The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1857.

100 men of the 83rd Regiment to the gala, under Lieutenant
Bernath of the Horse Artillery, to our line.. Of mums it
we. all a lie of this man of the Lancers that they had mu-
tinied and taken the guns. But while Holbrow tram away
the man of the lancers came back to our men and tried to
kill the Europeans when they came up. But Swanson shot
blue with a pistol, sod 103 of oar men wen dreamed. The
worst part of the matter is that they wen all found with
their unarm loaded, which orrtainly lab very
but it is alleged they loaded them la self-defenceZZErhe
Lancers. Oar men hare (350) are staunch. I can't the
rut fancy their rising ; but these are certainly anxious times.
You see by my amount it wu morn of a panic than a
mutiny as they behaved the man who told them the Lancers
had taken the gaoa and mutinied. I have not the lend
doubt that if hd not been fur that the men would have been
as loyal as could be. Do not behove anything you see wee
than this, as you will be sure to are it is made • great deal of
in the papers ; then Ina every excuse for them. It la a
very bad that our regiment—" Elir Charles Napeer's favourite'
—who fought so well and gallantly at Messes and Hynes-
bad, should be the first Bombay miner to sot the rumple
of mutiny.. It is reported the 26th have also mutinied.
Ours and the 26th were Sir C. Napier's two pet regiments.
We are wet anxiously waiting for more men from Nursers-
bad. I think it will not turn out halt so bad as It seems.
We woe before quite at the top of the tree in the Bombay
smile and now I suppose none are lower. Both Is Ili.
am great Meads with our espoys here they like me very
much, I hear. I hope it is true.
The following letter is from an officer of rank :
holmium, August 23.
Plato I wrote to you • singular event ban occurred.
The male of the 27th Regiment of Bombay Native In-
=all whisk is in the command of the mann
af the any, about 70 miles from Belgaum. Without
advancing any grievance, or giving any inkling of their par.
pose, about 169 men of the regiment broke out into open
mutiny at ten o'clock at night, plundered the treasury of
45,000 rapine, and made for • durgah (religious edifice) in the
town, and in the early morning marched clear away toward.
Wagotun, on the coast by the Phoonda Ghat. No native
commissioned officer accompanied the mutineer., but ao
ecelldeece could be placed by the commanding officer in the
remaining men to enable him to follow the mu of
whom, however, some thirty or forty poisoners wore taken.
Perhaps the meet remarkable feature is that only one-third
of the mutineers were Ilindortanes men, the rein being
Waitron. and Monne and Deccan Hindu.. The trials
are now going on, Colonel O. 8. Jacob having been sent
there with Europeans and guns. He disarmed the 27th, and
shot and hong 21 of the mutineers immediately after his
snivel. A detachment of the 27th Native Infantry at
Itatneghthry his also been disarmed by two companies of her
Majesty's 86th Itegiment, who then pawed on to On, cis
voile to Bedpan, and they are ezqd here to-morrow.
Their approach has permitted the tch of a company of
the 2nd Europeans this morning to I) rear when there
is considerable treason, and a gaol of 600 prisoners. The
Mahomelan population are ripe for revolt. Pour Bspoys
an now under trial for towering mutinous and seditioua
intention.; and last week two ' outside" traitors were blown
away from guns. The European fore, is now sufficient to
disarm both the native regime re at Bagmen, if it were
riecessuy, which is not expected, am only a few men in one of
the regiments are deafened.

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Leon bra base dm Imeguem arrived thee
wind lehumelhe et thole egp Ne. fleg io Agflii ad
eingeL The lemgerle menned the ken, chapel. god
aeboal sad gat min pero, ineai4lllllllll. Their broths',
bwka, bbros7 nil - i Wesel completely dr
stroyed. Agra we the rlk et wows* ix the north-weet
and about 120 mike been DOI It entelited 6,000
Christian inhabitant. Odin Oh,ieYaet dell ea military
servants, Here them won a plat emeeri the motive troop
to ries on Sunday who ell our people ken at church and
thegaga
It God bad permitted ino le carry out their
than was w sons why the Whole af the Christian
wend ad beetbsta deinget. Information of
aintbenewe, one Zama. wont, and next
dmildlaby win heeled ea eath side by
pet wile of seem led their
maesiant was to conning Hem le Ile their ernes
eat and thus On were reedered ear
penfieely Iteamine, their arms Wag Ulm Ineelleilla of b,
aka IMAMS green Our bream la Agra wen thee
my& The span then briefly deeerfeed the pliant action
which eherweede armed between the garrison at Agra end
the inmellellie, teak ern up in overwhelming wane. The
lane inn thoroughly thrashed, and marched Oral&
away. Theihwest to the gaol, where wen confined a gent
number of up and Deceit, from all of India, and
the, they nionied. The speaker stated that some now
open ked elided In this country in reference to Ape.
