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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1858.

RIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY
'kJ (Limited). Under subvention from the East India Company.
in reply to inquirles the Directors beg to Intimate that he NEW
ISSUE of SHARES is RESTRICTED to the existing shareholders.
The 3,000 shares (of 101. each) of the first issue which are alone opal
to applications from the public, will be al'otted March 10, and these
shares will carry all the benefits of the original allotments. Pros-
pectuses. forms of application, and copies of the last report of the
directors, tnay be obtained at thi Company's Offices, 9 Billiter-street,
E.C.—By order of the Board.

JOHN MiTTHEWSOI,7, SecY.

rir ONNA GE WANTED for KIIRRACHEE.—
A WANTED, TWO fast clipper SHIPS, to conYey machinery
and stores from L•yerpool to Kurrachee.—For further particulars
apply to the oriental Inland Steam Company, 9, Billiter-street, E.C.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-TRIINS
FOR MARCH.—Several important alterations of trains will
be made, commencing on the Ist March, particulars of which may
be procured on and after the 2Gth instant, at any of the Company's
stations or otlices.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
w CFIANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey,
via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling
passengers to break the journey at Chippenharn, Dorchester, or
Weymouth. _ _

Faros, Rail and Boat : —3ls. and 21s.
Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Com•
pang's Offices.

wORCESTER and HEREFORD RAILWAY
TENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Tenth Ordinary
General VI eeting of Shareholders of this Company will be held at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, In the City of London, on
FRIDAY, the 26th day of February, instant, at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon precisely, for the purpose of transacting the ordinary btpi-
ness of the Company, and for the election of four Directors and one
Auditor in place of those retiring by rotation.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed on and from
the 17th day of February till after the meeting.

W. P. PRICE, Chairman.
THOMAS PRITCHARD, Secretay.
26, Spring-gardens, London, 4th February, 1658.

EIGHT PER CENT. OBLIGATIONS.
Interest payable half-yearly, in London, Paris, Frankfort, and

Hamburg.

THE GALVESTON, HOUSTON, and HEN-
DERSON RAILWAY COMPANY is now prepared to re-
ceive applications for 5,030 Obligations of 201. each, redeemable in
nine years, with a Premium of 21 each.

The annual Drawings to commence on Ist March, 1860.
The Obligations are secured on the Revenues of the Railway, and
on the Free Grant of Land, which is at the rate of 10,240 acres for
every mile of Railway constructed.

The Interest, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, is payable in
London on the Ist January and the Ist ,Tely on presentation of the
Coupons at the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbary.
Subscribers for Obligations are entitled to one Free Share for every
Obligation subscribed.

Full particulars may be obtained on application at the Agency of
the Company, 4, Skinner's-place, Size-lane, City, or of 31essrs. Price
& Brown, 4, Change-alley, City.

CURE OF A FOURTEEN YEARS' ASTMATIC COUGH BY
DR. LOCOCK'S PIILMONIC WAFERS.--
'I, Thomas Carter, Egremont, Cheshire, had an asthmatic
cough for fourteen years ; nothing ever gave me relief until I com-
menced taking Dr. Locock's Pulmonic Wafers, three boxes of which
have entirely cured me. (Signed) Thomas Carter, Witness, Mr.
Geo. Howell, chemist, Dale-street, Liverpool." They have a most
pleasant taste. Price Is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., and I Is. per box. Sold by
all chemists.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
SAVINGS AND CAPITAL.—As a permanent mode of
Investment this society has proved most profitable, for the last five
years, to the working and middle classes ; as members who have
paid their monthly subscriptions of eight shillings on a single share
have enjoyed the advantages of the 6 per cent. bonus, and in one
year 7 per cent., which has been divided amongst the Shareholders.
Those who have paid In advance 51. and upwards, have been paid 5
percent. per annum halt-yearly, with the additional 1 per cent. at
the end of the financial year. The opening instalment on one share
is 12s. 6d., and the subsequent payments, are Ss. per month, with
is. extra every quarter. The taking of land is quite optional ; but
if a plot be selected by a member, he can, after paying up one-eighth
of the purchase money, repay the balance at 10s. per month, for
every 521. 4s. 6d. Members incur no partnership liability, and have
the privilege of withdrawing their subscriptions at any time by
giving ten days' notice Prospectuses sent free to any part of the
world. The offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C., are open front
10 to 5, and on laturdais from 10 to 2 o'clock. Personal .attendance
is not required, As the investment can be made by correspondence.
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

