The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVF3IZER 16, 1867.

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INDIAN MUTINIES.

THE
CAPTURE OF DELHI

AND TILE
RELIEF OF LUCKNOW,

(FROM OUR

BOMBAY, Orr. 16.

My last letters conveyed to you
the gratifying la-
telligence that Delhi had fallen. The present will in-
form you of the relief of Lucknow. Them two strong-
holds taken decide the fate of the rebellion, but by
no means conclude our labours in the field. The
enemy, beaten and disorganised on two points, will
probably rally upon others, and afford our troops
saMcient occupation for a few months to come. Fly-
log odium of Sepois on the Matra rood tomy try
their tiMuse at Bliertpere, or seek a temporary mt-
hge la Bohilmind and Dade. Speedy and wen-
Judged isevements may impede the future concentra-
tion of the Delhi rebels on the right bank of the
Jima; bat in Dude resistance will be met, requiring
a display of imposing force.
The Ihll of Delhi, and the disordered flight of its
dethathes, will simplify the movements of our troop
year Havelock and Outrun. It may no longer be
asseesery to fall beck from Locknow on Ca 'upon,
sad if Bir lames can but kold the capital of Owde
until reinforcements enable him to advance, we may
anticipate a speedy conclusion to the cam-
paign. The rapid and unresisting progress of
the Cawnpore force affords Strong proofs that
Issimt and spirit no longer animate the Bepoya.
In the march to Lucknow, the rebels offered slight
reetheses, and fled at our approach, giving up their
ma, lemiag bridges standing which General Have.
loit supposed to have been long since broken. la
the Itrst attempt to relieve Lucknow, every Tillage
was eistaited. In the second no such obstinacy was
met. Future operations will show what hope the
rebels may yet have of successfully resisting Britiah
troops.

In General Neill the service has lost an energetic
officer, who has been made known for the first tiros
to many by this rebellion, though his services in
Barmah had already placed him high in professional
estimation. He will long be remembered in cla-
ss:ion with the rednoticm of Allahabad, the speedy.
energetic memess adopted to advance towards
Cawupore, aad the actions of Futteypore, Cawn-
pore, and Bhittoor, in all of which he behaved with
the greatest gallantry.
The lest swank on Lucknow previous to its relief
is described so a moat fierce and well-conducted one
The enemy were so bold and numerous that they all
bat penetrated the entrenchment. Our soldiers,
who had plenty of shells, threw them by hand with
lighted fuses amongst the enemy, and thus broke the
violence of the attack.

Without stopping to detail other successes which
have bem recorded in the country east of Bemires
and on the borders of Oade, I shall proceed to ex-
plain the movements of our troops after the capture
of Delhi, prefacing these with some most interesting
details of the approaches to the walls, the smelt and
Anal capture of the city. The 'sanative which fol-
lows ia admirably given by an eye-witness, and de-
scribes far better than anything I can gather from
other sources the progress of our troops from the
beginning of September to the smith of the town
as the 14th :

ay the hese* of trepteseher *ye this seeradve) we
retelved themlipe trout trees Permemprie msdbrether Maker
nest et Seretames mad whys tromps hum the Pia, mad
It hi r knows thee there wes so hap of ay mid from dews
essetry for a oteeldreelde firs it yes resolved thot the else
should be .t as eserememd sad pressested with the Mart
*vv.

Our available teas smesslad d rood numbers to 0,600
Shatry, 1,000 snaky, sod NO artillery, Baryons sad
latirea—the ratheemte la camp bang HIV. 9th Laws,
H.Y.'s eh Despea 0104 Odd. Cavalry, Hodpes's
Hansond fleasisaants et the let, bid, sad 6th Punjab
Casday. H.X. a 6th Fool (part of), 62ad Foot; diltk
AIM (pet al), /31st Foot, 7541 Foot, let aad tad Basra
Pseillsts Mesas and Kuala= Balta.:am (Gawkier), 411
Sikh lakailey, Guide lataatry, I.t, 2ad, sad Sh Rayinante
P...b Isissery. Fear troops of Hoer Artillery (Tali.,
larsate, Itanispos'n sad litosalals); two Light Nil
Damella (Biota's sal Dossehiles); mid sons asepniss ed
Foot Astillary altseltsel to tits lap par ; which awabared
geed 00 Wavy pas and braless. ;10 heavy and 12 Wit
mortera

