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THE INDIAN REVOLT.

THE FIGHTING BEFORE DELHI—A YOUNG SOLDIER'S LETTERS.

The following are copies of lejters received from a young soldier, sergeant w the GOth Reval Rifles : —

“Camp Guaxee pe Gueeur, June 3.—My Dear Father,— We left Meerut on the 27th ult. Our force wes 400 rank and file, 24 sergeants, 12 buglers, and about 20 officers of our -vattalion, 200 troopers of the Gth Drayoon Guards, one battery and half a trong of Artillery—of ali ranks under 1,000; ar- rived here on the morning of the 30:\h. At about 4 the same day the insurgents took up a most capital position, about a mile from our camp, and commenced operations with some very heavy guns. My company,‘ D,’ was ordered in advance, got winder a wall, and returned the fire in first-rate order. IL fired the first shot on our side. We remained under cover and un- supported for about halfan-hour, when the remainder of our ‘boys-came up at the double, and our captain was ordered to «charge the oom Off we galloped. They sent several rounds of grape and cannister into us, but we dodged them. As soon as we saw the explosion dowa we went flat on our faces, and ap, off and dewn again before we could say ‘Jack Robinson.’ We got up tothe guns, drove the niggers to the devil, and thought we were ail right, when off weat their ammunition. They had put a slow match to it. Our captain (J. Andrews} and four men were killed by the explosion, and several wounded. We captured the 24-pounder siege gun and five others. field batteries they took away. tion in front of a large walled village, and fought ike devils. We drove them into the village and set fire te it. obhged afterwards to go through the fire and drive them out. At last we broke them. A small band, about 80, got together at the back of the village, and stood their ground till the whole were killed. They actually crossed bayonets with ours, and met their death like Trojans. We returned to camp about 9 p.m. At two o'clock the next day they came out again, and fought the same battle over again. We drove them from their position, and that was al!. They numbered about 6,000, with a great many guns. ‘Their cavalry charged our guns over and over again. Both men and officers, who have tought side by

side with them, say they could not have imagined that any of | I had several very |

the mative troops could have fought so wel). narrow escapes, but one particularly so. In the village 4 went into a hut ; one of the gents was behind the door; as soon as | showed my nose he made a chop. I twigged him in time, took

Their | They next took wp their posi- |

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owing to the darkness, (he 75th and one of our guns fired three | gun after gun, and were then driven by our skirmishers and | enclosures, and the streets of This splendid victory was | | wounded could not be found; they were picked up the next gained without a single casualty on the side of the British, not |

rounds into, owrscompany. We had one officer killed, two!columns through garden wounded, and about 30 men killed and wounded. Some of the | Futtehpore, in complete confusion, | morning most horribly mutilated, ‘Two of them (one a @arricd a man being touched by the fire of the enemy. The enemy’s man with alarge family), were skinned. We went out the strength was said to have been two regiments of cavglry, three next morning (20ch), bur they retired after a heavy artillery of infantry, and eleven guns, which were all captured. Afier action. ‘he weather is very hot. | had 72 hours outpost duty | thie battle General Havelock continued his victorious progress on @ plain, without the slightest shelter. I felt during the day | towards Cawnpore, which he re-occupied, after having beaten vas if | hada hot iron going into my head. We have had a few the eneiny three times, and captured 26 guns. Nena Sshib, | deaths from cholera the last day or two. 1,000 men are ex-| the rebel leader, had Hed to Bhitoor, which is about eight or| (pected in hourly. As soon as they arrive we assault. We) ten miles distant from Cawnpore, and we have no doubt that tried it once, but it was no go, information having been given General Havelock would follow the treacherous Mahratta up to to the Rajah, Our rations, with the exception of ram and | that place. | bread, are very bad—indeed, scarcely eatable. We get a | gallon of rum to every 13 men, and sometimes a gallon to 10, | with a pound of bread each man daily. We should be a long time starving on that. The rations cost, including the rum, five /annas—about 7d. per diem.”’

SELLING ‘IHE EUROPEANS BY PUBLIC AUCTION.

