KIRW AN’ UNMASKED. LETTER VI. TO KIBWAN., Attias ree Reverexp Nicnotas Muanay, D.D., Of Blizabethtown, New Jersey. Deapw Six,—

P , or . \ } (cA The task whieh I imposed on myself at the commeneement of these

Jecters is nearly accomplisne 1. J wished to investigate the alleged reasot whieh induced you to forsake the Chureh—and which forbid your retur

Spo result is before the public, and may be briefly sammed up.

Jafend a single Catholic \’ou will observe that I have not pretended to defend a single Cathe lic

dootrine frow your coarse and profane inv ghe question with you as to whether thos . F that [ have confined myself to watching narrowly the state of your mint

xour metives and movements, as described by yourself, until I saw ye Y

tive,—that I have not raise i :

e doctrines are true or ia

Slearly beyond the bounds of the Catholic Chureb, and landed ia the ¢ %

dark regions of infidelity.

If vour own statementg as to the utterign ss : ° . ; » when vo came a ance of your mind ja regard to any and ali religion when you became jnf lel, are to be relic be is . aes ge ere "tl your ebange, as set forth in your letters, you have been attempting

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rross imposition on t : a dou rye certificate of the process of Your Conversion, Que s . eon-iderable religious information : r certifias blant y that ** you gund was a peri: ail religious instruction,” Both are frot

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lon, it follows that in assigning tae reasons tor

e credulity of your Protestant®res@ers, — You give |

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; ; | néteina of BRuronpe since that event; and i Pee _ " MOE f the eonntrics 0: Aware} #ince u s3ion int I ane ad tail et

these be sigus of bappiness, 1 am mu bh mistaken. 4 Auteatie ¥ that poverty is a certain companion and consequence of the | . D> vin ; . . . dae . .* nt © ivins This, even if if were true, amounts to little; for th ro sligion for the sp¢ cial advan

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iri ity d it intend bis re \utbor of Christianity did not inten - as these writers would jead us to sup

, skers and steck-jalbers, se of bankers and stock } uber »” it follows ka

: . And if the © Gospel was preached to the poor, poverty we uld be, if anything, ® sign iff favor of the truc than the contrary. Ltaly and Spain may be ecaulled poor setic ere { am not aware that any one is allowed in those Catholic countries die by the road-sides of starvation.

hand, is a country of great wealth and great pauperism, But in a ‘and Ireland, such writers point to the contrast between the Cat x ic avd Protestants, They seem to forget, however, that by one thousant and one diferent 1" | Protestants of ; twenty years, he | expense of the Cat ! formation and ea i} Y might go | between thé i | of a ceortaily

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ntries have been, legally till within less thar ves, in the way of worldly prosperity, at th this is the fact, and no man of colmmon 1m ‘deny it. oe y in pointing out the mutual contradiction ' the theories of your anti-Catholic writers ub as Fegards Ireland in particular, net only wert of a certainty to reduce the Catholics to poverty, bu pediment to the attainment of wealth, the legista at the Cacholics should be poor forever; and wit! arous an enactment on the escutcheon of Protes ingular power of face in such writers as the

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. . .. the anniredinatt 5} a. ee a . yourown pen. It remains for you to recusceie tae contradiction as weil | Rev. Dr. Murray, of Elizabethtown, t allude tothe subject at milli Le

as you can.

. a ath) ae How mo, ia the mean time, to sacgest the only ee ible, natural, | Satisfact ry reason for the important event in regard tv which you

‘ 2 ee a one at e taken such superfluous pains to eulichten the puodtie.

. stmt te ‘oh eountry a poor [rist hy; ; : . £0 8 mabe al It is understood that you arrived-in tine country & poor artell exptian of teaching, punishable by law by banishment—and, if he returned from

bay. This was not your fault. It might have been your merit Whether you were then aa infidel or a Cath lic is best known to yourself Atall events you attracted the charitable n the intentions of their benevolence towards you, your renun ndition either alread

patrons In andy accomplished or neces nom Of your eCducation.

giation of Popery was a et

gari'y implied as a sine cu

, ' j 1a hecome a2 quore natural, under these circumstances, than thet you should become a |

