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London, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

pore mutineers than that they are still at Banda.
But, as confirmatory of the suspicions entertained
by Scindiah, as I told you in my last, regarding the
temptations held out to his mutinous contingent to
move upon Banda—temptations urged by Santeea
Soopay, agent of Nana Sahib—and of the report
that the Nana himself was in the neighbourhood,
I note the report that the Gwalior Contingent has
moved off from its cantonments to the eastward.
This is well worthy of observation. I shall not be
surprised to hear of the Nana being ere long at the
head of the combined bodie3 of mutineers in the,e
parts. Holkar has not yet been relieved (I write of
him as sn innocent mar, which, in my belief—l may
alnao3t say to my knowledge—he is) of the incubus
of his insolent and mutinous soldiery. But for them
a day of retribution is at hand. I mentioned in my
last the half of the Mhow column when on the
point of marching for Indere, on account of dis-
turbances near Dhar. Since then it has marched
upon that town, beaten the enemy who protected
it, occupied the town itself, and was prepared to
storm the fort, when the enemy evacuated it
during the night. Nov, both the force at
Aurungabad and that of the Hyderabad Contin-
gent at Edlabad are on their way to Mhow,
and on their arrival a strong force will at once
march on 'adore to punish and to protect. In
Rajpootana we have another murder, or series of
murders, to !egret. At Kotah the Resident, Major
Burton, and his two sons have been murdered by
the men of two of the Rajah's regiments—not of the
contingent, which you know mutinied long ago and
was engaged in the first batch of Agra. It is said to
have been a salute fired by order of the Resident on

the occasion of the fall Of Delhi that led to this
deed of violence, which must be bitterly avenged.
Of the revolted Jaudpore legion we hear little but
that it has abandoned its strong position at Awa,
and probably moved into the Shekawattee country
to the north, with the view of raising the battalion
maintained in that State. Ajmer° and Nusseera-
bad are quiet. From Neemuch we have just heard
of au unfortunate and apparently ill-managed at-
tack by the Bombay forceat the station upon a body
of rebels at Jserum, in the vicinity. It was con-
ducted, I believe, without any orders on the part of
Captain Showers, the Political, and somehow or
other was a failure. The 83d lost Captain Read
killed, and the 2d Cavalry Capt. Tucker, and five
officers were wounded. We wait for further details
of this untoward affair.

" From Saugor and Jubbulpore there is little
news. The Madras column is at the latter station,
and the fort of Saugor is in no danger unless from
the possibility of an irruption by the Dinapore and
Gwalior mutineers. The small Madras force from
Iloshungabad in these territories, of whose march
down the Net budda I spoke iu my last, attained
its object iu preventing the rebels opposite Hindia
from crossing to the southern side, and then, cross
ing itself, drove them out of the town of Nimawur,
which they had seized and grossly ill-treated, and
,ptured and banged three leaders of note—one a
deserted jamadar of police, another a self-styled
ofti.er of Scindiab.
" All is well in the Nizlin's country and in the
Madras Presidency. At Madras itself more and
more troops have arrived, and either landed
there or gone on to Calcutta. In all have arrived

the whore of the 34th (now at Chinaurah, near
Calcutta), and parts of the Royals, 38th, 19th,
42d, and 97th. One of the regiments destined for
the Madras Presidency is intended for Hyderabad
to relieve the 31 Madras Europeans, which than
goes to Kareptee ; another for Cannanore to set
tree the wing of the 74th for Bellary, where are
the heal-quarters ; another for Bangalore to relieve
the 43d, which goee to Pegu, and so on. I hear too
from an officer of the 43d, that the 7th B.ussars,
which left England for Calcutta, are nevertheless
to land at Madras, and Le sent up to Bangalore,
instead of the 12th Lancers, who will be passed up
to Secunderabad.