A frightful tragedy has occurred at Cawnpore, where Sir Hugh Wheeler and a small band of Europeans had long held out | against fearful odds. dt appears from the conflicting reports | | published regarding this melancholy catastrophe, that afier Sir ESCAPE OF OFFICERS FROM WEEMUCH. | Hagh Wheeler was killed, the force at Cawnpore accepted the Copy of Ensign Davenport's (12th Bombay Native Tnfantry) | offer of safety made by Nena Sahib and the wutineers. The

account of the mutiny at Neemuch, on June 3:—‘* About a/ treacherous miscreants, however, whose hands were already »week before the mutiny I volunteered to do duty with the stained with the blood of the luckless fugitives from fatty ghur, Gwalior Contingent (7h Infantry.) [ was ordered to take np| opened Gre on the boats in which the party were allowed to /my quarters in the fort, where Macdonald and f remained day | enter, and destroyed them all. Other accounts state that the land nighf with the right wing (three companies). The lefi wing | wives and children of the officers and soldiers, consisting of (tive companies) was quartered ine vacant hospital gome quarter | 240 persons, were taken into Cawnpore, and sold by public )of a mile distant from the fort. On the night of the 3d, Mac- auction, when, afier being treated with the worst indignities, donald and I lay dowy in our clothes, but not to sleep, as we | they were barbarously slaughtered by the inhabitants, There | had reason to suspect that all was not right. At haif-past 11 | is, notwithstanding, a faist hope that some few have escaped p.m. we were aroused by the report of a gun, which in afew the general massacre, as it is said that Nena Sahib has more | minutes was followed by another. ‘This was the signa! for the |than a hundred European prisoners in his hands, whom he row to Commence, and many moments had not passed when we intends to held as hostages. These are probably the remains , saw our houses blazing ail round. Lieut. Gurdon, who was at of General Wheeler’s force at Cawnpore. ithe hospital with the Jeft wing, under the command of Litemt. | LUCKNOW STILL HOLDING OUT. | Rose, also at the hospital, was aroused by a subadar telling him | ‘ : ’ . t that guns had been fired, and the disturbance commenced, Lacknow still held out at the date of te latest advices, bu | Lieut. Rose and he got the men out of the hospital and marched | !8 heroic defender, the brave and noble-minded Sir H. Lawrence, them to join usin the fort. A shot was fired on the way to the | To tear a He was wounded in a sortie ho the enemy on ‘fort, it was said by a Sepoy, at Lieut. Rose. When they kad | he 2d July, and died of lockjiw on the 4th idem. garrison, nothing daunted by the death of their intrepid leader,

joined us we placed the men along the ramparts, served owt a , ammunition to them aod erdered them to load. ‘They obeyed CO7'nued to hold out against the hordes that surrounded them,

‘all our orders with apparent cheerfulness, and one and all swore "4 M18 expected ~ they Reg, hog i their ground until to defend the place with their lives. | was pliced to defend | relieved by General Havelock. sjor Banks bas assumed the the gate, wih a subadar of nearly 50 years’ service, two Euro- | command of the garrison, which continued in the highest spirits.

pean sergeants and 20 picked men. We remained ina most | OUR POSITION BEFORE DELUL.

anxious state of suspenze for nearly four heurs, during which | The capture of Delhi has not yet been accomplished, and time we saw cavalry men riding about, and thrusting lighted |

revohes, widedd att) 1 of | gts he thatch of the |*°°™® tobe as faroff asever, The enemy made several sorties pales, : e r es > thate [ . erent Poneee we vee one OF HONE porwr, MIG WHE thalen OF 1Oe | ad peckndithadirisigh forces, but were always repulsed with

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Their casualties ave estimated at 200 in killed and wounded, and

our loss at six men killed and 25 wounded. DISARMING THE NATIVE REGIMENTS, b

At Jhelum the 14:h Native Infantry offered a determined resistance to the wing of the 24th Regiment sent to take thei arms, and were not broken and dispersed until they had killed and wounded some 50 of the Europeans. The 58th Native Infantry was disarmed at Rawul Pindee, after showing fight fora while. The 4th Native Infantry,at Noorpore, immediately gave up their arms when called upon to do so by their com- manding officer, unbacked though he was by the presence of a single English soldier. Sunilar good behaviour attended the disarming of the 10:h Light Cavalry at Ferozepore. But at Sealkote a terrible tragedy has been enacted. There, on the morning of the 9th, the wing of the 9h Light Cuvairy and the 46:h Native Infantry rose in mutiny. Brigadier Brind, com- manding the station, was shot while riding out of his compound. Captain Bishop, of the 46:h, was wayinid by a trooper, who brought him from the saddle by a shot from his carbine, and then reloading, fired again and killed lim as he liy wounded on the ground = Dr. Graham was driving his daughter thither, in his gig, when a trooper rode ap to him and shothim dead. His daugh'er seized the reins, and drove screaming into the nearest compound with her father’s body in her lap. She escaped, however, as did the family with whom she took refage, though exposed for hours to the most imminent danger of sudden and violent death. Their hiding place was good, and was discovered by one only of the mutineers, who met fitting fate from the barrel of a revolver.

