The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-21 00:00:00

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

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The following is from an officer on the staff of
the force which relieved Lucknow, under General
Havelock :
,i Camp Cawapore, Dec. 1, 1857.
gc my dear —0) You must not blame me for
not writing to you, for it has been quite impossible
to send letters in the position that ,I have lately
been in. When we were on the point of advancing
with Sir James Outram's force from this place to
Lucknow on or about the 19th Sept. last, I rent
you word what we were going to do. Sincethat, and
when we communicated with the Lucknow garrison)
and indeed saved them by the additional men we
threw into the place, the only means of sending
letters was by men who were paid by Government
to risk their lives, and the letters were all written
in the Greek character and put into small pieces of
quill, as being easily concealed in this way. You
therefore can imagine we had not the power to send
private correspondence, all that was despatched in
this manner being of public importance ; and I, in
common with all others, was obliged to trust to our
list of casualties to inform you, and all who knew
me, that I Was unhurt through the trying work
we have been through. We crossed the river
Ganges, and on
the 21st of September engaged
these scoundrels at a village called Muugur-
ware, some three and a-half or four miles from
the left bank of the river. We drove them
from their Position, with scarcely any loss on
our side, taking six of their guns and marching on
about 14 miles. Next day we moved on again
withoutan any
further, and on the 23d we moved to Alumbagn,
where we engaged the enemy, driving them off, and
g o
day following
Were the closing of the rains, which
taking
isome
rae 0 f
their guns. These two days and the
molestation to Bunnee, about 15 miles
fell as heavy and
continaously as one ever sees in
the height of the season. We were unable to pitch
tents, for the Whole country was under water, and
we had to
put the force into the deserted and
ruinous villages. On the 25th of September we
advanced into Lucknow, and, after forcing the
bridge over the canal, we took the enemy by sur-
prise by marching round to the eastward through
the suburbs,
usual inacadamia,d read streigut through the town.
whereas they expected us along the
After hard kitting all day, and running the gaunt-
let through heavy fire from guns and musketry
from loopholed houses, we in the evening reached
the Residency intrenchment. Next day and the
two following were fully occupied in driving out
the enemy from the neighbourhood, and taking pos-
were again encicised by their numbers, and shut up
session of some large palaces and houses, when we
almost as completely as the old garrison we had
come to relieve, which, however, we had saved
from utter dtstiuction by our junction. From
this time uutd the 16th of Nov. we were besieged,
and under a continual fire of shot and musketry.
On that day Sir
Coliu Campbell relieved us, having 1
had exceeding hard fighting through the town to 1

come near us ; we at the same time assisting his
movements by keeping up a tremendous fire upon
the town, and taking by storm some large palaces
in the direction he was approaching us by. We then
destroyed all that we could not remove, and, carry-
ing away everything in the shape of guns and
ammunition, and some round shot, taking with us
23 lace of treasure, and some 40 lace of the King's
jewels, which had been previously seized by poor
Sir H. Lawrence, we marched out of the place at
night, Sir Cohn removing his force immediately
afterwards to a position about four miles from the
Residency. We then marched to Alumbagh, which
had always been held the whole time we were shut
up, and which had been as much shut up as we had
been. From Alumbagh we marched towards this
place, carrying with us all the poor Luoknow wo-
men and children (some 500 to 600 souls), and
all the treasure, ammunition, &c., leaving Sir James
0 utram with about 3, 500 men and 25 guns occupying
a position near Alumbagh, which he has possession
of. The possession of Bunnee he also holds; the rea-
son of our marching so expeditiously was because
the Gwalior rebels, amounting to some 12,000 men,
with 35 or 40 guns, were besieging Cawnpo.e. We
marched from Bunnee straight to the river, starting
at daylight and getting into camp by dark, having
gone from 29 to 30 miles—a long march, hampered
as we were with all those poor families and long
trains of treasure, &c. On reaching this we found
the Gwalior rascals in possession of the town, and
our troops under the Redan hero (General Wind-
ham) shut up in the entrenchments we had made on
the river bank. By great exertion we crossed the
river, and encamped on this side during yesterday.
The enemy still hold the town and all the ground
on the opposite side of the canal, near the church
and old infantry parade grounds, stretching away
up the river towards Bithoor. We shall have to
turn them out of course, and I have no doubt shall
give them a precious good licking. In the mean-
time the rascals have stopped our 61 and tele-
graphic communicationa with Allahabad, and I am
extremely doubtful of this letter reaching you, but
write in the hopes it may do so."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 20.

GUILDHALL—Mr. Isaac Brouwer, a commis-
sion agent, lately in the employ of IL Samuel
Pooh, the well-known cattle-dealer, appeared on
bail before Alderman Hale, charged with em-
bezzling various sums amounting in the aggregate
to upwards of 2,0001.
Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. Abrahams for the defence.

On the last examination evidence was given to
the effect that the prisoner had been in the prose-
cutor's employ about seven years, and that during
that time he had been in the habit of selling
calves on his master's account, and after obtaining
ss. per head on account from the purchaser,
directed him to pay the balance into Messrs. Hill's
bank in Smithfield, the amount so paid in being
received as the full prices of the calves. Two
cases only were proved, one in which the pri-
soner was stated to have deducted 1/. 11s. 10d. out
of a sum of 9/. lls. 10d. given to him to hand over
to his master, and another in which he had obtained
1/. 10s., at the rate of ss. per head, upon a sale of
calves.

