ed state of the country. Jodhpore was the centre of several lines of communication which were kept open by the energetic measures of the executive officers in that part of the country. Another digression in the narrative gives an account of the mutiny of the Jodhpore Legion at Erinpoora, and the attack on Mount Abo». The first accounts of the latter occurrence received at Jodhpore proved to be grossly exaggerated. The Erinpoora mutiny was a more serious affair. Lieutenant Conolly, the Adjutant of the Jodhpore Legion, was the ouly European in Erin. poora with the exception of some sergeants and their families. The false and exaggerated accounts of the attack on Mount Aboo which reached Erinpoora, fanned the flame of rebellion, which was already flickering, Lieutenant Conolly was in a dangerous position. He did all that was in his power to restrain his men but they were uncontrollable. On the day of the mutiny many of the mutineers were for taking his life which they would have done had not one or two of them, among whom was the well known Abbas Ali, interposed in his favour. The next day the sergeants and their families were allowed to go, but Conolly was carried off. The following details of this officer's escape are given in his own words, extracted from a letter to Captain Black :-

"At Doola they had three or four rows-councils they called themabout me. At last, Mihrwan Sing and the other beauties, seeing Abbas Ali would not give me up, said I might go solus. Next morning, they sent again to say, no, I should not go. However, Abbas Ali and his men surrounded my charpoy all night; we none of us slept, and on the morning of the 27th, when the force was ready, the guns were loaded, the infantry shouldered arms, and I was brought up. I was told to ride to the front; poor Dokul Sing, the havildar-major, and some others, ran out Blubbering; Abbas Ali and Abdool Ali, rode up on each side, made me low salaams, and tod me to ride for it; that notasowar should be allowed to interfere with my retreat. My three sowars, who, I have forgotten to say, had stuck to me as if I had been their brother since the very beginning, by a preconcerted plan, were ordered to see me off a little way. I could not help giving a farewell wave of the hand to the infantry in irony; they shouted and laughed, the band struck up, and that is the last I saw of the legion. I rode right in to Erinpoora with three sowars; I came straight here, and the people seemed ready to eat me with joy. The names of the three sowars are, Nusseeroodeen, second troop; Elahu Bux, third troop (the man who used to ride my grey); and Momin Khan, first troop. They left everything behind, and, I must say, are three as fine fellows as I wish to see. By-the-by, the cavalry said if I would agree to turn Mussulman, to a man they would follow me. Very kind of them. They offered me money when I was coming away, and also on the march. I took twenty rupees from Abbas Ali; now I wish I had taken my pay: they twice offered it.”

This man, Abbas Ali, made an offer to Captain Monck Mason, the political agent at Jodhpere, to desert with a large body of his own

cavalry and the guns to Jodhpore, if he and his comrades were pardone and reinstated in the service of Government. There was no time to communicate with a higher authority, and so Captain Mason was obliged to decline accepting this offer in consequence of the Government order that no officer was to treat with rebels as long as they had arms in their hands. One of the Thakoors under the Raja of Jodhpore, the Thakoor of Awah, was at this time in rebellion against his feudal lord. These petty rebellions were very frequent in Rajpootana. The Judhpore Legion had to pass near the Thakoor's fort on their way to Pallee. The Thakoor had sent an emissary to Captain Mason to arrange terms between himself and the Raja, in which case he, the Thakoor, would lend his aid against the rebels. Captain Mason had no authority to interfere without the Raja's advice, but the emissary refused to treat with the Raja. The consequence was that the Thakoor of Awah made common cause with the mutineer, and waged open war with the Raja and the British Government. A body of the Raja's troops was accordingly sent to lay siege to Awah.under the command of Anar Sing, a brave and and favourite officer. The Raja's troops were very lukewarm in the cause they were supposed to fight for and nothing could be done. Captain Mason went out from Jodhpore to the camp to encourage them, and the result was that he was killed. He was a favourite with all who knew him, and his death at this critical juncture was an irreparable logs. Meanwhile Brigadier General Lawrence had been besieging Awah with 150 men of the H. M.'s 83rd, three guns, a portion of the Mhair warra battalion and the 1st Bombay Lancers. This was about the middle of September. Had General Lawrence been supported by the Raja's troops we might have taken Awah, but with so small a body of Europeans and reliable native soldiers it is not to be wondered at that he did not think himself justified in storming the place, and he retreated; soon after this the mutineers went off to Delhi leaving the Thakoor and his men in the fort of Awah, which was evacuated in January 1858 when besieged by Colonel Holmes and his column. In October news reached Jodhpore of the murder of Major Burton and his sons at Kotah of which Mr. Prichard gives the following account:

