The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

FORT AORA.

The f,ll,Aiiing ere a fen extract. from an interesting letter
esesind by a lady in Norwich from a relative Is hills
" Fort Ar., J. 17 15.

. . The room, 21 feel by 13, whklim7oher:father,
sad I occupy, is surrounded on Ante sides , and under all
Weds of cover lie men, women, and &Wm exhausted with
lbw fatigues they have undergone. The Ineurgesis attacked
Ibis Marko one the weenies of the 3rd. Keay amempt as
with a party of 500 seen of the 3rd liaropesa Reigianemt,
sallied forth to meet them, rad after a bloody kettle sus was
Wised uhimately to Mont. We, however, killed habeas
of the mutinouo sepop, who wen 10(1141 thoiwands Mug.
Great as were their numbers yet still the cowards Mimi&
. . The meals burnt the station to the gra&
alter which the bad characters moonset the Poen
looted it. . . From such another engsgemisei
may God keep me, for up to the very hat we.
say mord one scarlet mimic . . The seamaks be.
Cawnpore are very melancholy. . . Brigadier Ins*"
with the other reettlenta were so heed pushed that Asylums
compelled to pay 20 rupee for a (part of weber as Ihro
rupee* fora loaf of bread. We have each a peek of old pone
in some of the authorities here that really, were it sot he
the head of Providence, we should have teen butchered loft
ery this Will you believe those benteaeet• governor, b4.C44
mu, proposed that we should pick out a thousand from the
seat-thrista in the goof hese, and keep them in the lost
flandary and other purpose compel us to employ neer 1,400
native. in the fort, and had they received ea ear-
bon of a thonssnd rascal. from the gaol, for whom brag-
ig was too good, we should long en now every ow
of us have barn cut od from tiee face of the earth. . . Our
forces have had fifteen pit, lied battles with the inearpain
before Delhi, and always with emcee cm our eide. . . As
reinforeseents have now jained our forces, the city will in all
potability fall in the course of another week. At the battle
of 81tahgcoss fought within five miles of this place, we lost
early 150 are. Oar camber of fighting men in ',mina
sew annuals to 1,100, including civilises and other.. .

We hove lost the 'whole of ths Lieth-wt hornier, end meet
acceaqoar it all SOUL it will prom a bitter pill for the
Court of Directors to swallow, mad nothing would give ire
patter pleasure then to hear that they bare been deprived el
oil control over Indian affairs. Through their et:monde/a;
principles we, with thou...ands of others, have been ruined, and
It will prove but little satisfactory when told wiz moothe
limes that we east with safety go into the district sad re-
ams sae dolly °emplace, sad perhaps make op by years of
tad end lamer 2/1 we have Let through their ignorance and
want of foreolgbt. no Commuiderda-Chief, with many
eid milatimp rise, win told ail menthe ago that satiny wee
Wwwiag mune the sopoye, bat they me and al/ turned •
drat see to ell sorb reports They mad out men from hams
iiporent of the drat requisite—eksowledge of the kV rage—
Is hold memaissiosis in the army, sad to be • leogttiog-stork
be the savoys To give you ea if.. of the Wars of the
metherritime hem to bold respoosible impahitmenee. I most
toil you that we bed 4,000 oe 6,000 primroses in the pal. la-
mbed of smorldiag three all over the Wigs amass the Jamie
owl then banking up the bridge, they wire an hot lama as
as atatam, and the bridge spinal a taw hems attar to the
dims. in Marge. Thum wee the whole sagas overrun by
met-throats.••

