THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 316, 19 December 1857, Page 6

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

The following intelligence, which is very brief and meagre, furnishing no details, is all that has reached us by this mail :-rCAPTURE OF DELHI BY THE BRITISH. [From the Telegraph If Courier, Extraordinary.] Bombay, Sept. 30, 1857. Delhi fell on the 18th instant. The loss on both sides is immense. The whole of the city is in our possession. Sindiah has joined us against the rebels with 15,000 troops. [From the Madras Spectator, Oct. 7.] We regret to record the death of MajorGeneral Clough, of the 28th, N. I. The melancholy event occurred at Bangalore on the 3rd inst. In addition to the European and Native Cavalry already sent on from Secunderbad, the Ist Native Infantry under Col. Carpenter have also been pushed on towards Kamptee. Onr Deocan contemporary has heard 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. The mutineers beat off these levies with heavy loss, and in the action the Rajah's Minister was killed. Our contemporary also mentions that a letter had been received at Alhow from an officer of the Guide Corps at Delhi, in which it was stated that 7000 of the mutineers and rebels had been cut up by the force of General Wilson during and since the final assault. The Bengal papers received yesterday mention that the 50th N. I. had 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 Mogade. A battle it is expected will shortly be fought at Sesseram on the Grand Trunk-road, with the Irregulars and Ramghur mutineers. The Ph»nix states that Negode is in the hands of the insurgents, who had plundered the treasury of three lakhs of rupees. The European residents bad made their escape, and had by the last- accounts taken refuge in a dark bungalow, and were in hopes of falling in with a party of Madras troops. It is fortunate that the small party of fugatives have two or three ladies amongst them, who were not in time for coming down to Calcutta, when the other ladies of the station did so. There is every reason to hope tbat the party will succeed in effecting their escape in perfect safety.