The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1860.

TO the SHAREHOLDERS of the EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY.
Your attention is directed to the following Extracts from
the Letter of G. I'. Bidder, Esq., addressed to the Direc-
tors :
"Amid the general prosperity of the Railway system, your
Line, since your change of management and policy in 106,
has not only remained stationary,—it has absolutely RETRO-
GRADED."

don. E.C.

The following figures, as afforded by Mr. Bidder, show
the condition of the Line under the raspectiTe manage-
ments :

OF MR. WADDINGTON. OF MR. LOVE.
ltil;. 1858.
No. of ?assengers 0,971,177 No. of Passengers .. 6,224,404
Receipts £617,033 Receipts £612,241

Tons of Goods 1,000,270 I Tons of Goods 1,055,53
Receipts .£447,729 Receipts ,C 441,920

N.B.—ln 1856 the Loughtm branch and Peferal additional
miles of Railway were not open on which traffic was carried
in le5S. _ . _

" Had the trains and fares upon the Xastern Counties re-
mained in ISSB as they were in 1856, it might have been ex-
pected, in proportion to the increase then accruing, that, in
1858, not less than 8,000,000 of passengers would have passed
over the system, instead of the diminished number of
6,294,40. The revenue of that year would, in that case, have
amounted to .£700,400, instead of £612,000.
" Your policy, therefore, sacrificed in that one year no less
than XSB.OOO, which you might have divided amongst your
Shareholders : whilst, at the same time, it deprtved no less
than 1,700,t00 passengers of the facilities to which they ware
entitled."

LONDON AND COUNTY BANDING
COMPANY.
Subscribed Capital, X1,%50,000; Paid-np Capital, £500,00n.
Head Offices-21, Lombard-street.
DIRECTORS.
Philip Patton Blyth, Eaq.
Thomas Tyrinham Bernard, Eaq., M.P. ,
John William linrmester, Esq.
William Cory, Esq.
James Andrew Durham, Esq.
John Fleming, Esq.
Edward Huggins,
William Champion Jones, Ed7i.' •
James Laming, Esq.
John Henry Lance, Esq.
Willl4m Lee, Esq., M.P.
William Nicol, Esq., M.P.
GENERAL MANAGER.
• William 2oPliewan, Esq.

At the Half-yearly Meeting of Proprietors held on Thurs-
day; the.2d of February, 1860, at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, the following Report for the year ending the 31st
December, 184, wai read by the Secretary :
WILLIAM CAMPION JONES, Esq., in the Chair.
REPORT.
-

The Directors have the pleasure of presenting to the Share-
holders their Report for the half-year ending the 31st De-
cember, 1859.
It will be seen by the Balance-sheet, signed b 7 the ituditors,
that the net profit of the Bank for the last half-year, includ-
ing the sum of £6,201 I4s 10d brought forward, and after de-
ducting all expenses, income-tax, and rebate, and making
provision for bad and doubtful debts, amounts to .£41,065 is
Ild., from which the Directors retain the sum of £l,OOO, to be
added to the Reserve Fund, thereby increasing it to £1,10,000.
The Directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 4
per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax, which will *b.
sorb £30,000, and with 5 per cent. already paid will make 11
percent. for the year, leaving a balance of £6,065 Is 11d, to be
carried forward to Profit and Loss New Account.
The Directors retiring by rotation are—
Jos. Christopher Ewart, Esq., M,P., Philip Patton Blytb,
Esq., and William Lee, Esq., M.P.
Mr. Blyth and Mr. Lee offer themselves for re-election;
Mr. Ewat t is not a candidate, as he, finds his other engage-
ments prevent his discharging the duties of the office with
satisfaction to himself; and as the Board will still consist of
twelve members, no increase is recommended at present.
The dividend will be payable on and after the 13th inst.
BALANCE SKEET OF THE LONDON AND COUNTY
BANKING COMPANY, 31st DECEMBER, 1859.
DR.

