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

(Stamped H. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.
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(eleven o'clock), a howitzer having been placed on
board of the steamer Jumna, with a detachment of
Madras Fusiliers, the stronghold of the Brahmins,
l'rangureltolah, and Duriabad, the suburb, inhabited
by the Pathan Mahometans, were set on fire and
gutted, many people being killed in the course of
the operation. In another direction the Sikh regi-
ment of Ferozepore and fifty Madras Fusiliers, ad-
vanced and set fire to a part of the town in which
the rebels had thrown up an entrenched work, under
the direction of a fanatical Moulvie(priest). The Sikhs
advanced with the greatest bravery against the posi-
tion of the insurgents, covering in excellent style the
handful of Englishmen, when they retired from the
contest. The position was entered, and a fierce
battle fought, in which we lost two Europeans killed
and two officers and five men wounded. Several of
the chief men under the Moulvie, or priest of the
weaver caste, and 300 of his followers were killed.
Our force retired without taking the position, but
the Moulvic bad had enough of it. He fled with the
remnant of his followers in the night, leaving a large
quantity of provisions behind in the entrenched posi-
tion. Two guns taken away by the 6th Native In-
fantry were recovered. On tho 16th the whole of
Allahabad was in Colonel Neile 's possession. On the
21st and 22nd, the headquarters, six officers and 180
rank and file of her Majesty's 84th, from Benares,
and the remainder of the Madras Fusiliers, from
Calcutta and Mirsaporn came up. On the 23rd,
400 Europeans, two 9-pounders, with European gun-
ners, 300 Sikhs, with all available cavalry, were
being equipped to move on Cawnpore, with as little
delay as possible. They were to carry 20 days' pro-
visions. Detachments were to follow, with more
provisions, as soon as they could be obtained. Corn
and other supplies were being collected. The railway
would be used as a horse tramway as far as it would
go, the engines and works at Allahabad having
been destroyed. On the 24th (electric telegraph
despatch) all was well, and communications had been
opened with Cawnpore. Two companies of her Ma-
jesty's 37th left Calcutta for the upper provinces on
the 29th.
The relief of Cawnpore is one of the most desir-
able objects to be obtained, as the concentration of
force there may enable Sir Hugh Wheeler to co-ope-
rate in the reduction of Delhi. At the latest dates
that general was regularly besieged by the sepoys of
the Ist and 56th Native Infantry, the 2nd Light
Cavalry, and the 12th Native Infantry, from 'hand.
The first three-named regiments row on the sth June,
between eight and nine o'clock in the evening. Two
squadrons of the 2nd, folly armed and accoutred,
rushed down into the civil lines, plundered the trea-
sure and set fire to the bungalows. It was a sultry
night, a gale of wind blew, and the flames spread
rapidly. An eye-witness says that " the intolerable
heat of the atmosphere, the clouds of dust raised by
the storm, the houses in conflagration, and
the men of the 2nd Cavalry galloping about
on their horses committing devastations, alto-
gether formed a scene baffling all description."
Some of the officers and several merchants were
murdered duo ing the plunder at the station, but the
majority of the Europeans succeeded in assembling
within the defences prepared beforehand by the care
of Sir Hugh Wheeler ; whilst two officers, Lafont
and Christina, made good their escape to Allahabad.
Jotee I'ersaud had sent in supplies for the use of the
Europeans, but they were scanty, and fears were
evidently entertained at Allahabad that hunger
might be added to the list of sufferings inflicted on
the British at Cawnpore. Once confined within the
entrenchments no chance of supply can have been
available until relief came from Allahabad, OA the
mutineers, joined by the ltajah of Bithore, had ea-
camped to the west of the walls, and closed the com-
munications. The Rajah of Bithore has been irre-
trievably thrown into rebellion by one of the most
dastardly deeds that have been recorded since the
disasters of Delhi. After the mutiny of the 10th
Native Infantry at Futteyghur, 132 European
civilians, men, women, and children, embarked in
