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    « . 0 n Monaasc , rthe 11 th of May , the sowars came -faomMeemt into tDelbd and wreaked their vengeance ; by ^« rfarin £ f * i * e fia * a ± er portion < af the Europeans . The STsfetive Jofaufcry , 04 tb , and 74 th were ordered " ^• ritfisthfi artillery , but toeing of the same mind ; os Shaaowars ofrtheJted Cavalry . they offered no reaiatanee , * nt told their ^ officers that -they had better fly watk Za JBtfle delay -as possible . Uhe iladies had been oolsfeoted * b the tower Jan * he HiSl at : Jtelhi , and when the danger ^ became ^ apparent I iwent to Brigadier Graves , ^ en ^ oojninaaaing at Delhi , and volunteered to take a Setter iDMeemfc-to obtain the assistance of the European 1 trol > pB . SrigaBier-Graves gave methe letter , and after tfialsaDff . feawe of my wife and three daughters in the iower ,-Ji «* h ^ ie ! re 3 fc ,-of * he ladies , I went to nay house face

    amd { assumed'the . garb of a . fuqueer , colouring my , Aaads , aadrfeet . I . made for the Bridge of Boats across aba jTHpnB , ; fcbTOUgn > fche city . ; but on reaching -the bridge £ found it ibroken . I Hatnrned towards the cantonment and tried to get across the river at a ferry near the powijter unagassina ; but-by this time the sowars of the 3 rd dGasahyrbad reached the cantonment , and all the neighibow&ng TriUagers , Goojurs and Jauts , were rushing to tplnnfler the . cantonment ; the houses were fired , and I ^ despaired of : being able to get to Meerut . I rushed across the parade ground , and was fired at twice by the tS . epo . ys . I . got . as far as the : garden near the canaL when J . was seized bv some villagers and deprived of every jiazticle of clothes . J proceeded , naked as I was born , itowards ELurnauL in the hope that I might overtake the in that

    ^ officess and ladies who had fled direction , but .. before I had proceeded a mile I saw two sowars , who . had evidently failed in overtaking their officers . They ffode up . to -. withdrawn swords , and exclaimed < Fe-, sungee ! hy . ! . niaro , maro !' . I threw myself in a supplicating position , and , being intimate with the Mahomedan religion , and speaking the Hindostani , I commenced uttering the most profound praises in behalf of . their prophet Mahomet , and begged they would spare oncyllife if they believed that Imam Mendhee would come ate judge the world . X made every moral appeal to them £ aftereseaping the first cut they made at my throat , which I did by falling down—they , being mounted , ecould not well ieachtne ) , my entreaties were listened to , -and they let me ; go , saying , ' Hadyou not asked for

    mercy in the name of the Prophet , you should Jiave died like the rest of the , Kaffirs . ' I was dreadfully excited £ Uid could scarcely . stand , but as I felt that , 1 must proceed I continued my journey . AbouJ ; a mile further I . again , met a lot of Mahomedans , who rushed up tome and said , ' Here is a Ferungee ; kill the Kaffir . ' They then said to me , ' You Ferungees want to make us all Christians . ' They then dragged me away to a village about a mile or more from the road , and tied my arms hind me , after which one of them said , ' Kurreem Bux , go . and . fetch your sword , and we will cut off * he Kaffir ' s bead . ' While KLnrreem fiux was gone to fetch his sword that was fto launch me into eternity , a cry of - * . Dhar , sdhar ! ' was made by the villagers , and the Ma-¦ nomedans who- were keeping me Tan . to look after their