To Capital paid-up
Reserve fund
Amount due by the Bank for Customers'

£500,000 0 0
105,000 0 0

4,975,021 0 0

Balances, &c
Profit and loss balance
brought from last account. X 6,291 14 10
Gross profit for the half year
after making provision for
bad and doubtful debts .. 110,952 411
117,243 19 0

£5,697,27219 9

By cash on hand at head office
and Branches 1.550,490 6 $
Cash placed at call and at no-
tice

1,419,792 10 6

Investments, riz.: -
Government and Guaranteed
Stocks
Other stocks and Securities
- ---- 596,611 1 2

Discounted Bills, Notes, and
temporary advance to Cus-
tomers in town and coun-
try it,147,407 7 10
Advances to Customers on
special securities
3,536,793 II 9

Freehold premises in Lombard-street and
Nicholas-lane, freehold and leasehold
property at the Branches, with fixtures
and fittings
Interest paid to Customers
Salaries and all other expenses at Head
Office and Branches, including income tax
on profits and salaries

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
DR.
To interest paid to Customers
Expenses, as above
Rebate •n Bills not due, carried to Profit

and Loss New Account
Beserve Fund—addition
Dividend of 6 per cent. for the half-year
Balance carried forward to Profit and Loss
New Account

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THE CAWNPORE MASSACRE.

The following memorandum upon the events con-
nected with the Cawnpore mutiny and massacre has
been prepared by Lientenant-Colonel Williams,
Military Secretary to Government in the North-
Western Provinces • •

Forty-two depositions from persons of all classes
and creeds—Christians, Mahomedans, and Hindoos
—have been recorded, and valuable evidence ob-
tained from respectable and influential residents in
the city. These depositions, together with the
native journal of a city resident, have been translated
and relate the first attempts made by the Nana
to tamper with the troops, his ready success, the
earliest meeting held by the conspirators, and their
proceedings on and subsequentto their'mutiny, from
the Ist of Juno to the advance Of the-British force

in July. The evidence shows—the• Nana's brother;
Bala Sahib, to have taken as (if not more active
and prominent a part as even the Nana himself.
There are no trace of any conspiracy prior to the
arrival of the Nana at Cawnporeon the 22d of May,
1837, with the two:gum' and 300 horse and foot, for
the avowed purpose of aiding in the maintenance
of order. But about that Aime it would seem that
two -Sowars—the one nested Rahem Khan, of

Bishenpore, near Bithoor, the other Muddut
of Banda, and in the service of the Nana—wareem-
ployed by Bala Sahib to corrupt the fidelity of the
troops. The 2d Cavalry, already ripe for mutiny,
needed but little persuasion, Soobadar Tecka
Singh, Havildar•Melor Gopal Singh, and Sowars
Shumsh-ood-deen-Khan, Shaik Boolakie, Sirdar
Beg, and Rai Singh, are said to have taken the
lead among them ; and at dusk on the evening of
the Ist of June met the Nana and Bala Sahib at

Manjhee ghat, where they had a consultation in a
boat that lasted two hours. Upon this fact being
brought to the notice of the magistrate, the Nana
plausibly accounted for it by stating it to hare been
held for the adoption of measures that should keep
the troops firm aad loyal ; whereas on the succeed-
ing day Sowar Shumsh-ood-deen Khan, with two
or three others of the 2d Cavalry, while drink-
ing in the house of a prostitute named Aze-
zun, informed her that in a few days the Peshwa's
rule would be proclaimed and the Nana paramount
at Cawnpore, when they would fill her houses, not
with rupees merely,,but with gold mohurs.
The depositions of those attached to the 53d and
56th Native Infantry give a clear account of the out-
break on the 4th of 'June and the events in the in-
trenchments. After the mutiny of the 2d Cavalry
and let Native Infantry, on the morning of the sth
of June, a Sowar of the former and a native officer

of the latter corps were sent to the Nana to offer
him the alternative of a kingdom, if he joined their
(the rebel) party, or death if he cast in his lot with
the British. Ilis decision was promptly accorded,
the ready reply being, " What have Ito do with
the British? lam with yow " lie then, laying
his hand on the heads of the mutineers, swore to be

