The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUN,LONPON, WEDNESDAY EVENING AUG U.Sr 5, ;

France has joined with Russia, rather than with
England. Her Ambassador, at Constantinople
has resolutely opposed the English views, and has
just succeeded in overthrowing the Turkish Minis-
try--a fact, which we are told, "has filled
France with joy and exultation, as it is held to be
the triumph of if. Thouvenel over Lord t,tratford,"
" a check upon English influence in the East." !
The resumption of diplomatic relations between
France and Naples, without regard to England,
is also more than hinted at. It is quite clear
that it is the intention of our good and faith-
ful Ally to permit Great Britain to play second
fiddle in all matters of European interest, and he
now comes over to carry out these views, and to
bespeak the cc-operation of the irresponsible
Premier. He will not appear in public—being
well aware that his reception would not be quite
so enthusiastic as on his last visit. But much
may be accomplished in confidential intercourse.
We fear, however, that it will be in the interest
rather of Germanism than of Anglicanism.
Things may bo made tolerably pleasant. A
union of the Danubian Principalities might be
arranged, provided a Prince of the favoured House
of COBURO ascended the throne. Uncle LEOPOLD
wants something for that "dear little FLANDERS."
The " tiddi ittle sing" would like a crown and
sceptre, and why should it not accomplish
its wishes ? NAPOLEON can help it ; and
surely no price would be too great for such
an object. Journalism may be obliged to
succumb. England may cease to be a
refuge for the afflicted—may forfeit the prestige
it has maintained inviolable for a long succession
of ages—but what would these things be in com•
parisou to the placing the Count DE FLANDRES
on a throne, and regulating the English Govern-
ment on the most approved German models !
We confess that we cannot regard this visit
without serious apprehensions. If it were merely
one of these reunions calculated to cement the
ties of friendship, it would be very different. But
there are many matters, now in abeyance, in
which the French Court have taken views dia-
metrically oppposed to those on which the Eng-
lish people are earnestly bent. The consideration
of such questions should be left to Ministers re-
sponsible both to the Parliament and the nation.
We do not desire either the Imperial or
Princely interference which may possibly re-
sult from this meeting. Cuunt WALEWSKI
attends the EMPEROR. Should not Lord PAL-
MERSTON Or Lord CLARENDON be also admitted to
the secret councils? The presence of either would
give some assurance that nothing would take
place that could not be defended in Parliament,
and that English interests would be fully pro-
tected at all points. Lord PALMERSTON has
achieved the reputation of being a truly English
Minister. He has never yielded to continental
intrigues, and has not recognised the nepotism in
favour of German cousins. It would be but
fitting that the Prime Minister of England should
be at hand ready to advise his Sovereign oa any
points that may arise. He would be the proper
party to meet Count WALEwsxr, and we earnestly
hope that his attendance at Osborne during the
visit may remove some of the "doubts and fears"
that unfortunately cast as to its objects and pos-
sible results.

The state of India requires the most prompt
and speedy attention. The mutiny must be
speedily suppressed, and the guiPy parties
severely punished, if we desire to retain our
Empire:. Every day lost will materially add to
the difficulty and expense. The people have not
as yet taken any pact in the inhurrection ; but
how long will this be the ease? The slightest
cheek to our ann9, or even a protracted occupa-
tion of Delhi by the insurgents, may kindle a
flame throughout the length and breadth of the
land that would render a ne►v conquest of India
indispens:Oilo. We have no doubt as to the re-
sult, but vast expense and annoyance may be
saved by energetic action in the early stages. A
expenditure in the first instance will be
found to be true economy in the long run. It is
also due to the English men, women, and chil-
dren stationed in the out-district=, many of whom
have been treated with tuch revolting barbarity.
The saving of their valuable lives is surely worth
a little extra exertion, before the spirit of revolt
is suffered to reign paramount in British India.