The amen ef tbe Enplanes were any realeled, sot la
Mars bet in asked mat, el when are were only 'boat
120 make &ppm. Somas reapeelem of Mabee Mao
Itail.ltrawrie, teat rapidly raked sad partially trained; sad
a lady el Nair bed also teen aliened, who embed re-
arstrahly tells The park had been at work ke now time
it Wankt mark, sad 10,000 isciate, 111,000 Oka%
end 100,000 mange were ready kr hare openness. 11e11
inagriese, ecelletraiden„ sad owe lam, bed also
Men day prepard, end peat credit is den to Lioweseent
Ykewelew, of the Nergisran, is charge of the park, these
activity dad latelligaae• connibeta net a little to the
*vestal meows a ea operations.

The north Ms beteg- the Me ha he attacked, It ma no
Meld le hold the right la teeth es be se reside, and to
rue the mit Meek es the lea ant, es the river would
maipiebity protect our ark al w minseed ; woad, se
thin me better cony ea eel ; third, es after the
mink the troops meld set dad thiamine immediately ia
ainowetreeis,bat empermlvidy opal ground.

The bat kb@ sttacked-conliski Tire;raCashmere,
sad Went Nakao with the mists vein emectiog them.
These beaker hod been {may Mend end Improved by our
eve enghtems mem yews sd4 red pmented wiggler her
Ned dusk et mesonry with vanity wit untessem ; ths
Wight d tbe wall we 24 Mt seem the greed Mel, a
widcb, however, debt het was s mime pongee 3 hat Mot—
As nematode, brag about her these thst tidal's= ; outride
the well me • very yids berm, NM then a did 16 Mt am
Ned 28 het wide at bottom, essa end emdemserp alseg,
and the latter wird:tad, and Ur brow &Mud with ekes
Ned 8 Mt Is height. A good dogleg gkm cowered the lame
10 het of the wall frees all atheigts et &Mt Meisel..
Oa Mt swig of the 7th %Member, N. 1 adverted
Wary, in two pardons, wee trued sheet 700 mei keen the
Ikree &Mee, lb. right make kr kw peendere sod
sus 11-tech lowliest wee to Mince the Xeres sad prevent
ho interkting with the Meek en the 1011. The
Mt paths her 24-pounders wee intended to bold
the Gamete &Men partially in aka. workkg per-
ths were may dale disterbed daring the night ; ths coverts(
parties to hem hmt the amateur,. at • distaiwo tad nom
tkee yell shoed showers M gas thrown trim ths Mono
Ala knocked seer mess women, wen neelved ea &War
semoysace. By the monis the two porkies et the battery
wen UMW Ned mood, tine* net Needy to fire until
vas* melee : a Mach me she mods connectiag the two
penises Ned ealendieg • little to dm right end left ea se to
give emmentation with • wide end amp mins Mike, oi-
lman very warty up to our lsh Meek, kneed s met et
km perelled, sad pm good cower to the peed at the
to. the &dies, he. For mos time we wee wall
}.rid hem the dens with reeled Mot mad mega bet es
ear gees le the new betta get gmkolly into pity, the
mete. he grow ism wed lose, sad me at Moth completely
t rememed. Thlebakwy limns known es Dries, Meg

warted by that dim with post 'Sect till the eed of the
list&

Oa the evening of the lith and lith, No. 1 battery wee
traced and commenced. To our surprise, in had been
allowed to aim this abated punka at Ludlow Coeds
within GOO yard• lithe dty, without even a fight for it an the
previous day. In hot, thus Is Mtn doubt the essay AIN
thought the attack wee to be ea the right, where ell Ihe
Beaty; hid hitherto hew, sod educe all our old betletbe
were located. Ludlow Gads and the Hoodoos Beet Ines
now °erupted by dress detachments and formed our child
supports to the lett atemit. During the 9th, a sharp lire si
Musketry, shot, and sheiks Inn opined on time yodeler by
the enemy from Si. Jamb In hunt, mid Inn the Oetionese
and Water Brans end the lkilesselt, bat no past dump
vas dam

