The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA

DARTMOUTH, AUGUST 4.

The Swiftsure, from Melbourne, with 200
passengers and 60,000 ounces of gold, is off
this port ; she has landed mails and 20 pas-
sengers.

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.
ADDITIo NAL PARTICULARS.

We yesterday announced the arrival at South-
ampton of the Colombo, with the heavy portion
of the India mail. We now learn that the pas-
sengers on board, who have come from India,
firmly believe that Delhi has fallen. They state
that bazaar intelligence outstrips Government in-
telligence (which is a bad sign, because it shows
complicity between the natives in India and the
mutineers), and that according to bazaar intelli-
gence, Delhi had fallen.
When the Madras passengers left, an emeute
was fully expected in that presidency. The Eu-
ropeans were under arms.
The passengers think that the mutiny is not
considered in England so serious as it really is.
They give some frightful details of atrocities com-
mitted by the mutineers. In Delhi six European
ladies had taken refuge in a room ; one of them,
very young and beautiful, concealed herself under
a sofa. The other five were subjected to outrage
by the mutinous soldiery, and then beheaded.
The blood trickled under the sofa, and the young
female concealed there betrayed herself by utter-
ing a shriek. She was seized and taken to the
harem of the King of Delhi. This is considered
a proof that the King is in league with the mu-
tineers.

Seventeen hundred armed men were found
about the residence of the King of Oudo when he
was taken prisoner, although according to treaty
he Was not allowed one armed attendant.

(EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM RAJPOOTANA.)

ABOO, June 19.

We have just received intelligence of a breach having
been made in the wall (of Delhi), and the rebels panic
stricken. Not oae stone, I hope, will be left on another
to mark where Delhi stood.
The atrocities the wretches have committed within its
walls are said to be dreadful—the days of Nadir Shah
repeated. . We have had our share of anxiety,
Some Mussulman wretches proposed at the " Eed "
(feast) kicking up a disturbance, but we were all pre-
pared, and these few Europeans kept them in order.

Nusseerabad and Neemuch are burnt and de-
stroyed. Our house, a pucka (brick) one, they could
not touch, but every article of furniture, &c., they took
out and destroyed on the lawn—glass, pictures, books,
crockery, &c., everything destroyed ; the plate,
carriage, and horses taken away. . . . George
Lawrence is below doing military duty again as
brigadier-general in Rajpootaaa. He went down
to assist Colonel Dixon, who from fatigue snd anxiety
was supposed to be dying. He is now recovering, but
the poor brigadier was completely broken down, and
has put everything in his hands.
The fort of Ajtnere, with its arsenal, is of great value
down here ; and here we have been quits successful in
dislodging the suspected traitors, and putting in other
troops is hold it (which was done without a row), and
then getting ny European troops from Deesa to hold it.
No sooner had they arrived than Mr. Colvin writes to
have them sent up to protect Agra-200 Europeans and
3 guns being all we have to hold Bajpoota in check.
George Lawrence has respectfully declined. The Kotab
Contingent, 1,200 men (cavalry and infantry and 2 guns)
who were under Lawrence's orders, Mr. Colvin ordered
away to Agra, and having ordered the commandant,
Captain Dennys, to move into Ajmere for its protection,
Mr. Colvin then got an order from Calcutta by the tele_
graph, giving him power over every one in Rajpootana.
Hod Den nys obeyed Lawrence, Nusseerabad and Nee-
much had been saved. * * * General Anson's death
saved him from assassination. He was hated by the '
troops, and they burnt his tents. He was quite unfitted
far his poet. Horses and gaming appear to have been
his per init., and as a Gentleman said, No court pet
flunky Ought to come to India." Every one gave a
sigh of 'relief when they heard he was gone. "Pat
Grant" is come over from Madras to head the army till
orders come from England. Henry Lawrence (also a
brigadier-general) has been named for the appointment,
but he cannot be spared from Oude, where he is holding
his own with 300 Europeans. A much more difficult
position than that of Agra, I fear. God will help him
I t ave no doubt. He has had one chase after the muti-
neers, with signal success. George Lawrence Ifas too
few troops to follow up the Neemuch mutineers, but was
ready to meet them should they coma to Ajmere, as
they gave out. They, however, have gone the wrong
way. I hope they may meet with their reward, for their
cruelty was great, and they chased the officers and their
wives out of their burning houses all night into the
jungles. One poor sergeant's wife whom they attacked,
soot down the first man, and was cut down by the second,
and her children thrown into the flames.

