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alone lost nine officers, and other regiments, I be-
lieve, in proportion. The Engineers suffered hea-
vily ; the three officers conducting Nos. 1,2, and
4 columns (Lieutenants Medley, Greathed, and
Maunsell) were all struck down early in the fight,
and of the 17 officers on duty that day 10 were put
hors de combat. The loss of the enemy is never
likely to be correctly ascertained, but at the end
of the operations it is probable that at least 1,500
men must have been killed between the 7th and
20th, and a very large number wounded who were
carried away.

For the complete success that attended the pro-
secution of the siege the chief credit is undoubtedly
due to Colonel Baird Smith, the Chief Engineer,
and to Captain A. Taylor, the director of the at-
tack. Oa this latter officer, in fact (in consequence
of the Chief Engineer being wounded), devolved the
entire superintendence of the siege works ; and his
energy and activity will doubtless meet with their
due reward. Throughout the operation he seemed
to be omnipresent, and to bear a charmed life, for
he escaped without a wound. The plan of the at-
tack was bold and skilful ; the nature of the enemy
we were contending with was exactly appreciated,
and our plans shaped accordingly. Pandy can
fight well behind cover, but here he was out-
manceuvred—his attention being diverted from the
real point of attack till the last, and then the cover
which might have proved such a serious obstacle
to us was seizsd at the right moment without loss,
and all its advantages turned against him. With
plenty of skilled workmen the siege works might
have been more speedily constructed, but with the
wretched means at our disposal the wonder is that
so much was done with so little loss.

If the siege of Delhi was not a regular siege in
the same sense with that of Bhurtpore or Seringa-
patam, it may yet bear a fairer comparison with
a greater than either, that of Sebastopol. In both
the strength of the fortifications was as nothing—
it was the proportion of besieged to besiegers, the
magnitude of the arsenal inside and the impossi-
bility of a thorough investment that constituted the
real strength of the place ; in fact, neither were
properly speaking sieges, but rather attacks on an
army in a strongly intrenched position.

THE CAPTURE OF THE KING.
(From the Bombay Gazette, Oct. 17.)

We had the gratification of announcing the Fall
of Delhi in our last despatch. In the brief and
fragmentary notices then alone available to us, it
was stated that the assault had been made on the
14th ult., when a lodgment was effected at the north
end of the city, and that after si z days of hard fight-
ing, from house to house, and from street to street,
the mutineers had been finally driven out of the
place on the 20th. Later and fuller accounts verify
these statements, and show that on the evening of
the 20th the capture of the place was completed by
the seizure of the palace, Selimgurh, and the bridge.
Details of the operations leading to this glorious
result will be found elsewhere. The mutineers
seem t 3 have contested every foot of ground so
long as they coul I fight under cover ; and though
it appears that very many of them have been killed,
the loss on our side was necelsarily great. We have,
however, no trustworthy statement of the entire
number of killed and wounded. Between 10 o'clock
a.m. and noon of the 20th the palace, which had
been cleared of its defenders and inmates by the
shells of our force, was taken possession of by our
troops. The King and his sons had fle lin disguise
along the road to the south, and large bodies of the
mutineers had effected a timely cscape in good order
before the beaten remnant were driven in headlong
rout from the city. Delhi, after its capture, is
described as a perfect. picture of desolation. Its
houses in ruins, a'ed valuable property lying about
the streets, w+lla living figures were few and far
between, the victors having allowed the non-com-
batant i'etiabitauts safe conduct out of the place.
On the night of the 21st September, the con-
qwerer, General Wilson, proposed the health of j
14neen Victoria in the Dewan-i-Khas, the beautiful
white marble durbar hall of the palace, where once
stood the famed peacock throne, and which boars
the well-known inscription, meant to apply to the
palace and its gardens generally, and which now
reads like a niockory,—
I Oh I if there's an Eden on earth it is this.'

