Glasgow Courier. — 1857-07-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1857.  to entrench themselves therein. All the guns they were able to move were placed in position, and the remainder were spiked. The officers of the various regiments, as was their duty, slept in their houses in the lines, and terrible, as I heard from one present, was the nnxiety of the wives at the barrack till relieved by their reappearance in safety with the morning. By this time, beware', they have with them her Majesty'e 84th, belonging to the Madras establishment, brought up in haste from Burmali, and also the Madras Fusiliers. Regarding the commanding officer of the latter corps a good story is told. The regiment was to leave Calcutta by railway. When the time for starting the train arrived it was found that a number of the men had not reached the station. The station master proposed to despatch the train with those that had already arrived, leaving the other's to follow. The commanding officer remonstrated, but in vain; whereupon he arrested the station-master and all his officials, and kept them in cus• tody till he saw his whole regiment seated in the carriages, when he released them, and the train proceeded on its way. From Luoknow our latest intelligence is of the 31st of May. During the previous night the native troops of the garrison had partially mutinied. About one-half of each of the 48th and 71st Regiments,joined by some few of the other infantry corps, the 13th, and Iwo troops or the 7th Cavalry, deserted their colours and fled towards Seetapore. There appears to have been no disturbance in the city, and the safety of the civil residents had been assured by the timely precautions of Sir Henry Lawrence, recently created Brigadier-General, and his dens distribution of the guns of the European field battery and the bayonets of the Queen's 32d. At Atlahabad doubts were at onetime entertained of the 6th Native Infantry, but no disembance has taken place. All the stations in Bengal are quiet. At Barraekpore the 70th addressed the Governor-General by petition, expressing its abboerence of the proceedings of the mutineers, and requesting to be permitted to march upon Delhi. That request was aelpided to trrLord Canning in person at a parade of the regiment onte 28th of Mn,. Arrangements would be made, said his Lordship, to enable the loyal 70th to marelt for (be northwest in four or five days. Retracing our steps to the north-west, we find that mutiny, desertion, or dismissal hag greatly thinned the imposing army of the Punjaub. When I closed my last letter we had just heard of the determination to form a flying column at Jhelum under General Reed. It was rumoured that disaffection was rife both at Ferozepore and Lahore. These reports soon received confirmation. The 45th and 57th Regiments mntinied at Ferozepore on the 13th of May. But her Majesty's 61st, aided by the 10th Light Cavalry, which remained staunch, inflicted severe loss epee them, and on the following day the mutineers gave in and were quietly disarmed. At Meean Meer, the camp of Lahore, the three native infantry regiments of the garrison, the 16th, 26th, and 40th, were disarmed on the 13th by Brigadier Corbett, with the 81st Foot and the powerful force of Artillery, horse and foot. At Peshawur, on the 22d, three more Infantry regiments, the 24th, 57th, and 51st, and the sth Light Cavalry, were deprived of their arms, A Sabahdar-Major of the 51st was hanged in presence of all the troops. At hlurdan, the 55th, or the greater portion of the regiment, deserted their colours. Their Colonel, Spottiswoode, committed suicide. A party of European and irregnlars from Peshawur attacked them, killed or captured 200, and.drove the remainder to seek safety by hasty flight into the Swat Valley in their rear, the entrance to which is now carefully guarded against a possible attack by the tribes. Six men of the corps had already been shot. at Peshawur, together with a native officer of the 10th Irregulars, and the prisoners, 150 in number, were to be tried as soon as they were brought into the station. At the latent dates the whole of the Punjaub was perfectly tranquil. A glance at the Rajpootaue, and I shell hare completed the tale of mutineers, that, if my computation is correct, have cost the Bengal army the whole or the griater part of 28 regiments of foot, of four of horse, two companies of artillery, each with a field battety, and of the corps of Slippers and Miners. The stations of Numeerabad, near Ajnsere, and Neemuch, usually garrisoned from Bombay, were at the beginning of the year drained of the infantry and guns of the army of that presidency by the pressure of the Persian war. There remained the Ist Bombay Light Cavalry (Lancers) cantoned at Nusseerabad, but that station received for infantry the 15th Bengal Native Infantry from Meerut, and the 30th from Agra, and for artillery a Bengal native company, the 2d of the 7th Battalion. To Neemuch there came the 72d Native Infantry and a native troop of Horse Artillery (411 i of Ist Battalion), both from Agra • and a wing of the Ist (Bengal) Light Cavalry from Illhow. The Bengal troops at Nusseerabad, who had long been wavering, broke out into open mutiny on the evening of the 28th of May. The Bombay. Lancers were weakened by detachments, and drew legs than 250 sabres, but, 'faithful found among the faithless, faithful only they,' they charged again and again the overwhelming numbers of the mutineers in the hope of capturing theirguns. But, same be supposed, their loyalty and courage were not rewarded by success, and they were forced .to draw off, with the loss among their officers of Captain Spottiswoode and Cornet Newberry killed, and Captain Hardy and Lieutenant F. Loch wounded. Their Colonel, Penny, died the following night from the effects of afall from his horse. The regiments escorting the officers and families of the revolted regiments retired towards Atmore, but the mutineers moving off towards Delhi (which they did with colours flying and drums beating), and the arsenals of Adjmere being thus out of danger, they joined the camp of Colonel Dixon, of the Mhairwarrah Battalion, at Benue. The Contingents of Kotah and Joudpore are protecting the district, and a Bonibay force from Deese, formed from the Queen's 83d, the 12th Native latently, • squadron of the 2d Cavalry, and sortie artillery, are merino up in snpport. Of what haa been happening at Neemueh we know but little with certainty. But that the 72d has mutinied seems to be beyond a doubt. I trust to be able to assure you that the rumours of a wholesale European massacre are untrue. A Bombay column has been formed, and part is already on its way to the spot from