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५३० सं. २२ पृ. ११५ "It is certain, however that if this sudden rising in all parts of India had found the English unpropared, but few of our people had escaped this swift destruction. It would then have been the hard task of the British to reconquer India or else to suffer our Eastern Empire to pass into an ignominious tradition." Malleson Vol. V. "The calamitious revolt at Meerut vas, however, of signal service to us in one respect, in as much as it was a premature outbreak which disarranged the proconcerted plan of simultaneous mutiny of Sepoys all over the country settled to take place on Sunday the 31st May 1857 "—White's History page 17. सं. २३ पृ १२२ "From this combined and simultaneous massacre on the 31st of May 1857, wo were, humanly speaking, saved by the frail ones of the Bazaar. The mine had been prepared and the train had been laid. and it was not intended to light the slow match for another three weeks. The spark which fell from the female lips ignited it at once and the night of the 10th May saw the commencement of the tragedy never before witnessed since India passed under British sway."-J.C. Wilson's official Narrative. “However much of cruelty and bloodshed thero was, the tales, wbich gained currency, of dishonour to ladies, were, 80 far as my observation and enquiries went, devoid of any satisfactory proof"-Hon. Sir Wm. Muir E. C. S. I., Head of the Intelligence Department. सं. २४ पृ. १३२ "Officers as they went to sit on the court-martial swore that they would hang their prisoners, guilty of innocent, and, if he dared to lift up his voice against such indiscriminate vengeance, he was instantly silenced by the olamours of his angry comrades. Pri
