The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additiamd.) [TWOPEN

=HUN LIZ'S IMPJ

We (Lahore Chronicle) have received the copy of
• Wart= Mobun Lal, who did us aerobe in Cahoot, and
lately a primmer, to the address d one of his relations at
Kuppoorthulla. It will be ineerestleg to oar readers :
" My Dear —,—Thanks to the merciful God, that, after
being detained 19 days as a prisoner is the Fort of Melee
Mar,' by Walesded Khan, (formerly • loyal subject, obe-
dient Telookder,' end panderer dreamiest, end new •
Mita), I am tree, and again under the proteotios of the
glorious liag of the Bridal government at MeemL
" The malortmes sad the danger, I have emcomitmed,
sad the lustful coinage I have sustained for the untimely
end of Poor Hareme =describable; however I
give you • brief them, before I talk
with you on those melancholy subjects.
" Hodges arrived In Delhi on Sunday, the 10th of May, at
breath= and we were delight= to see each other, and
reeking la how to send the pair of leopards that I
had for the Rajah %bib. In the I took
him my carriage, end showed him the peinelpal nor
the city. We peened es agreeable night, talking a good deal
about your and Henry's education, and about how he wee
disoharging duties of Ws *Mee at Sim while so young.
"The unhappy morning of the 11th May appeared. T4lB
at neembig all was quiet, and we received newspapers from
Calcutta. Suddenly, soon after, we were thunderstruck to
learn that the mutinies from Merest had arrived, and were
tliP=the cruel deeds of murder, gander, and burning
If the Catalans and those who wen there. The
Infantry regiments followed the cavalry, and having joined
the Delki prams, finished the work of massacre. I tremble
when I remember that day.
" About 2 p.m. four sepoys with muskets in their hands
made their sppearanos before the doors of our house, Miele,
wore shut. Instigated as they were by the rogues of the city,
they bsgen abeam =armltee, adding that this house vas of
• Chrbase, and that a "seib" had cam yellarday end pet
up Irma and that they will murder both of us. Our air-
mats sad the street fellows declared that it woe not the
house de Christian, nor there ma any "sahib" conesaled.
After they wee baseueht and treated with some oath by Sher
Kben* hltili.e rascals mut away that day.
this our going on outside at the house, your poor
papa and spar were conerdel in a very mall dark room,
where wood me plead for bunting.
"In the dark of night, Hodges wee removed into my
uncle's house, with the fear that if those cane again •
and enter the house, they shonld not find him there.
"On the 13th of May, after the rogues of the city had told
the mutineers everything regarding my circumstance, and
connexion with government, they came in the greater num- ,
bar, plundering all the neighbouring shop. They entered
into my house by force ; they plundered everything, and
after seam me (ae they were informed by certain men ot
the city) mid, by my going to England, I could not remain • ,
Hintloo, end by sending my daughter for education in Los-
dm, and being related with your ppappss,, I cannot be a Mee
homoire, adding that I was a' • of goveniment,
sad embed on that amount a high pension. They will,
tbare., put me to death. One of them placed his musket
over my breed, and was about to shoot ma The scream of ,
the Moshe of the ho and the streatles of the neighbour.
lag Maces and Marulmans, and the demonstration date
Kotwar (who happened to pm in that time) induced hie .
comrades to atop him from mlung me till they had nide
farther inqcdry.
" After this I remained conceded, and moving from one
place to another. Hodge, was also removed from my uncle's
home to that of my aunt, whence, after remaining a few days, .
as the people had begun to suspect of his being concealed in
her house, Hodge, and all of us (though dangerous) thought
better to 17 the chance of escape than to be semi and
slaughtered m the house. He was deeded in colour end
dress, and about 8 p.m. he left the house for going out of the
Lahore gate, and than go on to Kemal. Unfortunately (se
his guide reports), he was suspected by his walk and dress
from the mutineers who throng all the streets. After being
mixed it was proven, by his talk, that he war in Medal a
Sahib,' en which in great perplexity, Hodges tad them
who he was, whence sad where (mentioning my setae) he
. . . . . .

"Os this they shot him to death, end neat day snort search
was mole altar me. Some of my friends, on spending shout
600 Re., obtained the permission of Khisur Sookan, one
of the somipt Shalmadalu,' under the name of the on.
ffig, of my quitting the city with their friend
vitt, Khan, the Talookdar of Malagurh, about two
miles from Boolondahahur, where Mr. B. Septa, the col.
lector and msgismats, wen holding his authority. The
Khan was a pmgmer and loyal subject of our government,
and continued to obey the collector tall the 10th of June last.
Col:termini in a palanquin, I came out of the city in the train al
his family. He had promised in Delhi to send me to Agra,
and remain faithful to my government. But
of theit
learning the misfortunes our rulers in some d
ts/sod a rebel, and kept me a prisoner with Intentkma to
math, me cat his flight, if attacked by en Europa ken.
"Though not happy and miserable, I was trying to pro-
cure my escape from this traitor's hands by some sumo or
other. 'I wrote secretly to Rao Ooolab Sing, a ?Ishmael great
Taleolular ' up' Roches:lr; a
asking
of the govern-
ment, an acquaint's°, of the him to write te
Wsleeded Rhea to marl me m . The ' Rao' kindly
sent his Doman,' and asked the favour of the traitor to send
me to ban. Bet he dectinot

" I th- 11170; Z; friend of mine in Agra to employ about
20 armed sea, acme to Malagarh,' and steal my escape.
lie maid neither get money nor men, and therefore Wed to
amid.

