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

TILE MUTINIES IN INDIA. THE MASSACRE AT CAWNPORE. ' TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIMES. SIR,—As the accompanying is the first authen tic account that I have read of the horrible tragedy at Cawupore, 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 3iecessity and justice of deep vengeance. Youis faithfully, Bath, Sept. 17. L. " Cawnpore, July 18. " My own dearest Brother,—God Almighty has been graciously pleased to spare my poor life. I am the only individual saved among all the Euro pean and Christian community that inhabited this station. My poor dear wife, my darling sweet child Polly, poor dear Rebecca and her children, and poor innocent children Emmelina 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 be 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 very small quantities. "The English troops have come in and restored peace. They had retaken Cawnpore. Their arrival here yesterday was the means of my release, as my terra of imprisonment was three years with hard labour. The enemy had from 10,000 to 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 still in the land of the living. But I have made this effort, to send this letter in the earnest hope that it will reach you. If it do I beg you will send me a reply per bearer, and also write by po , t, if such is established by that time. "Every officer and soldier and every merchant, writer, or Christian drummer, kc., that had gone into tie intrenchments 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 to 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 Ganges 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 aril night the guns were kept playing upon us without ceasing for a moment, ani the musketry of the enemy poured millions of balls upon us up to the 25th of June—that is for 20 days. The enemy made 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 had 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, oncertainlconclitions, and as I was dressed like a common Chinaman I was not killed, for I was taken prisoner almost as soon as I came oat 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 ovine 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 that:he would give up all his treasure, ammunition, (t - c., and vacate Cawnpore within three days. This was accepted by the General, and the usual oaths were taken that no treachery would he used. The Rajah supplied 24 boat%, 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 was a Christim, 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 gat away, but was afterwards picked up at a short distance and brought back. About 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 meu (among whom was our poor Dauiei) had their hands tied behind them, were killed with swords and muskets, and thrown into a ditch. The women received parched grain for a few clays, but afterwards they got dall and chu paties in small quantities. The rascals have bad motives for sparing them so long. " At the time of their being 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 insulted so unmercifully as the hard-hearted brutes were using them. "Oh I when I think of it how my heart breaks. I get beside myself, and wish I had not been spared to hear of such dreadful accounts. Ohl my poor dear Polly ! how must they have killed you. So sweet a child never existed. How will I ever for get you ! The faces of all I have lost are ever be tore me. Oh how dreadful is my state of mind. God Almighty have mercy on me ! Oh, God, help Thou me, whom Thou halt spared. "Thine affectionate, 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 iutrenched, and died in great agony after 43 hours. I was also wounded on 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 worn 1 is now nearly ,healed. L 6 H. J. S." " Thaccoraneet is alive. She was all the time with us in the entrenchment, but g.)t off on the day the boats were supplied by the Rajah. Every Louso in the station has been destroyed by fire. I had not a fraction left. lam taken care of at pre sent by my o ffi ce treasurer, who is v er y ki n d t o pre se DEL ElI. The following is an extract from a letter of an officer in tho Bengal Engineers : Camp before Delhi, July 15. "Things are going on very slowly hers. It is lio'ff more than fiva weeks since our arrival, and e are still as far off taking the place as ever. Our nearest works are nearly a mile off the town, and there seems to be no chance of any advance being made. The Pandies (as the mutineers are called) coma out every third or fourth day and attack us force, when all our men are turned out, and a lot , 4lit of several hours' duration takes place, in '.vhich a grea t d ea l o f ammun i t i on i s expen d e d , from aii ,50 to 100 of our men killed and wounded, 3 00 or 400 o f th e P an di es. I n one o f th ese affair,; • yesterday three engineer officers were wound s t, among whom grazal by a bull et i was Carnegie, who was deal the arm. We are, however, ruffering a g reat the enemy's file. more from cholera than from In died in one regiment (the Est Queen's) seven me n season, and the thy from it. It is now the rainy men out on duty g t 34 wet, have to remain in their wet clothes for several hours, come home, and are a ear e r c i i ed off in a few hours. An engineer officer m Wal ker died a day or two ago in less than 24 hours "after be was taken ill. You will have heard that General Barnard died of cholera on the sth inst. I Gap .;ral Reed now co mmands the force ; h e i s, b ow _ evIT, an old wan, and very sickly, so that most o f ,t'.lo duty devolves upon Brigadier Chamberlain, •it 100 is elnsidered a very good officer. otre strength • at prer, en t cons i s ts of about 5,000 effective men, of whsera %MO are English infantry, 1,000 native irdP.ntry (Sikhs and Ghoorkas), and 1,500 cavalry 'sr d artillery. The enemy is about 20,000 strong. It is reported that there are 4,000 Europeans a t Allyghur (60 miles from Delhi) under Gen. Wheeler t u their way to reinforce us. Sir P. Grant is also on his way up to take the command. As soon The writer, Mr. Shephe r d, i s suppose d, f rom the tenor of his lett er , and his having gone out as a " Chinaman" rpy, tl be an Eurasian clerk in Government employ, most likely in the ireasury. Th e rebel Rajah he speaks of is " Nona," the adopted son of the late Peishwa, bat not a?kuawledged by the British Government as his heir. The writer seem- not to have been aware that General Sir H. Whe ler was mcrtally wounded (if not dead) before the aurr nder; else most