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METROPOLITAN PROFLIGACY.

Yesterday afternoon, the adjourned meeting of dele•
gates, comprising some of the most influential clergymen,
churchwardens, &c.. of the metropolis, was held at the
Chambers of the Society for the Suppression of Vice,
No. 57, Lincoln's Inn fields, for the purpose of further
considering the state of different parts of the metropolis
in reference to the flagrant exhibitions of street profligacy
that nightly disgrace the a. rests at the West-end of the
town,

Mr. JAMES BEAUMONT having been called to the chair,
expressed his plea,ure at seeing the great interest that
this movement had occasioned, for he felt it taus' lead to
setae practical re=ult. He felt that the Government
would do something in the ea; e, when it was found that
With I there was each a universal ft&ing in favour of the
movement.

After a ten remarks from Mr. Churchwarden CRANE
and Mr. STEV/INS, of St. James's, Piccadilly,
Sir J. J. HAMILTON (Crown churchwarden of Mary.
lobo, e), bore testimony to the willingne*,s of the vestry
of Marylebone to support this- or any movement that
bad fur its object the suppression of prostitution, or any
other vice.

Mr. WM. ACTON then said he thought they should
proceed to something practical. In dealiqg with thi=
question he thought that they should iia%e a knowledge
:if the condition of the women. The result, (f investiga-
tion had shown dint one in 13 or 14 of the adu.t female
population were living in prostitution. They must he
informed that their condition was known. What this
society intended to do was to itopr..ve their moral
and physics' condition and che appearance of the
streets. His opinion was that there was sufficient.
legislation without going to the Government, and they
,ould show these women that there is a law, and
teat it would he carried out against them to the very
otter. In conclusion be moved the following reso-
lution :—."That a deputation do wait as early as
possible upon Sir George Grey, for the purpose of moat
reepectfully but earnestly representing to her Majesty's
Government the necessity of effectual measures being
tai -n to put down the open rxhioition of street prosti
tution, which in various parts e.f the metropoti.,
particularly in the important thoroughtare,s of he
Haymarket, Coventry-street, Regent-street, Portland-
place, and other adjacent localities, is carried on with a
disregard of public decency, and to an extent tolerated
in no other capital or city of the civilised world."
The Rev. Mr. BYRNE (St. James's) briefly seconded
the motion.

Some di,,cussion ensued, in which the Rev. Mr. KEMP
(rector of St. Pancras) said he had prepared a resolution
which he should like to be submitted to the meeting, and
it was arranged that it should be taken as the third
motion.

The Rev. Professor MARKS (Marylebone) suggested
that if a deputation was appointed, the number of
gentlemen from each parish should be limited to three.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. STEVENS (St. Jamee‘s) then moved, "That such
deputation be instructed to urge upon her Majesty's
Government the following measures, whereby it is
believed that the evil complained of may be effectually
controlled :-Ist, the enforcement, upon a systematic
plan, by means of a department of the police specially
appointed and instructed for that purpose, of the provi-
sions of the 2d and 3d Tict., cap. 47, in reference to
stre't profligacy ; 2d, for passing an act for licensing
and placing under proper regulations, as to supervision,
the hours of closing all houses of entertainment, it being
a matttrof public notoriety that h,usos of this descrip-
tion popularly known as night houses, have, by becoming
the places of resort for crowds of idle and disorderly
parsons at all hours of the night, greatly contributed to
the present disgraceful state of thin;3."
The Rev. Mr. MAULE secondeii the motion, and

The Rev. T. GARNIER (Marylehone) having briefly
supported it, drew a vivid pi,,,ture of the conditioo of
the streetti of the metropolis, and urging the necessity for
an alteration of the law, the motion was put a d carried.

