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| fully from want of water, we at last reached the Cane river, and | were intending to rest for a time in an apparently very secluded spot ey we had hrt upon to refresh both ourselves and our i —enate on horses ; but in a very short time we found we were again set THE INSURRECTION IN INDIA. | upon, and had to wale arun for it again. Dr. and Mrs. Mawe — | having failen off the horse upon which they had been helped,

THE JHANS! MASSACRE. jand the horse running off, they were unavoidably left behind |

e following is the evidence of a Sowar (Nujamooddeen), here. Of their fate it is difficult to speak. Dr. Mawe had

of fo classies belonging to Khugwandoss’s (native jemadar’s) ‘hroughout the day been in a very desponding state, several establishment, and of one classie of Mahomed Ismaei’s (native ‘eS expressing a determination to proceed to the nearest | jemadar’s) establishment. All four were shut up in the fort V'llage and meet his fate at once, whatever it might be. A | with the gentlemen, aud on their release thence, on the lth | Short distance beyond this Lieut. Barber fell from his horse, sun- inst., came to Mahoba and related the occurrences :—From the | Sttuck. The party was now reduced to the following :—Lieut. | evening of the 4th until noon of the 8th the gentlemen in the | Jackson, Lieut. Ewart, Mr. Kirke, Sergesnt Kirchhoff, Mrs, fort kept good their position, the ladies assisting them in cooking | Kirchhoff, and an infant of Mr. Smalley’s. After skirting | for them, sending them refreshments, casting bullets, Sec. ‘There | Banda, but not daring to venture into it, we turned off in the) were were 55 in number altogether (Europeans), inclusive of ‘irection of Nagode, intending to make afresh for that place, the ladies and children, and they began to get very much |%™ towards evening resolved on trying our luck in a village, straightened for waut of provisions, &c. Behind all the gates | where we were weil treated and got foo@ for ourselves and our they had piled high heaps of stones to strengthen them, and | #orses. We remained there that night, and the next morning

Gleanings from late JJapers,

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iképt up so good a defence that one of the cannon which had | Proceeded thence, with two men as guides. After proceeding |

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‘been brought too near the gates was abandoned, and it was

a few miles we stopped to drink at the village of Mussooree,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1857.

MURDER AND CUTTING UP OF JUDGE TUCKER.

Extract of a letter from Banda, dated the Nawab’s Palace, 14th June :— We are just existing here; the heat is awful, 100 deg. in our sitting-room, with punkab and tatties. We are proying for rain—it would be such a blessing. ‘The whole dis-

| trict now 18 up, murdering and plundering each other. They

have come within four miles of us, and we expect an attack at any hour, The Madras Fusiliers had not reached Futtehpore on the 10th ; these poor people who have come away lived on the top of a punka-house for 1 days, keeping the rabble at bay, and escaped on their horses at last, slipping out one by one, and arrived care-worn and weary. Poor Mr. Robert Tucker, the judge, would not be persuaded to fly with the rest, and has been cruelly wardered. Tire dejuty collector had been re- quested by Mr. Tucker to lay a dawk for him to Allahabad. The wretch sent word to say he would arrange all, which he

did by bringing an armed force and shooting Mr. ‘Sucker,

cutting off his head, feet and hands, which were held up by the /cotwal for the rabble to see and gloat over, as the body of a | Feringhee. Mr. Tucker shot 16 men before he died, and tried | to fly too late. This account came from a native Christian who

isaw it all, and escaped over here afterwards. He can be per-

only by fixing ropes to it in the night time that the mutineers | and imprudently all got off our horses to rest ourselves a little, | fectly depended upon.