    . own interests . SL anushed . and ran with all any strength -to ithe road ; again , and escaped from these unmerciful beings . I ( continued to sun along the road towards JKhirnaul ; I was . again stopped by some ironsmiths who wore < employed ; in flra Delhi mag-azjne , when one of them said , 'Sahib ,, don't fear ; come with me to my village , and . I will find you food ; if you go on , you nvill surely toe -murdered by tho TVIahomedans , who have -turned out fromrtlie villages to rob and kill the Ferungees . ' I went -with jthe hronsmiths to their house , and was most humanely and / kindly ( treated , one . giving me a d ho tee , Another a oap , another some milk and native bread ; I foU ; my Jife was safe . I was nxuch excited and could scarcely apeak ; they gave mo a cot , on winch 1 . lay down , but could , not sleep . I told-these people I was a

    doc t or ,, and in consequence met with much greater attention . On the following morning , tho Chowdme of : the tvillago . flentiorraiQ , whenrthe whole village assembled to floe tho Eerungeo Doctor . ' Exhausted as I wiis , I had to answer .. n multitude < of questions put by the people , bat , finding I was perfectly acquainted with their religio , language , -and manners , they began to take infinite interost dn my life , jand said they would protect me , Wtbilel was ebaying tut this village , I lizard Dr . Wood , of tho 88 th Native Infuntry , was in a village « omo flvp oraicc miles off ,. At' Sumntoyporo i a man from this village came to mo and said , ' A Dr . Wood Sahib ia in my vUtago . Ho . taquiroamedicines ; as you know all tho native madiomes , inroy tell ino what should he given . '

    I ^ proscribed , » bwt 1 jbnow aiot whether tho medicines reached him . I > al « o rhoard while at this village that Golonel iRiplay w . us Jying wounded at the Iqo-pits , nenr tha FnradeTground . I persuaded the villagers that bo tow mvary , groat parsonage , . ondrthat if tUoy would take hisn . fioodmnd watBrrtihoyiwould bo . handsomely requited by tho Govornmont for thoir liumanity . 'Shay took him food . for several i days ; but after . I hnd left tbia vilhigo aomoton'dityajljheftxdihat one of the Sepoys hud killed him ran finding . him « t the loorplts . A . few days after I woa in tho villn ^ e of flBadvoe at wua Tumom-od tlxat all « be , t fernngMa ;» tJMeera * , lUanbaUaU , and Onlcutta had iMWnMOT&arodjiflWlthatithe / Hing tof Delhi had takon ^ o ( govQtnammb , and . -timt , 'Sf < nny vjUlogv concealed a F « rung < jtj / tt wortJttrbe death Jto itUo « m * ei ^ , and gonerftl

    ruin . The proprietors of Biidree village got alarmed at this . proclttmataoin , and I was areanoVed : at » ight from the village to a-pmailtmango tope , where I was left night and day alone . I -was visited at night by : corns one « y other t of the villagers , : who brought me bread : and water in a ghurrah . I ani unable to describe my feelings during : this trying time ; I -was all day in ithe sun , in ¦ the extreme heat , and alone at jJjght , when . iihe jackals , &c , came ptowlipg about # nd crying . It ds fonly God ; and , myself know what S . have endured . After five days and-nights in this tape-of ( trees J was again , tafcen back to the village and concealed in : a bhoosa Jiouse ; I was here shut in for twenty-four hours ; the : heat and suffocation I cannot find language io describe . I did not

    know which was the greatest misery , the tope of trees in solitude or the bhoosa kotree . A rmnour now was set on foot that several sowars had been deputed to Jiunt for the Perungees in the diflFereat villages , and it was considered prudent that I should quit Badree under the escort of a Fuqueer . Jogee ; this xnan came and offered to convey me anywhere that I . might please , but stated that . it was not safe a moment for me to remain where I was . I then started for Bursooab , where I remained the night . This Fuqueer at his Mend ' -s dyed all my clothes and gave me necklaces of heeds ( oodrack ) , &c , to assume the garb of a Fuqueer myself . After making all preparations to pass as a Fuqueer I commenced my pilgrimage with him . He took me to several villages and passed me off as a Cashmeeree , ' Dadop Puntee , Fuqueer Jogee . ' In all the villages that I passed I was cross-questioned , but , understanding their ' Jotish' relikindness

