The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1857.

Ales, ems of Newel. Aga Mere, and plundered very much
property rod cash and supplies, and also took these two men
With them to render sseistance, and gave them palmation of a
battery; and our troop or thereabouts left the cantonments
and proceeded to the buildings in which the civil and re-
venue and judicial coasts were held, and commenced
firing them. At that time the state of the rantonmente
was such as if the people were surrounded with Eire, and
no citizen had hope left of his hfe or honour. In fact, they
spoiled and destroyed the whole of the courts; and in the
other direction, from all three sides guns were tired at the
English entrenchments to that extent that the ground seemed
to be turning upside down. At first the Europeans fired
round shot and grape upon the three batteries with great
effect, killing two troopers and six Scope; and when the
sun became very hot, the Europeans reamed tiring for about
three hours, and the whole night the firing was continued,
and many round shot fell upon the parapets of the rebels'
and also round shot fell on all sides of the barrack,
neabra the Sepoys and troopers proposed to ditcher* 10
24-paimders, and take the entrenched camp by storm, and
kill Emma, woman, and child.
The English had excavated mines near the barrack, end
near the road adjoining the ditch, with the intention that
when these disloyal espoye should make an assault they
would blow them up; and although they, the sepoys, calcu-
lated that ten rounds from the 24-pounders would be euffi-
cleat, during the night they flied off nearly 400 rounds, but
yet thee. spiritless MCC had not the bravery to make the
assault.

On fianday, the 7th June, the Bring was commenced, ac-
cording to custom, on all sides, and about one troop of the
2nd Cavalry having mitered the Great Toln, committed •
great deal of oppression upon the inhabitants, sad they seized
Dorogha Mina Aloe Khan of Lucknow who for several
Years bad bean setting houses near the reddsmos of the 00211
of Age Moor, end told him—" You have brought away
plenty et mosey from the Lucknow people by deceit,
give us • lakh of roper ;" and some one said
that certain Europeans and women were hilden in
his house. On this, without further inquiry, •
gun loaded with grape was Bred into his house, and two or
three of Lie servants were killed. At last they took the
Daregha prisoner into their camp, and wished to Le him to a
loaded gun in the presence of the Nana, but the Nana let
Lint go on the payment of 1,000 rupee,, and sent him tocollect
montunition in the battery on hundreds of bullocks sad
elephants, and carts and doolies fee., and whatever he could
lay his hand, upon. The burning of the °Mows' bungalows
now commenced, and the burnt buzigalows became' as it
were, • black knit, and whenever an knglishman or Euro.
can soldier, or woman or child were found, they were put

