The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

EILTKACT PROW THS LSTIOR Of • YOUNG 01776:11 TO

XIS MIND IN YORK.

Camp birre Delhi, inept. 2.
In thew times it ie just as well to reply to letters
while you have a chance of doing so. In my last, of the
26th tut., I gave you an account of the brilliant adios of
Natio:Qatar, 17 mlles from this, where we cut up the enemy
and took 13 of their :1,111.. At this fight I commanded the
2nd company of the gallant let Fusiliers, and fur the fin*
time I charged the guns in line. They gave se two showers
of grape se we advanced. It fortunately went over our
heads, and we were at the gunnies with our bayonets before
they could give ea a third. The result and praise we have
received from the General quite compensate for the awful
hard work we had. Fancy, we marched at daybreak over a
bad cross-country native road, through two swamp., in
which the horses with the guns were almost drowned in
water and quicksand, and got up to the enemy in position,
and there and then fought them till it was dark, completely
routing them, after which, without having either food or
grog for the men or ourselves, we bivouacked on the field of
action, the men getting nothing till the baggage came
up about 9 nest morning, and having no good teats, &a.
We marched idler breakfast back into camp the same day.
Had we delayed and not pushed on the enemy would have
been off. We quite did for any attempt on the pert of the enemy
to cut oil our siege train, and got all his guns safe into
camp, before he could send a force out and try to recap-
ture them.

Since the above we hove bed a quiet time of it, and
have not even Lees' tinder fire. Pandy rams to keep well
within Delhi walls, and I, being In the Military Commission,
have not Leen to the picket ; my duty with the Commission
was to try and bong all spies, &c., caught about camp. I
am now In the artillery, and dimity the doge-trod puns are
mounted, I hope to have charge of a battery, and to be
pounding the Imperial city with shot and ehell. About sixty
gallows sent in their names for the artillery—only six of no
have been taken. It will bn hard work, end we dull have
plenty of Mot and shell ►t us, and happen whet may I will
at any rate try to do credit to Lord C—'. appointment.
The guns will, before many days are over, be up within
some 300 yards; and as there are about misty to go to work,
I upset the place will have a good bole in it in twenty-four
hours; and, with the force we have here, I don't think
mazy in Delhi will escape. Many, I fancy, will bolt
at the last moment. They had better; for our soldieri
won't spare a soul—barring the women and children. I
believe we an to g.) et Delhi with our percent forte, and
1 fancy it will be stormed on or about the 17th inst.
The Sing, &c., have sent in to surrender on terms saying
they would give up the murderers, &e., if their lives were
spared. The General sent no reply, but told the batteries to
open tire on the palace.
A merciful Petnidenee ham guarded mem far. Thrice I have
been under absavystiowerof musketry, tec. And I hogetohave
His mercies still continued to me, and to escape all dangers.

I fear, however, that you will all be very anxious about me ;
believe me, there is no mention to be no, I expect I shall get
out of it *II right. My health also is good, in spite of all the
herd work and favours, I never was bettor or jollier in my
life. I have no news to give you from camp. The siege
train will be here in two days, when we go to work. Both
partim are at prevent quietly looking at each other with
telescopes, preparatory to the vend attack, which is not far
distant

Camp before Delhi, Sept. 12.
I have been on the sick list for some day. ; the bud

work, exposure, tent life, &c. in this weather gave no dysen-
tery. Thank God it has left me. Fever off and ea has how-
ever been rather hard on ine, but I em getting over it; how-
ever, ma lam Teri seedy I have got into • bungalow, and
when this place falls, which will be about the 16th, I shall,
unless I are quite well, ask fora couple of months at Simla,
G— of ray regiment is also on the sick list with fever, and
W— has been suffering from boils. This is on awful hole
for fever, just now being the break up of the reins. Thema
is In its full powm, drawing malaria from the damp ground,
Three thomand men (that is Europeans and natives together)
are laid up in this camp from wounds and sickness, and regi-
ments that came hero 600 wrong, have about 930 It for duly,
Many with alight fever •Al however be able to turn out
when required. Our grand breaching battery of some 30
heavy guns is to open on Delhi to-morrow or next day. The
light bold batteries are to keep the eumny's guns in play.
The breaching battery is about 200 yards from the walls;
it will do its work well I have no donta, end this mail may
inform you of the fall of CAI.
I hope you are bandits to out some 30,000 European
soldiers at least. We want them. Fancy if these fellows, now
in camp, after the sack of Delhi were to play us a trick. I
feel pretty certain, however, Grit all is right. But
Lucknow, Rohilcund, and Gwelior are still to rums. Onr
people ana holding out brovely in the fort at Lucknow, loin
Havelock, at Caempore, Imo not force enough to cut Lis way
to relic re thu poor fellows. Some troop, however, are at
last coming up the country. 11— end C— of my regi-
ment are at Lucknow. Ton must excuse a abort letter, 1
am rather unwell to-day. Net be anxious, however, as
Delhi fever, though very common, is net of a bad kind. I
may be all well again in • taw days. I mean to take care of
myself. When this is over I have a chance of an appoint-
ment at Lahore or with General V. C.

