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THE MUTINY IN THE INDIAN ARMY.

Tuis was the fourth sitting of the committee.
In consequence of a statement made by Holt sines
his former examination to the agent, that he recollected
an interview with Rhodes which he bad previousl3
denied, he war this morning recalled. lie stated that
after leaving the room on Saturday, he recoll:cted that
in answering Mr. Phinn he had made a statement
which he now wished to contradict, and on the last por-
tion of his evidence given on Saturday being read over
to him, he stated that what he swore to so positivel3
on Saturdayrelative to Rhodes not corning to his hones
was not true. He then entered into a detailed statement
of his interview with Rhodes and his going to Bury tt
ring at the church for a sovereign where he had somt
drink. He got drunk and found hinisslf in the evening
at the railway station, and the following morning at
public-house in S. Thomas' -buildings, Liverpool, kept
by Matt Hobbs.
It was contended by the petitioner that was a case of
corruption by Bamford, agent of one of the sitting mem-
bers. by the payment of the voters fare to Liverpool to
prevent his voting for Miall.

(FROM THE TIMES.OOIIRFSPONDENT.)
BOMBAY, MAY 27.
In my letter of the 11th I mentioned that a
graphic message h.id that afternoon arrive 1 at Bom-
bay from Agra, to the eff,2ct that the 3,1 Bengal
Light Cavalry, stationed at Meerut, was in a state
,f open mutiny. The report soon received ample
confirmation, and worse was to follow. For several
lays the intelligences from the north-west told of
nothing but revolt and murder. As was to 'be ex-
pected, much thus reported has since turned out to
be untrue. Stations said to be disturbed are found
to be perfectly quiet, and eminent public servants
asserted to have fallen victims to the soldiery are
preserved to their families and to the State. Other
facts there are, too, of a cheering nature—the steadi-
ness and promptitude of the Lieuten :nt-Governor,
;he loyalty of the native States of Central India,

PONTEFRACT.

The C immittee met this morning at the usual hour.
The first witness called was Mr. Joseph Smith; hair
dresser and voter of Pontefract, relative to a dinner that
took place in October last. The witness stated that
every October the annual dinner of the Odd Fellows was
held. At the last dinner Mr. Wood, the sitting mem-
ber, Mr. Robinson, manager of the Yorkshire bank, and
Mr. Wright, the mayor, were present, as well as other
gentlemen; and partook of the dinner. There was wine
put on the table at the expense of Mr. Wood, the sitting
member. and all present drank his health ‘- as the future
member." Witness plumped for Mr. Olivera.
Mr. Richardson,. printer, and a voter, was also pre-
sent at the dinner, which took place at the Greyhound.
Mr. Eastman appeared tl manage the, affair. He did
not know who paid the expense of the dinner. The
" Noble Grand" was the person Who usually looked
after the payment of these matters.

rhe failure of the outbreak in its attempt to spread
over and occupy a very extended area. Neverthe-
less, after making allowances for these legitimate
sources of comfort, the occurrence is one of the
gravest moment. At the two great stations of Mee-
rut and Delhi the whole of the native troops have
broken out into mutiny and plunder. From the
former place they have fled or been expelled. The
latter, where no European troops were quartered,
remained, at the date of the latest accounts,-com-
pletely in their possession.
I will endeavountl digest into a continuous nar-
rative as much of: the,fragmentary intelligence that
has been day by, day,rushingdown from Agra as
has been proved or may.be reasonably conjectured,
to be true.

At the commencenient. of this month the native
force at. Meerut:consisted of the 3d Light, Cavalry
and the 11 th and 20th BegitnentSof NatiVe Infan try.
Among the cava!ry tlie question of the greased cart-
ridges, which had 'previously been mooted at Bar-
rackpore and other stations, was freely agitated.
