The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

The following Is from Dinapore, dated August
the 15th :

"On Saturday,
July 25, the 3 native regiments
(7th, Bth, and 40th) ' mutinied at Dinapore,
but held in check by. her Majesty's 10th Foot
and afield battery of six guns they were unable
to do any -violence or harm in that station,
although they succeeded in marching out intact
with all their arms, ammunition, and accoutre-
ments. On Sunday they crossed the river Soan, 16
miles from Dinapore and eight miles from Arrab,
and upon Monday morning, July 27, marched into
Arrah, where they released the prisoners, about
400, and joined. by the guard over them, many
hundreds also of armed deserters and men on leave
from other regiments, they numbered 3,000 disci-
plined troops. These were joined by an equal num-
ber (if dependents of Koor Singh, a native of large
property and influence in the neighbourhood, and
the combined army took-possession of the Govern-
ment treasury. I shoUld here remind you of what
I informed you in a letter, that some weeks ago I.
had taken the precaution to fortify a small detached
two-story house, 50 feet square, with a flat roof,
which was in the compound with my main dwel-
linghouse. This I had done that in case of our
being-surprised we might have some defensive place
place of refuge. It was provisioned with meal, corn,
biscuit, water, wine, and some beer, all of which. I
had placed there, with a few other necessaries, some
weeks previously ; and my preparations almost ex-
cited a smile in some of those•who were afterwards
among the first to acknowledge the value of them.
On Sunday the 26th we heard ,that the mutinsnii
Sepoys were crossing the river Soane in. large num=
bens at a point eight miles from Arrah, and were
on their march towards us. One of the Govern-
ment officers and 'I rode out half way, but could
get no positive account or intelligence of their num-
bers, and, as the despatches sent from Dinapore to
warn us had been intercepted, we did not know
whether one, two, or three native regiments-had
mutinied, and 'we hoped, but vainly, that they
would immediately be pursued. We had 50 Sikh
soldiers iu Arrab, and, being 16 ourselves, resolved
to make a stand. Accordingly, on Sunday night we
occupied the bungalow, and the mutineers, after
securing the treasure on Monday, attacked us about
9 o'clock a.m. Most of the Europeins, besides re-
volvers and hog spears, had double-barrelled guns,
or a gun and a rifle, with abundance of ammuni-
tion, and provident:ally a large surplus, from which
(when the Sikhs'
,supplies began to run short) we
made some thousand cartridges. To describe the
repeated attacks, the almost incessant firing, and
the hairbreadth escapes we sustained until Sunday,
the 2d Aug., at sunset, would form a lengthy nar-
rative, and, as I have by nee a copy of an official
description of it, it occurs to me that the perusal of
it will interest you, and save the time it would
take me to write more at length. On Sunday after-
noon (Aug. 2) we saw au evident commotion among
our assailants, and soon after heard faintly the firing
of cannon at a distance to the westward. This
aft rwards proved to be a relieving force, which
had marched from Buxar to our assistance, and
which the main body of the insurgents went out to
meet, but the latter being defeated we passel Sun-
day night u :molested, and next morning marched
out of our shattered but still etrong little fort tri-
umphant, but I hope not vainglorious, in having
kept at bay for a week 100 times our number. Our
miraculous preservation should be ever a continual
cause of the deepest thankfulness to us all, for ex-
cept-ng some scratches and bruises not worth men-
tioning but one of our little garrison (a Sikh) was
dangerously wounded. Numb:l.a of the enemy
were killed around uP and in my own dwelling-house,
which was gutted and partially burnt after, every-
thing of value was ether destroyed or carried away
by' the back approach, which- we could not com-
mand. What we were most apprehensive of for
some days was disease from the odour of dead
bodies, and four or five of our own horses (includ-
ing my best Arab riding horse) were shot and in a
state of decomposition within 50 yards of us ; but
neither was this allowed seriously to affect us. I
should now tell you of the terrible disaster which
befell a force of nearly 500 men sent from Dinapore
to our relief during the middle of the siege. They
had on Wednesday night (July 29) incautiously
approached Arndt*, and fell into an, ambush, and
these, and in the rotx,et Loth. Ganges lost doc-thiid
of their number killed and a large proportion badly
wounded, there being but a very few who escaped
unscathed. When we heard from our fort (not a
mile off) the sudden and heavy volleys about dark
midnight we guessed too truly what had occurred,
and ebelieve there were few among us who did not
feel far more deeply the reverse which (as the firing
grew fainter) we knew must have befallen our coun-
trymen than that by their defeat we had lust our
best and almost only hope of succour.
" The nightly treacherous harangues made to us
by the mutineers from the cover of my dwelling-
house, 60 yards off, were answered only by us,
when there was a pause, by a volley of bullets
directed towards the speaker's biding-place. It
was agreed no other answer should ever be given
them, and I do not believe there was a man. among
us who would have allowed himself, if possible, to
fall into their hands alive. The Sikhs have asked
me, and I have promised to build the well into a
permanent one as a memento of their services, and
that our little fort shall have fixed upon it the name
of Fut' ehgur : or ' house of victory.' For some
days after we had been relieved I was engaged in
ere4Wng some bridges that had been broken down
by the mutineers and restoring the main lines of
communication as field-engineer to Major Eyre's
force, when, in returning to Arrah, I received a
severe kick from a vicious horse belonging to one of
our party. Luckily no bone was broken, but I
was laid up for two days, and on the force preparing
to leave Arrah I had to be carried into Dinapore.
I a,n now able to get about a little, so that in
another week I hope to be as well as ever."
The following is a copy of the report by Mr.
Wake alluded to in the above :
" have the honour to forward for the in-
formation of his honour the Lieutenant-Governor
the following narrative of our extraordinary defence
and providential escape. On theevening of Satur-
day, July the 25th, I received an express from
Dinapore warning us that a disturbance was appre-
hended on that day, but giving us no other infor-
mation. On the morning of the 26th of July a
Sower whim I had at Koelwar Ghat on the Soane
came in and reported that numbers of Sepoys had
crossed, and that many more were er aging.
found that Mr. Palm, the railway engineer sta-
tioned at Koelwar, had con' silted himself with
sending. over for the boats to the Arrah side the
night bAre, but when leaving had failed to de-
stroy them, as be had promised to do. The police,
I imagine, bolted at the first alarm.
All efforts to
ascertain the amount of the force of the rebels
were unavailing, and the police left the city on
Sunday the 26th. Thinking it highly unadvisable
to abandon the station when the rebels might be few,
and having 50 Sikhs on the spot, and finding
the rest of the officers of the station of the same
opinion, and that the few residents of the district
who had come in were willing to remain, we on
by Mr. Boyle, the
the night of Sunday, the 26th, went into a small
bungalow previously- fortified
district engineer of the railway company. Our
force consisted of one jetnedar and two hail dars,
two naicks, 45 privates, a bhisti and cook of Capt.
Rat
ice Battalion ;
Mr. Littledale,
agent ; Mr. Anderson, his assistant ;
'jet engineer to the railway com-
pany Mr. Field, sub-
ivg
daagikthrie esa, Imo
ja Sikh
vrgmagistrate
a Psooe
clbe, officiating collector ; Mr.
Hl-assistant-surgeon Mr. Colvin, assistant ; Dr.
t
Synd Azimoodeen H. Khan, deputy col-
dmepr.ußtycioypleiu, mdist
lector ; Mr. Dacousta, moonsiff ; Mr. Godfrey,
schoolina.ster ; Mr. Cock, officiating head clerk of
the collectorate ; Mr. Tait, secretary to Mr. Boyle ;
Messrs. Delpeiron and Hoyle, railway inspectors;
and Mr. de Souza. We had enough ottah and
grain for some days; of chord allowance, and a
go d deal of water for ourselves ; but owing to the
shortness of our notice, nothing but the bare ne-
cessaries could be brought in, and the Sikhs had
only a few days' water ; but as we expected the
rebels to be followed up immediately we had not
mach anxiety on that score.
"On Monday, the 27th of June, about S a.m.,
the insurgent Sepoys, the whole of the 7th, Bth,
and 40th Native lufantry, arrived in the station,
and having first released the prisoners, rushed to
the Collectorate, where they were at once joined by
the Naj 1)4, and looted the treasure, amounting to
85,000 rupees. This did not take long, and they
then charged our bungalow from every side,
but, being met with a steady and well-directed
fire they changel their tactics, and, hiding
behind the trees, with which the compound is
filled, and occupying the outhouses and Mr.
Boyle's residence, which was unfortun.ately within
60 yards of our fo:tification, they kept up an inces-
gent and galling file on us during the whole day.
They were joined by numbers of Koor Sing's men,
and the sepoys repeatedly declared they were act-
ing under hi..
express orders, and after a short time
he was seen on the parade, and remained during
the siege. Every endeavour was made by the re-

