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ISLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1857.

No. 11.

Literature,

OOOO INI NI ND IN PNP ANDAR AID pny CHILDHOOD, BY EDWARD LYTTON BULWER.

Once on a time, when sunny May

Was kissing up the April showers, I saw fair Childhood hard at play

Before a bank of blushing, flowers. Lluppy—he knew not whence or how;

And smiling—who could choose but love him ? For not more glad than Childhood's brow

Was the guy heaven that laughed above him.

Old Time came hobbling in his wrath, And that green valley's calm invaded ; The brooks grew dry beneath his path, The birds were mute, the bilies faded ; «\ Grecian tomb stoed full in sight, And that old Time began to batter ; But Childhood watehed his paper kite, Nor heeaed he, one whit, the matter.

With curling lip, and eye askance, Guilt gazed upon the scene a minute, Bat Childhood's archly simple glance Had such a holy spell within it, That the dark demon to the air Again spread forth its baffled pinion, And hid his envy and despair, Self-tortured, in his own dominion.

Then stepped a gloomy phantom up, Pale, cypress-crowned, night's wolul daughter, And profferred him a fearful eup, Full to the brim of bitter water ; Says Childhood, ‘* Madam, what's your name ?”’ And when the beldame uttered *+ Surrow,”’ Then cried, ‘* Don’t interrupt my game, I prithee call again to-morrow,”’

The muse of Pindus thither came, And wooed him with the softest numbers That ever scattered wealth and fame Upon a youthful poet's slum bers. Though sweet the lyre and sweet the lay, To Childhood it was all a riddle: ‘ ** Good gracious !”’ cried he, ‘ send away That noisy woman with a fiddle!’

Then wisdom stole his bat and ball, And taught him, with most sage endeavor, Why bubbles rise and acorns fall, And why no joy may last forever ; She talked of all the wondrous laws Which Nature’s open book discloses ; But Childhood, when she made a pause, Was fast asleep among the roses.

Sleep on, sleep on! Pale manhood’s dreams = > i; plan mmm y ~ et ae 8 toils, alu biuuon s Schemes,

Or cherished love, or hoarded treasure ;

But to the couch where Childhood lies A pure unmibgled trance is given, z

Lit up by rays from aeraph’s eyes, And glimpses of remembered heayen !

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A THRILLING SKETCH. THE DOCTOR’S BRIDE,

“ The romance of real life,”’ said Dr. Jas. Morris, a physician of eminence, to his pupil, oue evening, far excels in thrilling interest the romance of imaginative writers. Medical men meet with their full quotaof wonders, and I will now relate to you an adventure in my early life which made a far stronger mpression upon my mind than the perusal of the Mysteries of Udolpho or the Castle of Otranto.

“Twenty seven years since,’ continued the doctor, “4 entered the Medical College of & , a9 a student. | was young, inexperienced, and inclined to be tunid and sentimental ; and well do [ resaember the horror | experienced, when one of the senior students, under pretence of showing me the beauties of the institution, suddenly thrust me into the dissecting room song several dead bodies, and clused the door upon me ; nor do | forget how my scregches of terror and prayers, for release from the awful place, tide me We laughing stock of my older companions.

Ridicule is a hard thing to bear; the coward becomes brave lo eseape it, and the brave man fears it more than he woald a belching cannon. I suffered from it til [ could bear it no longer : and Wrought up to a puch of desperation, | demanded to know what [might do to gain an honorable footing amung my fellow students.

: **T will tell you,” said one, his eyes sparkling with mischief,

if you will go at the midnight hour, end dig up a subject, take it to your room, and remain alone with it ull morning, we Will let you off, and never say a word about your womanly fright.”

l shuddered ; it was a fearful alternative, but it seemed Jess terrible to suffer all the horrors that might be concentrated intu * single night, than to bear, day after day, the jeers of my com- Panions.

“When shall f go?”* was my timid inquiry, and the thought e such an adventure made my blood run cold.

