The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

TUE INDIAN MUTINIES.

THE STORM OF DELHI.
The following is from an Engineer Officer :
"The Camp, Delhi, Sept. 21 to Sept. 2i.
"Here we are at last, thank God, having kicked
out those rascals neck and crop after a twelve days'
attack. The 14th was the storming day, as I told
you, and I got knocked over the day before, which
prevented me being present. We lost about 64
officers
and 1,100 men out of 3,000 whe went in.
Some men say there never was harder fighting, and
when we got inside the brutes disputed every inch,
till yesterday we shelled them out of the palace,
charged, and took it with no loss, and all the villains
iu the city bolted ; it is all ours now. Our men have
been really most humane ; they would not kill a
single man who was not a Sepoy, and I am glad to
say not a woman or child was touched ; but
when I saw sturdy brutes of men, the very class
who committed all the atrocities, allowed to pass
out I could not help wishing some of the soldiers
would drive their bayonets through them ; but I did
not say so out loud, as they are very apt to take you
at your word.

" Sept. 23.
" We have all moved down to a capital house on
the banks of the river in the city ; the breeze is de-
lightful, and we are all getting as fat and jolly as if
we were at home. We are getting on capitally ;
we have got the King—the great Mogul—prisoner,
and are only waiting for leave from Calcutta to hang
him. His eldest son and heir, Mizza Mogul Beg,
a most infernal scoundrel, who set the example of
murdering the Europeans, was caught and shot like
a dog, and his son, a man of about 20 years old, as
well as the King's second son, Mizze's brother. I
saw all the three bodies exposed in the Kotwallie
this morning. lam happy to say we are not so
lenient as we were. Two of our native Sappers
were murdered in the city, so we went out and
hunted up about 50 or 60 men—thorough rascals,
and our men have been shooting them ever since.
I saw 24 knocked over, all tied together against the
walls ; and when you hear those wretches, when
thep see they have no chance, coolly tell you ' Well,
you may shoot me if you like ; I killed three Euro-
peans' in the gloriousmassacre,'youlose all horror at
the sight, and only wish they had cats' lives to take
them all. Only four Victoria crosses have yet been
given in the army—one to Lieut. Home, Engineers;
one to Lieut. Salkeld, Engineers ; one to Sergeant
Smith, Sappers and Miners ; and one to a bugler in
her Majesty's 52d. So you see we got three out of the
faur in our corps. Poor Salkeld is so badly wounded
lam afraid be will never wear his. However, the
red ribband has been better than any medicine.
I am sure I would have given my left arm far it,
and I might have had a chance, as I most probably
should have been with Salkeld, blowing up the
Cashmere-gate, had it not been for that wretched
grape the night before. . . . We are wonderfully
comfortable in our new house ; it was a powder
inanufactcry in the days of the Mogul, and conse-
quently our servants aecidentally blew us up the
other day, and killed one of themselves. But these
little exitements are necessary. After being three
months every day under fire, the change is so great
that we were thinking of paying men to fire at us
d ,lly, and so let ourselves down to a quiet life
by degrees. . . . I have given up walking about
tee back streets of Delhi, as yesterday an officer
and myself had taken a party of 20 men out
patrollinz, and we found IA women with their
throats cut fraut ear to ear by their own husbands,
and laid out in their shawls. We caught a man
there who said he saw them killed for fear they
s!aould kill themselves, and showed us their hus-
bands, who had done the best theycould afterwards,
and killed themselves. We took about 280 cannon,
with shot, &ie., for about three years. Without
artillery they are no good ; with it no despicable
antagonists. There are no better gunners any-
where, as we discovered in this siege. By returns
we lost 1,350 men and 64 officers during the
assaults only. Tolerably bloody work. Our
I ass in the assault, out of 18 offisers on duty,
was 1 officer killed (poor Tandy), 10 wounded,
many severely; one, I fear, mortally ; 1 the day
before the assault, 1 after. Total 13, out of 18 ; a
tolerable number, for there were 7 or 8 who were on
another part of the work whom I don't count, and
who are on the strength to as..lst the unhappy re-
maining 5 now. I am glad to say there is not much
work for us now. At present, indeed, cut up as we
have been, we could not do it if we had much ; as,
what with officers thoroughly done up since with
fever, and others sent out with moveable columns,
our 26 for duty are reduced to 4."

An officer of her Majesy's 52d Light Infantry,
writing from Delhi on the 22d of September, says :
" Tne wounded men are all going on beautifully,
and the weather is comparatively cool. Fever is
disappearing, and the men are coming out of hospi-
td. At one time we had actually 340 men sick out
of about 620 ; we now have only about 150, count-
in..; wounded. We lost one officer killed—Brad-
shawe, a very fine young fellow, who fell charging
a gun iu the streets."

