The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1842.

INDIA.
(From the Glasgow Courier.)
The tbilowing is iite copy of a letter from the
commander of the Satellite steamer on the.lncins,
to his brother in Glasgovv:---,
" H. C. V. Satellite, Sukhur, March, 1842.

" My dear Brother,—This country is in a very
unsettled state. Ten days ago reports came in
that 15,000 men were marching on Sukhur to
attack it. The Planet steamer was lying in
Sukhur at the time, and with her gun-boats was
made ready for the fight. Everyindividual was
on guard the whole of that night. All the ladies
went into the fort for protection, as a bloody
affair was anticipated. The night passed off
quietly. Next morning it was reported that the
Comet steamer had been attacked, and the cap-
tain and crew all murdered. My turn came
next. It was confidently rumoured, and as im-
plicitly believed, that the Satellite had been
boarded at night, the whole of us cut to pieces,
and the treasure we were carrying up, to the
amount of 60,0001. taken and conveyed to the
mountaineers. This report was so current that
letters were dispatched to Bombay announcing
it; and it is in case the Bombay Times may in-
sert it that I now write to keep yonr mind easy.
The cause of the rumour arose from the follow-
ing circumstances :—On my passage up, about
one hundred miles below this place, I sent my
steward and a native on shore to procure sheep
and other supplies for the ship. They came on
board in a terrible fright, and said that they had
been attacked, and their money and swords
taken from them. I did not know for a short
time what to do, as I knew the politicals were'
very anxious that we of the steamers should, if
possible, avoid collision with the natives. How-
ever, it was such a glaring thing that I could not
resist going and showing the blackguards that
they could not do such things with impunity;
so, accordingly, I started for the place where
they were, with six European sailors and four
native marines, leaving the steamer well armed
and manned, as we had such a quantity of treasure
) on boaid. Aboutmidnight we arrived at the place
—it was in the midst of a thick jungle—and found
about 150 of as rascally-looking cut-throats as
you could well conceive, all armed to the teeth
with matchlock, svtord, shield, and dagger.
When I witnessed such a force, and contrasted

it 'ivith my mere handful, I was satisfied it was
all over with me; but a show of fear being next
to death, I boldly stepped up, and asked where
were the persons who had beaten and robbed
my men ? They replied that they did not know.
I then asked for their kurdan, or headman; and
when he came forward I handed him over to the
tars, who immediately disarmed him. I also
took other ten prisoners, anfl instructed the nia-
rifles, the moment they saw me attacked, to put
a bullet through the head of the kurdan. Thus
I made the kurdan to understand, that if they
killed me, his life would at least be the forfeit.
Off we marched with our eleven prisoners (more
prisoners than I had men to guard them), fol-
lowed by the whole mob, who, as we retreated,
appeared to increase in numbers, but they showed
no fight until we were near the steamer, when
they opened a straggling fire from their match-
locks. Providentially none of our men were hit,
although we heard the bullets whistling over
our heads. The steamer immediately sent up a
rocket and fired a large gun, and in about fifteen
minutes more we were all snug on board with
our prisoners. I put them in irons, and took
them to Sukhur, where they were tried by the
authorities, and sent over to the Ameers of Kir-
poor, where probably they will lose their hands
or noses, as this is the punishment generally in-
flicted on such characters. Will write next mail,
if spared.—Your affectionate brother,
" R. C. MILLER."

DISCOVERY OF A BAND OF MUR
DERERS AT NUREMBURG.

In December last the limbs of a body, sup-
posed to be that of a rich widow named Bayer,
who had suddenly disappeared from her habi-
tation, were found in the streets of Niiremburg.
The police made the greatest efforts to discover
the circumstances which had brought the unfor-
tunate deceased to her frightful end. They could
only succeed, however, in discovering the most
vague information; and the public had begun to
think that the crime must remain unpunished,
for two other persons had been assassinated in a
mysterious manner without the criminals ever
having been detected.
The police still kept a close watch upon a
young woman who had been in the habit of
working for one of the murdered persons, and
at length they succeeded in procuring some very
important testimony, and they proceeded 'to
arrest a woman named Romstatt, who, however,
denied all knowledge of the matter, and indeed
nothing was found at her residence of a suspi-
cious nature ' • but a search at the house of her
daughter, who lived not far from Pegnitz, was
attended . with different results, for in a
drain they found the intestines of a human
being, and shortly afterwards the contlis-
sion of the mother led to the discovery of the
head of Madame Bayer in the drain of the Hotel
de Ville. All the part that the woman Rom-
statt acknowledged to have in the transaction
was that of taking the portions of the body to
different parts of the city; but she pointed out
certain persons as the assassins, who were imme-
diately apprehended and imprisoned; and proofs
were soon established of the existence of a band
of murderers, who had doubtless committed the
murders we have alluded to, and probably many
others which have never come to light.
As soon as these circumstances became known,
the irritable character of the citizens of Nurern-
burg became greatly incensed against the authors
of these diabolical outrages ; and it became ne-
cessary that the police should take extraordinary
measures to prevent the populace froth inflicting
summary justice upon the criminals on their way
to prison.
It appears from the later details of this hort4-
ble affair, that the woman Romstatt has stated
that Madame Bayer was murdered on St. Tho-
mas's-day, a winter fete which annually brings
thousands of strangers to Nuremburg. She
says that the assassins having contrived to entice
her into a secluded house, seven of them imme-
diately fell upon her with razors and poni-
ards, and that having killed her they prO-
ceeded to cut up the body, Romstatt being
employed to get rid of the remains by_disposing
of them in the drains or sewers in different
and distant parts of the city. With regard to
the fate of one of the murdered persons, a book-
keeper, for whom she had worked as a daily
servant or laundress, she pretends utter igno•
ranee. She was, however, beard.to say, that .a
woman named Bezold, who was found in bed
with her throat cut, had been murdered by ;a
barber, who formed one of the gang, and who
has been apprehended.
Nuremburg being situated on the great Euro-
pean route, and being consequently the constan t
rendezvous of foreigners, it is supposed that the
band of demons had imagined that their devilish
practices would be less likely to be detected, froin
the fact that foreigners would notbe readily missed.