The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

* The writer, Mr. Shepherd, is supposed, from the tenor of his letter, and his having gone out as a "Chinaman" h py, tq he en Eurasian clerk in Government employ, moss likely is the treasury. The rebel Rajah he speaks of is "Nola," the adopted sou of the late reishwa, but not. alknlwledg,od by the British Government as his heir. The writer seen' not to have been aware that General Sir IL Who ler was mi rtally wounded (if not dead) before the snrr oiler, else most probably such surrender would ne7er bay been allowed by him. t An Aycb, it is conjectured. THE MUTINIES IS INDIA. THE MASSACRE AT CAWNPORE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,—A3 the accompanying is the first authen tic account that I have read of the horrible tragedy at Cawnporo, I send .it to you for publication if you think fit,land I hope that the horrors it depicts will awaken the minds of the most mawkish to the necessity and justice of deep vengeance. Yours faithfully, L. Bath, Sept. 17. " Cawnpore, July 18. "My own dearest Brother,—God Almighty has bsen graciously pleased to spare my poor life. I am the only individual saved among a'l the Euro pean an d Christian community that inhabited this station. My p3or dear wife, my darling sweet child Polly, poor clear Rebecca and her children, and poor innocent children Emmeline and Martha, as also old Mrs. Frost and poor Mrs. Osborne, were all most inhumanly butchered by the cruel insur gents on the day before yesterday, and thrown into a well, together with a great number of other ladies and children, reported to be about 150 in number. lam distracted. I am most miserable and wretched. lam like one in a dream. You could not recognize me if you saw me. My life has been spared by a miracle. The will of the Lord b 3 done. He also can give me comfort, for lam in a terrible state of distress of mind. " I will write you a detailed account of all our sufferings and distresses, such distress as has never before been experienced or heard of on the face of this earth. At present I cannot write, I cannot eat or drink—l am perfectly wretched. "I escaped only yesterday from my miserable prison, where I had been confined with heavy fetters on my legs for 24 days by the rebels, who nearly took away my life, but God alone prevented them and spared me. hey gave me only parched grain to eat daily, and that in ve:ty sm. ll quatitities. " The English troops have come in tied restored peace. They had retaken Cawnpore. Their arrival here yesterday was the means of my release, as my term of imprisonment was three years with hard labour. Thp enemy hid from 10,000 t 3 15,000 troops, and have done great destruction ; but the British with 2,400 Europeans and 700 Sikhs have driven them away, and not a soul of them is to be seen now anywhere. " I know not whether these few lines will reach you, nor do I know if you and your dear children at Agra are st;11 in the land of tie living. But I have made this effort to send this letter in the earnest hope that it will reach you. If it do I b'g you will send me a reply par b !are: ' and also write by post, if such is established by that time. "Every officer and soldier and every merchant, writer, or Christian drummer, tic., that had gone into the intrencbments here under General Wheeler on the 4th of June, has been killed. The cannon ading of the enemy was very, very severe. Twelve guns, taken from our magazine, were brought - 0 play upon us. They had a very large quantity of powder at their disposal, for the magazine was not blown up, and 30 boats' of ammunition reached the enemy by the Gang: s Canal just in time for them to annoy us. The artillery barracks, where we were intrenched, have been scattered to atoms by the 24-pounder balls that were incessantly fired by the enemy, and many died under the walls. Day and night the gums were kept playing upon us without ceasing for a moment, and the musketry of the enemy poured millions of balls upon us up to the 25th of June—that is for 20 days. The enemy male several attempts to charge - upon us ; three times they surrounded us on all sides under 'cover of the compound walls of bungalows in our vicinity, and sounded their bugles to charge, but were driven back by our artillery firing canister upon them. We had only six small guns with us, and not a single howitzer. "Had we even had one 24-pounder a great deal could have been done, or bad our general taken up his position in the magazine we might all have escaped the very severe calamity that has befallen upon this station, for without guns the enemy could not have done anything. On the 24th of June I was sent out as a spy, oncertain:conditions, and as I was dressed like a common Chinamen I was not killed, for 1 was taken prisoner almost as soon as I came out of the intrenchment, particu lars of which I shall give you in my next, but kept in confinement until the day ,of my trial, when fetters were put upon me, as stated above. After I came out on the 24th it appears the rebel rajah sent a letter to our general the day after, offering to let him and all his people go to Allahabad, on condition thatihe would give up all his treasure, ammunition, &c., and vacate Cawnpore within three days. This was accepted by the General, and the usual oaths were taken that no treachery would be used. The Rajah supplied 24 boats, and carriage to the river side. On the morning of the 27th our people went on board the boats—(Oh ! how I felt, when in confinement I heard the Eng lish were going in safety. I could not keep my secret, and I told the Subadar of the prison guard that I was a Christian, and nearly lost my life by the exposure, of which more hereafter ;)—but had not time to let the boats go, when the enemy fired cannon upon them, and upset- some ; others they set fire to. Only one boat, I am told, managed to get away, but was afterwards picked up at a short distance and brought back. Ab 'ut 150 women and children, and about 100 European soldiers and officers and men of all classes were taken alive. The former were kept as prisoners up to the 16th of July, but the men (among whom was our poor Daniel) had their hands tied behind them, were killed with swords and muskets, and thrown into a ditch. The women receive I parched (train for a few days, but afterwards th e y got B a ll and chu paties in small quantities. The rase +ls hive bad motives for sparing them so long. " At the time of their b iing murdered (on the 16th inst.) I am told that a number jumped alive into the well that was intended to receive their corpse., rather than be butchered and insulte I so unmercifully as the ha d-hearte 1 brutes were using them. " Oh ! when I think of it how my he IA breaks. get beside myself, and wish I had not been spared to hear of such dreadful accounts. Oh ! my poor dear Polly ! how must they have killed. you. So sweet a child never existed. how will I e'er for get you ! The faces of all I have lost are ever be fore me. Oh I how dreadful is my state of mind. God Almighty have mercy on me ! Oh, God, help Thou me, ,whom Thou bast spared. "Thine affeclioafee, but miserable, " H. J. SHEPHERD. " P.S.—My infant was shot in the head by a spent musket-ball on the 12th of June, while we were intrenched, and died in great agony after 48 hours. I was also wounde lon the 7th of June with a spent musket ball in the back, and very nearly lost my life, but I soon got over it. The wound is now nearly healed. " H. J. S." " Thaccoranee+ is alive. She was all the time with us in the entrenchment, but g )t of on the day the boats were supplied by the Rajah. Every house in the station has been destroyed by fire. I had not a fraction left. lam taken care of at pre sent by my office treasurer, who is very kind to me." DEL 111. Th© following is an extract from a letter of an officer in the Bengal Engineers : " Camp before Delhi, July 15. " Things are going oil very slowly bere. It is now more than five weeks since our arrival, and we are still as far off taking the place as ever. Our nearest works are nearly a mile off the town, an 1 there seems to be no chauc3 of any advance b Ang made. The Paudies (as the mutineers are called) cline out every third or fourth day and attack us in force, when all our men are turned out, and a fight . of several hours' duration takes place, in vauch a great deal of ammunition is expended, from anr 50300 or 4 to 10000 of of our men killed and wounded, affairs the Pandits. In one of these yesterday tliree engineer officers were wounds i, among grazed by a hulle7:, in whim was Carnegie, who was cleat the m arm. We are, however, suffering a great the enemy's fire. inoro,..from cholera . than from regiment (the filet Queen's) seven, men di e d i n ' e o season, and ntheedlY from it. It is now . the rainy in. their out on duty at wet, have to remain g a o ri ffi d ce a r re ua e n ari d ied• off wet clothes for several hours, come home, than h :2eat heard hourst that Wal ker in a few hours. An engineer died a day or two ago in less after be was t iken . ill. You will have General Barnard died of cholera on the sth ins a t General Reed now commands. the force ;he i s , h ow l I ever, au old man, and very sickly, so that most o f the duty devolves upon Brigadier Chamberlain, 'who is considered a very good officer. Our strength at present consists of about 5,000 effective men, o f whom '2,500 are English infantry, 1,000 native infantry (Sikhs and Ghoc , rkas), and 1,500 cavalry and artillery. The enemy is about 20,000 strong. It is reported that there are 4,000 Europeans at Allyghur (60 miles from Delhi) under Gen. Wheeler on their way to reinforce us. Sir P. Grant is als o on his way up to take the command. As soon I'flF S UN,. 