The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

THE MASSACRE AT CAJFIVPORE.

The following is an extract from the letter of an
officer of the Madras Fusileers :
" cawepore, Oct. 23.

"I went the other day to see the house of horrors
where the unfortunate women and children were mas-
sacred. At the entrance I found a gibbet, and under it
the carcase of a wretch who had just been hanged as a
spy.
" It is a small brick building built in a square, the
rooms opening into a small court-yard in the centre.
The place is still strewn with fragments of clothes and
lots of shoes. The walls in places are sprinkled with
blood, and the mats on the floor appear to have been
drenched with it. On carefully examining the walls I
found scratched en the plaster behind a door the follow-
ing—written apparently by the wife of a European sol-
dier, of whom there were several shut up there :
" Countrymen and women, remember the 15th of
July, '57. Your wives and families are here in misery
and at the disposal of savages, who have ravished both
young and old, and then killed us. Oh !oh ? My
child f my child I Countrymen, revenge it I'
I don't think anything would appeal so strongly to the
feelings of our countrymen at home as this simple
statement of misery. It is expressed and spelt as above
and seemed to have been scratched with the point
of a knife. The walls of the little room where it was
written were spattered with blood, and the plaster cut
in several places with swords.
"I went to see the intrenchment where Wheeler de-
fended himself so long. It is a low mud bank about three
feet high, surrounding two large buildings that were
formerly hospitals. The walls of these are literally rid-
dled by round shot, and the roofs of both have fallen in.
It seems quite miraculous, when you look at the wretched
defence, how men could have held out one day, much
less many days, against a host well armed, and provided
with big guns and every requisite material. They must
have been arrant cowards—as, indeed, we know they
were--for they never dared to come out into the open,
but fired from the cover of some half-finished barracks
near the intrenchment. If with the small force we have
had hitherto we have been able to command victory,
what will it be when England's armies now arriving
march through the country ? In six months India will bel
more entirely in our power than it has ever been before.

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convened by the committee for the 17th inst.
Letters from Hamburg contradict the recent report of
the suspension of Messrs. Heine and Fleischman, and
also that of Messrs. Hamilton, Koch, and Co.
GENERAL HAVELOCK 'S DESPATCII.—In the Guardian
of last evening we find the following observations on
General Havelock's despatch :—" The general v‘euld
appear to be guilty of writing a bad hand, and may
not possess the power of very clearly expressing him-
self, for the printer bas been obliged to leave several
blanks, has made nonsense of several passages, and a
hash of gallant names that every reader of Indian
news must be familiar with," It may obviate a re-
petition of similar remarks to state that the despatch
in the form in which we have it was received at Cal-
cutta from Cawnpore by telegraph, and is less enig-
maticai than most communications similarly trans-
mitted.