The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

Tri E atTl4, LONBON, rUESDA_Y Ey'ANiNfil, SEP rEAIBPR 1, 1857

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

The following letters were written by a gallant
officer shortly before he fell :

.• • "Phillour, May 21.
"It is a very long time since I have written to
you, but I shall commence a letter now to be sure
lot to miss another mail. I sent letterS'home on
the 20th, giving all particulars I know about the
present state of affairs,—and a very narrow escape
we have all had. There is no doubt it was an at-
tempt to retake the country and murder us all, but
their plans were providentially frustrated. Is it
not wonderful that not one out of the whole Indian
army (men whom we have treated, God knows, far
better than they deserve) was faithful ? They made
a deliberate conspiracy to kill their officers, and ac-
tually did so at Delhi, the account of which you
will have heard. We were saved here by a miracle.
At a certain hour—the signal being the beat of a
tom-tom—the men were to hive seized the fort.
My friend Griffith happened t r go down, and found
the fire-engines had
.been smashed ; he went in,
loaded a couple of field pieces, and pointed them
at the gate. Upon doing this the signal was given,
but the men feared the guns ; and wh- n they were
wavering in marched a c.upie of companies of the
Bth (Queen's) and some European Horse Artillery,
Who had marched the whole way from Jullundur,
sent by the General. We have been waiting for some
time, putting the best face on the matter, and I think
we are pretty safe now. Three companies of our re-
giment escorted a siege train of 16 guns across the
river ; it goes to join a force under the chief at
Umballa, and then to bomhard Delhi, where; I
hear, the enemy are fighting among themselves. A
native battalion was ordered down there to escort
the guns, but refused to come We hear they plun-
dered Simla, hut this has bean contradicted. How-
ever, two officers, Major Putt and Lieut. Bruce,
were on leave there, and stirt-d so as to have been
there two or three days ago, bat we have not heard
a word about them, and are growing uneasy on
their account.

" May 25.
" Ihave just time for a line to-day. I start at
3 o'clock to escort a siege train down to Umballa.
May have some fighting on the road, and may be
sent to Delhi. I have about 80 men.

‘' Loodianah.
"I arrived here at 9 last night 4ter a tiresome
march. Those who know India can tell how hot a
tent is in May. My tent was blown down on the
top of me, and my friend who accompanied me. We
were very nearly. "scotshed' by it, and had to sit
out all night on the ruins in dust, rain, and wind.
I march at sunset this evening. Some of the men
look very sulky, but I know 'there are many faith-
ful. I halted at the Stitlej- bridge yesterday, and
went to the guard.. They made me lie docra, which
I did, and fell asleep. On awakening a havil'lar
was fanning me with a punkah, and a lot of Sepr,ys
all round looking at me as if I was a baby. I have
little time to attend to prayer, &c., but I assure you
noshing can give comfort in a case like this but an
assured hope of being God's, and then Who can
harm us V

" Dourana, May 27•

"I am now sitting outside my tent, surrounded
by natives. Before me- are the mortars and native
carts with sentries over them. We had a terrible
march lat night, from 7 in the evening till 3 in
the morning. The cartmen are making a row for
payment. I have ner.e to give them. We march
at 10 o'clock to-night.

"Kanna-ka-Serai, May 28.

"We arrived here at 8 o'clock. Fancy 10 hours
on the roads ! Men all r ght. lam much trout led
with tbecuts, 30 of them laden with mortars, powder,
shot, shell, (t-c. ; they keep constantly breaking
down, and we have to divide the load among the
other; as there are no more to be had.

o' Umballa, June 1.
" Here we are—the native corps hAve been dis-
armed and some di-banded, an _I my detachment
will have the honour of escorting the siege train to
Delhi, so we shall most likely see some bloody
work. The officers here all live in one house. The
church has been fortified. I was marching the whole
of list night and writing the whole of to-day.
Good by.

