The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

LETTERS PROM INDIA.

The following extracts are from a letter from 1)r.
A. Chriatison, of the Owalior Contingent Cavalry,
son of Professor Chriatison of Edinburgh

~ Earl of tgrs, luguet 12, 1857.

•
"We are safe and well, thank God, and no enemy
threatens us; while our defences are being rapidly and
largely increased. Thom villains who fought us at Shah-
gunge, four miles out, did not remain end keep us abut in,
but went off to Delhi, where they got their damsels in en
attack up= our camp, in which mineral hundreds of them
were laid low. Consequantly, all restriction on oar move-
ments is now removed, and we go out where we pleass—that
is, ell those who have conveyances, and who can get down to
the gale in this hot weather without feeling it too fatiguing.
A. Imo not be® able to go. There is generally, however,
Wish sir up here on a terrace elevated sixty or seventy feet
above the river. What would we do without this, for our
quarters so. miserable dens, fifteen feet by nine, consisting
the moose under steles round a square of shout 160 Ism?
The archai are tilled up with gram and bamboo work, and
the partitions are of the awns. All our little property is
Wowed in this bolo; we est our humble meals in it, we
bathe in it, and A. sod oar child sleep in it. I sleep slang
with a damn calms, is a large marble hall on the terrace.
"Our prediemseet with regard to home letters is very
trying, Ow we
.liani.esealvel Demo for two months—none

aim our dated May. Soars seimpapers bare mous—
iest of 6th lime yesterday—bet se lettere.
" We weary kw reisthreementh but ormitit expect any
till Ist September, I fter. Our siege talc is ready), and
only awaits wort from the south to go to Dad. Mr de
fences orate fort here are being strengthened in every real-
ble ws cad we do cot fear say foe, accept the bermes in-
aep • siege, when 4,400 atthaecalithenta seed
every nook and corner. Clod premiere us from suck misery I
" The toes, which had been wrongly allowed to reach the
walla, has been thrown down for a radius of several hun-
dred yard. around, and thothands if coolies sic se busy so
ben at this work of dthreetion. The beidge of beam la
beithr rebuilt under the walls, hutted of a mile a es be-
fore. The bastions have had new embresuree made, and
sthesty heavy guns are mounted, and two mortar butteries
Ism ism armed erne eleven sad six heavy mortars. The
peeler magexines are all undergoing additions to their
teeth In short, the eighth of years is being repaired. U
we me besieged, all the WPM and children within the fort,
ameeth, to onmiderably moth than 2,000, are to be packed
down der greed in a well very curiously constructed,
with Gm Merino of 1011111/ round it. The lowest of them is
sew ear wake, bet the engineer officer, whose duty it has
beim to ether eat end prepare this well, says everything will
be reedy by the time it le wanted.
" The cooly wimp we look out for is the large tinny at
Othare, ef the Owelior Contingent and arearal
ether regimen/a ham hitherto remisedq thanks
to the mysterious lediumeee of the bt.hmej.Yer elm to
their emu pthilleaeity. Seindiab deserves mach plebs
I meireilleg each • body of rebels. But we in they may
at bat take the high hand, and go either to Deihl or Aga.
The letter would be strategically wrong, vibes our forme
at Camspore In daily increasing, and • Bombay force is at
Mho., in the south of ficindiates territories. The Dweller
Coutingent has a siege-train, but only six IS-pounders sad
bar re six mortars surely they will rot being that against
Agra tied they only joined tl Neemurh mutineers, std
strictly bitic railed .e, our Milli ira, deserted th wo were by
every wive servant, would have bees such ea to satisfy
amply their hungw for our lives.
"1 hero meatineed how utterly was-pone A., At., and t—
are misled. But led Fathom lettere should have miscar-
ried, I may repeat that A. bas not • mingle thing remaining
except her wedding ring, which was nearly thatched from
bee at Dholepore ; nor I more than the few trilling thinp I
was able to 4111177 besides my aoroutrements when 1 we
soddenly ordered to Agra and Hattrath. Nothing remains
of all our valued liken, of love and friendship. All our
furniture. dive. rbin., stres, buggy, every look of my
valuable little library, my telescope, mterosenre, all article. of
mamma, and, alas, our pictures and kitty, from home—
evitytuing is gone. Deity we rerecnibir and lament mime
loot thinz. It is • restful thing to loth one's all, and begin
life again. We were so happy mid well ott at Gwalior that
we cow know too painfully our position.

"Wo are wondering whether any of you are on the
moors on this happy diy at home. llow gladly would we
exchange, for the fi.em of countrymen and home friend., the
hateful Native* and treacherous friends of India. The boat
thing that ma happen to us now is one remaining here for
MOM where we can spend little, so that our modi-
cum of pay may eseurnulate. I am now entitled to only
256 rupee. a mouth, of which about 70 go to the funds—lf
thew now survive, which Is doubtful. The treasure in hand
herr ic. I believe, small. The future is a matter of much
anxiety. Thew seems no doubt that oil ladies mat leave
the.. regions. for the percent at least ; ro A. and 11. must go
to CAL utta when practieabie. No doubt her eaten there
will ',lnure her warmly,; but It will bee deeolate LitAinene
for or who ars left. MI next sewn, and more perhapt,
will be sprat in hard campaigning.
" I must now ccni-latte. The mails are escorted by the
Bbartpore and Jevpor• Rajahs so far, and this, I believe, go
by Der e& With 'Delhi and other plats. oonmiuni, cation ie
only obtained Le wend saaarsagen, rt.:siting hem 200 to
600 rupee, • Win."