For Agra, July 13.
" At 12 o'clock on Sunday (the .31h), as news being re.
mired that the mutineers' form wee within six soles of
Agra, the brigadier determined on our few Europeans of
Or 3rd sad the
o&muffiltiaout to meet the enemy at our,.
There ere numbers ofhem now, fugitives from lb.
Merest emigres, end of course they had also to attend.
They met the granny at three o'clock, end oh ' it wee
dreadful to ban the booming of the caisson and the Mow
sat bring, which continued foe eremite of three boors,
Toe may well imagist the state of sanely we were all Is,
knowing bow many must have fallen during the action.
Cunene Campbell, who we on duty la the fort, took Mrs.
Proctor sad myself to the flagstaff henna, where we saw a
rdeal of what wee peened below—sot the ectioa, nil
poultice of the ninny. At drat arm law brought that
we bad he. quite ricturieus ; bet, elm, this lase not true.
Two of our tumbril. blew up, and for want of ammunition
our men had t. make a !Int,* retreat into the fort with the
lsa of 130 killed and moulded. Oh, it was • sad sight
to see the poor wounded men cowing iato the fort. We
.said all see distinctly the retreat of oar troops Theis,
hamediately they were compelled to return the re-
leased primmer. (some 4.000 In number), and all ths
bed nen is the city, besides sowers sad eery., rummer:aid
boring the civil ham, and by 1 o'elock that snorting the
who of the .3gTS cantonments sad clod lime were la flame.
It une a roost appalling sight. It— and J--- were, of
eenese, In the seen, sad our iselingis of tbankfulame as
enneely he i=iaed when we saw them return In sat
Olken who been present donee aliment all the tattles
the Setlej seer remember being under heavier (Irina. That
night this enemy left Aims Ss Munro, nod are atilt herring
about thin; but everything is Impend for • sin month.' so-
jeers hem and I ing Wm that we hope to have reintirce-
meat. of lemmas troops. We are leadiag • very unsettled,
ahip-like kind of ,nome is allowed to Imre the fort, intent
lodise deemed men. We are being in • place they call the
'Paleakyanl; it ie • square, with • gallery mead It, with
wed arches. Evry married ronple ors silkered two arches.
Oh. bow eannual) we ere luokine for the arrival of mere re-
Cte. Delhi hoe sot yet fallen. Our small army has
e:w cos month before the city, mid we bops daily to
be thee ear tempi ham entered It. ?timely eery keenest
Sat ham mutiniedies Innnedietely started of fur Deihl, so
you may tangier( what overehelming forces our few tri.
Mee had to contend with. . . . Would that I could
ale Pm: bow much 1 have to soy; the events of the last
two menthe would lake en • day to relate. The Gentiles regi-
men ham ant *deemed on Agra, as we at But apprehended
they would, but are busy fighting over the veil. It is
tether hard to think that we have loot everytldsg
we ern prised, and that nearly all the peepie kem
tYi oat stations are Megan. What I most
me the daguenvety pee sad polo...,Wane, an r=
little D—'s picture too ; I here nut one relk of his. left to
on,. poor little pet. The Stewart& veers both killed sa that
terrible night, the 14th of last month, end their
Child we rat down by a Sower. Poor little Charthe
'ken, • dear little child, le here in the fort, cinder the cam
of sane kind friends. Mee arrived last night that lakes
had halm so the ninny is. spreading Nether smith. I ear
mot write connectedly, there vs melt a sane, sad our miens
hare been no cock: Jed and exited tie each • long time poet
I find it difficult to write dearly. The sews of the onkel of
the China force at Caketta reached as yesterday and eheind
as oil a good deal, in two month& gum right, they ought
to Iv hem • • • The heat at times be very peat, ad
we have sone of our home comfort*: sometime the serveate
take fnght. and we are left without any one for two or three
day.. and have to cook sod do everything he oureelme.
• • • • We never reek,* as, knees, and the cedway
for geutlenien to bear from their who oa the hills lei.trust a letter to *me beggar, whir rankle • Inge reward V
be can bring back • reply ..My. I pity all ties she on.
ahead trout their husbands just sow, the manly mast be

THE SIEOB OF DELHI.
!Roll • 11111011,111. IV THI ROTH ROTA!. STYLI..
"Cusp, Oiunee de Numr, Jul. 3.
"We arrived here on the morning of the 30th.
At oboist 4 the tame day the iamirreete toot tip II mod eaph
lid ;elation, stint mile from our camp, sad commenced
eriese with somo sm.," heaßy IN My rk.nipally,
• vas ordered in adv.& e, got ko4er A well. end re-
laud the Are la dret-rare order. I fired the first shot