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last. So quietly did they keep their cOun-
ellis that we did not expect anything Of the
kind until Il actually broke out on the
night Of the 9th Of June, when l was
walking home from the mess. The alarm
sounded at 8 p. N. | Immediately Or
dered my horse and galloped to the parade.
On reaching il found the officers trying
to 'fall in' their men. l then inquired
why two nine FOUNDER guns had been
brought there instead Of being taken to
the fort, where they were urgently required,
and where | had ordered them 10 be Ia
ken. These guns were attatchel TO a
company posted at the Shoossie bridge Of
boats, and not required there. While be
ing escorted by an artillery officer, havil.
dar and sixteen men, this guard insisted
on taking the gun to the cantonments, and
fired on the artillery officer. He sought
the assistance Of poor Alexander, Of the
Sd Dude irregular cavalry, who came, and
rushing at the guns YVES killed on the spot.
Harwood, the artillery officer, seeing he
could not hold the guns, gallOped into the
fort.
Another letter, speaking Of the outbreak
at Allihabad, says:
"The officers were at mess when the
wretches sounded the alarm bugle to bring
them to the parade, and shot them down
right aud left! Wretched murderers, may
they receive their rewardl Nine little En-
signs doing duty with the regiment we're
bayonetted to death in the mess room, and
three Of the officers who escaped heard
their cries as they passed Poor boys,
who had never given offence TO any native
nor caused any dissatisfaction to the Sc
poys, Five officers were shot belonging
to the regiment, besides the nine poor boys.
Birch and Innes with the sergeant major,
in all II military men, many merchants
aud others, were most cruelty butchered-
in all SO Europeans fell that night by tie
hands of the murderous Sepoys, The
treasury was plundered, the prisoners re
leased from Jail, and the work of destruc.
ton commenced, The whole station was
destroyed, house after house plundered and
fred"
Judge Halliburton on the Character of
the Sepoy Mutiny.
At large meeting held in London to
take measures to relieve those who have
suffered from the ravsges of the mutineers
in India, Judge Halliburton, formerly Of
Nova Scotia, said:
"Perhsps as an old judge, accustomed
to vindicate the criminal law of the land
in which 1 lived, might be allowed to
say that throughout my lfe-my judicial
life-I have considered that crime should
be followed with punishment, [cheers and
that the certainty of that punishment in
a great measure renders unnecessary the
iufiction of that punishment. [Oheers.
/ might also say that | have acted upon
that principle, and that if ever it plea1ed
God to call me again to the judicial bench,
from which l have long retired, | would
again act upon that maxim which declares
that be who sheds blood by man shall bis
blood be shed. [Cheers. l have no mawk-
ish sensibility in my nature. l don't cry
out "shame!" against the punishment of
those wretches that have surpassed in cru
city, all that history can produce. Cheers
/ am myself by birth and by education a
British subject, a native of North Ameri-
ca, and / am conversaut with the history
of that country from its first discovery by
Columbus to the present day. l have
known the aboriginies aud have mixed
with them, and have read of their wars
with the white man, but nothing in the
history of British North America has
eouaiiei that which is recorded Of the pro.
ceedings in India at this day. All the
tortures, all the violence Of the red devils,
as they may be called, of the American
forest are merely childish when compared
with the outrages that are committed in
India. Therefore I trust although there
may not be blOodthirsty puniShments, that
the punisbments will be adequate to the
enormity of the crimes committed. cheers
But that is not now the subject with which
we have to deal. There are thousands of
our fellow crnatures in distress, and an ap-
peal is made to us for aid. 1t is an appeal
which I take upon myself, as native Of
British North America, to say will be hear
tily responded to in tha! country"