The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

bels to induce the Sikhs to abandon us ; heavy
ribes were offered to them, and their own country-
men employed as mediators. They treated every
offer with derision, showing perfect obedience and
discipline.
" On the 28th two small cannon were brought to
play ou our bungalow, one throwing 41b. shot, and
they were daily shifted to what the rolsels thought
par weakest spots. Finally, the largest was placed
On the roof of Mr. Boyle's dwelling-house, com-
pletely commanding the inside of our bungalow, and
the smallest behind it at a distance of 20 yards.
Nothing but cowardice, want of unanimity, and
,only the ignorance of our enemies preVented our
fortification being brought down about our ears.
During the entire siege, which lasted seven days,
every possible stratagem was practised against us.
The cannons were fired as frequently as they could
prepare shot, with which they were at first unpro-
- 'tided, and incessant assaults were made upon the
bungalow. Not only did our Sikhs behave with
perfect coolness and patience, but their untiring
labour met and prevented every threatened disas-
ter. Water began to run short • a well of 18 feet
by 4 was instantly dug in less than 12 hours. The
rebels raised a barricade on the top of the opposite
house ; ours grew in the same proportion. A
shot shook a weak place in our defence. The
place was made twice as strong as before. We
began to feel the want of animal food and
the short allowance of grain. A sally was made
at night and four sheep brought in, and
finally we ascertained beyond a doubt that the
enemy were undermining us ; a counter
,mine was
quickly dug. On the 30th troops sent to our re-
-liief from DiziaPore were attacked and' beaten back
close to the entrance of the town. On the next
day the rebels returned, and, telling us that they
had annihilated our relief, offered the Sikhs and the
women and children (of which there were none with
us) their lives and liberty if they would give up
the Government officers. August 1 we were all
offered our lives and leave to go to Calcutta if we
would give up our arms. On the 2d the greater
part of the Sepoys went out to meet Major Eyre's
field force, and on their being soundly thrashed the
rest of them abandoned the station, and that night
we went out and found their mine had reached our
foundations, and a canvassed tube filled with gen-
powder was 13 ing handy to blow us up, in which,
nowever, I do not think they could have succeeded,
as their powder was bad ; and another stroke of the
pick would have broken into our countermine. We
also brought in the gun which they had left on the
top of the opposite house. During the whole siege
only one man, a Sikh, was severely wounded,
though two or three got scratches and blows from
splinters of bricks. Everybody in the gate is in be-
haved well ; but I should be neglecting a duty did
I omit to mention specially Mr. Boyle, to whose
engineering skill and untiring exertions wo in a
great measure owe our preservation ; and Mr. Col-
vin, who rendered the most valuable assistance,
and who rested neither night nor day, and took on
himself far more than his share of every disagree-
able duty. In conclusion, I must earnestly beg
that his honour the Lieutenant-Governor will sig-
nally reward the whole of our gallant little detach-
ment of Sikhs, whose service and fidelity cannot be
overrated. The Jemadar should be 11,t once made
a Soubader. Many of the rest are fit for promo-
tion, and when required I will submit a list with
details."

