The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

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Personal Adventure. durilog ,d• /adios Reludhles
in Rohileund, Futtehglsur, esif Oude. By WIL-
LIAM EDWARDS, Esq. Smith, Elder, and Co.
The time is not yet come for he historian
to deeeribe the great Indian revolt. The tragedy
I. too recent—the impression of its, horrors
is too vivid, to be depicted by an impartial pen.
Here in England men have not yet recovered beat
its shock, and the bosom still hearse, and the
still trembles, end the eye still is dim. Out in I
desolation broods over what were once smi

homes, and still the land is etrswu with ashes, an~
red with the blood of the slain. For some time to
come we mast content ourselves with local histories,
limited experience, and personal adventures. Each
individual survivor will have his own tale of sorrow
and suffering to tell, and listening to it we shalt
best realise the agony which pervaded all Indian
satiety—which struck down woman in her beauty,
the child in its innocence, man in his prime ; and
which brooded over a continent es the shadow of
death. For some time to come there will be a de,
nand for these sad recitals. The last that hu reached
1111 is that of Mr. Edwards, Judge at Benue' and
late magistrate and collector of Budaon, in Rail-
med. When the outbreak took place his Pthat of sole European officer in charge of ateleft
with a population of nearly 1,100,000 souls, was by
no means an agreeable one. Shortly after the out-
break and massacre at Meerut, it appears the spirit
of disorder began to show itself in the district over
which Mr. Edwards presided, the infection having
spread from the tracts on the right bank of the
Ganges, which by that time were in open rebellion.
The disorders daily increased, bands of marauders
commenced plundering on the roads, end sacking and
burning the villages ; gaols were thrown open, and
ruffians were set at liberty. Mr. Edwards's first care
was for his wife and child, whom he despatched to a
place of security, " but they did not start one mo-
ment too soon, for they passed through Bareilly after
that station bad been deserted by all the European
ladies and children, and just the day week before the
massacre and revolting occurred there." His next
endeavour was to preserve the loyalty of the district,
and, finding that vain, to give the European resi-
dents the beet advice he could; and then to betake
himself to flight, accompanied by a native
Christian, whose fidelity appears to have been
above all praise, and who has since very pro-
perly received a life pension from the government of
India. On the Ist of June Mr. Edwards became a
wanderer and a fugitive, and that he was spared to
write this account of his trials, and fears, and final
deliverance is really wonderful. Joining some fellow
victims, he seems to have wended his perilous way
from one hiding-place to another, now living in
jungles, now surrounded by angry insurgents,
suffering every privntion and misery that
humanity can bear, and every moment ex-
pecting instant death. On one occasion a fellow-
traveller is murdered under his very eyes. "I
passed close to poor Mr. Gibson," he writes " I
shall never forget his look of agony as he was inef-
fectually trying to defend himself from the ruffians
swarming around." It was only by being disguised
as • native and living among cattle and herdsmen
under the protection of a powerful landowner that
our author escaped the murderous designs of has
enemies, whose favourite plan was to Dave him and
his fellow-sufferers put into a boat and floated down
the Ganges, where they were certain very speedily
to be shot or drowned. One day.the Nana wrote
to Mr. Edwards's protector, requiring his delivery,
as all the English in Futtehghur had been killed,
or, if he would not give him up, demanding a pay-
ment of 10,030 rupees as his contribution towards
the new Raj. At another time Mr. Edwards and
his friends hear a terrible firing, they ask what it is,
the answer is that it was caused by the blowing
away from guns, and the shooting down with grape,
ander the orders of the Naweb, of some poor ladles
and native Christians belonging to Futtehghur. It
appears one poor little child remained untouched
after several discharges of grape, Mr. Edwards was
informed "a ',pay rushed up and cut her to pieces
with his sword.' One day they hear of the successes
of the British troop., the next they are tortured
with bad news. At length they are enabled to open
• correspondence with Havelock, they float down
the Ganges (it was the first time a boat had been
down the stream for a long while), and reach Cawn-
pore, where our author lands, and just as he explains
the state of matters to " Sharer of ours," he falls
senseless from sheer exhaustion. The narrative
stops here. Our readers will gather from it a clear
picture of what must have been the sufferings of
many of our brethren and sisters in the dark days '
just past.