We have already suggested that the gunboats,
which were constructed before the termination of
the Russian war, should now bo made available.
They would be peculiarly valuable in the Indian
Ocean, and on filo coast of Clina. Nay, some of
them might ply on the larger rivers, and
they would keep the peace admirably, and also
act as places of refuge to the English in the
vicinity. We need scarcely expatiate on the vast
importance of such a demonstration. These
vessels, aided by the auxiliary screws, woul 1
speedily arrive at the scene of action, and each
could convey a certain number of troops, whose ser-
vices would be inestimable during the crisis. Why,
then, should they not be forthwith despatched ?
Simply, because they are held by cables of red
tape, which cannot be removed until the voice of
public opinion speaks plainly and intelligibly on
the point. Sir CHIRLES WOOD is not the man to
got rid of such impediments, until " the pressure
from without" becomes too stringent to admit of

further procrastination.
The overl ind route might al.3° be made avail-
able. We are satisfied that the Peninsular and
Oriental Company would lend every assistance,
and that no difficullies would be created on the
part of the Egyptian authorities. It must
be borne in mind that it is not a war
with another nation in which we are
engaged. It is merely to put down intestinal
commotion, to which every friendly Power—every
lover of order would wish t 3 contribute in any
way practicable. The troops at Malta and other
quarters in the Medit3rranean might thus be
sent on, and they could reach India in
some five or six weeks, at the outside-
It would unquestionably be an expensive under-
taking ; but mere questions o: X s. d. should be
completely ignored, and it would be found the best
economy in the long run. In a letter from Major-
Gen. HEARSEY, an extract from which has appeared
in a morning contemporary, that distinguished
officer writes in the following terms. He says :--
"If large, very large, reinforcements of British
troops are not poured into Hindostan, across the
Isthmus of Suez, i. e., via Alexandria and Cairo
Railway, and immense stores of coals sent by the
same railroad to Suez, to coal the steamers for
for their return, so that the QUEEN'S troops
can be pushed on with the least p)ssible de-
lay, it will go hard with all of us. This
ought to be published to the British nation ;
in my name if you like. I will take all responsi-
bility. The authorities—Lord PANMURE, the
Horse Guards, the Board of Control, and the
Directors—must join heart and hand in these
measures ; money now must be a secondary con-
sideration." This is sound advice, and rests on
high authority. Money must indeed be a secondary
consideration under existing circumstances.
Our
first duty is to suppress the insurrection. Our neat
to punish the miscreants who have proved " un-
faithful to their salt," and all their aiders and

abett)re, whoever they may be. If the ex-King of
OEIDE, the Nawab of Moorshedabad, or their
quondam, potentates can be proved to be
implicated, the pensions they receive, and the
possessions which they have been allowed to retain,
will go some way towards defraying the expenses.
The funds supplied by the Company must not be
applied in any manner injurious to its ins-rests.

Without knowing it we were certainly drifting
to a Revolution. Lord PALMERSTON has been, un-
awares to us all, maturing a Universal Suffrage
coup d'etat for 1858, and we are deeply indebted,
therefore, to Lord BROUGHAM, in the Indian
Summer of his life, or in his cruda viridisque
sencctats, as we used to say, for putting us on our
guard. What if we had been caught napping ;
and had waked up one fine morning next spring,
and found in the columns of the Times a three
hours' Speech from the Premier, introducing a
Reform Bill, comprising Universal Suffrage, the
Ballot, and all the rest of the points in which his
Lordship is so well known to delight ! What
would have become of the Funds—what of the
House of Lords and the Crown—in a word, of
our glorious Constitution ? Every heart would
have throbbed with the fear that he was about to
become the WALEWSKI or the PERSIGNY of a new
Empire—to put the Throne of Queen VICTORIA
to the vote—to place wholesale fetters on the
press—and to nominate candidates a little more
openly than he did at the Southampton election.
Well ; let us be thankful then that We have got
a Lord BROUGHAM. Taking occasion from a mo-
tion for unimportant papers—about as much con-
nected with his speech, as the greased cartridges
with the Indian mutinies, his Lordship declared
himself in open mutiny against the promised Re-
form Bill of 1858. Lord BROUGHAM stands by
the Act of 1832. Ho acknowledged defects,
great ones perhaps, but all remediable ; funda-
mentally it is the Act we want ; no " com-
prehensive sweeping clauses" are needed.
Revising Barristers might be appointed a little
more judiciously. A few educat'onal and first-
class Artizin votes might be added without dan •
ger, but his Lordship desired to " enter his pro-
test against any measure of Parliamentary Reform
being proposed, the tendency of which would be to
make our constitution more democratic than it has
been made by the Bill of 1832." The Act of
1832 is a model Act. It did not inaugurate re-
volution on the one band, but prevented it on the
noted 10th of April, 1848. Nor was it on the
other hand a mock measure of Reform. It was
a large measure of Reform." It was a new start
of our old Constitution ; we may trim, add, mo-
dify a little, but we must not attempt another
start. We might extend the suffrage a little ;
generally, however, to those who have it in another
form already; but we may not lower it—not
give a vote to 51. or 71. householders, or anything
of that wild revolutionary kind. We are sure
Mr. DISRAELI and the Earl of DERBY are deeply
indebted to the noble lord. Lord PALMERSTON,
too, ought to thank him for warning him that no
democratic or socialist pranks will be tolerated in
A.D. 1858.

