The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

much to harass us by the rapidity of their move-
ments.

It the kitmagar had not announced tlffin (lunch),
I believe I would never step. I will end by one
line more after, I dispatch a biscuit.
The biscuit is done for, and I new finish. The
Ranee of Jhanai has embodied 12,000 fighting men
against us. The Rajah, or one of the Rajahs of
Bundlecund, has embodied 14,000 men, but not yet
declared against us. Now, depend upon it, others
will do likewise unless a heavy blow is soon struck.
There were 23 engineers and inspectors of the
railway collet ed at Cawnpore, and all massacred.

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August 'lO.
me are writing
Dear ----,
t) th-ir fr:ends in England, as we hear there is a
chalice of letters rett;hing Bombay,- I write to yOu,
as I have not heart to deiiet .to the horrors
every soul in this presidency must have gone
through. On the 13th or 14. h of May there came a
report that the insurgents having murdered every
Eur,,pean at Delhi were marching on Muttra,
whereupon we immediately despatched the le dies
to Agra. I drove my wife all the way in the car-
riage, and arrival at Agra about 11 o'clock at night.
I returned the next day, and found Muttra °cat-
.pied by troops, not the insurgents, but those of the
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wanderings and e3ciape after the Bhurtryire trorps
hid mutinied ; and es we are desirel to keep our
1, Vats to 45 grains I do not think it worth while
recapitulating, trusting that the letter has safely
reached you; but from chit day until the 7th July,
when I arrived here, I had not known what a night
of rest was. We were always obliged to keep sentry
by night, and in constant fear of being mur-
dered ; and when I again arrived at Muttra,
though we h-d 50,Choukerdars around the bun-
galow, we felt we could not trust one, and, of

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course, at tt,e least noise, I always seized my
pistol, for we have ever since been obliged to
carry arms, for one or two old per sinners, .who
appear to be fait oul, declare that we cannot
trest a single native. The demons are such
com!1-,te masters of deceit an i tlypocri.y, that
w . n the wintry is again quiet th • kill. d will
b a sonar ill t . read. On Satur lay, the 4th
of July, we received a letter s.ying things wore
such s bad aspect that we had het'er try to come
to Agra, and on Sunday night, the sth, we left
Mu .! a in a boat, as t; e 0,,1y native we could
iely on assured us the river was by far sorer.
We got through the night very- well, and till 12
o'clock the next stay, when, passing a village, our
bopt received a volley of bullets, and our head
b, atman fell wounded ; we returned the compli-
mew, but could only see one man fall. After a
little more firing we managed to pass the village,
,but to our great dismay saw them all collecting
and running pax( ss the country to catch us as
we rounded the land, when they again opened
fire upon us, and were so covered by ravines
that we could Lot return it. When the boat-
men a.sured ns that on the side of the river, at
about ha f a mile further, we should encounter
a still in,,ra hostile village, and as we should
.hen be between two fires, and the river riot
above 120 yards broad, three or four of the boat-
men ran otf, and we were obliged to play at "hide
and seek " in the grass, afraid lest a single na-
tve should see us, in which case he might run
and give intelligence. One boatman remained
with us, and our party was six. It was about
twelve miles from Agra when we left the boat,
and we could plainly see all the bungalows, at
Seoundra, iu flames, and, beyond, Agra appeared
one mass of smoke. We hid iu the grass and
ravines till seven o'clock in he evening, when
we came out of our h, lea and made for Agra. The
boatman had previously made his escape, and must
have given informatitn, for soon after three men
wish matchlocks came prowling round our holes;
we were afraid to stir an inch in case of giving
an al-timt so we allowed them to escape. About
seven o'clock, when the moon was rising, we left
all our guns in the hole, and I merely had my
sword, for we were all so tired we could not carry
theguos, not having hadisnything to eat the whole
day, and the °lily water we could drink was what we
fund now and then in the cart-rucks. We came
along without any oppositirn till within a few miles
of Agra, wheu we nearly ran up against a mounted
picket of the insurgents, but the sentry must have
bsen very careless, for, having fallen on the ground,
we crouched back and went round, but were dis-
tressed to find that they had pickets all round Agra.
However, we managed to pass by them, keeping in
the di cites awl not exposing ourselves, and about 12
o'clock arrived at the civil lines. Every bungalow
hair been burnt, and seeing a number of tires, we
thought ',hey might b.:, fr,endly Chouktrasr,but did
not trust ourselves t ‘o ne.ir them ; howeve., one of
them eliaenged. us anil when toti they were six
sahibs i u distress, about forty mrn and a few mounted
ones were up at once and after us ; whether it was
th ,t we were running for our lives, we were over
tit,, walls like deer, and soon ow, t.f their pursuit.
I, however, lost my sho, s, rand sp, sine I my ancle
so Madly that it w.s a ith difficulty I c, aild mace, but
I managed to hobble along a few yards father till
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couple of yards, fur toy ancle had much swollen and
was very painful ; :..-o I prayed for t be others to leave
me and save themselves—a project weich they
would not listen to, as they said we must all share
the same fate ; and after a good'deal of persuasion
on my part for them not to delay their departure,
the day broke and it was too late to go; and as a
villager passed close by us from a village about 300
yards off, we asked him if he could give us any
help, when he said the Jeminclar was a very good
man, and well inclined to Englishmen, but he
must go hack and ask him. At that moment, when
we saw him reach the village, we all thought our last
Imoment in this world had arrived, but there was a
kind Providence overlooking us, and what was our
surprise and comfort to find the Jemindar sent for
us to come in I Two men carried use, and they gave
us milk and , urds and whey, and alter promising
them rewards if they g a us safe into the fort, they
placed us all in a palki-gbarry with punkahs all
round. Having previously dressed us in theirclothes,
awl Blackened our skins with charcoal, they put
ropes to the carriage and brought us safe to the tort
"as their wives."—How thankful I was to the Al-
mighty for such a deliverance, and after having
washed and dressed in 11--'s clothes, you-may
imagine how glad I was to meet my dear wife and
c'tillren again. _