Mr. GREENE (late M.P. for Lancaster) then proposed
the resolution submitted by the rector of St. Jametes—
...._

"That this meeting, understanding that a meeting of
delegates from the metropolitan vestries is to be held to-
morrow at St. James's vestry-room, desires to express
its cordial sympathy with the object of that meeting—
viz , duo control of the night houses, the removal of the
public scandal in the metropolis, and to tender any
support and co-operation which it may be in its power
to give for the furtherance of that object, aad that this
res dution be communicated to the chairman of that
meeting."
The Rev. Mr. THOROLD seconded, and the motion was
carried.
The Rev. Professor MARKS, after some general ob-
servations, referred most warmly to the subject of the
impartation of foreign girls to this country for immoral
purposes. He moved, "That the &Um:l:ion of the
Government be also directel to t2e great numbers of
foreign females systematicaly i.no )rted into this
country, and to the means of controlling this increasing
evil."
Sir J. J. HAMILTON briefly secandel the motion,
which was also unanimously agreed to.
The usual oumplimentary vote having been passed to
the chairman, the meeting adjourned.

occasions during Mrs. Sager's absence from home, and
during tboe different peri,.ds she had slept perhaps 30
times at the workhouse ; but she denied ,leeping en any
of these occasions with S,igar, or ever having improper
intercourse with him except in the presence of his wife
She also stated that she had seen Martha Wadsworth
(a married sister of the deceased), sleep with. Sager and
his wife, Witness was asked if she had ever slept with
Sagar at Mrs. Stocker's, which she denied, but after-
wards admitted that she had once done so. and stated
that Sagar slept with her and Mrs Stocker on thatocca-
sion, Mr. Stocker being absent in Lancashire.
Martha Wadsworth denied most distinctly that she
had ever slept with the prisoner and his wife.
Some other witnesses were called, bnt their evidence
contained nothing of great importance that was t.ot
elicited at previous stages of the inquiry, except that
one of the inmates of the workhouse deposed to seeing
the prisoner take his wife by the hair of the head and
kick her against the doorway, about, three weeks befor,7
her last illness.
Two witees es proved that the deceased kept a
druggist's shop at Culling worth about 13 years ago,
and
that he Bold arsenic.
At about half-past six o'clock the Chairman said that
in consequence Lf information which had come to the
knowledge of the magistrates, the pre-over would be
remanded to that day week.
The prisoner, on hearing this, exclaimed, "You are
going to murder me ; you are going to murder me
Tne excitement which this r- tnarkable case has pro.
duced in Keighley and its neighbourhood is very great.

THE ,SUICIDE OF LIEUT.-COLONEL

JAMES STUART.

Last evening Mr. Bedford, the coroner, an=l a
highly-rospectable jury of the loc dity, assembled
at the Feathers Tavern, Grosveuor-street West,
Eaton-square, to inquire, into the .circumstances
attending the melancholy
_death of the, late Lieut.-
Colonel James Stuart, aged 68, who committed
sett-derructiou by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol, on Sunday morning, the 3d
ms,.

Mr. Jul-in Henry Daniels of Halkiu-street West,
Belgrave-square, s! at,:d that the deceased was his
uncle by marriage, and was a retired lieut.-colonel
of her Mijes y's sec vice, having formerly bel inged
to the 45th Foot. (There is such an officer according
to " Hut's Army Lis!," a retired" lieut.-colonel
on half-pay from the 84th Foot.) He had served
in the Peninsular war. He had also been in India
and suffered severely from the jungle fever caught
in Burwah. A piece of bone had recently come
awiy from his head, and he laboured of late under
a delusion tha people were haunting him to prison
him, carrying his belief out to such an extent as to
refuse dining with his friends-occasionally. At the
suggestion of his relatives he was examined a short
time ago by Dr. Sutherland, with the view of ascer-
taininv whether his eccentricity was such as to re-
quire any restraint or confinement at but ho
was pronounced to be perfectly harmless. A few
months ago he went to the police station awl com-
plained of his imaginary torme i,tor4, thereby leav-
ing no doubt about his mind being affected. Dur-
ing the past summer he had been to Germany for
the benefit of his health, and returned considerably
improved.
Mr. James Laing, jun., son of the eminent gun-
maker, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross, deposed to
the deceased having purchased the pocket-pistol
with which the deed was committed from wit-
ness on Saturday, the 2d inst.
Wm. Sumner, the butler of the house where de-
ceased had lodged, and his wife and servant girl, as
also Dr. Griffith, deposed to the nature of the
wound. The latter gentleman further stated that
the most extraordinary part of the matter was,
that notwithstanding the fact of the ball having
gone as it were clean through the head, the de-
ceased showed not the least symptom of pain, and,
stranger still, seemed a little conscious at times
during the nine days' illness that supervened be-
tween the infliction of the wound and deith. Such
a circumstance was perhaps unparalleled.
Mrs. Sumner stated, that she had heard Colonel
Stuart wish that somebody would blow his brains
out, but he never threatened to commit suicide.
After he had breakfasted on the day of the occur-
relic.) he declined to order anything for dinner, as
he said, with tears in his eyes, that he was miser-
able.

