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    1036 THE LEADED [No. 397, October 31,185

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    The Indian Revolt. —?— . ¦ Tall Of Delhi...

    ingleaders were seized before they could carry oat their lesigns . " A wing of the 4 th ( King ' s Own ) Regiment has arived from the Mauritius , and been despatched to Kurrahee . A portion of her Majesty ' s 95 th Regiment has irrived from the Cape , and is now stationed in Bombay . Che rest are daily expected . " All is quiet in the Punjab . The Deccan remains tranquil . The Madras Presidency is undisturbed . British authority is paramount in the Bombay Presidency . " Some further intelligence is related in the ffnrkaru of Calcutta : —

    " The Punjab still holds oat in bold relief to the rest of India . There , -wherever mutiny has raised its head , it has been promptly and severely crushed . In no single instance has Sir John Lawrence failed of success . The 55 th , composed of Brahmins , who mutinied because they * preferred death to loss of caste , ' took refuge with the Swats , who not only plundered them of their wealth , but converted them into Mahometans , and then , turned thern adrift ; the 9 th Cavalry , 26 th , 46 th Native Infantry , and others , were cut up almost to a man , and Sir John has been enabled , not only to maintain tranquillity , but to furnish a large force for the operations against Delhi . " The 50 th Native Infantry has mutinied at Nagode . but the officers of the regiment are safe , their soldiers not having massacred them . " In the Englishman we read : —

    " Three hundred mutineers have entered Gya , and the residents have been compelled to shut themselves up in a house . A detachment of H . M . 's 10 th was sent to relieve them . The mutineers belonged to the 5 th Irregulars , and an engagement has taken place in which Captain Kattray and his Sikhs have been defeated ; the rebels managing to rush through Gya on their way to the Shahabad district . Mr- Samuells ordered Captain Rattray to attack ; the captain refused , representing the imprudence of two hundred men attacking about eight hundred , and then Mr . J . P . Grant peremptorily ordered Captain Rattray to advance . The result was that about forty of our men have been killed and wounded . "

    The rebels then again entered Gya , and once more plundered it . ITrom various other sources we gather the subjoined details : — "A body of Santals , about two hundred , collected at- * " place sixteen miles from Hazareebaugh , about a quarter of an hour before sunset ; the Rhamghur Cavalry , and some Sikhs , commanded by Lieutenant J . M . Graham , went out to meet them . They were on a low hill , with a belt of low rice-fields between the Sowars and them , and a jungle behind , and , as soon as they saw the Sowars , they rushed to their arms , and commenced ' tom-tom-ing . ' Fearing that they would bolt , and there being no time to lose , as the sun was just going down , Mr . Graham attempted to cross the swamp

    with the cavalry , having the infantry close at hand . His horse stuck in the mud , so he jumped off , and waded through to the opposite bank . The Santals now came on to within about fifty or sixty yards , and commenced shooting arrows . The men fired a volley , and their fire began to tell a little . They were within twenty yards of the enemy , and their leader , a stout gentleman , in a red pugree and waistcloth , -with a long . two-edged sword , favoured them , with an extemporaneous dance in front of his party . Mr . Graham fired at him with hia revolver , and hit him high up in the left breast , and as soon as his followers saw him stagger , they gave ground , on which the Sikhs charged , and the affair was over in a minute . They got eleven dead bodies ; it was too dark to look for more . Five of our

    men were wounded , and three horses . Two of the former and two of the latter severely . The Santals had pitched a tent and standard , and collected a large quantity of grain , all of which our men brought away with them . " A reward of 5000 / . has been offered for the apprehension of Nona Sahib , and some hopes have been entertained of capturing him . 14 A very gallant exploit has been achieved at Lucknow , by Lieutenant J . C . Anderson , of the Madras Engineers , Superintendent of Irrigation in Oude . He is

    with the besieged garrison in the Residency at Lucknow , who were greatly molested by a couple of large guns with which the enemy had taken up a position in a house that overtopped a part of the Residency . Mr . Anderson successfully undermined the house , and blew the whole of the inmates , estimated at about live hundred , into the air . The garrison then sallied out and spiked the guns , taking back with them into their entrenchment a large number of bullocks and other provisions . —All was well at Lucknow on the lGth of September , and the relief of the garrison is looked on aa almost certain .

    " General Outram has decided against the men of II . BI . 10 th Regiment in regard to the slaughter of some unarmed Sepoys of the 40 th N . I . at Dinaporc . He has , ho says , perused with feelings of indignation the proceedings of the court of inquest , from which it is too evident that European aoldicrfl havo ntnincd their hands with the blood of inoffensive men of the 40 th N . I ., who had laid down their arms in submission to the orders of the British Government , and who reposed on the good foith of that Government , which hits thus been

    comuro-^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ " ^ ¦ ^¦ " ¦¦ ^^¦¦¦^^¦¦^ " ¦ ¦¦ ^ ¦¦¦¦¦^ ¦¦¦^¦ ^¦ ^ raised . As the individual perpetrators of the atrocity have not been detected , the stigma must for the present , observes the General , attach to the whole regiment . ' There is a report at Calcutta that a rebellion has broken out in Cashmere against the Maharajah Runbheer Singh , the son and successor of the late Gholab Singh . QIt will be seen above that Runbheer has sent a contingent to aid us at Delhi , at the capture of which they were present . ] The rebels , it is added , have taken possession of the whole country . 44 The Rajah of Assam is said to have been deported from Upper Assam to the large gaol in Central Assam .