    gion and oaths , I met with every , some giving me pice , others food . The Hindoos all expressed the most merciful feelings towards : the Ferungees , while the Mahomedans could not disguise their murderous feelings . I was taken to a village to the house of Sewak Doss , Sunt Fuqueer Kubbeeree ; understanding his code of religion , and being . able to recite several Kubbeeree Jiubbits , he received me in every kindness . I told him I was a Cashmeeree , but the sage could not reconcile his mind that I was a Casluneeree with blue eyes .. He said , ' Your language , gesture , clothes , &c , are all complete , but your blue eyes betray you ;—you are surely a Ferungee . ' 1 disclosed Xo him that I was . Nevertheless , as ; I had acquired the Kubbeeree oaths ho continued toibehave the same . While I was sitting at this Euqueer ' -s ¦ place a Sepoy came , saying he had letters which he was taking to the Umballah foree that was at Race . He did not discover that I was

    a . Ferungee , but I disclosed to him that I was a Doctor Sahib , — would he take my letter to the officer commanding the foree ? I gave him a letter soliciting assistance , which he most faithfully conveyed , but , after-waiting a day in hopes of get tingassistance , and none coming , I thought it prudent to proceed towards Meerut . The beggar who had conducted me thus far volunteered to take moon . Several people of this village accompanied u > e till we got to Hurchuiulpore , where a Mr . Francis Cohen , a Zemindar ( originally a Tusaildar , in the Government employment ) , resides . This old gentleman received me in all kindness , and showed me certificates inider the signatures of Colonel Knyvctt , Captnin Salkold , Lieutenant Holland , Mr . Marshall , merchant , of Delhi , and others , setting forth that they had received every kindness from Mr . Cohen , who had kindly sent them on to Meerut . "

    Another letter gives tho following dqtails of tho mutiny lit Allahabad : — " Colonel —— up to this time ( June 6 th ) commanded and I never knew such a mass of imbecility . He allowed all this" ( tho mutiny ) " not of his own will , but from an idea that ho could not stop it . Ho did nothing against . the rebels , from an idoa that ho hnd not the means of noting . At this critical moment , Colonel Neil arrived with orders to take tho command , though junior , and things changed like magic . On the 19 th , cholera was so fonrful in tho fort " that all non-military residents were turned out . Tho Oth behaved worse than any regiment . They volunteered agninst the rebel * to

    deceive us . On the Oth of Juno , a general order of the Governor-General , thanking- them , was received by thorn with clivers , and an hour and . a half afterwards they were shooting thoir own offiaers , butchering women and children , burning onr bungalows , and plundering our property . They actually sounded tho alarm to collect their oflieors on parade , mid showed no signs of disaffection until they wore all collected , when thoy commenced Avholesnlo murder , the bund playing tho national anthem . Wo have boon able from tho fort to rescue fifty-six Europeans , and I expect twenty-throe othcro to-morrow . I got in tho Sultunporo pcoplo , but at Fvzabad they have all boon murdered . "

    A communication from Fort Mliow rolatos tho circumstances attending tho insurrection in that tovra on tho 1 st of July :- — " It was not a very dark night , when all at onco tho ohuroli , which wau situated on tho highest and most central position in the station , beouaio illuminated by a bungalow which had boon fired immediately behind it . X was tl » on certain that it wua our own troops who had mutinied . I , howovor , bMU continued talking to tho mnn . akhough I knew they ( tho mutineers ) would make for my picket , it being on tho onjy road to Indoxo . I

    heard . a galloping of horses approaching us , andlcalled for . my horse , mounted , and ordered . the menrto mounWIdiad . previously . ordered them to stand .-to their Jiorses -when-the daring began . I posted jnyaelf on the bridge , < the iinen . drown < up behind me all ready .. I did mot draw jniy a-word , -as , if I had , it would have ' . betrayed ati cansciety which-I did not wish them-to imagine I entertained . The -horsemen I liad heard came up iu single . file , and pulled up a little before they reached us , and walked up to . me . The first man who came up said that -the regiment was drawn up on parade , and-that I was to return immediately ^ I turned round to give the ¦ order , and this inan passed-me . Just as I had moved , on . at a . walk , the second anaa . clapped a . piatol within a

    yard of my heart and ifired ; th . e ball , however , must iiave passed 'Under my arm , as I > wasin ^ the act ; of ordering the men to . march , and had -turned around to make tliemibeor me . This was enough . My awn guard and the . other men called out , ' -Kill him , kill him ! ' . when they saw me moving on unhurt . I then put spurs to my horse and went away like the wind . I passed two or three others on the road , and they , too , fired at me ; but . they might as well have shot at a flash of lightning . I tried to draw my sword , but it fell from the scabbard , and I had not any pistols with me ; so I made the scabbard . serve for a sword , and galloped on , passing burning . bungalows , arrived at ± he . fort , and was , of course , let in and loaded with congratulations , forievery one thought I was done for to a certainty . "

