The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

JUBBULPORE.
The following letter is from a lady attached to
the 52d Regiment :

c‘ Jubbulpore, July 17.

"We are in a kind of intrenchtal camp. All
Jubbulpore, at least all the gentry—assembled at
Major Erskine's house, which has been strongly
fortified and defended in every possible way. It
is a fine large house, fortunately, for there are 16
ladies, 15 children, and 30 gentlemen in it'now.
Soon after the first sad mutinies at Meerut and.
Delhi our regiment showed symptoms of excite-
ment, and we had several alarms. One day a
Sepoy tried to stab Mr. Miller on parade. The
native officers behaved well, and seized him. It
turns out that he has on several occasions been
mad, so on that plea he has been sent away into
keeping. Another morning we were all roused out
of our beds and told to hasten to Major Sleeman's
house, as our regiment was going to mutiny, but
it was a false alarm. Colonel Jamieson still hopes
we shall get through this terrible crisis without a
mutiny, but a great deal of humouring and diplo-
macy has been needed, and we dare not say we are
safe. We have two companies on guard here every,
night,ontside, and we have guards at all our bun-
galowai• and all is going on quietly ; but so did the
6th Native Infantry at Allahabad, and yet they
turned at last and murdered their officers. You
will have heard, perhaps, that your poor cousin,
Mr. Innes, was one of the victims. Poor fellows,
it was very awful ; the wretches murdered them at
mess ; and had not those on guard in the fort been
summarily disarmed there would have been a fear-
ful massacre of all there, both ladies and children.
Poor Mrs. H had only been married a fort-
night. Her husband was one of the victims. The
whole station of Allahabad is in ruins. But allthis,
sad though it be, is nothing compared to the
terrible murders. The wretches have not spared
innocent women and children—monsters of
cruelty. Even ladies are getting quite hardened.
I really think I did feel a pleasure iu seeing hun-
dreds of the rebels killed at --- and Meerut. Some
poor ladies and children were most brutally mur-
dered at Jbansi. It was fearful. First the
ladies saw their husbands shot, then the innocent
children cut up before their eyes, and then, and
not till then, their own fate. What fearful times
we live in I We cannot say our throats are safe
from day to day. How lucky you are to be out of
it all l Oh that we were safe in Old England ! I
shall never feel happy in this country again, at
least so I think now. Our Resident, Major
is most kind, and tries to make us all as comfort-
able as possible. I have a small room with Mrs.
B. and Mrs. W— and three young H—'s ;
plenty of noise. We have not much comfort, as
you may imagine. All our mess establishment is
here, and we form a large party. At Sanger, the
42d have gone ; the 31st remained stanch ; the
50th, at Nagode, remain as yet stanch. Our safety
depends much on Saugor and Nagode keeping
quiet. All ladies are ordered into places of safety,
and at one time it was half settled to send us all off
to Mirzapore, but the heavy rains and the unsettled
state of the country rendered it impracticable.
Some poor ladies are very nervous. I have not
been so as yet, and sleep very soundly. We have
officers on guard and patrol all night, and we are
not allowed to go out of the compound without
leave.
"Poor Dr. Mawe's fate and poor Mrs. M.'s
sufferings have been sad indeed. She is now safe
at Major Ellis's house at Nagode. The 12th
mutinied at Nougaon, and all had to fly. They
were trying to make their way to Saugor. Vil-
lagers rose, and they were attacked by a large body
of Dacoits. Took to their horses. There wore
three females. The party was hunted from village
to village. Poor M., who had been ill at Nougaon,
was at last fairly done for—his horse shied, he and
his wife fell off; and were left to die. Poor
wrote a heart-rending account two days ago of
Mrs. M. She is now safe at Nagode and her child
—little Lotty. Poor M. died soon after the fall.
Poor J. crept away and sat in a tomb to hide her-
self ; villagers found her, robbed her of her guard
,ring, and dragged her into the village.
" Two miles off the Nawab of Banda, hearing of
a lady in distress, sent an elephant and guard for
her, and when she reached Banda she bad the
happiness of finding Lotty safe with Captain Scott
and some of the other officers ; this was a ray of
comfort for her, poor soul, but she writes as if
she was distraught, and is, poor thing, daily ex-
pecting a premature confinement. My heart bleeds
for her. Yesterday Mrs. H. made up a large pack-
age of clothes for Lotty and herself ; we put in all
we thought would he useful and sent it off. There
are only two ladies left in Nagode. Every one
flying to Calcutta. Major E. heard of Sir H. Law-
rence's death ; a terrible report that Sir H. Wheeler
died in garrison, basely murdered. Major Wiggens
we suppose gone. Mrs. W.'s name is mentioned as
being killed again. Poor Mrs. Wiggens we hear
die I from sickness ; also it is said the Nena Sahib
has kept upwards of 100 host egos.
" We are expecting a movab'e column of troops
here in about a fortnight from Kampteo and Nag-
pore. A portion of our regiment will go with them
to retake Nougaon, Jhansi, and Hisser, burn vil-
lages, and execute vengeance on all marauders and
rebels they cm meet. Major E is going, also
two artillery officers, Mr. 0— and B—, t .vo
subalterns, and 180 men ; 40 men were sent off the
other day on some expedition. Our garrison will
be greatly weakened, losing about eight or nine
officers. It is expected the party will be away some
months. I conclude we must remain here until the
country becomes more settled. This evening we
are expeeti g some additions to our party from
Nursingpore. I fear you will find this an inco-
herent epistle. lam writing under difficulties."