ATTEMPT OF NATIVES TO POISON FOOD.

The following is an extract of a leiter, dated Bewares, 15th inst; —" We are well; not a man sick of the regunent (78th Highianders), The natives—some of them at least—have

| made endeavours to poison the mik they bring round for sale,

but our old frieads come from too far north for them, and make thei first drink a cup of it themselves.’’

DEATH OF AN IRISH OFFICER IN INDIA.

thus chronicled vy the Carlow Sentinel: — Among the many events which have occurred in India, there are few indeed, beyond the wholesale slaughter of women aad children which atcract our attention more than tse:fall of some of our gallaut officers—men true to the last, and ever dis- tinguished for word and loyalty. Among the number of de- voted and brave officers who fel] at Delhi was Lieutenant Mervyn Humphrys, the youngest son of William Humphrys, Esq., D.L., of Ballyhaise House, county Cavan. When. his own regiment, the 20th Native Infantry, mutinied, his horse

The fate of a member of a loyal and devoted Irish house ie

a step to rear, fired through the door and cooked his goose. The | officer commanding my company, Lieut. Napier, the second day. was shat in the leg, which has since been amputated. -We ex-| jj16 political agent’s honse, about 200 or 300 yards from the pect to join the forces of the officiating Commander in-Chief| gee ewe snore puns were fied” ‘This wae the eivtal for the tadey"or arene As soon as that takes place we << off for | Gwalior men to be up aod doing. Lmnmediately on these guns Delies Sequarier inva gwen, or any a rns “ ” ree | being fired, my old hero of 50 years’ standing ordered his picked obliged to shoot their wounded. ‘They fonght more desperstely and brave men to lower the gate, which J did my best to pre- when hurt than when whole. We picked up several of our old vent, and for my pains reeéived a geatle intimation that if | rifles, which were lodged in the Delhi a Beth Port! gid wot hold my tongue and be quict, |} should be treated to a oow mounts upwards of 150 heavy guns and fieli=pieces mna- | jitie cold steel in the shape of a duzen or so of bayonets. | merable, ammunition, shot and siveil an abundance, so that we ihen asked them to let me goand report progress to ihe M ajor 3 may expect rather warm work. “Our greatest difficulty 1310) this they granted.. I made my report, after which Macdouald, procuring water, and what we do get is very bad. The river is Rose, Gurdon and myself went among the men, who were as- #0 very muddy that we connot possibly ase it. In case Of ACH sombled im, the court-yard fixing bayouets. Moedonaid ad- rem | have written.a letter, which you will only receive in| geéssed the men to no purpose, We than tried to wie away “ide ef-abe Mahshiget 1 shod sstthen! xu-agabieana ot the colors, but this they would not permit. They then took us , a TEP alle F 7 >. | Outside the gate and told us to go, and on our hesitating said, ground; we don’t dea! in tables, and [ mast leave of fora) iF ihe Bengal fufantry, Cavalry and Artillery saw us we should sleep, as We expect a row this evening. . | be murdered, and that they could not and would not try to save “Camp Berort Dexus, June 14.—No soldiers’ letters have| us. We then went away. Macdenald and myself, having Jost been sent from camp since [commenced this. We lefi Guznee our herses, had to walk to Baree beyond Duno, about thirteen de Nugger at 5 p.m. on the 3), en route to join the heac-}| miles from Neemuch, where we met several others in the same quarters camp, and marched 21 lwours without halting more than} plight as ourselves. We had not been there long before the

bungalows, when we heard the 72d Bengal Nacive [nfantry, the

FO minutes ai a time, through qountains and jungle; joined) villagers in affright, it having been reported that the cavalry |