One extension of the suffrage against which
Lord BROUGHAM points his strongest denuncia-
tions, is that proposed by Mr. LOOSE KING. It
may seem hard, but he thinks it essential that
the 101. householders in counties should live and
die voteless, lest the voice of the country should be
lost ! The representation would by Mr. L.
KING'S measure be thrown into the bands of
the boroughs ! The reconciling fact, according to
his Lordship, is, that there are other anomalies !
such a one, for instance, as the West Riding of
Yorkshire and the county of Rutland returning
the same number of members. Really, begging
the pardon of so great a man, and in his eightieth
year too, we do Eta to perceive how one anomaly
justifies another. We are so obtuse that it will
seem to us that every anomaly which admits of
removal might as well be removed at once. And
then, as to the power supposed to be handed over
to the boroughs—how is it possible ? No one we
presume ever thought of giving county votes to
those who had already a vote in boroughs ; Mr.
KING certainly did not. If, then, Lord BROUGFIA.3I
subtracts all the boroughs which return, or should
return Members, the remainder will become a class
of small agricultural market towns, not many
grades in intelligence above the Chandos and other
agricultural voters, whose ignorance and subser-
viency to their landlords his Lordship seems to
think such pillars of our " gl )rious Constlatiou"
as revised and corrected. by HENRY Lord
BROUGHAM and others in 1832.

There is one proposal of his lordship with which,
on the first blush of it, we heartily concur. He
wishes to save electors the bore of annual regis-
tration and annual watching of their registration.
He would lay down the rule, "once a voter
always a voter." There is, he just'y observes,
no reason why, because a man changes from a 101.
to an 81. or 51. house, he should be struck off the
list. His having once had the better house
shews that he is a respectable man, and he
should thenceforward retain his vote for life
without further trouble. Combine with this the
abolition of the rate-paying clauses (a fruitful
source of annoyance), and the list of electors
would bo nt once considerably increased. What-
ever changes be made in the franchise, we do hope
that this change will be aceeptsd by all parties.
It would save all of us trouble ; would be alike
fair to all, and would reduce the registration
business to the verifying of new claims and re-
movals.

LATEST NEW.

