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_ CA THE LEADER. [No. 382, July 18 ^ 185...
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THE INDIAN REVOLT. The intelligence brou...
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. This Daught...
the recent accident on the North Kent liiie was concluded on Monday in connexion with two of the deaths The verdict was as follows i— " We find that John Griffiths and Thomas Perry , labourers , are guilty of manslaughter in regard to the death of John Bannger , and also a similar verdict against the same parties in regard to the death of Horatio Turner . The jury also find from the evidence that the distance signal at the Lewisham station was not and is not so effective as , in their opinion , it should be , and also that great negligence was manifested from the fact that proper appliances were not carried by the engine * , as ordered by the rules of the company ; and the jury cannot help expressing their regret that so much time should have elapsed before any
assistance from the company arrived at the scene of the accident ; they likewise express their opinion that more efficient men should be placed to work the signals , and they farther condemn the open third-class carriages of similar construction to those that were destroyed , as not affording sufficient protection for passengers in case of an accident . " Mr . Rees , the solicitor of the railway company , expressed on their behalf the sense they entertained of the great attention and patience which the coroner and jury had bestowed on this inquiry , and assured tiiem that the recommendation of the jury should meet with every proper attention . The court then adjourned to next Monday , for the purpose of recording a verdict in regard to the cases of the other sufferers .
Mr . Lavie , of the firm of Oliverson , Lavie , and Peachey , lawyers , has been killed by a fall from his horse . With the exception of Mr . James Freshfield , who died about seven or eight weeks ago , Mr . Lavie was the most eminent commercial lawyer iu London . Three youths were drowned last . Saturday while bathing in a reservoir near Otley , Yorkshire . Two were brothers , and were aged respectively sixteen and fourteen years ; the third was their cousin , thirteen years of age . None of them could swim , and the youngest of the brothers soon sank in deep water . His elder brother , in endeavouring to save him , was also dragged in . The cousin , who was trying to teach himself to swim by means of a rail , held it out to the drowning youths : both seized it , and pulled the other in . They were all drowned .
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The Indian Revolt. The Intelligence Brou...
THE INDIAN REVOLT . The intelligence brought from India by the last mail is not so cheering as was anticipated . , 'The revolt is not crushed , but appears for the time to be spreading , though still confined to tlie North-west Provinces and to the Hindu soldiery , for the general native population does not seem to bo affected . The King of Delhi is thought to have yielded to the coercion of the rebels , and to have allowed himself to be placed at the head of the disaffected within the city . He and his son , however , have endeavoured
to restore confidence in the bazaars , to check the wholesale plundering that had been committed , and to mitigate the reign of terror inaugurated by the mutineers . This was greatly ] needed ; for , according to a letter written to the Rajah of Jullunder by his agent at Delhi , upwards of fifty Europeans of both sexes and all ages -were discovered in their hidingplacea on the 13 th of May , two days after the outbreak , and massacred . It appears , however , that Sir Theophilus Metcalfe , who was believed to have been killed , is safe at Hansi .
The further course of the insurrection is thus detailed in the summary of the Times Bombay correspondent : — " The soldiery within Delhi are represented to bo without a leader , but other accounts tell us that they have elected to the supreme and second posts of command two native officers of the 8 rd Light Cavalry . Under this or other leadership they had the temerity to advance from the city and attack a portion of the force collecting to crush them . On the 80 th of May , a detachment of the European force at Meerut , the Carabiniers , 60 th Itifloa , and Artillery , under the command of Brigadier Wilson , took up an advanced position at the village of Ghazeo-oad-deen-nugger , where the rpad
to Delhi crosses tho little river of Hindun by a suspension bridge , some fifteen miles from the capital . That same afternoon the enemy appeared in force with five guns on tho further side of the stream , and a smart engagement followed . The Brigadier took his artillery and dragoons across the river by a ford , while tho Kifles passed tuo bridge . They attacked at once in frout and flank ; the mutineers wore doubled up and driven back with tho loss of all thoir guns—port into a burning village , which they themselves hnd fired , and whero they perished miserably ; part into tho open plain ,
whero thoy were cut up by the sabres of tho dragoons . Undaunted by thia severe check , they roturncd to the attack on the following day , and wore again repulsed . On the 1 st of Juno , tho Brigadier , whoso loss on the first day had boon About forty killed and wounded ( that on tho socond is as yet unknown ) , was reinforced , and no further attempt has boon made to contest hia possession of tho bridge and fprd . Tho mutineers have , no doubt , boon busily occupied in preparing to receive tho army advancing against them from Umballah , for , although there arc rumours of desertions from Delhi .
