The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

FUGITIVES FROM LUCKNOW.

Mr. Osborne, sub-deputy opium agent, writing on the 4th
of February from a place midway between Fyiabed and
Oude, says :—" Several Christian fugitives have lately been
saved from Lucknow through the instrumentality of Mann
Bing. This morning a Mrs. Duhan (an East Indian lady),
with three children, arrived safely at my house, en route
to Clorttckpore ; she la, I believe, the wife of a merchant
at Allahabad. She states that Mann Sing has treated them
all with kindness. They arrived here in native costume.
I am trying to 8t them out from such clothes
se were left behind by the rebels and wpm. They
this evening to Goracipore. The names of the peoA'reel
pre-
served snd brought from Lucknow by Mann Sing are as fol-
lows : —Mr. Hare's family, 6; Mr. Wronghton's, ditto, 8 or 10 ;
Mr. Francis, and ditto, 7; Mr. Badly, and ditto, 7; Mr.
Short, and ditto, 12; Miss Jackson; Mrs. Orr and another
lady ; Mr. Duhan (my present guest's brother) and family, 8.
" There are more, Mrs. Duhan says, but she cannot recol-
lect their names at present.
" Mann Sing after all appears to be all right, and Mrs.
Duhan says he told her he would not fight against us. My
scouts tell we the rebels at Tends are becoming daily more
tired of each other. All the Bunneahs have run away, and
the rebels an cutting up the green crops for subsistence."

TRIAL OF THE EX•KINO OF DELHI.
(From the Delhi Gazette.)

The trial of the ex-King of Delhi commenced on
Wednesday, January 27 in the Dewan Khu of the
Palace. The court is composed as follows :—Colonel Dawes,
Horse Artillery, Preddent (in room of Brigadier Showers,
about to leave the station); members, Major Palmer,
H.M.'s 60th Rifles; Major Redmond, M.M.'s Slat Regi-
ment; Major Sawyers, M.M.'s 6th Carabincers; and Cap-
tain Rothney, 4th Sikh infantry. Major Marriott, Deputy
Judge-Advocate-Cieneral, government prosecutor; and Mr.
James Murphy, interpreter to the court.
. . .

The trial Ina to have commenced at 11 o'clock, a.m., but
owing to delays, caused by the sudden change in the constitu-
tion of the court, in consequence of Brigadier Showers' ap-
proaching departure, it was half-put 12 before the pri-
soner was brought in, although he was in atten-
dance, sitting in a palangtran outside, under •
guard of rifles, at the appointed hoar. lie appeared very
infirm, and he tottered into court supported on one side by
the interesting youth" lamina Bukht, and on the other
by a confidential servant, and coiled himself into a small
bundle upon the cushion assigned to him. He pre-
sented inch a picture of helpless imbecility, as
under other circumstances meat have awakened

pity. lie sat coiled up on a cushion on the
left of the president, and to the tight of the government
prosecutor; his son Jumrott Bukht standing a few yards to
his left, and a guard of rifles beyond all. Several European
gentlemen were in court, as spectators, and later in the day
some ladies took the seats provided for their accommodation.
The proceedings commenced by the members of the court,
the prosecutor, and interpreter taking the customary oaths.
The prosecutor then read the charges against the prisoner,
and then proceeded to address the court in a clear, concise,
explanatory manner, and concluded by stating that although
the prisoner might be folly convicted by the court, no
capital sentence could be passed upon him, in consequence of
his life having been guaranteed to Dim by General Wilson,
in a promise conveyed through Captain Hodson.
The prosecutor then put the question through the inter-
preter, • guilty or not guilty?" which the prisoner either did
not, o• alkicted not to understand ; and there was some delay
in explaining it to him. He then declared himself pro-
foundly ignorant of the nature of the charges against him,
although a translated copy of them was futoished and read
to him, la the presence of witnesses, some twenty days pre-
vious. After some more delay the prisorzefreteaded "Not
Guilty," and the business of the court p
On the second day the sittiog was closed, in consequence
of the iodise saition of the prisoner.
On the third day, while the evidence was being taken, the
prisoner, coiled up easily upon his cushion, appeared lost in
the land of dreams; and, except when anything particular
struck him, continued unmindful of what was passing
around him.

