The story of the greased cartridges, with all its absurd embellishments, ran up the Ganges and Jumna to Benares, Allahabad, Agra, Delhi, and the great cantonment at Meerut; while another current of lies ran back again from Meerut to Barrackpur.

The story of the greased cartridges, with all its absurd embellishments, ran up the Ganges and Jumna to Benares, Allahabad, Agra, Delhi, and the great cantonment at Meerut; while another current of lies ran back again from Meerut to Barrackpur.

Within a week of the outbreak at Lucknow, the great military station of Meerut was in a blaze.

Meerut was only forty miles from Delhi, and the largest cantonment in India.

In spite of the presence of Europeans there were more indications of excitement at Meerut than at any other station in the northwest.

At Meerut the story of the greased cartridges had been capped by the story of the bonedust; and there were the same kind of incendiary fires, the same lack of respect toward European officers, and the same whispered resolve not to touch the cartridges, as at Barrackpur.

The regiment of sepoy cavalry at Meerut was strongly suspected of disaffection; accordingly it was resolved to put the men to the test.

The military authorities at Meerut seem to have been under a spell.

The Europeans at Meerut saw and heard nothing.

Monday at Delhi was worse than the Sunday at Meerut.

The approach to Delhi from Meerut was defended by the little river Hindun, which was spanned by a small bridge.

It was proposed to procure two cannon from the magazine and place them on the bridge; but before this could be done the rebel cavalry from Meerut were seen crossing the river, and were subsequently followed by the rebel infantry.

Brigadier Graves did his best to protect the city and cantonment until the arrival of the expected Europeans from Meerut.

Presently the rebel troops from Meerut came up, accompanied by the insurgent rabble of Delhi.

The English officers held on, expecting the European soldiers from Meerut.

The news of the revolt at Meerut threw the sepoys into a ferment at every military station in Hindustan.

When the news arrived of the revolt at Meerut on May 10th, Nana was loud in his professions of attachment to the English.

"It was on the 10th of the present month [May] that the outburst of the mutinous spirit took place in our own neighborhood,at Meerut.

On the junction of the two brigades, the horrors of Meerut were repeated in the imperial city, and every European who could be found was massacred with revolting barbarity.

Some fled away quietly with their arms, to join the force that had now swelled to an army in the city of the Great Moghul; some repeated the atrocities of Meerut, and set up a separate standard of revolt, to which all the disaffected and all the worst characters of the district flocked, to gratify their lust for revenge of real or fancied wrongs, or their baser passions for plunder and unmeaning cruelty.

The next morning, on the arrival of the insurgent cavalry from Meerut, and the subsequent mutiny of the native infantry regiments and artillery in the cantonments, the massacre of the Europeans in Delhi began.

The mutineers of the 3rd Light Cavalry from Meerut had entered Delhi on May 11, crossing the Jumna by the bridge of boats, and, being joined by the city scoundrels, first wreaked their vengeance on the European residents who lived close by, and who, without any previous warning of the terrible fate in store for them, fell easy victims to the murderers.

He afterwards entered the Mogul service, and was rewarded by a grant of a tract of country near Meerut, which remained in the possession of his family until recent times.

Barrackpore, Meerut, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Delhi,five imposing plunges, but impotent; for at every point the Sahib's fatal fire, fire, fire, fire, fire!insurmountable, all-subduing 'destiny'!

And if he couldwhy, before your letter got to Meerut, she will be gone up to London; and by the time she comes back we'll be safe in our own Rectory.