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      that , wliile the police Avere sweeping away Mr . Hahna ' s congregations , the ' clubs' were practising with their guns ; and the animating sounas showed that the pi-actice continued by moonlight . Prom the United States we have some evidences that the advocates of unreason are gradually Iftauig ground . To certain elergjauen abjecting to ! tfte aaforccment of government and order in Kansas , Mirr

      Buchanan has returned an admiiablc reply , briefly recapitulating the history of tfia Kansas Govern * - ment , and showing that if the © gferal Govamnflanfr and the territorial Qavernor- \*© re not to ou & rce the laws , the territory—a constituent portion of the Republic—would be handed over to anarchy . It is a subject to which we must return , as AvelL as to Mr . Tyler ' s excellent letter on the proposal of certain Southern men to withdraw the

      stavesuppression squadron of the- United' States from the coast of Africa , The two .- let-tiers show t & afc the statesmen of the Union are prepared to maintain the Federal compacts in spite of brawlers , but that they are not prepared to lend encouragement to that slavery wliich was forced upon the United States , and wliich was so much disliked by the Jeppehso ^ s arid "Wasiiisgtons . The details of the arrangements for the meeting of the Emperors at Stuttgard have been laid down as precisely and neatly as if their Majesties were going to perform in a "rand ballet at the Academie

      Imperiale at Paris . The Emperor Napoleon will arrive early in the evening ; the Emperor Alex-A 2 TDEB . will have preceded him a little . The Emperor Napoleon will occupy apartments- in the King ' s Palace ; the Emperor Alexander will lodge at the mlla of the Princess Royal near the gates- of the city . The Emperor Napoleon , on the day of his arrival , will dine with , the King ; the Emperor Alexander , on the same clay , will dine with the Princess Koynl , who will afterwards give a little soiree at which the King and the Emperor Napoeeon are to attend . Then and there the first

      interview of the Emperors is to take place , in the presence of nobody besides the King and the Princess Royal . A . similarly ingenious little scheme for bringing the Ministers and suites of the two Emperors neatly together has been arranged . But what the august principals in the drama are to do and say , after henig brought together with so much pains and ingenuity , has unfortunately not been prearranged . The Siecle will have it that their meeting puts the whole political world of Europe in a nutter ; ' and the JPatrie is extremely anxious to assure Belgium

      that her existence will not be menaced in the amicable conversations which are likely to talec place between them . But the best thing that lias been said about what the Emperors will , can , or should say or do , when they meet , was said by the ' Times yesterday , wherJit suggested that they should set their Imperial , heads together to reduce their enormous standing armies , which alone stand in . the way of the permanent peace of Europe , and wliich are maintained at the cost of peoples , solely for the gain of Emperors .

      The Unionists have obtained a decided majority of votes in the Moldavian elections ; but the question of a union of the Principalities under a foreign prince is no nearer settlement . The struggle of contending wishes aud opinions- will simply be renewed in the hall of the Divan , and the result will probably be that the present majority will be broken up into parties on the question , whether this ruler snctll'be a ' native Hospodar / or absolutely a ' foreign prince . ' And even supposing that the tyvo Divans ¦ were agreed to accept a ' foreign prince , ' it does not

      iouow that the Principalities would become a liounian nation ., governed in the way they desire . The deliberations of tlio Paris Conference upon the report of the Commission now at work in the Principalities , may bring aliout a , result little according with the desire of the Unionist majority . Meanwhile , it has long been known that the In-each Government does not intend to insist upon , the ' personal union' of the two countries . What is most likely to happen is , that Moldavia and Wallacbia will have each the same institutions , but under separate Governments .

      The trial of Cahpisntirk , Parod , Guellet , and GuiiitiN , for the robberies of tho Great Northern of France Hailway , has commenced in 1 ' aria . On nc-COtint of the time which has elapsed sinco the discovery was made of their enormous depredations , the public interest in Paris has subsided ; it is ' however , still considerable , and will increase us tlio trial advances , for strango facts will be disclosed . Already we havo one or two . " GtjiSiujt , the exnight watchman , at a salary of ' . 10 / . a year—who gave out that he had been left a fortune , und

      purchased land , built houses * and made loans of money —conducted speculative- operations in . 1851-5-6 amounting fa * 43 , 000 , 000 fr . The story of the robbery exhibjfcs some striking dramatic points : as when Cabbbntier , wliile abstracting shares from Baron da * Rothschild's safe , discovers , to his consternafciim , that some oae- has T > ecn before Him in the week ! Qoiellet , the sub-cashier , confesses his

      guilt almost gpily , and manages to get a Kuign , b ^ sayingr that lie had doofihed to accept a aat : yi of money whiaik Farod wanted bin to speculate with , ' because , lie-knew that to spaeulate at tll «* . Bourse is to resign oneself io ruin . ' " ¦ Shall I tell you what position I am in ? " he said to the court : " I ha . ven t a child ! aud' I believe the others-haven't one either ! ' * " If this humour lie maintained , the criminate- may insist on disclosing alt they have dene , for others as well as themselves , —why they did it , and why they could do it—a grand lesson !

