The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-05 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF MOOLTAN.

The town, awe before stated, was captured on the 2nd of
Janus Our paean intelligence extends to the 22nd
Januar,, but kis mossier, to go back and take up the tale
at the b-einning of the month, the accounts of the fall of the
town b,, n at the date of our former issue been so meagre,
sad have reeked as a mar the day of despatch, as to have
ream d us &lag anything like a tolerably full or accurate
view of lie state of slake. The rumours of the misconduct
▪ the 11..nral erpoye,explaintag as it does mach of the delay
that ha...eamd, are new fully ecedirieed : and the impres •
is th,, convey of • portion of the native army which nen-
wh.n ordered to an unpleasant location, and refuses
nagether to work in the trenches, or to perform any
gay but that of tlag, is a most unpleasant me. They
have n. only declined to work themselves, but have so
awed at and Irritated the Bombay troops, who are al ways
ready i. obey order', however arduous or difficult, that
Brigadier Deader has found himself compelled formally to
reensaatree, and kw' firmly declined to comply with the
wink of the general to recall his restestrunce. We for-
merly mentioned that Coi. Cheeps of the Bengal En-
gears cad recommended the town to be approached by
regular parallels and captured amt, without regard to the
bet Neu Scott, of the Bombay &leasers, gave pee.
Moly ta opposite advice ; he reessameased the MA to be
tam by approaches, as the town, which was com-
mended by it, must fell as • aseemary consequence cm
▪ rapture—the slate of the tows most mean= the
eavifiea of much time and assay nimble lives, and could
hews no effect whatever ea the fate of the fortress or ass
pilnew or This meanas w overruled and est
iside—with wCrelosik. Is will pre by appear.
Oa the let d Jas. two breathes ware made—balk pre-
seamed pregnable by the Bengal, one a them declared
isprecticable by the Bombay, Beeman. Ageism the
biro of them se knurly stated, • column, consistag of
he Majesty's 32M, sad 49th, and 72nd Native lufastry,
vein C 4onel Freaks, was despatched. On approaching it
they found It stoutly defended—the aperture esfabl shed was
air lure moues to admit the entranceof one am at
a due, sad hued it was en enelensolisked wall twelft-
h* feet in perpendicular height. The comma, iladiftg all
hither attempts unavailing, withdrew from the point of
Mak, sad, serving rapidly round to the other side of
the town, mitered where the Bombay troops had pe-
aled them. The Bombay column wee led by Colossi
Sinker. It assisted of the Ist Fusilier's?: the 3rd,
4th (Bales), and 19th Native Wintry. left their
Sae ea storming facia about two, and by three
o'clock arrived in tie neighbourhood of the breath, rested
lees assent in the shelter of some old buildiap to take
heath he the Mal which wee a Mow. The order was
new gives to sehasm, sad the aesemat they showed them-
selves dear albs shelter • lessmadeus fire was opened on
gnu hem ail legglieke in the right gad left from the
week called the ggeemilktorj, and from the mot of the breach
Inslf, whisk was crowded with armed MIL The rush of the
tro,ps was bemilible—Capt. Leith's commay of the Fon-
lers Maeda MEW Eke a wall, sad the others' sempeake is
anowesion NMI in hest and began the feast. TM satire
Peeps meal alio by side along with the Europeans. Capt.
Leith ma the Ilse man whi, apared on the summit of tie
sell—a tromenfina maltase lopped off his arm and grated
his side, but Whole bring hiss to the ground ; with his sword
cleaved the skulls of a couple et Sikhs who were
snallias aka, when he was tamed by his am. A Ilene
Iseitilto-hand encounter hers ensued. It war, however, of
Men duratke. Sergeant Bennett sup to the summit
of the wall, sad waved the tak pranger which Ise carried, in evi-
dence that the town was won. A perfect storm of bullets for
a time lew snood him ; the colour was torn to tatters, nod
the staff almost cut In two. For en instant so one could
Math hint, bat there he stood sheering his comrades to come
es. Than was no need of exhortation—onward they pressed,
as essay retiring doggedly before them, fighting as they
'tuglidrew. A serreantmejor of the same pliant corps
W been the OM who eased the British colours on the
ads Seriagapatant he
of the alf • osatary ago.
I the man alot mid next day a number of
▪ n
recurred, by old* many Barn were lost. A
sack had been spread in the open air for Col. Stalker,'
who preferred to walk about watching the state of affairs
is the coil night air : he had scarcely withdrawn himself
her his intended place of rest, when the couch and all its
mpnr.enances and attendants were seen high in the air •
gsnpowder stole having exploded under them. The fr46t-
fal spectacle presented by the pile, of dead scattered about
heath the town—the shivered limbs and mangled bode'
wash our shells had occasioned, and the ghastly wounds of
stmt 'WI surviving—were awful to behold. It wee now
hind. moreover, that the capture of the city had in 03 way
improred our prospects of getting into the fort, which was
nowhere showy than on the side next the town.
g•er operations, therefore, required to be atom
semi, and parallels were immediately brew to be
esastrui ted within 600 yards of the walls. Moolrej plied
his miller, as briskly, and offered es stout a reektanee, as
ee". Our batteries were ones more opened with as mash
rigour and as little outer as ever—when it seemed as if the
mad wells were incapable of being breathed by any ordinary
genes of eractiee. Even should a breach be established, a
nal
.stureended the Tott forty feet in width, and twenty-five
11.4 dap the Might of the wall from the bottom of the
eget dwell nigh fifty het. Mining was now determined
re he Old, and three shafts wereaccordingly begun to
be ran in the (linden of the treaatesesrp, running' from
the bastion to near the Dowlet gabs of the town: It was
believed that the whole would be so shaken by the explo-
sion that tits establiahnent of a breath would be compses-
te_hi 1,.
~17 easy. The fint thing, however, was, as fu as period-
= .to have the ditch filled up ; and the mines were exploded
as the 15th ender the crest of the glans, by which the winder-
`tiampbPly blown in. One of the most • dell
oumemess eon Dieted with this mat extraordinary doge
lhis, the up to the 15th of January, or three wan
en er the resumption of the most active operations, the town
le never bees invested. The horse and cattle of Eloolraj
re sect daily peering out sod in by • postern, and water-
log at a pool mar our lice. By the same path, provisions
dal kulde were taken is, end the enemy enjoyed as free in

