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through the head as he passed through an archway.
I hope the next time I write, to be able to tell of-
these brutes getting a good licking. The following
is a list of our killed in the charge on the guns :
Brigadier-General Wilson, Major Stirling, Captain
Morphy (Brigade Major), Acting Quartermas
General Captain 111‘Crea, Lieutenants Mackinnon,
Gibbous (52d), and some officers attached to Vie
64th. All the others were officers of the 64th.
You will see by the proportion that the officers
must have been picked off, for all the staff were
killed. The grape was fired atus when we were no
more than 20 yards from the guns. The other day
the Rifle Brigade captured and brought in two
large guns. You may not get this letter by this
mail, as the road to Calcutta is stopped up. I don't
think we, in the trenches, will have any field fighting
again, as we are all so knocked up, and require rest.
Well, I must finish, so believe me, my dear father,
your affectionate son, "A-- C--"

The following letter is from Captain Spurgin, the
tried - friend of Neill- throughout his Burmese
campaigns, the military commander of the first
armed steamer which ascended the Ganges above
Allababacl, the officer whom Havelock recommended
for a Majority :
" CITY OF LUCKNOW, OCT. 3.
"It is much I have to be thankful for. It is
almost impossible to describe. God has indeed
been merciful to me ; and your prayers and mine
must have indeed been listened to. From the 9th
hour of the morning of September 25 until 10
o'clock at night the whole force was under a blaze of
fire, every inoh of the road disputed ; and, as our
casualties will show, a sad loss we have sustained.
Instead of affording any. great relief to this unft,r-
tuuate garrison of Lucknow, as I am writing one
week after our entrance, we are almost as badly ff
as the garrison ; cut off from our baggage ; no c .m-
-munication with Cawripore, and with few supplies
left ; daily fighting, daily I. ss.
"My poor good friend General Neill fell almost
the last shot that was fired on the 25th ult. I was
close to him. A wretched man shot him from the
top of a house. He never spoke again, and could
not have suffered a moment's pain. Thera was
a gun between us at the time, but I got round
and saved his body by carrying it into the
entrenched eimp on a gun carriage, and it was
buried by his own regiment the next day. I
am now attached to Brigadier Stisted, who
succeeds t the command of the Ist Brigad',
My poor friend Arnold has lost his leg, and is
in a dangerous state. Poor Bliley is badly
wounded, au I I fear the spine is touched, f.r
he has 10-t the use of his arms ; and a frightful
number 6f the men, and sergeants—nearly one
hundred. Poor Pakeuhare, too, was killed early
in the day, and many many other friends whom
you did not know. When it will be over nob° iy
can tell. And the risks and the chances of each
day make it sad to think tf. _ _ _

"And now I have to tell you of the loss of
my poor boy. What has become of hint I know
not ; but Ile must have been killed on that dread-
ful night. I did not want him to con?, hut ho
said ye', he would come with me, and was afraid
to stay behind when the baggage was left. All
the other Coolies, and horsekeepHs, tire., got in
Tdely ; but tha rebels followed up our rear FO
elt,Sly that they cot off our sick and wounded,
and at ono time our heavy gun?. The latter
were recovered the next morning, but they burnt
our wounded as they were in their doolies, and
the bearers they either killel or pressed, into
their service to give information. Picture the
horrors of that night for the poor wounded.
Arnold, Bailey, and many others, all left till the
next morning, until a regiment could go. back
and find them. Arnold wag shot a second time

