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Infantry rose, and destroyed the bridge of boats, and murdered

Gleanings from late Papers.

9.80 14 of them were butchered by 9.40 by the mutineers and ‘mess-guard. And this is a regiment that volunteered to go. j against the Delhi rebels! Many of the poor residents had left the fort, on account of the intense heat and the apparent security | THE APPALLING ATROCITIES OF THE MUTINEERS—DIAROLICAL | of everything. ‘The mob and cut-throats rose with the soldiery. TORTURE OF WOMEN.

The imagination can scarcely conceive the fiendish barbarities alive! Others they killed by inches, cutting off the nose, then perpetrated by ‘the Sepoys. When the Bengal mutineers | the ears, then fingers, then toes, &c.; children they killed— entered the city of Delhi there were English merchants, | little innocent babes. * * And such might have been our case mercantile, telegraph, and post-office clerks, officers of the | at Benares, had not our officers anticipated the bloody plot - native regiments, and Government functionaries, with their) Thursday, the 4th. At 8 a.m. on Friday, the Sih, two or three English wives and children, living there as unconscious of indigo planters rode at full speed into the Reuthers’ compound, danger as if they had been in any English town. As soon as saying,‘ Fly for your lives; the Sepoys are upon us!’ They the mutineers entered Delhi a great many Englishmen and | burried off at once to the Kutcherry, where all the residents Englishwomen and children escaped, but numbers could not do| were assembled. The 87th first came up, and seem to have eo, and those who did not escape were subjected to outrage | been afraid to attack tkem. Meanwhile Mr, Cesar was walking worse than death. The daughter of an English clergyman was with Capt. Mara, who commanded the Sikhs at Jaunpore. Mr. | driven through the streets of Deihi naked, then subjected to Cesar said, “* The 37: are upon us.” “ The 37th!’’ said Capt. anspeakable outrages by an infuriated soldiery, and afterwards | Mare, ‘* what have we to fear from the 371h? ourown men will

THE INSURRECTION IN INDIA.

me, and gallopped up to them as fast ss I could. From them all asserabled at the old Mint, a large building capable of stand- ing a very fair siege. And now wait a bit till | sing my song. concerning the battle of Benares, which was fought on Thurs-. day,the 4ih of June, 1857. Imagine a square, the north side formed by the huts of the 37th Native Infantry ; west, Sikh |

three guns, the hope and last resource of Benares. Enter Eng. | lish officer, rides up to the 37th’s lines, and order out the troop:; | they come out, and form line in front of their huts ; then eech officer explains to his company that they are to disarm for the present till less stormy days. One officer, G—, my informant, | actually shook hands with the chief men of his company, and then ordered them to step forward and Jay down their muskets. | Their answer came in the shape of 80 musket balls all round | him ; but not one hit him, nor were any of the other officers killed in this first charge. The men then fell back into their buts and commenced loading and firing under cover of them at the English. Major Guise, of the Irregulars, rode in among the huts, and was killed almost immediately. The English guns

cut to pieces with swords. An English lady in the same city | keep them off.’ Mr. Casar had scarcely left him when he was was suspended by the feet naked and hacked to pieces. The | struck by a ball from the Sikhs, staggered a few steps and fell. European officers and soldiers are exasperated to madness by | lt seems the Sikhs were afraid to rob the treasury till they had these atrocities, and most terrible punishments will be inflicted shot ‘heir officer. Then they began to pillage, and the residents

by the European soldiers on the mut:nous Sepoys when Delhi

is taken. These Sepoys have acted more like fiends than come up and fired in at all the windows of the Kutcherry, and human creatures. It is with the greatest difficulty that the, they were obliged to lie down onthe floor, the bullets whizzing English scldiers can be prevented from laying violent hands on | over their heads. Mr. Cesarsaw the magistrate, Mr. Cuppage, A Highland regiment Janded at lying dead im front of the gaol door. Martial law is proclaimed Caleutta, and one of the soldiers was seen to rush straight to a | at Benares, and all disturbers of the public peace are hung native and fell him to the earth with his fist in an instant. | after a court-martial; sixes and tens have been hung every day Whoever lives to tell the tale of Delhi and of the scenes | —an awfully severe measure, but perfectly necessary to restrain

every native they meet.

witnessed in the city during the siege, will be able to relate undreamt‘of horrors.

