The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPFEMBI4.R 11, 1857.

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

all in our beds, and set the houses on fire. Capt. Hayes!,
not knowing whether this was true or not, thought it
was wise to take all the precautions he could ; so he sent
to Col. Inglis (as I undrretcrod) for help, and he sent at
once a rsgiment of naive cavalry, and the 321 started
from the city for cantonments before daybreak. C—
also told me that the 32d have completely left their
barracks in the city, hospital and all. The sick have been
t.rought to the Residency, so have the women, and 'the
Residency is garrisoned by 130 men of the 32d, and by
the battery of native artillery. All the natives, wives of
civilians, who live in diff,rent parts of the city, have
come into the Residency. Some are stay'ng at Mr.
Gubleins's, some at Foyne'e, some at Mr. Ominaney's,
&c. By the Residency, I mean a pice of ground a good
dell elevated above the rest of the city, allotted by the
King of Oado, when he fist put himself under British
protection' some 50 years ago, to the British civil resi-
dents. It is wall.d round almost entirely ; on one side
native houses abut upon it, but on the other three silos
it is tolerably clear. Reads without gates in some
places connect it with the city, but it is not at all a
bad place to make a stand, certainly the hest in Luck-
now, to which it is a sort of Acropolis.' The Residency
contains the Chief Commissioner's house, Mr. Gelb-
bins's, Mr. oounaney'e, Foyne'e, the pest-office, city
hospital, electric telegraph-office, the church (last not
least), &c. You will perhaps cay, Why did not all the
32 I garrison the place, and the rest of the English retire
to it ?' I'll tell you. We-don't think the disaffected in
the oily are likely to rise unless they know that they will
be backed by the Native Infantry Regiment,. Now, if
all the 32d had gone into the . esidency, there would
have been no power to keep t, • three Native Infantry
regiments in check. But now 4: at the 821 and English
Artillery are in cantonments 2thr....e Native Infantry
regiments know that if they ~va,e ' • ti ill live to
meet the 32d and Artillery s tiiotte. 'By are five to
one and have Artillery themselves (for there is an Irre-
gular battery besides those I have mentioned), yet they
have a wholesome dread of the English. They know
that we have beaten them 10 or 20 to one before now.
Well, now, I don't think you need el irm yourself for us.
You see, the Native Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery are
kept in cheek here by the 321 and E•iglish Artillery, so
that they cannot effect a junction with the city people
without a fight for it, and they have no stomach for that
unless they are sure of being able to murder all before
them, or are led by their English officers, who of course
would all leave them. Tee English in the Residency
are tolerably well protected by their position and garri-
son, and above all we must hope and trust that that over-
ruling Providence which has so long enabled us, one to
a thousand, to govern this country will not desert us
now. At church I seid the prayer in time of war and
tumults, and so, having in public and private committed
our-elves into God's hands, and taken all possible pre-
cautien, we calmly and fearlessly await the result. My
opinion is that in a few d sys a terrible example will
have been made of the Delhi insurgents, and this,
and the precautions taken, will show the natives that
it is the wisest plan to keep still. I had service in the
city church ;it was fairly attended. After it was over
Schilling, the principal of the Martiniere, asked me what
he ha I thought he had better do. The Martiniere is a
mile out of Lucknow, on the opposite side of canton-
ment'. There was about SO boys boarding there, eight
masters, and two sergeants. There is a guard there of
six sepoys, but the worst of it is we don't know how
soon our guards may turn upon us, I advised him as
a matter of precaution to get some muskets and ammuni-
tion. We went first to Mr. Gubbins, who thought
with me, and then I drove Schilling down to canton-
ments, and went to Sir Henry Lawrence. lie offered
to give him a large guard. But I said No ;' if we
can't trust the guard the smaller it is the better. We
want to arm ourselves lest they should turn upon us.'
So Sir H. Lawrence gave him an order for 12 muskets
and ammun't:oo, and gave him authority to command
the guard, who previously were under one of their own
men. Se Schilling drove off in my buggy, and I have
not heard from him since. He intended to have all thle
boys and masters in the main building, and distribute
the sire Sepoys as much as possible. The house is very
strong ; it was built by General Martin for a palace for
the king. There is only one way to the upper part of
the main building, up a narrow staircase, where half
a dozen resolute men might defend themselves for a week
All this precaution may seem absurd, but what has hap-
pened at Meerut and Dahl shows that it is necessary.