The Wolf won In our posesseeen as wail ea the fort, the
Otter • Wag building to which mom of the non-
menhelnale lien oessond as • pine of greater siefe.
Agee he eneine4 wee a pine of perfect safety. The
Sthan mihried to Menorah, • native Christian
imetedirides south-west of Agra,which had best
up elide in lent tan years. An old win, • main,
wee bee& to • knowledge of the truth, and ho,
willibite had mapped out the surrounding=
sol 100 towns and villages under Christian cattl-
eman sick were brought to him to heal, and the
mike preethei, and the result of their labour. wee the
=of the Christian village of Chinni" They per-
through many diflicsities, manifesting the gbh et
MEW, living and preaching Christianity. They food the
people, many of them in the lowest condition, only able try
sera ia • wontb, end they found it cowry, as the
Inereaseddlo Ind some mean. of pining • livelihood,
narrated how he procured • weaning ertible,
:Mknerog the loan of a soldier from Aims, who had bean •
Manchester weaver, to teach himself and the native Chris-
tine to wean; bow they persevered, in spite of difficulties,
until the art was mattered ; and bow they then nein •
carpenter and constructed -iii or 60 marines. He emend
bi. hearers they would beeerd If they men le ere the
table covers, napkins, Yet rd dim Millet mhhe
u4sr those native Chrietlen weaved. tuned at elle le
earn only la a mouth, due .- old earn 16e. , they
were able to send their chilli. ii iii whool, and the
whole face of thing. wee -hnio"l. They bed On
the gospel enargned the 1.-le r well as the sled. te}
dense. The speaker then dio ro lid rather humously% the
Improvement which had i ix. n place in the Ossining af
wow whip now ate with di. it banned% Atka they bed
not and to do; and, slab ugh it nom egged the gni, the
Malan& bed been cared .1 tl, prope=te twat tinny=
on any Wing Oboes being Given the Wee-
Son had completely alterod ihe appeared, things he the
present, he yet hoped thong p, o thing wadi spin commease.
Mr. Smith next reviewed the gallant token of
and the =macre of the Europeans then, end men=
names of nano mierionrier who had been killed in, the
ineurrection. He hoped to hear by the next mail that back-
now had been relieved. BOW'S he considered polectly
safe. Etropeen soldiers were marching up le Alp-
habet!, and he hoped that the tide was Sinn.
He had sot the least fear of the future. The muskies
which had been manifested wee the legitimate *dm el
heatheniree. We had trained a hundred unwed men to
the use of arm., allowing no facility for any Abets be Ode-
tianiec them, while their minda were open to the Wows of
everything that wee bad, The Sharers which thga.4reed
were full of stone. of cruelty, killing women and c
and the moat loathsome and degrading acts. From year to
year the Sepoys bad been open to these teachinp but not
to the teaching of Christianity ; and now the Bough power
was beobem down, their old feeling. mine into concise. Oar
government had sharpened the instrument themselves, and
1111143 new smarting under the application of that inns-
mat. The men had been subject to the wont possible In
endow Moot of the regiments contained hishomedans,
and these had acted se the innioniune of Mahomedanl.m.
He bared oar government in India had dealt with pa-
ne tel 1111 pantie.. The coueepeace had bees that the
Brahmin. aad the Itsspouts, or freebooters, the two deems
who had formerly Heed on the people, who bad pined their
living by fraud end misrule—they wee dirmatented, for
while they had Inewidecressing in potter ad opulence, the
cooditton of the treeing cf... and the Feet body of the
people Ind Toady improved within the Met thirty pars
The Ennui= and Rajpoota were embus to non their
former portion. He believed that wee oat great team of
the insurrection. Ho believed oleo that the caste wenn
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had had its 1111.11011. Knowing well the native character,
he had no hesitation in aaying that two or three reverses
would be enough to mum them to be panic stricken. As
soon as ever an army of any importance appeared above
Mishabad, oppoeition would almost be at an and. As to the
overland joutney, as they were aware the great bulk of our
people thought • grave error had been committed, and that
we could hove sent an army through Turkey. Had that
been done, France might have wanted to send an army to
tree other place, sad Horde also might have arm to
Mks a similar di mead, so that It would have bees a den-
rAprecedent, and would have opened the way perhaps,
fter evils. Temps bad been sent from the Mauritius,
Caps of Good Hops, Australia, and other places, to India.
