The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON, i IIURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6

also fired at the carriays taking the la lies to the
Mint, but without injury.
" June 11.—Jaunpore has been pillaged of its
treasure by the detachment of Sikhs there, and
we hear that two of the civil servants have I eery
murdered. We hear that Cawnpore is like Benar,e
in a state of siege, an I Allahabad the s awe ; at.
the latter place there has been sad mu& cling of
our poor fellow-countrymen. Indigo planters
have come in escaping with their lives frotn their
factories, which have been attacked icy straggling
bends of the mutineers, and they say that the.
bad bloods in all the villages are up and gle.e:ly
of our money and one lives. At Berrires ai l s quit,
but the European forge there has been weakened i-py
detachments sent elsewhere. Really the pe,plexi-
ties are fearfully involved. Three native regiments
have volunteered to go up to Delhi against the re-
bels. Government have trusted then, and sent one
regiment to Mirzapore and one to Benares. And
now we.have two practical pro rfs that such offers
are not to he trusted. Toe 37th, at Beuares, made
the same offer, a) did a regiment at Luckuow, anl
no sooner were they a few miles out of the city
than they shot their officere and went off. We have
heard this morning that last Thursday, the day of
our flight, it was appointed at 10 p m. to murder
all the Europeans, and it was Providence alone
which guided our brigadier to alit icipAe
the attack
by di.arming the 37th. Some of the 37th have
confessed to their othce'-s that they lrid been told
out in bands for. several bungalows ; and that, too,
at the time they ware volunteering to go to Delhi,
and Col Sp Itiswoude was 'sylking ahout among
thenain plain clothes tsitli the-mast inplicit-cenli-,
deuce .
• • • I have no doubt of the

final issue •ot this. gre4 strugg'e. Disorganised
Sepoys can n!Ever stAnd,:against our fine .fellows ;
but, probably, for some weeks there will be un-
certainty, and much individual loss and suffering,

both among unprotected Europeans and wealthy
natix e 4.

" And now I haVe a tale of fearful horrors to
tell you of what happened at Allahabad. Got
grant it may be exaggerated ; I fear it is too true.
LA it stir up our En:aish friends to send us, with
the utmost expedition, tjo troops we so urgently
require. On Saturday evening last the 3d Oude
Cavalry and 6th Native Infantry rose, and de-
And murdered every
S °
Et'ur3o'peaeatnbethberyidcgoetile-rd find.boat, Out of 17 officers at
mt sa at 9.30, fourteen of them were butchered by
9.40 by the mutineers and mess-guard. And this is
a regiment that volunteered.to go agalnat the Dtlhi
r. bell ! Many of the poor residents had left the fort,
on account of the in' ense heat and apparent security
of everything. The mob and Cutthroats rose with
the soldiery. They burnt one ‘31.01e family, from
grandfather to grandchildren, alive! Others they
then the ears,
iitkiiitletllneedfiihinjygnioinl ;r:e:nttehs
babes
—before
ehtlioe
mother's eyes,
nos
they killed—
and then killed her. . . • And such might have
heen our case at Benares, had not o,tr officers pro-
id.,ntialy anticipated the bloody plot of Thursday
the 4th. Happily Mr. and Mrs. spry and the mis-
sionaries are safe in the fort. Our gallant fellows
have sallied and retaken two of the guns, but two
bro still in the enemy's hands, and, as there are a
good many Sikha on duty in the fort, we are still
anxious. To-day we have heard ih-ra havebe,n two
fights at Agra, but we have no particulara. You
will be glad to heur that tile Reuthers, with Mr. J.
Caesar, the' catechist, and his wife, are safe in Be-
nares. On the 4 h the discomfited mutineers from

Bemares set off for Juanpore. At 8 a.m. on the sth
two or three indigo plinters rode at full speed into
the Reuth ors' compound, saying Fly for your lives,
the sepoys ero upon us !' They hurried of to the
oteberry, where all the r, sidents were assembled.
The 37th lira came up, and seem to have been afraid
to attack them. Meanwhile Mr. Caesar wai walking
with C spt. Mara, who commanded the troops at
Juanpore. Mr. Coosa'. said, The 37th are upon
us.' The 37th !' said Capt. Mar', what have we
to fear from the 37th; our own men will keep them

off.' Mr. Ccesar had bcarcely lefthlin.whea he was
struck by a ball from the Sikhs, staggered a few
steps, and fell. f.:lt seems the Sikhs were afraid to
rob the treasury till they had shot their officer.
Then they began to pillage, and the reiidentitook