were able to regain possession of it. Lieut. Powys was the firet person killed inthe fort. The way he met his death was this: Two mer, brothers, in Capt. Burgess’s employ (one was his jemadar) declared that they would go out ‘They were told they would be shot down if they attempted it, but they said they might as well be shet as stay there to be starved, and accordingly commenced undoing the fastenings. One was shot immediately ; the other turned on Lieut. Powys, who hap- pened to be near him, and cut him down with his tulwar. This one algo was directly shot by Capt. Burgess. The only other person killed inside the fort was Capt. Burgess himself, who received a bullet in the head after having, | am told, with his own hand, killed no less than 25. All the natives spoke of his great skill as a marksman. The mutineers at last, having forced the Ranee to agsist them with guns and elephants, succeeded in effecting an entrance at two of the gates, and they promised the gentiemen that if they laid down their arms, and gave themselves up quietly, their lives should be spared. The gentlemen unfortunately f&usted to their word and came out. They were tied in a long line between some trees, and after ® short consultation had their heads struck off. Such ladies as hod cinidren had to see thei cut in halves before their own

turns came. The Sowers, it appears, bore the principal part |

in all these atrocities. This took place on the afternoon of the Sth June. C. D. Kircuorr, Sergeant and A. O.

The Sergeant thus gives his own personal experience :— Jussutrore, Jury 2.—The system of pampering, petting,

flattering, and coaxing the Sepoys and natives generally, which has been the fashion ever since I have been in the service (and I can bear testimony to some 18 years), has at Jast borne its full fruit. Our prestige in India is lost for the present, and an army of 50,000 Europeans will be required to restore it. We have little to thank our masters for. ‘heir system has been to exalt the native and lower the European, and so effectually have they done so that the former is now trying his hand at ruling us. The death-kneli of the Government which leaves its servants to be helplessly massacred must soon sound. Those iniquitous Black Acts must be put by for another century ; that beautiful fabric of native magistracy must be demolished, and the army must be disciplined. Officers who come to India to be soldiers must net look upon their regiments as a punishment, escape from which is the first step towards success in their career. An officer must be an officer, not a schoolmaster, or an inspeetor, or a thief-catcher, ora gardener, or a tamer of wild beasts, or anything, in fact, except a soldiér. We left M-aoba on the evening of the 17th, and after a rather Jong march encamped under some hills. During the day (18th) Mr. Carne, the collector of Mahoba, brought out some money (2,000 rupees | believe was the sum) which fad been applied for, to the Churkaree Rajah. This fact was evidently known by a

large party of dacoits, who mustered in force on and behind the |

hille beneath which we lay encamped, as during the day they

Sent a message to say that unless 1,000 rupees were paid down |

to them they would not allow the party to pass.’ After some consultation among the officers, it was agreed to give them 700 rupees down, and the remaining 300 rupees afier their escorting us safely through the range of hills. The 700 cash were accordingly paid down, and some sort of a written agreement drawn up. During the night there was a false alarm that we were attacked, owing to some horses in camp breaking loose,

and several random shots were fired by the sentries, but, the |

cause being speedingly ascertained, ali was soon quiet again, but on the next inorning (the 19ih), just at daybreak, when we were all prepared for a start, the dacoits on the hills commenced @ heavy fire on us. Lieut. Townshend was one of the first killed, a ball going through his heart. 1 saw several red coats on the ground, and the Sepoys afterwards told me that 10 or 12 of them had been killed and several others wounded. The Sepoys appeared to be very disheartened, and complained that their guns could not earry so far, while the matchlock men were picking them off from the hills, behind stones, &c., and as they appeared to be flanking usa retreat was commenced, leaving carts, &c., in their hands. ‘The party then retraced its ‘ay towards Mahoba across country, skirmishing, as the dacoits followed for some four or five miles. During this time Capt. Scott and another officer returned to the scene of the conflict for the purpose of burying Lieut. ‘Townshend, and I believe accomplished their object. Before we reached Mahoba, Mre. Smalley died, and a soubadar who had a bal! in the belly also died. On reaching Mahabo, for some cause not known to me, we did not attempt to enter the place, but, skirting it, struck mto the Banda-road. About a mile from Mahoba Bullock Sergeant Raibe declared that he could go no further, we helped him into a police choke alongside the road, and there left him. Sergeatit-Major Lucas was the next to die; after staggering a few paces he fell and never stirred again. About. three miles from Mahoba Major Kirke fell from lis horse, and shortly after expired. He was buried undera tree close to the spot. Mr. Langdale was the next who died from the heat. ‘T’'he people of every villaye we passed turning owt armed, the Sepoys proposed that ell our arms should be taken from us, and that we should be marched as prisoners in the midst of them to Banda, thinking thus to protect their officere. We halted at last at Kabray, where the people disbelieving the tale that the Sepoys told, wanted to take us from them by force to deal with us themselves, and as we found that the Sepoys were gradually dropping off, there then not being half the original number left, it was determined to make a start as soon as it got dark (such as had or could geta mount). The drummers and bandsmen had been promised gervice there by, } believe, some one called Phylwan Singh, and left us before we started. Mr. Sturt, Assistant-Patrol, also left disguised asa native, and such as - Were unavoidably left behind there intended passing themselves 88 bandsmen. We took the directions of Banda, and halied before morning in a tope, very much distressed from want of water, but found on day breaking that a well was close by . & lumediately after starting this morning (the 20th), we were followed and attacked by some villagers, at first merely lattiewallahs, but these were soon pe as we proceeded by Others, armed with Spears and swords, and a very sharp

