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London, England, 1857-12-25 00:00:00

INDIAN DESPATCHES.

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(Prom the London Gazette of this evening.)
INDIA. BOARD, DEc. 23.
The following despatch has been received at the East
India House.

No. 1.
The Governcr-General of India in Council to the Court
of Directors of the East India Company,
• Fort William, Nov. 9. (No. 71.)
In conformity with, instructions received from the
Secret Committee, that your Honourable Court should
be furnished with authentic intelligence respecting Euro-
peans, whether belonging to the East India Company's
service •r not, who may be ki'le I cr wounded by the
bands of rebels, a circular has been issued to the autho-
rities noted on the margin,* requesting them hencefor-
ward to cause such a return to be made, for submission
to your Honourable Court.
2. With respect to past transactions, these authorities
have been requested to collect, from the best available
sources, as complete a statement as can Fe prccored of
those who have fallen ; and that, though this statement
is to be made as complete as possible, still, whatever in-
formation they might have, should be sent in, without
waiting untl the report can be made compb te.
3. These re+crns, when received, will be duly trans-
mitted to your Hon. Court. In the meantime we fel--
ward a list, extracted from letters addressed to tuts
department.
4. The Home and Military Departments have been
directed to submit what information they now possess
on the subject, to this Department, for transmission to
your Hon. Court. —We have, Ste.,

CANNING.
J. DORIN.
J. LOW.
B. PEACOCK.

Since the above was written, the required lists have
been furnished by the Home Department and the Go-
♦ernment of Bengal, and they are forwarded herewith.

* Secretary to Government, Central Provinces. Secre-
tary to Government of Bengal. Chief Commissioner,
North-Western Provinces. Chief Commissioner, Punjab.
Resident at Hyderabad. Resident at Baroda. Governor-
General's Agent, Rajpootana. Governor-General's Agent,
Central India. Commissioner, Nagpore. Commissioner,
Sanger.

No. 2.

List of Europeans Killed by Rebels, prepared at the

Foreign Office, Calcutta.
Major M. T. Blake, Commanding 2.1 Regiment Infantry,
Gwalior Contingent • Capt. A. W. Hawkins, Command-
ing Ist Company Artillery, Gwalior Contingent ; Lieut.
A. Proctor, Adjutant 4th Regiment Infantry, Gwalior
Contingent ; Lieut. W. Stewart, Commanding 2d Com-
pany of Artillery, Gwalior Contingent ; Maj ,r F. Shirreff,
Commanding 4th R4,giment Infantry, Gwalior Contingent ;
Surgeon K. W. Kirk, M.D., Superintending Surgeon ;
Rev. G. W. Coopland, Assistant Chaplain : Gwalior,
May 14, 9 p.m., on their return from dinner at Brigadier
Ramsay's, by the mutinous corps of the Gwalior Contin-
gent, stationed at Gwalior.
. . .

aptain Spottiswoode, Cornet Newberry, let Regiment
Bombay Lancers : Nusseerabad, May 29, 4 p.m. Killed
whilst charging the mutineers, viz., two Regiments Native
Infantry and Artillery, who carried off six guns, and made
towards Delhi.
Colonel Penney, Commanding Ist Regiment Bombay
Lancers : Nnsseerabad, 29th May, 4 p.m. Fell dead from
his horse on the march.

Captain Hardy, Lieut. Loch, Ist Regiment Bombay Lan-
cers : Nusseerabad. Wounded on the above occasion.

Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Fell : Sirsa. Murdered by.a Jemadar
during the insurrection at, and destruction of, Sirsa.
Mr. Davis (his brother died in the jungle from thirst),
Clerk in Captain Robertson's office : Sirsa. Murdered on
the above occasion.

Mr. and Mrs. Wedderbnrn, Magistrate of Hissar; Lieut.
and Mrs. Barwell, Htirrianah Battalion ; Mr. Daniel, Pa-
trol; Mr. Thompson : Hissar. Mr. Wedderbarn is re-
ported to have been shot in his kutehery ; the rest were
massacred in their houses by the Hurrianah Light Infan.
t Lieut.
Lieut. Townsend. Killed by Daeolts on his way to
Mahoba.