entertain. Under the protection of this gentleman, and
encouraged by him, I commenced the work of my educa-
tion ; that portion of education which is comprised in some
knowledge of my own language and the ordinary accom-
plishments of my sex;—moral science, as I believe it is
called, has always been an enigma to, and is so to this clay.
I suppose it is because I am one of those who, as Rousseau
says, are " born to be prostitutes." Common honesty I
believe in rigidly. I have always paid my debts, and,
though I say it, have always been charitable to my fellow-
creatures. I have not neglected my duty to my family. I
supported my parents while they lived, and buried them
decently when they died. I paid a celebrated lawyer
heavily for defending unsuccessfully my eldest brother,
who had the folly to be caught in the commission of a
robbery. I forgave him the offence against the law in the
theft, and the offence against discretion in being caught.
This cost me some effort, for I always abhorred stealing.
I apprenticed my younger brother to a good trade, and
helped him into a little business. Drink frustrated my
efforts in his behalf. Through the influence of a very in-
fluential gentleman, a very particular friend of mine, he
is now a well-conducted member of the police. My
sisters, whose early life was in all respects the counterpart
of my own, I brought out, and started in the world. The
elder of the two kept by a nobleman, the next by an
officer in the army, the third has not yet come to years of
discretion, and is " having her fling" before she settles
down.
Now, what if I am a prostitute, what business has so-
ciety to abuse me ? Have I received any favours at the
hands of society ? If I are a hideous cancer in society, are
not the causes of the disease to be sought in the rottenness
of the carcass ? Am I not its legitimate child ; no bastard,
sir? Why does my unnatural parent repudiate me, arid
what has society ever done for me, that I should do any.
thing for it, and what have I ever done against society that
it should drive me into a corner and crush me to the earth?
I have neither stolen (at least not since I was a child), nor
murdered, nor defrauded. X earn my money and pay my
way, and try to do good with it, according to my ideas of
good. Ido not get drunk, nor fight, nor create uproar in
the streets or out of them. Ido not use bad language. I
go to the opera, Igo to Almack's, Igo to the theatres, I
Igo to quiet, well-conducted casinos, I go to all places of
public amusement, behaving myself with as much pro-
priety as society can exact. I pay business visits to my
tradespeople, the most fashionable of the West-end. My
milliners, my silk-mercers, my bootmakers know, all of
them, who I am and how I live, and they solicit my pa-
tronage as earnestly and cringingly as if I were Madam,
the lady of the right rev. patron of the Society for the
Suppression of Vice. They find my money as good and my
pay better (for we are robbed on every hand) than that
of Madam, my Lady ; and, if all the circumstances and
conditions of our lives had been reversed, would Madam,
my Lady, have clone better or been better than I ?
I speak for others as well as for myself, for the very
great majority, nearly all of the real undisguised prosti-
tutes in London, spring from my class, and are made by
and under pretty much such conditions of life as I have
narrated, and particularly by untutored and unrestricted
intercourse of the sexes in early life. We come from the
dregs of
society,hsso as our so-called betters term it. What
business society to have dregs— such dregs as we ?
You
railers a
of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, you
the pious, the moral, the respectable, as you call your-
selves, who stand on your smooth and pleasant side of the
great gulf you have dug and keep between yourselves and
the dregs, why don't you bridge it over, or fill it up, and
by some humane and generous process absorb us into your
leavened mass, until we become interpenetrated with
goodness like yourselves ? Why stand on your eminence
shouting that we should b 3 ashamed of ourselves? What
have we to be ashamed of, we who do nut know what
shame is—the shame you mean ? I conduct myself pru-
dently, and defy you and your policemen too. Why
stand you there mouthing with sleek face about morality 1
What is morality? Will you make us responsible for
what we never knew ? Teach us what is right and tutor
us in good before you punish us for doing wrong, We
who are the real prostitutes of the true natural growth of
society, and no impostors, will not be judged by " One
more Unfortunate," nor measured by any standard of
her setting up. She is a mere chance intruder in our
ranks, and has no business there. She does understand
what shame means and knows all about it, at least so it
seems, and, if she has a particle left, let her accept
" Amiens's" kind offer as soon as possible.
Like "One more Unfortunate" there are other intruders
among us —a few, very few, "victims of seduction." But
seduction is not the root of the evils—scarcely a fibre of the
' root. A rigorous law should be passed and rigorously
carried out to punish seduction, but it will not perceptibly
thin the ranks of prostitution. Seduction is the common
story of numbers of well brought up, who never were se-
duced, and who are voluntary and inexcusable profligates.
Vanity and idleness send us a large body of recruits. Ser-
vant girls, who wish to ape their mistresses' finery, and
whose wages won't permit them to do so honestly —these
set up seduction as their excuse. Married women, who
have no respect for their husbands, and are not content
with their lawful earnings, these are the worst among us,
and it is a pity they cannot be picked out and punished.
They have no principle of any kind and are a disgrace to
us. If I were a married woman I would be tine to my
husband. I speak for my class, the regular standing army
if the force.

