The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

THE DISTURBED PROVINCES.

LAHORE, JULY 15.
OFFICIAL NEWS.—Beyond the usual firing from
the batteries, nothing WAS done at Delhi during the
13th.

One hundred and twenty of the mutineers of the
14th N. 1., that escaped from Jhelum, have been
seized in Rajah Goo!ab Singh's territories, and
will be summarily dealt wi.h by the Jhelum au-
thorities.

The men also of the 14th N. 1., who bad mad 3
their way down to Jhung, were apprehended there
by the police.

July 16. —The telegraphic communication down
country was much imp3ded by lightning yesterday.
At one of the altions the signaller's ilistrurnents
were struck and destroyed.,
July 17.--Tho news from Delhi is that on tin
I.4th. the insurgents again took up a position in the
Subzie Mundec on our right, and were again driven
into the city by-a poition of ourfor,:o with heavy los9.
The struggle was fierce, and the mutineers are said
t) have suffered more than on any former occasion.
Our 10-;s was about 60 Europeans killed and
wounded. Native troops not known Brigadiur
General Chamberlain was wounded (in the arm),.
and some other officers, viz., Daniell, Ist Fu-i-
Hers ; Roberts, Artillery ; Walker, Bombay Engi-
uotrs.; Pollock, 35th ; Shebbeare, 60th ; De Brett,
57th ; and Hawes, of the Guards.
The remnant of Sealkote mutineers met With
3oudign punishment yesterday morning. Brigadier-
General Nicholson crossed her Majesty's 52d Light
Infantry in boats to the island in the Ravte, on
which they wore posted, captured their guns, and
dlanghtered or drove the whole before them into
she river. - A quintity of plunder was recovered.
The 39th Native Reginamt at Debra Ismail

Khan was quietly disarmed on the 14th inst.
July 18.—There are no further tidings from the
camp before Delhi.
Private letters confirm the accounts of the heavy
loss inflicted on the rebels on the 14th. From too
great eagerness in the pursuit our gallant soldiers
got under grape and even musketry range of the
walls of the city, and our loss was, consequently,
greater than it might otherwise have been-171
killed and wounded.
July 20.—The cable across the Sutlej has got
out of order,and there has been no telegraphic com-
munication with timballa for the last 36 hours.
July 21.—The telegraphic communication with
Umballa is again open, and by a short message re-
ceived yesterday there appears to have been another
affair with the mutineers at Delhi on the 18th
instant. Particulars are not given further than
that our loss was small, and the enemy as usual
driven back. They made a show of turning out on
the 18th, but retired again very shortly within the
city walls. •
*Our troops 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.
Tho mutineers have invariably been discomfited
And forced to fly. As soldiers they have proved
themselves despicable, and, whatever their num-
bers, they will only venture to fight from under
cover.
Shah Mull, a famous Jat leader, had been at-
tacked by a forco from Meerut, and he himself
killed, and 600 of his followers.
Brigadier General Nicholson proceeds at once to
Delhi with large reinforcements, both European
and Native.
(Signed) R. R. MONTGOMERY,
Judicial Commissioner.
July 23.—The Punjaub continues to be per-
fectly tranquil.
July 24.—There is no news of any importance
from Delhi. There bad been no more fighting up
to the 223. inst.
:Captain Greensill, her Majesty's 24th Foot, was
killed by an accidental shot from the Metcalfe Bat
tery, at Delhi, on the night of the 21st inst.
(Signed) J. D. MACPHERSON,
Military Secretary to the Chief Commissioner.
LAHORE, JULY 29.
There is no news from Delhi, where alLremained
quiet up to the evening of the 27th. Much rain
had fallen.
The total number of Sealkote mutineers and camp
followers, sent in by the Jusreuta authorities (of his
Highness Maharajah Goolab Sing) amount to 572.
An emeuto took place in the jail at Googaira, on
the night of the 26th instant. The prisoners rose
en masse and overpowered the sentries inside the
jail. The guard outside, however, killed and
wounded about 50 of them, most of the latter mor-
tally. Eighteen prisoners managed to effect their
escape, owing to the darkness of the night.
(Signed) J. D. MACPHERSON,
Military Secretary to the Chief Commissioner.