probably such surrender would never hay been allowed by him. t Ayah, it is oonjectured. THE SUN, - LONDON, SATURDAY tz,v PANT SPPTEMBER 19, 1857 as reinforcements arrive I fancy we shall go in and take Delhi. " Jnly_l6. "I had to go off on duty yesterday, so could not I finish this letter. I was at work with 200 pioneers I 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 on the look out, who, as soon as he sees the smoke of a gun from the city, calLs out, " Look out I" 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 impossible to get out of their way. "You will see by the papers better than I can tell you the progress of the rebellion over all this part of India. Almost every native regiment that could 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 are the Sikhs and the Ghoorkas., These, however, are famous fellows, fighting splen didly, and even in some cases outdoing the Euro peans. We had 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 than I expected. " Col. Baird Smith is our Chief Engineer ; he was sent for from Roorkee. Our strength is up wards of 20 officers. We all live and mess together, in one of the unburat bungalows, in - cantonments. , We are very fortunate in this respect, as everybody else in camp is under canvass, which must be rather unpleasant novi that the rains have set in. Lately I have been blowing up a good many bridges in the neighbourhood of the camp to prevent the Pan dies getting into our rear. "On these expeditions 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 ptit in, and then exploded. These expe ditions are very pleasant, as the country about the canals is beautifully wooded, and it is a great relief 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., and re turned about 12 at night drenched through and thoroughly miserable, it having rained tha 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 kelp awake. At times yonr eyelids will close, however Sou 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 ether day C—, of the 2d Fusileers with his men, burst open the door of a house in which were a lot of Pandies. C— was in front when the door gave way, and he fell into the house with it. Lucky for him, as a Paudy blazed away at him from the 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 that 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 ovary 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 smell engagements with the Pandies, but most of them unsatisfactory ones. It generally ends in our troops finding themselves under the walls of the city and coming 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—(i 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 I hope they will continue so ; the excitement, of course, keeps them up, but they get very tired of this bush fighting, the jungle is so very thick that it is most unsatisfactory work, and they dread so being left behind, poor fellows ; one or two have been, unfor tunately, and their heads are cut off and paraded 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 took a lot of saltpetre, too, the other day, which will limit the quantity they used to make—namely, 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 of Horse 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 far—the alarm is constantly sounding, and we have to go out to our respective posts. We have the rains new, which makes it very pleasant, as the heat is very great in the day, and I don't know how often my hands and face have been peeled. What a glo rious campaign it will be for those who live to fight it this next cold season, hunting 'down those wretches and exterminating 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 sent in from different places to be hung. How well this state of things has been fore' old by Lord Ellen borough and others ; hut how little we thought we 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 Bombay and Lahore, except now and then a cos.ed (or messen ger) finds his way disguised as a fakeer from Agra, but their reports are very exaggerated. 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 can 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 what are we to do when we are there? We have not men enough to bold it and defend our camp here. They have latterly been trying hard to get at us again in the rear, but we have blown iv all their bridges, and effectually stopped them. My things have not come down here yet, but we are ' pretty comfortable. We all wear as much flannel as we can. 1 often emus) myself with sketching, but was stupid enough to leave my colours at Lahore. Gholab Singh is going to send us a lot of his rabble. 1 would much sooner be without them. However, they hate the Pandies. All our wounded are doing well. The greater part who can have gone to Sienlah, 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 ie-pulse and discomfiture of the enemy, and often with great loss, but never without a greater number of casualties on our s'de than with our small force we can well afford. The newsletters from the city describe the mutineers to be much dishearten , d at their constant want of success ; and no doubt it 1 must be rbdeefseoti defences, their attacks of late have been much t i o e e makeb e prepared, r a pa d an a ry s e d e i each day is adding to tie strength 'l a ' . ;leeno fear whatever is felt of their bet rig hardly be impression on them. 'You will th ere say, at home to hear of our still remaining on in fact, instead of' bes e ie d ge e r fe s n ; si b v u e t , s t o he it b h e a s a ie i l c u e (l , , , I the such maysay from the day of our a tTlV is al here and when the strength of our little arra known, peaple army is ch to, b w ill be the less surprised to case. It looks mighty well on paper—six e the re g men ts of Europea ns, and fo ur of nativ e i n f an t ry (Sikhs and Ghoorkas), and I have no doubt the number is set down at 10,000 men, but the re '1 s t r ength is probably u n d er 4,ooo —sa y 2 , 10 0 Ee_ ropeans, and the remainder natives. I have nob seen the returns lately, but I think I must be above the mark in saying we have 4,000 infant' y. In artillery we are fortunately tolerably well off, ; 1 but in cavalry the enemy perhaps outnumber ue 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 in 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 impatiently 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- I ; siderable 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 to be here abeut the 12th or 15th proximo, and then we shall be strong enough to work in earnest with the wretched city. The troops coming down amount altogether to some 4,000 infantry, of whom 1,400 are European and the rest Ghoorkas 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 here before the middle of September or later, when the rains leave off. At present there does not appear to be more sickness than there would be were the men located in their barracks, and several of the regiments, the com manding officers tell me, are positively healthier than they probably will be in cantonments. When once our fresh troops are here I should think a week ought to put us in possession of the city, and onceinthere the Palace and Old Fort could not hold out a day. 