The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

TEE INDIAN MUTINY.

The following is the substance of a report
which, however, absurd it may appear .to u 4,. was
fully lyslieved in the lines an 1 bazaar of the largest
steticn in the south of India- at the date of the de-
spatch of the last letters. It has now become evi-
dent, fr,:m t!:e papers which have- b :en laid before
Parliament, and from the general tenor of the in-
formation which has been received throUgh the
newspapers and private letn.-1, th tt the Bcylga
Sepoys acted under the influence of a genuine
alarm for their religion.
" The Padres addressed an urze3 (petition) to
the Queen, representing that in former times, when
there were Mahon:lei an kings, they forced their
subjects to become Mahomedans, but that-, al-
tivm..2h for 60 yeers a ChliAian Government ha 3
ruled 111:s country, yet not one in'm has by force
been m:tdo a Christian. _ .

" That Tippoo made thousands of Hindoos be-
come f h s religion, while your Majesty has not
glade one Chrisitin. _

" That under your orders are Sepoys of all castes.
We, therefore, pray you to adopt this plan—
namely, to cause to be mixed up together bullocks'
fat and pigs' fat, and to have it put upon the
cartridges which your Sepoys put into their mouth-,
and after six months to have it made known to the
Sepoys how they have thereby lost their caste, and
by this means a certain road will be opened for
making many Christiats.
" When the Queen read the urzae she was neatly.
pleased, and said, 'This .is a very; good thought,
and by this means I shall have every Sepoy made
a Christian.'"

The following extract is from a letter from a
young officer stationed at Neetnuch, received by
the last mail :

"Neemuch, June, 18.
"Ou the 30th and 31st of May and the Ist of
June the troops here were very much excited, but
became quiet again on the morning of the 2tl, acid
we all b Tan to thinkthe crisis was over, but it was
only the calm before the storm. On the evening
of the 3.1 several people told us that so ne-
thing would happen , before morning. This
none of us
most
believe, fir all the S,-
iioys were most respntful, and had only the day
before taken an oath in the Gonges water that they
would, continue to serve the Government faithfully ;
but at 11 p.m. while I was sitting in the lines of
the 7.2 d Native Infantry talking with the brigadier,
the artillery fired the signal guns, and then the
whole of the troops broke out into open mutiny.
The infantry at once commenced plundering and
setting the camp on fire in every direction, and the
cavalry surrounded all the officers' houses for the
purpose of cutting them down as they ran out.
Most of us had collected in the lines of the 72d, and
30 of the Sepoys belonging to that corps stood
round and protected us till half-past 1 a.m., when
they told us they could do so no longer as the artil-
lery were bringing up their guns to force them to
give us up, and therefore we must fly for our lives.
Aft .r a few minutes' consultation we thought it best
to try and get to Jaevud, a walled town, about 12
miles from here. We started on foot with only 3 ru -
pees and the clothes we had en. I had Mrs. Laurie
by one hand and a child on my other arm. We had
hardly proceeded a mile when we heard a party of
cava'ry coming in pursuit of us ; we alt lay down
quietly on the ground aiid they passed without dis-
ceverieg us. We then left the road and continued
wandering about in the jungle till daybreak, and
we succeeded in reaching our destination by 8 a.m.
We had been there three or four hours when news
was brought us that. the whole of the mutineers
were coming to Jawud with the intention of killing
all the Feringhees, who hade3caped from Neemuch.
There was, therefore, no other alternative then for
us to start again, and at half-past 10 at night we ar-
rived at a place 20 miles from Jawud, called Dee
gur, where we remained for two dao s to ascertiin
whether the mutineers really were in pursuit of us
or not. Finding they had struck off to Delhi we
returned to this place, and soon after a letter ar-
rived from Jemoniah saying, that the Mehidpore
Contingent, 1,500 strong, composed of infantry,
artillery, and cavalry, had mutinied and killed
their officers and were marching to attack us. We,
therefore (24 officers), shut ourselves up in the fort
here, determined not to allow ourselves to fall
alive into their hands, but yesterday ram-than-MT
to say we received information that they had
g.ven up the idea of coming here and had gone in
the direction of Delhi, and the only thing we have
to fear now is lest the surrounding country should
rise against us ; but everything depends on the cap-
ture of D, lhi. All the natives have turned against
us without a why,or wherefore, and mine and Cap-
tain L.'s servants are the only ones who have re.
mained firm to us, and people in whom we placed
the greatest confidence have proved the greatest
rebels. I have lost everything, and we all con-
sider ours-Ives very lucky if we manage to pick up
some old ch:thes of a Sepoy to wear. We are all in
good spirits, and though the English government
in this country is in great dagger we all think we
shall weather the storm. Thq natives are very dis-
rcepeclul, and are under the impression that our
Government is at an end, and prayers are daily
offered up in the mosque for the success of the
King of Delhi."

