The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-04 00:00:00

ENGLISH FUGITIVES IN OUDE.

TO Till IDITOS OF TIM WWII.
81n,—The newly-arrived mail from India brings
the oeneinsion, m lar m regards mew of the unhappy
elation, of • swiss at iacidwits possessleg • most painful
Wired for this Minas end relatives of the parties con-
cerned. The prepare of the events to which I sow allude,
and of whit► I s►all endeavour to give you • Wet sun-
ray, hes been meshed by grave siternadous and vicissi-
tudes ; sod deeply must we eympathise with those aching
inert* at hone whose " hope, and fears alternate mixed '•
an now terminased by the terrible certainty unfolded in our
nem inteillgenco.

The hal ay last the mutiny broke out at &swore,
Nab, the majority of the European residents, including Mr.
0. I. Christian., the oommiasioner, his wife, their far
ant mos, sad many calms, were massacred by the &goys
of the Hindustani regiment in garrison, aided by the load
bra awl ineigalar levies. Our unhappy countryssen sad
earatrywaern were chiefly shot down while endeavour's( to
maps lath the jungle from the Conantwitoses Immo, where
tbay hed ramwebiet. It was dubs the ass manes of this
awl( entheleenbe, rat Maratssaat lieww(euelbewef the
late Mr Alexander Benne, who pulehell at Clehuß, Wend
militant of a load reghnsat at the ruin. enthobsd froth
the ens' of Its Reese the Mk stria/te d Ms. sal Mn.
Moieties. The math warebethanewneekbut the dad wee
carried wail by Lisensmit Dar Wier aditrlng psi sad
labours houmerabis) to the ant of a fiat, who amine re-
luctantly te bare admitted they lot whit, neverthelert, sac-
than, palmed the teethes kw the space of erre&
months. in the mho fort, air Meeniothert Jaren" Bert.,
seristant-esemlesfener, his miter, Cantata and Mrs.
Health On, ani Qaartennesew-lisagthat Modes, found
sham Channel Burnes wiesemal awls thee ailliewerds
te Inward a With le Cavinpare, Thiel' wee eratewaniosted

by bit mistime le dm Anes, sal gave the first authentic
•atemaat of the meenemese shore narrated. Mr. Bernet
mode especial mention of his "little ward," as he styled the
tophaa child whose preserver be ►ad blooms. Hs mentiosed
is this letter that "he blemelf oould sadly swipe to
Lacknow, but would not abeedon the charge at this Want,"
Is whom ha hod LOOMS quite attached.

With non delicacy his Meade at home suppressed the
shove antonce in giving publicity to Lientsnant Homo's
Weer.

With the teepees of the above intalligueo nothing
antheatic as to Ur cos dittos, history, or deo el the party is
Itithawlee Fort bid reachsd their detrained friends in this
country esti) last meth, when it beam looms that the
whole had bins gives up to the rebels. Than was, indeed,
strong neon to believe that they bad been removed to
Lacknow, aid that some at la•a were in oceassownt in
that city what Havelocies or Campbell's foram relined the
residency. As 040sr with are of thee forams, • omen
of Mr. Danieds Mho mega, wrote to his Mends that
the peas at their asialhomsat was well know; but to have
steeped air TOMOS IPollid have involved so groat • eare-
d', of las that it ea wilt to tedortako it.

This nwil, sty brimp the talliovisi item, which I extract
from the nose cerreepentiont's emenennicatico of 22nd ult.
" I root to conclude my letter with another ensenae. Sir
Menatetnert Jackson, Captain P. Orr, Lieutenant Burnes,
Errant-Major Morton, Mae Madeleine Jackson, and Mrs.
P. Orr, were Mews to be in the heads of the Oude rebels.
It wee loped they would be spared so hostages, but the
lihnt kw blood le ME unasked. All the males wore blown
from vas in the fret wee of tido month. The ladies are
still alive, bed in entermat, sad have lost, they say, all
reckeednp of time."

