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London, England, 1858-09-03 00:00:00

other was a baker, a third was a boatman, and so
forth to the end of the list. Although the fate of
these men was undoubtedly well-merited, still it
cannot for a moment be believed that they alone
are guilty, or even that the abettors or instigators
of the massacre are beyond detection. The con-
duct of the Turkish authorities, therefore, on that
and also on other grounds, calls for strict investi-
gation. In the matter of the Trade the proceedings
of Naamik Pasha have, without question, been most
unwarrantable. On leaving Jeddah, the vessel,
which had been condemned by a regularly consti-
tuted tribunal, was, at the request a the Pasha,
delivered into his harge ; but this was done with
the express understanding that she was the pro-
perty of the British Government, and that though
she might abstain from hoisting British colours,
none other should be displayed. On the return of
the Cyclops one of the first objects that met the
eves of the officers was the Turkish flag flying from
her gaff, and Captain Pullen's indignant remon-
strances were met with the reply that it was done
in honour of his arrival. Afterwards it was ascer-
tained that the flag had been placed there immedi-
ately after the departure of the Cyclops, by the ex-
press orders of the Pasha. On Captain Pullen
threatening to tow the vessel out into deep water
and to sink her, the harbour master was sent on
board, and the flag was again hauled down.
Naamik Pasha then proposed that a mixed court
should be formed to adjudicate upon the vessel, but
an offer so uncalled-for was necessarily at once re-
jected. The nationality of the vessel had never
once been auestioned, and, as Naamik Pasha must,
well have known, no officer of a foreign Govern-
ment had a right to claim the slightest jurisdiction
over her.

The Cyclops was evidently in a most unfavour-
able position for obtaining information on the sub-
ject of the massacre, but a belief was ascertained to
be prevalent that the authorities of the town, in-
cluding the Pasha as well as the Cadi, were far
from being wholly guiltless in the matter, even it
was stated to the extent of connivance. It can
hardly be credited that this is absolutely true ; but
the mere existence of such a report shows how
necessary it is that all the circumstances of the affair
should be strictly and impartially investigated. The
mild terms of indignation in which the Pasha spoke
of the massacre on his first interview with Captain
Pullen, and immediately after its occurrence, as
compared with the warmth of his language when
attempting to screen the guilty city from the doom
which for a while seemed to hang over it, may be
passed over, but we are entitled to fuller assurance
that none concerned in the massacre have escaped
being brought to judgment. We may also fairly
claim the right to learn why the Kaimakam, the
only man who rendered any assistance to the Chris-
tians, was displaced and another person appointed
in his stead. It was alleged that the cause of his
dismissal was of old date, but it is obviously neces-
sary that any circumstance in any way bearing
upon the late outrage should be explained on the
fullest and highest authority.

AUG. 23.

The Hindostan, with the Calcutta and China
mails, reached Suez yesterday afternoon. She has
been retarded several days beyond the usual time
by a derangement of machinery, and had to steam-
up the Red Sea working one engine alone. The
outward mails left Suez by the Bengal-on the 20th.
The Egyptian steamer Gabarri arrived at Suez
on the 18th. inst. She reports everything quiet
at Jeddah, whence she sailed on the 10th inst.
Ismail Pasha was preparing to leave the place,
on his way back to Constantinople. The
mortality at Mecca and at Jeddah, at first attri-
buted to Asiatic cholera, it now appears arises
merely from a more severe form of the endemic
diseases by which the pilgrims are annually deci-
mated. One of the Sultanas of the late Sultan
Mahmoud, who was performing the pilgrimage,
has fallen a victim to the disease. Her suite have
arrived at Suez by the Gabarri, together with 'a
large number of other passengers. Public health
in Egypt continues excellent. Her Majesty's
steamer Vigilant arrived from Malta this morning
with despatches for the Consulate.

THE CAWNPORE MASSACRE, BY AN

EYE- WITNESS.

