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[P RioE 4D. STAmpieD

may say that applications for advice in church-rate son-
tests come in daily. They are principally from the rural
parishes ; and although rates thus opposed are in a num-
ber of instances nominally carried, the cases in whioh
after-payment is not refused with impunity are to be
counted, we can assure your lordship, by the units.
It is, my lord, a statement involving responsibility,
both to make and to hear ; but it must needs be said—
that it is only by a severe strain upon the law that
church-rates are now maintained at all. Tricks are
played with vestry notices. Estimates are refused, or are
so drawn up as to convey no information, or so slurred
over in the reading as to be incapable of being con i-
dered. Legal and relevant motions are put aside; the
poll of the parish is refused, or is fired so as to impede
classes of ratepayers likely to be opponents of the rate
from recording their votes ; while unimpeachable voter,
legally tendered, are rejected wholesale. Even on the
beach it has too often been found necessary to bring
magistrates to a sense of their duty by the formal threat
of legal proceedings, or of a representation of their
conduct to the proper authorities. -In this country, my
Lord, this state of things can but lead to one result.
it has already become a recognised point in Anti-
Church-rate tactics to watch for these illegalities, and
make use of them afterwards for preventing the enforce-
ment of the rate:

Confining, then, the discussion within the limits of
expediency to which it km: been restricted, we trust we
have said much to satisfy your lordship that church-
rates cannot be relied on..topglnce a certain income—
are not necessaryfor,thpisgpP9rt of public worship—and
are not agreeabllctii"ttie wishes of the country generally.
We cannotf .f litefe that, wider these circumstances,
your lordship-will deem an "equivalent"_ necessary for
those who ft till enjoy the use of the national buildings
without paying rent. And while we undeubterity
believe that, the battle of church-rates is to be fought in
the parish, vestries, we believe also that the difficulties in
the way of their legislative abolition are not now insu•
perabie : and-every pontideraffort-bewriese-upcm theppabe
of the country and the interests of religion itself; loads us-
t ) urge upon your lordship most respectfslly, but most
earnestly, to press forward this mode of settling the
controversy.

ADVENTUROUS CONDUCT OF SIR COLIN

CAMPBELL'S GUIDE.

The important service of guiding Sir Coliu Camp-
bell in his advance to Lucknow was performed by
James Cavanagh. This man, disguised as a native,
had ventured out from the Lucknow Residency,
where 0 utram Havelock, and Inglis were besieged,
and, passing through the enemy's position unmo-
lested, made his way to the camp of the Commander-
in-Chief. We subjoin Cavanagh's very interesting
and simple narrative :
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Narraiivi of my Escape from the British Entrenchment
at Luckno o to the Camp of Sir Coli❑ Campbell,
near Bunner, for the Purpose of Acting as his
Guide in his Advance for the Relief of the Besieged

Garrison.
While passing through the entrenchment of
Luckuow, about 10 o'clock, a.m., on the 9th inkt ,
I learnt that a spy had come in from Cawnpore,
and that he WAS going hack in the night as far ari
Alunibagh with despatches to his Excellency Sir
Colin Campb4ll, the Commander-in-Chief, who, it
was said, was approaching Lucknow with five or
six thousand men.

I sought out the spy, whose name is Kunoujee
Lall, and who was in the Court of the Deputy
Commissioner of Darahad before the outbreak in
Oude. He had taken lett,lrs from the entrench-
ment before, but I had never seen him till now. I
found him intelligent, and imparted to him my
desire to venture in disguise to Alutnbagh in his
company. •He hesitated a good deal at acting as
ney guide, but made no attempt to exaggerate the
dangers of the road. Ho merely urged that there
was more chance of detection by cur goingtogether,
and proposed that wo should take different roads
and meet outside of the city, to which I objected.
I loft him to transact some business, my mind
dwelling all the time on the means of accomplish-
ing my object.
I had some days previously witnessed the pre-
paration of plans which were being made by direc-
tion of Sfr James Outram to assist the Counnwnder-
in-Chief in his march into Lucknow for the relief of
the besieged, and it then occurred to me that sAne,
one with she requisite local knowledge ought to
attempt to reach his Excellency's camp beyond or
at Alumbao. The news of Sir Coin Campbell's
advaumrevived the ideas, and I made up my mind
to go myself at 2.-o'clock, after finishing the busi-
ness I was engage upon. I mentioned to Colonel
R. Napier, chief of-Sir James Outram's staff, that
I was willing to proceed through the enemy to
Al umbagh if the general thought my doing so would
be of servioe to the Commander-in-Chief. He was
surprised at the offer, and seemed to regard the
enterprise as fraught with too much danger to be
assented to, but be did me the favour of communi-
cating the offer to Sir James Outram, became he
considered that my zeal deserved to be brought to
his notice.