Protestant, after the fashicn of training provided, and the creed professes by your patrons 2 If in al} this your cousci: t friends recommended, so much the better for you. L[only mention tie aa ‘

circumstances to supply a hiatus in your narrative. hey are quite saf

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> a ; Beient to explain your Conversion reasonable had you made them ac I

juainted with all this, as to ask fk

any other. Itis now nearly thirty years since these things took plage. You begin to be well stricken in years—yon are approacaing toe conlines

of old age; and the same indulgent public would have dispensed witl

your reasons for not returning now to the Communion which you thus

forsook in your boyhood. It is admitted on ail havds that, in cases like yours, a wife and children are substantial ebjections to such a step When the husband and father is, moreover, a Protestant clergyman, it yequires an extraordinary grace to overcome them

L now leave it to yourself to say, whether it was not unwise on your

part, .fter having appeared with yeur natural countenance so long, to put on the mask in the fiftieth year of your age? rortl f your rank and station among the men of our a

works or ¥ re, to Weave a

uarrative of your conversion with materials derived fron imagmation, |

wiile the plain history of the case lay open

and memory ? Yet when I regard the profane spirit of your Iette:s; when L consider that you imitate closely infidel tactics against Christi- anity ia yourmode of assault—that you ridicule where you cannot reason —thai where you pretend to reason it is not against the Catholic dectrine, as Catholics hid it, but against such doctrine misrepresented, turned inte burlesijue, and thas fitted for your purpose—when [ reflect on all this, T am not surprised that you constructed your laboratory in the “ camera and shunned the open day—that you insulted the memory of a fallon bué not otherwise dishonorable priest, by affixing Ais ‘name to your letters rather than your own.

You wish me to dispute with you on matters of general controversy. { must beg leave to decline the proposed honor. I cannot consent to dispute with any man for whom I fee! no respect, and therefore I can enter ito ne controversy with you; especially until you have extricated from the inconsistencies and self-contradictions poiated out in this review. You suzgest “ the inference that [ am a devil.”—(p. 64.) You proclaim ** Your nigh respect for me.”-—(p. 75.) Now, sir, [ en tertaia no respect for any man, and especially a Minister of the Gospel,

who can cherish and avew ‘his high respect’’ for “ a devil,”’ even by

} ‘our nec belore your consciousness

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yours

pulerence,

You wrote your letters in the midst of the awful famine which strewed the highways and ditches of your unhappy country with dead bodies, last year. Among them may have been some of those for whom, Mr Prime guys, yo the flesh’? had not become withered by hostile seasoning, to become insane, during that awful ecrisis—turned into maniacs by the news of an livur.

Fianisha wV

u wrote your letters, viz:

Soet ecela-

as forgotten —hbamanity was stirred to its depths in the bosom

of the extire American people—Jews, Christians, Catholics, Protestants, | : |

Presbyterians, believers and unbelievers of every name, were Vyiog with

each other im their effurts to send bread to the dying. And they did

send bread; they constructed an historical monument of charity, glorious | as the land which reared it, and sufficient to atone, in scine measure, | ah . -3 ae ; j i e's . . It was in the midst of this death- | Awah on ihe 24th of January, and was marching on Coiah, where '

jor the bigotries of a thousahd years.

