other posts in the southern part of the city were occupied ; and on the 20th, the Lahore gate, with the other defences, were either evacuated, or the enemy were driven from them. The palace and the old fort of Selimghur, which had been bombarded since the 15th, fell into our hands; the gates of the former having been blown up and the head-quarters were established there. On the evening of the 21st, Brigadier Wilson proposed the health of her majesty Queen Victoria, in the Dewan-i-Khas, the beautiful white marble dhurbar hall of the former residence of the Moguls--where once stood Loud cheers The other columns advanced to their appointed places of attack, under a tremendous fire from the British batteries. "Columns 1 and 2 made for the Cashmere and Water bastions; a perfect hail-storm of bullets met them from the front and both flanks, and officers and men fell fast on the crest of the glacis. For ten minutes it was impossible to get the ladders down into the ditch to ascend the escarp; but the determination of the British soldier carried all before it, aud Pandy declined to meet the charge of the British bayonet. With a shout and a rush the breaches were both won, and the enemy fled in confusion."* the famed peacock throne. The first column then re-formed, and welcomed the toast, which were taken up moving rapidly to the right, carried the by the gallant Ghoorkas, who formed the Cashmere and Moree bastions, and the Moree gate; and cleared the way up to the Cabool gate. On reaching the head of the street at that gate, the enemy made a resolute stand, but were soon driven back. Pushing on along the rampart road, the column was checked by a heavy fire from two guns commanding that road, which was so narrow at that point as scarcely to admit of four men abreast. After endeavouring for two hours to effect a passage, the column retired, and was met by Brigadier Jones's column, which had not been able to advance to the Lahore gate; but as far as the Cabool gate the city was secured. While the troops were endeavouring to pass down the rampart road, Brigadier Nicholson was, unfortunately, mortally wounded. The fourth column made a gallant effort to carry the Kissengunge suburb and the Lahore gate; but the Cashmere contingent, overpowered by numbers, retreated to the camp; and Major Reed, being severely wounded, the remainder of the column was withdrawn to the Hindoo Rao ridge. A party of guide infantry attached to this column was surrounded in an inclosure; but the wing of the Belooch battalion, which had been detached from the reserve to support them, came up, charged the rebels, dispersed them, and led off the guides. The result of the day's operations was, that the defences of Delhi, from St. James's church to the Cabool gate inclusive, were in possession of the British, who had lost seven officers and 276 privates killed; 57 officers and 830 privates wounded. On the 15th and 16th, the magazine was bombarded and taken; 171 guns and howitzers being found there. On the two next days various • Letter in the Lahore Chronicle. body-guard of the general.-The ex-king and his family had made their escape on the first day of the assault; but on the 21st, they were captured by Captain Hodson and his cavalry, near the Kootub Minao, about fifteen miles from Delhi. His chief wife, Zeenat Mahal, and several other members of his seraglio, were with the padishah; and a large quantity of royal property, consisting of elephants, horses, camels, carriages, &c. Two of his sons and a grandson, who were known to have been leaders of the rebellion, were also captured by Captain Hodson, at the tomb of Humayoon, about five miles from Delhi. They were executed. The old exmonarch, said to be ninety years of age, was brought back to Delhi, and placed in the palace; but in a very different position, and under widely contrasting circumstances, to those which marked his former residence there. The part of the palace where he was confined was approached by a flight of steps. From them a small door opened into a room, half of which was partitioned off with a grass matting, called chitac. One part was used for cooking; in the other was a native bedstead-i.e., a frame of bamboo on four legs, with grass rope strung across it. On this was lying, and smoking a hookah, an old man with a long white beard. No other article of furniture whatever was in the room;" and the one which the begum occupied was even smaller, dirtier, and darker than that where the king was placed. Zeenat Mahal is described as "a dark, fat, shrewd, but sensual-looking woman;" she had eight or ten companions, all "coarse, low-caste females, as devoid of beauty as of ornament."