“To the Eastern Cemetry to-night, at eight o’clock,” replied my tormentor, fixing his keen black eyes upon me, allowing his ‘hin lips to cur! with a smile of contempt. “ But what is the

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! ‘ ; ; 7 * : ‘midnight work, bad been mortally wounded bya rifle ball; and | with anindiscribable terror, when as sure as I see you now, I|nerrer FROM A CIVIL SERVANT.—iIANGING THE MUTINEEFRS.

another, 4 month or two subsequenuy, had been rendered a ‘cripple for life by the same meaus,

All this was explained to me by a party of six or eight, who /accompanied me to my room, which was ina building belonving | to the college, and reuted by apartments to such of the students as preferred bachelor’s hall to regular boarding; and they took care to add several terrifying stories of ghosts and hobgoblins, | by way of calming ny excited nerves, just as [| have before

saw the lids of iis eyes unclose, and saw its breast heave, and heard a low Siifléd moan. but, a8 far as Allahabad is concerned, all is well, for we have

** Great God!" I shrieked, and fell back into a swoon. a large force of European soldiers, who would figitt and

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** ifow long Play anconscious [do not know, but when I | off all creation if necessary, and which is being daily i came to myse.f again it is @ marvel to me, that in my excited | by reinforcements coming up from Calcutta. We were state, 1 did not iose my senses altogether, and become the | cerated in that horrid fort from the 6h to the 18th of this teoant Of aapgd-house ; fur there—right before me—standing | ond a fearful time we had of it: God grant that | may never

Attataban, Jone 28.—We have hada trying time of it,

(Upin its white shroud—waih its eyes wide open, and stiring upon pass such a time again! Better to die by the sword fighting

observed old women stand round a weak, feverish patient, | me, aud its features thin, hollow and death-hued, was the corpse | than to see such sights of horror and pass such a time of anxt-

and croak out their experience in seeing such awful sufferings | | had brought from the cemetery.

and fatal terminations as the one with which their helpless | victim was then affiicted.

** Is it expected that I shou!d go alone ?”’ I inquired in a tone that trembled in spite of me, while my knees almost kuocked together, and I felt as if my lips were white.

** Well, no,’’ replied Benson, my most dreaded tormentor : | ** It would be hardly fair to send you alone, for ove individua! could not succeed im getting the body from the grave guick ;

fail altogether. of us, and help you to dig up the corpse; but then you must take it on your back, bring it up to your room, and spend the night alove with it”’

it was some relief to me to find I was to have company during the first part of my undertaking ; but still I felt far from agreeable, L assure you ; and chancing to look into a murror, as the time drew near for setting out, [ fairly started at beholding the ghostly object I saw reflected therein.

** Come boys,” said Benson, who was always by general consen', the leader of whatever frolic, expedition or undertaking he was to have a hand in—* Come, boys, it is time to be on the inove. A glorious might for us!’ he added, throwing up a window and letting tu a fierce gust of wind and rain; “the d—} himself would scarcely venture out in such a storm !”?

He lita dark lantern, and threw on his long heavy cloak, took up a spade and led the way down stairs; and ?the rest of us, three besides my timid self, threw on our cloaks, tovk each of usa spade, and followed right after him.

We took a roundabout course, to avoid being seen by any citizens that might chance to be stirring, and ia less than half an hour reached the Cemetery, sealed the wall without difficulty,

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—the wind and rain sweeping past us wi-h dismal bowls and moans, thatto me, trembling with terror, seemed to be unearthly wailngs of the spirits of the damned.

stopped at a mound of fresb earth, over which one of the party and let us see if you will make as good a hand at exhuming a physic.’

full | threw up, I started back, with a yell of horror, that, on any other but a howling stormy night would have betrayed us. It seemed to me as if | had thrust my spade into a buried Jake of fire—for the first dirt was all aglow lke living coals; and as [had fancied the morning of the storin, the wailings of the tormented spirits, | now funcied I had uncovered a portion of ithe Bottomless Pit itself,

