The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-16 00:00:00

THE SECOND SIEGE OF CATTNPOIgE, The following letter from an eye-witness of the events which have recently occurred at Cawnpore has been forwarded to us for publication : " CAWNPORE CAMP, DEC. 3. " As I was leaving Futtehpore, a place about 40 miles further down, on the 25th ult., the magistrate advised me to remain for a day at least, as the Gwalior rebels were supposed to be on the road near Cawnpore. I left next day with the bullock train, accompanying a detachment of 102 Riflemen under command of Capt. A—, and by 9 o'clock on the morning of the 27th I overtook Col. about eight miles from Cawnpore, with 300 of the 2d battalion of Rifles. I intended to put myself under his escort for the remainder of the journey, but he had an important message to convey to Gen. Windham, and as I had a horse vehicle I came on at ence with the message. " The 12 o'clock gun struck as I reached the in trenchment, and this was followed by a general cannonade. General Windham had gone out to meat the enemy, and I was directed to Brigadier Wilson, as com manding-officer in the intrenchment. When I had delivered my message he sent for Cap tain Morphy, the brigade-major, to whom I re peated it. Capt. Morphy advised me to take up my quarters at the hotel. As I sat there, after a comfortable breakfast, a doolie was brought up to the verandah. The man in it had his head shat tered, and was roaring. It was a horrid spectacle— my first glimpse of military glory. The roar of artillery and the sharp crack of rifles; continued, aud I proceeded to the gate of the fort to see why my baggage had not come after me. Between the fort and the hotel the garrison provost (who told me he had had the pleasure of flogging and superin tending the hanging of several miscreants concerned in the massacre), showed me the house and veran dah bespattered with blood where the ladies and children were murdered by order of Nana Sahib— the tree against which the poor children' were dashed—and the hideous well, now closed up, into which the mutilated and reeking bodies were cast. On the wall of the house I found an inscription with a pin by one of the murdered women. I copied it :—" Countrymen and women, remember the 15th of July, 1857. Your wives and families are here in misery and at the disposal of savages, who has [sic] ravished both young and old, and then killed. Oh, oh, my child, my child. Countrymen, revenge it." The underlining is in the original. " On arriving at the gate of the fort I found that the people, civil and military, were rushing from their houses and tents with whatever clothes and furniture they could snatch up. I ordered. my garry-waggon into the fort. The driver went away with the horse, and I saw him no more. He lett the vehicle in a most exposed place, but I could not get it moved afterwards, as it was heavy. " 3.20 r.m.—Saw our troops retreating into the outer intrenchment. A. regular panic followed. Trains of elephants, camels, horses, bullock-wag gons, and coolies came in at the principal gate, laden with stuff. The principal buildings in the Fort are the General Hospital, the Sailors' Hospi tal, the Post-office, and the Commissariat-Cellers. Around these houses, which are scattered, crowds of camels, bullocks, and horses were collected, fas tened by ropes to stakes in the ground, and among the animals piles of trunks, beds, chairs, and mis cellaneous furniture and baggage. There was scarcely room to move. The Fort may cover three or four acres, I should say, Met one of the chap lains, hastening into the intrenchment. He had left everything in his tent outside. The servants almost everywhere abandoned their masters when they heard the guns. Mounted officers were gal loping across the rough ground between the inner and outer intrenchments, and doolie after doolie, with its red curtains down, concealing some poor victim, passed on to the hospitals. The poor fele lows were brought in, shot, cut, shattered, and wounded in every imaginable way ; and as they went by, raw stumps might be seen hanging over the sides of the doolies, literally like torn butcher meat. The agonies which I saw some of them en dure during the surgical operations were such as no tongue or pen can describe. The surgeons, who did their utmost, were so overworked that many sufferers lay bleeding for hours before it was possi ble to attend to them. Here and there, both out side the hospitals and within them, a man lay on his bloody litter breathing out his life. The groans aud cries were heartrending. I saw one sailor carried in a litter on the shoulders of four men ; he was severely wounded but kept up his spirits amazingly, and spoke to his comrades as he passed quite jo cularly. lik"But I must be brief, else I shall lose the The retreat is thus explained. General Windham, who repulsed the enemy yesterday, went out to-day about noon to attack the three divisions of the Gvralioi rebels under Nana Sahib. Windham was routed, I regret to say, and lot his camp with 500 tents, the mess•plate of six regiments, no end of tents, saddlery, and harness in an unfinished state, and private property valued at 50,0001. So it is said. He left his flank exposed, and made no pro ♦ision for the safety of his camp. This has been a most disastrous affair. Felt the want of something to eat in the evening, but could procure only some biscuit from the commissariat. Slept in my waggon. "SATURDAY, _Nov. 28. "9.40 A. • m• —Heavy firing cn our right. " 9.50 A.3l.—Heav - yfirini on our left. "11.15 A. `r.—Brigadier Wilson has been carried into his tent mortally wounded, shot through the back and left lung. He lived for two hours, and then calmly sunk to his rest. His last moments proved him to be a hero and a Christian. The chaplain remained with him till he died, " The conduct of the 64th Regiment this morn ing has justly excited admiration. Brigadier Wilson asked General Windham to allow him to charge the enemy with the 64th, of which he was colonel. Permission was granted. The regiment advanced in the face of the enemy, and under a murderous fire, for more than half-a-mile, up a ravine com manded by high ground in front as well as on the right and left. From the ridge in front four 9-pounders played upon them as they went forward. The left flank of the Gwalior rebels reqted on the Ganges, and their guns were protected by dense columns of troops, who lay under cover, and were strongly supported by cavalry on their left. After disputing every inch of the ground their front line was driven back by the steady and determined fire of the 64th. It then appeared that overwhelming numbers of the hostile force lay concealed in three or four parallels behind. These rose and met the 64th as soon as the foremost officers, Major Stirling, Captain Saunders, Captain Morphy, Captain Macrae,, Lieut. Parsons, Lieut. O'Grady, and others reached the crest of the ridge, and charged upon the guns followed by the column. Major Stirling fell gloriously in front of the battery. fighting hand to hand with the enemy, of whom he killed several. Captain Morphy was shot through the heart, and seemed to bound from his saddle, falling heavily upon his head. Captain Macrae also met his fate like a soldier with his face to the foe. Captain Saunders, commanding the leading divi sion, dashed forward, followed by Parsons and O'Grady. Parsons instantly received a severe wound in the sword atm. O'Grady cheered the men on, waving his cap in the air, until he had the honour of laying his hand on one of the guns. The regiment took up the cheer, and hurried on to th e support of Saunders and O'Grady, now fiercely en gaged in personal conflict wrth the Gwaliors. The fine old Brigadier (whose horse, wounded in two places, carried him with difficulty over the rough ground (was pushing on with all possible speed to the front, shouting, "Now, boys, you have them !" when he rece i ve d hi s mor t a l wound. As he was un able to keep his seat in the saddle, some of his brave fellows carried him to the rear, while he continued to urge the troeps to maintain the honour of the corps. At this juncture the enemy fell back on their reserve, which lay concealed in the parallels behind. Then occurred one of those blunders which neutralise the effect of the bravest actions. Two of our own guns opened fire on the 64th Regiment from the left - , and at the same instant the enemy's cavalry, together with t h e overwhelming force of infantry in front poured down upon the right, and compelled our troops to re ti re. Strange to say, Captain Saunders, and (I b e li eve ) Lieut. O'Grady escaped unhurt. After the death o f Brigadier Wilson and Major Stirling Captain Saunders became the senior officer present, and his con spicuous gallanty to-day deserves not only honour able mention, but such reward as a soldier covets. The hospital to-diey is a perfect Aceldama. "SUNDAY, Nov. 29. "At dawn great guns an •eo b to play upon us. , So , )n a ft erwar d s t h e canno nade became general, and by 7 a.m. i t was soinGthiv,,cr tremendous—shot and shell flyingrover