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

DELHI.

We take the following from a diary published in
tb© Bombezy Gazette :

July 20.
Telegraphic communication with Umballah is still
interrupted at tha Sutlej. Owing to General Reed's ill-
ness, the command of the field forces hofore Dalhi has been
male over to Brigadier General Wition, and General
Gowan has assumod the chief comanni in the Upper
Provinces.

July 20.
The telegraph communication with Umbella is again
open ; and, by a abort message received yesterday, there
appears to have been ann'her affair with the mntineers at
Delhi on the 18th hat. Paraculars are not given furth2r
than that our loss was small, and the enemy, as usual,
driven back. They made a show of turning oat oh the
19. h, but retired again very shortly within the city walls.
Our treys before Delhi have now been engaged in no
less than 22 conflicts with the mutineers, who have
poured in from all quarters to aid the rebel cause.
The mutineers have invariably been discomfitted and
forced to fly. As soldiers they have proved themselves
despicable, and whatever their numbers they will only
venture to fight from under cover.
July 22.
The usual message from head quarters did not reach
Lahore yesterday ; but it appears that a column of our
troops had been ordered out on the 19th to drive in the
enemy and seize a battery ; the result not yet known.
Shah Mall. a famous Jd leader, had b"en attaeked by a
force from Meerut, and Me himself killed and 600 of his
followers.

Brigadier G3neral Nicholson proceeds at once to Delhi
with large reinforcement, both European and native.
July 23.

• The Punjalb continues to be perfectly tranquil.
Accounts fram Kurnal sate that Captain Hughes's corps
of Punjaub Cavalry (che sth Regiment), with a party of the
mounted Folic: under Remalder Soodh Sing, a few
ratteeala infantry, and two guns, were employed to coerce
a large village named Butleem, the Zeminiars of which
seemed dispose,: to withhold the Givernment revenue and
to oppose the G.)vernment officers. The troops met with
considerable opposition, but carried an' destroyed the
village. The Z.:minders were habeeqnently fined by the

authorities. This Tillage does not form a part of the
Ilusjaub.
Tao telegraph messages of yesterday report all quiet at
Delhi. Much talk among the mutineers of a great attack
upon the British position, but n 4 attempt to assail it.
A messsge from Umballa says thst some Sikh sepoys
from Calcutta, ea furlough from Ist June. had passel
Cawnpore on the 29th Jane, whoa Gene-al Fir H. M.
Wheeler was safe mil at Lucknow. The couttry belo
Allah ;bad is all quiet.
July 24.

There is no news of any importance from Delhi. From
intelligence gleaned at Umballa, there are great discus-
sions among mutineers The want of percussion caps is
mentioned, but same very clever man in the city had
volunteered to make them ! There had been no more
fighting up to the 22u1 inst. Seven additional regimeits
of Punjaab infantry are at once to be embarked from the
four augmentation companies, which were directed to be
raised on the disturbances fist breaking oat. They will
be formed at the stations of Umballa, Phillonr, Mooltan,
Jhelum, Peshawur, Kohat and Derah Ismael Khan ; and
we shall soon be in a position io send further reinforce-
ments to the army before Delhi, in considerable strength,
should it prove necessary.
Accounts have b,en received from Judhpore of the 19€ h
inst. All well there, and also .at Ajrnere on the 17th.
Ajmer! aryl Neetnech are held by. detachments of her
Majesty's 83rd Faet, Bombay Lancers, and 12. h Regiment
of Bombay Native Infantry, European Horse Artillery,
and Judhpore Lesion.
Captain Greensill, her Majesty's 24th Foot, was killed
by an accidental shot from the Metcalfe batery at D-lhi,
on the night of the 21st inst. This unfortunate dfieer
appears to have lost his life from neglecting to answer the
challenge of a sentry.
July 25.

A telegraphic message received yesterday from the
camp befora Delhi, reports that on the previous day the
mutineers had come out in force with fiald guns round by
the Cashniere-gata, and moved upon our position at the
Metcalfe Battery, under cover of the fire of heavy guns
from the city walls. They were taken in flank by a force
under Brigadier Showans, when they ikd precipitately,
saving their guns only by the rapidity of their flight. Our
loss was, small, but we had a few officers wounded—Colonel
Drought, 60th Rifles ; Colonel Beaten, 35th Native
►ntantry; Major Turner, Artillery ; Captain Mosey,
Artillery; and Lieutenant Law, 10th Regiment of Native
Infantry, was killed. _ _ _

July 26.
The report from the camp before Delhi is, that up to the
evening of the 24th all had remained quiet. Our w.,unded
officers and men doing well.

