Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

with, her husband.. The first news they had of the out.
break was of the post being stopped on Friday, the sth ;
then some indigo planters came riding in, and said that
the 37th were close-at hand, whereupon they all went to
the cutcherry, or collector's office. The 2nd company
of Sikhs, stationed there, swore to defend them to the
last drop of their blood, and, as they walked' into the
itcherry, one of the blackguards shot Captain ()Mara
through the back. They took him in and shut the doors,
and laid him down on the ffeor, while the Sikhs kept firing
in above their heads, and another party of them' seized
the treasure (some 1:25,1)00), and walked off with it : then
the English came out, left poor O'Mara dying, and got
into their carriages and drove away. They had to leave
the Benares road, as the 13th Cavalry were canting
along it, and they kept knocking about the country
till Tuesday, when a party from here fetched them in.
Of course, during these four days 'they underwent great
hardships 'a d were in perpetual danger of their lives, so
you may fancy how welcome the English cheers sounded
in their ears. Cubbidge, the magistrate was killed by a
Sikh ; and Mrs. O'Mara died of apoplexy, but the rest of
the party' got in safe. Last Thursday we had another
party of fugitives ; they had gone on board a Steamer at
Mirzapore, and had been taken too near Allahabad, when
the fiat which was in tow of the steamer struck on a
sandbank, and the steamer having business at the fort
left the passengers on board the fiat, and went off alone ;
of coarse, the flat was immediately attacked by the na—
tives, and the English had to cut in the boats. They
actually sailed down to near Mirzapore before they were
caught by the steamer. The Mirzapore people all ran
down to Chunar, but apparently without sufficient alarm,
so they were ordered back by Government to their duty.
Several of our .railway bungalows were burning, and in
some cases the owners had to run fast for their lives.
My bungalow is, I believe, unharmed, its proximity to
the fort may have saved it ; any how I had all the tur-
niture brought on', so all I can lose is the roof
and the doors. This is all I have to say concerning
this most wonderful rebellion. You see within the
last month we have lost the whole of the North—
West, and we shall be happy indeed if another month
passes without Lower Bengal following. The moment
our protection is withdrawn the villagers plunder and burn
one another's houses, and the country, which has taken us
100 years to bring into order and cultivation, becomes a
desert in one night. It is said the mutineers are collect-
ing at Oude, and forming an army which may possibly
drive us out, of Benares. No news of Alfred of course.
tie is the other side of the break in the mails, so there is
no chance of hearing from him yet, but he is in the midst
of au E iglish army ant safe enough. As• for we, I con-
tinue in Benares with the family of which I consider
myself a member, and make one of the family garrison,
and, as they are people of peace and rather ignorant in
the matter of firearms, I am able to make myself of some
use. We have four muskets with bayonets, and feel very
strong, and, as Mark Taply would say, we are remarkably
jolly under the circumstance's. Benares for the moment
shows no signs of being in rebellion ; the city is quiet, the
shops open, and we drive and ride about the station as if
nothing was the matter. V.vy pleasant ; but how long
will it last?, In the meantime, the river is rising fast, and
European troops corning in daily."