they have probably not been numerous , or the horsemen of Scindia and of the Rajahs of Bhurtpore and Ulwar , not to speak of Agra volunteers , would have had their tale to tell of fugitives intercepted and destroyed . " The advanced guard of General Anson , reached Kurnaul on the 21 st of May , the main body stifl remaining for some days at Umballah . The cause of this delay was the absence of heavy artillery at that station and the consequent necessity of waiting till a siege-train could be brought from the nearest arsenal , which was as far off as Phillour , on the further side of the Sutlej . When the guns arrived , or where nearing his camp , the General advanced , and had reached Kurnaul when he was attacked bv cholera , and died at that station on the
27 th of May . The command of the army devolved upon Sir Henry Barnard , who , as Major-General , had been at the head of the Sirhind Division . Meamvtile , Brigadier Halifax , with the advance , had arrived at Paneeput , fifty-six miles from Delhi , from which place he moved forward on the evening of the 29 th of Way . On the 30 tb , Sir Henry and the main body were to march from Kurnaul , and it was thought that , by the morning of the 9 th of June , the whole force , strengthened by the greater portion of the Meerut Division , -which was to join between Paneeput and Delhi , would appear before the revolted capital . The force is not quite so large as it was expected to be , for it was found necessary to disarm nt Umballah two of the native corns—the 5 th
and 60 th—which were to form part of it . 41 The 9 th Native Infantry recently caught at Alyghur ( their head-quarters ) a mutinous agent and spy , who was busy in their lines . There were detachments of the same regiment at Mynpoorie , Etawah , and Bolundshuhur . The execution of this spy , who was a Brahmin , was too much for the company at the lastnamed station . They marched down to Alyghur , upbraided their comrades there , and ended in exciting them to open mutiny . The other detachments followed
the example of the head-quarters . Unlike the regiments of Meerut and Delhi , however , the 9 th did not attempt to molest their officers , but only politely dismissed them ; but they plundered and burnt at will , drove the civilians before them , and then , uniting , marched off to swell the ranks of the mutineers . in Delhi . Some few , however , stood by Lieutenant £ > e Kantzow , at Mynpoorie , to the last , and have been well rewarded for their fidelity by promotion— -the noncommissioned officers receiving commissions , the privates being made havildars and naiks .
" About the time of these occurrences at Alyghur and Etawnh , the native regiments at Agra began to show symptoms of the prevailing disease . They were two in number , the 44 th and 67 th . Two companies , one of each corps , had been sent to Muttra to bring down treasure to Agra . They mutinied on the way back , and proceeded to Delhi , murdering , it is feared , some or all of their officers . The spirit shown by these companies determined Mr . Colvin at once to disarm the remainder of the regiment to which they belonged , which was accordingly done on the 1 st of June , in the presence of the 3 rd Europeans and Captain D'Oyly's European field battery . The affair want off quietly , and the city has since been tranquil . Some of Scindia ' s contingent came up from Gwalior , and were employed to garrison tho deserted station of Etawah and restore the ejected civil
authorities . Out of the Europeans in Agra , a corps of volunteer horse has been raised , which , under the command of Lieutenant Greathed , assisted a few days after the disarming of the 44 th and 67 th in the execution of a capital piece of service . The Rao or petty chief of Burtorolce , near Alyghur , availed himself of tlio prevailing disorder to declare his independence , turning out Government officials , burning villages , exacting contributions , and establishing himself at Khyrr as the scat of his new and extended-sovereignty . His course was soon run . Mr . Watson , tho magistrate of Alyghur , with a fow troopers and tho Volunteer Horse , mode a sudden swoop upon Khyrr , caught the Kao , tried him by drumhead court-martial , found him guilty of rebellion , and hung him on the spot- —a salutary example that will suarcelv need to bo repeated .
* 'From Lucknow our latest intelligence is of tho 81 st of May . During the previous night , the native troops of the garrison had partially mutinied . About one-half of each of the 48 th and 71 st Regiments , joined by some fow of tho other infantry corps , the 18 th , and two troops of tho 7 th Cavalry , deserted their colours and fled towards Seotnpore . There appears to have been no disturbance in tho city , and the safety of the civil residents has been assured by tho timely precautions of Sir Henry JLawronce , recently created Brigadier-General , and by his judicious distribution of the guns of the European field
battery and tho bayonets of tho Queen's 82 nd . At Allahabad , doubts were at one time entertained of tho 6 th Native Infantry , but no disturbance has taken place . All the stations in Bengal are quiet . At LJarrnckpore , tho 70 th addressed tho Governor-General by petition , expressing its abhorrence of the proceedings of the routineers , and requesting to be permitted to march upon Delhi . That request was acceded to by Lord Canning in porson at a parade of tho regiment on tho 28 th of May . Arrangements would bo made , said Ids Lordship , to enable tho loyal 70 th to march for tho north-west in four on five days .