On the fourth and fifth days he was aroused from sleep to
Leer the evidence read. A professional artist was in at-
tendance on the latter day, making a sketch of the prisoner,
as ha lay on his couch.
On the math dry, the translation of • letter, dated the 24th
of March, addressed to the late Mr. Colvil, Lieut.-Governor
N.W.P., wee read, disclosing the fact that as far back 11 a
year and a bolt ago secret eminence were sent by the King
of Delhi to Persia, through the agency of one Mahatma
Nossun Uskseres, the object of which was evidently to ob-
tain mistime to complete the overthrow of Bt hush power is
India. The perusal of the ktt3r, which bears both the Delhi
and Agra postmark, excited considerable sensation in court.
On the 7th and Bth days the prosecutor examined through
the interpreter, a person named Jutmull, formerly news-
writer to the Lientenant-Governor at Affrs- His evidence
was most important, and notwithstanding an apparent desire
to criminate the prisoner as little as possible, it most be most
damaging te the "Royal Cann." hat was elicited from
his on the second day related ally to the massacre of the
European prisoners of all climes sad ages, on the 16th of
May; and oonfinned all we have already heard concerning
cold-blooded atrocities committed absolutely under the
prisoner's own apartments in the poleax The canal water,
which ran through the place of execution, was, it appears,

used for the purpose of wuhing away all traces of tbe
bloody deed.
Captain Forrest, Commissary of Ordnance, was examined
on the Bth and 9th days, and on the 10th Bir Theithiles
Metcalfe, C. 8., gave evidence. The soothsayer," liusaun
Vekheres, was examined, and denied all that had been said
of his wonderful powers.
The prisoner was then referred to, and notwithstanding
his recorded statement of hie firm belief in the powers nazi.
bated to the witness, he denied all knowledge of him or his
powers. He was reminded of his statement made but a
tr2ais previous, but all to no purpose; he complete',
him ; and Hasson Uskberee was returned to 134
illa7r of confinement much to the disgust of those who ex.
petted some interesting revelations from him.
The next witness called was Bukhtawur, a peon in tko
service of the late Captain Douglas. His evidence cid7
related to the occurrences of the Ilth of May.
The court was occupied the whole of the eltrenftk
day with the examination of a person named chs.
nee, formerly editor of a native paper, entitled the
Delhi Hews, conducted on • f novel principle; td
editor's duty being to write his paper full, mg
then carry it round and read it to his subset.
ben l The witness stated in reply to questim;
that the Mahomedans of the city were in the habit of
boasting that the Persians, aided by the Russians, were
coming to drive the English out of the country, and pro
it as his firm belief that the Mahomedans were very much
excited about the Persian war. The Chuppaties which were
circulated, were, he said, for the purpose of bringing tomb.,
a large body of men for some Mistiness to be explains/
to them hereafter ; and he said they orientated at or new
/tureen]; precisely the opposite direction from which Sir T.
Metcalfe traced their origin. The witness In reply to
question by the prosecutor said, that about live or six days
after the city had been in possession of the mutineers,
he heard that there was • great dieturbasce in
the palace, and on going to see the cause, found
a number of sepoys and some of the prisoner's armed ser-
vants, killing European, men, women, and children. There
was a great crowd collected, and he could not see dis-
tinctly through it ; but, after the slaughter was completed,
he inquired of the sweepers, who were removing the bo-
dies, and heard that in all fifty-two persons had been
killed. Of these only five or six were males, the rest
all females end children! The bodies were being removed
in carte, and ware thrown into the river; when he saw them
lying dead, they were in • circle. A number of Mahome-
dans were on the top of liima Mogul's house, spectators of
the scene, and the witness heard that Musa Mogul
himself was one of those looking on. These un-
fortunate people were confined, previous to their
massacre, from the 11th to the 16th of May, in
• sort of receptacle for rubbish, where the prisoner's
lowest culprits were confined, and in which it would bare
been an insult to confine a person with any pretensions to
repectability. There were many better and more suitable
buildings, but they were not allotted to the Europeans.
The above is the substanee of Chunee's evidence, elicited
by severe cross-examination by the prosecutor and the pls.
trident of the court ; and he concluded his evidence of this day
by replying to a question put by the prosecutor, as to who
gave the order for the massacre of the Europeans, "The
King himself ; who else could give the order ?"
On the twelfth day " Golam" was examined and gave
some particulars of the massacre of Europeans inside the
Palace, of which he was an eye-witness.
The prisoner's Eshowe, Essam-oolla Khan, was them
called in end examined on oath. His evidence, which ought
to be and might be, but for evident " bias," interesting and
important always breaks, down when coming to a actin'
point, vie., criminating the prisoner.
The prisoner was more lively than usual to-day; declared
his Innocence of everything several times, and amused him-
self by twisting and untwisting a scarf round his old bead,
and asking for • stimulant occasionally.
[The verdict and sentenceare mentioned in the summary
of the Bombay Times, given in another column.]

