The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-14 00:00:00

BEAWR.

Extract of a letter from Colonel Dixon, at Beam.,
dated May 29, 1857 :
"The Ist Bombay Light Cavalry has marched in
here, and is pitched a short distance from the can-
tonment on the Nussoerabad road. In two days
we expect a detachment of 200 infantry and 40
horse of the Joudpore Legion. And two days
afterwards a furtiv-T reinf ,rcement of 230 Euro-
peans of her Majesty's 83d Regiment, 200 of the
12th Bombay Native Infantry, and 3 Horse Artil-
lery-(European4) guns from Deesa.
consequence of the large detachment sent
from this to Ajinere, the strength of this corps has
been reduced to 250 hay-onet4, but we have now
been .reinforced by the Ist Light Cavalry and large
bo•lies of Native Horse."
The fidlowing is a list of officers, with their fami-
wh.) are at Beawr :
Brigade Staff.—Brigadi,T H. Macan ; Captain
Bishop, 30th N. 1., Officiating Brigade Major ;
Capt tin Brodie (and wife), 7th Bombay N. 1.,
Officiating Cotnmi:4Barilt Officer.
Artillery.—Second Lieutenant H. 0. Hitchins,
Second Lientmant H. L. Jones.

Ist Bombay Light Cavalry.—Captain Hardy
(now Commandant) and wife, Lieutenant Denis
and wife,'Lientenaut Loch (Adjutant), Lieutenant
C. Lne), Li-ut •nant He ith, Lieutenant Anderson,
Lieutenant M•lne, Lieutenant Stephens, Cornet
Jenkins, Lieutenant (Riding Master) Ste:ling and
wife, Surgeon Durham.
15th Regiment N. I.—Brevet-Colonel Shadham,
commandant ; Lieutenant H. C. Cuppage, Lieu-
tenant J. T. Pritchard (and wife), interpreter and
quartermaster, Lieutenant T. E. Counter (and
wife), Lieutenant H. Philpotts, adju'ant ; Lieute-
nant E. J. Brown, Lieutenant 0. D. Thackwell,
Eniign P. Wheeler, Ensign J. G. Campbell, En-
sign S. E. L. Evans, Assistant-Surgeon De Renzy
(and wife), Se rvant-Mijor M. Neill, Quarterma-
er-Sergeant J. Dunbar.

30 L h RegirnentN. I.—Lieutenant-a .lonel Camp-
bell; commandant : Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Brevet-Majir Morrieeon, Captain C. F.
Feiwick, Officiating Adjutant (end wife) ; Lieute-
nant G. F. Vincent (aud wife) ; Lieutenant T,
Pierce, interpreter and quPrterina.st,r (and wife) ;
Eu4ign J. Cape, Sergeant-M3jor E Imonfis (and
wife) ; Qusrtr-Master SerAewit Wilkinson.
Gone to AjniPre.--Captain Timbrell, Artillery ;
Ensign Harcourt and. Et,sivi Huol, 30th N. I. ;
Surgeon Andrews, 30th N. I.
The fol-mrinv is a list of killed and wounded in
the IFt Bombay L;glit Cavalry (L tneers) on the
evening of the 28th May, in a char4e on the muti-
neers of the 15th and 311th regiments of Bengal
Native Infantry, who had seized the light &Id
bittery, c imprising six guns, at the station of NIB-
.
seerabwl :

. Kllled—Captain Spot tiswoode' Cornet Newbury.
WoUnded—Capt 'in Ilarrly, Lleu.. Loch.
Brevet-Co!onel Penny, of the lht Bombay Ugh,
Cavalry, fell from bi 3 horse during' the n'gbt m irch
from Nusseeralad, vas seriously injured, and has
since did.

(True copy.)
(Signal) H. A. PRINSEP, A.D.C.

( From the Calcutta Eturkaru of June 5. )