that opportunity to be off. , Before they went the
Sikhs i,ad come q and fired iu at all the windows
of the Kuteheri y. and they were obliged to lie down
on the floor, the bullets whizzing over their heads.
-1471 :'`VATINFihWthe magistrxte, Mr. Onppage, lying
dead in front of tit, gaol door. After most had

escaped up came the Sowars, on whom we had been
relying for our lives at Benares until the arrival of
the English troops. They hen vowed to murder
every European. Theycame to the deputy-co!lector,
an old East Indian. Both liindoos and Mussulmans
got around him and said, Do him no barn; he has
always been kind and just to 1.13." Can't help it,'
said the So wars, he is a European.' They then
repeated this to a sergeant and his wife, though the
people
pleaded for them, and said they were very
kind and inoffensive. ' Cant help it, they are
Europeans.' Providentially the refugees did not
take the Benares road, or t.'ey wo.ild have been
cut off, man, woman, and child, by these blood-
thirsty savages. They drove toZjufferabad, and there
got on board a native boat to go down the Ganges.
They had not got down far whet the boatmen,
native like, turned against, the Sahibs in their dis-
tress, and refused to convey them beyond a certain
village. There they landed thew, and they repaire I
to the police-office, and the Benares magistrate,
..
with a party of volunteers and English soldiers,
escorted them to Benares. Their flight lasted five
days. • . At Allahabad the city had revolted
and hoisted the green flag. This makes one think
that it is at the b Atom a conspiracy of our deadliest
foes, the Mussulmans, and that they have got hold
of the cartridge delusion as a means to stir up the
Hindoos. No doubt the annexation of Oude vexed
them unspeakably, and now Oude seems to be the
rallying point, and doubtless we shill have to con-
quer,
again. Sir H. Lawrence is now command-
Mg there, and has intrenched himself in a very
but, strong position
pyosoiftiporon
provisions
s ickwir dri'vfreohmini• In that case,
. h
nothing
to Cawnpore,
which, when I last heard, was secure, but in a state
of siege. The European troops from Ouie are di-
vided between Lucknow and CaSV[TI imagine, he would fight his way
ore ; and as
soon as the rebels are quashed at Allahabad I
doubt not European troops will be constantly pass-
ing on to Cawnpore, whence they can relieve Luck-

now.
" June 16—The best public news
I have beard
is that the Chinese expedition has been intercepted,
and the troops landed at Calcutta. This is a great
addition to our strength in the most critical hour
of the history of British India. English troops are
constantly arriving at Benares; some to remain,
most to pass on. Martial law is proclaimed. at
Benares, and all disturbers of the public peace are
hung after a court-martial ; sixes and tens have
been hung every day—an awfully severe measure,
bnt perfectly necessary to. restrain the thirst for
plunder and blood which is abroad. The fort at Al-
lababad is now held entirely by English troops and
the last news of Cawn pore and Agra (June 6) was
favourable. I hear to-day of the mu my ef another
regiment, the 12th Native Inj'autry, at Jhans;, and
also that the cavalry of the hajah of Bhurtpoor has
joined the rebels. This is very bad news ; it looks
like the country turning against, us. It is rumoured
that the Native Contiegent of Geneial Ansou's
Army, when advancing on Delhi, showed sighs of
disaffection and that the poor old General gave this
thoekaetn
once
energy
openeda the guns on themn d decision before his d, ath, that
charged with ttm Englsh Cavalry, and l' and then
I eft scarcely
a man alive !
" I am now writing on the 17th. We have news
that Delhi has fallen and 7,000 people 'men ki!t-e-i,
but it requires confirmation. Agra, all right to the
th. Anodier European ma'fiacr,, at Saltiinppis, in
Oilde, and we are anxious ltst tie rebels makeThead
there and come down upon some of our neighbour-
ing stations.
"June 18. —liieutenant Constable, an old school-
fellow, has just paid us a. visit. lie was one of the
es. He gave a
whose revolt at
Aoffizicnegrhs :11 tchtue sle7dt houNraptainveicltlittfalijetnryar,
very liVely account ot the whole affair. They were all
at mess, and had the ladies with .them. All of a
Ell Iden two signal guns were heard on the Parade,
sLarrtn(L.tihaetyelv to the
In this instance they
the top of it. The
knew the
andK regiment
lte thouhorwhirr
aas uldl
pv
They
the put thhe eye
fleddni
tls
on
romantice.
officers,(' id they not only
soldiers came up with such an outcry that you could
They formed a
not hear your own 1-
begelkalaavreednwmiltdh
their
would not touch, but would proteA them, only that
there were some of the mutineers who had sworn
the death of particular officers, and therefore they
begged the whole party to take their carriages and
be eff at once. But how are we to get our
carriages,' said they, see ng that they are scat-
tered all through
.the station ?" Ah ! we will
fech them,' said the Sepoys ; and an they did, and
gave the party an escort for ten miles out of the
station on the road to .Gliazeepore. It has been
remarked that, to complete the romance, they ought
to have offered the officers a month's pay out of the
treasure they were plundering. But, already one

