The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1857.

An outbreak has also occurred at Ferosepore, but
we are ignorant as yet of the particulars. It had,
however, been suppressed.
Seven companies of the 34th Regiment Native
Infantry were disbanded at Barrackpore on the 7th
instant. It will doubtless be remembered that it
was a Sepoy of this regiment who, having armed
himself with a loaded musket on the 29th March,
advanced upon the parade ground in front of his
lines, and having called upon the men to mutiny,
attacked and wounded Lieutenant and Adjutant
Baugh, and the serjeant major of his regiment. The
man was tried, condemned, and hung; and the
intuular who was in command of the quarter guard
on the occasion, and forbade any of the gnarl
going to the rescue of the adjutant, paid the penalty
of his crime also by the same ignominious death.
During the hand-to-hand conflict that took
place, hundreds of the sepoys in undress and others
in uniform looked passively on, while some took part
in the struggle, and attacked the officers with the
butt ends of their muskets. It was not found pos-
sible to identify these men, and the Governor in
Council determined to disband the whole regiment,
with the exception of the three companies who were
not present at the station. The order was carried
out, as above stated, on the 7th instant, the men
maintaining the most mutinous and insolent beha-
viour on the ocomaion. It is generally felt that these
measures are not sharp enough, and that to crush
the disaffection which has shown itself, very severe
remedies mast he resorted to. Thus in the short
apace of one south have the following regiments
disappeared from the ranks of the Bengal army,
either by disbandment or by having openly ar-
rayed themselves against the government:
Mutinied at Meerut : The 3rd Regiment Light
Cavalry, the I 1 th Regiment Native Infantry, the
20th Regiment ditto, the Sappers and Miners.
Mutinied at Delhi : The 30th Regiment Native
Infantry, the 34th Regiment ditto, the 74th Regi-
ment ditto, a Native Battery of Artillery.

Disbanded at Barrackpore : The 19th Regiment
Native Infantry, the 34th Regiment ditto (7 compa-
nies).

These regiments represent a force of nearly 8,000
men.

If we have painful proof that disaffection and
hatred of our rule are widely spread in some quar-
ters, we are not without evidence that in others a
loyal and intense abhorrence is felt of the treason-
able and murderous outbreaks we have recorded.
The young Maharajah Siodia of ()wailer no sooner
heard of the rising at Delhi, than he hastened, with
every expression of friendship, to place the whole of
his contingent at the disposal of the Lieutenant-
Governor of Agra. As a compliment to the prince,
the services of his highness's body guard, consisting
of horse artillery and cavalry, with a detail of
infantry, were accepted ; the political agent and tho
brigadier commanding the contingent having per
inspected them on parade, at the expellee
solicitation of the prince. The men of this force are
a very soldierlike body of fellows. They are of the
same caste as the Maharajah, many of them being
=embers of his family ; and their assistance, if re-
quired, will be loyally given. It is said further that
the ling of Delhi sent a deputation of the lei-tilted
cavalry to the Rajah of Jhind, asking his assist-
ance against the English. The rajah was
on the parade ground with his troops at
the time, and immediately ordered his soldiers to cut
down every man of the messengers. The Rajah of
Bhurtpow came forward alsoat once with the offer of
his regiment, and there is no reason whatever to
doubt the loafed good faith with which these men
have acted. The Itajah of Puttecellah has inter-
cepted and sent to the commissioner of his district
many seditious letters which had found their way
into his territories; and so far as we can yet see,
the districts of the northwest neither desired nor
were prepared for the success of the mutineers at
Delhi, but hold their bloody outrages in detestation.
Perhaps one of the strongest proofs we could have
that the disaffection is confined to the ranks of the
pampered traitors who have been allowed so long
to wear the uniform of British soldiers, is to be
found in the fact, that the very prisoners who were
liberated at Meenit have reported themselves to the
various police thanadars of their districts, stating
their willingness at once to return to gaol when the
Sicker calls for them. Many have already given
themselves up, and it is supposed that not less thau
75 per cent. of the whole would yield themselves, if
called upon to do so.
The fact is, the Bengal army is the sole focus of
the mutiny, and its state is a disgrace to the ad-
ministration of that presidency. Over and over
again has the inevitable issue been urged upon the
government, and we are to-day in the crisis of its
ventuation. No man is more open to indignant

censure for this state of matters than the late
Governor-General, the much belauded Dalhousie.
He is justly chargeable with the betrayal of the
interests of the empire to a paltry jealousy of the
radical measures of reform urged upon his adminis-
tration by the late Sir Charles Napier, who clearly
enough foresaw and pointed oat the danger to the
empire from the state of its army.

