. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . r Lenk. There was therefore a certainrationality and legitimacy in the notion of re-storing the obsolete sovereign to the throne ofhis ancestors. Meanwhile, the mutiny gath-ered head. The Sepoy troops, holding thebarracks at Delhi, broke into insurrection andjoined the mutineers who had come fromMeerut. The British contingent was obligedto give way bef
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . r Lenk. There was therefore a certainrationality and legitimacy in the notion of re-storing the obsolete sovereign to the throne ofhis ancestors. Meanwhile, the mutiny gath-ered head. The Sepoy troops, holding thebarracks at Delhi, broke into insurrection andjoined the mutineers who had come fromMeerut. The British contingent was obligedto give way before the revolt, and the ancientpalace of the Mogul sovereigns of India, shin-ing in the brilliant light of a May morningswas again inhabited by a native Emperor. GREAT BRITAIN.—SEPOY REBELLION. 351 Down to Beuares, and thence to Calcutta,the rumor of the insurrection was borne on thewings of the wind. Conceive of the condition-of affairs in that far capital, when the storyvas prouiulgated of the successful rising of well-grounded panic which ever distracted anEnglish colony. The British people, officialsand other, now resident in Bengal, numbered inall fewer than a hundred thousand. This merehandful, by comparison, was expected to hold. THRONE-ROOM, PALACE OF DELHI. the Sepoy army at Meerut and Delhi. LordDalhousie had now been succeeded in office byLord Canning, as Governor-General of liim, and the officers of Government as-sociated with him, was devolved tiie duty ofstaying the progress of the most dreadful and in subjection multiplied millions of natives inhot insurrection against the Government. Anincredible alarm spread among the English ofCalcutta, wild rumors of horrible massacresof women and children filled the air. Thepeople were frenzied, and rushed to the Gov- 352 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. ernment House, almost insane «ith fear, cry-ing for protection, and clamoring for venge-ance, not only against the Sejjoys, but againstthe Hindus in gene
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