After hearing some further evidence, the jiry re-
turned a verdict to the effect that the " deceased
gentlewin hal destroyed bitnselt during a state of
tewpurary insanity."

DARING BURGLARY IN BERKSHIRE.

A burglary of a most daring character was com-
mitted a few nights ago, at the residence of Mr.
Davis, carrying on the business of a miller, at Twy-
ford, in Berkshire, by a man named Charles Butler,
who made his escape from Wandsworth House of
Correction on the night of the 31st of December
last, where he wts confined under a sentence of
penal servitude for the crime of arson. From the
statement of the prisoner, as well as from the evi-
dence given on his examination before a magistrate,
it seems that the second night after his escape from
Wandsworth gaol he committed a burglary at Farne
ham Royal, near Slough, Bucks, and succeeded in
carrying off a good number of th'ngs, some of which
vet re of considerabl value. He left that place, in-
tending to go
to Hinton in Snnersetshire, where
his relatives are residing, but when be reached Twy-
ford he was tempted to stay, and having made an
inspection of the several houses in the village, he
made a "plant" upon the residence of Mr. Davis.
r t
Accordingly, about midnight on the sth inst., he
gained acre-s to the back pemi,es through the
gar-
den, which extends to some fields and meadows in
the rear, and be
oust have had a long walk to et
in that way. The kitchen window was fastened,
and the Shutters were closed, having at the hack an
iron bar ; but this was nothing difficult to him ; he
I
;J
soon contrive to make an aperture sufficient to
enable him to remove the fastening a6d '
throw up
the window, The only obstacle in the way of his
progress were the shutters, but with the expertness
of a practised burglar he was not long before he
succeeded in removing the iron bar, which being
done, he entered the kitchen. He then commenced
a careful search of the house, and put together such
valuables as he could with tolerable ease carry off
and convert into money. A young lady, a relative
of Mr. Davis, was disturbed b some one attempt-
ing to enter her bedroom, buty fortunately the door
was fastened on the inside. The burglar returne I
downstairs, and confined his attention to the draw-
ing-roorn, sitting-room and kitchen. The young
lady who had been previously disturbed heard a
noise below for more than an hour, but, fancying
that some of her friends bad risen unusually early,
she gave no alarm. However in
rose and went-
in the morning,
about 6 o'clock, When Mr. Da
do a nstt& s he at once perceived that a burglary had
been committed, and that a great many articles of
wearing apparel were missed, besides plate, watches,
sr,e. A messenger was dispatched to the tee town
of Readin r, about five miles distant, to cornamoi-
cats the fact to the police, who, imagining it not
unlikely the burglar would seek to dispose of the
property by pawning, went at) a shop of that cha-
racter, and was informed that a man had not long
Previously pledged some knives and forks, boots,
and other articles, answering to the description of
those solen. The tiffie--r quickly proceeded to
another pawnshop, where he saw the principal, who
on hearing the object of his V ;
—ISi , stated there was
a man in his other shop offarine in pledge a number
of at tides, and fancying they were such as he could
not have honestly become possessed of, he had kept
him waiting, while one of his assistauts was gone
to the police-station. The officer was iutroduct d
to But ler, who at that moment had two coats, a
hat, powder-flash, and shoteelt, itc., all of which
were identified as the property of Mr. Davis. He
was thereupon cha ged with
having committed the
burgl try, upon which he became ext emely violent
but the r &ter with assistance secured him at‘d con-
veyed him to the police station. Several other of
the missing articles were discovered in a bag con
coaled under a hayrick not far from Mr. Davis's
premisee The prisoner, when before the magi-
.trat admitted that he committe I the burglary,
but tha he was ltd i° d° it from want of food. He
disclaimed all intention of yea„tino.t'
to hurt anyone
personally.
He recognised
The Governor of Wandsworth Gaol
attended. Buller as an escaped
convict. Butler coolly stated that he got out of
the gaol because an opportunity offered itself, and
he bad been there quite long enough. He was
committed to the Berkshire Gaol for trial on the
charge of burglary, and also for having broken out
of the House of Correction at Wandsworth. He is
about 26 years of age,
and has a very repulsive ap-
arance.

