The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

twined in Boubay H.M.'s 33rd Foot, the Duke of
Wellington's Regiment, just arrived from the Mau-
ritius. In every department of the service there is
promptitude, activity, readiness ; and in the bosom
of every member of the community there is quietness
and assurance.

" India has received a blow, from the effects of
which she will take long to recover—a check to her
career of improvement and progress which will re-
tard her for many years to come. A large district
of the country has been, as it were, sowed with salt ;
public buildings and property of every kind have
been destroyed; public treasuries have been spo-
hated, and the sinews of national improvement, as
well as of war, have been cut ; the minds of many
have been unsettled, and infected with disloyalty;
a vast multitude of precious lives have been sacri-
ficed, and amongst these the lives of the greatest and
wisest men in the land.

" Our money market has daring the past fortnight
become somewhat easier, and the banks have re-
duced their rates of interest 2 per cent. all rounl.
Government securities have not improved in value,
notwithstanding the recent notification to receive
one-half 4 per cent. paper, and one-half cash, into
the ii per cent. loan. The business transaeted in
the export market has been to a pretty moderate
extent; and freights continue firm.
CASVALTIEri.—CoIoneI Menteatb, 69th Bengal
N. 1.; Colonel Case, IL M.'s 32nd Foot, July 2; Colo-
nel 14.31 air, Bengal Army, July 20; Captain Burlton,
Gwalior Contingent; Colonel Brind, C. 8., Bengal
Artillery ; Major G. M. Prendergast, 44th Bengal
N. 1., July 31; Captain Greenaill, H. M.'s 24th
Foot, July 21 ; Ensign Stephens, 60th Rifles, July
10; Lieutenant H. Simpson, H. M.'s 78th
Highlanders, July 18; Lieutenant F. E. Plowden,
10th Madras N. 1., July 22 ; Lieutenant Crozier,
H.M.'s 73th, July 18 ; Lieutenant Rivers, ditto, July
19; Major Renaud, Ist Madras Fusiliers; Dr. John
Kirk, Bengal Medical Establishment; Lieutenant
Ellis, 6th Carabineers ; Ensign S. Raw, 9th N.I. ;
Lieutenant D. E. C. Twyford, 2nd Bombay Euro.
peens, August 10; and Lieutenant Richardson
Madras Fusiliers."

pursuit our gallant &Didier., got under grape and swat
musketry range of the walls of the city, and our loft wee,
led nd wounded.imequently, greater than it might otherwiee have been, 171
kil a

On the deiartur;of the mutineers from Sealkote, Captain
Lawrence (on account of the Dineen of the Deputy COMMIS..
SMOOT) war deputed to that station, with Atli power., to re-
store order and punish the miacreante, who In collusion with
the mutineers, had plundered the station. Captain Cripps
was a —sie with him in the inquiries. Several persona
were hanged, amongst others the gaol darogab, rnd others
were imprisoned. A large proportion of the plundered pro-
perty was restored, and a hoe of Rs. 7,600 buposed on the
surrounding villagers, to reimburse, in some measure, the
sufferers.

19th July.—The cable across the Butlej bee got out of
order, and there hie been no telegraphic communication with
ifinballe for the lest 36 !mum.
.

20th July.—Telegraphic communication with Umbella
is still interrupted et the Sutlej. Owing to Gemmel Reed's
Sinew, the command of the Field Pores Wore Delhi hes
been made over to Brigadier General Wilson, end General
Gowan be assumed the chief commend in the Upper Pro-
vinoes ._ _

itirjohn Lawrenoe, K.O 8., reached Lahore hat evening.
21st July.—The telegniph communication with Umbella ta
again open, and by a short menage received yesterday there
UVto have been another affair with the mutineers at
= the 18th indent. Particulars are not given further
than our loss was small, and the enemy as usual driven beck.
They made a show of turning out on the 18th, but retired
again very shortly within the city wane.;
Our troops before Delhi have now bean engaged in no lees
than 22 conflicts le:th the mutineers, who have poured in
from all quarters to aid the rebel cause. The mutineers
have invariably been discomfited and forced to fiy.
A letter from Agra, dated the 7th inst., mays that 84 P.
Grant, with several regiments, must be above Allahabad.
22nd July.—The usual meow from head-quarters did
not reach Lahore yesterday; bat it swears that a column of
our troops had been ordered out on the 19th to drive back the
enemy and seine a battery. The result not yet known.
Shah Mull, a famous Jat /radar, had been attacked by a
force from Meerut, and he himself killed, and 600 of his
followers.