Here, in the palace of the Great Moguls, the
health of oar Queen was drunk by her victorious
soldiers with enthusiastic cheers, which were taken
up by the gallant Ghoorkas who formed the per-
sonal guard of the General.
On the 21st the old King surrendered to Captain
Hodson and his cavalry near the Kootub Minar,
which is about 15 miles south of Delhi. He was
accompanied in his captivity as in his flight by his
chief wife, the &gum Zeenut Mahal, the " orna-
of the palace." The King is said to be nearly 90
years of age, and it is probable that he is scarcely
in any way responsible for what has been done in
his name, so that, as at present informed, we can-
not condemn the clemency which has spared his life.
He is now a prisoner in what was once his own
palace. Two of his sons and a grandson, however,
who were captured also by Captain Hodson, at the
tomb of Humay-oon, about five miles from Delh;,
and who are known to have been leaders in the
rebellion, have received the reward of their treason.
They were shot on the spot, and their bodies were
brought back to the city and exposed at the K.ot-
wallee or chief police-office, where it is said so
many of our cauntryinen were brutally murdered.
On the 23d two columns of our troops started in
pursuit of the fugitives, one under Colonel Great-
hed, of H.M. Bth (King's) Regiment, marching on
Allyghur, the other proceeding down the right
bank of the Jumna towards Muttra, and Agra. We
have no precise information as to what these pur-
suing forces have done, but by accounts from Agra
one appears to have reached the neighbourhood of
Allyghur, and the other that of Muttra on the 28th
ult. We are else, as yet, uninformed of the desti-
nation or fate of the fugitives, but it is thought that
some are making for ()ode, and others for Gwahor.
Wo trust that, numerically weak as our loyal forces
are at present, the mutineers driven from Delhi '
may not be found more troublesome elsewhere than
they were there.

" Foremost in the list of officers who fell in the
capture of Delhi, we regret to state, is the name of
the able and gallant Brigadier- General John Nichol-
son, whose distinguished but too brief career was
closed by a m.orta,l wound received in tho storming of
the city.

The following is the substance of a letter from the
Chief Commissioner, dated Lahore, 20th Septem-
ber, 1857 :

The Palace of Delhi was found to be 'evacuated

this morning, and is now in our possession. The
mutineers had lost all the gates of the city but the
Turkoman and Delhi. The Aj mere gate was t7.licn
without loss, the mutineers deserting fast. The
King and Royal family have fled.

Mr. Greathed, the Commissioner, died of cholera
last night at Delhi.

A telegraphic message from ColourA Durand an-
nounces the arrival of an. express from Neernuch,
Ist inst., containing a copy of a letter from Delhi
of the 22d lilt., from Col. Dereeher to Capt. Nixon,
and giving further parti cubits of the capture. It
says :

All going on wonclrzfally well at DAhi. The
Princes Moorza,
Abu Bukhur, and Khey-
ser Sooltan, were br v,ught in by Hodson from Hu-
may con's tomb, ar xi shot at the Delhi gate on the.
22d. ThJir ho(.fies are lying at the Kotw4.lyee
where so many or:" our poor countrymen were trim_,
dered and expo' Jej..

A )
pursuing
of
l
o'.umn under Col. Greathed (H.M.'s
tl ,600 c
'infantry-, 18 guns,. and 00 cavalry,
8
was to leave o-i, the 23d.
Delhi is a, pcsrfe3t picture of desolation, com-
pletely abilar loned, and a vast amount of property
left behind

We re/ fret to learn the death of the gallant Ni-
cholson. The officer appointed Governor of Delhi
is Lieu H. P. Burn, Ist Bengal Native In-
fantry and Superintendent of Arwy Clothing.
C 07.011-1 Hugh Fraser, 0.13., Bengal Engineers,
has been al7pointed Chief Commissioner fcr
the districts of -Agra, Delhi, Meerut, Rohilcund,
it.jrn ere, Mhairwara, Nimar, and Noemuch.
We have to acid another large instalment to our

list of casualties, occasioned chiefly by the late vic-
torious operations at Delbi and Lucknow :
Engineers—Lieutenant Ferris.

Artillery—Majors George Larkins and George
Lewis Cooper ; Lieutenants Burnett Ashburner
and James B. Martin.

Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Sotherby.
Her Majesty's 32d Reziment—Lieutenant Fred.
Wainwright ; Ensign Hill.
Her Majesty's 64th Foot—Lieutenant Bateman.
Her Majesty's 78th Foot—Lieutenant Webster.
Her Majesty's 84th Foot—Captain Paelcenham
and Lieutenant Saunders.

