New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-18
STATE OF THE INDIAN RESURRECTION.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune
LONDON August 4 1857.

ports conveyed BY the last lDdian maui, the mesgre
outlines If which bad been anticipated BY the cleo
tic telegraph, the ramor Of the capture Of DEM
was rapidly spreading and winning 50 much con-
.i.tebcy az to influence the TRANSACTIONS Of the
Stock Exchange. 1t was another edition of the
capture of Sevastopol hoax, on a reduced scale.
The slightest examination of the dates and contents of
the Madras papers from which the favorable news
was ayowedly derived would have sufficed " dispel
the deluson The Madras information professei to
rect upon private letters from Agra dated June IL,
but an official notification, issued at Lahore on the
18th of June announces that up ~ O'Clock 10 the
afternoon Of the 10th, all was quiet before Delhi,
while The Bombay Times, dated July l. states that
General BARNARD was waiting for ninforcements
ION the morning Of the l7th after having repealed
",eyeral sortes" This much, as to the date of the
Madras Information. As to its contents these are
evidently made up Of General Barnsrds bulletin,
dated June Z, on bis forcible occupation of the
nights OF Delhi and of some private reports relat
ing to the sallies Of the Desiesed the 18th and
1ith June.
military plan of Delhi and its environments has
at last been compiled by Captain Lawrence from
the unpublished plans Of the East India Company.
Hence we ludt DEM Is lub WrdhI.
fled was at first asserted Dol quite 50 strongly as
is now pretended. ltpossesses CITADEL 10 be taken
by escalade or by regular approaches. The walls,
being more than miles in extent, are built OF
SOLID masonry, but Of no great hight The ditch Is
narrow and not very deep and the thanking works do
not properly enfade the curtain. MarteilO towers
exist at intervals. They are semi circular ia form,
and loOphOed for musketry. Spiral starcases lead
mIm the top of the walls down through the towers
to chambers, On a level with the ditch aud those
are lOOphOled for infantry ire, whlch may prove
very Annoying to al escalading party crossing
tie ditch. The bastions defending the curtains
are also furnished with banquettes for rilemen, but
these may be kept down by Smelling. When the Ill"
surIectUn broke out, the arsenal in the Interior vi
the city contained 900 900 cartridges, two complete
siege trains, large humber Of field guns and ZOO
muskets. The pOwder-magazlne had been long
since removed, at the desire Of the inhabitants,
from the city u the environments outside Delhi, and
contained hot less than ~ 600 barrels. The com
mandipg nights occupied by Gen. Barnard on the
!. 9Th vi June situated III nOrheastery direction
fiOm Delhi, where the cantOnmeatS outside the
walls were also established.
From the description resting on authentic plans,
it will be understood that the srO, hold of tue
volt must have succumbed before single coup de
main, if the British force now before Delhi had been
there On the 10th OF May aud they could have been
there il supplied with sufficient carriage. A review
published in the London papers, of the number Of
regiments that bad reyoted, to the eud of june and
OF the dates Oh which they revolted, proves conclu
siv,ly that, Un the 10Th OF May, Delhi yet occu
pied by 1000 to 1900 men only; force which could
not one moment have thought of defending wall
seven miles in extent. Meerut being only forty
miles distant from Delhi, and having, SINCE the
mencement Of 1883, always served as the head
quarters of the Bengal artillery, possessed the
principal laboratory Tor military scientific pur-
poses, and afforded the parade ground for
exercise in the use of field and siege ord
nance; it tecOWes the more incOmpreh hen
sible that the British commander was in want
of tie means necessary tor the execution
of one Of those cOupS dc main by VIII III the British
forces in India always know how to secure their
supremacy over the natives. First we were in.
formed that the siege train waited for; then
that retnfOrcements were wanted and now The
Press, one of the best informed London papers,
tells us, 1t is known by our Government for Il
4" fact that General Barnard is deficient i'll stores
" and ammunition, and that his supply Of the latter
L" is limited to "a rounds man." FROM General
Barnard's own bulletin on the occupation Of the
nights of Delhi winch is dated the 9Th OF June, we
see that he originally intended assaillng Delhi Oh
the following day. Instead Of beng able to follow
up this plan, be was, by one accident Ell the Othef
confined ~ taking up the defensive against the be-
sieged.
At this very moment it is extremely difficult to
compute the forces Oh either part. The statements
of the Indian press altogether setcOntradctOry;
but we think some reliance may be put upon an
Indian correspondence of the Bonapartist Pays,
which seems to emanate from the French Consul as
Calcutta. According TO his statement, the army Of
Gen Barnard Was On the i4th Of June, composed
of about 800 men, which was expected 10 be
doubled C) by the reeniOrcemeuts expected ON the
Doth of the same month. His train was composed
of 30 heavy siege guns, while the forces Of the nsur-
gents were estimated at Al, 600 men, badly organ
lzed but richly furnished with all the meals vi
attack and defense.
We remark en- PEASANT, that the 1900 insurgents
encamped without the Ajmers gate. probably in
the GaZee Khan tOmbs, are not, as some London
papers imagine, fronting the English force, but On
the contrary, separated from them by the whole
breadth of Delhi; the Ajmers gate being situated On
one extremity Of the northwestern part Of modern
Delhi to the south of the ruins Of ancient Delhi.
On that side the town nothing can prevent the III
surgents fIom establishing some more such camps.
On the south or rSer side Oi the CITY, they
command the ship bridge, and remain in continued
connection with their country men, able to receive
uninterrupted supplies OF men and stores. On
smaller scale Delhi offers the image of fortress,
keeping (liAe SevastopYD open its lines of commu-
nicaton with the interior OF its own county.
The delay in the British operations has not only
allowed the besieged to concentrate large numbers
for the defense, but the sentiment of having held
Delhi during many weeks, harassed the European
forces through repeated salles, together with the
news daily pouring in of fresh revOts of the entire
army has of course, strengthened the morale Of the
Sepoys The English, with their small forces, Can,
OF course not think Of investing the town, but must
storm it. However, if the next regular mail bring
not the news Of the capture Of Delhi, We may a.
most be sure that, for some months, all serious Ope
ratiOns the part of the British will have IL be
pended. The rainy season will have set in in real
earnest, and protect the southeastern face of the
city by filling the ditch with 1.-The deep and rapid