Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

LUCKNOW REINFORCED

‘;11:er Vectig. lust arrived from Alexandria, brings no
k.o4,lews than was co -municated this morning by
leett,', except that Lucknow was reinforced by Htr
83 4853rd and 93rd regiments, about the 14th Oct.
.uOO-4 30th, Greathed would raise Havelock's army to
LORD LYONS,
COnsial Craig, Csgliari, Nov, 2lth, 1857. 4 p m.

kr,T,
----urERCE FROM CALCUTTA TO TEE 22ND
OCTOBER, 1857.

tllllllart
4nt papers have been found in the at
,Nothing however, of data anterior Loathe out-
entt Meerut'
11 4;41:4 ission has been issued for the trial of the King,
" uncertain whether any promise of his life had
l)lo.l4ciLawrence superintends the administration of the
tpq terrifcry.
ilgeetlel Greathead's column arrived at Allay Porch
ißitt a defeated the Fanatics there, and marched on
mgrs on the sth, which they deAroyed, and reached
toZitho 10:h, where they were attacked suddenly by
eeatereets of Undore and Ghopar, whom they soon
IlliPagelti,ol the loss of thirteen guns. and all their camp
ktrrille it:lving the en. vivors across Kharee.
Bled
date from this camp is 14. th Oct , when he
?to fled the Jumna, and was nuking the best of his
xin-mitltu,w
114 ;11 1` write (?) on the 101 Oct , that the mutineers
Theil b• Walior Contingent were marching towards Cawn-
shausi.
ii,et,:ai telligence from Lucknow is 131 Oct.
`I uutram had urgently applied for large supplies,
'nfo
reeruents are to be organised at Allumbamek,
`ta Qtir miles from the Residency, in preference to
90Z4.
ktopktuaication between Allumbamek and Cawnpore
eY,ia,ll, but not between Allurnbamek and the Resi-
hee the neighbourhood of which the whole rebel force
t,4
eottrated
4,.:41 of provisions reached Allumbamek on Oct.
~hoyPawnpore.
luree or four thousand fugitives from Delhi, with
,ilari,llo, were expected to reach She lrajpore, near
k15,114;3°11 Oct. 19th, but on the same day a force of
With guns, from Cawnpore, attacked the rebels
0110„,,IY dispersed them.
11.11 8.4" Singh it is certain, has turned against us, and
3. Posed that mort of the Fargo Talookdars have
1147t°11
cosiTs from Raja, 16th October, stating that Liento-
ikil: °llle's house was threatened with about 2,000
Inv/ere deterred attacking him from the prepara-
vig4Q made. A wing of the 17th Madras Infantry,
7,4 guns, was ordered to march to his relief, and
o)i.'the Cuttra Pass, and his position was improved.
i;litieitor°Peans at Saugor are still in the fort, and relief
Y required.
iit/11013rotraction of the contest before Delhi had begun
1/4,m0t0 the popula' ion of the Paujaub.
"Ittit'bbg,froin Rijapootana, Central India, Bandelcund,
4CL: or Nagp:re
krl

is FROM BOMBAY TO 13Ta Nov., 1837.

Nukttlel'e of the King' sons have b sentenced be
ttii/Illet.- their executions een
to
was to take place on the 13th
tteo
11,11 theels at Chaudress have dispersed, and tranquility
bi!°llgb.out Gouriarat
'"usel3 are still in rebellion at Nassick, on the
IoZILFB RadkAnda,h.
let in Scinde, Bombay, Ma'ras, and Nizam's
11.

V 130ARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

ci'lltiltlaY, tho Board of Trade Returns for the
kt: Ile',,-11(1 the ten months ending the 31st of
1.,., oi 1857, were issued. We subjoin a statei
41%.4411,, the total declared value of the exports. o
1/4 -, tle-„Ild Irish produce and manufactures during
sltltll-„"th and ten months, including only the
'rated articles :
118:i_ 5 For the month. For ten months.
''hsg "• • . £7,992,420
I'l' •• • . 9,892 872
Vl:47a • • .......... 10,025,367
INELtit)l4 the " unenumerated articles" the
, e experts stand thus
th..
For the month. For ten months.
1 L.34q '•• • • . £8,860,594
'`)7 •• • ... 10 666,951
'•• • • • 10,985,789