The following is the copy of a letter dated
Almorah, August 4 :
wren will be astonished to find I have left
Nynee Tal. The fact is all ladies, to the number
of 90, and as many children, have been ordered
away from the Lake, as an attack is expected there
—not a very formidable one, however, but ladies
are always best out of the way at such time,,, and
Captain Ramsey knows well that if a panic did occur
every coolie would rush away to his home in the
mountains, and then there would I,e no getting
away for any of us. Khan Baliadour Khan, the
Bareilly wt etch, has got together such an army as
he could raise ; it must be a mere rabble, utterly
untrained ; still they have the effrontery to pro-
, posa an attack on our fortress, and 3,000 men were
reported to hare crossed the Kitcha, and ruched
Huldwanee on Sunday, the 2d. There are now
500 brave little Ghoorkas at the ',Ake, besides
gentlemen to the number of 100. The roads both
by Kaleedoongee and Fluid wanee are barricaded at
intervals for several miles, by moms of high stone
walls, which only admit of one man passing up at
a time, and we have guns in excellent position to
guard each pass. I believe the pr,sent scheme is
to allow the besiegers to come up beyond Julee,
and then when they find themselves with a good
steep hill a-head the Ghoorkas are to get round be-
hind, cut off the road, and so render retreat im-
possible.
"The Mahomedans in Rampore have found out
that their Nawab is friendly to us, and has helped
us in sending up supplies, &c., though he has not
of course been able to take any active part. A
powerful party against him exists in his own city,
and therd is a great chance that the poor man will
have fallen a victim on the day of the festival
Buckre Eel. If the Nawab's life be taken his
force of 5,000 will assuredly attempt the Kalee-
doongee pass ; but even for this emergency, though
greater than the other, every one says we are pre-
pared, and that there is scarcely a probability of
any one getting up to Nynee Tal.
Mrs. Edwardes has received a letter from her
husband (Mr. Edwardes, C.S.), which was brought
up concealed in a hookah by a native. It is a scrap
in pencil, scarcely legible, but says he is safely con-
cealed by a Ilindoo Rajah in Oude, 14 miles from
Futtygurh. The man has a fort and a few guns of
his own ; consequently powerful. Mr. and Mrs.
Probyn and four ehildren from Futtygurh ate also
with this Rajah. They are kindly treated and in
safety; for, though the Nawab of Futtygurh has
several times demanded the English whom he con-
ceals, their protector refuses to give them up, and
challenges his enemy to get them if he can."

The following is from the Camp, Kolapoor :
" In my last letter I could only give you a very
short account of our little mutiny here. I shall
now tell you all the events that have occurred. On
the Ist inst., at half-past 8 p.m., Stubbs, Dr.
Broughton, young Heathfield, Keith, and myself,
after having dined at mess, were playing a game
at billiards, when suddenly there was a violent
knocking at the door, and in rushed the native ad-
j utant and a drill havildar, anzl as soon as they had
recovered their breath said there was a mutiny in
the lines. We were all so excited, and everything
in such a state of confusion, that I cannot well de-
scribe the events of that night, Only I know that at
3 o'clock in the morning the Major, Capt. M'Cul-
loch, Stubbs, De Laacey, Keith, and myself, took
refuge, with 100 men, in a little school-house near
the local corps' lines, after having walked the
whole night through pelting rain, among ploughed
fields, dressed in white mess jackets and trousers.
At five o'clock in the morning we marched down
with our 100 men, all the local corps (about
600 men), and 50 of the Southern Mahratta
Irregular Horse, to our regiment's lines, where we
expected the mutineers would defend themselves.
We found, however, that about 210 men had gone
away, taking their arms and lots of ammunition
with them. The rest of the regiment either quietly
joined us in the lines or had run away wad hidden
themselves in the fields and villages about, when
they heard the firing. Tho mutineers had broken
into the treasure chests and taken away about
60,000r5. They had torn the regimental colours,
and trampled them in the mud ; they had taken
away or destroyed all the arms and ammunition in
stores ; they had killed one woman, the native ad-
jutant's mother, and she had only saved his chil-
dren by hiding them under the beds ; they had
riddled the major's' door and windows with balls,
and broken open several of his boxes. The resident
got information that the mutineers bad shut them-
selves up in a strong square building, with loop-
holed walls and flanking towers at the coreers,
near the city of Bolapoor. Ho accordingly marched
all the local corps out to attack them. When they
got there, however, they were greeted by a volley
from inside, fired through the loopholes in the wall.
He then marched the locals straight borne. This
was on the morning of the 2d inst. ; from that un-
til the 10th nothing was done. Our men were kept
under arms all day ready to turn out the instant
' the bugle. sounded, and small parties of cavalry
were continually scouring the country to get intel-
ligence of where the mutineers went, and to warn
the headmen of villages not to give them food or
shelter. On the Gth a party who had been out at
a villaga about 16 miles off said that the people of
the village had told them that the unf,!rtunate
young officers who had not been heard of since the
night of the row had been caught and murdered
here by the mutineers, and they showed the marks
of bullets and the blood on the floor of a native
temple. They said their bodies had been thrown
into a river that runs near the place ; but they
have not been found. On the 3d a man named
Hossain Ali came in from the city to our lines,
where he went to our soubedar-major's house and
said to him, the Englishmen in India are to
be killed. Get the regiment to rise ; the city will