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    peace . boring seareelyi'been . dntenrapted by the mutiny of the disarmed : 20 fh N . I . at Lahore . This regiment joee agsinHt its officers , killed its commander , Major Spencer , ± ba >( juart «? niaster sergeant , and two native jioncommiseioiifid officers , and then fled up the right lank of the Rsvee . It "was , however , speedily overtaken , dispersed , and destroyed . Scarcely a man now . remains unaecounted'for . " Through , tbe fatal : omission to cut out the gangrene Tvhen first discovered , at Meerut , and the delay subsequently in extirpating the disease of mutiny , the mortal corruption has continued to spread . It has at length touched the armies of Bomhay and Madras . On the -31 st of July , a part—lesslhan two hundred men—of our

    . 27 thN " . I ., . stationed at Kolapore , suddenly broke into open mutiny , and seized the regimental treasure chest . The officers having timely notice , all escaped the search that was made for them at their houses , but subsequently 'three of them—Lieutenant Norris and . two young enjgigna , Stubbs and -Heathfield— -fell in the way of the mutineers and were killed . The rest of the regiment apjpear to have desired ,. and tried to remain , neutr . il , and it ¦ has very properly been disarmed , both at iLolapare and Kutnagherry . There have been siuister reports . about the state of the 28 th and 29 th N , I . at Dliarwar and Belgau m , and isolated individual displays of disaffection lave occurred in them , on which possibly the tumours

    in question were based . It was thought , however , that the mutinous feeling was confined to these three new . regiments , all raised in 1846 , and was accounted for by something in the . material of which they are composed . We now leacn , however , that a part of the 12 tu N . I . at Nusseexabad has caught the infection . It protected a fanatical mutineer of the 1 st Cavalry , who endeavoured to incite both regiments to an outbreak , and who attempted , under that protection , to take the life of the brigadier commanding tbe station . The fanatic wa& killed by the European artillerymen and one of therr officers , and the . mutinous portion of the 12 th . has been disarmed . " What further is to be done with it

    remains to be seen . The quiet energy and activity displayed "by the local Government in regard to the position of the 27 tn and its neighbours , was highly commendable . The great advantage given us by the means X ) f sea conveyance was promptly seized . Detachments of Europeans from Bombay were handed at convenient points on the coast , and mutineers and waverers found themselves confroiLted by English soldiers , and English sailors too , before they dreamt of their vicinity . At present , we believe , the - whole Presidency is quiet , and we trust it may so continue . In its capital , the Mahometan community are just concluding the celebration of the Mohurrum in peace , the public tranquillity having been uninterrupted save by a : paltry row between some Sepoys of the native regiments and some of the native police , the result , not of mutiny or Mohurrum , but of a longstanding quarrel .

    " From Madras -we learn that the 8 th Light Cavahy , after volunteering to proceed to Calcutta , began to bargain , while on the march , for the grant of some old allowances . The result was that its horses were taken away and sent to Calcutta without their riders ; but , whether the troopers finally refused to proceed , or whether the authorities declined to send them , is at present a matter of . conflicting assertion . " Some further items of intelligence are thus communicated in Government and newspaper telegraphic despatches , the dates being from Calcutta up to August 23 rd , from Bombay up to August 31 st , nnd from Aden up to the l < Lth ult .:

    —" Great anxiety is felt as to the fate of Iiuclcnow , where a thousand Europeans , a large proportion of whom ore women aud children , are blockaded by the rebels under Nena Babib . The 5 th and 90 th Regiments are on their way . up Ihe river to reinforce General Havclock ' s Division ; but it i « doubtful whether the garrison of Luckno-w has provisions to enable it to hold out . " Lord Elgin has made over tbe Shannon and the Pearl to the Indian Government , and was about to return to China in the Ava , chartered steamer . " Captain Pool , with four hundred seamen and ten G 8-pounderij , left Calcutta in a steamer towing tlatB , on the 18 th August , for Allahabad . " The Maharajah Gholab Singh died at Cashmere on the 2 nd of August , [ This is the second time within the last few months that his death has been reported . It was c ontradicted the iirst time , and may not be correct even no-vr . l

    Moat of the ZBengal regiments havo been disarmed . The remainder -of her Majesty's i 53 rd llegimont haa arrived at Bombay from the Mauritius . Central India » s tranquil , all being reported quiot at Magosn , Saugor , and Jubbulpoor . A part of the Jotispoor Legion hue mutinied at Mount Aboo , but no mischief wjw done at tho station . " Agra was safo up to tho 18 th of August . No enomy was near it at tho last dates . Major George and Major Aho mas diod thera of illness and wounds on tho < l . th of August . Major Banks has been shot dead at Lucknow : tuo cftuso is not known . Another European forco lio-SKlca Genoral Uuvulock ' a bus arrived at Cawnporo . Uonoral Noill Una nttneked and defeated a lurge force collected mmr thut cit . y . An ofllcur reports that he Haw tno ond of Nona Suliib and liis family , who took to a boat on tho Gauges and were swamped . 1-iautouanta Thom-B and Delafoaso , reported to bo dead , wore alive ut

    < Jawnpo * e . Major-General Van Gortlandt was in full possession of Hissar and Hansi . " ^ General Nicholson arriv « d before Delhi on-the 8 th . of August . His troops were -expected , on the , 13 th , and all would arrive by the 15 th , on which date the Army before Delhi would number about 11 , 000 men . Further reinforcements , it was computed , would , early in September , increase our numbers to 15 , 000 men . It was generally expected that the assault on the city "would take place on the 20 th of August . The King is reported . to . be sending his zenana to Bhotuck . General Wilson has completely surrounded Delhi , cutting off all communication . The mutineers are dispirited by continual defeats and want of ammunition , and in the city dissensions are common among the Mahomedans and Hindoos .