The following is part of a private letter from a gentleman in Bombay, addressed to his brother in London. It is dated

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Bombay, June 30, 1857.—* By the account of yesterday, Delhi

by the rebels. Still the ** Bazaar ”’

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twelve of the mutineers of the late 4

has fallen, with a loss of 7,000 or 8.000 to the insurgents. By | Infantry. thie morning’s mai), there are accounts which contradict it all,| the troops drawn up.

took that opportunity to be off. Before they went the Sikhs had

the thirst for plunder and blood which is abroad.

EXFCUTION OF MUTINEERS. Ferozerore, June 13.—This morning were executed

the Government, and they hove it that Delhi Aas fallen. Day | Majesty’s Glst Foot and Artillery, with twelve guns, on the

after day. the post comes in, bringing with it its dreadful load | south ; and the city and cantonment police on the west. The)

of horrors piled upon horrors. Not a town but has its hideous | mutineers (twenty-four [ think) were brought into the centre

history to relate—not a family but has its sorrowing tale to tell. ‘The Presa does not publish these things, and it is wisely done.

‘by a guard of her Majesty’s Gist Foot ; one of the mutineers

|} was brought in a doolie, as his left arm had been amputated in

But, oh, the savage mind never yet conceived the atrocities consequence of a fracture caused by a musket ball, fired at him which these civilised savages have committed. No one ean/by her Majesty’s 6lst Foot, when with the mutineers he was tell, none but the Almighty, who has no doubt heard the|inthe fausse braie of the fort. Lieut. Hoggan read out the emothered prayer for mercy, can tell what our sisters especially | proceedings of the general court-martial, and then informed the have gone through. The exquisite nature of the torture they | mutineers that if any would become Queen’s evidence the mflict as something awful in it. For instance, they dragged | brigadier would reprieve them. T'welve accepted the offer. forth a poor woah, enciente, they cut off her breasts so that they | and were marched to the rear of the artillery. Of the remaining may mock her, then vilely treated her—so vilely that the pen | twelve, two (one being the man with the amputated arm) were

cannot depict the horror—and then, a gasping body, they threw her inte the jungle to be treated by beasts and birds of prey more merciful than man. The 3rd Nizam’s Cavalg, at

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taken to the gallows. They ascended the ladder with firm steps, and never betrayed any emotion of fear. On gaining the platform they adjusted the nooses with their own hands; their

Sth Regiment Native | A gallows had been erected, and around it were | that the 37h were utterly ashamed, and the Sikhs and cavalry

A squadron of 10th Native Light | frightened out of their wits, and made sensible that they were and which «peak of a sortie repulsed, with heavy loss sustained | Cavalry, a remnant of the disbanded 57th Native Infantry, and mistaken. Many of the officers are furious, and say we have issure tohave news before | commissariat and magazine establishment on the east; her

took up a raking pesition, and peppered the huts with grape at 250 yards. One of our officers came forward with a few men, and fired the roofs, sothe Sepoys got rather astonished. Mean- time the Sikhs left the east side of the square and formed a line paral'el to and between the Sepoys and cavalry, and facing the former, The cavalry said they wanted an English officer to lead them, and Dodson of the 37th, who had just escaped the first fire of his own corps, came forward and was immediately received with one or two rifle balls from the cavalry. Upon this the Sikhs faced round and fired a volley, but whether intended for the officers or the cavalry, is not told. Certain itis they shot down three of the former and none of the Jatier. When the other officers fonnd themselves thus between two fires they gal- loped out and joined the Europeans, and made them turn their guns on Sikhs and cavalry alike, until these two ga!lant regi- ments found out their mistake, and once more turned their fire on the 37th. Was not thisa nice battle ? The sum total was