us in all directions. " 8.30 A.. 74. —Good news! Sir Coliu Uampoell with a strong r4inforeement, and 470 women andchildren fromLtick-now are on the other side of the . Ganges, w hi ch flows under ' the northern parapet of our intrenchment. The troops with the Com mander-in-Chief, ssid to number 3,000, are much needed here to-clay. Looking over the wall for an instant (it is not very safe to show one's head) I see two bodies of horsemen in advance, and au ex tended line of troops, elephants, camels, bullock waggons, and camp follow, stretchi ng far away to the horizon. The bang e in rs g of our o at our ears is most deafening. Grape wn guns just and round shot have been falling on the tree close to our tent. Some shells, I believe, have fallen on the hospital, which is, unfortunately, much exposed. Every square foot of the floor and verandah of the Gene red with wounded officers and ral Hospital is cove men. "11.40 A. 31. —Horse Artillery, 9th Lances, 32d, sed the bridge of glad to sea the 53d, and 93d Regiments have cr .ls boats below our Fort. lieart n : v kilts, the plumes, a nd the tartan. May God de fend, direct, and bless my brave,countrymen ! Such a Sunday I Two she ll s have just whizzed over our heads. "Fall in, 82d 1" is the cry. We hope the advance with fixed bayonets is now to be made, as the rebels are taking shelter under some ruined houses. The hotel is in flames. " 12 NooN.—Grape, round shot, mad rifle bullets rushing ever us in slight showers. A round shot has crashed through the big tree beside us. "IP. m. —This is exciting. Another large round shot over our heads. They have not quite got our range. Fortunately the parapet protects us in some degree. Bang ! another over us ! Again— again—again (a shell this time and burst). Our guns on the parapet are answering them, so that the earth trembles. A person has come into the tent saying, " We have killed loads of the enemy." The more the better, we all think. The artillery is beautifully directed by Captain Dangerfield and others on the parapets. " 2.15 P.M.—The cannonade has paused for half an hour. I hear Lucknow soldiers and their old comrades exchanging areetings and congratulations in their rough but hearty style, and counting over the dead and the wounded of their acquaintance. " 2.35 P. M.—Cannonade commenced again, The Rifles have not ceased all day. Colonel Fyers and his men have done good service. They went into action on Friday as soon as they reached Cawn pore although they had marched 48 miles almost withouti halting, and some wore lame, many foot sore, and all weary. Their arrival seemed to be the means of saving the Fort, when our other troops were in full retreat. Colonel Woodford, an ex cellent officer, with whom I came from Benares to Allahabad, was killed in a hand-to-hand fight in the field yesterday. The church, lam just informed, was burnt last night by the enemy ; and the Assem bly-rooms and School have been burnt to-day. There is a dense column of smoke ascending from the town, about half-a-mile off. - "4 P. 3f.—One of the ladies from Lucknow has come in, and M— and I have given up the tent to her. She has a most touching story to tell, and she tells it most effectively. She gave us in half an hour what might be the substance of an interesting volume. She and her husband have lost their all. "5.30 P.M.—The scene from the verandah of the General Hospital is at this moment one never to be forgotten. A procession of human beings, cattle and vehicles, six miles long, is coming up to the bridge of boats below the Fort. It is just about sunset. The variety of colour in the sky and on the plain, the bright costumes and black faces of the native servants, the crowd of camels and horses, and the piles of furniture, and so forth, in the fore ground at my feet—all seen between two pillars of this verandah, which is raised some 8 or 10 feet from the ground—produce a very remarkable effect. But the groans of the poor fellows on charpoys and the floor, behind and around me, dissolve the fas cination of the scene. " Sept again in my waggon." The following are extracts from letters of the widow of an officer killed at Lucknow :-- "Lucknow, Oct. 4. " My dearest —,—l hope you may have heard of the blow which has fallen upon us before my letter reaches you, for I cannot soften the miserable tidings. Your brother is gone, I trust and believe, to a happier world, and in all human probability his chield and I shall soon follow him. I cannot attempt to tell yon of our 3 months' siege and all its horrors. My husband was, as always, the foremost where anything difficult and dangerous work was to be done, and when on Sir H. Law rence's death he was appointed Chief Commissioner neither I nor others could persuade him to remem ber his own peril enough. He died nobly, leading on the Europeans to repel a furious attack on an outpost. Those who were near told me that the bullet struck his temple, and that he fell back with out a groan. . . . After three months of siege relief came to us, but the force sent was not strong enough to take away the number of wounded of the women and children that are here, and to-night they march back to Cawnpore, leaving us with a slight aug. mentation of our garrison, but with a fearfully diminished stock of food, and with an enemy who will be much emboldened by their retreat. Gen. Outram hopes to return in six weeks with 10,000 men, but we have had too much experience of how slowly relief can be afforded in this country to look very hopefully on the prospect. . . . The defences of the place are very weak now, and the enemy outside are said to muster in greater number than ever. We have heard top much of the tragedies at Cawnpore and elsewhere not to dread the fate that awaits us if they succeed in carrying the place, and our other danger is want of food, which, should the army be unable to return, we shall be in the utmost distress for. Thank God, I can feel assured all is well and wisely ordered, though very bitter has been the trial.—Your affectionate sister, " E. H. B." " P.S. Oct. s.—The troops did not go last night, for our men got possession of a good many houses during the day ; and, I believe, the General is going to wait a little longer and see if there is any hope of our sufficiently commanding the road to get in supplies, so our prospects are a shade brighter. It may please God yet to save us, and truly it will be a marvellous deliverance. That it is all right and ordered for the best I know, and that it will be so to the end." " Dil Koost Park, outside Lucknow, November 22. " My dearest —.law, We are at length released from our long siege. On the 19th all women and children left the Residency, and the same night reached this place, about four miles, and scarcely two from my old house. I cannot attempt to de scribe all the horrors of that first march, under a burning sun, en foot, and in many places exposed to a heavy ire. My child and I have been brought safely through it. We are encamped hero until the military plans have been settled. Many think that Lucknow must be abandoned for the present, and that the whole force will soon join us here and march back to Cawnpore : a few days must show. I must hope that the papers will give you all pub lic intelligence and help you to understand my letters, for I have neither time nor heart to enter upon a detail of the last five dreadful months. When we meet, if please God we ever do, I shall be able to tell it all ; I cannot write it. . . . The poor children have been dep r i ve d o f m ilk and every proper food for:theirt. The air we have been breath ing was tainted by the dead natives and animals uninterred close to our walls, and for certainly two months of the siege the daily return of young child ren buried in the graveyards at Lucknow must have averaged seven a-night. It is a melancholy sight that graveyard ; in one corner close together lie poor Sir Henry, my darling Sherbrooke, and our chaplain (Polehanipton), who died of cholera. If any garrison remain, one of his friends has pro mised to get a stone put :up for me to mark the spot ; but if the place be abandoned its only mark will be in my recollection ; and I even could go to it only once, and that by night, the musketry fire was so incessant there. " Some time ago, when General Havelock's force came in, I wrote you a letter, which I enclose in this ; it never had the opportunity of going, but it will give you some idea of what our state was at that time, and of the little anticipation I then had of ever leaving Lucknow. The resolution which had then been taken of sending the force back to Cawnpore was given up. Two or three days after some wheat and some bullocks were brought in by a sallying party, and, though not much, it enabled us to hold out a good deal longer on half i rations than we otherwise could have done. When Sir C. Campbell came with real relief we were taken out with 24 hours' notice. . . . Surely, such fearful events as have passed here in the last few months have scarcely occurred before in the history of the world. The accounts given of the Cawnpore