struggle of your native land, that you had the impiety to invent, and | the ishuimanity to apply, the following profane and horrible pun, on the | qoards of vur Sawour :—“ He that eats this bread will never hunger. All} that you (Catholics) have to do, if your principle be true, is to give your | fey to (he poor, f ‘mn hung I wh. and th ¥ hu neer no more .’—( page 77 ) | Siow well this sustains Mr, Pyime’s statement, that in writing your | Kirwan’s letters, you were actuated by * a sense of duty to your king- | wen, aceording to the flesh, your countrymen and brethren !” i Rut suppesing [ Were to enter Into controversy with you on general | iupies, it is manifest that besides being a party, you claim to be a witness, | au advocute, and what is more, a jedge, in yourown cause ! You profess | io teach ae what the Catholic religion is, sithough you had * forgotten your catechism at eighteen years of age,” and I take it for granted yoa | have never locked into it since, exeept ia the same spirit aud for the same purposes which induce the infidel to read the scriptures. If 1 pre-| tend to know anythiag of my religion, you politely tell me that ** you will have none of my nonsense.*” Why then do you ask me to enter into controversy with you ? Besides, who would be the judge? **Common | gense,’’ you reply. But whose comnon sense, yours or mine? If you submit t mine, t condemn your position at ones. Ifyou will not submit | to wine, what right have you to suppose that [ should submit to yours To what trijural do you appeal! That of history ? Lut its authority with you is not worth a penny! To the Bible ? will give no decision. tution aod laws of the country. Who shall be the interpreter? Me- thinks I besr you speaking of your * cummon sense’? again for that cilice—so that we come round the Protestant circle to the starting point. if you say the appeal is to the “‘ common sense” of mankind in general, {restricting the term to those who profess Christianity,) the verdict will uot be unduimous; but it will be in my favor by a majority of three to one. ‘To what tribunal, then, would you be willing to subwit, in case I were disposed to join izsue with you in a controversy on the great ques- iiung on which Catholics and Protestants aredivided 2? But the inquiry is purely bypothetical ; fommithough I reserve to myself the right of re- viewing your labors, when I think proper, depend upon it there will not, there canuct be, any dogmaticeal controversy between us, If your genius and inclination lie in the direetion of prefanity, you can continue to in- xult the mysteries of the Catholic faith as you have done. For this you have but to copy from Protestant writers of your own class, who have gone before you. But [ see no reason why I should undertake to diseuss the reprint ef their opinions, found in your book, rather than in the original text as found in their own. As far as either come in the way of my sub- ject, I shall do this at my own convenience, in the sequel of those letters which I have addressed to my ‘* Dear Keader,’” and not to you. In the present review I purposed only to consider those little inc'dents of wan- ing faith, accumulated misgivings, and autvbiography which preceded,

or were connected with, your transition from the Catholic faith to a Pro-|

testant denomination. This portion of your letters was your own, and was (what cannot be always said of works of imagination) perfectly ori- ginal Having done this, it only remains for me to assure you of my sincere good wishes, and to say for the present, farewell.

And now [ will take the liberty of addressing 2 few words to the gene- ral reader in conuszction wiih this subject. What advantage does re- ligioa. of any name, derive from such books as Kirwan’s letters? Do they promote piety ? Is chrrity increased by them? Dv they convert Catholics ? Is the faith of Protestants so weak that it requires the sup port of such buttresses? The questions on which Catholies and Protes- iants are so unhappily divided have been discussed by able wen on both sides, until the argument has been «xhansted. These are cousiderations which adidress themselves to sincere minds of all parties. These who will reflect a moment will perceive that the Catholic religion has with-

stood and now withstands such aitacks, just as the pyramid does the |

agsayltsof the wandering Arab. If it were the system which such writers as Kirwan represents, it could not subsist a single year. Good men from within, who know what it really is, would not stay; good men from with- out would not come ty it. Now a whole volame wight be filled with the pameg of illustrious converts from the different denomixations of Protes- tantism, who, gfter mature deliberation, have joined the Church within ihe last quarter ofa century, many of them at the sacrifice of their worldly interestsand prospects. How could this have come to pass if Catholicity were what these writers allege ?

Does pot this single fact outweigh a ton of such theory-books as the Key of Popery, or Kirwan’s Letters ?—What are these books generally inade up of t Assertion, party invective, charges, sometimes entirely false, and always grossly exaggerated.

Thus, sch writers as I speak of wil! tell you that the Catholie Clergy are a yact corporation of swindlers.—But how will any man of even moderate jadzment reconcile this with the fact that no other clergymen are so ready to encounter danger in the discharge of their ministry, whether in the cholera-hospitals, the fever-sheds, or whereverit becomes a wartyr of cbarity to meet death 2 They will tell yon thet the Catholic religion is the deadly enemy of liberty. But then how comes it that all the elements and prineiples of social right and civil liberty are of Catholic origin, anc that the best lawyer among us would be somewhat puzzied if rejucsted t» point out a stagle addition made to them by Protestantism ? Th s ig fuct, in opposition to theory.

except Ru sia, which was not in communion with the Pope. They will tell you that the Catholic religion is an enemy to knowledge. But the fact is thac if you remove from the imap of Christendom, al} the great pustitutions of -knowledre, in every department, founded aud endowed by Catholics alone, very little will be left remaining. Tiiey will teil you that the C,urch is the enemy of bupinese. But the fact is that nations Sppear to have been much niore happy, if apparent contentment be any ryoptom, before the reformation, than since. Religious and civil, not ie bppak o: geueral, wars, have fullowed each other in aluiust constent

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Now, it was not uncommon for persons, whose {ish heart

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But the Bible by itself) to Sir James Outram.

