Two Months in Arrah in 1857

41 appearanceto the scene ; but thoperi edraitit the mtid walls the dirt and wretched appearan% ofsome of the inhabitanVigive ample evidence of a darker side to the picture ; indeed it woult be difficult to find more onistrable habitationl.thai the hips pf the tilorer community in thii 211ild other riltivettown'st or fitter nurfebes14 4:contagion and cNset.se„ _. „ -iytger extending fo‘abol [...] station in the evening and frequently traeielled algnebx fp ANIceen dak to other diallicts„.tileilih the native population was of a fierce: and turbuleab cittracter and disputes to fights were of evefr ayoceurrence : desperate wounds and loss of life 4) frequently attendecrthese rencontr p ; the services of the civil suPletati were in continuale..tiest. [...] After breakfast on the morning of the 17th an anonymous conimutication was foul on the table sin the Judge's office; and singularry enough all the information' conqtaeil in it afterwards prtvgd to 6 becorrrct: The letter stateel that AliKurreem ( a milted Zeminctar of Gya who htc1 latterly mad% has escape 'fcom Patna in eonNuence of the dis-.covery of a Weasonable corwsRpncleltce. [...] Wake the Magistrate of Arrah was from the buoyancy of his spirits the life and spul of our Opa ity and.a great. [...] "Finally on the fifth.day of the siege the fillows hoisted up ont of the guns on the 'top of the large latu;eapposite which was raaier Serious' as a shot could now be sent over Our defeeces right into the middle of us.