The 45th and 57th Regimeots at Ferozepore, the
9th, which garrisoned tne stations of Allygurh,
lkilynp tore-, an 1 Etawah, portions of the 13th,
48th, 71st Native Infantry, and two tro-ips of the
7th- Cavalry at Lucknow, have followed the exam-
ple set them by the Me, rat revol'e-s. At Fercze-
pore tie mutineers were a-tacked by the 61,hFoot,
the 'loth Cavalry, and Artillery with such effect
that the 57th Native Infantry re• once laid down
thiiir arms, and the 45th, a'ter losing many of their
number, fled in confusion. The 9th Native In-
fantry made no a' tempt to murder their officers,
contorting themselves with the plunder of the trea-
suries. At Luck now the mutiny broke out in the
sarrie manner a; at Meerut, commencing wish the
burning of almost every thatched hous. near the
native lines. But Sir Hehry Lawremee was ready
for the exolotion. He at once turned out with her
Majetty's 32d Fo t, a batt -iry of Att il r:.• and that
p-4t.,ten of the 7th Cavalry which remained faithful,
and attacked the insurgents ; the later were not
only defeated, but prirsued for 30 m!1 -is. Several of
their number were killed and a few taken. Thes 3
later have since met the fate which they deserved,
by being blOwn from guns--a death more calcul at - d
thait any other to strike =error into the native mini.
In the mini se of th's emettte we have to aleptore
the 1 ss of about a hundred Europeans, includ-
ing five, officers, whose names have not yet, with
crie exception, been announced. The exception is
Brigadier Handscomb, a fine old soldier : the par-
ticulars of his death have not yi t beeri received.
Every credit is due-to Sir Henry Lawre ace, not only
for the prompt measures he alopted as soon as the
mtitiny broke out, but for having effec•ually pre-
vented any outbreak or manifestation in the city of
Lucknow, suppo,ed to be the hot-bed of disaffec-
tion. It has since been ascertained that the muti-
neers, after leaving Lucknow, bent their steps to-
ards Seetapore, hoping to gain over the sepoys
stationed there. On their arrivs before the place;
ho4eever, they found the 41st Native Infantry and
the 9th Irregular Infantry drawn up to receive
'Ahern. They at once beat a retreat, and moved, it
is supposed, in the direction of Delhi.
In the meanwhile the insurgen•s in that city have
been busily engaged in strengthening their position.
By the arrival of stragglers from other mutinous re-
giments, and the disaffected from all parts of India,
the4r numbers hive increased, it is said, t) twenty
ilvtusand. They have appointed Lall Khan, a
Stihadai of the 3.1 Cavalry, their general in chief,
with Bulder) Singh, a Sobadar of the 20th ultimo,
as their second m command. Their first step was to
proclaim the Emperor of Delhi, or his son King
of India ; their second to fortify themselves. They
hid ample means as their disposal for this iurpose,
a large siege train and immense stores of powder.
The possession of these resources seems to have
spired-them with a confidence which gradually in.
creased as they found themselves unmolested. On
the 29th ult. they, sent out a strong party with five
guns to guard the bridge over the tittle river Hin-
dun. They entrenched themselves on the heights '1
near the river with no ordinary skill ; but on the
following day they were attacked by a portion of the
European force from Meerut, and were almost to a
man shot do-wn. As a matter of course, their guns
and position fell into our hands.'
The grand advance against Delhi has been post-
poned, partly from the want orcarriage, and partly
to enable the siege train, which has been sent for
from Phillciur, to arrive. It is now expected that
the attack will take place on the 9th or 10th inst.

THE MASSACRE AT DELHI.
We give below a det4iled account of the MU-
llacre at Delhi frOrd the columns of the Delhi Gazette
extra,_ published at Agra :
"No detailed account having yet appeared of
the fearful mas..acre in Delhi, we may be 'maned
for offering the following, though somewhat late in
dying eo. It is from the pen of an eye-vvitne,s '—
Oa the morning of the 11th May, a party of the '3d
Light Cavalry, variously stated at from 25 to 250,
made their appearance at Delhi. They hal come
over from Meerut during the night, and were evi-
dently -prepared to perpetrate the most awful crimes ,

'as tbey were fully annul and apparetitly wild with
rage and excitement. They entered' the Calcutta
gut 3 without oppesit.on from any of tt.e police, and
m Lde their way directly towards Deriow-
gtinge, shooting down in t'teir progress all the
Europeans they met with. Among the first vie-
tims were Mr. Sunon Fraser, the Governor Gene-
ral's agent ; Captain Douglas, his assistant ; and
Mr. R. Nixon, chief clerk in their office. Notice
was imtnediat-ly cent to the briga ter, and a regi-
ment (the 54th M.N.), with two guns from De
Tessier's Batrety were sent down. The 54th
marched through the Cashmere gate in good order,
bat on the approach of some of the sowars, the se-
poys rushed suddenly to the side of the road, leav-
Ing their officers in the middle of the road, up m
whom the troopers immediately came at a gallop,
and one after the other shot them down. The
officers were, with the exception of Colonel Ripley,
unarmed. The colonel shot two of them before he
fell; but with this exception, and one said to have
been shot by Mr. Fraser, none fell. After butcher-
ing all the officers of the 54th the troopers dis-
mounted, and went among the sepoys of the 54th
shaking hands with them, and, it may be supposed,
thanking them or their forbearance in not firing on
the murderers of their officers. . The troopers were
perfectly collected : they rode up to their victims
at full gallop, pulled up suddenly, fired their pistols
and retreated. The countenances of the trooper,
wore the expression of maniacs • one was a mete
youthrushing about, flourishing his swop d, and &s-
-playing all the fury of a, man under the influ-
ence of bhang. They were in full uniform, and
some had medal. Had the officers of the 28th
54th, and 74'h Native Infantry been armed with
revolvers they might have shot some of them,
hut had they done so it is still a doubtful question
whether their own men would not have bayoneted
them. The 54th made some show of firing their
muskets but theirehots wont of course over the
heads tithe troopers, who had manifestly full con-
fidence in the reception they were o meet with.
Their plans must have been evidently well ma-
tured. Meanwhile the people of the city were
collecting for mischief ; several bungalows at
Deriowgunge had been fired, and as the day ad-
vanced the goojurs of the villages around Delhi
became alive to the chances of loot, and were ready
for action. The city was up in arms, every Euro-
pean residence was searched, the troopers declaring
that they did not want property but life, and when
they retired the rabble rushed in, and made a clean
sweep, from the punkahs to the floor mats.
"It is difficult to form an estimate of the num-
ber killed, most-of the lists already publ:shed are
incorrect, happily, several persons said to be killed
are still in existence, and some who escaped are not
down at all.

