The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1858.

THE LATE 81E HENRY HAVELOCK, K.C.11

Havelock. born at Bishopwearmouth, sth
Aped. 196, was the eon of William Havelock, Esq..
a gentleman descended from an old family, which
had been nettled in the county from the time of the
Danes. and at that time the proprietor of Ingres-
park, Kent. Henry was educated at the Charter-
house, and was afterwards entered of the Middle
Temple, where, together with Talfoord, he 11111 a
pupil in the chambers of Chitty, the famous pleader.
From some cause, as yet unexplained, whether on
account of the circumstances of the family, which a
little before this time had been straitened, or yield-
ing to a natural inclination, Havelock abandoned his
legal studies and embraced the profession of arms.
Perhaps the high reputation of his elder brother,
who had distinguished himself at Waterloo as aide-
de-camp to Baron Alten, and been pointed out by
that officer u "one of the most chivalrous
ofßeers in the British service," had an in-
fluence on the course he now adopted. Be
this u it may, a month after the battle of
Waterloo Henry Havelock entered the arm, ea
second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade (95th), in
which General Sir Harry Smith was at that time a
captain. He could at this time, or indeed at any
other, have entertained no hope of advancement
except by his own merit. His father had been com-
pelled to alienate Ingrese-hall, he had no connexions
in the high regions of patronage, and it is a fact
that at no time in his life was he able to purchase
his steps as a regimental officer. Of his military
career, previous to hie most recent Indian exploits,
we extract the following account from the new
edition of " Man of the Time:"

Havelock mend for sight years i■ England, Boatload, sad
Inked, smi lentai et hogth teelessei tete the 13th Light
lifsatry, embarked far India in 1828. Next year the Bret
Burmese war broke oat, and Havelock was appointed
Deputy-Aedet•at-Adjntaat-Oeteed, and was present at the
action at Napadss Patansgoh, and Paean. At the dose
of the war Its was assomlated with Canna Luanda' and Dr.
Inez an a aides to the Conn of Ava, awl had as aniline*
of the " Golden Foot," when the treaty of Yendaboo was
Mend. In 1827 he published the " History d the Ava
Campaign," sad la that year he was eppolated @Alston it
the reinter), depot tensed at Chisseirsh by Lord Corn-
banns The Chino& mitelaiment having been broken
up, Havelock returned to hie repent. He subsequently
visited Calcutta, and having peered in the languages at
the college, was appointed edjutent of hie corps by
Lard William Bentinck. Ia 1838 he was promoted
to • company, after having served 23 years as •
subaltern. An army was now collected for the invasion
of Afghanistan, and Havelork accompanied it on the
staff of Sir Willoughby Cotton. He went through the
Bret Afghan campaign,• was present at the storming of
Munn, and the occupation of Cabal, and then re-
turned to India with Sir Willoughby Cotton. Having
obtained leave to visit the Presidency, he prepared a
Inosore of the Afghan Campaign," which was soon
sthr printed in London. He returned to the Pumianb In
charge of a detachment, and was placed oa the staff of
General Elphinstcme, ea Persian interpreter. When the
lasteen Ghana having risen blockaded Cabul, Havelock
was mat to join Sir Robert Sale, then marching back to
lan, and wee menet at the forcing of the Shooed
Cabin Papa, at the action of Tema, and all the other
segmemeats of that force till it reached Jellalabad. In
the lon attack on Mehomed Akbar, in April, 1642,
width obliged that chief to raise the imp, Havelock 01111-
leaded the right column, and dared Ides taws the ether
column could come up. For this he was promoted to • brevet
majority, sad was wads Commake of the Both. He was
thus sembaisd Perim interpreter to General Polio* and
wee penult M the action of Mamoo Hen, and the sexed en-
venomed at Tema. He then proceeded with flitr John
liCeekilre tome into the Kohinan, and had an important
shire In the brilliant 'flair at IMAM. Nast year he was
promoted to • regimental majority, and nominated Persian
interpreter to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hugh Gough.
At the close of 1843 he accompanied the army to Owalior,
and wee engaged in the battle of Maharajpore. In
1844 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel

by brevet. In 1846 he proceeded with the army to
meet the invasion of the Mar and was actively engaged in
the battles of Moodre, Fereabah, and Sorter At Mood-
kee ha bad two hones abet tinder him ; at Sobrace a third
horse was smitten down by a cannon shot, which pared
thrones hie saddle cloth. Oa the conclusion of the Sethi
campaign he was appointed Deputy Adju'ant-General of the
Queen's troops at Bombay. The second Sikh war now
broke out, and hie elder brother, Colonel William Havelock,
was killed at Ramnuggur. Hie own regiment, the 63rd,
having bees ordered into the field, he quitted his
staff employment at Bombay, in order to join it, and
had proceeded as far as !adore when his further
promos was countermanded, and he returned to hie
pose. Twenty-five years of Moment and l►borions
service now began to tell on his constitution, and him
medical adviser', in 1849, rat him to Europe for two years
for the restoration of his health. He returned to Bombay in
1861, and was soon after made brevet-colonel, and appointed,
through the kindness of Lord Hardinp, by whose die he
had 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 diviaion, sad commanded the troops at Moham-
merah, the glory of which action we., however, reserved for
the naval Nee. On the cosielwdon of peace he returned to
Bombay, and embarked in the Erin for Calcutta, in which
vessel he was wrecked, in 1867, off the coast of Ceylon.
Five days altar he obtained a prime in the Fire Queen,
and, on reaching Calcutta, was immediately sent up to
Allaltabed as brigadier-genre!, to command the moveable
iselumn.

The signal exploits of Havelock, commencing with
the battle of Futttypore, end terminating with the
relief and defence of Lucknowßesidency;are in every
one's memory. The minister, in moving the thanks
of parliament to Havelock, said that " he had had
the good fortune, in the short owe of two months,
to gain nine victories over a force numerically very
superior to his own, and to take 70 pieces of cannon."
With less reserve, one of the leaders of the con-
servative opposition said, " I think that, considering
the climate, the time of the year, the number of
battles fought, and the distance marched, the march
of Havelock with his devoted band of heroes deserves
to be reckoned amongst the most brilliant enact-
ments in our military annals." It is much easier,
however, to number battles and reckon victories than
to translate into words the impression which the far-
sighted faith and the resolute perseverance of Have-
lock, in the most gloomy period of the Indian mutiny,
have left on the minds and hearts of his countrymen.
Fora time he was the only star in a night of dark-
ness that might be felt. He lived just long enough
to see the cause in which his latest strength was
exerted, the deliverance of the women and children
imprisoned at Lucknow, crowned with success. The
singleness of his heart as pm-eminently a soldier of
duty makes us believe that this was the greatest re-
ward he could receive. Yet for our sakes, if not for
his own, we wish that before he passed away he
might have known that his country had not been a
listless or ungrateful spectator of his deeds. His
promotion to be major-general he may have heard
of ; but the Knight Commandership of the Bath and
the baronetcy—honours which, as the public was
semi-officially told two months ago, were not to be
given with indecorous haste—have come " too late."

We take from the new edition of Barkee " Peerage end
Baronet■ge for mar the folios ing account of the family of
the late general :

Havelock, Sir Henty, of Lnoknow, But., H.C.8., •
major-general in the Stitish army ; b. at Hishopirearmoutb,
eo. Durham, sth limit, 1795 ; m. 9th February, 1829,
Hannah Shepherd, daughter of the Rev. Joshua Marshinan,
D.D., of &tampon', and has had haws,

•
1. Henry Hardman, b. 6th Align"; 1830, captain in tha
18th Royal Irish , deputy mnletant-mdjutant-general to his
father.