Indeed, if there were anything like union among the
natives and a clever man at their head, all that we could
do probalAy would not prevent our being all cut off to a
man, and the English would have to reconquer the coun-
try. Things throughout India never looked so seriotut.
It may all come to an end soon, and the country be
more tranquil than ever, or we may all be murdered in
a week. I think it will be the former. Whatever hap-
pens cannot be without the of God, and Heaven,'
as the al sailor said, is as near us here as at home.'
To show you bow serious people in authority think the
state of affairs, the other day. after the mutiny in the
7th Irregaa.re had been'put down, I said laughingly to
Sir Henry Lawrence, ' Why, Sir Henry, you may have
some work cut out for you now before you go borne.'
He said, very gravely, I can assure,you it is no laughing
matter.' I heard Colonel Inglis say the same thing to
a man who was inclined to be too jocular yesterday.
" Yesterday evening I went at six o'clock to the 32d,
to give them Divine service. I found them encamped
in a mango tope about 200 yards from my house. Poor
fellows, there they had been in tents all day, the hot
wind blowing, and the thermometer at 110 ! Colonel
Inglis had been to us in the afternoon to ask us to give
up our house for the soldiers. Of course we consented,
and had begun dismantling it, when there came a mes-
sage that he had got them otherwise accommodated.
• e wanted my house because it has no thatch to be set
.• fire fad is near the Artillery. The lath have given
, • ~fir messhouse for the soldiers ; indeed, we ought
all to turn out'fiOr them if necessary, for the heat will
soon knock them up. Five went into hospital yester-
day, and tkey are, under God our only hope in case of
an outbreak. I gave the 321 part of the evening ser-
vice, and an extempore sermou on Deuteronomy, Bth
chap. 11th v., bearing on the whole chapter. They stood
in hollow square, muskets in hand. At seven was our
regular service at church. It was pretty well attended.
Many, no doubt, were afraid to come. It would, of
course, be very easy for the Sepoys to surround the
church and murder us all but it is no use being afraid of
anything, or one's life under the present circumstances
would be a burden to us. Sir H. Lawrence was there.
Now, I have told you the exact state of things, becausa
you would be sure to see in the papers something about
it, perhaps an exaggerated account. Our duty to
preach the Gospel is plain ; if it meet with opposition
we are not to be astonished, when we read what the
Bible says :—" Go ye into all the woad and preach the
Gospel to every creature: Ido not believe He will
allow our country to suffer if she faithfully tries to carry
out Christ's command. Had the Gospel been preached
as it should have been, had Christians here lived as
Christians, perhaps the trouble would never have come
upon us."

PESHAMUR.

The following are extracts from letters from
Lieut.-Cul. Eclwardes, C. 13., dated from June 21 to
July- 6

" Peshawur.

" As yet we have made no impression on Delhi. Gen.
Reed's or rather Gen. Barnard's force was too weak to
besiege Delhi, and has had to atop and wait for
reinforcements just as General Whish had at Mooltan.
The rebels far exceed him in number and in guns. The
numbers are of little consequence, fur disorganised frag-
ments of rebel regiments never can contend successfully
with the serried battalions of a well-appointed army led
by English officers. But it is a serious matter to have
150 pieces of artillery (taken out of our own magazine)
playing upon our camp. Engagements take place every
two or three days, and we are easily victorious in the
open field. The enemy loses hundreds in every skir-
mish, and the heaps of dead are re-plundered by our sol-
diers of all the plunder they had secreted round their
waists. We lose very few men or officers. But we don't
get into Delhi, and the delay damages our reputation,
and encourages the belief, artfully disseminated by the
Brahmins and Moollabs, that all prophecies agree that
the English rule is now at an end !' So the deluded
people rise here and there, and add to the anarchy and
confusion. We trust that 20,000 seldiers are now em-
barking from Eegland, but they cannot reach till Sept.,
and you may judge what has to be endured and done
during the intervening months. There never was any-
thing a hundredth part so serious in India before. This
post, so far from being more arduous in future, will be
more secure. Events here have taken a wonderful turn.