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bell t induce the Sikhs to aballon us ; heavy
bribes were offered to them, and their own country-
men e ployed as mediators. They treated every
offer ith derision, showing perfect obedience and
diacip e.
" 0 the 28th two small cannon were brought to
play our bungalow, one throwing 41b. shot, and
they ere daily shifted to what the rebels thought
our w akest spots. Finally, the largest was placed
on th toot' of Mr. Boyle 's dwelling-house, corn-
pletel commanding the inside of our bungalow, and
the s allest behind it at a distance of 20 yards.
Noth g but cowardice, want of unanimity, and
only e ignorance of our enemies preventsd our
forti ation being brought down about our ears.
Duri g the entire siege, which lasted seven days,
ever ;possible stratagem was practised against us.
The daimons were fired as frequently as they could
prepare shot, with which they were at first unpro-
rideci, and incessant assaults were made Upon the
bungalow. Not only did our Sikhs behave with
perfeht coolness and patience, but their 'untiring
labour met and prevented every threatened disas-
ter. I Water began to. run short • a well of 18 feet
by 4iwas instantly dug in less than 12 hours. The
rebels raised a barrieade on the top of the opposite
house ; ours grew in the same proportion. A
shots shook a weak place in our defence. The
place was made twice as strong as before. We
begatn to feel the want of animal food and
the ort allowance of grain. A sally was made
at night and four sheep brought in, and
finally we ascertained beyond a doubt that the
enemy were undermining us ; a counter mine was
quickly dug. ' On the 30th troops, sent to our re-
iief from Dinapore were attacked and beaten back
dal, to the -entrano. or Elie' trnell -- On the next
day the rebels returned, and, telling us that they
hadi annihilated our relief, offered the Sikhs and the
women and children (of which there were none with
us) Eheir lives and liberty if they would give- up
thelGovernment officers. August 1 we were. all
offered our lives and leave to go to Calcutta if we
wouild give up our arms. On the 2d the greater
part of the Sepoys went out to meet Major Eyre's
field force, and on their being soundly thrashed the
rest of them abandoned the station, and that night
we 'went out and found their mina had reached our
foundations, and a canvassed tube filled with gun-
poWder was 13ing handy to blow us up, in which,
nowever, I do not think they could have succeedei,
as their powder was bad ; and another stroke of the
pick would have broken into our countermine. We
also brought in the gun which they had left on the
top of the opposite house. During the whole siege
only one man, a Sikh, was severely wounded,
though two or three got scratches and blows from
splinters of bricks. Everybody in the garrison be-
haved well; but I should be neglecting a duty did
I omit to mention specially Mr. Boyle, to whose
engineering &kill and untiring exertions we in a
great measure owe our preservation ; and Mr. Col-
vin, who rendered the most valuable assistance,
and who rested neither night nor day, and took on
himself far more than his share of every disagree-
able duty. In conclusion, I must earnestly beg
that his honour the Lieutenant-Governor will sig-
na,,ly reward the whole of our gallant little detach-
ment of Sikhs, whose service and fidelity cannot be
overrated. The Jemadar should be at once made
a Soubader. Many of the- rest are fit for promo-
tion, and when required I will submit a list with
details."