GENERAL HAVELOCK'S VICTORY.-
SUICIDE OF NANA SAHIB.
The following message from General Ha,velOck to
the Commander-in-Chief in Bengal, dated 20th
July, was supplied by Government to the Calcutta
press, and appears in the papers of the 23d July :
" General Havelock has retaken Cawnpore, de-
feating Nana Sahib in person, and taking two siege
guns. The news previously received of the massa-
cre of the garrison is too true, and the twenty-five
ladies whom Nana Sahib retained as hostages, on
allowing the remainder to go into the boats, were
murdered by him a few days previous to General
Havelock's arrival, and their bodies thrown down
the well of the assembly rooms, from whence, at
the time of the general's letter being despatched,
' they were being taken up and buried.
"Nana Sahib's followers appear to be deserting.
• him. He has fled from Bithoor, which was occu-
pied yesterday without resistance. Thirteen guns
were found in the place. His palace is in flames.
General Neill has joined me with a strong rein-
forcement of British soldiers. Lucknow quite safe
for the present."
In the papers of the 24th July, the following
message from General Havelock to the Commander-
in-Chief, dated 21st idem, is published :
" CAMP CAWNPORE.
"I am free to cross the Ganges. Nana Sahib's
force at Bithoor is entirely dispersed. We have
brought from the place 16 guns and a number of
animals, 'set fire to his palace, and blown up his
poWder magazine. A portion of my troops and
five guns are already in position at the head of the
road to Lucknow. The whole army is full of hope
that we shall soon be united on the left bank."
" CAMP CAWNPORE.
"We had a little sharp work coming up to thin
place ; the first at Vuttelipon., where we had nine
12-poundor guns opposed to us; as well as two 24-
pounder ones, but by the will of Divine Providence
we took the whole from the insurgents without a
single scratch among the Europeans ; but as for the
N. I. Cavalry I cannot speak well. They had seven of
their men cut up, wheh was their own fault, as
they did not charge although the order W6S given
three times, and when they did charge among the
enemy they fired their carbines over their heads.
They are all now disbanded, so we have no more
trouble with fellows of this kind.
"The second encounter we had was 20 miles on
this side of Futtehpore, where we had 17 Lilted and
wounded, but the enemy lost four times as
many. Therewe took four guns,- and the, same
evening we had another brush with them at Pan-
doe Nuddy,' where we took three 14-pounder guns
with Out any loss of life amongst us, but only
five or six wounded. The fourth and last fight
we had was about two miles out of, Cawnpore,
where we took seven large 24-pounder guns and
howitzers. We had very severe firing from the
fo:t of the enemy from two p.m. till seven p.m.,
when we had in killed and wounded about 150
Europeans and Sikhs. The loss of the enemy we
cannot tell, but we afterwards came across a house
where 300 sowers and sepoys lay wounded, and we
saw a tank full of dead bodies. We had to encoun-
ter about 12,000 of the enemy with only 2,000 Eu-
ropeans and Sikhs ' • the latter behaved most eel-
lastly, and lost ten killed and wounded. The same
evening of this affair we encamped outside of Cawn-
pore, and next morning we entered the town
straight to where we heard that 175 ladies and chit-
were confined, but en our arrival there, awful,
awful to behold, there was all their clothes, &e.,
strewn about the blood-stahled ground. The
.place was a paved court-yard,_and there were two
inches of blool upon the pavement; and from the
report we got from the residents of the place it
appears that after we had beaten the enemy the
evening previous, the sepoys and sowers entered the
place where the poor victims were, and killed all
the ladies, and threw the children alive, as well as
the dead bodies, into a well in the come ound. I saw
it, and it was an awful sight. It appears from the
bodies we . saw that the women were stripped of
their clothes before they wore murder ed. We have
picked up three [women who bad fled and were
protected by a native. We lost poor S. Carr,
he was shot dead from his horse in a charge
we had to make among 300 to 500 infantry.
After he fell, poor fellow, he was hacked about the
head to such an extent that we could hardly reeog
u ise him. The moul vie of Allaliabad was killed at Fu t-
toper() by our shot. Yesterday we went with a small
force into Bithoor, whore the Nana Saheb was,
and walked into his palace without firing a shot.
We fired the whole of the place, and burnt the whole
of his houses and property and took 15 gnus from
there. The Nana has drowned himself, with his
family. He had an intention of going to Lucknow,
but when he got as far as the river, the cavalry and
infantry deserted him. They are all gone off, after
destroying their arms, to 'their different homes.
CaWnpore is now as quiet at Allababad.'"
" From Gen. Neill, Allahabad, dated July 16.
"1 stetted 227 bf the 84th Regiment, partly in
bullock vans ; they are to march 26 miles in a
night to reach in five days, and shall overtake the
84th and move up with them ; I will go on before
them if I can. I shall lose no time. The muti-
neers are out of caps and have converted all the
detonators into matchlocks. A Kossid. from Luck
now declares the mutineers there are in want of
shot, firing stories from the guns.
" News has been received that Sir Henry Law-
rence was wounded on his return from an attack on
the rebels advancieg on Lucknow, on the 2d inst.,
and that he stink_ under the effects of his wounds
on the 4th inst.
" It is reported from Lucknow (on the 10th July)
that the attacks of the are less frequent, and more
feeble, than heretofore."
Since the foregoing was in type, we (Poonah, Ob-
server) have received the following list of casualties
in the 78th Highlanders from an authenfc source :

