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. P. 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 1856,
has net only remained stationary,—it has absolutely RETRO-
GRADED."

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

OF MR. WADDINGTON.
140.

OF MR. LOVE.
1858.

No. of .7assengers 6,971,177
Receipts £617,038

No. of Passenger 6,294,404
Receipts £612,241

Tons of Goods 1,009,270
Receipts £447,729

Tons of Goods 1,055,533
Receipts £447,920

N.B.—ln 1856 the Loughton branch and several additional
miles of Railway were not open on which traffic was carried
in 1858.
"Had the trains and fares upon the Eastern Counties re-
mained in 1858 as they were in 1856, it might have been ex-
pected, in proportion to the increase then accruing, thaLin
1858, not less than 8,000,000 of passengers would have passed
over the system, instead of the diminished number of
6,294.4C0. The revenue of that year would, in that case, have
amounted to £700,500, instead of £612,000.
" Your policy, therefore, sacrificed in that one year no less
than £BB,OOO, which you might have divided amongst your
Shareholders : whilst, at the same time, it deprived no less
than 1,700,600 passengers of the facilities to which they were
entitled."

F JONDON AND COUNTY BANKING
COMPANY.
Subscribed Capital, £M50,000. Paid-up Capital, £500,000.
[Head Offices-21, Lombard-street.
DIRECTORS.
Philip Patton Blyth, Esq.
Thomas Tyringham Bernard, Esq., M,P.
John William-Burmester, Esq.
William Cory, Esq.
James Andrew Durham, Esq.
John Fleming, Esq.
Edward Huggins, Esq.
William Champion Jones, Esq.
James Laming, Esq.
John Henry Lance, Esq.
William Lee, Esq., M.P.
William Nicol, Esq., M.P.
GENERAL MANAGER.
William 3Pliewan, Esq.

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' 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 conrageous 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 innocent
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 detection—especially those who had,
even at that early stage, resolved, should things
continue 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 nu 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 birth and profession a courtesan,
born at Mugrassa, resided 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, 1857, was
secreted in a house in the Butcher-khana, went
thence to Misreepore, Zillah Humeerpore, and is
now said to be at Mtigrassa, near Cawnpore, under
the care of a man named Mundhoo, 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 execute 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 Bajee
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 N ana's flight,
however, from Bithoor, on the afternoon of the
17th, he ordered her and the child to be killed.