tINDORE.
Tho followir.v, is an extract of a letter from Lieu-
tenant A. R. Hutchinson, Bheel, agent an I Politi-
cal Assistant to the Governor-General at Bhopawur,
Indore, clearly proving Holkar's fidelity :
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" Mhow Fore, July 26.

" Oh the Ist July thelrocitos atindore revolted.
The Resident and most of the English inhabitants:
'efected their escape ; but the clerks of the telegraph'
department and in the offices, with their families,.
Buffo-red fearfully ;31 Christians were murdered in
cold blood. The details of this revolt I have not
Leird. On the 2d July, at 3 p.m., a servant
of Colonel Stockiey's arrived- braathlels from In-
dore with the awful news that Holkar had turned
against us, and that the European residents had
been murdered. My escort, consisting of 30 men
of the Bheel cops, was in itself insufficient fur any
defencei;so I determined to take them to Indur-
pore, and there to make a st tnd. I accordingly
left dear Bhopawur with my wife and child for In-
durpore. It-was a trying hour, but we committed
ourselves to God. At Indurpore wo found people
in the greatest alarm and excitement. 'The men—
about
200 of the Bheel corps—seemed determined
to defend the station with their lives ; so,' after
wri ing to. the Resident at Baroda for a;d, we re-
fret' for the night. At 2 a.m. of the 3d I was
awoke by au expresi from Maar to say that some
Mahomedan troops there had revolted, and were
marching in force for the destruction of Bhopawur.
I went to the lines to ascertain the temper of the
men, but to my bitter disappointment there were
only some 30 left, and these by their manner`
seemed anything but willing to defend us. Seeing
this, we had nothing left but to disguise ourselves
and fly. Accordingly, at 4a. in. of the 3d Mrs.
Stockley, four children, and an ayah got into a
common,- eve-carte C—, baby, myself, and ayah
into inather, Dr. Chisholm on horseback, and we
left Indurpore with the intention of making for the
Jabwa territory.
" I hoped to reach Para at nightfall, wherei had
ordered my servants to meet me. We travelledall
day, which was, most fortunately, cool, At:2
p.m. we halted to rest. As we started two men
virecaeme from the village Charawna to inquire who we
• Our servants said we were Parsee mer-
chants going to Baroda. On we went again, and
at 8 p.tre we we
of horse and foot had just
by the news that a party
;itd just arrived from Amjheera.
.ourfor capture.
desertedt
this terrible news all Mrs.-
S—'s servantsher, but ours remained
with up. e, Dr. Chisholm and myself determined to
keep watch, and to
defend ourse.lv9 to the last.
We passed a terrible night ; but God had mercy
upon us and brought us deliverance from our ene-
mins, for
the nightthe Itheels
during the
gave the alarm ZetzentenaLtZt
Jabwa territory)
station, and daylight saw a party of horse from
Para, under Soojan Singh, who rescued u. and tool;
us to Pora ; however, to satiety the Ainhe,,a
people, he insisted on our sh?veing. what property
we had. Our carts were accordingly searched. /
ordered a horseman to go to Jabwa, and to ac-
quaint the chief with our situation ; se_e_weinntont,i
Pura. At 4 p.m. ade p uta ti on- r4ved.,fro Jabwa
to escort us to that place. The-head man. of a vil-
lage where we halted gave us his own dinn_er.,‘an.44
we started again-at 10 p.m., escorted by 100 Johl 'el •
We rested for the night at the hut of a liquor
vendor. Early in the morning I overheard th
Bheels talking among themselves in a most mur-
derous strain. I jumped up, and awoke the peoplel
telling them it was time to start. We got off again
and reached Jabwa early on the sth inst., and re
ceived a kind welcome from the young Rajab,
assigned us one of his palaces for our residence, and
sent us dinner from his own table. We passed six
dreary days here,_ without clothes, or books, or any
news. However, I was soon assured that Holkar
had not turned against us, and I at once resolved
to return to Indore or Bhopawur. ,On the B,h the
young Rajah received a letter from Holkar, threat-
ening vengeance should any insult be offered us,