The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES IN IN-DTA.

The following is an extract from a letter from an
Artillery officer, dated Peshawar, June 26 :
" We have teemed here a beentital 6-pounder hour bet-
tery, with 160 Eu►opsan. attached, the only battery in
India in which the drivers we not natitee ; 74 ride and the
rest sit on the gum and wanes ; in three weeks we pm•
cured volunteers, taught Uwe' to ride, and trained 130 borne,
we went 20 nem horses.

" I will net now weary you with mare detail., but change
the eabjeot. Ime always picturing to myself the horror of
people et home when they bear of the successton of *tree'.
ties perpetrated by the scoundrel &pops, end of the narrow
serape we ham had of losing India. We dim:toed the 10th
Irregular Cavalry bore, and then disbanded them for nut
charging the ftlith Native Infantry, who were in open
mutiny, when ordered to do so. We managed to net them
doves, ae they ore °ailed, dismounted within 100 yards of the
gam, sesta party to seise their horse* at their pickets, then
commended them to lay down their arms, then sent searchers
to relieve them of their paraphernalia, made them take of
their mete, then ordered them to take off their boots. Fancy
a meshy regiment bard at work taking off each others' boobs
wader the Maumee of artillery ! Each man was then given
8 swam (12d.), the whole secured, marched off to the river
side, when they are to be embarked in holds and sent down
the Indus, where I expect every mother's son will have e
chance *thing drowsed to the rapids. To-night we pick
out bones to complete the battery front the disbanded
eavithy. We had a night dorm • short time since; you
know we (the ortillery) ell sleep at the gnus. I awoke
end baud boom," booen ;' hearing gnat fired (for
so it •esed) et regular intervals from the fort,
we thought the city had risen, and a night alarm
all through the oudonments was the consequenees;

we were all at our rendezvous in no time. Tbk we;
calmed by the explision of Nilo mines in the city is
beeper a( a wedding. Well, nest morning the persona
maceesed and those who worked at the mines were tied up
and received each a fogging so they will not sally faggot
la them times of drawer and treachery we don't bother our-
'elves about the quirks et law, but hang, shoot, or flog sr air-
CUMAIMICIS arks. We Mend !mammas hero. The Omura
swears be will mastain
" What a wonderful mercy the telegraph communication
. _ . . .

be. bees kept up la the Paaj;tr ; here i; isuse it we. put to:
—A letter we. intercepted at Predee, which said, • Three
madras of high reek (giving name.) at In council to-
morrow to decide what to do egairrat the English.' Tele-
graph mid, Let a spy Weed and report.' This we. dose,
sad is a lbw urinates after the outlaws of the plot were beiter
Lawmen. Telegraph age* 'Haag them Jl Woe Is
MOM minutes wore they were bung. Short work."

The following letter is from an officer of the
Guides :
"BEFORE TILE WALLS OF DELHI, Jura 11.

" I wrote you lag 'south that the Guides were ordered
doers to Bevel Piadee. On arriving thew we were ordered
to Dad, when we now ere ; we arrived here ou the morn-
ing of the 9th, having secomplished a dietarice of 600 miles
is 22 drys—not bad marching fur the middle of the hot
weather. We got aa immense deal of praise, in the *hope of
a long brigade order, iesutd by the new Commander-in-Chief.