    A Polish correspondent of-the Frankfort Journal says it is strongly suspected in the kingdom of Poland that some of the officers and soldiers who -have recently been dismissed from the Russian army with a year ' s pay have gone to join the mutineers in India . * ' Certain it is that the Itiissiun Government has for the last three years been systematically exciting the Chinese , Persians , and the heirs df the Great Mogul , against England . " We read in the daily papers : — " Among the numerous examples of heroism of which every mail from India now brings us an account , few are more striking than that given bv Mr . Robert Tucker ,

    the late j udge of Futteypore . Actuated by a chivalrous sense of duty , lie remained at his station when all other Europeans had quitted it , and by giving and promising rewards to such native officers as should serve faithfully , and himself fearlessly riding about the city wherever danger appeared or he thought that his presence might be useful , he endeavoured , but in vain , to stem the tide of insurrection . When the gaol ha . l been broken open and the treasury plundered , Mr . Kobert Tucker . made his last stand , single-handed , on the top of the cutchery , and many o f his assailants fell before his lire before he himself sank under a volley from tho rebels . He was one of the most generous and high-minded of the Company ' s servants . "

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    AMERICA . Tjik loss of the bark Monasco , of Warren , Maine , from Gottcnburg for New York , together with fifty Swedish steerage passengers , near Bure , Newfoundland , has been reported from J 8 t . Pierre Miquolon . Tlic captain , hia wife , the crew , and six passengers , were saved . Tho French war steamer Tonnurro , from Vera Cruz , Havaunuh , has put into quarantine below New Orleans with yellow fever on bourd . A meeting of the citizens of tho Fifth and Eighth Wards , Now York , has been held for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for the organization of a , Law and Order or Vigilance Commitjteo . A similar committee is said to have existed fur somo tiino past in tho Ninth Ward . *

    Tho Moxioan oloctions continue to be favourable to Comonfort . A revolutionary movement at Jalapa in tho interest of Santa Anna is auid to be causing tho Government much uneasiness . Tho npproheiidoil Spanish invasion Iiiih also oxcited aerioua alurm , und tho governors of tho various provinces have boon ordered to hold the National Guard . In readiness . Tho only nowa of importance , from Peru is that tho Vivutiuo purty , whoso hoad-quarturs wore in tho neighbourhood of Aroquipa , . hua shown symptoms of vitality , and that a buttle took place on tho ' 20 th ult . Both parties claim the victory ; butjiio loss of lifo on both sides was vory smull . TUo published uccpunta of thin action vury considerably .

    A clerk , named William Wuldon , who plundorod tho South Yorkshire Railway and Kivor Don Coal Company of about 900 / ., and absuunclod to Quoboc , has boon arroatod at Toronto by the detoctivofl Who wore Hot on hia truck . Tho Toronto branch of the Upper Canada Hank has boon brokon into , and robbed of 4000 / . Mfs . Cunningham , cdltut Hurdoll , tho woman who figured in tho latu ¦ extraordinary trial for murder at Now York , has heou again urrosted on a charge of protending to bo delivered of a mnlo infant , tho child of tho lato Dr . Jiurdolland tho hoir to his property .

    , Wo road In tho Boston Cowtor of July 17 th : — Coptain J . A . Patton , whoso misfortunofl and » uflforing » in connexion with , tho ship Neptuuo ' H O « r have beon the themo of muah public commojnt , diod at tho M ^ oaa Asylum , Soiliorvillo , at VWQ o'clock yostordsy inom ng , ^ god thivty yon n aud Uueo mantlw . l > o « f , -md / Wina ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2206/page/7/