The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

THUGGISM.

(From the East Indian Tel ,graph.)
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE O F A NUMBER OF
SEPoYS SUPPOSED TO HAVE FAl'" LEN VICTIMS TO
THUGS.—It appears that twenty ,nine sepoys of the
Calcutta native militia had left tin ilia corps on leave at
various times from 1834 up to .1838, but regarding
whom authentic intelligence has not been received ;
they are supposed to have fallen victims- to Thugs.
Capt. W. C. Hollings, Assistant•Ch !neral Superintend-
ent, has forwarded a roll of the sepoys to Govern-
ment, soliciting that instructions no ly be issued to Mr.
M'Farlane, the Chief Magistrate, Captain Birch, Su-
perintendent of Police,and the Mag ;strate of the twenty-
lour Pergunnabs, to make most I trict inquiries as to
whether the system of murder by Thuggee prevails in
the immediate vicinity of Calcutta . Captain Hollings
is informed that Thugs have boats , and are in the habit
of frequenting the ghauts in Cal cutta, and procuring
passengers from the different bazt cars in the neighbour-
hood, and from the city itself. T acre are also, accord-
ing to what his approvers state, p arsons residing in Cal-
cutta, in league-with them, who 1 srocure them passen-
gers, supply them with informaA ion, and share their
spoil. Captain Hollings is of o p inion that the circum-
stance of 29 men of a regiment, a 11 along stationed in Cal-
cutta, not being accounted f se, confirms the notion
that Tiniggee does prevail, and many of them must have
fallen victims to Thugs ; it is m c ,st improbable that the
whole, or the greater part oft hem, should have died.
In addition to the 29 sepoys, Cal stain Hollings mentions
that he bad lately received rolls of 115 men belonging
to the different regimentS now in the Presidency di-
vision who have gone on leave since the beginning of
1838, and hue not been heard of. Inquiries ought to
be madras to the characters of the ghaut manjees, for
they ars often associated with Th ugs, and, in fact, t,O
of the most notorious Thugs in le, le gang of them still at
large, are supposed to have been( formerly ghaut man-
jees. Captain Hollings's approa ere tell him that the
system of Thuggee by murder de es prevail in the imme-
diate vicinity of Calcutta, an d that they themselves
have been concerned in murth;rs quite ,elose to the city.
They Alf° say that a murder n light be cc ,mmitted in any
of the ghauts without its being known, fo r so little are
the Thugs suspected, as their boats gene rally are good
and convenient for passengers, and the '1 kings are so
practised in the arts of assuming ail kinds , 7f disguises ;
and, moreover, they are generally of good castes and
connexions ;—some pass off for travellers, others for
traders and merchants, or any other cha, 'actor they
choose to assume. If Thuggee does actual
.Iv. exist, we
doubt not that our active superintendent with hils deputy
will soon he able to trace the, Thugs out.
THE THUGGEE AFFAIR.--An inquest 'sat on the 2d
of December, on the body of an old won ian, who was
found strangled in her ho ase. The inqr test was pest
poned to the 7th, and did not conclude till late in the
evening of the Bth- Th.° inquiry has pr oved one of the
most important we have lately had, in asmuch as it has
conduced to the disclosure of the start!ing fact that the
atrocities of the Thuggee system are p ractised, hitherto
with unvaried impunity, in the hea rt o f the city. As the
Coroner has made over the prisone Ire, three in number,
one of whom has turned Queen's e vidence, to take their
trial in the present sessions, we re train from giving the
evidence of the case in full.

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MR. HORACE SMITH'S " MONEYED MAN;
OR THE LESSON OF A LIFE."—T' ae title of this forth-
coming work, by the distinguished author of " Brambletye
House," &c., has given rise to m any suppositions as to the
individual whose lineaments may be traced in the person of
thehero. There are not a few of our citynj,llionaires, who's°
" Lesson of Life" will be found. well 4attlito "point a Moral
or adorn a tale;" and the publio c•oice has already pro-
claimed more than one " citizen of sober fame" to have
formed the original from'which Mr. Smith has modelled
his " Moneyed Man."" The very multiplicity, however,
of these conjectures sufficiently denotes the questionable
basis on which they have been founded ; and the curiosity
to recognise the real hero of the story will probably,
is
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