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glected their duty in not taking up this subject. Until
they did so and legislated, the people of Ireland vvull !
not be able to take advantage of that career of pros-
perity
that appeared to be opening for Ireland.
Mr. H. HERBERT said tbat he felt certain that if
lion. members connected with Ireland turned their at-
tention to the question during the recess, and were fair
and moderate in their demands in any bill they might
introduce next session, her Majesty's Government would
give the important subject their serious consideration.
Mr. STAFFORD said that the statement of the Irish
Chief Secretary amounted in fact to this, that amongst
the various subjects they had promised to consider and
introduce next session, this subject had not been
considered worthy their consideration.
The order for the second reading of the bill was then
read and discharged.
BURIALS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

The committee on this bill was resumed.
Mr. MASSEY moved the following new clause :
"In any burial ground provided under the powers of
the acts hereinbefore recited or this act, respecting which
one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of Sate shalt
have certified that the necessary provisions have been
complied with, it shall be lawful for the incumbent of
such parish, or his curate, or such duly qualified person
as such incumbent may authorise, to bury in such burial
ground prior to the consecration thereof." The hon.
gentleman said that the clause had met with the approval
of the uighest ecclesiastical authority, and that it was
framed with reference to the Swansea and another case
that had been before the public.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that the clause was not
justified by the circumstances so far as the committee
understood them, nor was it free from objections of the
gravest character, which the hon. gentleman appeared
not to have anticipated. This clause proposed a more
important innovation in ecclesiastical law than had been
proposed within the memory of the oldest person living.
The grievance complained of by members of the Church
of England was that they c nild not by the present law
be buried in unconsecrated ground with the rites of the
Church of England ; but this clause would nob remedy
that grievance. The clause before the committee pro-
posed to give incumbents the power of burying in un.
consecrated ground, but it did not make it compulsory
on them to do so. If they refused to bury in unconse-
crated ground with the rites. of the Church of England.
they could not bs compelled to do so by this clause, and
therefore its operation would be left to their caprice.
He admitted legislative remedy was necessary in certain
cases, but it should be strictly confined to them. This
clause would give incumbents the power of standing at
the gates of burial grounds, and refuse the burial of per-
sons except they were satisfied as to the deceased's habits
of life and religions convictions.
Mr. DILL WYN referred at some length to the dis-
pute between the Bi-hop and the Burial Beard of
S vansea, relative to the consecration of the new burial
ground, which he said there was no chance of being
amicably settled. The burial board contended that they
had complied with the requirements of the act, but it
was denied on the part of the bishop. The refusal of
the bishop to consecrate the ground had the effect of
driving Churchmen out of the Church. Churchmen had
to be buried without funeral rites unless they were per-
formed by dissenting clergymen, and it caused much ill
feeling amongst the parishioners of S vansea.
Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. B. Hope,
and Mr. Spooner opposed the clause ; Mr. Hadfield,
and Mr. Salisbury supported the clause.
Mr. M. WILLIA.MS hoped the clause would be
withdrawn.

Mr. MA.SSEY said that the clause was proposed to
get rid of the scandals that at present existed with re-
ference to the Church in consequence of the conduct of
two right reverend prelates, which had ha 1 the
effect of depriving inhabitants of certain parishes of the
privilege that had existed from time immemorial, that of
burial in consecrated ground. The bon. gentleman saici
that the disputes had not arisen from the conduct of the
burial boards. He hal some special knowledge on the sub
jest, and hehad no hesitation in saying thatthe burial boar is
had acted in a resp.ctful and conciliatory spirit. The
clause was a permissive one, and thinking it would
remedy the ev is complained of, be asked the committee
to agree to it. He denied that he wai proposing inno-
vations in the law, seeing that the Earl of Shaftesbury's
hilt permitted the rites of the Church of England to
be performed in Exeter Hall on Sunday evenings, which
was unconsecrated around. If this clause failed in it
object, be thought he should be justified on a future day
in coming to the house for more stringent powers.
Mr. PULLER objected to the clause, and as the
Government did not feel disposed to withdraw the clause
he moved that the chairman do report progress.

