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“fo be Sold or Let,

ILE Leasehold Interest in a STORE or DWELL-

Gleanings from late Papers,

ING HOUSE at Montague bridge, with a ee) Ge Ne RE BY lege ryt

Loft capable of holding 1,000 Bushels of Grain. NEWS BY THE LAST ENGLISH MAIL. Also, a good Cellar underneath the whole; and a/ Coach-house and Stable at hand.

Also, @ BUILDING LOT adjoining the Bridge, where a} Wharf or Limekiln might be erected at a sanall expense, or a} Yard for Shipbuilding.

Mr. Thomas Annear will shew the premises, and give | The following account of the last days of the siege of Delhi |

ossession When required. and the assault of the place will be read with much interest : |

Orwell, Nov. 30, 1857. PATRICK STEPHENS. » |'t '8 written by an eye-witness:—From the period of the |

—— ——-— a nn | ATPIVAl of before thi, i s > Retles:4otieuente on Lot 67. of our army before Delhi, in June last, up till very

lately the position occupied by our troops has been in effect a HE Subseriber hereby notifies the Tenantry and Settlers | purely defensive one, the distance from the city wall averaging on Township number Sixty-seven, that he has been ap-| from 1,200 to 1,500 yards. We had from the first no choice pointed the Agent of Lany Woop, for the management of the | 48 to the front of attack, our position on the north side being sail Property—and that an immediate Settlement and pay- the only one that could secure our communications with the ments of all Accounts is demanded. WILLIAM H. POPE. Punjaub, whence our supplies and reinforcements were drawn. Charlottetown, Nov. 23, 1857. lm a available force amounted, in round numbers, to 6,500 ‘73, ahi, will... LT | infantry, 1,000 cavalry, and 600 artillery, Europeans and Valueble Mills to be Lot. natives ; the idgicholiie in camp being ier Majesty’s 9h

HE subscriber is desirous of letting those yaluable MILLS | Lancers, Her Majesty’s 6th Dragoon Guards, Guide Cavalry, situate on the Princetown Road, about 15 miles from | Hodgson’s Horse, and detachments of the Ist, 2d, and 5th Charlottetown. They consist of a Grist Mill, with three pair} Punjab Cavalry. Her Majesty’s 81h Foot (part of}, 52d Foot of stones, is quite new and in excellent order; and-a SAW | 60h Rifles, (part of), Gist Foot, 75th Foot, Ist and 2d Bengal MILL. Enquire of the subscriber on the premises, Fusiliers, Sirmoor and Kumaon Battalions (Ghogrkas), 4th Sikh P. Town Road, Oct. 26. tf JAMES PATTERSON. Tare) ee ny Ist, 2d, and 4th Regiments Punjad

; on nfantry. Fou troops of Horse Artillery (Tromb’s, Turner’s Valuable Leasehold Property for Sale. Remington’s, and Rennie’s), two light i batteries (Scott’s FEMALE undersigned offers for sale his FARM at Barrett's Cross, | and Bourchier’s, and some companies of Foot Artillery attached Lot 19, containing 114 acres of excellent Land, at the an-| to the siege guns, which numbered about 40 heavy gune and nual rent of Is. per acre, for 999 years; forty acres of which | howiizers, 10 beavy and 12 light mortars. ‘The means of the are under a high state of cultivation, and the remainder is | Engineers were very restricted, not in officers but in trained covered with the best quality of hardwood timber and fencing! men, of whom there were only about 120 regular Sappers. poles. It has a front of nineteen chains on the Main Western | Some companies of Muzbee Sikhs had, however, been rapidly and Bedeque Road, and is within nine miles of the flourishing | raised and partially trained ; and a body of suelice had also ‘Town of Summerside. There are on the premises a very ex- | been collected, who worked remarkably well; the park had ecllent DW ELLING-HOUSE, together with a DISTILLERY, | been at work for some time in collecting material. and 10.000 COACH-HOUSE, STABLES, &c.; two excellent Wells of! fascines, 10,000 gabions, and 100,000 ‘sand-bags were ready water are within a few yards of the door, and every other ac-| for future operations ; field magazines, scaling Jadders, and commodation besides. <A portion of the perenne money may | spare p!atforms had also been duly prepared, and great eredit is remain on interest for such time as may be agreed on. due to Lieutenant Brownlow of the Engineers in charge of the Barrett's Cross, Lot 19, Oct. 5. tf PETER MULLIN. | park. The north face being the side to be attacked, it was at! ~~ | Fesolved to hold the right in check as far as possible, and to