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 expected un less it is determined to abandon Lucknow 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 latest accounts from Lucknow, but which are only up to the 2d July, all was right there, and Sir H. Law rence had some 700 Europeans of her Majesty's 32d, and part of the 84th, but he was almost con fined to the intrenchments he had made, and I should doubt, when all the mutinous regiments of Oude gathered round him, his being able to hold his own 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 his force is not men tioned, but I should doubt its being more. than 2,000 infantry with perhaps nine guns and a very small 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 Cawnpora, 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 Cawnpore 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 Cawnpore cata strophe reached us. You will, probably learn via 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 come up country, and the Governor-General too, for when we have disposed of Delbi 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 and the Commander in-Chief. The council 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 preierve peace and quiet in the land. It was to this measure that Sir Charles Na pier owed so much of his success in quieting Scinde ; but Lord Dalhousie was too proud to tale 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 good as ours, and their stock of percussion caps is reported as coming to a close. It is to be hoped that it is so, for these they never can manufacture, and their only plan will be to alter the locks for flints." 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 Ravee, near Lahore and cannot cross ; on the other side of the river are the 52d (Queen's) Light Infan try, some guns, and some Irregular troops, under Colonel Nicholson ; so if we cannot polish them off most effectually it will be strange. I need not say what we have to undergo in marching during this trying weather, nothing to protect us from the burning rays of the sun but a fold of. canvas, and the hot winds blowing through it like a blast from a furnace. In an expedition of this nature officers and men all share alike, the only thing to bear us up being the excitement and the hopes of encoun tering these murderous ruffians, which may possibly happen about the 20th „ _ " I have not 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 head, 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 ni g gers in general and on Sepoys in particul a r f o r the privations and sufferings which they are the cause of. Mais le bon, temps viendra, and in the 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 forget 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 must be experienced to be 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. , l 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 1 a march of 12 days, accompanied with the usual amount of misery to which which we here been so long sub jected. On the let' of August we reached the left bank of the Nerbudda, and found the moveable column, which consisted of four troops, her Majesty's 14th Dragoons, 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, and Wool coomb'e Battery, with a force of Madras and Bombay Sapperv e conamanded by Major 115ileau of the former. With the column (which is commanded by Stewart, Bom bay 16th Native Infantry) we proceeded to IVlhow, where, on arriving, we found all the' European inhabi tants under shelter of the tort. The news of our ap proach was the signal for them to abandon their hiding- Vace and return to their houses, those who had such, for many bad not, the jolly Padre among the num ber. Confidence 'wee at once restored, and we had the satisfaction of again seeing the poor people brew he freely. This force came by Aurungabad and Asseergurh, meting out punishment to those de serving such at either place. Three of the wing of the 6th Regiment of the Gwalior Contingent at Asseergurh were blown away from the guns. They had incited the company of the sth Regiment, Gwalior Contingent, at Boorhaunpoor, distant about 12 miles from Asseergurh, to join them, but failed. Oudan Sing, subandar 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 innoceet as to acts of mutiny. 250 men of the 86th Queen's joined us on the 6th inst. ; and it was supposed an immediate advance upon Indore would take place. Circumstances, it would seem, have altered since the 6th. Holkar's force, hitherto in a state of open and avowed mutiny . (hearing, no doubt, of the approach of our dreaded Europeans), have, it seems, 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 ourselves to be compromised in such a a matter, nor the blood and treasure split on the let 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 of Gwalior, at the solicitation, it is said, of the old demon, the Bhazee Baee,' but for all news of this description I mustrefer you to the papers. However, I must tell you that a letter arrived in camp last night from Bom bay, relating that 160 of the 27th Bombay Native Infan 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 as einfortunate cir cumstance. It may be the means of deterring others from following so bad an example. No native officer higher than a havildar joined in the revel', Burlton's corps, 2 Cavalry, Gwalior Contingent, has all gone ; so has Alexander's -(lst Cavalry, Gwalior Contingent). Burlton died of cholera. Alexander and Cockburn both wounded. God Only knows when peace again will reign in Central India ; I fear the day is far dis tant. Oh I 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 have exposed you. Would to Heaven that I was at home with you ; but it is the -duty of every Englishman to . stand by the old craft when in distress; and, please God, I shall never be found absent from the call Of duty." of the heaviest calibre which completely command the