The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-01 00:00:00

Ai their head the most formidable opposition. I beg to bring
1,-)nth in ehe most earnest manner to your notice, trusting that
erigadier Penny's active services will soon become once more
wettable.
fhe manoeuvres of Brigadier Cureton's cavalry, in attract-
ireg and fixing the attention of Raja Lall Singh Misr's horse,
fulfilled every expectation which I had formed, and were
worthy of the skill of the officer employed, whose prominent
exploits at the battle of Aliwal I have recently had the honour
to bring to your notice.
Brigadier Scott (C. 8.), in command of the first brigade of
Cavalry, ha.l the rare fortune of meeting and overcoming a
powerful body of infantry in the rear of a line of formidable
field works. I have to congratulate him on the success of
the noble troops under him, and to thank him for his own
meritorious exertions. lam quite certain that your Excel-
lency will bear them in mind.
Brigadier Campbell's brigade was less actively employed ;
but all that was required of it was most creditably performed.
The demonstrations on the enemy's left by the 9th Lancers,
towacds the conclusion of the battle, was made in the best
order under a sharp cannonade.
Brigadier Gowan (C. 8.), drierves my best thanks for his
able arrangements, the value of which was so fully evinced
in the first hour and a half of this conflict, when it was al
most exclusively an artillery fight. Brigadiers Biddalph
and Brooke, and Dennys, supported him in the ablest way
throughout the day, and have given the most effectual as-
sistance under the circumstances of the campaign.
The effegeive practice of our rockets on the under
Brigadier -Brooke elicited my particular admiration. wing
•
Brigadier Smith, C. 8., had made all the dispositions is the
eneer department, which were in the highest degree judi-
cious and in every respect excellent. On the evening of the
9th instaat, Brigadier Irvine, whose name is associated with
one of the most brilliant events in our military history, the
capture of Bhurtpore, arrived in camp. The command would
of coarse have devolved on him, but with that generosity of
spirit which ever accompanies true valour and ability, he de-
clined to assume it, in order that all the credit of the work
.which he had begun might attach to Brigadier Smith. To
himself; Brigadier Irvine sought only the opportunity of
(haring our perils in the field, and he personally accompanied
me throughout the day. Brigadier Smith has earned a title
to the highest praise which I can bestow.
To the general staff lam every way indebted. Nothing
cored surpass the activity and intelligence of Lieutenant-
Colonel Garden and Major Grant, who are the heads of it,
in the discharge of the duties of their departments, ever very
laborious, and during the campaign almost overwhelming.
Both yet suffer under the effects of wounds previously re-
ceived. Lieutenant-Colonel Drummond, C. 8., Deputy-Quar-
tee-Master-General, and Lieutenant Arthur Beecher, Deputy
Aseistant Quarter-Master-General, ably supported the former,
and the exertions of Captains Anson and Tacker, Assistants-
Adjutante-General, have been most satisfactory to the latter
and to nreself.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons, Deputy Commissary-General,
hap evinced the most successful perseverance in his important
eiiltavours to supply the amy. lie has been ably aided at
head-quarters by Major W. F. Thompson, C. 8., and Major
Curtis, Sub-Assistant-Commissary-General ; all three of
these officers were meet active in conveying my orders in the
battle of Sobeaon in the face of every danger. I have, in the
most explicit way, to record the same intelligence and ability,
and the same activity and bravery in the case of Lieut.-Col.
Birch, Judge Advocate-General, both as respects depart-
mete:el duties and active attendance on me in the field.
I have already spoken of the loss which I have sustained by
Lkutenant-Colonels Gough and Barr being wounded. The
exertions cf both in animating our troops in moments of
energency were laudable beyond my power to praise.
Lieutenatet Sandays, 55th Regiment Native, Postmaster of
the Force, assisted in conveying me- orders.
Superintendent Surgeon B. Macleod, M.D., has been in-
deiatigable in the fulfilment of every requirement of his im-
portant and responsible situation. lam entirely satisfied
with his exertions and their results. I must bring to notice
al-,o the merits of Field Surgeon J. Steel, M.D., and Surgeon
Graham,' M.Dea charge of the depot of sick.
I was accompanied during the action by the following
officers of my personal staff:—Captain the Hon. C. R. Seek-
11.1e West, her Majesty's 21st Foot, Officiating Military Se-
cretary (Captain Haines, for whoa: he acts, still being dis-
abled by his severe wound); Lieutenant-Colonel H. Have
lock, C. 8., her Majesty's 39th Font ; Persian Interpreter
Lieutenant Begot, 15th Native Infantry; Lieutenant Ed-
werds, Ist European Light Infantry ; and Cornet Lord James
Browne. 9th Lancers, my aides-de-camp ; and Assistant
Surgeon, J. E. Stephens, M.D., my medical officer.
All these officers assisted in conveying my orders to various
points, in the thickest of the fight, end the hottest of the fire,
and to all of them 1 feel greatly indebted.