Gentlemen of philanthropic societies and members of the
Society for the Suppression of Vice may build reforms,
tones and open houses of refuge and Magdalen asylums,
and "Amiens" may save occasionally a "fallen sister,'
who can prevail on herself to be saved ; bat we who never
were sisters—who never had any relationship, part,
interest, or communion with the large fabuily of this
world's virtues, moralities, and properties,—we, who
are not fallen, but were always down,---who never
had any virtue to lose,—we who are the natural
growth of things, and are constantly ripening for the har-
vest,—who, interspersed in our little, but swarming col°.
nies throughout the kingdom at large, hold the source of
supply and keep it frnitful,---what do they propose to do
with us ? Cannot society devise some plan to reach us ?
" One more Unfortunate" proposes a " skimming" pro-
seas. Eut what of the great bubbling cauldron ? Remove
from the streets a score or two of " foreign women," and
" double as many English," and you diminish the compe-
tition of those that remain ; the quiet, clever, cunning
cajolers described by " One more Unfortunate." You hide
a prurient pimple of the "great sin" with a patch of that
plaster known as the "observance of propriety," and no-
thing more. You " miss" the evil, but it is existent still.
After all it is something to save the eye from offence, to
remove them ; and not only a score or two, but something
like 200 foreign women, whose open and disgusting inde-
cencies and practices have contributed more than anything
else to bring on oar heads the present storm of indignatioa.
It is rare that English women, even prostitutes, give cause
of gross public offence. Cannot they be packed off to their
own countries, with their base, filthy, and filthy-looking
men, whom they maintain, and clothe, and feed, to super-
intend their fortunes, and who are a still greater disgrace
to London than these women are ?
Hurling big figures at us, it is said that there are 80,000
of us in London alone—which is a monstrous falsehood--
and of this 80,000, poor hard-working girls, sewing women,
are numbered in by thousands and called indiscriminately
prostitutes : writing, preaching, speechifying, that they
have lost their virtue too.
It is a cruel calumny to call them in mass prostitutes;
and, as for their virtue, they lose it as one loses hie watch
who is robbed by the highway
thief. Their virtue is the
watch, and society is the thief. These poor women toiling
on starvation wages, while penury, misery, and famine
and say,
clutch them by the throat " Render up your body
or die."