The result of the movement was that 85 men of the
regiment refusing to handle the cartridges, found
themselves in the early days of the month tried by
court-martial, and sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment with hard labour. On the oth their
sentence was read out on parade, and the offenders
marched off to gaol. Up to this time disaffection
had shown itself only through incendittry fires in
the lines, hardly a night passing without one or
more conflagrations. But on the 10th it appeared
at once in all its unsuspected strength. Towards
the evening of that day; while many of the Eu-
ropeans were at church—for it was Sunday—the
men of the two native infantry regiments, the 11th
and 20th, as if by previous concert, assembled
together in armed and tumultuous bodies upon the
parade ground, Several officers hurried from their
quarters to endeavour to pacify them. Colonel
Finnis, of the 11th, was one of the first to arrive,
and was the first victim of the outbreak. He was
shot down while addressing a party of the 20th,
which is said to have been the foremost regiment
in the mutiny. Other officers fell with the Colonel
or in the terrible moments that ensued, for the
troopers of the 3d Cavalry poured out of their
quarters to join the insurgent infantry, and the
whole body, now thoroughly committed to the
wildest excesses, rushed through the native lines of
the cantonment, slaying, burning, and destroying.
Every house was fired, and every Englishman,
woman, or child, that fell in the way of the muti-
neers was pitilessly massacred.- Happily, however,
many of their officers and their families—the great
majority, I hope and believe—have already escaped
to the European lines, where they took refuge in

the Artillery School of Instruction. Mr. Greathed,
the Commissioner, and his wife were saved,
it is said, by tithe fidelity of their servants,
who assured the assassins that their mas-
ter and mistress had left their house,
though they were at the time concealed in
it. The mutineers set -fire to the bungalow and
passed on. The names of the victims lam unable
as yet to give with certainty or complQteness. This,
however much-to be regretted, is, in the present
confused state of things at and around Merut,
inevitable. A list was published here yesterday,
emanating from Agra, and said to be "from au-
thority, though open to correction." 1 will copy
it in extenso presently, when I have written of the
occurrences at Delhi.

While the main body of the mutineer 3 were thus
destroying the houses in the native lines, some of
their number proceeded to' the gaol, broke it open
and released the prisoners of the 3d Cavalry.
Which regiment had furnished the gaol guard on
that slay is not stated ; but as we hear of no resist-
ance and no loss of European life at that point we
may presume itwas one of the native corps. Mean-
while the European portion of the brigade was
called out and marched down to the native lines.
It consisted of the Carabineers, the Ist Battalion
of the 60th Rifles, and Artillery, horse awl foot.
But they were too late to save life or pro-
perty, and night falling fast, they were un-
able, we are told, to inflict any serious loss on the
insurgents, who abandoned the station and betook
themselves to the open country. Some of them—
how many we know not, but probably a large body
—made the best of their'way down to Delhi, dis-
tant some 40 miles. The garrison of this city was
entirely native. It consisted of three regiments of
infantry—the 38th, 54th, and 74th, and a company
of one of the native battalions of artillery. On the
arrival of the mutineers from Meerut the whole of
the infantry force ran to arms, and forced, we are
told, the reluctant artillery to join them. The
latter stipulated for the safety of their officers, all
of whom accordingly have reached Meerut. The
infantry showed no such good feeling, but attacked
their officers, though with different degrees of in-
veteracy, the 38th being the worst. Then tie in-
surgents ran riot through the city, which was en-
tirely at their mercy, and the bloody scenes
of Meerut were reproduced in the streets
of this. ancient Mogul capital. How many Eng-
lish lives have here been lost will in all pro-
bability not be fully known till the day of
retribution has arrived and the place is again in
our possession. Many are already known to have
escaped, as will be seen from the list already, re-
ferred.to, and which I will now subjoin. But it is
feared to be only too certain that Mr. Fraser, the
Commissioner, has fallen, and Captain Douglas,
Commandant of the Palace Guard, and Mr. Jen-
nings, chaplain of the station, with his daughter
and'many others of all degrees, including Sir Theo-
philus Metcalfe
KILLED AT MEERUT,
llth Regiment Native Infantry.—Colonel Finnis and
MrP. Chambers. -
20th Regiment Native Infantry.—Captain and Mrs.