Sir James did not encourage me to undertake
the journey, declaring that he thought it so danger-
ous that he would not himself have asked any offi-
cer to attempt it. I, however, spoke so confidently
of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that
he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding
that if I succeeded in reaching the Ccinmander-in-
Chief my knowledge would be a great help to him.
I secretly arranged for a disguise, so that my de-
parture might not be known to my wife, as she was
not well enough to bear the prospect of an eternal
separation. When I left home, about 7 o'clock in
the evening she thought I was gone on duty for
the night to the miner, for I was working as an
assistant field engineer, by order of Sir James
Outram.

By half-past 7 o'clock my disguise was completed,
and when I entered the room of Colonel Napier no
one in it recognised me. I was dressel as a Bud-
mash, or as an Irregular soldier of the city, with
sword encl shield, native made shoes, tight trou-
sers, a yellow silk koortah over a light fitting white
muslin shirt, a yellow- coloured chintz sheet thrown
round my shoulders, a cream-coloured turban, and
a white waistband or kumurbund. My face
down to the shoulders, and my hands to the wrists,
were coloured with lamp black, the cork used being
dipped in oil to cause the colour to adhere a little.
I could get nothing better. I had little confidence
in the disguise of my features, and I trusted
more to the darkness of the night ; but Sir James
Outram and his staff seemed satisfied, and, after
being provided with a small double-barrelled pistol,
and a pair of broad pyjamahs over the tight drawers,
I proceeded with Kunoujeo Lall to the right bank
of the river Goompty, running north of our en-
trenchment, accompanied by Captain Ilardinge, of
the Irregular Cavalry.
Here we undressed and quietly forded filo river,
which was only about 4 feet deep, and about a
hundred yards wide at this point. My courage
failed me while in the water, and if my guide had
been within reach I should perhaps have pulled him
back and abandoned the enterprise. But be waded
quickly through the stream, and reaching the op-
posite bank went crouching up a ditch for three
hundred yards, to a grove of low trees on the edge
of a pond, where we stopped to dress. While we
were here a man came down to the pond to wash,
and wont away again without observing us.
My confidence now returned to we, and with my
tulwar resting on my shoulder, we advanced into
the huts in front, where I accosted a matchlock-
man, who answered to my remark that the night
was cold, "It is very cold—in fact, it is a cold
night." I passel him, adding that it would be
colder by and bye.
After going six or seven hundred yards further,
we reactd the iron bridge over the Goompty,
where we were stopped and called over by a native
officer who was seated in an upper storied house,
and seemed to be in command of a cavalry picket,
whose horses were near the place saddled. My
guide advanced to the light, and I stayed a little
back in the shade. After being told
.that we had
come frcm Mundoon (our old cantonment, and
then in the possession of the enemy), and that we
were going into the city to our homes, he let us
proceed. We continued on along the left bank of
the river to the store bridge, which is about eight
or nine hundred yards from the iron bridge,
pass-
ing unnoticed through a number of sepoys and
matchlock men, some of whom were escorting per-
sons of rank in palankeens preceded by toreheQ
Recrossing the Goompty by thei stone bridge,' we
went byaadsieritiitir33Trare
sunobserved,dressed
_ native,ae
or principal streetand into ai
tcoloths eel ye
chock,
tioning
of the city of Lucknow, which
was not illuminated as much as it used to be pre-
vious to the siege, nor was it so crowded. I jostt d
bringagainst several armed men in the street without
spoken to, and only
lneSepoys, who were amusingtltieomneseglvueasrdwiotfh sevensom e
women of pleasure.
When i'suing from the city into the country we
were challenged by a chowkeedar, or watchman,
who, without stopping us, merely asked who we
were. The part of the city traversed that night by
me seemed to have been deserted by at least a third
,of its inhabitants.
I was in great spirits when we reached the green
fields, into which I had not been for five months.
Everything around us smelt sweet, and a carrot I
took from the road-side was tie most delicious I
had cvor tasted. I gave vent to my feelings in a
conversation with Kunoujee Lall, who joined in