Delhi. It was taken, on the 14th June, by the royal troops under General Sir Harry Barnard. The insurgents fought like fiends, and lost seven thousand in the desperate conflict. They maintained themselves to the last in the Royal Palace. This news will act as a salutary check upon the mutineers before Cawnpore.

Towards the close of the day, we halted at Moopteckeepore. The heat during our march was extremely trying-the more so, as we had to encounter a hot wind, which parched us like the breath of a furnace.

JULY 1st.

We reached Koila, an unimportant village. During this line of march, some villages were fired; and any native found

in arms, who could not prove his asserted innocence, was summarily hanged, such being the instructions under which we acted.

JULY 3rd.

We received information from that most energetic and superior statesman, Sir Henry Lawrence, which caused us to halt here at Lohanda, four miles in advance. His present position is extremely critical Chief Commissioner of Oude, and maintaining himself at Lucknow with very inferior numbers against the disbanded soldiery of the Oude irregular force, who have taken advantage of the present crisis to declare their independence of British rule, and proclaim their fidelity to the King of Oude, now a prisoner of the

honourable Company, and under strict sur

veillance at Calcutta.

JULY 4th.

We marched to Kuttohan, seven miles, where we opened communication with a steamer on the Ganges, conveying a company of the Madras Fusiliers, with some artillery commanded by by Captain Frazer Allahabad, who is is to co-operate abreast of this column. So great is the difficulty in obtaining carriage, that the force under Brigadier General Havelock has not yet marched from Allahabad.

from

JULY 7th.

A discharge of heavy guns from the direction of the river has put us all on the qui vive. This we ascertained was осса

sioned by an unfortunate mistake on the part of the artillery on board, in opening fire from the steamer upon the village of a loyal Zemindar, who had both protected and sheltered officers and their families of the mutinous Sepoy regiments.

A letter of explanation and apology has been sent to him en route to Allahabad, and he has been invited to open communication with our commander. The Zemindar's people have armed and followed the steamer, firing upon it from the banks, and compelling us to return the fire.

Intelligence has just been received that the city of Futtehpore (place of victory) two marches in advance, has been completely deserted, both by its inhabitants and the insurgents.

In this village (Kuttohan) a quantity of British railway property has been found; the houses in which it was discovered have been blown up, and a number of buried arms come to light.

These we

have secured.

JULY 8th.

We marched from Kuttohan, four and a half miles. For the past few days we

have had constant rain, not

a spot of dry ground for encamping upon. The

flatness of the country renders it at a

season like the present a complete

swamp.

There being no choice, we pitched our tents near the line of railway, and found the premises a heap of ruins, the work of the mutineers. It was fortunate that no