The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

INDIA.

We have received, by the Overland Mail via Mar-
seilles, our despatches from bed* • telegraphic
summary of which hoe Trieste appeared in the
Daily New. of Saturday bat. The dates of these
advice. are:--Calcutta, 19th )Lays Madras, 26th;
Ceylon, 30th ; and Bombay, 47th.

(From Ur Bombay now of 147 V.)

The Warming intelligence whie.h the present mail
tarries to England has perhaps no parallel in the
whole history of our relations with India during the
last hundred years. That the native army of Bengal
would strike the severest blow at the British power
in India it has yet experienced, has long been the
opinion of old and experienced officers of this
country, and the justness of this conviction is even
now, while we write, being strikingly manifested.
From Calcutta to Lahore, the troops of the Bengal
Presidency are either in open mutiny or verging
thereon, and at Meerut, Delhi, and Ferosepore they
have traitorously thrown off all allegiance, and have
siammitted the must frightful atrocities upon theEnro-
_

pans who hare fallt; into their hands. A King
las been proclaimed at Delhi, which city is in pos•
session of the mutineers, and the fact is pregnant
with the gra% est importance, u it was imagined, up
to date of our last 'dykes, that the Mahommedan
troops in no way sympathised with the disaffection
which we then stated was general amongst the
Ilindoos.

The outbreak occurred, strangely enough, at
'accent, which is garrisoned with a considerable
body of European as NA ell as native troops, and the
Bombay nmet seems to have had earlier intelli-
gence of it, by a telegraph from Agra, which reached
us the day the last mail left, than either the Bombay,
Calcutta, or Madras government. We forwarded
the following cites with our last summary, 11th
instant.

MUTINY AT MEERUT.

We have just received the following serious intel-
ligence by electric telegraph from Agra:
"The 3rd ('a% airy are in open mutiny. They
have burnt down the lines and officers' bungalows.
Several officers and men have been killed and
wounded."

This despatch wu immediately forwarded by na
to the local government, and as we knew we could
rely upon our correspondent'. communication, we
awaited its confirmation by the dak, or by govern-
ment intelligence, with much anxiety. On Friday,
the 15th, four days later than our private despatch,
the government received startling confirmation of its
correctness, with the further intelligence that Delhi,
the capital city of India, was in the hands of the
mutineers ; that they had proclaimed a king in the
person of the son of the late Mogul Emperor; and
that it was feared every European of the place wss
murdered.

The government, perhaps with propriety, kept
the matter profoundly secret for some days, but the
abirmieg news becoming widely known on Monday,
the 18th, the substance of the government despatches
was made public, and the snivel of the regular
North West dak with the daily Agra mails has since
made its acquainted with some of the details of this
most treasonable and murderous rising, which we
proceed to relate.
Our readers will probably recollect that our last
&dikes stated that a troop of the 3rd cavalry, at
Meerut, being ordered on parade to load and fire
with the cartridges supplied by the government,
muter distinct assurance that no such material
had been used in their manufacture as
the men seemed to suspect, only five men
out of ninety obeyed. The eighty-five men who
refused were at once ordered to their lines, and a
court-martial being asaembkd to try them, resulted

n their being sererally sentenced to a term of im-

priaonment varying from Ilve to ten years. On Sa-
turday, the 9th instant, a htigade parade was assem-
bled at the station, sad the prisoners were ironed on

the parade pound in pnocnce of the troops sod
matched off to poL No suspicion seems to base

Dees excited for one moment that a rescue would be

attempted, but towards the evening of Sunday, the
10th, while Meerut was wearing the quiet, dull as-

wet Of en Indian station on the Sabbath day, a
redden end furious rise was made by the regiment,
In w►ich, by ciident precouccetion, they were
joined by the baser and townspeople, and by
the'two natiio infantry regiments, the 11th and

10th, also intoned in the plies. They at ones
liberated their comrades in the gaol, and one those
"anti two hundred other prisoners, and now com-
menced their bloody work. Meerut is one of the
largest stations in India, and before the European
part of tbc force, consisting o, her Majesty's Bth
Dragoon Guards, the 80th N:itles, and the Artillery,
maid be assembled, half tile station wu in lames,
and the terrified women and children of our soldiers
Wen in the hands of 'the mirage and infuriate crew,
who murdered tite.,o under circumstances of unheard
el lterberity„ Each °Meer, as he rushed from
his boor-low to call back the men to
thsfr allegiance, was shot down, and en
the European force could reach the lines,
the bloody work was pretty well completed. At
the second volley of the 80th Riles, the mutineers
and the whole crew ran, and were followed some
miles out of Meerut by the Dragoons, who sabred
a considerable number ; but, by some lamentable
oversight, the pursuit was sow discontinued, and to
this we owe a repetition of the dreadful tragedy at
Delhi, which had jest been enacted at Meerut.
The mutineers reached that city early on Monday
morning, and were immediately joined by the three
native regiments stationed there, the 38th, the
Nth, and the 7ith Native Infantry, and by the
Artillery, who seem, hewers", to have done so
most unwillingly. During the Monday, all the Euro-
peans of the place, except a few ladies and gentle-
men WilQ rode fur their lives to neighbouring
stations, seem to have been butchered, but aa the

Once remains in the hands of the mutineers, we may
Lope that others, of whose fate we have no certain
news, have also escaped. The powder magazine fell
into their hands, but a gallant young hero, Lint.
0. It. Willoughby, of the Artillery, is said to have
blown up the other wagozines, himself perishing
with them.
. .

The mutineers at once set up a King, in the person
of the son of the late Mogul Emperor, and we have
no certain news of what has transpired since.
The most active measures are of course being taken
to suppress this revolt, and it is satisfactory to know,
from latest intelligence, that the garrisons of Agra,
and of the neighbouring stations, remain stanch.
The Commander-in-Chief is moving down from Cm.
belle with a strong European terns, while a cordon
of troops of the Gwalior, Bhartpoor, and Putteesßah
anatingemts is being drawn around Delhi to prevent
tip escape of the mutineers, who will doubtlese meet
with a spssoly and righteous retribution. The
madam of some of the native regiments stands eat
*mom rums* asotreet with that of tbeee seam-
ark; ma laMitmme eg u.s4...losalty and faithtsisem
off Ise arid esomad elemrimini to our minim
Newborns in loladims lame manerial fee ea semi
exist Asa in Dearpl, sod It bas best the Malan,
Oates d poopioing itod *an 11. do Mg lid
to these lamentable Maim