The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

THE CAPTURE OP DRUM

11TILACT or a LIMY Flat a sear? 011PICEIL
DELHI, earl. 17.
• • • I believe the intention is to get into the
city this way, turning the enemy out with shot and
shell, so as to expose our menu little as possible, for
we have not many lives that we can afford to risk.
I fear from the way that people speak in the Houses
regarding affairs here that there is much misappre•
! hension as to our numbers and the. difficulties that
there arein the way of taking Delhi. I went over
the ground this morning where the assaulting
columns advanced, and none, I think, but British
troops could have carried the place, while the
obstacles there were in the way of making the advanced
batteries with our insufficient forte must have been
almost insurmountable. our Engineers and Artillery
are deserving of every praise, and so indeed are all
branches of the army—and I wily wish that thou
Rho have been dec7ing this little army and talking
of the ease with which Delhi was to be taken could
but pay it a priming visit. There has been no such
tough work, it is my opinion, since we first came to
India. As to the strength of our force, I had a
tabular statement made to show how we stood at
different dates on the Bth. You see. when we made
the first advance we had less than two thoviaand
European bayonets, sad of them about two
hundred must have been put hors de combat
in the action of Bedlee Ra Berm, when poor Chester
was killed. To have tried to enter the city that day
with the irregulars would have been mere madness ;
though many blame General Barnard for not
attempting it, and talk of Gillespie's gallantry in
rushing into Venom. Had we gone beyond the
position we took up on the ridge, we should pro-
Way have loot half our fares and all our baggage.
Them was such a howl and outcry, however, from
every quarter about the absolute necessity of taking
Delhi at once, and General Barnard was so urged on
by one or two hot spirits in camp, who were always
talking of the British spirit of the days of Clive
—that he decided that en assault should come off on
the 13th of June. Yon will see what our
force was on that date ; and with it we
had not only to take and keep the city
but to guard our large camp. Fortunately some
accident occurred to delay a portion of the force, and
the attack was postponed. You will see by the
return that troops dune in to join us from time to
, time in driblets, but we had never till the 3rd of
August anything like a decent force with which to
carry on operations ; and the wonder to me is, our
coming off so well as we have done—end this will be
the universal impression when all is known about
the siege. Wilson has shown himself a very good
man for the occasion.

r meterday ea offiam and myself had taken a party of 20
leis oat patrolling, sad we found 14 women with their
&mate out from ear to ear by their own husband., and kid
out in tbak shawl.. We caught a man theta who said he
saw the killed for fear they should fall into oar bands,
and showed as their husbands, who had done the beet thing
they cord afterwards, and killed themaelves. We took
about 280 cannon, with shot, fee., for about three
year.. Without artillery they are no good; with it no
despicable antagonists. There are no better gumless any-
where, as we discovered In this siege. By returns we lost
1,360 men and 64 officers during the meaulta only.
Tolerably bloody work. Our lou in the aseault, out of 18
officers on duty, was 1 oN,er killed (poor Tautly), 10
wounded, many severely; one, I fear, mortally; 1 the day
before the result, 1 after. Total 13, out of 18; a tolerable
number, for there were 7 or 8 who were on another part
of the work whom I don't count, and who are cm the
strength to mart the unhappy remaining 6 new. lam
glad to say there is not mach work for no jug now. At
present, indeed, cat up se we have been, we could sot do It
if we had much; sa, what with officers thoroughly done op
roe with fever, and other amt out with moveable
columns, our 20 for duty are traced to 4.

Nicholson is out and out his best Brigadier; and
this rather militates against the arguments they are
ming in the Home as to the impropriety of
employing military men in civil capacities, for
Nicholson has for many years been employed in the
Pttnjaub civil service.
You may rely on the accuracy of the return ; and I
dare my that the numbers entered on the sth as
" St for duty " will be very much the same as we
bad on the 14th, the day of the assault; for though
Wyld's cores of Sikhs and two or three hundred
Europeans Joined in the interval, the sick increased
up to about 3,000, and there were a good many
casualties in the intervening period. Sickness is
now, I am happy to say, on the decrease, and the
men are coming out of hospital. I wish the mail
was a few days later in leaving, that we might tell
you of our occupying the Palace, and this we expect
to do in three or four days. There Is said to be only
one regiment of mutineers there. Several Sepoys
tried to paw oar guard this morning disguised as
women. They were instantly shot.

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Of th. Wire artillery nod tevary preeent with the force
en the Bth Jane It wee Mei to disarm a consi-
derable portion. Since the ill Sept. yid's regiment of
Sikhs hare joined the keen ; sloths Ana Contingent, of
about 800 strong, and pert el the Cashmere Contingent, of
shoat 2,000, hare joined. The sorbs of tack and wounded
ammanted to stout 2,600 en the Ilth Sept.

THE STORM OF DELIII.
The following is from an Engineer officer:
TM Camp, Sept. 21 to apt. 27.