skirmish took place. Capt. Scott’s horse Pathe a Spear in 0

7 hind Jeg, ran away with him, and he was followed by ‘eutenants Remmington and Frank and Mr. Smalley, and

oo Lieut. Jackson, having heard something to alarm him. passed the word to mount as soon as we could. After giving the child into Mr. Kirke’s hands after he had mounted, and

time I reached where I had tied ny own horse I was somewhat behind-hand, and had scarcely got iuto the saddle when I re

others about the body, which of course upset me sgain. The remainder, however, made good their escape from there, and

Asseghur. The villagers, however, where I was left, after taking all I had, Jet me go. Beyond this my narrative is only a personal one. With great difficulty | made my way on foot to Nagode, which I reached on the evening of the 23:0 inst.

THE RISING AND MURDERS AT FYZABAD.

signal, which was immediately answered by the 22nd Native Infantry. They at once took possession of the battery, and would not allow the officers to approach, but do not seem to have offered them any further violence. Fyzabad is in the very heart of Oude, and 1s situate upon a branch of the Ganges. The officers determined to endeavour to escape by boat, and were allowed quietly to embark. What followed is thus related by one of the party:—‘* I remember the officers in the two boats; I accompanied Lieut. Bright, 22nd Native Infanrry ; Lieut. Parsons, Gth Oude Irresulars; Lieutenant Cautley, 22d Native infantry. Sergeant Busher, Sergeant-Major, Quarter- | master-Sergeant, 22d Native Infantry, and myself, were in one | boat; Colonel Goldney, Lieut. Currie, Artillery, Lieut. Ritchie, 22d Native infantry, Sergeant Edwards, and Sergeant-Major Matthews, in-the second boat; three other boats followed be- hind. We waited two heurs for them, but as they did not come we pushed off. As we were getting into the boat we saw the Sepoys of the 22d rushing towards the Treasury ; there were about 2 lakhs and 40,000 rupees in Capt. Drummond’s house (where the treasure had been placed). On reaching a place called Begumgunge, about 10 miles below Fyzabad, we met some inutineers encamped ; these men fired on us ; there were 800 or 900 of them; about 100 men fired on us when we were 600 yards off. Col. Goldney advised our pushing off to the opposite bank of the Gogra ; we got on an island among some jhow fields, ‘T‘he mutineers got into dinghees and followed us; | we made for the main boat from the island; there were about | 40 or 50 yards of water between. Major Mills was drowned. | The Sergeant-Major, Lieut. Bright, and | were taken prisoners, ‘and taken to the camp of the mutineers, who were men of the | 17th and 37th Native Infantry, and the 17th Irregular Cavalry. | We were taken before the Soubahdar commanding the rebels. | He was a Hindoo, and belonged to the 17th Native Infantry. Ife was an old man, slightly made, and about 5 feet 8 inches