For Sale, push the main attack - the left first, as the + would com-

OTS suitable for Villa Residences, situate on the western | pletely protect our flank as we advanced ; second, as there moiety of ** Spring Park’’ Estate—within a few minutes | was better cover on that side; third as after the assault the walk of the Province Building. For further particulars, plan, | troops would not find themselves immediately in narrow streets, &e., apply to Tuo. Desprisay, or to the subscriber, but in comparatively open ground. ‘The Tront to be attacked May 18, 1857. tf W. H. POPE. consisted of the Moree, Cashmere, and Water bastions, with ~ Walmnahle Farm in tha Ravaltyv af | the curtain walls connecting them. ‘These bastions had been Valuable Saale yey of greatly altered and improved by our own engineers many years

. ago, and presented regular faces and flanks of masonry with

HE SUBSCRIBER offers for SALE, a FARM | properly cut embrasures ; the height of the wall was 24 feet

of about Forty Acres of very Valuable Land, | above the ground level, of which, however, eight feet was a situate im the Royalty of Charlottetown, and is| mere parapet three feet thick, the remainder being about four the distance of about two miles from the City. This | times that thickness; outside the wall was a very wide berm roperty fronts nearly 30 chains on the St. Peter’s Road, and | and then a ditch 16 feet deep and 20 feet wide at the bottom, atout 15 chains on the Union Road, and adjoins the valuable escarp, and counterscarp, steep, and the latter unrevetted, and Farm of the Hon. George Coles. ‘The greater portion of the |the former revetted with stone and eight feet in height. A Land has been recently cleared. For particulars, apply to good sloping glacis covered the lower ten feet of the wall from June 1. tf W.H. POPE. all atten:pts of distant batteries. .On the evening of the 7th of

Farm for Sale. Sept., No. 1 advanced battery, in two portions, was traced

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LAST DAYS OF THE SIF6E OF DELHI.

| position ; they gota gun to bear froma hole broken open in

about 700 yards from the Moree bastion, the right portion for HE subscriber offers for sale a FARM, containing 127 | five 18-pounders and one 8-inch howitzer was to silence the Moree and prevent its interfering with the attack on the left. The left portion for four 24-pounders was intended to hold the

Cashmere bastion partially in check. The working parties

acres of LAND—25 to 30 acres are cleared, the remainder is covered with excellend Hard-wood. There isa new DWEL- LING HOUSE on the premises. <A part of the Farm is a

Freehold. The Stoek will be sold with or without the Farm. | were very little disturbed during the night ; the covering parties It consists of 8 head of horned Cattle, 12 head of Sheep, 1| in front kept the musketry at a distance, and except three well- Mare, 6 years old. aimed showers of grape thrown from the Moree, which knocked Atso,—30 acres of FREEHOLD LAND, 12 acres of which | over some workmen, we received no further annoyance. By are cleared, and within 2 miles of Alley’s Mills, on the St. | the morning the two portions of the battery were finished and Peter’s Road. armed, though not ready to fire until nearly sunrise; a trench The former is an excellent stand for a public house, as the| was also made connecting the two portions and exiending a nearest public house is seven miles: or for a Schoolmaster as| little to the right and Jeft, so as to give communication with a he would get employment in the settlement. For further | wide and deep ravine, which, extending very nearly up to our a apply to JOHN KANEEN, on the premises, St. | left attack, formed a sort of first parallel, and gave good cover eter’s Road. to the guard of the trenches, the doolies, &c. For some time Lot 54, Nov. 16, 1857. Ow were well pounded from the Moree with round shot and grape ; For Sale but as our guns in the new battery got gradually into play, the