Evidence was now adduced showing that the
amount paid into Major Hill's bank was deficient
the sum the prisoner was charged with embezzling
upon the sale of the calves. Several other cases,
iu which the prisoner had received similar amounts,
were then gone into, but in one a butcher, named
Thurling, was too drunk to be examined ; and in
another a butcher of the name of Buckingham said
he gave the amount to the prisoner as a bonus for
selling him a bargain.
Mr. Lewis said he was not prepared with any
further evidence, and therefore asked for a
committal.

Mr. Abrahams said the charge of embezzlement
of a sum of 2,0001. had dwindled down to a few
doubtful cases, amounting to the paltry sum*of 31.
or 41., upon which no jury would convict. He
submitted that no case had been made out against
the prisoner, towards whom there was a feeling of
spite in consequence of his having taken many of
the prosecutor's customers to his new master.
Althrman Hale said it was a case fir a jury to
decide upon, and committed the prisoner fur trial.
Tile prisoner was admitted to bail as before. .

CLERKENWELL.—Augusta Leigh, a respect-
ably dressed woman, a lodging-house keeper residing
at 10, Park-place, Liverpool-road, Islington, was
summoned before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the instance of
parish authorities of St. Mary, Islington, for com-
mitting a series of assaults upon Susan Dean, a girl,
aged 17.
Mr. Sparling, solicitor to the trustees, appeared
for the prosecution ; Mr. Wakeling, solicitor, for
the defenca.

It will be remembered that on the last occasion of
the case being before the court, the girl was im-
proving ; but the mistress being very ill, the case
was postponed.

Mr. Wakeling now st‘ted that he was sorry to
inform his worship that his client was still very
unwell, and unable to attend ; and therefore he had
to ask for a further adjournment. He had giyen
notice to the other side, and had handed to them a
copy of the following certificate
"Compton-terrace, Jan. 19, 1858.
"I hereby certify that Mrs. Laigh, of 10, Park-
terrace, Islington, is still in a very delicate state of
health, and unfit for attendance at a police-court.
"JOHN M. CA.MPLIN, M. R. C. S., and F. L. S. "
After some discussion there was a further ad-
journment for a week.
The poor girl is, it is stated, improving in health.
The case still excites a great deal of interest.

LAMBETH.—AIfred Feist, late master of St.
Mary Newington Workhouse, .again surrendered ou
his bail, for further examination, on the charge of
disposing of the bAies of inmates who died in the
workhouse, for anatomical purposes.
Mr. Chester, the solicitor to the governors and
guardians of the parish of Newington, with Mr.
Robinson, the barrister, attended for the proiccu-
tion • and Mr. Mathews, the barrister, instructed
by Itir. Helsham, the solicitor, attended on behalf
of the accused.
One or two cases similar to that of Mary White-
head, which 'vas investigated at the former hearing,
were now gone into. The undertaker, Hogg, de-
posed that in cases when bodies were intended for
anatomical purposes h e generally received the neces-
sary certificate frOra the defendant to send to the
inspector under the Anatomy Bill. The practice in
the workhouse was, when paupera died there, to
have them carried down to the dead-house and
place them in a shell, and the undertaker had no
means of learning the names of such persons, except
from the master of the workhouse.

Evidence was also given by W. Bull, a clerk in
the mast-r's office, as to the practice followed in
case no friends of the deceased applied to be allowed
to follow the body to the grave, and also as to the
disposal of unclaimed bodies.
Mr. Mathews, on behalf of the prisoner, admitted
that his client was not free from blame, in the lax
—he might say the scandalous—manner in which
the bodies of paupers had been treated, but con-
tended that no sale of the bodies for profit had been
made out, and that Hogg, the undertaker, who had
access to the dead-house, ought to be placed at the
bar rather than his client.

Mr. Elliott said there could not be tho slightest
doubt that in the first case before him the prisoner
knew that the deceased had friends, and he had
been guilty of a fraud of a most revolting descrip-
tion, that of substituting the body of one for an-
other, and making the friends believe they were
following to the grave the body of their own rela-
tive. This was an offence against decency of the
worst description. The case must go before a higher
tribunal. It also appeared to him most culpable
on the part of the board of guardians to allow bodies
to be brought back from the hospital to the work-
house for interment

Mr. Robinson assured the magistrate that that
which had been so justly condemned by his.wor-
ship was entirely unknown to the respectable
gentlemen who formed the board ; and a number of
the guardians present confirmed this assertion.
The evidence in the case of Phcebe Clark, a
pauper, who had been in the workhouse, and who
died on the 19th of February last, was then gone
through. In this case the body was sent to Guy's
and another substituted, and two of the sisters of
Clark followed the strange body, in the belief it
was their relative, to Victoria-park, and saw the
coffin interred there.

Mr. Elliott was of opinion that this and the case
taken on the former day would be abundant for
the purposes of prosecution, and Mr. Robinson
having undertaken th a if indictments in other of
the ten or twelve cases should be preferred, the
solicitor for the prosecution should be furnished
with the evidence in them.
The prisoner was fully committed to take his
trial on both charges. On an application by his
counsel the prisoner was however admitted to bail
in two sureties in 40/., and himself in 801. to appear
on the day of trial.

UNIVERSITY REFORM, —The Marquis of Breadalbane
and the Earl of Eglinton and Winton have joined. tne
Association for the Improvement and Extension of the
Scot ish Universities.
COLLISION ON THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.
—A collision, which fortunately was unattended by any
fatal consequences, although several passengers were
more or less injured. took place on the North Stafford•
on MondaY morning.
shire Railway, near Naton-bridge,

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