Sergeant Fitzgerald : Hanel.
Mr. Cockerell, Joint Magistrate : Banda. Cut down by
Nawab's Sow ars.
Mr. Bruce, Mr. Brinerum, in the Banda Nawab's service.
Reported by the Nawab as murdered.
Capt. A. Skene, with his wife and two children, Super-
intendent ; Lieut. F. D. Gordon, Deputy Superintendent ;
Mr. T. Andrews, P. S. Ameen ; Mr. R. Andrews, with
his wife and four children, Deputy Collector and Deputy
Magistrate ; Mr. W. S. Carshore, wife and four children,
Collector of Customs; Mr. Wetton, wife, child, and two
sisters, Patrol; Mr. Orr, wife and mother, Superintendent
of Customs ; Capt. J. Dunlop, 12th Native Infantry ; En-
sign S. B. Taylor, 12th Native Infantry ; Lient. W. C. L.
Ryves, 12th Native Infantry; Dr. McEgan, wife, and sis-
ter, 12th Infantry ; Newton, wife, and four children,
Quartermaster-Sergeant; Lient. Campbell, and another
cavalry officer, 14th Irregular Cavalry ; Sergeant
Ryley, Overseer Public Works ; Capt. F. J. Burgess, Re-
venue Surveyor ; Lient. Turnbull, Assistant Revenue
Surveyor ; Mr. D. T. Blyth, wife, brother-in-law,
and three children, Sub-Assistant Revenue Sur-
veyor ; Mr. H. Millard, wife, and three children,
Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr Munrood,
Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. J. Young,
Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. Gabriel,
Lieutenant Powys, wife and child, Executive Engineer;
Mrs. Browne, wife of Deputy-Commissioner, with sister
and child ; Mr. A. Scott, Clerk; Mr. Purcell, Clerk; Mr.
Purcell, jun., Clerk; Mr. 3futloo, with wife and child,
Clerk; Mr. Mutleo, jun., Clerk; Mr. Elliott, with father
and mother, Clerk; Mr. Crawford, Clerk; Mr. Fleming,
out of service : Jhansi, sth and 6th June. Massacred by
the mutineers of the 12th Native Infantry and l4th Irre-
gular Cavalry, aided by the Ranee of Jhansi, who fur-
nished them with armed men.
Mr. T. L. Loyd, Magistrate of Humeerpore ; Mr.
Grant, Joint Magistrate of Humeerpore : Humeerpore,
14th June. Murdered by mutineers, wbo are supposed to
have been aided by the R.jah of Chirkaree.
Captain Barton and his two sons, Political Agent, Ha-
rowtee : Kotah, 15th October. Murdered by the Kotah
troops.
Mr. Snider, Sub-Assistant-Surgeon Kotah, 15th Oct.
Captain Monek Mason, Political Agent, JondhporJ :
Ahwa, 18th September. Murdered by the men of
the Jondhpore mutineers, aided by the men of the dis-
affected Thakoors.

Mr. Neilson, Veterinary Surgeon : Ferozepore, 19th
August. Throat cut from ear to ear by the mutineers of
the 10th Cavalry.

Major Spencer and the Quartermaater-Serjeant, 26th
Native Infantry ; Mean Meer, 30th July. Attacked by
the men of the regiment and murdered, along with the
Havildar:Major awl Snob idar

Brigadier Brind, Commanding at Sealkote Sealkote,
9th July. Killed by mutineers of 9th Light Cavalry.
Dr. James Graham, Superintending Surgeon ; Dr. J. C.
Graham, Medical Storekeeper : Sealkote, 9th July. Shot
dead by mutineer a of the 9th Light Cavalry, in their car-
riages, in preeence of their female relatives.

Captain Bishop, 4iith Native Infantry : Sealkote, 9th
July. Murdered by mutineers of the :)th Light Cavalry.
Rev. J. Hunter, with wife and child, Missionary : Seal-
kote, 9th July. Murdered by an Hindoostanee Peon, who
bad formerly been a Jernadar of Magislrat,!s Chupr aFsues,
but reduced for bad conduct.
No. 3.