.50 little boats on the Ganges for Cawnpore.
They reached Bithore, where, by the order
of Nana Sahib, the Rajah, they were fired
at in these boats with cannon—the first
pilot striking a lady, and killing her on the spot.
The boats were then boarded; the people remaining
in them landed and brought to Cawnpore, where
they were hacked to pieces in cold blood. Not a
soul, it is said, escaped. The 12th Native Infantry,
which came toCawnporc, committed cruelties almost
equally great. They rose on the 6th of June, and
seized a fortification called the Star Fort, whilst the
officers took refuge in the city fort, a strong position
which the chief in command, Captain Skenc, spoke
confidently of holding until relief arrived. Unfor-
tunately the widow of the late Rajah thought she had
cause to be discontented with the treatment she had
received from the East India Company, and considered
it a grievance that she had been deprived of the
reversion of her husband's dignity. She joined
her cause with that of the mutineers, gave
them some artillery, with which they breached
the gate of the fort; after which they as-
saulted and carried it, and massacred all that were
inside. A relation of the Ranee was placed in power
by the sepoys, who then proceeded to Cawnpore,
where they were joined by the 10th Native Infantry
from Furrukabad, a regiment guilty of no innocent
blood, having been content with sacking the trea-
sure, and dismissing their officers smithies's. A
few soldiers, indeed, stood by the officers, and
enabled them to retire safely into the fort of
Fumtkabad. To these mutineers we may have
to add the 3rd Irregular Cavalry, 31st Bengal Na-
tive Infantry, and 41st Light Infantry from San -
ger, regiments which raised the standard of rebel-
lion after pretending, like the 6th at Allahabad,
that they were staunch, and desirous of showing
their prowess against the mutineers. It had been
thought safe to send out a company of the 31st, a
company of the 42nd, two troops of Irregulars, and
two guns, under Major Gaussen,ot the 43rd Native
Infantry, to Lullatpere, to put down some preda-
tory bands of Bendel& Thakoors, and petty chief-
tains of the Bundelcund states, who had risen sad
were likely to take forcible possession of that pet
of Central India. What may have been the fate
of the officers, with these detachments, I cannot say,
but the Saugor troops rose in their absence, and
although they did no harm to their officers, the same
chance may not betel those who were absent on field
duty. It was fortunate for the Europeans at this
place that they bad with them a battalion of Euro-
pean artillery, which would enable them to hold out
in the fort, if provisions did not run short.
It thus appears that the force surrounding Sir 11.
Wheeler at Cawnpore is a large and imposing one,
and I doubt whether the few Europeans whom
Colonel Neile has been able to send on from Anal's-
bad will be able to effect much good. The sepovs
were so confident in their strength that they actually
assailed Sir 11. Wheeler's force in its entrenchments
on thu 17th of June; but they were repulsed with
tremendous loss, after two assaults, and will probably
not try a third.
Sir Henry Lawrence, at Lucknow, is surrounded
by large bodies of insurgents also. Up to the 19th
of June he had remained free from attack. He had
completed his arras eats for defence with great
energy, and provided not only for the residence and
the old fortification of the Muchee Bhawun, but
also for the cantonments and city, as well as a small
circuit around. Three of the roads leading to the
residence had been closed by stout barricades. Num-
bers of guns had been mounted on every available
point, and good protection had been made for all
approaches. In order to cut off the communication
with Fyzabad, one half of the old stone bridge near
the Muchee Sheeran had been destroyed, and tits
road from thence to the fort had been blocked up.
A strong body of Europeans held the only approach
to the bridge. All the treasure had been removed
into the fort. An abundant supply of provisions had
been laid in ; thousands of munch' of grain having
been procured, u well as large quantities of aoojee
and auger, purchased at Cawnpore before the com-
munications were closed. On the 6th of June a
mement,nalled " Of Syed Hussein," was disarmed,