" Lwsowrie, 30 miles from Delhi, Juce 8.
"I am all right. Since last writing we were at
Kurnaul, where fortunately the deputy-commis-
sioner (one of the save I from Delhi) persuaded me
b halt my detachment for a day, to rest the men
and cattle, and to lend as,istance, -as au at'ack on
the city was expected. Luckily I did halt, fur 1,500
men were in wait for me, thinking I was esc)rring
treasure, and I had leas than 80 rank-and file. The
Guide Corps happened to overtake u 9, went ou,,
attacke I the fellow,. burned three villages, and
killed some and took others prisoners. A Sikh
prince with 200 infantry accompanied me from
Kurnaul. He is a very handsome, gentlemanly
man, and called himself My faithful slave,' but
his men are regular riff-x.4ff, with no discipline.
All the officers of the Guides are here now—very
nice fellows. We hope to be at the capture of Delhi
in a day or two. The oho/era is in their camp, but
it has left mine, having carried off one Sepoy at
Kurnaul. I saw the graves of the Commander-in-
Chief, of Brigadier Halifix, and s ven sorners.

" Camp before Delhi. June 10.
"Here we are at last, and the guns banging
away. Yesterday we passed aplace where our triops
had attacke I the enemy's intrenched camp the day
before. Their dead were lying all over the pl+ce.
I never saw People so dreadfully disfigured. One
old fellow, a baker, was hanging to a small tree,
where he h-ad been strung up. I have just returned
from our advanced battery ; a shot struck it just as
I was leaving, and oa the way lack one cable
whistling over my head, and made me squat down,
as 1 took it for a shtll, and I was laughing at a
picket of the -- yesterday for 1331 ting from the
noise of a eh-Jt. The day - before yesterday we
were tiffing with the Guide officers—now three of
them are wounded, one mortally. _

" June 13.
" The enemy came out to-day and got well
licked by our infantry. I saw the whole affair
from a lull, and fired two shots with my gun and
one with a Mink). We ran a c )uple of guns up
the hill, and you ought to have seen. 5,1113 of
their cavalry spurring their, horses and Lo:ting
when the shot fell among them. My rigimept,
with all the native troops at Jullundur, have muti-
nied. The Bth (Queen's) European ry and a
Punj nib regiment drove Clem- all over the country..
I believe our officers 'are safe. My detachment
here have been disarmed and were ordered to their

homes, and I was attached to her Majesty's 75th
_Regiment, - but this has been countermanded.
They are to. take orderly duty, and I am to carry
the ge ,eral's despatches in action, which may 1 ad
t something else. Gkd's providence has attended
me :•o remarkably t' my men have a 1 observed
it, and their great fear is to lose me. I will nor,
Conceal from you that, we are all in a very pre-
carious situation-2,000 Europeans here against I
can't say how many thousands of the enemy—but
God is with us, and we must succeed.

" June 15.
" The cnerny came out in force to-day. Ijo ned
the 75th, and was under a pretty heavy fire 'of
!mid shot. A bullet struck a-tree close to 1119,
behind which a soldier was lying. They have six
guns and a mortar to dty firing. You soon get
accustomed to the whizzing. I could sJe the
whole of Delhi distinctly. The Hinlool and Ma-
homedaus are fighting among themselves. T‘iey
say nay regiment is fighting against us in Delhi.
" June 16.
"We are golfing on as usual. The enemy fired
a shrapnel to-city, and I never slw such a hail of
bullws as. fat all round us. They are very conde-
scending, and promised to let us go safely to Cal-
cutta, if we would surrender. If they had oily
pluck enough to come out and attack us in force
they might overawe us by numbers. I can't help
thinking we arc like the children of Israel,
ing befo e the Syrians, like two little flocks of kids,'
and there is no doubt that God is on our &de.

"June 18.
" The enemy attacked one of our batteries list
night, and were drite:n back with great slaughter.
We lost an officer killed. by a round shot and sortie
men. You canirl -Conceive the horrible way the
people bare tortured the Europeans, ladies, and
children. Enclosed is -a piece of music I fornd lying
among the houses where the mas=acre toiik- place ;
the words—(' That cry is help, wheie no help can
come. - Farewell tie visioned scenes of bonze')_
struck me as very appropriate. I hope, please God,
to see you all again and-relate my adventures ; bu',
if not, I hope there grill be no sorrowful face in the
family, as we must all die, and it does not matter
who goes to Leaven first. You can send this to
—, if you like, ss there is no time to write more.
I mentioned that my regiment had mutinied ; they
are said to have been cut up by her Majesty's Bth
Regiment and Artillery. • One cannot pity them.
garden near naj tt.nt,
We Ate too well accustomed to death to have fed-
ingal,it. I o'ten's2e some soldiers walking into a
they return
enough of ble:dlish' '
W. and childron.,,el
Onthe 19th the vera„f
His' death is thus relatedr:'
14 I have, my that' D., sad t'd.
a .)rce natives with them, then
This is military law. Bet
Gad bless you, and love to
the above was kil!ed.
._aasc,tion befOri.
F yogi i nn
ill I: nvie-
cats.: Your dear Waller. was killed to
f:111:1311-
eveue co
mfort. He nobly,for his Saviour's sake,
Delhi on the 19th instant.
in
isine
stood forth from the midst of his co,pani
and foi_two or Three 'ears. followed.Chtiat
fully. Your child has been taken, manfully fight:.
ing under his banner gg,iinst sin, and contending
e slaughtered otir court-. • against those fiends who hai