Pte ad 12 d Bensen. orasping my erm-owith the grip ofa rvie®, as T Blood leaning ou my Spade for support, my teeth chattering with terror, “another yell like that and Uiimake a isuljectof you. Are you not ashawed of yourself, to be scared outef your wits, if you ever had any, by a little phosphorescent earth? Don’t vou know that it is often found in graveyards ?

fis exp/anation re-assured me, though I was too weak from my late fright to be of any assistance to the party, who all fell to with a will, secretly laughing at me, and soon reached the coffin. Spliutiog the hd with a hatchet, which had been brought for the purpose, they quickly lifted out the corpse, and another of te party taking hold of it, one at the head and the other at the feet, they burried it eway, bidding me to follow, jand leaving the others to fill up the grave, that it might not be ; suspected that the body had been exhumed.

Having got the corpse safely over the wal! of the Cemetery, Benson calied upon me to perform my part of the horrible business.

*: Here. you quoking simpleton,’’ he said, “* I want you to take this on your back, make the best of your way to your room and remain with itallmght. If you do this bravely, we will claim you as one of us to-morrow; and the first man that dares to say la word against your courage after that makes an evemy of me. | But hark you! if you make any blunder on the way and lose our

jmy eyes on you again. Do you understand me ?”’ | *¢ Y-ye-ye-yes!’’ I.stammered, with chattering teeth.

‘* Are you ready ?”’

‘+ Y-ye-ye-yes,’’ | gasped,

‘* Well, come here ; where are you ?”’

All this time it was so dark that [ could not see anything but. a faint line of white, which I knew to be the shroud of the @orpse; | but [ felt carefully around till [ got hold of Benson, who told me to take off my eldak ; and then rearing the dead body up against my back, he began fixing its cold arms abvat my neck —bidding me take hold of them, and draw them well over and keep them concealed, and be sure and not jet them go on any | consideratiun whatever, as | valued wy life.

followed his directions. ‘Tongue con!d not describe it.

inquired,

to the earth at (he first step.

use asking such a coward as you to do such a wnanly feat?” he the replied. “Keep in the middle of the road. and it will tike

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was saying, [ rejoined boldly :

I am no coward, aa [ will prove to you by performing what you ve a manly feat.’’

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b whys g he asked quickly

* Bravely said, my lad,’’ they rejoined, in atone of approval, — changing his expression of contempt for one of surprise and ~iration. * Do this, Morris, and the first man that dares to ingult you afte:wards makes an enemy of mwe.”’

Again { felt a cold shrdder pass through my frame at the thought of what was before me, but | had accepted his challenge in the presence of many witnesses,—Tor this conversation had

®a place while we were leaving the hall, after listening to anne lecture,—and { was resolved to make my word good, oa Id it even cost me my life : in fact, | knew 1 could not do fr frwise now, without the risk of being driven in disgrace

om the college. should here observe that in those days there were no Professionu| resurrectionists ; and as it was absolutely necessary

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to have subjects for dissection, the unpleasant businesa of procuring them devolved upon thestudents, who, in Consequence, | renee every funeral eagerly, and caleulated the chance of |

*ating the sexton of hig charge, and the grave of its victim. |

There-had been a funeral that day of a poor orphan girl, who- was been followed to the grave by a very few friends, and this! wean @ favorable chance for the party whose turn it |

‘> Procure the next subject, as the graves of the poor and

f daa were never watched with the sanie vigilante a8 those |

*¢ Well, you cannot lose your way if you go straight ahead,”’

'only a good balf mile.’’