their chief, and to lead them to Delhi ; after vt hich
they were dismissed with orders to carry the Go-
vernment treasure to Kullianpore. A consultation

was then held by the Nana, Bala Sahib, and Azee-
moolah. The latter pointed out the folly of proceed-
ing to Delhi,_where their individual power and in:

fluence would necessarily cease, and recommended

the Nana's recalling the mutineers, taking posses-
sion of Cavrnpore, and extending his authority as
far as he could to the eastward, adding that he was
thoroughly acquainted with the resources of the
British, that the numbar of Europeans in India was
scarcely one-fourth that.of the native army, and
that, the latter having mutinied, the former were
powerless. This being agreed to, as the soundest
policy, was accordingly carried out; the natineers
78,179 13 3
were ordered back, and tke siege of the intrench-
-19,169 17 0 mints commenced. The evidence of some of the be-

ieagured parties, chiefly belonging to the 53d &nil
56th Regiments, with that of the city people,
give a vivid picture of the state of affairs
during that ever memorable period. The muti-
neers, it would appear, were more intent on plunder
and murder than on fair and open fight, while in
the city and elsewhere a reign of terror was esta-
blished. This Nana was assisted by neighbouring
Zemindara and the insurgent populace. Finding it,
after repeated attempts, impossible to take the in-
trenchments by fair fighting, a full council was
held, and recourse to treachery resolved upon, though
se-ne of the mutineers present are said to have de-
precated the adoption of foul means. Whether this
be true or not, one fact is clear—none gave warning
of the base impendingtreachery, involving, though
it did, the murder of 'helpless women and innocent
children ; but all joined unflinchingly in its porpe-
tration.

The evidence regarding the massacre at the Suttie
Chowra ghat, on the morning of the 27th of Jane,
1857, is clear and conclusive. The guns and rebel
troops, held in ambush, were withdrawn froMiheir
places of concealment when the deputed officers
went to examine the boats at tke ghat. Nine or ten
thousand spectators assembled from the city and
neighbouring villages to witness the departure of
that gallant little garrison from the intrenchments,
among whom were many respectable city people,
such as bankers, &c.; some, doubtless, came to view
the truly novel sight of their late rulers led forth
as captives by those they had but a short time pre-
viously commanded. Some few may have been ac-
tuated by a batter and kinder motive—to pay their
parting respects to those they had known in hap-
pier days ; for the more respectable portion of the
native communiy, though prepared for treachery,
were not aware the British would be attacked at

the ghat before they embarked, but imagined it
would be lower down the river. Even before that
doomed little band had reached the fatal spot the
real intentions of the mutineers were revealed by
some, unable to maintain their malignant ardour
until the stated time and spot were reached. The
depositions gave a painful account of the murder of
Colonel Ewart, who commanded the Ist Native

Infantry, by some four sepoys of his corps, who cut
him down with bitter taunts. llis poor wife also
met with a similar fate almost immediately after-
wards. Of the fearful scenes that ensued at the
ghat the evidence of the Manjess who supplied the
boats with that of many who were spectators, gives
a clear account.