    "An act for the registry of arms , and for regulating the possession , manufacture , importation , and sale of arms and ammunition , lias been passed by the Legislative Council . It is not to take effect in any place or district till its provisions are specially extended thereto ; and Government is empowered to exempt any person or classes of persons from its operation . 41 Governor-General in Council , by a proclamation dated the 7 th , invites all faithful subjects of the British Crown to join in a humble offering of prayer , supplication , and confession of sins to Almighty God , and to implore a blessing upon all measures taken for the repression of rebellion and crime , and for the restoration of peace , order , and contentment throughout British India , and he proposes that Sunday , the 4 th of October , shall be observed in each . Presidency as a dav of Special Praver . " "

    From official sources we learn ( under dates 27 th and * 24 th September ) that — " Malwa is still in a disturbed state , but nothing worthy of note has occurred . In Gwalior , Scindiah is stated to be raising a force of 15 , 000 men for the purpose of intercepting the fugitives from Delhi . A portion of the Blhow and Indore rebels are reported to hav « crossed the Chatnbul . The Gwalior mutineers are oxpected to march on Agra . "A Shahzadar has collected many thousand followers at Mundisore for the King of Delhi . The Post of Dhar has been seized by Mahomedans in the Rajah ' s service , and Rutlam is believed to be taken . Western Malw-ii .

    consequently is disturbed . Colonel Durand is still at Mhow . In the Rajpootana Agency , tranquillity is disturbed by the mutiny of the Joudpore Legion . Captain Mason is moving on the mutineers with two guns and 2000 men . Escape is difficult . The Rao of S ^ rohi is giving hearty aid , and theBheels are with us . " Amongst the many brave men who have recently distinguished themselves in India , > we have noticed with sincere pleasure the name of Captani Maude , lloyal Artillery . We believe this officer is the son of Captain the Honourable Francis JVhtude , li . ti ., the well-known friend of the Naval Female School , and other kindred institutions . We heartily congratulate the esteemed father on the high testimony borne to the skill and bravery of his son by so good a judge as the gallant Havelock .

    NENA SA . IIIB ' S PBOCLAMATIONS . The following proclamations have been issued by Nena Sahib . The first is dated the 1 st of July : — "As , by the kindness of God and the ikbal or good fortune of the Emperor , all the Christians who were at Delhi , Poonah , Satarah , and other places , and even those 5000 > European soldiers who went in disguise into the former city and were discovered , are destroj-ed and sent to hell by the pious and sagacious troops , who are firm to their religion ; and as they have all been conquered by the present Government , and as no trace of them is left in these places , it is the duty of all the subjects and servants of the Government to rejoice at the delightful intelligence , and to carry on their respective work with comfort and case . " Proclamation dated the 1 st of July , and issued by order of the Nena : —

    " As , by the bounty of the glorious Almighty God and the enemy-destroying fortune of the Emperor , the yellow-fa « ed and narrow-minded people have bi ? en sent to hell , and Cawnpore has been conquered , it is necessary that all the subjects and landowners should l ) c as obedient to the present Government as they had been to the former one ; that all the Government servants uliould promptly and cheerfully engage their whole mind in executing the orders of Government ; that it is the incumbent duty of all the ryots and landed proprietors of every district to rejoice at the thought tliut tho Christians ha-ve been sent to hell , and both the Hindoo and Mohomedan religions have been confirmed ; and that they should as usual bo obedient to the authorities of the Government , and never to suJfcr any complaint against themselves to reacli the eara of the higher authority . "

    Order dated the 5 th of July to the city Kotwal ( Mayor ) by the Nona : — "It has come to our notice that . Homo of the city people , having heard the rumourn of thu arrival of the European soldiers ut Allulmbad , arc < k'nertiiitf thoir Iiouhch mid going out into the dinlricts ; you nit ' , there-Core directed to proclaim in each lano and utrcet . of the city that regiments of cavalry and infantry ami battericH huvu boon despatched to check the European * either at Alhihubad or l ' uttohporo ; Hint the . people nhould therefore , remain in their Iiouhch without any approheimion , and onga ^ o their minds in currying on their work . " CAWm'OUK . A lance-corporal in the 78 th Ilhrhlandera writes

    as follows to his relatives near Edinburgh , datinefrom the camp on the left bank of the Ganges An gust 2 nd : — b ' " " After all our hard work we were too late to save the poor Europeans at Cawnporo ; they were put to an awful death by tho bloodthirsty rascals . But we are making them suffer for it now in their ' turn . If they had spared the helpless women and children , we could have forgiven them , but now they are doomed to die if ever they fall into the hands of a European . After wo retook Cawnpore , tho man they called the ' Butcher' fell into our hands . There was a very old European woman who had made her escape . Having dressed barself up like a native of the country , she remained in Cawnpore all the time the mutineers had possession of the place , and as soon as our army found their -way into the place , she came to us and told us the awful truth . It made our blood boil with rage , and I could hear the men of the

