glish held the
posts won within the gates: the enemy showed unflinching resolution,
and even threatened the English flanks and rear. Night closed over the
sanguinary scene, the English having lost 8 officers killed, and 52
wounded; 162 English and 103 native soldiers killed; 512 English, and
310 natives wounded. The first and second columns held all the towers,
bastions, and ramparts from the vicinity of the Cashmere-gate to the
Cabulgate; the third column and the reserve held the Cashmeregate, the
English church, Skinner's house, the Water bastion, Ahmed Ali Khan's
house, the college gardens, and many buildings and open spots in that
part of Delhi; while the fourth column, defeated in the western suburbs,
had retreated to the camp or the ridge. It was not until the end of
that the long and bloody succession of assaults ended in the total
subjugation of the place, after deeds of slaughter seldom paralleled.
The king and several members of his family escaped, but were pursued by
Major Hodson, and captured under circumstances of extraordinary daring
and presence of mind on the part of that officer.

The taking of Delhi was a deadly blow to the hopes of the rebels all
over India.

The progress of the mutiny and its suppression in other directions must
now be related. It was alleged that the King of Delhi was treated with
extraordinary indulgence, reinstated in his palace, and was treated by
the company's civil officers with even marks of homage. These reports
were set at rest by a letter written to the brother of his captor, by
Mrs. Hodson, the major's wife. The letter was deeply interesting, and
depicted the ex-royal family as in a condition of abject ignorance and
moral degradation.

The narrative of the siege of Delhi having been conducted to its close,
it is necessary to show the occurrence of events taking place in other
directions, which were contemporaneous with those which happened around
and in the capital of the Mogul.

While the incidents just related passed in and around Meerut and Delhi,
Scinde and the Punjaub were greatly agitated. Conspiracy to revolt and
murder, similar to what had taken place elsewhere, were discovered
in these two provinces. In both they were promptly and effectually
suppressed. Scinde remained tranquil, after a few arrests and executions
had been effected. In the Sikh districts Sir John Lawrence acted with
extraordinary sagacity, management, vigour, and courage, putting down at
once