head-quartere on the morning of the Gh, having made a circuit) was after us, told us to take ourselves elsewhere. We started 0660 miles and upwards, nearly the whole rowd too steep and | from Baree about 1 p. m. on June 4, and after three hours” rugged for a billy-goat, the whole force consisting of the 9b) march under a broiling sun reached Chota Sadree. flere we Lancers, two squadrons of the Gth Dragoon Guards, two troops | got a fittle to eat and drink, and were joined by a large number anda half and one battery of Artdlery, 21 siege guns and | of women and children. After about two hours’ stay at this mortars. GOih Rifles, 75th. Foot, Ist Bengal Europeans, four! place we were sent away, our party now consisting of about 15 companies 21 Bengal: Europeans, the Ghoorkas, 100 Sappers | inen,6 women and 10 childfen. We travelled all night, getting and 50 {rregular Horse. Commenced the march to Delhi at 2 to Burra Sadree atG a. m. of the 5th of June. We got nothing a. m., distance }Omiles. At 4 p.m. we came upon a line of | to eat till two o'clock, and after partaking of some kind of stew batteries of the enemy, which were served with the greatest | got on our Jegs again, the villagers having served us with notice

precision. After three hours’ very hard fighting, we drove them | to. quit. We made a place called Doogia before nightfall, and from their position with great loss. We ourselves lost con-| established ourselves in a mud fort only forty yards square, siderably. Delbi lies in a hollow, surrounded on three sides} within which we had a menagerie of men, women, children.

oy very high and steep walls; on the fourth side is the river| bullocks, horses and camels, and vermin of every description, Jomna. After we got the geatlemen out of their first line they | On the fourth day of my residence there | wae attacked by retired, disputing every inch of ground for eight miles; at the| cholera. My recovery was almost a miracle. On the 9.h, sixth we halted, had a dram of rum and a biseuit served ont to| Showers, having procured an escort for us from the Rana of us, rested for balf-an-hour, and then followed them up; in the| Oudepore, jomed us. Our party now broke up, Showers going

meantime they bad lined the tops of the hills. The Rifles) in pursuit of the mutineers with the greater number of officers.

fine style, and by an able flank movement, which does our com- |to Oudepore, which consisted of all the women and children, manders who planned at the greatest Credit, we took possession | and the following officers :—Walker, Bengal Artillery ; Lieut. of the whele range, captured the guns and drove the enemy into} Kose and Ensign Davenport, Bombay Infantry ; Lieut. Gurdon, the city. It was fine sport for our fellows, Wekept behind the | Bengal Infantry; and Drs. Clarke, Cotes and Gane. On our rocks a3 we advanced, and all the niggers could see was the! atrival at Ondepore, on the 12:h of June, the Rana gave up one

Bengal Cavalry and Artillery, approaching, Just as they passed |

heavy loss, On the 9ih, the mutineers assailed our right rear

in force, but were driven back im the city, having 1,000 dead ‘on the field, Several other aitempts were made to turn the | British position, bat failed. Sir. Henry Barnard, C.B., Com- i mander of the Forees, died im the British camp before Dethi (on the Sth of July, of cholera. He has been succeeded in the jcommand by General Keed, whe acted with so much decision and judgmett inthe Punjaub on the first outbreak of the mutiny. Pie Jatest intelligence from Delhi is to the d4duapinst., when everything remained in the same state as heretofore. An officer jin the camp, writing on that date, says:—“ We are Gving ) nothing here towards taking Dethi, and are merely defending ourselves against the sortres of the enemy. We have parts of five Karopean regiments, but can muster only 2.000 Kurepeans for any effectwe attack, Jarge detachments trom each regiment haying been left to protect Ja!lunder, Loodmwnah, Dugshaie, Subathoo, Kussowlie, Umballa, Meeru!,and Pinilour. in fact, small detachinents. only of each regiment have joined as. The enemy are far superior to us in artillery.”

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GALLANT AFFAIK AT AGRA.

At Agra matters have approached a crisis. The close , beighbourheod of the Neemuch aad Nusseerabad mutineers, who encainped about twenty miles from the cily, competied the European residenis to abandon the cantonments and take refuge in the for. The garrison consisted of the 3rd Bengal Europeans dad a battery of artillery, besides which a corps of volanteers, about 500 strong, Avas raised from among ‘the Christinn population. The rebels having approached the | eity, the troops in the fort marcked out to attack them on the /Sth of July, when a battle ensued, in which the British suffered considerable Joss, Our troops, who had no cavalry to support | them, after having beaten the enemy, were obliged to retire jinto the fort, in consequence of their supply of ammunition j having failedthrough the explosion of the tabrils. ‘There were .49 Europeans killed and 92 wounded in this affair, out of a total force of about 500 men engaged. The mutineers after the battle destroyed nearly all the houses in the ecantonment. The European inhabitants, however, had previously taken refuge in the fort, which prevented a general massacre from taking | place, the only pesple killed outside being Major Jacob, formerly lin Scindiah’s service, and Mr. Hubbard, of the Agra College. | Captain D’Oyly, of the Bengal Artillery, was mortally wounded

