THE MUTINEERS IN INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 26 September 1857, Page 5

THE MUTINEERS IN INDIA.

(From the ' Argus') As our intelligence is derived from two or three stray papers, picked up on board the Simla, the news is'necessarily fragmentary. A passenger informs us that thirty thousand troops are to be sent out immediately from Great Britain to India, and adds that the details of the butcheries of the wives and children of the British officers by the native troops are tuo horrible for publication. An engagement took place at Delhi on the 23rd June, when nearly a thousand mutineers were slain, and the British took possession of the suburbs of the city. The latest reports from Benares, Allahabad, Nagpore, Rewah, and Nagode, are to the effect that " all is quiet." DEFEAT OF THE INSTJBGENTS AT ALLAHABAD. From Brigadier General Habelock to the Governor General, dated Allahabad, 13th July:— I have to acquaint your lordship that I have this morning attacked, and totally defeated the insurgents, capturing eleven guns, scattering their forces in utter confusion in the direction of Cawnpore. By'two harassing inarches I joined Major Renaud's advanced column three hours hefore daylight, and encamped about 8 o'clock four miles from Futtehpore; where pitching our tents, the enemy advanced out of Futtehpore, and opened fire upon a reconnaissance under Colonel Taylor. I had wished to defer the fight until to morrow, but, thus assailed, was compelled to accept the challenge. I marched eight guns in the centre nnder Captain Maude, (R. A.) forming the whole of the infantry in quarter distance column, in support. Maude's fire electrified the enemy, who abandoned gun after gun, and were then driven by our skirmishers and column through garden enclosures and the streets of Futtehpore in complete confusion. My loss is merely nominal: not a single European touched. My column had marched twenty four miles up to the ground I write from, Major Renaud's nineteen miles.-"^The conduct of the troops in sustaining the fatigue of so long a march and enduring the heat of a frightful sun, is beyond all praise. The enemy's strength is said to have been two Regiments of Cavalry, and three of Infautry, and 11 guns. From General Neill, Allahabad, dated July 16. I started 227 of the 84th Regimenr, partly in bullock vans ; they are to march 25 miles a night to reach in five days. I start this afternoon by dark, and shall overtake the 84th and move up with them. I will go on before them if I can. I shall lose no time. The mutineers are out of caps, and converted all the detonators into matchlocks. A Kossid from Lucknow declares the mutineers there are in want of shot, firing stones from the guns. News had been received that Sir Henry Lawrence was wounded on his return from an attack on the rebels advancing on Lucknow, on the 2nd instant, and that he sunk under the effects of his wounds on the 4th instant. It is reported from Lucknow (on July 10) that the attacks of the rebels are less frequent and more feeble than heretofore. Cawnpore Cantonment, July 17. By the blessing of God I recaptured this place yesterday, and totally defeated Nana Sahib in person, taking more than six guns, four of siege calibre. The enemy were strongly posted behind a succession of villages, and obstinately disputed for 140 minutes every inch of the ground; but I was enabled by a flank movement to my right to turn his left, and this gave us the victory. Nana Sahib had barbarously murdered all the captive women and children before the engagement. He has retired to Bhitoor, and blew up this morning on his retreat the Cawnpore Magazine. He is said to be strongly fortified. I have not been yet able to get in the return of killed and wounded, but estimate my loss at about seventy, chiefly from the fire of grape. We have seen a letter from Dinapore, which states that Fowle, Anderson, Morgan, Dr. Daniels, and Ousely, of the 22nd N. L, are safe ; one or two of these gentlemen, were previously reported to have been killed.