1.-. .NDON, SATU=RDAY EV N 1 G, SEPTEMBER 19, 1857 as reinforcements arrive I fancy we shall go in and I take Delhi. "July 16. "I had to go off on duty yesterday, se ceuld not finish this letter. I wa, at work with 200 pioneers at our most advanced post, called the Ram Summy House, about 700 yards from the walls of Delhi. We could - plainly distinguish the Pandies at work on their batteries, and also watching us. They sent in several shot very near us, but happily no. one was wounded. Whenever we are working under fire a man is stationed ou the look out, who, as soon as he sees the smoke of a gun from the city, calls out, "Look oat!" when everybody immediately ducks down behind the nearest cover, and as soon as the shot has gone past up they get again and go on with their work. The most disagreeable things are the shells, as after the smoke is seen it takes a minute or two before they reach the ground, and, as they come down vertically, it is impossibly to get out of their way. "You witl see by the papers better than I cm tell you the progress of the rebellion over all this part alndia. Almost every native regiment that cent! has mutinied, in many cases murdering their officers. Daily accounts of some more regiments revolting come in, and, as they make for Delhi at once; the number of Pandies in the town is increas ing every day. The only native regiments in which we put any faith ate the Sikhs and the Ghoorkas. These, however, are famous fellows, fighting splen didly, and even in some cases outdoing the Euro peans. We bad a very hard fight on the 9th inst., lasting almost the whole day. We lost 258 killed and wounded. On the 14th our loss was 212, chiefly wounded. I have only just heard these re turns. They 'are grea' er then I expected. " Col. Baird SMith is our Chief Engineer ; be was sent for from Roorkee. Our strength is up wards of 20 officers. We all live and mess together, in one of the unburnt bungalows, in cantonmeots. We are very fortunate in this respect, as everybody else in camp is under canvass, which must be rater unpleasant now that the rains have sat in. Lately I have been blowing up a goo 1 many bridges in the neighbout hood of the camp to prevent the Pan dies getting into our rear. " On these expeditious a party of Sappers, es corted by about 100 Sikhs and 50 native cavalry, go out to the bridge (generally from three to eight miles distant from the camp), a mine is then dug in the pier of the bridge, two or three barrels of powder put in, and then exploded. These expe ditions are very p'easant, as the country about the canals is beautifully wooded, and it is a great re'ief to get out of camp for a short time. This, however, is provided it does not rain. About a week ago I went with a party to blow up an aqueduct three miles distant. We started about 2 p m., an•t re turned about 12 at night drenched through and thoroughly miserable, it having' rained the whole time. Our turn of duty comes on every 24 hours. We have 10 hours on duty and then 22 off. The night duty is the worst, it is so difficult to keep awake. At times yonr eyelids will close, however you may try to keep them open ; and it is abso lutely to look after the men the whole time, as otherwise they are certain to go off to sleep, and then nothing is done. . " We are by no means badly off in the living way, having a very comfortable mess. I don't dislike our manner of life—the only grief is being kept here by a lot of villainous mutineers. As soon, "however, as reinforcements come up we shall pay them out in fine style. " P.S.—The other day C—, of the 2d Fosileers with his men, burst open the door of a house in which were a let of Pandies. C— was in front when the door gave way, and he fell into the house with it. Lucky for him, as a Pan dy blazed away at him from the in-i le, but the ball went over his head. C'-- then tried his revolver at the mutineer, but it would not go off, so he ran him through with his sword. His men then went in and finished off the rest of the Pandies in the house. "The general opinion in the camp is thak we could take Delhi by assault any day we like, but as it is so large our small force would not be able to hold it. We are snug enough here, and are making our position stronger every day by constructing new batteries." The following is from an artillery officer : " Camp, Delhi, July 25. " There is not much difference in the state of affairs here since I last wrote, and I wish I could say the same of other parts of the country—Oude and about there. We have heard but lame accounts but in many places all the Europeans have been murdered indiscriminately. We have had 8 or 10 small engagements with the Pandies, but most of them unsatisfactory ones. It g enerally ends in our troops finding themselves under the walls of the city and corning under the grape of their heavy guns. On the whole, I think we have lost 32 offi cers either killed or died of cholera, which has car ried off several lately —one or two friends of mine, poor fellows—(it is a wretched graveyard to lie in) the victims of these accursed. traitors. Before long I hope Providence will avenge the loss of some of our bravest and best. The men I think look well, much more so than I have often seem them look at this season of the year in cantonments, and T hope they will continue so ; the excitement, of cowls:, keeps them up, but they getvery tired of this bush fighting, the jungle is so very thick that it is most unsatisfactory work, and they dread so being lett behind, poor fellows ; one or two have been, unfor tunately, and their heads are cut off and parade 1 through the city. We have large reinforcements coming both from the north and 'south, and it is but a matter of time. They are falling very short of caps, and their powder, which they are making themselves, is very inferior. We to )k lot of saltpetre, too, the other day, which will limit the quantity they used to make—gamely, eight barrels per diem. I have not received your letters for the last three mails and am very anxiously looking out for them. I gave very particular in structions about forwarding them. I continue very well and. jolly. I have left the heavy batteries, which was really very heavy work, and am now with Tur ner's troop ( f Ilene Artillery. We take the picket duties, and 1 am on every third day, and get two in camp ; but when here you cannot move about I far—the alarm is constintly sounding, and we have to go out to our respective pos s. We have the rains now, which makes it very plemant, as the heat is very great in the day, and I don't know how often my hands and face have been pealed. What a glo rious campaign it wi 1 be for those who live to fight it this next cold see.son, hunting down those wretches and everminaeing them. At Jhelum, Sealkote, and other places where they have but lately mutinied the Sepoys have been nearly all cut up, and those that have escaped are gradually - being seer in from dirt rent places to be hung. How well this state of things has been fore . old by Lord Eden borough and others; 1 . - ius how little we thouglitvie should see it in our time ! In Oude a great many have been cut up, principally in the small out sta tions. But the communications are still cut off; all our news from below come through Bomb ay ausl Lahore, except now and then a cos ed (or me'sen ger) finds his way disguised as a fakeer from Agra, but their reports are very exaggera s ed. We ought to be allowed a year at home after this is over, but I fear we shan't get it. We know of the China troops being on their way up, but we can't ascertain where. I don't think anything decisive c to be done for the next month. We could go into the city any time we liked with but little more loss than we have every time we get under the walls, but then whet are we to do when we are there? We have not men enough to hold it and defend our camp here. They have latterly been trying hard to get at us again in the rear, but we have blown up a'l their bridges; and effectually stopped them. My things have not come down hero yet, but we are pretty comfortable. We all wear as much flent,cl as we can. 1 often emus) myself with sketching,, but was stupid enough to leave my colours at Lahore. Gholeb Singh is going to send us a lot of his rabble. 