial affairs in the Kingdom, there are few, it' any, would have the temerity to deny. To one or two courses, the Government must commit itself. "Ifit is deter mined," says the Banker's ,Circular of Saturday, ." to ophold a system . of currency based upon gold, : giving to depositors as well as noteholders the ,power to demand epode at all times, we say that ,the country shoehl demini a strict adherence to .the principle;; but to maintain the present hybrid , eyStem, and tell the world that there is gold for any-one who likes to demand i; for ILK the deposits and liabilities of every bank in the kingdom, is one of lAhe grossest delusions ever palmed upon a nation. Not a single bank in the United Knee dein could .stand sueh - anordeali why, then, we ask, is :Inch a dangerous power entrusted . in the hands of depoeitors - ?• - We are not the snalogiats for a host -o' currency theorists, whose E2hezeee look very .grind upon aver; but we maintain that a mare ,dangereus system than the present-could never be. .dapvised 4a throw the nation into periodical convul- sionp, and to degrade thoae, chases who live by industry. The very par.,ort of the Act of 18/1 was to monopolise, uitimately, the sole powzr.of issuing notes through the.attilt of England :ac this spitit is visible in alinost every .clattio of thlt A.et The present crisis has clearly d.;: - I..)ristmted that tout ivatitution cannot sustain the gigantic fabzie of credit which commerce 'has re_trad. whenever any pressure comes upon us, and that it car only savo itazif by precipitating the spread of almost .univer sal distress witi. ruin through , .;.ttt the country.' The domestic news this mclrning is not of any interest. The committee appo'llted at the Reform Meeting, held 1:71 London in Juno List, flajrtiTc-on— ceived a nvnifesi.o to the peopi of Great Biitaiu and Ireland This iri.Ln . esting docurnent calls upon the people to soelt rliamentary P.lform in :order to ensure .‘ Ministerial responsibility ; " it declares that the result of the present defective system are " class legislation, bad administration, finan.cial, extravagance, and a foreign policy always beyond popular control." Six points aro enume rated as the rallying cry of geformers. They are; residential suffrages in the boroughs, ten pound occupiers in the counties, vote by ballot, equilization of canstituencies, . abolition of the pro- perty valifintions, and triennial parliaments the adarm ja brief, but pungent, an<l Jae not yet, been signed by any President or Chairman. On Saturday the Princess Charlotte transport, sailed from Queenstown with the 18th Regiment for India. Full details'of the news by the West India mail steamer Atrato, will be found in another portion of to-day's impression. From the British Possessions there is nothing of any material importance. From the South Paciic there is, however, several items of importance. The news from Chile is to Sept. 30. A new Cabinet has been formed, the President having yielded to public opinion. The political excitement that formerly existed had all subsided, and everything promised to go along quietly. Dates from Bahia are to September 28. The revolutionary movement in this Republic have assumed a most general character, and Dr. Linares has assumed the title of Provisional President, and tilen the field against the Constitutional Presi dent, General Cordova. The cities of La Paz, Oruro, Cocabamba, and Chuquisaca had pro nounced against the Government. Gen. Cordova was marching against the first named city _with 1,500 veterans. La Pas had a garrison of only 1,500 recruits. The revolution still continues in the South. Nothing decisive had been done. One of the accomplices of the assassination of Mr. Sullivan, had given information against the mud-- derer,who is said to be a Frenchman. Our intelligence from the Continent is unusually meagre this morning. The Committee of the Liberal Opposition party of Turin has recom mended the electors of Genoa to re-elect all the late deputies, except Count Mamiani. The Na tional Bauk of Turin has raised its discount to 8 per cent. • The Peninsular Mails have arrived. I.;.sbon is still very subject to the yellow fever. The Asia which sailed for New York on Saturday took out 55,000. in specie. Oust correspondent, "An Observer," whose letter appeared in the NORTHERN TIMES of Saturday last, suggests the propriety of the Liverpool merchants presenting an address to Lord PALMERSTON, thanking him for the relief given to trade, and asks our very humble co-op eration in the movement. This, we regret exceedingly to say, we must decline. The ques tion of panics is not of so light and frivolous a character that childish complaints or party sym pathy can avail one jot. We have stated on several former occasions that the mercantile pub. lie have but very little to thank the PALMER STON Cabinet for on the present occasion, and have ad duced sufficient facts to justify our assertion. The Premier must have seen as clearly as we did that, when the Bank of England raised its rate of dis count to eight per cent., universal bankruptcy in trade must inevitably folow. When the Bank raised its minimum rate to nine per cent., Lord PALMERSTON was waited upon by deputations from Scotland and the manufacturing districts of England, who