'' Retracing our steps to the north-west , we find that mutiny , desertion , or dismissal has greatly thinned the imposing army of the Punjab . Disaffection is life both at Ferozepore and at Lahore . The 45 th and 67 th Regiments mutinied at Ferozepore on the 13 th of May . But her Majesty ' s 61 st , aided by the 10 th Light Cavalry , which remained staunch , inflicted severe loss upon them , and on the following day the -mutineers gavein and were quietly disarmed . At Meean Meer , the camp of Lahore , the three native infantry regiments of the garrison , the 16 th , 26 th , and 49 th , were disarmed on the 13 th by Brigadier Corbett , with the 81 st Foot and the powerful force of artillery , horse and foot . At Peshawur , on the 22 nd , tliree more infantry regiments , the 24 th , 27 th , and 51 st , and the 5 th Light Cavalry
were deprived of their arms . A Subahdar-Alajor of tho 51 st was hanged in presence of all the troops . At Murdan , the 55 th , or the greater portion of the regiment , deserted their colours . Their Colonel , Spottiswoode , committed suicide . A party of Europeans and Irre « gulars from Peshawur attacked them , killed or captured two hundred , and drove th e remainder to seek safety by hasty tiight into the Swat Valley in their rear , the entrance to which is now carefully guarded against a possible attack by the tribes . Six men of the corps had alreadv been shot at Peshawur , together with a native officer * of the 10 th Irregualars , and the prisoners , one hundred and fifty in number , were to be tried as soon as they were brought into the station . At the latest dates the whole of the Punjab was perfectly tranquil .
" A glance at Rajpootana and I shall have completed the tale of mutinies that , if my computation is correct , have cost the Bengal army the whole or the greater part of twenty-eight regiments of foot , of four of horse , two companies of artillery , each , with a field battery , and of the corps of Sappers and Miners . The stations of Nusseerabad , near Ajmere , and Neemuch , usually garrisoned from Bombay , were at the beginning of the year drained of the infantry and guns of the army of that presidency by the pressure of the Persian war . There remained the 1 st Bombay Light Cavalry ( Lancers ) cantoned at Nusseerabad , but that station received for infantry the 15 th Bengal Native infantry frorri Meerut , and the 30 th from Agra ; and for artillery a Bengal native company ^ the
2 nd of the 7 th battalion . To Neemuch there came the 72 nd Native Infantry and a native troop of Horse Artillery ( 4 th of 1 st Battalion ) , both from Agra ; and a wing of the 1 st ( Bengal ) Light Cavalry from Mhow . The Bengal troops at Nusseerabad , who had long been wave : ing , broke out into open mutiny on the evening of the 28 th of May . The Bombay Lancers were weakened bj ' detachments , and drew less than two hundred and fifty sabres ; but again and again they charged the overwhelming numbers of the mutineers , in the hope of capturing their guns . However , as may be supposed , their loyalty and courage were not rewarded by success , and they were forced to draw off , with the loss among their officers of Captain Spottiswoode and Cornet
Newberry killed , and Captain Hardy and Lieutenant F . Loch wounded . Their Colonel , Penny , died tho following night from the effects of a fall from his horse . The regiments escorting the officers and families of the revolted regiments retired towards Ajmere ; but , tho mutineers moving off towards Delhi ( which they did with colours flying and drums beating ) , and the arsenal of Ajmere being thus out of danger , they joined tho camp of Colonel Dixon , of the Mhairwarrah Battalion , at Bewar . The Contingents of Kotah and Joudpore are protecting the district , and a Bombay force from Deeso , formed from the Queen ' s 83 rd , the 12 th Native Infantry , a squadron of the 2 nd Cavalry , and some artillery , are moving up in support . Of what has been happening meanwhile at Necmuch wo know but little with
certainty , but that tho 72 nd has mutinied seems to be beyond a doubt . I trust to be able to assure you that tho rumours of a wholesale European massacre at the stution are untrue . A Bombay column has been formed , and part is already on its way to the spot from Poonah . It consists of a field battery from Ahmednugger , the 3 rd troop of Horse Artillery from Kurrachee , two squadrons of the 14 th Light Dragoons , the 25 th and 19 th Native Infantry , and the company of Madras Sappers lately brought back from Persia . The force is under the command of Major-Generul Woodburn , C . B . Sir Henry Somerset , who has succeeded , as senior Lieutenant-Goneral , to the command of the army . of India , remains at Poonah , awaiting the orders of the supremo Government . "
Sir Patrick Grant lias been appointed by tho Indian Government to talco tho command of the Bengal army , in place of General Anaon ; but ho will be superseded by Sir Colin Campbell , who has beoa sent out by the Home ) Government . On tho receipt in London , last Saturday , of the telograpluc despatches which anticipate tho usual mails , n Cabinet Council was at once held . Sir Colin Campbell was summoned , and wua asked how soon lie could go out to take the command in the disaffected provinces . Ho immediately replied that lie would go tho next day , adding that ho would not wait to take anything out with him : he could get all ho wanted as well ut Calcutta as in London . The steamer for India whiolt was about to start was btopped by telegraph , nnd ordered to nwalt Sir
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/8/
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