The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

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THE BOMBAY MAIL.

DETAILS FROM DELHI

AND LUCKNOW.

We have received ow letters and despatches from
Bombay by the Overland Mail, via Marseilles.
containing particular details of the events reported
in the telegraphic despatches.
The latest date from Bombay is October 18.
The following is from the ennunary of the Bombay
Bows of Oct. 17 :
DELHI.

The tidings regarding Delhi despatched by the
mail of the 4th October, came down to the 20th
September, and intimated that on this day the
doomed city bad finally fallen into our hands;
scarcely any particulars being given beyond the bet
that the slaughter had been severe. We are still in
a great measure without details. We know that
the evacuation wee ecomplete--that the Bing is
aptly*, and has still been spared—the leading
members of his family, active abettors of the re•
volt, having been shot and their bodies exposed.
Our troops were on the 23rd sent in pursuit of the
chief mate of the enemy, supposed to have retired
on Owalior. The pliant General Nicholson has
died of his wounds, and there ia known to be a sad
list of casualties in store, particulars of which have
not yet been given. The details of this disastrous
siege have hitherto been published piecemeal, and in
such broken and disjointed form as to bewilder the
reader. Though still very imperfectly supplied with
facts, we shall endeavour now to place those in our
pastrami, referring to events which have occurred
linos the Ist of September, in such eider as may
assist in making our future narratives some-
what more intelligible than they can well
hitherto have been. Our summary must bo accepted
as provisional : there are numberless gaps in it to
be tilled up, omissions to be supplied and errors to
be corrected, which mast be left to time. On the
20th May, the commander-in-chief, General Anson,
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arrived at Delhi with a considerable force of Euro-
peans, and the city waa expected to have been
assaulted immediately. A week afterwards (on
the 27th) the general was cut off by cholera. Gene-
ral Barnard, of the Queen's service, an officer un-
known to fame, succeeded General Anson, and con-
tinued waiting for reinforcements till the bth July,
when he, like his predecessor, was cut off by disease.
General Reid followed—a commander whose Indian
name rested on his retirement before the Seikke at
Moodkee lin 1846,when ordered by Sir John Littler
to advance. He had scarcely held command for a
fortnight when sickness compelled him to resign.
He was, in the beginning of August, succeeded by
General Wilson, of the Company's army, and to the
lot of this officer it has fallen to capture the city.
Throughout the three most inclement months of the
year, fighting had been nearly incessant, and
the defence of the mutineer. was at once
more obstinate and more skilful than could
have been anticipated. Impatient as the public
throughout the siege had become, it does not appear
from anything that has yet transpired, that any
needless delay had occurred or material error been
committed. Europeans were the only troops to be
thoroughly depended on, and scattered as thew in-
variably and inevitably are throughout India, and
difficult as it is to move them with celerity during
the hot season or the rains, it was impossible to mus-
ter them for months together in such strength around
as to permit of an assault. A regular investment
was out of the question, and the enemy con-
tinned from first to last in full communication, by