‘high, with gray hair. He asked as who we were. He then ‘appealed to the Mussulmans on the Koran, and to the Hindoos on the cow, not to injure us, and told us to go away. ‘I'wo men of the 17th stepped out and shot the Sergeant-Major and Lieut. Bright. I was rescued by an artilleryman, and was hid

we were talking to the Soubahdar, some J5 or 16 of the Irreg- ular Cavalry, and 10 or 12 Sepoys, went after the remainder of our party. We heard firing across the river; the party re- turned, and reported that they had killed Colonel Goldney and six other officers, and that three had escaped. On arriving at Tanda on the 10th instant, | heard people in the Serai saying that six or seven officers had been killed, and two or three were sheltered by some zeminder in Goruckpore district. At Tanda I heard that a Mr. Fitzgerald, clerk in the Deputy Commission- er’s office, and Overseer Sergeant Hurst, who were escorting the families of some sergeants to Allahabad, via Sultenpore, were killed, and the women and children also murdered. I do not know what has become of the officers who were in the boats behind us when we left Fyzabad.’’ We have reason to believe, however, that a considerable number of the officers have effected their escape from this station, and, whatever may have taken place after leaving it, the conduct of the Sepoys at the time seems to have been characterized by the strangest moderation. We cannot resist the temptation of quoting from a letter on the subject :—*‘* The account of the mutiny of the 22d Regiment beats any romance; they guarded their officers and their bungalows after mutinying, placed sentries over magazines and all public property, sent out pickets to prevent the townspeop'e aud servants from looting, held a council of war, in which the cavairy (Fisher’s Irregular) proposed to kill the officers, but the 22d objected, and informed the officers that they would bé& al- lowed to leave, and might take with them their private arms aud property, but no public property, as that all belonged to the King of Oude. Their officers asked for boats ; the rebe| Com- missary-General, a Ressaldar, was ordered to provide them. He did so, but merely small dingies, so that they could only bring away a bundle each, and then they were presented with 900 rs. which the rebels had taken from the treasure chest to give them. When the officers tried to recall them to their duty, they respectfully assured them that they were now under the orders of their native officers, and that the Soubahdar Major of the 22d Regiment had been appointed to the command of the station, and that each corps had appointed one of its officers to be their chief.”*

« A HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO EUROPEANS HACKED TO PIECES AT CAWNPORE.

Of the whole country of Rochiicund, Futtehghur (Furruck- abad) was the last station to rise. The 10th Regiment *has unquestionably given in simply to the force ofthe dangerous example all around it. The Sepoys of this corps continued for weeks to guard the treasury and maintain discipline, while every station near them was in open mutiny. They do not appear to have offered any violence whatever to their officers, but a most melancholy rumour prevailed in Allahabad on the 23rd inst. as to the fate of the unhappy fugitives after they !efi the place. We take it from the Englishman of the 29th ult. :—** Did the report of the massacre reach yon of the Futtehghur fugitives ? It surpassed in atrocity all that has bitherto been perpetrated.

132 Europeans, men, women and children, in 50 boats, Jeft’ Futtehghur for this place. ‘hey were al] non-military residents |

'of the place. On arrival at Bhitoor the Nena Sahib fired on

nothing more was heard of these four. They had also Dr. them with the artillery the Government allowed him to keep;

Mawes’s child with them, andI believe went off in a direct | one round-shot struck poor Mrs.

were last heard of as having been seen going in the direction of

The rising at Fyzabad occurred on the night of Sunday, the | ‘ ; : 8th ult, the Gth Regiment Oude Irregular Infantry giving the | the cavalry parade-ground. An ineffectual: effort was made to|salvos would bring down a poriion of the long line of wall ” ° ; | brmg back the troops to their allegiance, but the scoundrels | between any of the two towers, and render an escalade tolerably

ina Serai at Begumgunge, and sent off m disguise. While |

TREACHERY AND ATROCITIES AT BAREILLY.

