The Washington union., 1857-11-14

most upon the iast-named batteries, winch were
exposed not only To the guns of the Water bason but
TO those in the old inner fort Of Semghur and also 10
! those of the inner side of the river
BY the 18th the Cashmere bastion in ruins. The
adjoining curtains either side similarly ruined
and from the dls Of the Moree bastion only light gun
two at intervals replied to the heavy shot and shell
that poured into it, At the other end of the works
the Water bastion had suffered scarcely less severely its
extreme magazine was blown up, and light gun which
enfladed our batteries had been silenced
On the morning Of the l4th, after daybreak, the
assault took place The attacking columns were las
gather from the only communication OF late date that
has yet reached Bombay three in number one being
held In Their strength is not given The main
point of assault the breach at Cashmere baston One
column however consisting OF Ghoorkas and the newly
arrived Jumoo contingent, was directed 10 make d-
version by attacking the Khengunge suburb which lies
outside the Lahore gate the western side OF the city
and if it succeeded in carrying the suburb to assault the
gate itself But the suburb occupied by the enemy
! in force with battery of heavy guns
The Cashmerian troops behaved indiferently and In
spite of the efforts of the brave GhooTkas, the column
repulsed Its commanding officer Major Reid of the
Simoor battalion is among the wounded OF the day but
the northern side of the city all went well The troops
entered at the breach with serious opposition, and
spreading to the left and right occupied the "whoe line
of defences from the Water bason to the Cabu gate in
Guiding the Cashmere gate and bason the Moree gate
and bastion, the English church. Skinners house, and
the grounds about The principal loss sustained by the
assaants due TO the obstinate resistance they met
with in clearing their way along the ramparts to the Ca
bul gate and afterwards in attempt to penetrate beyond
that point into the denser parts Of the city in the direction
the Jumma Musid IN all the loss amounted to about
FIVE hundred killed and wounded Five officers are
i reported to have been slain Wounded, in all, about
thirty OF the loss of the mutineers do not observe
even an estimate.
1 Preparations were at once made for sheng the
my out of the Palace, the Selimghur, and the other
strong places of the city, and the firing commenced next
morning, the 18th By the evening of that day breach
effected in the wall of the magazine enclosure which
held in force by the enemy and the place storm
ed the next morning by the 6st foot and detacments
of the breach battalion and Wides rifles. In it were
captured 125 pieces of The Palace being now
well exposed the guns and moras opened upon it from
the magazine enclosure and the enemy appears to have
fallen back at all points Thus the Kishengunge bat
terry which had repulsed the ummo troops, was aban
doned and occupied and the guns there taken swced
the total number OF captured pieces to upwards OF 200
The battery the further side of the river also
TO abandoned and at the date Of the latest
tain unofficial news, M, on the Lothian attack upon
the magazine had been rcpused chain of posts had
been established from the Cabu gate to the magazine
and the enemy hours before dayall had been main
tanning only detached and desutory warfare from the
tops Of the houses Many townspeople had come in and
received quarter, which of refused to every
sepoy. All this is so satisfactory that we may well
credit the report from Jeypoe that the goth the place
entirely in hands But shall keep this letter
open to the last in hope Of fuller intelligence steam
er is just in from Karrachee which Mr. Frere keep
ing ready for emergency, and which he would not
have despatched unless he had something worth sending
must not omit by the way, to mention that the Jey
King of Delhi escaped to neghboring shrine in the dis
guise Of Scinda, it Is moreover reported was
raising 5000 men to intercept fugitives.
TO the northwest of Delhi in the Hurrianach district,
General Van Cortadt still busy representing disturb
ances and rcscttling the country On the 9th OF Sep
tember insurgent village Hansi surprised and
its occupants driven out and dispersed with the loss OF
of the rngeaders in the mutiny of the Hurianach
battalion and twenty five OF his read, too, OF
what appears be the destruction of another village at
later date when number Of the mutinied 10th cava
of
ment forthwith executed On this occasion large
amount of booty in horses cattle and money fell into
! the hands of the General Is From Meerut do
not hear any raids against insurgents Chiefs nor
does our news from Agra report any further proceedings
the part Of Major Montgomery since his very success
full engagement at Hattrass with Chose Mahomed Khan
the sesstyed Soubahdar of the King of Delhi which APP
pears to have auieted the country about Allyghur.
Regarding Cawnpore and Lucknow am unable to give
you SO favorable an account fortnight ago anci
pated General OutTam in his letter of the I'd of Sep
tember expressed hope that he should get the dis
tance between Alahabad (where he at the time Of
wrtng and Cawnpore by the 9th. In this hope he was
however, disappointed On one occasion at least his adj
vance was mpeded by an armed force, OF his progress
hindered by the necessity of chassng it, party esti
mated by It's subsequent destroyer at about 800 strong
with few guns the number is not mentoned crossed
the Ganges from Dude presumably for the purpose Of
punder at point ahead of Sir Jamss's line of march
AS soon as they were heard of Major Vincent Eyre of old
afghan and recent Aah celebrity, sent with part
of bis own battery, deachments Of the 9th apd Gath
foot and troop Of irregular horse to attack and dis
perse them
| On the Majors approach the enemy hastily betook
themselves to their boats pursued by the cavalry upon
whom when they had re-embarked they kept up smart
fire Even when the infantry up, and poured vol
lev after voey into the crowded boats the rebels still
made what defence and return they could but when the
field pieces opened with grape they threw themselves
panic-stcken into the river to perish almost to man
under the fire of all that raned upon them from the
bank The boats sunk and the guns with them.
This was on the 10th of September On the 18TH the
the 5h Fusees and the remainder of the
18th Highlaners reached Cawnpore and, Sir James with
the rest of the being expected the following day
orders given by General Hayeock to prepare to eo
the crossing of the river at halpast the next
morning This know from private letter from one OF
the officers of the 18TH and nothing far as am aware,
has arrived from Cawnpore direct to lead us to suppose
that counter orders subsequently issued and that the
crossing was delayed But when the. Calcutta steamer
for Suez called at Madras three days ago, Lord Harris
the result of the information brought to him by that
sell telegraphed to the Bombay government thus 'Gen-
era Havclock force crossed the Ganges from Cawnpore
on the 10th skirmishihg going on !"
OF the imprisoned garrison Of Lucknow we have heard
but very little. That little, however Is encouraging.
They had undermined and blown up house near the in
renehmen with number of fanatics who occupied 1t,
and then sallypg out had spiked tho two lspounder
guns which the enemy had brought to bear upon them
though without doing much damage. OF the amount ol
provisions hear nothing either way the othd
On the whole, may repeat that know OF nothing
tending to destroy materially to affect the conf
dent hopes which when last wrote generally
ertned not only this side of India but also at Gavin
pore and Aahabad that this long becaguered city will be