The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

lery, are heroes, at present invaluable to the
State. An alarm of an attack in our rear sounded
at 11. p.m., and when it subsided I mounted on a
Sowar's horse, and, with five Sowars accompanying
me, started on my 50-mile ride for Meerut. I
reached the Meerut intrenchments the next night,
having providentially found all quiet on the road,
and next day took charge of the district, which is
nearly disorganized owing to large bands of Goor-
jurs andJhats, who are murdering and plundering
in every direction. Our communications are cut
off except towards Delhi ant Mussoorie. I hear
frequently.from H--- R—, who throughout has
stood firm at his post with his immediate superior,
Mr. S--, magistra' e of Saharampore. Indeed,
nothing could he better than the conduct of the
entire civil service ; many have devotedly sacrificed
their lives at out-of-the way stations determined to
try and keep order as long as they lived. Poor
J. W. and his young wife were killed at Hissar, he
thinking it his dutynot to leave his post, though he
had heard long before of the massacres going on
throughout the country. Martial law prevails
in these districts, and ice have to hang some
men nearly every day. Some of the worst villages
of plunderers are burned, and the generality of the
male inhabitants killed in our ‘- tours.' One of the
pensioners of our Government, by name Wallee
Dud Khan, has seiz the district of Bolundshuhur,
the Sepoys there having mutined and plundered
the treasury. He has received the appointment of
Subabdar of Meerut from the King of Delhi, and,
having mounted six guns on his fort of Malagruth,
and raised a rabble force of some thousands of Gocir
jars, has advanced to Ga'owtee, on the road to this
place. Galowtee is about 30 miles from this; but
we heard he 'ntended to attack the city of Haupper,
which is ten miles nearer than Galowtee. A aqua-
drellacif Carabineers, 40 Rifles, 2 Horse Artillery
guns, and about 50 native Sowars, were therefore
told off to attack him I accompanied the force
with all the young civilians at present here, viz.—
Turnbull, Sapte, Clifford, Melville, and Ly4ll.
We Etartecrat 6 p.m., rested two hours at Haupper,
and went on to Galowtee. We heard that the Goor-
jur followers of Wallee Dud Khan and his General,
Ismail Khan, had had a quarrel with theJhats of the
neighbourhood, who were ready to assist us. On
our approaching Galowtee we found. that the
enemy had fled, and although we pursued the
rear guard across country for about six miles we
cou!cl not catch men on fresh horses, but killed
a few footmen ; we then set the village of Bur-
matpore on fire ; this brought together a number
of Jhats in the hopes of plunder, and to assist
us against the Goorjurs. An officer of Carabi-
neers and a number of his men were just charg-
ing in among the Jhats, and Would have cut up
a number of them, if I had not fortunately rid-
den up at the time and sopped them. We then-
set on the Jhats, who burnt and plundered six
Goorjur villages, killing 17 men and losing two
of their own number. It must be remembered
that the Goorjura are aereditary robbers, and the
g' and trunk road opposite to their villages has,
since the mutiny, been constantly stained with
the blood of the travellers and others they mur-
dered. We returned to Haupper by twelve at
noon, having been is the saddle for about 16
hours and gone 50 miles. Two of the men of the
Carabineers got sunstroke, and three horses died of
fatigue ; one of the Rifles had his foot injured by a
gun-wheel going over it, but we had no other casual-
ties on our side. The whole of the Rohilcund
mutineers are now crossing the Ganges at Gurh-
mucktese, and I have done my best to induce the
General here to let a small party with two guns go
out to meet them ; but as they have eight guns and
2,000 regular troops, besides rabble, and we could
not bring more than-300 Europeans and four guns
against them, the pro)osal was negatived at a
council of war. The whole of the council appeared
to be against my proposal of attacking the enemy
at the Ghat, yet lain folly convinced that time will
prove I was right, and the decision of the council
a mistake. The Rohilcund men will probably go
on to Delhi. The 23d-Of this month is the 100th
anniversary of the battle of Pla43sey. The natives
say our government will cease on that day. We
shall see. Ple ise God, the omen is as good for us as
them, and, though a reverse before Delhi would
cost all the lives of those now in the Noith-west pro-
vinces, yet we trust a day of retribution will come,
and England is strong enough to replace ani re-
venge us.