\be far wrong m reckoning it at 180,000; and the influx of ‘troops and of people from the surrounding villages will probably have compensated for the numbers killed in the late conflicts, jand for these who have carried off their property to more secure localities, There are cqnsiderable supplies of grain kept up by the grain iwerchants of the city, but little fodder for horses is procurable. For a lengthened siege the’supplies within the city would be insufficient, some might be obtained from the opposite side of the river, or from the villages on the right bank, many of which, especially those in the neighbourhood of the Delbi Canal, would be abie to pour in vast stores of both corn and fodder. As the Eastern Jamaa Canal enters the Jumna opposite Delhi, and as that canal irrigates all the country in its vicinity, the supply of corp, &c., from the left bank would be by no means contemptible. We suppose that these supplies have been cut off by the Meerut force under Brigadier Wilson, while those from the right bank have been secured by General Barnard and the main army, which is encamped to the nerth and north-west of the town, in the cantonment, which is situated about a mile and a-half from the Cashmere gate, and is separated from the country in which the city stands by a low ridge of rock, on which the telegraph tower is built. This ridge is now in possession of General Barnard. It is a mistake to suppose there is no water in Delhi, ‘The weils are comparatively few in number, but they yield a fair supply. Generally speaking,

Tt is now evident that an arrangernent existed between the | however, the water is brackish, but in some wells it is excellent. | then assisting my wife to mount behind Mr. Jackson, by the | troops at Bareilly, Shahjehampore, Lucknow and Moradabad, to A new well, of large dimensions, was made by an enterprising | effect a simultaneous rising. The outbreak occurred at each | individual in 1848-49. The reason that wells are not so

on the morning of the same day. The mutiny at Bareilly

numerous as they otherwise would be is that the Delhi Canal is

ceived a blow with a Jattee from behind on my head, and several | seems to have been attended with circumstances of peculiar | regarded as the favourite source of supply. But during severe

atrocity and treachery. Only the day before the outbreak the | drought, when every particle of water is required for the

| Sepoys appealed to their officers to recall their wives and

irrigation of the crops, Delhi is annually and frequently Jett

| families from the hills, where they had been sent for safety, | without any supply from the canal, and this for 20 or 30 days

| and even to the last moment these miscreants swore to protect | their officers to the death. The regiments rose en masse on | Sunday morning, the first of June, a shotted gun being fired as | the signal about eleven o'clock. ‘The men at once rushed upon

the officers’ lines, and opened a fasilade upon the bungalows. | Such officers as were abie immediately got on their horses, and /made for the rendezvous previously agreed upon among them—

{ ‘ }opened upon them with grape-shot, and they had to ride for

|their lives. Tne country having risen in all directions, it was | with extreme difficulty, and only by a ride of 70 miles, that the little band at last found safety at Nynee Tal, in the hills, where they had previously sent their families. Ilvre the refugees are | congregated in numbers, which will probably awe any attempt ‘to attack them, and, as the place is of very difficult approach, we may hope they are in safety. At Moradabad the desire of | plunder seems to have prevailed over the murderous propensities of these miscreants, and they gave their officers twé hours’ grace to make their escape, in which they fortunately suc ceeded, the whole of the officers (29i:h Regunent) and the re- sidents, with their families, escapmg to Nynee Tal the day after the arrival of the Bareiliy refugees.

ASSASSINATION OF SiK NORMAN LESLIE.

The following particulars of the assassination of Sir Norman Leslie are given im a letier from Major Macdonaid, dated Roheen, 14th June :—

“On the evening of the 12th inst., Lieutenant Sir Norman Leslie and Dr. Grant joined we in front of my house, as usual, to take tea, and about a quarter to mine o’clock, Dr. Grant got up to go to my house to wind up the clock, before leaving. On his rising from his chair he said, ‘ who can these fellows be ?” and at the same instant we heard a rush of feet towards where we were sitting. I had just time to jump up when I received three sword cuts on the head in quick succession. 1 seized my chair by the arms and defended myself successfully from three other cuts made at me, and succeeded in giving an ugly poke to my opponent, which appeared to disconcert hun, and he at once bolted, followed by the others (three ef theimin all.) I was streaming with blood and made for the house, followed by Dr. Grant, to stanch my wounds. I found Dr. Grant severely wounded, one deep cut in the arm, and a second fearful gash

jon the hip. When we went back to see after poor Leslie, we

found him stretched on the ground in a dying state; he must have received Ins death-blow the first cut, and fallen afterwards on his face, for he was cut clean through his back into his chest,

|on his head 5; he was quite sensible, and said as [ bent over him, *Oh, Macdonald, it is very hard to die in this manner,” and added, ‘ My poor wife and children, what will become of them ?’ | told him that he had only a few minutes to live, and to make his peace with God, and that all should be done for his poor wife and family that could be cone. Under such fearful circumstances he then app'ied himself to make his peace with God, poor fellow, and breathed his jast in about half-an hour afterwards.