1 would much sooner be without them. However, they hate the Paudies. All our wounded are doing well. The greater part who caa have gone to Simlab, where I hope they will soon pick up. We are acting now merely on the defen sive, and fire as little as possible, only now and then, to induce them to waste their ammunition." The following is an extract from a letter from a Staff officer of rank in the Camp before Delhi, dated July 26 : " Here, you see, we are still before Delhi, and no immediate prospect of our finding ourselves in side the walls of the city. Since I last wrote just the same kind of thing has been going on as before ; attacks on our position every third or fourth day or so, always terminating in the same result—the entire repulse and discomfiture of the enemy, and often with great loss, but never without a greater number of casualties on our side than with our small force we can well afford. The newsletters from the city describe the mutineers to be much disheartea«l at their constant want of success ; and no doubt must Le so, for their attacks of late have been m'ch naerefeeb' e, and as each day is adding to the strength " f our d efences, no fear whatever is felt of their be; ug able to make any impressiond on them. You will hardly be Prepared our still remaining on at home to hea- of en the e defensive, the besi-Lied, in fact, instead of b • estegers ; but so it has e en I arriv i a s l . here, and when maysay from the day of our the strtngth of our little arms the case. 11.7311'' will be the less smuripgrhitsyedwetlol ond k , case. It looks but th e rd 1 paper —six 1%-o-r -ine:its of Europeans, and four of native infant (Sikhs and Gin ce kas), and I have no d on , ; I; r e 1 under 4,ooo—say 2,40,1 jdrn at 10,000 men, s u t t r i e in n b g e t r h a and the remainder natives. I hxve not ropean , is set. r o sesn the returns lately, bat I think I m os t b e have 4 000 infante , above the mark in saying W y. In artillery -we- are fortunately tolerably well off, but in cavalry the enemy perhaps outnumber us ! by five to one. It is as well that they are a most unenterprising set of scoundrels, the cavalry, or they might do us infinite damage is cutting off our supplies. As it is, our rear is per fectly open, and supplies as plentiful and cheap as they would be in the best regulated cantonments. You will ask impatien ly what we are going to do, and how long we are to remain in our present po sition. lam not in the General's secrets, but I fancy there is no doubt that we shall do nothing towards attacking the place until we receive Con sictsiraWe reinforcements. Matters are in such a distracted state below that though troops are known to have - marched from Allahabad on the 4th of this month they may have so much to do at Cawnpore, Lucknow, and elsewhere that we almost give up the hope of their reaching us in reasonable time, and we therefore look forward to the large force now on its way to the Punjab to join us. All ought t 3 be here about the 12th or 15th proximo, and then we shall be strong enough to work in earnest with the wretched city. The troll); coming down amount alt ;ether to some 4,000 infantry, of whom 1,400 are European and the rest Ghoarkas and Sikhs. There are also artillery and cavalry, and another siege train with heavier guns than we now have, and our force will on the whole very nearly be doubled, certainly so in infantry in which we are now comparatively weakest. We have only to pray that sickness may not overtake us here before these fresh troops arrive, and there is every hope that it may not be so, as the sickly sea son seldom commences hero before the middle of September cr later, when the rains leave off. At present there does not appear to be more sickness than there would be were the men looted in their barracks, and several of the regiments, the com manding officers tell me, are positively healthier than they probably will be in cantonmeuts. When once our fresh troops are here I should think a week ought to put us in possession of the city, and once in thin e the Palace and Old Fort could not hold out a clay. It will be a great advantage certainly if three or four European regiments join us from below, but this I think is hardly to be expe cte 1 un less it is determined to abandon Luckno-v and all the country on the left bank of the Ganges—that is, Rohilcund and Oude. We should then have only Cawnpore and Futtyghur to hold in any force, and all the troops not required for the defence of these places might move up to us. By the letest acceuete from Lucknow, but which are only up to! the 2d July, all was right there, and Sir H. Law re toe had some 7CO Europeans of her Majesty's 32d, and part of the 84th, but he was almost con fined, to the intren:hments he had made, and I should doubt, when all the mutinous regiments of Oude gathered round him, his being able to hold his awn for many weeks. Havelock, however, ought to•be with him in good time. • The latest in telligence from him is of the 11th, and he was then said to be on his march, and within 40 miles of Cawnpore. The strength of hie force is not men tioned, but I should doubt its being more than 2,000 infantry with perhaps nine guns and a very sm!4l party of cavalry—quite sufficient, however, to thrash any force he is likely to meet of the enemy. More European regiments must, how ever, be on their way from Allahabad to join him. The accounts we have from Cawnpore, also, I am sorry to say, from Futtyghur, are very bad ; but they are merely the reports of natives, and we still cling to the hope that they may not be true. They are to the effect that at both places after holding out a very long time against enormous odds, our small -garrisons took to the river in boats, but were attacked there, overpowered, and nearly all killed. This news about Futtyghur only came in this morn ing, that about Oiwnporo about a week ago ; but you may imagine how defective our communication is when your hear that it was upwards of three weeks before the intelligence of the Cawsipore cata trophe reached us. You will, probably learn vie Calcutta exactly what has occurred at these places and also much later news of Allahabad and of Havelock's movements. Of our new Commander in-Chief Pat Grant's movements we know literally nothing, but he ought, in my opinion, to came up country, and the Governor-General too, for when we have disposed of Delhi there will be many matters of moment to settle that will be better done on the spot, without the inter vention of the council, by the Governor-General aad the Commander-in-Chief. The c macil will be better employed in undoing the numerous ab surd acts and regulations they have been at work at for years past. After the capture of Delhi one short act disarming the whole of the population in India would do more than anything else to insure its prosperity and preserve peace and quiet in the land. It was to this measure that Sir Charles Na pier owed so much of his success in quieting Scin.de ; but Lord Dalhousie was too proud to titre a lesson from him, and there were many that might have been taken to our advantage, and had Sir Charles been listened to regarding the magazine of Delhi our position in India would have been a very dif ferent one to what it now is. There seems no end of the shot and shell they have in Delhi, and of guns, too, they have an unlimited number, but their powder is said to,be expended. They make it; of course, but it is not so goof as ours, and their stock of percussion caps is reported as coming to a close. It is to be hoped that it is so, fur these th y never can manufacture, and their only plan will be to alter the locks for flints." THE BATTLE AT JHELUM. The following is a letter from an officer serving in the Punjab "Camp Goojerat, July 15. " There has been a sad affair at Jhelum. Three companies of my regiment were sent dowa from Raoul Pindee, under Colonel Ellice, will same Horse Artillery, to disarm the 14th Na ire In fantry. "This regiment was drawn up on its own pa rade grcund when our force arrived, and, s^eing them approach, boa led, fired at their olicers (luckily without effect), and bolted off to their bar racks, guardhouses, &c. Colonel Ellice imme— diately gave the word to charge, which was done in , gallant style, but our poor men were shot down right and left by the murderous fire of the sepoys, who took advantage of their cover to fire without being themselves exposed ; they we- e, however, after some hard fighting, driven out of their po-ition, and then made for a n ighbouring village, where the cover was equaqy advan tageous for thE - uo. This position our men, as sisted by 3 guns, also drove them from, but with fearful sacrifice to our side, the sepoys fighting like fiends and disputing every inch of ground. They were at la t put to flight, but, having very few cavalry, and those hardly t ) he - Lusted, thy could not be pursued, and so those who were not killed escaped into the junzle. I regret to ray that we lost one officer in this affair, Captain Spring. Colonel Ellice was dangerously wound :d through the chest while gallantly leading the charge. Poor young Streathfield, the bravest of the brave, got a bullet through both knees, smashing the right one to atoms and going through the other. The right leg was amputated at tho thigli, and he is now pro gressing, I hope and trust, satisfactorily. Cbiches ier was shot through the left ) , rat, bit is doing well. De Mon tnao-ency got off with a b diet through his trousers, another Filleting away his sea,hbard but he was not hurt himself. Sorn. Burns has his cheek grazed by. a ball. The other officer, Captain Mac pherson, got off scot free. The officers here named were the only one present at Jhelum at the time ; I was at Raoul Pin lee, but as - soon as the news arrived by telegraph reinforcements were sent down immediately, I among the number ; but when we had gone half way to Jhelum an order came recall ing us as the action was all over ; I how ever got leave to come on, and arrived the morning af,er. "Our:loss in the 24th was 1 officer, 2 sergeants, and 23 men killed— , 3 officers, 4 corporals, ald. 43 men wounded. '• Poor Ellice is dreadfully wounded, having, in addition to the wound through his chest, got a ball Virough his left kg ; he, Streathfield, and ter, have been taken to a large house in Jhelum, whore they are well taken care of. Government having