The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-01 00:00:00

1 has c known Calcutta fur many years, but
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never saw anything approaching the gathering that
did honour to this occasion. lthink there could nut
leave been fewer than from 20,0isi to 23,000 persons
present, embracing all classes of Europeans and na•
Lives. After the above expression of the corps sense
of Lord Canning'. gracious desire to meet its wishes
in every way, one cannot but regret that his lord-
ship's alleged cold rejection of the proposal for em-
bodying the force has been one of the many ground-
less complaints in one or two of the petitions for his
rccall,in getting up whiehmany of the volunteers took
a very active part. It is true that the two positions
i are not strictly contradictory, but the zeal which it
is now admitted he has shown in favour of the corps
may be received as conclusive es idenee that he agreed
to its formation as soon as he deemed it advisable.
As to this recall, we hear much less of it than we did
a me:lth ago. I believe the feeling 'as not, and has not
been, against the Governor-General so much as
against the system of government he admin:sters,
and that it has been thought a cry for his recall
would be tal:en as an add.tional emphasis of public
discontent.
We have had more press warnings, but they have
not related to anything indigenous. Your Press
has by its articles moaned the government to warn
our gcntlerra tt against republication. Certainly if
men are prohibited from publishing original articles
adverse to the ;;tvernment (an. eo more or less tend-
' ing to Lying it into contempt), it might be expected
that reprodcetion of London invective would be even
more unpalatable; and our Press Act is as protective
of the home,government as of our local authorities.
There can be no doubt, I think, that this Act was
a grist migake, and tLat therein Lord Canning was
ill-age lied.
I conclude my letter ou the 22nd. There is nothing
to add but this, that it seems certain General Outman
hold, his own well, but Lucknow being in the hands
of the rebels, and there being a very large force
I around it, he will be unable to move till reinforced.

(FROM OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.)
CALCUTTA, Om 72.

I closed my lut letter by Mating the great
anxiety which was felt in Calcutta concerning the
fate of the relieving as well as of the relieved force
at Lucknow, from neither of whom bad any informa-
tion been receistd subsequent to the notification of
the action which placed the city of Lucknow is our
possissiqn. It has sine:, transpired that after that
action. almost all of the Sepoys,uttetly disheartened
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by their defeat, dispersed in all directions ; but si-
multunt °wily with their departure, the Talookdars,
or holders of fiefs or lands, rote as one man against
nor force. Their rising is accounted for in this way.
he chief of Ouse Tulookdars is Maun Singh ; he is
in fart one of the largest property owners in Oude,
but both by the late king and by our government he
had been deprived of a considerable portion of his
("static Throughout this struggle be had, up to a
very recent moment, remained neutral; he had saved
the lives of several of our ladies and countrymen ;
and he had caused it to be intimated to our Govern-
ment that on receiving a promise of being reinvested
with his forfeited estates he would exchange his
neutrality for active co-operation. Our Government
was pressed to accede to this offer by some of our
ablest public servants; but they did not at all like
the proposal, and temporised. General Havelock's
early repulses, and the distressing accounts which
came in from Lucknow, caused them to reconsider the
proposal, and finally about a fortnight ago they
agreed to it. Before, however, their consent could
be conveyed to Mann Singh, that powerful vassal,
despairing of ever obtaining it, had cast in his lot
with the rebels. lie, by his revolt, roused all the
rest, and our countrymen had scarcely obtained pos-
missies of Lucknow than they found themselves be-
sieged there. A portion of them, about fifteen
beadred in number, occupied the Residency, under

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Major-General Ontram, who had been wounded in
the shoulder; the remainder, about a thousand.
were at Alumbsgh, about three miles distant
from the others. In Dicknow itself there had been
some very Revere fighting. It will be remembered
that at Cawnpore all the women and children be-
longing to her Majesty's 32nd Regiment (themselves
chat up in Lueknow) had been massacred. Bat no
Roamer did Havelock's advance open the door of
agrees to the men of that corps, than they rushed
upon the city and destroyed every one that came in
their way ; not a single native that they came scram
escaped their vengeance. These men had laughed at
the agonies of their wives, and had hewn their
children to pieces. For them, therefore, there was no