THE CITY GF DELHI, AND ITS DEFENCES.

When we took Delhi in 1803, the outer wall was in a very ruinous state, without any flanking defences further than sma!| round bastions placed at intervals. ‘The ditch was imperfect ; there was no glacis, and the ground outside was covered up to the very walls with ruins of streets, tombs, ani mosques, and was, besides, intersected and cut up with ravines. Yet even

} thus, a stoall body of our native troops was able, in 1804, to

repel all the attacks of Jeswant Rao Holkar, with a victorious army of 70,000 men. The scheme for the improvement of the fortifications was entrusted to Captain George Hutchinson, of the Bengal Engineers, who was succeeded by Captain Robert Smith, of the same corps, and urder these two officers Delhi was placed in the situatioa with regard to works in which it now stands. Captain Hutch:nson determined on establishing a series of bastions, with faces and flanks as usual along the whoie of the enceinte, the bastions to be mounted with heavy artillery. He repaired the old walls, and, for the purpose of preventing escalade, protected them, ®specislly on the river face, by fraise or beams, the sharp ends of which were pointed at an acute angle downward into the ditch. The ditch was cleared out, repaired, and deepened, especially on the south side, where the wail rested on rock. A glacis was formed to cover in some degree the scarp of the wall. The ground oatside was cleared of houses and reins, the ravines were filled in so that the works were rendered proof against wild plundering hordes, or indeed any force whatever unaccompanied by heavy artillery. At the same time that Captain Hutchinson was strengthening the defences againgt attack from without, he made preparations also against a rise of the inhabitants, which, at that time. appeared a probable event. To meet this danger he erected along the line of wall a series of detached martello towers, entirely separate from the walls, and accessible from them only by a draw-bridge. Each tower was to have a gun mounted on a pivot, so that in the event of a rise in the city artillerymen might take possession of the towers, raise the draw-bridges, and pour shot into the town from the whole circle of the enceinte. The Mahomedan College, or Madrisah, at the Ajmere Cate was protected by an outwork, und the gateways of the cit

ealioa, The Cashmere Gate, on the north, from which runs the road to Gantonments, was formed into a place of arms, in which was the guard-house, &c. It was in the enclosure of thie gate that several of the officers were killed inthe late massacre. Lord Auckland, in 1838, recommended extensive repairs, and, in particular, of the Wellesley Bastion, which was, in fact, entirely reconstructed. It appears that he also suggested the erection of a citadel, though the palace may itself be

, and killed her on the

line towards Banda. it was only after many narrow escapes | spot. ‘The boats were then boarded, and the inmates landed | having walls of great heigiit, boilt of red sandstone, and pierced

and afier killing three of away from the remainder

village near which we showed ourselves, and suffering dread-

our assailants, that we managed to get|and dragged to the parade-ground at Cawnpore, where they |for matchlocks. We will now turn to the position of the . After being pursued by nearly every | were first fired at and then literally hacked to pieces with, besieged as regards water and supplies. The population of -tulwars. Report cays net one escaped.”

Delhi has been variously computed, but we shall perhaps not

ere strengthened by the usual defences in regular fortifi- |

regarded as one, being surrounded with a ditch, and)

at a time. The inhabitants then have recourse to their gyel! jand the branch of the Juinna, which flows past their walls. Were the supply from this branch cut off by our troops, water night still be procured by the besieged by digging, or even scratching holes in the sand as it lies close to the surface in the low tracts, which are affected by the main river. With regard to the capture of Delhi by escalade, it is probable that a few

easy. But when the assailants had entered the town, if the narrow streets were well defended by firing from the houses on either side, or by a gun judiciously placed, so as to rake them down their whole length, the position of a weak column of troops would be far from secare. General Barnard, in our opinion, is wise not to hazard a reverse, which in present circum- stances would be most disastrous. He will now daily be re- ceiving reinforcements, and will be enabled to make the attempt before long with every prospect of success,

LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN THE BESIEGING FORCE AT PELII.