Admire this magnificent shop in this fashionable street ;
its front, fittings, and decorations cost not less than a
thousand pounds. The respectable master of the establish-
ment keeps his carriage, and lives in his country-house.
He has daughters too ; his patronesses are fine ladies, the
choicest iinpersonatious of society. Do they think, as
they admire ths taste and elegance of that tradesman's
show, of the poor creatures who wrought it, and of what
they were paid for it? Do they reflect on the weary toiling
finger!, on the eyes dim with watching, on the bowels
broken constitutions, on
yearning with hunger, on the bended frames, on the
poor human nature driven to its
coldest corner and reduced to its narrowest means in the
production of these luxuries and adornments ? Tnis is an
old story ! Would it not be truer and more oharitable to
call these poor souls " victims ?"—some gentler, some more
humane name than
prostitute—to soften by some Chris-
tian expression, if you cannot better the un-Christian sys-
tem, the opprobrium of a fate to which society hasitself
driven them by the direst straits? What business has
so-
ciety to point its finger in scorn, and to raise its voice in
reprobation
of them ? Are they not its children, born of
its cold indifference, of its callous selfishness, of its cruel
pride ?
Sir, I have trespassed on
your patience beyond limit,
and yet much remain, to be said, which I leave for further
. communication you think proper to insert this. The
difficulty of dealing with the evil is not so great as society
considers it. Setting aside " the sin " we are not so bad
as we are thought to be. The difficulty is for society to set
itself, with the necessary earnestness, self-humiliation, and
self-denial to the work. But of this hereafter. To deprive
us of proper and harmless amusements—to subject us in
mass to the pressure of force, of force wielded for the most
part, by ignorant, and often by brutal men—is only to
add the cruelty of active persecution to the cruelty of the
passive indifference which made us what we are.

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THE CAMPAIGN IN MAL WA.

(Fivm the Bombay Government Gazette.)
(No. 47 of 1853.)

The Right Hon. the Governor in Council has very
great satisfaction in publishing, for the information of
the army, the following report made to his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief by Brigadier Stuart, commanding
the Malwa Field Force (now let Brigade Nerbradda Field
Force), of his succe=sful operations against the insurgents
assembled near Mundisore, during tour days, from the
21st to the 24th November last.
(No. 201 of 1357.)

From Brigadier Stuart, Commanding Malwa Field
Force, to the Adjutant• General of the Army, Bombay.
Sir,—With reference to my telegrams of the 25th and
26th inst., I have now the honour to forward the reports
and to communicate, for the in'ormati,,n of his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief, full particulars of the successful
operations in which the Malwa Field Force and the field
force Hyderabad Contingent, under command of Major
Orr, were engaged on the 2lst, 22d, 23d, and 24th inst.,
against the rebel enemy in the •icinity of Mundisore.
2. On the morning of the 21st November this force,
accompanied by the field force Hyderabad Contingent
which, as I have already reported, is co-operating with
me—under command of Major Orr, arrived within three
miles and a-half of Altindiaore about 9 a.m., and, as I
had no good information as to the roads or the country
iu the immediate vicinity of the town, neither as to the
fords of the river Sowna, which it was necessary to
cross before reaching the town, I determined upon en•
camping until a good reconnaissance Lad been effec',ed.
The rebel army at Mundisore, hearing of our approach,
had posted pickets, entirdy covering the country over
which we were advancing, and, observing our pickets
thrown out, they mustered- in some force outside- the
walls of the town, and appeared inclined to attack.
j, however, contented myself with reinforcing the
pickets, and leaving the whole charge of the
front to Mai r Robertson, 25th Regiment of Native
Infantry. The field-officer of the day returned to camp

about 3 o'clock p.m. I received intimation from him
that the enemy were advancing in force, and threatening
both our flanks and centre at the same time. I accord.

