Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

EMBODIMENT OF THE MILITIA.

/ [From Tuesday's Gazette.]
I:4t the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of
L'ogaSt, 1557, present, the Qaeen's Most Excellent Majesty
ti Council, whereas, by an act passed in the session of
parliament, holden in the 20th and 21st years of her pre-
"lit Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act to authorise the
:31bescliMent of the militia," after reciting that whereas
/Ridden demand for the services in India of a large
14 of her Majesty's regular forces, may render it ex-
"`lient to draw out and embody the militia or some part
of the Militia of the Uaited Kingdom ; it is amongst other
things enacted, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty,
844 for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or
governors of Ireland, respectively, at any time after the
tit.:Blng of this Act, and before the 23th day of March,
to cause all or any part of the respective militias in
Scotland, and Ireland, to be drawn out and
Which such
in like manner as in the respective cases in
drawn such militia are now by law authorised to be
out and embodied
nd whereas it has seemed fit to her Majesty, by and
47th the advice of her Privy Council, to order and direct
"tat the lieutenants of the several counties, ridings, and
places in England, and of the counties, stewartries, cities,
places in Scotland, and also the Lord Lieutenant or
'`'ther chief governor or governors of Ireland, to draw out
and embody all the regiments, battalions, and corps of
fiilitia, appointed to be raised and trained, or so many of
":_era, or such part or proportion of them, or any of them,
her Majesty shall judge necessary.
111101, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice o f
b:r ?rill' Council, cloth hereby order and direct the licu-
nots of the several counties, ridings, and planes in
n Eng-
and of the counties, stevrartries, cities, and places in
tryLlan, and aso the Lrd Lieutenat or chief gvenor
goverdnors ofl Ireland, o
to draw out, and embody o
allr the
:381ments, battalions, and corps of militia, appointed to be
sl and trained, or so many of them, or such part or
110 hoe of tilacm, as her Majesty shall judge necessary.
WM. L. I.IA.TIIURST.

THE INDIAN MASSACRES.