List of Europeans, whether belonging to the East India
Company's Service or not, who have been killed or
wounded by the hands of rebels. Prep tred from papers
on record in the Home Department, Cilcutta.
Lient.-Col. Finnic, 11th N. I.; Mrs. Chambers, Captain
Macdonald and his wife, Captain Taylor, Lieut. Hender-
son, Lieut, Pattie, 20th N.I. ;. Lieut. Macnabb, Veteri-
nary-Surgeon Phillips, Veterinary-Surgeon Dawson, his
wife and children, Light Cavalry ; Captain Fraser,
Sappers and Miners ; Mr. Tregear, Inspector in the E in-
national Department—killed at Meerut by the mutineers,
10th May. _ _

Lieut.-Col. Rogge, Artillery ; Dr. Christie, 3d Light
Cavalry :—wounded at Meerut by the mutineers, 10th
May.
S. Fraser, Esq., Commissioner and Agent ; Captain
Douglas, commanding the Palace Guards; Rev. M. Jen-
nings, Chaplain ; Miss Jennings, Miss Clifford ; other Eu-
ropean and Christian residents, names not given ;—killed
by the rebels at Delhi, 11th May.
Captain Cortield, 9th N. 1.; wounded at Etawab, by a
party of rebel Native Cavalry in the attempt to seize them,
16th May.
Brigadier Sibbald, C. 8., Brigadier Bareilly Division ;
Ensign Tucker, 68th N. 1.; Dr. Hay, Doctor Bareilly Di-
' C.S.,
Di-
vision; Mr. Robertson, Judge; Mr. Orr, Deputy
C llector ; Mr. Raikes, C.S., Additional Sessions Judge;
Dr. Buch, Educational Inspector ; Mr. Aspinall's whole
family (Mr. 'Aspinall was an lincovenanted Assistant) )-
killed id the mutiny at Bareilly, May 31.
Mr. Wyatt; Mr. Lawrence. Retired Clerk of the Com-
inissioncr's Office, and his family of children ; supposed to
have been killed in the mutiny of Bareiily, May 31.
Sergeant Staples, Bareilly Brigade; murdered while
flying from Bareilly.
Mr. Mordatmt Ricketts, C S., Rev. Mr. M`Callum,
Presbyterian Minister, and Mr. Smith, officials and inha-
bitan4 of Shahjehanpore—killed by the mutineers in the
ontbreik at Shahjehanpore, May 31.
Lieut. filutehinson, Quartermaster of the 17th NJ.;
shot at Azimgurh by Madho Singh, a Sepoy of the Light
Company of the 17th N. 1., June 3. This man owed Lieut.
Hutchinson a grudge.
Sergeant Lewis, Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 'l7th
Nati,. Infantry : Azimgurh ; dangerously wounded by
tke mutineers of the 17th N. 1., 3d June.
Lieutenant Mara, commanding the two companies of
110041 a• na Regiment of Sikhs : shot in the chest while
.7.llXlNat,he verandah of the Cutcherry at Jounpore, in
„,the European inhabitants had taken refuge
ti:t2 of sepoy mutineers, sth June.
the bactie zarige, C. S., assistant magistrate, shot in
face by tifel'""i7lZ He was discovered lifeless on his
sergeant Bigsvacmorted the Cutcherry, sth Jane.
Bigwood was with the, fCL,l.!'reelelar Cavalry Sergeant
wa
e killed while going to":lZPerty from Jounpre, but
so'. me papers from his house,
sth Jane. Deputy Collector of Jounpore,
Mr. Thriepland,
and his
wife Mr. and Mrs. Thriepland and twuonPeMi
; shot,through the heart and
hid in 'one of the Court chuprageeete houses, t children were
n were be-
trayed and shot by some sowers, 6th .Fen„
to make ilia moo do
Lieut. Alezander,,thhiL`Tie.l;trivin.
sabred arlatatfalvdd—
their duty, June 6.
Captain Birch, Fort Adjutant; murdered at Allaheb ad,
during the night, June 6.
Mr. Cheek, an rtiposted Cadet; died at Allababad, of
wounds inflicted by the mutineers of the 6th N. 1.1 Re
a
was, with other prisoners in their hands, rescued by
inby the
British troops, on the 16th June, but die,' that night
the fort.
Mr. IL Ticker, C.S., Judge. The native depntY collec-
tor of rattehpore, Fleknint oolah Khan, headed the rebel-
lion there, and caused Mr. Tucker to be shot, June.
Mr. Reymer, employed on the railway, and his wife
and children. Dnryao Sing, a Zemindar of the Fut+eh-
pore district, collected a number of men in open rebellion,
and killed Mr. Kerner, his wife,
and children, June.
Mr. Snow, railway engineer : supposed to have been
killed at the same time with the Keyrner,.
Mr. Cockerel], C.S., Deputy Collector and Joint Magis-
trate of Banda, Mr. Dew/mine; Mr. Bruce, Mr. Lloyd.