The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-26

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Deli; c;tv o. ~. have news dated outside OF
16fh ~ - July, and at Bombay on the
neer. thonss was still held by the mutt
heev1 me been beaten and suffered
hv They had been reinforced
Nasmn tn7 iments who had mutinied at
ent.-;-~ viz sc have had no difficulty in
sn.sns = city' nou thstanding the European force
tLs~"Peo oeiore IT. e do not see, therefore, that
49, any REASONABLE ground for the belief expressed
49, ~ Guy would q captured within n fortnight's
~ ~ II stated thu Brigader-General Nicholson.
!. y mead OF a frable number of troops, was
eApec.Na 70 reach Ieih by the 18th of August; but
we are not advised asfo whether the British, even
'hen, WIZ De strong e 2Pugh to make the attack, or
".etner tney VIII pot compelled TO wait for the
cinter Months, and& 9TH them the arrival of Sir
Soiin campbell and fresh troops from England.
mere must have beer Fery severe fighting before the
Walls OF Delhi, to JUDI from the loss of the British,
"nicn Is estimated aphve hundred out of q total force
OF two thousand men. There was a report also that
agra, which had len held by the Europeans in the
FH2onad az INTO the enemy's hands. The most
un<S - felhgence, however, is that three Ben
gal had revolted, and that new
onspir1f,titG85 plots were coming to light.
Previous accounts of the massacres at Cawnpore bv
Nena Sahib are confirmed 1t will be ~remembered
that, by last advices, General H&slock, at the head
OF three thousand Europeans, had red Zen Cswnpore.
had defeated that treacherous villain, Ma, in two
engagements, and was on the eve of making a third
and last attack upon the rebel leader, then in his
entrenched camp at Bithoor. We now learn that
there was no necessity for this attack. The mutineers,
Icticdicl ueiore the advancing BRUSH, ana on then
18th of July, General Havelock occupied Bithoor
without resistance, and captured thirteen of the
enemy's guns. The Geographic report is almost un-
lntelligible; but from what we can gather of its pur-
port it seems that Gen. Havelock's force for the re-
occupation OF Cawnpore, had in eight days marched
l26 miles, and fought four actions with Nena Sahib's
army, against overwhelming odds in point Of num-
bers, and had taken twenty-four guns Of light calibre,
and that, too, in the month of July, in India: and "a
above, on the 18th of July, they marched into
Cawnpore. The soul-hsrrowing spectacle which there
presented itself to them beggars description.
A wholesale massacre had been perpetrated by the
lend, Nena Sahib- Eight officers and ninety men of
her Majesty's 84th Regiment, 20 ladies, and 12l
children of Her Majesty's 32d Foot, and the whole
european and Christian population of the place, |
including civilians, merchants, pensioners, and their |
antilles to the number of 400 persons, were the
victims Of this SataE- The courtyard in front of the
rooms, in which Nena Sahib had fixed his |
lead-quarters, and in which che women had been |
Imprisoned, was swimming in blood. A large num-
OF women and children, who had been cruelty |
pared after the capitulation for a worse fate thar |
Instant death, had been barbarously slaughtered on |
he previous morning. The former having been |
trIpped naked, and then beheaded and thrown into
well, and the latter having been hurled down alive |
their butchered mothers, whose blood rocked
n their mangled bodies. Only four escaped, the
life Of a merchant and three others. There are.
owever, no authentic details as yet.
General Havelock, in a dispatch to the Governor
ieneral, says that Nena Sah~-~ed himself
nth his family. He had an intention of going to
utknow, but when he had gone as far as the river
IS cavalry and infantry deserted him. They are all
one of, after destroying their arms, to their differ
ut homes C~awnpore is now as quiet as Allahabad.
ne disarmed 18th Bengal native infantry mutinied
: Mecan on the 23d of July, and murdered their
'mmanding officer, Major Spence.