a town of Hindustan, and the principal place of the British district of the same name, is situated upon the western bank of the Kalee Nuddee. It has been from ancient times a place of considerable consequence, and is mentioned amongst the early conquests of Mahmood of Ghizni in the year 1018. In 1399 it was taken and destroyed by Tamerlane. It was afterwards rebuilt; and when this part of the N.W. provinces came into the possession of the British, it was fixed upon as the capital of one of the districts into which the British possessions in the Doab of the Ganges and Jumna were subdivided. In 1809 it was made one of the principal military stations under the Bengal presidency; and more recently the head-quarters of artillery for the same presidency. It has recently (1837) acquired an infamous celebrity as the place where the mutiny of the Bengal army, which spread with fearful rapidity, first broke out. It was here that the men of the 5th regiment of Bengal cavalry suddenly fell upon their officers, and then released 70 of their comrades who had been imprisoned, under sentence of court-martial, for insubordinate conduct. It was here that the first massacre of Europeans, including women and children, took place; and it was from this place that other native infantry regiments, joining the mutinous 5th cavalry, were allowed to escape to Delhi, and, for the first time in the history of British India, to set at defiance the power and authority of the British government. Meerut is 32 miles N.E. from Delhi; Long. 77. 46. E.; Lat. 29. 1. N. The district of which this place is the capital lies between Lat. 28. 33. and 29. 17., Long. 77. 12. and 78. 15. It is about 57 miles in length and 48 in breadth, and has an area of 2832 square miles.