Mr. MASSEY con.idered it would be better to come
to a decision on the clause at once than postpone it to a
future day. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. PULLER, said his object in making the motion
was to induce the Government to reconsider the clause.
The motion was then withdrawn.

Mr. HARDY considered it would be better for Go-
vernment to withdraw the clause, and introduce another
that should de6n,) what was a burial ground.
The CEIA.IRMAN then put the motion that the
clause be read a second time.
The c-imtnittee divided. The numbers were—
For the motion
Against it
Majority —39

Mr. RIDLEY then moved an amendment that on the
receipts of the inspector's certificate the bishop of the
diocese should consecrate the burial ground, and that it
should be lawful. &c.

Mr. MASSEY objected to the amendment.
The amendment was subsequently withdrawn, and
the clause ordered to -stand part of the bill, after a
di.cusion in which it was stated that the clergymen of
the Church of England would he allowed to use their
own dizcreti in under thi4 clause as to what form of
burial service they would u:e in unconsecrated ground,
without rendering themselves liable to a breach of
Church discipline.
Several new clauses were added, and the bill passed
through committee.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BILL.
This bill as amended was agreed to. •
BANKING BILL.
This bill as amended was alto agrted to, and orders
to be read a third time to-morrow at 12 o'clock.

BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (IRELAND)

BILL.

This bill WAS read a third time and passed.
CALEDONIAN AND CRINAN CANALS BILL.
This hit was read a third time and pa=sed.
NEW ZEALAND LOAN GUARANTEE.

The report was brouu,nt up and agreed to. It involves
the loan of a sum of 500,000/.
TURNPIKE AC I'S CONTINUANCE BILL.

This bill as amended was agreed to.
The Land Tax Commissioners' Names Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The report on the County Courts Judges' Salaries was
brought up and agreed to.
COUNTY CONSTABLES.

Mr. MA.SSEY obtained leave to introduce a bill to
amend the la Yir concerning detached parts of counties, ao
farea respects the e-tablistunent of county cmstables.
The remaining orders were disposed of, and the house
adj mrned at five minutes to six o'clock.

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

AN ESCAPE FROM DELHI.

The following most interesting and affecting
letter was written to his sister by a boy of 19, who
happily succeeded in effecting his escape from
among the mutineers :

