INDIA. THE CAWNPORE MASSACRE,

The Mofussilite of the Ist January contains the following melancholy obituary notice:— Slain, by order of the Nana Sahib, on the 10th of June, in Bithoor, the Revs. Messrs. J. C. Freeman, D. E, Campbell, A. 0. Johnson, and R. M'Mullin, and their wives. Also Fanny and William Campbell, children of the Rev. Mr. Campbell, aged four and two years respectively. The above constituted the entire body of American Presbyterian Missionaries at Futtebgurh. Their loss is deeply deplored by their surviving associates in India.

A letter has been received by a gentleman resident -at Omb'ersley, from a sister in India, the wife of one of the East ladia Company's chap'ains, fc6ntairiing- the most graphi description of the events preceding the massacre at Cawnpore, yet published. It is dated Oct. 12* and tee Hollowing :js an extract:—" For many days before they gave in at Cawnpore the poor garrison's only-food was grain steeped in water; about four bucketsful. placed in the middle of the intrenchment, was the daily allowance for more than 300.. Thirty gentlemen and. many of their-wives were put into a large assembly room/and chained to the walls; the Nena went in and told the ladies to come to" the other side of the place, as the gentlemen were to be shot; be was obeyed by all but the doctor's wife, who said, ■' if her husband was to die, she must die with him. The other ladies then returned to their husbands. The Nena was very angry, and said he would give them five minutes to obey. No one did ;so he said they should be all shot together. Mr. Moncrief, the chap'ain, begged to be allowed to read the funeral ser-, vice. The Nena gave, him ten minutes to do it Mr. M.'s hands were unbound, and he took a small book from, his pocket and began to read. At the expiration of ten minutes c volley was fired into them, but not one was killed outright. ; the Nena himself fell upon themj and they were all cut to pieces with swords. A few days after 80 fugitives from F.uttyghur fell into the wretches' hands; they were taken into the game room, soaking wiih blood, and kept there four days,. fed on bread and water, and on the approach of our troops [were murdered. Fifty pairs of men's feet in their shoes, and thirty

pairs of women's were found by our troops arranged on each side, of the room whea they 'entered."-. DEATH OF LIEUT. NEVILLE ON HIS WAY TO HIS INTENDED BlitDE. Lieut. Neville, proceeding to Bombay to meet his intended bride, recently arrived here in the Windsor Castle, was killed at Pali Putun, where his boat lay at anchor for the night. It appears that Lieut. Neville started from Fero* zepore in a country boat, and as his boat was dropping down the stream by a place called Jumlera, on the Sutlej, a party of the rebels, numbering 40, bailed. the boatmen from the banlrto put to. The request being banked by threats that they would be ; fired upon in the event of noucompliancej was at once obeyed, when the boat was attacked. A conflict ensued betwen the ill-fated occupants and the rebels. Lieut. Neville is said to have made a I stout resistance, cutting down two of his assail- j ants, but being himself wounded, he was seized . and carried off to the rebel camp. He offered to pay the sum of 2000 rupees as a ransom for his life, and the party who made him a prisoner agree! to the arrangement. But no sooner was he taken before the chief of the insurgents than a command was issued to put him to death, which was done in the most diabolical manner. The commissioner, Major Hamilton, visited the scene of murder soon after, and pioked up a few relics belonging to the unfortunate man. • ! :' ANOTHER KING.OF OUDE. The capture of Lucknow will notj it is needless to say, produce the submission of Qude. • The rebels have placed a boy on the throne," and keep him in state at-Fyzabadr—-a city of 100,000 inhabitants, defended by a large fort with a wall, a ditch, and round towers, lately repaired; and new entrenchments. Here the last great stand may be expected, and the royalty of Oude must; finally perish. MORE POWER TO HIS ELBOW—THE KING OF DELHI ROUGHLY HANDLED. An eye-witness, writing to Simla, declares that while there an Irish soldier, who bad vowed that he would kill the King during the storming of the palace,if he could find him, rushed past the sentries, and began to belabour the unfortunate and guilty monarch with his fisfs, saying, "Take that, and that, and that, you pig;" and was obliged to be dragged off by his comrades. The outrage on the wretched decrepid prisoner was a very sad one, and, to a reasonable ..man; utterly unjustifiable. But our men are scarcely reasonable just now, when they come across sepoys, and the authors of those frightful atrocities which have never till now been inflicted on our countrywomen, even in the darkest pages of oar, history. NEW AND- FEARFUL MODE OF EXECUTION IN DELHI. It appears from the journal of an European traveller, that a new and fearful mode of execution had been adopted by the King of Delhi. The instrument and process are thus described : I —A box, each side of which is 15 feet square, is constructed of timber about 18 inches thick, dovetailed together, and braced with iron rods. The outside of the bottom of the box is covered with a plate of beaten iron, one inch in thickness;, the interior is filled with perfect cubes of granite, weighing in the aggregate several thousand tons; a machine is erected after the manner of an ordinary pile driver, but of course on an enormous scale, and of tremendous strengths The mass- is raised by, powerful machinery cast in Birmingham for the express purpose, though it is to be presumed that the machinist by whom the work was furnished' had no idea of the horrible purpose for which it was intended. The human victim is p'aeed upon a block of granite, of a corresponding. surface buried in the earth immediately beneath the enormous mass, and covered with a plate of iron.; At a signal given by the vicramadack, the executioner touches a spring, the mass falls, and the victim, crushed at once,, is suddenly annihilated and spread out like a sheet of pasteboard. The huge weight being again raised, the flattened body is withdrawn and dried in the sun. When completely prepared, it is hung over the wall of a public building, there to serve as a warning to the multitude. Comment on the above is needless. Suffice it to say that this instrument, if it still be in " Imperial Delhi," and in working order, ought to be i brought into play for the especial benefit of the royal inventor, who should be compelled to make his meals off these human pancakes— there being enough and to spare of the rebels, one of whom could be, biweekly or weekly, according to the appetite of the royal epicure, supplied from among those puckalaoed for the pnrpose. " OLD MOOHE's" PREDICTION ON THIS INDIAN :. •: ■' - MUTINY. : :- - "Old Moore's Almanack" ;for 1857, which was published a year ago, foretold theimportant events which have taken place in India. It says:—"lndia will require some attention. The annexation of Oude was effected very tranquilly and easily for the moment; bu4 the King had followers and friends. The public are familiar, with the King of Oude's sauce, but the real; deposed King 'bore his ■- faculties so meekly,' that the new Governor-General of India, Lord Canning, would perhaps hardly have expected that the King of Oude would have given him so much sauce after his deposition, ,in the shape of plots and conspiracies, against British rule. Let me add seriously, India.will be in an excited "state; and.great' judgnlent is required to preserve order." - Such was'the prediction; but the event was some-.; what post-dated, being given under the date of September, 1857. v .