trymen and countrywomen. He could have died
in no nobler cause.

" It seems that poor Wailer volunteered to go
from Phillour to Delhi with the siege train. In a
leAer to me Waller stated, that though not attached
to any corps, he had gone under fire once, and, as
he always displayed great zeal in his profession, it
is not unlikely that he joined as a voluntesi in
some attack on the 19th, and met his death. You
must not, dear D., sorrow unreasonably, for 3 our
son was prepared for death, and died at his post-.
R &ler bless God who took him. Soon you will be
united to him. Be assured that he is with his God
and Saviour. May God bless you all, and ever
believe me yours affectionately, _ .

R. MONTGOMERY."

THE MUTINY AT SEALKOTE.
The following letter was written by a lad of 17, a
Lieutenant in the 9th Cavalry, which mutinied at
Sealkote

"GOORJANWALLA. JULY 14.

"You will have heard by this time of the mu illy
of .my regiment at Sealkote ' • I need oily tell
you the particulars as regards myself. On Wed-
nesday night it was my turn for duty at the guard,
and accordingly I went down after mess, went
through the lines, and, having found all gnat, took
off my jacket and lighted a cheroot. I had a long
talk with the native officer and treoeers on guard,
who were all very cheerful ; after which I turned in
and went to sleep. I was called at 4 o'clock-a.m.
on Thursday, the 9th, got on my horse, went home
and took off my uniform, intending to go for my
morning ride. When I was half-dressed I went
into -'s room to ask him to accompany me, but
did not find him. I went into the verandah to ask
his bearer where he was ; his bearer seemed much
excited, and said that the Brigadier had sent for
him urgently. I waited outside to find out
what it was about, -and presently B - came
running into the compound and told me
to put on my uniform. immediately, as there was a
row in the lines, while he did likewise. When I
was dresSed and armed I came out and asked him
what I was to do. He said that there was a tow
in the lines and that the sergeant-major hed,beea
shot ; that I was to go to the lines and see what it
was about while he went to the Brigadi ir's. I
jumped upon my own horse and galloped down,
and went close by the 3d troop lines. I met a
trooper, who told me, for God's sake, not to go
down alone ; that the men were saddling their
horses, and that if I went further I should be shot.
I looked about • seeing this was true, and that a
trooper was loading his pistol, eyeing me, I thought
I'd bolt and tel the Brigadier.
"I galloped up, and meeting B- at the
Brigadier's gate, told him, and that the only chance
of our saving our troop was his proceeding dewn
there immediately. He said that the Brigadier
had ordered me not ; but, never mind, come al.ing.
We went down, intending to go to the !stables, but
as we passed the men's houses some rushed out,
and slid, ' Come in hear, Sahib ; come in here.'
We went io, and found some six men with a naive
officer, who said that all the rest had gone, and if
we did not go into their house we should be killed
immediately. B- returned to inform the Bri-
gadier, while I stayed some minutes longer. In
the meantime I heard shots fired right and _left ;
aild the few men remaining not seeming much in-
elinrd to protect me, I thought it time to go too.
I was then mounted on a troop-horse with my
parade saddle. I galloped back to my bun-
galow, to try to get some powder" to load my
revolver from B----'s servants, having none of my
own. Found that it was all locked-up. I found
a few grains in an old flask of mine, and
loaded one of the chambers. I then went to
join the Brigadier, but found that be had
gene down to the fort in the city. I followed
and met one of his servants, who was crying
and wringing his hands, saying, They are
killing the Brigadier. (The Brigadier was not
killed.) 1 asked which way he bad gone, and, put-
ting spurs to my horse, dashed after him. Abut
half way between fort and cantonments I saw six
troopers drawn up on the side of the road. I drew
my revolver, though of no use, and there being no
other escape proposed to run the game let with my
horse at full speed. I came opposite the firer, who
fired his pistol ; the rest did likewise as I came op-
posite them, but without effect. The last gave