in the same kg whilst in his dooly. It is use
loss to tell you of my hair-breadth eacapes on
that day, for everyone had the same.
"We are now living in a part of the Palace
of Luckno tv, but such a scene of filth, mixed up
with costly things, it is ircpcsiible to imagine. The
finest china of the latest pattern from Bond-street,
or some other fashionable trade-spopk, used by the
soldiers of the force, coAboy3, or any oue. Cook-
( boys sitting on datnask stools c-o4.ing the men's
dinner s ; shawls and ornaments all kicking about,
no one being at the trouble to carry them for want
of means ; and. all this mixed up with dead bodies
of Sepoys, horses, camels, until the st-nch Is so
great we can scarcely sit—and no one to move all
this filth. The men are all fighting, clearing the
town, and the natives, with their abominable caste,
refusing to touch a-single thing.
" I - went 'to see- Mrs. the morning.afaar I
got in, and was truly thankful to find her alive and
well with a dear little child. Her friends at Madras
bad heard she was dead. She was so glad to see
me, and good old Neill had brought a box of all
kinds of things for the ladies, such as arrow-root,
sago, candles, &c., &c., and some wine, all of which
I had the great pleasure of distributing. And,
fancy, the dear old regiment had subscribed at
Cawnpore for the same good purpose : but their
box has not yet come up with the heavy baggage,
and I much fear the whole of the baggage has fallen
into the rebels' hands, for we were obliged to leave
it about fur miles from Lucknow, and. we have
not heard. of it since. The poor ladies expected to
have left for Cawnpore immediately after our
arrival, and that was the intention ; but now it is
as much as we can do to guard them here.
"I have also seen the —, or, rather, --, for
the poor woman has lately been confined, and her
little baby died. two days ago. All the ladies are
living in little holes ; Mrs. has about six feet
square for herself, nurse, and. child ; and they
wore all in daily fear of being blown up by these
wretched rebels, who have mined underneatk the
garrison in all directions."

To day the ,first of our extracts from private
Indian letters gives good reason to hope for the
safety of Benares. It is from a letter of the Rev.
James Kennedy, dated Benares, Dec. 5, 1857
"All is quiet at Jaunpore. The Oude rebels have
not followed the Goorkhas, as it was supposed
they would have done. They remain en the &ea-
ger. This is rather strange, considering their
strength, and the encouragement to advance by the
retirement of the Goorkhas. This backward move
of our allies is said to have excited is our enemies
the suspicion that we were laying a trap for them,
and therefore they fear to come on. Long may
their fear tontine. There are now at Jaunpore
500 European soldiers, 500 Madras Sepoys, and
2,000 Goorkhas, with artillery—a force deemed
sufficient to meet any force coming from Oude.
We have no reason fur apprehension at Benares. If
you see any statement to the contrary, you may for
once safely disbelieve it. I have seen in Calcutta
newspapers statements about our danger, which
have no foundation in fact, or rather no foundation
equal to their support. The order for the forma-
tion of an army here is suspended, partly, I believe,
because the authorities are satisfied that the danger
of Benares being attacked from Oude has been
greatly overrated, and they deem the force at Jaun-
pore quite sufficient for our defence (we always have
here a garrison of 300 or 400 men), and partly be-
cause the demand for troops further up the country
is very urgent. As English soldiers are passing
through daily, in the event of any emergency n
large body may be very soon concentrated in this
city."

" The following letter is from an intelligent resi-
dent in Calcutta :

"CALCUTTA, Dec 11.
" Matters are looking up with us, though only
through the indomitable courage of the glorious
English soldier. The fighting through Lucknow
was never surpassed. Sir Colin Cimpbell's de-
spatches are just published. But what a tale
of
bravery ; what a wondrous tale of enduring cou-
rage, of holy resignation, and pitiful suffering is the
story of the defence of Lucknow 1 Surely an Eng-
lishman is justified when he boasts that he is a
Englishman ; and surely Englishwomen in danger,n
in sickness and in sorrow,
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mutineers (this time the Gwalior force chiefly), and
Lean beaten out and followed
and ammunition, and n eaajaliynaelLtghheti ragnudnds
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fbesagtegda baggage,
Brigadier Hope Grant band driven across the river
into Oude, with nothing with them but their clothes
on their hacks, glad to ba able to swim across
the river and save their wretched Ewa for a time.
But the papet s will not tell you of the disgraceful
mi-managerneut of the " people's hero," Windham,
when he allowed his camp to be surprised by the
Gwalior force, and his poor soldieia to be cut to
pieces in their very tents, all their baggage aryl
stores to be taiien, and lls fine force of 3,000 or
4,000 suldiers to be saved from destruction by the
simple fact of their enemies failing to make full use
of the surprise which, through his negligence or
utter want of skill they successfully concocted. The
officers and so',diers of the force lost all their kits-
-4 and traps of every kind, and retook nothing but a