Ist Bengal Fusileers—Lieutenant Hanwell.
Ist Light Cavalry—Captain Charles Vanbrugh
Jenkins and Lieutenant Sterling.
2d Light Cavalry—Major Edward Vibart ;
Lieutenants Quin, John Hammond Harrison, Wm.
John Manderson, Francis S. Montagu Wren, Mur-
ray George Daniell, Balfour, Mainwaring, and
Boulton.

lit Native Infantry—Captains Athil Turner,
Edward John Elms, and Henry Sydney Smith ;
Lieutenant Richard Murcott Satchwell and God•
frey Richard Wheeler.

14th Native Infantry—Lieutenant Charlei
atttine.

28th Native Infantry—Captains Marshall James,
Henry Wilder Lambie Sneyd, Cornelius Lysaght,
and Mordaunt Money Salmon ; Lieutenants Alex.
Key, Colin Alexander Robertson, Charles Fred.
StWilberforco Pitt, and George Wil-
liam tEnsigns Thomas George Hope
co , William
Rutherford ;
Spens, Scott, Johnson, and White.
42d Native Infantry—Lieutenant-Colonel Thos.
Dalyell.

52d Native Infantry—Lieutenant A. R. M,
M'Grogor.

53d Native Infantry—Captain Henry Belson ;
Li,nitenauts F. Gilbert Jellicos, Herbert Holmes
Armstrong, Gilbert Augustus Master, and Oliver
Simpson Bridges ; Ensign Alexander Dowson and
Thomas W. Forman.

56th Native Infantry—Capt. George Kempland ;
Lieutenants Charles Reilly Goad, Hornby Fagan,
William Lucas Gordon Morris Henry John Gre-
gory Warde, and J. W. Henderson.

67th Native Infantry—Lientenants Philip Hayes
Jackson, Robert Robinson Harris, and Ensign
Lindsay.

74th Native Infantry—Captain George Henry
Monk Mason.

Ist M%dras Fugiliers—Brigadier-Genoral J. G,
L. Neill.

12th Irregular Cavalry—Lieutenant Warren.

3d Bombay Europeans—Lieut. J. W. Henry.
Civil Service—Lieutenants Cockerel], M. C. Om.
maney, and Leopold Berkeley.

Medical Service—Surgeons Nathaniel Collyer
and Henry Hawkins Bowling; Assistant-Surgeons
R. W. MacAulay, J. B. Allen, H. P. Harris, and
J. P. Bowling.
Ecclesiastical Establishment—E. T. R. Moncrieff.

AT DELHI.

6th Carabineers—Captain Rosser.

Her Majesty's Bth i'cot—Lieutenants Williim
Waldegrave Popoa and John Vera W. Henry
Webb.

Her Majesty's 52d Regimant—Lieut. Bradshaw,
Her Majesty's 60th Rifi3s—Lieut. Tytler.

Her Majesty's 75th Regiment—Lieutenants John
Richard Sherlock Fitzgerald and E !ward Villiers

Bliscoo.

Engineers—L;eutenant F. L. Tandy.

Ist Fusi►iera—Capt. George Ogle Jacob.
11th Native Infantry—Lieut. Thuillier.

17th Native Infantry—Lieut. Th)lo3rt Popkin
Homfray.
26th Native Infantry—Lieut. Davidson.
27th Native Infantry—Brigadier-General John
Nicholson.

42d Native Infantry—Lieutenant _Alexander W,
Murray.

55th Native lufantry—Capt. George Gordon M.
Barnett.

Artil'ery—Lientena►lis W. T. Somervillo and
Edward Henry Hildebrand ; Captain Robert
Charles H. B. Fagan.
Ist Bombay Naive Infantry—Lieutenant Ban-
nerman.

AGRA FORT, SErr. 28.

A force of about 400 of all arms is going out this
evening with the view of intercepting the fugitives
from Ddlhi, now said to be passing Muttra.

I do not pretend to be au authority in military
mltters, but nevertlnlesi I venture to consider it
an unwise movement sending out so small a party
as 400 men, whereof one-half are inefficient—that
is to say, undisciplined, though brave enough to
cut off what may proire to be 10,000 or even 20,000
desperate and well•trained soldiers fighting to save
themselves from a pendent halter. The expedition
is au act of madness, and will lead to no good re-
sult under any circumstances.

