Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-16

present. city lles Oh the ItsuL udhh u INC
Dschuma, while the remains of the much
larger old Delhi are on the left bank of the
river. Now Delhi was built by the Sehah
Dschehan CHR in the year 1852; in 1902
it came into possession of the English. Sew
eral palaces and forty mosques adorn the cap.
ital of the empire of the Moguls. Its trade is
considerable, and il has several establish
ments for the manufacture of cotton articles,
tobacco and shawls. The palace of the great
Mogul, built by the Schah Dschehan, is the
most splendid edifce of the kind in India,
The most beautiful of the mosques is the
Dsehama Mesdschid, also erected by Schah
Dschehah
In the year 1916 the city contained 1851
houses, 9,945 shops. principally one story, 26l
mosques, 1873 Hindoo temples, Christian
church. 1876 schools, and 67S fountains. The
population consisted of 327 Christians in 80
families, Sc, 100 Mohammedans in l4768
families, and 1850 Hindoos in 9,257 fam
lilies. Of these 1877, 977 persons, ,7SS were
males, and SO, 100 females while the number
OF deaths was 1850, and 953 marriages were
celebrated. Thirteen villages, with popu-
lation of 22,302, form the suburbs of Delhi.
The Mohammedan population is about equal
to that of the Hindoos WHILE in other East
Indian cities, it hardly equal the third part
of the latter,
The publication of the news that Delhi had
fallen, produced immense excitement through
out London. In the theatres, and other
places Of amusement, the announcement of
the fall of Delhi was received with loud and
prolonged cheering. 1t is a striking coinci-
dence that Delhi fell into the possession of
the British forces on the 10th of September,
which was the anniversary of the battle Of
Alma.
The event is thus noticed in the Bombay
Times
The capture of Delhi has been the great
event of the fortnight and we now expect
that the rebellion will be speedily crushed.
With the stronghold of the mutineers in
our power, there will be no difficulty in
destroying the rebels wherever we may meet
them, and thus restoring tranquility through
out the country. The arrivals of fresh REIN
forcements from England, both at Bombay
and Calcutta, has contributed to strengthen
our hands, and confirm the wavering loyalty
of the neutral provinces Although, howev-
er, Delhi has fallen, and the relief of Luck
Row is near at hand, there is still great deal
to be done before India is perfectly settled,
and order restored throughout its blood stain
ed provinces. For the gigantic work before
CURED, and our energies cannot be abated
until the fabric of our power is set upon
irmer basis than heretofore
The London Illustrated Ne0s thus refers to
the fall Of Delhi
In the annals of England the capture of
Delhi will De written less as deed of glory
than of duty-a great duty, manfully, reso-
lutely, braYely, performed; and it will be re-
membered when many great deed Of mil
itary prowess, which, in the abstract, may
have been more tinged with that ehiValuc
hue, which we are accustomed to cast over
battle fought and won, is forgotten. The
same path of duty is yet to be trod by our
soldiers, for, who can tell, how longs If it
is too sauguine view of the task set before
them to estimate its duration by months it is
dangerous toeontemplate course of conquest
which will occupy years. II we have to deal
with the mutiny of an army, it ought to
be suppressed in a few months; but, if we are
to look forward to the continuance of hostili.
ties for two or three years, then our business
is in fact to recover an empire. To this lat
ter conclusion, there seems to be no reason,
at present, to arrive and it must be the bust
ness of England, in the first place, to see that
her armies are equal to the necessity Of re.
ctO4lhS uil4ltJ AZ hllC Last anu S6COuu
ly, with the utmost seriousness, but with
every reasonable and possible dispatch, to set
about solving the problem of how India is to
be governed tor the future.
The London Times, in an editorial upon
the subject, says
We conclude, therefore, that the neck of
the mutiny is now broken, its head crushed,
and that nothing remains but feeble, dislocat-
ed, whiting fragments. In the end, what
escapes our arms, will be absorbed in the
mass of the people, and, befrended by time
and returning prosperity, may so escape the
retribution due to It's crimes.
The London Leader thus speaks of the
spread Of the mutiny d
Next to the momentous incident of the fall
of Delhi, and the actual re-adyance of our
soldiers to the relief of Lucknow, the most
prominent feature Of the last intelligence from
India, is to be found in the continuous ex-
tension of mutiny through the ranks Of the
Bombay army. There can no longer exist
any doubt as to the reality or comprehensive
ness of the eontagion.