Berore Dent, June 16.—On our side we have three batteries—one at the Hindoo Ras’s house, one at the obser- vatory, one at the Musjid ; so that whichever battery of ours they fire at they get an answer in return. This house is fearfully shattered ; our engineer officers say they work their guns beautifully, and fully equal us in good shots. We who ,are on outpost here, some 20 of us (officers and men), all live in the gateway of this house. On the 17th, while quietly sitting aud chatting together, a round shot came humming and whisking right into the mouth of the gateway, struck the wall when it had gone about three yards, and burst into a thousand pieces. Poor young Wheatley, of the late 54th (one of the few who had escaped the massacre), was takoa from the middle of us, a large piece of the shell striking him in the shoulder and nearly cutting him in two. He dropped down dead, poor young fellow! Five of us who were sitting within a circle of ten yards of him were more or less struck, but none seriously. I got an admonitory thump on the shoulder from a large piece of a stone that was sent whizzing by my ear; thank God, a stiff shoulder is the only damage done. Two more were cut about the face. The splinters then left us alone in a most curious way and went about six yards, I expect with a large piece of the round shot, which must have struck the wall at the other end of the gateway

and breathing through the wound in the lungs: also many cuts | and burst again, for it killed two men of the 6th Carabineers

who were sitting at the mouth of the gateway, smashing their massive brass helmets and thick turban covers, as if they had been made of thin glass, and at the same time five or six Goorkas of the Sirmoor Battalion, were;killed dead on the spot, also a poor Syce, It was a most wonderful thing we were 1 ot all killed, but a mereiful Providence was watching over us.- We have now some sandbags as a wall in frout of the gateway, and are pretty safe from shot and shell.

Juny 24.—Still before the walls of this horrible city. Since the 20th, beyond a few skirmishes, nothing was attempted on either side, except our blowing up two bridges, which prevents the enemy’s artillery from coming out, except by a long round of some three miles to the left and right ; but yesterday, the 23rd, we heard that every man in the city capable of bearing arms was coming out to make an end of us or die in the at- tempt. Our information was correct; at sunrise yesterday morning the whole city apparently turned out and attacked as on all sides. I was with the Guides on the right, and |from sutirise to past sunset we fought altogether 15 hours, without anything to eatand only water to drink. We ma- naged to hold our own well, nevertheless, till about 1 o'clock, and killed an immense number of the mutineers; but at 1 o’clock an immense reinforcement came to the assistance of the oppisite party, and we had enough to do to hold our own. I twice fired away every shot we had, nearly 100 rounds per man, and had sent back for more ammunition. The men I sent came back with the fearful news there was no more; to leave the position was contrary to all orders, so we had to do our best by pretending to fire and keeping the post with the bayonet. All this time’ we were under a perfect hailstorm of bullets, round shot and shell, for the enemy had brought some of their light field guns round, and were playing with great effect on our reduced numbers. I certainly thought we should all be done for, when, by the greatest good luck, a part of the regiment of Sikhs that bad that very morning marched into camp, came up with a yell to our assistance ; they were fiesh men, and had lots of ammunition, so we ‘rushed on and drove the enemy back. At the same time we | were ordered to advance as far as we could ; this we did, and | drove the enemy back into the city, after which, as they did ‘not secm inclined to come out again, we retired, it being past ‘suidset. Just at this time my legs, stout as they are, fairly | and for the first time, refused io campy me ; after a little coax-

| ing and rest, however, they condescended to carry me ona litle further, and I reached our picket dead beaten. I ¢er- tainly never was so fearfully and painfully tired in my life. A man named Shebbeare, who is doing the second in command's ‘work in poor Batty’s place, a great, big, and very powerfully- built giant, was also so fearfully knocked up that he was obliged to be carried up ; two of our poor men also were so fatigued that they died from exhaustion. Luckily, on are rival at picket, we found something to eat and drink. After 'a few mouthfuls I fell back on my bed fast asleep, Luckily, ‘too, there was uo alarm or attack in the night, for I feel

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