New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-05

.;.,. TIA rs,ine Aforesaid VA worked out into .
.or. oftr,neh. On tie Oh, the broken ground aud
hou,.s i, front OF this raviDe were 'e'zsd T'tAoos
rr.i..,ncs and on the 10th. No battery, % guns,
Wa unmarked. This stter was 500 or oo' yafa'
from tie wall On the 18th, No. battery pun
very beldly and ceyerly at 200 yards from the
water bsstion in some broken ground, opened are
with SIX guIs while ten heavy mortArs sneuea 'oo
town. On the evening Ct the 9Th the breaches
one in the curtin adjoining the right fsnk OF the
Cashmere basiion and the other in the lefs face Ana
eank Of the water bastion-were reported PrscAcs-
Bile for escalade. and the assault WIS ordered. The
Sepoys on the 18th had made counter approach
90 the elscis between the two menscei bsshons'
and threw out trench for skirmishers about three
hundred and Fifty yards in front Of the English BAT
te,i.s. They also advanced from this position
outide the Csbool gate TO fank attacks. But
these attempts at active defense we're carried out
without unity connection or spirit and led to no
re,ult.
At DAYLIGHT on the lith FIVE British columns i'd
v.ncsd 10 the attack. One, on tie right, tooccupy
the fores outside the Cabool gate ans attack, IN
Gaze Of success, the Lahore gate. One against
each breach, one against the Cashmere gate winch
wm to be blown up, and one to act as reserve.
With ire exception OF the frat, all these columns
were successful. The breaches we're bat slightly
defended but the resistance in the houses near the
wall wss very obstinate. The herosm OF an officer
and three ,ergearts of the Engineers (for here
there uas terosm) succeeded in blowing open the
Cubuere gate, AID thus this column entered also.
Bs evening the whole northern front was in the
possession OF the English Here Gen. mn'on'
however, stepped. Theirdiscrimlnase a'sauis was
arrested, guns brought up and directed again"
every strong position 10 the town. With the e1-
cep,ion of the siormrg Of the magazine, there
seems to have been very little actual lighting. Inc
insurgents were dspirited and left the town In
masses. Wilson advanced cautiously inte the
town, found scarcely any resistance after the Ill.,
snd occupied it completely on the 2Oth
Our opinion on the conduct Of the attack has been
stated. As to the defense-tae attempt at offensive
counter movements, the thanking position al the
Caboo gate, the approaches, the rliiePlts
all show that some notions OF scientific warfare had
penetrated among the SepOys; but either they
were not clear enough, or not powerful enough, 70
be carried out with any effect Whether they orisi'
mated with Indians or with ,ome Of the Europeans
that are with them, is Of course difficult to decide;
but enc thing is certain: thatthe attempts though
imperfect in execution, bear a close resemblance
in their ground work to the active defense Of Sevss-
topol. and that their execution looks as if correct
plan had beer made for the Sepoys by .ome Euro
pesn officer, but that they had not been able to I'M.
ders.and the idea fully or that Reorganization and
want of command turned practical projects into
weak and poweress attempts.