M'Donald, Captain Taylor, Lieutenant Henderson, and
Ensign Pattie.
3d Light Cavalry.—Lieutenant MacNabb, Veterinary
Surgeons Phillips and Dawson, and Mrs. Dawson and
children.
6th Dragoons.-1 private (name unknown). •
Sappers and Miners.—Captain Fraser and Mr. Tre-
gear, Inspector in the educational deartment.
WOUNDED AT MEERpUT.
6th Dragoons.—Two troopers.
Artillery Recruits.-12.
Artillery,—Lieutenant Colonel Rogge.
3d Light Cavalry.—Dr. Christie.
ESCAPED FROM DELHI.

Mr. Le Bag, judge, to Kurnaul or Umbellah ;- Briga-
dier Graves, ditto ; Capt. Nicoll, Briga le Major, ditto ;
Dr. Balfour and Miss Smith; ditto; Mr. Wagentrieber
and family, ditto.
Artillery—CaPt. and Mrs. De Teissier and child to
Meerut ; Lieut. Wilior, ditto ; Lieut. AWabio, ditto.
Engineers.—Lieut. Salkeld, to Meerut.
38th-Native Infantry.—Col. Knyvett, to Meerut ;
Capt. and Mrs. Tytler, to Kurnal or Umballah ; Miss
Hollings, ditto ; Mrs. Holland, ditto ; Ensign Gambier,
to Meerut ; Lieut. Proctor, ditto ; Ensign Drummond,
to Kurnaul or Umballah ; Ensign Glabb, ditto.
54th Native Infantry.—Lieut. Osborn, to Meerut ;
Lieut. Vibart, ditto.
74th Native Infantry'—Major Abbott, to Meerut ;
Capt. and Mrs. Wallace, &Lt.) ; Capt. and Mrs. Gordon, ,
to Kurnaul or Unahalla ; Mrs. Batoon and children,
ditto ; Ensign Mew, ditto ; Lieut. Taylor, ditto.
Lieut Forest and family, Assistant ommissary of
Ordnance, to Meerut.
11Irs. Hutchinson, C.S., to Meerut.
Mrs. Fraser, Engineers, to Meerut.
Mr. Marshall, merchant, to Meerut.
Two battery sergeants and families (names unknown),
to Meerut.
Mr. Murphy, 'ditto.
Messrs. Thompson and Stewart (regiments unknown),
to Kurnool or Umballa.
Raving thus got rid of all the English in the

city, the insurgents proceed-to proclaim some:off: I take. place, but they are Nap_ as
_far as I aneable to
shoot of the old Royal House Sovereign. of India, I ascertain. - .
and in this position, with the town and its treasure The report of the Nizain'a death, Mea?).oned in
at their disposal, but, as we shall presently see, no my last, turns out to be true. He is suCtidded by
further rising or influx of mutineers to assist; them, his son, Afzool-ood-Dowla, aged 30; licrlii in the
they await their inevitable doom. I purple of Hyderabad, and proportionately dull, ig-
But to revert to Meerut. On the evening of the norant, and sensual. Saler .Jnag,. the Minister,
16th occurred the murder of Capt. Fraser, whose' remains the prop of the State. . s• ,
name appea,rs in the list. This officer was comma's- Exchange on London, 2s. lid. 7 - -.--
..:
dant of the Bengal (Native) Sappers and Miners.. P. S.—l have just heard on undoubted authority.
