The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

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Fir.st vessel: jillaroCeeiling "rapidly wilt he loading, and will
be despatched on or about the 10th July.
FOR SINGAPORE,
i,, The very superior Whitehaven-budt Barque
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, MARY SPENCER,
:1641144\,-1 Capt. J. F. Ftsuva. ;
• 479 tons ' • A lat Lloyd's thirteen years, and con-
tinued four years on the first-class from the let January, 1861 ;
this vessel is weliknown in the India trade for quick' and safe
pasages : loading .in tke Salthousei Dock. Apply to •
COTESWORTIL LYNE, & CO.

Rates Offreight by special arraagement: has a large portion
of het cargo in 6ourse of shipment, and will name an early
day of sailing.
" Will have deipateh.
F 011,!" ,C A L
. . The Liverpool-built:Clipper4ip
6,40,44 "" TOPTCOMBS,
- • • :1,.!c ft Captain TECEVERTON
673 tons ; A 1 at Lloyd's thirteen years; built in 1856, antl is a
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Noprcg TO SHIPPERS.
FOE BOMBAY,
The magnifieent iron' Clipi.ier. Ship
ELLEN BATES,
Capt. T. LEISK ;
~015 tons register-; will emitinne to reeeive'goods, east side
,S althouse• Bock unless previously full), up to Tuesday' evening,
the 10thluly, and will proceed to sea the following day, wind
and weather permittirig. • Fat freight apply to
• - IMRIE & TOMLINSON.

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Has made large engagements for cargo, and, ill have prompt
despatch. Loads in`Salthouse Dock.
~ FOR CAI,CUTTA,
,--;414%, The magnificent iron clipper Ship ,
• ~,,,i, GRAZEEPORE, - i
...6filaa4l . pot: GIiEIG ;, , ' • rears,
Daly 821 tons register ;A1 at Lloyd's for twelve
oaly one year old, has ,roved herself a fast sailer, delivering
hur'curgoes in first-rate•order. Fpr :freight or-passage ipply
to tbe owners, Messrs. Mackinnon' Frew, Etna Co. ; or to
'- • DIME & TOMLINSON.

A ROMANCE OF THE REBELLION.

FATE OF MISS WHEELER:

(From the Friend of India.)

The mutinies and massacres of 1857 gave rise to not
a few facts which time proved to be baseless, to many a
story which afterwards turned out apocryphal. The
naked truth was horrible enough ; the garniture of
fancy and the extravagance of exaggeration Only made
it less terrible. Prominent among the events which
the poetrdecked_ out in verse; 'with which the penny
novelist fed the prurient tastes of the London mob,
which the low dramatist
.set forth as "spectacles " in
the cheap theatre, were the incident of the Highland
girl in. Lucknow hearing the pipes of the relieving
force, the oath of the 78th at the Cawnpore Well, and
the heroic fate of Emily "Wheeler. The first two were
long ago exploded, over the last has hung a demi of
doubt and mystery, in the gloom of which the real facts
have been magnified into gigantic proportions. Some
months ago it was roundly asserted that she was still
living with the sowar who was said to have carried her
off, and that she wished to hide her sorrows and her
shame alike in oblivion. If it was not unlikely that
any Christian girl would deliberately prefer such
debasement, it was most certain that no Christian
officer, no Government-such as ours, would permit her
captor to remain unpunished, or cease energetic efforts
to induce her to return to eiVilisation. Obscurity was a
right desire, but a swinish rebel's hut in a native state
was not the place for ,a Christian's broken heart. We
are now able to give all the facts which will probably
ever be known as to the fate of Emily Wheeler.
Was a daughter of General Wheeler, was any Chris-
tian lady carried off by a sowar after the massacre at
the Cawnpore Ghat ? So far as the depositions taken
by Colonel Williams on the spot can be trusted, the
answer must be decidedly iu the affirmative. Twelve
witnesses, Christian, Mussulman, and Hindoo, testify
to the fact. Perma Nund, General 'Wheeler's jemadar,
was shut up in the intrenchment with the others.
After describing the life there and the capitulation, he
says :—The General, his lady, and two daughters pro-
ceeded on an elephant to the Ghat on the fatal morn-