mercy, and none was shown. Since the relief there
has been but little communication with Lucknow ;
not a single private letter bas reached Calcutta, and
if the government have received any news they
have kept it all to themselves. But although no
letters have come in from Lucknow, a convoy, con-
listing of only 250 men, escorting provisions, tra-
versed the distance between that city and Cawupore
without meeting a single opponent. They were,
however, unable to penetrate the city, or to join
either of the largo bodies of our troops encamped
there. But their position was secure. There can
be no doubt that, if Oeneral Havelock were so
disposed, he could fight his way through any part
of Oude, but it must be recollected that he has
' under his care women and children, who for the
put three months have been suffering from hard-
ships almost unprecedented, and from a diet near
akin to starvation. By remaining at Lucknow,
besides, a great moral effect is produced, which
will not be without its influence on the natives.
Meanwhile, in spite of our anemias at Delhi,
Cawnpore, and Lucknow, there has been another
mutiny. Four companies of the 32nd, one of the
three corps that up to the present moment had
maintained the chastity of their honour," sud-
denly broke out, and murdered one of their officers,
Lieutenant Cooper, and the deputy collector of
the district. Lieutenant Cooper was one of those
lacers who mix a treat deal with their men. He
had shared in their sports, In therrilrfertlne
land their running matches, had patronised
their nautches, and delighted in making them
happy; yet they not only foully and brutally
murdered him, but treated his remains with the!
greatest indecency, ripping him up, tearing out
his intestines, and showing other signs of savage
barbarity. The ostensible cause of the mutiny
was the discovery by Lieutenant Cooper of
a murder committed within the lines of
the regiment. One of the Sepoys in fact
had murdered a woman in his own hat, and
buried her there. Lieutenant Cooper ordered that
the murderer should be sent to the head-quarters
of his regiment, there to take his trial. In a few !
hours after, the whole of the men mutinied and
killed him.
More than half the native army is now dis-
banded ; the men have no arms, yet receive
their 'full rates of pay for doing nothing. It is
well known that the authorities in India are in-
clined to re-employ these men as soldier', on
the ground that they have committed no overt
act of mutiny against the state; yet I humbly I
conceive that it should he borne in mind, that had
they not shown an inclination to revolt, they would
not have been disarmed; that they were di.armod
because they showed that inclination; that they arc
the brothers, near rclatics s, and caste men of
those who have murdered our countrymen
and women with savage brutality ; that
they themselves have only remained harm-
less because tiny base been deprived of their
range, and that o,:cc having been suspected and dis-
anneal they are not fit to be entrusted with arms,
or to act as soldiers. As tho norganieation of the
army is a nicai:are which will Le decided upon In
England, it is as well that the character and peal-
tion of some of those who still receive our pay, not-
withstanding their known hatred to an, should be
duly considered. The discontent of the European
inhabitants of Calcutta has not lx en iciest ned by the
passing of the "Arms Act," nor by the man-
ner in which their petition against it has
been ri ceived. By this .tit, the loyal European
and the rebellious native are placed on an
Equality ; the former is not allowed to have in his
possession a weapon of defence against the Later
without previously registering it. Vlien it is r 1
col-
!cried that this Act sins passed for the :WOW( put,
pnse of disarming the native population of Caieutta,
and that, like the Press Act, it has been twined into
a weapon of eflenee awl insult against the indepen-
dent Europeans, it is asy to see that th, y can only
look for justice and reparation to England.