and the city had remained quiet since the flay of
the mutiny.
It was not without mason that Sir H. Lawrence
took precautions against the approach of rebels
from Fyzabad. The mutiny there was conducted
with a dignity and forbearance very different from
the cruel and frantic ebullitions of other sepoys. The
22nd Native Infantry called their officer, from their
bungalows to a meeting, taking precautions to pre-
vent people from plunder. Fisher s Irregular Horse,
at a council of war, had voted for a general
massacre. This course—which, I may remark, has
been advocated on every occasion where cavalry
regiments had a voice, in consequence, no doubt, of
the troopers being a majority
.of Nluesulmans—was
negatived by the 22nd, who informed their officers
that they were at liberty to go. They were now,
they said, under the orders of their native officers,
and the subandar-major of the regiment had been
appointed to the command. The same terms were
offered by the Gth Oudc Irregulars and the men of a
battery of Artillery. The eubandar of one of these
regiments is related by an officer who escaped to
have used the following remarkable language:—
" "

A. you are going away for ever, I will tell you all about
our plans. We halt at Fysabad five days, and march via
Darriabsd upon Lucknow, where we expect to be joined by
the people of the city fie added, proclamations have
been received from the King of Delhi, informing ell that ha
is once ewe on the throne of his Where, and calm ups.
the whole army to join his standard. Akio that Raja Mina
Sing, under whoee guardianship the ladies at Fysabad placed
I helots:lves, bud been appointed commander-in-chief in Oude.
The Subandar fnrther added, You English have been •
long time in India, but you know little of us. We have
nothing to do with W4sed AIL or any of his relations ; the
kings of Lucknow were made by you ; the only ruler in
India empowered to give Sunnuds is the King of Delhi ; ho
never made a King of Oude, and it is from him only that
we shall receive our orders."
As the officers left Fyzabad to go down the Gogra,
the 17th Native Infantry, which had mutinied at
Azimghur came in. It appears that the officers
and ladies were sent to Ghazeepore. Maun Sing,
appointed to the supreme command in Oude, by the
King of Delhi, took most of the ladies under his pro-
tection. The Fyzabad and Azimghur rebels thus
joined together proceeded to Lucknow, where
they were reinforced by the 15th Irregular Home,
the Bth Oude Irregular Infantry, and the police
corps, from Sultanpore. These troops mutinied on
the 7th of June, and killed four of their officers,
Colonel Fisher and Captain Gibbings, of the 15th Ir-
regular Hone, and Meyers. Block and Strogan.
The positions held by the rebels in the north-west
of the kingdom of On& and in ltohileund, and their
apparent determination not, or inability, to cross the
Ganges, shows that it is their intention to endeavour
to keep the country they now hold in the event of
the fall of Delhi.