» were ordered to advance in skirmishing order, which we did in| 1 was too unwell to go with them, so | accompanied the party | in the action, and six gentlemen belonging to the militia were

‘also killed. one of whom was Mr. Jourdan, the celebrated equestrian performer,

THE MUTINY aT MHOW. The details of the mutiny at Mhow and Indore, and the

was shot while riding near the parade, and by some marvellous circumstances, he effected his escape on foot to the British lines, amid a shower of balls from his own regiment, Having joined, the 60th Rifles in safety, he marched with this splendid corps upon Delhi. Daring the march he was rendered helpless by a sunstroke. but moving along with his dwisian and duly attended by the regimental surgeon, he recovered, and was able te join the army at Delhi, anxious to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his slaughtered countrymen. In one of the sorties made by the insurgents this gallant young Trishinan took a disting uished part, and he fell wh:le bravely leading the men under his command into action against the mutineers. This young and gallaut officer, a man of great promise, was much beloved and respected by those who knew him in bis native country,

@iHeE MUTINY AT SEALKOTER.

The following is an extract ofa letter from Dr. J. H. Butler, of the Light Cavalry, dated Fort at Sealkote, 13:h of July :—** We had hoped that all was right with our brigade. But, alas! on the night of the 8th of July they laid their plans to rise in mutiny on the following morning, 9h.” Ata quarter past 4 a.m. I was called up to see the Sowars, who were in open mutiny, riding about the cantonments, shooting a!l they could of the male sex having an Kurépean garb. No intimation from ony of the au- thorities was given as, but we had previously arranged to have our carriages in readiness in case of an outbreak, and a few things in carvet-bags to take with us: this was all done, and we were about to start when Dr. Graham, the superintendent- surgeon, who had gone before with his daughter, was shot at and died almost immediately on his daughter knee ; the buggy was turned round and she came into cur compound enclosure, saying the cavalry troopers had possession of the roads, and there was no possibility of getting towards the fort, This would not have been the case hed the civil horse fraternized with the cavalry, for they looked on and did nothing. Almost iminedi- ately a cavalry trooper, with his carbine pointed, came into the compound and cleared it of our servants and eee and brought up the Sepoys of the 46:h N. [. to surround the house and massacre us. We were now a party of 16, 14 Europeans and two natives (female servants). We bolted and barred the doors, and silently awaited the approach of tne murderers. Of the 14 Kuropeans turee only were men, all congregated in the drawing-room, whence the ladies retreated to the bathing-rooms, and then inte a small lumber-room(in a private part of tke honse, to which is attached a side door); in this room there were fo:- tunately two smal} windows, one open, and in the door some

grating, which afforded ventulation. ‘I'he party of Sepoys | brought to the house by the sound of the bugle were now with- ‘in the house, and had followed us to the bathing room, but at

. . ‘ 2 ) , j p } " . , Aish of ourpieces.. Our first point is to look out for cover— | of his water palaces to us, and we lived there till the 23d, re- | Massacre at the latter place, where about 40 Kuropeans were seeing my pistol presented retreated. This enabled us to make

. ‘ . | ; ; . 4p a tree, benind a tree or rock, ina hole, or, in fact, anywhere | ceiving every kindness and attention from his Majesty. On the

where we can see without being seen. We took and shot two 22d the women and children, Lieut. Walker, Drs. Clarke and Kurepeans this day ; one of them confessed that there were 10 Cotes started for Mount Aboo ; Lieut. Gurdon, Ensign Daven- more. ibe service of the King of Oude. Captured 17 guns! port and Dr. Gane went the same day with Dr. Annesiey with this day, with a very large siore af ammunition, shot, é&c. {an escort furnished by the Rana, aud arrived at Kairwarrah in ‘They came out in great force at 7 p. m. the same day, and tried | safety on the 24th of June.”

wery hard to dislodge us, but it was ‘no go.” They have been oul SIX times since, driven back with great loss each time. They are getting reinforcements every day; the GOth Native |

