The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

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At _list the long-expected rising took place. The
I.tintleis went immediately to work, according
the ;+re,cribed plan followed in other quarters.
azv In -01:e open the jail and liberated the pri-
.r era ; th,,y plundered the public treasury ; they
Lager!. snd set fire to the bungalows of the officers
td-olior British residents—killing all indiscrimi-
v.:ely who had not effected their escape' to the en-
encheci t•tamp.
There 5.,: Hugh and his small handful with un-
bunted courage held their position against the
ast tre'neladous odds, repelling every attack of
to thousluols by whom they were surrounded,
-i.411 heavy loss to the rebels. These were at last
imed by thousands more of the mutineers, from
•nitanpore, and other places in Oude, with guns.
'he conflict now became terrific—exemplifying; on
he part of the British, the very spirit and deter-
aination of old Greece at Thermopylae. The soul
if the brave old Chief, iu particular, only rose, by
be accumulating pressure of difficulty, into gran
'er heroiste. To the last he maintained a hearty
beer-ft/Inc:3H, dockuthis Lt.o.t, L. ...la hold onis for
wo or three weeks against any numbers. A mys-
ariotic: tkrid over-ruling Providence, however, had
lecread i otherwile; the 'veteran warrior, whose
-e:y pre3,,,nea exhilarated and inspirited all around,
.t lait fell, mortally wounded, and with him also
.e.ier,ll other of the subordinate leaders.

With the fall of the chief and some of his right-
7tand men, the remainder of the little band seem to
have boon smitten with a sense of the utter hope-
lessne Is of prolonged resistance. They did not,
they could not, know that relief was so near at
h tnd—that the gallant Colonel Neil, who had al-
reariy my-0d Benares and the fortress of Allahabad
with his Madras Fusiliers, was within two or three
d Lys' mn-ch of them. Had th;s been known to
them, they would doubtless have striven -to hold
o dining these two or thre3 days, and, to all ap-
pJarance, with success. But, ignorant of the ap-
proaehii.g relief, and assailed by the cries and tears
0 litilplesl women and children, they were induced
in an evil hour, to entertain the overtures made to
them by a man who had already been guilty of
t -ea thery and murder.
This man was Nana Sahib, the adopted son of
t ie l tie Baja() 1107, the ex-Paishwa' or last head of
t ie I\l.llvAtta, cnifecleracy, who, for the long period
of nl,rly 40 years resided at Bewares, enjoying the
tirmitionitpoasim of 80,0001. a-year. This Nana
Sahib *Wa9 allowed by the bounty of the British go-
, arummt to occupy a small fort at Bithoor, not far
t?oai Otwopore. Till within the last few months
th;s min was wont to profess the greatest delight
in European society—to g) out with British officers
n sho.rino, excursions, and to invite them to fetes
a', his r. a deuce. And yet, the moment that fortune
83CMS to frown on Eurbpean interests, he turns
round, and, with Asiatic treachery, deliberately
plans the destruction of the very men whom he had
o often, in the spirit of apparently cordial friend-
ship, fe ed and fea-ted.

0,, Sunday the 28th June, this man, with con-
iumrna' e hypocrisy, of his own accord sent over-
tures to our beleaguered countrymen—then bereft
ref t!u ir heroic. chieftain—swearing, " upon the
'cater of the Ganges. and all the oaths most binding
on a Hindu, that if the garrison would trust to him
stud surrender, the lives of all would be spared, and
they should be put in boats and seat down to Alla-
/I.b td ' Under the influence of some inf duating
lilitidee,s, that garrison that might have possibly
be'd out till relief arrived was induced to trust in
there oily professions, and surrender. Agreeably to
the terns of the treaty, they were put into boats,
with provisions and other necessaries and. comforts.
Bit nr,rk the conduct of the perfidious fiend in
human form t No sooner had. the boats reached
e middle of the river, than their sworn
p otector gave Itims4f n preconcerted signal,
and gnus, which had been litid for the purpose,
were opened upon them from the Cawnpore bank !
yea, and when our wretched countrymen tried to
sc tpe, by crossing to the Oude side of the river,
th'p found that arrangements had been made there
toe for their reception ; for there, such of them as
were en &bled to land were instantaneously cut to
.cei by cavalry that had been sent across for the
Terri.° c. In this way nearly the whole party, ac-
co: to the Government report, consisting of
everal hundreds, mostly helpless women and child-
ren, were destroyed ; such of the women and child-
ren as mere not kil!ed being -reserved probably as
host tees. Only one boat escaped, which was pur-
f it miles ; and when overtaken, all in it were
t Ikea back to the camp of the mutineers, spad there
shot, or cruelly torn to pieces.

