Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-31

and the Cape Of Good Hope. Calcutta itself
was thrown into the greatest alarm, and on the
18th native regiment was disarmed, accused
OF conspiring to seize Fort William. Most OF
the European Inhabitants provided themselves
with arms, to be prepared against any rising of
the natives
General Anson, the Commander In Chief, who
Mt the time of the revolt was at a hill station
north Of Delhi, recruiting his health, fastened
to Umballah, a station on the road from Lahore
to Delhi, and distant from the latter a hundred
miles or more. Here were some European
troops, but, before they could advance on Delhi,
it became necessary to disarm two native regi-
ments which had shown signs of dissatisfaction.
and to wait also for a aege train. The first
English troops to appear before Delhi were those
from Meerut. On the Both of May at village
fifteen miles from that city, they encountered
body of rebels, from whom they took five guns.
Some days after, the forces from Umballah ar
rived, now under the command Of General Ber-
nard, General AnsOn having died of cholera,
and, on the 9th of June. they drove the rebels
from position they had assumed outside the
walls, and captured twenty-six guns. On the
1ith or 10Th of June, q second sortie made from
the city was repulsed with heavy loss; but on
the 10th Of June, which is the latest date from
the camp before Delhi, the rebels still main
tanned possession. The English troops, even
with the reinfOrcements on the way, would
hardly amount to six thousand. .rs'-
Meanwhile, Sir John Lawrence, commanding
In the PunJaub, receiving news of the revolt by
electric telegraph, disarmed seven native reCi-
ments, and 30 maintained English authority in
that quarter. Sir Henry Lawrence, who had
commenced disarming some disaffected regi-
ments before the Meerut revolt, succeeded in
doing the same thing in Dude; but, as a general
thing, though the irregulars were mostly faith
fai, all the regular native regiments had mutt
nr had han 6icar nn1 L
ever, some advantages in this general mutiny
The dlsafected troops had either scattered or
vanished, or had marched off to Delhi; and the
Queens soldiers, thus relieved from the neces-
sity OF watching doubtful regiments, we're left
free to operate in the field Wherever conflicts
had occurred, the European troops had main
tanned their wonted superiority; and nOtwith-
standing the rebel force in Delhi far outnum-
bered them, and were abundantly supplied
with artillery Though not with artilerymen) the
fall Of that city was daily looked for.
Meanwhile, reinforcements were arriving at
Calcutta from Ceylon, Burmah and Madras
Two regiments just returned from Persia had
made their appearance very opportunely at
Bombay, and had been sent by steam to Cal
cutta, the European inhabitants of which city
had been organized into volunteer corps by way
OF defence against an apprehended Mohamme-
dan lnsurrectiOn. The troops on the way to
China were to be intercepted, while some ten
or fifteen thousand more troops had been dis
patched from England. But until news ar
rives of the fall Of Delhi and the dispersion of
tbs large rebel force there collected, the au-
thority of the English in India must be consid-
cred rather precarious. If there was to be a
revolt, the English even if allowed to select the
time for it, could hardly have chosen more
favorable one for themselves. The close of the
Persian war, and even the Chinese war, in
having led to the dispatch of q large force to
the East, are both lucky.-Nebc York Tri5une