first pointed out the real condition to which the trading classes were reduced, and solicited relief in the name of common sense- These deputations were listened to with impa. tience, and dismissed without a vestige of hope. Another addition was made to the rate of dis count. Ten per cent, was the minimum imposed on trade. Two pounds was added to the famine rate of 1847. Now, this two pounds per cent. on the 200,000,000/. of commercial bills floating in trade would amount to 4,000,0001., and this is what the holders of those securities have lost. Add to this ten per cent. more lost through - failures and depreciation of prices, and it will be found that the Premier's refusal to grant timely relief to trade has cost the public fully 8,000,000/. The losses of the railway, bank, and mining shareholders, Exchequer-bill, and fund holder are much greater. We must look again at the vast amount of annuitant property which has suffered from the combined operation of the panic, and the conduct pursued towards the East India Company. Let the faults of Directors of public bodies, which exist under charters derived from tin State, be what they may, their blind and deluded constituents, whose substance is at stake, are not to be wholly ruined and left destitute that placemen may continue to hold office and live. If we turn to the labour market, which was in a most healthy state before the panic commenced. we shall find abundant grounds for serious appre hensions.* There are thousands of artisans who were fully employed a month ago now out of work, and without the remotest -prospect• of being employed for months to come. Three fourths of our . labouring population are in pre cisely the same state.- Under these circum stances, the bare mention of an address, thanking Lord PALMERSTON fbr the relief given to trade, can only be meant as a bitter satire, and as such it would most assuredly be received by the Premier. Moreover, we are most strongly op posal on tirinciple, to the commercial classes bein?; used for the purpose of heaping party adulation on political leaders. Lord PALMER- .sTON is just entering on his trial as a statesman. An incomparable Foreign secretary, an energ;tic and determined war Premier, a skilful debater, and able Parliamentary chief, may be deficient in those very qualities we now require in a Prime Minister. The hands which demolish the works lof centuries, are seldom gifted with the genius which:can rebuild and restore. They are works for distinct ages. Through the former, Lord PALMEKSXON ha. 4 passed with great ability, and has won unmistakeable reputation. He is now entering upon the latter, and we can afford to wait until we see how he proposes to restore the foundation of . industry, revive the great super structure of commerce, re-arrange the pillars of trade, and re-adjust the ordinary ernbAlishrnents and princely adornments of civilisation. The artistes of the Molise° School were' not dis tinguished for the magnificence, or propriety in working out the details of - their designs, and since the • legislative mind of England keeps hovering to and fro from Moorish hobbies to feudal follies, we are by no means sanguine as to the result of modern law-making where great fundamental principles of progress and refined life are to be, dealt with. We are bound, in reason, at all events, to I=.t until we see the end of the crisis of 1857 before we applaud those who are responsible for its desolating effects. To keep the springs of industry in motion, is the first of the moral duties in trusted to governments—and we hope to find the natural activity which prevailed pre vious to the failure of our labour-grinding money-laws, speedily restored. The Banks, more especially those of Liverpool, have regained their former stability. The merchant will be able to hold his produce, now that the unwar rantable depreciation of our markets has been checked. Our imports will increase, as foreigners must send their products to the world's market, for which they were originally intended. They will take our depreciated manufactures in ex change, and thus our exports will be augmented. All this may come to pass in the natural coarse of things, within a month or two ; but what is to become of the working millions even 'in this short space of time? Where is the money—the gold and silver—to pay wages ? The Banks cannot part with those metals while immediate danger is proclaimed by a ten per cent, rate of discount. They must not part with the sove reign as we have nothing to represent it at the working man's pay-table. The gold pound is the highest _measure known in our metallic money. The "promise to pay" five pounds is the lowest note allowed for circulation. The latter, there fore, cannot represent and discharge the functions of the latter. The sovereign, which is really worth a great deal more than twenty shillings, is not allowed a note to represent it, while the romantic " promise to pay" has its millions of paper in circulation ; and the worst of all is, that the value of these "promises" depends altogether on the power of the Banks to with hold our metallic money from the public. By this system we are compelled to give up the only portion of our currency which can discharge the first duty for which money is