KILLED.
Privates T. Thorpe, No. 3 Company, shot through
the heal ; S. Law•rai:ce, No. 4.Company, struck on
th© head by a round shot ; Pitcairn, shot through
the abdomen.

WOUNDED.
Private Cunningham, Grenadier Company,
slightly, musket ball above the knee ; T. Taylor,
slightly ; Buut:n, No. 5 Company, ditto ;
Row, No. 6 Company, severely, compound frac-
ture of light arm; M. O'Donnell, No. 6 Company,
severely, shot through left breast; A. Gardner No:
3 Company, severely, shot through left thigh •
Lewis, Light Company, very severely; J. NPLax) -
ditto ; J. Skingly, dangerously, but recovering.
MISSING.

privmf e 3 m.ickle, Grenadier Company, and Divine,
No. 6 Com pan

_
DIED FROM SUN-STROKE.
Quartermaster-Sergeant Tulloeh; Privates Giles,

and Menzies, Grenadier Company, and F. Ste-watt
Light Company, all on the 11th July.
The following is an extract of a letter from Nag'
pore, dated 27th July :
" The Kamptee Field Force arrived at &one°
on the 22d, and halted there until until the 26th,:
to enable the D Company of Artillery to join
them. They were then to push on to Jubbulporc,'
restore order there, and then (Major Erskine ae-
companying them) to proceed to Saugor and Jlian-,
si. All is quiet at Jubbulpore as regards the Ben"
gal corps there, who are supposed to be staunch to
the back-bone, to use the favourite Bengal phrroe•
Some of the Zemindars about Jubbulpore are gilt"
jag trouble, and will be the first to receive the re-
ward of their misdeeds."