I set forward, with trembling nerves, expecting to sink to the | ground at every step; but gradually my terror, instead of | weakening, gave me strength, and I was soon on the run—|

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and sought forthe grave till we found it, in the pitchy darkness |

“Here we are,” whispered Benson to me, as we at length | sturnbled. ‘ Come feel round, Morris, and strike in your spade, | dead body as you will some day at killing a living one with |

1 did as directed, trembling in every limb, but the first spade

_prize, it will be better for you to leave this place before I set | tone, brushing the tears from his eyes, “and no human) the murderous Sepoys. The Treasury wa

\ ery. Ido not think that I told you in miy last letter of the “In God’s name, avaunt?’’ 1 gasped. Go back to your | treachery of the 6th Native Infantry, or of the fearful night of /grave, and rest in peace! I will never disturb you again.”’ the Gth of June. I can hardly write it, so sad and miserable is The large, hohow eyes looked nore widely open—the head | the story. God, in His infinite mercy, preserved me from a moved—the jips parted—and a voice in a somewhat sepulchral | dreadful death at the bands of the bioodthirsty Sepoys. 1 told you inmy last letter that we were apprehensive of an outbreak ** Where am 1? Where am 1? Who are you? Which world | on the part of the city people, and that { had taken up a posi- amlin? Am l living or dead ?” tion at the gaol ready to make a stand ; that the officers of the “You were dead,’’ I gasped, sitting up in the bed and | Gth Native lnfanwry had all confidence in their men, though we

and you, a mere youth, without experience, would be sure to feeling as if wy brain wobld burst with a pressure of unspeakable | had not, for now no one can trust. those wretched natives, No. we will go with you, some three or four! horror; * you were dead and buried, and | was one of the| Well, matters went on quietly enough till Friday, the Sth, when

/guilly wretches who this night disturbed you in your peaceful | news of the disturbance at Benares came up, with @ report that rest. Do gobsek, poor ghost, in Heaven’s name; and no| a namber of the insurgents were on their way to attack thi morta! shall ever induce me to come nigh you again !”’ station. On the same day an order came fromthe Brigadi

“Out T feet faint !’” suid the corpse, gradually sinking down | Cawnpore.to:** man the fort with every available European, an tipon te floor with a groan. ** Where au 1? oh! where am 1?’ | make a good stand.” We non ouliuary men were instantly * Great God!’ [ shouted, as the startling truth suddenly | ordered anto the fort, being formed into a militia under the ashed upon me; perhaps this poor girl was buried alive, and | orders of the officer commanding the garrison. We slept in i$ now living 2” the fort on that Friday, the 5h, doing duty upon the ramparts, | bounded from the bed and grasped a hand of the prostrate | and returned to the station the following morning, but only for body. Jt was not warm, but it was not cold. . 1 put my }the morning, going into the fort again in the aft - At

‘trembling fiugers upon the pulse. Did it beat? or was it the | this time we had in the fort.about 30 invalid artillery soldiers, } pulse mi my fingers? J thrust my hand upon the heart. It| some few commissariat and magazine sergeants, and we volop- ; Was warui—there was life there. "The Wreast heaved she | teers mustering above 100 men. ‘There were also 400 Sikhs, | breathed ; but the eyes were not closed, and the featares had | and 80 of the wretched Gth guarding the main gate! A great ithe lock of death. Bull it was a living body—or else I myself! number of the European merchants and half-castes remained was ipsane, . outside, believing the report to be only a ery of * Wolf,” and | f sprung to the door, tore it open and shouted for help. supposing itto bea false alarm. The report of the approach

f alae! *! creatures had taken advice and joined us in the fort! Among

| Several of the students sleeping in adjoining rooms, come those outside were poor Captain Birch, the Port Adjniant, a

| hurrying to mine, thinking Thad gone mad with terror, as some married man, poor fellow, with - family ; lunes, the executive

}of them had heard my voiwe before, and all knew what a fearful) | SPe Heer, who had the previous day resigned ins Sppointment

‘ordeal { hed beer subjected to. in the fort from i} -health, and had gone up. to his bungalow,

| * Poor. fellow!” exclaimed cne in @ tone of sympathy ; 1) My poor dear friend A'exander, of we Erregulars, was in w

| predicted this.”’ garden near the fort with 150 of us troopers. ‘T'wo uns under

