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GENERAL HAVELOCK.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR MERRY HAVELOCK, Bart, K.C.8.,
was born at Bishopwearmouth on the sth of April,

1795. He was the second of four sons of the late
W. W. Havelock, of Ingress-park, near Greenhithe,
Kent, by Jane, daughter of Mr. John Carter, of Yar-
mouth, a member, it is said, of the Ettrick family.
His father was the descendant representative of a
family which long had resided in the neighbourhood
of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and who claimed a
direct descent from Guthrum, the Danish Prince
who lived before the Norman Conquest. All, how-
ever, that is known for certain is, that Sir Henry
Havelock's father and grandfather were large iy en-
zaved in commerce and shipping in Sunderland, and
purohased Ingress•park with the proceeds of his suc-
cessful speculations. He was educated at the Charter-
house. About 1813, in consequenceof adverse fortune,
Ingress-park was sold to Government, and Havelock
was entered of the Middle Temple, and attended the
lectures of Chitty, the eminent special pleader, where
his most intimate associate was the late Sir Thomas
Talfourd, the author of lon. An elder brother had
distinguished himself in the Peninsular war and at
Waterloo ; and Henry, yielding to the military pro-
pensities of his family, endeavoured to obtain a
commission. A month after Waterloo he was ap-
pointed Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade (the
95th), where his military training was assisted by
Captain (afterwards Sir) Harry Smith, the victor of
Aliwal. Havelock served for eight years in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, and having at length ex-
changed into the 13th Light Infantry, embarked for
India in 1823. Next year the first Burmese war broke
out, and Havelock was appointed Deputy-Assistant-
Adjutant• General, and was present at the actions
at Napadee, Patanagon, and Paghan. At the close
of the war he was associated with Captain Lumsden
and Dr. Knox on a mission to the Court of Ava, and
had an audience of the " Golden Foot," when the
treaty of Yandaboo was signed. In 1827 he pub -
lished the " History of the Ave Campaigns," and in
that year he was appointed Adjutant of the Military
Depot formed at Chinsurah by Lord Combermere.
The Chinsurah establishment having been broken
up, Havelock returned to his regiment. lie subse-

quently visited Calcutta, and having passed in the
languages at the college, was appointed adjutant of
his corps by Lord William Bentinck. In 1838 he
was promoted to a company, after having served
twenty-three years as a subaltern. An army was
now collected for the invasion of A ffghanistan, and
Havelock accompanieJ it on the staff of Sir
loughby Cotton. lie went through the first Affhoo
campaign, was present at the storming of Gbuznee,
and the occupation of Cabul, and then returned to
India with Sir Willoughby Cotton. Having obtained
leave to visit the Presidency, he prepared a " Memoir
of the Affghan Campaign," which was soon after
printed in London. He returned to the Punjaub in
charge of a detachment. and was placed on the staff
of General Elphinstone, as Persian Interpreter.
When the Eastern Ghilzies having risen blockaded
Cabul, Havelock was sent to join Sir Robert Sale,
then marching back to India, and was present at the
forcing of the Khoord Cabul Pass, at the action of
Tezeen, and all the other engagements of that force
till it reached Jellalabad. In the final attack on
Mahomed Akbar, in April, 1842, which obliged that
chief to raise the siege, Havelock commanded the
right column, and defeated him before the other
columns could come up. For this he was promoted
to a brevet majority, and was made Companion of
the Bath. He was then nominated Persian Inter-
preter to General Pollock, and was present at the
action of Mamoo Keil, and the second engagement
at Tezeen. He then proceeded with Sir John
MiCaskill's force into the Kobistan, and had an im-
portant share in the brilliant affair et Istaliff. Next
year he was promoted to a regimental majority, and
nominated Persian Interpreter to the Commander-in-
Chief; Sir Hugh Gough. At the close of 1843 he
accompanied the army to Gwalior, and was engaged
in the battle of Maharajpore. In 1844 he was pro-
moted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel by brevet. In
1845 he proceeded with the army to meet the invasion
of the Sikhs, and was ac ively engaged in the battles
of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, and Sobraon. At Moodkee
he had two horses shot under him ; at Sobraon a
third horse was smitten down by a cannon-sho.,
which passed through his saddle cloth. On the cot
elusion of the Sutlej campaign be was appointed
Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Queen's troops at
Bombay. The second Sikh war now broke out, and
his elder brother, Colonel William Havelock, was
killed at Ramnuggur. His own regiment, the 53rd,
having been ordered into the field, he quitted his
staff employment at Bombay in order to join it, and
had proceeded as far as Indore when his further
progress was countermanded, and he returned to his
post. Twenty-five years of incessant and laborious
service now began to tell on his constitution, and his
medical advisers, in 1849, sent him to Europe for
two years for the restoration of his health. He
returned to Bombay in 1851, and was soon after marls
brevet colonel, and appointed, through the kindness
of Lord Hardinge, by whose side he bad fought in
the three battles of the Sutlej, Quartermaster-
General, and then Adjutant-General, of Queen's

troops in India. On the despatch of the expedition
to Persia he was appointed to the second division,
and commanded the troops at Mohammerah, the
glory of which action was, however, reserved for the
naval force. On the conclusion of peace he returned
to Bombay, and embarked in the Erin for Calcutta,
in which vessel he was wrecked in 1857 off the coast of
Ceylon. Five days after he obtained a passage in
the Fire Queen, and, on reaching Calcutta, was
immediately sent up to Allahabad as Brigadier•
General, to command the moveable column.

