The Sun. — 1857-09-30 (London, England)

THE CAWNPORE MASSACRES.,  The following is an extract from a letter from an officer in one of the Queen's Regiments belonging to General Havelock's moveable column . . . I was directed to the house where all the poor miserable ladies hal been murdered It was alongside the Cawnpore hotel, where the Nana lived. I never was more horrified ! The place was one mass of blood. lam not exaggerating when I tel you that the soles of my boots were more than covered with the blood of these poor wretched creatures. Portions of their dresses, collars, children's socks, and ladies' round hats lay about,- saturated with their bloods • and in the sword-cuts on the wooden pillars of the room long dark hair was carried by the edge of the weapon, and there hung their tresses—a most painful sight ! I have often wished since that I had never been there, but sometimes wish that every soldier was taken there that he might witness the barbarities our poor countrywomen had suffered. Their bodies were afterwards dragged out and thrown down a well outside the building, where their limbs were to be seen sticking out in a mass of gory confusion. Their blood cries for vengeance, and should it be granted us to have it, 1 only wish I may have the administration of it. "I picked' up a mutilated Prayer Book. It had lost the cover, but on the flyleaf is written, For dearest Mama, from her affectionate Tom. June, 1845.' It appears to me to have been opened at page 36, in the Litany, where I have but little doubt those poor dear creatures sought and found consolation in that beautiful supplication. It is here sprinkled with blood. The book has lost some pages at the end and terminates with the 47th Psalm, in which David thanks the Almighty for I his signal victories over his enemies, &c. " July 21. _ _  " Those poor ladies were massacred on the 15th, after we had thrashed the blackguards at the bridge. The collector who gave the order for their death was taken prisoner the day before yesterday, and now hangs from a branch about 200 yards off the roadside. His death was, accidentally, a► most painful one, for the rope was badly adjusted, and when he dropped the noose closed over his jaw. His hands then got loose, and he caught hold of the rope and struggled to get free ; but two men took hold of his legs and jerked his body until his neck broke. This seems to me the just reward he should have got on earth for his barbarity."  The following is from an officer on General Neill's staff at Cawnpore  CawnPore, Aug. 1. " I believe I am at present the only one in the whole army who knows the fate of each individual of the unfortunate Futtyghur community,-1. mean the officers and civilians. I give a list to you, as it may be useful. The Nawab of F with r 10th has taken up arms against us. To begin with the Native Infantry : " Colonel and Mrs. Smith, both reached this station in a boat just in time to form part of the awful massacre in that detestable house on the 15th of July. I had b tter premise that three countryboat-loads of people left Futtyghur at midnight of the 10th or 11th, or 12th of July, and that two of those boats were blown into the shore by a head wind on the next morning, and the third being well out in the stream managed to escape showers of round shot, Sic., and came on to near Bithoor, where they fell into the hands of the Nana's son, and the Europeans were all sent in here immediately. The wretches who attacked and killed the Futtyghur people were the Sepoys of the 41st Native Infantry and Irregular Cavalry, with artillery on one bank and villagers with matchlocks on the other. Major Munro was killed with a round shot near Bithoor. Major Phillott was drowned at Singhee Rampore (the place where the two boats were driven on to the bank). " Captain Bignell went off with some Sepoys of his regiment, who promised to protect him, and