3 enemy’s fire grew less and less, and was at length completely

FREEHOLD PROPERTY, thirteen miles from | overpoweree. ‘I'his battery became known as Brind’s, being Charlottetown, the most eligible situation for | worked by that officer with great effect till the end of the siege. country business on the Island, situated at Vernon| On the evening of the 8th and 9th, No 2 Battery was traced River Bridge, Lot 50—where vessels drawing ten feet |} and commenced. ‘lo our surprise we had been a}lowed to seize ot water can load at the Bridge—the public road from south | this advanced position at Ludlow Castle, within 600 yards of side of the Island running close by the shop door. There are| the city, without even a fight for it, on the previous day. In on the premises a DWELLING-HOUSE, in good repair, con-} fact, there is little doubt the enemy still thought the attack was taining on the lower floor a Dining-room, Drawing-room, two|to be on the right, where all the fighting had hitherto been, Bed-rooms and Kitchen, also a cores x 20, on the upper floor} and where all our oid batteries were located. Ludlow Castle

two Bed-rooms ; a two-story GRANARY 40 x 25, with double | and the Koodsee Bagh were now occupied by strong detach- floors ; anew SHOP 48 x 20 ; a Store-house, Stable and Coach- house, and a good Well of water close to the house. For fur- ther particulars apply in Charlottetown to BENJ. DAVIES, juire, or on the premises to the proprietor, October 5, 1857. ° ROBERT BARKER,

‘To Freeholders, Merchants, Mechanics, and also the Tenantry on parts of Townships Nos. 53, 57, 58, 59,

60 and 62. bs td TAKE NOTICE!

bg Local Governmené not being ina position to purchase the above property, I now offer, on advantageous terms, at PRIVATE SALE—

Twenty Thousand Acres

of fine fertile LANDS on these Townships, in LOTS from Fifty to Five Hundred Acres each, or in quantities to suit purchasers. A most favorable opportunity will thus be afforded to Freeholders, with large or small capital, to per chase Farms for their rising families within a limited circle of their own homes.

To the Tenant who may feel anxious to become a Free- holder, whether under a term of from One, to Nine Handred and Ninety-nine years, every reasonable encouragement will be afforded him to purchase out the fee simple of his Lease- hold tenure. But Tenants (or individuals) taking forcible possession of private property, and whose chject may be to enjoy the same, withont payment of rent, or making arrange- ments for its use and occupation. cannot expect any further indulgence, as the law must of necessity be rigidly enforced against them without any respect of pune they are there- fore earnestly requested to prevent such unpleasant and ex- pensive proceedings being instituted against them for its recovery.

ty Plans of property may be ~iewed between office hours 10 and 3. All letters must be pre-paid to receive ae

WILLIAM DOUSE. Ch. Town. P. E. Island, Sept. 28, 1857.

For Sale or to Let, DEVENPORT COTTAGE AND GROUNDS,

yes Subscriber being desirous of removing into Town, offers for >

. SALE or to LET, the above named property where he now resides. This property is prettily situated, and is only about.one mile from the centre of the City. The COTTAGE contains eight well-finished rooms,

and alarge pantry, besides a kitchen, laundry, agd two rooms for servants,

the 9th, a sharp fire of musketry, shot, and shells was opened on these positions by the enemy from the jungle in front, and from

enemy also went to work to-night and made an advanced |

ments, and formed our chief supports to the left attack. During

the Cashmere and Water Bastions, and the Selimgurh, but no great damage was done. During the nights of the 9th and LOth No. 2 Battery was completed and partially armed, but not yet unmasked. It was in two portions—cone, immediately in front

of Ludlow Castle, for nine 24-pounders, to open a breach in|

the curtain between the Cashmere and Water Bastions immediately to the left of the former, and to knock off the parapet to the right and left for some distance, so as to give no cover to musketry ; the other portion, some 200 yards to the right, consisting of seven 8-inch howitzers and two 18-pounders, was to aid the first portion, and work with it for the same end. No. 3 Battery was also commenced on the left, and No. 4 Battery, for 10 heavy mortars, completed in the Koodsee Bagh, but not yet unmasked. During the nights of the 10th and Ith No. 2 Battery was strengthened, armed, and unmasked, and No. 3 Battery completed. This last was made in the boldest manner within 180 yards df the Water Bastion, behind a smal! ruin®@d house in the Custom-house compound, and under such a fire of musketry as few batteries have ever been exposed to; it was forsix 18 pounders, which were to open a second breach in the Water Bastion, and was worked by Major Scott. The

trencl: parrallel to our left attack, and about 350 yards from it, from which at daybreak they opened a very hot fire of musketry, which was maintained throughout the rest of the siege ; they had previously got some light guns and one heavy gun out into the open on our right, which caused considerable annoyance by their enfilade fire.

