The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

The following description is from a letter from
Colonel Becher:
The troops entered et the breech near the Cashmere gate
without serious opposition, and gained poestemion of the
large buildings in its neighbourhood, and advanced along
the ramparts to the Moores bastion and Cabal gate, in pro-
great to which the ravishes» wee very obstinate, and the
lose oonmequently has been severe. But we me advancing
gradually within the city.
Large bodies of the enemy here been wren retreating, both
in the direction of the Kotub and new the bridge. Arrange-
ments are making for batteries to be made in the city, and
their beery guns have been turned wind them.

The government had published the following ofß-
cial bulletins from Lahore, giving the particulars of
the aasault on Delhi to the 16th September, together
with an express from Oeneral Roberts at Ahmeda-
bad, stating that the whole of the city was in our
possession on the 20th, and that the Ring of Delhi
had been taken prisoner:

"CHIEF COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE.
"LAHORE, Sur. 16.
_

"The following messages were received from Delhi
during the course of yesterday and this morning
from the office of the Adjutant-General of the
Army:
"' 9 a. N. 15th Sept.—We continue to hold the
City from the College to the Cabool gate, and the
enemy holds the magazine, which we arc now shell-
ing. The palace is also being shelled. Many of
the mutineers had fled yesterday. The following
officers were killed :—Lieutenant Tandy, Engineers,
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, 76th Foot, Lieutenant
Bradshaw, 52nd Foot, Captain Mcllarnett, 55th
Infantry; Lieutenant Murray, Guide Corps; Major
Jacob, Ist Fusiliers, has died from his wounds.
About thirty officers have been wounded, including
Brigadier General Nicholson, Lieutenant Ni-
cholson, of Coke's Regiment; Greathed, !dam-
sel!, Chesney, Balkeld, Brownlow, Hoeenden,
and Medley, Engineers ; Waters and Curtis,
60th Rifles ; Ross of Carabineers (dangerously);
Anson, A.D.C. ; Baynes and Pogson, Bth Foot;
Greville, Wemyse and Owen, Ist Fusiliers; Reid,
Birmoor Battalion ; Boisragori, /Coulson Battalion,
and several others whose names have not yet been
received ; but our total lass is estimated at 600.'

" Another message (hour not given) states that
'the captured guns
.on the Moores and Cabool bas-
tions are also in play on the Burn bastion and Lahore
gate—new positions occupied by mutineers. Some
Cavalry and Infantry have left since yesterday
evening, but the garrison still show every intention
of disputing our further entrance.'
" 8 p.m., 15th September.—' All well. We have
made a breach in the magazine, and storm it at
dawn. The enemy's musketry Sze is much re-
duced.'

" No official account has yet been received of the
successful attack by a portion of General Van Con-
landt's force on the rebel village of 31ungella,but a
number of the 10th Cavalry men bare been killed
and 13 of them, with some others, made prisoners,
were immediately executed on the spot. About
20,000 rupees worth of plunder is said to have
fallen into the hands of our men, and 80 horses and
some 2,000 head of other cattle.

"P. 6.-7 A. M. 16th September.—Thc following
message has just been received from Delhi :—"fhe
magazine was stormed at daylight by the 61st Foot,
Belouch battalion, and part of Wilde's Regiment.
We had only a few wounded, and the enemy about
forty killed. One hundred and twenty-five guns
were taken in the magazine.'

" LATIORE, SZPT. 17.

The latest menage from Delhi is up to 2 p.m.
yesterday. Our mortars continue to play upon the
palace from the magazine enclosure ; the enemy
entirely abandoned the Kishengunge battery
and we have found in it in position, five IS-pounder
mortars, making a total ember of pieces of ord-
nance taken in and before Delhi upwards of 200.
" The battery across the river opposite Kingurh
is also reported to have been abandoned by the
mutineers, who are in detached groups fighting
from the tops of houses ; their organisation into
regiments is fut being broken up.
" Dewan Hurrce Chund, the Comm andant of the
auxiliary force of His Highness the Maharajah Hun-
bbeer Sing, died of cholera yesterday ; his death is
much to be regretted. He was the trusted ser-
vant of the Maharajah, and a man of great expe-
rience.

"A supplementary list of casualties received yester-
day mentions Captain Ross, Carabineers, and Lieut.
Humphreys, 4th Punjaub Infantry, died of their
wounds. Wounded 14th of Sept.—Pemberton, H.
Gustavinsle, Sappers ; Cuppage, 6th Cavalry; Bay-
ley and Atkinson, 52nd Foot; Shebheare, Guides;
Graydon, 16th Grrnadiers ; Spero, 65th N. I.; Lam-
bert, lit Funilicts, Gamble, 36th L. I.; Hay, 80th
N. I. ; Prior, let I'onjaub Infantry.
"General Van Cortlandt reports the destruction on
the 13th instant, by a portion of the Hurrianah irre-
gular force under hie command, of the insurgent
village of Mungulpore. The rebels drew up a force
of from 700 to MOO horse, from 400 to 500 infantry,
and some guns to defend the village; but after
the exchange of a few shots, they broke and fled
with the utmost rapidity, leaving their camp in our
hands just as it stood; some ammunition and tire
cart-loads of Sepoys' things, such as coats, panta-
loons, &e.

P.S.—The following has just been received from
the Aseiztant-Adjutant-General of the Army: Delhi,
7 p.m., 16th September. We have now established a
line of posts from the Cabool gate to the magazine;
an attack was made on the magazine to-day, which
was repulsed, but we had some men killed and
wounded.

(Signed) " I. I). MACPHERSON, Lient.-Col.,
Military Secretary to Chief Commissioner."

The following (says the Bombay Times) was re-
ceived by express from General Roberts, command-
ing the forces at Ahmedabad, who despatched the
intelligence to the Governor on the 29th September :
" By express through Dr. Derinzy, Residency Sur-
geon, Jeypore, 23rd September, 5 A.X. We have
this moment received information from the Darby,