iehly deserved. The mutiny at Vellore about half aTentnie
ago vas only put down at cegreat sacrifice of life, andihad the
same measures been adopted at Bhrrackpore, the lamenta-
ble orearences that have since transpired would all
probability have been averted. When will our governing
powers learn to dsal riglely with Asiatics ? Of coarse the
spirit of ditifNtioa spreads rapidly, and first broke into
ff ones at Meerut. Some men of the 30th Light Cavalry,
were sentenced to transportation, and the following day
(Sunday, the 10th of May.) the men 'of that regiment,
together with the native infan ry regiments, commenced
an indiscriminate slaughter of all Kiropeans—men, wo-
men, and children--accompanied with circumstances of
the greatest brutality. Women had their clothes set on
fire, and, when half burnt, were cut to pieces ; children at
the breast wt re killed, and atrocities of the most horrible
kind perpetrated ; and all this with a farce cf Europeans
nearly the same number as the natives; consisting; of rifles,
dragoons, Sae. The officer commanding the station must
have been a wretched imbecile, and nearly all the officers
just as bad. Shameful—and should cause a blush in the
face of every English.neri—`hat, while English remiss
were boing ravishei and tortured, English solders took
no steps to prevent them; the mutineers were allowed to
make their escape unpursued, and proceeded towards that
stronghold of fanaticsm, Delhi, which was• garrisoned
entirely b.; native troops, who immediately sided with the
mutineers, murdered all the European officers; and then
commenced another massacre. Since then in every statioa
in Bengal, an places hundreds of miles distant from each
oter—in east, west, north, and south—a war of exter-
mination has been waged against everything with a white
face; thousands upon thousands of Europeans have been
tortured, mutilated, and killed. And will it be credited,
after all these atrocities, when the taood of the murdered
victims cried aloud for vengeance, and the ground was wet
with thageblood of helpless women and children—when
these merciless scoundrels ought to have been hunted like
wi'd beasts and shot down like mad dogs—a proclamation
appeared offering pardon to all who would come in and
lav down their arms ? Even with all their knowledge of
John Bull's gullibility and miserable softness, the rascals
could not believe this, and therefore, most fortuoatelve did
not avail themselves of it ; so that now there is a elrance
of their meeting their deserts. The fact is, the Government
are panic-stricken, and did not know what to do, and
instead of vigorous and stern measures that should strike
awe and terror, they are dilly-dallying, and do not know
what plan to adopt. Thu quay men who is acting le an
e oergetie manner is Sir Henry Lawrence, at Luclrnow,
where some dorm or so of the brutes are blown away from
guns every morning, and as an equipoise another dozen or
to of them hung, with guns loaded with grape and canister
under the gallows to prevent any chance of a rescue:
\\ bile the English people are running after that dusky
old dame, the Queen of Oade, end her tribe of ragamuffin
followers, ter precious sop, for whom so much fuss is made
by soft and easily-led John Bull, has been made a close
prisoner in Calcutta, circumstances , having transpired
which deeply implicated him in the disturbances. The
Gordion knot of the Onde difficulty might now very
easily be settled by hanging his m jest), off-hand, or
sending him off like a rocket from the muscle of a six-
pounder. This would settle the old Queen Mother's
business. I am often amused at the fulsome adulation
which these Indian notabilities experience in England. I
see that treacherous old rascal, his Highness Meer Ali
Moored, of Kayrpcor, is Seinde, has been converted into
a sort of a demigod at home, although it has been proven
that he took a false oath on a leaf of the Koran, and has
always been doable traitor, both towards his relatives and
the British Government. But how much amused the
people of Bombay have been at the honours that Jaffer
Tullimon, who keeps a second-hand furniture warehouse
next to my office, has received ! He has been treated with
great disanction at S outhampton, and converted into a
prince I 0 &wont ! 0 mores ! Poor J.frar, who used
to be trudging about Bombay as a borab or travelling ped-
lar, to be converted inae a prince ! Who will venture, on
his return, to ask him the price of a chest of drawers, or to
beat him down in the price of an old sofa 2 But this is
digressing from 'my subject.
You who are living at a distance can form very -little
idea of the ferment in which we are; for although what
has occurred is at a distance, we cannot be sure but that
our own torn may come. Day after day, for more than a
month past, nothing but reports of mutinies, burnings,
and murders have reached us; but it is to he hoped that it
is now over, as authentic intelligence has teen received of
the fall of Delhi. The mutineers fought with most un-
qeestionable bravery, but were at length entirely destroyed.
We are now anxiously awaiting fai Vier news.
There is but very little doubt but that the King of
Oude, who is now a close prisoner in Fort William, in
Calcutta, is very deeply implicated in the disturbances. It
is not known whether the King of Delhi has been killed
during the late storming of the city, or if he is yet alive;
bat if so this last descendant of the Great Mogul should be
hanged on the same gallows with his obese Majesty of
Oude. Will this show the people of England the ridicu-
lous folly of supporting the claims of Any of those ex-kings
and princes ? Perhaps the Mayor of Sonahampton and
many others who have been feting and supporting the
Oude Queen and her followers may have sisters or other
relatives who, by the instigation of their pet king, have been
brutally ravished, murdered, and tortured. Too cowardly
to_awri_hia_nlain? 9r to cpilr rZirp-g in Fuviand. he vet
rival the atrocities of Nadir Shah, the Mussulman con-
queror of India.
There has been fear, terror, and dismay thou zhcut the
length and breadth of India, and our governors have been
paralysed; they have begged, and entreated, and prayed
their dear Sepoys to remain quiet, and have been laughed
at and insulted. It is now jrst a hundred years since our
power in this country was cemented by the battle of
Plessey, and never during the whole of that time has it
received such a severe shock as the present. The press
of India, from the commencement, called upon the G.:-
verner-General to adept vigorous, measures, by which
the mutiny might have been nipped 'in the bud ; and
because they have commen'ed severely on the weakness
and cowardice displayed by Government, an act has
been passed gagging the press, What a graceful act
on the part of the son of George 0 inniug ! So much
for the gratitude of public men t With the fall of
Delhi, end the disarming of all Sepoys in Bengal, we
may hope that the crisis is past, but with a gagged
press and a weak and eff to Government, we have no
security far peace or tranquility for the future. Grea t
and signal retribution should be taken for the innocent
blood which has been so ruthlessly shed ; but we have
very little hope that the stern dictate of the Mosaic law
will be carried out.