tragedy by officers now with this army are dreadful, beyond anything one can imagine ; and the sight I have witnessed in Lucknow can never be forgotten. " Your affectionate sister, "E. H. B." A private telegraphic notice states that the writer of the above had arrived safe with her child at Allahabad. The following is from another eye-witness : " Cawnpere Dec. 2. Some " P a e c r e h o a u p n s t t s h t i h s a l n e tittesr pred e b e e e s m s o o r r s o . a c m c e y p t l a a s h t l e w o as n penned while great events were going on—this while still grea t er are on th e h or izon ; and the interval has not been pas•ed without a great sheet in the history of this rebellion. Before my letter had winged its flight beyond the office-box Wind ham had made himself master of the two 8-inch howitzers, taken from the enemy, and the game had co n mmenced by our marking the king and counti two for the trick. This occurred beyond the canal on the Culpee-road, some six miles. On the following day Windham withdrew his camp in the direction of the city of Cawnpore, with high brick-kilns on either side, and the town close be hind him. "About 11 the enemy came on, and with a very extended line quite outflanked us on b o th s i des. The fire was heavy, but not very accurate, as the loss on our side was nothing ; but the day began with disaster, and things never mended. "The detachment Naval Brigade, in charge of two 24-pounders, iron guns, abandoned their guns when the enemy were 1,100 yards off, and left them standing on the road for others others to bring in. The enee:y got round Wind ham's right, and into cantonments while the fight asgoing on i n f ront. An a l arm was s p r ead through all, and a retreat was sounded. Helter skelter, all came tumbling back into the fort. One of the 24-pounders got upset in the town and left behind, and the chaos of the intrenchment at night fall was beyond parallel. Colonel Adye and Capt. Austin crept out at midnight with 100 men into the heart of the city, and succeeded in recovering the 24 pounder, and brought it back, or it would now be in the enemy's hands. The following day an advance of skirmishers took place, and extended over an immense radius. The Rifles succeeded in capturing two 18-pounders, but the right advance was not so fortunate. Wilson, the Brigadier, was shot at the head of his regiment, the Brigade-Major fell with him ; also the Quartermaster-General, as well as Major Stirling, commanding the 64th ; and this force was forced to retire, leaving its dead and wounded behind, with the exception of the Briga dier, who just lived half-an-hour after reaching his tent. The following day the troops were so fagged as to be forced to confine themselves in the intrench ment, the enemy closing in upon us, aud opening fire on the works. Fortunately, the chief on;his way back from Bunnee heard the firing and pushed on with all speed, crossing himself that evening and his force the following morning, the fourth day. Owing to the ladies and wounded, we have been inactive for now four days. The rebels are some 500 yards outside the works, and fire at us as it suitstheirpleasure, selecting the hospital principaly, which they have hit several times. Musketry goes on all night, and artillery at tunes. As I write an occasional round shot goes over, or into, the camp. " You will hear how some regiments behaved. All the camp fell into the enemy's hands, and the tents burnt, and we have now only 100 to issue for all comers ! All the Gwalior Contingent is here, some 12,000 men. " What Sir Colin intends to do is a mystery ; but we wait from hour to hour, from day to day, for some move. All are anxious, as you may suppose, and the loss will be heavy, no doubt. I can add no more at present, save that I am well." The following is from another officer : " Cawnpore, Dec. 2. " We have had awful work here, the Gwalior Contingent having come down. The 64th charged some guns in the most gallant manner, but being entirely unsupported' were almost cut up. Col. Wilson, Major Stirling, Captains Morphy and M'Crea, and Lieut. M'Kinnon, have all fallen. M'Crea, who was acting quartermaster-general, led the charge, and was to have got a Victoria Cross had he succeeded (? survived.) Stirling spiked a gun and was cut down. The poor old colonel, who was brigadier here, was brought in in a dying state, and his last words were, Tell the general that I died leading on my regiment to glory We are besieged here in the intrenched camp by these Gwalior fellows, who pitch shot and shell into us. Sir Colin with his camp is about a mile from here, so they occasionally get stirred up by an occasional shot to rouse them. Shute and the remainder of the Lucknow party are hero all right." THE RETREAT FROM LUCKNOW. OFFICIAL DESPATCH. Head-quarters, Camp, Alumbagh, Nov. 25. My Lord—ln continuation of my report on the 18:1, I have the honour to apprise your lordship that the left rear of my position was finally secured on the night of the 17th inst, by the building called Banks' House having been seized by a party of the 2d Punjaub Infantry (Sikhs) specially employed for that purpose. Brigadier Russell and Lieutenant-Colonel Hale distinguished themselves much in completing the chain of posts on the 17th and 18th in that direc tion ; the enemy having been very vigilant on that point, and kept up an unceasing fire on all the buildings occupied by Brigadier Russell, and on the barrack occupied by 300 of the Highlanders under Lieut.-Col. Ewart. Brigadier Russell having been unfortunately se verely wounded on the afternoon of the 18th inst., I placed the lamented Col. Biddulph in command of his line of posts. Ho was killed almost imme diatly afterwards, when making his dispositions for the attack of the hospital. Captain Bourchier, of the Bengal Artillery, dis tinguished himself by the intelligent and able sup port he afforded Lieut.-Colonel Hale, her Majesty's 821 Foot, on that officer succeeding Colonel Biddulph. These very difficult and tedious operations, con ducted as they were under a most galling fire, in cramped suburbs, reflect much credit on all the officers and men concerned, and secured the position. The same afternoon the enemy made a smart attack on the pickets covering the centre of the line. I supported him with a company of her Majesty's 23d and another of her Majesty's 53d Foot, not having any more infantry at my disposal. Captain Remmington's troop of Horse Artillery was brought up and dashed right into the jungle with the leading skirmishers, and opened fire with extraordinary rapidity and precision. Captain Remmington distinguished himself very much. I superintended this affair myself, and I have particular pleasure in drawing your lordship's at tention to the conduct of this troop on this occasion, as an instance of the never failing readiness and quickness of the Horse Artillery of the Bengal service. During the next three days I continued to hold the whole of the country from the Dilkoosha, to the gates of tho Residency, the left flank have been secured in the manner above mentioned, with a view to extricating the garrison without exposing it to the chance of even a stray musket shot. From the first, all the arrangements have been conducted towards this end. The whole of the force under my immediate command being one outlying picket, every man remained on duty, and was constantly subject to annoyance from the enemy's fire ; but such wore the vigilance and in telligence of the force, and so heartily did all rank.; co-operate to support me, that I was enabled to conduct this affair to a happy issu e , exac tly in th e manner originally proposed. Upon the 20th fire was opened on the Kaiser bagh, which gradually increased in importance till it assumed the character of regular breaching and bombardment. The Kaiserbagh was breached in three places by Captain Peel, RN., and I have been told that the enemy suffered much loss within its precincts. Having thus led the enemy to believe that imme diate assault was contemplated, orders were issued for the retreat of the garrison through the lines of our pickets at midnight on the 22d. The ladies and families, the wounded, the trea sure, the guns it was thought worth while to keep, the ordnance stores, the grain still possessed by the commissariat of the garrison, and the state pri soners, had all been previously removed. Sir James Outram had received orders to burst the guns which it was thought undesirable to take away, and ho was finally directed silently to evacu ate the residency of Lucknow at the hour indi cated. The dispositions to cover their retreat and to resist the enemy, should he pursue, were ably car ried out by Brigadier Hon. Adrian Hope ; but I am happy to say the enemy was completely de ceived, and he did not attempt to follow. On the contrary, he began firing on our old positions many hours after we had left them. The movement of retreat was admirably executed, and was a perfect lesson in such combinations. Each exterior line came gradually retiring through its supports, till at length nothing re mained but the last line of infantry and guns, with which I was myself to crush the enemy if ho dared to follow up the pickets. The only line of retreat lay through a long and tortuous lane, and all these precautions were abso lutely necessary to ensure the safety of the force. The extreme posts on the left, under Lieutenant- Colonel Hale, her Majesty's 82d ; Lieut.