111
i.4„484,
fix.„-emester there are 80 city missionaries at an
A trellditure of Er) 690, towards which 26 individuals
,
01:ti
44110 N 0 RUSEINN GOVERNOR.—The Ford of
k,t ha the faithA of •
kiittialt4ll
t? tile: Prince Gagarine, Governor General at
Lbiligtl"! been assassinated by Dadech Kiliane, a
114 (1:110e of a part of Mingrelia.
S 4):: th 4 COAL PIT.— On Monday, an inquest was
141,? to°,l3rown Cow, Coppull, before Mr. Myres,.
ye:nlag the death of James Holden, collier,
w. it a peP ared that the deceased, on Saturday,
thoof;:,
Mr John Darlington coal mine, at
Nrow, large stone, three yards square, displaced
1, ik °f the him and killed him on the spot.
44414 ma stone was from three to four tons.
t: no blame attached to any one, a verdict of
‘ll 1"144" was returned.

INDIAN MUTINIES.

THE FALL OF DELHI.

The following is from an Engineer officer
engaged in the siege :

DELHI, SEPT. 23.

Yon will see by the date of my letter that the task in
which we have been so long engaged is at last accom-
plished. Delhi was assaulted, and a portion of the city
captured by us en the 14th of September. Our progress
from this date was slow till the 20th, when the city was
evacuated by the mutineers, and we found ourselves in
possession of the whole. Thus had ended what I suppose
future generations will consider one of the most extraor- .
dinary sieges in history. You will by the time this ,
reaches you have learnt 'something more of the actual!
difficulties that we have had to contend against than our
'last English letters show ; but you cannot have the same
'notion of the wonderful wayin which our small force has
been protected by Providence as we who have been par-
ticipators in all that has passed. You will hear a great
deal, I will acknowledge, but there are small details which
strike us so forcibly at the time of the occurrence, and
'these are so innumerable, that the most careful narrator
will fail to tell all. There are so many calamities have be-
fallen us sincethe lath of May that one felt tempted to look
upon as irretrievable at, the time, and which so short a
time has sufficed to point out as the only remedies against
evils of far greater magnitude. So often has our 'position
seemed perfectly hopeless, and so wonderful have been
our deliverances, that I cannot conceive the most scepti-
cal man denying events to have been brought about by a
power far above human. I will only attempt to point out
to you some of the most convincing proofs of what I
asserteFirstly, when the mutiny broke out, see bow
General Hewitt was blamed for his inactivity. 'The out-
cry was natural, and no one can deny that he was the
most. incompetent man that could have filled snob a post.
But let us for an instant suppose that some more able man
had commanded at Meerut. and even that the mutiny-
had at its first outbreak at Meerut been quelled. Sub-
sequent events and disclosures have only proved to us
that the outbreak has been premature, and that had it
been overcome at the time it would probably have come
upon us at the appointed day with a force that none of
us could have hoped to withstand. Seconply, let us take
the fact that the mutineers on the 10th of May found the
Watergate "(to the south of the palace) open, when all
others had been shut against them. I have heard many
deplore this fact.; hut let us suppose otherwise. Let us
suppose that all the gates in the city had been closed,
and that all ingress had been impracticable. The results.
I think, must have been far more lamentable even than
they were. The mutineers (I think without a doubt)
would not have spent much time in fruitless endeavours
to enter the city, but have rushed straight up to the
cantonments, where they would have been 'joined by the
Native Infantry regiments there quartered. The sur-
prise would have been mist complete, and under the cir-
cumstances few indeed, if any. of us could have escaped ,
from cantonments, and with the prospect of the immense I
plunder in the city I do not think they would have wasted
much time in effecting an entrance, which would then
have been most easy, and how would it have fared with
those in the city ? Thirdly, we have always lamented
the delay in the assistance of the European force from
Bengal ireaching us. The event has shown bow far more
necessary these same Europeans were down country even
than up here. Fourthly, we have three time (previously
to Sept. i 4) been on the point of assaulting Delhi. This
was very shortly after our first arrival here on June 8.
On one occasion (June 12) we had even sent out the
advance eelumn. I was the senior engineer with the
column, and virtually had the command of it. My instruc-
tions were to advance through a portion of the suburbs of
Delhi (Kishengunce, Paharipore. and those villages to the
right of our position on the ridge) in close column, and
when within 400 yards of the city walls to extend to the
right and left in skirmishing order. The suburbs that
allude to, I must tell you, are chiefly composed of limp-
' holed enclosures and serail which you would think had
been built expressly for defensive purposes. The streets
are very narrow, and the distance that we had to traverse.,
to reach within 400 yards of the wall, something beyond
a mile. Had this position been occupied only by the
merest handful of the enemy (and there was nothing to
prevent its being so without our knowledge) we could
certainly never have forced our way through it, and had
the merest handful of the enemy only let us pass through
to the extreme end of the suburbs and 'then attacked us
and cut off our retreat., I really think that hardly a man of
its would have escaped to tell the tale As it turned out,
just as I was on the point of throwing out the skirmishers,
an aide-de-camp rode up to tell me we were unsup-
ported, and must make the best of our way back, and
he .only hoped we might get back safely. Most
providentially the enemy seemed to he in perfect
ignoramee of our movements, for not a shot was fired at
us till we had almost reached camp again, and were very
nearly out of range of the round shot from the city walls.
On reaching the camp we learned that the project had
miscarried., owing to a misconception of orders of Briga-
dier Graves, in command of a second column. Loud were
the abuses heaped on this unfortunate man, who seemed
(and perhaps deservedly so) the butt of everybody's
censure. Of course, everybody attributed to him the loss
of such a seemingly good opportunity of taking the city.
I think few -would venture to say so now. My own (and,
I think, the general) conviction is that our force, so con-
temptibly small as it then was, would have been completely
lost in such an immense city, an 1, unless the enemy had
been most completely panic-stricken, would have had
little chance of .holding any temporary adyantage that he
might have g tined in the first rush. I could enumerate
instances of the same kind without number, but it would
try your patience. I think few can ponder on all that has
happened and imagine that our work im India is done,
and that Providence has altogether forsaken us. We
opened our trenches on the 7th of September, and the way
in which we accomplished this was one of the most
wonderful parts of the siege. Oar attack was d'vided
into two—the right and left. The right was directed
against the Moree Bastion, and the left, to which I was
attached, was directed against the portion of the walls
near the Cashmere gate and church. If you can recollect
the ground at all you will remember that opposite Ludlow
Castle (where Mr. S. Frazer lived) towards the river it
was occupied by gardens. The distance between this
position and the city is very small, within ea,y range of
grapes hot from No. 2 Bastion, against which the thick
brushwood was of course no protection. Breaking ground
se close to the wall was a boll mauceivre, which few
circumstances would justfy, and one which we fully
expected would cost us many valuable lives. Judge, then,
of our surprise to find scarcely any notice whatever taken
of our proceedings. It is 'he more remarkable, as there
seemed to be no attempt at secrecy on our part, and we
ourselves could hear the enemy's sentries on the ramparts.
Our working' party was an excessively large one, an I had
the enemy taken common precautions (for they could not
have been ignorant of our presence) they must have in-
flicted very heavy losses, if, indeed, they had not entirely
stopped our works. Vigilant. however, as we have
always found them, this first night God seemed to have
blinded their eyes to all sense of danger ; fir, with the
exception of one'shower of grape and two or three round
shot directed at us, which injured no one. they fired away
at our batteries on the ridge as usual. In the morning
they acted very differently, for they commenced, and
through the day kept up a very hot fire ; too late, however,
for we had managed to obtain pretty good shelter by that
time, and our first battery on the right was not o ly
finished, but armed and hard at work breaching. Yon
would think that after the ex'erience of our first night

