The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

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This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting' Into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIF E-13 PAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRofass—lier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
:'itt IDEN T —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G.,
CHAMMAN—Thos, Baring, Fsq., MX., P.n.s., v.p.
D Eru'rr-CnAntmAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq.,
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments n the Coasts of Eng'and. Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, •nd other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £07.1 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
TransportintY-can 'ages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the,
British public during the past few years, a support ,7.-hich
has enab ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
ot 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom
Deeply sensib e, however, ot the great responsibility that
res's on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly aopeai to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
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tributions:—

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Donations and Annual Subscriptions willbe thankfully re-
end Co., 767Lombard-',treet ; Messrs. Coutts and
i. 0., 59. Strand
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. ; liessrs. Berries, Farouliar. and Co., 16, St.
ame''s•-Teet, London ; by a 1 ,he Collectors of Customs
and BankrTs in the United liinNlorn; and by the Secretary
it'cilard Lewis, Esq., at the ()dice of tho illStitlitioll, 11,
JOlLl2".grVet, 4.tielptil, Undou, W.C.

The "Imperial Dictionary of Universal Bio-
graphy," published by William Mackenzie, Glasgow,
contains a memoir of the late Lord Clyde, written
by Sir ArcWbald Alison, Bart., of which the fol-
lowing is en extract—descriptive, first of all, of Sir
lo.lian Exploit, and of the close of his
gallant career as a Peer of the Realm and a Field
Marshal:—

When the Indian revolt broke out, and every post from
the East brought the intelligence of fresh and seemingly
overwhelming disasters in Hindostan, ad eyes were turned
to Sir Colin as the only man capable of staying the disasters
which were accumulating round a "sinking throne and a
falling empire." Yielding to the universal voice, Lord Pal-
merston, then Prime Minister, sent for him on July 11th,
and asked him whether he would undertake the coma and,
and if so, when he could set out. " Within 24 hours," re-
plied the Scottish chief, then 64 years of age. He was as
good as his word. On the following evening he set out, ac-
companied by his staff, for India, with no more baggage
than a trooper could carry with him on his saddle ; and on
the 13th August following reached Calcutta, after an un-
commonly quick passage, The labours which then awaited
him were such as would have overwhelmed any one
of inferior resolution, and less accustomed to make
every difficulty )ield to energetic will. Disarmed,
and with its forces disbanded or scattered by
the imprudent reductions of a pacific administration,
the Supreme Government at Calcutta was utterly unpre-
pared fr a contest. The arsenal there was empty; that
at Delhi was in the hands of the enemy; arms, powder,
guns, balls, all required to be manufactured, and, as fast as
they could be got ready, sent ofl in the utmost haste for the
service of the troops, now reduced to the last extremity, de-
spite all the heroism of Havelock and his men in the north-
western provinces.

The whole autumn of the year was employed by Sir Colin
in the most herculean efforts to repair the deficiencies in
military stares, to provide the means of transporting them,
with the slender reinforcements which arrived from China,
to the theatre of war in the neighbourhood of Cawnpore,
At length something like an army having been formed, and
the 93d Highlanders, 1019 strong, having arrived from
China, Sir Colin set out from Calcutta on the 26th of Octo-
ber; and after narrowly escaping having been made pri
soner by a body of rebels on the road between Allahabad
and Cawnpore, he reached the latter town on the 2d of
November. He was there fortunately joined by a body of
admirable troops, under Gen. Hope Grant, who hod come
down from Delhi after the storming of that city. By this
accession of forces, Sir Colic's little army was raised to
6,000 men and 36 guns, and with this small force he forth-
with set out to effect the deliverance of Havelock, now at
the last extremity in Lucknow, and besieged by 60,000 of
the best troops of Oude.

The task before him was arduous, and to all appearance
hopeless, for not only was the force in his front tenfold
stronger than his own, but his communications were threat-
ened by the Gwalior contingent, 14,000 strong, composed
of the best troops in India, disciplined by European officers,
which lay at Ca!pee, only 45 miles, threatening Cawnpore;
the bridge of which, over the Ganges, commanded the only
communication with Calcutta, and the base of operations in
the south. Yet necessity commanded an immediate effort for
the relief of Lucknow, for Havelock could only hold a few
days longer the buildings he had so nobly defended, and it
was well known, that if forced to surrender, he himself, his
brave followers, and the women and children in the resi-
dency, 12,000 in number, would all be massacred. Deter-
mined to rescue them or perish in the attempt, he marched
with all the disposable troops he could command, only 5,500
in number, on the Bth November, taking the route to Luck-
now, which was 52 miles distant, leaving Wyndham with
12,000 to make head against the Gwalior contingent, and
hold the important bridge and fort 41 Cawnpore during his
absence.