He was marching down ft orn the headqearters of that all is quiet at Surat. No fierther nets from
his corps at Beorkee to Meerut, with a belly of his :the North-west. • -...-:
men. On reaching their destination the Sapp ocs fed
DEY4
CALCUTTA, Mai l 8•
out among themselves, probably in discussing 'the '
(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPON • •-
propriety of following the mutinous example that There was more truth in the rurno.ur Of a -general
had been set them, and when their commanding conspiracy among the Sepoys Of the en. ative army
than- could have been supposed when Islast wrote.
officer attempted to compose their quarrel one'ef
their number shot him through the head. They. Not that the Sepoys have any real,.casise'eo be die-
• .t.
then broke anl fled, " but were pursued by satisfied, or entertain any definite wish_to.subvert
the Government, but their minds- are. ,possessed
parties of the Carabineers an 1 60th, end for the
most part killed or captured. Since this, aceurrence with a frantic belief in the intention of the Govern-
Meerut has been tranquil. Fears being entertained ment to convert them to Christianity. Every
that the convent at Srdhana with its children's act of necessary severity they .regard as a' further
school might be attacked an 1 devastated, a party demonstration of this design, and, irritated in con-
was sent out from Meerut, which brought in all the I sequence against the Governinent and:against their
nuns atid children to a safe asylum at the et ation. own officers as instruments of the Goveruinent, a
It remains to mention how the intelligence of the large number of them have alloWed themselves to
mutiny was received at other stations in the north- be hurried into the commission of the acts Of mutiny
west, and what steps have been taken towards the and outrage which I -shall now describe.
punishment of offenders. At Agra, as from its proxi- The 34th Native Infantry were disbanded on the
mity to Delhi might be expected, publio excitement
6th instant, with the exception ,of 'the three corn-
at first ran high. But great as was the emergency, panics which were on detached duty at Chittagong
Mr. Colvin, the Lieutenant-Governor, proved him- when the disaffection was manifested at. head-quer-
self equal to meet it. On the morning of Thursday, tors, and a few native officers who took no-part in
the 14th, when the popular ferment was at its the mutiny. It has been - generally felt that the
height, and the wildest rumours were abroad, Mr. men of the guard who were present at the attack on
Colvin harangued the whole brigade of the, station, Lieutenant Baugh, and willingly obeyed the order
of the native officer not to assist-Trim, should have
the European soldiers as well as the native, on the
parade-ground. By all—no less by the two native been far more severely dealt with. Their crime has
regiments, the 44th and. 670,- th an hy the European been well depicted by the Governor-General in his
artillery—his address was-received with applause. order for disbanding the regiment; tut its due pun-
Evenof - ishment has not followed:. Discharge from the
after he had left the ground the cheering
the Sepoys continued long and loud. The effect of 6civics is not a sufficient infliction for soldiers who
stand by and tacitly consent to the attempted murder
this happy speech was shortly felt throughout the
f their officer. es
whole of the city, which settled down again into a o ,
state of quiescence that has not again been disturbed. The next instance of disobedience of orders oc-
At Etawah, a station further down the Jumna, half tarred at Lucknow, when the men of the 7th Oude
a dozen of the mutinous 3d Cavalry were cut to Irregulars refused to receive the cartridges served
pieces by the police and a small party of the 9th out to them, and left the parade with their muskets ;
Native Infantry. At Allyghur the 9th Native In-
but by the promptitude of Sir Henry Lawrence th's
fantry arrested a mutinous agent whom they found movement was at once suppress&l. The regular
European and native troops.at Lucknow, including
in their lines, and handed him over to the com-
manding officer. At Benares, and throughout Ben- 4 battery of eight guns, were immediately called
gal, all was and has remained quiet. At Lucknow out, the mutineers laid down their Ain* and they
the mutiny of the 7th Oude Infantry preceded by have since been confined to their lines, incapable of
some days the emeute at Meerut, but it was checked further mischief.
by the firmness of Sir H. Lawrence and the loyalty Early in the month the Native Artillery at Mee-
of the rest of the brigade, and the Regiment dis- tut refused to receive the cartridges served out to
parsed at the flash of a lighted port-fire, and has them, and the men who refused were paid up and
ceased to exist. Since then, down to the 18th, the dismissed on the spot. The 3d Light -Cavalry were
date of our latest news, the city and district have the next to refuse. They appear to have been told
been tranquil. Indeed, the insurrection in the that they would be paraded on a, certain day,
North-west may, I hope, be said to be confined_ and that if they again refused they would be
within :the walls of Delhi. Within these walls punished. The day came. The men of the first
it will be—very possibly has already been— I troop one and all refused to receive the cartridges.
beaten down and trodden out. One of the.