ingly moved out to meet them ; they advanced steadily
with banners flying, and appeared in great numbers.
On approaching our right front, however, they were most
gallantly charged by Lieut. Dew, her Majesty's 14th
Light Dragoons, who, with some of his men, occupied
that ground as a picket Captain Orr, commanding 3d
Regiment Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent, supported
Lieut. Dew, and the enemy were driven back with great
loss ; and before our guns, which had quickly moved
up, could open upon them, the attack on our centre was
repul-ed by a few rounds of our Raillery, while that on
the left was successfully met by the field force under
Major Orr. The enemy having been thus driven back
at all points were pursued for some distance—in fact,
until they nearly reached the walls of the town—and
nothing further occurred that day.
3. Having received intelligence from the Governor-
General's agent that the portion of the rebel army before
Neemuch, amounting to alsout 6,000, would probably
raise the siege of that place, and endeavour to effect a
junction with their head-quarters at Mundisore, I de-
termined to frustrate this by intercepting them. Ac-
cordingly, early on the morning of the 22d Inst. I moved
forward my force in order of battle. Our advance was
unopposed, and on my left lank reaching the village of
Kuljepore I made a flank movement to the left, as
previously determined ou, leaving the advance guard
to cover it, and to reinforce the rear guard, as we
crossed the Ilakri ford of the river Sowna,
about 1,400 yards to the south-west of the town of Mun-
disore. This secured, the movement was safely effected,
opposed only by a slight and ineffective fire from a gun
on one of the southwest bastions of the town. I then
encamped, facing the west of the town. by flanks well
protected by the two branches of the river, and my line
running at right angles to the right of Sir Thos. Hislop's
camp in 1817. Just previous to the camp being marked
out it was reported that cavalry were sent on the left,
and Major Orr, taking the Ist Cavalry, Hyderabad Con-
tingent, under Capt. Abbott, and 4th Cavalry Hydera-
bad Contingent, under Capt. Murray, saw about 300
horse, supposed to be under Heera Sing, endeavouring
to draw them off in a north-westerly direction, but keep-
ing at too great a distance to alley, of being attacked.
Reinforcements of cavalry were sent for, aid while the
left wing, her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, under
Capt. Gall, and the 3d Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent,
under Lieut. Clerk, were moving up, intelligence was
brought to Major Orr that Heera Slog's baggage had
just left the village of Goraria, on the Neemuch-road.
The object of Heera Sing's party to draw our cavalry
away from his baggage thus being apparent, her Majes-
ty's 14th Light Dragoons, the Ist Cavalry Hyderabad
Contingent, and the 4th Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent,
galloped off in pursuit, the 3d Cavalry Hyderabad Con-
tingent remaining as a reserve. They caught up the
enemy about two miles south of Peaplia, and after cut-
ting up about 200 of them halted at a wallah a mile to
the south of that village. On perceiving it strongly
occupied by the enemy's infantry, who showed many
standards, they then returned to camp.
4. Feeling assured that the infantry seen in Peeplia
formed the advance guard of the enemy, I moved at 8
o'clock a.m. on the 23d inst. by my left, and crossed the
northern branch of the river Sowna. I then halted my
column and collected all my baggageon the reverse flank
then moving on to my proposed camp on the Neemuch
and Mundisore read, ready to oppose the enemy either
from one or the other direction. On coming en to the
ground the enemy appeared in great force to the north,
baggage to be collected on a strong mound, I strongly
reinforced my rear guard and proceeded to meet them.
After a short advance I formed line to my front, facing
northwards, and found the enemy occupying a very
strong position with their right in and beyond the vil-
lage of Goraria, their right centre covered by a date
nullah and lines of date trees, their battery of six guns
on rising ground, with a large mud hut protecting their
gunners, and their left stretched along the ridge running
east from the village. My line advanced, covered by
skirmishers ; the enemy's infantry, with banners flying
(many of them green), moved down to meet us through
the intermediate fields of high jowarree, and their guns