The operations which followed were conducted with the
most consummate ability, and have justly raised Sir Colin
to the very highest rank in military glory. Swiftly, yet
cautiously advancing, he reached the neighbourhood of
Lucknow on the 12th of November, and immediately began
his advance to deliver the beleagured garrison. Directing
his march by a semicircular sweep round the city, ho
avoided the long barricaded street leading direct to the re-
sidency, in forcing his way through which, Havelock bad
lost 900 men ; but he had still a desperate shock to encoun-
ter before his object was gained. Every building was gar-
risoned and loopholed, every palace constructed into a for-
tress which obstructed their advance. By successsive and
persevering efforts, however, they were all overcome—the
Mattinitire carried after a sharp conflict, the bridge of the
canal forced, and with infinite difficulty heavy guns dragged
up to batter the Secunderbagh, garrisoned by 2,000 of the
best sepoy troops. On to the assault rushed the 93d and
the 2d Punjaub infantry at a run, striving who should first
penetrate ,in; and they effected an entrance at tha same
time, and awfully avenged the massacre of cawnpore, by_
putting the whole defenders to the sword.
Still the Shah Nussief's mosque stood in the way, strongly
garrisoned by sepoys, and till it was carried access to the
residency was impossible. Peel's guns were brought up to
breach the walls, but the fire of musketry from them was
so severe, that the gunners were all struck down and the
guns silenced. Sir Colin them ordered up the 93d, and
assembling them around him, told them that the guns were
silenced, but the mosque must be carried that night, and
they must do it with bayonets, and he would put himself
at their head. He did so accordingly. Sir Colin himself
and all his staff leading on the assault were wounded or had
their horses shot under them; Major Alison, his military
secretary, lost his arm in the advance; Captain Alison, his
aid-de-camp, was struck down; Colonel Adrian Hcpe, the
bravest of the brave, Sir D. Baird, and Capt. Foster, both
aid-de-camps to Sir Colin, had their horses shot under them.
Success seemed hopeless ; for no fissure could be discovered
in the massy walls, from which incessantly streamed a
terrific fire of musketry. The 93d was fast falling, and
orders were already given to retreat, when Colonel Adrian
Hope, with a party of the 93d, found a small opening, which
being enlarged, they got in, and the fort was carried, This
success was decisive—access was obtained next day to the
residency. Havelock, his brave garrison, and the women
and children were brought off in safety; and Sir Colin hav-
ing achieved this deliverance, set out with the utmost ex •
pedition to succour Wyndham, who was hard pressed in his
rear.
It was high time he should do so ; for that general, over-
powered by an overwhelming superiority of forces, had
been driven back into Cawnpore. The town was taken,
the fort hard pressed, and already the enemy's balls were
beginning to fall on the bridge, the sole line of communi-
cation of the troops. In a few hours more the bridge
would have been taken, the army cut off from its base, itself
destroyed, and India lost, for
there was no reserve at Cal-
cutta to effect a second deliverance of Lucknow. But Sir
Colinous a soon restored
men.
The
I'igray hairs were worth a
hwas soon repelled from the
heights they had won which commanded the bridge, and the
t mat
enemyters
—long file of wounded men, women, and children, having been
got in safety across, and despatched to Allahabad, the chief
sallied forth at the head of 6,000 men, and by an extraordi-
nary display of skill and tactics, succeeded incompletely
flushedwith-
feating an army double the size of his own,
victory, and taking all their guns. This
was the crisis of
the war—the
tide had turned—the Sc ttish hero had, with
an energy and skill equal to the greatest efforts of Na
icon, with an army of 7,000 defeated 70,000, brought off the
long train of helpless beings without the loss of one, under
t t peril
their delivered India from the greatest es pertl
their very eyes, an
in which it had been placed since the victories of Clive, a
century before, had laid the foundation of the British em-
pire in the east.
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forces in
anTulineharuokbesnequseuncteecsasrieoenr ooff StirriuCrsolpinh Isi. as bceaesntivngothainngsabgule
glance over every part of India, he despatched its t
every direction, so as to crush all the efforts of the rebels .
Before the hot weather had recommenced, be himself had
vrt eagen aciend, e d
withthe important
mpeons t a ofnd FBuot tgyugnhs asecond timeos
. vu,r, which restored
h
direct communication with Delhi and the Punjaub. No
againswtoLusw w
smiler had the next cool season commenced, than he ad-
, succpc,,ded in enfilading the whole of the ene-
°7t,hand
hisun s , having
i
rnnlsn en bye a most
the beguiles palace by storm, and made himself master of the
wmhyo'sle city,rk c h
knit 6 g
re-
sources of all kinds. This was immediately followed by an
advance into Rohilcund, and the
ea their
military r e
asrt'e r elise carried
, and
pture of Btu eillv, the next
greatest stronghold in possession of the insurgents, alter
several hard fought and brilliant actions. The return of the
hot season having again necessarily suspended military
gui
ns
operations, the interval of rest was turned to such good ac-
count by the veteran commander-in .chief, that when he
took the field again in November, 1858, he succeeded in
capturing the whole strongholds of Oudo yet in the hands
of the insurgents, and driving the remains of their scattered
bands to perish in the wilds of the Nepaul mountains.
Subsequent accounts contained the gratifying intelligence
that Oudo, the centre of the insurrection, was entirely
pacified; 273 forts in course of being demolished, and
400,000 stand of arms delivered up. For these astonishing
successes, Sir Colin, with the entire approbation of the
nation, was raised by her Majesty to the peerage by the
de.Butgihve himistory must, in justice to
a still higher title,
his
sle
torafnsLcoenrd Cdaulty
merits,
and pronounce him the greatest general whom Scotland
has produced since the time of Robert Bruce, and one
of the greatest benefactors to England who has ever ap-
peared ; for he has preserved and strengthened in its utmost
need the British empire in the East. Kindly and affection-
ate in his dispositions, courteous and high bred in his
with- these brilliaat martial qualities, time west gttiPE, to
manners, independent and manly in his character he unites