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6th of June, and seized a fortification called the Star Fort,
whilst the officers took refuge in the city fort, a strong
position, which the chief in command, Captain Skene,
spoke confidently of holding until relief arrived. Unfor-
tunately the widow of the late Rajah thought she had cause
to be discontented with the treatment she had received
from the East India Company, and considered it a grie-
vance that she had been deprived of the reversion of her
husband's dignit. She joined her cause with that of the
mutineers, gave them some artillery, with which they
breached the gate of the fort ; after which they assaulted
and carried it, and massacred all that were inside. A re•
lation of the Ranee was placed in power by the sepoys,
who then proceeded to Cawnpore, where they were joined
by the 10th Native Infantry from Furruckabad, a regiment
guilty of no innocent blood, having been content with
sacking the treasure, and dismissing their officers scathe-
less. A tew soldiers, indeed, stood by the officers, and
enabled them to retire safely into the fort of Furruckabad.
To these mutineers we may have to add the 3rd Irregular
Cavalry, 31st Bengal Native Infantry, and 41st Light
Infantry from Saugor, regiments which raised the standard
of rebellion after pretending, like the lith at Allahabad,
that they were stanch, and desirous of showing their
prowess against the mutineers.
Colonel Neile, who had attacked and beaten the
rebels at Allahabad, had opened communications
with Cawnpore on the 24th June, and was about to
advance to Sir H. Wheeler's relief so soon as he
could collect together a force sufficiently strong to
clear the road and maintain his communications.
The battle at Allahabad upon the 11th June was a
gallant affair:—

On the 11th Colonel Neile, of the Madras Fusiliers,
reached Allahabad, and fresh troops came up from Benares
in the steamers Coel, Sir Charles Allan, and Jumna. The
ladies and children were removed as soon as possible, and
sent down by the Sir Charles Allan to Calcutta. Colonel
Neile then called together the whole staff of officers, and
made arrangenteot-o f' o• taking the city from the rebels.
The guns of the fort opened fire with round shot on Dark-
gunge, a suburb on the right bank of the river, chiefly
inhabited by Brahmins. After eighteen or twenty rounds
bad been fired, a detachment of sixty Madras Fusiliers,
forty of the 3rd Irregular Cavalry (all that remained loyal
out of 150), and three companies of Sikhs, advanced nut
of the place, and swept the mutineers before them,
bayoneting all that came within their reach, whilst the
Irregulars sabred those who fled. Daragunge was thus
cleared in a very short time, and the Sikhs encamped on
the ground near the fort. The 33th and 14th were spent
in organising a second attack on other quarters, the rebels
mustering very strong and numerous; so great, indeed,
was their confidence that on the 15th they attacked the
Sikhs with great vigour ; they were quickly repulsed, and
at gunfire (eleven o'clock), a howitzer having been placed
on board of the steamer Jumna, with a detachment of
Madras Fusiliers, the stronghold of the Brahmins, Pran-
gureltolah, and Duriabad, the suburb; inhabited by the
Pathan Mahomedans, were set on fire and gutted, many
people being killed in the course of the operation. In an•
other direction the Sikh regiment of Ferozepore and fifty
Madras Fusiliers advanced and set fire to a part of the
town in which the rebels had thrown up an intrenched
work, under the direction of a fanatical Moulvie (priest).
The Sikhs advanced with the greatest bravery against the
position of the insurgents, covering in excellent style the
handful of Englishmen, when they retired from the contest.
'the position was entered, and a fierce battle fought.
Several of the chief men under the Moulvie, or priest of
the weaver caste, and 300 of his followers were killed. Our
force retired without taking the position, but the Moulvie
had had enough of it. He fled with the remnant of his
followers in the night, leaving a large quantity of provi-
sions behind in the intrenched position. Two guns taken
away by the fith Native Infantry were recovered. On the
11;th the whole of Allahabad was in Colonel Neile's posses•
sion.—D. News cor.

At Lu,...know, Sir Henry Lawrence continued shut
up and surrounded by a strong force of rebels. Up
to the 21st June he had not been attacked, and
happily had thus been permitted to complete his
defensive arrangements.
From Bareilly and Mooradabad details have been
scanty since the mutinies. The subadar at Bareilly
is reported to have assumed command of the rebel
forces, and to ride about in the carriages of the unfor-
tunate Brigadier Sibbald, followed by a numerous staff
in the buggies of the officers. The supreme com-
mand of Rohilcund has been taken by Khan Bahadoor
Khan, who assumed the title of king, and inaugurated
his reign by the massacre of all the inhabitants of a
native Christian village, a few miles from Bareilly.
Since the mutiny, a body of insurgents has marched
towards the Ganges, to a place in the Ghauts called
Gurmuktesur, and a large body of Oude mutineers
have crossed the Ganges and Jumna and encamped
at Khoorja, at the point where the Agra road sepa-
rates into two branches, one leading to Delhi, the
other to Meerut, through Boolundshuhur. At the
leafr place also a body of Gude insurgents has taken
up its quarters, and the Europeans have fled into
111 eerut.

The Neemuch mutineers have not stirred, and
still remained, according to the latest news, about
fifty miles from Nusseerabad, waiting to be joined
by the oontingents of Melaidpore, tolnywar, Indore,