+ " † Letter from Mrs. Hodson. When the city was completely in the pursuit of the rebels.-One of these bodies hands of the British, the mutineers, in the moved down by the western bank of the night of the 20th, abandoned their camp Jumna towards Agra, and, on the 28th, outside in such haste, that they left their overtook the rebels at Muttra, where they sick and wounded, their band instruments, were attacked and defeated with heavy bedding, clothing; in fact, all that they slaughter.-The second column, under possessed. They fled, some to Rohilcund, Lieutenant-colonel Greathed, of her masome to Muttra, some towards Oude. Delhi jesty's 8th (King's) regiment, consisted of itself was a picture of desolation, being about 2,600 men, infantry, cavalry, and completely abandoned. No mercy had artillery. They took the direction of Allybeen shown to the men during the storm; ghur, by Dadree, Secunderabad, and Bobut women and children were everywhere lundshuhur, where the rebels had thrown protected. On the 21st and 22nd, the up a breastwork, from which they were soldiers did pretty nearly as they liked; driven, and two guns were captured. They but, as there were few people to be seen, if occupied the town in considerable force, disposed to take vengeance for the cruelties and an action took place, that conpractised on their countrymen and country-tinued for three hours and a-half. The women, they had no opportunity of doing rebels were completely defeated, losing not Mr. Greathed, formerly commissioner less than 300 men, with a vast quantity of in the Meerut division, and who had recently baggage, two 9-pounder ammunition wagbeen special commissioner in the camp, died of cholera on the 20th; Mr. Saunders, therefore, became civil commissioner at Delhi. He applied himself to the restoration of order, and held out inducements to the population to return. Sir T. Metcalfe also resumed his former position. Very shortly after the city came into our hands, Brigadier-general Wilson's health obliged him to give up his command, and he was succeeded by Brigadier-general Penny. So. gons, and three carts laden with powder and small-arm ammunition. Amongst the baggage were found many articles plundered from Englishmen and Englishwomen. The British lost six rank and file, and twenty horses, killed; six officers, four noncommissioned officers, thirty-one rank and file, four camp-followers, and thirty-eight horses, wounded; and three horses missing. The column advanced, on the 29th, to the fort of Malagurh, which the rebels had occupied; it was found to be evacuated, and was destroyed. The rebels had taken this road in considerable numbers, and they were defeated again at Allyghur. Leaving a detachment there, Lieutenant-colonel Greathed proceeded to Agra, au attack being expected on that city from a large body who had left Dholpore. He arrived on the 10th of October. The Agra authorities thought the rebels were then ten miles distant, beyond the Karee Nuddee; they were, however, much nearer; and before the column from Delhi had pitched their tents, they were attacked. The men were soon under arms: the Punjab cavalry beat back a body of horse on the right; and a large body of the 1st native light irregular cavalry was charged and overthrown by the 9th lancers; Captain French Drum. R. & F. Total. being killed, and Lieutenant Jones danger. It was some time before the casualties of the siege were ascertained; but it appears from a return given in the Narrative of the Campaign of the Delhi Army, by Major H. W. Norman (who was deputy adjutant-general to the force), that 2,163 officers and men were killed, wounded, and missing, from the commencement of the siege to the 8th of September; 327 were put hors de combat from that date till the morning of the assault; 1,170 were killed and wounded on the 14th of September, and 177 subsequently: making a total of 3,837. Of these, 2,151 were Europeans, and 1,686 natives of the horses, 139 were killed, 186 wounded, and 53 missing. The following table shows the specific number of men killed, wounded, and missing, and their rank :— 17 3,263 3,837 Two movable columns were dispatched from Delhi on the 24th of September, in ously wounded. The insurgents had brought some artillery, which was soon silenced by the British guns, and three of the enemy's guns were captured in a charge of the Punjab cavalry. A pursuit was ordered, and at the fifth mile the rebel camp was taken, with twelve guns, and a quantity of baggage, &c.