ghe following letter is from an officer in the
camp before Delhi. dated June 24 :
" These rascals are giving us_ an immense deal
of trouble. We are just where we were a fortnight
ago, with the exception of having built a few
batteries. The mutineers fight like demons, and,
being about six or seven to one, attack us every
day. We have lost a great number of noble sol-
diers and officers, and have killed an enormous
number of the enemy ; but we are, n t strong
enough to go in at them behind their fortifications.
They all sneak behind walls—if we could only fairly
see them I think we should easily exterminate
them. Of our little body of Sappers-180 na,ivw,
41' Europeans, and 12 officers—we have lost 16
natives and 5 Europeans killed and wounded ;
yet wonderful to say, not an officer touched,
though of course we always lead the way: We
got a little reinforcement yesterday of 400 or
500 Europeans ; but I don't think now we are
more than 3,000 strong, besides three native corps
'of 600 each. These are the Guides, one Sikh regi-
ment, and the Ghoorkas—the last are little bits
of men froth the hills, like Chinese, but first-rate
soldiers ; they think it great fun, and say it is
better than killing deer or tigers. The other two
corps are splendid fellows, nearly all Sikhs, who
will go anywhere or do anything. Out of the five
officers in the Guides, in one day one was killed
and three others wounded. All those thi-ee r4gi-
ments ought to be remembered for ever by English-
men.
" Yesterday we had a very hard brush with
the Pandys, as we call them, but as usual
polished them off. They say they are getting
very disheartened in the city, but we sadly
want more m-n, and shall have to stay here till
we get them. This is the first scrimmage in
Idnia where the enemy have had au unlimited
supply of artillery of every description. They are
splendid gunners, and pitch their shells with most
disagreeable precision. One round shot the other
day killed one officer and six men, and wounded
two others, I believe mortally, besides a few others
who were bruised by the stones it knocked up. I
was sting in the battery the day before yesterday
smoking a pipe, when a shell came bang behind,
and burst in the parapet. It knocked me well for-
ward, but did not even upset a sand bag, to my
great joy, for I was rsther afraid that the battery
was too thin. If they don't give us a medal when
this is over I will never speak to a Director again !
. . . . The rains are coining on in a day or
• two, by all appearance. I hope the men won't get
ill in tents."

The following letter is from a lady, dated Agra,
June 27 : _ .. ..

-'•
I will now try to describe all
• . • •
this as it happened. A rising had long been expecled
at Gwalior ; but, alas, nothing was done, and we
bad no English troops. On Sunday, the 14th of
June, just as were going to bed, about half-past
nine, our servants rushed in and said the Sepoys had
risen. We dressed as quickly as we could, and then
walked to an officer's bungalow to learn what we
could do to escape. Wefound the family in a state
of great alarm ; as we were talking to Mrs. —,
her husband's horse rushed by, and it was said he had
jnst been shot. We then went and hid in the gar-
den under some trees for about three hours; the
shot was flying round us in all directions, and
the houses were burning. The servants then
hid us—that is, my husband, Mrs. —, and
myself in one of their houses. Here we lay hid
some time, expecting every moment to be discovered
and came in once or '
twice, draggedbut
didonnto.t see hues ;SaePt°lYasst about 5 o'clock
in the morning they found us. They were afraid
to come in at the door, so they pulled the roof off
and fired in upon us. We then went to the door
and begged them not to kill us. When my hus- '
band went to the door they fired twice at him.
There were about 20 of these horrid-looking men,
and quite drunk. He was not wounded and rushed
on, they pursuing him and fired at him as he 'ran.
I then rushed forward too, and at first they fired at
me as well, but then they dragged me away.
never saw -- after this ; but I since heard
that he was killed two or three compounds further
on., I got an officer hero who escaped to make all
the inquiries he could. It is not known if the
bodies were buried or not,. but it is believed they
wero all thrown into, the river. I can scarcely write
or think, so fearful is it at all.
" After I suppose they had killed —, the
Sepoys came back to us ; they pushed all the ladies
into a little hut that was near, and then they all
crowded in and mocked at us, and threatened us
with death, worse than death. They then took us
to the lines. After keeping us there some' time
they said they would not kill us, as wo were only
WQMOD3 and they bad killed our husbands, and rio