An officer writes from Allahabad as follows on
the 29th of July :—" Havelock's force left Allaha-
bad on the evening of the 7th, the rain pouring
down in torrents ; and after it ceased raining the
heat of the sun became so intense that several of
the force were smitten down by sun stroke. Of the
78th three died from this cause, viz., Quarter-
master Sergeant Tulloch and Privates Gibbs 04
Menzies, of the Grenadiers. When the brigade
were about 50 or 60 miles from this ,they found
the enemy drawn up in great numbers, and °cow
pering a strong position to oppose the further pro'
gress of our little force. Before the action coal'
menced; General Havelock addressed the 78th
thus—' Highlanders, when we were going to
Mohamreh, I promised you a field-day. I could
not give it you then, as the Persians ran awaY.,..;
but, Highlanders, we will have it to-day, and let
them see what you are made of.' At it then they
went, and our men did show them what they ware
made of, for after several hours' hard fighting Mai
rebels fled, and our fellows charged and captured
11 guns at the point of the bayonet, together with
some ammunition and treasure. After this
affair, the brigade recommenced their march, and
coming across the scoundrels a second time, gave
them battle, dispersed them, and captured four
more guns. When within six miles Of Cawnpore,
they came across- the enemy a third time, drawl'
up for battle, and again fought them, but this was
the hardest fight of any they had hitherto engaged
in. The mutineers, however, fled, after a 'fierce
encounter, leaving us in possession of the field, and
1.4 guns ; we cut the rebels up fearfully, and might
have done still greater execution, if we bad any
cavalry that could be relied upon. After the action
was over, General Havelock disarmed and di's'
mounted the native cavalry, and made coolies of
them for refusing 'to charge when ordered. -ft is
likely they will be hung. General Havelock gay
our men great praise for their bravery that day. ,
" Upon the Highlanders and our old friends and
fellow-campaigners, the 64th, fell the brunt of the
battle, but the 64th suffered most. Everything i;
quiet in this place, but we are all on the alert au'
prepared for an atteck, as there is every reason to
apprehend one from the inhabitants, who do not '
seem to relish the summary manner in which we
hang numbers daily. Our regiment is scattered a"
over the province."
The following is taken from a very interesting
letter dated Cawnpore, the 18th of July, from the
pen of an officer of the gallant Ist Madras Fusiliers'
It gives a full account of the proceedings of the
regiment during an eventful period :
"As we aro to have a quiet day to-day I will VI
and write a somewhat longer litter than usual.
As I told you in my last letter (11th), and as N.
had expected all along, we found the rebels in po'
sition at Futteypore, with 12 guns. On SundaY'
the 12th instant, we arrived within two miles e;
their position, ar about seven o'clock ; I NV'l
sent out with a patty of our men (Ist Mad
Fusiliers, to reconnoitre, but when we had *1
vauced about half a mile from the camp they eornii
menced firing on us with their heavy elms, an
their cavalry came towards us. We fired on then'/
but as our party consisted' of about 60 men, isr° rfa
treated leisurely towards the camp. As soon '
we got there the whole force was' under aril
This was about 7 o'clock, a.m. We now a,dvaireg
regularly against them, and in about three hours
we drove them from their position, took 12
and drove them from Futteypore Pell-nle"6
If we had only had scene cavalry we could have
cut them nearly all up; We halted the
side of Futteypore that day, and also the neea
morning. On Tuesday we marched 16 nu',
to Kullianpore, but did not meet with the eneraJci
On Wednesday we marched about five miles, an
found the rebels in a strong position, with six gun'
„.;
We soon silenced their guns, pnd advanced again'"
,
them, and, after about two hours' sharp firing; Ws
thoroughly routed them, and they retrea-,eel to
bridge about three miles off, where they had
other strong position, with 6-guns. Our Enfiolds ai
splendid work, and we soon silenced their battery'
I was in front with, the skirmishing party all JO
We rushed up to their battery and took their brideand guns, whenthey fled before us like so marl;
sheep ; they really are arrant cowards. Thus ends°
our day's work. Poor. Major Renaud, commendi"g
our detachment, was wounded early in the m(111,,
ing in the leg ; he is now better, but I fear his le,
r
will be obliged to be amputated ; lie is a very g',!..0
lad officer. I was with him at the time, but "0