"One day in October we were startled by the intelligence of the treacherous assault on Major Burton. political agent at Kotah, and the murder of that officer, his two sons, and the medical man attached to the agency. In many of the published accounts of this transaction, the Kotah Contingent

was described as having enacted this tragedy, but this was a mistake into which certainly no Indian writer ought to have fallen. The men who attacked and killed Major Burton were the king's regular troops-a body of soldiers entirely distinct from the Contingent, which was drilled and commanded by British officers, and which mutiuied, as before related, at Ama on the 5th July. Major Burton had returned with his two sons to Kotal, from Neemuch, where they had been residing, upon the assurance of the Raja that a residence at Kotah would not be attended with danger, and from a desire to be at his post. The day following his return he was surprised by hearing a great noise, as of a multitude approaching from the direction of the city towards the Agency. At first he supposed it was a procession coming out to welcome him back, but he was soon undeceived, for it turned out to be a large body of the king's troops coming to attack the Agency. They brought guns down to bear upon the place. Major Burton and his two sons retired to the top of the house, where they defended themselves for several hours against the host of cowardly assailants, but were at length overpowered, and cut to pieces."

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At length Mr. Prichard was enabled to relinquish his Post Office du. ties and resolved to leave Jodhpore with his wife and as many as were desirous of going to Bombay, by way of Hydrabad and Sind. nant Tyrwhitt accompanied the party with a strong escort composed chiefly of Sind Police and Beloochees. Their way lay across the barren deserts of Sind, and the journey, though relieved by many a pleasant incident, was by no means free from inconvenience and danger. The following is a graphic description of the scene the party presented as they wound their way over those lonely regions:

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"On moonlight nights our caravan looked most picturesque, and I often cantered off the road, to the summit of the rising ground at a little distance, to watch it winding along below me : the wild-looking escort of their camels and horses, covered with gaudy trappings; the matchlocks and steel, wherever visible, glittering in the moon's rays; the long line of carts wending their way is single file; then the flanking parties, mostly on camels, and the quaint 'ruts', with their pyramidal coverings, the motley group following in the rear, amid which the elephant towered like a large ship among a fleet of little boats, all passed below me like a panorama, while ever and anon the sound of laughter or the chorus of some rollicking song, swept through the clear, bright air, and fell, mellowed by distance, on the ear; while all around, far as the eye could reach, stretched an interminable waste of desert, stunted shrubs, and undulating ground, unblessed by a single spot of verdure or cultivation, or a single trace of human habitation. There is something glorious in the intense solitude of the desert, a feeling akin to that one experiences on the sea shore There is a charm in the very luxury of desolation, a music in the very intensity of silence, not even the wailing howl of the jackal being there to interfere with the solemn stillness that reigns over everything. One can easily imagine how it was that in ancient times, when men thought it a duty to leave the only place where they could do their duty-that is, the busy world, where man meets man in the daily struggle of life-and waste their intellectual energies in contemplation, they chose the solitude of the desert for their resort. There is little

indeed to admire during the day, when the unclouded sun lights up every thing with a distressing and monotonous glare, but at night, when the starsshine brightly through the clear atmosphere, or the moon sheds her gentle rays upon the scene of solitude, a man can feel the littleness of earthly things, for there is nothing external at all events to intervene between his soul and God."