-Colonel Wells, her Majesty's 23d Foot ; and Lieut.-Colonel Ewart, her Majesty's 93d Highlanders, made their way by a road which had been explored for them, after I considered that the time had arrived, with due regard to the security of the whole, that their posts should be evacuated. It was my endeavour that nothing should be left to chance, and the conduct of the officers iu exactly carrying out their instructions was beyond all praise. - During all these operations, from the 16th inst., Brigadier Greathed'i brigade closed in the re tr, and now again formed the rear guard as we retired to Dilkoo,ha. Dilkoosha was reached at four a.m, on the 23d inst. by the whole force. I must not forget to mention the exertions of the cavalry during all the operations which have been described. The exertions of Brigadier Little and Major Ouvry, respectively of the Cavalry Brigade and the 9th Lancers, were unceasing in keeping up our long line of communications, and preserving our extreme rear beyond the Dilkoosha, whi3ll; was constantly threatened. On the 22d the enemy attacked at Dilkoosha, but was speedily driven off under Brigadier Little's orders. The officers commanding the Irregular Cavalry, Lieutenants Watson, Younghusband, Probynj and Gough, as we ll as a ll the officers of the 9th lan cers, were never out of the saddle during all this time, and well maintained:the character they r ave Won thro ug h out t h e war. I mow, with General GrAnt's division to Alum bagh on th e afternoon -Of 'the' 24th,' leaving Sir James Outram's division in position at Dilkoosha, to prevent the molestation of the immense convoy of the women and wounded, which it was necessary fl E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV MING, JANUARY 16, 1858, to transport with us. Sir James Outram closed up this day without annoyance from the enemy. I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient humble servant, C. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in-C:11V. ENTRY OF HAVELOCK'S FORCE INTO LIJCKNOW. The following letter is from a medical officer in Havelock's relieving force, We extract from it an ' account of the attack upon the wounded of the relieving force at the entry into Lucknow. "Late on the evening of Sept. 24, the orders came out, stating dryly and conc i se ly th a t th e ' wounded were to be left at Alumbagh, and the army in the morning should march on Lucknow. We marched about 8 next morning, and a quarter of a mile from our camp we were fairly in action. The shot passed over and about us in a perpetual hum or scream. Luckily they were mostly high. As it was, no human beings could live in it, and advance ; so the column lay down till the artillery had silenced them, and we then got amongst some gardens, with the walls loopholed. We were here shot down like so many sheep, till one man broke through the wall. On every side of me men wore falling. Well, by this time the had stormed and taken a battery which was cutting up our army. Here we lost another officer and many men. We had now overcome the first opposition ; and in a little time we stormed the bridge over the canal, and found ourselves at the entrance of Lucknow. We skirted the suburbs for five miles, shooting great numbers of the insurgents and losing men ourselves. Our route was quite different from what they expected, and accounted for our being able to I force our way. As it was, w e f oun d num b ers o f sepoys in the houses by the way, an d kill e d grea t numbers. By this time it was two o'clock, and we had arrived at about a mile from the Residency. Now commenced the hardest p ar t. Th e enemy h a d possession of a bridge, which we had to cross. On the bridge was a battery of three guns, and there were at different points three other batteries, all bearing on us. The houses, gardens, and buildings all about me were full of the enemy, and we were in such a fire ! I was with the wounded of the —, about 300 yards from the bridge battery. They fired a round of grape at us from one gun, and killed eight of my dooley 'geezers. Altogether I lost 84 dooley bearers that day—killed and wound ed. This out of 394. Of course many wounded soldiers were killed in the palanquins. All round me were people falling ; the shot was tearing huge branches off trees ; throwing up mud in our faces. After a while we had the order to advance ; the old thing did it—the bayonet., and a cheer sent the sepoys where such things did not disturb them. About four in the afternoon the —, now become the rearguard, got into comparative safety in a large building. There we passed the night, and a night of great horror it was, for the wounded of nearly all the regiments were here ; we had of the 140. Remember the whole army was under 3,000, and we had at the lowest calculation opposed to us 40,000 men, fighting behind loopholed walls with great numbers of guns, whilst we were in thestreets Ufa very large town, and were ; being shot down by unseen enemies. I consider our achievement of that day the rashest in history, at the same time the most wonderful. At daybreak the enemy got our range in the building, and kept pouring their shot and shell into us, killing numbers. One poor fel low, an assistant-surgeon in the artillery, was anxi ous for me to assist him in an operation. I was on my way with him to do it ; the shot were whistling all about us. I said, ' Well, Bertram, I wish I could see my way out of this.' Oh,' he said, ' there's no danger whatever.' Next minute he was shot dead beside me. Two minutes before bespoke of the pleasure he expected in rejoining his wife and child at Lucknow. Our situation was now very critical. The enemy were pressing very close, and kept up a storm of shot, shell, and musketry on us. We were cut off from the main body of the army by about a mile, and they could not help us, as they themselves were fighting hard. At last the colonel came to me, and told me that his arrangements were perfected ; he would give me a guard of 150 men, and with them I was to get the wounded into the entrenched camp as I best could. I got the wounded ready in a string, and after a long breath I left the building. For 200 yards the enemy did us no harm, but here we had to cross a deepish river —it took me nearly up to my chest ; and such afire we got into here. Some of the wounded were drowned, some killed, but most got across ; and on we went to a street where we were promised comparative safety. Our escort preceded us, firing all the way ; but they had really no chance, they were shot down right and left. When I got to the entrance of the street 1 found a number of them lying dead, and most of the others had rushed on for their lives. On looking round I found that the palanquin bearers were being killed from the walls, and the remainder flung down the wounded, and no menace or entreaty could prevail on them to lift them again. I tried to geta few wounded together, but the Sepoys had gathered round us 02 every home top, and had nothing to do btit bring us down at their leisure. All hope seemed gone ; as a last resource I ran with 4 others into a small one-storied house, 3 rooms on a floor, all doors and windows. Other fugitives now joined us, soldiers from the escort who had escaped, and two badly wounded officers. The Sepoys now commenced yelling fearfully. I calculated their numbers at from 500 to 1,000. Their leaders tried to get them to charge down on us, but as often as they came on w e gave them a vo lley, and off went the cur s ; th en t h ey b egan their yelling again, and reviled us in Hindostauee, telling us that in a few minutes we should massa cred ; they were not more than five yards off, but round the corner, and sheltered from our fire. At this time we expected instant death ; it seemed incredible that ten effective men could resist 1,000, who were firing a fearful hail of shot through the windows. Three of our number i ns id e were struck down wounded, and this diminished our fire. The sepoys all this time were massaging the woun d e d men in the palanquins (we rescued two more woun d e d men) ; perhaps, they kill e d f orty by firiug vo lleys at the palanquins. The rebels now gave up the attempt to storm us, but crept up to the i windows and fired n o n us, so we h ad to lie down en the Around, for a time, and let them fire over us ; there was Du door to the door-way, so we made bags deal bydig'ing the floor with sepoys' clothes to hold the sand ; we also piled up th e d ea d so as to ob struct men rushing on us. My , d e and o f usingsa nd th as the only tabambaoortirueicntasded officer, were to direct and encourage the men—as a surgeon to dress the w oun d e d— as to a wo un d e d man saw that the enem y must have wounded ma n y more ; thi s we had kill e d