During the nights cl the oth and 10th, No. 2 WWI vas
completed and partielly armed, but not yet enmeshed. It
we. in two portkao. One immediately in front of Ludlow
Casale for nine 24-pounden to open a broach in the oar-
tain Litwin the Cashmere and Water Widow homed!.
Maly to the left al the Imam, sad to bath off the pampa to
the right sad left ar sr diththoe, se de to give so ewer to
mekatry. The other portion, Knee WO yards to the right,
committing of sea &dm& howitems and two 16powniens,
woe to old the Chet portico, red work with it for the arms
Olt No. 3 battery wee deo conmemeed on the loft, and
1 No. 4 batboy kr 10 heavy =elms angisiol Cr the Zus
sot Dog% hot says* tutokmakol. Woe Tombs ens is
&opd thls %Miry, the Nght aortas* under Cspida
Blot vim afterwards worked from the rear of the Csoloca.
brew

Daring the night of the 10th and 11th No. 2 battery wee
stresertlened, mud, and inessaked, and No. 3 battery com-
pleted. Dais fast was We In the boldest mannar within
180 yuda of ths Wider Bastion behind a mall twined boom
in the Costombensa coraponsd—antl der such • fire og
musketry as tew beiterise ham sew hem erposed to; it was
lar 13-psemien ebbe wire lo miss a wand breeds in
ths Wan Basidea, med was worked by Ilvjer ()sett The
messy As mat es mirk te-sight and mode im rimmed
trench pained to our MA Meech, mid about 360 yards Ns
it, trees whisth at daybreak they opened a viry hot fire of
mak/My, which was maintained throughout the rest of the
liege. They bad prevlonely got some light guns sad one
heavy gun out into the open on our right, which canoed con-
siderable ennoyonce by their enfilade Are.

Oa the 11thour batierim optimd dre, • metro tram the alas
24.ponaders opening the ball, and showing, by the way la
which it brought down the wall in hags fragments, what
sect It might be expected to produce after • few hours.
The Cashatas tuition attempted to reply, but wee quickly
dimmed, and both portions of No. 2 went to work is fins
style, haseidag the bastion sad adjacent curtains to piano
C.ampbell and Kaye, Captains Johann sod Ors;
had temp of No. 2. No. 3, however, did not 0011121=0. Ire
till the knowing day, when the full power of our ardlimy
was shows, end the coatinnous rear of fifty guns and mar
Wa powdag shot and shell on the devoted city wanted the
army that bin and oar time had at length coos. Night and
day noel the maraing of the 144 was this ovwwltelming
firs continued. Bat the mew did set Ist us Iwo it all oar
own way. 71magik Imelda to week aon hen soy of the
three bastions that were se dimly asseilat, they yet etack
to their suns Y ihs span, wide& peethny erlaMd our posi-
tion , they got • goo to bow from a lads kakis opus in the
long cartels wall; they east roasts been ems of thdr Mar-
Milo towers, sad they melnislasd • plant storm of sus.
Ise*, from their advanced WM4I sad lon as City walls.

0s the algid of the lath the them= side dorm and ea-
embed the two breeches awe the GinOM sad Water tar•
thee, sad both bang reported prsegoable, orders for the
weak were at mos hewed, So talus pleat at dogteeth the
talloorthe moralise. _ _

The amagerale ts for th• atomise Imre al Ilelkove

La Coluni—Beigod{or-Olooral tholkollos, bar Xrdootto
71011 Roglowoot, lot Bengal Foailloro, id Pordoolo ladeoloy,
to doom the brooch =or tho Cashews BoOtkoo sod froth&
tho boo of So BoOks. Engineer allows otischod—Lbosio-
soda Yolloy, Log, sad Bingham.