THE CAPTURE OF TIIE KING 01' IfEI.III
AND ExEcurioN OF IllS SaNS.
There is inn' nn doubt that the three princes shot
neat Delhi fell 11 Hodson's own hand. The real
facts are detuiltd in the following narrative:
On the merninr, on which the city end rd4re were finally
erre:kebab ila• whet, id the availahlo caioley moved out
through lb. odiurtc in the direction of, last not on the reel
to, the hostel, and talented to the top of the hill on which
etude the •Igi•h,' fr.ita thence net h • ~..anp of
the Pit-611y nod Nu".-rJr t mutineers nrobr "C• rat"
Health, awur Khan, elarelmia Subtitle of Artillery. It wee
soon perreiVed, i s Unutiotakeable eine, that the comp was
being i•verusteil, anal noon after a loud exploeion took Owe,
which told to practiced mire that the obele wed re blowing up
their arrimeition previous to a flight ; and Hooleou's her-
kerma e issuing brestl.l,4l in at the nement confireied the
fact. Ileden immediate !yen! leave to report it to the Gene-
• Itellorealg on hie way Tight along the Smut of the city, to
era if this vas clear also. Ho then obtained permiceion from
the General to get to the n bet ramp itself to eve how t blend
ley. Ile alerted at mite with hie second in croineeinil,
el'Heivell and 75 Segovia, and rode right round the city to
the Relit gate, braving but few Ants Moil at them. and
clearing the road of envy rebels ea they went Omar. They
found the cramp all bat empty—they soon made it quits so—
and the Delhi gate open. They brought away three guns
left by the enemy, eel made arrangements for bonging in the
empty tuba, 6: They ',coveted the mess plate of the 60th
Native Infester, their standards, stripped however, end
baud instruments; polishing off the big drummer, who with
his myrmidons gave some trouble.
Next day Reclean asked and obtsined permission to go
after the king, whose capture with that of his favourite wife
(mother to the heir apparent) he eurayssfully exammpliehed
et the coat only of vast fatigue, sonic fighting, and imminent
riek. His Majesty was courteously disarmed, and then
monied into the city.
Esrly the following morning, llmbein met to work to get
the prim:ma—granter, because room Retire villains then their
father. Ile started, with M'flowell (peened only to hie
romm.miling officer in all soldierly trade.) and 100 men,
for the tomb of the Emperor Remarries, whore the vocals
were concealed. Ile took mations to mat off all emcee to or
egress from the building, and then sent in one of the illegiti-
mate scions of royalty (who had saved his own life only b
turning King'. evidence) end the one-eyed Meulvie, Rojo),
Ali bare of the lomented Sir Henry Lowrenee's molt trusted
emisuriee), to bring out the prince.
After more than two howl of anxiety, strategy, and
no small practice of the arts of offence and defence,
they appeared, and were immediately sent off in a
bhylie, under a mull guard, towards the city. Hodson
thee, with the remainder of his men, entered the
fetch; te of the tomb, and found certainly not lees than
from 6,000 to 0,000 of the ecitm of the city and palace
congregated there, armed with weapons and miesiles of ell
descriptions. It was intend en hour of trial, when a bold
freed and determined voice was of more avail than even a
sharp mune Wonderful to say, not a man of the pliant
hale band we. hit, and on Hodson sternly reiterating his de-
mand for askant eurrender, they began to lay down their
arr.. Five bemired swords and twice that number of fire-
arum, /residua Mircee, elephants, &e., Ccc., were collected in
le s. than an hour and a half, without another blow being
struck. Bodeen and his men then moved warily off to the
city. At a short distance from the walls they found the
bbylie wee halted, with much rabble collected around, who
turned on the little party as they rode up. This we. no time
for hesitation or delay. Hodson dished at moo into the
midst; in few but energetic words explained " that thew
were the men who had not only rebelled against the go-
vernment, but had ordered end witnessed the maeuere and
shameful exposure of innocent women and children, and thus,
therefore, the government punished such teatimre token
in open resistance, eheoting them down at the word."
The effect woe Instenteneana and wonderful ; not another
hand was raised, not another weapon levelled, and the Idaho-
modem, of the troop, end some influential bloulviee among
the bystendent exclaimed, cc if by sioraltuneaue impulse,
" Well and rightly done, their crime has met with its jetet
penalty—thee ware they who gave the signal for the death
of belplees women sad children. and outraged decency by
the exposure of their ,persons, and new a righteous judgment
has fallen on them. Gad Ia groan" The remaining weapons
were then laid down, and the crowd slowly and quietly die-
pereed. The bodies were then carried into the city, and
thrown out en the very spot when the blood of their inno-
cent victims Mill stained the earth ; they remained there till
the 24th, when, for sanitary reasons, they were removed
from the Chibootra Croat of the Ketwallee. The effect of
this just retribution is as miraculous on the populace as it
was deserved by the criminals,* and the popular wish now is
that " Madmen. the avenger of blood," should be sent with •
along forte at kis hack to end and execute the like junta on
the arch villain Nana Sahib; rosy they both receive the
reward of their deeda.—LeAore Okrottick, Oct. 17.