ehme, drawing the second pistol. I covered him
with my revolver, which kept him off for some
time, but suddenly closing within two yards he
took a steady aim at my head and fired. I fel as
if I had been hit a severe blow with a stick on my
right arm, having covered myself as well as poeible
with it. He gave a shout and closed; I thought it
was all up with me ; but finding I could draw my
sword began to feel jolly again. When he came-
alongsidil rammed it into him, but haYing no
strength, could. only get it in ab,,ut two inches into
his sole. lie knocked it out with his pistil. 1.
struck him again, but with .1 ke effect. He then
shot ahead. I put spurs to my nag, and as I came
up banged at him. He bent forward to avoid, and
I only got an inch into him„ but ho almost lost his
i seat, and pulled up. I almost had done so. too,
but pushed along, and he fell behind. I now
thought I should reach the fort, but was disap-
pointed. Seeing some more men ahead of me I
turded to the right, and took a pull at my horse. I
now saw that my wound was bleeding, and having
lost my shako, must have been a pretty figure. I
went across the khets for some half a mile to get
rid of the city, when I came upon a road. I asked
a villager where it went to ? He said to Lahore ;
but it turned out to tie Wuzeerabad. I puilied along
at a hand gallop some five miles, when, the sun
getting warm, I pulled up. I tried to psrsaade
s ,me osie to give me a. turban ; they all
they had only one and were rot fools
enough to give it me, so I pushed along again.
On passing a village, an old man rushed
out, and began potting at me with a pellet how. I
did not mind this, but on looking back thought I
saw two troopers coming after me. This was rather
a nuisance, as my right arm was now quite stiff,
utter'y useless, and painful. So having been spar-
ing my horse I put him out again, and did not draw
rein for some eight miles. I then went on mote
alowiy, all pursuit having stopped. Some 16 miles
from Sealkote, coming on a pJlice thanah, pulled
-up to get water, and have my wound looked at, as
was now very p sinful. I got off, and the men mus-
tered round me, and were as kind as could be. I
found now the bullet had entered about two. had ea
below, and gone about an inch above the elbow
jo'nt. How it escaped the bone I don't know.
Having been bound up as, well as it could be, and
having drunk some water and wished my horse's
mouth out, I went on to Wuzeerabad. accoinpanie I
by the head man, who had made me a sling and
given me a turban. I pushed along, and after a
good deal of pain managed te reach Wuzeer +bed at
1 L a. m., having started fr. m Sealkote at half-pest
4. My nag was completely done up, having come
a good 30 miles. I went into the dak bung.fleW
(frivolling station) and sent for the native tuhseel-
dar, there being no Eur pears, to consult with what
to do. I drank four cups of tot and same brandy
and water, and felt pretty' well. He (the tubseellar)
brought with him the banee-, who offered me his
buggy and horse and any amount of money. I took
20 rupees, and atter about an hour's rest atarte I for
Goojraucowla in his buggy, with two battles of soda
water. After an awfully hot drive of 20 miles 1 got
in hero about o'clo..dc. My wound et this time
hurt me very much. Here I found threa officers
of the 46th Native Infantry, and M and the
Assistant-Commissioner, Mr. Blackall, whole ceived
me most kindly. I lay down and had my jacket cut
off, when I found I had had a narrow escape, a pistol
having ripped open wy jacket jut over my
spine. A doctor looked at my wound, and
told me that it was only a flesh one, a•ad I
should be all right in a month.' Not a week has
passed, and I am' able to get about. Eierybody
here has been most kind, and I had no idea tht
there were so many Miss Nightingales in tire world
lam clothed from h:-ad to foot by Blackall, ant
don't know how to thank him.

" I am going into Lahore to-night. Every.hing
I have has been plund-red, and I ani
again with a sword and a jacket cut up ihe b ;
even my revolver I dropped on the road. I am not
able to write, but shall be, 'hope, by next mail
You will he pleased to bear that l have not suffe.e I
in the least in ht-a th. -Beyond my wo:ind lan as
Well as ever l wa'."

