f this kind, Colonel Wilson ordered his line to advance, and
the mutineers were routed. The English were too much exhausted by the
heat to pursue: several men in all branches of the service dropped
dead from sun-stroke. The rebels bore away their guns. The English lost
twenty-four men; about half from sun-stroke. Lieutenant Perkins was
among the slain; Captain Johnson, and Ensign Napier, among the wounded.
The stubbornness of the mutineers led Colonel Wilson to maintain his
position and await orders and reinforcements. On the 3rd of June he was
joined by another company of the Royal York Rifle regiment, and by a
battalion of Goorkhas. These troops remained faithful, for, although
attached to the Brahminical religion, they are more superstitious than
fanatical, and hold the sepoys, and even Sikhs, in contempt, while
the British are objects of military admiration to them. On the 6th the
brigade reached the rendezvous at Rhagput.

The force from Umballah left that place on the 24th of May, and readied
Kurnaul on the 25th. Anson died on the 27th. In his last illness he
confided the capture of' Delhi to General Barnard, and telegraphed
to Lord Canning that he had done so, who confirmed the general in the
command of the forces acting against Delhi. Before the command delegated
to Barnard by Anson could be confirmed at Calcutta, General Reid, in
virtue of seniority, became chief of the army, but he carried out
the wish of General Anson in confiding the attack on Delhi to Sir. H.
Barnard.

After various misunderstandings and serious delays on the part of
Colonel Wilson, caused by the obstruction offered by the sepoys, and by
taking a circuitous and difficult route, the two brigades met on the 6th
of June, and on the 7th the whole force was reorganized near Delhi.

The brigades under both generals had been considerably augmented on the
march. The officials took no steps for preventing disaster, but acted in
the same way as in England and elsewhere, that occasioned so much loss
of life and reputation before Sebastopol. Sir H. Barnard found himself
and all about him, upon whom in the first instance the duty devolved,
bewildered, and incapable of combining, arranging, or devising
expedients to supply governmental and commissary defects. The army
before Delhi, on a small scale, for a time repeated the faults and
follies of the army before Sebastopol. Those upon whom the army depended
for intelligence, succour, and directions, gave