The first measure called for in our circumstances
is an immediate and considerable accession to the
strength of our European army in India. A dosen
or twenty regiments should at once be despatched
6061 England, and part, if possible, by the overland
route. The second measure should be the immediate
appointment of a commission to inquire into the state
of the Benin/ army. This commission should be
composed of officers from the other presidencies, and
from the Queen's army. The whole Bengal force is
demoralised, and it is probable that two-thirds of its
senior officers should be invalided as incompetent,
through long training in a vicious system, to enforce
discipline. The Bombay and the Madras armies,
perfectly free from all suspicion of mutinous feel-
ing, and in a high state of discipline, are a standing
reproach to the Bengal army, and are the sheet
anchor of the government at the present moment.
The opportune return of our European forces from
the Calf enabled us to despatch, without landing,
her Malady's 64th and 78th Regiments to Calcutta
some days ago, and the troop of Madras hone artil-
lery which was waiting here for transports to coo.
way to Madras. This force left a week ago by
Ousalhamera Assaye and Queen Victoria and the
Midsports Ruby Castle, Avalanche, and Kingstown.
'iodation Oahe., troops, the Ist Fusiliers have
bow dispatched up the Indus; so that the good
deduct of our native army, and the perfect confi-
dence we have in its discipline and loyalty, have
enabled se to despatch a force of 4,000 Europeans to
the llama Me M the last ten days. Madras, alto,
Is Mar arkdsling its Contingent, and within a
Inelith las European army of Bengal will be
Olmouthsned by en increase of ten or twelve
allooma ems from the other presidencies.
' ' We received telegraphic intelligence on the 19th
kipt el the death of his Highness the Nisam of the
rhesus. This event had been daily anticipated for
i,
tlie, and tronspired at Hyderabad, on Satan,
. the lath Met. The city was perfectly quiet, and
abet ma of the late monarch was peocianned on
the 17th inst., a royal salute being deaden tin
It li act unlikely that the report d
swab whisk have occurred in the north may aisle'

a good deal of excitement in Hyderabad, and we shall
not be in the least surprised to hear of a popular out-
break in the Nizam's territories, against the supre-
macy of our rule in India. It was at Bolarum, in
these districts, that the murderous outrage upon
Brigadier Colin Mackenzie was perpetrated two
years ago; and the country swarms with a Mahom-
medan population, in which, if anywhere in India,
the old fanaticism of the race survives. The con-
tingent, too, consists almost exclusively of Mahom-
medan troops, and there is room for considerable
anxiety in this quarter.

NAMES OF THE VICTIMS AT MEERUT.
(From a Poatacript of the Bombay Tow of May 27.)
We are indebted to an extra of the Mofiusilite of
May 20 for the following intelligence, the latest we
have received up to oar going to press. The follow-
ing list of names of those who have fallen victims in
Meerut, and the wounded in that station also, to-
gether with those who have escaped from the mas-
sacre at Delhi, is from authority, but is open to
correction :

KILLED AT MEERVT.-1 Ith Regt. N. I.—Colonel
Finals, Mrs. Chambers. 20th Regt. N. I.—Captain
and Mrs. M`Donald, Captain Taylor, Lieutenant
Henderson, Ensign Pattie. 3rd Light Cavalry—
Lieutenant M.Nabb, Vet. Surgeons Phillips and
Dawson, Mrs. Dawson and children. Gth Dragoons—
One private (name unknown). Sappers and Miners—
Captain Fraser, Mr. Tregear, inspector in the educa-
tional department.
WouNDED AT MEERCT.-6th Dragoons—Two
troopers. Artillery Recruits—Twelve. Artillery—
Lient,Colonel Hogg°. 3rd Light Cavalry—Dr.