every hour with recital of some fresh disaster. In
the afterncOw tidings came from Azimgurh, a station 40
miles e',istant, that the troops there had risen in mutiny, i
P:eot their officers, plundered the Treasury, and pery
treted various other outrages. The station had long
been watched by the authorities here with suspicion
and alarm, and now, when at length the tidiegs came,
they resolved at once to disarm the 37th Native In-
fantry, which was the most suspected of the regiments
here. We bail two other regiment,, one of native ca-
valry, and one of Sikh foot, and though both the:a also
were suspected still some confidence was entertained
that they would remain firm. About half-past five
p.m. we were startled by a rapid discharge of rifles
and the boom of cannon. We could not doubt what
it meant. The troops had mutinied. Our hence is
just on the outskirts of the city, and a mile in the
opposite direction are the military lines, where the
fighting was going on. Now it was fully expected
that the mutiny of the troops would be a signal for
the instantaneous rise of all the rabble of the city,
and the immediate destruction of European property and
life. Our only resource was flight. Mr. Heinig and
family immediately set off for Raigbat, to Mr. Smith,
our missionary, whose house presents many advantages
for a retreat, and is situated on the hank of the river
and quite out of the way the rebels were likely to
take. We intended to take the same road, but, after
going a little distance, were alarmed by souls Sepoys,
and fled towards the lines. Mr. Kennedy's house was
in our way and we resolved at once to go there. It was
deserted. Mr. Kennedy and his family had fled some
time before. We determined to remain here for a little.
We were now within about half a, mile of the fi 11 of con-
flict, and all this time a ceaseless discharge of rifles and
of cannon was kept up. But we knew not who were
fighting, and were kept in a state of fearful suspense.
We had only about 200 European troops in the station
and three cannon to about 2,000 native troops, and had
the latter been united escape seemed impossible. The
regularity and rapidity with which the artillery were
served left no doubt that it was stilt in the hands of skilled
men, and so far eimouraged thehopethat our troops were
victorious. Gradually the firing grew moreirregular until
it almost ceased, an occasional shot dieturbing the silence
that now prevailed. Evening had already set in. From
an occasional stra..,,gler coining our way we learned that
the 37th N.I. and the Sikhs had rebelled and been de-
feated and had fled. The road was very quiet and we bad
only about a fourth or third of a mile to go to reach the
Mint, a large building which had often been talked of as
a rendezvous for Europeans in case of turnulr, a❑d which
was now occupied by a few of our troops. After some
hesitation, and not without misgivings, we resolved to
go there ; and reached in safety to our great thankfulness
and joy. Here many had already assembled and others
were continually arriving. We were only a quarter of a
mile now from the battle-field, and we soon learnt that
all the 37th N.I. had rebelled, all the Sikhs who were
on the field, and a considerable portion of the cavalry.
The guns had made much havoc of the Sikhs, but nearly
all the 37th and Cavalry had escaped. On our side one
or two officers had been shot dead and three wounded,
and one man killed and about five wounded. It was also
said that 80 to 100 Sikhs were left dead on the fill.
Tile night, you may imagine, was a very anxious ono.
Escorts had to be sent out in all directions to bring in
European residents and defend them from the rebel
troops lurking about in every corner. The Magazine bad
to be guarded in one place, and the Mint in another,
and the Treasury in a third, and besides this there were
1,000 or 1,500 native troops in rebellion who might still
unite and attack any one of these points in concert,
while on our side was only a mere handful of men, and
yet I ought not to say so, there was One on our side in-
finitely greater than all they that were against us, and
only to His special interposition can we attribute our
safety. Indeed, when I look at the dangers we have
escaped, our preservation can only be regarded as a
miracle. Our God has indeed poured confusion on the
counsels of our adversaries, and to Him alone we would
ascribe our safety and deliverance. The outbreak here was
immediately followed by complete anarchy throughout
the surrounding country. God has very mercifully, and
contrary to all expectations, preserved order in the city.
No houses have been burnt, and nut one plundered. But
all round the country is in a state of the greatest con-
fusion.

"Troops are passing here daily. Allahabad is garri-
soned by a small number of Euiopean troops, and the
fort and magazine are in their hands, but the city has
been plundered and all Europeans without the fort have
been murdered. Cawnpore, too, has received aid ; the
Europeans there for weeks past have had to entrench
themselves and sleep behind cannon. Owls is in an
uproar from one end to the other. Here is the, or, at
least, one grand centre of disaffection, and it will be well
if Sir H. Lawrence, who has acted with consummate
skill and energy, shoal I not at length be overpowered.
At Agra all native troops have been disarmed, and as
they have a strong foe, and one or two Englioh regi-
ments, oar friends there may b considered safe. From
Delhi nothing can be heard. A telegraph came to Be-
flares only yesterday from the Governor-General urging
our commissioner to send out men on cemele, or in any
other practicable or impracticable way to obtain infer-
matior. At Simla the residents were set adrift—it is
feared to starve—after being plundered of everything.
While here we bave daily to send out escorts 20, 30, or
40 miles to bring in parties of Europeans who have con-
cealed themselves. Only the night before last about 30
were thus rescued from Jaunpore, 3o miles off. All
bore had a most narrow escape—Mr. Reuchter, wife,
and four children, Mr. Caesar and wife, of the Church
mission, were among them. All have escaped, with the
loss of all things. Last night another m scort went out
to bring in about the same number from a place 20 miles
distant, and Chunar and Al aliabai likewise arc the re-
sort of numbers of fugitives. All this will, of course, in-
terfere with the mission work for a loeg time to exile.
Happily thus far it has been simply a soldier's question.
All the respectable and influential natives stand firmly by
the G ivernmeet, and only a few of the voret characters
have joined in plundering. In Benares, I believe,
we are safe. The rebels have no auunenition, no cen•
non, and not maey muskets, and besides are destitute of
leaders. In addition to this they are rot united, and
have no common object to aim at. Mo,t of the disaf-
fected troops disperse and go home, and the only tiro
points towards which any numbers converge are Oude
and Delhi. In Bewares, too, the measures taken were
so vigorous and deciAive that the troupe flid panic
stricken, and to tide time have scarc,ly recovered their
composure. It is not the &Toys we have now to fear so
much as the lawless plundering mob that this state of
acarchy must produce. We stay with Dr. Lagaoa dur-
ing the day and sleep in the street just opposite at night.
Our house is quiet, but being so near the city and out of
cantonments it is not thought desirable at preselit, to re-
to it."