    78 th saying one among another , ' I will never spare a man with a black face . ' She pointed out the ' Butcher ' to us , and he was brought up and sentenced to be hanged . But before his execution , we took him to the house where he killed the women and children . It was a terrible sight to behold their long hair all matted on the floor , with parts of dresses lying scattered about the place where the horrid massacre took place . We made the ruffian bend down on kis k ? iee , and lick up part of the blood . of the helpless that he had sjrilled , and then we hung him up on a tree until he was dead . But hanging is thought nothing of among us , we see so much of it every day . Sometimes as many as thirty are executed in a morning , and others we bbw from the mouth of the guns . I have seen some terrible sights . There is only a handful of us , and we have to encounter about nineteen to one of us , and sometimes more . I have had

    some narrow escapes lately , and I am in danger of my life every moment ; but I " still live in hopes that I will be spared to see this affair finished and return home to old Scotland again . He will be a lucky dog , however , that gets through safe . This war is not like the late Indian wars . We have our own drilled soldiers with our guns and ammunition to contend with . Besides , this is the worst season of the year that the mutiny could have taken place in , as there are heavy rains and

    a scorching sun . We have hard marching and hard fighting , with very little to eat ; and , as our clothes and shoes are very nearly worn out , we are just like so many ragamuffins . The war is beginning to tell very much on the ranks of the Royal Artillery , 64 th Regiment , 78 th Highlanders , and 84 th Regiment . After the last engagement -we had , on the 29 th July , these regiments mustered only 1000 men fit for duty—that is 200 men under the strength of a regiment in India ,-which are supposed to be 1200 . " . .

    THE WOKK OF HETAUATIOX . Another soldier of the 73 th Highlanders' writes to his friends at Perth : — "We came to a large village , and it was full of people . "We took abcut two hundred , aud set lire to it . I went in . and it was nil in flames . I saw an old man trying to trail out a bad . He was not able to walk , far less carry out the cot . I ordered him out of the village , and pointed out the flames , and tuhl him as well as I could that if he did not he would be burned . I took the

    cot and dragged him out . I came round the corner of a street or Line , stud I could & ee nothing but smoke and ilames . 1 stood for a moment to think which way I should go . Justus I was looking round , I taw a house and the ilanies bursting out of the wiills , and , to my surprise , I saw a little boy , about four years old , looking out at the door . I pointed the way out to the old man , and told him if he did not go 1 " would shoot him . I rushed ' to the houac I saw the little boy at . The door was by that time in flavnea . I thought not of myself j I thought of tho poor helpless child . I rushed in , and after I got in there was a sort of square , nnd all round this were houses , and they were all in fliunca ; and

    instead of seeing the helpless child , 1 beheld six children from eight to two years old , an old dotal woman , an old man not able to walk without help , and a young woman about twenty years old , with a child wrapped up in her bosom . I am sure tho child was not above five or six hours old . The mother was in a hot fever . I stood and looked , but looking at that time would not do . I tried to get the little boys to ily , but they would not . I took the infant : the mother would have it ; I gave it back ; I took the woman and her infant in my arms to carry her and her babe out . The children took the old woman and old num . 1 took Lho lead , knowing they would follow . 1 came to a nhico that it watt impossible to see whereabouts I was , with flames . I dashed through , and ll f

    called on the others to follow . After , a hard » n ( > ' ? ° them all safe out , but that was all . Even coining through the lire , part of their clothes , tliat < li < l not cover half of thoir body , wan burned . 1 set them down i » tho field , and wtMit in at another place . 1 saw nothing but flames all round . A little further , 1 hhw u V ol woman trying to como out . Sho coulil not walk ; she could only creep on her haiulu : iud fed . 1 went up to her , and told her I would entry her out ; hut no , would not allow me to do it ; but , when 1 Haw it was no uho to put oil" with hor , 1 took her up in my »« " > lUUl curried her out . 1 went in at the other e"d | « 1 K ' cnine across a woimin about twenty-two years old . 3 ' wna Hitting over a man that , to all appearance , would not sou tho day out . Sho wna wetting hia lipa - > vith some swi ° "

    1036 The Leaded [No. 397, October 31,185

    1036 THE LEADED [ No . 397 , October 31 , 185

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31101857/page/4/