ESCAPED FROM DELDL—Mr. Le Bas, judge, to
Kurnaul or Umballa; Brigadier Graves, ditto; Capt.
Nicoll, brigade major, ditto; Dr. Balfour and 11fiss
Smith, ditto; Mr. Wagentrieber and family, ditto.
Artillery—Captain and Mr. De Teissier and child,
to Meerut; Lieutenant Wilson, ditto; Lieutenant
Aislabie, ditto. Engineers—Lieutenant Salkeld, to
Meerut. 38th Native Infantry—Colonel Koren,
to Meerut; Captain and Mrs. Tytler, to Kurnaul ar
Umballa; Miss Hollings, ditto; Mrs. Holland,ditto;
Ensign Gambier, to Ifeerut ; Lieutenant Proctor,
ditto; Ensign Drummond, to Kurnaul or Umballa;
Ensign Grubb, ditto. 54th Native Infantry—
Lieutenant Osborn, to Meerut; Lieutenant Vibart,
ditto. 74th Native Infantry Major Abbott,
to Meerut ; Captain and !qrs. Wallace, ditto ;
Capt. and Mrs. Gordon, to Kurnaul or Umballa;
Mrs. Batoon and children, ditto ; Ensign Mew, ditto;
Lieutenant Taylor, ditto; Lieutenant Forest and
'family, Assistant Commissary of Ordnance, to Mee-
rut ; Mrs. Hutchinson, C. S. ditto ; Mrs. Fraser,
Engineers, ditto ; Mr. Marshall, merchant, ditto;
two battery .sergeants and families (names un-
known), ditto; Mr. Murphy, ditto; Messrs. Thomp-
son and Stewart (regiment unknown), to Kurnaul
or Umballa.
Faom LOCKMOM.—!. All well at Lucknow and in
the district."
FROM Hi:SABER—. All quiet here."

(From • Supplement to the Bombay MIMI of May 27.)

Bombay Times Office, 2 p.m., May 27.
We hasten to place before our subscribers the fol-
lowing important intelligence from the Punjaub ria
Scinde' and from the North-West.
Late last night we were put in possession of the
Lahore Chromele extra of the 15th inst., containing
intelligence of the mutinies in the Punjaub, which
we hasten to lay before our readers.
Telegraph-office, May 13.
Prom General Reid, Peshawur. To Rawul Pindee,
Sir J. Lawrence, to Simla, Commander-in-Chief,
Officers Commanding all Stations in the Punjaub
respectively, to be forwarded by the assistant in
of Telegraph-office or post, as the case
cm4yr,ta .
The senior military officer in the Punjaub, Major-
General Reid, having this morning received news of
the disarming of the troops at Megan Meer, a
council of war was held, consisting of General Reid,
Brigadier Cotton, Brigadier Neville Chamberlain,
Colonel Edwardes, and Colonel Nicholson, and the
following measures were resolved on, subject to the
confirmation of the Commander-in-Chief.

General lteid assumes the chief military command
in the l'unjaub ; his head-quarters will be with the
head-quarters of that Punjaub civilgovernment, and •
moveable column will be formed at Jhelum at once,
consisting of her Majesty's 27th Foot from Now-
ahem, her Majesty's 24th Foot from Rawul Pindee,
one European troop of Horse Artillery from Polo-
wur, one light Field Battery from Jhelum, Guido
Corps from Murdan, 16th Irregular Cavalry from
Rawul Pindee, let Punjaub Infantry from Bunnoo,
Kumaon „Battalion from Itawul Pindee, a wing 2nd
Punjaub Cavalry from Kohat, half company of
Sappers from Attock.
The necessary orders for this column have been
issued. The column will move on every point in
the Punjaub where open mutiny requires to be put
down by force, and officers commanding at all sta-
tions in the Punjaub will co-operate with this
column. (True copy)
(Signed) J. IllAcruesson, Lieut. Col.,
Military Secretary.
Received at Lahore, 10 p.m., 14th May, 18,57.
The above was received last night by electric tele-
graph, and will show the community the vigorous
efforts in progress.
An express from Perozepore has been received,
stating that the 57th N. 1., and the 45th N. 1.,
mutinied. The 10thCava/ry stood by the Europeans,
and the two native regiments were broken and dis-
persed, and the 57th were coming in and delivering
up their arms.—Seindion Extra, May 20.