Two flying columns have left Delhi in pursuit of
the mutineers. One, said t) be under Col. Great-
hed, Bth Foot, is supposed to have been close to
Muttra yesterday evening,iand according to native
report, marched onwards towards Agra before day-
light this morning. The other c)lumn is know
to have been near Allyghur yesterday, and will, I
imagine, go down the Grand Trunk Road leading
to Cawnpore, and join Havelock's force in Oude.

DETAILS OF THE SIEGE OF DELHI.
OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CHIEF COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, LAHORE,
SEPT. 18, 1857.
FROM THE ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE
ARMY, DELHI, 10 A. 31 , SEPT. 17.
Early this morning we took possession of the
Bank-house, and we hold the posidon of the city
between it and the magazine. Skirmishing has
been going on near the Bank, but we are firmly
established there : our guns command the bridge
and Selimghur entirely. The Palace and Selimghur
are under a constant fire of shells. The enemy are
flying in bodies of 100 and 200 men towards Gwa-
lior via Muttra. Property of every kind left in
the city immense. All the streets we occupy have
been abandoned by the inhabitants. The number of
dead Sepoys in every quarter is very great.
Another message, of an hour previous, from the
Adjutant-General, from Skinner's house, Dalhi,
says,--" We have advanced our line of poets to the
Canal, and on the left as far as the Bank. The
Palace is to he breached as soon as possible, and
all our mortars are to play upon it ; it will be our
first point of attack. Sslimghur only fires occa-
sionally, and without effect, our fire keeping down
that of the enemy. The report is that the Royal
family, the Ki_eLg's three regiments, regiments of
Native Infentry, and some Light Cavalry troopers
hold `..ne Palace, and intend to fight out to the list.
T`,o mutineers are leas active to-day. The Bareilly
and Neetnuch troops are said to have come into
the town, and have started off their baggage, under
an escort, down the Muttra road towards Owalior,
intending to follow by forced marches when the
baggage shall have had a fair start. The towns-
people continue to fly to the falace, and numberless
women have come into our camp. No attempt will
be made to occupy the whole town until the Palftee
and Selimghur are taken. The magazine is full of
stores of every description except powder, and, not-
the rebels during
withstanding the enormous quantity expended by
the last three months, no impresz•
sion appears to have bean made on the huge piles
still left. Brigadier-General Nicholson is ft little
and heavy fire thrr-w2.h.
better; sick and wounded doing pretty
‘ SEPT. 17, 6 P.M.
" Our position is the; tame as this morning, the
mortar battery has been keeping up a contiuued
throughout 0- °u
the Pala t the day, and will do so
hieht ; the
King reported to be in
warn
one, for our shells are pouring into the
.he look-out at If so his residence must be a very
_ilel,maeorde agraeteb.
..hole length of it from noon to sum:et. Great
numbers of the inhabitants of the city have come
paseed out of the tlwn by us, and
eintigindoo Rao's house reportsstreams
of people and animals as having issued from the
A correct return of guns captured in
the magazine and on the works will be sent to-mor-
tow,"

"EPT. 19.
The news froin Delhi to 2 p.m. yes Sterday is,
our position the smile as last reported. We are
strengthening ourselvei at the Bank, and the Sap-
pens are working towards the house.; which com-
mand the Burree Bastion ; no suitable phco has
fired a few
yet been found from which to breach the Palace,
which we continue to shell. Selimghur has only
to-day, and does no harm. Few
people have crossed the bridge ; no townspeople
have come in to in to-day, nor have we any real in-
formation ai to the movements of the rebels. Yes-
terday the Delhi gate of the Palace was reported tobe oden, awl covered carts passing out from it. NO
certain intelligence of the King and, 110 family

The following is the number of guns taken :—On
the works and in use by the enemy, 55; in the ma-
gazine, 171. Total, 226. Immense stores of shot
and shell, but very little powder. Large quanti-
ties of percussion caps. The whole of the build-
ings of the magazine remain uninjured, excepting
that part which was blown up by the explosion :
no increase of sickness in camp. The report of
General Nicholson to-day is not favourahle ; his
brother, Lieutenant Nicholson, doing well. A
fall of rain since the eclipse has cooled the atmos-
phere finely, which is good for the wounded. The
report of the death of Captiin Ross (Carbineers)
was incorrect, but he is dangerously wounded.
Lieutenants Pogson and Webb, Bth Foot, have died
of their wounds.