2. Joshua, b. 11th Ditomber, 1831 ; assistant-commit
adorer under Sir John Lawmen, 13.C.8., in the Ponjanb.
3. Enrich, b. sth August, 1&13 ; d. 13th Jane, 1834.
4. Osorge-Sroadloot, b. sth June, 1847.
I. Hannah, d. 18th October, 1838. 2. Hannah-Jew.
3. Bonnets. 4. Alias, d. 113th Deounkir, 1845.

LLII4IOI.

Unun Havelock, ref' -111Toderland. waa the mice of
en eld hinny of the eo. of which has misted there
dem the dam of the Daum : he at., and with other Moue (him
dwa., Hannah, a. Robert Allan, Km., of the fatally of Allan,
of Blackwell Or. e, co. Durham, and cf. Jon 9, .1837, aced
70), had • me,
William Havelock, Eq., of Immo Fmk, Kent, who w.
/eau due. of John Carter, Bog., of Yarmouth (by his wits,
Ilkmbeth, a dm of the al sad dlethlrddhld h•••• 011

Ettrick, of High Bemis, co. Durbiun), and bed isms,
William, • lieut.-ad. In the British WITCO and LH., who
was wounded at the battle of %Wig% 14/141111 be acted as
aide-de-camp to Bums Alten, and whin hi " was olio, of the
most chivalrous caws of the minim." Ifs ku giorioualy
at the head of his mghnant, tbs 1411 Light ragoons, in
their &maw bat sneessital oharg• OK the Sikh army on
the 22nd Nov. 1848. Hs st. Camay data of Acton Chap-
Esq., mid had bona, Henry, maned • haramia se above.
who served in Spain under Sir D. Lacy Evans,
and A time* mom.

Cieles-icidelok, a ilentraant-eolosel la the British
army, and Major-Gee& or Lee Pacha ia the Imperial
Ottoman army, with the Order of LOLL
_T.Liclailaat
eller, who bas achieved mach military bate, e• a
base of cavalry was e. at IrianPerk, 16th Oct
mitered a corset in the 18th Lemurs la 1821, mad went with
his regime the sat yaar to India. His carer thee was
long sad &rims, Wag, doUg a Period of more than
twenty yaw, therally sage* to every Indian battle from
tha capture of /Auxerre to the victory of Ciejerat. lie has
medals cor damp far each ; he has them for
Bourtpcme, Obese, Ti...., lloodhas, lareashah,
bram, mad Goopest. He was yeevand wounded at
Nroseshalt. Ho Imam • lionasemet-elsai la 18k, whoa
he joined the Iterate Onnaall Cavalry, aad served as Its
tin the Taros with Russia ,caseBBB. General
tharigliaremivelock m. 14th May, 1833, Mary ed dam. of
Jamas W fiche Bawl C. 8., sad has bans.
Creation-28 ov., 1867.
Arms—Vert, a cede, arg., battiest two Sears-de-lis in
chief, and • croworoselet, fitolue, la hese, or.
Crest—A lion, rampant, 101.. rwthrwl with
.twiwi=
and charged on the shoulder with a castle, arg., • a
Danish battle-au, ppr. Yotto—Fidalliar.

tato butittgatte.

SHERIFF'S COURT.--Lur. 7.
(Baba* Yr. Braolkan, Ism. trader• Shwa)

This was a writ ofizarLaty to aims damages, in ea action
noover for Islas ha meat. The defendant had suffered
adamant to go by ds tilt, and the amount of damages laid in
th?Jleolaration was 2001.

