Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-31 00:00:00

burnt 250 of the enemy's dead, and large numbers
were removed by therhselves into the city. Our
loss was considerable, amounting to 212 killed and
wounded. The enemy's practice with shot is
generally very good, with shells less so—they are
apparently short of regular fuzes, using in
their place pieces of bamboo. They have still,
and are likely to have as long as their day lasts,
plenty of powder. The large magazine, con-
tained 10,000 barrels, most of which fell into
their hands, though some of it was plundered.
The magazine blown up so gallantly by Lieutenant
Willoughby contained the small arm ammunition
2,500,000 rounds. The mutineers then in Delhi,
were reckoned at from 11,000 to 12,000 men, and to
have formed portions of 31. different regiments.
" In the Punjaub the authorities have been busy
disarming the few regiments that were still under
arms, in the view of setting free more European
troops to operate against Dolhi. At Jhelum the 14th
Native Infantry offered a determined resistance to
the wing of the 24th Regiment sent to take their
arms, and were not broken and dispersed until
they had killed and wounded some 50 of the Euro-
peans, The 58th Native infantry was disarmed at
Rawul Pindee, after showing fight fin• a while. The
4th Native Infantry, at Noorpore, imme-
diately gave up their arms when called upon
to do so by their commanding officer, unbacked
though he was by the presence of a single English
soldier. Similar good behaviour attended the dis-
arming of the 10th Light Cavalry at Ferozepore.
But at Sealkote a terrible tragedy has been enacted.
There, on the morning of the 9th, the wing of the
9th Light Cavalry and the 40th Native Infantry
rose in mutiny. Brigadier Brind, commanding the
station, vv.ia shot while riding out of his compound.
Capt. Bishop, of the 16*was waylaid by a trooper,
who brought him from the saddle by a shot
from his carbine, and then reloading, fired again
and killed him as h' lay wounded on the ground.
Most of the other officers, though repeatedly fired
at, gainei the fort in safety. Dr. Graham was
driving his daughter thither, in his gig, when a
trooper rode up to him and shot him dead His
daughter seized the nine, and drive screaming into
the nearest compound with her father's body in
her lap. I think it fitting that you should know
something in England of what your countrymen
have been going through, or I should shrink from
making 'public this poor young lady's sorrow.
She escaped, however, as did the family with
whom she took refuge, though exposed for
hours to the most imminent danger of sudden and
violent death. Their hiding place was good, and
was discovered by one only of the mutineers who
met a fitting fate from the barrel of a revolver.
The rebels, having sacked the station, rushed off,
and three days afterwards had crossed the river
Ravee by a ford. There they were attacked by
Brigadier Nicholson with the flying column (52nd
Light Infantry, oth Punjaub Infantry, and other
troops) and driven back across the river with con-
siderable loss of life and the capture of the camp
and plunder. For want of cavalry they could not
be followed up.

"T 3 turn to Central India. The fugitives from
Indore, and from two or three stations of the lake
Gwalior Contingent, have for the most part arrived
in safety at Hoshungabad, south of the Nerbudda,
where the 28th Madras Native Infantry received
and housed them. Their sufferings were terrible.
Exposed, most of them delicate women and chil-
dren (one of the latter I know only three weeks' old)
first to intense heat, then to thirty-six hours'
incessant rain, wading rivers up to their shoulders,
half starved, half clothed—that they survived at
all is a marvel. In the Sanger and Nerbudda
territories the mutinies have been less extensive
than was believed. At Jubbulpore the 52nd Native
Infantry are still behaving well. At Saugor, the
31st, with the exception of a very few, remained
staunch, and under their native officers, the Euro-
peans having been forced to fly to this fort, drove
the -I2d out of the station, capturing their colours.
We may now hope that this part of the country
will hold out till the column from Nagpore, now
on its way thither, arrives. Holkar remains
staunch. Mhow has probably this day been
reached by the Bombay column from Poonah.
Neemuch is occupied by a party of the 83d
Queen's from Nuseeerabad.
" The Deccan, though Nagpore is safe, is giving
us a little anxiety here, Hyderabad being a very
inflammatory place. However, the Madras force
there is very strong, and the wing of the 12th
Lancers is moving down there from Kirkee, while
a Madras column will shortly advance from Ban-
galore to Kurnaul, to hold the southern part of the
country in check..
"Nearer home the Government is looking out to
get at the other end of a string of which one ex-
tremity is discovered. The mooloie or high priest
of the Mussulmen at Poonah has been arrested for
treasonable correspondence with somebody at
Belgaum. That somebody remains to be caught.
The authorities are silent, but wary and vigilant.
In the north of the Presidency, at Ahmedabad,
a few of the Guzerat Horse, some seven,
broke out one day in open mutiny and wounded
an officer, but were shot or taken. Otherwise
we have been quiet. The approach of the Mohur-
rum is causing a little, but I think needless, anxiety.
I should mention that the Bombay Fusiliers
have reached Lahore, setting freo the 81st for ser-
vice before Delhi. Madras troops aro going up to
Calcutta, whence two steamers have been sent for
them. Large levies of Sikbs are being made in
the Puejeub, and also in the Hansi and Hisser
districts, now quite, tranquillized by General
von Certlandt. Burmab is all safe, having no
Bengal troops in it now but six companies of the
25th, if indeed they have nut ere this left for
Calcutta.

"4The rain is falling at last splendidly. I hope,
for the sake of the country, that it is general. A
meeting has been held here in aid of the sufferers
in the north-west, and large amounts subscribed.
The government have notified that payments into
the open 5 per Cent. Loan will be received half in
cash, half in 4. per Cent. paper ; hence the prices
had fallen to 92. The prices rose to 85, but are
now at 83. Exchange on London, 2s. 24.
"4 P.S. The mail is just closing. More news
from Delhi via Lahore. A fierce fight on the 1-tth
Loss of the mutineers greater than ever. Seven
officers wounded. The 39th Nativo Infantry
quietly disarmed at Debra Ismail Khan. The
remnant of the Sealkote mutineers, of whose
discomfiture by Nicholson on the 12th I wrote
just now, were attacked and utterly and
finally routed by him on the 15th. They had
taken post on an island in the Ravee, and had
placed their one gun in a breast-work on the mar-
gin. Nicholson took the 52nd across the island
from a point below that on which the enemy's gun
bore, and that piece was moreover kept in check
by the fire of two nine-pounders and a howitzer
from our bank of the river. We landed the 52nd,
took the gun with little trouble, slew many of the
mutineers, and drove the rest into the river, from
which those that escaped to the further hank
would fall into the hands of the Sikh zemindars,
who would show them n'a mercy. We had but four
men of the 52nd wounded. An excellent piece of
service."