SEPT. 20.
From Delhi, 9 a.m., Sept. 19, the following has
been received :

Our mortar batteries continued to fire during the
night towards the south of the Palace and in the
direction of Durya9 Gunge. We have now turned
in. the direction of the Jumna Mujid and neigh-
bouring Mobilllas, as they have not yet been sub-
jected to our fire. Abbott's house was occupied at
dawi without opposition, and our advanced picket
is now at Khan Mahomed Khan's house. We are
securing ourselves in that position, preparatory to
going at the Palace.

- On our right the Sappers have worked about 360
yards through the houso, and are getting opposite
the Burree Bastion, and once we take the guns upon
it we shall have the Lahore Gate.

Selimghur has not fired at this morning.
Parties of armed men and towosp?ople have been
seen crossing the bridge, and the report is that the
town is being completely evacuated by the popu-
lation ; that the King has gone to the old fort (on
the Agra road). The Palace is being emptied.
We shall push on a small party during the day to
ascertain whether this is the case, and, if sc, at
once to seize the gateway. All our cavalry sent
out this morning under Brigadier Grant to recon-
noitre the western and southern faces of the town,
and it is hoped this demonstration may hurry the
evacuation of the town.

DELHI, SEPT. 19, 7 P.M.
We hare not yet got the Bora° Bastion. On
the left we are strengthening our position, prepa-
ratory to bringing up our mortars and heavy guns.
The Palace has not been abandoned by the muti-
neers, as reported by spies. They have a field-
piece behind a breastwork, in front of Chandnee
Chouk gateway of the Palace, from which they fire
on the Bank, dm, but without much effect. The
report of the King and family having left the
Palace is still doubtful. More of the mutineers
hare fled from their colours, and have taken the
Muttra road.

We have had hardly any casualties to-day.
SEPT. 21.
The capture of the city of Delhi, of the Palace,
and the Fort of Selimligur, was completed yester-
day. All honour to the noble army which, under
command of Major-General Wilson, has effected
this most important conquest, by which the wide-
spread rebellion of the mutinous Bengal army has
received a complete defeat in Upper India. The
days of Olive and Lake are again revived am mg us.
I Neither the devastation of that terrible scourge,
the cholera, nor the deadly stroke of an Indian
summer's sun, which have so grievously thinned the
ranks of our small arm during the past three
months—the harassing and almost incessant duties
of the camp, the ever-recurring combats with a
highly-trained and veteran enemy, who out-num—
bered us by thousands in men and by hundreds in
guns of all calibres—the stubborn and desperate
resis'ance offered by the mutineers during and
since the assault on, the 14th inst.—nothing has
abated the ardour of our troops, European and
native, nor quelled that indom;table courage and
persevering energy which take no denial, and will
brook nothing short of success.
It will be a for a grateful Government to acknow-
ledge, as they deserve, the services of Major General
Wilson and his army to the British Empire in
In ha, but the Chief Commissioner cannot refrain
from offering the warm tribu'e of his heartfelt ad
miration. Sir Joh❑ Lawrence reqwsts that a
Royal salute may be fired at the principal stations
in the Punjaub, in honour of the capture of Delhi.
The following are the messages received since
last precis from the Adjutant-General of the
Army

Sept. 20, 9 a.m.
The Buree Bastion was assaulted yesterday
evening, and six guns and one mortar captured,
without loss. Lahore gateway has been occupied
this morning. The Ajmere gate and outworks do
not fire ; they appear deserted, and our people are
going on to take possession. The townspeeple are
all leaving the city ; tho mutineers blew up a ma-
gazine in their camp this morning, and our cavalry
patrols, who moved round towards the southern
face of the town, report that they saw nobody iu
the camp. We hope to establish our line along
the Chandnee Chouk in the course of the day.
The mutineers are offering much less resistance,
and aro evidently decreasing in nurabers. The
whereabouts of the King and Royal family is still
unknown.