required, to give value to paper which is perfectly inoperative where the one pound, coin is imperatively wanted. In all that has been written on the subject of panics, no one has ventured however to assert that the aggregate capital of our Banks represents the twentieth part of our realised wealth, or that trade enjoys one-half of the credit to which its substance entitles our traders. Hence we arrive at the true cause of our present difficulties, and until the public are taught to look on money, in whatever form or quantity it may be given to us, as representative, it will be impossible to prevent the recur rence of devastating panics. The attainment of comfort, independence, and wealth are the main aims of human industry and enterprise, and it matters very little what the instru ment is composed of, which the State supplies us with to gain our object. If " rage" are made to represent a given amount of acquired wealth, or produce of any kind, no one will part with that which represents his substance without an equivalent, as its recipient would then be able to convert this representative money into sub stance. But, then, it is urged that a limit must be placed to the use of " rags." Precisely so. If we had no State, no Government, no army, no fleet to support, and led a primitive life, we should now be the richest people in the world, and no under currents would be at work to bring about panics. We have money—gold—enough, if you will, for all the purposes of industry, trade, and commerce. But what about the State's demands on the subject ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer will require 80,000,0001. • of taxation this year. This money must leave our tills before it can return to them. Here, then, is a diversion, of many months' duration, of this large amount of the available means of the people. Of this huge sum we get about 30,000,000/. in " promises to pay on demand," But this leaves a deficiency. in trade of no less than 50,000,000 Z. Now, to re-imburse those who have to pay this 80,003,000/., it is necessary that they should be able to add the taxation o the year to the prices of the commodities they produce. It must be self-evident that if we cannot do this we must be heavy losers by the diversion of so large an amount from the ordinary channels of trade; and as a limit must be placed to the use of paper money, let it be confined to the amount required for the support of the State. The Crown should at once resume its prerogative of creating money, and give us legal tender paper with which we could pay all duties and taxes. The State would then be enriching, instead of impoverishing, trade. We could have no depre ciation of currency where the demand would always be equal to the supply, and being made legal tender, we question if our English State notes would not be at a high premium all over the world. As a nation- we have something to pledge, and as our moral and political existence depends on our good faith, who would question the intrinsic value of the Imperial Paper Money of Great Britain. THE NORTHERN TIMES. -LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1857. AMUSEMENT?, Sce. THEATRE ROYAL.— Pit >FItsSOR ANDERSON.—Th e Pro. fess3r gives notice that the present week will conchs le his arrangements here, and this is a sigpificarit hint that he will keep his ward. Having alreay, on two or three occasions, entered into detailed particulars of the wonder ful, pleasing, and attractive entertainment, we have, in reiterating our opinion, to add that the Professor has introduced a va•iety of astonishing fetes and illusions to h's already almost inexhaustible stock, and these cannot fail to instruct all. If a pleasant evening be desirable, we would advise our friends to enjoy one during the week at the Theatre Royal. THE AMPITIMITRIL—Mr. Roberts will perform at thi s theatre during th e wee k. He will appear as fang John, Xing Richard, Sir Gil e s Overreach, Shylock, and other characters. Mr, Lberts is not without casiderable merit as an actor, and frequently expresses pathos with force and depth, but he has many serious deficiencies to supply and defects to overcome; Madame Auriol and Mr. Flexmore will continue to exhibit their respective talents during the week. ITENGLU'S DALE-STREZT.— To-night, the greatest novel , ,y ever in:;roduced into an equestrian per formance, will be produced at this fazhiunable and attrae• five circus—a real hunt, a stag and full stud of hounds, pith a field of 20 horsemen! The bare announcement is quite sufficient, and cannot fail to produce an overfliwing house. THE NEW PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—The enclosed is a copy of a letter addressed to the Mercury, which the editor of that paper refused to publish, for what reason I cannot imagine. Had the notice, therein commented upon, merely differed from the opinion (pretty strongly expressed) of the audience, it would not be so bad; but the gross mis-statements contained in it, in my humble opinion, rather exceed the bounds of fair criticism. I hope, sir, you will, as au act of justic-, give it a place in your columns.—l am, sir, your most obedient, A LOVER OF FAIR PLAY. Liverpool, 14th Nov,, 1857. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "LIVERPOOL MERCURY." Sir,—ln your impression of Wednesday appeared a notice of the performance of "Judas Mamba His" by the " New Philharmonic Society," at the Concert Hall, Lord N elson-Street. Now, sir, that critique is decidedly incorrect; your critic is correct in stating that the Chorus performed their parts well ; in fact, taking into consideration that it was their first appearance in public, they achieved a decided success, and did infinite credit to the perseverance of Mr. Browne. The Misses Hiles also performed their parts well, and were very well received. But, what I take exception to, is the sweeping condemnation passed upon the star of the night—Mr. Mann. If the a2proval of the audience be any test of the powers of a vocalist, Mr. Mann had certainly no reason to complain of the reception he met with. I can safely affirm that I never saw a more enthusiastic reception than was . awarded to thit gentleman on Monday night. In almost every piece that fell to his part during the night he was - heartily applauded ; he was encored three or four times, and how your reporter could state that he was almost ' encored once passes coraprehensioa. I can only conclude that he was not present. Mr. Dames success was very far below that„of Mr, Mann. In a word, as the DAILY TIMES admits, Mr. Mean's appearance was au entire success, and not a decided failure, es your reporter has it. I have no personal interest in the matter, never saw the gentle= in previous to Monday night, and am not in any way connected with the society —my only object being to ask you to do justice to a deserving candidate for public favour, and I hope, sir, your love of fair plea' will induce you to insert this.—l am, Sir, your most obedient Servant, A LOVER. Or FAIR, PLAY. Liverpool, 10th Nov.., 1357. The Kilkenny Moderator publishes the following among le answers to correspondents, in its last number : KILNENNY THEATRE ROYAL, The last night, because the company go to-morrow to Waterford.) On Saturday, May, 14, 1793. Will be performed, by command of several rerp?,c`able people in this horned metropolis, for the benefit of Mr. Kearns, THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, Originally written and composed by the celebrated Dan; Hayes, of Limerick, and inserted in Shakspeare's works. Hanalei by Mr Kearns (being his first appearance in that character), who, between the acts, will perform several solos on the patent_bagpip37, which . play twa tunss a t samethe time. Ophelia by Mrs. Prior, who will introduce several favourite airs in character, particularly the " Lass of Richmond Hill," and " all be unhappy together," from the 11:v. Mr. Dibdin's Oddities. The parts of the Omen and Sing, by the direction of the -Rev. Father O'Callaghan, will be omitted, as tou immoral for any stage. Po/onius, the coaiical politician, by. a young gentleman, being his first appearance in public. The ghost, the Gravedigger, and Laertes, by Mr. Simpson, the great London comedian. The characters to be dressed in Roman ilapcs. To which will be aided, an Interlud3, in which will be introduced s9.veral shight.of-hand tricks, by the tole. brated surveyor Hurt. The whole to conclude with the farce of MAHOMET THE IMPOSTER. Mabomet by Mr. Kearns. Tickets to be had of Mr. Kearns, at the siga of the G)a Beard in Castle-street. *** Lie value of the tickets, as usual, will be is (if required) in candles, soip, butter, cheese, &3., as Mr, Kearni wishes, in very particular, to accommodate the N.B. No person whatsoever will be admitted into the bor2s without shoes or stockings. LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOR BOYS' CLOTHING.—Nurnber of boys clothed for week ending Saturday, November 14th, 650; corresponding week last -year, 381 ; increase, 269 bor. EREATA —ln the list of failures which we published on Saturday, the name of William Danny, of Dumbarton, was in one portion of the paper used in mistake for Alexander Dznny. THE GLASGOW' PRIZE PAINTINGS.—The exhibition of ainings from the Glasgow Academy, at Mr. Wiustanley's, Church-street, closed on Saturday. The room was crowded with visitors. The weather for the last few days has been exlcedingly fine and mild, yesterday baing really a semi-summer day in all respects, and at present there is an indication ®f a continuance of such weather. THE ANNUAL ATTENDANC2 OF THE MAYOR AND CORPO RATION IN CIIURC/I.—Accordivg to annual usage, the newly installed Mayor, Mr. James Holum, attended Divine Service, accompanied by several members of the Corpora tion, in St. Peter's Church, yesterday. The Venerabl Archdeacon Jones preached, and the collection, which was male, as usual, on behalf of the Blue Coat Schoal2, strounfed to £BO. SINGULIR ACCIDENT.—A man named Michael Staunton, received a severa wound iu the thigh somewhat singularly, yesterday. He was talking to some persons in Chapel street, and bad a clasp-knife in his hand, the blade of which he was carelessly opening and abutting in. He hamened to let his hand drop and the blade snapped upon his thigh, where it inflicted a long and deep wound, divi,ling some of the arteries. The man was carried to the Northern Hospital, where he suffered much from loss of blood. It is not, however, expected that any perma nent injury will result from this accident. A letter, says the Literary Gazette, has just been rccnived from Madame Ida Preiff , r, from Tanariva, in Madagascar, in which she says that she is in gond health, and been extremely well received in the island. The day previously she had been invited to court, to play on the pianoforte, and had given so much satisfaction that she was immediately presented with a quantity of fowls and eggs in recognition of her musical powers. WILLS.