I have also before roe a Ist= written 1711 n. On to her
Ilight relative, Captain A. P. Orr, at hlaasbagh, in which she
mantic= the deaf! alb. Christian's child (whose romantic
sassy I he,. thus far followed) from want of food and mel-
d= en the liiii Nowastar.

walsappy lady whose words I am quoting was herself
Igmenam of her husband's fate. She wrote In agonised
amseleisty as to the issue (for him) of this dissatrotia chain
diesidatte. I extract ea follows from her touching letter,
tletd Deaths 19: "It was the second day attic
the Beallsk ewe in this last time that my poor
Wised bashead and the others were taken away
hem ma We heard that It had beim arranged before-
boa, bet I cannot think why they did not take us too. It
is now a mos& Mace we hays been separated, and we can
Ist ao mews of them, except that the cruel creatures had put
Mon is them, and that the regiment they WI with is the
list, secepsd from Delhi. We are in a small room, to which
we sea may it up or lie down on some " resales" they have
gives as. We do not know whore we sr, except that we ere
seer Kaiser Begb. We are very wretched and weak, from
rich close confinement, and little Louisa has suffered much
sad is still ill. Poor little Sophy Christian died from illness
sad west of medicine on the 24th November. Anent Ram
has beta very kind, and his master (Kam Sing) is doing his
best to try and save as. We have • guard of Nujeebs over
us, and are obliged to dress In nein clothed. How generous
of Sir James Dutra= offering such a large sum for us."
I &hell make no further extracts from this affecting
communication, which abounds in expressions of distracting
mosmainty as to the fate of the poor writer's husband, and
of eaduring faith in the Almighty. Let ua hope that the
captivity of these afflicted ladies may speedily be terminated
by their sate release. It must at best be a sorrowful ending
to a long protracted and painful confinement; for they will
learn that the husband and the brother have meanwhile
fallen victims to the murderous hats of the &mom in whose
hands they were primmer,.

And now, sir, my aunties is ended. To all who cite ap-
pellate the oft-espeated evidences of wousan's fortitude and
men's \maim setae set India maneakcia these simple
&Seib A not be void of Interest. Nor will the pub-
lic fall to empathise with the sorrows of the bereaved parent
of the cblvehaus gentleman who ventured and forfeited hie
JIM to sect • forlorn sad helpless little infant.
0 I turned to thee, to thousand., of whom each,
And each as all, a ghastly gap did cooks
In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach
Forgetfulness were mercy fur their sake,"
Well and nobly was the character of England upheld by
this gallant odor. Among the hecatombs of victims
secrilloed during the Indian mutinies I read of few who, like
Bona, nay be said to hays died self-immolated. It I. due
to the aid who be months, under cireometancee of danger
to Inemelf, pen protestica to his small band of countrymen,
and whose same i, I balm, Tattoos Sing, Rajah of
hilthewise, to remain the pawpaw assistanos which both
he sad Maga Stag lays worded a the fugitives. It is
marble that they only yielded to the omit pressers when
shim them up at last to the rebilm—l am, km.,

risinwALENTE.

THe NATlve LANGUAGES OF AFKICA.—At the
Cam Ms Blame e, Sir George Grey Is forming a collection
of a 0 the books, tracts, pamphlets, and newspapers want i
the native languages of Soothers Africa. A well•arrange:
catalogue of these pohlications will preserve some of them
dialect., if not languages, from total oblivion, and thus ten-
der an important monies to proem and hours philologiets.
The undertaking is one of conaidenshio magnitude, as the
collection already ills 1,600 milmon, comprising many
languages still noisome hi Strops. The catalogue, the
dram part of which has jest been published at Cape Town,
will cones's, first, the Nibs of the grammars sad lexi-
coos existing in the soma badge nem, the titles of
soy books pablimbed Is thee, with an Basiish transit-
ing' of theme dike, eseerlag to the Warhorse method.
na dietrlbethe of each Isere. will then
ha wing the Isesaltim of the diligent Idioms, and
the tomes of the *Gee by width they see spoken. The
meat eharacterintle dens of emelt dialect will else he given in
• skeet ezplanatias of lb strestare. This emilelempas, which
peashar dtlicelthe, has been esommassd and
eaYksd with a cobwity worthy of imitation In sews great
Pl=libearbe ; the Orel part lashiedy Wesel, sad,
by Ws dens Qs whole of it is in The work
wid be completed , applameal isideges of the lan-
guor, at Northas AM" fisslaWk Arab" Kgyptiau,
tied 2,thiopien, sad deem to it Me of • high. r
wahlvatket. It is eh* to publish • separate and
additkmal vellums oontalaing • description of all tie known
wefts plated le the Papuan sad Amenable
The Liverpool contributions to the Relief
DAve.ii advirtised yosterday (Widastik" =mit to goat