By private letters from Lahore, we learn that the
whole of the native troops in that province are in
an undisguised state of mutiny. On hearing of this
outbreak, the authorities immediately nailed in a
council of all the European inhabitants to deride
upon what course to adopt in this emergency. The
whole of the ladies hale been ordered into the fort
at Bawd l'indee. Meanwhile her Majesty's 81st
Regiment proceeded to the lines of the mutineers,
and promptly, thus happily depriving 'at least some
portion of them of the means of doing harm. The
greatest consternation prevails in Lahore. It is
said that the disaffection has spread all over Delhi,
Umbella, Meerut, Ferozepore, and other places, and
several Europeans and natives have been brutally'
murdered. Houses and lbarracim have been burnt
down in every direction. The mutineers have pro-
claimed the King of 1/elhi King of India. We are
anxiously looking out for news from the disaffected
quarters.—Seintlian, May 20.
LUCKNOW, Max 18.—All is quiet at Lucknow—
Sir Henry Lawrence is in the right place. Every
arrangement that human foresight could devise Is
made. No stir in the city, and the British bull dip
are watching over the combustible Sepoys. The
irregulars are at Khoosh.—
hospital lately occupied by the 72nd Native
Infantry in Agra was burnt down about midnight on
Wednesday, the 20t12.—Ibid.
At Neemuch, according to the West adviose, every
thing hos been and is quiet.

At Lucknow, Sir Henry Lawrence hu hell a
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ne:military darbar to reward the fidelity of some
of the 48th Regiment, exhibited under
temptation to mutiny. Everything was done to
give &lot to the proceedings: In presenting the
awards of honour sad other gifts, Sir Henry said to
the. Weeps :
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changed. Now who is there who would dare to interim
with our Mabomedan or Hind u° auldects ? You me all this,
you know it well; you mad not my testimony to this
notorious fact.

Sir Henry then reminded the men of the koeition
and power of England, and the triumphant theme of
her late war with Rued'.

He then referred to the glorious services and re-
putation of the Bengal army, again praised its past
fidelity, threatened with terrible vengeance all who
should permit themselves to be led astray, and thus
oonclded his address:
And now, soldiers, it is my pleasing duty to reward, in the
mine of government, thaw who have served it so well and
so honourably._ Advance Subandar—Bewak Teweree; come
forward HariMar and soldiers, and receive these splendid
gifts from the government which is proud to number you
amongst Its soldiers; accept these honorary sabres, you have
won them well, long may you live to wear them in honour.
Take these sums of money for your families and relatives ;
wear these robes of honour at your homes and your festivals;
and may the bright example which you have so conepi-
cuously sot find, as it doubtless will, followers in every regi-
ment and company in the Amy.
After the harangue Sir Henry, with his own hands,
distributed the rewards, shaking hinds with the
greatest cordiality with each of the recipients.
The following were the presents :—To Subandar
Sewak Tewarree, 48th Regiment, a magnificent
sabre, superbly decorated, a pair of handsome
shawls, a splendid chogah, or cloak, and four pieces
of embroidered cloth. To the llavildar Mat iorarutille
same as above. To each of the sepoys,t
Doke, 48th Regiment. Sheikh Ilosem-13th, now
a Naik, a very handsome sword, richly ornamented,
handsome turban, and pieces of cloth. And 300
rupees to each in cash.

brothel, and in the Insolvency Court, and having received
the picture ea security for what she owed, handed it to Mr.
Smith to take care of for him.
In cross-examination he maid he knew the character of the
plaintiff perfectly well, and the nature of the busincae carried
on by her in Newman-street.
Edwd. Hake said ho was employed and paid by Rynam to
carry the picture to Mr. Smith's.
Mr. Joyce contended that Rynam acted merely as the
agent of the plaintiff.
The Judge remarked in strong language upon the character
of the plaintiff, and expressed his surprise Mat such cases
should be brought into court. If the jury did not know
which to believe they were bound to end for the defendant,
because it lay with the plaintiff to male out her claim.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.--JUNE 27.
(Before the Chid Commissioner.)