—The will of Sir Ctarles Mansfield Clark, Bart., of Brighton, was proved in London under £140,000 personalty.—Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, B art., of Belhus, Essex, and Blans'one-square, £2s,ooo.—George Bate man, Lenmington Priori', £4o,ooo.—Mrs. Arica Maria Newbury. of Brighton, .Eso,ooo.The Rev. Thomas H. Ashhurst, D.C.L., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, £ 3o ,ooo.—lllustrated Land , N .e 4 ~071 nos. DEFERRED HoNotrhs.--A cotemporary, last week, an nounced the arrival in town of "Lad)" Havelock, the wife of the distinguished general at Cawnpore ? It was a very natural mistake to make, for who could suppose that all these -months would have been suffered to elapse withcut any sign of, the royal appreba . ion of the conduct of the hero of nine victories—the indefatigable chastiser of the muti neers—the soldier, the gentleman, and the Christian, under every trial to which discipline and humanity could be ex posed ? In France, ., the elevation of Havelock would not have been retarded lit the presence of forms and usqes.— United !Service Gazette; THE INDIAN MUTINIES. ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL THE FALL OF DELHI. RELIEF OF LUCKITOW &c., &e., &c. We are now in possession of details of news brought by the Overland Mail. The dates are, Bombay, October 18 ; Madras, October 14 ; and Calcutta, October 8. THE BOMBAY MAILS. DELHI. From the Bombay Times, October 17. The tidings regarding Delhi despatched by the mail of the 4th of Octobr, came down to the 20th of September, and intimated that on this day the doomed city bad finally fallen into our hands ; scarcely any particulars being given beyond the fact that the slaughter had been severe. We are still in a great measure without details. We know that the evacuation was complete—that the King is captive. and has still been spared—the leading members of his family, active abettors of the revolt, having been shot and their bodies exposed. Our troops were, on the 9 3rd, sent in puriuit of the chief mass of the enemy, supposed to have retired on Gwalior. The gallant General Nicholson his died of his wounds, and there is known to be a sad list of casualties in store, particulars of which have not yet been given. The details of this disastrous siege have hitherto been published piecemeal, and in such broken and disjointed form as to bewilder the reader. Though still very imperfectly supplied with facts, we shall endeavour now to place those in our possession, referring to events which have occurred since the Ist of September, in such order as may assist in making our ,future narratives somewhat more intelligible than they can well hitherto have been. Our summary must be ac cepted as provisional; there are numberless gaps in it to be filled up, omissions to be supplied, and errors to be corrected, which must be left to time. On the 20th May, the commander-in-chief, General Anson, arrived at Delhi with a considerable force of Europeans, and the city was expected to have been assaulted immediately. A week afterwards (on the 27th) the general was cut off by cholera. General Barnard, of the Queen's service, an officer un known to fame, tucceeded General Anson, and con tinned waiting for reinforcements till the sch July, when he, like his predecessor, was cut off by disease. General Reid followed—a commander whose Indian name rested on his retirement before the Sikhs at Moodkee in 1846, when ordered by Sir J. Littler to advance. He had scarcely held command for a fortnight when sickness compelled him to resign. He was, in the beginning of August, succeeded by General Wilson, of the Company's army, and to the lot of this officer it has fallen to cap ture the city. Throughout the three most inclement months of the year, fighting had been nearly incessant, and the defence of the mutineers was at once more obsti nate and more skilful than could have been anticipated. Impatient as the public throughout the siege had become, it does not appear from anything that has yet transpired, that any needless delay had occurred or material error been committed. Europeans were the only troops to be thoroughly depended on, and scattered as these invariably and inevitably are throughout India, and difficult as it is to move them with celerity during the hot seasons or the rains, it was impossible to muster them for months together in such strength around us as to per mit of an assault. A regular investment was out of the question, and the enemy continued from first to last in full communication, by the bridge of boats, with the country beyond the Jumna. Had our artillery been in finitely stronger than it was, to have shelled the rebels from their stronghold, when we could neither intercept nor pursue them, was simply to scatter our enemies over the country, and beyond the reach of our arms, when it was most desirable