The following is an extract of a letter written
on the 16th of J une by Major-General Hearsey to
his sister in Chertsey

"Barrackpore, Junel6.
" Yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon I was obliged to
disarm my brigade hare of four regiments. Some vil.
lamas in the corps were trying to incite the good men
and true to mutiny. These good men ought to have
agrivmeend the villains
all.vniltains
Decisionuptnjuastnif sol
eiereution coute qui coute; they did not, so I die-
is everything now-a-days ; it will not do to wait until
misfortunes occur, but if possible do your best to pre-
vent them. •
If large, very large, reinforcements of British troops
aro no: poured into Ilindostan, moss the Isthmus of
Su'z, i e., vict Alexandria end Cairo Railway, and im-
mense stores of coals sent by the same railroad to Suez,
to coal the Ftearners for their return, so that the Queen's
troops can be pu-hed on with the least possible delay,
I. will go hard with all of us • Tars ought to be pub-
lished to the British nation ; in my name if you like.' I
will take all responsibility. The authorities—Lord
Panmure, the Elorso Guards, the Board of Control, and
the Directors—must join heart and hand in these mea-
sures ; money now Luti,t be a secondary consideration.
" It is said the -native Princes, ex-King of Oude, the
Nawab of Aloorshedabad, the ex-A.tneers of Scinde, and
others have been sending emissaries among the Sepoys,
bribing and promising great benefits if they will be un-
faithful to us. Nay, I have heard from good authority
some of these emissaries have been given up by the
Sepoys of my brigade to the proper authorities is Fort
Willliam."

The following is au extract from a letter of a
mercantile man in Calcutta, which may interest
our re t lers' as it describes the measures of precau-
tion adopted by the European residents.

"All Europeans all over the country, as well as in Cal-
cutta, have been called out as volunteers. We mount
guard on picket at night, and mounted patrols guard the
streets all night. As yet all has been kept quiet, and I
have not the slightest doubt but that now we have
boned' the King of Oude, with his head men, all will
remain quiet. lam in the Foot Volunteers ; I thought
it more likely to be useful than the Horse, and easier to
learn. We were all paraded this morning at daylight.
My company consists nearly all of Eogli.h and Ameri
cans. Tne 1 ilter have come forward nobly, and are most
useful, having nearly all been drilled. Those in my corn_
pally are good, honest, hearty men with all the good
qualities of Englishmen. We are divided into companies,
according to place of residence, and these, again, into
squads of 10 or 12, according to the number in each corn
pany. I am trying to induce our colonel to divide us
into seven squads, each squad to take picket duty once
a week. Of course, we are all much exited about it,
and none more so than myself. S'ic squads of mine,
numbering GO men, are without a single half-caste, and
many of the men are as big as I am, so I doubt not that
we c mld thrash about 1,000 Sepoys. Read what some
200 British bayonets did at Benares against 3,000 Se.
poys. The Sepoys here were all disarmed, as well as at
Barrackpore the other day, without troub!o. Ole hund-
red men of the 37th were sent up to Berhamnora yes
terday to protect the place, and to bane the Nawah, a
sensual Mahominedan hound, who has been intriguing
against M. The Mahommedans are, I suspect, at the
bottom of it all, and will have found the fanatical Brah-
mins a fruitful soil to work on. May their fathers'
graves be defiled.''

(Prom the Freertart. )
Baptist Mission House, 33, Moprgate-street,
August 3. 1857.
Messrs. Editors,—l hasten to place at your ser-
vice the contents of several letters received by ihe
Ovcrland mail. The anxieties of our friends will
not allow of delay in their publication till the next
" Missionary Herald." It will bo seen in how greet
peril our missionary brethren stand, and 111u-trate
the progress of those fearful events of which India
is nuw the scene. They and their families will, I
am sure, be remembered daily in the prayers of
God's people.
I ranain, yours most truly,
Env. B. UNDERHILL.

Under date Benares, Jule 11th, Mri Gregson
gives the following graphic account of the evonts in
that city, and of the state of the surrounding
couniry
"On Thurslay last, tte 4th instant, from an early
hour iu the gaming the telegraph was occupied ahnc.sii