The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

wounded, and Lieut. Chalmers, of the Panb Guides,
slightly hart. The monsoon had brolcan at last,
and ryes our troops refreshing mia. The
Jamna nnmediatelyrose and carried away the bridge
oilman at Bhangpol. This aceident 'ants off for the
•^'"' _t tDe maw- 'cation bet-weer the camp at
iad the of neerot and Agra. But

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the rains Ye Itipertant consequences. They
must put an effeete:U stop to the operations of mu-
tinous detachitcnts. and prevent any further increase
to the rebels in the besieged city. The Hardily
mutineers, who were unable to advance further than
Gurmuktesu, had marched thither in hopes of pass-
ing the river by the bridge of boats. This fortunately
was prevented by the destruction of the bridge a few
days before by a party of dragoons from Meerut.
The rains will have another result in Delhi itself,
which being low on the banks of the Jumna, suffers
at this time of the year from miasma. This will dis-
tress the sepoys in the place, already uncomfortable
from our fire and from overcrowding.
Her Majesty's Bth Foot has marched from Jul-
lnndur to Delhi, its presence being no longer re-
quired in its old quarters, where all mutineers either
have been disarmed or have taken to flight. It has
been found necessary to disarm the 10th Irregular ,
Horse, at Nowshera. Our forces still hold isolated
places in the vicinity of Delhi. We have a small
force, for instance, at Hatrass, of whose safety, up to
the 23rd of June, we have certain information. One
of our zemindars captured 60 or 80 mutineers in the
neighbourhood of that place on the 23rd, deprived
them of 700 rupees, which they each possessed, and
after soundly beating them let them go. Numbers of
mutineers seem to leave Delhi in the hope of saving
the plunder they have gained ; and numbers of
cavalry soldiers have been met on the read from the
besieged city to Allevghur, retiring no doubt to
their homes with booty. This speaks ill for the
state of discipline amongst the rebels.
The King of Delhi has found it necessary to ap-
point the Budder Ameen, or chief native distrait
judge of the place, to be his prime minister. Other
district judges have also accepted place under the
new regime. This proves the insecurity of trusting
the authority of our laws to native judges, as pro-
posed by the new Black Act.
We hear with regret that the brave lieutenant
Willoughby, who blew up Delhi arsenal, and escaped
wounded to Meerut, died there of the injuries he had
sustained.
Locknow and Cawnpore are still in the same si-
tuation of uncertainty as before. All was safe at
Lucknow up to the 21st, and Cawnpore to the 19th
ult.
Brigadier-General Havelock, appointed to the
supreme command of the flying column, composed of
the Madras Fusiliers, her 'Majesty's 64th, 78th, sad
Seth, reached Benares on the 28th of June. The
78th Highlander; had already done good service in
the vicinity of Benue* and Allahabad, where severed
executions bad taken place. A high caste Brahmin,
found in one of the villages parading the place on
an elephant, and exciting the people to nee, was
ceptured,and immediately hoisted to a neighbouring
tree.
The Nemo& mutineers have not stirred, and
still remeleed. according to the latest news, about
flay man ban Nueseerabad, waiting to be joined
by the imatingents of 6lchidpore, Maywar,
n Indere,
end Ulm The force at Nusseembed, uder the
sammemi of Camel Lawrence (her Majesty's 83ed.
Ist and lemlay, Cavalry, and 12th llember
Native handep)r is under orders to march to Agee.'
bat it is sapped that the numbers of this iftee
amps an hwallhisat for the purpose, as Ajtasee
eamet be ha umpenteted.
dielbodsa at Baroda have rendered the
2= at a hem there necessary. The lat
having hen detached some time back be
Brach, their plan is to be taken by 400 men of the
7th Bombay Native Infantry, from Ahmedabad.
and all the Europeans—l cannot at this leseeent
name the regiment—and a company of the 9th Boer
bay Native Infantry, from Surat.
The 4th troop of Horse Artillery, and the 34
company, 2nd battalion of Foot Artillery, from
Buss, have reached Bombay.
The season here has been so different from those
of former years that fears are entertained lest a
drought and consequent famine may follow. The
iseesion, instead of I teldiott 40 or 60 iodloo of 'lb,
as it usually duos, up to this date has given but 20,
and as mast parts of India depend for existence as
the monsoon its failure would entail en endless
amount of misery. The prevalent fair weather—
altogether exceptional at this time—has very me
favoured the movements of our troops.
Another question which engages musk atlantic.
at this moment is the revenue. The anhareal
plunder of treasure and the surelian of operatioas
in several collectorates is one oldie swim mischiefs
of the rebellion. Thera is an idea that an income
tax is about to be impend, and nothing would be
fairer. Land alone isemerously taxed, and the rich
traders and beakers threughout India who feed on
the peasants are imperatively untouched. A
Mime Oar nada. Ala nem contribute to the re-
deemed veal be juat, and would
pabably yI ea beerbst supply.