• We give this as a callosity in its way it mut have tra-
velled at a very leisurely pace, the distance betwixt the canape
et the Commander-in-Chief and Goversor-Genual being
Wet 120 miles—the time occupied by the exprem, imp-
loring it to base bet n despatched ow the 14th, the day Wl'
the battle, being three days! Of armee the official despatches
have not yet been published : the rose of stopping the malls
From camp has For
a complete fanny., though it so fat
'weeded that for are* days they. wars no tiding, from the
.1•211 ,This notification will be band amongst the official
•Peeeliesl

intercourse with their friends without as it there had b. en
no hostilities inprogrer . On V:. 17th, the crder was pub
lished prohibiting all ingress and egress to or from the fort.
Dimmers beian once more to come Into camp ; they spoke
of the determination of Mooing to defend himself to tie last.
*ad stated that the garrison was now reduced to sheet 1,000
men. Lieut. Graham, of the artillery, was wounded on the
17th—severely is the head, but was at latest data doing well.
The wounded met and officers of the Bombay Goiania
were on the 19th embarked se the Beset flat for transport
down the river to Ssuraithe• ; they an sampled a week
bean at Bombay. most of the ahandiel Mesta MITT doing
well. Lieut. Dyett, weesmied m the spritDseraber, it was
hared would lose his ann. Copt. DAV TM hiller,. suf-
fered mash from the wound I. his t era, the ball not
hazing been extracted : habad het hie Our heavyteed
and howitzer batteries Ind Ilinsh sheik whisk
themselves in the works end Asa den the work
of mines. The hp bad by the ef the lath reached
the edge of the ditches aml the dolt was eshameend the same
maim. TM walls em boodles saw bsgaa le lets k sorely
!battered eTtort:::, =e. :w =del, inaile..-env ph
they bad ruthrgese. Ambusiders fens the fort had
two or three times visited our cusp, on the pert of Mool-
nj, with proposals for a coaditional surrooder ; Tiertz
heath they were told that no toms would be
sad that wiring bat ea nneenditieemi threader would be
accepted oE The 220 d was the day armed as that ea whisk
the fort would be shmei in ease ewe immeed he not com-
plied with. The belitailas gam wise heimerbile kept in fall
Mics, aad Inentecisas him dshills" were oontlnsh
enace,., Two lasosese Wire practicable on the
p=ses
21st. god TS AN el MT ear troops were formed
for the ..salt, tubes wadi aeon to have been at
length tended at the mat for his dertraction,
aa4 INTIVIIIIESTIMI , mil the elladol with its garrison el
hem 3,601) to 4,6ollasen, whondit iostally into our hands.
Titre tonalitsd the doge of Mooltaa, which had been com-
menced by Gemoral Which in the beginning of September,
and east us the lives of eleven ofßcers, and not fewer, per-
haps, than from 2io to 300 men; with. 47 officers and some
hawks de of men wounded.

SIIMILILNDBB OF ATTOCK.
Attack has al Mee into the hands of the enemy.
The fidelity of Se had been tried too far. Whea
they found Nip the kmlay Tines) a British army of
24.000 MIS lige agransetly to move beyond its lines, whiletheir own gennegymen
tal, and tgasenn was wer
gile
kias nnorating from the weeders'
capis MlNlllstik every side, th
threw open the gam seinigalitad Oa maga en
el Cahoot. Theye
Affghans, ft is asid, yinamiarei tin lawn and violated the
women. Lieut. IMAM foie ea Inisavour to escape down
the Indus, bat fell into the basis of Chatter Singh. Capt.
Abbott is still at large, but there nee an recent tidings of his
whereabouts. Major and Mrs. Lomat*, and their chil-
dren, are is the power of the rebel chief. It is said Sir H.
Inwreace is very anxious to prevent Doet Maimed obtain-
ing poseruion of his brother, as he has ea " ancient grudge
against Mee, which he would not fail to " feed fat
were he to secure his person. The Dost himself
is said to be on the banks of the Indus, watching the
progress of events. Strong reports are still &fined
of a close league having been formed between the Mi-
ght= and Sikhs, but it is certain that the former have
not given the latter what they must want more
than all—armed aid. The general opinion sew to be, that
if the ruler of Cabool can get our consent to the reteation of
Peshawar, he will be satisfied ; it is diMeale, however, to
fathom the depths of Oriental avarice or to trace out the
windings of Oriental intrigue. A late letter from the north
says that the Massubnan chiefs of Peshawar have formally
conferred on Dint Mahomed the title of Defender of the
Mahomedan Faith.

—it;o7tttieliftit, intelligence was received at Bombay, by
Herat, that a body of Affghans, 12,000 strongt with 17 gum
had starched from Caudally, and were es their way through
the Bonn P. to attack Shikarpore and Lsrkhana. Four
regiments were immediately ordered up, and Bombay was
for a tine immediately stripped of Baropeen troops. Eight
thousand mess had been sent up from Schad. to nooltan ; the
country ?melted to be reinforced, to bring the garrison up to
close on 12,000., exclusive of the armed police. The alarm
proved groundless.