A strong party of the 55th Regiment of Native Infantry,
which attempted to proceed via Khagun and Kouhar
towards Cashmere, were attacked in a difficult pass is the
hill 4 by the Syuds of Knagun and people of Kouhar, well
beaten, and 32 of their number were slizgl and sent in
prisoners to Major Becher, camtnanding in H3zora, under
whose orders th'y were tried, sentenced, and executed.
Lieutenant M'Mahon, assistant commissioner, who had
proceeded towards the frontier of lilkharajah Glpsolab Sing,
with about 300 men of the new levies from Sealkote,
reports 78 of the mutineers of the 9 h Light Cavalry, and
46th Native Infantry having been sent in by the Maha-
rajah's people; 63 of them have been summarily dealt
with, and the remainder, chiefly commissioned and non-
commissioned officnrs, have been reserved for the present,
in order that a mere formal and public example may be
made of them. Fifty of the 9.11 Light Cavalry horses
have also been recovered.

July 27.
Up to 4 p.m. of the 25th inst. the mutineers at Delhi
remained perfectly quiet. They are reported to have been
joined by a body of fanatics from Tank, a class that are
found generally to have a rema,kable aversion to close
quarters. Mach raja had fallen at Delhi. •
The intelligence of the arrival of a European force at
Cawupore under the command of Sir Patrick Grant is
further confirmed by ace )unts received from the, camp
before Delhi. Her Majesty's 35th, 37th, 64th,
(El ghlanders), and the Madras Fnsileers ara said to com-
pose it, and another regiment is also mentioeed—probablv
the Sikh regiment at Ferozeparc.
At Mooltan, Subadar-Major Nahur Khan, of the 69th
Native Infantry, has been convicted before a general court-
martial for mutinious and seditious conduct, and executed
by being blown away from a gun in the presence of all the
troops paraded for the purpose; some others of this regi-
ment are to be brought to trill, and great praise is due to
Major C. Chamberlain, who, aided by some of his excellent
native officers (in especial Meer Burket Allee, Wurdee
Major) has succeeded in discovering the base treachery
medicated; by these °miscreants, and establishing it by
proof. 12l of the Sealkote mutineers, brought in from
the Jusreutah Hague, have been summarily executed.
July 28.
All qiiet at Delhi up to 4 p,m. on the 26th inst. Mach
talk reported amosg the neetiseers of intended great doings
and attacks upon our position, but nothing further.
Letters from Agra of the 22d. inst. had been received in
camp. They mention the complete defeat of the insurwnts
under Nena Sahib, at Futternore, on the 12th iner re. 4 ww
had captnretrthe-natitlelefehis gone, twelve i a number,
and seven lace of treasure. `.'ht British force under Geo.
Havelock had marched.
A fanatical M ealvie from Swat had moved down and set
up .his standard in the notorious village of Nirunz lie, on
the eastern border of Eusufz ai, where, with a number of
his followers, he was attacked on the 21st inst. by detach
manta from the mountain train battery, from Wild's and
Vatighan'a corps of Panjaub Infantry, and some police
horse. The village was carried by assault after a stout
resistasce; 55 of the enemy were killed and many wounded.
The Moulvie contrived to make himself scarce early in the
fight, having apparently, on a nearer view of them, no
relish for the glories of martyrdom.
The heat endured by our troops daring this short expedi-
tion is reported to have been excessive, and nine Svoys
(out of forty struck down) were killed by coup de so:eil.
July 29.
There is no news from Dolhi, where ell remained q.aiet
up to the evening of the 27th. Much rain had fallen.
The total number of Sealkote mutineers and camp
followers sent in by the Jusrouta authorities (of his 11,gh-
nem Maharajah Goolab Singh) amount to 672.
An emeute took place in the gaol at Googaira on the
night of the 26th inst. The prisoners rose en masse and
overpo wand the sentries inside the gaol. The guard out-
side, however, killed and wounded about 50 of then-, most
of the latter mortally. Eighteen prisoners managed to
effect their escape, owing to the darkness of the night
J. D. MACPHERSON, Lieutentant-Colonel,
Military Secretary to the Chief Commissioner.