On the 10th of May, 1857, the Mutiny burst forth in all its fury at Meerut. It was Sunday, and the cowardly brutes waited until the European troops were in church before moving. There were two splendid regiments there, besides Artillery, and if they had only been let loose, not a man of the three regiments that started the Mutiny would have lived to tell the tale. The troops in the cantonment consisted of the following:--6th Dragoon Guards, 60th Rifles, and two batteries of Bengal Artillery (all Europeans); Natives, 11th and 20th Infantry, and 3rd Cavalry. Every man, woman, and child (Europeans) that fell in their way was murdered. And, as an eye-witness of some of these scenes, I can say that every horror, making war hideous, attended this dreadful outbreak. The cry of murder from poor defenceless women and children echoed throughout the land. Death in all modes was rampant--from the sword, bayonet, water, flames, and starvation. The barbarity of these fiends has never been equalled. The number who perished during that unparalleled revolt will never be known. The reader will ask, "What were our men doing?" Their hands were tied. They had an "old woman" in command, and he was fearful that if he let the Cavalry and Artillery loose some of the "bungalows" might get burnt. There was the whole station in a blaze, and yet not a sword was drawn to save a single life until the mutineers had thought fit to move off to Delhi! One of the officer's wives might well exclaim, "Oh, agony! what a night! Every house in sight was blazing; shots were fired at me; some of our men at last dashed into our compound (garden). I saw the Cavalry uniform. 'Come, come,' I shouted, 'and save me;' 'Fear nothing,' shouted the first man, 'No one shall injure you.' Oh how I thanked them. If our Artillery and Dragoons had been let loose, the Mutineers would never have reached Delhi." The three regiments of rebels at once marched off to Delhi--37 miles, and the Cavalry reached it next day at 8 a.m. The three regiments of Native Infantry at Delhi--38th, 54th, and 74th--received the 3rd Cavalry with open arms, and allowed their officers to be cut or shot down by them without attempting to defend them. THE SCENES AT DELHI.