The following is an extract of a letter from Mr.
P.I 11.-.5.1 01.11 0-rvlca, who
served a 4 an officer in the Artillery Division of the
Eases Yeomanry previous to his return to India in
January, 1857 :
"Camp Shamlee, in the Mozuffernugger District
of the North West Provinces, Sept. 13.

" Since I last wrote I have had a very
busy week and very bard work. Two days
after I wrote to you I received the most unexpected
intelligence that there was a large force of Goo-
jurs assembling actually within 21 miles of my
camp, and that they intended to attack the town of
Meeranpore, in which I was encamped, that same
night. This was about 3 o'clock p.m. lat once
sent out a patrol to ascertain the truth of the report
which returned by half-past 4 with the news that it
was not merely correct, but that Dhaliel Singh,
their most influential chieftain, was there in person,
with 50 or 60 of his retainers. lat once mounted
my detachment of Irregular Cavalry (20 sabres),
leaving a non-commissioned officer and four men in
charge of their tents, &re.' and with two or three
native gentlemen galloped off to the village where
the Goojurs were gathering, leaving orders for all
the nolice that were available to follow as soon as
possible. The news of my apprDach broke up the
meeting, and when we reached the village the Goo-
j urs were flying in all directions. So, leaving my
native revenue officer, who accompanied me, to do
all that was necessary there, with a native cavalry
officer and 7 troopers, I galloped on in the direction
of Bypoowa, the town in which Dhaliel Singh lived,
with the remainderof my men. Afteragallop straight
on of nearly 9 miles, through a terribly wet and
heavy country, I came in sight of his party about
1,200 yards outside the little town. Only 3 men
were then up with rue, and they (the enemy) seeing
this, made a stand ; so I waited and breathed our
horses until I was joined by 7 or 8 more of mymen,
and then went at them. They did not stand, but as
soon as we came near them bolted into the town, and
got in before we with our fagged horses could get at
them. We knocked overt of the hindermost match-
lockmen, 1 within 5 yards of the houses, who had an
old Government musket made by Mortimer. It was
impossible for us to enter the town with only a
handful of cavalry, so we contented ourselves will
two or three shots at long range, which cleared the
top of Dhaliel Singh's little fortified house in the
middle of the town, and then, as it was past sun-
down, retired.

" The next day I was told that a very large body
of Goojurs was being organized to attack me. I bad
thought this peuible, and sent in at once to Meerut
for aid ; but neither from thence or from my own
head-quarters was it pozsib:e to send any, so we
prepared for an attack. I called upon the native
gislitleman and townspeople to supply all the force
they could, posted pickets outside the town, and
threw out cavalry videttes on the two roads from
which danger was apprehended, made barricades
in some places and preparations to stop the ways
with carts, arc., if necessary, and got out an old
native gun mounted on a cart body, which I posted
iu the centre of the town, realy to move upon any
point.

We were under arms all night ; in the course of
it I sent out three patrols, but it passed off without
tneattack threatened, although we had a false alarm
occasioned by a little private fighting in the town.
I euppose the Goojurs must have beard that I was
prepared for them, and thought better of their war-
iku intent.
'rho nest day I got an order calling me to go in-
sts.ntly with all the force we coald muster on this
t 3 de of the district, where evil of a more serious kind
was threatened. I watched all night no twithßtan ng
we -were up the night before, reached Adlozuffer-
uggur about 4 o'clolk a.m., and found that we
bad to march again at the sina.3 evening. which we
accordingly did at 0 p.m., reaching this place at
balf-past 10 a.m. the nt,x... morning, h:;(1
to
cross a. rapid river (he Hindu r.), wuich necessitated
the 'unloading of waggons and the taking to pieces
le o n in the dark, with
of our guns—a terrible p
one who knew how to do it but myself. If you
of the North-West Provinces
look at a large map
you will see that we are nearly in the centre of this
part of the strip of country lying
Jumna and Hindun—the stream wehad to cross. "
At a large town (Mena Cbewen) about 12.
miles due north of this, the chief man, a bigoted
kihomedan, had raised the green flag, and since
Plundered some ammunition most carelessly sent by
the road pusing through it, and has,
turned out our officials and plundered I just hear,
our treasury.
In the south a !ban caled Kairatti Khan, an old
Pindlree, fired upon and drove away a party of 251
tr topers who went with an European officer to 00.1-1
lect the revenue, and afterwards advanced upon a