© Ty’s too much for his bervous system.” Harward, of the Artillery, had been sent down to the river to “1 am pot mad,’ Esaid, comprehending their suspicions, | 2°74 the bridge of boats over the Ganges towards Benares. ‘* but the corpse is alive } hasten and see!’’ Hicks, of the 6th Native Infantry, and two hittle gnfis —e | They hurried into the room, oue afier another; and the | #!S9Stationed there in charge of two companies of that regi- ment. Well, all these poor fellows were out and we were m-

side the fort, through the mercy of the Aluvighty. We were toid off on our gua:d and had laid ourselves down on our beds on, i . those who were not on wateh), when, about half-past 9) we | All was now bustle, confusion and excitement, one proposing heag@ firing in the station, and on the alarin bugle being sounded

{one thing, another something else, and all speaking together. | wo san up to the ramparts rm breathless silence. The firing

| hey placed her on the bed and gave her some brandy when grew heavier, and we all thought that the insurgents Tad

| she aguin revived. | ran fora physician, (one of the faculty.)| entered the station, and were being beaten off by the reciment. who came and tended upon her throogh the night, and bY | So steady was the musketry. regular file firmg ; om, on it con- suurise wext morhing she was reported to be in fair way of) tinued, volley afier volley. “ Oh,’’ we all said, those gallant recovery : hits , — igh di py a are be of the rebele,’’ for the fire grew fainter mn * Now, i you think of my story so far?" said the Doctor, io-denaea: bait they were driving a force manut the station. with a quiet tle, ine i . , ,; But before long the sad truth was known. Ilerward rode mn”, * Very rem@rrable : I replies BE ge * remarkable, indeed") bringing the tidings that the wretched Sepoys had risen, had but tell me, did the girl finaliy recover. seized his guns, and had marched them up to the station. He ‘*She did; and turned out to be a most beautiful creature, | joq escaped, and had run wp to poor Alexander's camp, who and only sweet sky ne - Cm a | jumped cn his horse and rode up towards the lines, with as * And I suppose she slessed the resurrectionists all the rest | many of fis men as could be got ready: he had been caught of her life,” | rejoined with a rOPgre! ;;; Man ambush by a body of Sepoys lying in wait in.an empty “She certainly held one of them in kind remembrance, tani, anc bad been killed by a musket besmg placed to his side, returned the Doctor with a sigh. blowing out Ins heart. His poor body was brought in later im cman veeae of her, ron ri b , h " the night, and I gave his band a last shake, and shed tears over hat should have become of er accore ing’ vo e well hie last bed. The officers were at mess when tiie wretches known rules of poetic justice of al} you novel writers ?” returned sounded the alarm bugle to bring them to the parade, and shot my friend, with a pecuhar smile, them down right and lett! Wretched murderers, may they re- “Why.” savd I, laughing, “she should have turned out an} ceive their reward! Nine poor luce ensigns doing duty with heignam, wud married you. of the regiment were bayonetied to death in the mess-room, and : And that is SRectly “ hat she did? replied the Doctor. three of the officers who escaped heard their cries as they Good heavens! you are jesting passed! Poor boys, who had never given offence to any native,

“ No, my friend, no,’ rephed the Doctor, in a faltering voice ;| nor caused dissatisfaction to the Sepoye. Five officers wete

i that night of horror only preceded the dawn of my happiness ; | shot belonging to the regiment, besides the nine poor boys. for that girl—sweet, lovely Helen Leroy—in time became my | Birch and Innes, witli the sergeant-major, in all seventeen mili-

jwite, and the mother of my two boys. She sleeps now in| tary men, many tnerchauts, and others were most cruelly

|death beneath the cold sod,’’ added the Doctor, in a tremulous | butchered—in al] 50 Europeans fell that night hands of ered, the tion com- fter house

foremost stooping down to what he supposed was a corpse, put |his hand dpon it and instantly exclaimed : “Quick, a light and some brandy! She lives, she lives !"’