During peace Peshawar was an incessant atiety. Now
it is the strongest point in India. We have struck two
great blows—we have disarmed our own troops, and
raised levies of all the people of the country. The troops
are confounded ; they calculated on being backed by the
people. The people are delighted, and a better feeling
has sprung up between them and us in this enlistment
than has ever been obtained before. I have also called
on my old country, the Deregat, and it is quite delight-
ful to see bow the call is answered. 2,000 horsemen,
formerly in my army at Mooltan, are now moving on
different points, according to order, to help us in this
difficul y, and every po,t brings me remonstrances from
Chiefs as to why they have been forgotten. What fault
have they committed that they are not sent for? This is
really gratifying. It is the heart of a people. It does one
g ,od all through. The Pushawurees had often heard thatl
had bee❑ grateful in getting rewards for my followers
after the Mooltan war ; but they were not prepared to
see such a demonstration from the other end of the
Soolimaneo Mountains. It excites their better feelings,
and tell do them good too. All yesterday I was busy fit-
tope out 700 horse foot levies (Kooltanee) to re-inforce
Nicholson at Jullundbur. How all the liberality shown
to these Mooltan es after the war of 1843-49 is now re-
paid, in the alacrity with which they rush to our side
again to help us I They are.now invaluable, and so glad
to see me again ; it is quite a pleasure in the midst of
this howling wilderness."

LUCKNO W.
The following are extracts from letters received
from the Chaplain, the Rev. H. S. Polehampton,
M. A., late Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford :--•
" Lucknow, May 12.
" . . . Since I wrote to you last we have had a little
excitement in the station. I told you about Dr. Well's
bungalow being burnt down, and that it was supposed
to be done by the Sepoys in revenge for his tasting a
bottle of medicine in the hospital. Well, a day or two
atter I wrote, the whole of the huts of the Sepoys of
the 13th Regiment were burnt, it was supposed by
accident, but, from after events, that seems rather
dobutful. You may imagine that huts with thatched
roofs for 1,000 men made a pretty good blaze. Last
Sunday week it was my turn to take the evening ser-
vice at Cantonment Church. There was an unusually
thin congregation. Towards the end of the prayers
a servant mine into church, and spoke first to Major
Bird, of the 48th, and then to Mr. Dashwood, of the
same regiment. They both went out, and after-
wards others were catled away. I began to think that
some more houses had been set on fire, but of course I
went on with the service. The ladies began to look very
uncomfortable : one or two went out of church, one or
two others crossed over the aisle to friends who were sit-
ting on the other aide. Altogether I had not a very
attentive congregation. After service we found that the
7th Irregular Infantry, 1,000 strong, quartered at the
Moose Bagh, had mutinied, and that the 7let, 430,
Cavalry, and a troop of English Artillery, with six guns,
had gone to quell them. This was the cause of the offi-
cers being called out of church. The 32e Queen's, as I
afterwards found, also marched to the Moosa Bagh, and
an Irregular Cavalry Regiment, so that no less than
3,500 men marched to put down the mutiny. I felt
very much inclined to ride down myself to see what was
going on, but as the Moose Bagh is seven miles from our
house, and as I ahould have left my wife all alone, I
stayed where I was. I thought of what William 111.
said when he was told that the Bishop of Derry had
been shot at the ford at the battle of the Boyne, ' What
took him there r However, if so strong a force had not
been sent that the mutineers were completely overawed,
there might have been work for me to do. I heard all
about what took place from Sir Henry Lawrence and
one of the artillery enters. Sir H. Lawrence went
himself, as the highest civil authority. When the troops
arrived there—somewhat about 9 o'clock p.m., a bright
moonlight night (the 7th)—the mutineers were ordered
out ;so out they came. They had gone to their huts.
Their mutiny consisted in refusing to use somecartridgiee
which had been given them, because they thought e&o
were greased with English fat. They also threatened ee
shoot one of their officers. Well, the mutineera were
drawn up in line, and Sir H. Lawrence went forward
and harangued them, and then retired to the neighbour-
hood of the via cannon which were drawn up in front.*
the mutineers. The officer commanding the artillery
asked him if he should give orders to load, he said 'Yee;
so they loaded with grape. In loading, one of the artil-
lerymen anticipated the next order, and lighted the
match for firing the cannon. The mutineers no sooner
saw this than they imagined that they were going to
bo fired upon, and immediately they flung down their
muskets and ran for their lives, and the 7th Cavalry
after them, to bring them back. So ended the mutiny,
happily without bloodshed ; but this certainly would not
have been the case had not so strong a force been taken
against them that they had no chance. Ninety of their
muskets were found to be loaded. The Irregular Regi-
ments here were in the King's service before the annexa-
tion, and they are not, of course, in such a state of dis-
ci' line as the Regu'ars. Sir H. Lawrence told me that
it was a mercy there was not a shot fired. If there had
been there would have been no stopping a fight, and the
unfortunate mutineers would have been regularly mas-
sacred. Another most absurd story they have got hold
of. This came on in the examination of some of the
mutineers before Sir H. Lawrence. They say that in
consequence of the Crimean war there are a great many
widows in England, and that these are to be brought
out and married to the Rajahs in Oude, and that their
children, br ,ught up as Christians are to inherit all the
estates I The natives are like babies—they will believe
anything. However, Sir Henry looks very serious over
"June 24.