THE BATTERIES OPENING FIRE~—THE CASHMERE BASTION KNOCKED TO PIECES.

On the 11th our batteries opened fire, a salvo from the nine 24-pounders opening the ball, and showing by the way it brought down the wall in huge fragments what effect it might be expected to produce afier a few hours. The Cashmere Bastion attempted to reply, but was quickly silenced, and both portions of No. 2 went to work in fine style, knocking the bastion and adjacent curtains to pieces. Majors Campbell and Kaye, Captains Johnson and Gray, had charge of No. 2. No. 3, however, did not commence fire till the following day, when the full power of our artillery was shown, and a continuous rear of 50 guns and mortars pouring shot and shell on the devoted)

BARNS, STABLES, Conch House, and other Out-Buildings are in) city warned the enemy that his and our time had ai length | |come. Night and day until the morning of the 14th was this) overwhelming fire continued. But the enemy did not let us, have itour own way. Though unable to work a gun from any of the three bastions that were so fiercely assailed, they yet stuck to their guns in the open, which partially enfiladed eur:

Rood repair, and are convenient and commodious. A Well of excellent

water is within a few yards of the kitchen door.

The LAND consists of THREE PASTURE LOTS, of which from 6

tol aye will ie or leased with the House and Buildings. corms, and further particulars, apply to the Subscriber. Saly 6, 1857. : G. W. DEBLOIS.

,at Agra, were bent on joining their comrades from Indore, who

‘troops of Horse Artillery.

the long curtain wall; they sent rockets from one of their | marte!lo towers, and they maintained a perfect storm of nusketry from their advanced trench, and from the city walls.

! | THE CAPTURE OF DELHI DESCRIBED BY ONE OF THE HEROES.

LATEST INTELLIG ENCE FROM INDIA. | We have been favoured with the following private letter :—

Before the siege-train of heavy guns arrived from the Punjab | we were acting almost entirely on the defensive. We had) not sufficient men or guns 10 commence the siege, and it was | all we could do with our small foree to repel the numerous | attacks of the enemy. We were often on duty three nights of; every week, making defensive works, On the 8th Sept., large working parties from all the regiments in camp parade at the Mngineer-park, taking tools with them. We marched down to within 3800 yards of the walls and bastions of the city. The men were employed in filling sandbags, and making the ground ready for the batteries. Previous to this for about a fortnight we had to go out at night with large working and covering paruies, and cut all the trees where the works were intended to be. ‘That was the worst part of all, stumbling about all night in the long rank jungle, sometimes five feet high, wet through with the dew, and frequently attacked by the enemy. On the Jib, lOih, 11th, and 12th the batteries were completed. They were immensely large, built up to the botto.n of the embrasures of solid Yascines. 1.500 camels were employed nightly in carrying down the fascines. Strange to say, the enemy did not fire on us much while building the batteries. On the 12th the batteries opened fire, when, after seeing the first salvo knock downa large portion of the Cashmere bastion, I was so tired that I lay down and slept during the roar of the guns for three or four hours. Oae sandbag battery was within 200 yards of the Water Bastion. The fire of musketry from the walis of the town at this bi *tion was tremendous. The guns were obliged to have iron mantlets fixed on them to protect the men while working the guns. There were five columns of attack. ‘I'wo or three Wngineer officers were told off to each by seniority. The seniors went with the first column, the next with the second. We paraded about 3 o’clock in the morning of the I4th with our separate columns, with Sappers, with powder bags, &c., and marched down tothe attack. It was Just daylight when the first column halted at a turn in the road which concealed them from view of the walls, but close to the Cashmere-gates. Lieutenants Salkeld and Home, Sergeants Carmichael, Burgess, Smith, and four Sappers anda bugler of her Majesty's 52nd Regiment advanced from the column up to the Cashmere-gate. It was an immensely heavy wooden gate, flanked on ail sides by the walls. Home laid the powder at the foot of the gate. ‘They were instantly discovered, and a heavy