The following is from one of the most eminent
mercantile firms in Calkitta, to its agents in Lon-
don, and be real with interest ai expressing
the feelings and opinions of a most influential sn-
tion of the Indian public :

" C.Ocutta,. July 18.
" The country continues in a most feat ful state,
and mail follows mail with fresh horrors, and wider
spread details of revolt, not only of the .Beng,al na-
tive army, but of towns and villages excited to re
belliou by their exampTe, and by the amount of
culprits let loo:m fr...m the gaols ; to thcs3 add The
disaffected amongst the many disappointed, •ba
once - intrigu ng and welithy nobles and men in
power of the many .depo:,ed and cailscated ngt:v -
principaliti,e and stites, and yeu will see that the
elements of evil are mi::hty and ntimc roue as aglipht
the handful of Europeans in India scaltred over._
our wide-spread Faltitary ch-cic to
rebellion has as yet rewarded the efforts of cur brave
countrymen, and the drat(' of h-ir ext9riu;n
overw:elmed by numb -s, clamiry
that forces itsef upon the mind of all. C twnpt-re
has fallen with. frightful
.massacre, 'end Lucia]. ,F 7
in fearful peril. Itttribution, 'alloogh certain;-is
alas distant, and cinnot be linpad for-the fiat Viir•
mouths- To the Govarnment the is no rereule
'tom upper India and to the merchant no. ttacle.

The large nat've banking houses have ceased to
operate, converting their wealth where they can
into gold and silver, and secre'ing it. No trad ris
bold enough to send goods to the interior, and few
can have the means of transmitting go ids to the,
capital. Agriculture is neglected, and with pro-
longed rebellion the crops must suffer. ,Commer-
cially viewed, we have here an accumulating stock
of unsahiable British manufactrices, for which no
returns are made. We have produce arriving sc,n-
tily, which at this season should be coming in abun-
dantly; and although much has yet .to arrive, de-
spatched before the rebellion so widely.spreal, 3 et
as the year draws to a close the scarcity will be ap-
parent, and we may not have produce sufficient to
load our ships—A feature iu the trade of India
hitherto unknown. The mighty calamity most to
be feared is famine, and iti dread indicaions are
already being shadowed tbith,"

The following is from a high official in Bengal to
a friend in London :

" Calcuttt, July 19. -
" The Government put off tee mOl till to-mor-
row in the hope a h tying some go id, news -t-) c -;in-
municate. Unless it comes in to day they will be
disappointed, for although it is true we truant of
Gen. Havelock's force having defe it- d the rebels at
Fait-hpore (more than half way between Allaha'ead
and Cawnp• re) and taken 12 guns, and 4 the fol-
lewing day, the same d-sp itch informed us 41 the
death of Sir H. Lawrence, who was so n ib'y holding
his own at Lucknow. He went out to meet the
enemy on the 2d inst., was wounded as he returned
and died two days afterwards. . He cannot be re-
placed. God grant that we we may have no repeti-
tion of the horrors of Cawnpore—for it now' seems
who were newswith Gete W and that the
Wheeler in his
was true
mceritsasain,..rt,hoaftatlhle
eutrecched camp was complete. It is, however, al-
leged by some that the won en were spared, and are
held by Nena Sahib as security for his own sifety
should he find hirmelfin extremities. I do not put
much faith in this. I believe that this world has
pasvd away from all who belonged to the party.
[The Government news of Havelock's operat ons is
published among our newspaper extracts.] What
you will be anxious to h, ar is the downfall ()UMW
—but the Government has ben as sil,-nt as the
grave on the sus jest, since it announced the first
attack upon the place, the succe-s of which, it is
now certain, must have been very insignificant.
Could Deihihave been destroyed. within any ri ason-
able time, Cawnpore would never have fallen, nor
Lucknow been in danger;, it was the head-quart3rs
of the insurgente and its destruction would have
paralysed them. Novi lam afraid they will have
very powerful re-unions in half-a-dozen places b -
fore Delhi is mustered. While I am writing this
the Government has beard from a-lhi, but nothing
more satisfactory than that tres and munitions of
war were on their way from Philour ; there had
been, I am.told, another fight, in which we lost
about 50 killed and as many wounded.
May my next letter give brighter accounts then
are containel in this one.
Not seldom have we in India done much fott sub-
scriptions originated in England. We have new
one open here, which offers an opportunity of some
return. In the course of a ftrteight the people of
Calcutta and its neighbourhood have put down
over 8;0005 for the immediate relief of the sufferers
arriving in Calcutta from.the disturbed districts.