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to
scarcely conceive the fiendish barbarities perpetrated by
the sepoys. . When the Bengal mutineers entered the city
of Delhi, there were Eaglish merchants, mercantile,
telegraph, and post-office clerks, officers of the native
regirneutr, and government functioneries, with their En
glish wives and children, living there as unconscious of
danger as if they had been in any English town. As soon
as the mutineers entered Delhi, a great many Englishmen
and gt. raishwomen and children escaped, but numbers
could not do so, and those who did not escape wore
subjected to outrages worse than death. The daughter of
an English clergyman was driven through the streets of
Delhi naked, then subjected to unspeakable outrages by an
infuriated soldiery, and afterwards cut to pieces with
swords. An English lady in the same city was suspended by
the feet naked and hacked to pieces. The European officers
and soldiers are exasperated to madness by these atrocities,
and most terrible punishments will be inflicted by the Euro-
pean soldiers on the mu moos sepop when. Delhi.. is taker.
These sepoys have acted more like fiends than human
creatures. It is with the greatest difficulty, that the
English soldiers can be prevented from-laying violent
hands on every native they meet. A Highland egiment
landed at Calcutta, and one of the s)ldiers was seen ilia.
mediately to rush straight to a native and fell him la the
earth with his fist in an instant. Whoever lives to tell the
tale ( f Delhi and of the scenes witnessedtin the city during
the siege will he able to relate undreamt of horrors. The
* officers who came home by the Co/antho seemed to think
that it was fortunate the rebellion in. India broke out when
it did, for the dissaffection might have spread more ex-
tensively, before it made itself openly known. The out.
, have been the fear to taco it or anticipate it on the
L part of the authorities.

Tiic following are extracts from the letter of a gentleman
resident in Calcutta, to his mother and sisters. It is
dated 19th 3 une :

••• • • • • So much for the up-country news
now for ourselves in Calcutta. Everyho ly supposed we
were perferAly safe here, mver dreaming that the niggers
would veuturo upon any measure against the metropolis.
However, last Saturday, a felow was seizid trying to
seduce the sepoy, on guard at one of the fort gates. He
was to be hung immediately, when an order arrived, to
keep him till the following day. It seems that he confessed
and gave up papers, showing that the King of Oude is
deeply implicated in the mutiny: The following morning
his majesty, with prime minister, eunuchs, woMen,
and courtiers, were seized, and lodged in the fort.
But to return : at midnight on •Sa'urday, two regi-
ments of Europeans were roused from their beds,.
awl, marched up to Barrackpore. The roads were
i occupied by English artillery, and the enrolment
for volunteers was pushed on in breathless haste.
Sunday morning came, and we then learnt that 4,000
native soldiers had intended to shoot their officers, and
rush down to Calcutta at once, to murder us all, at four
o'o'ock in the morning. Thank GA, it was discovered
on Saturday night, and our troops arrived in time to
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a-ert the danger, For the prewat, thee, vig are saved;