city of Agra and all approaches by which assailants could attempt an attack. The quarre:s of the Sheeahs and Sunzees during the Mohurrum Festival are far more likely to tend towards the peace of the garrison than to create alarm, for 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. TLIE CHELSEA VESTRY AND CBEIVORNE GARDENS. London is perhaps less favourably supplied with the means of al fresco enjoyment than any of its Continental neighbours. The glories of Vauxhall 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 immaculate body contemplate an early endeavour to deprive the tired London citizen 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 inhabitants of the parish may occasion surprise, but that their op position should meet with anything 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 lulled some of the leading members of the aristocracy. That the op polition of no less than a score of self-constituted dictators should be allowed to interfere with the legitimate enjoyment of the masses, is simply ridi 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 ce:tain evils arose from the late hours to which the festivities of Cremorne were prolonged, and praying inquiry, was presented about a mouth 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, without any knowledge of the merits of the case, and that personal investi gation having since satisfied him that many of the allegations it contained 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 30 out of the 80 vestrymen of the parish. _ _ _ Die question was opened by Mr. Till, who pre. eented a memorial from a large number of his fellow-parishioners, protesting against the em ployment of any portion of the parish funds in opposing a renewal of the licence for Cremorue. A. similar memorial was presented by Mr. Wal lace. Both having been received, • Mr. LAURANCE spoke at some length in favour of opposing the renewal of the licence, ground ing his argument upon the alleged diminu tion of the value of house property in the district, in proof of which he read a long list of statistical returns, and concluded by proposing, as a resolution, that the renewal of the licence of Ore morne Gardens should be opposed by the parish at the ensuing sessions. Mr. TILL moved au amendment. He said that he had no interest, either immediate or remote, in the matter under discussion, but he was prompted 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, hear.) He thought, with reference to the memorial first presented from the ratepayers' Association, that the first duty of the vestry, if they took action upon it at all, was to act in accordance with the prayer of the memorial, and as a preliminary measure to in stitute au inquiry into the allegations. He gathered from Mr Laurance that an inquiry had been made. He (Mr. Till) had attended - most of the meetings on this subject, and he was quite at a loss to know when that inquiry took place. Mr. Laurance, as an individual member of the board,' had certainly taken great pains to obtain a mass of statistics, 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 in this matter with the best inten tions ; but ie was too much to expect an equal amount 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 lie would remark that inasmuch as all the memorialists asked for was an inquiry, he thought that step ought to be taken before they came to any final resolution to oppose the ' license of Cremore, and spend the parish fUnds for 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 reported to was the police magistrates, and, if proved, they would undoubtedly fine him for his misconduct, and the matter would not rest there ; for when Mr. Simp son applied for a renewal of his powers, the parties who had lodged the complaint against him would be there to make the representation to the licensing magistrates, and if the Bench considered the police magistrate justified in inflicting the fine they would in all probability suspend the license. (Hear.) This would have been a better course than that which the board had chosen to adopt ; and his opinion on the subject remained unchanged, notwithstanding the decision of the board on a former occasion. Now, with reference to the arguments advanced, as fir as he had heard them, they went not to the limitation of Cremorne, but to its entire extinction. It was easy 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 seduction of young men from honesty and young women from virtue, they must all be quite awed e that these courses were not confined to any hours, nor restricted to any places where the disposition to such courses existed. (Hear, hear.) Therefore. when the plea of morality was advanced, he did not think it applied to the limitation of the hours, but to the extinction of the gardens. (Hegr) With re gard to the empty houses, he thought there were other causes than those mentioned. There were the gas works, chemical factories, the drainage into the Thames, high rent, and exorbitant parochial ra'es. 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 observai ion !o make with reference to the injustice done to Mr. Simpson in calling upon him to close his gardens at twelve o'clock unless they called upon the public-houses in that vicinity to close at the same hour. It was an act of injustice to expect Mr. Simpson to lay out 30,0001. or 40,0001. to cater for the public amusement aid recreation, and then to call upon him to close at an hour when he reaps 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 protected 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 cheavee— (hear—and he had also yet to learn that there were more contaminating influences in an establishment like Cremorne than there were in the cidar-cellars of the metropolis. (Hear.) One other circumstance he would allude to with reference to the term (1' 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 number of Sunday nights when they Must be closed at 11 o'clock, and taking further an average of 1.6 or 18 vet nights during the season, when they were closed by 12 o'clock owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, there were left at the most 64 days, or little more than two months out of the 12 on which the state of things complained of could ob tain. With the - se observations he begged to move " That this board do appoint a committee for the purpose of instituting an inquiry into the manage ment of Cremorne. Mr. CORNELL, clerk to the un:gistrates of tie' Kensington division, seconded Mr. Till's amend ment, supporting its adoption in a powerful and argumentative