fire opened on them from all sides. Sergeant Carmichael took

the fuse and was on the point of firing it, when he was shot dead by a Sepoy, who placed his musket through a hole in the wall. Sergeant Burgess took the fuse from his hand, and was likewise shot dead. Lieut. Salkeld then took the fuse, and was shot through the arm and feil into the duch, breaking his leg

by the fall. As he fell he threw up the fuse, which Sergeant

Smith seized, and fired the charge. At the same time the

bugler sounded the advance, and en rushed the column. ‘The

charge blew in the gate, and about 17 of the enemy who were

elese to it. Our troops rushed in, up the bastions, and along

the walls. Atthe same time the second and fourth columns

attacked by the breaches, and the walls were cleared of all the

defenders. ‘lhe Cashwere-gate presented a horrible sight ; 30 or 40 Sepoys, some blown up and others bayonetted and shot

down, were Jying all about. It wasthe same ali along the

wails. No quarter was given ; but they made very little defence, | and retired into the city, where they again madea stand. 1! went into the bastions. Such a scene of ruin you never saw.

Almost every gun was dismounted, or had a great piece of iron

knocked out of it, and dead Sepoys all around. ‘The troops took

up thefr quarters in the college and church, but the enemy fired

on us all night. We made a battery by the college, and com-

menced shelling the town and Palace. We lost most of our

men in the town. ‘They advanced too far without support, and

were fired at from the walls and houses. On the I6:h we

attacked and took the magazine. I went with the column. We

took them by surprise, and they offered very little resistance ;

but in the afternoon they returned and attacked the magazine,

and set the roof on fire. We had to get up on the roof with

leathern bags of water snd put it out, while they threw large stones atus, A sergeant of Artillery then got on the top of the Artillery magazine with 10-inch shells in his hand; he lighted the fuse and dropped them on their heads ; five vor six he let off in this way. It must have killed a great many, for they fled almost directly. On the 20th, after our pouring inte it a trernenduons fire of shell, we attacked the Palace. There were very few Sepoys found init. They had all fled during the night.

THE FUGITIVES FROM THE DESTROYED CITY—ROUT OF THE REBELS FROM THE FORT OF MALAGHAR.

You will desire to know what direétion or directions have been taken by the insurgents who escaped from Delhi, and how their further and final punishment is being provided for. Here our accounts are at present somewhat scanty and con- tradictory. It appears, indeed, clear that the vast majority of the mutineers who did not meet death inthe city marched down the Jumna on the Maura road, keeping at first on the right or Deihi bank ; but that at some point of the road, or points, perhaps, large bodies of them crossed the river into the Doab. We still hear of the Bareilly Brigade, the Neemuch Brigade, and so on. The former of these bodies together with, or preceded by, the Nusserabad rebels, are said thus to have crossed the stream. The Neemuch people, according to reports

were still at Dholpore, onthe Chumbni. But, in troth, the movements of the mutineers are at present obscure. Nor are those of the British much less. We are told at one time that two pursuing columns left Delhi—one on either side of the river ; thatthe one on the right was commanded by Colonel Greathed, of the Sth, and had presumably rescued or passed Mouttra, in which direction heavy firing was heard from Agra on the 27th; and that the one on the left, under Brigadier Showers, arrived at Somna, 16 miles from Allyghur, on the 28:h. On the other tiand, it is undoubted that if Colonel Greathed started, as I believe he did, on the right bank, he crossed to the left shortly afterwards ; for on the 27:h he attacked and defeated the Jhansi mutineess posted in a strong position at Bolundskhubur, capturing two guns and killing and wound- ing a considerable number, with a loss to himself of about 60 killed and wounded. No officers are returned as killed, but four as severely wounded. ‘Ihe eff uct of this skirmish was the evacuation by the rebels of the strong fort of Malaghur in the neighbourhood, which was thereupon occupied by a party of cavalry. On the whole I cannot help thinking that there is but one column out after the fugitives, and that its novements have been construed into those of two. Greathed had with him 1,600 Europeans and Sikh Foot, the 9th Lancers, and the three

TNE MISCREANT OLD KING OF DELHI AND BIS ATROCITIES.