Eleven of the crew of the Cagliari arrived at
Genoa on the 2nd, on bom d the Lombardo steamer, from
tiepin. They are those sc.:naiad by the late sentence of the
Court of Salerno.
THE ilistior OP OXFORD AND THE MATRIMONIAL
Causes AND Divones Bat r..—Testarday the Bishop of Ox-
ford delivered his triennial I:barge to the clergy at Newport
Pagnall. In the course of his charge his lentehip took occa-
sion to refer to the Matrimonial Cams Bill. " Our duty
, under dame painful eireunaranees OW the bishop) seems
to me to be plain. We cannot let the matter rest where
It is. For whether or not we think that the Innocent
parties ought to be set free from an adulterous union
and suffered to marry again is not the queen°. It is
whether for ourselves and our children we can per-
mit the church of this land to be degraded from bMg
a winos for 0.4, to be a mere earthly machinery, and
to speek the words which the State may pat into her mouth.
And wind this we ought to proteet, by requiring that
these m *doges, which the SWelves to lentils against
the church's law, should trusted before the civil
u=gistrete without the profane of our appointed prayers
through their tae, which words cannot honestly apply,
rather than we should submit to a degradation of our aya-
tollah communion by having a variation in our church'.
hennas and in the faith which she ham once for all received,
or that she should be dictated to in matters of such =omen-
tom importance by any earthly authority."
NOVEL PROCESNION.—Tue firemen belonging to
the London fire-engine eetabliehment, stationed at the chid
depot to Watling-street, hit upon a novel mew last night
of reining a trifle in aid of the Indian Relief Fund. About
half-pact wren o'clock a grand procession left the chid
engine loom, and mounted upon the beck of one of the
engine hones was a dramas droned out to represent Nem
Sahib, who was bound in chains and =pea, with a motto
round hie neck, "Sausages for tremorrow."
7alll:ur e, which was admirably
_reale up, tbo head alone
being about eta feet high. was led b) two other firemen
deemed like Grid& soldier. Pr, meting New Sahib on
boreekerk were two firemen, one carrying the union jack and
the other • red ensign. As it was exerted that the firemen..
Guy would be something unusual this year, and would
cam no little exceement in the Cite, six of the men were
dreamed up to imitate special constable., who were armed
with heavy beton', and who wore a white armlet, moving in
front to clear the way. On the laft of Nana Sahib was a
representation of oar of the 131 k Light Dra romp, who took
put it, the glorious charge at BabOleva. be dresses wen
very appropriate for the oceenon, and independent of the
above channels were several more, representing Sikhs,
Greeks, Turks, and Sardinians. Two of the firemen were
dreamed in women's *peen', and represented "ladies in
bleck," one weering en mermen amount of crinoline, and
the other a bonnet adorned with Sowers and ribbons, which
was greatly admired by the whole of the fair sex who wit-
nessed the propane. The firemen intend to hand over the
receipts of the evening which they collected to the Indian
Relief Fund.
THE TRADE or LEICESTER.—It is with great satis-
faction we cengratedate our fellow-townsmen on the position
the trade of Leicester is enabled to 1.14421.0 at the present im-
portant crisis. After carefully perusing the reports hem all
the principal mate ef manufacture in England end Scotland,
we reach the conduction that there is not one when the de.
Fusion consequent on the high rate of discount, and the
American panic, has been lees felt. It I. true some of our
manufacturers have commenced working short time, and
seem of oar operatives are out of employment, but such la
kr from being generally the case, and we have had no im-
portant failure. Considering the extent of our tramactione
with the United Sates, this is highly flattering to the sys-
tem upon which our traders have conducted their Wain%
—Lamar Journal of this day.