| prisoners released from gaol, and the work’ menced. ‘I'he whole station was destroyed, plundered and fired. What a night! Hach t we ex- pected the Sikhs would turn on as, and then! e disarined the 6th guard, at the main gate, and found the villains with ‘S “ saa ,!oaded end capped muskets, ready to turn out! Five offigers THE INDIAN MUTINIES. came in, all having escaped ina wonderful manner—three naked, having bad to swim the Ganges. We were all night

THE MUTINY AT ALLAHABAD. funder — and in the morning cs oats rey sad ~~

; ‘ Z | weary, €ach moment expecting to be called up, The streets o

The following is a letter from Lieutenant R. G. Armstrong, | the dup are about half colle from the nah ans during the four late of the [7th Bengal Native Infantry :— | or five following days troops of the rioters were to be seen Aitanabad, June 28.—The ci:cumstances of the mutiny | rushing from place to place plundering and burning. Day and

| ° ‘oe resurrectionist shall ever raise her to life again.”

Oleaniigs from late Papers,

Ah! the torturing borror | experienced us I mechanically {here have been the most disgraceful yet heard of. Tue Gib. night we manned the ramparts in the hot blazing sun, and day

Regiment of Native Infantry were stationed here, and when! aud night the guns and mortars belched forth, throwing sheil

At length, having adjusted the corpse so that 1 might bear it/ corps were breaking out in al! directions this regiment volun- | and grapeshot, tearing down houses, and seatiering the demons off with comparative ease, he threw my long black cloak over | teered their services to advance against the King of Delhi and) wherever they were seen. We dared not leave the fort, for my arms, fastened it with a cord around wy neck, and t! en! his mutineers,

For this they were thanked, and told that their! who knows what the Sikhs would have done if it had been Jeft

services would be accepted at the first opportuaity. ‘This took! empty? However, let us not breathe one word of suspicion

** Now, Morris, do you think you can find the way to your | place ia the morning. On the evening ot the same day, while| against them, for they behaved splendidly, though they are room ?”’ jail the officers were at mess, the alarm bugle of the regiment | regular devils, “1, [, do-do-dont know,’’ [ gasped, feeling as if I should sink | was sounded ; these poor fellows, thinking 1t was a disturbance | leers came up, and then our fun began. We. ‘ volunteers”

We lived on in this way ull the Madras Fusi-

among the villagers, rushed out atthe door. ‘The first was shot | were parted off into divisions, three in number, and your humble down, and the second received a bullet, and fell dead on the! servant was promoted to the command of one, the * Flagstaff

(Spot. They were all knocked over by their own men, and only | Division,”’ with 30 railroad men under his comand, right good { : |you to the College Green, and then you are all right. Come, | three officers out of the whole regiment escaped. '§ words stung me to the quick ; and scarcely aware of what | push on before your burden grows too heavy ; the distance is

Every hiouse | stout fellows, every one of whom had been plundered, and were in the sation, with the exception of one or two, bas been burnt | consequently as blood thirsty as any demons need be. We to the ground, and when we marched on the other morning we | sallied forth several times with the Sikhs into the city, and lad saw Allahabad in ruins. ‘T'wo hours after [arrived {| went with ) several sdirmishes in the streets, when we spared no one. We a couple of Queen’s officers to see the bungalows, and f must had several volleys poured into us, but their firing was so wild say | never witnessed anything like it betore ; every single ishat their bullets passed over and around us harmlessly. ‘The

splashing through mud and waer—with the stogm howling jthing was desiroyed, every pane of glass smastied, even.the | flagstaff was always to the front, and they were so daring and

about me in fury, and the cold corpse, as I fancied, clinging to ine like a hideous vampire.

sort of instinct, for | only remember of my brain being in a wi

Canvass that goes over the punkah was torn into shreds. Such | reckless that the ‘* flagstaff boys’’ became a by word in the fort. a wilful destruction of property 1 never witnessed. A large Every rascality that was performed was put down to them, and

i} secured, and two days ago the place was burnt by us to the | Sikhs were great hands at it, and, in spite of all precaution,

