. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce. Dr. Duff, writing from Cal-cutta, and deeply imbued with the feverof the time (as from the nature of his raregift of popular eloquence he would be likelyto be), enters very fully into the subject.^ for the barrack-square in England, affording nprotection whatever from the sun. They had whitajackets on, I was glad to see; but even then, thehea
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce. Dr. Duff, writing from Cal-cutta, and deeply imbued with the feverof the time (as from the nature of his raregift of popular eloquence he would be likelyto be), enters very fully into the subject.^ for the barrack-square in England, affording nprotection whatever from the sun. They had whitajackets on, I was glad to see; but even then, theheat was so great that the cross-belt was wetthrough from perspiration. Stocks of course.—Tivies, August 3rd, 1857. II Times—Ibid. 5[ These letters, addressed to , Convenerof the Free Church of Scotlands Foreign MissionCommittee, were published in 1858, under the titleof The Indidti liehellion ; its Causes and Results :and the views and opinions which they embody,are described in the preface as the ripe result of. ,-snr^, pj, f^^ fH]AVEL®©B^,0€o©=[i*. n \ SIR P. GRANT APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF—JUNE, 1857. 275 On Monday morning, he writes, theex-King of Otule and liis treasonable crewAvcre arrested, and safely quartered in FortWilliam. Since then various parties con-nected with the Oudc family, and otherinfluential ^Mohammedans, have been ar-rested; and on them have been foundseveral important documents, tending tuthrow light on the desperate plans of trea-son wliich have been seriously others has been found a map ofCalcutta, so sketched out as to divide thewhole of tlie town into sections. A generalrise was planned to take place ou the 3rdinstant, the anniversary of the battle ofPlassey. The city was to be taken, andthe Feringhi Kaffirs [foreign infidels], orBritish and other Cliristian inhabitants, tobe all massacred. Hereafter, parties mIioswore on the Koran, and proved that theyhad taken an active share in the butcheryand pillage of
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