Glasgow Courier. — 1857-11-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE CAPTURE OF THE KING.  Between 10 o'clock A.M. and noon of the 20th the palace, which had been cleared of its defenders and inmates by the shells of our force, was taken possession of by our troops. The King and his sons had fled in disguise along the road to the south, and large bodies of the mutineers had effected a timely escape in good order before the beaten remnant were driven in headlong rout from the city. 'On the night of the 21st September, the conqueror, General Wilson, proposed the health of Queen Victoria in the Dewan-i-Khas, the beautiful white marble durbar hall of the palace, where once stood the famed peacock throne, and which bears the well known inscription, meant to apply to the palace and its gardens generally, and which now reads like a mockery—  '. 0 if there's an Eden on earth it is this.'"  'Here, in the palace of the Great Moguls, the health of our Queen was drunk by ber victorious soldiers wub enthusiastic cheers, which were taken up by the gallant Ghorkhas, who formed the personal guard of i he General.  ' On the 21st the old King surrendered to Capt. Hodson and hia cavalry, near the Kootub Alinar, which is about 15 miles south of Delhi. He was accompanied in his captivity as in his flight by his chief wife, the Begum Zeenut Mahal, "the Ornament of the Palace." The King is said to be nearly 90 years of age, and it is probable that he is scarcely in any way responsible for what has been done in his name, so that, as at present informed, we cannot condemn the clsmency which has spared his life. lie is now a prisoner in what was once his own palace. Two of his sons and a grandson, however, who were captured also by Captain Hodson, at the tomb of Humayoon, about five miles from Delhi, and who are known to have been leaders in the rebellion, have received the reward of their treason. They were shot on the spot, and their bodies were brought back to the city and exposed at the Kotwallee or chi, f police office, where it is said so many of our countrymen were brutally murdered.  On the 23d two columns of our troops started in pursuit of the fugitives, one under Colonel Greathed, of H.M. Bth (King's) Regiment, marching on Allyghur, the other proceeding down the ight bank of the Jumna towards Muttra and Agra. We have no precise information as to what these pursuing forces have done, but by accounts from Agra one appears to have reached the neighbourhood of Allyghur, and the other that of Muttra on the 28th ult. We are also, as yet, uninformed of the destination or fate of the fugitives, but it is thought that some are making for Dude. and others for Gwalior. We trust that, numerically weak as our loyal forces are at present, the mutineers driven from Delhi may not be found more troublesome elsewhere than they were there.  ' Mr Greathead, the Commissioner, died of cholera last night at Delhi. We have to add another large instalment to our list of casualties, occasioned chiefly by the late victorious operations at Delhi and Imcknow:—  Engineers—Lieutenant Fenis. Artillery—Majors Geo Larkins and G Lewis Cooper; ieutenants Burnett, Ashl.mrner and Jas It Martin. Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Sotherhy. Her Majesty's 32d Begiment—Lieutenant Frederick Vainwright; Ensign Hill. Hel. Majesty's 64th Foot—Lieutenant Bateman. Her Mojesty's 78th Foot—Lieutenant Webster. Her Majesty's 84th Foot—Captain Paekenham and '8 under,.  Lieutenant