It requires an interpreter, as much as the consti- |

When Protestantism came it found} ment, and have lost, they say, all reckoning of tine. foveral Ke publies, and did not find one absolute monarchy in Christendom, |

me contrast the facts of history, in the very terms of the several statutes with the theory cf our modern instructor lie, any species of lit

banishment, he was subject to be hangedgags a felon, “Ifa Catholic, | kept by a Catholic,

roperty, present or future. “Tha Catl ,/ for education,

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| forfciture of all right to property, presenter prospective. “If any pers

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| 1 ‘ ra ’ ‘ ora. j j ‘ imse ‘ ‘ Such were the laws. Kirwan’s forefather: » in their day, and him as | and kill the futted calf.” Now, with these facts staring hin | in the face, this fMan says—‘* If the ignorance of Ireland has anything

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in his early life, were their victims.

+ - " . > e100 0s to do with the degradation of Ireland, {charge that ignorance on Popery. —(page 90.) ? one would be led to suppose that he bas not escaped from under the edict against knowledge to this day. :

No, no; let candid Protestants look for and examine the true facts in | all these cases; let them judge for themselves, and they wil! be sur- prised to discover how much thatis true bas been beld back from them | on all such subjects, and how much that is false, or falsely represented,

has been circulated among them instead of the truth, by mere book-

| writers and men of the shop. hy i they wish to know what it is, even for the sake of information, let them leousult aulheniic sources, and be slow to receive their kuowledge of it | from those who are seldom either qualiied or disposed to state it truly. [n my other series of letters F propose to state it as it is understood by Cathoties; to explain its doctrines, where explanation is judged neces | sary; and to sustain them by such proofs from scripture, history, and \ reason, as are most likely to have weight with men, whether Catholics

or Protestants, who are not yet prepared to reduce the awful mysteries |

of Christian revelation to the infidel’s standard of judgment—* commen

ae. + JOIN HUGHES, Bishop of New York.

NEWS BY THE LAST ENGLISH MAIL.

THE EAST INDIAN REBELLION. | THE BOMBAY MAIL.

| ‘The Commander-in-Chief was at Futtyghur preparing for the

invasion of Gude, which would probably be froin several points labout the 25th. tis own column ts nearly 15.000 strong, with ibout 100 pieces of ordnance, while at least 10,000 men from other points will be ready to co- »perate witlr hun,

General Outram has remained at Alumbagh undisturbed since the 16:h of January. 100,000 tosurgents are said to be tm arms n and around Lucknow, which is being strengthesed in every ossible way.

Sir Hueh Rose, at the head of the Central India Field Force, captured Ratcurh on the 20: (ihe enemy escaping over the walls), defeated the enemy at Banda, and finally relieved the garrison ul Saugor from a six months’ sieve on the BfFebruary. "Phe KRajpootana field foree captared the strong fortress of

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5. . Delis bas teen placed under the authority of the Purjab Com- ‘t authority of the civil power has beeu restored, and the army declared broken up.

The Punjab end Feroze, with the 72nd Highfanders, had reached Bowbay, but large reiufurcewents of European troops are still required. a

‘Trade is uhproving ; freights on the advance ; all public se- ‘The Governor-General is on his way to the auortherh provinces,

EAST INDIA fhOUSE DESPATCH.

The Commander-in-Chief was at Futtyghor on January 24,

Brigadier Waipole’s column was near the Raimgumma, pre- paring to cross into Rohilcund. A rebel force-was on the opposite bank of the river,

By intelligence to January 92d, Sir James Outram had [not ?|

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Lucknow was daily expected. Keinforcewents had been sent | ‘The Ghoorkas have marched from Goruckpore to Fyzabad, ip | Oude,

Siugor was relieved by Sic Hugh Rose’s force on February 3d, | On the march to Saugor, Ratgarh was attacked on January 261b, but the garrison evacuated the place.