The following account of the Cawnpore massacre,
by Mrs. Murray, the wife of Sergeant-Major Mur-
ray, was first published by the Indian Empire.
Mrs. Murray is now in Calcutta, and is ready to
answer any. questions :
" Long before the mutiny broke out at Cawnpore
there was a report that the old muskets would be
superseded by the Enfield rifles ; that the cartridges
of the new guns were prepared with hogs' lard and
cows' grease ; that the time had arrived when the
Government was going to Christianize its subjects;
that the new cartridges were the preparatory steps
to attain that object, and a thousand and one such
reports which I have neither time nor patience to
relate, but all calculated to inflame the mind of the
ignorant people. The Mahommedan portion of the
population—a class of men whose capacity for fabri-
cating lies could only be gleaned by perusing the
" Arabian Nights "—had given out such reports as
could never fail to rouse any one to madness, and
had so strongly worked upon the feelings of the
masses that the whole population seemed ready, as
it were, to sacrifice anything dear to them rather
than suffer their castes to be violated. It was about
this time that General Wheeler ordered a parade of
all the regiments stationed at Cawnpore, and read
out officially a General Order that the use of the
old muskets ceased in the army from that date, and
that in future Enfield rifles would be supplied in
their place. The Sepoys, of course, refused to use
the new guns. Parade was again ordered in the
evening„ with no better results. From that time
parade regularly took place twice a-day. ' The
General was determined to carry out the orders, and
the Sepoys were determined to oppose them.
While this foolish obstinacy both on the part
of the General and the army lasted the Sepoys
seemed to have been very much dissatisfied,
and openly grumbled to go to the parade.
News of all sorts were flying from one end of
the station to another. There was not a report
ever so absurd which was not firmly believed by
the populace. Things were fast assuming a very,
unfavourable aspect. The loud cries of discon-
tent on a sudden changed into a sort of sullen re-
serve ; everything looked suspicious ; at this time
an old havildar, whose pension paper was sent to
the Commander-in-Chief for confirmation, went up
to the General and informed him that the whole
of the native army was perfectly disaffected, and
was rife at the slightest pretext to break out into
open rebellion. lle therefore suggested, as a pre-
cautionary measure, to destroy the whole of the
powder in the magazine, keeping only as much as
would be necessary in case of a protracted siege.
The man was rewarded with imprisonment for his
trouble ; on what around this step was taken was
better known to him who ordered his arrest. Next
followed General Wheeler's khansamah, who was
arrested for having informed him that the army
was disaffected, and that unless he changed his
policy he would bitterly repent of what he was
about. A third, who was a sepoy, was taken up
while fast asleep in his line, for no other fault than
that of having spoken something seditious in the
bazaar. About this time Nana Sahib visited
Cawnpore. He called upon the General, and on
being asked as to the object of his visit, he said lie
had heard there was to be a disturbance in the can-
tonment, and he had come down to render him as-
sistance. What further passed between him and
the General no one could say. Nana halted at the
station only a few days, and then all of a sudden
left the place for Bitlioor. Just after his departure
the 2d Cavalry mutinied. It was at midnight on
the 4th of June, 1857, that the bungalow of the
riding-master ,was set fire to ; lie escaped with his
life providentially. The whole of the 2d Cavalry,
with one regiment of native infantry, marched off
towards Nawabgunge, looted the treasury, and was
makineaway to Delhi, and had actually gone off
about 12 miles from the station, when they were
joined by. the Nana's men, who told them that the
King of Delhi would not receive them unless they
made a practical demonstration of their hatred to-
wards the accursed Feringhees, which would not
, only entitle them to double pay offered by the King
lof Delhi, but would gain them the favour
of all good men. At this they returned
to Cawnpore, accompanied by their new
friends, when the rest of the regiments,
whichhad up to this time, in other respects, re-
mained faithful, joined the mutinous corps as if it
were by a common consent, and they all in body a
went up to Nawabgunge, about three miles from
the station, looted the remainder of the treasure,
and secured all the guns and ammunition. This
was on the sth of June. On the 6th the Christian
portion of the town were ordered to go into the
entrenchment, which was no other than an old
hospital belonging to a European regiment. The
civil, military, merchants, tradesmen, clerks, drum-
mers, pensioners—in fact, all the men composing the
Christian part of the population—went into the en-
trenchment. -

,t From the ith of June the mutineers commenced
the smonac; They brought all the
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on the four sides of the
entrenchment, and
magazine, erected four bat-
teriescommenced pouring in balls l
brought mortars, but the. shells, being rain.
They also
filled with
powder only, could scarcely do any ham.
, 'e first
three or four days they were incessantly nfiring
the entrenchment, but after that time they
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only at a stated hour. The people in the enTrenCeltd:
ment were half dead through fear, particularly the
ladies, but after three or four days, when they got
used to that mode of life, they did. not care for the
booming of it cannon. There could not have been