. 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. is kind aloneexplains the absence of any plan for the re-moval of the ladies and children to Kurnaulor INIeerut, instead of suffering them to re-main in the tower from morning till evening,although the obstacles against escape weremultiplying every hour. The length oftime occupied by the Delhi tragedy is notits least painful feature. The mass
. 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. is kind aloneexplains the absence of any plan for the re-moval of the ladies and children to Kurnaulor INIeerut, instead of suffering them to re-main in the tower from morning till evening,although the obstacles against escape weremultiplying every hour. The length oftime occupied by the Delhi tragedy is notits least painful feature. The massacrewas not a general one, but a series of mur-ders, which might have been cut short atany moment by the arrival of a regiment,or even a troop of European cavalry; forthe rebels made no attempt to seize theguns till nearly sunset; nor did any con-siderable body of the Delhi troops join themutineers until after the disorderly flightof the European officers and their total disorganisation was, perhaps, in-evitable ; btit the accounts of raanj^ of thesufferers evidence the absence of any clear f Mrs. Peile, the wife of a lieutenant in the 38th;who had been very ill, and was about leaving Delhion sick leave.—Times, September 25th, TTULAR Kl \1 I \ I 1 L. i-om en lajry Iv J«- paru-adt psJjitjBrU;;goiLfeLiii Abeautiftil specimenofiioLivt; MR. ERASER, CAPTAIN DOUGLAS, AND OTHERS KILLED. 159 understanding between Brigadier Gravesand the officers commanding Native corps. To form a just idea of the events ofthis miserable day, they must be detailed,as far as possible, in the order of theiroccurrence. The next victim after , was the commissioner, Mr. Eraser;and the only circumstantial account of hisdeath yet published, is given by a nativeeye-witness, whose narrative, corroboratedin various essential points by the officialdocuments, serves to relieve what theJournal des Dtbats terms their * incom-parable aridity/ Early in the morning
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