opened fire. I immediately baited my line and replied
to the fire with Capt. Hungerford's and Woolcombe's
batteries, at a range of about 900 yards. After a few
rounds I again advanced the line, and permitted Capt.
Hungerford to move his half-battery to a position on our
right front, from which he could enfilade the enemy.
After an advance of about 300 yards our line was again
halted, and firing reßamed, that from both batteries being
very effective. A most gallant charge was then made on
the enemy's guns by the escort of her Majesty's 14th
Light Dragoons, attached to Capt. Hungerford, under
Lieut. Martin, who found, however, that the position
was still very strongly held by the enemy's infantry, and
was compelled to retire, he himself being very severely
wounded. Copt. Hungerford's half-battery was again
advanced to within 100 yards, and after a round or two
of grape the guns were at once again charged and cap-
tured, the enemy flying in great numbers into the village
to their right. The id Regiment Cavalry Hyderabad
Contingent, under Captain S. Orr, was just at this mo-
ment rapidly advancing by our right front, and having
been wheeled to the left, it swept down upon them in
their retreat and killed great numbers. Our line then
changed front about the eighth of a circle, right thrown
forward, and moved steadily on the village, which
evidently held great numbers of the enemy ; their
skirmishers disputed our advance, but were soon driven
back. Having halted within about 300 yards of
the village, our artillery opened upon it with shot and
shell, after which I directed the infantry to advance and
carry it. The men of the 86th and 25th Regiments
dashed forward in the most gallant manner, and having
entered the village, commenced to drive all before them.
They soon met, however, with very warm opposition,
the enemy having taken possession in great force of
many houses, from which a most harassing fire was
kept up on our men. Under these circumstances, and
as, moreover, I could get no satisfactory accounts of
what was passing in my rear, which I knew from the
firing I heard, as also from the pressing applications I
had received for reinforcement, had been warmly engaeoi,
I recalled the infantry and posted strong pickets all
round the village, and moved the remainder of the men
a short distance off to where the baggage bad been passed
up from the rear. I then learnt that daring the after-
noon, when we were hotly engaged in the front, a strong
body of the enemy from Mundisore attacked our rear,
an 4 endeavoured to carry off the siege train, baggage,
&c. ; they were, however, most gallantly repulsed on
every occasion. In one of these attacks I regret to say
that Lieutenant Redmayne, her Majesty's 14th Light
Dragoons, was killed while most bravely leading his
men against the enemy. Notwithstanding the many
attempts made by the enemy to press upon and harass
our rear, it gives me great satisfaction to be able to state
that not a particle of baggage was lost, nor a follower
injured. On this occasion Lieutenant Leith, command.
ing a squadron 14th Light Dragoons, appears to have
done good service ; as also Lieutenant Fenwick, 25th
Regiment of Native Infantry, in charge of the baggage.
Gunner Maitland, of the Bengal Artillery, and Gunner
Thomson, of the Bombay Artillery, also distinguished
themselvee by assisting to work the heavy guns most
effectively against the enemy.
5. On the 24th inst., I arranged with Captain
Hungerford, commandant of Artillery, that the village
of Goraria, in which the rebels had taken refuge,e
should be well shelled and again assaulted bynoote
infantry. Accordingly I moved up to
aboutt em tat
preceding found that the enemy were as I had
few had
at-
preceding evening, excepting
horn were killed.
that i
0 i
tempted to escape,
Aft a heavy fire of tnheraerely boaullrs' duwration
Mejor Keane,
the detach-
menter of 86tb, under comm
and the 25th Native Infantry, under of
d Major Robertson,
the village and carried it, ling great
num again
nbesetromf thee r
d -enemy, they themselves also suffering
severely. At sunset I withdrew the troops, inter ding
to move against the fort of Mundisore the text day.
I%irly, however, on the morning of the 25th inst., intel-
enoe reached me that the enemy had during the right
completely evacuated Mundisore, and were egattend in
flight throughout the country in vari( us dir no,
having lost, it is computed, about 1,500 of tt eir number
during our operations against them. I accordingly re-
moved wy camp to Alundiaore, and am Row engaged in

