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

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

lithe hitmagar bad not announced tiffin (lunch),
I believe I would never stop. I will end by one
line more after I dispatch a biscuit.
The biscuit is done for, and I now finisb. The
Ranee of Jhansi has embodied 12,000 fighting merit
against us. The Rajah, or one of the Rajahs of
Bundlecund, has embodied 14,000 men, but not yeti
declared against us. Now, depend upon it, °there
will do likewi.e unless a heavy blow is soon struck.
There were 23 engineers and inspectors of the
railway colleo ed at Cawnpore, and all massacred.

The following letter, received by the last mail,
is addressed by a medical officer in the N.W.
vitices to his relatives in Brighton :
Agra Fort, August 10.
to Dtheearrr —friend: iEn vEeroygbinadnyd,araosun wde
chance of letters reaching Bombay. I write to you,
me
ear are
therrei
writings a
as I have not' heart to depict to --- the horrors
every soul in this presidency must have gone
through. On the 13 hor 14 hof May there came a.
report that the in-urgents having murdered every
European at Delhi were marching on Muttra,
whereupon we immediately despatched the ladies
to Agra. I drove my wife all the way in the car-
riage, and arrive tl at Agra about 11 o'clock at night.
I returned the.next day, and found Muttra occu-
oßfl tounrltyp o a rsee
occu-
pied by troops, not the insurgents, but those of the
citaonjd o'hlas. I whos i
m m afterwardsimmediately
yp,r
ao vte
mdyddeemsiorne demons
seas put in medical charge of this rabble-2,500
strong—as at that time I was in hopes we were tl
march upon Delhi. G— tells me that she sent
you my letter, in which I gave a description of my
wanderings and escape after the Bhurtpore troops
had mutinied ; and as we are desired to keep our
letters to 45 grains I do not think it worth while
recapitulating, trusting that the letter has safely
reached you ; but from that 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 had 50 Choukerdars around the bun-
galow, we felt we could not trust one, and, of
course, at the least noise, I always seized my
pistols,- for we have ever since been obliged to
carry arms, for one or two old pensioners, who
appear to be faithful, declare that we cannot
trust a single native: The demons are such
complete masters of deceit and hypocrisy, that
wh n the sountry is again quiet the killed will
be a sorry list to. read. On Saturday, the 4th
of July, we received a Jotter saying things wore
such a bad aspect that we had better try to come
to Agra, and on Sunda% night, the sth, we left
Muttra in a boat, as the only native we could
rely on assured us the river was by far safer.
We got through the night very well, and till 12
o'clock the next day, when, passing a village, our
boat received a volley of bullets, and our head
lai atman fell wounded ; we returned the coirpli-
men', but could only sea one man fall. After a
little more firing we managed to pasi the village,
but to our great dismay saw them all collecting
rind running across the country to catch us as
we rounded the land, when they again opened
fire upon us, and were so covered by ravines
teat we could riot return it.' When the boat-
men assured 'Ds that on the side of tee river, at
about ha f a mile further, we should encounter
a still mere hostile village, and as we should
hen be between two fires, and the river not
above 120 yards broad, three or four of the boat-
!ben ran off, and we were obliged to play at "hide
and seek " in the grass, afraid lest a single na•
t.ve 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
Secundra, iu flames, and, beyond, Agra appeared
one mass of smoke. We hid in the grass and
ravines till seven o'clock in the. evening, whet
we came out of our holes and made for Agra. The
boatman had previously made his escape, and must
have given information, for soon after three men
wish matchlocks came prowling round our holes;
we were afraid to stir an inch in case of giving
an alarm, so we allowed them to escape. About
seven o'clock, when the moon was rising, we loft
all our guns in the bole, and I merely had my
sword, for we were all so tired we could not carry
theguus, not having had anything to eat the whole
day, and the only water we could drink was what we
found now and then in the cart-rucks. We came
along withou,. any opposition till within a few miles
of Agra, when we nearly ran up against a mounted
picket of the insurgents, but the sentry must have
been very careless, for, having fallen on the ground,
we crouched back and went round, but were dis-
tree.sed to find that they had pickets all round Agra.
However, we managed to pass by them, keeping in
the ditches and not exposing ourselves, and about 12
o'clock arrived at the civil lines. Every bungalow
had been burnt, and seeing a number of fires, we
thought they might be friendly Choukerdars,but did
not trust ourselves too near them ; however, one of
them chal'engecl us and when toll they were six
sahibs in dimtress, about for ;y men and a few mounted
that we
were up at once and after us ; whether it was
we were running for our lives, we were over
the walls like deer, and soon out of rtl •
pursuit.
I, however, lost my shoes, and sprainediei
my n 1e
,o badly thst it se.:s s ith difficulty liuld move,ancle
but
I managed to hobble along a few yards farther till
we came to a puddle of water, where we thought of
sleeping, but on one ot our patty running up a bank
Lie taw ten men on the look out, so we went on
another 200 yards arid lay down to [deep, hoping to
get up before it was daylight and again make off for
the ravines, sending one of our party, who was as
black as the natives, into the fort to make known
our distress and bring us some food. As soon as
it was time to be off, I found I could not walk a
couple of yards, fur toy ancle had much swollen and
was very painful ; so I prayed for the others to leave
me and save themselves—a project which 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 giye us any
help, when be said the Jemiudar was a very good
man, and well inclined to Englishmen, but he
must go back and ask him. At that moment, when
we saw him reach the village, we all thought our last
moment in this world had arrived, but there was a
kind Providence overlooking us, and what wasour
surprise and comfort to find the Jemindar sent for
us to come in l Tao men carried me, and they gave
us milk and turds and whey, and after promising
them rewards if they g it us safe into the fort, they
placed us all in a palki-gbarry with punkahs all
round. Having previously dresst dus in theirclothes,
a
n.l thickened our skins with charcoal, they put
ropes to the carriage and brought us safe to the fort
"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
imapiue how glad I was to meet my dear wife and
ettildren again.
The writer then goes on to give an account of the
massacres at Cawnpore, Allababad, &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
vas not my lot to be there. General Havelock and.
lie men have been doing such wonders, principally
with the Enfield rifle, that the insurgents find they
will not extirpate all the English in the land. The
natives look upon the force from China as quite a
new caste, who appear to strike terror into them ;
they say, they cannot distinguish between Hindoo
and Mussulman, and hang everybody indiscrimi-
nately, 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 ; but still there is no doubt
there will be a great slaughter. The Almighty is
certainly avenging himself upon them, and I trust
that, though every station has been destroyed,there
will be many lives saved to return to their triangle
in England. Give my love to --, arid tell them
tha7 though we have lost everything, we have as yet
been spared. Our abodes here are something about
14 ;get by 8 feet for each fend y. There are 1,069
European men in the fort able to carry arms, and
altogether, with natives, 5,980 sleep within its
walls ; 4,000 of these are servants, not one of whom
can be trusted, but they have not arms, and so I
trust everything may turn out well.

