The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

AN ESCAPE FROM DELHI.

of the. 38th Native Infantry
i 8 th;;ZP—of a letter from an officer
came, and the whole brigade
TahmefoonldloaNyvimngorning
paraded to hear the sentence read of the Barrack-
pore courts-martial. About 8 o'clock the 54th
were under arms and, marching to the city with
two guns of Captain De Teissier's battery. The
mutineers from Meerut was then crossing the bridge
of boats. The 38th and 74th .had not long been
under arms when news reached us that the 54th
refused to fire ; that Colonel Ripley and others
of their officers had been shot or cut down.
We then movecrdown the Artillery parade ground,
where were De Teissier's guns and some companies
of the 74th. Thence we moved to the Flagstaff
Tower, where the midday gun fires, and formed
line along the high ground. Proctor (38) bad gone
down to the Cashmere-gate, where be was subal-
tern officer of the main guard for that week (after-
wards saved). We remained at the tower all day ;
the ladies and residents, some in carriages, some
walking, gradually flocked there. Dr. Stewart had
marvellously escaped from the city, and told us of
the fate of Col. Ripley, who was not dead, but re-
moved to the Artillery quarter-guard, mortally
wounded. It was so inexplicable to us why troops
from Meerut did not arrive,—looking towards the
city, we saw fires blazing, and hoard the firing of
heavy guns, which left us in uncertainty as to what
was taking place. Dr. Batson volunteered to dis-
guise as a native and make his way to Meerut ; the
Brigadier accepted his services. He took a sor-
rowful leave of his wife, and we have never beard
a word of him since. (Since safe.) Men rode in
from the main guard and told us the troops would
do nothing. Later I offered to go ; Gibraltar'
was fresh, though he, like us, bad had no food all
day. I hammered along, and got inside the gate
—you remember there are two, the' entering one
was open ; the inner one, citywarde, was closed.
Our men, composing the guard and companies cf
the 64th and 74th hung about in knots ; two guns
were in position, pointing to the gate ; a large knot
of officers stood on the slope going up to the main
guard. I saw Proctor, Dr. Wood, Hyslop, Smith
(74th), Reveley, Osborne, Capt. Gordon Butler,
Angelo Elton, and some others. Above was a
group of ladies—the Forrests, Mrs. Ironson, Ful-
ler, Forster, &c. While I was there tin magazine
blew up, it sent us hurry-scurry in every direction,
fOr fear of the falling fragments, but no one was
hurt. The saddest sight yet remained. By the
gate, side by side, and covered by pretty
ladies' dresses taken from some house, as if in
mockery, lay the bodies of poor Captain Smith,
Burrowes, Edwardes, and Waterfield, and the
Quartermaster-Sergeant, some lying calm as shot
dead, and others with an expression of pain and
mutilated by bayonets and tulwars (swords). I
had no bUsiness in the main guard away from
the men, and soon after rode back to the tower.
I could not look poor Miss W
(step-sister to
Captain Burrowes) in the face.;
i --she had come n
the carriage with Mrs.
H-- and Miss H--. It
was thought to make a stand at the tower, and the
was brought up from the lines,.
Europeans, drummers, dre.,
besides
we could count upon. T'r,
sbeurtv i
w service e ammunition
officers,
eroothat
h alt 9
Sepoys soon showed the spirit which ani-
them by, firing on Captain De Tessier, f-
I only killing bis horse. The sun waP

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5n .]

FEROZEPORE, JUNE 13.
A friend sends us the following account of the
execution of some of the mutineers at that station
on the morning of the 13th inst :
" This morning' were executed 12 of the muti-
neers of the late 45th Regiment Native Infantry.
All the available troops and public estahllshments
were convened to witness thesceue, which totlip'a'.!e
at the south-east of the 'Sadder -Ban ar, and' no! th of
the old Fort--the side at which the nititinei-r, had.
got in. , A gallows had been er. ce I during
night previous, and around We,.., the troops
drawn up; a squadron of t`►e. lt) Native Light
Cavalry (remnant of the di!-b.lnd..d 57t
Infantry) and Commis ,ar;at an't•Ma,az'ne •Eita-
blishment on tbe.elst, her Majesty's 61-t•Po it snd
Artillery (12 guns) on the &mil, a,na the City and
Cantonment Police ol the west. The mutineers
(24, I think) were br .ught into the c .11tre by a
guard of her Majesty's 61st Fo-t. Ofie of the mu-
tineers was brought in a deolie, as 111.4 lett arm had
bebn amputated in consequence (.1a trams; ire c•aazed
by a musket-b fired at him by her Majesty's 01,,t
Foot when with themutineers he Was in the fausse
braic of the Fort. _ _ _