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dismantling the fort, destroying the giris, before
leaving this neighbourhood.
6. By the successful operations of the Malwa field
force and field force Hyderabad Contingent in the vicinity
of Mundisore, the Neemuch garrison has been relieved
from the assault with which it was threatened ; the in-
surgent rebels have been dispersed from their strong-
hold, in which for months past they have been daily
collecting all those disaffected to our rule, and peace and
order will now, it is to be hoped, be re-established in
these districts.

7. I must now, in conclusion, place on record my
grateful acknowledgments to Col. Durand, officiating
agent to the Governor-General for Central India, for
his cordial assistance to me on all occasions. He was
present in the field throughout the operations, and gave
use the benefit 'of his advice, which proved of great
service to the ; Major Orr, commanding field force Hy-
derabad Contingent, most ably co-operated with me on
all occasions ; and to him and all under his command
lam very much indebted, To Major Boileau, field
engine, r, and his assistants, Lieuts. Prendergast,
severely wounded, and Gordon ; to Capt. Mayne, intelli-
gence department ; to Capt. Coey, major of brigade ; to
Lieut. Macdonald, deputy assistant quartermaster-
general ; to Lieut. Their], sub-assistant commissary-
general ; and to Surgeon Mackenzie, staff-surgeon—my
wannest thanks are due, Tue assistance rendered cue
by these officers left me nothing to wish for. A perusal
of the report made by Captain Gall, commanding left
wing of her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, will convey
to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief some ideaof
the guod service performed by ail ranks under his com-
mand. I most fully concur in Captain Gall's report, and
beg to commend to the consideration of his Excellency
all the officers and men mentioned by him. Of Captain
Gall himself I must in jus,ioe add that a more able,
zealous, and hardworking officer I have never met with,
,enor one more worthy of distinction. Ot Captain Orr,
8d Regiment Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, and all
the officer. and men under his command, I have already
had reason to send tee most favourable report to the
Resident at Hyderabad. On this last occasion, nothing
oould surpass the bravery ehoem by all ranks of this
regiment, and Captain Orr himself is, I consider, a first-
rate cavalry officer; hie daring courage is admired by
ail, and in every affair in which he is engaged his per-
sonal combats are most prominent features. To Capt.
Hungerford, Commandant of Artillery, Malwa field
force ; and to Captain Woolcombe, commanding No. 4
light field battery, and the officers and men under their
command, my best thanks are due. I do not think
artillery practice could have been better, and there can
be but little doubt that the successful issue of operations
is much to be attributed to their assistance. Of the
conduct of Captain Brown and the officers and men of
the B Company Madras Sappers and Miners I have
much pleasure in speaking in the highest terms ;
whether as Sappers or as Infantry they have distinguished
themselves on every occasion. They have undergone
an incredible amount of hard labour during our late
march with a siege-train over a country without roads ;
nor must I omit to mention that they accompanied the
storming parties into the village of Goraria, and
proved of the greatest service. My beet thanks are
also due to Major Keane, and the officers and men
of the detachment of her Majesty's 86th Regiment.
The gallantry of all ranks was most conspicu-
one, and on both occasions that the village was
assaulted the coolness and daring of the officers and men,
at whose head Major Keane placed himself, elicited the
praise of all. My despatch from Dbar will have made
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief aware of the
very high opinion I hold of Major Robertson, and the
officers and men of the 25th Regiment N. 1., during the
late operations ; nothing could have beeu finer than the
behaviour of al in thus regiment. Major Robertson
distinguished himself on the 21st inst. as field officer of
the day in the attack made upon him in force on the
afternoon of that day. During the succeeding days Major
Robertson rendered me the greatest assistance. The
manner in which he led his regiment on two occasions
to storm the village of Goraria is beyond praise, and I
consider that the admirable conduct of the 25th Regi-
ment N.I. fully attests the worth of this officer, who
will, I hope, meet with s ince mark of distinction. In
the praise conveyed to Captain Little, 25th Regiment
N. 1., by his commanding officer, I quite concur, and
trust that his Excellency may be able to grant some
mark of favour to this deserving officer. In the two
attacks'on the village of Goraria I could see no difference
between the conduct o the men of the 25th Regiment
N.I. and their comrades of H.M.'s 86th Regiment ;sbe
same daring and gallantry characterised both. Their
list of casualties will show how warmly they were on
gaged, and I trust his Excellency wilt recognise the
merits of this regiment. Before closing the despatch I
beg to report oa the admirable conduct of Assistant

Sargeon Butler, 4th Company 2d battalion Artillery,
who, daring the engagement on the 23d instant, though
suffering severely from sickness, left his dooley, and was
engaged in the most active manner during the whole
day in assisting to administer comfort to the wounded.
The conduct of this officer bas been brought to my
notice by the'staff-surgeon of the force, and will, I trust,
meet with isome reward. —I have the honoer to be, &c.,
C. S. STUART, Brigadier,
Commanding Malwa Field Force.