"As soon a 3 the extent of the outbreak was
known, it became necessary for the residents to
seek some place of safety • and most of them made
their way to the Flagstaff Tower where the gun is
fired. A company of the 38th Native Infan'ry
and two guns were stationed here, and a large
party .of ladies • and gentlemen, • including the
brigadier, brigade major, &c., were here. well
armed, with the intention of defending themselves
against the troopers. The t twer is round and of
solid brickwork, and was well adapted for the pur-
pose ; better, iu fact, than any other building in
Delhi. In selecting this. spot the brigadier dis-
played considerable judgment, but he did not then
know the extent of the catastrophe ; for although
the general demeanour of the troops was anything.
but subordnate, the actual state of the case was
unknown. Many of the officers of the 38th still
had confidence in their men, and endeavour d to
reason with them when they showed symptoms of
in mbordination ; but on Cotouel Graves harangu-
ing the company stationed at the Flagstaff Tower,
it became evident that they were in a state of
mutiny, and that the slightest thing would induce
them to turn at once against their officers and the
other Europeans assembled on the hill. Ab iut a
quarter to four the magazine in the city exploded
—.a puff of whi'e sm.-lie and the report of a gun
preceded the cloud of red dust which rose like a
huge coronet into the air; the explosion that fol-
lowed was net so great as might have been expected,
hut the effect was cornple'e. It was soon known
that the explosion was not accidental, but the gal-
lant act of Lieut. WilloughV, Commissary of Ord-
fiance, Delhi, and it is pleasing to be able to add
that this brave young man Escaped with a severe
scorching. About 1,500 persons, rebels, are saic.l
to have been blown up with the magAzine.
" On the apoe trance of the clouds of dust in the
air, Vie company of the 38th made a rush to their:
arms, which were piled near them ; the object they
had in view is net clearly define I, but it is supposed
that they were influenced by a sudden desire to at-
tack those within the tower. Soon after this the
38th took possessiou of two guns sent up to rein-
force the party at the tower, and on this becoming
known, the brigadier advised all who could leave
to do so, intending to follow when the rest had all
departed. Conveyances being iu waiting na,,st. of
'he ladies got away, the genVemen following on
horsebick ; and thus a safe retreat was effected to-
wards Kurnaul for some, while others branched off
to Meerut. Many hair-t readth escapes have been
related to the writ r—ladies remaining 8 or 10 d tys
in the jungle trus ing to the natives for protection
and foiid, in several iustauces freely given, and it is
gratifying to know that 'several persons supposed
to have fallen victims are now safe at Meerut,
Kurnaul, ITtnbal!a, or S'mla. _ .

" Throughont the whole of this cruel business
the Go tj-ri appear t.) have been most active in the
work'of devastation. Houses were burnt, and pro-
perty stolen and destroyed, by them in the most
wanton manner. Bands of th?na were lying in
waiting after nightfall all along the line of road 20
mites out of Delhi, on the watch for the refugee;
come of whom were mole •ted and would have b en
robbed, and perhaps murdered, had not decisive
measures been adopted. Mr. Wagentreiber and
family, fly;ng for bare life in his OWn carriage, was
attacked five time 3, his wife receiving some severe
blows from iron-bound lathees, and himself asword
cut on the arm, and a blow on the tack of the neck
from a la'he-.. But they contrived to evade them
all by firmness and judgment, shooting four and
wounding two of the ruffians in self-defence, and
eventually making good their re'reat to Kurnaul.
" The escape of Sir T. Metcalfe was most provi-
vidential. After being three days in Delhi after the
outbreak, he escaped' into the junglei, hiding
wherever he could, and at length, after 10 days,
finding his way to Hausee.

`'Several Europeans, (said to number 43) were
taken to the palace, or perhaps went there for pro-
tection ; these were taken care of by the King of
Delhi ; b.it the sowars of the 3d Cavalry, whose
thirst for European blood hid not been quenched,
rested not till they were all given up to them and
murdered one by one in cold blood.
" The troopers are said later in the day to have
pointid to their leas before they murdere I their
victims, and called attention to the marks of their
manacles, asking if they were not justitied in what
they were doing. This may or may not be the
case, but is certain that the severe sentence on the
mutine-rs of the 3d Cavalry was the imrneclitte
cause of the Meerut massacre, which preceded that
at Delhi_ by only a few hours. In both stttions,
the people of the city and bazaar appear to have
been very active, and to have aided the mutineers
in their bloo iy work.

" Half measures will not do when the day of re-
tribution arrives ; 'it is to he hoped that a lesson
inay.be taug n easily fa-gotten, and Delhi re•
main no longer in the pages of history."