ing. With Captains Thompson and Delafosse, four
servants, and others, they embarked, and pushed off
unhurt to gunshot distance from the spot. The
boat was fired into, evidently from the other side.
One of the General's daughters jumped out, with
Captains Delafosse _and Thompson, and the servants.
The jemadar says, " I saw a cavalry sowar take Miss
Wheeler out of-the nulls." William Clarke, a musician,
saw two sowarecarrying off a lady on horseback. " She
wore a chintz gown,
_which appeared to be wet ; she
seemed t0..he,15..0r 19 years of age." From the evidence
she appears to have been carried off to Futteghur.
There W. T. de Craze, a musician, ‘ saw one lady
with the troopers." The matter became noised abroad
among the other rebels, and he deserted with her.
At the same plade the drummer Fitchett saw her. He
was told by the sepoys that the Nana had ordered her
captor to give her up, and he accordingly decamped. He
afterwards heard that she had destroyed herself. Elahee
Buksh, a faithful sepoy of the 56th Native Infantry,
who was in the intrenchmentS, when a prisoner, "saw
a sowar-carrying a lady on a horse ; she had on a green
dress, her legs were hanging over one side of the horse,
and the sowar held her with one arm." He was told it
was General Wheeler's youngest daughter, and after-
wards heard that she had killed the sowar, and thrown
herself into a well. Such was the report current among
the sepoys. Several testify to the fact-that the so war's
' name was Nizam Ali Khan Pathan, resident of Ram-

pore. ' A fellow-trooper thus describes him :—" Age
22 or 23 years, a fair complexion, height about five feet
seven inches, long nose, dark eyes, wears a beard and

small moustache."v Finally, Manuck, a spy, who was sent
by Colonel Williams to discover the sowar, traced him to
Ramporb, and there was told by a jemadar of the

Nawaub's troops that he had seen him " with a young
lady,.the daughter of a gentleman, with him ; she was
disguised in native clothes. Ali Khan shortly after-
wards left Rampore for the rebel camp at Toolseepore."
Such were all the facts elicited;by -Colonel Williams.
Major, Hervey, Thuggee and Dacoity superintendent,
Bombay, took up the scent. He employed Mahomed
Buksh, a rebel .whose guilt was too great to allow him
to hope for, mercy even under the royal proclamation.
To seetire his fidelity, the man's son, equally guilty with
himself, was kept as a hostage. The spy bound himself
by the most solemn of native oaths, and by the life he
believed would else be forfeited, to the faithful perform-
ance of his perilous mission. He was a native also of
Rampore. His route to the rebel camp, then ill Nepaul,
lay -through the entire length of our watchful frontier
outposts. Ile ran. many dangers, anti bad to assume
various disgdises. Step by step he traced his way,
communicating with Major Hervey from several places.
Every arrangement was made to secure Miss Wheeler's
escape in the event of her being discovered. But at each
step the truth became evident that she had been brutally
murdered, and that her captor had fallen in the Bootwal
OTTVPMPTIt We give the apy's dopcoition :
" I went in the first place to Rampore, where I made
very close inquiries regarding the sowar whom I was to
trace out, but I could get no tidings of him. I learnt,
however, that, at the request of Mr. Wilson, the Nawaub
of Rampore had razed the man's house to the ground.
I then proceeded in search of him into the districts
round about Rampore. I went to, a place in that pro!
vince called Belaspore, where.l put up at the Surrai.'
A man, a Persian, who had been Captain Wheeler's
ser rant, happened to alight there also. At night we
got into conversation with each other, and he then told
me that the sowar who carried away General Wheeler's
daughter had murdered her and thrown her into a
well. I went on to Shahagur, where, toe, I made
inquiries. There I. was informed that a man named
Nizani Ali Khan, a resaldar, was killed in the battle
at Toolsipore. OA this I sent Major Hervey an intima-
tion by post from Bareilly, and informed him that this
name corresponded with that of the sower after whom I
had been deputed. by him. I then went to Phillibheet,
where I learnt that some of the enemy arrested at one of
the outposts as they were escaping from the fight at Boot-
- wal, when they were interrogated about the man Nizam
AU Khan, declared that he had acted very wickedly.
They said that he had also been accompanied (from
Cawnpore) by his wife and sister; but that, on some
- quarrel. taking place among them all one night, his wife
became estranged from him, and that thereupon he went
and killed the young lady in,,the jungle,.and cast her
body into, a dry well: Such, I heard, was the account
they gave of him; and that they had also declared that
he perished Soon after in the battle at Bootwal in a very
miserable manner (' bucre khurrubee ke suele), All this
every one swore to; so that I thereupon left and turned
my way back -towards Alabulnore, where now I have
arrived.