Hr. Hews was conned for the plaintiff. The defendant
did not
The which were undisputed, were these :—The plain-
tiff is a Beeler at York, and the proprietor of a com-
mercial inn there, called the Falcon, and the defendant is
hind," or farm-bailiff to a gentleman mused
Bennington, of Stockton-on-Ter. Oa the 19th cif October,
the defendant was at a fair at Term, and agreed to
sell a hone he had with him to two men for
the stun of 281. One of them mounted the hone to try
its pace (an old trick at country fairs) end galloped off, the
defendant never seeing the animal again nor the money. On
the following day the plaintiff was at the fair with about 200
heed of cattle, and while in the midst of dealing the de-
fendant singled him out and gave him In charge as one of
the two men who had stolen his horse. He was taken before
the magistrates, who cautioned the defendant as to persisting
in the charge, and the plaintiff was in custody nearly three
bows. He was freed from the accusation, for which there
was not the slightest pretext or excuse, and this action was
to vindicate his character from the imputation cast upon it by
the defsesdanf a wane of proceeding.
The jury gave a verdict for 1264

CRNTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)

•
labs Goilfred Joharsissmos, 19, a Norwegian meman, wss
with feloniously cutting mid woundlog Macy Anne
with Want to do grievous bodily bans to her.
Mr. meditated the prosecution. The prisoner
would ham been without any proimaional sasistasok but the
shrift finding him to be a foreigpmr, and without soy friends
in this country, humanely instrsolod Mr. Tindal Atkinson
to watch the owe en his behalf.

Ittkireared that the promontrix iris • girl of the town,
end about eight o'clock in the evening of the 11th of
November she was at Rotharbitha in company with •
ceder of the same class named Lockwood, when they met
tie who wee • swam on board • Teasel called
the Virliaemr.Nieholl, sad the mate of that vessel, and they
all went to a pablic-bouse called the Ship York, and subse-
quently to • beerdeop at Rotherhithe. About 11 o'clock at
sight all the_parties went out together, and the prisoner had
some slight dispote with the peosecutrix on account of bee
refeelng to accompany him to another publio-honas, and,
annealing to her evidence, he, at length, without men •
word, drew • knife from his breast and stabbed her in the
nook with it. He then, she said, matched her ckek from
her and ran away. The injury inflicted upon the prom-
o:MHz tossed out to be of a very severe character. The
woad wee about three inches behind the right ear, and wee
two Inches In length, and at one part two inches and • half
deep. The prisoner was taken into custody on the following
awning on board his ship, and he then told the constable
that he had been in Rothalithe with some girls on
the previous evening. end had got back to his
ship about twelve o'clock, but he denied all know-
ledge of any stabbing having taken place. Hs wee
then taken to the hospital, where the prosecutrix immedi-
ately klentified him as the man who had injured her la the
way described, and the other girl, Lockwood, also spoke to
his being me of the men who were in company with them
on the in question, and she also said that she saw
him draw a faife from his breast and stab the prosembia.
All the witnesses stated that the prisoner spoke English very
well while be was in their company, and the policeman who
took him into misted proved that he put several questions to
him and he se them quite readily, bat gam he has
been in Newrate he hen declared that he could mit=
word of sad it was neceasary to have the
of an interpreter templed the nature of the charge against
him Wire the trial could be proceeded with.
Yr. Atkinson eddremed the jury fur the deleme. He at-
tempted to establish that the mthemes were dotal= se to
his Heathy.
The jury, without any hesitation, found the prisoner
Ovary of unlawfully wounding.
The prisoner. who had stood very silent during the pro-
f:4l4V, upon hearing the verdict, exclaimed in very good
that his hand was innocent of the crime, and he
knew nothing about it.
Heron Harlin said the case had been made out in the
clearest possible manner, and he sentenced the prisoner to be
kept to hard labour for eighteen months.
Jima Brews, 30, was indicted for the manslaughter of
u conduoted the prosecutica.
It %mewed that the deceased wee a young child, and that
she was playing in • plate called Chequer-alley Bt. Luke's,
near a heap of briolm, which the prisoner was Clearing, ad
he told bar sevend dam to go away. She did not do as he
sorted ; end according to the testimony of • boy named
the prisoner at length struck the deceased on the
with • strap. She wss taken soon afterward% and
did about three weeks after receiving the injury, and upon
• postmortem examination • quantity of coagulated blood
was hand to be moan upon the brats, which was alleged
to ham been occasioned by the blow, and to be the canes of
death. The primer denied having truck the child, sad the
only question in the cam was, whetter he wee the man who
did m r not.

