Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

THE MUTINY AT ALLAHABID.

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The riurkura has learned the following particu-
lars relating to the late mutiny at Allaltabad as
communicated by an eye-witness :
A panic had prevailed in Allahahad ever since the 23rd
of May, when various parties removed into the Fort, but
it was subsiding, and Saturday, the 6eh June, name. No
particular alarm that day, except measures of precaution
adopted. The 6th Regiment, Colonel Simpson's loyal one,
assembled on parade to hear Lord Canning's thanks read
to them for their loyalty in volunteering for Delhi. When
they heard Lord Canning's letter read they gave three
cheers for the company. They had in the same week
delivered up some spies (this was a practice in several
regiments in orderto lull the Europeans). All went en
well till about nine o'clock, when a gentleman oat the
ramparts of the Fort observing a rocket go up, said to the•
Magistrate next to hirne What is that 7 Ce'e, said the latter,
it is only for a marriage; bat, lo ! another rocket went
up, the tignal agreed on by the loyal 6th, then an attack
on the mess house, when lel officers were butchered, and
with them some of their servants ; their shrieks could be
heard to a considerable distance, then the work of devas-
tation, bungalows blazing ay/Ay, godowns broken open,
budmashes in every direction co-operating with servants
in the loot. A report had been raised previously that
3,000' mutineers were marching from Benaree, part of the
loyal 6th were sent with two guns- to meet them.
Three officers were taken prisoners by the mutineers,
and were marched off to the lines. Ju4 as they arrived
a cry was raised, "To the treasury,' and the ►mutineers
left them io secure the money. The-officers at once mad•
a rush to-the river, stripped off their clothes, and swam
across; they then moved along the bank, swam acroee
again, and reached the ,:,ort by midnight. Souse of tins
loyal dth had been left in charge of the main guard of the
Fort, throne!". the skill of the officer they: were disarmed.
The Sikhs at first wavered to act against them ; their
pieces were all found loaded and capped. Had there been
any delay in this the Fort itself would have been taken,
and all massacreed ! but Providence interfered in this
case.
Tee destruction of property in the town was most cotne
plete—they four pucka houses remain at Allahnbad, lately
so fine a station. An enorm aus smash of railway pro-
perty, plant, buildings, machinery, the engines; escaped,
as they were afraid of their exploding! An attempt was
made to throw obstructions on the line further on; by
fastening the wood to the rail. Tne Sikhs looted many
of the godowns. Champaign was selling at four annas a
bottle, and brandy at two aunts and the result was
many Europeans and Sikhs got drunk. When Colonel
Neill entered, his first work was to take away all the
spirits and livers.
Ladies and others suffered much for the want of proper
feed and accommodation; abli-bodied men had to live
for days on dal Beni a little uncooked rice. Servants
were bringing in food to their :masters, bat the Sikh
guards took it away. Bad food, filth, and confinement,
brought on cholera, which would have desolated the
whole place, had not some gone on board the steamers.
The nephew of the Moulvie was taken prisoner, and was
carried before Colonel Simpson. He grasped a sword
there to cut at a European. On this the Sikhs rushed on
him, knocked him down, and literally crashed his head to
pieces with their heels.
A number of the mutineers crossel over the river
heavily laden with booty ; they left their muskets behind
in order to carry more spoil, but the villagers rushed on
them, and took it away.
The A.merican Mission Press premises and college have
been plundered to the extent of one lac; some of the
servants on• the premises giving a helping hand to the
loot. • _ _ _

The feeling at Allahabad is vary strong against Colonel
Simpson,.wba po9h-poohed precautionary measures, and
would not believe his own regiment would mutiny until
the bills flew through his hat and sleeves. One of the
functionaries there was so tied to red tapism that he
could not give bread to famished applicants unless the
order went through the usual oticial chorine's. One man
ended it by taking a loaf of bread which lay on the
tab' e.
The servants in ♦arious cases had their masters'
carriages and horses to preserve them, but the carriages
and horses of the Transit Company were all taken away
and destroyed:

THE ARRAN MAFSACRE AND EXPEDITION.
The following details respecting the massacre
and expedition to Arrah are taken from the
Homeward Mail from Indio, awl published in
London on the 16th inst. In the Government
despatch the place is called " Arrak "
Since our summary and other portions of our News-
paper were in type, inteliigence of the gravest and most
painful character has reached us. Toe intelligence is of a
nature to modify to a considerable extent the opinions
we have expressed as to the general character of the news
received by the present mail. As we believe it to be
authentic, we should be wanting in our duty as j aurnalists
if we refrained from making it public, though we ap-
preciate the anxiety it will occasion to many of oar readers,
and deeply regret that we are at present unable to satisfy
their impatience by a more detailed account. It appears
that the mutineers from Dinapore, after quitting that
station, advanced against Arrah, a large civil station,
twenty-five miles west of Dinapore, the residents of which
place ware uatortunately sanguine of their ability to re-
sist an attack for a time, and are said to have applied for
a detachment of Earopean troops, in place of adopting •
the more prudent course of a retreat. The result was
that the whole of the Europeans at the station, to the
number or about fifty, were massacred. This disastrous
event was succeeded by another. Two steamers had
been despatched with troops for the relief of Areab ; one
of them grounded, and we have no further information
respecting it; from the other a body of two hundred
European troops were landed, and fell into an ambush,
where nine officers and upwards of a hundred men are
said to have been cut off. The importance of these events,
considering the command they give the mutineers of the
line of communication between C ticutta and Benares,
cannot but be obvious to every one. This intelligence
will perhaps serve to explain to our readers the report
which has appeared in a leading journal regarding the fall
of Agra, the similarity of the names having probably led
to the mistake.
In Thornton's Gazetteer of India we find the
following •
Arrah, in the British district of Shahabad, Presidency
Bengal, a town on the route from Dinapore to aheztpore
twenty-five miles west of the former, seventy-five east of
the latter. Supplies and water are abundant,' the sur-
rounding country being fertile and well cul. ivated, and a
large and beautiful lake being close to the town. There is
a government school here. According to Buchanan, the
town contains 2,775 houses.