Nicholson proceeds at once to Delhi
with large reinforcement*, both European and Native.
The Chief Commissioner having arrived at Lahore, bul-
letins will, in future, be issued under the signature of the
gligtrary.
) R. MONTGOMERY, Judicial Commissioner.
23rd—The Punjab continues to be perfectly tranquil.
24th July.—There is no news of any importance from
Delhi. From intelligence gleaned at Umbel, there are
great discussions among the mutineers. The want of
petrusvion caps is mentioned, but some very clever men in
the city bad volunteered to make them. There had been no
more fighting up to the 22nd instant.
Accounts have been received from Jodbpore of the 19th
instant, all well there, and also at Kinere on the 17th.
Ajmere and Neemuch are held by detac of her Ma-
jesty's 63rd Foot Bombay Lancers, and 12th Regiment,
Bombay Native Infantry, European Morse Artillery end
Jodhporo Legion.
Captain Greensill, her Majesty's 24th Foot, was killed by
an accidental shot from the Metcalfe Battery at Delhi, on the
night of the 21st instant. This unfortunate officer appease
to have lost his life from neglocting to answer the ckallmge
of a sentry.
July 25.—A telegraphic message received yesterday from
the camp before Delhi reports that on the previous day the
mutineers had come out in force with field guns round by
the Cashmere-gate, and moved upon our position at the
Metcalf Battery, under cover of the tire of heavy guns from
tho city walls. They were taken in flank by a force under
Brigadier Showers, when they fledprecipitately saving their
gene only by the tepidity of their flight. bar lose was
small, but we had a few officers wounded—Colonel Drought,
60th Rides; Colonel Seaton, Stith Native Infantry ; Msjor
Turner Artillery• Captain Money, Artillery ; and Lieu-
tenant Lew, 10th Regiment of Native Landry, was killed.
July 29.—There I. no news from Delhi,
_where all re-
mained quiet up to the evening of the 27111. Much rain had
_ _ _

The total number of Sealkote mutineers and camp followers
sent in by the Juarouta authorities (of his Highness Maha-
rajah Goolab Singh) amount to 572.
An ionesite took place in the gaol at Googaira on the
night of the 26th inst. The prisoners roes en masse and over-
powered the sentries inside the gaol. The guard outside,
however, killed and wounded about 60 of most of
the latter mortally. Eighteen prisoners managedthe.m, to effect
then escape owing to the darkness of the night.
(Signed)) J. D. Macrazason, Lteut:Colouel,
Military Secretary to the Chief Commissioner.

THE ACTION OF THE 14TH BEFORE DELHI.

Jut 15.—The enemy came out in force, about
9,000 men, with four guns, at II am. yeeterday, with the
intention of taking our batteries. They fought under cover
until 2 o'clock, when they came to the front, sad were beaten
beck into Delhi. Our people, too eager, followed them close
under the walls. The enemy opened Are with grape and mus-
ketry from the limns ; our tom in killed and wounded was
heavy. It is a pity our people followed them, at up to the time
of their reheat, we had only about six men Mt. Major
Turner, Artillery, had his horse killed under him ; Thomp-
son, Artillery, wornded in the thigh; Brig. Genf. Cham-
berlain, Adjutant-General, in shoulder ; Chester and Daniel,
of Goorkhas, wounded ; Burns and Faithful, H.M.'s Nth,
slightly—former on the knee, the latter in the arm. The
above are the only =amities I can give you at present, and
may be relied on an correct. The cavalry was not engaged.•
—Lahore Chronicle, July 22.

The following is a description of the action on the
oth July before Delhi On the 9th instant, the mutineers
turned eat in force .nd gave us fighting .11 along the right
front and right think. By all sccounts they were perfectly mad
from 'chorea' on ' brag' and fought more boldly than
they ever did before. At one point, the mosque, in front of
liindoo Itao's house, where some fifty of the Guides were
nigh the rebate hit some eighty or ninety dead on the
meaty lying close to the walls; here also the Guides
some an or seven men. On all points were the mutineers
driven back with great alaughteer, &within lemmas considered
se amounting to nearly 1,000 killed and wounded. Fromm)
own observation and from what I have been told by compe-
tent persons, I should say the enemy lost at least 280 killed;
the wounded were nearly all canted away, and mazy of their
deed ; and neat morning, to the right of the Lahore=
looking from our lines, we could perceive large firm, which,
we presume, were caused by the Pandies burning their
dead. The complete sitcoms of the repulse wes
considerably marred by our allowing about eighty
of their Irregular Cavalry to get into ramp
round the General's mound ; they actually
nearly right through the camp, and tried to re-
made a native troop of Artillery to come away with
them, but it wax no go. When they were first discovered,
Hill of the Artillery, end a rough rider went in at them ; poor
11111 got a severe sword cut on the head, Major Tombs, who
always reins to be in the thick of everything, shot the
Sower down, the lot Flailing now turned out and rot
down some of them. Captain Fagan of the Artillery
got together some Artillery recruits, and some other mem,
altogether about 25, and followed them on foot, knocked
over *bout fifteen of than, and amongst others the
head ender, • great swell in officer's appointments and
a Cashtnere shawl round his shoulders; the dowers did not
do as much mischief as they might have done in camp, but
it was certainly a bold proceeding. In the confusion SOWS
watched camp followers were shoe by our own men, through
'Weak.% On the whole, we have to regret one officer of the
Bth (King's), and of the whole fore about 47 or 50 killed'
one officer of the Bth (King's), one of the Guides, one of the
Goorkhas, Hill, of the Artillery, and, I believe, Major
Tombs, very .lightly; and about 180 men of all hands
wounded. These are dear victories, rid the enemy can afford
their low, though five or eti to one, better than we can.
}tumour rys they are running short of caps, which, if true,
is good news. Some of the men say Jack &gay, at least a
greet number, were fighting with matchlocks and tulwars
only. The tight commenced at about 7 a.m. and rated till
nearly 4 p.m., all our moor, native and European, fighting
magnificently. Every soldier is looking forward to get in-
ride those accursed red walls, which look ua steadily in the
face every day."