Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES.

We t9ke the following from the Bombay
Gaz3tte :
Oa thu 15th of Juni we announced that the nowa of
Delhi having fallen was expected hour by hour. Here is
the 12th of August, however' and we have read our con
Heat predictions in English papers, echoed over half the
world, but not yet fulfilled. To ull appearance, the re-
capture of the piece seems further off now than it wns
then. We have long ceased to look for the news.
We receive no tidings thence save of the ordinary sorties
and repulses, of which, the result is always the same—the
defeat of the mutineers, or, as they are called by the
hesiegiore force. the " Paudies," with more or less loss on
either side, but always far greater on that of the enemy
than on ours. Happily, there is this disparity, as our small
foree can less afford to spare one man than the mutinous
host can aff.ad to lose 10.
Reinforcements are received and absorbed into the
besieging army, and forn time to time we hear that the
defensive attitude is to be abandoned for the offensive,
that the assault, one and final, is to be given ; but still
again we learn that reinforcements are awaited. We have
now, however, a stronger hope than ever before, and a hope
not doomed, we trust, to end in disappointment, though its
realization may he long deferred. A victorious army,
under Brigadier-General Havelock, after having recaptured
Cawnpore and relieved Luckaow, is new probably advanc-
ing, vires a,equirit eundo, and should by this time be fairly
ou the road to Delhi. On its arrival there we may perhaps
again anticipate early intelligence of the place having fallen,
and its rebel garrison having been destroyed.
• IThe sorties of the mutineers are lees frequent, seemingly,
than at first. Daring the p2riod between the 14th ard
28th ult there were only three. The first took place on
the 14th, and was attended with unusually heavy •loss on
both sides. On ours this was eccationed by the eagerness
of the troops, which carried them in pursuit of the flying
enemy under the fire of grape and musketry from the walls.
The number of killet and wounded was 171. Lieutenant
Law, of the 10th Native Infantry, was the only officer
among the former, but several officers were wounded.
On the 18th the mutineers were easily and promptly driven
back into the city. On the 231 th•y came out in great
force, with field-pieces, end covered by the fire of heavy
guns from tl'e walls, with a view to au attack on our posi-
tion at the Metcalfe Battery. 'They were, however, taken
in flank by a force under Brigadier Showere, end quickly
rented, raving their guns only by the rapidity of the flight.
The rains had sat in at Delhi, which woald for the
present be an advantage to the European troops, in
relieving them from the effects of the hot winds and the
unelowl.ed san. The fall is very moderate there, the
annual average being only about 25 inches.
The Seafkote mutineers who, as mentioned in our last,
were cooped np on an island of the Ravee and watched by
.Brigadier Nichelson'a force. _were finally disposed of on
the 16th ult., when the whole body was killed or driven
into the river. Bann hundreds of stragglers, both soldiers