After arriving at Hydrabad the difficult part of the journey was over, the remaining two days of it being performed in a steamer which landed the whole party at Kurrachee. Mr. Prichard there found every thing in a state of excitement; the town was full of strangers who arrived from all parts, and of troops which had just arrived from England. Having sent his family on to Bombay, Mr. Prichard attached himself to H. M's 7th Royal Fusiliers and marched with them to the Punjaub.

To all who read the volume we have thus briefly sketched its merits will be evident. The style is one distinguished by good taste. Some books on the mutinies are written in such a careless off hand manner that readers are naturally disgusted with them; others are vitiated by egotism and conceit; from these faults Mr. Prichard's book is free. The account of the important events he described is here and there agreeably relieved by light an cheerful descriptions that find an appropriate place in personal narratives, and that have within the last few years become a sine qua non in all books on general subjects which meet with the favour of the public.

The Bible for the Pandits: The first three Chapters of Genesis diffusely and unreservedly commented in Sanscrit and English, by James R. Ballantyne, LL. D. Madden: London. Lazarus: Benares. 1860.

THIS, we presume, is Dr. Ballantyne's farewell to India, though not (we trust) to Indian literature. In his new position at the India House Library, he will have ample opportunities of working out the design, of which the pamphlet we are noticing is the first instalment ;an annotated translation into Sanscrit of such leading portions of the Bible as may furnish a connected view of the nature and ground-work of our Holy Faith.

During his fourteen years' residence in India, Dr. Ballantyne has been gradually clearing his way to this great end. Soon after his arriSEPTEMBER, 1860.

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val he sat down to the task of enucleating the meaning of the several schemes of Hindu philosophy. His editions of the popular Text Books of the different Schools are well-known and appreciated. He next edited, for the use of the Pandits, some European Treatises, (as Whateley's Logic and Rhetoric, and Berkeley on the Principles of Human Knowledge,) which appeared likely to interest them and win their confidence. He then gave them a "Synopsis of Science," employing the genera! method of arrangement with which they were already familiar from their study of the Nyaya. The "Synopsis" after leading the student up to a discussion of the nature of Historical Evidence, concluded; "Let professing Revelations be examined." This was the end of his first cycle of teaching. He next began with a Treatise in which the comparative claims of the Christian and Hindu religions were canvass ed.

This treatise (entitled, "Christianity compared with Hinduism,") which was noticed by us in a recent number, concluded with advising the reader to "Search the Scriptures ;" and to do so, using the prayer; "shew me the truth,-who am seeking it." The annotated “ Bible for Pandits," of which we have now before us a specimen, was the natural sequel to the above Treatise.

How methodically Dr. Ballantyne has proceeded in all this may be best seen, if we quote a passage from his discourse on "Translation into the languages of India" written in 1854, in which he tells us what he conceives should be the ultimate aim of education.

"In designing an educational course, if we are to go to work methodically, systematically, and profitably, then regard must be had to the end and to the means. Where no distinct end, or not the same end, is kept in view by those who take part in a discussion, agreement as to the means is pretty well out of the question. And how can we hope, as Bacon says, to achieve the course if we have not first distinctly fixed the goal? It may be said, indeed, that there are more goals than one, inasmuch as we do not expect all our pupils to go as far as the one who goes the farthest. Be it so; but let us first settle the goal for that one, and then the various stages which the others may content themselves with reaching, will all lie along that more extended course.

"Shall our absolutely ultimate end, then, be the production of a first-rate engineer, or of a valuable revenue officer, or of an accomplished native magistrate? With this I am not prepared to be satisfied. My proposed end is the making of each educated Hindu a Christian,-on principle and conviction. This end, as I propose here to indicate, implies every thing that the amplest course of education can comprise."

The Commentary on the "Three first Chapters of Genesis" is, on the whole, well adapted to the object the writer had in view; which was