Eight days later, via Bombay, be adds the fol-
lowing important communication :
" Excep'ing Muizapore, thirty miles distant, and
Ghez spore, forty miles off every military station within
a radius of 100 or 150 miles, has been invaded by mutiny
and bloodshed. In some cases the iejury to life and pro-
perty has been comparatively trifling, in others moat se-
vere. Azimgurgh 30 miles off, Juanpore 35, Allahabad
70, Futreporo 140, Gorrackpore 120, Luckisow, Sultan-
poore, and indeed every place loca'ing troops that I can
call to mind, within a radius of 200 miles (with the two
exceptions before mentioned) has been the scene of
mutiny and disorder. At many of these stations the
revolt took place after ours at Benares, and c ins; quently
tended to keep alive the agitation and alarm felt here.
All these tumults have been 'followed by a cerresponding
state of lawlessness and disorder in the surrounding vil-
lages, and to this hour vast tracts of the surrounding
country are a prey to plunder, rieting, and bloodshed.
We have, however, reason to hope the worst is
passed. The mutinies ling ant'cipated are over.
They have fled like a passing storm, leaving indeed
unmistakeable traces of their progress, but inflicting
much less damage, and exhausting themselves
much sooner than we expected. We have no longer the
Sepays to fear. They have mutinied, plundered, and de.
camped, and it is now only the lowest class of heartless
plunderers who have to be keptin check. A few troops
are sufficient for this purpose, and had we only a thou-
sand or t wo of English soldiers, in another month through
out the division scarce a trace of the outbreak would be
left. In Bsnares we had an &freest miraculous escape
but in the city the most perfect order has been preserved.
The surrounding virages were given up to plunder; but
a few native cavalry (about 100 who have remained firm)
under European control are rapidly bringing them into
order. The effect of martial law hats been almost magi-
cal. The natives are peculiarly skilled in quibbling, have
a decided turn for litigation and find i; very easy to
epospe punishment under our system of criminal juris-
prudence. And even in the last extremity they have an
appeal to the Sudder Court, a court which has the re-
putation of possessing a decided leaning towards the
convicted, and of being peculiarly ingenious in detecting
technical grounds for their acquittal. So that the usual
process of law is no very great terror to the Badmashes,
as they are called. But now to be caught plundering in
,the morning, tried the same hour, and executed before
noon, strikes them with amazement and terror ; and a
few severe examples having been made, the effect is most
salutary. Indeed, the very sight and name of a Euro•
pean soldier strikes the natives with the greal riot dread,
and a dozen Europeans have, more than once,
travelled forty or fifty miles, dispersed mobs num-
bering thousands, and brought in safely large parties
of ladies and children. So far as I can learn, order has
been restored at most of the large stations around
us, and we only need to garrison each of them with a
few troops to restore things to their former state. Ara-
habed Fort is now quite safe, bring occupied by 600
English troops, the Sikhs having been sent out to watch
the city. At present, about the only quarter from which
we have reason to apprehend anything is Oude. From
the latest accounts, Sir H. Lawrence. maintained his po-
sition in Lucknow, but report states that the rest of the
kingdom is disorganised, and large bodies of men are
menacing Luckno w. Agra, up to the last date, 9th or
12th of the month, was quiet, but nothing up to the 9th
had been done before Delhi. Two native regiments that
had mutinied in the Coramander-in-Chief's camp were
destroyed ahno 1 to a man."
" P. 5.—1 reopen this to say that, since writing the
above, authentic intelligence has been received of the
defeat of the rebels before Delhi, and the recapture of
the city. I have not yet learned the particulars, but the
news boa come by telegraph from 'adore, 600 miles dis-
tant from Benares, and about 300 from Bombay. This
would indicate quiet in the regions through which the
line passes, and most soon be followed bythe restoration
of the whole telegraphic communication between here
and Bombay, an advantage the value of which can scarcely
be over-rated. The fall of Delhi, though late, is in time
to break the neck of the rebellion, and will doubtless
have a very salutary effect. Hundreds of zemindars and
many rajahs, and others, were temporising, and just
waiting for sufficient indications of weakness in Govern-
ment to enable them to join the rebels with impunity.
They will now pause, and, no doubt, many of them will
besome suddenly loyal, and very earnest in the restora-
tion of order, and afterwards make great capital out of

it as an indication of their steadfast attachment to the
British Government, and of their fidelity in the hour of
peril." " J. G."
It will be seen that Mr. Gregson corroborates
the intelligence derived by the public prints
from. other sources of the fall of Delhi. The
last despatch from General Barnard rec:iverl in
this coun'ry is dated the Bth of June, so that this
intelligence may probably be true.
Mr. Lawrence, writing from Monghir, on the
16th of June, says :