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER DATED CALCUTTA,

21ST JULY.

The present is about the worst mail you will have
received since the comMence.ment of this reb-Alion.
The brave Sir H. Lawrence is no more,. and Luck-
now is in fearful peril, with small iance of its
holding out till troops arrive. Without dou Sir
Henry w4s the ablest man we had in India. you'd

to Gu'd he had been our Guvernor-Gen-ral, instead

of the excellent post-office clerk L .rd Palmeri on
sent us out ! We have retaken Ctwnpo're, but not
uatil that fiend, Nena Sahib, had muidered the
helplees women and children he had iu his power.
The horrors of this outbreak are beyond des,-Tip-

tion or belief—women ravished and then soaip4l,
or their breasts cut off. One poor girl of the refu-
gees now here had to witness the revolting murder
of her father, and then she Anil her mother were
made to drink his Mood. We hive a l oor lidy
here, the wife of an officer, who has been deprivrd
of her ears and no=e, while her child is without toes
or fingers. Children have laesn torn asunder by the
legs, and even other worse horrors perpetrat--..d on
them. "Sudden murder has been the only mercy
dealt out to Europeans. How wretched must
that system of government be. which, having its
civil and military, fficers all over the country, c mid
yet give us no notice of so deep /spread and com-
pletely organised a rebeldon as this prives itself to
be. There cm be no doubt that for years past this
conspiracy has been h,tching, and it is stated here,
and I .elieced, that more than one officer hai broaght
to the notice of the Government the fact of evil
influences being at work among the Sepoys. The
reply has; been a snub. For your Indian seer:itaties
are of the (lasi called
,Heaven-blrn, and will take

. .
no advice. Even now they will not admit, the din-
!
ger, though-they fray it. It is a lamentable fact
that. Lord Canning is quite unequal to the occasion,
while those on whom he relies are equally incmnpe-
tent. Look for a moment at the names of the men
who form our council, and say if there be one who
has even respectable al-)ility. We must have money
and troops from England, and , that speedily, or
India is lost. If Lord Palmenlon is indeed the
vigorous statesman we have always conside ed him,
he has long_since sent us Out, overloud, 5,000 of
hose Crimeon her o>s who are now idling at Malta
an..l Gibraltar. It will b 3 all ve'y welt to send out
50,000 more round the Capp, but we want at one,.)
a small army, to enable us to hull our owe, and t
pr 'ye to the naives of this country trait our re-
sources are not only vast but immediat:). T,,tor gi-
meats of cavalry, with their horses, were sent from
India to the Crimea overland, when the emer
gency was not an hundredth part so great as it
is now. Then we fought Ir a pr:nclple--now we
fight for life, and for what is still dearer, the hon-
our of our country women. Should any red-tapisrn
ou the part of th it now almost defunct boly the
Court of Directors, or that flippant viler of India
Mr. Smith, prevent thi', there will bs. a deep feel,
ing of sorrow and disappointment exhibiti,d here.
and such of opinio elieit-ql t iftt
gl m o
and cannot fail of be ng
xthPßu
then, woe to the supine govern-
mentrousedsympathies
strop;
! But I catinQt.briug myself to beieVe that
so obvious a cotirse has been neglec•ed, or that the
au7horities have l eel ro unfaithful to their tru-t.
The Qu,en's G .verwrent out here must be the
ultimate result of all thi-, an I t',.e employment Of
the .English law and th,,English language through-
out the length anti In end It of the laiid. Tife " ad"-
venturer," as he is called, must be enconragol, and
ing clwes changed. The mei
are unfit to mtke thelaws
fur hheo h
It will take years t ) wipe
twteexeoi suAti!idn,
out the memory of the deeds.cl)na here, and I hope
h;story may yet record that " in 185ithe S,poy
regiments of Bengal mutinied and were extern
nated." gggl ogivatexhr one n . press

• • The Government has offered ti take half 4 per
cent. paper and half cash in payment of the new
lo:In now open at "6 per cent., but the measure
comes too lat. This course wa,-; urge Icn Ole Go-
vernment months ago, when it could have been eir-
ried unt with succiss, but it met wit,' the usual fate
of any sugt,es ions mide by the mercantile com•nu-
ni}y. Now we must hive a loan Op ,necl in Eng-
-1 mud, it is too late to rdi e mon,T here on any
terms.

