The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

LONDON. TZURSDAZ OCTOBER 39.

Mt en of the heroic tale of the capture of Delhi
must remain untold till next mail. That the whole
of the city was in the possession of our troops on the
20th of September rests on the authority of an ex-
press received at Bombay from the Residency at Jey-
pore, ri.i Ahmedabad in Gamut. The offeialbulletins,
by electric telegraph to Lahore, only bring the rear-
rads e of the reduction of Delhi down to the evening
of the 16th. This paucity of intelligence appears to
be in part owing to the circumstance that some of
the Lahore deLs had been intercepted and plun-
dered by marauders on the frontiers of Seinde. This
casualty does not appear to have had its source in
any political movement, but it is obviously referable
to the disturbed state into which the servile war now
raging throughout Hindustan has, more or leas,
thrown all the countries under the sway of England,
from the Indus to the Ganges and Bmlunapootra.
A goodly number of the inmates of I telhi appear
to have been of opinion that discretion is the better
part of valour. No sooner had the English troops
effected a lodgment within the walls, than large
bodies of the enemy were seen retreating both along
the bridge which crosses the moms and through
the Ajmcree gate, by the road that leads to the
famous Kotab Minix. Among these valiant heroes
appear to have been the KING and two of his sons.
Their brief nightmare dream of sovereign away
is already at an end. According to one report, they
were last heard of at a village about six
miles from Delhi; according to another, which had
reached Bombay through Ajcaere. the KING at least
had already been taken. It is not likely that any of
them can long escape: these effeminate nurslings of
the Zenanarre not the men to rough it in the jungle,
sad for them there is no other place of refuge that
can long b- safe. Public opinion will demand that
chin captured they shall be put upon their trial, as
one mi ar.s of eliciting the troth respecting the origin
of the revolt ; and that, if convicted of having se-
duced our native soldiers from their fidelity, or of
having authorised, or been accessories to, the
slaughter of Europeans in Delhi, they shall,
one and all of them, suffer the last pe-
nalties of the law. They sic British sub-
jects; they have never legitimately exercised
sovereign sway i they have lived in luxury on the
eleemosynary grants of the English Government.
If they have repaid its liberality, its protection, its
courtesy, carried to the verge of sycophancy, by se-
ducing its soldiers aid massacring their European
fellow-subjects with circumstances of revolting acd
snprosokcd cruelty, their lives are forfeit. The farce
must have an end Is which the representatives of
English sovereignty have been wont to pay a de-
grading homage to a few of the least worthy of its
'objects. The natives of Hindostan must be taught by
"sample how precious in the eyes of England are the
lives of the poorest and humblest of Englishmen.
They must be taught that even princely or priestly
descent is no shield for any murderer. There are
news, too, of other fugitives, in whom there is
more of danger than in the unworthy descendants
of TIXCII, spurring their way in hot baste from
Delhi in its day of doom. Two regiments of
&pop have been heard of in a village in the
vicinity of Havasu vowing with one voice that
no power on earth could induce them to return to
Delhi ; that they were on their way back to Dude ;
and that thee, in the land of their nativity, they
would live or die. Many such bands, more or less
numerous, are now winging their flight across
the lloab, or southwards, in the direction of Malwa,
scattering contagious panic as they go. It is mainly
by their means that the fall of Delhi will be made
to tell on the native mind. Their way-worn plight
and timid haste will re-assure our real friends, and
will render many who in the hour of doubt stood
aloof from us, or even gave indications of their
hostile intentions, profuse in their demonstrations of
friendship. It is not in Hindustan alone that men
are most anxious to befriend us when they know we
are in no need of their good services.

But within the walls of Delhi there were men of
sterner mood and more indomitable will than these
fugitives royal and plebeian. Six days of incessant
fighting were required to make the city oars. The
assault was made on that line of wall facing the
north which extends—aome two thousand yards in
►ength—from the Janina to the Cabal gate. This part
of the city wall, with the exception of a re-intrant
angle where the Cashmeres gate is situated, is in a
straight line aa far oaths Shah Bastion. From this
point it recede., in a mouth-west direction, till it
leeches the Cabal Gate, a distance of some flue
hundred yards. The Cnabineree Gate was carried '
soon after day-break. A short way within
the gate the street passes between the Re-
sidency Church and what is called indiffe-
rently Stull otit',l or SKINNER'S house. These
two buildings, and soma others near them, appear
to have been taken with little difficulty. The
amailants then spread themselves along the ramparts
in the direction of the Cabal Gale, and there it is
that they -cern first to have experienced any very
resolute resistance. They, however, made good
their position ; and their principal losses, during
the first day's lighting, are said to have occurred in
their desperate efforts to reach the Junta Nltujid—
or Great Mosque—in the centre of the city. The hith
was spent in shelling the Magazine, which is
Immediately to the south of the church, taken
on the tint day ; and the Palace, somewhat
farther on in the same direction. While this work
was in progrese, the gnu on the Shah (or Moores)
Bastion and the tower near the Cabal Gate were
turned upon Burn Bastion and the Lahore Gate, pal-