THE MUTINY AT JHANST. The following extract from a letter, just received giving a

cruelly murdered, have been received. Biood might have been prevented if precantion had been taken earlier ; buat Colonel | Platt, commanding the station, had implicit contidence in the | fidelity of his men, and believed them to be quite staunch to ‘the last moment. So infatuated wag he im this belief, that he | actually left the fort for the purpose of haranguing the men of the 23¢ N,1., but paid with bis life the penalty of his blindness. Major Harris, commanding the Ist Light Cavalry, and Captain | Fagan, Adjutant of the 23d Native Infantry, were also murdered ;

Infantry and 4th Native Regular Lancers joined them from the water side the day before yesterday, at 2p. m, and gave us as tight a fit as we have bad yet. If it bad not been for a strata- gem I think they would have taken our heavy guns and ammu- nition. Our colonel ordered us to hide just as it was getting

| detailed account of the death of Capt. Skene, superintendent | but the rest of the officers and ladies took refuge in a fortified ) of the Jhansi district, and of his noble wife, also of Capt. Gordon, | square which was held by Captain: Hungerford’s battery of |

assistant superintendent, will be read with thrilling interest by | Kuropeans. At Indore, the Residency was attacked by Hojkar’s |

all to whom those officers were known :~- [tis alj true about disaflected troops, jomed by the rabble of the city, but Colonel |

. | poor Frank Gordon. He, Alick Skene, his wife, and a few Duraud, the Resident, and the rest of the officers of his sune, |

\good our retreat to the lumber room, into which we got, and ‘fastened the door with a strong bar of wood. No sooner had | we done this than one of the villains came and fired into the

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room; he was fired at by one of the party, but missed ; they | then began to plunder after firing promiseuously into every room they came to, with the hope of killing every one in the house. | We were for nearly six hours kept in a terrible state of suspense and alarm, expecting every moment would be our last. At 11 am. the chowkerdar, or watchman, came and brought us some water, and said our only security was in keeping quiet ; that the house was being plundered. The yelle were frightfnl. We heard the Sowars from time to time riding about the compoand anxious to get hold of us, but the chowkerdar told them we “ere gone. When the mutineers blew up the magazine we thonglit

dusk, and then he sounded the ‘retire ;? the ‘niggers,’ who,| peons managed to get into a small round tower when the| succeeded in making their eseape, protected by some faithful

of course, know our bugle sounds as well as we do, thinking | disturbance began ; the children and all the rest were in other that we had actually gone back, came out at the double an} Parts of the fort— altogether 60. Gordon had a regular battery thoasands, al! of a mob. When about 20 yarda distance ft was | of guns, also revolvers; and he and rans ae off the rebels ‘Up boys and at them.’ They were greatly astonished, and} #5 fast as they could fire, Mrs. Skene loading for them. The cut their sticks as fast as they could. | have bad a slight | PeOMs, Say they never missed once, ond before it was all over bayonet wound in the right side, and » ball through the sleeve | MEY killed 37, besides many wounded. of my jacket. Theold soldiers who were at Mooltan, Goojerat butchering all in the fort, brought ladders against the tower aad other battles wm India, say that this far surpasses anything | and commenced swarmingup. Frank Gordon was shot through they have ever witnessed. Our Siege guns have been at work , Me foreliead and killed at once, Skene then saw it was no since the 9th, but as yet they have not displaced a brick. Our | @5¢ going on any more, so he kissed his wife, shot her, snd then fire is anything but good, while the shots of the enemy are himsell!. Se a7.

flying about our batteries like bail.”

“June 17.—All quiet till this day. At 5p. m,. the whole During the last fortnight the career of rebellion has remained of the force, pickets and guards excepted, proceeded by differ- unchecked throughout India, exceot at Futtehpore, where the ent routes in two columns to attack and dislodge a battery. Our! mutineers under Nena Sahib have been thrice defeated by the Compames atrwed first at the place, knocked down the frout, British troops. On the morning of the 17ih General Havelock,

THE BATTLE OF FUTTEHPORE,

companies of the Bheel corps, Many Europeans were butchered in the city, and among them was Mr, Ross M’Mahon, a civil engineer, who took a cofttract for several public works under ‘the Maharajah of Indore, Holkar’s matinous troops, joined by | the disaffected regunents from Mhow, after jooting the weasury,