I cannot clo,e_ this 'lettet: without letting you
know a very extraordinary faet, bnt which I think'
pe,,plc even here are not generally acqulinted with.
Jung Bthadoor has written a letter to a friend of
11;'s at D a, jeeing, s tying that at the itrgPiit'rr,ciu -st
of Lord Canning ht, despatched 3,lloo:men, cavalry,
andr infantry,tothe reliefparselthroughthe f Luckuo;vati d
Ttrynai
p e ; but after they had
he got a despatch from his lord.,hip reque3 t.ng him
to withhold the troops as the cii4is had passed.
I'l N
01 eyepau were a cscoorred.
fi
on
ogtl yor
andareli ct.(
weary.hack to
Athf
again.eecvapdiatvasl
after comes another despatch
them forward
hfiom tlithsameSAO aide
functionary urging hint g p
Jung asks in letter, "Howocraanorys Ani o Efglislhe
expect to nil- India With such gve
is right, and the sooner they are 'replaced the bet-
ter. Flit! those troo s not t'e'n recalled Cawnplre
and Lucknow would have been saved, tie brave
Sir 13. Wheeler and sir H. Lawrence aliva, and
600 elaughtereil men, women, and children spared
to us: Surely; the people of England will see to
tiles: things.

this man to acquire the local influence he possesses.
It is well known that for years back, since the
death of the Baj: e Rao, Natia.H) has kept the Be,-
to the pro-.
pg
en
rmt
ys
oof f
tthhee j
deceeaes ~e 'd
the ire ifg,
nif Licit heirs
nfinement in
the ZNianah, so that none likely to take steps re-
lative to rescuing them from confinement, or reAor-
ing tilem their property, could obtain access to
where they were._ It cannot be said that Nauajee
is not a venturous ti ait,,r. He f-t iked his all, which
is not a lit'le, upon the die. His game might have
been played so as not to have entirely deprived him
of the sympathy of those he fought against, but like
every leader the presznt insurrection has brought
to not;ce, he seems unable to reslst that propen,ity
to cold-blooded, dastardly murder, which seems to
take possession of most natives sinstiltan.ously
with their achieving power to gratify it.—Madras
Atheneum.

. The following is a list of military officers, civil
servants, &c., who have fallen during the present
disturbance-1. We believe it is corteot so far as it
goes, but we fe ix that there are yet some names to
be added to it :
LIST OF OFFICERS,' CIVIL SERVANTS, &C., KILLED BY

TUE K4ISER, AiND TIIE CZAR.

(From the Daily News.)
The Government of Austria has addressed remon-
strances to the Court of St. Petersburg on a question
personal to the Emperors of both States—one character-
istic, too, in its smal way, of the arrogance of the
House of Hapsburg and of the ambition of the Dynasty
of Roroanoff.

In some recent documents the Czar deitcribed himself
as " his Imperial and Royal Majs'Sty :" a matter, it
might appear, of very ema 1 importance to any rational
being. "No." tolys the Kaiser to he Cztr,—"liilone,
of 11. av,n's Vicegerents on this earth, am emit ed to
use that duplex designati in of sovereign authority. I
am both Emperor and King—y •u are an Emperor only.
For you to assume the use of Royal as well as Imperial
is to usurp and appropriate my prerogative." To this
Austiian reclamation the Cztr is said to have rsolit,d by
p int,ing significantly to this possession of the Kil/ikon
of Poland as his authority for the appellatioo Royal.
And, certainly, if extinguished regalities can crsitfer
titles, tt.e .Cz it is just as well entitled to jostify the
use of the w.ird R tyal from the once important but
now died kingdom of Poland, as the Kaiser is from
that fairdst poition of his po•se;sions, the at.nex-d
Kingdom of Hungary. It is not for Englishmen to
try to compose each royal strife and imperil trifling.
Nor would we refer to it thus prominent's., but as
affording an illustrati in at once of how the Czar puidies
his pretehsions forward into Central Europe ; how the
Kaiser tries to repose on the past glories of the most
arcient of European sovereignties ; how each, in his own
very different and antagonistic sphere, pursues the
policy he has inherited, regardless of passing events or
of the spirit of the age which he illustrates without
adorning.