The following is the copy of a le tar da'ed
Almorah, August 4 :
" You will be astonished to find I hive left
Nynee Tal. Tho fact is all ladies, to the number
of 90, and as many children, have been ordered
away from the Lake, as an attack is expected there
—not a very formidable one, however, but ladies
are always best out of the way at such time., and
Captain Ramsey knows well that if a panic did occur
every coolie would rush away to his home in the
mountains, and then there would be no getting
away for any of us. Khan Bahadour Khan, the
Bareilly wretch, has got together such an army as
he could raise ; it must be a mere rabble, utterly
untrained ; still they have the effrontery to pro-
pose an attack on our fortress, and 3,000 men were
reported to have crossed the Kitcha, and reached
Huldwanee on Sunday, the 2d. Thf.re are now
500 brave little Ghoorkas at the Lake, besides
gentlemen to the number of 100. The roads both
by Kaleedoongee and Huldwanee are barricaded at
intervals for several miles, by means of high stone
walls, which only admit of one man passing up at
a time, and we have guns in excellent position to
guard each pass. I believe the present scheme is
to allow the besiegers to come up beyond Juice,
and then when they find thems-Aves with a good
steep hill a-head the Ghoorkas are to get round be-
hind, cut off the road, and so render retreat im-
possible.
" The Mahomedans in Rampore have found out
that their Nawab is friendly to uP, and has helped
us in sending up supplies, &c., though he has not
of course been able to take any active part. A
powerful party against him exists in his own city,
and there is a great chance that the poor man will
have fallen a victim on the day of the festival
Buckre Eed. If the Nawab's life be taken his
force of 5,000 will assuredly attempt the Kalee-
doongee pace • but even for this emergency, though
greater than Le other, every one says we are pre-
pared, and that there is scarcely a probability of
any one getting up to Nynee Tal.
Mrs. Edwardes has received a letter from her
husband (Mr. Edwardes, C.S.), which was brought
up concealed in a hookah by a native. It is a scrap
in pencil, scarcely legible, but says he is safely con-
cealed by a Hindoo Rajah in Oudo, 14 miles from
Futtygurh. The man has a fort and a few guns of
his own ; consequently powerful. Mr. aril Mrs.
Probyn and four children from Futtygurh are also
with this Rajah. They are kindly treated and in
safety; for, though the Nawab of Futtygurh has
several times demanded the English whom he con-
ceals, their protector refuses to give them up, and
challenges his enemy to get them if he can."