to have them clubbed together to meet our vengeance in a mass. On the 26th August a body of mutineers, 7,000 strong, with 18 gnus quitted Delhi with th e view of operating on rear of the beseigers, and cutting off the supplies. A force, consisting of 2,000 from the Ist Bengal Europeass, her Majesty's 52nd and 61st, with 16 guns, under General Nicholson, was sent to intercept them. After a march of 18 miles, the enemy were encountered in the evening at Nujuffghur, when they were beaten and scattered, leaving nearly all their guns in our hands. On the 3rd September, the long looked for siege train began to make its appearance, and the most active operations were immediately proceeded with. On the 6th, 200 of the 60th Rifles and 100 Artillery recruits arrived from Meernt, and further reinforcements now dropped in apace. The besieging force at this date amounted to seven European and a like number of native regiments, with a ma;nificent array of guns and mortars. The Jheend force joined on the 7th. The Cashmere contingent, consisting of 2,000 men, with four guns, arrived on the Bth. The enemy now becoming rapidly disheartened, seemed not to enter tain the most remote conception of our designs. On the evening of the 7th, the old Custom-house on the rivers' bank and Ludlow Castle were occupied by us. No. 1 battery, 630 yards from Morse, was completed and armed with ten heavy gnus, Fix 18 and four 24-pounders, with 300 rounds of ammunition for each, without as yet firing a shot. In ignorance of what was proceeding, the enemy had withdrawn his outposts from our left front. Through. out the night the attention of the garrison had been arrested by our ridge batteries, on which a heavy fire was kept up from all the bastions of the city, the shot flying far above the heads of those engaged in establishing the ten gun battery, the existence of which was first made - known to the enemy by a round shot bounding amongst them on the forenoon of the Bth. A heavy fire was then opened from the city, which slackened as the day advanced, while our guns held steadily on, damaging the Meree bastion in the course of the afternoon. This day a waggon, with five shells and some loose ammu nition, blew up, and killed several people. An unsuccess ful attempt was made on our position at the Cashmere Gate—the casua'ties during the day wore 18 killed and 57 wounded. On the night following, eighteen 8 - and 81 inch mortars, and four of 10 inches were put in position on our left. On the 9ch a battery of ten heavy guns with mortars was completed, and arrived in front of Ludlow Castle. The enemy once more made a sortie on our batteries, but they were driven back with great slaughter. There had been constant firing from the Bth On the 11th, the day proposed, a furious canonado and bombardment commenced. The rebels, unable to with stand both shot and shell, deserted the fortifications, or replied but feebly to. our guns. The bastions and curtains began to give way, and the capture of the city was felt by both parties to be rapidly approaching. A light column had meanwhile been organised, to be commanded by General Nicholson, to pureue the fugitives, who did not up to the last seem to have concerted any plan as to. where they should seek refuge. By the 12th, the Cashmere bastion and half of the adjoining curtain were in ruins. For three days the storm of t the artillery and musketry raged incessantly, the defences seemed sufficiently demolished to permit the out works'to be attempted by storm. . Accordingly, at dawn on the 14 , h, a powerful storming party, consisting of three columns and a reserve, were in readiness for the attack The blowing open of the Cashmere gate was to be the sig nal for the rush, as the breach was not sufficient to per mit escalade without ladders. The duty was committed to Lieutenant Salkeld, of the Engineers, who approached the gate with three sergeants, carrying powder bags, under a tremendous fire of musketry. One sergeant was killed Salkell was shot through the arm, but pushed on with the other two. ,There were about twenty muskets through apertures in the gate and loopholes in the wall, directed up en them. In spite of this they made the bags fast to the spikes on the ga'e. Salkeld was now shot through the leg and fell ; the secorel sergeant, as he lit the match, was riddled with balls ; the third sergeant escaped. A. tremendous explosion now ensued, laying the gate in ruins, on which the storming party burst in. Almost every one carrying ladders was k locked over. The breach and gate were now forced, and on the resistless torrent rushed, defying all opposition. They gained possession of the largo buildings in the neighbourhood, forced their way along the ramparts to the Moree bastion and Cabool ga'e, in the face of a very obstinate resistance, though our casualties were severe. The whole line of works. from the Water bastion to the Cabool gate, including the Cashmere and Mores gates and bastions, the English church and college, were now in our hands. The enemy, who were intended to. have been driven from all points simultaneously, in part recovered heart, from the misadventure of the fourth column, and continued to retain the Lahore and other bastions, the pa. lace, Eielimghur, the magazine, and chief part of the city, but no attempt was, at any time, made by them to recover the important line of works they had lost. The font column, under Major Reed, of th e Ghoorkas, was mean t a. have cleared the suburbs o f Ki s h engu nge, and enteral r r city at once by the Lahore gate ; but this, unhaPPZ , P proved a failure, through some misapprehension on part of the Cashmere contingent, who could not be go t ,5 advance. Our loss was severe. Ni ue officers were 9; on the spot, or died soon afte rwar d s . Several--Brigt P o f General Nicholson amongst the rest — have since diet, c f their wounds. Fifty-one officers were wounded, re° sl ' l36 them severely. 