They were accordingly arrested and placed in con-
finement.
first . acts of the Lieutenant-Governor was to , -
issue the vigorous proclamations which I enclose, A day or two after this, on Sunday,- the 10th,
placing under martial *law the districts around the rest of the regiment broke out intoopen. mutiny,
Meerut and Delhi, to the eastward of the Jumna, cantonment,
warning kooilrol
id,visooTeaonfdthemiratEoburedspeantoffifeetT, released their
warning all landholders and others from joining the taking the road to Delhi. Theire exeamerlet
insurgents, and announcing that prompt vengeance lowed by the two native infantry' regiments, sta-
would overtake all past or future delinquents. tioned at Meerut, the 11th and 20th, and by the
These are no vain threats, incapable of being car-
native artillery. The Sepoys of the 11th, though
reed into execution. The great blow will be de-
they joined the mutineers, are -said to have pro-
tected their European officers ; but - many of the
livered from the North ; but by all the great roads officers who were present. with the other regimente,
in other directions troops have been ''closing in it is feared, have been murdered. 50 Wien of the
upon the doomed city. The Sirmore battalions 3d Cavalryeand about 150 of the 11th-Native In-
were at Boelundshuhur, on the east, the Agra Bri- fantry, remained with their officers, and are still
at Meerut. There was at Meerut at the time an
gades, strengthened by cavalry and artillery from
European force 'consisting of her MaAsty's 60th
Gwalior, advancing from Muttra on the south, the Rifles, 1,000 strong, the 6th Dragoon. Guards
troops of the Jat Rajahs of Bhurtpore.and Ulwar• (Carabineers), 600 strong, but "not fully mounted,
moving up on the west. From the. north-west a troop of Horse Artillery, and 500 Artillery re-
were pouring down the horsemen of the Rajahs of eruits,• altogether not, less than 2,200 men of all
Putteala and Jheend, while the great road from arms, with a full complement of officers. But, for
the hill stations by Kurnaul and Meerut lay open tsomhe reasone
b as yetd unexplained„ no attempt seems
totoriaelrbrei.
would
orb to
soopa•tvbc;ireepirto
for the march of the Commander-in-Chief. General gmre4sse e'. ilt - -'been
Anson was to leave Umballah, whither he had re- a measure of common prudence-toanount, thee dr
paired in haste from Simla, on the 18th. He had goons upon the-horses of the.3d Lighte-Cavalry when
brought with him from Kassowlie her Majesty's the men of the latter regiment -were found to be
75th Regiment. At Umballah he found the '9th disaffected ; but this does not appear to have been
Lancers, the Ist European Fusiliers marched in done.e
mutineers are said to have arrived at Delhi
from Dugshaie, the 4th Light Cavalry, the sth and on Monday, the 11tb, and to have gone first to the
6th Native Infantry, and two troopsef (European) cantonment, which is abcitit two miles from the city.