1 dBw' eKpr .
43 Keith,
tp.
The following is from the Camp, Kolapoor
"In my last letter I could only give you a very
aftertßhreo Broughton,
Istghh a iiunn!st.' young at g
short account of our little mutiny here. I shall
half-past fam-tpheasfisset,
tvoy dinedn
now tell you all the events that have occurred. On
aySa tnnudg bams ,
yg
saDeml rfe.,
l
at billiards, when suddenly there was a violent I
knocking at the door, and in rushed the native ad-
jutant and a drill havildar, and as soon as they had
recovered their breath said there was a mutiny in
the lines. We were all so excited, and everything
in such a state of confusion, that I cannot well de-
scribe the events of that night, only I know that at
3 o'clock in the morning the Major, Capt. M'Cul-
loch, Stubbs, De Lancey, Keith, and myself, took
refuge, with 100 men, in a little school-house near
the local corps' lines, after having walked the
whole night through pelting rain, among ploughed
fields, dressed in white mess jackets and trousers.
At five o'clock in the morning we marched down
with our 100 men, all the local corps (about
600 men),. and 50 of the Southern Mahratta
Irregular Horse, to our regiment's lines, where we
expected the mutineers would defend themselves.
We found, however, that about 210 men had gone
away, taking their arms and lots of ammunition
with them. The rest of the regiment either quietly
joined us in the lines or had run away and hidden
themselves in the fields and villages about, when
they heard the firing. The mutineers had broken
into the treasure chests and taken away about
60,000r5. They had torn the regimental colours,
and trampled them in the mud ; they had taken
away or destroyed all the arms and ammunition in
stores ; they had killed one woman, the native ad-
jutant's mother, and she had only saved his chil-
dren by hiding them under the beds ; they had
riddled the major's' door and windows with balls,
and broken open several of his boxes. The resident
got information that the mutineers bad shut them-
selves up in a strong square building, with loop-
holed walls and flanking towers at the corners,
near the city of Bolapoor. He accordingly marched
all the local corps out to attack them. When they
got there, however, they ware greeted by a volley
from inside, fired through the loopholes in the wall.
He thou marched the locals straight home. This
was on the morning of the 2d inst. ; from that un-
til the 10th nothing was done. Oar men were kept
under arms all day ready to turn out the instant
the bugle sounded, and small parties of cavalry
were continually scouring the country to got intel-
ligence of where the mutineers went, and to warn
the headmen of villages not to give them food or
shelter. On the 6th a party who had bsen out at
a village about 16 miles off said that the people of
the village had told them that the unfortunate
young officers who had not been herd of since th-
night of the row had been caught and murdered
here by the mutineers, and they showed the marks
of bullets and the blood on the floor of a native
temple. They said their bodies had been thrown
into a river that runs near the place ; but they
have not been found. Oa the 3d a man named
Hossain Ali came in from the city to our line 4,
where he went to our soubedar-major's house and
sa'd to him, All the Englishmen in India are to
be killed. Get the regiment to rise ; the city will

