The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-25 00:00:00

THE KING OF DELHI.

....
The following is an extract from a letter written
by the wife of Major (then Captain) Hodson, front
Delhi :
"There is a report, which has been mischievously set
about, and may havev'
mi,ehi,vous consequence, •Iz.,
that the King ilea the whole of his retinue, and bae rO.
turned to his own apartments in the Palace.
" Thi. is perfectly untrue. I went with Mr. Saunde,r..°'
the Civil Commiesioner, and his wife to see the OW.
tunate and guilty wretch. We mounted a flight of 00%
steps, at the bottom and to of which was a Burt:tee,/
sentry. A ,rnall low door opened into a room, hal' -a
al.
which was partitioned off with a grass matting e „0.
chitac, behind which was a woman cooking some a"/,
cious compound, if I might judge from the smell.
of
the other halt was a native bedstead--i. e , a 00°4 ;
barobo4 on fear legs, with grass rope strung across itb
00 this was lying and smoking a hookah an old meal
h4t.
a long white beard ; no other article of furniture 1v7,0.
ever was in the room, and I am almost ashamed t° Va
that a feeling of pity mingled with my disgust at sse'9oTed
for riches and magnificence confined in
man recently lordof an Imperialeity elmeet ""rallerie,
dirty room, which the lowest slave a low,
tscabold
where
would scarcely have occupied, in the very place
A death,
he had reigned supreme, with power of life acid toy
untrammeled by any law, within the precincts of a „
tow,
residence as large as a considerable 'deed town ; s
to
galleries, towers, mosques, forts, and gardens, a pr.. -0
and a public hail of justice, and innumerable CO?rb;
passages, and staircases. Its magnificence can only a
equalled by the atrocities which have been cornmi"e
there. But to go back to the degraded King. The boy',
Jomna Bukt, repeated rily name after Mr. Sounder.;
of the ho
muttered something I could not hear, and tbe_.
The old man raised his head and looked at me,
merit th • boy, wh.) had been. called from at the Ir
door, came and told me that his mother, the -16 To,
wished to see me. Mrs. Saunders then took
P°BBdeisrtist
r f toe, and we went on itacr a smaller, darker,
ten
the 02
e° _ 7
room than the first, in which were some eight or
..,.
women crowding round a common 'oharpoy,' or Orr:
on which was a dark, fat, shrewd, but sensual-lOckl
woman, to wraotn my attention was particularly drasc-ci
She took hold of my hand (I shuddered a little), tea
told me that my husband was a great warrior; but ti'`li
them by the Gevernment, the King was preParietter
if the King's life and her son's had not been promise,
great army which would have annihilated us. The thed
women stood round in silence till her speech "3 "—I, d,
and if they were all boys, examined
aed then crowded round, asking how many children I
sen ,
seemed particularly amused by my bonret and pot
_...,1_
They 'ere,' with one exception, coarse, low•caste !
sire/
as devoid of ornament as of beauty. Zeenat Mahal
sate)
me (a great honour, I found, which I did not alWre_ed oo
to sit uown on her bed, but I declined, as it look eOll,
dirty. Mr. Saunders was much amused at rely ref wag
worth ~ix months before to have done so,
and tad me it would have been more titan reY ~,0 ao
my dress, and
sad' ha'
doubt el it."
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ego it
THE SECRET POLICE AT FAULT.—A few day ere re that
was stated in several German and French PePtebat the
Mazzini had been arrested It now aPPea,re aorateol2
individual in question had only one poiot '11:1 toe also
with the celebrated revolutionist—that bie.„%pace, il!
ended in i. The occurrence place at getar-14 ois°
We, phalia. His rame ie Frarizorri, and be is. been a
citizen, of the canton of Ticieo. He never 115. Attc.
refugee, and has never taken any part in politte e,oo
doer'
robes
cordieg to a letter he has sent to a fiiend at Belli tee
which is quoted by a kcal
his arrest, he had resided for some time in Bono.' of re
paper—in which be ~..0,
the Ge man language. On his arrival, he fu'fit'ediatel
he determined to go to Mayence to perfect 11,10, tb°.
r, quid e pas ,port fortnalitif,. Toe police ircntoigh t,
granted him a permit to stay in the town for a 1148 was
and subsequently fer the whole of FebruarYe
CoreeolS:
quietly prosecuting his studies, when one day a , by si:i
darmes, Us was arrested. Hie papers whetw
gene
°
eary of police entered his room, acceinpanleoetio ar.
- ffee, be
ransacked, and he was taken to the police-et
a thet d
he underwent an examination, and discovered and
__, ae
was charged with being a Mazzinian conspirator, 00
that there were strong grounds to believe that n_eiseor
Mazzini himself. Ultimately. he was taken to rijo ate
and ot ly relea,ef four day-. aft.ric;a..is, wter'' apo thOS
examination of his papers bad convinced the Po '
they bad wade a Bros 4 mistake. •