Horse Artillery. The whole of this force he would, They then called upon the native regiments there,
the 38th, 54th, and 74th, and the native Artillery,
it was expected, take down with him to Meerut,
'
where he would find the Carabineers, the 60th, and
to jotint them in resisting the design of the Govern-
a strong force of artillery, and taking them with mw
aesn i
mom
ecdoinavteerlyt
rtehsepmoodtoodethoritsbtisant
setting e cathe
him would advance at once upon Delhi. The city example and murdering their officers, and the rest
lying upon the-further or right bank of the Jumna, promptly following it. Some of the Europeans es-
and being connected with the left bank by a bridge taped across the Jumna,- and--13 are reported to be
of boats only, which the insurgents have doubtless nowi near Bagput, on the left bank,- proVected by the
z. em i dars i but the rest, it is deeplyfeered, inclnd-
destroyed, it is possible that some time may be oc- mg the ladies and children, have been brutally mur-
cupied in conveying the troops across the river. tiered. The mutineers then proceeded to the city, in
But before many days are past we shall, I suppose, which are situated the arsenal, the -fort, the King's
hear that retribution as signal as merited has been palace, and the civil station, and took unresisted
dealt to the insurgent soldiery. - possession of the whole, murdering all the Euro-
I pass to the Punjab. I wish we could feel sure peans they could lay their hands ,on. Only the
arsenal and magazine were saved from-falling into
that this the latest acquisition of British ti it hands power inby the gallantry of Lieut. Willoughby,
the North-west would escape the contagion of mu- of the Artillery, who blew them both-up, and it is
tiny. At Ferozepore, however, disturbances have supposed fell a victim to 'his own act of gallant
arisen, and there are rumours also of the existence devotion. The mutineers presented - themselves
of disaffection among the regiments cantoned at at the Palace, and were received by, the King,
Meeau Meer, the military station at Lahore. In laecttting,
orfrnoom doubt,bi him to
ountdbeer severeLisut compulsion.enantGo A
Lieutenant-Governor
ernor of
both cases the offenders, I should mention, are Agra, was the first intimation the Government re-
neither Bengal Regulars nor Punjab Irregulars. caved of what had happened, for the: mutiny at
The Lahore Chronicle of the 15th icst., received Meerut was the signal for all the rogues in the
to-day, gives an account of the plans adopted to vicinity of that station, including the prisoners in
e 01, who were liberated b the mutineers, to
check the spirit of insubordination in the Punjab
flakega possession of the road and -all passen-
at.a council of war held at Peshawur : ' gel,, so that all communications betieen Meerut
Major-General Reed, commanding the Peshawar alai- and Allygurh was entirely cut off for three or four
sion, assumes the chief military command in the Punjab. days. It does not appear that the mutineers ever
His head-quarters will be the head-quarters of the Pun- left Delhi, but the communications between Delhi
jab Civil Government. A moveable column will at once and Agra were stopped in the same way, aud the
be formed at Jhelum, consisting of her Majesty's 27th residents at TViuttra. and Agra were alarmed by re-
Foot from Nowshera ; her Majesty's 24th from Rawul nor s that the Sepoys were marching .dpwri the right
bank of the Jumna direct on the fifeat.of
Pindee, one European troop of horse artillery from
Govern-
Peshawur, one light field battery from Jhelum, the ment.
Immediately on the. receipt of. this, painful and
Guide Corps from Murdan, 16th Irregular Cavalry from
alarming intelligence the Lieut.-Governor, Mr.
Rawul Pindee, Ist Punjab Infantry from Blum), Ku- Colvin, took the most prompt...and deciaive measures
.maon battalion from Rawul Pindee, a wing of the 2d jto suppress the mutiny and to preVent, the panic
Punjab Cavalry -from Kobat, a half company of Sappers and• disaffection from spreading among the native
from Attock. The necessary orders for this column troops cantoned. at Agra- and the neighbouring
have been issued. The column will move on every point stations. Reinforcements. were -.- called for from
in tbe Punjab where open mutiny requires to be put Gwalior, and as soon as -they arrive a powerful
down by force, and officers cominanding at-all stations in ' force will march upon Delhi. Vie' Maharajah
the Punjab will co-operate with this column., - Sindia, has assured the Lieutenant-Governor of his
cordial support, and has made'. giried' leis word by
- Such is the position of affairs in the North-WestßodyGuard at, the
_a aof the
placing his own'
and the Punjab as -represented by the latest news Government and cheerfully aSsenting,ta the move-
received to-day. .Here the local Governin,At, -secure. ment of as large a force .of the Contingent as
in the. fidelity of its sturdy little-low-caste Sepoys, can be spared. Shinier assnranees. :have been
has found itself able to lend no small assistance,f Bhurtpore ..and other
received from the Rajah c
with
when and the Lieutenant-Governor speaks with _
when compared with its means, to the embarrassed great confidence of the temper- of the people,
Government Of Calcutta. The 64th and 78th Regi- and the absence of all sympathy with the cri-
ments returned to Bombay from the Persian Gulf minal insurgents at Delhi. Martial '.'Law has
i been declared in the Meerut anict.:,X)elhi dis-
on Saturday and Sunday last.