would not allow me to remain, but said, Go
with your men.'
"On Thursday we marched rgainst the enein.,l
about 6,000 strong, and who were in position ah.,G;t
five miles from Cawnpore, and this was the 110°,4
day's work we ever had. They had six or ei.g.4
guns, in t woseparatebatterie We advanced straigl4
against thorn, and they poured grape and rol,nsg
shot into us, like so many hailstones, yet our 'neg
was not great. We lay down, and then ad.vallcv,
against their first battery, which was taken in fillt)
style. I went off with a small party (about 0
men) to the right flank, 'where the cavalry VIA a
threatening us, and some of their infantry 45";.te
strong position. We kept them at a distance wiry
our rifles, and once, when some of the casare,
(about 500) came down upon us, we formed sclll3sej
and they did not dare come near us. This
great applause from the General and esteryh°
My party then joined. the main column, an(le ,e 0
now advanced against the other battery. Ny
we came within range down poured the roulo
shot and grape. We were ordered to lie (1°;
but the scoundrels had got their distance et
well that several were wounded. Six men of -1-'O%
Majesty's 64th Regiment were killed, and P, 1,5 f
Captain Currie, of the 84th, severely wounds(' 1
a round shot. We had several men wounded.
had a bullet on my topie (felt hat) which Pr°,lo
den.tially glanced off, and Captain Raikes Wie!
portion of his swordhilt carried away. Well, fall 'es
when they saw us down again they thought tine acl
afraid to advance, so they sounded the advance, l'se
then the double. The General (Havelock) now g:ao
his order—" Rise up ; advance !" The whole hde
gave a cheer—such a cheer ! it must have 10,,t1
ehe villains tremble from head to foot, n'ilf
advanced in line against their battery, under a h°l/n4
fire, which they kept up very well, but did not o° a.
much damage, as they fired so high. They (Wafer°
atod their battery, and fled in every direction. ,00
fired into them till they were out of range, and
rushed up the hill, and found, to sour joy, 01'/'
pore abe
bet t half a mile in front.
" Wivouacked on the rising ground for As
night. You should have heard the cheer we gaNnie
our gallant commander, General Havelock, 1.000
down the lines ;it was indeed a fine sight. He to
every occasion praises our men, and is going
make a special report of us to tho Commanderliat
Chief. Only fancy our horror on hearing at
the same. night we gave them such a beat:nSto
Futteypore, they killed, or rather massacredallee-
ledies whom they hitherto had spared in Ca "by
pore (except ffve or six who were cenclealed
their native servants). Miss Wheeler, the &lige()
of Sir H. Wheler, they say, killed five of 0:4
fiends with a revolver before they could get n,
• her. What an heroic spirit she must have 'lore
The sight of the place where these poor ladies vi.,e.
'murdered is indeed awful. Long tresses of 1131r4-
dresres covered with blood—here and there a vi°
box or bonnet. s°
•'All the bodies are in a well. I hope, op,
shall be able to bury them, and pay the last:ilia
our to their remains. The few that are still 11q.,soe
are all more or less ill, and dreadfully weak. ,01
may imagine their delight on seeing us. The;
were all along in a dreadful state of mind, as 'id
were afraid that, their servants might be tersiPaitl
to betray them ; but, Er once, these natives get'not. Ought they not to be rewarded ?
great regret we heard yesterday that Sir LI. .1)!of
rence died about a week ago. We goon to-morn e•
to Lucknow, w Lich is abou t 50 miles from Caivnlfjpg
We cross the river Ganges to o—, after first t3's, et
an entrenched position which the onerny oseuNlie
Eithoor, about three miles up this bank of or
Ganges. This is the Nena's own village ; hei4Doo
trenched with 24 guns, of which we shall mak''',`.ool'
work to-morrow, and then go on direct to -"Teo
now, which we hope to reach in three daYst, are
bar, acks which were occupie d by Sir H. Whee'eeeiee
regularly riddled with shot, so you maY.i
rjl is
Low well be held out. Brigadier-General Neseese
cerning up with another column of 1,000 men Pitfl'
Allitl,a,bad ; he had already left, or will leavie
mediat-AY ; we are all very sorry he is not with
—Spectator, Aug. 6.
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Bitour was evacuated. This morning the n °_le,„ of
confirmed as actually true, and a detached. f01v,,,,e0
Ist Madras Fusiliers, Sikhs, and two guile, are too
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out to take possession of the place. ..ta tot
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