over 20 ,1 I doN a wvfahe rn mtrele a nipe n temh , idre t ,et o dfaiein u elolmd s f. e r...u4. a .wfs rifle belonging i 1. n e aow:n htio. lesdo 7 of} one man to fire from ' each window and three from the door. My post was I at a window. I had my revolver, but only five shots I left in it. I had no second, and, worst of all, no fresh charges. I must tell you that an east ern w i n d ow means I a lattice work. At this I kept watc h an d war d . atsiuulae a sepoy crept up very cautiously, to l through the wi n d ow, qu i te uncon sciousfireAfter as u that at this time a Feringhee had him covered with a revolver. Wh en he got about three yards from me I shot him dead, an d ano th er, w h o was eary coming up, was shot by one of the men. F or an hour now they were very qu i et, on l y ' firing at a distance. All at once we h ear d i n the street a dull, rumbling noi se , l n which froze me to the very heart. I jumped up and said, ' Now, men, now or never. .Let us ru s h ou t an d di e i n t h e open air, and not be killed like rats in a hole. They are bringing a gun on us.' The men were quite ready ; but we now saw that it was not a gun, but some thing on wheels, with a heavy planking in front too thick for our shot to enter. They brought it to the very windo w I n,„ ; ; - firing at. I could touch it, but my shots were useless. To shorten my story, after an hour they set the house in flames, and we were enabled to escape by breaking through into the second room, which opened into a large square, where we found a shed, with large door ways at intervals—into this we got, carrying our wounded, who, strange to say, were the only ones hurt. Three of them were mortally wounded whilst we were carrying them ; we sound men did not get a scratch. It was a complete surprise to the enemy ; they expected us by the door, and not so the pleasure of shooting us as we ran from the bu rn i ng house was d e nied them, the way we came, and when they did see us they, with at least 600 men, only shot three already wounded men. It was now three in th e a f ternoon, an d o ur . position seemed hopeless. W e thoug h t up t o thi s time that the general would never leave us wie hoot succour, but now we thought that the sepoys must have quite hemmed in our army. Imagine our horror when we found that the shed we were in wile loop holed everywhere ; it had been used the day before as a place to fire on our army from, and the sepoys came creeping up now to the loopholes, firing in suddenly and off agein. We now put a marl at every loophole as f ar as they wouli eveng; wounded were put to watch, and this soon a ,ecked i the bold, brave sepoy, for whom one British soldier is an object of terrible dread. We seen had a worse alarm ; the sepoys got on the roof, bored holes through it, and fired down on us. The first two shots were fired a t me, the muzzles of the pieces being, perhap s , four feet from me, and neither shot hurt me beyond a lot of stuff from the roof ' being sent with f arce i nto m y f ace , a nd a trifling hurt in my hand. Nothing more wonderfi ! l in the way of narrow escapes was ever seen. This could not last, so we bored through the wall . of the shed into the co ur t- yar d b e hi n d, an d t w o of us went cautiously out to reconnoitre. For some time the , Sepoys did not see us, as it was ge tti ng d ar k. About j fifty yards off was a mosqu e, with no one in it, as I 1 found by creeping on all fours into it, but before we could get the wounded out wo were discovered. We now ran back to the shed. However, we had in the interval secured a chatty of excellent water, belonging to the Sepoys—arid what a prize it was ! —the wounded were dying with thirst, and we, who had been biting cartridges all day, were just as bad ; it gave us one good draught all round, and after it we felt twice the men we did before. Being a long 31ied, we had a great deal to defend, but luckily the Sepoys found out that if they could fire through the roof so could we, with the advan tage of knowing exactly where they were by the noise of their feet, so they kept off the roof. We now organised our defence, told off each man to his alarm-post, and told off the sentries and reliefs. Including wounded, there were nine men fit for sentry, seven men fit to fight, and of these six un hurt, including myself. It was agreed that, if the Sepoys forced the shed, we should rush out and die outside. By this time all our wounded men were in their possession, and they were put to death with horrible tortures, actually before our faces ; some were burnt alive in the palanquins ; the shrieks of these :nen chilled one's blood. The terrors of that awful night were almost maddening ; raging thirst, tierce rage against those who, as we thought, had, without any attempt at succour, left us to perish ; uncertainty as to where the Sepoys would next attack us ; add to this, the exhaustion produced by want of food, heat, and anxiety. I now proposed to our men either to fight our way back to the rear-guard, or forward to the en trenched camp ; but there were only two who would go, and so f refused to go, as we could not for shame desert eight wounded men ; still I tried to persuade all to make the trial ; somo one might escape, as it was, no one could. Day broke soon after, and we all had fallen into perfect apathy ; our nerves, so highly strung for 24 hours, seemed now to have gone quite the other way. Suddenly a few shots were fired outside ; then more ; then we heard the sharp crack of our own Enfield rifles. Ryan, who was sentry, now shouted, Oh, boys, them's our own chaps.' Still we were uncertain, till presently we heard a reriular rattling volley, such as no Sepoy could give. Oh, how our hearts jumped i n to our mouths then ! Up we got ; now I said, 'Men, cheer together.' Our people outside heard us and sent a cheer back. We replied like madmen, and shouted to them to keep off our side. We also fired through all the loopholes at the Sepoys, to keep them from firing at our men advancing. In five minutes we were all rescued, and in the midst of our own people ; half an hour after we were settled down in the King of Oude's palace—con querors ; though, by the bye, the Sepoys did not all leave the palace (which is a perfect town inside), but kept up a fire on us for some days from some inaccessible towers." CASUALTIES DI THE 52d REGIMENT. (Prom the London Gazette of last Evening) Jullundur, Dec. 2, 1857. Sir,—l have the honour herewith to transmit a no. mival roll of non-commissioned officers and men of the regiment under my command, who have been killed, wounded, an❑ have died, since the 11th May, 1857, the date of the commencement of the outbreak in this country.—l have, &c., G. CAMPBELL, Colonel, Commanding 52d Light Infantry. The Secretary of State for War, War Department. 520 LIGHT INFANTRY. Nominal Roll of Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the above Corps, who have been Killed in Action, Wounded, or become otherwise Non-effective since 11th May, 1857- Head-quarters, Jullundur, Dec. 2, 1857, Sergeant David Jakeman, killed in action Private Thomas Riley, killed in action Private John Neil, killed in action Private Thomas Daniels, killed in action Serjeant Richard M`Kowin, killed in action Private John Hubbert, killed in action Private George Amos, killed io action Private George Busby, killed in action Private Patrick Condran, killed in action Private Neil Campbell, killed in action Private John Daly, killed in action Private Thomas Gleason, killed in action Private James Boylan, killed in action Private John Brown, killed in action Private Joseph Smith, killed in action Private Brockwell Howe, killed in action Private John Butler, killed in action Private Patrick Byrne, killed in action Private Simon Goose, killed in action Private George Rackley, killed in - action Private Peter Kavanagh, killed in action Private William Ward, killed in action Private John Loughlin, killed in action Private Thomas Grady, killed in action Corporal John Crew, killed in action Private James Clune, killed in action Private Edward Penrose, killed in action Sergeant William Forbes, died of wounds Private George Nicholas, died of wounds Private John Calock, shot himself when on sentry Private William Cuthbert, accidentally shot Private John Winn, died of amputation of left leg Private James Neale, died of wounds Private John Parsons, died of amputation of left arm Private Thomas Reilly, died of wounds received in action Private Wm. Lambert, died of wounds Private Wm. Harborrow, died of wounds Private Charles Kelly, died of amputation of left leg Private John Parkins, died of wound Private James Butt, died of amputation of left leg ; Corporal George Nelson, died of wounds Private William Padan, died of amputation Private Edward Fox, died of amputation, left foot Private Daniel Riordan, died of wounds Private Constantine McGrain, died of amputation, lift leg Corporal Charles Shepherd, died of phthisis, Private Charles Horn', died of dysentery Serjeant Edward Howe, died of apoplexy Private John Valiance, died of apoplexy Private John