The chief rebel leader in Central {ndia, Nawab Mahommed | Favil Khan, has been harged ; aud at Deli the Dewan of Fur- rucknugger likewise,

Tue trial of the king of Delhi was to commence on the 2d of February.

On ihe 3ist January, Sir Hogh Rose defeated the insurgents at Bunda. Gur joss was shght, bat Captain Devill, of the Royal Engineers. was killed. ‘The fortand town of Avah were oceupied on the 24th January, the greater part of the garrison having escaped in the night during a violent storm.

Punjab and Scinde all quiet, with the exception of Candeish, in which, however, no new excesses are reported

Proof bas been obtained thatthe Sharapoor Rajah has been collecting troops for a rebellion, and is wbout to be attacked from three quarters. | A Bombay force from Belgaum, and a Madras force from | Kurtool. are advancing to Koviea with the Nizam’s troops, for the reduction of the Rejah. jx; ANDERSON, Secretary to Government.

Tie InsuRRECTION OF THE CoLEs.—Thbe Cole country has tisen, Mr. Ndward Lushiagton set out to arrest a troublesome chief at a point in the jungles beyond Chyebassa. His guide led him intoan ambuscade, and he found himself in the midst of 4.000 Coles, protected by jungle. He had three officers and 50 Sikhs with him, but advance was impossible, and he retreated, fighting bis way step by step back -to his camp. The enemy, armed only with bows and arrows and hatchets, came on with the greatest courage. By the time he regained his camp all the Kuropeans were wounded, Lieut, Birchseverely, and half the Sikbs. On arrival be found that his Cole porters had fled, and he could not get a Cole for any reward to carry a letter. He therefore retreated again upon Chyebassa, where he awaits reinforcements. Fifty European satiors have been seat up from Midnapore and two guris, neither of much value in the jungles, | The affair is very unpleasant, as this sort of thing is apt to spread, and the Coles hold the bills from Palamow to below Ganjam, in the Madras Presidency. Six months ago the German mission- aries assured the Jocal officer, Capt. Dalton, that the harvest vould be. succeeded by a rising, and effered to place 2,006 Christian Coles at his disposal, to form a local corps. The offer was refused.

; religion, rather | or starvation, ‘ons, but yet j nfo ) pl

»| kheddah of Major Smith’s, they found there a sapply of food, |

Protestant England, on the other ! which enabled them to hafile their pursuers by semaining in

z : +e . lw eo } B, sometimes directly, at all times indirectly, the

rue “Tha Capholic kept school, or taught any person, Protestant or Catho literature or science, such teacher was, for the orden

ee } Peal * vr : : 4 J 5 - 5 whether child or adult, attended, in Treland, a hool four marc hes trom Saugor, whither we are proceeding as fast or was privatgly instrueted by a Cathelic, such Catho-| ag possible, to co-operate with

i lie, although a child in its carly infancy, incurred a foriciture of all its | against the vagabonds.

holic child, however young, was sent to any foreign country such infaut child incurred a similar penalty—that 1s, a

n in Ireland made any remittance of money or goods, | us from Mhow, and that Capt. Hungerford’s battery is to be in for the maintainance of any [Trish child educated in a foreign country, | readiness to accompany the column.

The italics are bis own, and to judge by the statement, |

AMINER.

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ce! Tys 84a Merinerers.—-The remnant of the 34th Mutineers, 1 are hovering about the jungles at Cachar, pentane ’

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satel ‘ -}at a loss to know what to do or where to go; without fooc

>i save that which the jungle produces, they cannot now long that there was no getting slong without e hold oat: those whom the bullets and bayonets of the gallant these they had very

Sylhet Light Infaner} do not destroy will fall a prey to disease They would long ere this have been extermi- nated, but having unfortunately come upon an elephant

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lithe jungles. ‘he detachment of her Majesty’s o4th has left 1 Sylhet for Assam.