Meerut, June 1.
" Who would have thought when I last wrote
to you all the awful circumstances under which I
was again to put pen to paper ? However, by the j
providence of Almighty God, your brother has been
spared from the fearful massacre that has taken
place at Delhi, and though he is a complete beggar,
yet, thank God, he is still alive and well. On, my
own dearest sister, the escape I have had has been
most miraculous—in fact, I can hardly realise it,
and wtnn one comes to look back upon it, it is
scarcely to be believed, yet still here I am and no
mistake about it ; and as they say there is a slight
chence of a letter teaching Bombay in time for the
mail, I am writing to you. There is only one other
officer of my unfortunate regiment out of those
who were with it at the time of the mutiny who has
esc aped to this place, and he poor fellow, is in hos-
pital with a musket-ball through his thigh—Os-
born, our adjutant ; but I am glad to say time
were three others on leave for a mouth's shooting
in the jungles at the time of theoutbreak, and who
have consequently escaped—among them my chum
Wheatley. You know I myself had only been back
front Cawnpore five days when this awful business
took place. I have been here now since the 19ile
of last month, and I have not had a single line from
my poor mother. All the dawks, youknow, are cut
off by the insurgents, and though I have written to
her several letters, yet I fear none have reached
Cawnpore. I was able, however, thank God, to
telegraph to them on the 20th, saying I had arrive I
here safe and well, and got a reply from my father
telling what relief I had given them, but since then
the wire has been destroyed and there has been no
communication at all with Cawnpore. God grant
they may be safe and well, and we have reason to
suppose that the troops there are quiet.
" There were three native corps at Delhi, besides
a battery of 6 guns, and not a single European so-
Bier. It It was about 10 o'clock on the morning of
the 11th that we first heard of sonee mutineers
having come over from Meerut, and that our regi-
ment was ordered down to the city, where they
were, to cut them up. Of course this time we had
not a doubt as to their loyalty. Well, the whole '
regiment, except my company, No. 1, and our
major's the Grenadiers (who were ordered to wait
for two guns and escort them down), at once want
off t the city, distant about two miles. On arriv-
ing at the Ca hinere-g ate, which leads into a small
fortified bastion called the Mainguard, from which
there is another egress to the city, they were met
by some troopers of the 3d Cavalry from Meerut,
who immediately charged down upon them. Not
the slightest effort was made by our men to defend
their officers, and they were nearly all shot down
at the head of their companies by these troopers. In
fact, our poor colonel was seen to be bayoneted by
one of the Sepoys after he had been cut down by a
trooper ; and teen the fact of neither a Sepoy nor
a trooper having been killed, is enough to convince
one of their treachery. Well, soon atter our two
companies, with the two guns (for whom we had
had to wait half an hour), also arrived, and on
going through the Cashmere-gate into the Main-
guard and thence into the city, where all this had
taken place, the Sepoys and mutineers all bolted,
being frightened at the sight of the guns, and be-
fore there was time to open upon them they had all
disappe 'red into the streets. We then went back
to the Mainguard, determined to hold that against
them utetd more reinforcements arrived from can-
tonments, for which we immediately sent. In
tae meantime we sent out parties to bring in
our poor fellows, who were all seen lying about
in front of the Mainguard. I myself went out
and brought in poor Burrowes. It was a most
heartrending sight, I assure you, to see all our
poor chaps whom we had seen and been wi h
that very morning, talking and laughing together
at our coffee-shop, lying dead side by side, and
some dreadfully mutilated. I had never before seen
a dead body, so you may ivaaginewliat an awfulsight
it waoto me. Tile poor Colonel was the only one
not killed outright ; but he, poor man, was hacked
to pieces. W• cent him back to cantonments,
where he died in the coutse of the day. At last
some companies of the other regiments came up,
and we remained here the whole day expecting to
be attacked every minute. Lots of women and
people who had managed to escape from the city