The writer then goes on to givean&ccount of the
massacres at Cawnporo, Allahabad, &c., which are
already well known in England—and then writes :
" Did tell you of the battle of Agra? When
we started from Muttra we little thought a battle
had been fought at Agra a few hours before; but it
was not my lot to bo there. Generalliavelock and
his men have been doing such wonders, principally
with the Enfield rifle, that the insurgents find they
will not. extirpate all th English in the land. Tho
natives 1,,0k upon toe force flow China as quite a
new caste, who appear t strike terror into them ;
they say, they cannot distinguish between Hindoo
and Mussulman, and hang everybody indiscrimi-
nAtcly, and shoot them before they can see them !
(the Enfield rifle.) This is the army of retribution,
and I expect when they march on Agra the city
will be quite deserted ; hut still there is no doubt
there will be a great slaughter. The Almighty is
certainly avenging himself upon them, and I trust
that, '.hough every et %ton Las been destroyed, there
will be many lives saved to' ieturn to their friends
in RIO-aid. Give my love to —, and tell them
tha- t hough we hove to t everything, we have as yet
been spared. Our abod-s here are something about
14 :eet by 8 feet for each fainty. There are 1,069
European men in the tort able to carry arms, and
g..titer, with naives, 5,980 de, p within its
walls ; 4,000 of these are servants, not one of whom
can he trusted, but they have not arms, and so I
trust everything may turn out well.

ANOTHER FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--Last night,
information was received in London of a dreadful
accident at the Preston-street golds station of the
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway. It appears
that, on the previous day, Widiam Knowles, a highly-
respectable man, who was etnph yeti as guard upon the
ab..ve It, a of railway, was sups, ntendiiig the shunting
of some carria,.rs :,t, a point wl ere the two Ines run so
1 i, e to each other tlat the engine on one is employed
in
to draw the carriages on the other, simply
a piece of wood iu . peculiar manner between them
This, although always considered a dangerous
that the
was persevered in ;tend the consequence pract'oe,
ndcoold rot escape.
deeeived got between the carriages,
*lercae that he was Be was jammed with smh
thevlo carriages were removed
pletely fhttened, and when
them quite dead. He was a
he dropped from between
married man, and leaves at wife and two children to
mourn his loss. An ill.j
as been held on the body,
and after a great amountciw,t
bas
evidence had been gone into,
" Accidental death," but
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the jury returned ad
the practice adopted of shunting
deone srd ict of
strongly con
carriages on the line. Mr. Cook, the secretary, pro-
directors, ~,„ the of the jury known to the
sed to
di with a viewwishes to tho discontinuance of the
system.