" Yesterday there was a very great alarm felt by
most parties, natives, as well as Europeans, in c inse-
quenee of a report that the irregular cavalry at Do; g-
har had murdered their officers, and intended coming to
Monghir to rob the treasury. TliC Europeans, who are
rather numerous just now, formed themselves hits par-
ties, and with loaded guns, pistols, etc., kept watch in
turn all night. As our quarter cf the station is deserted
by Europeans, we thought it right to go to a friend's
house in the fort. But lam thankful to say, the night
passed quietly, and the native town seems peaceful this
morning, but trembling with excitement. Official infor-
mation has been received by the magistrate, that three
officers of the irregular cavalry have been murdered, but
the men of the regiment deny that they had any hand in
the murder. The circumstances, however, laok ex-
tremely suspicious. , These are alarming times, but the
Lord can keep his people in peace."
The Rev. J. Thomas furnishes us with the f3l-
- letter, dated Calcutta, June 19, 1857 :

" In Calcutta we have had serious &arms, and have
assuredly great cause for thankfulness that we are alive
and able to attend to our duties. Last Sabbath-lay (he
14t1) was a day to be long remembered. From an early
hour in the morning conveyances in large numbers were
passing our house. This continued all the forenoon, and
indeed, more or less, all day. People were crowding to
the hotels and other places, and great numbers went on
board ships lying in the river. We were urged to follow
the example, but I declined, as I did not consider
there was so great danger as many imaginer],
and, at the same time, did not think there was any
place where we should be more secure from harm
than our own house. I, however, considered it ex•
pedient to do what I could to be prepared for any
emergency, and arranged with some of our neighbours
that in case anything occurred, my house might 1 e made
the common rendezvous where we might protect our-
selves and our families.
"The cause of all this alarm was the detection of a
spy, seeking to tamper with a sentinel at the fort, and
the discovery of an intended rising of the native troops
at Barrackpore, at four o'clock on Sabbath morning.
This discovery occasioned considerable activity in send-
ing \out European troops, and this led to all sorts of
horrible surmises as to what had taken place at Barrack-
pore, and what was to be done in Ca'outta. We were
assured earlf4on Sabbath moronic, that two regiments
bad bolted from Barrackpore with their arms, and were
on their way to Calcutta.

" The intention to mutiny was undoubted, but, being
discovered, it did not take place; but orders were forth-
with given to assemble more European troops at Bar-
rackpore, and disarea the three native regiments which
were there. This was done without opposition, at about
five o'clock in the afternoon, and, at the same time, wlsat
native soldiers were in Calcutta were also disarmed, ex-
cept the Governor-General's Body Guard. I learned
these facts between seven and eight o'clock p.m., and
therefore, to a great extent, was relieved of all appre-
hension. Many others were not so favoured, and spent
the night in a painful state of excitement.

"tie trial of the spy on Sabbath morning led to im-
portant discoveries. He proved to be one of the King
of Glade's people, and it was ascertained that that gen-
tleman and his party had to do with our troubles.
Measures were, therefore, with great secrecy and care
taken to apprehend that personage and all his party ; and
this was effected during the night, or very early on Mon
day morning. ,They were caught in their beds. I under-
stand a great number of important documents have been
seized. They are said to implicate not a few, and show
the whole of these, mutinous risings, &c., to have been a
Manned thing. It is, as I have long felt confident, a
Mussulman plot, the object being not only to overturn
the British rule in India, but to destroy all Christians,
and root out Christiaeity from the country. You may,
however, be pretty sure that Runsia has had a hand in
it. I hope God will not only confound all their projects
and disappoint their hopes, but bring the parties forth
to the light, and ove-rule these terrible events to esta-
blish the British dominions in India on a firmer basis
than ever. I cannot think that God will allow the wcrk
his servants have, with so much prayer, commenced to
be rendered null and void. I cannot think that he will
not arise and avenge the blood of his servants—or that
India wilt be again given over into the hands of the
vengeful Mussulman. We must wait for Providence to
unfold His purposes. We are praying for the down-
fall of Delhi, and longing-to get authentic news of
the event. We have had all but certain news of the
death of our dear brother Mackay, and I have ceased
to entertain the least hope that Mrs. Thompson and
her daughters have escaped. My ntxt door neigh-
bours are related to them, and they have received a
fearful account of the barbarous manner in which
they were murdered. It is stated that net one Christian,
white or black, has been suffered to l►ve at Delhi.