1,178 men were killed and wounded. enemy had obviously by this time begun to see that they cause was hopeless, and were hastening in multitudes V; the town; we had no means of preventing them eseg o ; by the river or of pursuing them beyond it t o fire was never suffered to slacken. _ _On b s 16th, the magazine was taken by assault throug h breach on the college side of the wall. The enemy he six heavy guns, loaded with grape, facing the en t to but the rush of our men was too sudden to permit them . .„ s5 be fired. On the morning of the 17th the bank-house T ete captured, giving our guns, for the first time, ef l P t io command of the bridge a n d p a l ace . Th e sa me da y an d Jumma Musjid was sto rme d w i t h b ut little difficult - it )1 0 by this time above two hundred pieces of ordnau ee n , n ,,s fallen into our hands. Th e Buree bastion, with o il no and one mortar, was c a pt ure d on t h e morn ing °ill' ins 19th, without loss ; an d on t h e following lif;ore the Lahore gate fell into our hands. The o . l B ei gate and outworks aro un d it h a d cease d firings were supposed to be deserted. They were orooP i e e N est mediately afterwards witho u t o pp os i t i on. A h ea vy me pse fire was meanwhile kept u p un i nterruptedly on tmLarsa tion of the city still held by the enemy, and, as it a Pr A fter afterwards, with the most destructive effect. I'*6 e el. post was carried in the course of the day, and bf f loe on the evening of the 20th, the whole of the city, Poe and suburbs were in our p ossess i on . ?he enemy 1 still remained standing outside,_ but apparently eteltheir was occupied next morning, when nearly the whole the?: baggage was found t o ha ve b een left bah , " et, The bridge of boats and the river were no / to the command of our guns so we had the r s , prevent further e sca p e in this direction, which l is tion hitherto been made. A scene of carnage and d e leseel i was presented by th e gu il ty an d d evoted city: 'nett with children, rushing ab ou t i n w ild d i stra ctioll,"4o where were protected. Th e re b e l s h ad shown 120 in inn they looked for, and th e y me t w i t h none. On the 111011- of the 21st, Captain Hods on , w i t h a l i ght flying ,1;5 meat, went out in pursuit of the fugitives, when t"'b e ing and Queen surrendered, on the promise of their lica B , d i to spared—an injudicious act of mercy, likely to r . - eing mischief, and sure to be misunderstood. On them' ,; 0 0 of the 22nd, a strong p ar t y o f cavalry, under v''.`tet Hodssn, surrounded th e t om b o f Homaloon, a nd , v ,s; prisoners Meerza Mogul, Mi rza Khi rza Sultan, t he 41 1 eons, and Mirze Ab oo B user , hi s grandson. 7.11100 scoundrels were known to h ave t a k en, t h roughou t, tt. - spot active share in the reb e lli en ; th ey were shot no. the el the and their bodies ex p ose d t o t h e public gaz one morning of the 23rd, two strong pursuing call- 11 ° 8 ' 1 0 8 meant to have been commanded by General Nicholson, coy about this time breathed his last, left D e lhi. TheY t b r el sisted each of about 1,600 infantry, 500 oxtails t heses troops of Horse Artill er y, an d 18 guns. One of to under the command of Colonel G-reathed, crossed oc e or the west bank of the river and took the direction of -0 Our, where it arrived on the 27th. On the 29ih jesel overtook the enemy at Boluudshuhu r , w h er e the e ons rebels, with thei r art ill ery, with a miseel l t il t eng assemblage of insu r g en t n h ave taken up a 'doe' position, made a stand. After a sharp e s o oo oll meat, they were enti re l y d e f eated, driven thredirl the town, and pursued beyond it. They were soatt e e r ,nes all directions, leaving t wo guns. two ammun i t i on , and a vast number of bullock carts, loaded with - i i6o arm ammunition, in our hands. About 100 were lei' on the field, and multitudes of the wounded so d es itie! were seen to be car r i e s awa y w i t h t h em. O ur 0 8— SP amounted to . about 60. Captain Best, of rh i e, or k Cavalry ; Lieutenant Sale r a n d C ornet B la i r, ofs s t loot? Lancers; and Lieutenant Ed gewort h , of the Bth were all severely wounded. Capt. D r y s d a l e , of tu e lling Lancers was much hurt by his horse, when shot, IT the over him. The fort o f Malahur, in front ° A 14 t t advancing force, was a t this time ocouPi e- a do the enemy in stren g th ; w h en a b out to be Prc'eestol tt against, on the 28:h, i t was f ound to have b een evaelotest and was taken poss e s s i on o f w i t h out res i s t ance. Th? bf column, which was l e f t on t h e same date, move d dosc il se s the western bank of the river, towards Agra, and