The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

►Y EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1857.

THE LATE SIR HENRY LAWRENCE, K.C.S.

Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, whose death
Is a garde bora& the wane of Larson wee menaced in
ear crane= ea fietarlay, in the telegraphic despatch from
Li* wee a very liedmittiehed odlorr, of Mak birth and
intrudes, end Me of nieces wring in India Ireland nay
wen hd wed. He nee the eider brother of flir John Lied
Nair Lwow" Chief Coeueissloser for the Pratjaub, being
the eldest son of the late Lieutataat-Colcura Alezander

Willis= Lamina, some time governor of timer Castle,who
distingsidood himself by his gellerary at Sedappetam. His
mother was a daughter of the hate Captain Kam, of the
county of Desepl. He wee born at Hanna, la Crites, is
1806, and tunes' la 1831 Honoria, the Younglne dott6alo( 01
the Rev. Geo. Hanhali, of Cardenagh, Ireland, bat was left a
widower in 1864. Rev* received his early education at
the diocesan school at Londonderry, and a/tanned' at the
Royal Military College, Addimembe, he entered the win-
tery service of the Hon. But India Company, as a cadet in
the Bagel Artillery, In 1821, and soon obtained the reputa-
tion of being one of the most able and energetic of its caters
He served in the Cabal camps!" wader General Sir George
Pollock, he 1843, sad shortly afterwards received the risk of
major. In the mese year he became British Reeklent it
Noma He afterwards took part in the campaigns on the
Sutlej, after which bs was made a Military Companion of the
Bath, and promoted to the rank of Vestment-ookeeL In
1848 he vim appointed Reddest at Lahore, and agent for the
Governor-Grand on the north-westers frontier. It wee for
his able suwloss in the adadnidratien of this important

dace that ha was made a S.C.B. (civil) in ISM. la the
following year he was sapotated by Lad Dalhousie chid
commissioner for the reduction and government of the re-
cently anaszed province of the Pups* where be teemed
the opinion already entertidned of his administrative talents,
to which &nuke has frequently been made daring the pre-
sent added struggle. In 11164 he obtained the rank of full
colonel, sad was elm nominated ea honorary adds-de•cemp to
her Majesty, es n farther recognition of Ma merits. lie
was the author of Adventures of an Mame in the Service
of liaajed Singh." The &maims sad ability which he had
shown at Luck tow, In checking the progress cl the recent
mutiny, must ha fresh in the memory of oar readers. We
can early add that In Sir Henry Lawrence the Indian service
and the country have kit an officer whose head and hand
they could very ill afford to spare in the pond important

Bat it is not only as a brim soldier or am an eminent civi-
lian that Sir H. Lawrence will be mimed,high sa hist:hands,
stood fa both capacities. Asa frank, open, Damnable, and
straightforward man, and aa a generous and snaelgeh friend,
his toes will fall as heavily cm primta society in India as on
the public seems. As an taste:toe of his generosity, we may
mention that for many yeah, whilst drawing a handsome
revenue from his aerial employments, he devoted all that ha
could spare of hie yearly salary to the foundatka of an
mylme for the orphan children of Summon solace, which
bean his mos, and will long stand sa a emenorial of him
good deeds on the hills between Simi& and limbellah.