The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

The following is a copy of a letter from Adolphus
de Kantrow, who distinguished himalf at Meerut
" Mynpoorce, June 19.
" The following is a correct copy of a letter from the
Governor-General to me, just received rut Agra. The dale
wee the last from Calcutta, and just before the road was
dosed

." Government House, Calcutta, June T.
My dear Sir,--I have just reed, in a report from the
magistrate of Mynpooree, the account et your conduct upon
the ocessien of tho mutiny of a portion of the 9th Regiment
of Native Infantry at that station on the 22nd ult. I have
read it with an admiration and respect I cannot adequately
describe.
' Young in years, and at the outset of your career, you
have given to your brother soldiers a noble example of cou-
rage, patience, good judgment, and temper, from which
many may profit.
" ' I beg you to believe that it will never be forgotten by

- write this at once, that there may be no delay in
staking known to you that your conduct ha. not been over
You will, of course, receive a more formal acknow-
ledgment through the military department of the govern-
ment of your admirable service.
I am, my dear sir, yours very faithfully,
" CANNINO.

" Lieutenant de Kantxpw, 9th
The following is the lieutenant's own account of his
exploit

• wsa returning from reconnoitring, when inform
was Monett me that five troopers of the ith Light Cavalry
was coming along the road. An immediate pursuit was of
wine ordered by me, and my 39 troopers tore away at full
spied lair me. I was just coming up to them, and had
'heady let drive among the murdering villains, when lo! I
arse upon 200 of their comrades, all armed with swords
and nose with carbines. A smart fire was kept up at a din-
free of net soft than twenty-five yards. What could
39 do against 200 regular troopers well horsed and
aimed, particularly when walked Into by the bul-
lets of 100 of the infantry ? I ordered a retreat,
bet my cavalry could not get away from troopers
mounted upon good stud bred berme; No we were soon over-
taken, and then commenced the shindy in earnest; 12
troopers surrounded me ; the first, a Mithommedan print, I
shot through the breast just as be was cutting me down;
this was my only pistol, so I was helpless as regards WM-
pass, save my sword ; this guarded off a swinging cut given
me by No. 2, as also another by No. 3, but the fun could not
last. I bitterly mourned not having a couple of revolvers,
for I could have shot every man. Iffy sword was cut down,
and I got a slash on the head that blinded me, another on
the arm that glanced, and only took a slim off The third
caught me on the side, but also glanced sad hit me iddcways.
I know not how I escaped. God only knows, as 12 against '
one were fearful odds, especially as I was mounted on a pony
bare bark. Escape, however, I did, and after many warm
encapee too numerous to mention I got beck here ; 14 of my
bravo fellows were killed, 4 wounded, 6 missing; total, 24,
out of 39. Good odds, was it not ?"
Ile says in another letter (referring, it is fancied, to his
saving the gaol at Dlynpooree from destruction) that he has
been praised by the Major-General, Lieutenant-Governor of
Bengal, and Ma doings brought to the notice of the Governor-
General ; and he is now in command of the station of Myn-
poorer, and the remains of three native regiments there—an
irregular force, In fact.

The Seine appears as if it were about to give in
its resignation as • river, sod rink to the rank of a mere
stream. The day before yesterday, it was below the level of
1719. The swimming eclosils at Paris have been obliged to
shift their quarters, and follow the river, which bad left
them almost dry. Julius Calmar relates in his Commentaries
that the Romans, when encamped on the heights now called
the Butte Ste. Genevieve. crossed the Seine almost dry-tooted
• little above the Ile de la Cite, behind Notre-Dame, and
thus marched to Pentodes. At this moment the Parisians
may cross the river at the same place without any danger.—
Galant:M.
Letters from Madrid of Thursday last describe a
frisk *Weal attempt of the ruffians on the Moorish coast.
It Mims Oat the Betty, of London, lost her reckoning, and
wee almOdel off that coast. A number of inhabitant.
Mlgaemenal ea theltaseh, and invited the crew to land.
la their hmpitable gestures, landed,
sad tree velleamet bat, where the usual calumnies of
the wwift yeas gear Sayegh ; that is, be was knocked
down, Infeistlitind and Gat, while an old hag, armed
with be bath wei placed tiler him. The mate being of
ea *OW met seals also land, and the same
amid Wet. The Moore that exerted
VW datilda fame the crew to land, but
this sem saa em peabig the latter displayed greater wlelom
than seperleek eat earnestly declined. At this lute-
aimed a vaned, the Adm., manned by &Mermen
troalhe Chara 7 lank hews is sight, and knowing the
ditessidat el the natives, gustily attacked the later, and
'MIMI the two captives.
nu IRON AND COAL TRADES.—The iron trade
be la a wady sad healthy state. Orden are not over abus-
ing, hat the dealand has been such as to keep the mills
aid Owe dry district in full operation. The hot weather
=thegalers following up their work ; the result is
Mob el pig iron are increasing, and producers have
bees peened OR a reduction, which baa been refused, except
be a far Instances—a fact indicative of the buoyancy of the
We. Tho ordure from India axe idmopt, if not
shogether, suspended, and the demand fern America has
been much smaller than was expected, but some indivi-
duals connected with oho trade assert that, notwith-
standing thia, there is every rearm to believe the demand
for the United States will be increased during the autumn.
Predictions of a similar character, however, have hitherto
I been so completely Waded that It is impossible to ay what
orders may be received from that quarter. The new mills
and forges belonging to Lord Ward, at the Mound Osk, near
Brierley Hill, are now in motion, and a number of puddling
furnaces at work, which will be gradually increased, till the
whole of them belonging to the works are in full operation,
and the whole of the machinery also put in fall gear. The
coal trade is not over brisk, but the prhe is firmly main-
tained, and now that we are far on in the summer, prices
I will not recede. Ironstone, the yield of the diptrict, main-
taus ihypriee, notwithstanding the largo quantities which
are daily being brought in from a distance.— Wolrerharnotats
1 Chronicle of this day.
I MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Friday last a dea-
-1 penile Irish faction row broke out in Dudley between two
men named Michael Hickey and J. Higgins, which ended in
I the former rushing into a butehee's shop taking up a knife
from the Meek, and plunging it into his fellow omuntryman's
bowel; swig his death. Hickey was thereupon taken into
onseedrlad Wed in the lock-up. On Monday UAL as the
mseYilm Bening the charge of the prisoners in the luck-up
tams gelsg disk rounds, on entering ilirkey'm cell they found
W Inaba spinet the wall and apparently in a belpleov
slate, with his head hanging down. On approaching him it
vas discovered that he was dead, Laving amended him-
self by hie handkerchief from one of the bars of
the window of his cell. lie was hnmediately cut
darn, but life was extinct, and it was the opi-
nion of the surgeon that he had boat dead at least so hour.
The suicide oppeers to hove been most determined in his
intention. The bar of the window from which he hod sus-
pended himself was not more than six feet from the door'
but, from the position of the body when discovered, it would
seem that Hickey had got upon his bed, and, after adjusting
the handkorchiet to the window bar and his neck, had thrown
himself down, and thus caused strangulation. When die-
moved his leer were tent under hi. body. Ile had chalked
the fallowing (supposed to be addressed- to his wife) on his
sail-door.—" If you do what I told you I would not loss
my We. May the Lord have mercy on the soul I have taken
through drunkenness; and the Lord have mercy on mine I
Go to your child, and go to endd Do the best you can
for you, thiltheo. I forgive. Oed forgive Ton." The
inquest on the body of Higgins has been held before Mr.
Docker, coroner for Worcestershire, end has ended In a ver-
dict of i'masialaughter" easiest Richey.