How [ reached my room I did not know—but probably by a/ quantiy of things was found ina village close by. They were! in the end the volunteers got a bad name for plundering. The

feverish whirl, with ghostly phantoms about me, as one

-| ground. ‘This is certainly, and will, from ail appearance, be a| brought a great-amount of property into the fort. Such scenes

times sees them in a dyspeptic dreain. (tedious campaign, for, besides the straits we are reduced to, of drunkenness I never bebeld. Sikhs were to be seen drunk

But reach my room I did, with my dead burden on my back, | and | was afierwards told that | made wonderful time, for | Benson and his fellow students, fearing the loss of their sudject | —which, on account of the difficulty of getting bodies, was | very valuable—followed close behind me, and were obliged to|

run at the top of theirspeed too keep me within hailing distance.

The first I remember distinctly, after getting to my room, | was the findimg myself awake in bed, with a dim consciousness | of something horrible having happened—though what, for some | minutes [ could not for the life of me recollect. en 7) however, the trath dawned upon me; and then I felt a cold perspiration start from every pore, at the thought that perhaps | { was occupying a room alone with a corpse. There was a| few embers in a grate whieh threw outa ruddy. light; and - fearfully raising my head, | glanced quickly and timidly around. |

And there—there on the floor, against the right hand wall,

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the bad weather 18 setting in—viz, the rains. 1 am regularly | on duty on the ramparts, unable to hold their muskets. No one rationed like a common soldier, get a ‘oaf of bread, a pint of could blame them, for they are such jolly, jovial fellows, so beer, a little sugar and milk, and a small piece of mutton, be-| different from other Sepoys. When we could once get out of sides tea twice a-day, spirits and beer only once, as also the | the fort we were all over the place, cutting down all natives mutton, for tea is given out at night; but, as several of us haye| who showed any signs of opposition; we enjoyed these trips been living together, we have managed to get on very fairly.| very much, so pleasant it was to get out of that horrid fort for Oude is now the head-quarters of the revels. Every single |a few hours. One trip { enjoyed amazingly ; we got on board regiment has mutinied, and the country will have’to be taken aja steamer with a gun, while the Sikhs and Fusileers marched second time, but tis time by force of arms. It isreported that | up to the city ; we steamed up, throwing shot right and Jeft, a detachment of the 84th, the Queen’s, who went over there, till we got up to the bad places, when we went on shore and from Cawnpore the other day, have been cut dewn to a man, prepares away with our guns,my old double-barrel that [ but this has not been confirmed. There are thousands upon} brought out bringing down several niggers, so thirsty for thousands of natives assembled there, and assistance wil! have | Vengeance was 1. We fired the places right and left, and the to come quickly, or not an European willbe saved. They are} flames shot up to the heavens as they spread, fanned by ‘the hanging wen up at Benares and here, besides several other) breeze, showing that the day of vengeance had fallen on the stations, six, seven, and eight a-day. Missionaries in this | treacherous villains. The wicked 6th hed marcked out on the country have carried matters teo far, and mothing in this country | 7:h, leaving two guns, and a Mussujman had eet himself up in

tich and influential. Still, it was no trifling risk to but a few feet from me—there, sure enough, lay the cold suff, is a native so tenacious of as having his religion meddied with. , the city calling himself the agent of the King of Delhi, and © the bodies of the poorest and hamblest for ‘corpse robed in its white shroud, with a gleam of firelight rest- | Education has also been corried too far. Educate a native and, calling on all natives, Hindoos, and true believere to massacre Y persons were found on the watch even over! ing on its ghastly face, which to my fancy seemed to move. | he becomes a thorough-paced scoundrel.

the year before, one student, while at his,

Did it move? I was gazing upon it, thrilled and fascinated |

These are the opi- all Europeans, and many poor fellows who had been in hiding,

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