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FLocorxe anp Suootine iN Matwa.—The following extract ig from a letter from one serving with General Rose’s colamn dated Mhow, Jan. 26:—* We shot 150 prisoners at Sehore, bul, to the astonishment of the troops, as many more were released. The ‘shooting game’ commenced at rather a late hour (aftersun-se!.) The consequence was,some of the * sharp- sheoters? mistook a horse belonging to one of the General’s staff for a nigger, and the poor animal reeeived the fatal ball intended for Pandy. We passed through Bhopal. ‘The Ranve, who is said to be a Christian, gave a grand entertainment to .| Genera! Rose and the officers of his staff. The greatest civility tlig shown to Kuropeans in Bhopaly There is a gun in this »ivillave, the largest | ever saw, 18 feet in length by two feet in diameter, We presented a few ‘stripes’ from the * cat-o’ nine-tails’? to the head man at Belgaum, for disrespectful language to the Quarter-master-General. Rumour says that ithere are 30,000 mutineers at a place called Rathgurr, about

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General Whitiock’s column [ only hope we shail meet them, If lwe do, there is nothing more certain than that we shall serve lthem the same as we served those in Ghario, What a pity you are not with us this time. | hear there sre more troops to jom

Let me ksow if such is | the case, because if you are coming, it is our intention to * bone’

Re-occupation oF Detut.—The new order for admitting natives into the city came into play on the 18th of January Each person desirous of availing hwnself of it bad to pay one rupee four annas to the Kotwallee authority, who provided him with a ticket, on presentation at the commissariat store in Lal! Koab street, was exchanged for two charpoys and a chukkee (chukkees are grindstones). The consequence is, that one caa’t

| Tne Dacca Mutineers.—The party of Zoropeans and some of the 73d, who went out after the hee

were not able to accomplish much; the jungle wale

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few, the onl /catching them while crossing the

,not accomplish, as the main body of the nimble ne managed to get across on a bamboo raft at a pl]

Chowah, close under the hills. Yule’s party wan 00 .

‘them with 80 elephants. Captain Curzen's

got kubbur of a small party of the Dacca men bein cross at another ghat, farther down the river, and a Ghoorkas and some of the 73d men were sent to which they would have done had it not been for the j of the Ghoorkas, who could not reserve their fire unti] was on this side the river, but let drive into them - one only was killed, he was shot, and afterwards cut dows Sepoy of the 73d; three were drowned in the river caught the next morning and strang up. There Wasa vaga

by name Karrack Singh, once in Bootan, who enon, elephant tracks—this fellow fed the Dacca men for three . gave them guides and elephants; he is a man from the days, bourhood ot Gazepore. We tried to nobble him

so much for him, dead or alive, but could not, 0 the

of the 73d sent out a party under Lieutenant Wileox ang Ensign Morton of that regiment, to try and chapao him, They had to go to his residence ata place called Chorabundar distance of ahout twenty-three miles; the party left in tin afternoon of the 29th ult. and about eleven p.m., halted fora little to rest, when it was discovered that three men. of the party were missing. Lieut. Wilcox instantiy pushed on, ang found that he was too late ; Karrack Singh had obtained infor. mation of his advance, and had bolted ; it was a near thing, as his house was‘in confusion and his bed warm; the house : other things in it were set on fire and destroyed. Tiyeg elephants were found, but from the want of mahouts

were obliged to be left. Immediately after, the three vaga

who gave the information were found in a tope of trees,

gaye asan excuse that they remained behind, one of them - being sick ; but this availed them not, as they were prt in confinement and brought into cantonment, and lodged in the *- quarter guard of the Europeans. A drum-head court martial was ordered, before which they were tried and condemned to death, and on the afternoon of the 2d inst., we had the satis. faction of seeing the three, namely a havildar, and swo sepoyg

of the 73d, blown away from guns in front of the regiment,

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And as regards the Catholic religion, if

drive half-a-dozen yards along the streets of De'hi without encountering two charpoys and achukkee, and no doubt that many a well-seasoned budmash wil take up his old quarters in the Chadney Chowk, Durreeba, or Billeemar, for one rupee four annas, and think them cheap at the money. A_ Jot more rebelsyvere strung up this morning (Jan. 39). They are being thinned fast. I wish the authorities would set some more of the |* higher class”? swinging; it would do a vast deal of good

