The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-16 00:00:00

LETTERS FROM DELHI.

The following is a verbatim statement made by a
native •—" I lived in Delhi from the 13th July, 1887, to the
30th. I found the Delhi government ten times worse than I
had seen it on my snivel there at find, which account has
been published by the Lahore Chronicle. The mutineers are
quite tired of fighting • the city is fall of wounded men ; there
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we
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have • slight we were to be attended ley • reaped-
able European doctor twice a day, notwithstanding the ter-
vises of the native dooms wen available to nee; besides,
we used to get medicine at the government expeaes
Here we die for went of physic. We have to pro-
vide doctors for ourselves ; there are very few native doctors
in the army, who are always absent from their please. Their
patients (it movable) ate obliged to run about in search of
them. Had we been aware of the difilcultks we met with be-
fore, we would have never thought of coming to this cursed
station. The loot is still going on; the haws are never
but a few poor shope--shopkeeffit blows end
tlmerps kr the price of their tie. A-krftiOt ego a poor
Beek* was had by • Sem for not giving him watt
Whoa the flame find oat a rich house in the city they
amen the owner after the following manner in order to
pleader his property : They take a loaf of bread and a bottle
of grog with them and make a noise at the door and break it
to pieces, get in the house, take posses loon of the furniture,
jewels, and cash, lick the poor householder, saying, ' Where
is the Englishman you have been keeping in your house ;'
when he denies of having done so they just sow him the
bread and the bottle, and say, ' How Is that we happened to
bad this in your houae • we are quite sure there was an
Englishman accommodated here, whom you quietly sent else-
where before our arrival.' Soon after the talk is over and
the poor man is disgracefully pet into the custody, where
there is no inquiry to be made to prove whether he is inno-
cent or guilty; he cannot got his release unless he bribes
the general. 'There is no money left in the royal treasury,
::netly the bankers of the city were requested to fur-
hCnilitleity with it. They replied as follows We
see may we have not cash in hand, but government notes
sad Weedy. ; your Majesty can have them if they are of
eay re.' His Majesty, being sent guards at their
doors. The Smelly general his Majesty to take
money from the bankers and citizens by force, burhis request
is not taken into consideration ; he says he could obtain 40
lace of 'apses for his Majesty from the city by plundering
the =bailouts. It will come to par some day, ss his Ma-
jesty neossearily requires the money to pay his troops,
who have not received their daily pay for twenty days.
The Bharat:ha and his Majesty's private regiment, together
with servants, hays not been paid for the lest two
months ; they are all bkah mart at present. The &Toys
and sowers say—' If we are going on in arrears this way
we will soon be compelled to pay ourselves by looting
the city. The rebels mildly complain of their newly-made
powder ; it is too weak, oboe it is made of unrefined salt-
petre. As I was about to leave Delhi, I heard here that
the fresh powder was hardly to strong es to expel a ball
out ef a musket ; there was a talk in Delhi that the muti-
neers did not go out to fight for the last nine or tea days,
on account of having so bad powder, poor Jack Pendys are
quite confuted and oonfotended. The officers consult very
often about the military affsin, but one contradicts the
other on account of their private feelings, as each Of theta
thinks himself wiser than the other. They have not been
able to make gun cape yet, bat are trying to obtain Ile ele-
ments. The horse. of the cavalry are getting thin day by
day as the mowers run them in the streets, night and day
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long amelioration, answered that It was out of his power to
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to Luc-know, which they consider the safest place to live In.thg
English magistrates, and the gaol was tilted with them, they
have at present got their Messes commit all sorts of Tamab-
le in the city, and enjoy the days of their independence"—
Lahore C;roniek.