STATE Or EMPLOVIKNT IN MANCHESTER.—The weekly
returns of the state of employment in Manchester, made
by the Chief Constable yesterday, i „f a much morn
satisfactory chatacter, for though the total number out
of emrloyment (9 ,058) shows an increaeo of 325 on the
6,708 in fall em-
-25,302 in full work
pprioe;tinoeun4tTineka,ktitanegrenoiswana increasetotal
of ~f.
out of 46,499. There are 12,109 on short time, being a
decrease since last week of 6,938. This shows a very
satisfactory improvement of trade, and confirms the
statements Vrllia him been made in the trade reports.

LETTEA FROM INDIA.

The following is ft o•it an officer of the 6 )th
attached to the 64Th, atCawnpore

" EArenchel Cam!) Guard, Cawnpore,
Nov. 26, 1857.
" Here lam a2ain ! Outlying piquet, across the
river the night before last ; ditto last night ; guard
to-day ; stiffish duty—. ather. The whole of Gen.
Windham's force moved from their ground (about
six miles off) last night, as it was reported that the
Gwalior force was advancing ; and this morning
the 64th R gitncnt moved out to the Delhi road,
leaving only sufficient, men to form !he main gua d
and piquet, which have to-day been amalgamated,
in the entrenched camp. The quar term ester of Vie
646 has jest redden in to get provisiyins br the
men, and says that firing has been beard d:sinct y
for the last h- air in the direction of Gen. Windham ;
so perhaps they have been lucky euougli to fall iu
with the rebels: The ladies came half-wa, from
Lucknow the other day, but were obiged to turn
ba.l, as the wool was blocked up by the rebels.
We have bad no news froin Luoknow since the
19th. What do yin think the Gwators sav ?
Teat they intend waiting until we ere hampered
with the ladies from Lucknow, and then, that th y
Rill easily take Cawupore ; that Allatiabad will
take a little longer to capture, but that some of their
force issure to take it.' Just let themtry to do either !

saw another nigger strung up the other day ; he
was a swell in his way, and was hanged for having
in his possession Government paper and money to
large amount, and also for favouring the rebels.
Whom do yen think I met yesterday 7
Paliologus ! Ho is with the- 34th Regine nt, and
is with General Winilhaw's fo, ce. Swire has jest
come in from the fight ; it occurred about 18 wil .8
from this, and we completely routed t em. Of
course I have no particulars as yet. Cape ain D
88th, killed. I saw him oury yesterday. Swire
had a narrow escape—a round shot and a round of
grape pass-d underneath his horse. As he was
riding in he met an officer on the road, an en.ige,
I believe, of the —th, and asked if he was b
hit. Oh, no,' answered the sub., `only h:df my
thigh carried away by a round hot . ' Piquet again
forme to-night across the river. The rebels fought,
and fought bar I too, f.-tr an hour and a half.
Quartermaster-General M'Crea had his horse shot
under him. There are three friends of T—'s here