s•peec"). Mr. LEGG supported the amendment on pu‘.li • grounds. Ho thought no sufficient; rea:sens had b en shown for instructing the solicitor; to oppose the licenses, and in so serious a matter there ought - , at least, to be inquiry. Mr. DicKsoN wished, as fully as possible, to re cal tue , expressions and criticism be had made use of on a famer occasion. Although he presented th 3 memorial from the Ratepayer: Assoi . Eo!o. , he was not aware of its contents at the time he under took to do so, and was not praent at the m ee ti ng when it was adopted. lie had visited Cremem e size the last discussion of the subject, and was satisfied from his own observation that the conduct of the visitors in the gardens was irreproachable. Mr. WALLACE supported the amendment, and said he was certain Mr. Sitnp , ou was desirous of doing everything consistent with his duty to remove any complaints that were specially made to him, and he believed if a committee of the vestry waited upon that gentleman he would give them every satisfaction they could possiby require—(hear, hear) —and he believed 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 spoke 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 original motion there were 18 for and 7 against, 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 prcceeding terminated. Country Markets, LIVERPOOL-SEPT. 18. There was a thin attendance at maikat to-day, and with a moderate extent of transactions. Old wheat was slightly easier in price, whil-t Irish new declined 2d to 3d per bushel on Tuesday's prices.' Of old oats and oatmeal we were never so bare before. American red wheat 8s 4d 'to Ss 10d, white up to 103 2d. New oatmeal 35s to 370 per 2101bs. Indian corn 37s 6d to 42s per 4801bs. 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 down from Racul Pindee, under Colonel Ellice, with some Horse Artillery, to disarm the 14th Native In fantry. " This regiment was drawn up on its own pa rade ground when our force arrived, and, seeing them approach, loaded, fired at their officers (luckily without effect), and bolted off to their bat 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 thetiselves exposed ; they were, however, after some hard fighting, driven out of their position, and then made for a neighbouring , village, where the cover was equally advan tageous for them. 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 inoh of ground. They were at last put to flight, but, having very few cavalry, and those hardly to be trusted, they could not be pursued, and so those who were not killed escaped into the jungle. I regret to say that we lost one officer in this affair, Captain Spring. Colonel Ellice was dangerously wounded 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 tight leg• was amputated at the thigh, and he is now pro gressing, I hope and trust, satisfactorily. abi c h, :s _ ter was shot through the left arm, but is doing well. De Montmorency got off with a bullet through his trousers, another shooting away his s-:abbard : but be was not hurt himself. Sam 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 Pindee, but as soon as the news arrived by telegraph reinforcements were sent down immediately, I among the number ; but when wa lrad gone half way to Jhelum an order came racail ing us, as the action was all over ; I however got leave to come on, and arrived the morning after. "Our loss in the 24th was 1 officer, 2 sergeants, and 23 men killed-3 officers, 4 corporals, and 43 men wounded. W '• Poor Ellice is dreadfully wounded, having, in addition to the wound through his chest, got a hall through his left leg ; he, Streathfield, and Chiches ter, have been taken to a large house in Jhelum, whera they are well taken care of. Government having offered a reward of 30 rupees per head (about 3/.) fur every fugitive Sepoy, we had the satisfac tion of shooting 48 of them on the evening of the Bth, and the following day we blew 25 away from the cannon's mouth. The odds in numbers were dreadfully against us, the Sepoys were 702 in num ber, 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 Pindee were ordered to disarm the 58th Native Infan•ry ; but as soon as we took up our position on either side of the Horse Artil'ery, ready to blaze into th , m in case of their refusing to give up their arm=, they paused for a moment, then took to their h !els an bolted from the parade ground. Our men were with the greatest difficulty prevented by the oaleeis from firing, as also the artillery. Had we fired, we should have done so, right into a bldy of st , ff officers wll9 were betty. en U. Th 3 S p TA, how ever, were induced to give up their arms teaceibly, and when they were handed over to our magazine there were about 200 of them fonnd to be loaded ! Thank God, everything passed over without blood shed. - I must, therefore, tell you what I am doing now. The three companies engagei at Jhelum ate now marching down, under Colonel Brown, to intercept the 46th Native Infantry and the 9th Light Cavalry, which have mutinied and bolted fr om Sealkote, after murdering several officers and plundering the houses. Our force consists of the three companies of my regiment, 200 Sikh soldiers (good rat n and tru3), 100 Irregular Horse, ani BENARES. The following ara extracts from a letter-written by a staff officer recently, at Dinapore. The dates areas recent as the 3d of August " Benares, July 22. "As for news, it is no use mentioning what the papers will have, viz., that Havelock has just destroyed Bitthaor and taken 13 more guns there, and is en route to Lucknow, crossing the Ganges to-day. Al" the women were killed by the Nena in batches, so many a-d:.y. He violated all he could first, and sent the rest naked into his camp for the men ; at Jhansi they tied the husbands to trees while the same atrocities were in process, and tore the children limb by limb. They've atade mothers kill their own children, and that sort of thing: Poor old -(a civilian) was daintily stabbed oa sir bayonets, and carried round kicking, and then killed. It is as well to tell these things, which don't half come up to the untellelele atrocities of the way in which ladies were tortured and exposed, because the more you all know in Eogland the better, as for want of cavalry these wretches get very little cut up now, and they . must be punished afterwards in cold blood. They had stiff fighting at Cawnporeiethe 78th men how- Leg in the most appalling manner •on account of the women and children as they closed with the enemy. The Nena has gone t) Humeerpore. Loyd, the collector there, was