they would have allowed us little peace in breaking fresh
ground nearer the walls ; however, even then there was
not very much fire, and it was only on the third night that
they seemed to awake to a sense of their danger ; and
from that time they kept up a pretty steady fire of all
sorts, including musketry and we certainly lost some
men. You may fancy that the engineers had little time
to themselves. I was not in bed for four nights, and, as
you may imagine, pretty well done up. There was only
one battery (only 150 or 230 yards from the walls) to he
finished, and it was the exelternent only that kept us
awake. I had a party of Her Mjest v's 61st and E3ii R-gi-
meats under ma, filling sand b ,gs, The fire was very hot,
and I was anxious to get m; men under cover in sane
pits, where the earth was softer to dice. I was leading
them to the pit, when, the night being dark, I fell into ono
that I had not seen, and sprained my ankle and leg so
severely that I was obliged to be taken to camp in a dhoolie.
There I lay on my back till the day of the assault. I was
in my tent, away from the mess, and therefore had no op-
portunity of hearing anything about it till the rattle of
musketry told me that something was doing. OF course,
stopping in bed was out of the question, and as my charger
was hors de combat, I had no choice but to mount my little
pony Donald. I had my doubts about my new charger, a
very pretty little beast, and perfect in every re-pnt excep
courage, being one of the most determined shyers that I
have ever seen. However, I had no choice for it, so I
mounted, and in due course of time I found myself at the
Cashmere-gate. Our columns had entered, and one had
even penetrated as far as the Bank, but being unable
to ct ithstand the mureerous fire, was compelle I to retreat.
It was with the greatest difficulty that I could keep my
seat, for on reaching the branch roads outsi.le the Cash-
mere-gate the bullets a'ed shot of all descriptions were
flying about like hail, and one which struck close to the
hoofs of my pony frightened him so that he became
quite unmanageable. However, I got him through
the gate, and a fearful sight it was that met my eyes.
A portion of our troops had escaled the bastion walls close
to the gate; others h .d scrambled up two large breaches
in the walls and bastion near the Treasury. The remainder
had entered at the gate itself, which had been blown open
by one of our offi2ers. The lat er was really the hazardous
duty of the day, and was moat gallantly performed, though
in broad daylight. The explosion party consisted of
Lieutenants Home and Salkeld, of our corps, a few sappers
and a bugler of Her Majesty's 62d. Oa their nearing the
gale they found it slightly open, with a number of muskets
protruding at the opening. They were received with a
volley, which killed and wounded a number. Still,
however, they advanced, and fixed their powder bags on
to the gate. Sergeant Carmichael, of the Sappers, tried
to light the port.fire attaohed to the bags, bat was shot