"The Punjaub is all quiet, still with the little
exception of the country between Lahore and Mool-
tan, where, however, the disturbance does not be-
come more serious. Scinde, too, is quite at rest.
Elsewhere in our Presidency we are, as I have said
troubLd only by the Bheels and Coolies. These
little hill men are up at various points along the
line of ghauts and in Kandeish. What has roused
them we do not yet know. They had nothing to
complain of ; on the contrary they have never been
so well off. A certain tender or disdainful pity is
felt for thee poor little remn-ints of an earlier race
and many a small cess and duty has been of late
remitted tothem. Yet that something has roused
them has been proved not only by the simultaneous
character of the outbreak, it so it may bec tiled, but
by the fact that among a party ofthem, cleverly and
speedily dispersed in the Guieowar's country near
our own border, wd caught a fat Banian, or Hindoo
trader, with a large purse, of the contents of which
he had been lavish. The Bheels therefore have, as
we may c,,nclude, been induced to rise, credulous
little fools, by the blandishments, promises, and
bribes of the Bahian and oilers. But by whom the
obese 2gent wall himself employed is what we yet
desito to knoti. The viotan.i of h;s d,lu.ivo arts
will be speedily put down. At present, however,
they are rendering the roads unsafe, and doing a
good deal of mischief.

- "No further mutinies or plots ha►e broken out or
been discovered in the ranks of the Bombay army.
Pusishments, however, have dui ing the fortnight
been inflicted cn many prisoners charged with com-
plicity in these that had prev;onsly taken place or
been detected prevented. At Ahmedabad no
fewer than 18 men of the 2d Grenadiers were exe-

cuted in one day and at one moment, three bling
shot, five blown from guns, and ten hanged. They
were all Hindostan men, and among the finest
looking soldiers in the corps. The plot in which
they were distinctly proved to have been concerned
was of the most thorough-going and bloody charac-
ter. All met their dooms without uttering a wen d.
Such has been usually the case with the mutineers,
In the executions at Kolapore no fewer than 50 men
had suffered at various times before one was found
to acc.,pt the proffered boon of life on condition uf
telling what he knew of the mutiny. Near Hindi t,
on the Nerbudda, the Madras stoops were hanging
a man when the ripe broke. He himself adjuve 1
the rope round his neck with a double turn, and
was then finally turned off. Here, in Bombay
we have had no more milit try executions. The
jemadar to whose coming trial I alluded in my last
was acquitted. Then came the trial of a soubandar
of the 11th Native Infantry, who was sentenced to
death. The Brigadier commanding confirmed the
sentence, and might under the provisions of a
recent Act of the Legislative Council, have carried
it out at once ; but, owing to what was afterwards
found to be a misconception, the papers were laid
before the Governor in Council. Lord Elphin-
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stone recorded a minute on the subject-, reviewing
the evidence, which was weaker than that in the
two former casas where capital punishment hail
been iefliLted, and deprecating the carrying out of
the capital sentence. This in.terpisition on the
part of the Governor was afterwards, oil reference
to the low officers, found to be unwarranted. The
Brigadier, however, after this expre-sion of opinion
declined the responsibilil of ordering the man for
exe ution, and corm-minted the sentence to trans-
prtation for life. Here it appears to me that he
was wrong. Filing, as he did, a.judicial position,
and havin,z pronounced for death as his solemn
judgment, he should not have been induced to with-
draw from his decision by an opinion, however re-
specta')le, which was irregularly brought before
him. And, further, I venture to think that the
resolute and honest man at the head of the Go-
vernment in this case erred. Of the sAtbandar's
moral guilt—nay more, of his being the very chief
offender, the very life of the plot, if life it can be
said to have had—there can be no doub whatever.
To such a criminal, a native officer, moreover, and
of influence among his men, the justest judge might
be pardoni-d for desiliuina to apply the nice and
teeinical rules of 1eg..l evidf nce. Certain it is that
the commutation of the sentence was received with
universal dissatisfaction by men of all manner of
minds, and is generally ascribed, though errone-
ously, to a morbid feeling of pity on the part of the
Governor.

" Reinforcements from England should be reach-
ing us ere long—the 3d Dragoon Guards, the sGth
and 72d. As we ara to have the Bth and 17th
als.o, we shall have three Dragoon regiments here,
and but few horses other than those the two latter
bring with them. Hence tenders are out for ships
to go to the Cape (where, however, they have a
murrain among the horses) and to Australia. The
head-quarters wing of the 95th arrived fcom the
Cape two days ago.
"Sir Hugh Rose is to have the Poonah Division,
the present General (Schuler) going for the re-
mainder of his term to Kurrachre to r.,place General
Scott, removed by the Horse Guards.
" Trade is lively. Symptoms of a tightness in
the money market. Exchanges on L'indon, 2s. lid.