offered a reward of 30 rupees per head (about 30 for every fugitive Sepoy, we had the sai-fac tion of ,liaoting 48 of them on the evening of the Bth, and th 3 following day we blew 25 away from the canniaa's mouth. The odds in numbers were dreadfully against us, the Sepoys were 702 in num b?r, and our . three companies only mustered 247 men. " I must tell you that the very day this action took place at Jhelum (the 7th of July) the other companies of my regiment at Raoul Pardo) were ordered to disarm the 58th Native Infantry ; but as soon as we took up our position on t ither side of •the Horse At til'ery, ready to blaze into tlpm in case of their refusing to give up th'ir arm , , they paused fora moment, then took t 3 their heels and belted from too parade ground. Oar nien were with the greatest difficulty prevented by the officers fr-m firing, as als ) the artillery. Had wo fined, we should have &lie so, right into a b idy st ff officers who were between uq. The S? , y , , how ever, were induced to give up theirarrus peaceably, and when they were handed over to our magazine there were about 200 of them found to be loaded ! Thank God, everything passed over without blood shed. I must, therefore, tell you what I am doing now. The three companies engaged at Jhellun are now Marching down, under Colonel Brown, t' , intercept the. 46th Native Infantry and - the 9th Light Cavalry, which have mutinied and bolted fr om St - talkote, after murdering several officers and plundering the houlie. Our force consists of the three companies of my regiment, 230 Sikh soldiers (goof; Fa- n and tru 10'.1 Irregular 111. r-e, ant three Horse Artillery guns. We are a very nice little force, and ready for any emergency. The mutineers we are after are on one side of the Ravea, near Lahore and cannot cross ; on the other side of the rivur are the 52d (Queen's) Light Infan try, s )me guns, and some Irregular troops, under Colonel Nicholson ; so if we cannot polish them off moat effectually it will be strange. I need not say what we have to undergo in marching during this trying weather, nothing to protect us f rom th e burning rays orthe sun but a fold of canvas, and the hot winds blowing through it like a - blast from a furnace. In an evoedition of this nature officers and men all share alike, the only thing to beer us up li)eing the excitement and the hopes of encoun tering these murderous ruffian, which may possibly happen about the 20th _ " I liaven - ot much more time to write, nor in deed could I go on much longer, as I am nearly done up with the heat. Imagine me sitting, as I now am , in a suit of thin muslin, with a wet towel tied over my bead, and a fellow behind me continually dropping cold water upon it. Colonel 8., Dr. S., de M., and B. are lying all about the tent in similar costume, gasping for breath and trying to sleep. However, none of us complain, simply - relieving ourselves from time to time by some mild imprecation upon niggers in general and onSepoys in particula r for the privations and sufferings which they are the cause of. Mais le bon temps viendra, and in zhe meanwhile I place my life in the hands of an Al mighty Providence, in whom I have an unbounded trust. Our hope is that England will not fo rg et that her army now in India is actually keeping the country for her until reinforcements arrive, and that in doing so we are fighting like bulldogs, and undergoing with cheerfulness privations and hard ships which musttbe experenc-Al to bo described. I am dreadfully in want of a revolver ; no man is safe here without one ; all those that were dispos able in the country have been bought up. The Government at home would confer a great benefit an 3 a great boon upon those who have not revol vers if they were to sanction an issue of them." wrote you was our intention, and reached Mhow after a march of 12 days, accompanied with the usual amount of misery to which which we have been so long sub jected. On the Ist of August we reached the left batik of the Nerbudde, and found the moveable column, which consisted. of four troops, her . Majesty's 14th Dragoons, 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, and Wool• coomb's Battery, with a force of Madras and Bombay Sappers, commanded by Major Boileau of the former. With the column (which is commanded by Stewart, Bom• bay 16th Native Infantry) we proceeded to Mhow, where, on arriving, we found all the. Europeaninhabi• tante under shelter of the tort. The news of our ap proach was the sigral for them to abandon their hiding place and return to their houses, those who had such, for many bad not, the jolly Padre among the num ber. Confidence was at once restored, and we had the satisfaction. of again seeing the poir people brea be freely. This force came by Auruegabad and Asseergarb, meting out punishment to those do serving such at either place. Three of the wing - of the 6th Regiment of th•e Gwalior Contingent at Asseergurh were blown away front the guns. They had incited the company of the sth Regiment, Gwalior Contingent, at Boorhaunpocr, distant about 12 miles from Asseergurh, to join them, but failed. Oudan Sing, subehclar of the company, behaved well, but it was deemed prudent to disarm them all, and both parties are encamped here under Scott, second in command of the 6th Gwalior Contingent. Their final disposal seems to be with Durand a subject of much concern, for the company of the sth Gwalior Contingent are positively innocent as to acts of mutiny. 250 men of the 86th Queen's j iined us on the 6th. inst. ; and it was supposed an immediate advance upon Indere would take place. Circumstances, it would seem, have altered since the 6th. Holkar'is force, hitherto in a state of open and avowed mutiny (hearing, no doubt, of the approach of our dreaded Europeans), hthe, it seem% returned to their allegiance, on the promise from their chief, it is understood, that all previous offences will be condoned ; but we surely will not allow ourselses to be compromised in such a a matter, nor the blood and treasure split on the Ist of July to be so easily forgotten. Now, not a word re garding an advance is ever heard. The rebel remains of the Gwalior Contingent is round about the Fort ef Gwalior, at the solicitation, it is said, of the old demon, the Bhazee Baet,' but for all news of this description I mustrefer you to the papers. However, I must toll you that a letter arrived in camp last night from B ,m -bay, relating that 16i) of the 27th Bombay Naive Tufa. - try had mutinied and taken possession of the Fort at Kolapore, that the remainder of the regiment bad turned out on them, killing or taking prisoners the whole—a satisfactory result, but an unfortunate cir--' cumstance. It may be the means of deterring others from following so bad an example. No native' offictr higher than a havildar joined in the revolt. Barlton's corps, 2 Cavalry, Gwalicr Contingent, hes all gone ; so has Alexander's (let Cavalry, Gwalior Centingent). Burlton died of cholera. Alexander and C ickhurn both wounded. God only know 4 when peace again will reign in Central India; I fear the day is far di--' taut. Oh ! how thankful you must be that it pleased Providence to release you from the trials and dangers to which a residence in India at this crisis would necessarily ba.ve exposed you. Would to Heaven that Iwas at home with you ; bet it is the- duty of every Englishman to stand by the old craft when in distress; and, el-sase God, I shall never be found absent from the call of duty." of the heaviest calibre) which completely command the city of Agra and ail approaches by which assailants coati attempt an attack. The qitarre!s of the Sheeahs and Sunnees during the Mohurrum F.?qiyal are far more likely to tend towards the peace cf. the garrison than to create ararm, fir the townspeople of their persuasions will >lave enough to do to settle their own religious broils, without attempting an ineffectual attack against a force prepared on all sides to resist them. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Versailles, Sept. 17. CENTURION. THE GHEE SEA VESThY AND CREMORNE GAR DENS. London is perhaps less favourably supplied with the means of al fresco enjoyment than any or its Continental neighbours. The glories of Vauxhati have departed; and the Surrey Gardens are in that unenviable 'condition that the Sheriff of Surrey may at any moment close its doors against the ad mission of visitors. Cremorne alone is left to us, and, if we are to credit the record of proceedings in the Chelsea vestry, that iminaculate body contemplate an early endeavour to deprive the tired London cit'ze.n of the means of rational enjoyment which he has hitherto obtained in these gardens. That an insignificant coterie should venture to place themselves in direct opposition to the feelings of the great mass of inhabitatits of the parish may ocetsion surprise, but Viet their op position should meet_with anytoing short of igno minious defeat, is not to be believed. These gar dens have been conducted with decorum which has obtained for them the personal sanction of the highest personage of the realm, while their daily patrons have occasionally in luded some of the leading members of the aristocracy. Teat the op position Ono less than a store of self-constituted dictators should be allowed to interfere with the legitimate enjoyment of the masses, is simply iidi culous ; and . the following abstract of the proceed ings which took place at the meeting of the