India.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1287, 2 December 1857, Page 3

India.

THE INDIAN MUTINIES. [From the Telei/raphaad Courier ll.r/raordinary.] Bombay, 30th Sept., 1857. Delhi Fell on the 18th Inst.! The loss on both sides is immense. The whole of the city is in our possession. Sindiah has joined us against the rebels will: 15.000 troops. [From the Madras Sperlator, October 7.] We regret to record the death of Major General Clough of the 28th N.I. —the melancholy event occurred at Bangalore on the 3rd instant.

In addition to the European and Native Cavalry already sent on from Secunderabad, the Ist Native Infantry under Colonel Carpenter have also been pushed on towards liamptee.

Our Deccan contemporary hashcard that the Joudpore Rajah has met with a reverse in an attack which he recently made upon his mutinous legion with a number of newly raised levies. Ihe mmincers beat off these levies with heavy loss, and in the action the Rajah’s Minister was killed, Our contempcnrrv also mentions that a fitter had been received at Mhow from an officer of the Guide Corps at Delhi, in which it was stated that 7,000 of the mutineers and rebels had been nut up by the force under General Wilson during and since the final assault.

Ihe Bengal papers received yesterday mention that the ,50th N.I. have followed the general example and broken out. Six hundred men have joined Kooer Singh’s force, and one hundred and seventy are still with the officers of the corps, who are reported to be safe at a place thirty miles from Nagode. A battle, it is expected will shortly be fought at Sasscram on the Grand Trunk Road, with the Irregulars and Ramghur mu ineere. The ZVotht states that Nagode is in the hands of the insurgents, who had plundered the treasury of three lakhs o: rupees. The European residents bad made their escape, and had by the last account taken refuge in a dark bungalow and were ir hopes of failing in w:th a party of Madras troops. It is unfortunate that the small party of fugitives have two or three ladies among them, wh > were not in tune for coming down to Calcutta, when the other ladies of the station did so. There is every reason to hope that the partywill succeed in effecting their escape in perfect safetv.

News Letters front Kurrachec taken from the Times:—

“The following is an extract of a letter from Kurrachec, dated 23rd instant: —‘ Many arrests have taken place amongst the sepovs of the 21st N. 1., subsequent to the date of :nv last letter ; seven have been hanged, and one transported for life, on account of his extreme youth. I his evening one was blown away from a gun, and nineteen were sentenced to transportat’.oii for the terms of their natural lives. ■J he man blown away was the ringleader, and held the rank of havildar in the 21st. This man deserted his corps on the night of the 13th, when the regiment was disarmed; he with two others was apprehended about twenty miles west of Kotrce. r l hey had their muskets with them ready loaded, but by a stratagem on the part of the police authorities, they were first disarmed ami then arrested, which was effected on the 17th, four days after the 21st were disarmed. This gives a total of forty-three mutineers disposed of —namely, fourteen hanged, three brought in with their heads cut eff, four blown away from guns, and twenty-two transported. From this you will be enabled to form an idea of the amount of mischief these villains would have committed, had it not been for the prompt and energetic measures taken by the authorities to put down the intended mutiny. At Hyderabad, the aspect of affairs is not better ; a havildar of the disarmed battery there was blown away, and three men transported. One or two arrests have taken place in the 13th at Hyderabad. Great doubts are entertained of the fidelity of this corps, as well as the 14th here. Some of the Christians living in the vicinity of the sepoy I’nes quit their homes every night, and seek shelter in more secure places. Vve are anything but safe. No one is to be out after ten p.m. under pain of imprisonment. A volunteer corps has been raised of gentlemen and non military men, including clerks and others ; they patrol the camp all night, The services of the seamen belonging to the vessels in harbour, three of which are Freiich, are put in requisition for guarding the treasury and other duties. About 25 individuals have already enrolled their names as volunteers, all bachelors, the married men have been advised to remain at heme to protect their families. The volunteers have been supplied with arms from the Government stores. We are anxiously awaiting tire arrival of the 95th, now hourly expected from the Cape via the Presidency. When once they set foot here we shall fancy ourselves safe. Notwithstanding the great consternation prevailing here just now we attend our daily avocations.” SUICIDE O? NANA SAHIB. The fi Rowing is contained in a letter from Cawnpore, dated the 22ttd :— “ The fourth and last fight we had was about two miles out of Cawnpore, where we took seven large 24-pounder guns 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 150 Europeans r.nd Seikhs. The loss of tire enemy we cannot tell, but we afterwards came across a house where 300 Sowars and Sepovs lav wounded, and we saw a tank full of dead bodies. We had io encounter about 12,000 of the enemy with only 2000 European and Seikhs ; the latter behaved most gallantly, and lost ten killed and wounded. The same evening of this affair we encamped outside of Cawnpore, and next morning we entered the town straight to where we heard the 175 ladies and children were confined, but on our arrival there, awful, awful to behold, there were all their clothes, f;c., strewn about the blood stained ground. Die place was a paved court-yard and there were two inches of blood upon the pavement, and from tie report that we got from the residents of the place, it appears that after we had beaten the enemy the evening previous, the sepoysand sowars entered the place where the poor victims were, and killed all the ladies and threw the children alive as well as the ladies’ 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 chargn we had to make among 3l)0 to 500 infantry. After he fell he was hacked about the head to such an extent that we could hardly recognise him. The Moulvie of Allahabad was killed at Futtchpore by our shot. Yesterday we went with a small force into Hithnor, where the ‘Nana Sahib’ was, and walked into his palace without firing a shot. We fired the whole of the place, and burnt the whole of his houses and property, and tool; 15 guns from there, The Nana has

drowned himself, with his family. He had an intention of going to Lucknow, hut 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. We are now cro-sing the river to Lucknow, anti should it please the Almighty Providence to bring me back from thence safe, I intend coming to Allahabad and will then let vou know all the news verbally.”