| Europeans are now veginning to live outside the city, and the

| Chandney Ciowk is almost as much crowded of an evening as it was in days of yore, and the Fusiliers’ band, ‘* discoursing sweet music ’’ opposite the church every Monday and ‘Tuesday evening, attracts a goodly assemblage of beauty and fashion, ali of which combined, if it were not forthe Earopean guards, and the shot holes round about, would almost do away with the traces of the past six months. A message has been received which is said to decide the fate of Delhi. Vhe defences are to be at once destroyed, and the message intimates that Delhi will not be a station for Europeans longer than is necessary to enable the authorities toremove the magazine ; or in other words, only

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| swords, &c., came off at the magisirate’s office on the 23rd of | January. With the exception of commissioned officers, no i natives were allowed to attend thesale. The proceeds amounted to upwards of 5,000 rupees. Some valuable swords were sold (as were some of ihe purchasers), the best descriptions going cheap, while the inferior weapons fetched high prices.

Tne Oopr Zeminpars.—There is a report that the great Oude Zemindars have offered to surrender on condition of immunity. hey offer to reveal the entire pian of the revolt fram first to last, and to surrender every aan guilty of any atrocity, receiving in return immunity forthemselves. I believe they do not agree to surrender every Sepoy. ‘The bribe is a large one, asit is of the last importance to ascertain the true history of the conspiracy, but the offer as it stands can never be accepted. If the mutineers are to pass unpunished, discipline will be impossible. I cannot vouch for the absolute aceuracy of this slatemen’, bul some terms have been proposed.

A CurcK To THe isnoor Rerers—Captain Boisragon has given the Bijnour rebels a severe check. Ile came npon them 1 000 strong, near the head of the Ganges canal. He had only 10 Europeans, 70 Sikhs, and two guns; but in Asia audacity is victory, and be unhesitagingly attacked ; 100 mutineers were killed, the remainder fed aud Captain Botsragon, aware that pursitit was useless, let loose a new and terrible fce. The dike of the headwater was cut, the flood poured down faster than cavalry could gallop, and scores of the imutineers were drowned.

PuaNns or THE Inp1aAN Repeus.~-A letter, dated Allahabad, Feb, 11, says:—* The whole is to be in motion to-morrow. They have been crossing the river at Cawnpore for the Jast few days, and they talk of the attack commencing on the 20th. Sir C. Campbell ‘came here two days ago, and had an inverview with the Governor-General, and left again the same afternoon. [t was concerning Oude affiirs he came. There is a report here that a relation of the old king has proclaimed himself King of fadia, and has given orders to the insurgents not to try and fight us, but to disperse in bands of forty or fifty, and scour the roads and kill all the English. I think this is the worst news we have had.”’

Tue Kine or Detui’s Prison Istann.—The remainder of

The sale of the Bullubgurh Rajuh’s guns, f

{t was truly refreshing after the many months of anxiety, to be able at last to deal opt justice to such traitors.

From Furrzncuur.—All the gun-carriage works, even to the workshops and engines, have been found untouched, and the houses inside the fort unburnt. The clothing agency has also escaped. The enemy left behind them all but two of their guns, which were subsequently recovered at a village seven miles off. The Nawab set fire to his own palace, and what remained was blown up by one of our engineers. His wuzeer set himself up as king the same day our army arrived ; he was handed over by te Furrackabad people the next day, when the sailors made him eat 4ibs. of pork, after which he was tuken down to the Kotwalle of the city, stripped naked before the whole of his loving subjects, and flogged severely, when he was made over to two sweepers, whe hung hin on a tree, where he remained two days, and so ended his reign. Numbers of the rebels have been shot and hung here since our arrival.

Hanerxe a Nawas.— The Nawab of Furrocknngger, having been found guilty, was hanged in front of the Kotwallee, at half past four o’clock on the 234 January, in the afternoon ; her Majesty’s 60th Rofl-s and Ghoorkas were ont on the occasion, Ali passed off in the most orderly manner, a dead silence prevailing for some mivates after the drop tell. The culprit was ap insignificant-looking man, and being of a hght weight, struggied very much. The Nawah, it will be recollected, was ihe notable opponent of Brigadier Showers.