The Second Vision of Daleiti. d Poraphrore is Vona. By

the Eszi of CARLISLE. LORITOSSIM.

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The chief interest of this little work—it eta
scarce be called a book—lies in the preface. Dlr. Buckle, it
appears, insists open the fact " that the greatness and hap-
piness of nations Increase In almoat parallel prozortion with
their sceptical tendencies." The noble author of this elegant
version of the " Vision of Daniel," who unfortunately con_
fames that he is not aware how far critical research end
investigation have been brought tobear upon the composition
of the Book of the Prophet Daniel, thinks that the eighth
chapter of that marvellous book eatablishes "the inspiration
of the steered text. The immediate superintendence of
Divine Providence in the order of estate and the government
of the world, and the high prohibit-By when the chapter is
unveiled, in connexion with the associated prophecies and
chr.mologies of the Books of Daniel and of the Revelation,
that we are even now upon the threshold of great events and
of the close of our present economy." We state hie lord-
ship's views: to discuss them is not exactly within our
province. Him verse is as correct am when be won the
Newdegate prise at Oxford, just row-and-thirty years ego.

On the /set Urinal Version of gAe Nese Testament in con-
nexion soilA sow recast Proposals for its Itecisioa. By
RICHARD Cwacavlx TILINCH, Dean at Wesuulastar.
Jobs W. Parker and Boa.

Lest the theclogic mind be shocked, we may at once
observe that, while the Dean of Westminster believes that
bars mat be a revision of the present enthorieed version of
the New Testament, he thinks that at present " the Greek
and the English which should enable as to bring this to •
successful end are wanting 'Us." In the able performance
before ur he c talents himself chiefly with considering the
serval worth of our present translation, " its strength, and
also say weaknesses which may effect that strength ; its
beauty, end also the blemishes which impair that beauty in
part ; the grounds on which a new revision of it may be
demanded ; the inconvenience., dilliculdes, and denser it
may be, which would attend each a rovisacn." The Dam
thinks, when the proper time has arrived, the work must be
done, with soya authorisation, royal or erclesiastical, t.y such
• body of scholars and divines es would °Wei the cong-
&ate of the church of England. He sees also very clearly
that would not he asilleitent, and suggests that all owslasst
biblical scholars should be invited to assist.

SALE OF ROEHAMPTON PARK, SURREY.—This ex-
tern,* freehold estate, the OW of the late W. A. R4.bartr,
Sag., beaker, menprioing • irately mansion, with 106 scree
of pit-She meadow and oroaresetal wood land, was offered
yesterday fue vale at the Auction Meet, by Menet. Notion,
Roggen, and Trier. The property I. 'gusted on the south-
west elate of Patty-lisath, sod extends 2,300 feet next
Riciammd-park. The village of Itoehamplost is contiguous
to the prowl gad We much, with the farn•oonned heath,
to the plaMmegtes semen of tide delightful portion of Surrey.
The SaM eller for the entale was 20,0001., mod the biddieo
cheat tmW they remelted the nom of 33,9e0/., at 'hid
ewe the property was bought in.
THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS AND THE CRYSTAL
PALACR—A nwstfwg of the committee of Inasurens of the
Metropolitan National Schools, ow held no Thursday, at the
Lomita Tavern, to offer to the director. of the Crystal l'Asee
the thanks of the committee for the snengeoseuts made foe
the hetival of the prociediag day. whim the school shades*
sag with sack edmirabis adsot before aa medium al newly
' 30,000 proms. A resolatign to title effect was uaaehnously
carried, as well as others, achnowiodgiug the genitals ef Mr.
Bead. the promoter: Mr. Stewart, the honorary secretary;
the conductor; the organist; the maitere had addrowts, had
the good conduct of the childne,