    "The 63 rd Native Infantry and 11 th Irregulars were disarmed at Bernampore on the 1 st of August There has been a disturbance at Neemuch , of which the particulars are not fully known . Twenty-one-troopers of the 2 nd Light Cavalry have deserted . Colonel Burard reports the whole of Western Mahwa to be in a very disturbed state , and that a large body of men are 'collected at Mundisore . All is quiet , at JNagpore and Hyderabad . " The Calcutta Government summary supplies the following information with respect to the native states and chieftains : —

    " Holkar is believed to be quite loyal , though , appearances were against him . Of Scindia we have no trustworthy information ; it is certain that he ha 3 taken the regiment of the Gwalior Contingent into his pay , but with what purpose we do not yet know . At Chore , in the Bhopal State , the Bhopal Contingent is reported to have seized some guns and a howitzer , and to have raised the Mahomedan standard . Amjchra Rajah revolted , and took possession of Mehidpore ; he has been partially coerced by Holkar . " The chief of Jhabooa has behaved -well in protecting Captain Hutchinson , the Bheel agent , and the other Europeans ; he has been thanked . The Rajah of Kewah Is thoroughly true , and is aiding us in every way . " The Punnah chief and others of Bnndlecimd are

    believed to be loyal . The conduct of the Jyepore and BhurtsBore Sirdards is reported by the Lieut .-Governor to have been very questionable . All the other native states in Kajpootana -were all right , and Ajmere quiet on the . 31 st of July . " In tbe same communication we read : — " Major Eyre , with three guns . and about one hundred and fifty Europeans , defeated the rebels under Kover Sing , on the 12 th of August , and relieved the Europeans

    who had been for some days besieged in a small house at Arrah , and with the aid of fifty Sikhs had gallantly defended themselves . Kover . Sing has fled over the hill towards Rohtas . On the 19 th , he was at Akburtore Eteas Kohtasgur ; bis brother Amur Sing was in the hills flanking the Grand Trunk-road . All is q _ a . iet between Benares and Sherrghoty . Seven lakhs of treasure at Gya have been brought into Calcutta by the collector , Mr . Alonzo Money , with the aid of a few Europeans , and about one hundred Sikh soldiers .

    " The stations of Chnpra , Chumparun , and Mazufferpore , which the civil officers had abandoned by order of Mr . Taylor , tbe Commissioner , have been reoccupied , and tranquillity may soon be restored . Since the last mail , the 5 th Irregular Cavalry have left the Santal district , and are an route to Arrab . It is known where they now are . A party of the Dinapore mutineers has been heard of about eighteen mile 3 south-west of Mirzapore , as making for the Jumna somewhere about Calipee , with the intention , probably , of joining the Gwalior mutineers , and ultimately the Oude insurgents .

    " Some Rewnh troops—seven hundred and fifty infantry , three hundred cavalry and four guns—had been detached by political agents to intercept them if possible , either at tho Sohages Ghaut of the Jonse or at Sorcc . In tho direction of Allahabad , the Ivuttra Pass was defended , and it is hoped that by the one forco or the other they may be attacked nnd dispersed . " Upwards of four hundred seamen and marines and twenty officers of her Majesty's frigates Shannon and Pearl , have been formed into a Naval Brigade , and detached to tho Upper Provinces . Tho brigade is furnished with ten G 8-pounders , and two or throe iield pieces , taken from the above vessels . All left Calcutta on the 18 th of August by steamer .

    " Tho 11 th Native Infantry at Helyni , who refused to give up thoir anna , have been destroyed . The IGth Native Infantry and wing of 9 th Cavalry mutinied at Seal koto , and lulled three or four officers , tho majority finding shelter in tho fort . Tho mutineers were attacked by Brigadier Nicholson on the . 12 tlv of August , and again on the lGth , and hardly any escaped . Their spoil fell into our hands . " Tho revenue in the Punjab hns beon paid to the last farthing , nnd the moat loyal . spirit ^ provails not only among tho Sikh soldiery , but the population generally . The only apprehension is a failure of funds . At tho end of SopUimbcr or October the Government -will give its attention to this ; meanwhile , tho locul authorities havo invited advances on loan for one year at . six \> tsv cent . Tho result ' id nut yet reported . "