the bridge of boats, with the country beyond the
Jamna. Had our artillery been infinitely stronger
than it was, to have shelled the rebels from their
stronghold, when we could neither intercept nor
pursue them, way simply to scatter our enemies over
the country, and beyond the reach of our arms,
when it was most desirable to have them clubbed
together to meet our vengeance in a OWL (in the
26th Anted a body of mutineers, 7,000 strong, with
18 guns, quitted Delhi with the view of operat-
ing on the rear of the besiegers, and cutting off
the supplies. A force, consisting of 2,000 from the
Ist Bengal Europeans, her Majesty's 32nd and 61st,
with 18 guns, under General Nicholson, was sent
oat to intercept them. After a much of 18 miles,
the enemy were encountered in the evening at
Nujuffghur, when they were beaten and scattered,
leaving nearly all their guns in our hands. On the
3rd September, the long-looked-for siege-train began
to make its appearance, and the most active
operations were immediately proceeded with.
On the 6th, 200 of the 60th Itifies and 100
artillery recruits arrived from Meerut, and further
reinforcements now dropped in apace. The be-
sieging force at this date amounted to seven Euro.
peon and a like number of native regiments, with
a magnificent array of guns and mortars. The
Jheend force joined on the 7th. The Cashmere con-
tingent, consisting of 2,000 men, with four guns,
arrived on the Bth. The enemy, now be-
coming rapidly disheartened, seemed not to
entertain the most remote conception of our
designs. On the evening of the 7th, the
eid Custom-house on the riven' bank, and Lud-
low Castle were occupied by us. No. 1 bat-
tery, 630 yards from Mores, was completed and
armed with 10 heavy guns, six 18 and four 24-
poanders, with 300 rounds of ammunition for each,
without as yet firing a shot. In ignorance of what
was proceeding, the enemy had withdrawn his out-
post from our left front. Throughout the night the
attention of the garrison had been arrested by our
ridge batteries, on which a heavy tire was kept up
from all the bastions of the city, the shot flying
far over the heads of those engaged in establishing
the ten gun battery—the existence of which was
find made known to the enemy by a round shot
bounding amongst them on the forenoon of the
Bth. A heavy fire was then opened from the city,
which slackened u the day advanced, while our
guns held steadily on, greatly damaging the
Moue bastion in the course of the after-
noon. This day a waggon, with five shells
and some loose ammunition, blew up, and
killed several people. An unsuccesstal at-
tack was made on our position at the Cashmere
Gate—the casualties during the day were eighteen
killed and fifty-seven wounded. On the night fol-
lowing, eighteen 8 and 8k inch mortars, and four
of 10 inches, were put into position on our left. On
the 9th, a battery of ten heavy guns with mortars,
wee completed, and arrived in front of Ludlow
Castle. The enemy once more made a
sortie on our batteries, but were driven
back with great slaughter. There had been
mutant firing from the Bth. On the 11th, the

• There none, we not to b relied upon—the totel nay
be senmeed sr sty owed.
The Mowing ghee the lief of Akin killed end wounded
before Deihl from the let to the 13th September.
KILLID.I7rII/01sniuitt Battalion Foot
Lieutenant • Lieutenant
Artillery ; Ltentannt Bannerman, Kotah Contingr7rat
Lieutenant Hildebrand, 4th Foot Artillery.
WorNoso.--Capnan Campbell; Lieutenants
Oillespie (Artillery)' Chacellor, and lludd;
Eaton, Bandell, end Murray.
The following an the wreathing of the 14th of September.
The reader emit enneraber that the bulk of them have been
given over already, end we en only now orating in oonnws-
live fonn what lea elnedy been given piennseaL
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE AS-
SAULT OF DELHI, ON SEPT. 14, 1867.
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Satan.—Muds, laarsars • Fitagarahl, 76th Foot;
end
Bradshaw tilni i toth F Nary,
400 l; Davidoon, 2Sth Foot; Jacob, lstoot; Fusilier;
liarkwy, 17root Ra
tk
y;
,opes oot;h
, P
6t 62nd Foot; Cal Camp
ball, Mr ; ; Lambast, loftna
Fa miliars ;
Gamer, lilt Fears , Werra, Ist Filature, Ors, lilt
Nair ; goy, arrow, 10th;
Woranin.—lliesison, 27th 1117 r, khoraa, N.I ;
Orathal, Ilmnast, Brewalaw, Chrery, Rom-
dr, Salkaid, and Witharrs, Ingress ; Nator, 60th RiSr;
Carr, 10th
sak Rao Assua. Si, sk Far • Barre, SW Foot.
Cid 1400 t• Atas [2Ol
VlitvitTlaydatagt N. I. ; Shibbars. ilk N. I.;
214 Rumors ; Crabist,
PP ;rior, Ist P. CArley • aa“, 67th N.l. , 60 E 6046661
Ws4 sad 1160