the present state of affairs. No doubt the friends of the
King of Oude will make all the plots they can, and give "I wrote to you from Se rep on the 10th, which will
the Government no end of trouble. I don't believe there tell you of my escape from the mutineers of our regi-
wilt bo a rising in Lucknove, but I know that the natives, ment and the 14th Irregular Cavalry. It was dreadful
many of them wish it, and that our commanders here work. I left Sepreo on my horse for Gwalior on the
hare prepared for it. The officers of the 32d Queen's 11. h, and reached it in three days-80 miles ; and on
are not allowed to sleep away from the messhouse, the day I carne in, the 14th inst., about 2 p.m., they
as they formerly were, so that they may be ready set fire to three houses and the mess, and burnt
at a moment's notice. Two cannon have been thorn down. The Gwalior Contingent came, and
sent down to the city to strengthea the 321. If the gave every assistance, so I fancied they were all
Native Infantry and Cavalry regiments were to turn right. However, we sat down to dinner at the
against us we should be in a very ticklish position. We Brigadier Itameay'B, and at 9 o'clock, when the gun
should have only tile 32d and the Company's English fired, we heard a ,row in the lines, and the brigadier
Artillery, about 680 in all, and some 300 civilians, against ordered the officers to go to their regiments. So I went
six Native Infantry regiments, three Regulars, three Ir- with the Doctor, Maekallan (whom I was living with),
regulars, nearly 6.000 in a'l, and two regiments, one Ir- and the others, first Petting our swords, and gave the
regular, one Regular of cavalry, more than 1,000, besides word that the corps and batteries were in mutiny, and
the whole population of Lucknow, several hundred then were riding towards the lines, when some men of
thousand men. And thus it is all over India, Our go- the 21 Regime& met us, and said we must come to their
vernment in this country is the most wonderful thing in lines, as the 4th Regiment were murdering every one.
the bietoiy of the worli ; we are not one to a hundred of There was heavy firing going on all round the station.
the inhabitants, nor anything like it. Our strength They had pickets all over the place to catch IR When
under God, whose hand I think one may plainly see in we got among their lines they blazed away at us from
our governing this immense country, lies in the distnion every direction. How I escaped is marvellous • the ad-
of its inhabitants, their being divided into Mahomedans intent and myself and doctor were together, and volley
and Hindoos, who, hatie one another with the deadliest of was fired, and down fell the adjutant and his horse. The
all enmities—the proverbial odium. th,cologicumi. If a horse was shot dead, but he escaped. I put spurs to
Mahomedan makes a plot a [Endo° reveals it to the my horse, and galloped on until I was stopped by a man
English, and vice versa. Besides, there are two parties who fired about two yards away, right in my horse's
among the Mahomedans who hate each other nearly as face, the sparks all about me, but the bullet passed me,
much as if they were Mahomedans and Hindoos. Aso- and the horse and I went on, and came on 200 men
ther chief reason of our keeping the country is thegood- drawn up at the quarter guard, and whom I spoke to,
ness and regularity of our pay. All this news is likely and asked them what was the cause. They said some
enough to have a bad effect on the disaffected here, and of the regiments were going to kill every one in the place.