2ad Colvaia—Brigadier Jousa, C. 8., ler Majesty's Bth
Reitsased, her Majesty's 61.6 Reensszt, 41h fithit Infantry,
to storm the breach la the Water Bead s& Engineer °Moen
&Meshed—Lime...ants °teethed, Hovendes, sod Paabettek
3rd

Csorptell, her llejsffity's Chid Hee-
reset, tad Foglia; I.t Puotaub lasetry, to tweak by the
Cashmere gate after it should be blown apse. Raiford&
alters atteched—Lieutensate Roma 13alkold, mid Tandy.

4th Cohan—ltear Bid, datachinent of Beropea
tants, Binneor Battalion, Guide Infantry, data:haat od
Degreha le Wool the =barb Kanner*, and enter the
Lion pie—itegineer AIMS attached, Limier/tuts lour
sell sot Tionsat.

&/a Column—Brigadier Longlald, her Majesty's 60th
RlSes,Esmaon Battalion, tth Punjaub I nfantry,tde
Meglasee arms atlsehad, Lieutenants Ward and Thaekeray.
. _

it *at WM. the difficult edemas fell la, sad weee
soreleed to *eh reopectias phew, the heeds of Nos. I, 2,
sad 2, NIMES being kept ceseeeletl vaill the moment flor
the segue' sew& should arrive. The god was to be the
dream of the Rao to the front to cover the heeds of the
ethers by ellevolaltlng.

Emeyting being cody, Oenwral Maoism; whose nod.
lent anengemente elicited tha admiration of all, pm the
sigma, end the Rifles dashed to tba front with a char, on.
tending along and skirmishing the low jungle which at dn.
point =tends to within fifty yards of the ditch. At tbs
was moment the heeds of No. I end 2 cohunne ammind Erma
the Koodess Beg* and advanced steadily towards
the bra& Oar WWI= led maintained • tram-
ihre up to the sionsest 41 the armee et the
weer, awl net a gas could the ray bring to bier
on the stersher colatesa, but no sooner did these emerge Into
the open them • perfect hailatorm babes .it them hots
the Last, end both flanks, and oilleme and feet on
the emelt of the &cis. For ten minutes it wee itspomfble to
get the Wars down into the ditch to seound the escarp,
het the detensination d the British soldier tented ell before
It, sad Pindy deelined to meet the charge et lb. British
toren. With • shout and • rush the tweedsen were both
von, and the enemy Bed in cooduaion.

Ilfreawhile. the explosion party advamted ha front of the
lird column strsight wpm the Cmlunen Gate. This huh,
hod of heroes (der thereon, so lees) had to advance in
breed daylight to She gateway, to the very teeth of s hot dm
of madseteykem shove and through the Wows', and on both
desks, the powder beg, were coolly laid and adjusted, bet
Lieutenant Sallseld was by this time ions di Amami with two
bases la him flergoant Carmichael then attempted t)
the lose, but was shot deed. Sergeant Burgess thin tried
sad snoossded, but paid for the daring bet with his Ufa. Sees
pant Smith, thinking that Bargees too had felled, is. for-
ward, but seeing the train alight, had jut time to throw
himself into the ditch and maps the abate of the ex-
ploits. With a loud crash the gateway was blown
in, deli through it the Sod column studied to the setrelt
and entered the town just se the ether camas
had wen the breaches. Geneva Wilson has shies bestowed
the Victoria Cron. on Lieutenants Home and
lisegmat Smith, and on e brava man of her Msfestre land,
w►o stood by Lieutenant Salkeld to the kat, end bound up
Ids wounds.

Gomel Nicholeon then formed the troops in the main
paranoids, and with hie column proceeded to clear the
remperto as far se the biome Bastion. It was in advancing
beyond thla towards the Lahore gate that he mat the wound
winch has ewe mused hte named death, a death white it
it is not Me amok tie say has dimmed the lustre of even the
victory, re it hos deprived the country of ocie of the noblest
men, sod the most gallant soldiers that England anywhere
nnmbma among war ranks.

The lth eiskTma, I meet to say, failed, but so It was too
far for ma Is knew =Mimi of Its real proven, 1 mew
lesvlsi Ns elegy te tie NU by smother instead of seadbeg you
a vague sad invaded neasent. Had this column succeeded,
its posesmion of the Lahore rate would have saved us much
mtberquent trouble.

