The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

THM,D EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

Bank of England Return.—This Day.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 3'2,, for the week endingon Wednesday, the 12th day
of August, 1863:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes lamed ......£28.821,920 Government Debt X11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.631v00
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,174,925
Silver Bullion 1111

£28,824,920'i
BANIEOG DEPAUTMNNT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
DeadWeitglitAn-
nuity) £11,038,923
Other securities 17,172,407
Notes
Gold and Silver 865,8 W
Coin

X 28,821,920

oprietors' Capi-
tal X 14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 5,574..863
Other Deposits 13,578,358
Seven Day and
other Bills 676,083

£37,990,537
M. 7

£37.990.537
RSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

Anzust 13. 1863.

NANA SAHIB'S CRIMES.
RECOUNTED ANEW IN THE LONDON REVIEW OF SATURDAY,

He was not a mutineer ; he had taken no oath of military
fidelity to our standard; he had, as he thought, rightly er
wrongly, private griefs which justified his participation in.

the revolt. The adopted son of the late Peishwah of the
Mahrattas, none would have judged him severely for em-
bracing a favourable opportunity of restoring the fortunes
of his fallen house. We might, indeed have blamed the folly

of our Indian statesmen who left the stronghold of Bithoo;

in possession of one to whom they had refused the pension

and the territorial independence which he thought his right
as heir, by Hindoo law, to Badjee Rao. But we could scarcely
have wondered that a policy which injured land wounded,
while it left the power of retaliation, should have produced.

its natural results. It is not, however, for deeds done in,
the field—for acts of manly and open hostility—that we

have hunted this miscreant for six long years with untiring

Pertinacity, and now experience a stern satisfaction at bis
certain doom. Why we have acted thus, and still feel that
no interval of time can obliterate the recollection of his

crimes, or secure for them the contemptuous pardon of
oblivion, will be best shown by a brief retrospect of those
events which struck us with horror in 1857, and in which
he was the principal actor.
About six miles from Bithoor, on an inland peninsula,
formed by the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna,
stands the town of Cawnpore. Originally the harbour of
Thuggee, of deadly wolves and snakes, it was, prior to our
occupation of the Punjab, the chief military station in
India. It was still the seat of a principal command when
the mutiny broke out. The balls, the private theatricals,
the varied amusements, with which the officers diversified
the monotony of garrison life, made it a place of gay resort
for all the English within reach. Amongst the most con-
spicuous and popular members of the society thus collected
was the Rajah of Bithoor. He affected a jovial beating,
ostentatiously adopted English opinions and habits, and
supported a lavish hospitality by means of the great wealth
he had inherited from the late Peisliwab. How long he
had nourished the designs which he subsequently endea-
voured to carry out, will probably never be known ; but it
has been plausibly suggested that they were inspired by his
secretary, Azimoola Khan, who returned from a mission to
London immediately after the unsuccessful assault on Sebas.

topol, in 1855. We know that this man visited the Crimea
expresely to see " those great Roestrums, the Russians,
who have beaten the English and French together ;" and
it is said that, after ho had joined his master, they both
adopted a somewhat contemptuous bearing towards the
Europeans. Although he had no doubt been for some time
cognisant of, if not an accomplice in the Sepoy plot, Nana
Sahib retained his mask to the last. When the news of the
mutiny first reached Cawnpore, he made emphatic protesta-
tions of his fidelity—and so entirely was he trusted, both
by Gen. Sir H. Wheeler and by the civil authorities, that
they actually arranged to send the women and children to
Bithoor as a place of safety. Nay, more, when the rebels
arrived before the place, a plan was concerted by which the
Rajah was to fall upon their rear with 1,600 horse. He
did not indeed long delay his march, but immediately he
arrived in sight of the doomed garrison he put himself at
the head of the besiegers. For three weeks he pressed the
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the settlement of terms of capitulation were received by
Nana Sahib with courtesy, and even with a show of kind-
ness. He pledged himself by a solemn oath to spare
the lives of the garrison; he promised to allow
them to retain their arms and a lac and a half of rupees,
and to forward them in boats to Allahabad. On the next
day our countrymen and countrywomen were marched down
to the river side. The men only were embarked; the women
and children, between 200 and 300 in number, remained on
shore. The moment the dinghies were fairly out in the
stream, Nana Sahib ordered his guns to open fire upon
them. Some were drowned, some werepce e yshhot—thae sowers
reached the shore only to be cut to pieces
under the eye of their chief. One boatascapedl boardferte
miles, but it was eventually stopped, and those on
were brought back, and put to a lingering death. Most
were hacked limb from limb. Several were strapped naked
on boats, and set adrift upon the current,
. in order that their
corpses might bear to the English at Allahabad the first
tidings of the fall of Cawnpore. Of many of those thus
slaughtered had Nana Sahib been the familiar companion
—their friendly host or their favoured guest I This watt
followed by the murder, is cold blood, and in the pre,
sense of the Rajah, of 126 men, women, and children,
who were captured while flying in boats from Futteghur.
taut even such deeds as thee pale before the final atrocity.
After the massacre of the men who had surrendered under
the capitulation of Cawnpore, the women and children--
with General Sir H. Wheeler—were taken back to the can-
tonments. There they were kept under strict surveillance
and on prison diet for some weeks. At last, on the 16th July
it became evident that the place could no longer be held
against Havelock, who was
pressing the siege vigorously.
On that day the women and children, with the aged Gene-
ral, were literally butchered (by the order of the Rajah and
it is believed in his presence) by men who were brought from
the shambles of Cawnpore, and used the instruments of their
brutal trade. When the English troops entered the place on
the following day, they found the yard in which the prisoners
had been confined two inches deep in the blood of these un-
resisting victiMs. They sought in vain for the false friend,
the forsworn enemy, the torturer of brave men, and the
eathless murderer of helpless women and innocent children.
Nana Sahib had fled with the plunder of the treasury to the
fortress of Bithoor.