e ve r ee d the rebels at Muttra, on the 28th, when they were attt g ar and defeated with h eavy s l aug h ter. D e lhi and th e ;ng li , I l ' try around it ar e now perfectly tranqu il, an d ties: sickness is prevalent among the troops, it 15 infinit e l y e s' so than might, u n d er t h e c i rcumstances, have b ee eels 4 pccted. Singularly o en o u g h, th oug h it i s p ea & th ° A since these events occur r ed, we are still wi l - h - 9 6craP 5 4 ,Y casualty list, and all that we kno w o f details e a t . -- of letters I'l picked up and strun g t oget h er from the fragni en- i o ° o . t s written mostly at a di s t ance f rom the scene o f a c- to THE CAPTURE OF THE KING OF DEj,ll• The Bombay Gazette says : Ilg j thl 5 o i The king and his sons h a d fled in disguis° alo road to the south, a n d l arge b o di es of t h e mu tine er bo tae effected a timely escape in good order, before tk e ue citf remnant were driven i n h ea dl ong root fromjetere Delhi, after its capture, is described as a perfect . ? o ,,rtf, of desolation. Its houses in ruins, and valuable Pi R , / lying about the streets, while living figures wer e „ i - blit sll ti far between, the victors havin ,, allowed the non- 001 " , inhabitants safe conduct out of the place. 4 61 4 .`„' On the night of the 21st of September, the eel i „,l r io .7l l " General Wilson, prop , sed the health of Queen I r i c t .," the Dewan-i-Khas, the beautiful white marble duo/ b elie' of the palace, where once stood the famed peacock t o t ; and which bears the well known inscr'ption r e : if )ie apply to the palace an d i ts gardens generally, a ll ' now reads like a mockery— • /' " Oh! if the re i s an Ed en on earth, it is tbl e ' a itli, t ," Here, in the p dace of the G roa t M ogu ls, the P e our Q teen was d run k by her victorious soldier s „.,1110 enthusiastic cheers, which were taken up by Gh orkas, who formed the personal guard of the " i 0 Ifr i g On the 21st, the old king surrendered to CaP tii- bick e ,j son and his cavalry, near the Kootub Nina, ' l O O 4 about fifteen miles south of Delhi. Hs was ac c t fa, t ,„?' in his captivity, as in his flight, by his eh'el 'p l ale e "i4 Begum Zeenut Mah a l, " t h e Ornament o f the c 3 it The king is raid t o b a near l y n i nety years of 1 4% 1 Able Ari t probable that h e i s scarcely in any way resP ° 7prO i ," what has been done i n hi s name, so that, 35 s wag informed, wa ca,n no t con d emn the clemencY,_ spared his lif e . H e i s now a prisoner, in vr1340, his own palace. T wo o f hi s sons and a e.,% r t ba ever, who were captured, also by Captain getTgioa ,;0 0 tomb of Humayoon, about five miles from h oe are known to have been leaders in the rebendotio received the rower lof their treason. They sy, e n t the All/ the spot, and their bodies were brought back ` - 0 0, 1 11/ and exposed ar, the Kotwalee or chief police it is- said so many o f our countrymen Wero murdered. ;a 06/I°' A despatch from Bassarutgune.e, Sept. 2 15t ' (I' l l\4llS' pore, from Brigadier-General Havelock to 4.0- n e field, Chief of the Staff, runs as follows . 0 11 0 1 In hive to request t h at you will inform f r e., the Commander-in-Chief that I was 'oined by ins 9, ments on the 151 h and 16:h i nst . j + l, ao- to h On the 19th I crosse d f i rst to the island 0 1 1 of i -a eiti and then t o it s l e f t b ank by a bri°g l ;,, e l kr a fter which bad been labourionsly constructed b 1 Crommelin, Field Engineer. The eneml, re a very feeble (in fret a nominal) resist A s -5 'of gt re position at Mungarwar. The two brig 9 '" ri s a ht (e l Or force occupied an alligarnent with th 9 .„Pj f ar' behind sandhills, the centre aed - iqueg'4 l3 ' extending to the road from ucknow Ghau r '' the lebt" T3lhyijimeaovryngnuslus landatbtaacgkg2ethweereenporosyss,dtourrneretsbsisofretuere and drove him fions. his position, with th e r;urg of Aid guns,—two of which and the regimental e°, ver CO: e e first Bengal N. I. wore captured by the Arolu°' s ,o loe' w et in a charge headed by Sir James Outran ,. ly : 6 our side wa s trifling. The enemy suffered Fey°re f ool one hund:ed and twenty were sabred by th e ; oph Another desp a t c h received by Electric Te-beer, from the Camp at B agagunge, d ate d 22 n d septern ts James Outram to the Governor-General, relr r ra ou r ° j og, Tice rebels along the road are flying b9 ;' ) n rteen 11 : t 136 which marched twenty mile:, and yesterday destOi t hei their retreat too precipitate to enable than , t° but rie e &miles Bridge, four ~,s tako , a )30 d i Only more 6 i gse roy have been cast into wells, and only foil 13 ' j, 0 Bridge. Firing at Lucknow distinctly hea r ~,proig,e „ e s t/ salute by our 24- pounders to announce Oar a =l,eve• our friends. Our army will have re 3eLte either last night or this morning. ei The Hurkart& 0 of Oct. 2, says : • deg -the tO ljg The force unde r G enera l Havelock, sk it w o o the forced their way to the Residency egisou 012660 opposition, and relieved the brave gir r o viden, t bet e . vening oj the 25th. Tee relief vit i _P r e beife a , just in time, as subsequent examinatiomenn ru t h av e two mines all ready fur loading lisa:raust;tee if eprn_ e fe beis , under our chief works, which, placed the garrison at the mercy of the RELIEF OF LIICKNOW.