been shedding innocent blood, and the whole thing was a blun- der. Butthe cavalry fired at a party of ladies who were going in their carriages to the Mint, and would certainly have murder- ed them if they had not been beaten off by a simali force of Europeans. Somuch for the battle. | found everybody at the Mint, which several had only reached afier many adventures, and we bivouacked in the large room, and slept on the roof— ladies, children, ayas, and punkah coolies ; officers lying down dressed, and their wives sitting up by them fanning them ,; geutiemen in the most fearles dishahi//e, sleeping surrounded by ladies. In the compound or enclosure below there is a liule handful of Europeans—perhaps 150 aliogether ; others are at the barracks half-a-mile off. There is_a large collection of car- riages and horses, little bedstends al! over the place, and two circular quick hedges, with flower gardens inside, are falling victims to the sheep and goats which have been brought in to provision the place ; add to this » heap of more beer boxes than

Aurungabad, thought themselvee at liberty to do as they liked, | eyes then were bandaged, and their arms pinioned. Another

and so they mutinied.

Fortunately, however, Woodburn’s|second, and they were launched into eternity. Death was) column, or a portion of it, cameup. He gave them three hours | instantaneous with one, but the one-armed culprit ling ; to reflect. They refused toretract. ‘They were fired into with | for a considerable time, as the knot slipped under his chin. | refuge in 1, There was a picknicky, gypsified look about the

ered out | Mint as it looked when the English of Beuares tad sought

your English imagination can take in, and throw over all the stiong black and white of a ful! moonlight, and you have the

Our guns would soon render the main guard untenable, and

‘every Muropean they could find. Out of 17 officers at mess at) | learnt the particulars of the fight, and that the English were | to make a practicable breach in the wall between the Cash-

mere gate and the river would be a very simple operation. Our advance would then be made in the open, and with little risk of loss from the fire of musketry from houses, for owing to the explosion in the magazine, it is probable that

| They burnt one whole family, from grandfather to grandchildren, | regiments ; south, the Irregular Cavalry ; east, 300 English and from the church to the palace all has been levelled. Our

object then would be to breach the palace in the north wall, mortars all the time doing their work. To storm the palace would close the proceedings. As the garrison ‘aye so few artillerymen, it dees not seem likely that their de.Jnce is to rest in their guns. They will trust to musketry fire from houses; in all probability they have undermined all the gates, and their plan will be to inflict upon us as much logs as they can while gradually falling back, when they will hope to escape with their treasure, dispersing in every direc- tion immediately they leave the walls.

A news letter from the City of Delhi says, that striot orders have been issued by the King to the Hindoostanee soldiery to slay all the Sikhs who may be met with; even mer who from their countenances may be supposed to be Punjabees, are to be slaughtered.

SUCCESSIVE DEFEATS OF THE MUTINEERS BEFORE PELHI.

Of the discomfiture of the mutineers by General Barnard, on the 8th, we have since received such details as a hasty despatch, written after the action to the Commanier-in- Chief, can afford. Marching from Alipore at one in the morning, the General found the enemy entrevched in a strong position or line of positions covering Delhi. By nine o'clock he had carried the whole of them in the face of a stubborn resistance, and had driven the mutineers within the walls of the city, upon which he was intending to open with his heavy artillery, without a moment’s delay. The Ghoorkas, Sappers and Miners, and other native troops engaged (irregulars, L believe,) behaved admirably, as did the contingents furnished by the tributary Rajahs. One officer only was killed, Colonel Chester, Adjutant-General of the army. The general loss is net mentioned, but is stated as comparatively trifiing. On the following day, the 9th, a sortie of the mutineers took place. They were attacked by the cavalry of tle Guides, which had joined the army, and driven back to the walls by a brilliant and successful charge, in which, how- ever, the commandunt, Quintin Battye, feli mortally wounded. On the 13th or 14th a second sortie was made from the city, in which the mutinied 60th, late of the Umballah garrison, took a leading part. Like that of the 9:h, it was repulsed with severe loss, and on this, as on the former occasion, the gallantry and conduct of the corps of Guides was eminent. The cavalry of the corps, and also the infantry, are with the army, the latter having been brought down from the Punjauh on cameis. The cavalry made the astonishing march of 750 miles in 28 days. It were well if the General commanding could get a few thousand men like these, for of reiuforce- ments he is sorely in need, and for want of them he was, oa