Had ear army at once proceeded overland they would home
attired in India in very hot and unhealthy weather, and
would most likely have boos fearfully cut down by cheeses.
As it was, however, they would arrive there at a mean
most favourable to the health of Europeans, what time
would be a clear bright sky. with alight frost. at night. He
wee sooty to see that Mr. Vernon Smith—who bthe-bye
nadentood very little of the subject—had paid that there
would ham to be an alteration in the government of India,
that the law of liberty would have to be modified. Now
what was this law of liberty which had bean recently
peered I' It wee that any native becoming a convert to
Christianity should not forfeit any of his property or
inheritance by so doing, which was formerly the mos. AM
Jul Mr. Vernon Smith wanted to modify or to repeal that
law, which wee the Magna Charts of India. Sooner Ulna
they should retract their onward mune and repeal say
of those monuments of 'Ranh liberty and benelleence—
such as the Law of Liberty, the potting down of Sutteetem,
of infanticide, and the destruction of human life under Jug-
gernaut's car—be tied no hesitation' in saying that Misr
than thoi, let British power in India coma to an sod.
(Applatote.) Ile had no sympathy with the dispontion which
had been manifested to perpetuate the bondage in which
the man of the pimple had so long been held in India.
India had not been given to no simply that we might
draw Loge revenue. from her; not that our sons should
obtain Pplendid aituations there. We were not to hold it
simply for worldly motivep. God was now calling ua to
account ; and we must begin again a new course. In [MUM
of religion they said let government stand male. (Applause.)
Theo did not want it to protect Christianity. Hour gnat
leadMe had carried out their policy, they would have en-
dowed Bottom Catholicises in Ireland, E' phempolioniem la
England. Presbyterianism in Scotland, Buddhism in Ceylon,
Juggernaut at Orien,--they would have been all things to
all teen. They pimply asked government to eland aside,
and render even banded justice to all. and leave the cone.,
shun of the world to the church. lie trusted they would
en citizens MC that government performed its duty, and es
Christians that they would be prepared to send two mis-
sionaries where one bad been killed. They moot not be un-
faithful, and then the Spirit would descend, and India, con-
verted to Christ, would he the tneat splendid gem in our
Master's crown.—Mr. Smith then resumed his seat amidst
loud apples.
In UMWer to a question flaked, Mr. SMITH Paid that there
had been no torture' in India senctioned by the government.
Ile did not Wien that our countrymen in India went capa-
ble of such things. Nor would they be guilty of cruelties
when they had par down the insurrection. In • recent sortie
from Delhi our Campo captured a woman who in military
them hod ridden out at the heed of a hand of the enemy.
Notwithettusding all the circumstances, they let bee go, de-
cluing that Englishmen did not fight with women. (Ap-
plause.)
The Rev, 'l'. Loose inquired of Mr. Smith whether any
port of British India had fallen into a state of famine and
depiputown through British mierule?
Mr. Sm:TH said quite the contrary 11111 the fart . wherever
British rule had attended, the population had increased.
Mr. Smith then mentioned several instanced to show that
while in the native states pmulation was decreasing, owinc
to opprenion and cruelties, ta neighbouring British pro-
vinces the reverse was the rase.

After singing •• hymn and prayer, the meeting was brought
to a dose at half-past 12 o'clock.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR I. S. PAIIINGTON, HP.,
ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The annual dinner of the Worcestershire Agrictil-
tarsi Society was held at Worcester on Friday evening, at
the close of the exhibition of stork. The chair ssa taken by
the Hoe. F. Lyre, M.P., and among the oonspany were Earl
Beauchamp, mount Elmley, the Right Hon. Sir J. 8.
Pakington, Bart., J. H. H. Foley, Esq., M.P., Sir Thomas
Winningtoo, Batt., M.P., &c., Re.
In the course of the evening Sir B. H. Lscnstrito, Bart,
gave the health of the borough ►
members, on which
The Right Hon. Sir J. S. PASINIITOM row, and spoke at
some length. After allusions to the prosperity of agriculture,
end to the bountiful mops with which providence had blamed
tie this ammo, he came to the all-engroesing topic of the
day—the mutiny in India. He said, while they bad
all occasion to be thankful for the elements of proeperilif at
hems, they could not dose their eyes to the fact that •dark
cloud had what over a portion of the fortshis of England.