:iiiry, after auto dellbastion, rearmed a verdict of
Net Guilty.

NEW COURT.
Mahn Mr. Judos Willes.)

for Devil Thoormil, 42, musician, was indicted for uttering
ged notes.
Mr. Gifhrd and Yr. Bally prosecuted.
It appeared that the prisoner bad been in the service of a
Yr. Dutton, of Charke-senet, Horton, and bad paned the
two notes in question, forged Bank notes, each for 51., upon
the same day, to shopkeepers in the neighbourhood of hie
employers, stating that he hid sot him, sod after obtaining
the change had amended hankie employment.
The jury found him Guilty, end he was sentenced to six
yeas' penal ervitude.
Clotho H.rflsy 26, shopman, wee indicted for feloniously
altering a talegmpli signal, with intent to obstruct engines
using a railway.
Mr. Hodldn presented, and Yr. Hell* dehaded.
The persecutionhad been instituted by the directors of the
Lanka and Greenwich bomb of the South Eastern Rail-
way against the prisoner for altering one of the electric
telegraph meabines used by them at their different stations
to indicate whether the lime are clear or otherwise, and the
circumstances under whirl they charged the prisoner were
these. He bad beat, it was stated, formerly in the service of
the Great Western Railway Company, and upon the night
of Sunday, the 29th of Nov. had left London-bridge 64.
10.30 train for Greenwich. Upon the train reaching -
ford he got out there, but instead of leaving that station h
the other passengers, he wee some few minutes afterwards
found by e station-master anteing out of the private room
containing the wens in question. That °Moir
the instrument had been touched examinednrni
found that instead of its indicating to the next
station that the line was blocked, in which state
it had been left, it stated that both lines were clear. Upon
the station-master milking him what he did there he said he
thought it was the way out; and, being taxed with having
touched the instrument, he at first said he had not, and
then said if he had it was by accident. He also gave a false
address. It wee proved that he had been drinking.
Mr. Sleigh, in a very energetic appeal to the jury, con-
tended that the matter was the melt of accident, the de-
fendant having, in the state he weein, got into the room
thinking it was his way. out. Tha leveed counsel also ex-
premed a very strong opinion that an instrument of such im-
portance ought to be more carefully guarded.
The jury returned a verdict of Net Guilty, expressing an
opinion that the company should take more Dare in warding
against any accident arising.
His lordship entirely concurred with the jury in those re-
marks.

Mr. Bodkin said the Instruments were kept in a private
room, but t►e man had forgotten to turn the key. There
was another charge against the defendant, sliming out of the
same foots, but if the jury thought it ma the result of acci-
dent, be should not proceed.
The jury said they did.
Hie lordship said the Investigation was a very proper one:
the defendant had brought it upon himself.
He was then dequittsd.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Henry Dere!, 39, dealer, and fiery* Brittam 63, coffee-
house-keeper, wore indicted for conspiracy to defraud, and
obtaining by false prerencee from William Simpson a quantity
of iron fenders, and from Messrs. Paul Moore and Co., a
quantity of iron sad whs.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Orridge prosecuted, and Mr. Giffard
and Mr. Cooper defended.
The ore, white lasted the greater part of the day excited
ermaiderabbr Interest, and the court was much crowded with
persona who had been defrauded by other members of the
gang of swindlers to whom the ceboacre belonged.
The jury, after hearing a good deal of evidence, found them
amity, and they were seatenoed to two years' imprilearoont.
Towards the elms of the mos a limitable incidsat oo-
caned. A whams whoa to gist Bristow* a chanto-
ter was suddenly by one of the jury se having
omitted to settle some account with him before quitting the
plea of businees at which the jurymen had traned hb., sad
Lad elm forgotten to make known his postai place of Aode.
This, amid much laughter, was now obtained from the wit-
ness cm oath, and as soon as he had given it be got oat of
wart
This ore concluded the testa.

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city.—/twwww.