heavy cannon, aid those who escaped the bullet were cut down | The hangman had to re-adjust the knot, and giving him another | Whole effi, which prevented one realizing that the swail con-/ the 16:h, pausing in his attack. By the 2lst, however, he

by European troopers. | only regret that many women and drop, the throes of the body rapidiy ceased, and the vital spark | gregation Were there making a stand for a huge empire, and soon became extinct. The ten other mutineers were led away | that their lives were upon the toss-up of the next events. On

children also suffered ; but it was inevitable.

{There are some acts of atrocity so abominable that they will | to the artillery guns, but while their irons were being struck no even bear narration. We cisim the confidence of our readers | off some cried out, * Do not sacrifice the innocent for the guilty,” when we teil them that we have received letters from the seat | ‘I'wo others, ** Hold your snivelling ; die men, and not cowards of rebellion which inform us that these merciless fiends have |—yon defend your religion, whv then do you crave your lives ? treate¢ our countrymen, and, still worse, our countrywomen | Sahibs! they are not sahibs, they aradogs.’? Some more began

and their children, insuch a manner that even mencan scarcely | to upbraid their commanding officer.

“He released the

hint to each other in whispers the awful details. We cannot! havildar-major who was the chief of the rebels.”? The ten men print these narratives—they are tou foul for publication. We | were fastened to the muzzies of ten guns, which were charged should have to speak of families murdered in cold biood—and | with blank cartridge. The commanding officer directed port- murder was mercy '!—of the violation of English ladies in the} fires to be lit. ** Ready!” © Fire!” and the drama waa played presence of their husbands, of their parents, of their children— | out. The scene and stench were overpowering. I felt myself and then, but not ull then, of their assassination. ‘I'he well-| terribly convulsed, and could observe that the numerous native nigh universal massacre of the British officers by the Sepoys | spectators were awe stricken. The lesson, | trust, will not be was the mildest feature in the affair; of the horrors which in| lost on them. Precaution was not taken to remove the sponge too many instances preceded the massacre we cannot speak. | and load men from near the muzzies of the guns ; the consequence On grounds both of justice and of policy, then, we are prepared | was that they were greatly bespattered with blood, and one to maintain that these Indian ruffians must be made to feel the | man in particular seceived a stanning blow from a shivered arm. consequences to themselves of the wrath which they have! [t would appear that some of tne artillery guns, by oversf&ht, provoked. We are prepared to support our officers and soldiers | were loaded with grape shot, instead of blank cartridge only. in the discharge of their duty if they have retaliated upon these |The guns were faced towards some of the spectators, five of monsters according to the measure of their offences. Even if | whom have been severely wounded : two were shot through the we admit—which it is impossible to do—any palliation for the | thigh, one at the ankle, one through the calf, and another in murder by the Sepoy soldiers of their officers, what had our | the heel.

poor outraged countrywomen done that they shonu!d be so foully abused? What injury had the wretched English children

inflicted uvon the population of British India in ‘general, or | upon the Bengalese soldiers in particular, that their brains | should be dashed out against the ground—that they should be ;|C— ; flung up in the air, and be caught as they descended upon the | that 500 disbanded Sepoys were on our side of the river, opposite |

bayonets of these villains? For these things shal! not a full and ample atonement be exacted? Weare very confident that sve represent the feelings and opinions of the inhabitants of the British Empiré, with the exception of a smal! and insignificant fraction of cold-blooded theorists, when we say that the European officers and soldiers now employed in the suppres- sion of this military mutiny may look for the unhesitating support of their countrymen, however stern may be the measures which they may think proper to employ.]