Ha we are at Ise, theiliOod I having kicked out those
proala seek and crop, after a twelve days' attack. The 14th
was dm 'duds( day, so I tolb you, garnet knocked over
dee day bale= which prevented my being present. We lost
=owl 64 caws and 1,100 men out of 3,000 who went in.
flair non may there never was harder fighting, and when
we got =Me the brutes disputed every inch, till yesterday
woo Mild din out of the pekoe, charged, and took it with
so ben =dell the %Mains in the city bolted ; it le all ours
sew. Our men have bees really most humane; they would
sat k a single man who was not a sepoy, and lam glad to
any nab a won= or child wee touched; bat when I saw
shindy inisa of men, the very class who committed all the
idrentisa, allowed to pus out, I could not help wishing
NM of the soldiers would strive their bayonets through
lbws; bat I did not say ao out load, as they are very apt to
lake yea at year word. _

An officer of her Majesty's 52nd Light Infantry,
writing from Delhi on the 22nd of September, lays
The woended men are ell going on beautifully, and the
weather Is ottanyaratirsly cool. Fever la dleappeering, sisal
the aim 'we eosin out of hospital. At ems time tn. hair
actually 340 nee Nick out of about 620; we now have toly
about 160, counting wounded. We lost one aka killed—
Bredehewe, • very fine young fellow, who fall charging
gun In the streets.

Sept. 23.
We here all moved down to • capital bowie on the banks
of the raer in the city ; the keen k delightful, and we are
ell getting sa fat and jolly as If we were et home. We ere
getting on capitally; we have got the King—the Feat
Mogul—prisoner, and are only waiting for leave from Cal-
cutta to hang him. His eldest son and hair, Mime Mogul
Beg, a mast infernal scoundrel, who set the example of
murdering the Europeans, wee caught and shot Isle a dog,
and him eon, • man of about twenty years old, as well as
Me King's mixed son, Minis brother. I sew an the three
bodies exposed In the Kotwalle the morning. I am happy
to my we are not so lenient es we were. Two of our native
Sapper, were murdered in the city, en we went out and
heated op about 60 or 60 men—thorough rascals, and our
men have been shooting them ever since. I maw 24
hawked over, all tied together agelnet the wells; end
when yon hear those wretches, when they me they bays
me ebence, coolly tell you, " Well, you easy shoot ens if you
leis; I killed flues Europeans in the glorious mammas,"
yea lan all honor at the sight, and only wish they had me'
• to take then all. Only four Victoria Crosses have yet
been emu in the army—one to Lieutenant Home, Kn.
timers; one to Lieutenant Spiked, Engineers; one to
sormat &Met, Sappers and Miners; end one to a bugler
`leer Ideinty's 62aL Se you see we got three out of the
her in ear mans Pear Seibold la so badly wounded lem
Avid he will never wear his. However, the red Mend
We been baler than any medicine. lem sues I would have
Oen q brit sees for It, and I might hare bad a chance, as
I elonli west probably have been with Salkeld, blowing up
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the night helm • • • We are wonderfully comfortable
In err caw lame; It was • powder manufactory in the days
of the Mogul, and conequently our servants aotidentally
Mew an up the other day, and killed one of themselves.
Jut dens little excitements are neeemery. Aber leas
lame mestha every day under lire, the change fe so glee*
Oa
we ewe thinking of paying men to flee et se deny,
Mal so at inrealves down to a quiet life by degrees . .
I boa gfv up walking shoat the Leek arab of

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1857.

navigably dark night), sad to carry money and sr= to their
disarmed friends at Hyderabad, where about a week before
the artillery affair had &red up, and our good Brigadier
Mortis had run therms into Hyderabad fort before the men
could got at therm Shikapore is where Captain More •
wither now commands part of the &inde Horse, and General
Scott bid mot some artillery to strengthen that garrison.
Theme were at 'furniture guns, to which some of the
Meropeekinfantry had been fur a few weeks' training, which
mese= materially aided proceedings, I am told. Ladies
may blunder in attempting any detail of measures
adopted fur defence, but their grateful &arta, as
ludla now in must be the drat to render thanks
for a pod sad good Providence watching over Made ; and
Dreg knees also pray for blessings on all the authorities, and

en our very sleet gelliral.
The Ski:tame mutiny wee the lad to occur, and its
*kit bed bran somewhat checked by the dire examples made
at the relish hers, sad the utter &het tithe plot et Hydsra-
bed—a plot which, at the latter piece, had commenced, and
if carried ont, would have united the 21st Native Infantry
plunderer with the Artillery madmen at Hyderabad, also
at Sllkapore, end then the robber tribes on the frontier,
with innumerable hone, were to have come down to juin the
ineurgents. The chi* either hone worriers are mentioned
by Rir C. Napier, "Anse Kbess," sad " Dhil Mond." They
now have the honour of being our prisoners, on board the
ship Fartse, on their voyage to Bombay. The orders were
to mod them there.

Its hap:mita, not to weeder to ewe rejoicing at the man-
sir he which &Ude bee Went* been held with dignity ,
and we pray to preserve it so, all the more easily when move
Quoen'e regiments are at the ganerers dispond. lie seems
particularly to congratulate himself upon the circumstance in
hie division of the insurgent attempts being decidedly
thwarted without shedding European blood. Not one drop
has flowed in Setae. Yet it bee been necemery to make
summary examples of rebels °convicted under courts mutat
here, and executed on panda in the memos of the general.
On the 20th and 21st September the capture of Delhi was
complete. It has been occupied by the rebels dace the 11th
of lam May.