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join you. We will kill the officers, and then the
Mussulman religion will again be the religion of
India.' He also said that a native officer of the S.
M. horse would join them with 100 men. The old
soubadar put food before him, and said he would
consult about how it was to be done. He got two
other faithful officers into the house, and told them
quietly to keep the man engaged in conversation,
and not let him go, while he himself ran up and
told the major. He then went back and
brought the man quietly up through the
lines to the major's house. He was then tied
and sent into the city, where he was put in irons
in the gad.. The next day four of our officers and
I went into the city and tried him by court-mar- '
tial, after having his irons knocked off. He was
then taken out, and shot by six of the S. M. horse
in the gaol yard. The man who commanded the
firing party was the native officer who he said was
to join them with 100 men. In the meantime about
90 men had come in from the fields and villages
about, who said they had only run out there on
hearing the firing to place their wives and children
in safety, not knowing whore else to go ; several
men had also been brought in by the village autho-
rities and by the parties of irregulars who were
riding about the country. They were all sent into
the city of Kolapoor, where they were put into
the gaol in chains, and guarded by the Rajah and
his people. At night we all slept at Maughan's,
where there is a very strong guard kept ; we have
also outlying pickets of horse and foot in every di-
rection, and a regular chain of videttes all round
camp.
We telegraphed on the night of the Ist to Sat-
tark about the row ; Kerr, the adjutant of the S.
M. Irregulars, started on the-mornina of the 2d,
and was with us, bringing 50 men, on the morning
of the 3d, having ridden with his men the 80 miles
iu 24-hours, and swam their horses over three deep
and rapid rivers which in the rains are considered
quite impassible. He is a very fine fellow and a
capital specimen of an irregular horseman ; the
other day he rode 240 miles without stopping. Im-
mediately the row occurred Maugh-tn telegraphed
to Bombay for Europeans, but they have not been
by any means so expeditious as her, for, though a
steamer was despatched from Bombay immediately
with 2CO of the 2d Europeans to Wargoten, and
they arrived there on the 3d, they have not been
able to got here yet on account of the nullas and
rivers being all so flooded. A troop of Horse Ar-
tillery, too, star ted. from Pocwah, but they have not
arrived h-re yet for the same reasons. It was at
oee time feared the whole country had risen ; we
might have been all cut to pieces for all they knew,
so that thy are very much to blame for not having
made m, re haste. Up to the 10th the mutineers
had met with no check ; on that day, however, we
had the great pleasure of doing for a few of them.
On the night of the 9th Maughan received intelli-
ence that 25 of the mutineers with muskets in
their hands were coming back in the Kolapoor di-
rection, from a place 16 miles out on the Wargoten
road, where they had all gone to at first. Kerr
mounted at 12 o'clock at night and set off through
Vie rain with 30 men to rneet them. He rode out
about 12 miles, and caught three men, but he heard
from them at halt-past 11 o'clock the main body of
them had marched in and occupied the same
position ‘N hich Maughan had tried to take before.
Kerr left his men round about the place to
see that they did not go away during the night, and
rode in to ask Maughan to give him more men, and
let him try to take the place. Accordingly at ten
o'clock next morning Capt. M'Cullooli and I set off
with 30 volunteers from our regiment, and Kerr

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br ,ught 30 more of his Irregulars. When we got
there we found the fellows inside ready to receive
us, with twosentries walking up and down between
the wall and the lake, and a man at each of the
corner towers, who fired when any of us came too
near. We passed behind the little native buts which

line the road, to a little stone temple, which they
had not bean able to occupy, as it is solid stone,
without door or window; in fact, it is a monument,
and not a temple. From here we could see what
sort of a place it was. It was a double square, hol-
low in the middle, like a farm square in Scotland,
with a low, tiled shed inside the wall, for puting
horses amid cattle in. The four doors were all of tre-

mendously hard wood, into which a musket ball
did. not penetrate half an inch, and the main gate
of the same wood, bOund and studded wii h iron,
and Bor 10 inches thick. The two men who were
walking up and down the place in front of the little
door which 1• oks out towards the lake began firing
at us behind the monument, and our fellows re-
turned sh,,t for sho', but as neither of them hit, it
was not of much use, only keeping our fellows from
going nearer. M'Culloch then told me to take some
of our men and some of the S. M. Horse round the
lake to a place near the R ,jab's house, where there
were trees and bushes which afforded capital cover
for skinnishers. From here we soon dislodged the
two men, one of whom was hit on the thigh, and
they ran inside the square. We could not get very
near the square, as there was a little temple at that
corner, which they had occupied, and. from the little
windows of which they fired at us. We remained
here behind the trees a long tim', answering their
shots, on the chance of some balls going in through
the loopholes or windows. After a while a fellow
came riding round the lake to say that all our offi-
cers had come down with 20 more men, and that
they had got two of the Rajah'sguns and were going
to blow the main gate open and storm the place. I
was told accordingly to collect my men and prevent
any of the fellows escaping by the road towards
our camp. I therefore formed my meu up and
made the horsemen mount so as to be ready

to chase them if they came past. I was here
concealed by a bank from the fort. The fellows
with M'Cullo.th then began blazing away with the
guns at the main gate, and I expected every minute
to hear that they had broken the gate open and
gone in, and was feeling very much disgusted at not
being able to go and see the fun, but I felt obliged
to stay and watch that road. The guns soon stopped
firing, and I supposed all was over. However, I
was soon undeceived, for Kerr and the major came
round to the lake where I was, and said they were
going to bring the guns there to see if they could
open a way in. They said that the guns could only
be brought to fire obliquely, and therefore did not
have much effect on the gate, for the balls merely
went through, leaving only a small round hole in
the wood, but not breaking it so as to make it pas-
sable. The guns were then placed in a new position,
and we began firing at the little side door. Two
balls went through it, but only left little round
holes, as in the other door, and no two balls hit on
the same spot, for the balls were too small for the
guns, and the fellows could not aim them at all—
so much so that several balls went right over the
place and did considerable damage in the city.
While here a native gunner was killed from the