His subsequent career has been so recently the
subject of public admiration, that we need do no more
than recapitulate the leading incidents. With the
greater portion of the (14th and 78th Regiments he
first attacked the mutineers at Futteypore, on the
12th of July, and on the 15th, ta Aoung and at
Pandoo Nuddee ; on the 16th at Cawnpore, where
he had a horse •shot under him, and where the
enemy lost twenty-three guns. Advancing from
Cawnpore on the 29th, he captured Oonao and
Busseerut Gunge and nineteen guns. This position
he was obliged to give up, but retook it on the sth of
August, inflicting great slaughter on the rebels. On
the 12th of August be again defeated the mutineers,
and on the 16th attacked them at Bithoor. Eventually
receiving reinforcements under Sir James Outran, he
entered Lucknow on the 25th of September, and held
his ground there until the garrison was finally re-
lieved by Sir Colin Campbell on the 17th of No-
vember.

For his first exploits in the early summer
Brigadier-General Havelock was rewarded with a
good-service pension of lilll. a year—ail, we may
here remark, that his Royal Highness the Comman-
der•in-Chief then bad it in his power to bestow.
Since that time Havelock has been raised to the rank
of a general officer, hononred with the riband of a
Knight Commander of the Bath, and rewarded with
1,0001. annual pension, though for one life only, and
the colonelcy of the 3rd Buffs. Finally, on
the 26th of November last, the London Gaattle

announced that her Majesty had been pleased to
elevate him to the baronetcy as Sir Henry Havelock
of Lucknow. Alas ! on the very day before the
Gazette appeared, Sir Henry Havelock had paid the
debt of nature, having died on the 25th of dysentery,
brought on by exposure in the field and the anxieties
of his position. From this lamentable and untoward
accident the patent of baronetcy becomes invali-
dated and the title extinct.
Sir Henry Havelock married, in 1827, Hannah
Shepherd, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr.
Marshman, of Serampore, the learned and accom-
plished Biblical scholar, by whom he has left a family
of three surviving daughters and three sons, the
eldest of whom was born in 1830. He at present
holds a captain's commission in the 18th Royal Irish,
and has been lately serving in India as deputy-assist-
ant adjutant-general under the gallant father whose
honoured name he bears, and whose loss he must so
deeply deplore. It is only about a fortnight ago that
Lady Havelock, after a short stay in London and at
Bath, left England for Germany among the con
gratulations of her friends. She has ere this doubt-
less learned the sad intelligence of an event which
has made herself a widow and her children father-
less. She will not want the hearty sympathy of the
British public in her own and the nation's loss.

CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.
A runic meeting to consider the future relation of
the British Government to religion in India was held
on Tuesday, in the large room, Exeter-hall ; the
Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair.
Lord SHAFTESBURY, in opening the proceedings,
said that a deep conviction existed amongst persons
of all classes that as the governing nation we had of
late years done too little for the extension of Chris-
tianity in India, and the only inquiry necessary to
make was this—whether there was in Great Britain
sufficient piety, sufficient knowledge, sufficient zeal,
sufficient love to the cause of God and man, to unite
with all its strength, and energy, and power for the
extension of Christianity among the Hindoos. They
bad met, in the first place, to declare that hencefor-
ward it mast be our business, as it is our duty, and as
it has ever been the duty of the Government of the
country and the Government of India, openly, boldly,
unreservedly to proclaim that it is a Christian Go-
vernment—that it is a Christian Government
founded for Christian enda; that it has Christian
purposes ; that it will pursue a Christian course ;
that it desires that its people should be brought
within the knowledge, and, if possible, within the
compass of Christianity ; that it will exercise no
unfair advantage, that it will resort to no sinister
means, but that it will put before the people of India
the truth as it is ; and that it will allow no impedi-
ment whatever to stand in the way of the missionary
going over the length and breadth of the land, there
to proclaim the saving truth of the salvation of
Christ. They must also declare that henceforward
they would not, directly or indirectly, give the
smallest encouragement to idolatrous practices ;

that they would altogether abstain from supporting
heathen temples, or from in any way taking a share
in the administration of their funds. They must
also declare that if they choose to retain schools and
colleges, and intended to found more, into those
schools and colleges the Bible must be introduced.
It was perfectly monstrous that Government should
undertake to give education to the people, to use the
public funds for that purpose, and then put such an
affront on their own Holy Book, as to leave the !nags
of the natives to believe either that the Book was
altogether untrue, or that, if true, the Government
did not care one fig for it. Let them take one of
two courses ; let them either give up the schools and
colleges, or else introduce the Bible into them, and
let it be faithfully taught by persons appointed for
the purpose. But when we called upon Government
to give its sanction to the Christian faith, we must
be careful, said Lord Shaftesbury, to call upon the
Government simultaneously to abstain from doing
anything, directly or indirectly, that might in the
least degree coerce or induce the natives by force,
by bribery, or by any hope of wordly advantage, to
quit the religion of their fathers :

Let the Government proselytise in uo other way than
this—by doing justice and judgment, by setting before
them a model of Christian administration, not only in its
great public affairs, but in the character and demeanour of
all its functionaries.

Lord Shaftesbury, in conclusion, eulogised the con-
duct of Sir John Lawrence in ignoring caste in the
P unjaub.
The Hon. A. Kt: um), M.P., in moving the first
resolution, said we had not only hid the light of Chris-
tianity in India, but had openly denied it. The Bn-
tish Government in India had publicly honoured false
gods, paid an idolatrous priesthood, and farmed the
revenues and superintended the endowments of
iiiolatroug temples. And even when there was a
drought in the land they paid the Hindoo priests to
pray for rain. They had gone even further, and
tolerated open vice and most abominable crimes