came in to us for shelter, little thinking of the scene
that was shortly to be enacted among us. By and
by three of our officers, who had escaped being
killed by the troopers, also came in, and from them
we learnt what I have told you above. All this
while we saw fires blazing in the town and heard
guns of the magazine, which a few Europeans had
been defending against the whole host of the insur-
gents, and which had at last blown up.
" Well, it must have been about 5 o'clock in the
afternoon, when, all of a sudden, the Sepoys who
were with us in the Mainguard, and on whom we
had been depending to defend us in case of attack,
began firing upon us in every direction ; a most
awful scene, as you may imagine, then ensued—
people running in every possible way to try and
escape. I, as luck would have it, with a few other
fellows, ran up a kind of slope that leads to the
officers' quarters, and thence, amid a storm of bul-
lets, to one of tee embrasures of the bastion. It is
perfec ly miraculous how I escaped being hit ; no
end of poor fell ars were knocked down all about,
and all too by their men ; it is really awful to.think
of it. However, on arriving at the embra-kur• all at
once the idea occurred to me of jumping down into
the ditch from the rampart (one would have thought
it madness at any other time), and so try and get
out by scaling the opposite side ; but just as I
was in the act of doing so I heard screams from
a lot of unfortunate women who were in the
officers' quarters, imploring for help. I imme-
diately, with a few other fellows, who, like me,
were going to escape the same way, ran back
to them, and though the attempt appeared
hopeless, we determined to see if we could not take
them with us. Some of them, poor creatures, were
, wounded with bullets ; however, we made a rope
with hendk, rchiefe, and some of us jumping down
first into the ditch caught them as they dropped,
to break the fall. Then came the d•fficulty of drag-
ging them up on the opposite bank ; however, by
God's will we succeeded, after nearly half an hour,
why no
acr :ss all this
ienitogteettvienfy no seeoys came and
them up ;usanwdhwileh
time is a perfect mystery. The murdering was
going on below all this time, and nothing could
( have been easier than for two or three of them to
( come to the rampart and shoot us down. How-
ev,r, as I say, we somehow got over, and expecting
to be pursued, we bent our steps to a house that
was on the banks of the river. This we reached in
safety, and getting something to eat and drink from
the servants (teeir master, young Me-calf, had fled
in the morning), stopped there till dark, and then,
seeing the whole of three cantonments on fire, and
as it were a regular battle raging in that direction,
we ran down -Co the ricer and made the best of our
way along its banks in an opposite direction. It
would he too long, my very dearest sister, to tell
you of how for thr-e days and nights we wandered
in the jungle, some'imea fed and sometimes robbed
by the villagers, till at length, wearied and foot,
' sore, we arrived at a village where they put us in a
hut and fed 113 for four days, and moreover took a
note from us into Meerut, whence an escort of ca-
valry was sent out, and we were brought safely in
here.
" We started from Delhi with five ladies and four
officers besides myself, but afterwards fell in with
two sergeants' wives and two little children, with
two more officers and a merchant, so altogether, on
coming into Meerut, were a body of 17 souls. Oh,
great Heaven, to think of the privations we en-
dured, and the narrow escapes we had! We used to
ford streams at night, and then walk on slowly in
our wet clothes, tying down to rest every half-hour,
for you must retnemb that some of t ladies were
wounded, and all so fatigued and worn out that they
could scarcely move. Of course, had we been by our-
selves we would have made a dash for Meerut at
once, which is about 40 miles from Delhi,* but
having these unfortunate women with us, what
could we do ? Sometimes we heard villagers com-
bitung to murder wet and the whole time were in
dread of being pursued and killed by some of the
mutineers from Delhi. At one time, when we
were attacked by the villagers and robbed of every-
thing we possessed, had we not bad them with us
we would have fought for it, and sold our lives
dearly, instead of quietly giving up our arms as we
did, for you must know we had a few blunt