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of the doomed viciicas fell a s Lel i;L;e. A Sepoy,
with two lbaded nauske!s, walked up to about ten
feet of the QtvirtermaSter (I thiLk h 3 name was
IlutAiitishn), and shot him dead on the spot. The
rest esc iped, w:th noth:ng but the clothes on their
backs. To ;day we have news that the ex-King of
Oude has been disodvered intriguing at Oalcutt
and imptis:.ned, and all h's numerous folloWers
; a'so three nv:ro na,ive ments have been
disarme I at Calcut a, as it was discovered that they
had made a phut get Fury WidiAtn into their
hands. Two of these, the 25th and 70th had volun-
teeted to go to Delhi, and we were t 3 have been
favoured with the protection of the 25th at Be-

flares. The army seems rotten to the core, and a
day would be rather flat without the news of some
fresh mutiny. It is truly a troublous time ; and
what is tee origin of all this ? and what to be the
end ? It seems to me more and nu xe plain that
Mahommedan influence and intrigue is at the bot-
tom of it. Delhi, the seat of the Mogul empire,
was the first rallying point ; and now the r.laelt
seem gyrating round Lucknow, the calital of the
lass annexed- Mabomnedan. power. Before I left
for England,' in 1855, the Mahominedans were
circulating inflammatory tracts. Probably, they
simply took advantage of the cartridge question to
rouse the Hindoos. The lights of the Uncle pies-
lion I most leave Mr. Mirshman and Major Bird
to support before the English public. My impression
is that God has been pl. ased so to order it that semi-
barbarees natiena in dose contact with one highly
civilised must either reform themselves or be taken
in hand by the advanced neighbour as a measure
of self-preservation. has refused the former,
and is now subject t a the later ; and of the bless-
ings of English rule to such an wterly vicious state
of society as that of Oude no unprejudiced mind
can have a doutet. What is to be the end T The
Almighty Ruler alone knows. We can only judge
from present appearance!. As yet I hear of 110
head to the rebels, but various elements of discord.
Immense plunder must create divisions and inter-
nal quarrels.' Hindoos and Mahommedans may
.coalotce for a short time to murder and plunder the
S ihibs, kept such utterly uncongenial elements can-
rot remain in permanent fusion. Already I hear-
that both the Hindoo and IVlohamedan standiris
are flying at Allthabad in the rebel camp, and I
cannot forget that it was the raging tide of religi-
ous contention between the Hindoos and Menial-
-mans which male our interference in Oude and its
annexation necessary. Will they not fight with
each- other now that the supreme power is once
more, as they think, the prize in their reach? Iris
a great mercy that our border rivals have not as
yet come down upon us in our trouble.. If Dost
Mahoined and his Affghans rushed again through
the Khyber Pass, or Jung Bahadar led his Nepau-
lese to join the insurgents in Oude, and assumed
the ceminand, I doubt if oven our fortified positions
could hold out unless our English army rapidly in-
creases. Meanwhile the elements of discord I have
noticed, and the constant acc-ssion of Eurcipean
troops, and the terror their appearance everywhere
inspires, are grounds for trus:iug that in 6 menths
the North-west Provinces will have been reconquer-
ed, arid. the British rule be firmer than eve-. Go I
grant it may be • so. And more we should
pray that He may show us the cause of such a
tremendous judgment. The Crimea was nothing to
it. •Ea„gland does net refuse her bast blood in the
cause of right and justice, but there it has bean
spilt in flo.als by the lurking knife of traitorous
vililans. Oh, how our hearts,—how your hearts
will bleed when all the horrible details come to

light, and your churches are again bta,rk with
mourning ! In one respect the parallq between
this and the Crimea, does not exist—viz., that in
that case there was as much and more bereave-
ment sustained by the lower clas?es than by the
upper ; whereas hero it is almost wholly confined
to the upper. Jam now writing on the 19th. We_
have as yet no official confirmation of tha fall of
Delhi, but I am sorry to say there is another re-
port, which is that Cawirpore is attacked by
.a
large force of the rebels, and though stilt h
out, our dear countrymen had been fighting for
four days. As fast as troops can be got up from
Allahabad, those already there will be marched
up to relieve Cawnpore, if it can mtuage to hold
out. If this news be true, it makesit more than
ever prob tble that Bewares will yet be the scene
of a sanguinary conflict ; f ir if they get Beuares,
Allahabad would be cut off, and probably the fort
at Allahahrld worilddetr- them from attempting it.