    A French tele-graphic nicsHiiye from Marseilles , dated Tuesday , Bays : —¦ " Private lottery from Calcutta state that tho

    population : wbeginning -to jisein Bengal , pnnnringaiidikHliaE English settlers , and that -the revolution is beoommg general . The merchandise from the interior no longer reaches Calcutta , » na the imports are actntmulatin ^ m the depots . Buyers aTe not to be fband . Money is disappearing , and the paper of the East India Company is at twenty-five per cent , discount . " We need scarcely suggest caution in aeeeptin * this statement . **»«*« 5 The fallowing is an extract from a letter of an officer in one of the Queen ' s Begiments belonging to General Havelock ' s movable column . It is dated Cavrnpore , July 17 th : —

    "I was directed to the bouse where all the para miserable ladies had been murdered . It was alongside the Cawnpore hotel , where the Nena lived . I never was more horrified . The place was one mass of blood . I am not exaggerating when I tell you -that the solet of my boots were more than covered with the blood . Df these poor wretched creatures . ^ Portions of their dresses , collars , children's socks , and ladies' round tats layabout , saturated with their blood ; and , in the . ^ ward-cuts on the wooden pillars of the room , long dark ; Jrair was

    carried by the edge of the weapon , and'th « teittng ^ their tresses—a most painful sight ! I have oftsnmisbed since that I had . never been there , but sometimes . wish that every soldier was taken there that he might **? i u * i * m ths barbarities our poor countrywomen bad suffered . Tihair bodies were afterwards dragged out and thrown down a well outside the building , where their limbs < were to be seen sticking out ha a mass of gory coafmaoo . / Eheir blood cries for vengeance , and should it be ( granted us to have it , I only wish I may have the administration of it .

    " I picked up a mutilated -Prayer 'Book . Itihad lost the cover , but on the flyleaf is written , < Ear dearest Mamma , from her affectionate Tom . June , 1845 . ' lit appears to me to have been opened at page 36 , in ^ the Litany , where I have bat little doubt those poor dear creatures sought and found consolation in that beautiful supplication . It is here sprinkled with blood The book has lost some page 3 at the end and terminates with tbe 47 th Psalm , in which © avid thanks the Almighty for his signal 'victories over his . enemies , &c . " July 21 .

    " Thosepoarihxdies were massacred on -the l&th , -. after we had thrashed the blackguards at the 'bridge . The collector who gave the order for their death was ftaksn prisoner the day before yesterday , and now hangs irom a branch about two hundred yards off the roadside . iHis death was , accidentally , a most painful one , for'the-rope was badly adjusted , and , when he dropped , the noose closed over his jaw . His hands then got loose , and 'he caught hold of the rope and struggled to : get ? faree ; : bttt two men took hold of his legs and jerked cfais body nntU his neck broke . This seems to me the just / reward he should ^ havo go t on earth for his barbarity . " General Neill , in a letter from Cawnpore , dated August 1 st , saysthat he has had the well into which the mutilated bodies of the poor women andtabildren -were thrown decently covered in and built up as one large grave- He continues : —

    " On the 31 st ( of July ) , General Havalock returned to the bank-of the river opposite Cawnpore , where ihe sent to me for further reinforcements—requiring < a battery , two 24-pounders , and 1000 more European infantry . I have just written to him that tliere is half * battery coming on here to-day from Allahtibad , ¦ which . I send on at once to him . I can also send him two . iron guns , but European infantry there is none to Bend him here . If he waits ifor that , he must wait reinforcements from Calcutta , and a long delay , during which 'time

    Lucknow may Bhare the fate which befel Oawnpors . The rebels , flushed ' "with victory , will < return on'this , reoccupy Cawnpore , and I have no troops 'to keep thorn out . I must be starved out . The influence , too , . on Agra may he most disastrons , but I hope GeneraLH » v » - lock , who has been bo successful , will now advance again and relieve Lucknow , which is to bo abandoned , ^ the force there brought in here , and by that time rehtfowcementswill havo arrived , ready to accompany'General Havelock to Agra'and Delhi . "

    Tho General also states tliat " thor © is a report that a ltajah hivs saved some gentlemen , ladies , and three children , from tho Cawnpore maBBacre ; that they are fifty miles off ; and tlvat he will Bend them to me . " The following iB an extract from the letter of a young officer to a friend at York : — " Aorny Head-quarters before Delhi , July 26 . " My laet was from this camp , dated loth in « t . ; it gave you all news up to that dat « . 1 moiitionod in that latter that tho enomy wae coming out ; bo they did , and

    no mistake ; and about four p . m . a brigado loft our camp and wont at them . My regiment was with this brigade undor Brigadier Chamberlain ; our men dashed down on tbe enemy in tho flubzieundy , and nftor about half on hour'd iiglrting , drove tliom , gurm , cavalry , and a largo maw * ofinfniitry , bnok into Delhi Uolter-flkotter , cavalry , < fcc , rolling into tlie ditch , in ono part of tho fight . TUo ffntOB wero closed ugniiiHt friond and foo , and grapo » n Hliowcns rolltjd on uh and tlio enemy from tlie walls , and after cutting up hoiiio flvo hundred of thorn wo retired with a loss of two hundred and twonty killed and wounded ; fifteen oflicora arc hit , none mortally , though

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 939, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2212/page/3/