our Brigadier is taking means to prevent a surprise in They raid we must go on the top of the quarter guard—
cese of the native troops mutinying. The Queen's regi- that it was the safest piece ; but I said if we did we
ment in the city has been reinforced by a troop of native should be murdered at their leisure ; the commanding
artillery. It is unfortunate they are so far from canton- officer and his horse were lying dead near we Tue offi-
ments (5 miles), and the natives might, by barricading
car was mortally wounded in the lungs and dying, some
Lucknow, make their progress here very slow, if not im- of them crying over him, saying their regiment did not
possible. I asked the Brigade Major, who is &friend of
do it, that it was the men of the 4th. We remained
mine, why they had not sent the English Artillery to rein- some time with them—half an hour ; they wanting us
force the 32d 1 He said, ' Because in case of mutiny to go into a house, but we would not go. At last I
they are all we have to defend us here. We think the asked some of the men why they did not let us out of
Nati it) Artillery will be true whatever happens, but cantonments, and they said after a time they would, so
to provide against their treachery a soldier from the they took myself and the doctor and prevented the men
32d has been appointed to each gun, who, if he from firing any more at us, and we galloped away to-
Few anything going wrong, would give warning to wards what we supposed in the dark the road to this
the regiment, and they would instantly shoot the place. We rode all night among ravines, and in the
mutineers. It is also intended to have a company morning luckily came on the Agra road. We went to-
of the 32d up here to protect the English Artillery wards a ford in the river Chumbul, but found some troops
in case of a row. If the Artillery are well protected, were ahead, so we turned back and made for a ford 20
no doubt they would give a good account of the miles off. We were from 10 o'clock .at night until 4 the
Sepoy regiments, should they mutiny ; but if not pro- next day without food upon our horses. We then got
tected by English soldiers they would be done for in cake some milk and fed our horses, and the people said that
of a mutiny. There are only 90 of them. However;., I at the other side men were ready to shoot any one, so
don't anticipate any worse consequences than hive we were in rather a mess, we thought. As no one
already happened. The mutiny has spread from station, would come oni!ith us, after some conversation I pro-
to station, and, having been put down at each, has, V, snisPdp,,.,jf, thoy would come and see us safe in Agra,
think, ceased. I think we have have had our share hafietlit
44004;give them 500 rupees. Seven men then came
and have reason to be msst thankful that things were nte, ith us, and we crossed and r.ached a bun,alow some
worse, but time will show. I learned that in the night five miles off, pa sing a fort and numbers of men arced,
some natives had gone to Capt. Hayes, the military see• who behaved well in letting us pass. We had a fowl,
rotary, and had told him that parties had been appointed and then started and reached Agra the following night,
I
in the three Sepoy regiments to go round and murder us or =ruing at aunrise, on the 17th, and the Lieutenadi-

Governor advanced me 500 rupees for the men, G3vern-
meat paying half. I was glad to give it them, as it may
save some poor ladies and children, and they have
brought lots in safe. They kil ed eight or ten officers of
the Gwalior force ; only one lady and three or four chil-
dren were killed. All the officers who were at mesa
with me were shot in about five minutes after. It was
a dreadful sight, I assure you. We are iu a bad state
here, and expect an attack every sight from the towns-
people and Mussulman police, who, very fooliably, have
not been disarmed, and let the civilians do everything,
they like. We are all (that is, officers of different regi-
ments that have mutinied) formed into a mounted picket
and patrol, and last night were under orders to escort
two guns where some police were said to intend to break
out. 200 ran away in the night, the rest remained quiet
We had 100 men of the 31 Europeans. All the women
and some ladies are in the fort, and it is wt ll mounted
with guns. If hard pressed, we will retire into the fort,
which I hope won't be the ease, as sickness will break
out. There are about 3,000 women, men, and children
in Agra, and only about 700 of the Ed Europeans. We
hope after Delhi has fallen to get some aid, but they
have been some days there, and have not yet taken it.
All the native regiments, contingents, and artillery have
mutinied, and we must have at least 30,000 mete sent
out before India is safe. The villagers all about are
killing and hindering each other, for the rupees that
they take from the Sepoys. I cannot heir of the right'
wing at Nowgong. I trust they have escaped, but I fear
for them. Dunlop, Taylor, Mae:Egan, and every one
at Jhansi, children and all, were brutally murdered in
the fort. Poor Mrs. Skene—l pity her, and little Mrs.
Powys. They all died together. A good many of the
ruffians were killed liefore they slew them all. Not one
escaped from Jhansi. Lucky that I was sent with the
detachment to Kunoba. I wrote to you from there two
letters, and one from Sepree, which I hope you will get.
I rode my horse 240 miles in five days.- He is rkther
knocked up, but will be all right. •
" Port Agra, July 14.