dead in the attempt. After him Sergeant Burnes?, of the
Sappers. tried but fell, pierced with three bullets. After
Sergeant Berne's, Salkeld tried, bat fell into tha ditch,
shot in the leg, which is broken, and in the arm, which has
bean ampstated. Ser cant Smith, of the Sappers, tried
next and he and Home between them happily succeeded
without a wound. Seeing the port fire well a-I;ght the
whole party jumped into the ditch, and the enemy, little
dreaming of what had been done, continued firing
till the explosion took place, so you may fancy what
effect it took. Twenty of the mutineers strewed the
road inside the gate, not one of whom would it have been
possible to recognise, and this was the first sight that met
my eyes at the gate. Little wonder that Donald refused to
move ; however, finally be did, and got as far as the cen-
tre of the main guard, beyond which nothing would urge
him. It was perfect agony keeping my seat, and I would
have given worlds to dismount—but walking was out of
the question; it was anything but an agreeable fix to be
in. I felt how perfectly useless I was, and being the only
mounted man there in the open space, fully accounted for
the number of bullets whistling past my ears. There was
no help for it, so I had to make my way back to the camp
as I bast could, fully convinced of my own folly. You
may imagine I had done neither leg nor ankle much good
by the trip, and I had not many opportaniuies of seeing
the remainder of the operations. We progressed slowly
after this fee- two days, but having obtained possession of
the magazine containing -about 130 pas there could n 3
longer be much doubt as to the result. The enemy, who
had hitherto so stoutly resisted us, was loosing heart,
though he had succeeded in beating us back with loss
and kept us at bay at two or three points. Daily and
nightly large numbees continued to leave the city till
the 20th, when we found ourselves in perfect possession, and
the entire city evacuated. Immediately on receiving news of
the evacuation I started for the palace. You can have no
conception of the scene of confusion—Riflemen, Goorkhas,
Sikhs, and Punjaubees quarrelling over their plunder, and
such plunder to quarrel about! Old counterpanes, dirty
blankets, tin and copper pots and pans, Sepoys' red coats,
baskets, papers, packets of tinsel, bottles of rose water and
otto of roses lying here, there, and everywhere, and the
whole place in a state of squalor and wretchedness passing
all d-scription. Oa turning into the gardens in front of
Douglas's stables I found myself alma. I cannot tell you
what a soene of desolation in esmted its-if to my eyes The
garden had been an encamping ground of the Sepoys, and
everything bore witness to its having been deserted in hot
haste. TllO tents were still standing, but it seemed as if
everybody had taken his armful out of the boxes and,
without caring for what might drop, had made the best of
his way out of the pl ice. The stilness, to, after th noise
and riot that I had just quitted, was realty appalling, wadi
stood at the foot of the stairs stupifi3d as it with a heated
atmosphere and unable to move. I was roused by hearing
three cheers from the apartments above me. * * * We
have captured the King, his two sons and grandson—the
three last (among whom was Mitzi Mogul Bey) were most
deserve :Ay shot before thty were brought into the city,
I where their b_dies were exposed in the Chauduey