INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 544, 20 January 1858, Page 3

INDIA.

A few further particulars can be gleaned from the files. The follQwing are the latest details from Delhi.

" Extract of a letter received from Colonel Young, dated Head-Quarters, Skinner's House, Delhi, Sept. 15th;— "The assault took- place yesterday morning soon after day-break, and ' t tho storming was entirely successful. Wo were soon in possession of the end of the fort with the Cashmere, Cabul, and Moree Gates, wnjeh we now hold with the church-,, college, and other large buildings near this. Preparations aro making* for

heavy batteries to knock the mutineers out of those parts of the city in which they now are; many of the city people have come in and received quarter. The Sepoys wanted to come also but were not permitted. The casualties are said to be Jieavy.j no artillery officers, however, kill<ed<or wounded. A great many of the mutineers have escaped. The left ■last -night, it is said, towards Rewaree. Our news from the Punjaub, the north generally, and MeeruVis satisfactory. A petty Rajah and his son were blown from guns at Jußbulpoor on the 18th, for plot- '■ ting the destruction of Europeans."

Lahore, 7 a.m., 16th Sept. Thß'following message has just been re 'ceived from QDelhi:—

" The magazine was stormed at daylight •by the cist Foot, the Belooch battalion, *and ipart of Wilde's regiment j we had ■only a few wounded, but the enemy about 40 killed. 125 guns were taken in the magazine."

Lahore, Sept. 17th. " The latest message from Delhi is up to 2 p.m. yesterday. Our mortars continue to play upon the palace from the magazine enclosure:; the enemy entirely abandoned the Kishengunge battery, and we have found in it, in position, five 8-inch mortars, making ;a total number of pieces of ordnance taken in and before Delhi upwards of 200.

The battery across the river opposite Kingurh is also reported to have been abandoned by the mutineers, who are in detached groups fighting from the tops of houses j their organization into regiments is Just being broken up." learn definitely that Lucknow had 'been relieved, with a loss on our side by one account said to be eleven hundred, and by.another four hundred killed and wounded.; amongst the former we deeply regret to say the gallant General NeilL There appears to be no truth in the report that the place was again surrounded by a large force, but on the contrary, thousands of the enemy are said to be deserting the city.

Nana Sahib appears to have risen from the dead, in a manner unexplained, for by -a proclamation issued in several languages ~T>y the Governor-General, a reward of fifty thousand rupees (£5,000) is offered for the apprehension of Streemunt Dhoondoo Punt .N ana Sahib of Bittoon.

It is said to be "stated on good authority" that many Europeans have been -concealed and taken care of by native gentlemen in Bundelcund and Futtyghur. The Supreme Government has placed at the disposal of the Calcutta press a letter from Gren. Havelock, dated Easarutgunge, September 21st. It states that he was joined by his reinforcement on the 15th and 16th of that month and thus continues: —"On the 19th I crossed first to the Island on the Ganges, and then to its left bank, by a bridge of boats which had been laboriously constructed by Captain Crommelin, Field Engineer. The enemy retired after a very feeble (in fact) a nominal resistance to his position at Mungarwar. "The two brigades of my force occupied an -alignment with right centre behind SandMis, the centre and left on a plain, extending to the road from Lucknow Ghaut =to Mungarwar. My heavy guns and baggage were passed over on the 20th. This morning I attacked the enemy, turned his right, and drove him from his position with the loss of four guns; two of which, and the regimental colours of the first Bengal N. I. were captured by the Volunteer Cavalry in a charge headed by Sir James Outram. The loss on our side was trifling. The enemy suffered severely, about one hundred and twenty were sabred by the Cavalry.