Woodcraft, died of catarrh. chron. Private Samuel Bates, died of apoplexy Private Thomas Keeley, died of apoplexy Private Benjamin Brown, died of apoplexy Private Michael O'Malley, died of apoplexy Private Richard Able, died of apoplexy Private Henry Scofield, died pf apoplexy Private Thomas Cleary, died of npOpleiy Private Stephen Bradish, died of fehris C.C. Assistant-Schoolmaster John Mullally, died of consump tion. Private Thomas Harris, died of cholera Private James Mooney, died of cholera Private Henry M`Canley, died of cholera Private James Wallace, died of cholera Sergeant Henry Hooke, died of cholera Sergeant Henry Gilpin, died of cholera Sergeant James Kirby, died of cholera Sergeant John Ruddy, died of cholera Sergeant John Crask, died of cholera Sergeant Richard Rogers, died of diarrhoea Colour -Sergeant William Hayward, died of cholera Private John Doak, died of cholera Private Charles Newnham, died of cholera Private Thomas Cahill, died of cholera Private Lawrence Cunningham, died of cholera Private Michael Crow, died of cholera Private Thomas Taylor, died of cholera Corporal Thomas Langstaff, died of cholera Private James Howe, died of hepatitis ac. Private Robert Young, died of cholera Private Joseph Leaney, died of cholera Private Christmas Bertram, died of cholera Corporal Thomas Grimes, died of cholera Private William Fox, died of hepatitis, ac. Private James Baker, died of cholera Private Charles Collyer, died of cholera Private William Cook, died of apoplexy Private Henry Smith, died of apoplexy Private Hugh Clarke, died of cholera Private George - Williams, died of cholera Private Janaes Graham, died of cholera Corporal Henry Dare, died of cholera Private James McDermott, died of febris C.C. Private Richard Barry, died of febris C.C. Private Henry Shilcock, died of cholera Private John Clark, died of cholera Private Michael Delaney, died of cholera Private Henry Bra-cher, died of febris C.C. Private John Hoßrook, died of cholera Private Bernard Keohan, died of febris C.C. Private William Howes, died of febris C.C. Corporal William Minns, died of hepatitis ac. Private John Gander, died of cholera Private John Cain, died of apoplexy Private William Nolan, died of febris C.C. Private Michael Martin, died of cholera Private Michael Leonard, died of apoplexy Private Owen Ryan, died of cholera Private Joseph Bennett, died of cholera Private Henry Burgess, died of febris C.C. Private Robert Aldows, died of apoplexy Private Henry Owens, diod of cholera Private Thomas Burchell, died of cholera Private David Davis, died of cholera Private James Gillis, died of febris C.C. Private John Williams, died of febrie C.C. Private John Worefold, died of cholera Private John Yarby, died of diarrhoea Private William Ward, died of liver complaint Corporal William Bradshaw, died of apoplexy Sergeant Patrick Gleason, died of apoplexy Private George West, died of cholera PI ivate John Harrington, died of cholera Private Michael Redy, died of cholera Private John Filer, died of cholera Private Michael Walters, died of cholera Private John .Shallis, died of cholera Private Charles Birmingham, died of fabric C.C. Private Henry Walker, died of diarrheas Private Alexander Pentleton, died of cholera Private John Smith, died of febris, C.C. Private Robert Balls, died of febris, C.C. Corporal Herbert Taylor, died of dysentery Private William Massey, died of dysentery Private Richard Milton, died of dysentery Private John Moore, died of cholera Private William Bates, died of febris, C.C. Private William Lennain, died of hepatitis citron. Bugler John M'Cormick, (lied of diarrhoea Private Joseph Plunkett, died of febris, C.C. Sergeant William Rogers, died of diarrhoea Private William Collyer, died of coup-de-soleil Private Daniel Sweeny, died of diarrheas Private Joseph Robinsoc, died of diarrhcea Private Thomas Etherington, died of cholera Private William Fussell, died of cholera Bugler Robert Miller, died of cholera Private Noah Bassett, died of apoplexy Private Patrick Kenehan, died of cholera Private Joseph Bayley, died of hepatitis Private Patrick Bagley, died of fabric, C.C. Private Stephen Harwood, died of hepatitis, was wounded on 12th July Private James Chatfield, died of diarrhoea Private Thomas Peacock, died of dpentry, ac, Private William Painter, died of febris, C.C. Private Samuel Hurley, died of dysentry, ac. Private James Dawe, died of cholera Private John Kirkwood, died of cholera Private George Buckland, died of cholera Private Charles Collier, died of apoplexy Private Thomas G. Reynolds, died of febris, C.C. Private Horris Pye, died of dyaontoria, ac. Private James Pope, died of dyseuteria, ao. Private John Hunt, died of dysenteria, ac. Private James Campbell, died of febris, C.C. Bugler John Hull, died of cholera Private William Taylor, died of febris, C.C. Private John Crosbie, died of febris, C.C. Private John Stone, died of febris intermittens Private John Miley, died of dysent., ac. Private William Kennedy, died of diarrhoea Private Thomas Burrell, died of diarrhoea Private Edward Gibbs, died of diarrhcea Corporal Henry Russell, died of febris, C.C. Corporal Charles Reid, died of hepatitis, cbron. Private James Grimshaw, died of hepatitis, chron. Private John Webster, died of dysent, ac. Private James Lacey, died of diarrhces. Private Arthur Quarterman, died of diarrhoea Private William Cassons, died of diarrhoea Private William Parker, died of hepatitis, chron. Sergeant John Goward, died of dysuria Colour Sergeant William Sayer, severely wounded, righ arm Corporal William Hughes, severely wounded, right thigh Private Lewis Murren, severely wounded, right leg Private Thomas Conolly, severely wounded, right log Private Robert Buck, severely wounded, right hand Private James Campbell, slightly wounded, right knee Private George Goodrum, severely wounded, left side Private George Evans, slightly wounded, right ankle Private Joseph Hewitt, left thigh fractured Private James Cross, severely wounded, right thigh— died on Ist August, at Camp Umritzur Private Henry McGennis, slightly wounded, right leg Private Peter Madden, slightly wounded, left leg Private James Fair, soyerely wounded, head Private Edward Percy, severely wounded, right leg Corporal Richard Wrigley, slightly wounded, left arm Private Patrick Smith, severely wounded, back Private Thomas Hughes, severely wounded, right cheek Private William Alduns, slightly wounded, right leg Private George Page, slightly wounded, left elbow Private William Chapel°, severely wounded in back Private William Heney, severely wounded, left groin. Private James M'Conville, severely wounded, shoulders Bugler William Ward, severely wounded, left hip Serjeant James Moore, severely wounded, left hip Private John Lloyd, slightly wounded, chest Serjeant Rbt. Brookbank, severely wounded, right thigh Private George Bottomley, severely wounded, back Private Patrick Prunty, slightly wounded, left arm Private Robert Colclough, severely wounded, left thigh Private Samuel Harding, slightly wounded, chest Private Frederick Lynch, severely, left arm amputated Private James Butt, severely, left log amputated Private Frederick Glover, severely, right arm amputated Private John Doyle, severely wounded, right hip Sergeant William Ellis, severely, right arm amputated Private Edward Byrne, severely, left leg amputated Private Mi c h ae l Carroll, severely, two fingers, left hand, amputated Private George Wilson, severely wounded, right arm Corporal Charles Reid, severely wounded, right knee Private Richard Howith, severely wounded, right thigh Serjeant Alfred Moore, severely wounded, chest Corporal Patrick Ryan, severely wounded, left arm Private James Spooner, slightly wounded, right arm Private John Hunt, slightly wounded, left hand Private Bartholomew Cooney, severely wounded, left shoulder Private John Daniels, slightly wounded, left arm Sergeant William Bank, severely wounded, head Private Frederick Jones, middle finger of left hand am putated Private William Pither, severely, left arm amputated Sergeant-Major James Streets, severely wounded, abdomen - - _ _ Private James Marshall, severely wounded, left elbow joint Private William North, severely, left foot, since ampu trated Private James Siggins, severely wounded, right ancle Private Thomas Middle, severely wounded, left arm Private Robert Franklin, severely wounded, right thigh Private Jeremiah Fitzgerald, slightly wounded, right arm Private Robert Stonor, severely wounded, left shoulder Private James Reilly, slightly wounded, right leg Private William Cox, little finger, left hand, amputated G. CAMPBELL, Colonel, Commanding s2d Light Infantry. From the London Gazette of Last Night. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend Stephen Jordan Rigaud, D.D., to be ordained and conse crated Bishop of Antigua, in the room of the Right Reverend Daniel Gateward Davis, D.D., deceased. REPRESENTATION OF REIGATE. The Gairtte of this eveni❑g contains the Speaker's war. rant for th• election of a member for this borough. GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, 15th Jan., 1858. The Queen has been graciously pleased to command, that Colonel John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, of the 32d Regiment, be promoted to the rank of Major-General, for his enduring fortitude and persevering gallantry in the defence of the Residency of Luckuow, for eighty-seven days, against an overwhelming force of the enemy. By order of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 15. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, 32d Foot, to be Major-General in the Army. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 15. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Thomas Leyland, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lovett promoted. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cecil Robert, St. John Ives, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Loveden, who retires. 3d Light Dragoons--John George Annesley, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Lautour, promoted. 6th Dragoons -Robert John Garnett, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase. Bth Light Dragoons —Herbert Cromwell Collier, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase. 9th/Light Dragoons—Thomas Staunton Starkey, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Alorrogh, promoted. th Light Dragoons—Crofton John Vandeleur, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Baring, promoted in the 17th Light Dragoons. 15th Light Dragoons—Montague Cecil Broun, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase ; Thomas George Housley, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase. Military Train—Captain James Gardner, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, repaying the difference, vice Wilkinson, appointed to the 68th Foot ; Lieut. Henry Miller to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gardner, who retires; Ensign Edward Jervis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Miller ; Henry James Lane, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jervis. Grenadier Guards—The titlo of Viscount Hinchinbroek, appointed by purchase, on the 18th December, 1857, is spelt Hinchingbrook. 4th Foot--Lieutenant John Howley to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Grimston, appointed to the 13th Foot ; Ensign-Martin Samuel Sharp to 133 Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Howley. sth Foot--To be Captains, without purchase—Lient. Wm. Leach, vice Johnson, died of his wounds; Lieut. Legh Richmond Parry, vice Adair, whose promotion on the 20th October, 1857, has bean cancelled ; Lieut. Edward Reginald Simmons, vice L'Estrange, promoted. To be Lieutenants, without pnrchase—Ensign Edward Studley Lewis, vice Carter, killed in action ; Ensign John Bar nett Barker, vice Haig, killed in action ; Ensign Edwin John Oldfield, vice Adair, promoted ; Ensign Edward Montgomery Mason, vice Leach, promoted ; Ensign Frank Astley Cnbitt, vice Parry, promoted ; Ensign Edward James Tyler, vice Lewis, whose promotion on the 22d October, 18. - d, has been cancelled ; Ensign Ed ward Hoare, vice Simmons, promoted. 6th Foot—Ensign John Thomson Bowers to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Bartley, promoted. 9th Foot—Ensign W. H. E. Ridsdale to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Burrowes, appointed to the 11th' Foot. 10th Foot--To be Lieutenants without purchase—Ensign Henry Alexander Donald, vice Barlow, promoted; Ensign Frederick Augustus Lynam, vice Smyth, prom o t e d ; To be Ensigns—Ensign P. cV. Matthews, from 21st Foot ; Ensign M. J. F. Kenny, from 55th Foot ; Ensign W. 0. Bourke, from 28th Foot ; Ensign Charles H. Newbatt, from the 2d Foot, vice Donald, promoted ; Ensign F. Grant, from 76th Foot ; Ensign J. Badge, from 2d Foot. . _ 11t:foal-To bo Lieutenants without purchase—Ensign Abraha,ra Martin, vice Boyd, promoted ; Ensign Henry J. Webb; vice Maunsell, promoted; Ensign Francis Armstrong, vice Travers, promoted. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Ferdinand Geo. Gambier, Gent, vice Martin ; Hammond Journeaux, Gent vice Webbe • , Stewart Charles Dixon, Gent., vice Armstrong ; Thos. George Miles, Gent.; Charles Gregory Way, Gent. 14th Foot--The appointments of the undermentioned Officers to be Lieutenants, without purchase, to be dated 9th and not Bth Jan. 1853, as stated iu tho Gazette of 12th inst :—Lieut. le. Hill, from 31st, Foot ; Lieut. G. H. Cope, from 55th Foot; Lieut. J. Anderson, from 47th Foot ; Lieut. W. Coxon, from 33d Foot ; Lieut. J. It. Morgan, from 33d Foot ; Ensign J. S. Phelps, from 57th Foot. 24th Foot—Hugh Backhouse Church, Gent., to be En sign, without purchuse, vice Johnstone, promoted. 26th Foot—The Hon. William Harry Bruce Ogilvy to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Robinson, 27th Foot—George Power Cobbe, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vise Desborough, promoted. 28th Foot—Ensign Gordon Charles S. Ducat to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vico Magenis, deceased. 37th Foot—Sergeant John Ennis, from 53d Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ingles, appointed to the 78th - Foot. 41th Foot—Lieut. C. Ford having absented himself with out leave, has been removed from the Army, her Ma jesty having no further occasion for his services. 45th Foot—Ensign C. F. Beamish to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice A. Smyth, pronnted in the 14th Foot. 53d Foot—Francis Tuach Rolls, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Cox, pro moted in the 9th Foot. 57th Foot—Richard Edward Brown, Gent., to be E ns i gn , by purchase, vice Phelps, promoted in the 14th Foot. 59th Foot—Serjeant-Major Samuel Corduo to be Quarter master, vice Bernard Macdonald, who retires upon half- pay. GOth Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. R. W. Hinxman ; Lieut. F. S. Travers. To be Lieute nants, without purchase —Ensign Joseph Wigg, vice Shackle, deceased ; Ensign A. Tamil', vice Hinxnuan ; Eniign R. F. Jennings, vice Travers; Geo. Washington Wilmot, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Wieg. 64th Foot--Ensign W. H. Ashe, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Ensign, in succession to Lieutenant Bateman, killed in action. 67th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Daubeny to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Byrne, promoted in the 10th Foot; Ensign G. T. Munro to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Daubeny. 70th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign Jas. Graham Hamilton, from the 31st Foot, in succession to Lieut. de Quincoy, promoted in the 4th Foot ; Serjeant- Major John Beldham, in succession to Lieut. Coryton, promoted in the 10th Foot. 74th Foot—Eui-ign .Arthur Angelo to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice R. 11. D. Lowe, promoted in the 2d Foot. 75th Foot—Ensign Richard Wadeson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Briscoe, killed in action.—To be Ensigns without purchase—Sergeant-Major Jame Streets, from the 52d Foot, vice Waleson; Ensign W. G. Mansergh, from 3d Foot ; Ensign H. B. Gledstaues, from 57th Foot, in succession to Lieut. Turnbull, pro moted in the 13th Foot ' • George Benjami n Si nger ,G en t., in succession to Lieut. Smith, promoted ; Denzil Ham. mill, Gout. ; Charles Finnerty, Gent. 76th Foot—Brevet-Major Henry Brewster to bo Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant -Colonel Scott, who retires upon full pay ; Lieutenant James Cumming Clarke to he Captain, without purchase, vice Brewster ; Ensign C. C. Lees to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice John Cumming Clarke, promoted in the I3th Foot. 78th Foot—Lieutenant H. Taylor Macpherson to be Cap* taro, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Haliburton, died of his wounds. To be Ensigns, without purchase — Ensign H. A. Ingles, from 37th Foot; Alexander Wm. Bradfield Caldecott, Gent. 83d Foot—Lieut. James Veriing Ellis to be Captain with out purchase, viceßead, killed in action; Ensign Braith wnite Chamley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ellis. 92d Foot—Arthur Bond, Gant., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice James Thomson, who retires. 94th Foot—Ensign Arthur Brinckman to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Knight, promoted in the 12th Foot. 9Gth Foot--Ensign Alfred Edward Cookson to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Hunter, promoted ; Marriott Aytoun. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cookson. let West India Regiment .Ensign Charles P. Pander to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Robertson, removed ofrom the Army. 2d West India Regiment—Lionel Lowdham Brett, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ashe, appointed to e 64th Foot. 3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Robert Willock Davies to be Captain, without purchase, vice Vivian, appointed to the 14th Foot ; Ensign Francis Graham Dunn to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Davies. Cape Mounted Rifles—Ensign and Adjutant Charles 13. Marshall to have the rank of Lieutenant; Ensign Wm. Erskine Woodrooffe to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bourke, promoted in the 11th Foot. St. Helena Regiment—Captain William Forbes Macbean to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut... Colonel T. Faunce, appointed to the . l3th Foot ; Lieut. E. C. Barnes to be Captain, without purchase, vice Macbean. HOSPITAL STAFF. The Commission of Assistant-Surgeon W. J. Cumming, IILD., appointed in the Gazette of the 27th November, 1557, has been antedated to the 9th November, 1857. BREVET. The under-mentioned Officers, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lient.-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonels in the Army, under the Royal Warrant a the 6th Oct., 1854 : Lieut.-Colonel James Alexander Robertson, 821 Foot. Lient.-Colonel Lord Mark Kerr, 13th Foot. Brevet Lieut.-Colonel George F. C. Scott, retired full• pay 76th Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only. Captain James Gardner, of the Military Train, to be Major in the Army. Brevet-Major James Gardner, of the Military Train, to be Lieutenant-colonel in the Army. Captain Henry Hamilton Maxwell, of the Bengal Artil lery, to be Major in the Army. Quartermaster Bernard Macdonald, retired on half-pafi .59th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of the 17th December, 1855. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT• Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet George Fre• derick Mintz to be Licatenant, vice Palmer, regigned; Wigley Williams, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Muntz, pro• moted. The Earl of Cheater's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry- Assistant-Surgeon William M`Ewen to be Surgeon, vice Broadbent, resigned ; Charles Anthony Merriman, Gont•i M.R.C.S., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M`E wen, pro• motel. Shropshire Regiment of Militia—James Franklyn, Gents to be Ensign, vice Minor, resigned. Northamptonshire Militia—Ensign George Wm. Platt to be Lieutenant, vice Robert James D'Arcy, promoted; Ensign Philip Batty to be Lieutenant, vice Wm. Lang' ham Hazlerigge Le Hunt Wilson, resigned. 3d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia Thomas Bolger, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Win. Goodman Gatliff, promoted. 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En' sign Thomas Pitzmaurice Burke to be Lieutenant, vice Bourk, whose commission has been cancelled ; Henrf Riley, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Cogdell, resigned ; Thy Allibone Normon, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Burgess, re signed. Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirkehire Regiment of Militia—David Turnbull, Esq., to be Ensign, vice MO promoted. King's Own sight Infantry Regiment of Militia - Geo' Batley, Gent., to be Ensign. Royal Wiltshire Militia—Ensign John Cox Shaw to b. Lieutenant, vice Moultrie, resigned ; Samuel Misstat e Davies, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Shaw, prom o t e d. Second Regt. (Light Infantry) of West York Militia - "' Richard Sterile Carrol, Esq., to be Captain, vice Traffords resigned ; Thos. Bigland, dent., to be Assistant-Surgeon vice Clarke, resigned. 2d Devon Regiment of Militia--John Lino Templer t a ' be Senior Major, vice Seale, resigned ; John Buller Yar d. Buller to be Second Major; Charles Seals Hayne to b. Captain, vice Templer, promoted. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. John Hubbersty, broker, Kingiton•upon-Hull. Thomas McCarta!), linen draper, Kingston-upon-Hull• BANKRUPTS. Michael Samuel Myers, provision merchant, Leadenha4 . street, City, to surrender Jan. 28, at eleven, and Feb. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Green,!cabinet maker, St. Aldgate's-street, O x ford' Jan. 28, at half-past t we l ve , an d F e b. 25 , a t t wo, a t tic' Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Wheeler, engineer, Oxford, Jan. 29 at one, an March 3 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Isaac Richardson Vialou, builder, Hackney, Jan. 29, a f i half-past twelve, and March 3, at eleven, at the Court 0 Bankruptcy. Leonard Harker, ship owner, Gracechnrch-street, ja g ' 29, and Feb. 26, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy'. Hankman, Jansen, and Co., merchants, Cr u tched-fria o ! Jan. 27, at half-past two, and Feb. 26, at twelve, at Ulu Court of Bankruptcy. Charles Caley, corn factor, Wakefield, Feb. 4 and 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. William Ball and John Henry Earl, calenderors, chester, Jan. 29, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. James Anstey, jeweller, Sheerness, Jan. 29 and Mar eb 5, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry Skelton, John Hill, and Rudolph Steinmann,' commission merchants, Liverpool, Jan. 26 and F e b. 22, f" twelve, at the Liverpool Vistrict Court. William Tapscott, ship broker, Liverpool, Feb. 3, so 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Edward Brown, common brewer, Ditton, Lancashir e, Jan. 28, and Feb. 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool Distries Court. James Roberts, fish dealer, Liverpool, Jan. 29 and Fe b ' 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. George Batters, stock broker, Throgmorton-street, CitPf Jan. 22 and F e b. 19, a t h a lf- pas t one , a t th e Court °' Bankruptcy. William Score, washing crystal maker, Homer-stret Lambeth, Jan. 23, at two, arid March 5, at eleven, at t il Court of Bankruptcy. James Taylor, worst° 1 spinner, Ovendon, Yorkshir e : Feb. 2 and March 2, at twelve, at the Leeds District Cour' Thomas Threlfall Rigby, merchant, Runcorn, Chester; Feb. 2, at eleven, and Feb. 2 4 2, at one, at the Liverpneh District Court. Joseph Jackson, hatter, Brighton, Jan. 29, at two, an Feb 23, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 29, Charles Eaton, leather merchant, M anc h es t er , Jan e one, and Feb. 18, at twelve, at th e M anc h es ter P 1 trict Court. John Lucas, chemist, Queen-street, Cheapside, Jan. at half-past two, and Feb. 27, at one, at the Court of ruptcy. William Wild, machine maker, Roelidale, Dec. 29, 1 1 eleven, and Jan. 26, at twelve, at the M a nchester Distri ct Court. John Jackson, merchant, Halifax, Yorkshire, Feb' and March 2, at twelve, at the Con.mbrcial-building s ' Leeds. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J G o e h o u rg s e c N ot i t c , o c ll ar A te n r c , lo G rs l o a n sg , o g w ro . cer, Dundee. Lyon and Andson, writers, Arbroath. Peter Wishart, wright and joiner, Glasgow. Donald Macarthur, merchant, Inverary.. Alexander Hamilton, tobacco and snuff manufactur ers Glasgow. Francis Younger and Company, wool brokers, Glagg.'° /4 Murphy, Cunningham, and Cu., cabinet_ makor ° ' Glasgow'. John Cameron, furniture dealer, Glasgow. David Petrie, wright and builder, Glasgow. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, Co puted from the return; made in the week ending.J ll ' , l/ ; 12, 1367, exclusive of the Duties of Custom; paid t payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Grel Britain : a. u n g l From the British Possessions in America 2B ./ Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 23 a S k Muscovado, the produce of the East I n di es 32 Average of the above descriptions. __., BIRTHS. CROSS--On the 13th inst. at Campden-grove, Kensingt °ll. the wife of Lieutenant - , Colonel W. Cross, Madras Ari l/ J' .of a daughter. DAVIS—On the 13th inst., at 'the Vicarage, Burringtorlo North Devon, the wife of the Rev. S. Davis, of a daugh ter , MASSON—On thell3th inst., at 16, Regent's Villas, UPP" Avenue-road. Regent's-park, the wife of D av id 3 1 / 6 5°- „"‘ Esq., of a son. WICARE—On the 14th inst., at 3, Little Dean's-yard, Wd minster, tho wife of the Rev. T. W. Wear°, of a dauglite'i M A It R I AIG E S. COLE—Ronn—On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras Church!. Lieutenant Wm. Colo, R.N., t o H arr i e t, w id ow of the 130 Mr. Thomas Rodd, the eminent bookseller. DAVIDSON — TuomP,ON—On the 14th inst., at the 1 33- ' church, Westerham Kent, Madgwick Spicer David sou ; Esq., of Avenue-road, London, to Emily, eldest daug b " of C. I. Thompson, Esq., of Westerham. DEATHS. CAMPBELL—On the 12th inst., in South Audley-street, Admiral the Ron. George Pryso Campbell, only brother 0 the Earl of Cawdor, aged 65. CLIFFORD—On the 1 lth inst., at Stamford•hill, Stoke Se ild iugton, Charles 11. Clifford, Esq., aged 62. CAMBRIDGE—On the 15th inst., at Twickenham Mes,cl o. l Cornelia, widow ,f the late Yen. George Owen Carnbridg" Archdeacon of Middlesex, aged 90. EVANS—On the 14th inst., at 3, Warwick-terrace, BelgrOr road, John Evans, Esq., aged 72. LOCK—On the 13th inst., at Bognor, Sussex, Lock, aged 65. LEIGH —On the 14th inst., at Manchester, Jas. Mosley I.4° L ° Esq., of Davenham House, Northwich. Mr. Willial3) .10 LONDON : Printed and Publ 4 ,thed by .NII.TRDO YOU % T pp o, of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct, of the S'avoy, in the 01113 of Middlesex, Saturday, January 16, 1853.