I had no other course but to rely on the protection of
God, who had hitherto eared me. On the 29th July, the
little beam party of Europeans CUM from Meerut, sad de-
feated the traitor's force near limpid!. There was es much
etstrican ocearreadon, end alms on the nig.
Mid in the fort by this defeat, that early on thud
the 30th I "Soaped from my dageoa to Debar/giant, agar
the Clwasen
Few dap after lir. gap* whom I had the homey of
knowing at Boolundshuhur, 'heard of ray tamps. He, ea
well ea Mr. Dunlop, the Meerut collector, mete to me a kind
letter, and lent an escort of Mr. Wilson's hone to bring me
to Meerut. Here, Mr. Williams, an exmllint and kind.
heeded gentleman, has !allowed me greet consideration, and
by hie desire I hare submitted to him a ma i of the
Mslaghur, with report on the date of things of the traitor
there.
barge

of European troops are now
tepidly adrizeing from Calcutta and Ailahabad and have
elrftdy punished the rebels of Cawnpore and Lti tr, the
mutineers in Delhi will soon be crushed, and the order of our
government restored in the disturbed districts. -

ew'tThaais;thank7s cad bitiibiT3cie;olions,t7o the merciful
and Almighty Ood, that, after being 49 days in imprison-
ment, I am free and at tees tinder the British protection.
India was in great crisis, but the gigantic rule of Sir John
Lawrence, and his keeping the Punjab In tranquillity, has
kept all the chiefs of India in check and awe. May he live
tong, and may the gracious Queen and her country make him
Earl of Punjab.
tt I hope to come and see you all shortly. Pray member
me to your mamma, and console her on my part. The loss
of her husband Hodge. has given me ems* pain
I truly hops and pray to tied that Henry is ode at Sim
or joined you in safety. Kiss and love all the children on
my park—Your affectionate uncle, Monte LA I."

ILANd S.AIIIB.

(From the Homeward Neil fp:m.lnd* China, and the East,

Octobe!.l6.)

There has been some discussion en to the pro-
piety of introducing the new word "telegram" into the
English language, a word which has much to recommend it.
On the other hand, not a voice has been raised against the
curious perversion of the Bithoor Itilja's name, Nena
which Maratha scholars are required to accept on the
authority of a portion of the English prim, and which seems
likely to be introduced and to be prolific of other errors.
Every one who knows anything of Maratha history, or
who hes visited Maratha courts, is aware that it is customary
to entitle the princes of the Maratha nation Dada Sahib, or
Nana Sahib, or ItAla Sahib, as our henrys or Edwards might
have epoken of their "uncles of York," or their "cousins of
Lancaster," Nana, literally "maternal grandfather," is in
such oases a mere title of respect, witbout specific meaning.
Balaji Janardin, the minister of Bajf Rao, was thus called
Nina Fernavia, or "granddad note-writer.'.
But, according to the Illustrated News, the miscreant
author of the massacre at Carnpore is not the adopted KO
of the Peahen, but the eldest eon of Ramehander Pant
finbandar. No proof is adduced to substantiate this state-
ment, and u in the diary forwarded to us from Cawnpore
the leader of the insurgents is invariably called Nana
Dhandoo Pant, we must pronounce agaituit it.
The leader of the insurgents at Olympia fa, therefore,
Nana Dhundoo Pant, the adopted eon of the Prams, and
that he is Nana' and not Nom, we have positive proof,
having taken the trouble to examine his seal and signature.
On the seal is written, in most distinct character*, Nana
Sahib, and the signature is simply Pireji Be. Raja Blionale.
What became Wm of the story, that this man was called
Nana Sahib with reference to the word be first liepingly pro-
nounced in his childhood ? It is a pure fiction, and the most
we east say for it is, that it L creditable to the imaginative
powers of the ',Tree.
Raving thus determined the name end the identity of the
individual we now proceed to other point.. It appease that
Baji Rao Posher., who died on January 28th, 1861, M
Bithoor, adopted by hie will, written December 11th, 1830,
sod attested April the 30th, 1841, three eons, befog of coulee
his nearest of kin, and in fact the DO= of hie
siejes Rao App. Sahib, who died some yaw talon the
Pears. Of these sons the eldest wee the present Nana
Sebib, called in the will Dhoondoo Pant Nana ; Gengedhar
Rao was the youngest and third los ; and Sada Shiv Pant
Deda, sea of Pandoo Rang Rao, the mead can ; but of
thus Nana Sahib wee the Feshwa'e heir, end was to provide
for the rest of the family. _
As BO Rao Psalms bad by the treaties of December the
Slat, 1802, June the 13th, 1811. sad Jane the LA, 1818,

owed to the Company territories yielding a yearly revenue
of are million otorlfai it does sewn strange that the pension
of 80,0001. a year, guaranteed to his heirs for ever by the Com-
pony !Avoid have been peremptorily refused to his sdopted
ireozdk Lord Dalhouno. Adoption had been granted to
Rolkar, and many other chiefs by the Company. On
what ground,Boj thm, could this sacred privilege of the Riad=
be valued to i Bao
But further it was announced that even the landed estate of
Bithoor, which had been granted to the Posher& in order to
exempt the Princesses of his family from the jurisdiction of
oar civil courts, would be resumed. It was this resumption,
very important in the eyes of the natives, that apparently
pawed the seed, of unexaguishable hatred in the brew of
Nana Sahib, and this harsh measure on the part of Lord
Dallsonele we, it cannot be doubted, the cause of the 1:11frei•
kei elaarhtar of our lodise and children at Cawupore. The
marvel ie that a man who hod had such cause of offence
should has been trusted by our officers. At an events the
7rdthe unspeakably savage ferocity of this murderer
... aid children is now to some extent explained.
The gnat of such a monster cannot be palliated, but it the
coureselma of his paltry set would have eared one of the
victims ti his cruelty, we ocakl only say, would that it had
been made