Glasgow Courier. — 1857-09-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PRIVATE LETTER.  'Camp Cawnpore, July 22. We had a little sharp work coming up to this place; the fin.t at Futtehpore, where we had nine twelvepounder guns opposed to us, as well as two twenty-fourpounder ones, but by the will of Divine Providence we took the whole front the insurgents without a single scratch among the Europeans; but as for the Native Irregular Cavalry I cannot speak well. They had seven of their men cut up, which was their own fault, as they did not charge although the order was given three times, and when they aid charge among the enemy they fired their carbines over their heads. They are all now dis• banded, so we have no more trouble with fellows of this kind.  "The second encounter we had was twenty miles on this side of Futtehpore, where we had seventeen killed and wounded, but the enemy lost four times as many. There we toolttrUps, and the same evening we had another brush with Mens at " Pando Noddy," where we took three 14-pounder gnus without any loss of life amongst us, but only five or six wounded. The fourth and last fight we had was about two miles oat of Caw spore, where we took seven large 24-pounder gains and howitzers. We had very severe firing from the fort of the enemy from two p.m, till seven P.M., when we lost in killed and wounded about no Europeans and Sikhs. The loss of the enemy we cannot tell, but we afterwards came across a house where 300 sowars and sepoys lay wounded, and we saw a tank full of dead bodies. We had to encounter about 12,000 of the enemy with only 2,000 Europeans and Sikhs; the latter behaved most gallantly, and lost ten killed anti wounded. The same evening of this affair we encamped outside of Cawnpore, and next morning we entered the town straight to where we heard that 175 ladies and children were confined, but on our arrival there, awful, awful to behold, there was all their clothes, &c., strewn about the blood-stained ground. The place was a paved court-yard, and there were two inches of blood upon the pavement ; and from the report we got from the residents of the place it appears that after we had beaten the enemy the evening previous, the sepoys and sowers er.tered the place where the poor victims were and killed all the ladies, and threw the children alive, as well as the dead bodies, into a well in the compound. I saw it, and it was an awful sight. It appears from the bodies we saw that the women were stripped of their clothes before they were murdered. We have picked up three women who had fled and were protected by a native. We lost poor S. Carr, he was shot dead from his horse in a charge we had to make among 300 to 500 infantry. After he fell, poor fellow, he was hacked about the head to such an extent that we could hardly recognise hint. The Moulvie of Allahabad was killed at Futtehpore hy our shot. Yesterday we went with is small force into Bithoor, where the Nana Saheb was, and walked into Ids palace without firing a shot. We fired the whole of the place, and burned the whole of his houses and property and took 15 guns from there. The Nana has drowned himself, with his family. Be had an intention of going to Lucknow, but when he got as far as the river, the cavalry and infantry deserted him. They are all gone off, after destroying their arms, to their different homes. Cawnpore is now as quiet as Allahabad.'  Since the foregoing was in type we (Poonah Observer) have received the following list of casualties in the 78th Highlanders from an authentic source:—