The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

Lieutenant Grant was killed at his picket—the mutineers
ran at his men, some of whom turned and fled—a shot
from the mutineers then wounded poor Grant, and the
euhadar of the guard concealed him under his charpoy.
The mutineers then came up, and were told that the sahib
had got away ; they were not, however, to be deceived, and
at last a havildar on the guard, belonging to Grant's own
regiment, pointed him out to the mutineers, when he was
bayoneted and brutally mutilated. The cantonment soon
became one blaze of fire, and it was not deemed prudent
to move the guns for fear of the mutineers finding their
way into the city. The only means of checking them was
by sending detachments of irregular cavalry through the
lines. Sharp firing took place frequently between the
sowers and the mutineers, without much effect, however,
upon either side. Lieutenant Harainge distinguished
himself greatly in these skirmishes, in one of which a
mutineer fired at him within a yard, and, missing him,
charged him with his bayonet, which went through his
wrist and entered his chest, where its further progress was
stopped by a bullet from Harding° into the stomach of
his assailant, which sickened him of the contest. Lieu-
tenant Chambers, adjutant of the 13th, had a narrow
escape, and was wounded in the leg. This state of affairs
lasted until two o'clock in the morning, when the fires
began to abate, and two guns were moved up to each of
the Residency gates, which were guarded by a havildar's
guard from the 13th, and escaped confligration. At four
a.m., the rebels had reached the 7th Cavalry lines, at
Moodkeepore, which they set on fire, and then returned to
cantonments, where Sir Henry had prepared to meet them.
Leaving a company of Europeans, six guns, and a squadron
of Irregulars on the encamping-ground, he marched
towards them with two guns, the Europeans, some two
hundred in number, the 7th Light Cavalry, and a handful
of each of the irregular cavalry regiments, Daly's, Gall's,
and Hardinge's. His force, as lie came along the native
lines, was increased by men from the 71st, 13th, and 48th
Regiments, who had not joined the insurgents, amounting
in all to about five hundred men. The 7th Light Cavalry
were sent on in advance, but, on nearing the rebels, some
west over to them. The inaur_tents then retreated, and
by the time the artillery had debouched from the lines
they were a thousand yards off, so that they could be only
dealt with by round shot. One was sent at them, when
they immediately turned ar.d fled, followed as quickly as
possible by the artillery and the Europeans. On reaching
Moodkeepore, the force came across the body of poor
young Cornet Raleigh, of the 7th Cavalry, who had only
joined the regiment a day or two before, and who, being
too unwell to ride, was left behiad when the regiment was
ordered to cantonments. He was lying on his face, wiih
the back of his skull blown away, so that his death must
have been instantaneous. The artillery and the Euro-
peans halted beyond Moodkeepore, but the rebels were
chased by the cavalry as far as Iluxetalow, some ten miles
off, and there scattered in all directions. Only two or
three mutineers were killed, butsixty were taken prisoners.
Sir Henry Lawrence fully intended to follow them up
again, but it was reported ou excellent authority that an
insurrection would certainly take place that night in the
city, and his force was too small to enable him to do both
—follow the mutineers and take the necessary precautions
L{. for the defence of the city.
Leaving, therefore, 2 )0 Europeans and four guns in the
cmtonments, he moved the remainder of the force to the
Muchee Bhowun and to the Residency, together with two
guns to each fortification. A good deal of firing took place
in the course of the following day between the city bud-
mashes and the police, in which the latter had by far the
best of it. After eight o'clock all was quiet, the insurgents
probably being awed by the additional force thrown into the
city, and by the gallantry displayed by the police. The
Kotwal h is been made a bahailoor, and a reward of 1,000
rupees and a sword given to him, and 5,000 rupees have
been distributed amongst the police, who so nobly distin-
guished themselves by their courageous conduct. The
murderer of Lieutenant Grant. and a spy lately caught in
the lines of the 13th Infantry, were hanged on June 1, and
six more mutineers suffered the same Eenalty on the
morning of the 2nd.
During the following days Sir H. Lawrence was
occupied evening and morning in the execution of
mutineers. A gallows had been erected outside the
fort, and a couple of guns, loaded with grape, awed
the people round the scaffold. Martial law was pro.
claimed, the King's brother detained as prisoner, and
quiet energetically enforced. But in the meanwhile
the mutineers of the 13th, 49th, 71st, and 7th
Cavalry had marched towards Delhi, and were joined
in mutiny by the troops at Seetapore—two regiments
of Ou.te Infantry, the 41st Native Infantry, and a
win; of the 15th Irregular Cavalry, the regiments at
Mooradabad and Bareilly, the 18th, 69th, and 29th
Native Infantry, and the 28th Native Infantry at
Shahjehan pore.
Far up in Peshawur, although there had been
no actual rising, the position of our forces was really
very critical. A letter, dated June 14th, gives some
details of great interest, and the writer, with a few
graphic touches, gives us a perfect picture of the
position and its peril at Peshawar :
Peshawar, June lt.
We have had no outbreak here, but we have had to
disarm three native infantry regiments and one of cavalry,
having discovered that they intended to massacre us all
on the 22nd (May). It was done at the same moment to
all the regiments, though at different points of the station,
a small European force, guns and cavalry, being told off
to each. That night the disarmed men began to desert
in numbers—a proceeding it was actually necessary to stop
lest they should raise the city and neighbourhood; so they