Chelsea vestry on Tuesday last is given only to show the absurd length to which party virulence, associated with personal hostility, may be carried : A memorial from the so-called Ratepayers' As sociation of the parish, alleging that ceitain evils arose from the late hours to which the festivities of Cremorne were prolonged, and praying inquiry, was presented about a month since by Mr. Dickson, a member of the vestry. Subsequ ntly Mr. Dick son declared that he had presented the memorial at the request of a friend, ithout any kuowle ige of the merits of the case, and that personal investi gation having since satisfied him that many of the allegations it cont iined were untrue ; he desired to withdraw the memorial. To this course objection was made, and ultimately the discussion was ad journed until Tuesday last, when the subject was debated before about 31) out of the 80 vestryinen of the parish. The question was opened by Mr. Till, who pre• sented a memorial from a large number of his fellow-parishioners, protesting against the em ployment of any portion of tee parish funds in opposing a renewal of the licence for Cremorne. A similar memorial Was presented. by Mr. Wal lace. • Both having been receive - 1, Mr. LAURANCE tipoko at some length in favour of opposing the renewal of the licence, ground ing his argument upon the alleg d &minu tion of Ora value of house property in tho district, in proof of which be read a long list of statistical roturn., and concluded by proposing, as a resolut'on, that the renewal of the licence of Cre morne Gardens should ba opposed by the parish at the ensuing session'. Mr. Tref., m are(' an amendment. He said that ' he had no' interest, either immediate or remote, in the matter under discussion, but he was promptA. only by a sense of justice and common fairness to a' person whose property had been attacked. The reason he appeared thus publicly in taking up the case of Mr. Simpson was because be considered that gentleman had not been treated with the fairness which every individual had a right to expect when his character and property were at stake. (Hear, heir.) He thought, with reference to the memorial fir.t presented from the retepayers' Association, that the first duty oftite vestry, if they took action upon it at all, way to act in accordance with the prayer of the memorial, and as a preliminary measure to in stitute an inquiry into the allegations. lie gathered from Mr Laurance that ati inquiry had been made. He (Mr. Till) had attended most of t• e meetings on this subject, and he was quite at a loss to know when that inquiry took place. Mr. Laurance, es an individual member of the board, had certainly taken great pains to obtain a mass of statisics, and it could scarcely be imagined that any other mem ber of the vestry could have acted with equal zeal on the part of Mr. Simpson. Mr. Laurance had, no doubt, acted iu this matter with the beet inten tions; but it was too much to expect an equal aincunt of zeal on the part of any individual con , nected with the board, in attempting to disprove the position which Mr. Laurance had taken. In the next place be would remark that inasmuch as all the inemodalis's asked for was an inquiry, he thought that step ,ought to be taken before they came to any final resolution to oppose the hearse of Cremore, and si end the parish funds that purpose. (Hear, hear.) It was a most serious matter, and involved a great principle= (hear)--for if this vestry had a right to interfere with Mr. Simpson's license in the way proposed they had an equal right to interfere with every license in the parish. All licensed establishments were under the special jurisdiction of the police authorities — and if Mr Simpson committed any violation of the law, the proper quarter for it to be r: ported to was the police magistrates, and, if proved, they would undoubtedly flue hint for his misconduct, and the matter would not rest there ; for when Mr. Simp son applied for a renewal of his power., tee parties who Lad lodged the complaint against him would be there to make the representation to the licensing magistrates, and if the• Bench considered the police magistrate just lied its inflicting the fine they would in all prob,bi;ity susp,nd the license. (Hear.) This would have been a better course than that which the board had chosen to adopc ; and his opinion on the subject rem die d unchanged, notwithstanding the decision, of the board oa a former occasion. Now, with reference to the arguments advanced, as fir as he hal heard them, they went rot to the limitation of Cremorne, but to its entire extinction. It was e azy to say they. only wanted the gardens to be closed at 12 o'clock, but if they had evidence before them to show that the immorality was as great as had been represented with reference to the s duction of young men from honesty and young women from virtue, they must all be qui• e tawa.'e that thtse courses were not confined to any hours, nor restricted to any places where the disposition, to such courses ex te.d. (Hear, hear.) Therefore. when the pl.a of morality was advanced, he did not think it applied to the limitation of the hours, but to the extinction of the gardens. (Hear) With re gard to the.empty houses, he thought there were other causeadhan those mentioned. There were the gas works, chemical factories, the drainage into the Thames, high rent., and exorbitant paroadid ra In his own street (Stanley street), out of 58 houses, within the last month there had been 17 empty. Cremorne had not exercised any influence in depopu lating that locality. 'He had one other observation o make with ref,rence to the injustice dene to Mr. Simpson in calling upon him to close his gardens at twelve o' lock tailless they called upon the public-houses iu that vicinity to close at the same hour. It was an act of injuet'ce to expect Mr. Simpson to lay out 30,0001. or 40,0901. to cater for the public amusement a.id recreation, and then to call upon him to close at an hour when he seeps his greatest reward for his spirited enterprise. The fact was it would only be driving the people out of the gardens to a few public-houses in the vicinity. He had yet to learn that the morals of the public would be better proteced in the close atmosphere of tt:e smoking-room of a public-house than in a place where they could enjoy the free air of heiven— (heir—and he had also yet to learn that there were more contaminating influences in an establishment like Cremorne tiara there were in the cider-cellars of the metropolis. (Hear.) One other circumstance be would allude to with reference to the term of duration of this monster nuisance. The season of Cremorne was 16 weeks, that was 112 days. If they deducted 16 Saturday nights when the gar dens must be closed'at 12 o'clock, and the same Humber of Sunday nights when they must be do aid at 11 o'clock, and taking further an average of 16 or 18 we nights during the season, when they were closed by 12 o'clock owing to the unfavourable stat e of the weather, there were left at the most 61 days, or little more than two months out of the 12 on which the state of things complained of could ob tain. With these observations he begged t move " That this board do appoint a committee for the purpose of instituting an inquiry into the manage ment of Cremotne. ' Mr. CORNELL", clerk to the ne.gistrates of the Kensington division, seconded Mr. 'Till's amend ment, supporting its adoption in a powerful anj argument ttite ipeee. Mr. LEGG supported the amendment on pu'ilie grounds. He thought no sufficien, reia-cns had b en shown for instruc ing the solieitor, to oppose fiat licenses, and in so serious a matte r there ought, a t least, to be inquiry: Mr. DICKSON wished, as folly as possible, to re cal the expressions and criticism lie I, ail made use of on a former cccasiore Although he presewed the memorial from the Ratepayers' AMMO a; 0' he WA; riot aware o' is con ents rat the tee, undt.r to to te do so, eaal was not present at the meeting .adop !ed. He had visited Creator !AC Si .ec the last discussion of the sub set, and was satisfied from his own observation that the conduct of the visi ors in the gardens was irreproachable. Mr. WALLACE supported the amendment, and said he‘was certain Mr. Sinip-on was desirous of doing everything con si , ten t with his duty to remove Any cninplaints that were specially made to him, and he believed if a committee of the vestry waited upon that gentleman ,he would give them every a isfaction they could possihy require—(bear, hear) —and he I,elieved he was ready to sacrifice a.por tion of his own interests rather than have any mis understanding with the parish. He should there fore support the amendment. After a few observations from Mr. FINCH, who spy ke in favour of the resolution, Mr. LAURANCE replied upon the discussion, after which, The CHAIRMAN proceeded to take a show of hands upon the amendment, when there appeared 8 in favour and 10 against it. Upon the < riginal motion there were 18 for and 7 ay,ainst, and the same was declared to be carried. Mr. LAURANCE insinuated that in the event of not carrying his point at the sessions for granting the music license, he had prepared another resolu tion to the effect that the spirit license Should be opposed at the sessions in March. The CHAIRMAN suggested that that matter should remain over, to which -_ _ Mr. LAURANCE acceded, and the proceedings terminated. Country Markets. . LIVERPOOL—SEPT. 78. There