—Brackenbury, who was at the fight to-day, a Dr.
and a Captain Cunl.ifi, Bengal Fusiliers.
The later cline out from England, and went up as
flr as Meerut with T--, and he and I were on
guard together to-day.
" Outlying Piquet, Oude Territory, 6.39 p.m.
" Here I ant again (as the clowns observe) in
charge of a small mud fort, two guns without
wheels, and 30 men, in an enemy's country, and
with some 3,000 of the beadles' all about. I wish
they would come on. I think we could make a few
of them fo id for j tckals. This said piquet com-
mands the a.pptoach to the bridge ; so in case of a
scrimmage, I shall abandon the mud edifice and
wheelless guns, retrEat to the end of the iiridge,
and then walk into the niggers until a forge comes
down from the fort.. As I am left to my own dis-
cretion, I think this the best course to adopt.
" Good news from Luekuow. It is entirely in
our po,sessiou—rebels defeated, and Sir Colin and
the ladi,s coming in. At present thy are 30 miles
from this. I have not taken off my clothes for

two days.
" Back again at my tent in camp. Iha I only
just finished my breakfast when the bugle sounded,
and out we all turned again. As I write very
heavy firing is going on, apparently about five
miles from tilts. The big gnus are distinctly au-
dible, and sometimes the musketry ; so Windham
is 'at 'em' again. Our piquet last night were
within 600 yards of theirs.
" Poor eld.Gen. Havelock is dead. The firing is
still going on.

"7.33 the same evening.
Well, we have just coma back from the fight ;

that is, we were obliged to retire. Windham has
evidently been deceived by his spies, who repre-
s, nted the enemy's force to be 2,000 or 3,000 ;
whereas there could not have been less than 25,000
oppo-ed against us. At one time I. never expected
to get back to camp alive. We were retiring down
a road, and the shot and shell went flying along its
centre whilst we skulked along in the ditch. You
can't: fancy what a 21-pounder is when it p' tuhes
withiu a few yards of you. I cannot think how we
sic Ted. One shalt burst within a few yards of me,
but not a man was touched. One of our fellows
was hit in the hand.

"November 30.