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

WENLOCK.

On Tuesday. a public meeting., convened by the
Mayor (William Nicholam, Esq.), was held in the Guildhall.
The M e t.iu pre l& d.
The Cn tot sas having briefly opened the prooeediege,
was lidlowed by—
I. N. lin, rut., Esq., M.P., who rid • -.There aro
reunion On whit il iS utterly powerless to give ex-
perms to the f eller which animate, ..nd to the onetime
which overwhelm ; and if there ever was an ormMon
oft which wax to,re than ever au powerlcsr, it ie that on
which we are now aseetn bled. Three year. ago many of na
net together In this place to express the sympathy which
we felt in the auderings of gallant mem who were righting
the kettles ut European freedom in • dietant lend --sufferings
for which we wile ourselves to • great extent rorponrible, as
=had been mitred by inconiiwtenor. by misname:et:tient,
by Deflect. (Hear, hear.) We then tbrught that our sym •
parses were tacked to the eery lam et by tan.- evente, and
through the length and breadth of the land we Mani an echo
to the sentiments we then exprimeed. We little thought that
an orraion would lose actor that would teak our mympathise
it more, and that we should be called upon within so rivet
arriod to minnow the sympathy we felt 1. ir the misfortune@
o car coonlryni.il std mulery women. eared by the newt
herible crime. that ever disarmed Monanitv ; by every con-
ir•bio sod Ly every im,nersvaLle bow of barbarity which
human wirkedner eon inflict, by deeds of cruelty which the
besets of the field would is •m, and by di "do of outnige and
indignity at which • Rend would Llueb. Burke, in his mag-
nificent is och on (ho deli• of the Neto.b of Arcot In 1785.
draw • thrilling Anil fearful picture of the i rueltim whirls bad
been perpetratui in the Climatic by lljdor Ali. He deeeribal
the &Vnu to wite•h three cent:hies gave rime r one the like to
whit no eye had twit, no heart eimieived, and s-hiela no
tongne took ariconattly tell. lie acid that the nnarabb
inbs~a fly toot limo their ibioring villages, in part were
riuglitered, and th.t other., without rvard to WI or age, to
the owlet of rank or eat restates of tonetion—fathers torn
for children, hou.L.ndr front 'elver, envetoped in a ultirl-
wind of cavalry, amidst the g...duig spore of drivers, and the
trioopling of lemming bore, were swept into raptititv in an
unknown and bleed.. lend. He said, to, that all the [wawa
ot war I.,fore known or heard uf, wets nee. y to that new
hlvoe, 'messing that the time would come when the
homes of slash Le spoke would thcmach ea be erre.. to
another havoc. I will not harrow your lei-lingo by dwelling
upon the hideous iletaile that hese tonne to light. but I will
remitaill you of acry few of the thriding tridents which
hey, is i a n,uole.f. Turn fur one moment to the case of
the doigLler of General Whorl. r, the daughter of that
=fetid. .te °minuted., who was murdered at Calms
pre, lawl,l. owl by the, suffering. the bad wits
rood and on-I,one, imd, it may have bore, Mune
to d. spa 17 .41L10 dedo.dly waif ilishononriug out-
rage up' 13 heriulf, rote against her peremotore la niaht,
munierial the miscreant in whir house she wee, and then,
member. of hia frilly AA they eh and ti, a threw herself
• down • well to el.-.ye the ahe knew awaited
her. Take the e•me of tire gallant Lieut. Asunder., who, whew
dragged before Nrea Sahib, shot live of the body-guard with
his revolver and wee crucified where he stood Take the rase
of that broil, Englishwoman who was rimier...l before that
same 110.41etf in his ramie at Mitre. She told him, as be-
rms • Chriation itinltleiros,un„ that s'ie was not afraid to
bat in no religion wee enjoined the 11101•11•CP9 of women
sod of children ; that God nail her country would visit thi-ne
kw thew things, and that • day of reeln-es doll retribution wee
at hand. (Cluere.) Tido, the caw of Captain Slime, who, after
performing prodigies of in which he was sided by
young and heroic wife, was estrnetull.• that wife to kill her,
and did kill both her sail himself accordingly, that fearful
' art basing been rentsilid bye laid embrace of anguish and
Whit... I. cLofe the meat touching snub meet Inge which
the couch. of the world ran furnish. I feel that I have raid
emelt:4li. I feel that a biro recital of them things is on Itself
almost too touch. But whet a fearful pieture it present,' to
ea. A state of things so horrible and abnormal that the
putting to death of those most new and dear 'avocets ainviiit
an obligation binding upon • Christian soldier. Into the
eras of three horrors it is net our prosier. to Inquire, it is
the province of the imperial legislature to do that, and deep
will be their nvi .touLilay if try Lot in the performers id
that rind and soli nin function. Whether we hare oniplici
too far, or wheat.. r se have interfiqed too naola, with the
religion of the natives.—whetber the East hobo Comjany
roe deprwitiey ot hither the GOVelnor-
Goners! is too much trammelled by usage or too
much hampered by his couneil,—whether • givern•
meal, of which one portion is at Calcutta, an•ther
potties in Liodenhalbstiyet' and another at White-
kW, is to to cope with these gigaotic diglculties, et