swords among us with one double-barreled gun.
I send you a short account of the' insurrection,
from which you will see that a great many
people eacaped to Kurnaul anl timballah, among
them the major of my regiment • but, alas,
I fear that we are the only ones saved. The forces
from Kurniul are fast approaching Delhi, and
half the force from here has also gone out. They
have been attacked, we hear, by the insurgents,
who sallied out of Delhi, and have sent in for more
r•inforc•ments. The people here are in ago it
fright, but I fancy 1,000 Europeans can hold anir
ground against five times that number of naives,
and there is nut much to fear ; however, we are
very anxious about them, and are eagerly looking
out for a despatch, as firing was heard all last
night. We took eight guns from them the day
before, but they hue Lo end of them, besides lots
of ammunition, in the magazines of Delhi. Nov
I will say good-bye, my dear sister. Fowl and
affectionate love to all. In another week we shall
know more about affairs. I have not a thing to
niy back—horses and everything all gone ' • in fact,
as I said before, a perfect beggar ; but I dare say
Covet invent may repay us in a meavete.

JHELUM, MAY 30.
My letter last time was stopped by the mutiny ;
so I suppose you will be anxious to hear a full and
true account. The first I heard was that tlee
troops at Ferozepore had joined the mutiny, and
had tried to take the Old Fort, but that a company
or two of Europeans had been sent there in antici
patios, who after a hard fight had held their own,
but fought only with the butt-ends of their mus-
kets ; that they then went off to the station and
burnt down the Monumental Church, the Roman
Catholic Chapel, and every thatched house, plun-
dering as they burnt ; that Mr. Coates and Mr.
Hughes, two merchants, alone refused to fly, col-
lected their servants, fortified their houses, and re-
pelled all attacks, Mr. Hughes's son, a boy, killing
the only Sepoy shot ; that they then pulled down
numbers of unthatched houses. Next day they
were attacked—the 10th Native Cavaliy taking our
part—and were disarmed, except some hundred
odd, who escaped into the villages, where they are
being apprehended. At Umballa and Jullundhur
much the same—houses burnt, but no lives lost.
At Urnballa the deserters were more numerous ,
but the Patiala Rajah had apprehended many of
them. He was the first, as he always has been, to
come to our aid, although we did take Bud'sour
from him forcibly so lately. Now we learn that
the Europeans took the fort at Agra and hold their
own there ; that the Allyghur troops (9th Native
Infantry) had mutinied and goueto join the force
at Delhi and that the Commander-in-Chief was
still stationary at Umballa, unwilling to move till
he had a larger force. The Simla and Almora,
Goorka troops have also mutinied, but it is hoped
they are coming round. The troops at Lahore
were in vigorous hand. Sir J. Lawrence and
General Reid, aided by Brigadier Chamberlain,
were nut men to wait for orders in such an emer-
gency, and have disarmed the troops both there and
at Peshawur, only just in time, as we learn, as
they were waiting for the news from Delhi, where
it was agreed the mutiny should begin. Half of
one of the regiments at Peshawur was at an out
station (Noushera), and was not disarmed, as a
few men alone could do nothing; they got
the signal from Delhi, but did not know
their comrades at Peshawur had been dis-
armed ; so they rose, as agreed upon, and
found themselves in a narrow pass between
two European cantonments, and a force has started
to make a fearful example of them. All the native
States are with us, and have sent in their contin-
gents to aid the English, except Mahsrajah Gholab
iingh, who is pouring great supplies of ammunition,
corn, dec., into all his forts along our border. Well,
the Sepoye, as Ills an from really good informants,
all believe that we are determined to make them
Christians by some means. They believe that all we