here have we ,two Sovereigns of about equal ages—of
abilities of nearly equal mediocrity—of considerable per-
sonal activity—mast-rs of-two great Empires, the 1- ast
advanced States of 'Cloristendorn--both affecting in their
rule a peculiar though distiuct and opposed connee'ion
with the great Churches to which they belong—opera-
ting largely and extensively in their civil g-vernrnent
through the irfieence and ce-operation of those two
powerful and hurtful ecclesiastical organisations and
hierarchies—happily for the rest of the world, and in
spite of their absolutism and despotism, it not actually
quarrelling, at least in discord.,
The Czar ias lately been in Germany. There is
scarcely a petty prince in that country who has not
received either the happiness of one of those visits or of
one of those recognitions by which Russian power in
Central Europe is from time to time maintained,
and consolidated. No sooner is the war over than
Alexander hastens thither to return in person
thanks for that neutrality of its princes which con•
stitutes so elowreful a feature of their present gene-
ration. Froth Berlin he sweeps through these petty
Courts to Baden and the Rhine. Attended in his pro-
gress by Raron Seebach. who played so important a part
in preparing those, concessions to Russia which consti-
tute the basis of the Treaty of Paris, and for which that
really Russian agent has been rewarded by the Saxon
Mis-ion in Paris, be refuses to cross Mighty stream
which separates Germany from France, and to p ,y that
compliment to Louis Napoleon which he had just be-
stowed on the Court of Cariruhe. From this refusal the
Cabinet of the Tuileries may learn hotsedeeply the Rlls-
' siatl Government is a.egrieved by its ultimate infide it 9
an to Bolgead,—how hopeless it is to conaiate the Czar
by anything short of complete and absolute subFervieucy.
Nor, indeed, does France Iv• prekoat want other
proof. Besides securing a rich wife and selling his pic-
tures at St. Peterebure., Count de Morny had to ail ap-
pearance gained another triumph in a Treaty of Com-
merce. But when examined, the importance of
that elaborate document evaporates in idle words.
. .

Ail 'that France gains by it is equality in Ru.sia
for its wines as distinguished from those of Greece,
which formtrly had a small pr- f-nrica ; while Russia
has only secured the timpty stipulation that what-
ever Fra,xe concedes to other Powers she will aiso
give to Russia, a concessi n which amounits to
noth;ng so long as her commercial system shall c4nlinue,
as it is now like;y to do, wilds the Empire lash, prohi-
bitory and protective, and which under freedom of trade
woull bb valueless.

The truth is that, despite all fears and apprehensions,
there is and can be no natural affinity, no r:al point of
attrac ion, and no permanent connectieu between Russia
and France under a government which profe-aes to be
based on the great rev luttonary principles of 1789, and
which inclines towards England, at once from comma-
city. of interests, intelligence, and apprehensions. So
C unt de Moray has :resigned an embassy in which
nothing great was to he accomplished for France, and
the repre•en'ation of France at St. Petersburg has passed
once more, in the person of Cunt de Itayneval, into
the regions of the less a:11W ions but more useful and
skilful ordinary diplomacy of the French Rnpirs.
Tns ahstineuce of the Czar on the very banks of
the Rhiue, and when within eight hours' j mrney of
Paris, followed, as it has been, by the Imperial visit,
to Osborne, and the better understanding between the
Governments of Eog,and and France iv) the question of
free elections, and, let us hope, tree government also for
the Principalities, which was happily effected there, is
at Last indicative that there are no special relations be-
tween France and Ru,sia, and that LAtis Napoleon re-
mains faithful to that prlicy on which the A gle-French
alliance was founded. Reinarkable, in this re pect, av
was the appearanc., of the Czar on the very frontiers of
France, it is, perhaps, even more remarkable for the
omission of any personal interview with the E nperor of
Au-tria. We are no admirers of Austrian ploy, and
regard with ,dislike, and 'even -more than dislike, the
present predominance of the Curt of Vienna in Gra-
mm:ly, But it is impossible not to look with satisfaction
and complacency on the separation of two Sivereigns.
and Courts whose union and cJncord would be so mis-
chievous to Europe.