wall, and one shot cut my trousers on the left leg,
but did not touch the skin. The major, seeing that
the guns were not likely to open a way into the
place, said to me, ' Will you take a party and turn
those fellows out who are firing out of the windows
of that little temple?' I got l 2 men to volunteer,
and we rushed up the road with a shout, six of the
men firing their muskets at the windows while run-
ning up, the remaiug six reserving their fire for
closer quarters. I ran up to one window and fired a
cavalry carbine which 1 had used all day right into
the place, and one of the men did so to the other.
We found, however, that the fellows who had been
there had left it, and gone into the main building.
From round the outside of this temple we could
keep them almost entirely from firing from that side
of the building, for if one shot was fired from a loop-
hole it was immediately answered by a dozen, and
we were so near that a lot of our balls always went
in. The biggest gun was here hauled up clo:e to the
little door. Here two natives were killed; one was
hit on the mouth, and the other had the whole of
back part of his head carried away ; a ball grazed
the toe of my left boot. Here seven men came out
of the place and gave themselves up ; one of them
had his eye shot out, and another his left arm broken
by a cannon ball. All of a sudden we heard a whole
r
lot of shots inside the place, arid were told that
they
had got in on the oppo,ite side bye gate,
neglec'ed to guard. Wo should have which e
battered the
door down in a few more shots, but we could not
get it opened at once, as they had piled_ a lot of big
stones inside against it. We rushed at a little door
which had not been tried before because it was so
difficult to ge‘ at. We found it not so strong as the
other,, and troke it in with a pickaxe and the butts
of our muskets. Several men were shot down in-
side, and three prisoners taken. It is very extraord-
nary that not one of our men was touched, though
they fired a lot of shots at us. Six men took refuge
in a little room in the middle of the square. This
was made of immense blocks of solid stone. There
was a small dour looking towards the main gate, up
to there were four stone steps ; there was a
litt'e stone verandah round it, to which the window
• looked, and which was raised about 4 feet above the
group 1. The window was aboirt 2 feet above the
verandah, and about 4 feet square. The door and
wooden shutter of the windows were shut. We sent
a lot of bath through the door and windows, and
they re urned them, each on the chance of hitting
the other. They bit one colour-havildar on the
head and one sepoy on the knee. After awhile, find-

- •
ing we could not turn them out without -having
some of our men hurt, which we did net wish, we
resolved to smoke them out, and accordingly threw
it. lot of lighted grass before the 4:100r. • —One man,
Seeing that they were to be burnt out; sprang out ,
of the little window like a tiger, with hisioaded -
musket in his band, evidently resolved to sell hief S
life dearly. I happened to be standing close to the
window, and shot him through the head with the
carbine I had used all day. He fell all in a heap/
o
stone dead: On finding the smoke insufferable they
dcaiamte4e.ut
The square sbqyuoarne was now
yt ali w
a besahoftudlw sight,imm
witeh-
eight or ten dead bodies lying on the ground, and
the whole place streaming with blood, and the pri-
soners some of them frightfully wounded."

following is Written by a gentleman in the
,1 Civil Service

" Calcutta, Aug. 23.
"When I last wrote Arrah had just beenrelieved
by Major Eyre and the detachment of the sth. Since
that Koor Singh has been well thrashed at Jugdes-
pore and driven to the south. He has committed
soma plundering about Sasseram, and is said to
have betaken himself, with a small rabble of fol-
lowers, to Rotass or its neighbourhood. Order
will, I trust, soon be restored in the Shahabad
district.

" In Gya there has been nothing more than what
would occur anywhere at any time if all the civil
authorities were suddenly to withdraw, as was there
and elsewhere done under orders. The thieves
and robbers of the neighbourhood plundered the
kutcheries and some private houses, and those who
had grudges against their neighbours began to
hope and prepare for an opportunity of vengeance.
But all this has been arrested by the immediate and
stern disavowal of -'s act, and the prompt
return of the authorities. Ido not think that we
shall have any more serious matter in the Gya
district.

" Mozufferpore, which was as quiet and un-
threatened as Calcutta, has escaped wonderfully,
and the authorities having returned ai 'a going on
well. The gaol and treasury guards di,. their duty
stoutly, and the townspeople stood 1:1-, for them-
selves. There were some 16 of Holme,', Sowars in
the place, which were too few to hay _.attempted
mischief if the civilians had remained. When these
latter were ordered away the Sowers robbed their
stables of all their horses and made off. They tried
to liberate the prisoners and to plunder the trea-
sury, but were fired on and driven back by the
guards. They tried to do a little loot, also, in the
town, bnt were beaten back by the townspeople.
Nine lacs of rupees were in the treasury, and all
has remained safe.