BUTCFERIES AND HOKRORS AT BENARES AND ALLAHABAD.

The subjoined are extracts frotm letters from a gentleman at Chunar, who was obliged with his wife to take refuge there from bis post in charge of the missionary college at Benares : —I[ must tell you what happened at Benares. When the news arrived from Azrimghur it was resolved to disarm the suspected regiment, the 37:h N. 1. It is said that this intention was not fully communicated by the chief authorities to the officers of Ahe regiment, who could not therefore properly explain it to the Sepoys. About 4 p.m. the troops were drawn out on the Parade. The 37th Native Infantry were ordered to put their arms into the ** bells of arms.’’ As they were doing so they saw the English in front of them and the guns, and they were panic struck, thinking they were going to be shot down, and therefore they seized their arms, and as their officers could not explain, they called out that their officers were betraying them, and immediately shot at them, and poured a volley on the Europeans. This, of course, was instantly returned, and followed up by a discharge of grape from the three guns. The 37th fled to their lines. The Sikhs, who had hitherto heen considered fanthful, had been told nothing of what was going on, were also panic stricken, and fired at the English. Col. Spottiswoode, with 14 men, fired the Sepoy lines, and drove them out on the Parade again ; there the guns were turned onthe 37th and the Sikhs, and very soon some were shot down and the rest dispersed. Capt. Guise was killed; Ensign Chapman shot throngh the mouth, to recover, I hope ; Lieut. Hayter shot, and likely to die; Capt. Dodgson slightly wounded, and three English killed. About 14 natives were left dead. and many wounded. Some of these poor fellows were very faithful.

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Major Barrett was protected and carried off the field by a party

of the 37th. Col, Gordon, commanding the Sikhs, was aimed. picket about five miles from Benares, and joined company with at: another Sikh Stepped forward and held his arm in front of them. As we went we asked everybody for news; as we got the Colonel and received the bullet; another aimed at him and towards the place we met another cavalry nan coming from was instantly shot down by two others, ‘The sowar who fired Benares, and afier some private talk with him my picket tried at Capt. Dodgson was shot down by others, As they ran off to shirk me, and, finding they could not easily do so, one of they fired at Mr. Tucker, but missed him; they also fired at them came to me and said they had orders to join the regiment

THE BATTLE OF BENARES. “The Mint, Benares, June 9.

Tuesday, the 2d, passed quietly over, B and his friend staying at my bungalow; but on Wednesday a rumor came

they came ; so we called a council of war, and resolved that

any success to speak of, especially in a thatched bungalow, so we sent two sharp fellows to spy out the enemy, and packed up the office papers and drawings and sent them to the fort, then dined, made ourselves happy with a pipe, and rode on heavily armed. Thursday morning, after a quiet night at the Padre’s, my men came in with the news that the 500 men were @ myth; however, as we were in, and all the office papers locked up. I resolved to make a holiday, and stay in the etation. Mr. C. was in a hurry to get to Benares, eo we sent him off in an ekka’ (a horrid native pony carriage) ; but just as we were sitting down to dinner, about 8 p.m , he came back again with a scared face and told us he had met two men in a buggy who had left Ber- ares at 5 p.m. in full fight-—grapeshot, officers killed, &c., slightly confused, and rather awful. This time the intelligence was pronounced trustworthy, and we felt our work was going to begin. We sent notes to the officers and held a council as to whether we should disarm the 80 or 90 Sepoys in Chunar Fort. The Padre and all the unmilitary men said, ‘ Certainly, disarm them ;’ but the officers said ‘No, we will not show them that we mistrust them.’ These words which I have quoted have been the death sentence of hundreds of the bravest Indian officers. In station after station the same felling has prevailed of conciliating the blackguards by appearing to trust them, end the appearing has gone on till they fire upon their officers with- out warning. You may be sure we made every use of these arguments, but in vain, so we prepared for a stormy night. I started at 4a.m. to Benares to see what it wasall about. ‘Three miles down the road is Sultanpoor, the heai-quarters of the 13:h Irregular Cavalry, only 50 men and a jemmadar were there, and they turned out as I came along, and told me to give their salaam to the Brigadier, and say they were then ready to obey orders, and did not know exactly whattodo. I promised to take their message, but said if they wanted immediate instruc- tion they had better turn out a dozen men and come down with me. You see an escortof cavalry would rather have suited me just then; but they did uot seem to like it, and said they had sent a picket on, whom I might catch if I chose to ride for it. So on I went, found my second horse all right, and caught the