SKINNER'S-HOUSE, SEPT. 20.
It ‘is now 10 a. m. We have t sken the Ajmero-
gate and outworks, without opposition, and scoured
three heavy guns and one 8-inch howitvr. We
are sending up heavy mortars to the Burce Bas-
tion, to shell the portion of the town not yet in
our possession. A continuous mortar fire was kept
up on the town throughout last night. On our
left we hold the same position as last evening, bu'
we have have just spiked the mutineers' guns in
front of the Palace. We aro going to forma column
to go into the Palace.

NOON.

We have possession of the Palace, Jama Mas-
jid, and Ajm..re gate. 7 guns were found at the
gateway of the Palace.

2 r. M.
We now have Selialghur and the bridge. I hope
to be able to report shortly that we are in poised-
sion of the Torkwan and Delhi g rtes and bastions,
and entirely masters of the whole town.

5 P.M.

Our struggle has ended here. We have posses-
sten of the whole site, theralace, Selimghur, and
the bridge. Number of guns taken in the town
and Delhi bastions are unknown, our loss to-day
is trifling. The King and Royal family are said to
b 3 in a village four coss from this towards the
Kootub.

SEPT. 22.

" There is nothing further from Delhi. The
telegraphic c mimunication is interrupted from S ur-
sowlee downwards.
Captain Elphinstone, the Deputy-Commissioner
of Googaira, reports, that having received accurate
information on the 20th inst. that Ahmed Khan
Khurral and his men had taken refuge about 12
miles distant from that st Ltion, a party of the Pun•
jaub Police Horse and Foot, under Capt. S Black,
a detachment of Capt. Wales's Sikh Cavalry, under
Lieut. the Hon. F. Chichester, and of the GJo-
gaira Levy under Lieut, Mitchell, were forthwith
ordered against him, and the result, after a some-
what severe fight, was, that the Khurrals were cut
up, Ahmed Khan himself and his son being among
the killed. This petty outbreak has thins received
its death-blow, it is hoped. •
Ahmed Khan and his followers are said, to have
fought stoutly, and Capt. Black and Lieut. Chi-
chester to have been surrounded more than 013C5
during the melee, the country being by no means
favourable for the action of cavalry. Our loss was
rather severe, considering the small number of men
engaged. About 10 killed. but particulars not yet
received. Sirdar Nehal Sing Chaohee (orderly
officer to the Chief Commissioner), whose gallantry
was conspicuous, was wounded in the leg by a
matchlock ball. Quiet preTails in all other parts
of the Punjaub,

•
The last accounts from. Googaira " mention the
death of Mr. L IJeopold enu. '
RAel Extra Assistant
Oomlnissioner,
a most promising officer, whose loss
is much to be regretted, tie had been detached
with some sowarst and a party of Kutar Mookheers
(3d Police flattalion) to try and open communica-
tiOn_towards MOoltart which had been cut off by
the FuttiallahA, aah tither
tribes,and
other tribe. Mr. Berkeleys' a
attackedi th insur-
gents in a very spirited maoner, but in the melee
he wag cut off from the party of the Kutar Mook-
hems, and was overpowered. lie fell fighting man-
fully, and cut down five or six of the enemy with
his own band, ho.ides shooing Ithawul, one of the
Futtianahs ; Moorad, another of their leaders, was
killed on the same occasion, and their total loss is
estimated at not less than 100 men.
The Bhurmanahs and Futtianalis have entirely
dispersed. The Khurrals have also fled to a place
in the Bar, some 40 miles from Googaira. They
have protni3e4 to come in by the day after to-mor-
row, and give over their arms and all plundered
property.
The news from Delhi is that the King was taken
prisoner yesterday by a party of Sowars under
Lieutenant Hodson, near the Kootub, where four
guns were also found.
No sign of a mutineer is now to be seen at Delhi.
They abandoned their camp outside the Ajmere
gate, in their hurry leaviog all sick and wounded
who could not walk, their drums, band instruments,
clothing, bedding, cooking pots, &e., and all
luxuries. The report is that a number of them
are collecting at Bullubghur. Some talk of going
to Lucknow and some to Gwalior.

Cholera has shown itself in the town. Dead
bodies and carcases were being removed. The
stench in some places is desozibed as unbearable.
General Nicbolso❑ was slightly better.
P.S.--The following has just been received from