‘their way to Deli. Holkar bas remained firm in his adherence ‘to the British Government, and has not been prevailed on to \join the general insurrection,

RETRIBUTION ON THE SEALKOYTE MUTINEERS. ; ; | On the 9ih July, the troops at Sealkote in the Punjaub, con-

sisting of a wing of che 9th Light Cavalry and the 46:h Native Infantry, broke out into open mutiny, aad afier murdering ‘several persons, and doing al] the injury in their power, left | the station in a body for the eastward, taking with them carriages, ,buggies, &c. The persons ascertained to have been killed are

gate and rushed in in front of a very heavy fire from bebind)| who left Allahabad with about 2,000 Europeans, consisting of | the following :— Captain Bishop, of the 46ih Native Infantry ; walle, and thea forced two other barricaded gates ; about 10 of

ours were ordered in, the yest béing posted outside the inner walle te shoots all who attempted to. egcape. We drove them into a corner and shot 41, ali wat remainad, the others having escaped by a gate which we had not guarded. On the 19:h the enemy were reinforced with ope reviment of infantry and One troop of artillery, Duriag tie day their whole force made a wide circuit, and got within a mile of the rear of our eamp before they were discovered.

the 64h Regiment, 78th Highlanders, Madras Fusiliers, and a Dr, Graham, Superintending surgeon; Dr. Graham, medical | company of Royal Artillery, attacked and totally defeated the | storekeeper : Rev. Mr. Hunter, wife and child. Brigadier Insuegents, copiurng 11 guns and scattering their forces in| Brind has also heen wounded, All the others appear to be utter confusion in the direction of Cawnpore. By two harassing safe in the fort, inciading the families of the drummers, and of marches he had joined Mojor Renaud’s advanced column three the ladies and children who escaped several were escorted ta

| hours before daylight, and arriveé about 8 o'clock four miles! the fort by Sepoys who remained faithful, or by Sowars, who,

from Futiehpore, where he encamped, . The onemy advanced out) after Jeaving them, returned to the rest of the mutineers. The Fusileers, upwards of 300 strong, s6 we now have a large Buro~ - ot Futteppore, apd opened fire upon a reconnotsance under Sésikote mutineers, who took the route towards Dethi, managed! pean force here. The fusileers cane up from a ime. The astiliery aud cavalry weat Colonel Tytler. General Havelock marched with enght gups "to cross the Ravee at a ford near Trimmo Putiun, early on the steamers to Mooltan, and then marched on here. e€ sent two »

| they were blowing up the side of our hiding-place, to induce us \to come out to massacre us. One thief tiied to break in our door, and looked in at the grating ; [ took a steady aim and shot him dead ; this saved us from further molestation from the plun- derers, deterring others from approaching our hiding-place. }@he watchman came again at 2 o’clock, and told us the troops

The rebels, afier proceeded on to Gwalior, and will doubtless endeavour to make were going away, and that in the evening it would be safe to

make our way to the fort, a distance of a mile and a quarter. |We were reported killed, and received the hearty congratula- tions of our friends. At one time, thinking there was no hope, we made over our youngest boy, an iufant at the breast, to the native nurse, and she promised to seseen him. She took him ‘out under the charge of the watchman, but was unable to leave the compound till we ourselves left. She did not come to the | fort that night, but [ sent for her the next day, and she brought ‘our babe to us in safety. We are anxious!y looking for assis- ‘tance from home. Public news you willsee inthe papers. We have been plundered of everything ; property of every descrip- tion lost—houses, carriages, furniture, and wearing appear.”

THE TUNE OF THE MURDERERS—*“* CHFER, BOYS, CHEER!”

The following is written by an officer of the Bist ;-— » . ‘Mean Mees, Lawone, Jury 14.—1 returned to.onr lines yesterday, being relieved by the left wing of the Ist Bombay

out to check them; three companies of oar battalion were the! in the centre under Captain Maude, Royal Artillery, forming | l2thinst. They were attacked by Brigadier Genera! Nicholson, guns and 50 of the Rist to the brigade of boats in the Ravee, first infantry force on the field. After # very ho¢d fight, which) the whole of the infamry, in quarter distance column in support. | at noon, and after a brief struggle, driven back across the river, at Lahore, to imtercept the Sealkote mutineere in cage they

Ja 1 3 ; sted til! J0 p.m, we were obliged to retixe for the night,

rage and plunder in our hands. |

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