ANOTHER FATAL RAILWAY AOOIDENT. —Last night,
tnt.,roottion was received in 141ndon of a dreadful
Accident at the Preaton.-treet goads etaiion of the
W hiteh;iv,u and Forne,,F.Jui,ctio» Railway. It appears
t..at, ,•ri the previous day, Wilain lin.swles. a
t
highly-
respectable malt, who was employed ILA guardhe p
above line of railway, was superintendioget
of some carriages at a point where the two lines u
employed
close to each other that the engine 05;apiy. by placin
to draw the carriages on the otheier, i
practice,
u ro_nn shunting
eo
consequence was that the
a piece of wood in a peculiare
was persevered in ; and
h and could not escape.
carriages,
deceased got betweetnht
This, although always cotre
seuch violence that he. was com-
dredsednanergberoetwueeen them
He was jammed with
when
themthe cciaurriitaegdeseawde.reHreemwoevsedii
plccely £l.tieneffid,
._s_,....„eu
ne dropped
sinro
anodebw
leaves a wife and two children till
flarri'ilni„m An inqueqt has herrn held on the body
oourn his
,nd after a great amount of evidence had been gone into:.
die jury returned a verdict ot• " Accidental death," buts
,t,pngly Condemned the ,irc.ctioe adopted of shuotina
carriages on the line. Mr. Cook, the secretary, pro/.
wised to make the wishes of the jury known to the
direstore, With V. view to the disoontinuance of thq
1,101.11!