was a thin attendance at market to-day, and with a moderate extent of transactions. Old wheat ITO slightly easier in price, whiht Irish new declined 2d to 3d per bushel on Tuesday's prices. Of ohl oats and oatmeal we were never so barn before. American red wheat S S 4d to 8s 10d, white up to lOs 2d. New oatmeal 35s to 3 75 per 2iolbs. Indian corn 37s 6d to 42s per 4801bs. WAKEFIELD—SEPT. 18. There was not much doing at to-day's market in wheat. Fine new and fresh old were is to 2s lower, and other sorts moved off : slowly, at a further decline. New barley was firm, and other articles without change. Average prices of grain—Wboat, 50s 3d ; barley, 4 46 id ; oats, 27s lAd ; beans, 47s 13d ; peas, 43s ltd rye, —s. Od. BENARES. The following are extracts from a letter written by a staff officer recently at Dinapore. The dates arc as recent as the 3d of August : " Benares, July 22. . _ "As for news, it is no use mentioning what the papers wall have, viz., that Havelock has just destroyed Biithoor and taken 13 more guns there, and is en 'route to Lucknow, crossing the Ganges to-day. All the womeu were killed by the Nena in batches, so many a-day. He violated all he could first, and sent the rest naked into his camp for the men ; at Jhanti they tied the husbands to trees while the same atrocities were in process, and tore the children limb by limb. They've made mothers kill their own children, and that sort of tai •g. Poor old -(a civilian) was daintily stabbed o a six bayonets, and carried round - kicking, and then killed. It is as well to tell these things. which don't half come up to the untellable atrocities of the way in ..vhich ladies were tortured and exposed, because the more you all know in Eog!and the better, as for want of cavalry these wretches get very little out up now, and they must be punished afterward' in cold blood. They had stiff fighting at Cawnpore; the 78th men how• bag in the most appalling manner on amount of the women and children as they closed with the enemy. The Nena has gone to Humeerpore. Loyd, the collector there, was murdered. C'arke (J. J., the assistant-sur geon)) is here ; Cockerel' was killed at Banda. .They've discovered an attempt at a ri,irg here, and got a 'ma hjan,' out of whose townie came 150 'tulwars' &e., and ail also boned' four of the head bud mashes.' We're clearing a spot at Raj Ghat, which is a natural fortifi cation, and whence we shall get howitzers to command the city. We shall have it ail our own way now if Bom bty keeps quiet,-as the sth Fusiliers and the 37th are on the river, and will make Havelock strong enough for anything. He drives them like sheep as it is, but the punishment of these fiends is the thing that will take time ; tho Government is too mild, the authorities in C deutta still potter and humbug. "The rising was a Mussulman plot, aided by the Brahmins ; religion bad nothing to do with it beyond their hatred for us Kaffir& The Nena was animated by personal pique. Government orders spoiled our regi ments in making officers fools and men insolent. Go vernment aotually the last few years have been con stantly asking the Sepoys to dictate to them, forbidding havildar.s' or naicks' being punished, allowing appeals against commanding officers' pli,ghtest punishments, and asking the men, whose hair has been cut for 20 years, it seeing the Sikhs with long hair isn't likely to raise mutiny in their elegant bosoms." "August 2. "You'll see by the papery that the Dinapore brigade have mutinied ; they are on the road to Sasseram. The - whole thing was disgracefully mismanaged, and ought to be hung. After the men had shoWn a mutinous spirit he sent a message that he wanted their percussion cape, instead of sending the 10th Foot to disarm them. Ferirviek,•commanding the 10:11, pointed out the neces sity, but the stupid incapable wouldn't see. The evil of it is, besides a few more murders in the district (that we're used to), that the troops that should be reinforcing Havelock are now wanted to clear the Grand Trunk lad and punish these fellows. Havelock carries all before him, and has taken 64 guns already, Having ody 1,500 with him, there will be a narro thing . of it to reinforce hit t in time. Humanly speaking, if he gets reinforced by the sth and 90th soon, all will go well eaoueh till y comfortable people at home send coins 20,000 ; but if things go wrong in these parts and delay his reinforcements Agra will go yet. We disarmed the remnant of the . 12th Ir r• plans here last night, aed the wing of the 25th Native ,Infantry, just arrived, is to be disarmed. The district here is quiet, but there are so many mutineers between us and Calcutta and Oude-wards, that some sort of n sur r i p m s of scrimmage rreigo in the es neighbourhood is likely. H e l ines ' s mutinied and cut him and the doctor and their wives into tits. This shows what bosh it is talking of pbu.iity of officers, , or want of soldie m ly k n o .v -ledge on their part. Holmes s cot ps was acknowledged by all hands to have been the most perfect body of light Horse in the world, and Holmes, like poor Fisher, only lived for his men, and loved thent—see the result ! " It is an implacable hatred to us as a nation, the timid 4: (trey of a Government who tolerate and cherish i 'olatry and - Mahomedanisah and rather persecute their own religion, invariably disclaiming having any religion themselves, asking (by Vleir acts) the nati ves to a d vance prejudices and find grievance?, degradi n g th e i r o ffi cers , l, and am e ta n i t k a i nn d m g of I,Bkliarug eiviliaes of th ere , the k Acts and s en di ng natives Commander in-Chieftu,Par- eking 20 petitions a-day against commanding -fficers, begging the Jacks to find out that they ought to mutiny because their beards, shaved without a mur mur for 40 years, are shave I still. These - thins, pans p,rine the Sepoys, and above all the breaking out of a long.o2oriqied Mussulman plot, are the rear causes et this row, and if you'd hint the same to the editor of the Times y:,u'd he an useful member of society. Just Leard that the loyal (!) brigade of Sepoys are making al trig the Garges, leaving the road open. If Lloyd does not mismanage and Havelock gets more men we shal so on swimmingly ; nothing will prevent cur final success, but things are very critical just now. This station is the Safest in Lewer India, I think ; some rows may happen, 'tut we are one of the safest positions .in the country. We are making no end of fine entrenchments at Rej Ghat—it's the strongest natural position I ever saw. " August 3. " Just come back from Raj Ghat. Three 18 pounders and two 24 pounders peat arriving from Chunar, and ditto and'aorne mortars to coma from-Allahabad. Wo have just heard very bad news. Havelock is obliged to suspend his advance. Ile says he has only 700 effective :nen 17ft. As it is impoxiible that he can be reinforced from this side for a fortnight it is a regular fix. Both his force and Lucknow Dok very fishy. I f it h a d not been for General fatuous htiotcy strong reinforce rneut3 would have been Pa•C Allahabad already. I really should not wonder if that Dinapore folly does not eed by 1 sing Luckcow, Havtl eck, and Agra. Five or six of the mutine,trs of the Sikh corps h-re (d. i;1 men) were Isecvered, through the evidence of the Sikhs who reenaiiae I faithful, to be in, the Benares R a j a h's serv i ce . A noun-martial is sitting now, and they a ill be hanged no doubt. The Rajah has been intriguing and is under surveillance. We reinforced Chunar last night ; the fellows passel our bungalow singing one of the most rinjng English-emlnding choruses you could imagine. Ie drives one savage to think of -'s perilling Nave lick by his idiotic heist in the three Sepoy c ;rpii ; they ars now hemmed in by the detachrbent of the sth Foci leers and two guns, who went to Buxar by steamer, lincled and went down the road, and the 10th Irons Dina pore coming up; but whether they will not get away by 3 cross road wnich rxiets is I fear a probable contingency. They killed the collector of Arrah, and 50 Sikhs who were his guard. Here we shall be impregnable, worst come to the worst, but I am very anxious to know about iigher up. If they could only take Delhi Havel Eck might be relieved. More news j wit ir. The detach ment from Dinapore came on thorebe t l h s. e came e fe i, l u lo d w i s e , ni h y ad on n a o wandlvia:ncueo jumpedguard or flinkers ; they S: pegs and i , lazed into tlem. Out of 300 two-thirds were hers-de combat. By this volley 80 were killeJ, and 3 cfficers, and the remaining 100 barely got away with their vounded to a steamer. Sorneho a the Lrutes had got 8 ,nns ; in Arrah, probably, hid beforehand. They have inur keel all the Europeans in Arrah, and the worst of it is that the detachment from Buxar wilt fall into -he trapAeo, for there is no way of warning them. Have -1 eck will get no reinforcements and is ill be driven back. Fenwiek, of the 10th Queen's, has taken command of Dinapore. We are working like mad in geting our e.teres, &c., down to Raj Ghat. It is my private opinion that this place and Allahabad stand a chance oh heir g the only two places in our occupation between Calcutta and the Poujab, unless that Delhi ford, does something quick. I have no fear of the ultimate reptile, of course, 'or I believe God does not mean us to lose the country, )ut we are very shaky just now. The Grand Trunk oad is all up, so I try this by Bombay. It is a most proviilentkl thing