the carriage taking the ladies to the Mint, but without injury. privately, and therefore must Jeave me. { did not like it at all, |

And now I have a tale of fearful horrors to tell f wi ' . you of what but there was no help for it, so | rode on alone. However, |, . 3] happened at AJlahabad. The 3d Oude Cavalry and 6:h Native, got-in safe, and saw some soldiers and English officers befure | protected hy the river, a great consi

Benares, on their way uo, and were burning and plundering as | “ ; : y ups eB p Fy | the passengers on board the flat, and went off alone ; of course

there was no example in history of three men resisting 500 with |

peers people all ran down to Chunar, but apparenily without

Saturday, Sundey, and Monduy our fears diminished progres- sively, and we ventured out more and more. MURDER OF CAPTAIN O'MARA AT LAWNPOOR. At Lawnpoor they came badly off ; we were much interested

would, it is thought, receive a considerable additiun to his strength. MUTINY AT BENARES.

There has been mutiny at Benares. It appears that it was at first reported to the authorities at that station. that

the post being stopped on Friday, the Sth: then some indigo | planters came riding in, and said that the 37ih were close at hand, whereupon they all went to the Cutcherry, or collector’s office. The 2nd company of Sitti, stationed there, swore to defend them to the last drop of their blood, and, as they walked into the cuteherry, one of the blackguards shot Captain O’ Mara through the back. They took him in and shut the doors, and laid him down on the floor, while the Sikhs kept firing in above their heads, and another party of them seized the treasure (some £25,000) and walked off with it; then the English came out, left poor O’Mara dying, and got into their carriages and drove away. They had to leave the Benares road as the [3th Cavalry were coming along it, and they kept knocking about the country till Tuesday, when a party from here fetched them in. Of course, during these four days they underwent great hardships, and were in perpetual danger of their lives, so you may fancy how welcom® the English cheers sounded in their ears. Cub- bidge, the magistrate, was killed by a Sikh; and Mrs. O’Mara died of apoplexy, but the rest of the party got in safe. Last Thursday we had another party of fugitives ; they had gone on board a steamer ot Mirzapore, and had been teken too near Aila- habad. w'en the flat which was in tow of the steamer struck on ‘a sandbank, and the steamer having business at the fort, left

the flat was immediately attacked by natives, and the English had to cut in the boats. They sctually sailed down to near Mirzapore before they were caught by the steamer. The Mir-

sufficient alarm, so they were ordered back by Government to their duty. THE SIEGE OF DELMI.

The city is surrounded by a high erenelated wall, ina deep ditch and glacis. At the Cashmerce gate only is there anything of modern fortification; here there is a simple bastion with properly cut embrasures. It is enclosed and forms the main guard. ‘The city measures about two miles across, and is some seven or eight miles in circumference ; on the east side the walls are washed by the Jumna. The palace is in a commanding position, and, though the walls are not calculated to resist heavy artillery, yet the place could searcely be taken without a breach being made in them, that is, if the garrison showed any skill in its defence. The capture of sucha place is a simple matter of time. The whole of the western side is one muss of native houses. To scale the walls would be easy, but no object would be

in them as Mrs. P——, our late Chunar bride, was there with/ the Sepoys of the 37th Native Infantry had been more or her husband. The first news they had of the oubreak was of less successful in their endeavors to tamper with the Sikhs.