want to do is to make them eat pig's fat or bullock's
flesh ; an], unfortunately, the cartridges for the
new Enfield rifle were greased, and in some places
the grease, I believe, really was lard or common
bullock's fat, the native contract or having used
these for cheapness. In this frame of mind, which
has been ping on for several years, they were very
suspicious of anything new, and believed at once
that the Government really had the lard put on to
cheat them into becoming Christians, and regiment
after regiment held meetings to resent this attack
on their religion. All the officers who were well ac-
quainted with Hindostanee being selected for staff
appointments, only those were left in most regimen's
who, knowing but little of the language, had but
little intercourse with their men, and teereforethey
learnt nothing of all this, except in one or two corps
where some chance linguist remained, and those
corps have generally not mutinied, as their officers
learnt their complaints and explaiued the matter to
them. It is now believed that all this would have
blown over, but the dismissed nobles and grandee*
of Oude, shorn of all their wealth and rank, seize!
on this pretext, and sent messengers in the disguise
of Fakirs all abour, praying the men to stand out
for the religion of their fathers, a plan which suc-
ceeded too well. Some of rho Fakirs, it is said, have
been apprehended. The sepoys of the 14th Native
Infantry held a meeting, but luckily had some good
officers, and one Lieut. smith, a good linguist and a
great friend of theirs; so they agreed not to mutiny,
but to resign if they were asked to fire the suspected
cartridges. Meanwhile the Government or the
authorities had all the new cartridges burnt t
reassure the men, but it had unluckily just the
opposite tendency. If, they said, there was really
nothing in the cartridges Government would never
have burnt them all, but as they were really greased
with lard they saw they were found out this time and
burnt them, as the only way to get out of the mess.
Now, say they, such a powerful Government
soon find out some other way, so it is better to fight
it out now than to find ourselves cheated into being
Christians some day unexpectedly, and then be 110-
, able to clear ourselves. The news from the other
' station is, perhaps, equally bad. At Mooltan they
are only restrained from breaking out by Chamber-
lain's L regular Cavalry, and at Itawul Piudul they
are on the eve of rebellion, it is said. Moor adabad
and Barrilly troops are said to be firm, also the 21st
at Peshawur. The spark that is said toheve fit ed the
train is thet one party of sepoys 'lid not refuse the
cartridges, but tore off the ends with their hand',
and would not put, them in o their mouths, which '
the officer in command said was unsoldierly, and
explained all about the cartridees to them, vowe
they were greased with ghee, and told them we did
not care if they were of all the religions in the
world ; but unfortunately few officers left with
trieir regiments are good at Hiedostanee, and the
sepoys did not understand him at all. They only
understood that he was determined they should
bite and not tear off the end of the cartridge, and
immediately felt sure that there was something in
it, so metnied. There is a great want of sympathy
between the European and the native, which de-
stroys all hopes of comfort, unless you could fall
into all their usages. We are well here. God had
hitherto protected us, and we now seem to think
all is over. A splendid ferce is collected inKurnual.
The native States believe that we must win in the
end, and have sent their troops to our aid. We can
only trust in God, who is equally able to protect us
anywhere. We are in the midst of a mutiny un-
ecedented. iu Indian history, and are only a small
band of Europeans, fighting and struggling for ex-
istence. However, the regiment hero is very g )od,
and deserves the title, so common forme ly, of the
faithful Sepoy.

