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Show Massacre. Iliiwthi? English were En. trapped. Their FiH't and Hands Loped Lop-ed ott'etc. I-ondon, May 26.-Triihink Dispatch -San Francisco Chroiiica Series.-The nr.tsmc-re at M.mipur, lull details of which are now at hand, is assuming greater great-er inioortaiH e as the day for it. discussion discus-sion 111 Paibin-iil ili.iws iiih. All Kn;;-land Kn;;-land is uptvl1'' at m. La loiH-bere and bis Radical followers hope to use ti e damattiuy; tacts as a level to torce the resis nation ol Lord Lansdowne, Governor- General of India There appears to be 110 doubt that Commissioner (Juiuton -as acting by the Vicerov's instructions in attempting to capture Senaputti trea-cli'-rouslv as he came out of 1 Hirdar, or Counsel, 'and that it was only when Man-i Man-i .mis' chief saw the clearest evidence of this that he himself resorted to a similar ourse of decent to get hold of the British Brit-ish otliiers. The Hoops had not expected ex-pected trouble and had come with but or tv roundsof amunition. Aftrr the fight had lasted some time a messenger came from the pa.acc, saying say-ing that Senaputti wished to meet and confer with the commissioner in the tlioroughlate. half way between the palace gate and the residency gale. The English saw their condition was desperate; that a massacre staied them in the face. There was one woman m the party, Airs. Gnmwood, wile of the political agent. Tile late ol women .n liiduu wais is known. WKNT TO THKIR P0OJI. The commissioner decided to go unarmed un-armed and parley with Senaputti. Ac-cordmniy.at Ac-cordmniy.at i o'clock Mr Quinloii.Grim-wood, Quinloii.Grim-wood, VV N Cosmiis, kecrelarv to Mi Ouinlun. Colonel Skene and Lieutenam Suiipjon left the residency tjat-. All I'ne weie unaimeiJ, Having laid aside both their swoids and their pistota. It was a ' brijjltt mooulifclit night, and the anxious English olticcr's and their Ghooika fob lowets, looking over ihe wall of the teg-. teg-. iOcncy. san tliem o down to the main j.(Uj of the .vkll around the palace. Sev t'ral Ahunpuriit met tttctn. Tlieie was 11 short parley, and then the, five Englishmen English-men enleied the gale and disappeared Jroin v e .v. ' ' ihe stuiy oi what then happened I canje sevtia! days afterwards from a nt- ! live. Seoaputli and the c .iinn.ssioner then wa ked apait, talking earnestly. Atierafew iiliuuites Senaputti called t ie legem and their as moie earnest talk. Then Seuaouui drew himsell up and called out a command in a loud f.an- tiy voice. " ,"' ! At once a swarm of Manjpuiis fell up- ; fj,x Uie live Euiopeans and bound them ' baud and foot. The live lought desper- j ately to avoid ihe horrible Oeatli t.ity ': knevv awaited them, but it was a useless f fiht ol bare hands against amis. Tli j k eovei powered and b ,und. Tlie Mai ipuri executioners were called and st wd ivitn drawn swords near the rive met. standing bound. The Mauipuri soldieio stood about, glaring at the hated Europeans. Euro-peans. . A HoKRlUI.E SCEJKE. The form of Senaputti was seen in tht full moonlight. His arms were loldeo an. I Ins face showed all the maliguain . brutality of bis character. The moon wasso bright that eveiy movement could be seen. He gave the word and tht blades swept m a semiciicle downward Tney cut through the bones of the ar.kl' es, and Uw live E iropearji fell t j tlu ground footless. Again, the signal, anc Uie reddening blades had cut oil tile , bound hauds.so that the bleeding stump.- (ell free at the sides. A tmrd signal.and the five heads were severed from tht body. One or two of the Englishmen were unconscious, but the native win told it said he saw one of the sahibs watch the blade decending to sever his bead Horn bis body. The Senaputti kick-pd kick-pd one of the bodies and then ordered 1 the servants to take them away, lhev were cut into pieces and thrown into .1. i,o-lome wliere the -royal kennels are, and the fierce clogs ate them ' When the excutiou was accomplished '. a gieat shout went up from 1000 Mani pun soldiers who were watching. It was heard at Ihe residency, but was not un: Ueistood- The (acts weie learned later. ESCAPE OF ARE GHOORKAS. The remnant ol the Ghoorka troops with a few British officersaud Mrs.Grun-wood, Mrs.Grun-wood, succeeded in tetreating to Gher-ao-hat but ot the 400 who started on exhibition only 100 returned, T he stor ol Mrs Grimeood's escape 'reads like a chapter from the histoiy oi the great Jepoy rebellion. She had on only a pan of house shoes when she started, and they gave out in a day or two by contact con-tact with the jaed stones. They had to right almost every foot of the way At leangth they met a conipay of Ghoor kas sent to their relief, Tlie Mampuns used English bugle calls, and as it was eht time, the English oflicers could ..11 ...w.hr ihe n-.lief oarty ere Mat.iin.ns or Ghootkas ... the British Be vice. Tlie commanding olhcer said to M.sGrimwond "I have only two Cauridges lefc if they are er.ermes, on- oMheiii is for vuU'" TUe'r suW.l,es ' had also given out, and Ihey were ma most deplo.abie condition. |