" Here we are all shut up in this wretched fort since
the sth. When there was an engagement outside the
cantonments the 31 European Regiment, numbering
500 men and a battery of artillery, with some militia,
tinder the Brigadier and Staff, went out'about 3 p.m.,
and they came on the mutineers well intretched in a
village and clump of trees, and they had an artillery
fight for two hours, when they kil!e.l an awful lot of the
enemy. They fired beautifully, and blew up two of our
ammunition tumbrils, and killed a lot, of the horses,
which crippled our battallions, and at 5 o'clock our
artillery had unfortunately no ammunition left, Some
of the 3d then stormed the village and carried it, and
killed a good many. Our loss from their artillery was
great—Capt. D'Oyley, Lamb, of the Artillery, severely
wounded, D'Oyley since dead; Major Thomas, of the 3d,
severely wounded, and Williams, of the 721, lost his leg.
You rememher him atPau with us. Mr. °Afield, civil ser-
vice, shot through the lungs ; 30 men killed and about 80
wounded. We buried seven one evening who died from
wounds, and I regret to say we have had cholera in
the fort, and lost some people yesterday. Mitford, of
the 31 European Regimeut, sleeping next to ma in a
verandah, was seized with it yesterday morning. He
was in great pain, but is now in hospital, and I hope
he will keep up. Captain Burlton, of the 2d Gwalior
Cavalry, died in siz hours of it. I was at his funeral
last night, poor fellow. I have been very ill with dysen-
tery from bad water, but feel a little bett.r today ; the
man living in my but is ill, ton, but one suffers so much
from wet that is no wonder we should have cholera,

having no woollen clothe' ; however, I trust we may
escape the pestilence. There are about 4,600 men,
women, and children in here now, and they are well
packed. I am an assistant executive engineer under
Colonel Giaasford. I was appointed by the Brigadier
on the 281 of June, and have arranged all the quarters
in the fort and put the people in them, and have had
great work ; but I am sorry that I got the appoint-
ment, it prevented me going to the battle outside. We
shelled the fellows from here. Colonel Cotton, of the
late 57th, rode my horse, as I was not allowed to keep
him here. He got two hits from bullets, but is nearly
right now and will carry me well, I hope, in the next.
A s soon as we get help we will go out. They have
burnt and plundered all the cantonments and civil lines.
Yon never saw such a b!.txe as it was. They killed a
great many trying to come into the fort, stripped them
naked, and cut their heads off, and women and children
are lying about the roads. Wo have caught a good many,
and hang them up every night ; but the authorities are
very weak, and do not act half strenuously enough ; but
when we gat a good man I trust we shall show them

that we are not done yet. All our servants ran away.
Some are now coming back. The fort is-cleaned, and
I hope sickness may not bo severe. We can make a
good fight with them here for three or four months.
" We have about 700 of the 04 European Regiment
here ; so we will fight it out, and heaps of militia and
half castes. AU men are made to carry muskets and
man the ramparts.
" Clifton is here. Dunlop, Taylor, Turnbull, Skene, and
all at Jhansi were killed. Women and children. Dread-
ful business. I cannot tell you the partioularP. They
say the Ranee was at the bottom of it all. We can hear
nothing of Nowgong, but that the officers escaped to
Chattepore. I hope they escaped, bat I fear for them."
"Nagode, July 19.
"I am so glad that God's mercy enabl, a me to say
that your husband got safe to Agra. I have from time
to time, as opportunity offered, attempted to tell you
that I and the rest of the Nowgong officers hit sure he
must have got to Gwalior, and I also beggel my father
and Mr. Ludlow, when I wrote to than, to tell you so.
I did so lest my letter to you might miscarry.
" We have had an awful lesson of the extent of man's
malice, and cruelty, and folly ; it would have gone much
further but for God's interference, and in all the horrors
and atrocities there is much to thank God for.

"I shall first tell you a'l I know about Jhanbi. On the
1.4 June, or perhaps a day sooner or later, God's mercy
so ordered it that your husband tam sent out with 60
men of the 12th and 40 troopers of the murderous 14th
Irregulars. On the 4th June, at 4 p.m., poor Dunlop
dashed off, in a handwriting I could not recognise, these
words

" My dear Kirke,—The infantry and artillery have
broken into mutiny, and have enters(' the Star Fee,
where are the guns and treasure, No one has been hurt
as yet. Look out for stragglers.—Yours truly,
"'Jhansi, 4th June, A p.m. " J. DUNLOP,'
" This letter was sent by express, and reached Now-
gong at 11 a.tn. nsxt day.