The subjoined are extracts from letters by the
ast mail from a missionary at Chunar
• N-d Rectory, Aug. 4.

" Chunar, June 8.
" On Thursday, the 4th inst., I was at college a
Benares, when a message came from Mr. Tucker
the commsssiouer, which required an answer in
person. About hall-past five I started in my buggy;
when I reached the Sgrah compound I saw Mr.
P— and a Sower (native caYlry) and a number of
native Christians running around them. Mr. P—
pie, " There is fighting going on, don't you hear
the firing I'. As soon as my buggy stopped. I beard
it ou the Parade, which is about one and a-half
miles from Sigrah. The Sowar brought a note
from Mr. Tucker telling us that the Native Regi-
ment at Azitngliur (60 miles off) had mutinied and
carried off the treasure ; that our own regiment had
risen ; that the rendezvous was the Mint. The
fighting was heard between us and the Mint ; so
to reach it was impossible. We immediately turned
homewards, and atter 10 minutes' packing, set off
for Chunar, a strong fort on the river, about 18
miles off. As we drove off we saw armed men run-
ning up to the Parade andgroups of natives staring
in our faces to read onr looks as we heard the firing.
We did not take the direct road to Chunar on ac-
count of the mutineers who took that direction, but
we 'crossed the river to Ramnuggur, a fort and pa-
lace belonging to the Rajah of Benares. There we
bivouacked for the night. The Rajah himself, who
was obliged to fly from Beuares during the night,
was very kind to us, and gave us provisions, &c.
But, as he feared the responsibility of sheltering
us, he sent us on with -a guard of his Sepoys to
Chunar. We have since heard that all his tenantry
have revolted from him. Aud now I must tell you
what had happened at Berviras. When the news
arrived from Aziwghur, it was resolved to disarm
the suspected regiment at Rmeres, the 37th N.I.
It is said that this intention was not fully comlnie-
»icatecl by the chief authorities to the officers of the
regiment, who could not therefore properly ex-
plain it to the Sepoys. About 'tour p.m., the
troops were drawn out on the Parade. The 37th
Native Infantry were ordered to put their arms
into the " bells of arms." As they w= re doing so
tliey saw the English in front of them and the
guns, and they were panic-struck, thinking they
wtra going to be shot down, and therefore
as any soldier would, they seized their arms. and,
as their officers could not explain, they called out
that their officers were betraying them, and imme-
diately shot at them, and poured a volley ou the
Europeeree This, of course, was instantly returned,
and followed up by a discharge of grape from the
threegnus.TilTitherto been considered faithful,
id
37th fled to their lines. The
Sikh,
been told nothing of what was going 'on, were
ado panic-stricken, and fired at the English. My
aikhs,
who
bad
friend Captain Dodggon, who was in command of
1 the
eSciw
hati.sr' was fired at by one of them. So here
were all three native regiments against us. But.
not a bit were our handful of fine fellows dismayed.
Colonel Spottiswoode, with 14 nee, fired the Sepoy
lines, and drove them out on the Parade again ;
the
eot down and the
37th and the
killed ; Ensign 1
rs Theree,sk thedispersed.a
n dguv cs waecoroaet turnedsaoili
eG were
way
Chapman shot through the 'eolith, to recover, I
I h'ope ; Lieutenant Hayter shot, and likely to die ;
Barrett
rett these w pooras
protected
anal'
Captain Dodgson slightly wounded, and three Eng-
lish kil!ed. About 14 natives were left dead, and
;
rvnear!y,y faithful.wonri Majorded.Sotne a
tarty of the 37th. Colonel
esrried. off the field
by
aGordennother,
Sikhcom m
stepped d il
forwardrg the
front of the colonel and received the bullet ; ano-
ther aimed at him and was instantly shot down by
two others. The Sowar who fired at Captain Dode-
son was shot down by others. As they ran off
they fired at Mr. Tucker, but missed him ;- they