Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-16 00:00:00

CA WNPORE.

A correspondent of the Ilurkara writes as follows from
the entrenched camp at Cawnpore
SEPTERIIIO. O.

By mid-day of the 22nd, the "tail" of an army--and
can assure you the tail of an army of 3,000 Europeans is a
long one---has disappeared. Since that day no vestige ~;f
news from them has reached us. They ploughed away
through the tido of rebellion which overflows Oude, bat
the waves have closed again, and we have no means of
hearing from them or communicating with them. Yester-
day 100 men, natives sent to hold Oonao and keep the
Lucknow road open, were cut up by the rebels almost to a
man. Today our cossids have returned with "no netts '
We have heard heavy .firing, and it, is runr:ured that they
have retched Lucknow, but nothing is certain. Yesterday
the superintendent of police at Eithoor was murdered by
the rebels, and several of our police also slauglvered.
Will our rulers dare still to talk of mercy ? More to-
morrow.
OCTOBER. 1.

While [I write, the cannon from the ramparts of our
entrenched camp are makingi the banks of the Ganges
reverberate with a salute n honour of the fall of Delhi,
and its miscreant royalty. No sooner was it known that
the salute announced the fall of that Mussulman strong-
hold, than the soldiers, the conval ,and the innu-
eseen:c
!notable natives congrigltel within the camp assembled,
and three rattling cheers were given,. and mutual con-
gratulations were exchanged on all sides. I hear that
our loss was very heavy-1,400 men, it is said—but
whether that includes the wounded or not, I am
unable to learn. When the cossitl left Delhi our
officers were taking their breakfast in the Dewan

khass, or Hall of Audience, and the soldiers were
feasting in the rooms below. The king and the Shahaz
adahs are in our hands. and it is to be hoped that a right
royal hanging match will soon teach the Delhites that the
British raj is not yet quite gone. Scarcely was the 'ink
dry with which I wrote the foregoing paragraph, than a
second salute announced that Lucknow was in our hands. It
seems that although many cossids have been
despatched from General Havelock's camp, the enemy
have kept up such a strict blockade in the rare of his
force, that to pass was almost impossible. Even now
they are in great force at Oonao and Basratgunj, and
we expect to move out to-night with 300 men and
two guns, to escort provisions, intended to meet
them on the road. We fear the force must be rauning short,
as they took with them only fifteen days' provisions, and ten
days have already elapsed. Under the able superintendence
of Captain Impey, our fortifications are fast progressing to-
wards completion, we have a large number of guns mounted
and ammunition galore, and we are training some of the
aptest infantry men as gunners, that bein,a a branch of the
seavice in which we are short of hands. Our sick are very
rapidly decreasing, and daily our strength numerically is
increasing ; and, although we know that the rebels are
gathering in hordes in the rear of Bithoor and the cur
rounding villages, still we feel almost as secure from
attack as you do in Calcutta, The day after to morr -w I
expect we shall welcome our brave fellows and long-
suffering countryman from Lucknow. But it has cost us
dear, very dear, for the odds against us ware tremendous.
The moment I can obtain details you shall have them.
The despatches describing the relief of Lucknow, pub-
lished by the Calcutta papers, are these published with the
intelligence from Bombay.