On the Bth of June the firing commenced on all irides as
usual, and one lady and child, end Christian, were seined
and brought before the Nana. Afterwards, according to order,
they were killed, notwithstanding that they repo vented that
they were faultless, and. if it would please the rebels., they
I might make them Musulmane, if they would but
save their lime' but to do so did not come into the hearts of
these exec-Mies/SU; and In the city and gardens there was as
much villsny committed, that travelling became dangerous,
sad to kill a men was quite easy; and each landowner en-
tertained 60 or 100 followers, end committed
.deeds of op•
premien and plundered each other; some forcibly cut the
'grain out of the fields, and others were occupied in picking
up plundered property which had been thrown down, and
hundreds of Rajpoota were posted on the roads, robbing the
travellers; in feet, as many sepoys as plundered money from
the government timothy, or any other property belonging to
government, were all themselves plundered by the land-
owners, and If any sepoy made the elighteet objection to give
up his property, be was at once caused to sit upon the bed of
death, and newly 1,000 Ti. on some, and on others 500 re.,
.ere found folded in their waistbend, end in the city the
goods and chattels end cash of the English merchants were
plundered to the following extent :—Oreenway 50 lakbe ;
Da Geom. 10,000 re. ; Crump, 6 LAU ; Mackintosh,lakh ; Grammy, 40,000 re. ; heed, 10,000 re, ; Marshall,
4000 rs. ; Kirke, 60,000 re. • and many gentlemen, nier-
chants, escaped into the entrenched camp with their money,
and many ether merchants thought that the troops would not
offer them any molestation, for if the government became
Hindustani they would open their shop and sell their pro- ,
party ; but the sepoys did not pay any attention to this re- '
quest, end at once killed them ; and also hundreds of lower
afarservants (mehturanees), tee, of low caste, who wore
English clothes, were shot and cut down with swords.
On the oth the firing commenced as usual, and it was re-
ported that the general had been wounded bye gun shot ;
and one English paper was brought by a man into the bat-
tery to the Nana; in that paper was written, on the part of
all the gentlemen, " We have become I lied uteni ; why do yen,
having taken the magazine, fire upon us: Give 11/ permission,
end we will go to Calcutta ; and to kill women and children
of oar relgion as you do, is exceedingly bad, and snob duds
wen never committed ander any reign ; but the Nana re-
tuned no answer; the firing was continued as venal.
Oa the 10th of .1 as usual, the tiring commenced from
the si, 18, and 4-pork and one lady, and one grown up
young lady and three children were cowing slung in a carriage
from the direction of the west, and on the rout some one had
killed the lady's husbend, but not considering it proper to
kill women and children, had allowed them to mope. How-
ever, the troopers of the 2nd Cavalry caught them, and
brought them into the presence of the Nana, who ordered
them to be killed at once, although the lady begged the Nana
to spare her life, but this disgraceful man would not in eny
way hearken to her, and tool them all into the plain. At
that time the sun was very hot, and the lady said, " The
suns very hot, take me into the shade ;" but no one listened;
on four sides the children were catching hold of their mother's
gown, and saying, "Manna, come to the bungalow and give
me some bread and water." At length, having tied them
hand to hand, and made them stand up on the plain, they
were shot down by pistol bullets.
On the 11th of June the firing commenced as usual, but
when the balls from the side of the rebels were fired, some
fell on the parapet, and some passed over the barrack alto-
gether, and sometimes fell in the barrack. At that time the
gentlemen remained inside the bomb-proof house, and when-
ever the rebels' firing was very severe, they answered it by
firing one or two rounds of grape, whale killed ten or twelve
sepoyi • in feet, during the whole day, they fired one or two
rounds, and et midnight about twenty E-• umpeen giddier,
sada a Darts en the 1-pounder which was plumed on the
aide of the battery under the command of Eieen-00.
son of Aga Mew, and having spiked the gun,
retuned. That night two European soldiers were
killed, end every day the Nana and Emen-00-Doi.lah,
through fear, went to the lala nigh, and the sepoys
of the regiment on that day killed a burtonowle,
sod 'skim of rupee' and property were plundered.
None dare say to the repo s, You villains, what are
you doing 1" and one lady, the wife of Mukan Sahib, mer-
chant, whohad fur four or fire daysteenhidingunderthegreas
of her bungalow came out of the bungalow at evening rime,
and was discovered. She had, through fear, changed her
appearance by putting an an Hindustani bodice and folding
• towel around her hesd. She was taken before the Nana,
who ordered her to be killed. The writer of this journal
having gene in person, saw that the head of that lady was
cut oil, and presented as a narAr (gift of royalty); and in the
place where hundreds of Chriniene, and ladies and children
were killed. in the direction of the Tahkhana, a crowd re-
mained, and • Rampoui trooper, by caste a Mumulman of
the 2nd Irregular Cavalry. remained In the presence of the
Nana, and killed these innocent ones ; and whenever an order
wee given to slay anybody, that same trooper used to slay
them.

On the 12th June the firing commenced so tumid, and ft
woo reported that in the direction of the Ptuijaub a num•
bar of European.. were auctublwi. Immediately one treop
of c tvalry and two companies of infantry were sent
to reconnoitre, when it we. found that about 138
European soldiers and women and children had
come in three boats from some elation to the eau.
out when they heard that in every station disturbances had
taken place between Hindooe and Muoultuans, they imme-
diately took to their boats, and puttied, with the intention of
going to Calcutta, but the triP.pere seized them all and took
them to the Nana, who ordered that they should all be,
killed, and sundry Rasopoori troopers of the Mu sulmano
of the 2nd Cavalry, whom the None kept with him for the
',Tee. purpose, killed then, all. Amongst them waa a
young lady, the daughter of some general. She
addreoped herself much to the Nana, and Paid, "No king
ever committed such op ion as you have, and in no
religion is there any order to kill women and children. Ido
not know what hue happened to you; be well unwed that by
this daughter the English will not become lean ; whoever
will remain will have an rye upon you." But the Nana paid
no attention, and showed her no mercy, and ordered that she
should be killed. and that they should fill her hands with
powder, and kill her by the explosion ; and in the two or
three days during which these disturbance were going on,
hundreds of hosts were collected from east to wet, and the
order was given that without permiaoion not • single boat
should be locoed, lest perhaps any European soldier or
Christian might amps in it, and from all rides the impor-
tation of groin we. Mopped and it became very expeneive,
inemmuch ite before the cltstOrbettoe twenty-three peers of
wheat was sold for • rupee, sad after three or four days only
twelve seem were obtainable.—Prom the Ilemetrard Mast
from India, China, end the Zug, et October 1, 1867.