ALL WELL AND 'MERRY' AT AGRA.

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wounded; and one officer killed-Law, 10th Native Infantry. Very rainy afternoon.

CAMP, DELHI CANTONMENTS, Friday, 24th July.

I believe I overrated the number of our casualties yesterday. It is difficult to find out exactly, but they say now it was only twenty-five.* What an unusual number of officers were wounded in proportion! I am glad to say they are all doing well; and Frank Turner was dining at mess, so you may suppose that he was not very hardly hit. Bunny, who was here this morning, has just the slightest mark on his face.

The scoundrels in the city have been very quiet all day, and there is no talk of their making another attack. I have strictly told Hodson and Becher what you say about not going into the city until we get reinforcements! Our spies and people are, I dare say, rascals enough to be in the pay of the enemy, and to misrepresent their strength; but there is no chance now of our assaulting the city without fresh troops, and when the attack does come off, it will not, you may be sure, be made without our having better intelligence of what we are to expect inside than is to be obtained from common spies. Tell Sep. Becher he is altogether wrong about there being heaps of muskets in the magazine: they were all sent away to the Ferozepore magazine (I think it was) shortly before the outbreak.

Where did Mr Mayne get his information from about Chamberlain's arm? There is certainly no present intention of amputating it, and it is fully expected that it will be saved unless an unfavourable turn takes place, which is not anticipated.

There were letters from Agra last night of the 18th instant, when all was well there; and a daughter of Colonel Herbert's, who is married to Toby Glover, writes, I understand (for I did not see the letter myself), that they are as merry as possible, and she and Mrs Machell are, she says, managers of one of the messes in the Fort and altogether they appear to think it very great fun, and are quite ready to thrash any party of mutineers that may come to attack them.

It is difficult, from the various accounts, to learn with accuracy *The actual casualties in this affair were one officer and eleven men killed, five officers and thirty-four men wounded, and one man missing.-H. W. NORMAN..

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