tricts, and a proclamation has beensiaeued assur-
Thay found everything ready for their tranship-
ina the people and the army that the:
supposed
ment when required, from sailing vessels to design' of conversion is a delusion, that the Govern-
steamers, and were immediately sent round to Cal- meet has not the least desire to interfere 'with any
cutta. The Ist European Fusiliers are by this time man's caste, and that everyone visa De 14t as here-
well on their way from Kurrachee to MOoltan by tutors to the free exercise. of his religion.- A com-
has been appointed to endeavour to open
missioner . .
with the
,
the Indus, and the Ist Belooch battalion is ordered
- a communication with the rebels, and induce them
to the same station from Upper Scinde. . Madras
to surrender before the troops can ieablifiem.
also has furnished its Ist Fusiliers. Would that we From the north, General Anson,' 'who was at
had a dozen more English regiments. Pity, that the Shimlah when the mutiny broke out, hasisent down
Himalaya, the Retribution, the Transit, iand the her
ilMajesty's 75th Regiment and-thei let Ben
herMajesty'sM
H troop ongkong. The quarrel with the lethargic China- : of Horse Artillery,ee Y;8 og. Othei''
isith some ir-
man might keep—not so that with the explosive regular troops sent -by theißajaha of Jheend and
Bengal Sepoy. Putialla, are marching towards Delhi, and will
News -of the Shah's ratification of the treaty probably be there by. dr 22ds ' Butthesmovements
he 15th. of - - - f are not yet known nor
with England reached us from Bushire on 'the the Commander-to
dteto the course to be taken
More of the 'troops will yet be down before the rains bastrytnAtratiss,
fPoirreees wh eir.' they reach. Delhi, or
in all. probability, and will be cantoned at the stn- .
my to"thee"offic
ler by whom th'ey- will be commanded.
Lions near Bombay. We shall be glad to have them,
The European troops at Meerut were reinforced
as we have our riots, or rather our riot, and our by the Sappers and Miners from Roorkee, and by
rumours of riots. At Broach lately a fierce fight the Serinoor Battalion of Goorkas, 4090 strong.
believed to be quite stauncb and so
took place between those ancient fees the. Mussul-
Tilleele3ttMer-earreethe former ; but inam di t sly on their
Bees—if, indeed, that canoe calleda- pion revolt,
mans and the Par Bees— i indeed,
at Meerut they-broke out into
a fight, obi tat pulsar ego vapid° fan-hint, for: the killed their commanding efileer, and ,marched off
former had it all their own way. Irritated, accord- with their arms towards Delhi. This time, however,
ing to their own account, by an act of desecration the authorities were more on-the alert; : The muti-
a disrepu- neers were pursued by the-Carabineers and Horse
committed in one of their mosques by
table Parsee, the Mussulmans rose, defiled the'l Artillely, and about 50 OS thetn-cut :up, but the rest
rdered the
iof the regiment, with the exception of 150 men
principal fire-temple in the place, niu I
who were on duty, and have since been disarmed,
chief priest and another man, and more or less se-
made off, and have no doubt joined the. insurgent
similar riot was'
veiely wounded several others. A garrison at Delhi, to whom they Will be able to
apprehended at Surat, and the Government sent off , render material assistance.
a wing of the 9th Native Infantry in hot haste to In
_the Punjaub Sir John Lawrence_has taken
measures to repress any sy mpa-
join head-quarters at that station. Rumours are the most energetic
floating about that-the anticipated disturbance did 'thetic movement on the
part f the at-7
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