Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-17
from the London Tlmes.l
The Fall Of Delhi and RcTOIts in Bombay.


The London Times, commenting upon the fall
of Delhi, says:
sUThe loss of our troops has been indeed Sc.
we're Int NOT more SO than might be expected
from the magnitude of the place, the despera-
ton of the resistance, and the length of time
over which the fighting extended. The casual !
ties among the officers have been particularly
heavy We will not attempt to condolc with
those who arc bereaved on this sad OCCASION
Suffice it to say, that their sons, or brothers, or
husbands have fallen in accomplishing one of
the most brilliant exploits of our history, and
in s1ging their country from by Tdr the greatest
calamity which has threatened 1t lctthtn our
time The effects of the capture of Delhi will
be, no doubt, immediate and complete. The
neck of the rebellion is indeed broken. The
capital towards which the mutiueers hocked
from every quarter, the rendezvous to which
they were evidently directed to repair, the chief
city Of the Mohammedan dynasty, and the resi-
dence of the mock King who had ruled III trem-
bling state, during the past four months, is now
in the power of the foreign race whose expul-
sion was the end and aim of this dark plot, the
roots of which have struck so deep, and the
seeds of which have been so long sown. To the
utmost extremities of India will the news be
borne, how, after standing their ground for
months against an overwhelming array of ma
tive forces, the dauntless islanders assaulted a
city containing two or three times their number
of enemies, and carried it after a stout resist
ance, destroying or driving out the army which
held it, and sending the King to wander fugl-
tive until the certain hour of rctrlbutlOn comes
"ATl that has yet been. lone has been done
without the aid asingle man direct from Eng
land. The Chinese force has been diverted, tho
Mauritius and the Cape have sent regiments,
and that is all. However, at the time the pres
cnt mail was despatched the long expected sue
frO,, hN, 1,nU m
Belleisle was at Calcutta with the Odd Highland
crs, which left England on the 18th of June
The Thebes, which sailed on the 31st of July
with part of the 3Sth Regiment, originally sent
out to replace regiment despatched from Cey-
lon, had arrived Mt Gale, and will, no doubt, be
sent on to Calcutta. BY the next mail we may
expect to hear that several thousand English
soldiers are in the country, and thenceforward
Everything becomes easy. The munitneers have
now no stronghold; they are in the open, and
must meet our troops in fair fight. The result
cannot be doubtful. All that we have to fear
now is that these desperate men will form them
selves into bands of robbers and plumber the
country, Guiding contest with us whenever
they can. Indeed we must look to see robbery,
murder and incendiariSm prevalent for many
months to come. This Is the most serious evil
that still remains to be met. il must be met
with swiftness and severity. On this point,
however, We have our misgivings. Arc the
| pnlIanInrOplSIS Oh CALCUTTA 10 nave lIeiT OWH
way-carelesS of the opinion of the Anglo-lndi-
an community, and of the censures pronounced
on them at homer We see that Mr.. g. p. Grant,
member of the Supreme Council has just set
at liberty $50 of the asSassnS of Cawnpore,
who had been taken prisoners by General NELL.
If this sort of thing is to be permitted we may
as we'll be warned ut once While the country
| for fifteen hundred miles is in flame the gov
ernment seizes the opportunity to issue procla-
| NATIONS which reflect on the humanity of its
lGOlrals, and sends civilians to hamper them IN
thu duties.
"Next to the momentous incident the fall of
Delhi, and the actual readvance of the soldiers
TO the relief of Lucknow, the most prominent
feature of the last Intelligence from India is to
be found in the continuous extension of mutiny
throughout the ranks of the Bombay army
There can no longer exist any doubt as to the
| reality os cOmprehcuSVeneS of the contagion.
| A combination of circumstances favorable to
government may certainly be discerned, rs re
shall presently explain, in the case before us;
nor do we apprehend that the spirit of revolt in
these provinces, even if it should be still more
| deciseively pronounced, will occasions any such
terrible conflicts or entail any such hideous cat
astrophes as in the larger Presidency: 1t re-
mains, however, to be acknowledged, notwith-
standing these grounds of assurance, that the
| Bombay regiments have been unqueStionably
infected, and that the plague has shown itself
i'll the true Bengal type. To the two examples
Of military instruction which had occurred in
the southern territories of the Presidency, and
to the three OF four others which followed them,
in certain stations in Rajpootana, we have now
to and three more reported from the province of
Scinde. At Shickarpo e, in the upper districts
of this province, at Kurracheo, its southern
port, at Hyderabad, its capital, and at Ahmeda-
bad, the Bombay sepoys either broke out in
overt mutiny or were detected in plots devised
with such an object At Kurrachec the cOnspi-
racY, which was fortunately discovered, had
been directed against the lives of European in
habitants generally, and wholesale massacre,
as in Bengal, had been deliberately planned. At
Ahmcdabad concerted revolt was crushed in
the bud before it could explode; at Hyderabad
and SINGAPORE the delinquents were found
among the native artillery men, but it docs not
yet exactly appear to what extent disafEection
| had been carried.
"Such concurrence of outbreaks, however,
either actual OF intended, is sufficient to dispel
that confidence with which the disposition ofthe
Bombay army was at one time regarded; nor
can it be disguised that the mixture of races,
the absence of caste prejudices, and the gener-
ally higher discipline attributed to this service,
| have proved Intellectual in securing the sepOy
from the contagion of revolt
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