we began to fortify 10 days ag o, and have Pat Stewart and Limond and a fiat-rate civil engi• Piddie, here. Jenkinson, the jnint magistrate, too, is a trump ; he drills Khittnut;ars in boots, it is true, hut the style of his recruits has nothing to do with hire. Ile works like a horse, and is always ready to !go 20 , nil e, and scuttle boats, or anything else where dash is wanted." MHOW. The following letter is from a medical officer : • " MHOW, AUG. 8. "We Ift R• oshun bx.l the 21st of July, as I CASHMERE. Our Bombay correspondent corrected by last mail the report for a time generally credited in India that Golab Sing was dead. The followine letter from his valley will be read with interest. It is dated July 6 : " Thiuk-ng a few lines from the valley of Cash mere may not prove unacceptable either to you or to your numerous readers, I feel much pleasure in sending you the following items : "Ever -since the news aerived here of the sanguinary outbreak, and the atrocious bar barities perpetrated at Delhi, the Maharajah has taken wise and prudent precaution to preserve the peace within his -own doe - Anions ; for, as be low in the plains of India, so up hero, and also in the mount lins, the minds of the whole Mahomedan population have!been greatly excited, if not roused. This class of the community have, however, thanks to the wisdom and foresight of Golab Sing, been kept in due subjection, and in peaceful demeanour, at all events outwardly, whatever their innermost thoughts may have inclined them to do; at the pre sent_crisis to be forewained is to be forearmed ; and amongst other wholesome and sound ar rangements the Msharjah caused written no tices to be posted up on all the bridges and on all the public buildings and places of resort in the city, cautioning his subjects, as well as all idle retailers of gossip, gup and guava, t beware that if they spoke disparagingly of the Company's Government, or of the Satiibelogue (which the budmashes had already commenced doing so as to bring the English visitors into disre pute), they would be laid hold of share, and sen tenced to five years' imprisonment. This had a most salutary effect. " Another wise measure was to stop the native correspondence by native dawk, and to allow no person either to enter or to depart from Cashmere, without a pass ; no traitorous correspondence from the new (but temporary) dynasty at Delhi, or even nakiss huwa from " esteemed correspondents" at Lahore, or at Umritsur, or elsewhere, can enter Cashmere by means df the native dawk. Troops, ac companied by several pieces of cannon, have been likewise sent to the frontiers of Cathmere, so as to prevent the entrance of any mutineers, disbanded and deserter Poorbee's Sepoys ; oth-r wise measures have also, besn t aken to preserve the peace unbreken, and to give security to - life and property. , Thus. much for news political. " The Maharajah Golab Sing is very affable. His highness holds a review of his troops present at the ,capital every Sunday afternoon. These consist of artillery, cavalry, and infantry, armed and dressed partly after the fashion of the Company's army and partly Hindostanee. They pass in review, march well, keep the step very fairly, and look very well for a purely 'native' disciplined army. A military band welcomes the arrival'of the Maharajah and his son, by striking up our own God save the Queen,' and when the troops are put in movement, they march to the tune of 'Home, sweet home,' and one or two other hackneyed strains of English music ; all this looks and sonnds strange in Cashmere. Golab Sing likes to see his European visitors assist at these reviews, where he shows them every attention, having them seated beside him, the troops are on the ground. At the expitafon of et ery fortnight, the Maharajah gives a grand dinner and a nautch to the European visitors, and feels rather hurt, if any of them, de cline to present, regarding their absence as a slight c how to his hospitality and to his kind feeling for his European friends. His nese- is an abonne of the Lahore Chronicle, the contents of which are regularly translated to him by an Eurasian in his service, who is a native, I believe, of Farrua Pangs, near Chandernagore. At- sush a mem• nt, while the native army is its re f ellion it shows a greatnese of mind on the part of the Maharajah not to allow the ill-judged and ill timed observations, headed in the Doctor,' (vide Friend of India, April 30, reprinted in the Lahore Ghron-ice) to poison his mind, or to estrange his thoughts from continuing in the even teller of their way, in respect to his honourable and stiiet fidelity towards the British Government and its servants. Such au article, appearing in a paper known to be the Government organ, and, in a measure, speaking its sentiments, would have shaken the faith of any Christian ruler or governors in Europe,. "The Maharajah's own dawk frequently arrives 24 hours before the government mail from Lahore, although both travel together from Sealkote ; that 'is to say the Maharajah's bag brings on the cern patsy's dawk from that place. " Golab Sing has bad r Vigne's Cashmere' trans lated to him, as also Cunningham's. I have heard that be gives the preference to the last work, but this is said only when the respective mer:ts of both works are discussed. . His highness .says `Read Cannieghem's—it is the best work.' Why Simrly because Vigne wrote and published his mind, and -penned his innermost thoughts too freely to please the Maharajah. " Last month, on a Sunday night, a fire broke out in the large bazaar which extended from the gates of the Shuhurgurhee to the parade-ground. It broke out at ten o'clock, and burnt nearly all night ; it was a frightful confl tgration, all the houses being of wood. The whole baz tar was burnt down, "the end of the bridge (called stair Kutul) caught fire, and bad to be pertly destroyed ; some lives were lost. Yesterday af , et noon (S inday) a frightful hurricane, or tornado, such as one would expect only in the Chi na S ea s, th e latitude of tile Mauritius, or i n th e W est I n di es, s T w h e e p nta Enormousive clung bore s planetlletrees'ly in were uprooted by its violence. ,coming from th e nor th= wes t. that such furious too fa ns and monster 11 esti of wind only happen when the-ele ments in the 'plains are a prey to a ha!lah-goolah, of fire and swords, and strife and bleed. Curious, if true." THE FORT OF AGRA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As the rumcurs respecting the safety of our countrymen in Agra are of a gloomy character, and cal culated to cause unnecessary and unfounded alarm to their relatives and friends, I beg to place at your , die p%al positive information from that fort up to the 22d of July, received by the Marseilles portion of the mai yesterday, and contained in a letter from an officer of the Civil Service holding a high position at Agra. At that date th e garrison were in good spirits and health, provisiots and ammunition abundant. There were no rumours of attacks from any quarters, nor the presence in the vicinity of Agra of any hostile force ; but they were anxiously looking out for the arrival of rein forcements. As regards the etrecgth of the fort and its capabilities of a defence lengthened residence and a th , rough ac quaintance with Agra er able me to add that thf-re is no chance of their being overpowered, for the fort has guns EXETER-SEPT. 18. Cosa.—Wheat, 7s 3d to 7s 6d ; barley, rs to 63 6d ; grinding do., OF Od to Os Od. Oats, Ss Od to 3s 3d. Beans, Os Od to 0 Cd. Peas, ON Cd to COs Od. FLOUR. —Fine, 42s Od to i'i;s Od; seconds, 40s Od to 410 Od per sack. CATTLE. --There was a small supply of bullocks. Best beef, from 10s 61 to lls per score ; inferior, 7s Od to Ss per score; fat calves, Od to 7d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to 03 Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 201. t s ; b u tchers' calves, Oct to 7d per lb., rearing caves —s to - s each; sheep, ewes and lambs, 2/. 5s to 3/. 5s per couple; ewes. 0 1 to ; wethers, 6d 6 d ; lambs, 7 1 1 ,,d to 0 per lb. Pigs, large size, —s to —s ; second size, —s to —s ; slips, to —s ; suckers, —s to —s. hough fat, 5d per 1' Pork carcases from 108 3d to 11s 3d per score. BRISTOL SUGAR-SEPT. 18. There is a better demand for sugar to-day than for some weeks past, and, importers having met the buyers freely , a considerable business has been done at full market rates• No rums ofl'esing at present. COAL MARK -SEPT. 18. Prices of Coals per ton of s. d. Howard's West Hartley_ the close of the market Wailsend, act:. s d• - Russell's Hetton 17 6 (laugh Hall l7 0 Brown's Moor Haigh Main 15 0 Riddell l6 0 0 Eden Main l7 •' 13 6 Voss 18 6 , !-laswell south Hetton 18 ' Wayne's Merthyr 21 ( - !assop g 17 Lumley 17 " 1 draddyll , l7 6 ;, 47 ; sold, 45. Nethertou 'l7 t North Percy Hartley _l6 6 'Panicld Moor l4 'ranfiehl Moor Butes 14 3 1 Wylain Walker'Prirefose 14 0 West Hartley Grey's 17 3 Holywell ..... l6 Ward's West Hartley _l6 6 Bates's West Hartley 16 Morpeth West Hartley 14 3 Wallsend, Gosforlh l6 0 Ships at marke t COURSE . OF EXCITA_NGF.--YESTEP.DAY. g Enstordam.. •• 11 16,14 Gibraltar ..•• •• •... •• •• •-• Ditto, three months .. 11 194 Leghorn .....• 30 AN Rotterdam •• •• •.".• ••Ilt 4 Genoa . 25 7 5 Antwerp •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 37Y 2 47ilan• • •• •• •• •• .• •• •• Brussels ....•• ........ 25 37% Venice•••••••••• llamburgh •• •.11 •• •••• 13 8 Naples e• •• •••• •••• .