The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-02

when the storm OF FIRE and iron that long had hac<
spon It's every street at last cleared Off bore witness .
maintained Under one vas pie Of ruins lay Jserino CO..
Of slaughtered rebels No such has beers 0
messed the city Of Shah Jehan since the day whcn Nadr
Shah, seated the little mosque IN the Chandnce Chosk
directed and snpentnded the Of its inhabants
And if the slaughter that has attended the righteous
vengeance Of the British General has been less exten
sye and promiscuous than that which followed upoa
the sangunary caprice of the Persian tyrant yet the
ruin of the imperial city and comple&s
now in 1857 than IL was then in 1889 The
OF Nadr te the Mogu sovereignty vo-
lent but passing attack Of illness 70 individual which
permanently weakens his constitution indeed but from
which though shaken, be yet The triumph Of
the English strikes the debtated patient dead He who
has borne the titles OF Great Mogul and King of DELHI
lives STILL IL Is true but his sovereignty, long virtually
actually at end His palace in the hands Of his
conquerors His most inner ana sacred apartments are
the headquarters Of the English army In his white mar
BILE pavilon-the "Dewan XMAS" private Coanod
chamber-where among crowd of other Inscriptions y
inad the Persian couplet translated and adopted bV
Moore
And, oh, if there be an Elysium on earth,
1t is this, il Is thst
was heard on the evening Of the 2lst sound suoh a.
had never broken the stiffness of its former august
splendor of the squald solitude Of its later days
was the cheering with which the headquarter staff re-
ceived from the General the Of the Queen OF EnR
land. Never, surely, was there more fitting place N
heart OF the palace Of the enemy who had deed her
power never time more fitting than when the majesty
of the empire had been so signay vindcated and the
of many Of those who were her sisters
well her subjects had been in part at least avenged
No wonder that the cheers rang out through the marble
arches the and gardens Of the palace
der that the escort of Ghoorkas loyal gallant caught
and returned them. Was the shade of the mag
nihcent son Of Akbar" towering near to listen y
the sound that the funeral knel OF his dynasty
CAPTURE OF THE KINa-ExECUTIoNO OF HIS CHILDREN.
But the last holder OF the title Of Great Mogu as have
said still lives On abandoning the city he took his route
to Kootub Mnar. In that direction some six miles from
Delhi he had palace But whether he betook himself
hher whether he took shelter at the stately tomb q
his ancestor HoomayOon, accounts seem to diher How
the 2lst he brought in from his hiding place
prisoner by Lieutenant Hodson, of the LIST Fusileers
with his irregular Sikh cavalry The King was accompa
MED by his Begun Zeenut Mahal He ssaid TO have de-
cned to surrender till assured that his life would
be spared, and that such assurance given him.
This may be but when he could have option but
surrender the poprcty OF acceding to his demand for
and may be allowed the remainder Of his days peaceful
captivity But not so the younger princes of his family
OF these three were taken BY Hodson at Hoomayoons
tomb the 22d, and his mode of dealing with them
will, i doubt not, meet with the same approval n
England has met with here. Taxed with their guilt
leaders in the rebellion they craved for mercy but
stem justice only dealt to them and they shot to
death upon the spot Their names were Mira Moghul
his grandson Their bodies were taken into the city and
exposed for two days at the Kotwallee principal police
station in the Chandnee Chouk This was the last notable
event of which have heard taking place the city
its immediate neighborhood up to the Doth the date OF
the latest official notification at Lahore. Many of the in
habitants, however, who remained in the city after our
occupation, have, learn from letter just received,
been shot for possessing in their houses the property Of
Europeans The officiating Commissioner was engaged N
organizing police force and re establishing order. Col
Burn is appointed military governor.
THE KING OF DUDE AND THE LUCKNOW CRISIS.
EDITOR LONDON TIMES.
My attention having been called to report which
peared in the Times and ohef newspapers TO the effect
that the Of his Majesty the King of Dude has fed from
Lucknow beg leave to state, upon authority that tho
King of Dude has had only three legitimate sons born 10
him by his present Queen The eldest of these being
IDIOT is confined to the Zenana LUCKNOW the second
died of smallpox when only twelve years of and the
third Is his Royal Hghness the heir apparent at present
in this country The rumor in question therefore,
true only refer TO egtmate Of the King youth
who not than 10 IL years OF age, and whom
the mutneers have probably seized with the view OF fur
thering their own purposes.
MhHD MUSEEH00DDEEN,
Accredited Agent TO his Majesty the King OF Dude Is
Warwick road Mazda Hill West, Paddington, Nov 10.