tions to the southward which had 13e.Zip.ken up ri...
t the mutineers. Throughout Alpittir sold
continued to work their way til U the 'gift r
and by nightfall a practical* ,havinglion.
made in the walls of the Magazine, It was resolved-
to form it next morning by daybreak. During
the whole of the IStb, bodice both of Cavalry
and infantry kept leaving the city, but
the greater part of the mutineers continued
resolute to dispute our further progress. At
daybreak on the lath the Magazine was stormed,
and carried with little loss. The shower of shells
which throughout the preceding day had been
poured without intermission on the Palace was kept
up. The party advancing along the ramparts com-
pelled the enemy to abandon the Kisheng tinge Bat-
tery, a little to the north of the Lahore. Cate. A
battery on the other aide of the river, which had
plied our soldiers in their advance, was also re-
ported to be abandoned. Towards the afternoon it
became apparent that the organisation of the mu-
tineers into regiments was fast being broken up; they
continued, however, to tight in detached groups in a
spirit of the moat determined inveteracy. During the
day they even made an attempt to retake the Magazine,
bat were repulsed with little difficulty. By night-
fall the British had established a line of poets from
the Magazine to the Cabul Gate—that is, nearly
along the north bank of the canal; at once an in-
dication of how much of the city they had unques-
tionably wrested from the enemy, and of the far
greater and more important part which, after three
days' hard and incessant fighting, still remained to
be taken. An impenetrable veil rests as yet on the
history of the next four days. All that we know
a, that ultimately the whole city fell into
the hands of the usailants. Thus much is certain,
tbaz its capture was no children's play. To the last,
the English had only a couple of not very consider-
able or well-appointed siege trains ; whereas, as
early as the 16th, they had already taken 200 heavy
guns from the enemy. The assailing force cannot
by any possibility have exceeded 10,000 men;
whereas the enemy must have amounted, at the very
least, to three or four times that number. After
entering the city the assailants had to tight their
way, street by street and house by house ; and
it is apparent that, notwithstanding the nu-
merous fugitives who kept pouring through
the City gates, every available position
was fiercely and obstinately defended by the moat
valiant of the mutineers. Throughout the struggle
the English Army appears to have been admirably
kept in hand by its conimsnder. The order of the
day, too, issued by General WILSON some days
before the aeuult, is most admirably oo received. He
skilfully identifies his own feelings with those of the
army by proclaiming at the outset that no
quarter is to be given to the mutineers, Haying
thus conciliated the impatient and naturally
vindictive mood of the soldiers, ho adds the
positive injunction to spare the women and children;
and follows it up by orders relative to the keeping to-
gether of the soldiers, and the bringing of all booty
to the common stock, admirably calculated to avert
those excesses which are apt to make men blush for
balms nature when reading the story of a city
taken by assault. When the whole story is known we
hel oonfident that Englishmen will have every rea-
m to be proud of the manner in which a great work
al retribution has been accomplished.

TIE trial of ETINA and TRORNE on the twofold
charge of having published a libel on the Hon. F.
W. CADocAN, the Deputy-Chairman of the Sub.
marine Telegraph Company, and of having endea-
voured to extort money by offering to prevent the
publication of such libel, has terminated in a ver-
diet of Guilty, and a sentence of twelve months'
hard labour against both the accused parties. The
circumstances of the case were shortly these : In
the early part of August last certain stric-
tures had appeared in the Times money article
with reference to delays that had taken place
in the transmission of messages by the Submarine

Company. On Monday, the 3rd of August, our
contemporary published a letter, in reply to these
complaints, from Sir JA3IE4 CARMICH %EL, the
Chairman of the Company. On Tuesday, the 4th, the
manager of the Times received a telegraphic com-
munication from the defend.snt EVAN% then at
Gravesend, stating that he was in a position to prove
that the management of the Submarine Company
was by no means so imnuieulate as the letter of Sir
J. CARMICH %EL represented it to be. On the next
day—the Wednesday—E% &xi appeared in person
at the City office of the Times, and there had
an interview with the gentleman who so ably
conducts the City news of our contemporary.
On this occasion EVANS dated, as the fact was, that
fur two years previous to 18.54 lie had been Superin-
tendent of the Submarine Company, that he had not
been discharged from their service, and had received
a testimonial on leaving. Ile proceeded to state that
he was in a position to controvert the statements
contained in Sir J. CARMICHAEL'S letter, as to the
mode in which the affairs of the Company were con-
ducted. The City manager of the Time told EVANS
that he wild not then go into the matter, but that if
the statements were put into writing they might be
sent in. Ev.cN4 promised to return the same
day with a letter embodying the charges
he had to make. He did not, however,
reappear until Saturday, the Bth of August. On that
day, accompanied by Captain THORNE, he again
presented himself at the City office of the Times, and
brought with him the letter which constituted the
libel. The charges it made were of a very grace
nature. It imputed to Mr. Cstxx; ix that he was in
the habit of visiting the instrument room, reading
the despatches, and then proceeding at once to his
brokers with a view of employing the knowledge
thus unfairly gained in operations on the Stock
Exchange. It also imputed to him that on
several occasions be caused the contents of public
despatches to be forwarded to his private residence,
and that in one specific instance he directed EVAN%
contrary to the fixed rule of the office, to give prece-
dence to a menage of Baron Itornaanies over se-
veral others which had arrived before it in order of
time.

Such were, in substance, the charges contained in
the letter. Considering the position of high trust
and responsibility occupied by Mr. C MOGAN, it is
impossible to conceive accusations of greater gravity.
The City manager of the Times very properly de-
clined to take upon himself the responsibility of giving
theworld-wide circulation of that journal to allega-
tions so serious, and referred EVAN s and his companion
to the Manager-in-Chief of the paper. It was then
about three o'clock on the Saturday afternoon. It
was notified to EVANS that at four o'clock the
Manager-in-Chief would probably leave Printing-
honse-square, and Evers quitted the City office
with the avowed intention of proceeding thither,
after having first communicated at the West-
end with a brother of his, formerly • clerk
in the Submarine Company, with a view of '
verifying certain of the statements in the letter.
EVANS re-appeared no more that day, bat at
seven o'clock on that same evening Captain Tnoaxs
called upon Mr. Cannery. It is not immaterial to
rAnark that this call at 7 o'clock was in consequence
of an appointment made between two and three the