      914 The Leader. [No. 392, Septembeb 26, ...

      914 THE LEADER . [ No . 392 , Septembeb 26 , 1857 .

      The. Indies Eevolt. General Ha.Velock Ha...

      THE . INDIES EEVOLT . General Ha . velock has again advanced on X / ucknow . Plaving left his sick and wounded at Cawnpore , with fresh men , and being slightly reinforcedhis two objects in making his retrograde movement —lie left once more for Lucknow on the 4 th of August . The events at Dinapore and Arrah have excited the greatest pain and indignation , in India . Four regiments mutinied at the former place ; but , after much parleying on the part of General Lloyd ( who has since been superseded by General Outram ) , eight hundred of them were shot down by English troops , and the rest fled . These measures were not followed up with sufficient rapidity and firmness . We read iu a letter from Dinapore , dated August 1 st : —

      " Instead of the enemy being pursued at once , while the panic lasted , three da 3 rs were suffered to elapse , and then a party , consisting of her Majesty ' s 37 th , her Majesty ' s 10 th , and Siklis , making iu all four hundred , were despatched by steamer to the nearest point on the river to Arrah , which is about fourteen miles inland . The men were landed and marched by moonlight till about eleven o ' clock , when the moon went down , and when they should have halted ; but the officer in command obstinately pushed on in the dark , in an unknown country , in the face of a powerful army , the men tired , and hungry , and discontented . What could be expected ? They fell into an ambush of about 2000 men ,

      partly Sepoys and partly men belonging to Kour Singh , a powerful landholder in these parts . A murderous volley was poured in , and a good many fell . This created a panic , and the men separated , and did not join altogether till morning . The officer commanding the party , Captain Dunbar , was killed by the first volley . The rebels kept up a heavy fire all night upon our men , which they returned , but in the morning a precipitate retreat was made by our men . From all 1 can ascertain they would not listen to their officers , but it was a case of every man for himself . The slaughter on our side was dreadful—about one hundred and fifty killed , and hardly a man unwounded .

      " Among the officers , eight foil killed or mortally wounded , and several wounded returned to the station . Among the killed Avore—Captain . Dunbar , 10 th Foot ; Lieutenant Anderson , late 22 nd , volunteer ; Lieutenant Ingilby , Into 7 th , volunteer ; Lieutenant Sale , her Majesty ' s 37 th ; Ensign Erskine , her Majesty ' s 10 th ; mate of steamer killed ; a railway volunteer also . The names of others I cannot find out . " Wounded—Lieutenant Sandwith , her Majosty ' 3 10 th ; Ensign Venour , late 40 th , volunteer ; Dr . Jackson , Mr . Garstin , volunteer .

      Mr . Macdonald , volunteer , and many others . They were pursued by the wholo force of rebels to a nullah , where many wero drowned because they could not swim . The native officers woro seen hounding on thoir men . Three were shot . Men in rifle uniform -were seen among them . They muat havo been hard up for ammunition , as they fired buttons and stones . Tlioy had tho small guns , The Dumraou Rajah ia said to Lave joined them with guns . It is lamentable to think that all this Ios 3 of life has been caused by one man .

      "Two guns and one hundred men of tho 10 th have gone , to JPatna , which is very shaky . We nil look anxiously for tho 5 th' Fusiliers , BJiid to bo close at hand , I hope they may nrrivo before to-morrow , which is tho first day of the Bultra Eed , for wo have only six hundred bayonets altogether . All peoplo havo been ordered in- from the district , avid are arriving in shouls . General Lloyd has gone on tho sick list . Ilia second in command ia Colonel Rowcroft . " Tho rehels havo seized all tho boata on tlio Soaiio and secured them on their own side . Oilicers patrol nil

      night—an hour each , two and two . Affairs certainly do not look very cheering . Oh for a great headpiece hcrul ior "what will beconio of ub V We expect an attack . I believe no provisions hnvo been collected . " General Lloyd hits been brought before a courtinnrtiiil for his conduct in connexion with tho Dinuporc mutiny . So ninny of our men wero lulled by tho volleys of the enemy during the Arrah alfair , that it wub found impossible for the fturvivora to carry them away ; so tlioy wero perforce left to their fate . During tlio

      night , our men had been repeatedly fired on and were uimbletso leply , because , being separated ' tw could not . tslEwhether they should be firing on friend oc fbe . Jn , tiho meanwhile , the small garrison at Arrah defended themselves with heroic couraee They consisteeB of about half a . dozen Englishmen ' fifteen other Europeans , half-caste sub-officials and railwayman , and forty-six Sikhs ; and this ' small force repulsed an attack of two thousand of the mutineers- from Dinapore , who lost , it is supposed lttotflf tiiaoi : fifty killed and wounded while the jeunteon h-atfc onjy one wounded on their side and