" Chuppra was abandoned with somewhat more
reason, because it was really threatened by a strong
party of Holmes's Irregular Horsk Still the flight
was very hasty and precipitate, and, had a little
more courage existed, it is probable that the station
might never have been abandoned.
"There has been no outrage and no plunder
there because of the spirit and loyalty of a Maho-
rnedan resident, well known in those parts, and
(hitherto) always doubted—a certain Cazee am-
zan Allee. He assumed the command on the de-
parture of the European., kept everything quiet
and loyal, and has since delivered ever his charge,
prisoners and all, in perfect order to the returned
civilians. He and others who have similarly be-
haved will, you may he sure, be handsomely
rewarded.
" At Patnah all is in order.

" The hou,es, public and private, at Gya and at
Arrah have been gutted, and in some cases de-
stroyed ; in Arrah by the mutineers,. in Gya by the
prisoners released by their guards.
" all the Ramghur Battalion (except the cavalry)
have mutinied and driven off the authorities, but
the country and the Zemindars are thoroughly
quiet and loyal. The following is a sketch of the
sta•e of affairs in those districts :

" Ranchee or Dorenida..—The civil and military
authorities were obliged to retreat, lrivieg remained
till the latest moment. The mutineers, having four
guns with thcin, have remained at Doremds, from
some motive not yet understood. Some say they
are waiting for the arr;val of their out-detachments
from the other stations before proceeding westward
some that they are end.avouring, -vainly, to
get some local Zemindar to join and head them.
They are viewed with no kind of sympathy by the
pevle, and if we could move speedily upon them
would be scattered. But our want of men and
means has hitherto prevented us (most unfortu-
nately) from t tking the prompt measures so greatly
required for the occasion. A brigade is, however,
in preparation, and will march some time this week
via the Grand Trunk-road an,' Hazareebagh.
"At the place last named there was a detachment
of the Bth Native Infantry. These mutinied and
n-minitted some destruction, the prisoners here as
everywlan else being released. The mutineers
have gone off (no one yet knows whither), and the
commissioner is about to reoccupy Hazareebagh
with a small patty of Ratray's Sikh corps.
"At Peurulia (Maunbhoom) the small detach-
ment of the Ramghur battalion mutinied and went
off after plundering and destroying the houses and
part of the town.
"Chyebassa (Singbhoom) was hastily abandoned
by -- before any show of mutiny bad taken
place. But the Rajah of Sereikhela, a powerful and
very loyal rajah of that country, has stepped for-
ward to protect the station, and as far as we knowhas entirely succeeded. Both Peurulia and Chye-
bassa will be immediately reoccupied by civil offi-
cers backed by a small force of Sikhs.
"From Bhagulpore, which is quite quiet, the
sth Irregular Cavalry have decamped without beat
of drum. They have gone to Dooghur and Robnee,
and thence towards Gya, where they will fall into
a trap, as they know not that Gya is reoccupied
both by Europeans and Sikhs.
" These runaways tried to raise the 32d Native
Infantry tlt Bowsee, but wonderful to say, were re-
sisted and.fired upon. They have plundered a lit-
tle here and there. I fear from the wretched weak-
ness of our means they will contrive to get away to
the westward uninjured.
" The santhals are perfectly quiet.
" At Julpogoree, the 73d N. I. and two troops of
the 11th Irregular Cavalry are a subject of much
anxiety. There have been several attempts to get
up a mutiny, but on each occasion the persons con-
cerned have been apprehended and sent away
prisoners. On the last occasion a Brahmin
Sepoy of the 73d armed himself and denied
authority, calling on the other Sepoys to join him
and destroy the Feringhees. At the order of the
officer of the day he was shot without hesitation
by a party of the quarter-guard, and his body
thrown into the Teesta.

" Young - has been evincing great judgment
and courage as joint magistrate at Julpogoree. He
has for many weeks carried his life in his hand, and
is yet I fear in danger.
" All the rest of Bengal is quiet.
" The opium advances are about to be made,
and we look for quiet and good order to insure the
crop. With very few exceptions the Zemindars of
our provinces are very loyal, and the people in no
way disposed to tumult."