We had ;most frightful mach down, sa you can well sup-
pose, and for the first lime in ray life 1 found out the real
meaning of the term ' roughing it.' The state of sinks
here you will, no doubt, have heard of, and of the
mutiny of the native troops. Delhi is strongly fortified,
and hell by • large Ludy of mutineers, most probably
5,000 or more men. They are already quarrelling fear-
tally among themselves, and hanging and cutting each
other down, each suspecting hie neighbour. However, •
large body stand together; these have fortified the town of
Delhi very strongly; they cubist of our artillerymen, ca-
miry, and savoys. On our side about 3,000 &popes= and
or two regiments of Bengal European luailegve, • good
strong fares of Horse and Font Artillery (European), the
Obits, sad the Simon Battalion. Several 83th and Pun-
jabi regiments are on their way down front the Peshawar
frontier, so that in • very short time we may wiped to have
afore' aeons 16,000 men, with the six mileposts from Cal-
cutta. A battle we. fought the day before we joined head.
quarters between our bruin and the mutineers ; the latter
were in an intresehed camp some four miles from Delhi, on
the Umballa rood, sad were driven bock into Delhi
by our troops, after five boars' fight, with • loss of
omen guns sod • great number of their men. Our
kb, lam sorry to say, was very great but when one con-
! sisters that the mutineers are all our own trained soldier, of
every breach of the service it is not to be wondered at that
they serve thengses well and about true with their samitets ;
they will not, however, stand for • band-to-hand kid, bet
fly inereediately. Our camp is now about a mile and • half
from the walks of Delhi ; we have an miaowed position
about half • stile farther on, in the shape of • largo bum
ea the top of • high hill, which commands the city will;
nest this house we have three batteries, which play
on the city all day and sight ; for the protection of
these batteries • force consisting of the (lades and
the Simoor Battalion, together with three companies of
the 60th Rifle's, are stationed near the batteries end in the
close round about the house. The mutineers on their side
have throe batteries playing on os all day and night too.
• very few of them shuts come into camp, which is luckily
too far away end partly protected by • bill , but on the
house and all mood the bane when our advanced Nation
Is, the round shot, bomb ;hello, end shrapnel are flying and
bunting all day and night. Luckily the house is a splen-
didly built pucka (brick) one, and not only offer& shelter
fee all our men, but stands the banging sod knocking
about In gallant style, so that, although we are literally
order fire all the twenty-four hours mend, still the cmual-
Um newsy few,considering all things. The mutineers gene-
rally may out every afternoon with a couple of guns and
some cavalry the greeter portion of them, however, being
infantry. Tien gentletne,a come skirmishing op towards
nue big house, between which and one part of the city is
some very bay rocky ground, covered with brushwood;
sneaking up behind the r the and otones these soolindrela
come, and when near the house we have to sally out and
drive them bock; on the atiornonn of the 9th, rho day we
arrived, • leery large body of the villain. came sin, and we
had some very ahsrp (*bangle drive them back. Poor young
Batty, wen, I sat sorry to my, mortally wounded through
the ete, the ban coming out at his beck. lie lived
21 hones only, and we buried him yesterday morning. A
more gallant soldier never lived. Daly, our commandant,
was cut through the boot, sod a slight scratch made on his
instep. I was slightly wounded in two places—one a sword
cut arose my olds and lower part of my cheek, and
the other acmes my loft hip, a little below the bone.
Both cane sr, is denesseo, end healing up quickly.
The way I got thin was Mis wee akurnishing along
with a somber Of Ma, mil WI helped to pepper the male
mews oat of the msky pm* very nearly down to the city
walls, when mailiesipa very sharp to indeed wee directed
en
so from sorer plats Is front. I nulled on, ceiling on the
men to follow. ASA, running up about 50 yards I suddenly
cam up with of commandant and • few men honed to
trent eta steep age of rocks (which formed • spheadlit
beenstworl), end over which Daly was unable to scramble,laving Om fiew ems to fume the pardon, so that my rein-
Ihrsomenit wen AM what wee wanted. Even then we had
sash a sharp des me us that it appeared doubtful whetter we
meld meal& up the twasetwte* in the Mee of It, es the
ridge d rocks aimed dews towards the enemy, sad was a
Sitl• pemeraddenlos en ear side. Up the elope the many
annosomelog,6iemedileir Om and then back again to teed.
=lliowswes ad allots deliver a shot and weregettlng
weer inset senelly. Tooter re minute, in that position
erne seal dm& Is me sit, ao Daly and I drew our swords
end mesa up ilme main with • hoorah ; • yell from behind
loM us sir nem wets rrßsg us_ as quickly se they could ;
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