Lt was accordingly determined to disarm the 37th. Ou at- tempting to carry out this resolve, the 87th mutinied, and were joined by the greater part of the Sikhs. The Irregular Cavalry (13th) were erdered to act against the mutincers, but they refused, and a great portion went over and joined them. The artillery succeeded in dispersing the revolters, who took the road to Allahabad. A letter gives the follow- ing account of the affuir:—“ Some of the 37th seized their arms and commenced firing at their officers, This appeared to be the signal, for the rest of the regiment then ran to the bells of arms; the guns, however, began to pour in the grape so sharply upon them, that they were glad to beat a retreat ; only a few of the most détermined rebels still kept up a fire from the right wing at the officers. The Sikh regiment all this time remained quiet on parade, passive spectators of the scene, but at this crisis they loaded, by order of Col. Gor- don. An ominous change then came over them. The cavalry first turned, and then, with the Sikhs, poured in a deliberate volley on the officers standing around, three of whom fell. The artillery in return gave them a shower of grape, which sent them flying off parade, About 100 of the mutineers were killed and 200 wounded; the rest bolted, throwing down their arms. The mutineers of the Sikh

regiment tried to capture the guns, and were thrice repulsed , with great loss. Only a few men of the Irregular Cavalry

and Sikh regiment stood firm; all the rest mutinied; their discomfiture was complete, thanks to the bravery of 180

European soldiers, who defended the guns and charged and

shot down the mutineers. Light only, instead gf 30 as re-

ported, of these brave soldiers were killed and wounded.

The lives of the civilians and their families, who had taken

refuge in the collector’s cutcherry, were saved by the presence

and uoble exertions of Soorut Singh, a Sikh prisoner. He

it was who went among the Sikhs of the treasury guard, and

prevented them from rising after they had heard how the

men of their corps had been cut up, and by his influence

they were kept at their post until next morning, when the

treasure was removed to cantonments under an escort of

Europeans. The portion of the Sikh corps over the treasury

remained staunch,”

The foliowing is from Benares, dated 16th June :—

“ Thank heaven there is one man of nerve here not afraid to

gained by pouring our handful of troopsinto a sea of houses, with streets barricaded; heavy loss would unquestionably

hang a few rascals every evening. I saw a Sikh hung yes- terday for shooting at a non-commissioned officer. A gailows

mae ae fail re mee of gore eae en aoe stands in front of the Main ow. a i the ae could not well fail. e first 1s to attack the patace at is Jed at the appointed hour, the guard uuder arms, and a once from the river side; for the water until the end of the | grave dug on — flank. No useless parades or prancing, month is so very low, and is little more than a stream which ‘station, staff, pomp, &c. Benares is ours, and likely to re- is fordable, that it would create no obstacle worth mentioning. | main se, thanks to our brave troops.”

The batteries could be erected on the sand, and the camp being across the river would be safe. By shelling the palace and breaking its new wall, an assault could be made, and the | fire of our guns would continue till our troops had fairly got in. ‘The shelling wou!d have destroyed all cover, and pro- | bably would have driven out the defendants, so that there is/ little doubt but that the assau!t would be successful. Having | got possession of the palace, the city falls at once. however, a chance of the river rising suddenly,

THE MUTINY AT ALLAHABAD. At Allahabad the mutiny broke out on the 4th of June,

when the “loyal” 6th Regiment, which had volunteered to proceed to Delhi against the rebels only a few days before, became the assassins of their own officers, and then marched off to join the mutineers, after burning the church and every There is, | bungalow in the place, and looting the treasury. The whole when the!number slaughtered amounted to 26, and amongst them we

batteries would be destroyed, so that this attack entirely de- find the names of Captain Birch, the Port Adjutant, and

pends upon the river and the probability of

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