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Minisrerran Conrerence.—A Cabinet Council was held on ‘nesday, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street ; previous'y to which, about 160 members of the louse of Commons had a conference with the Earl of Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the Firet Lord of the Treasury, in Downing- street. Lord Derby, we are informed, waa at great pains to impress on his followers that he had most reluctantly consented to take office. He also wished them distinctly to understand, that unless they gave bim their implicit end uniform support, he would unhesitatingly resign the power to which his Sovereign bad called hin. ‘he noble lord added, that :f defeated in the Commons under circumstances which would necessitate his resignation, he would never again accept of office, but devote © himself to those pursuils, in bis private capacity, which were much more congenial to his tastes than eppearing im the etormy arena of politics.

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Tae Sunken Rossian Freer ar Sreastopor.—The sghooner Silver Key and the steamer General Knox, belonging to the American Wrecking Companies, which undertook to raise the vessels of war sunk in the harbour of Sebastopol, have returned, and are advertised for sale. The attempt to raise the sunken vessels has completely failed ; not one of them was recovered, The Black Sea teredo, so often attributed to the well-caleulated imagination of the Russian Admiralty, is a stern reality. it has eaten up the body of the Russian fleet, ‘eaving only the outer shell. The harbour must remain blocked up until by degrees the work of the teredo is done, and the ships fall to pieces. According to the eceount brought down, SL vessels were found sunk, which is mech more than ever was known or supposed.

Vanpnatism in Germany —A shameful act of vandalism wae

the King of Delhi’s miserable existence is to. be endured amid | the savage population of « group of smal! islands in the Bay of Bengal. Since the year 1824, when the British expedition | against Burmah assembled at Port Cornwallis, the Andamans have scarcely been heard of in this country, and even their position oa the map is sll comparatively unknown. The principal island is also the most noriherly of the group, and extends [40 miles in length by 20 in breadth. The Little Andaman, on the other hand, is the most southerly, but docs not exceed 28 miles in length by 17 in breadth. In the centre of the Great Andaman the land rises to the altitude of 2,400 feet, formerly a well-known beacon to mariners—the Saddle Peak. A few sina] streains thence descend tothe sea. Various kinds | of timber, suitable for ship-building, are found in abundance ; but the only fruit worthy of mention is the mangrove ; the cocaa- nut, whict flourishes in the neighbouring Nicebars, does not grow in these islands. Many varieties of fish are caught off the eoast, and constitute the chief food of the barbarous in- habitants, who also indalge in lizards, snakes, guanas, and rats. On the skirts of the forest which oceupies the interior of the principal island, are seen herds of a diminutive species of hog, supposed to be descended from a shipwrecked stock. With the skulls and bones of these animals the islanders adorn their huts, and were thence accused of cannibalism, from a belief that their favourite ornaments were the indigestible remains of human beings whom they had slain and devoured. They are, in truth, a cruel and savage race. All attempts to communicate with them have been repelled by darts and flights of arrows. They are described as resembling a degenerate tribe of negroes. Vhey bave woolly hair, thiek lips, and a flat nose; their stature seldom exceeds five feet ; their colour is a deep, unshaded black ; and their costume that of primeval Adam before the Fail. Their huts consist of four poles driven into the ground, and interwoven with boughs of trees. ‘Their chief want is a sufficiency of food, in search of which they are constantly prowling along the shores or climbing steep rocks ; their chief annoyance ts from the countless insects that infest the island, to guard against which they plaisterthemselves over with mud, and thus render their skin as impenetrable as the hide of a hip-

' Awornern Massacre sy the Oupe Resers.—Six persons— 'Sir Mountstuart Jackson, Captain Patrick Orr, Lieutenant | . ; han : ' } : ee |

Sarnes, Sergeant Mejor Morton, Miss Madeleine Jackson, and |

| Mrs Patrick Orr—were known to be in the hands of the Oude. ‘rebels. It was hoped tnat they would be spared as hostages, | but the thirst for blood is still unslaked. All the males were | blown fromthe guns. The ladies are still alive, but in confine- |