The succors of three assaulting columns being com-
plete, by ten o'clock the stair was in the city. The
church of St. James, built by the late Colonel Skin-
ner, was ocespied on entering
80th by the General Com-
manding sad his Staff. 11.M.'s Rale. occupied the
Colones family house near the church ; H.M.'s dist
the magazine; the dth Sikh infantry the College and
Ahmed Ali Khan's house; and the Belooch battalion
and heed Rajah's force, the Main Gaud.
The bantling. in the neighbourhood of the Cash-
, • Lieutenant. Medley end Lena, examined the former ;
Lisatsaants Graathed end Bane the lams.

mere gate afforded excellent quarters for the troops,
as well se capital cover. The people of the city
same into camp and sought protection from
the army, craving pardon, and disavowing all
participation in the rebellion, saying that they
were compelled to remain prisoners in the
city, and denying having taken any active part
in the insurrection. They were told to prove their
loyalty by removing the bodim of the dead sepoys,
which work they at once commenced, and were
clearing the city of them apparently with right
goodwill. It was a necessary labour ; for heaps of
mangled bodies covered the ground in all directions,
on the roads and in ruined homes. The city, as far
as we had gone, exhibited little else but ruins, from
the midst of which helpless women, unmolested, it
Is said, by our soldiers, rushed frantic and wild.
Dogged resistance still met us in the narrow
thoroughfares in which car troops fought from house
to house. Forty and fifty men were sometimes
found congregated in one building, and of these,
when enoountered, our soldiers spared no single soul.
In this street warfare, and the arrangement of guns
and mortars to shell the magazine, palace, and
Selimgarli, the 13th of Sept. passed. The Magazine
you already know was stormed on the 18th without
Mr, and its appearance strangely contradicted the
'stories afloat during the siege respecting the want
rtif permemica-caps and fuss. On the 17th a new
and yet mere advanced position was occupied in the
Delhi Bank on the left, whilst the mappers on the
right slowly held their way towards the Burn
Bastion, which with the Lahore Oats still held out
against us. The Delhi Bank was not won without
some bard fighting, but, once occupied, was
obstinately maintained, se it faced the west front of
the palace and Selimgurb. In the marble walla
of the former, as well as the massive old works of
the latter, the enemy still held out, playing occa-
sionally from guns and keeping up a continual flee
of musketry, whilst along the stints leading into the
Chandnes Chowk was heard that dropping sound of
musketry which tells of irregular and partial
fighting. It was evident, however, that resistance
must soon erase, for bodies of rebels were frequently
seen tamping from the city, either over the Jumna
Ito the Doab, or through the southern gates towards
Mattes. All day and night, and again during the
18th, our shells fell thick into the palace and
Selimgurh, which it was not thought necessary to
storm. Their fire indeed had now completely ceased,
but the Burn Bastion was still defsnded,andan assault
on the Lahore Date failed, Captain Brine', of Her
Majesty's73th,losing his life in theaffair. On the 19th
the line of the Chandnee Chowk was given up to us
by the enemy, and our sappers having made their
way up to the Barn Bastion, that was also carried
wit loss. The shelling still continued in the
direction of the palace, and fire was directed generally
upon the Jumma Musjid and the southern half of
the city. Then it was that the mutineers gave
up the defence as hopeless. They abandoned the
city during the night, and evacuated their camp
near the Delhi Gate, leaving. behind them all their
wounded, and blowing up their magazine. A steady
fire of mortars had been kept up till daylight (20th),
when the Lahore gate was occupied without oppo-
sition, the Ajmeer gate and outworks were secured
without loss, the palace, Juin= Musjid, Selim-
gmb, the bridge—all Delhi, in fact, taken. The
King and his family had fled, the townspeople
horned in crowds from the city, and the victorious
army of General Wilson occupied the ruins of Delhi.
South of the city lie the remains of old Delhi,
memorials el • dynasty now destined to expire.
Conspicuous amongst them is the tomb of Humaioon,
one of the Moguls who re-established himself on •
throne from which he had been expelled, and re-
stored the kingdom of Delhi in all its splendour.
This tomb stands in the centre of an enclosure, on
the summit of a platform, supported on every side b
arcades, and ascended by four flights of steps. Each
arcade serves as a receptacle for one or more tombs.
The mausoleum of the sovereign rises from the plat-
form in the shape of a square with a cupola, all inlaid
with white marble. Beneath this dome is a large
apartment, iu the centre of which • white marble
sarcophagus. contains the ashes of Humaioon.
Around it, in suitable reoesees, are the remains of
his relatives and most favoured retainers. Here, to
the tomb of their ancestors, came, in their flight from
Delhi, Hems Mogul, Mina Ities Sultan, and Mires
Aboo Bukur, the two sons and grandson of the king.
Here they were taken from their attendants by
Hodson and his Irregulars, and shot on the steps of
the edifice. Their bodies, carried to Delhi, were
exposed in the Kctwallee (Sept. 21).
The aged king, with his Begum, Zeenat Mahal,
took refuge a few miles further on the same road in
the Kontub Miner, • marble column of extraordinary
height, crowned with a cupola. Here he also was
surrounded by Hodson's horse, and surrendered on
being promised his life and that of the favourite
Begum. The elephants and insignia of royalty all
fell into Hodion's hands, and his troopers fired a
vdley in his honour as the captive king was brought
into Delhi.