"I know nothing more. I made all the enquiries

, could, acting up to my promises on the subject. If the
man had been still alive, I would have gone on in my
search for him. The jungle in which the young lady
was slain was in the Koothar district (Kuttao;) My
informants also said that it was not known where the
wife and sister. had gone to, but that as for the man
himself, he had been killed at Bootwal."
to' the native mind the expression translated in the
above "in a very miserable manner," conveys the idea
of something Shocking and disgusting. The phiase
would be used of such deaths as those of Sulla or Herod.
The myth of the well is thus accounted for, awl another
illustration afforded of the saying that truth is stranger
than fiction.
In the circumstances we must accept the above as
generally conclusive regarding the fate of Emily
Wheeler. The speculations which it suggests we leave
to our readers. The troopers of the `2nd Cavalry carried
off four ladies and three musicians' wives from the
massacre at the Ghat, but all, with the exception of
Emily Wheeler, were delivered up to the Nana; and
placed in confinement with the 130 victims who after-
wards perished. We know that more than one Chris-
tian woman was altogether carried off by rebels ; but
the victims were so-called Portuguese, the families of
almost natives. We know that one such refused to
return with a large force which had been sent out to
rescue her after the siege of Delhi. But we have no
reason to believe that any European lady,
that any
officer's. or soldier's cwife, sister, or daughter, is still
experiencing ths.tender mercies of the heathen, which
are cruel.

J11(1 EST eL_vpopire the highest speed of
the horse to have been fourllljlo-48° yards in seven and
a-half minutes, or ati.tbe.,sat° thirty-three miles an
hour. The 1.
higast speed of the locomotive, well authen-
ticated, was on one of the English, lines, at the rate of
seventy-eight miles: an hour. The North River (New
steamers are said to have run, at the time of the
highest steamboat opposition and rivalry, at the rate of
twenty-six statute miles an hour. [This speed has been
attained b no of the new Holyhead boats.]
HlsToslo DousTs.— She (Sophia. Dorothea ) ' has
bewitched tyro.or three persons.who have taken her up,
and they Wont believe in her. wrong; Like Mary of
Scotland,
she finds adherents ready to conspire for her
even in history, and people who have to deal with her
are charmed, and fascinated, and bedeviled. How de-
votedly Miss Strickland has stood by Mary's innocence !
Are there not scores of ladies in this audience who per-
sist in it.too ? Innocent ! I remember as a boy how
a great party persisted in declaring Caroline of Brans-
wick was a martyred angel. So was Helen of Greece
innocent. She never ran away with Paris, the danger-
ous young Trojan. Menelaus her. husband illused her
and there never was any . siege of Troy at all. So was
Bluebeard's.wife innocent. She, never peeped into the
closet where the otker wives weremith their heads off.
She never dropped the key, or. stained it with blood ;
and her brothers were quite right in finishing Blue-
beard, the cowardly brute! Yes, Caroline of Bruns-
wick was innocent ; and Madame Laffarge never
poiaoned her husband ; and Mary of Scotland never
blew up her's ; and poor Sophia , Dorothea was never
unfaithful ; and Eve never took the apple—it was a
cowardly fabrication of the serpent's.—Cornhill Maga-
zine for July.