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THE LOYAL 31
MAL.

Ist B.N.Z. AND ITS
IGNERS.

On the Ist of July, 1857, the authority of the English
Government in the Bengal Presidency was flickering in the
socket, and seemed just about to expire. On the morning
of that day 173 Englishmen and Eurasian Christians, hay-
ing under their protection 200 women and children, were
shut up in the Fort of Sanger, 200 miles diStant from Euro-
pean succour. At three miles distant were 1,566 sepoys of
the 31st and 42d Regiments, and 403 native troopers of the
3d Irregular Cavalry. What must have been the feelings
of that scanty English garrison in the Saugor Fort, when,
after various threatening symptoms, the 42d Regiment of
Bengal Light Infantry, and 100 men of the 3d Irregular
Cavalry, broke out into open mutiny. In that isolated
station, so far removed from, aid, and surrounded
by a hostile population, what chance of escape
was. discoverable 1 True, they had been warned
of their danger by the other sepoy regiment—the 31st. But
of these, 46 men had mutinied some days previous, and
little could it be hoped that the rest would not follow their
example. The 31st had, indeed, invited their officers to
take up their quarters in a body at the mess-room, that
they might be safe from the first fury of the coming revolt ;
but this might well be suspected to be a mere ruse, and the
first shots must have sounded like the death knell of the
Europeans. Their brave hearts, we are sure, did not quail
for themselves, but their cheeks may well have been
blanched when they looked upon that hapless and helpless
throng of women and children, who were gathered around
them.

It is difficult to realise to one's mind the, to all
appearance, desperate and hopeless state of the scanty
European garrison of Saugor when the mutiny broke out.
Wo have sketched a few of the circumstances ; but only
those who were imprisoned there can truly appreciate the
wretchedness of men who, with wives and children, were
encircled by: such an ocean of revolt. In some respects,
even the miseries of Lucknow seem less than those of
Sanger, for on the fate of Lawrence and his companions
myriads of loving eyes were riveted, and for them myriads
of voices were raised in prayer, while the beleaguered band
Saugor, like dead men out of mind, were unmentioned, and
seemed already wiped out of remembrance. It is, then, for
the gallant officer to say what must have been the grate-
ful feelings of the pent-up garrison when the furious
shouts of the mutinous 42d were answered by
the steady tramp of the 31st advancing to drive them
from the station. Not a European officer was with
the faithful corps. Alone they advanced, and in a short but
sharp struggle drove off the mutineers in headlong confu-
sion. Then it was that, having given an additional proof of
their loyalty, they received again their European officers,
and under them, for seven long months, through all priva-
tions and all dangers, maintained the fort of Saugor against
surrounding thousands of rebels. Two companies of the 42d
were absent on detachment at Dumoh on the memorable day
of the outbreak. They chose to follow the better example of
the 31st, and separated themselves from their mutinous bre-
thren. Thus for seven long months Saugor was held with
incalculable benefit to the English cause in Central India.
Surely services of this order are not to be forgotten or
slurred over. Yet in this country, except in the co-
lumns of this paper, where has the name of the 31st Regi •
ment ever been mentioned ? So little has the loyalty of that
corps been known or spoken of, that at a public dinner in
this city the 21st Bengal Native Infantry was said to be the
only corps of the Bengal army that had continued faithful,
and that at a time when a body of the 31st had just escorted,
through a country teeming with rebels, a convoy of provi-
sions safely into H. Rose's camp. And now to forgetful-
ness and ingratitude is added calumny, and the 31st are
publicly included among the mutineers. We do hope that
this foul wrong will be repaired, and that instead of obloquy
drove
this noble 'corps will receive from every Englishman the
praises it deserves. Surely in the Parliamentary returns,
o
instead of the cold words, " did not manifest a disposition to
mutiny," there should be written opposite the register of
the 31st, " loyal under the most trying circumstances, ex-
p wretches
u tin e thaters
of werethe 4 trying2d fio tom corrupt
Saugor, its h fidelity,held that
st
lled auftewthe
ma
station for seven months against a vast rebel host, and have
been made a light infantry corps in acknowledgment of
their services." ir
omeward Mail.

Advices from Bucharest of the 10th state that
several consuls had received authorisation from their Go-
vernments to pay official visits to Colonel Couza, and that
the consuls-general of Belgium and Russia had afterwards
gone to him in his box at the theatre, remaining with him
during the performance of an entire act.