Is the evening the health of tho Queen of
England was drunk in the Dewen Khas, the private
aoancitchamber of the king.
It now appears that our loos during the actual
siege was about 300 men. On the day of the assault
it was 64 officers and 1,178 killed and wounded,
being nearly one-third of the whole number engaged.
The let Fusilier Regiment lest 9 officers, and other
regiments, I believe, in proportion ; the Engineers
suffered heavily; the three officers conducting
Noe. 1,2, and 4 columns (Lieutenants Medley,
Oreathed, and Maunsell), were all struck down early
in the fight, and of 17 officers on duty that day, 10
were put Aura de combat. The lose of the enemy is
never likely to be correctly ascertained, but at the
end of the operations it is probable that at least 1,600
men must have been killed between the 7th and
20th, and a very large number wounded, who were
carried away.

For the complete sums that attended the prose-
cution of the siege the chief credit is undoubtedly
dee to Colonel Baird Smith, the chief engineer, and
to Captain A. Taylor, the director of the attack. On
this latter officer, in fact (in consequence of the chief
engineer being wounded) devolved the entire super-
intendenee of the siege works, and his energy and
activity will doubtless meet with their due reward.
The rebel Sepoys fled from Delhi in two direc-
tions. Many thousands of them, with a few light
pins, following the right bank of the Jumna,
reached Muttra on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of Sep-
tember, and on the 2nd of October partly craned
the river into the Doab, with the intention of pass-
ing into Chide. The Nusseerabad and Bareilly bri-
gades, comprising all that remain of the Rohilcund
troops, took this direction, whilst the Neemuch and
Kotah men, leaving Muttra, moved to Furrah, on
the road to Fatteypore Sikree, with the view of
either joining the lidore mutineers on the Chumbul
at Dholpore or erasing the Jumna lower down.
Smaller detachment', crewing the Jumna at Delhi,
daring the progress of the assault, made their
way to Boolundahuhur, where the Ihansi and
Noegong mutineer' have for some time been
stationed. A small party took the direction of
Allighur, and succeeded in mastering our
newly-appointed authorities at that pleat, forcing
at the same time the small Agra column from
Hatrass back to Kerowlee. On the 23rd a column of
British troops, numbering 1,600 infantry, 600 cavalry,
and three troops of horse artillery, under Colonel
Greathed, of H.M.'s Bth, craved the bridge over
the Jumna, at Delhi, and rapidly marched down the
road to Boolundahuhur. Colonel Oreathed came upon

the Jhansi rebels at Boolundahuhur and delimited
them on the 27th of September. He founi their posi-
tion strong, but nevertheless attacked it, drove the
rebels through the town, and took from them one
9-pounder and one 3-pounder gun, much ammuni-
tion, and baggage. They left upwards of 100 dead
on the field, and were seen to carry off many killed
and wounded. Our loss was sixty killed and
wounded, amongst the latter the following officers :
—Captain Beet, Bth Cavalry ; Lieutenant duel and