" I have heard the deuositions of those men who were
at Jhansi at the time, and they agree quite enough to
corroborate and rectify one the other. The substance is
as follows :—The fort at the city had been previously
fixed on as a resort in such an event, it would seem,
from the fact one man mentions, that stores of ammuni-
tion and food had been collected there. This, if
the case, was never told to us at Nowgong. Dunlop
and the others had till the last laughed at
our precautions at Nowgong, and had urged us
to give them up. Letters that Dunlop received from
Skene and Gordon, the commissioner and deputy-com-
eioner, were sent to Major Kirke, and showed that the
Jhansi Ranee's headman was plotting to seduce our Se-
pops and that Dunlop, through sects men who stuck
by him, prevented their getting access to the lines with-
out great difficulty. At length at 4 p.m., on the 4-b of
June, the outbreak began by No. 7 Company 12 h N.I.
marching into the Star Fort ; the rest kept quiet. Dun-
lop, it is said, held a parade the nex- morning, and the
men said they would stand by him. He spent the dayat
the Quarter Guard, it is said, getting 111,11 s ready (just
the man). Poor Taylor and Mr. Turnbull were with him
so was poor Lieut. Campbell, of the 15th NJ., the only
officer of tbe 14th Irregulars. Lieut. Tyrrwhitt never
was able to rejoin from leave. About noon (after, not
before it) Captain Dunlop and Ta)ler were oa parade.
Ouo man (the mess shepherd) said that poor Dunlop had
just put three letters in the poet-office, and had returned
with Taylor, when the two were murdered. It seems
they were shot. Campbell got several bullets into him,
and, pursued by his own sowars, escaped to and entered
the City Fort. Dear, warm-hearted Turnbull escaped
unhurt at first, but as he could'not reach the fort, per-
haps through his being on lout, he got up a tree. He
was seen to climb it, and pointed out to his pursuers
who shot him down. Dr. M'Egan, and all the other
Christians in Cantonments, bad gone the previous night
to the City Fort, and were sate there. Burgess's khit-
mutgar, who was in the fort till it gave in, says they
saw through telescopes the men kill Dunlop and Taylor,
and then closed the gate. They shot some troopers that
pursued poor Campbell, and then let him in.
"These villainous bloodthirsty troopers had never
been suspected at Jhansi. At Nowgong some of us had
for many days distrusted them. The fort gates were bar-
ricaded inside with stones, and the garrison Christians
only, 'with some native servants, awaited their enemies,
who began the attack on the Gth. One man said the gar-
rison gave in on the Bth ; another says the 11th was the
day. The latter authority was inside the fort dur-
ing the defence. Burgess, he said, killed 14 men. Poor
Powys shot a man who tried to open one of the gates,
and was killed with sword cuts in return. Burgess
killed his murderers. Both tales agree on this point,
and Captain Gordon was hit in the he td when looking
over the wall parapet. lie died of it. Some of the
writers tried to escape in native clothes, letting them-
' selves down by ropes, but they were caught and killed.
At last Major Skene and the rest were deceived by as•
surances that their lives would be spared if they surren-
dered, arid they opened the gate, the Hindoos and
Mahomedans having both swot n to them. Two attempts
to send word to Nagode and to Gwalior for help had
faded, and so, taking the hand of some man or other,
Major Skene marched out first ; they were taken to a
garden, tied to two ropes in two rows, men and women
separate,—Burgess's servant says the men alone were
tied,—and then every soul, whatever the age, rauk, or
sex, was killed by the sword. The men died b
first, Bur•
gess taking the lead, his elbows tied behind his ackf,,r
so
a prayerbook in his hands. What a sad (13 d(f
king-hearted and unselfish a man !, But to die c?n eas-
ing the faith is a noble death. The rest died in the
same way. They tried hard to got the women and
children saved. Our quartermaster-sergeant and his
family alone were spared ; the servant says he was taken
with the rebels when they left. This man said the
women stood with their babes in their arms and the
o in. children holding their gowns. They had to see the
men killed, but I believe they were spared any violence
sate death. Dear little Mrs. Powys—l think of her
with such tt pang, Poor Dunlop, too, the first friend