THE INDIAN ARMY.—Nearly our whole Indian
army is at present actually on field service. The Commander-
in-Chief has nearly 20,000 immediately under him, with at
least 16,000 more is his rear and flanks. The columns
of Roberta, Rose, and Whitlock, with their »-
serves, will roaster 20,000 at least. Chamberlain
must have 10,000 at his disposal—giving a grand
total of 65,000, mostly Europeans, in almost mamma
conflict with the enemy; while there are probably half es
many more in leaser detachments on active duty. 111,0e0
Europeans are mustering in the Punjaub, and we have pro-
bably 60,000 in all the native armies of Bombay and Medias
included, stationary on garrison duty.—Bonibay Standard,
Feb. 24.

We (Times) have very much pleasure in stating
that a telegram has been received from Naples, annoancing
that, in consequence of the note delivered by the British go-
vernment, not only had Watt, the engineer, whose mind had
become affected, been liberated, but that the king had given
orders that the trial of Park should proceed with all pos-
sible despatch, in order that he might be speedily set at
liberty, and enabled to return to England with his fallow-
prisoner.

A letter from Florence of March 9 states that
eight persons had been arrested on account of the murder of
a Frenchman, who had been stabbed at ten on a Sunday
evening, in the Via di Semillo, near the Piazza S. Spirit*.
Letters from La Plata and Rio Janeiro report that
the yellow fever is raging severely among the ships' crews
An English soul of war, after Buttering dreadfully, was at
last evacuated by the thirty men who were spared. Several
other ships of all nations were also evacuated.
MADAME BOSIO AND SIGNOR TAYBERLIK.—Then
eminent artists have arrived in Paris from St. Petersburg,
114 rode, we suppose, for Covent-gardens—Mtoleo' World.

