The Press. — 1857-09-12 (London, England)

JHANSI AND NOWGONG.  It appears that the first report of Captain Skene having at the last moment of defence of the fort at this place first shot his wife and then himself, is incorrect. An officer, writing from Agra, gives the following version of the affair : I The fort gates were barricaded inside with stones, and the garrison Christians only, with some native servants, (tainted their enemies, who began the attack on the 6th. One man said the garrison gave in on the Bth ; another says the 11th was the day. The latter authority was inside the fort during the defence. Burgess, he said, killed fourteen men. Poor Powys shot a man who tried to open one of the gates, and was killed with sword cuts in return. Burgess killed his murderers. Both tales agree on this point, and also that Captain Gordon was hit in the head when looking over the wall parapet. He died of it. Some of the writers tried to escape in native clothes, letting themselves down by ropes, but they were caught and killed. At last Major Skene and the rest were deceived by assurances that their lives would be spared if they sur• rendered, and they opened the gate, the Hindoos and Mahornedans having both sworn to them. Two attempts to said word to Nagode and to Gwalior for help had failed, end so, taking the hand of some man or other, Major Skene marched out first; they were taken to a garden, tied to two ropes in two rows, men and women separate—Burgess's servant says the men alone were tied— and then every soul, whatever the age, rank, or sex, was killed by the sword. The men died first, Burgess taking the lead, his elbows tied behind his back, and a Prayerbook in his hands. What a sad end for so kindhearted and unselfish a man. But to (lie confessing the faith is a noble death. The rest died in the same way. They tried hard to get the women and children saved. Our quartermastersergeant and his family alone were spared ; the servant says he was taken with the rebels when they left. This man said the women stood with their babes in their arms, and the older children holding their gowns. They had to see the men killed, but I believe they were spared any violence save death. Dear little Mrs. Powys—l think of her with such a pang. Poor Dunlop, too, the first friend I made in India, and Turnbull, so warmhearted and anxious to do good and to benefit others. Poor little Taylor! he had been  with Ins brother, and had made great haste to rejoin on the mutinies breaking out at other stations. lie reached .11iansi a few days before he died. A native collector also gives us the following further details of this horrible instance of treachery and murder : Alas! how sorry am T that in my old age, when my strength is broken, I am to be the messenger of evil tidings, and recount what has befallen my best of benefactors and your kind friend and patron, Capt. Alexander Skene, superintendent. He, wits, Capt. Gordon, of the 10th Regiment, deputy commissioner of Jaloon, together with the keeranees (Christian clerks), took refuge in the fort, where they were besieged by the refractory troops, but, although they fought like the heroes Roostum and Isfund.year, they were, after a most desperate conflict, overpowered. But the worst is yet to be narrated. One Bukhshis Allie, a wretch born without a sense of shame, and to be accursed of God, was employed under Major tjleeman as a mohurrir (Persian writer) in the Thuggee