The details of movements at Bareilly, Moorada-
bad, and other places in those parts are scanty.
Symptoms of disaffection were noticed at Bareilly
towards the close of May,and the officers of the 68th
and 18th Bengal Native Infantry, and Bth Irre-
gular Horse, took the precaution of sending
their wives and fanatics to the hills at Itynee
On the 31st they showed great discontent on hear-
ing of the disarmament of troops in the service of
the Rajah of Bellmore. They feared also that an
European force might be approaching. Accordingly
they lost no time in making arrangements for a
rising on the following day. (Sunday). All the
officers bad gone to morning service, and were
coming out of church, when the usual gun at 11
o'clock was fired, shotted. Tbis was the precon-
certed signal, upon which the 18th and 68th rose,
and formed iu their lines. Brigadier Sibbald and
Colonel Troup had taken the precaution of appointing
a rendezvous on the cavalry parade ground; and,
when the soldiers began to fall out and fire the
houses, the officers and civilians made their way as
rapidly as possible to the rendezvoul. Half the Bth
ler Cavalry turned out of the bidding of Colo-
Iralreker'oup. Brigadier Sibbald and Ensign Tucker
were killed on tilde way to the perade ground,
having to pass in font of the fire from the eepoy
lines and the artillery, and all hut three officers
of the 18th were massacred in other places.
The rest joined Colonel Troup, and with the
Bth Irregular Cavalry started toward Bamuree.
The troopers remained some time with the officers,
and then requested to he allowed to return and
charge the mutineers. This was a mere pretext far
joining their brethren, and permission to do this was
not granted by Colonel Troup. The cavalry now
took leave without orders, left the officers and
civilians, and returned to Bareilly, whilst the fugi-
tives, under a burning son, made their way towards
Nyncc Tal. Once there, they were safe, as the
position was a hill tolerably fortified, and held by a
company of Ghoorkas from Almorah. The suhandar
at Banally assumed command of the rebel forces,
tiding about in the carriages of the unfortunate
Brigadier Sibbald, followed by a numerous staff in
the buggies of the officers. The supreme command
of Rohilcund has been taken by Khan Bahadoor
Khan, who assumed the title of king, and inaugu-
rated his reign by the massacre of all the inhabi-
tants of a native Christian village, a few miles from
Bareilly. Since the mutiny, a body of insurgents
has marched towards the Ganges, to a place in the
Ghauts, called Gurrnuktesur, and a large body of
Oude mutineers have crossed the Ganges and Junina
and encamped at Khoorja, at the point where the
Agra road separates into two branches, one leading
to Delhi, the other to Meerut, through Boolund-
shuhur. At the latter place also a body of Oude
insurgents has taken up its quarters, and the
Europeans have fled into Meerut.
The Mooradabad mutiny took place on the 3rd
of June, after iutelligeece had been received of the
Bareilly movement. The rebels plundered the
Treasury of two lakhs and a half of rupees, and car-
ried off several chests of plate left there for safety.
They would have tied the treasurer to a gun, and
killed lam under the pretence that he had concealed
sonic of the money, but they let hint off, and he, as
well as the officers and civilians, fled to Itynco Tel
and Meerut. The regiment here wee the 29th
Native Infantry, which up to the latent dates re-
mained in its old quarters.
The mutiny of the 41st Native Infantry at Secta-
pore is still obscurely known. The sepovs arc said
to have made a complete butchery of the'Europeane,
and to have proceeded afterwards to Muhmudie. As
ill-luck would have it, the civil officers from that
place and Saharunpore were met by them on the
road and massacred, with the exception of one Cap-
tain Orr, who escaped after witnessing the horrible
fate of his companions.
Every thing has been quiet at Bombay. Sir
Henry Somerset has been here from Poona, to
organize with Lord Elphinstone the necessary
movements of troaps.
The head-quarters of the Poona Irregular Horse,
under Colonel Tapp, arrived on the 4th from the
Persian Gulf. A wing of the 86th came in on the

6th from Aden.
Captain Wellesley assumed command under a
salute of seventeen guns, an commodore, on the Bth.
On the 9th, Sir J. Outrem left in the Madras to
talc his place in the Supreme Council at Calcutta.
The Bombay government have put in force the
New Gagging Act, under the same regulations as
have already obtained nt Calcutta.
From Nladras we learn that the Rohillas have
formed themselves into bands in the neighbourhood
of Cuddapab, and arc ravaging the country.

r• LT 14.

Our latest intelligence from Lahore, dated tle 30th
of lune,brinraecounts of a general nature as to a
renewal of skirmishing in the gardens about our
positions at Delhi or, the 27th. After the affair of the
23rd, in which the enemy availed himself of the en-
closures and buildings in our rear, it seems to have
been found necessary to prevent a recurrence of this
evil. Those positions were accordingly occupied by
our forces. In what direction the skirmishes of the
27th took place has not yet been made known. The
enemy fought without energy, and is said to have
suffered severely from our artillery. Our loss was
12 men killed; Lieut. Harris, of the 2nd Faille"