" The Mue.sulmans have been for some time past, cal-
culating a pretended prophecy that the British rule was
to last 100 years ; but, by some means a valuable
addition had been tacked on to the prophecy to the
effect, that if the people shouli rise everywhere against
us this year they would succeed in destroying or driving
out of the country alt the English, but that, if they from
any cause should fail to do this, the British rule Will
last 500 years longer. We are now close on the cente-
nary of the battle of Eassey, and many expect that a
desperate attack will then be made. If we get safely
over that day and the next, we may hope for quiet—
should authentic news come that Delhi is taken, and its
king either killed or a prisoner, and espeCiallY if the
Nawab of Moorshedabad, and a few others, who are
said to be implicated, be also laid hold of, the Mussel-
mans will hardly venture to give much trouble."
From a letttJ• flora the Rev. C. B. Lewis, dated
Calcutta, June 19, we glean the following further
particulars :
"I do not think, however, that even from the news-
papers any true conception of the fearful alarm which has
been 'felt in Calcutta can be gathered. The reports of the
atrocities committed at Meerut, Delhi, and Allahabad,
have taught us wbat we might look for if Sepoys and
Budm Ashes should get the upper haud here,
and having discovered that we are a mere handful
of people amidst millions of cool friends or
bitter enemies, there has been quite a panic. The
terror reached its height on Sunday last (the 14th),
when a prayer meeting was held at the Circular-road
Chapel, instead of the.ordinary morning service, and
there was no Sabbath school or evening service of any
kind. The usual week services also have been given up
this week. Oa the same day there was a general flight
of European residents from, the suburbs, and especially
Entally. Crowded garees'-'aied Coolies, oppressed with
bulky loads of bedding, Might be seen rushing into the
city at headlong speed. Nor did those who dwelt in
Park-street or Chowrieghee feel more safe in their man-
sions. Numbers took refuge in the ships which, on Sun-
day night, Were crowded. As for us, we had removed
on Saturday evening to our friends, the Rowe's. I sup-
pose we shall continue to Sleep Elliott Rowe's until
some day atter- the 23d (Are anniversary and centenary
of Plessey). Tile cause for such extreme terror on the
14th was that there was reason to apprehend that the
Sepoy regiments at Barrackpore intended.to march upon
Calcutta at four o'cleck a.m. of that day. This is con-
fidently believed hero by nearly all. Toe, seditious plan
was somehow discovered and measures were taken to
frustrate it. The 78th Highlanders were sent iu from
Chinsurab, and a strong party of European troops from
,Fort William. Other parties were stationed at Cex's
Bungalow, on the Barrackpore road, and at Dumdum.
And small bands of men were posted here and there
in the city. If, therefore, the treacherous fellows had
done as they intended they would have been cut up t>
a man ; but the most absurd rumours were spread
and the panic was intense. On Monday morning his
Majesty the ex-King of Oude was seized and carried
int the fort, and report says that his brother of Moor-
shedabad is to be brought into the same safe keeping.
The Sepoys at Barrackpore and all in Calcutta and
Dumdum were quietly disarmed on Sunday evening.
They are now entrusted with the ramrods of their mus-
kets and I think there can be no cense for alarm. It
will be some time, however, before the confidence once
felt is fully restored.
" Dacca has been restless, and a panic arose there.
At Jessore there are some suspicious appearances. A
rising of the Ferazees is not unlikely, as Doodoo Meah ie
in prison at Alipore. You will be glad to know that
many of the life priJonere at Alipore have been shipped
off to the Mauritiue. Would they were all far off from
Calcutta. The Suddar has ieflicted serious injury on
us in respiting so many rascals. The first move has
generally been to release the prisoners when a mutiny
has arisen, and this was intended at Calcutta—or rather
Alipore."