THE MASSACRE AT ALLAHABAD.

Dr. Duff supplies the following account of th's
massacre ;—The case of theAtli Native Infsntry at
Altahabad is thus recorded, as the result of authen-
tic information, by one of the Calcutta journals,—
" It appears that, after the officers of the regiment
first lec:%, the lines, a subadar paid a visit to Lieu}.
Sl tire the interpreter; and expostulated with him,
in the name of the regiment, upon the want of con-
* fid mce which they had displayed. Come to us,' he
said ; we are faithful ; we love our good masters ;
we wilt protect you; but it gives us pain to see you
Buspo,3 us.' Slaines and his wife, who were present
at ;A:0 interview, were melted even to tears at the
simple eloquence of the man whom they had in-
st!l!o,l, as well as his fellows, by their unworthy
sußpi :ions,. Thera was but one course left to take
t) return to the bosom of the regiment, to throw
thew—lves upon the hers of the men ; and this
CO ir,3o they resolved to adopt, persuading the other
offs .ers of the regiment and their families to follow
their example. When they returned to the regi-
ment, the scene which awaited them touched the
Le trts of ail present. The men whom they
had. suspected, in a moment of narrow-minded
apprehensions were found drawn up to receive their
officera, and welcomed them with three hearty Eng-
-1 sit cheers. The native officers, unable to control
their feelings, which swelled high, and sent their
warm zisiatic blood coursing in their veins, in de-
fiance of all cold rules of decorum and hollow mili-
tary observances, gave vent to the natural and
piliT,l3 emotions of their brave hearts. They flung
t'iems•,lves round the necks of their European
aloe n who had so generouily atoned for their cruel
suspicinns, and kissed them on both cheeks. The
sec neiliation was complete, confidence was happily
r(sto-e:1, and that same night the native otfi,:ers
and wen rose and proceeded to: the work of
m 'macre !"

This is the regiment which some time. before had
profess ,:l. such extra zeal and loyalty, that they en-
t;taeallypled to be'allowed to proceed to Delhi
.to parish the mutirkers, of whose treacherous and
erne' conduct they spoke with vehement &testi,
.603- In order still further to prove their loyalty,
they ugain and again delivered up spies, who had
corn') t, spread sedition amongst them, So nom-
lAo'ctly was the veracity of their professions confided
th Lord Canning sent them a special letter of
toiriak; which was publicly read to them on parade
„L‘aie7l-lltin evening at-six o'clock ; and the reading
h elicited three hearty cheers fur the com-
l'a'Y• Ott tl,at very evening, at nine o'clock, a
ell';1 await on the
ms's
reek ;o!amparts of the fort, observing a
c:t's that 'Paul t the magistrate near him,
eaid the latt-, "it is
ot,ly a marriage." BUt°lol'‘'''another rocketu followed.
the signal agreedo n by the " staunch and
/of Gth ;" when the mess-house way attacked, d
:veil out of the twenty u„,rnae eo
( n dainn
ell
re were ienkt
oni;fil
the
ilea
nrocautionary. measure-3 'bain.`Z necessary,
1,(1, v. No would not believe that h's men
mutiny until the balls flew through his hat anti
sive vt-s, contrived to escape to the fort with his life.
Then. -3ommeno3d the work of plunder and de-
ves;a' i,n—the destruction of property throughout
the to..vn and its vicinity being most coniplete--4he
rbrimiidows in the cantonments, and all the British
need, being coon in a blaze—the new railway
6 with its bai'dings, and machinery, and
c.r.iagns—tLe ex'ensive American mission-prose
rret.ai.A.3 eihools, all laid waste—the public
tr!IT ur-y-7
bank, and storehouses pillaged—in short,
in: a few days the whole city of Allahabad, con-
V ;nieg 120,000 inhabitants, was not only sacked
- .1 ravaged, but literally reduced to one mass of
and ashes !

MIL

THE CASE OF JHANSI.
LIT?, case ofJhansi, the capital of a petty state in
Niadtdc-andt to the west of Allababad, is one of
nlcst deplorable.. The Sepoys having mutinied,
s6mo (..f the officers effected their escape, and others