A private letter from the wife of a medical officer, dated Burdwan, Oct. 8, 1857, gives the following information of some of the brutal atrocities committed on our poor unoffending country women :—‘'I write you under feelings so acutely painful! as tomake it a difficulty accurately to describe the horrid details, for myself and children might have been eubject to dreadful indignities—ten thousand times worse than death. | But, alas! for my anfortunate and polluted country women '| ‘Twenty-three ladies, by order of the aged monster within the walls of Delhi, were ordered to be brought before hirf, and | then stripped naked ; unheard of indignities were practised | upon them, which the wretch gloated over; and then, with a} filthy piece of rag to cover their loins, they were ordered and | forced by torture to work as coolies, and fed like horses, no!

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other food being permitted them but ‘gram,’ snd the most offensive water from the dirtiest tapks. At length our brave troops appeared before the walls of Delhi, and then the aged demon completed his horrid butchery. Our poor country- women were again brought before the wretch again tortured with the vilest indignities by his lowest of ruffians, and then savagely slaughtered, and their poor bodies and jimbs hacked to pieces and flung into the streets. Can human suffering surpass this bloody act? And yet the aged monster lives!

| Great God, is there justice left, and shali such unheard of

crueltiés remainunpunished 2? f have heard from good authority that our soldiers have peremptorily demanded the King of Delhi to be given up to them, and let the consequences be what they may, they are determined to hang the old villain outside the city walls, nor is this his just deserts. Fifty thousand rupees are offered for the capture of Nena Sahib, but we fear that he is too strongly protected by his savage hordes, over whom he seems to have unlimited control ; and we hear that on the least disposition of wavering among his rebels they are cut down, and their bodies burnt. Fifiy thousand of these monsters are yet within a short distance of us, but we know also that our brave English soldiers are arriving fast to our relief. May a mercifulProvidence save tis from the horrors of another massacre and atrocities that 1 am unequal to pen.”’

CONFLICTS WITH THE SEPOYS AT JUBBULPORE.

The following is from Jubbulpore, dated October 9:—* We are still at Jubbulpore, you see, and | do not see much prospect of our being able to get away in a hurry, as it is rather dan- gerous to go along the road without an escort, and I am not likely to get one at present. My last would tell you of the mutiny of the 52nd—how one detachment of the regiment allowed two officers to escape, while another had made a prisoner of poor McGregor; and how the two companies, with the Kamptee column, had been quietly disarmed, that Duniol had been abandoned, and the column was on its march back te Jubbulpore, On the 26th the column was at Singrampore. The next morning the column was to march to Kuttingee (10 miles) at daylight, but at 2 o0’clock, a. m., the Grenadier corw- pany of the 33rd, under Lieutenant Watson, started with the intention of securing the boais on the Heron Rivet. Major Jenkins, Quartermaster-General, went with Watson. After riding about three miles they had got about 200 yards in front of the company. Suddenly a bugle in front of them sounded the fire; ‘snick, snick’ went some muskets, then a regular voiley. * Halloa,’ said Jenkins, ‘here we are in the midst of thein.’ Dark though it was, they could see they were surrounded by Sepoys; they were the rebel 52nd advancing to attack the Kamptee column. One Sepoy stepped close up to Watson and fired in his face ; the bail only gave him a gash under the eye. He rode the man down, but he himself fell in doing so. He regnined his feet, but fell again and again. Somehow he managed to get hold of Jenkins’s stirrup, and ran on ; his hiorse trotted up to him, and he contrived to mount. Both then car- tered on, but immediately came on the rear guard. ‘Halt, who comes there ?’ called oui the leading file. They gave no reply, but dashed through unhurt, though exposed to the fire of the whole guard. Was it not a wonderful escape? Jenkins’s horse had two bails in him, and Watson’s boy, carrying his rifle, was shotdead ; they hid inthe jungle till the colamn came up in the forenoon, they were received with shouts and cheera, forevery one thought them killed. ‘The mutineers had no bayonets fixed. The Grenadier company fell back on the column in good order, whieh, being warned of the state of affairs, advanced at daylight and soon came in sight of the mutineers, advancing steadily along the road in column of sections when within 300 yards of them our guns were un- masked, but just a8 they opened fire the mutineers wheeled backwards right and left, and got into the jungle, which wag very thick and came quite close to the road. It is believed that in the course of the morning the mutipeers lost about 120 men; there were many hondred Bundelahs withthem. Our loss was trifling ; a few men wounded and a trumpeter killed. On coming near Kuttingee the body of poor McGregor was found, pierced with eight or nine bayonet wounds, a shot in the neck, his arm gashed and broken ; we were al] grieved to hear of his sad fate; his body was brought in here and buried the next day at noon. A wounded havildar and Sepoy were taken prisoners at Kuttingee,and hung onthespot. Afer the column moved on the mutineers returned, cut down the bodies and buried them with military honours! Sixteen mutineers of the 52nd were at Bergee on the 4th , they cut off the noses of some Bunyahs who had gone to buy ghee;and one of them, ksowa to be the principal in the murder of poor McGregor, sent a message to Captain Moxon, 52nd ; they hoped to serve him the same way ; he had offered 200 rupees for the @plours ; they had intended to collect a party aud attack Jubbulpore; that they would bring the colours with them, and he might then take them if he could! Yesterday morning a party from this were sent to clear the road of the villains ; and as Cumberlege, with the 4th Cavalry, en route here, was only three miles beyond Bergee it was hoped that the rebels might be captured or done for. T hear to-day that the expedition was unsuccessful; it is said that the rebels have retired to a hill hike a natural fortress. | imagine some effort will be made to dislodge them, as the infantry have not returned and the cavalry are stil on the other side of the river. Gunnesgunge, another place on the road, is also occupied by rebels—Gonds, I believe.’’

THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW—BAVELOCK’S MARCH TO LUCKNOW,

The advance upon Lucknow was a series of skirmishes, during which we killed many of the enemy, and captured a number of guns. Our loss, until we arrived before the city, was very trifling indeed, but here the mutineers made a most determined stand, and the consequence was, that Genera! Ne || and about four hundred of our brave soldiers bit the dust. On the Qlst the enemy were attacked at Mungarwur. His right was turned, and he was driven from his position with the lose of four guns, two of which were taken by the Volunteer Cavalry, led on by General Outram. Our loss was light—that of the enemy very severe, 120 being sabred. ‘The flight was so pre- cipitate, that the Bunnee bridge in his rear was lef standing. Our troops this day made a march of twenty miles, and the next day of fourteen, dispersing the rebels tn all directions. On the 22ud the firing at Lucknow could be distinctly heard, and a royal salute was fired from our 24-pounders, to make the be- sieged aware that help was at hand. On the morning of the 25ih the long-besieged and il!-supplied garrison had their eyes giaddened by seeing the relieving force close at hand. Skirt- ing the city, they made their wry to the Residency against severe resistance, and entered in the evening, They were just in time. ‘T'wo mines, ready for being loaded, had been run far under our principal works, If sprung the garrison must have been placed at the mercy of the rebels. On the 26th the batteries of the besiegere were assaulted and taken, the ex- King’s sons escaping towards ['yzabad. Our loss was heavy, amounting to about 450 killed and wounded. Amongst the

S Al brave who fell was General Neill, of the Madras Fusiliers ; Captain Cooper, of the Artillery ; Captain Webster, of H. M.’s 78th; Lieut. Pakenham, 84th; Bateman, 64th ; Warren, 12th Light Cavalry ; and Lieut. Wilde, 50th Bengal Native Infantry. Sir James Outram is said to have been slightly wounded. On the 29th the right quarter of the town was occupied, and seven guns captured. Man Singh, the Oude chief, who undertook to join us wiih 15 000 men, has sided with the rebe!s—he has been wounded, but will, it is hoped, be preserved to stretch a hawter.

HAVELOCK AND HIS HEROES FI@ATING THEIR WAY £0 LUCKNOW.

The story of the relief of Lucknow wil] form one of the brightest pages in the annals of British heroism. Havelock had to fight his way from the frontier of Onde, wiih only 2,900 men, through a country in which every Man Was In arms against him, and every town, village and house had been cogverted into a fortress. There was but one practicable road along which he could advance ; on either side of it there was nothing but a

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