TRACTS FROM PRIVATE LETTERS,

l'AtLarl3 Aug 28.—1 am just returned from Calcutta.; my
```enee was next to that of the ex-King of Oude. I was
-11.Calentta when he and his ministers were arrested. I
llaw sufficient to convince me that something was wrong a
111„°tItit before they were arrested, and my opinion is. atter
oath
in Calcutta of 25 years, that it is entirely a
Zabenaealan rise. I do not believe that any Hindoo
..
taea 10111 d or could be guilty of the atrocities perpetrated. The
of showing -mercy to a set of violators and mur-
INerII, ,ers
if of innocent women and children ! lam a merchant ;
:I were only 20 years younger I would go out morrow to India, if only to pay those scoundrels off. You
must not be surprised at the indignation every English•
tman feels when he hears of En:lishwornen having their
ersons violated and murdered by such as compose the
itpgal R
goi„ ,--Emy, being little better than the beast, their
being very little more covered when off duty, Re-
vsistance.
vilultig the
'mug of Oude, he is a poor helpless creature,
Its eannot move from one room to another without
His father-in-law. Nacki Ally Khan, is the
eaeat
fulever in all this; he is Very wealthy, having, they
oftencrores of rupees at his disposal. The king is
itehaercirgod to borrow ftoin him. Nearly the. whole of
g hug men round the king belong to Nadu Ally. I
call on thiB from one of the head gomastes who used to
badu °llll3e, and from whom I ascertained sufficient to
ee rue to leave my residence, and move into Calcutta,
only
they were all arrested. He called
thorn about taking my house, stating that it the news by
tra favont,,e,a,rn, ee Berwal, which was expected in daily, was
Zute he should require the house, if on the con-
k ,4Q 7!2' would not. After the Bengal arrived I thought
at 117,:h`,Itte for me to quit, which I did at nine o'clock
I°'—'l with my family, to an hotel in Calcutta.

•
ik,,„
of C 04-13 before Delhi, Jule 18.—The enemy attacked one.h
&teat Witteries last night, and were driven back with
shot :laughter. We lost an officer killed by a round
Way ti;:; some men. You cannot conceve the horriblean_
ehildr:' People have tortured the Europeans, ladiesi
lying
dolonn, 13. Enclosed is a piece of music I foud
Wore ;be houses where the massacre took place; Yih'e
rare-. V' That cry is help where no help can come.
appropriateell e visioned scenes of home") struck me as very
and I hope, please Gol, to see you all egam,
be. l'elate my adventures ; but if not, I hope there. will not
t
does .4 sorrowful face in the family, as we must all die, and !
to not matter who goes to heaven first. You can send this
aslanroid_enttolon.
h'er'adivfeti-biOaeuL jilke, as there is no time to write more.
asoetneduastrotnadleelryi 0 my regiment had mutinied ; they :are
cut up by her Majesty's Bth Regiment
One Cannot pity them. We are too well
death to have feelings left. I often see
nati„ Soldiers walking into a garden near my tent, some
Th;s"Ps wiLh them, then a few shots and they return alone.
bi 'IS military law. But enough of bloodshed. God
ess You, and love to W. and children.
b rtie write of the Aove was killed in action
fore DJlhi,r on the 19th June.

araiiresreniul
hal,vare.say that by the time you get ltter you will
accounts of some of the atrocities and enor-
-ciramitted by the mutineers; but you may rest
long that You have not heard of the worst by a long,
pear aaPhat
A description of the outrages will never op-
- "araeter
ag' In pint• They are of too harrowing and barbarous.
for that. They have not appeared in the
rPers here The female portion of their victims have
rea created in a more horrible way than has ever been
some
Chard of. you may some day hear a recital of
oof sof the outrages perpetrated on our poor
country
wornen, but you will never see them in print.

, g
nav t
eThis t War of extermination The Mahomedatils
the, made tools of the Flindoos, and now are showing n
Chrlirstt.rue colours.' Their hope is not to ieave a single
The laha alive. Please goodness, they'll be sold yet.
Withlitai-,"ave mercy from me. I've already fairly killed
j Sword between 25 and 30 of them, besides having
(lneoe doh
a good many more. My only wound of consed-
Ivh, e la 4 sword cut in the left arm, which I receive
bittlatortron-
, , 8 a village on foot. The fellow fought well,
his h. a° length killed him with a blow which nearly cut
otn. 1;41 in two. This was on the lst inst., just before
Just r„l,,lannt mutinied. I was very savage that day.
tip Wit had done with the chap I wounded I had a turn
Who four more. They knocked over the only Sowar
Pistol-1 With we with a sort of battle-axe. I had one
to pie With me, with which I blew the head of one of them
Ski ,ee; and then turned and ran; but my foot slipped,
eoUld uovr„
„ I came. Luckily, I was up again before they
80 tornv.°,,'"a me off; but I felt too done to run any. more,
ntiy int-,ri-nn them and wounded two in a moment'. To
Qotcf---nao delight they ran off, but were met by some
-rs hunting tor me, and all killed.

era
X to-write von an account of the awful deeds the
uelic,,,,,eFs have perpetrated you would not, could not,
aurei v it. Such horrible, indescribable barbarities were
Y
hot b never perpetrated before. You in England will
news the worst, for the truth is so awful that the
tiod papers dare not publish it. The soldiers are furious,
he r;uertever they get at the mutineers, depend upon it
tatiseleittige will be commensurate with the outrages that
the s hir„"Very little is said among the men or officers,
'4Prells -F"cv is too maddening • but there is a curiousd
ttt' stetB."l discernible in every face when it is mentioned
the • be e,,n n compression of the lips and a fierce glance
1v.,111P Which show that when the time comes no
will
misg„ 41shovvn to those who have shown none. f will only
too ma You with two instances; but, alas I there are only
Aii—anY similar ones
Aertorturedtheirash to death before them, and portions of their
41vish'titried down the parents' throats ; the wife then
Loo tieu before her husband—he mutilated in a manner
",aweible to rela`e—then both were blunt to death.
8°44 Young named (very pretty), were
the bazat Delhi, stripped nakt'd, tied on a cart, taken to
..80011
,diediari and there violated. Luckily for them they
rece from the effects of the brutal treatment they
Caterd'
kale - °ll wonder that, with stories like the foregoing
km ?there are plenty such), we feel more like fiends than
W ora s Our fellows have crossed their bayonets and
`4Ol healt give no quarter, and I pray that God may give
13%4 h and strength nntil we settle with ther
toe ncirels• I will write no more on this subject, for 'tie

Tx!,
4).tar '7° MISR POPULATION OF FRANOg.—The Lien
the J-466 contains some interesting particulars concerning
plitilujoat?olishb Population in France. It appears Oat this po-
uh, has, since 1803, actually doubled, and cannot
130111,--: now to loss than 100,000 souls. The Jewish
eoin-:4'ion of Paris, which, in 1808, amounted to 2,755,
ml ttlkow 18,000' souls ,• that of Strasburg has risen
tklorL:o same period from 1,476 to 2,400 ; that of
;003°,1-4',,1 frOna 2,131 to 3;200 ; and that of Marseilles.
;: to 1,800. It is gratifying to observe that with
all ('erease of the Jewish population, and its diffusion
hero,-,:er the empire, even in regions where Jews never
t-t. settled, prejndice against them is steadily decrensing,
eootiirt to such a degree that the majority of the Christians
i,srtii;:t the Jews removing from a place as a public mis-
',sat -; The identity between Jew and Christian in all
u,istineel:cerns public interests is so complete that a religious
411 trli,:`°3 is not any more noticed, even in those provinces
Nrosn'te;ut., religious hatred against the Jew Bas most
r•itge.