I have to acknowledge the services in the commandof regi-
ment., troops, and batteries, or on select and particular du-
ties in the engineer department, of the following officers, and
to recommend them to your Excellency's special favour—
viz., Major Y. Abbot, who laid the bridge by which the
army crossed into the Punjaub. and who was present at
Sobraon, and did excellent service ; Captain Baker and
Lieatenaut John Becher, engineers, who conducted, Bri-
gedier Stacey's column (the last of these wounded); Lieut.-
Celonel Wood, Artillery, commanding the Mortar Bat-
tery; Major Lawrenson, commanding the eighteen-pounder
battery ; Lieut.- Colonel Huthwaite, commanding the eight-
inch howitzer battery; and Lieut.-Col. Geddes, command-
ing the rockets; Capt. R. Walter, Horse Artillery; Capt.
G. R. Steindley, Captain E. F. Day, Captain J. Turton,
Brevet Major C. Grant, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel J. Alexander,
Brevet Major F. Brind, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel J. D. Lane,
Brevet Major G. Campbell, Captain J. Fordyce, Captain R.
Ilorsford, and Lieutenant G. Holland, commanding troops
and batteries; Major B. Y. Reilly, commanding Sappers and
Miners; Lieut.-Colonel White, C. 8., commanding 3d Light
'Dragoons; Captain Nash, 4th Light Cavalry; Major Alex-
ander, seh Light Cavalry; Captain Christie, 9th Irregular
Cavalry ' • Lieut.-Colonel Fullerton, 9th Lancers ; Captain
Lessor.,, 2d Irregular Cavalry ; Brevet Captain Becher, Bth
Irregular Cavalry; Captain Pearson, 16th Lancers; Brevet
Captaip Quin, Governor-General's Body Guard ; Brevet
Major Angelo, 3d Light Cavalry; Lieut.-Colonel Spence,
3lst Foot ; Captain Corfield, 57th Native Infantry ; Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Ryan and Brevet Colonel Petit and Captain
Long, 50th Foot; Major Polwhele, 42d Regiment Native In-
fantry; Captain O'Brien and Lieutenant Travers, Nusseree
Battalion; Captain Stepney, 29th Foot; Major Sibbald,
41st Regiment Native Infantry; Major Birrell and Brevet
Captain Seaton, Ist European Light Infantry; Brevet
Major Graves, 16th Grenadiers; Lieut. Reed, Sirmoor Batta-
lion ; Lieut.-Colonel Davis, 9th Foot ; Major Handscombr,
26th Regiment Light Infantry ; Lieut.-Colonel Bunbury,
Seth Foot ; Captain Hogan, 63d Regiment Native Infantry;
Captain SandMnan, 33d Regiment Native Infantry ; Lieut.-
Colonel Franks, 10th Foot; Brigadier Lieut.-Colonel Nash,
43d Regiment, Native Infantry ; Lieut.-Colonel Thompson,
52. d Regiment Native Infantry; Lieut.-Colonel Philips, 53d
Foot ; Major Short, 62d Foot; Brevet Major Marshall,
69th Regiment Native Infantry ; and Captain Short, 45th
Regiment Native Infantry.
The following staff and engineer officers I have also to
bring to your special notice, and to pray that their services
may be favourably remembered and the survivors duly re-
warded. viz. :—Captain E. Christie, Deputy-Assistant Adju-
tant- General and Lieut. Maxwell, Deputy-Assistant Quarter-
master-General of Artillery; and Captain Pillans and Brevet
Captain W. K. Warner, Commissaries of Ordnance; Brevet
Captain M. Mackenzie, and Brevet Captain C. G. Austell,
First Lieut. E. Kaye, Artillery Majors of Brigade ; Captain
R. Napier, Major of Brigade Of Engineers; Captain Tritton,
Zd Light Dragoons, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General ;
Lieut. E. Roche, 31 Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp to Major-
General Sir J. Thackwell, and Officiating-Deputy Assistant-
Quareennaster- General of Cavalry in the place of Captain
Havelock, 9th Foot, who was present in the field, but unable,
from the effects of a wound, to discharge the duties of his
office ; Captain E. Luguard, 31st Foot, Deputy-Assistant
Adjutant- General ; Lieut. A. S. Galloway, 3d Light Cavalry,
Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General ; Lieut. E. A.
Holdieh, 80th Foot, Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir
Hairy Smith, Lieut. F. Mc. D. Gilbert, 2d Grenadiers, Act-
ing Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Gilbert, Captain R.
'laughter., Gad Regiment Native Infantry, Officiating As-
sistant Adjutant-General; Lieut. Rawson, Deputy-Assistant
Qaarterrneeter-General, killed ; Lieut. R. Bates, 82d Foot
Aide-de-Camp. to the late Major-General Sir R. Dick;
Captain J. R. Pond, Ist European Light Infantry, Deputy-
,Aseistant Adjutant-General; Lieut. J. J. Paton, 14th Regi-
ment Native Infantry, Officiating Deputy-Assistant Quarter-
inaste.r-General ; Brevet Captain Harrington, sth Light
Cavalry , Captain C. Spottiswoode, 9th Lancers; Lieut. R.