of the guns. He did as I.; know they were in it!'e ,
hands of the rebels. We had heard firing iu that
direction before, hut did not know that 'he first
thing which t oh plase was that a few of tt e worst
lilt n, having induced the native gnat • s f• join them
(there were no Eat °peat) attillerymee, but the na-
tive ones were considered quite faithful), had pos-
sessed themselves of the guns, six in numl er. I
gallope 1 off towards them, and must have been
within from 70 to 100 yards, whii I began to ex-
perience the unpleasant sensation of bullets whiz-
zing past my head, and s siis a lot of Sepoys taking
potshots at me as I came al :ng. One man put up
his hands and warned me off, and I did not require
any further hint—the ne ghbourheod was not the
saf-st. I immediately turned my pony's head, and
endeavoured to retreat under cover of a wall which
ran in front of the artillery lines Here I saw more
men running up with the kind intention of having
a crack at me, se I had to keep along the parade
ground right in the line cif fire, and had one or two
men pepping at me from over the wall on my right.
My tat (pony) went as fast as ever he could go,
and, thanks be to God, carried me back in perfect
safety, much to the astonishment of all who saw it.
The Colonel then ordered the Grenadier 4 and Light
Company to move off under cover of the ha's of
arms, and at ack the guns, but when they had gone
a little way they refused to move further, and man
after man (1,-)serel and jo'ned the mutineers. At
the same time the Colonel told me to take out an-
other company, and extended them in skirmishing
order in front of the guns, and to pick off the men
at the guns, and, if possible, charge. Fortunately
the men would not move ; if they had, they
would have obeyed orders till told to begin
firing, when I should have had a bu let
through me and the men would have deserted in a
body. As nothing was to be got from them, the
companies were rreealled. I had forgotten to tell
you that the regiment previous to this was drawn
up in line facing the guns, the guns being about
600 or 700 yards to the left of our lines. In this
position we remained upwards of au hour, when,
finding the men would do nothing, the Colonel
formed open column. The guns, of course, would
not open on us, as they knew all the men were
going to join them when things were ripe. It was
only in active movements the men refused to obey
orders ; in everything else they were quite subor-
dinate. At one time, when the officers were
grouped together somewhat in front of the men,
some men came out from the guns and tried to hit
us with their muskets, which they could do with-
out injuring the Sepoys. At last sunset began to
c eine on, and it was evident we could not remain
mush longer, so an adjutant was sent off to the
Br gadier for orders, who toll us to retire. The
Colonel was determiued, if possible, to carry off the
c lours, which were accordingly brought out of
the quarter-guard. When the Colonel gave the
order to march the men refused to go. He then
a.ked who would join in bringing off the colours,
and the Grenadiers, almost to a man, came for-
ward. The colours were brciught to the front, and
put under charge of the Grenadiers ; very few
others cause forward, and when the word " march"
was given a jeer was raised, and a shout, "You
shan't take away the colours." The men cocked
their pieces. I turned round and saw that two men
had got the colours, and were running away to-
wards the enemy. The first gun that was fired at
us was the signal for the officers to be off. Pro-
videntially we were all mounted at the time, so
off we started amid showers of bullets towards the
cavalry lines. I dodged round the first bell of
arms (a small square building detached from all
others, in which the arms were kept), and as .1
passed each bell saw three or four men behind
each, who deliberately shot at us as we passed.
Either my tat swerved beore I came to the ser-
geant-major's bungalow, or else I saw more men
in the road ; I don't know which. At all events,
I had to steer with great difficulty round the out-
side of the house, which brought me again on
the open parade ground. Round the corner, and
I was comparatively safe. A moment or two
more and I was sate among the cavalry, who were
drawn up in rear of their own lines. Every one
of us came in safe by God's mercy. P—'s
charger, a very fine animal, droppsd. dead directly
he had brought his master into safety. The Colonel
had an awfully narrow escape ; his horse swerved
right round at the start, and we thought it was all
over with him. The horse received one ball in the
forehead, another in the neck, and his knee was
grazed by a third, but he brought the Colonel in
sate, and is still alive. We now had the explana-
tion of all the firing we had heard going ou at the
artillery while we were standing under arms. The
cavalry had come up and been fired on with grape
by the mutineers, and had made several attempts
to charge, but could not capture the guns. New-
bury, quite a young fellow, charged by himself, was
riddled with balls, and then hacked to pieces. Cap-
tain Spottiswood was also killed, and two other
officers slightly wounded. J— had his jacket
ripped open at the shoulder by a bullet. M—,
who cut down a man, hae a very narrow escape,
and so had several other officers. When we came
up they determined to retreat at once. It
was just sunset when we left the station. The
ladies had been sent on in buggies previously
in case we should have to " bolt," so we fell in
with them just outside the cantonment. We left
by the Ajmeer road, and when we had gone a mile
or two struck off to the left, under the hills, making
a detour towards Beaur, where it was determined
to retire. We went right across country, over fields
and rocky hills, for about 10 miles, tid we came to
the Beaur-road, leaving the blazing bungalows of
the station behind us. About 2 o'clock we fell in
with most of the officers of the 30th who had
escaped, and arrived at a bungalow. Here Colonel
Penny, commanding the Lancers, who was taken
ill on the way from the effects of a fall and over-
excitement, died. We could get nothing to eat or
drink, and started again at daybreak and reached
ties about 11. Tile journey by road is 32 miles,
and our detourmust have made it at least 10 miles
longer, so you may fancy how tired our horses were.
Not a thing has any one saved-TI have not even
my watch, and my pistol was jerked out of my
holster in the flight."

SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING-HOUS'

Yesterday, at the Marlborough-street Police
a)urt, Atraham Levy Goodman, clurged as the
keeper of a gambling-house, No. 28, Coventry-
street, and Chas. W. Stewar', door-keeper, wi'lll3
other persons found in the house when the police
made an entry, were brought before Mr. .Bingham
for final examination. The defendants were re-
manded from the previous examinatou, in order to
give time to Mr. Bingham to consider his judg-
ment, the proceedings being under a new act of
Parliament.

Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, was for the defendants.
Mr. Bingham said—The defendants Goodman
and Stewart were brought to this court on the 15th
July, charged with keeping and using a room for
the purpose of unlawful gaming. It appeared that
the room in question was an inner apartment, after
passing through a shop, over the door of which was
the inscription, "Abraham Goodman, licensed
dealer in tobacco." That fer the last two mouths,
during which the shop had been watched, lit le to-
bac o or aene had been sold, and that no stock of
tobacco was found when the police entered on the
15th. At half-past one fiat morning a policeman
tapped at the shop door. Goodman's son came out
through the door of the inner apartment into the
shop, and seeing the police through the window,
in-tead of advancing to open the door, retreated to
the inner apartment. The shop was forced by the
police, who proceeding to theiuner apartment, found
there fifteen pe sans, some of therresmoking cigars
they had brought with them, and Goodman with a
dice- box and dice in his band, a backgammon board
being before him. Several pairs of slice were found
in the apartment and adjoining shop, together with
some dirty cards. A table in the apartment was
covered with three cloths, one of them nailed on to
it, and a curtain prevented any view from the shop
into the apartment. The persons assembled had
entered in the course of the three or four hours
which preceded the visit of the police, and none of
them had purchased in the shop any tobacco or ci-
gars. One of the visitors who had frequented the
place brought a stranger with him, who was not
admitted till the introducer vouched him as a friend.
Three of the fifteen persons taken into custody were
called as witnesses under the act 17 and 18 Vic., c.
38,. which has recently come into operation. Two
of them said they had arrived only half-an-hour be-
fore the entrance of the police, and that during that
time nothing was played but backgammon, which is
not an unlawful game. The third refused to be ex-
amined, and preferred to submit to the penalty of a
recusant witness. By the 8 and 9 Vic., c. 109, where
any dice, tables, or other instruments of gaming,
are found in any house suspected to be used as a
common gaming-house, it shall be evidence, until
the contrary be made to appear, that such house is
used as a common gaming-house. Now dice hav-
ing been found in Goodman's house, suspected to
be used as a common gaming-house, has he made
the contrary of that suspicion appear ? Assuming
that backgammon was played for half-an-hour or
thereabouts out of the three or four hours dur-
ing which the company was assembled, that cir-
cumstance seems to me to confirm rather than
to negative the inference which the statute
peremptorily compels a magistrate to draw from
the finding of dice in a suspected house. It is dif-
ficult to conceive how 15 persons could play back-
gammon with one board, while it is obvious that
two persons might be so employed as a blind for
10 or 12 others, engaged at an. unlawful game upon
a table well muffled with a tiip!e covering. And
that the house was not unjustly suspected suffi-
ciently appears from the shop-front announcing a
business not conducted in earnest ; from the retreat
of the eon into an inner room on the sight of the
police ; from the muffled table, as well as the dice
found in that room ; from the hesitation to admit
a stranger till vouched for by a friend, and. from
the refusal, even under penalty, of the most respec-
table of the persons apprehended to give evidence.
The punishment for the offence of keeping a com-
mon gaming-house is a fine not exceeding 5001., or
imprisonment not exceeding one year, at the'dis-
cretion of the magistrates. As Goodman is here for
the first time, and as the company assembled in his
house consisted not of minors, apprentices, or ser-
vants, who are too frequently tempted by the faci-
lities of such a house to make free with their em-
ployer's property, but was composed of veteran
idlers, who, perhaps, might be left to compass each
others ruin without much loss to society, a fine of
501. only will, as a commencsment, be imposed on
Goo Iman, and 101. on Stewart, who acted as door-
keeper. In default of payment Goodman to be
imprisoned six weeks, Stewart 10 days.

Goodman said there wera several_ backgammon
boards in his house when the police entered.
Mr. Lewis said the decisou would be appealed
against, audit would be for the magistrate to fix the
amount of bail.
Bail for Goodman was fixed at two sureties in
1001. each.
The other defendants were discharged.