murdered. C arke (J. J., the assistant,ur geon)) is here ; Cockerel' was killed at Banda. They've discovered an attempt at a rising here, and got a ma hejan,' out of whose house came 150 tulwars' &c., and and also boned' four of the head • budmashes.' We're charing 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 all eur own way now if Bom be); keeps quiet, as the sth Fusitera and the 37th are ou the river, and will make Havelock strong enoegh for anything. He drives them like sheep as it is, but the punishment of these fiends is - the thing that will take time ; the Government is too mild, the authorities in C ticutta still patter and hurnbue. "The rising was a Mussulman plot, aided by the Brahmins ; religion bad nothing to do with it beyond their hatred for us IC:ars. The Nena was animated by Ipersonal pique. - Government orders spoiled our rev ' meats in making officers fools and men insolent. Go vernment actually the last few years have been con stantly asking the Sepoys to dictate to them, forbidding havildars' or naicks' being punished, allowing appeals against commanding officers'*lightest punishments, and asking the men, whose hair has been cut for 20 years, if se-ing the Sikhs with long hair isn't likely to raise mutiny in their elegant bosoms." " August 2. "You'll see by the papers that the Dinapore bri g ade have mutinied ; they ar e on the road t o S asseram . 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 caps, instead of sending the 10th Foot to disarm them. Fenwick, commanding the 10,:h, pointed out the neces sity, but the stupid incapable- woaldn'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 Road and punish these fellow,. Havelock carries all before him, and has taken 64 guns elreaciy, Having only 1,500 with him, there will be a narrow thing of it to reinforce him in time. Humanly speaking, if he gets reinforced by the sth and 90th soon, all will go well enough till yon comfortable people at home send some 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 h ie gulars here last night, and 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 As and Calcutta and Oude-wards, that some sort of scrimmage in the neighbourhood is likely. Holmes's c elm of Irregulars mutinied and cut him and the doctor and their wives into bits. This shows what bosh' it is talking of penalty of officers, or want of s o ldi er l y know ledge on their part. Holmes's corps was acknowledged by all bands 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 them —see the result ! "It is an implacable hatred to us as a nation, the timid policy of a Government who tolerate and cherish i !olatry and Mahornedanism, and rather persecute their having any religion ) in t natives to advance prejudices , t v l e e ie rn religi on,seasking invariably y th d e i i s r cl a a c i t os s prejudices and find grievances, degrading their officers, and talking of Black Acts and sending natives to Par liament wed making civilians of them, the Commander in-Chief taking 20 petitions a-day against commanding aficers, begging the Jacks to find out that they ought to mutiny because their beards, shaved without a mur mur for 40 years, are shaved still. These things, pant pering thOSepoys, and above all the breaking out of a the same to the editor of the ot s t lo h n is g- r e o h w e , ri a s n h d ed if M y u ou ss ,d ulm hi a n n t t p h t , are the real causes e t 7 intes you'd be an useful member of society. Just heard that the loyal (I) brigade of Sepoys are making along th i e s m G a a n n a g g e e s , If Lloyd does not md av H in a g ve th lo e ck r° g ad et 4 s O m pe o n re men we shall go on swimmingly ; nothing will prevent our final success, but things are very critical just now. This station is the safest in Lower India, I think ; some rows may happen, ant we are one of the safest positions in the country. We are making no end of fine entrenchments at Raj 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 just arriving from Chunar, and ditto and some mortars to come from Allahabad. We have just heard very bad news. Havelock is obliged to suspend his advance. He says he has only 760 effective men left. As it is imp ossibl3 that he can be reinforced from this side for a fortnight it is a regular fix. Both his force and Lucknow 1 ink very fishy. If it had not been for General —_-'s fatuous iuiotcy strong 'reinforce ments would have been past Allahabad already. J really should not wonder if diet Dinapore folly does not end by 1 .sing Lucknow, Havelock, and Agra. Five or six of the mutineers of the Sikh corps here (drill men) were discovered, through the evidence of the Sikhs who remained faithful, to be in the Benares Rajah's service. A. court-martial is sitting now, and they skill be hanged no doubt. Toe Nab has been intriguing and is under surveillance. We reinforced Chunar last night ; the fellows Nese(' our bungalow singing one of the most ringing English-sounding choruses you coul I imagine. Is drives one savage to think of —'s perilling Have -1 Eck by, his idiotic belief in the three Sepoy carps ; they aro now hemmed in by the detachment of the sth Fusi leers and two guns, who went to Buxar by steamer, lAnded and w nt down the road, and the 10th Iron Dina pore coming up; but whel - ,hsr they will not get away by a cross road which exists 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 higher up. If they coield only take Delhi Ilavzl•ck inight be relieved. More news just ir. The detach eient from Divapora came on the rebels. They—i.e., our fellows, had no advance guard or flinkeri ; they came suddenly on a wall: up jumped the Sepoys and irlazeil into them. Out of 300 two-thirds were hersele hombat. By this volley 80 were kiiled, and 3 officers, and the remaining 100 barely got away with tbeir wounded to a steamer. Somehow the brutes had got ,uns ; in Arrab, probably, hid beforehand. They have nuhelered all the Europeans in Arrah, and the worst of it is that the detachment from Buxar wilt fall into be trap tae, for there is no way of warning them. Have leek will get no reinforcements and will be driven back. Fenwick, of the 10th Queen's, has taken command of Dinapnre. We are working like mad in getting our toms, Sec., down to Raj Ghat. It is my private opinion that this place and Allahabad stand a chance of beteg toe only two places in our oceepetion between Calcutta end the Puujeb, unless that Delhi force does something quick. I have.no fear of the ultimate result, of course, , or I believe God does not mean us to lose the country, but we are very shaky just now. The Grand Trunk • cad is