• ~ 42% Altcna •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Palermo •••• ...... 127% Faris • • ...... •• .... 25 25 Messina .... l2B Do. three months .. 25 64% Lisbon ... . 2% Marseilln ............ 25 65 Oporto Bourdeaux e••••• • • • • •• • • Janeiro .•• •• •• Frankfort-00-51aine .• 118% Buenos Ayres.... •• •• Berlin •• •• •• •• •••• •• •• New York,6o days' sight Vienua.• •• •• .• •• •• •• 10 35 Philadelphia friaste........ •• .• 10 35 PRICES OF BULLION, FEB OZ; Petersburg .. .• 364 ii Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Niadrid •• .. 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0 Cadiz ... •• .. • • 50 ' afexican Dollars .• .. 0 5 1 Barcelona ........ .. New Dollars 0 0 9., Seville .. .. Slivar le bars ......0 5 Iyo LOCAL SHARE M A RKB T.S. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The transactions in this market in the leading stocks have declined. C , ledonian, 41 —Great Western of Canada, 204—Midland, 89i 81-- -London and N rth-Westerns, 97i B—Ditto, Eighths, new, (HR.— Lancashire and Yorkshire, 968 i—London and South Western, 914—North Eastern, Berwick, 234; Grand Trunk of Canada, 12R—Ditto 6 per Cent. Debs, South Eastern, 204—Sheffields, 46i—Great Welter!), 54 : Eastern Counties, 11.8.9.—Dutch Rhenish, 61 d—North British, 12.13.9. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 18 STOCK. EXCHANGE.—The market was inactive to -day , and prices rather lower. Eastern Counties, 11 5-16 - -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 414—Ditto, now 31 per pint,, 65—Doveis, 20 5-16—Great Luxembourg, Tr„ --East Lancashire, 91 --Grand Trunk of Canada, 1 —London and North We-terns, 99g - Midland, -44 SO: - Leeds, 96 —Preston and Wyre, 43i. BIRMI NGHA M, SEPT. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day has again beat lower. London and North Western, 98% 99—Grea Western, 53 4.1---South Stafford: ,, , 94 x d--Midland, —Great WesternStour Valleys Guaranteed 62 3--Genera Steam, 2.5 i —Birmingham Bank, 33. [ADVERTISZISINT..I SIGHT AND HEARING SPECFACLIg S '''' POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, L'ID P ERSP ECTIVO GLASSES. —S , Solomon., opticians, 39,' A beniarle street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for va'uable and e ° 7 traordina y improvements in the mos t p ower f u l an d b r illiant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and PerspectiT° Glasses, to know the distances. 'These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inehe° , with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's m oons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same t s lescOr e c.in be seen a person's countenasce three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 m il es . F or th e waist coat-pocket, and are of larger,' and all s i zes , w ith increasll3b powers ace , :rdiu,ly. The Royal Exhibition; 1851. —A cal% able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pock° A Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen aD known one and a-half mile distant They answer every Pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Couutri scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. Th or are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, t° sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Oper a : Comp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers.—lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derive"' from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes Pre s served and strengthened and ve r y age d persone are enable(' to employ their sight at the mos t m i nute occupation—can 01 with those lenses of a m uc h l ess magnifying power—an they do not require the frequent changes to the & Lc : gerous effects of further powerful assistance. Person . : can be suited at the mos , remote part of the worl d by stw,; in ose of the glass es ou t o f th e i r spec t ac l es i n a l e tt e r, ii. l3 ' t stating the distance from the eye they can r e ad s mall Fr° with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stwiug their ago, Pe :fuess.—New Discovery.—The OrgaD l ? Vibrator, an txfraordi aii'y powerful, so all, new ly-i n vented instrument for deatne, , m, entirely different from all others, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or probablf can, bo produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, 10 not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear dis•inetiyat churehand at i üblic assemhlie , ; the unpleasant sensation Of singing noises in the ears entirely removt d, and it affords all the assistance that possibly, could be desired.-31. AllaS• marls-street, Piccadilly.—Opposite the York Hotel, W. BIRTII S. OF A SON, 'On the 16th inst., at 5, St. George's-terrace, Queen's' road, Regent's-park, the wife of George Mills, Esq. On the 17th inst., at 43, Russell-square, the wife of A' H. Novelli, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER, On the 17th inst., at 1, Hyde-park-terrace, Camberlac& gate, tho wife of Gilliat Hatfeild, Esq. On the 17th inst., at Newmarket, the wife of Heal Hughes, Esq. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, J. "Wi Parrott, Esq., of reat Queen-street, Westminster, late° the Royal Navy, to 11..rtiet, only daughter o f W . Taylerf Esq , solicitor, formerly of the Middle Temple. On the 17th inst., at the parish church of St. Mme' Lambeth, John George, eldest son of Jehn Rhodes, Eq . of Brixton, to Mary, only daughter of John Flenavvel" Esq., 'of Stockwell. D I E D. On the 16th inst., at Margate, George Longman, Eti c l'' of Brompton. On the 18th inst., at Notting-hill, Wm. Abercromb ie, Esq., aged 86. On the 17th inst., at Roos Rectory, Yorkshire, Cathe rine Ann Grigg, aged 90. On the 17thi n , t., Mr. Ja mes Ch ase , f or man y year_e of H. M. Customs, Thamcs-street, aged 72. 0 1 On the 16th i ns t ., at Brighton William 1 . Saunders, . son of Ross D. M ang l es, Esq., ALP., aged 10. On the 16th inst., tit Woodlands Villa, Isle of Thalle t ' Wm. Ive Esq., aged 65.- On the pith inst., at Epping, Mary Ann, wife of G. Lucy. On the 14th inst., at Notting.bill, J•ts. Thomas NV -31sb a ' Esq., Dep.-Lieut. of Tower, and many years ohairP l 7 of the Tower Sessions. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at Tice Sun Office, Nes 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count , ' o? Middlesex, Sat irday, Sri tember 19, 1857. TO LITERA . OLD tINGLI Zql these subjects pIIND for tll MISCRIPTIONS 3 the Lord Mayor, at t and all its ' , ranches: skraaches ; by all the 1 saliontl Provincial H The Committee me keeisely. sanaion•honfe, Se tli RO VIDE N ASSURAN, Thomas Baring, EF Thomson Hankey, All Classes pay in Allinciple, and froth it security. - Policies Investei Annual The Third Divisioi year. 'THE BENEVOU Ikellll advantages t 1 5, Illoorgate-stre( bREGIST TOWEB.H A 41 tASER MACQt , k l ) nolnted by the Lo , 4 kti Borough of the '1 D9 l e, in the Court kid Borough, on Itven of the Clock By See. 35 of 6 VI .; l4Terseers of the re r equired to attend ohening of the sail List of Voters mad , Notices of Claims 1 ah Rate •Ilook., Do 4 ',,°n, custody, or pc the respective Lists bated this 16th d /King . Edward's. rc CONTI/ Eit ISt .1 UNIFORM CLOT' this department. Conditions of the me subject can be or this department 14 No tender will Department Serl THE Comn Lord High 1 arid Ireland, DO E The Bth October r eady to treat wl SUpplying ,abd de' all such quail al shall from time months certain, ai Wary The conditions tion is called, ma: t emples, at the oft eeived after half noticed unless mai but it will not be 'Milted by him, offer received fron proposed surety in tvery tender m a responsible per t endering, in the 2 CONTRAI THE Corn Lord High and Ireland do I ° O.ber next, at With such person d elivering into h lolled Ports, the tr the cure of an Deptford.... Gosport .... Plymouth .. Haulbowllne Their LordshiF dens are opened, thereof only as Cot contracting f A separate Tel der for Pork, an( tended tot e cur. Persons Unde] Tender for each The Beef and f ollows—viz., on January, 1859 185 8. and the ( a' any greater fErred by the pa BEVen days from Parties tende tise of WOODS' Only will be req , tions of the nevi A form of the revised oontrac seen at this o ilaulbowline Limeric tary to the Po! fpriductins the Agent iOTTIans No Tender w or 100 Barrels. No tender w! treaty, nor any the purpose; b or an agent apr result of the o: tO him and his Bills in papa stores will be rates of receipt Every teadeJ and bear in thf der for Salt I 1 also be deliver JOZEAI TY RATE] sa Vials, and tck cf a certain di Whig, will . 1Y _ 5O , 2s. 9d. Tc rrench chew chemists. DU B FOOl VALIDS. Su rnere easily di Milk ; acidity flees, scroipia the system ar have rem ei a to, and a cop a stamped an Regent -street at 21s. The receipt of Poi TUE SECRI Just publtsli SELF -1 on the and on the from vicious to Manhood riage in its /marks on Mysteries " urinary exit! Complaints, Matriculati !!ember Apotbeco Z he essei sequences' A% hi ch hays hood, and other class Particularl; their phy s the hezt"h, ntitlett. It k Lbs, principles out Incr.& eeed theln may he m and hoyvtt that there derangem Pul)lish May be .t Ocrdon, I consulted Bedford- s i he wo Calcutta— C rculatm Colombo. NEW A Patent 0 TRIV, devoid of Sold in 1 Valpeau , ripml 1. eonseqn( long res. strength now int whatev, RIAGE eflectua eradical forms, Urine, Copaivi ruin of Work, and Pharr WhO 1 3t3te, 321 d 3 exalt mete lane, Mar.