      mj . killed ! Tliey were atr length relieved hy a , <] e tachnient under Major Eyre , Bengal ArtillerV on the evening of the 3 rd of August . The force *' had been sent from Buxar , and consisted of two hundred men and three guns . Meeting with a native Knnh at the-headof three thousand men-and several pieces of artillery , on the road to Arrali , Major Eyre ' s detachment attacked and dispersed the enemy , and then marched on to the rescue of the beleag uered garrison One who -was concerned In it , but who ^ eseaped with scarcely- a lmrt , thus relates the disaster at Arrah : —

      "It was a-beautiful moonlight night , the road a very bad one ( akutcha one in the rains ) , and wooded couutry on both sides of us . W " did not see a soul on the road though we passed through several villages , until we came to witEiin five miles of Arrah , where we saw a party of horsemen ahead of us , who galloped off before we got within shot . About eleven o ' clock the moon went down ; however , as we did hot expect that the mutineers would face us , we still went on until we came within about a mile of the fortified house . We were passing a thick black mango grove to our right , when all of a sudden , without any warning , the whole place was lighted up by a tremendous volley poured into us at about thirty or forty yards' distance . It is impossible to say how-many men fired into us—seme say five hundred , some one thousand five hundred . The ' next thin" I

      remember -was finding myself alone , lying in the middle of the road , with a crack on the head , and my hat gone . I suppose I must have been stunned for a minute , When I recovered , there were several men lying- by me . but not a living soul could I sec . There were ' lots to hear , though , for the bullets from right to left where whistling over my head . I was just thinking where our men could be , and whicbx way I should run , when I saw the Sepoys advancing out of the grove with their bayonets within a dozen yards of me . I fired my double barrel right and left into them and then ran towards our men , whom I could hear shouting on tho left , under a tremendous fire from both parties . Everything now was in a most dreadful confusion ; the men were all scattered in groups

      of fifties and twenties , tiring in every direction , and , I fear , killing each other . At last , a Captain Jones , a very fine fellow—our commander was never again seen after the first volley— -got hold of a bugler ar . d got the men together in a sort of hollow place , a half-filled pond . There we all lay down in a square . I was in the middle , ^ vitli the doctor , helping him to tie up the wounds of the poor fellows , and bringing them water . The iking was all this time going on . Tho enemy could see us , as wo were all dressed in white , while they were nearly naked , and behind trees and walls . However , the men lireel about at random . At last the poor doctor was knocked over , badly wounded . It was dreadful to hear the poor wounded fellows asking for help .

      " I shall never forget that night as long as I live . "We held a consultation , and determined to retreat , as the enemy was at least 3000 or 4000 strong , and had , losides , several cannon . Directly morning dawned we formed order , and began our retreat . The whole distance , sixteen miles , wo walked under a most tremendous lire ; the ditches , the jungles , the houses , and , in fact , every place of cover along the road was lined with Sopoys . \ Ve kept up a Ore as we went along , but what coiild we do ? Wo could see no enemj , only pull ' s of smoke . Wo tried to charge , but there wan nobody to charge ; on all sides they fired into us , and wero

      scattered ull over the country in groups of tons and twenties . Dozens of poor fellows were knocked over within a yard of mo on my right and left , but , thank God , I escaped in tho most wonderful way . The last five miles of tho road I carried a poor wounded fellow , who . begged mo not to leave him , and though avo had nothing to eat for more than twenty-four hour ? , and I had had no sloop for tivo nights , I nover felt ho strong in my life , and 1 stepped out with tho man as if he had been a fentlicr , though he was as big as myself . l ' onr fellow ! tho men , most of them more or Ioh . s wounded , wero leaving him boliiiul , and the cowardly Sepoys , who

      never came within frivo hundred yards of up , wero running up to murder him . I got tho poor follow anfo over tho nullah ; I swnm out and got n boat , put him in , ¦ •• ni 1 went over with a lot of others . ' The poor fellow tliiinked mo with toara iu his eyes . At tha crossing of the iiull « u ¦ wo lost n groat many men ; tlioy threw away tll ( lir miiHketa to pull tho bonta and to . swim over , and were allot do wn like . sheep . " I nover before- knew tlio horrors of war , n \ ul Avhat 1 havo gone through 1 hopo will nmk « u lifting impresHioa on my miiul , and make mo think nion » t > i Uod and Ilia great yoodnens to mo . I am furc (« j « J -spared mo because He know I wuh not fit to dio ; ; iml x pray CJodtliat lie will prepare me , for wo cum truly my

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 26, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26091857/page/2/