all up, so I try this by B nnbay. It is a most ,pravidential thing we began to fortify 10 days ago, and have Pat Stewart a n d Li mon d an d a fi rs t- ra t e civil engi• neer, Piddie, here. J en ki nson, t h e joiet magistrate, too, is a trump ; he drills lihitneutgars in boots, it is true , bat the style of his rec ru it s h as no thi n g to do with him. He works like a horee, and is always ready to !go 20 n s, and scuttle boat s , or any thi ng else where dash is wanted." MHO W. The following letter is from a medical officer : MBOW, Aua. 8. We 1 ft ll._ oshun2abacl on the 21st of July, as I CAS a IMRE. Our Bombay correspondent corrected by last mail the report for a time generally credited in India that G-olab Sing was dead. The following letter from his valley will be read with interest. It is dated July 6 : " Think Jig 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 ending you the following items : "Ever since the news arrived hero of the sanguinary outbreak, and the atrocious bar barities perpetrated at Delhi, the Mararajah has taken wise and prudent precaution to preserve the peace within -his own dominions ; for, as be low in the plains of India, so up here, and also in the mountains, the minds of the whole Mahomedan population havelbeen 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 innerniost thoughts may have inclined them to do; at the pre sent crisis to be forewarned is to be forearmed ;' and amongst other wholesome and sound ar rangements the Maharjah 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 guwa, to beware that if they spoke disparagingly of the Company's Government, or of the Sahibologue (which the budmashes had already commenced doing so as to bring the English visitors into disre pute), they would be laid hold of sharp, and sen tenced to five years' imprisonment. This had a most salutary effect. " Another wise measure was to atop 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 Umritsnr, or elsewhere, can enter Cashmere by mums of 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 Poorbeea Sepoys ; otherwise measures .have also been takento preserve the peace unbroken, 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, while the troops are on the ground. At the expirat'on 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 show to his hospitality and to his kind feeling for his European friends. His High ness 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, [ believe, of Farms Dunga, near Chandernagora. At such a moment, while the native army is in re belljon, it shows a greatness of mind on the part of the Maharajah not to allow the ill-judged and ill timed observations , headed ' tiling in the Doctor,' (vide Friend of India,C April 30, reprinted in the Lahore Chronicle) to poison his mind, or to estrange his thoughts from continuing in the even tenor of their way, in respect t ) his honourable and strict fidelity towards the British Government and its servants. Such au article, appearing in a paper known to b.) the Government organ, and, in a measty e, speaking its sentiments, would have shaken the faith of any Christian ruler or governors in biceps. "The Maharajah's own dawk frequently arrives 21 hours before the government mail from Lahore, although both travel to:zether from Sealkota ; that is to say the Maharajah's bag brings on the com pany's dawk from that place. " Golab Sing has hat Vigne's Cashmere' trans lated to him, as &so Cunningham's. I have heard that he'gives the preference to the last work, but this is said only when the respective merits of both works are' discussed. His highness says, `Read Cunningham's—it is the hest work.' Why ? Simply because Vigne wrote and published his mind, and penned his innermost thou g ht s t oo freely to please the Maharajah. " Last month, on a Sunday night, a fire broke out in the large bazaar which extecded from the gates of the Shuhurgurhee to the parade -ground. It broke out at t:in o'clock, and burnt nearly all night ; it was a frightful conflagration, all the houses being of wood. The whole bazaar was burnt down, the end of the bridge (called Amir Kutul) caught fire, and had t o b e part l y destroyed ; some lives were lost. •Ye s t er d ay after noon(sone Sulidlay)a frightful hu rr i cane, or tornado, such coulda expect only i n th e Chi na S eas, the latitude of the Mauritius, or i n th e W est I n di es, 3 Enormousl )swept al ung plane the IL' coining from th e nor th-W as t. were uprooted by its violence. The natives here say that such furious toofans and monster blasts of wind only happen when the ele ments in the plains are a prey to a hallah-goolah, of fire and sworde,, and strife and blood. Curious, if true." THE FORT OF AGRA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As the rumours 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, 1. beg to place at your dis posal positive information from that fort up to the 22d of July, received by the Maxseiiles portion of the mai• yesterday, and contained in a letter from an officer of the Civil Service, holding a high po s iti on a t Agra. At that dat e the garrison were in good spirits and health, provisions 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 strength of the fort and its capabilities of a defence lengthened residence and a thorough ac quaintance with Agra enable me to add that there is no chance of their being overpowered, for the fort has guns 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—Wheat, 59s 3d ; bailey, 44s ld ; oats, 27s 11d ; beans, 47s 13d ; peas, 438 1./(1 rye, --s. Od. EXETER-Sm. 18. CORN.—Wheat, 7s 3d to 7s 6d ; barley, 5s to 5s 6d ; grinding do., OE Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s Od to 3s 3d. Beans, Os Od to 0 Od. Peas, 00s Od to 00s Od. FLOIIR.—Fine, 42s Od to 43a Od ; seconds, 40s Od to 410 Od per sack. CATTLE. --There was a small, supply of bullocks. Best beef, from lOs 6d to lls per score ; inferioi, 78 Od to 8s per score ; fat calves, Od to 7d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to 04 Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 201. ks ; butchers' calves, Od to 7d per lb., rearing calves —0 to s each; sheep, ewes and lambs, 21. 5s to 3/. 5s per couple; ewes, 0:1 to Old; wethers, 6d 61d; lambs, 7ld to 0 per lb. Pigs, large size, —s to —s ; second size, —s to —s ; slips, --s to —s ; suckers, —s to —s. Rough fat, 5d per lb. Pork carcases from lOs 3d to its 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 offering at present. :T.-.