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.-0a Tuesday afternoon an
article, which seemed to be a rude box or coffin, was
washed ashore at Beenbane strand, quite close to Dingl
harbour, and about a mils from the town. This shell
or case on coming into the breakers was so knocked
about that it burst open, revealing the body of a female
quite naked. She appeared to be a woman of middle age,
with brown hair. The body was not in an advanced
stage of decomposition, considering the length of time it
had been in the water, which, judging from the length
of barnacles (four inches) on the lower part of the coffin,
has been estimated by seafaring persons at no less than
four months. Mr. Philip Hodnett, of the Coast Guard,
who was day watchman, reported the ease to the police,
who placed the body in a coffin got from the work-
house. It was then brought into town, and by the per-
mission of the High-sheriff, allowed to lie in the Court-
house to await an inquest.
STEAM v. SAILS.— When the comparative merits of
the clipper ships and steam vessels as transports were
fully discussed a few weeks back we pointed out that the
season of the year was unfavourable to the sailing yes.
eels, which would no doubt have shown the greater speed
had they left England two months earlier, and the truth
of our remarks is now shown by the passages of the Lord
Raglan. This vessel, after fitting out in Liverpool, pro-
ceeded to Kingstown, where she embarked the 4th
Regiment of the line for the Mauritius. She left Dublin
early in May, and made a rapid run out, beating the
mail steamer England from Dartmoor eight days, with
which the authorities of the island were so much pleased
that' upon a favourable report. being made of the yeses!,
her commander, Captain Heron, and crew, by the offi-
cera of the 4th, she was taken up to convey the left wing
of the 33d Regiment to ißombay. By the mail this
week we have advises of her arrival at Bombay, her run
from the Mauritius only occupying 12 days and a half,
beating the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Po tinger two days on that passage. The time occupied
inlsailin2 from Dublin to Bombay, deducting ds-tArtion
at the Mauritius, is about the shortest this season. Her
run from the Mauritius was during the favourable mon-
oon. Had she to make the passage in the month of
November the Pottinger would, no doubt, do it in half
the time. Sailing vessels, of course, require wind, not
too much before the beam, and clippers plenty of it, to
make way through the watcr,:while steamers of propor-
tiora e power are almost independent
tof ofit,as shown in
t r
case of the screw steamer y ;Manchester, which
left the Downs two days before the celebrated clipper
ship Lightning. The steamer arrived at St. Vincent's,
Cape \lad, on the 6th of Sept. in 11 days' passage from
Gravesend, c)alsd from the steamer Bosphorus, which
fad d
left
nft on sent
th
of fuel for the purpose,
s
of
September
isiut
epi
til
supply
for India. The Light-
ning
was spoken on the 6th of September, the day.of the
,reamers
arrival
at St. Vincent, but, owing to light
e
and c)utrary winds, she had scarcely got beyond the
latitude of Cape Finisterre.—Liverpool Albion.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Bttekstone.
TO-MORROW EVENING, THURSDAY, the play of
THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline, Mse Amy Sedgwick
(her second appearance in London) ; Claude Melnotte, Mr
Howe.

After which, A CURE FOR LOVE.
To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
it 2 0 Pit 1 0
ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

TO-MORROW, will be performed the home-made
Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright and
Miss Arden.

After which, will be revived the celebrated nautical drama
of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard
(his original character), Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE
SEVEN DIALS."

STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne.
—To-morrow Evening will be performed
a new comic drams,. entitled, SO VERY OBLIGING. Mr.
Kinloch, Miss Craven, &c.
To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which
Miss Craven will sustain four characters. Reginald Rattle
cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham.
After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque,
written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TRAVIATA;
or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor,
Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J.
Clarke.

To Conclude with MORE BLUNDERS TIE kN ONE
Larry Hoo agan, Mr. Macarthy.
_ _

Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; B x es, Zs.; Pit, 13.;
Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Robion and Emden.

TO-MORROW, will be performed the new drama o
THE LIGHTHOUSE,

After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE
Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, mad Mr. G. Murray.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
B. Brongh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
son, Cooke, Danvers, ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall,
llngbes, Bromley, and Mrs. yelfont.
Commence at "half-past Seven.

pOYAL SURRPIit THEATRE,
Lassoes, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.

TO-MORROW, will be performed AMBITION : or,
I` he Throne and the Tomb. Nfessrs. Creswick, W. Smith,
Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss
M. Eburne, Miss Johnstone.
After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN TIIE WORLD.
Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. The Bll;hted. One, Mr.
Widdicomb.

CANT ERBU RY HALL, Westmins ter-roal.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES. DUETS, isc., via.:—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Manetta, Mrs. Pa.lmyre, Miss E. Scott,
Mies Brunoll, Mrs. Lo Jenne, and Madame Marietta ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, It. Grover, T. Earrant,
S. io:;es, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor All7ollio, E. L.
Rime, and fir St. A byn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack-
ney. PianDforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mastcr
Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonglim-ins Commence at
Seven o'clock prozisoly. Snipers, die., until twelve o'clock.
—Signor PICCO drill perform, at ha f-past Eight and half-
past Ten, every Evening.