Pattensou, 16th Lancers ; Captain J. Garvock, 31st Foot ;
Lieut. G. It iii. Jones, 29th Foot ; Captain J. L Taylor, 29th
Light Infantry; Lieut. IL F.Dunsford, 59th Regiment Native
Infantry, Major of' Brigade; Captain Combe, Ist European
Light Infantry, Major of Brigade 2d Brigade; Captain
Gordon, 11th Native Infantry, Major af Brigade 6th Brigade ;
Captain A. G. Warde, 68th Native Infantry, Major of
-Brigade; and Lieut. P. Hay, Major of Brigade (killed).
Having ventured to speak of your Excellency's own part
in this action, it would be most gratifying to me to go on to
mention the brilliant share taken in it by Lieut.-Colonel
Wood and the officers of your personal staff, as well by the
steel, political, and other military officers attached to you.
But to these were all under your own eye, I cannot doubt
that you will you elf do justice to their exertions.
We were in this battle again honoured with the presence
of Prince Waldemar of Prussia, and the two noblemen in his
suite, Counts Oriole and Greaten.
_Here, as at Moodkee and Ferozeshala these distinguished
visitoes did not content themselves with a distant view of
the action, but throughout they were to be seen in front
wieqever danger most urgently pressed.
The loss of the enemy has been immense ; an estimate of
it must be formed with a due allowance for the spirit of ex-
aggeration which pervades all statements of Asiatics where
their interests leads them to magnify numbers, but our own
observation en the river banks and in the enemy's camp,
combine, with the reports brought to our intelligence depart-
ment, to convince me that the Khalsa casualties were between
eight and ten thousand men killed and wounded in action and
drowned in the river. Amongst the slain are Sirdars Sham
Single Attareewalla, Genls.Ghoolab Singh, Koopta, and Heera
Siegla Topee, Sirdar Kishen Singh, son of the late Jemadar
Kooshall Singh, Generals Mobaruck Ally and Illahee Bubb,
and Shaw Newaz Khan, son of Futtee-oed-deen Khan, of
Kuesoor. The body tf Sham Singh was sought for in the
captured camp by his followers ; and, respecting the gallantry
with which he is reported to have devoted himself to death
rather than accompany the army in its flight, I forbade his
people being molested in their search, which was finally suc-
cessful.
The consequence of this great action have yet to be fully
developed. It has at least, in God's Providence, once more
expelled the Seikhs from our territory, and planted our
standards in the soil of the Punjaub. After occupying their
in trenched position for nearly a month, the Khalsa army
had perhaps mistaken the caution which had induced us to
wait for the necessary material for timidity. But they must
now deeply feel that the blow which has fallen on them from
the British army has only been the heavier for being long
eelayed,—l have, Sec.,
(Signed) H. GOUGH, General Commander-in-
Chief, East Indies.

RETURN OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING OT THE
ARMY OF THE SUTLEJ, UNDER THE COMMAND OF HIS
ISCELLENCY GENERAL SIR HUGH GOUGH, BART, G.C.8.,
coMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. IN THE ACTION AT SOBRAON ON
THE LOTH OF FEBRUARY, 1846.
General Stall=-2 European officers wounded.
ARTILLERY DIVISION.
Ist Brigade Horse Artillery ( head quarters 2d, 3d, sth
Troupe)-1 rank and tile and 1 syce-diiver killed; 1 rank
and
2d file wounded.
Brigade Horse Artillery (head quarters Ist, 2d, 3d
Tr000s)-1 European officer, 2 rank and file, and 14 horses
killed ; 1 European officer, 15 rank and file, 2 syces and 20
Horace wounded.
3d Brigade Horse Artillery (head quarters, Ist, 2d, 3d
groups)-5 rank and file wounded.
21 Battalion Artillery (2d company)--1 Lascar wounded.
(3d and 4th companies)--3
31 Battalion Artillery
rank and
file,„and 2 Lascars wounded.
4th Battalion Artillery (let, 2d, 3d, 4th co
syces and 3 horses killed ; 5 rank and tile, 2 companies)-2
and 2 horses wounded • 5 horses missing. 3 syces
Gth Battalion Artillery (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th comp arm
.s'
andl— 171
sergeant, 4 rank and file, and 1 horse wounded.
Total-1 European officer, 3 rank and file, 3 syceo,
rov:, ,ogse4 killed; l
sEuropean officer, 1 sergeant, 33 rank and
Lascars, syces, and 23 horses wounded; 5 horses

I'ELP\
ENGIN nEE DEPARTMENT N AD SAPPERS.
Try al file killed ; 3 European officers, 1 native officer,
and 16 rim and file wounded.