—more than the captors could convey away. They took what they could, and burned the rest. In this affair the enemy lost 500 men, the rout being complete; the British had twelve killed, fifty-four wounded, and two missing; fourteen horses were killed, twenty wounded, and thirty-five missing. Soon after, Brigadier Hope Grant, of her majesty's 9th lancers, took the command of the column, which marched to Cawnpoor, where it arrived on the 24th and 26th of October. At Delhi and its neighbourhood, quiet was soon restored when it came into the possession of the English. The fortifications of the city were destroyed. Many mutineers were taken prisoners, tried, found guilty, and a goodly number of them executed. On the 27th of January, 1858, the trial of the ex-king of Delhi commenced, in the Dewan Khas of the palace (where he had so long resided), and continued into the month of March. The charges against him were, for conspiring against the English authority; for sanctioning the murder of fifty-two English, chiefly women and children, at his palace on the 16th of May; and of ordering or sanctioning other enormities. The result of the trial (in the course of which evidence was given, that the circulation of the chupatties* was intended to bring together a large body of men, for some purpose to be explained to them hereafter) was, the conviction of the ex-king on all the charges. As the conspiring and levying war against England were, under the engagements into which he had entered, acts of treason, he was liable to the penalty of death. The court, however, sentenced him to be transported, for life, to the Andaman islands: but he was ultimately sent to Rangoon; and there he ended his days, towards the close of 1862. CHAPTER XXV. MUTINY AT DINAPORE; THE MUTINEERS ATTACK ARRAH; SITUATION OF MR. WAKE AND A SMALL PARTY; DISASTROUS RESULT OF AN EXPEDITION SENT TO RELIEVE THEM; THEIR RELIEF BY MAJOR VINCENT EYRE; CAWNPOOR; THE MILITARY FORCE THERE; MEASURES TAKEN BY GENERAL WHEELER; MUTINY OF THE NATIVE TROOPS; TREACHERY OF NANA SAHIB; SIEGE OF THE INTRENCHED BARRACK; AGREEMENT WITH NANA; HORRIBLE MASSACRE; NANA DECLARES HIMSELF INDEPENDENT; ADVANCE OF HAVELOCK; DEFEAT OF THE MUTINEERS, AND FLIGHT OF NANA; TERRIBLE SCENE AT CAWNPOOR; LUCKNOW; SIR HENRY LAWRENCE'S STEPS FOR ITS DEFENCE; HIS DEATH; POSITION OF THE OCCUPANTS OF THE RESIDENCY; THEIR RELIEF BY GENERAL HAVELOCK; ADVANCE OF SIR COLIN CAMPBELL; EVACUATION OF THE RESIDENCY BY THE WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND WOUNDED; DEATH OF GENERAL HAVELOCK; SIR C. CAMPBELL AT CAWNPOOR; FINAL RELIEF OF LUCKNOW; THE GHOORKAS ; GENERAL ORDER" OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 66 WHILE the British forces, and their faithful | Cawnpoor; and the siege and relief of allies the Sikhs and the Ghoorkas, were Lucknow. engaged before Delhi, in the mauner narrated in the last chapter, other gallant bands were involved in struggles, even more arduous, in different parts of the northwest provinces. With brief accounts of three of those events which attained the most celebrity, and present the most striking features of heroism, fortitude, and endurance, we shall occupy the few pages which remain to us, before, in fulfilment of the terms of our prospectus, we close our work. The three important episodes in the history of the mutiny which we select, are the defence of Arrah; the defence of, and massacre at, See ante, p. 380. One of the stations which we have mentioned as the scene of mutiny (Dinapore), is a town in the district of Patna, situate about ten miles from the town of that name, on the right or south bank of the Ganges. It is an important military post, remarkable for the fine barracks built by government for the accommodation of the troops. July, this station was garrisoned by her majesty's 10th foot, the 7th, 8th, and 40th native infantry, one company of European, and one of native, artillery. Major-general Lloyd, an officer who had been more than fifty years in the service, commanded the garrison; and the civilians, strongly sus |