•It II 0.1114 LI IMO ibll sessalag aseeka" et NW.

A LONG CAPTIVITY.
Eleven Wares from Lallatpore, three months
prisoners of the Rajah of Bhaligur, were sent on to
Bangor on the first &Ts of October. Their names
are Captain and Mrs.lreme and two children, Captain
Bale, Mrs. Gordon, Dr. O'Brien ; a sergeant, his
wife, and threo children. The following letter has
been written by one of the party :
Bannon, October &b, 1867.—1 little thought a few
weeks sgo that I should now have the pleasure of dropping
fea a line. I had-made up my mind to a prolonged capuvlty
among my savage friends the llondbelas. I can Ilea,' ac-
count fur their dentin me go so suddenly, unless they feared
the advance of the Xedras column under Major Erskine,
from Damoh. I found, however, three months of their
pleasant society quite sufficient. Oar party consisted of
fifteen—four officers, including myself, a sergeant, a colt
patrol, • lady and two children, and the sergeant'. wife.
There were also my Mabee eervants , altogether ten
Europeans and five natives. We were allowed one rape and
sir pier., per diem for the whole party; this included gram for
some ponies we had, so that oar food cost about one anna
each daily. I had no idea it was possible to live for
1,0 little. Our food consisted of the coarsest &tea sad
del, with a little rice—the style of food allowed to pri-
soners in gaol, bat not so good of its kind.
We were very closely guarded, and could not move ant of
the courtyard where we werecontined, without • guard. We
were usually ceased in oew-sheds, sometimes with bedding,
sometimes without. Our longest captivity was from the end
of July to the middle of September, in the Fort of Bare-the,
belonging to the Rajah of Sheb•urh, in the very heart of
the jungles. There, for about a month, we were located in
a dark roan, leaking in every direction, and we had not a
single cage cif clothing. 1 verily believe some of us would
have di had we not been removed to a drier room. As it
is, moat of as have been hid Up with BMW ever ahem ear
arrivalat Bangor. Wo were, as you may guppies, pretty
well devoured by vermin during our captivity.
We knew nothing of what wan going on, ezeepting what
our guard chose to tell us; and • moo pack of Ike they told
ua—that oar Itaj was over, and all the Feringhees every-
where murdered, die. Ono squint-eyed ruffian, who are-
mended the Bhairgurh forces, threatened to hang us all up in
a row. However, I heard, to my great delight, a few days
alter, that he bad been well thrashed at Binaika (one of our
ppoostr,), and had lost his guns, which greatly enreged the
Botdhetaa
We made two or three starts for gauger, but were always
compelled to beat a retreat, until the last time. On one oc-
carton we came within one coal of the Bangor Detachment
at Binaika, when we turned back, and the unlucky colt
gentleman was 'peered through the chair. Wo het one or
two very narrow escapee with our live, ; but now, thank
tied, we ere hero in comparative comfort, and are likely to
remain until more troops arrive and the Lallutpore district is

re ouquerod.
I must soy the &Toys at Lullatpore behaved very politely
to or ; chi y quietly told us that they had become subjects of
the limg of Delhi ; made a salaam, and told us to be off ;
and locky it was we did go then; for, R few minutes after,
nom gowns who had anima that murnivg—a party of the
same regiment that had committed the boirible murders at
Jhansi—paid my bunplow a visit, and not finding me there,
looted evrewhing.
An officer recently arrived from ])elhi, whilst
giving rue a slight description of the city, &ie., since
the siege and assault, I naturally asked him if he
had seen the " royal prisoner." Ile replied in the
affirmative, and added, "I think if I bad anything
to do with the safe keeping of such an old rascal I
should not allow him so many attendants." Upon
this I made further inquiries, and learnt that the
prisoner has not only a large retinue, but that he is
accommodated with his usual Oriental luxurit s, fly
drivers, and other comforts to an extent scarcely cre-
dible. Ile is moreover inclined to be jolly (well may
ho be a"), and on the occasion of a visit paid him by
some officers who did not remove their hats in hts
presence, turned to his son Jumma Bukht (who I am
glad to learn is a prisoner with him), and said,
" These people must find their heads rather warm
with their tepees on."—Bombay Correspondent of
the Daily News.