—SEPT. 18. the close of the market Wallsend, &c. Russell's Hetton 17 ti Reuel Hall 37 0 Brown's Moor Haigh Main 15 0 Riddell l6 0 Eden Main l7 3 Fees lB 6 Roswell 18 6 South Hetton 18 3 Wayne's Merthyr 21 0 Cassop 17 Lumley 17 u Braddyll l7 6 t, 47 ; sold, 45. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at s. d.r Howard's West Hartley Netherton l7 9 North Percy Hartley l6 6 Taufield Moor l4 3 'Taufield Moor Butes 14 3 Wylain Walker Primrose l4 0 West Hartley Grey's 17 3 Hol ywell ..... ....... l6 C Ward's West Hartley l6 6 Bates's West Hartley l6 Morpeth West Hartley 14 3 Wallsend, &c. Gosforth l6 OI Ship at markel COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-•YESTERDAY. km5terdem......,..... 11 16% Ditto, three months .. 11 19 4 Gibraltar ..•• .. •....... Leghorn .. 3O 26 Rotterdam ............ 11 1 .;;; Antwerp .............. 25 37Y6 Brussels ....•••••••••• 25 2;14 Bamburgh ............ 13 8 Altona .. • • Genoa ........•• 25 75 Milan •••••••••• Venice ••••••••••••••" Naples 42% Palermo 12'7% Paris • • .......... • • .... 25 25 Messina ... ••• 12$ Do. three months .. 25 623 Lisbon ... .... 624 Mattel ............• 25 65 Oporto .............. •• 52h Bourdeaux .. • • ........ ;Rio Janeiro ..... ....... Frankfort•hn- Maine • ... 118% Buenos Ayres ...... Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• • • 'New York, 60 days' sight Vienna .• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 10 35 'Philadelphia • ... Trieste.... •• •.•• •• •... 10 36 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ: Petersburg ............ 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 •• 491 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Cadiz ......... • 50 Mexican Dollars 0 5 1 B treelona ........ New Dollars 0 0 0 Seville • • ...... • . Silver in bars .... 0 5 136 LOCAL SHARE IVARK.ETA. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 18. STOCK ExcHANGE.--The transactions in this inarkei in the leading stocks have declined. Caledonian, 43 —Great Western of Canada, 20/--Midland, 80i 81- -London and. N( rth-Westerns, 97 8--Ditto, Eighths, new, dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 963 i—London and South Western, 91i—North Eastern, Berwick, 23i Grand Trunk of Canada, 14—Ditto 6 per Cent. Debs, 84 South Eastern, 204.—Sheffields;4 ol—Great Western, 54 - i Eastern Counties, 11.8.9.--Dutch.Rhenish, 6 d---North British, 12.13.9. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 18. STOCK EXCHANOE.—The market was inactivo today, and prices rather lower. Eastern Counties, 115-16 - -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 414—Ditto, new 31 per cent., 65—Dovers, 20 5-16—Great Luxembourg, 7- - -East Lancashire, 93 --Grand Trunk of Canada, 12/ —London arid North Westerns, 9n Midland, 80$'"" Leeds, 96i—Preston and Wyro, 43g. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day has again been lower. London and North Western, 981 99--Great Western, 53 4l—South Staffords, 9 x d—Midland, SOi —Great Western Stour Valleys Guaranteed 62 3—General Steam, 251—Birmingham Bank, 33. [ADVERTISEMINT.I-- SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES" ... POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIO GLASSES. —S. and B. Solonions, opticians, 39, A bemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and eS traordina y improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half mile; distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accardin2,ly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. —A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country' scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles, They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers.—lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with those lenses of a mu c h l ess magn i fying power—a nd they do not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the mos+ remote part of the world by send one of the-glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distince from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. r ei f ness .—N ew Di sco%e ry.—The Organic Vibrator, an rx: raordi' aril y powerful, snail, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, surpassing anythiug of the kind that has been, or probably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at churchaud at public assemblie• ; the unpleasant sensation- of singing noises in the ears entirely removal, and it afford! all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-3q, ADe. , marle-street, Piccadilly.—Opposite the York Hotel, W. B I It T II S. OF A SON. On the 16th inst., at 5, St. George's-terrace, Qufen'N' 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-terraco, Cumberland' gate, tho wife of Gilliat Hatfeild, Esq. Oa the 17th inst., at Newmarket, the wife of HenrY Hughes, Esq. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, J.' Mr. Parrott, Esq., of reat Queen-street, Westminster, late of the Royal Navy, to Harriet, only daughter of W. Taylor, Esq , solicitor, formerly of the Middle Totnple. On the 17th inst., at the parish church of St. Mall, La,mbath, John George, eldost son of John Rhodes, Esq.. of Brixton ' to Mary, only daughter o f J ohn Flem'wello Esq., of Stockwell. D I E D, On the 16th inst., at Margate, Georg© Longman, Esq. , of Brorypton: On the 18th inst., at Notting-hill, Win. Abercrombie , Esq., aged 86. On the 17th inst., at Roos Rectory, , Yorkshire Cathe' rive Ann Grigg, a ge d 90 . On the 17th inst., Mr. James Chase, for many years of 11. M. Customs, Thames -street, aged 72. On the 16th inst., at Btighton William Saunders, third son of Ross D. Mangles, Esq., 11LP.. aged 10. On the 16th inst. at Woodlands Villa, Isle of Thane t , Wm. Ivo Esq., aged 65. On the 16th inst., at Epping, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. I' G. Lucy. On the 14th i ns t .' at Notting.bill, Jas. Thomas Wslab, _ Esq., Dep.-Liont. o f the Tower, and many years chain:olw of the Tower Sessions. LONDON : Printed and Published by MtTRDO Yotricr, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, } l c ' 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count,' of Middlesex, Saturday, 84 tember 19, 1857. i 'P I n c e j , JO UN* , Thai pl o'clock In the by note, in p tion proposed That a hal 10th October Of the incom The voting BANE Lond ng Money Deposit. Fr application. T" Sher and German: Through 'I Company, st Fifty poun Further p V,o"npany'i I treet. - LONE RAI] tors aro pre% Partieulai the Perm ani TenderP, or before We Secretary' FIINI KIT BSCRI the Lord M and all Its branches ; I National Pr The Comt precisely. Mansion- . WOE, tl J 1,.: with Coat, V. 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