The most active in carrying out the arrangements
and urging on the slaughter was Teekum, a sower
of the 2d Cavalry, who, having been made a rissal-
der by the Nana, was doubtless anxious thus to
exhibit his zeal and devotion in the cause of his
benefactor. On a carpet spread on the chubootra of
the temple, near the ghat, were seated Bala Sahib,
A zeemoollah, Brigadier dowels Pershad, andTentia
Topes, a captain of the Nana's guard. The first shots
were fired from the (hide bank of the river, where
the mutinous 17th Native Infantry were posted with
some guns, three more being stationed with a large
force on the right bank. On the boats being set on
fire by the former party many of their occupants
leapt into the water on the offside, and, notwith-
standing the murderous fire poured upon them,
some $4 or 85 women and children effected their
escape from present death, only, alas ! to meet a
worse fate hereaftei. The wives of drummers, and
'children from three to ten years old, passed un-
scathed, not - only through the siege, but even this
terrible massacre also.
A man of great influence in the city, and a Go-
vernment official, has related a circumstance that
is strange if true—viz., that while the massacre
was being carried. on at the ghat a trooper of the
2d Cavalry reported to the Nana, then at Savada-
house, that his enemies, their wives, and children,
were exterminated. Some one present remarked,
" Yes, it is true, for an infant a month old was seen
floating down the stream." On hearing which the
Nana replied, that "for the destruction of women
and children there was no necessity," and directed
the sowar to return with an order to stay their
slaughter.
Reliable evidence, as far as it was procurable, re-
garding the massacre of the helpless captives in the
slaughter-house has been recorded, from which the
following facts have been gleaned :—That the
mutinous troops refused to carry out the order for
their destruction, though one random volley by some
was, it would seem, fired ; that the real perpetrators
of the diabolical deed were chiefly men of the Nana's
own guard ; and that the cause of their destruc-
tion was fear of betrayal ; that, on the steady and
continued advance of the British, and after the
second action, in which Bala Sahib was severely
wounded on the right shoulder, a hurried council
was held; that fear and consternation filled the
rebel camp, and dismay the l earls of all ; that this
meeting was attended by many
who, by some loans
of money and aid in various other ways accorded to
the Nana, had implicated themselves in the revolt;
that many and various were the projects Bug-
ge4ecl for checking the advance of the British,

:aid securing their own safety—some of the most
timid proposing the abandonment of Cawnpore, the
falling back on Futtegurh, and the conjunction of
their force with that of the rebel Nawab there.
Some suggested making a stand at Bithoor, while
others, either more courageous or desperate, advised
the casting all "on a die," and fighting it out at
Cawnpore. Yet, notwithstanding all felt that
their hour had well nigh come, and that shortly a
stern retribution would be exacted for the innotent
blood already so wantonly shed, such was the fear
of detection (by the many who had aided and abet-
ted their chief, through their recognition by the
prisoners, particularly such of them as Mrs. Green-
way and other old residents of Cawnpore, that no
fear of consequence could stay them from further
imbruing their hands in the blood of women and
children, deeming that thus they secured themselves
from further deteefion—eipecially those who had,
even at that early stage, resolved, should things
continuo to go against the rebel faction, they would
change sides ; and, if the evidence recorded be true,
many of those present at that council are now again
in Government employ. Much valuable evidence
yet remains un taken. A careful investigation of all
procurable would, we think, beyond doubt, impli-
cate many at present supposed to be free from the
mutiny. Adla, by berth and profession a courtesan,
born at Mugrasss, rTsided with the Nana from 1850
and from receiving 200 rs per month, and becoming
a favourite, was, it is said, endowed with the jewels
belonging to the widows of the late Peshwa, valued
at 50,000r5. On the Nana's flight from Bithoor
she was sent in a boat some distance up the river ;
but, returning to Cawnpore in August, 1557, was
secreted in a house in the Butcher-khans, went
thence to Misreepore, Zillah Humeerpore, and is
now said to be at Mugrassa, near Cawnpore, under
the tare of a man named Mundkoo, having pro-
mised, she states, to await one year at Cawnpore
the return of the Nana to that station. The sister
of Mundoo, named Kareena, resides with Oojagur
Debey, of Dahaby Zillah, Cawnpore, and the jewels
are said to be secreted in his house. The girl,
called the Begum, who attended on the prisoners is
one of four slave girls bought by the Peshwa, and
named Hossanee Khanum. She, it is said, carried
the order for the massacre of the prisoners to the
sepoy guard plaCed over them ; and, on their re-
fusing to exccute it, returned and fetched five men
of the Nana's own guard, one of whom was her
lover, Sirdar Khan. There is evidence also of the
wife of the toll-keeper at Sheorajpore, who was
spared at the intercession of the widows of Bajes
Rao, and was delivered of a child at Bithoor, being
alive on the 17th of July, two days subsequent to
the murder of the prisoners. On the Nana's flight,
however, from Bithoor, on the afternoon of the '
17th, he ordered her and the child to be killed.

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