WHAT A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT WILL Do.—
The Peorsessist to-day says that the course to the Derby go-
vernment la the affair with Naples is quits clear. In the
first place "we must back is the strongest manner the de-
mand of Sardinia for the instant surrender of the vessel thus
illegally detained, with heavy damages for her detention. In
the second place, we must demand the instant surrender of
our two countrymen, with an apology for the wrong dons,
and ample compensation to the sufferers. To suffer them to
remain in confinement one single hour, to suffer them even
to take their trial now that we are acquainted with the law-
lessness of their capture, would be to court insult and to in-
cur merited contempt. We ought to listen to no proposal of
mediation or delay. In proportion to our long and fer-
stretched forbearance ought to be the promptitude and pe-
remptoriness of our action now:
LORD MALINESSURY AND THE EMPEROR.—Lord
Mialmesbury, in his despatch to Count Walewski, expresses
the desire of the present government to maintain in their
integrity " throe rinse and friendly relations which, since the
restoration of the empire, have marked the alliance between
France and Great Britain." The words we have italicised
are the concentrated expreasioa of a most unfortunate dew
of this international question and herald the renewal el •
most unfortunate course of conduct. They era an in-
stance of the same folly and impropriety of which
Lord Malmeebury was guilty when he glorified,
in the House of Lords, the overthrow of French
liberty and the acceraion of his former boon companion le
absolute power. What business has en English minister
thus to proclaim officially, in the name of a nation the majo.'
rity of which doe* not agree with him, that the sinkable
relation between the two countries is connected with the
existence of • particular form of government in Frazee!
What can be more improvident than thus to state the
alliance on the permanence of a power of recent and revolu-
tionary origiu, which may be superseded to-morrow by its
constitutiond or republican opponents, embittered against es
by the adulation we so needleesly address to the object of
their bate I,—Sestrifay Review.
THE LATE LORD BRAYBROOKE AND " PEPTB
DIMIT."—It has been rid that his lordship actually dis-
covered " Pepre Diary ;" but this, we believe, is • mistake.
The " Diary" is written in shorthand, was deciphered by a
clergyman of the name of Smith, and in the year 1826 Ira
first given to the world, In two volumes quarto, edited by
Lord Braybrooke. No book dug from the dusty shelves of
any collection, after more than a century of neglect, oat be
compared in Importance with " Pepys' Diary." Lad
Braybrooke, it is dear, was not at all aware of. the treasure
his position enabled him to give the public. He was afraid
of what he had,;and was • little afraid to the very last. Lathe
first edition he cut Mr. Pepys lo the quick ; to the second edi-
tion he did little or nothing; to the third edition he did a grist
deal—be restored passages which he had cut from his author
without any kind of judgment; and when • fourth edition
was asked for he °died in to his aid more than one perms
able and willing to "edit him. This fourth edition is • well.
edited work, and in its full-sized octavo shape a handsome.
looking book. Still, we have not the whole of Pepys;—and
why not P Lord Braybrooke was squeamish. There are
suppressed passages current in learned societies that merit
publication as Pepys hod set them not separately. The inner
thoughts of man as they relate to himself were never so ana-
tomically laid bars ea they are by Pepys in that invaluable
" Diary" which the late Lord Bray brooke was the first to give.
though imperfectly, to the public.—lllwatrated London NMI.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN M. BURGOYNE, BART.—WO
have to record the demise of Sir John Montagn B=
Bart., who died on Wednesday last, after a protract
The deceased baremet was born Oct. 17, 1798, sad mewled.
Dee. 20, 1831, Mary Harriet, daughter of the late Colossi
Gore Langton, M.P , of Newton Park, Somerset. He sour
ceeded his father, Sir :Montagu Roger, the eighth tonna, k
Mario, lBl7. Sir John was for many years in the army,
which be entered in October, 1817, and afterwards enthused
into the Grenadier Guards, and obtained the rank of Wood
in November, 1848, but retired in 1848. The late boniest
was a Deputy-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, and served the
dace of Sheriff of that county in 1852. The gallant deceased
Is succeeded in the baronetcy end family estates by espial
John Montagu Burgoyne, of the Grenadier Guards, whit
served during the Easteta campaign and was
wounded at the battle of the Alma. He was born Oct.
1832, and married, in 1868, Miss Neilson, daughter of the
late Captain Henry Nielson, R.E.
VICISSITUDES OF A PICTURE.—The princiPll
picture in Dr. Veron's sale, in Paris, was the "Joseph sell
by his Brethren." d Deaunpe. It was originally exemdeil
for General de Cava, aids-de-camp to the King of H
who found it too dear at 4,600 fr. The Duke of Orleanti
once took it at thatr ton, being anti the value of Deeessile
*torte at that . At the sale of the duke's collsethfre
it was acid to Itt. Vann for 38,000 fr., and Baron MIN
has become the poem= of it for 34,000 fr.