"1 was interrupted in my letter • as we had to
turn out at about two o'clock in the morning to
occupy the Baptist Chapel ; we thought we should
have had a quiet day ; but just after breakfast time
crack went the rifles in front, and in about 10
minutes the enemy's shot, shell, and grape came
pitching into and over the piece in fine style. How-
ever, no one was hit, as we had excellent cover.
We soon got tired of it, however ; and to our
delight, we perceived a reinforcement of the 34th
coming up the road. So we fell in, in front of them,
and marched down the road for about half a mile,
when we suddenly came upun the enemy's! battery
in a most formidabie position. Of course the instant
they perceived us a stoim of grape, shot, shell, &c.,
opened up en us. The br.gadier gave the word to
charge, and at 'em we weut ; but sadly reckoned
without our host. You will imagine what a fire we.
were exposed to when 1 tell you that we went in 14
officers and 160 men ; of the former, serve.' were
killed directly, and two wounded ; of the latter,
only 18 killed, and 15]wounded, so the officers were
evidently picke t iiut. We fought at the guns for
about 10 minutes. Two were spiked—on,.
by Major Stirling, who rushed up to it,
sword in hand. The native gunners rushed
at us in the most ferocious manner, cutting with
their swords and throwing bricks. By the
laWr, Captain B revitry and I were kuoeked down
together but juumped up ag tin directly, when the
devils came at us again with swords and shields. I
fired my pistol at one fellow, and I suppose I hit
him, for he did not come on. Brigadier Wilson
eves killed. I was just behind him, when his horse
was struck by two balls. He was afterwards shot
through the body. However, we were regularly
beaten off, and then commenced a most terrible
retreat. The guns—six in number—and swarms of
infantry poured in a withering fire. As I ran to
the rear, officers and men were shot down within a
yard of me ; but I escaped by the greatest miracle.
I ran by the brigadier's side, until his horse was hit,
which was about 20 yards from the muzzles, when
I passed him. Directly an officer was down the
eepoys cut him to pieces with their tulwars. But
just fancy leo men charging six guns and about
1,000 Infantry I We were awfully blown in getting
up to their position, as we had to cross a deep
nullah' and up the other side. I was one of the
first fortunates up—at least all the officers were
in front ; but there could not have been more than
50 men with us. We had two guns in our possession
for a few minutes ; but eur supports failed us, and
then it was, Devil take the hindmost.' We have
been under a hot fire since the 26th. lam writing
this from our outer trench, and the shot and shell
are flying about from both sides. However, we and
quite safe, and haven't had a casualty since we
entered the trenches. The sepoys occupy the ad
jaceut ruins, and as they cut from one to the other
we pot them. They had done themselves up with
' bang' yesterday, inteu lung to rush at us with their
swords, but toe brutes funked it after all. It was
a dreadful sight to see the poor officers being cut
up. They were all round me, but by the g ea, est
mercy I was not touched. I lost my sword belt,
scabbard, pistol, and keys (which were attached to
the scabbard). Whether the whole apparatus was
cut away by a shot or no, I don't know.
Oh, I forgot to tell you that in the first
day's fight I tumbled into a burning limekiln,
but didu't get hurt a bit, although I lost one of my
pistols. One of the poor fellows (Gibbons, 52d) who
was afterwards killed at the charge on the guns,
reehed in after me, but I scrambled out by myself.
We caught a spy or sepoy this morning, and didn't
w- blow his brains out ! I never could have be-
li lied that one could get so accustomed to firing ;
but I can assure you that one pays no more atten-
tion to whistling Dick' going by than one would
For-
tunately to a bit of paper. In the gun scrimmage my ee
and sword were splashed all over with blood.
the same night that we fell back upon the
entrenchments Sir Colin'e force came in fr. ,m Lueckd_.-
how ; for we were getting rather hard press
These Gwalio. s that are fighting now are some
20,000 strong, and the natives are joining them
every (lay. Th-y had 40 guns or so atAlieb eganning
of the row ; but now they have lost some to us.
This trench business is harassing work. We have
been four days and four nights without taking our
things off. There is a ruined bungalow about 400
yards off full of sepoys. The brutes sOnletiraefifi e
into us in the middle of the night, and the general
won't let us make a rush and drive them ou
They shelled our hospital the other day, and I b,
hove wounded some of the patients. The ladies
and children have arrived from Lueknow ; but I
don't think they are in the entrenchment yet. Gen.
Savelock died Qf dysentery, and Gen eillwsuishoi

[PRIO:g 4L. SirAMP ,j 5--

through the head as he passed through an archway.
I hop t ie next time I writ; to be able to , ell of
these brute, ge a good ticking. The fiillowing
is a lis of ',lir killed in the charge on the guns :
Brigadier-General Wilson, Major Stirling, Cap ain
Morplty (Brigade Majtr), Acting Quitterinas.er
General C tptain WC' ea, Lienten:in, MAckinno'i,
Gibbons (52d), and some office's attached to t
64. h. All the (Alien were officer,' of the 61ith.
You will see by the proportion that the offici-i's
must have, been picked off, for all the staff were
killed. The grape was fired at us when we were IM
more than 20 yards from thiii guns. The other day
the Rjle Brigad captured and hr.u..!ht in two
largi-: guns. Ytiu nuy nt get this letter by flip:.
mail, ;-la the road to Calcutta is stopped up. I .ion't
think we, in the trenches, will have any field fighting
again, 'la we are all so knocked up, and.requiie
W, 11, I mist finish, so believe tile, my dear tatter..
your affectionate son, "A-- C--"

The following leiter is from Captain Spurgin, the
tried friend of N.-ill throughout his Burme-e
campaigns, the militAry commander of the first
armed steamer which ascended the Ganges above
Allatiabad, t he 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 mer Aful to me ; and your prayers and mini
must have indeed been listened to. From the 9th

hour of the morning of S-ptember 25 mail 10
o'cloct,c at night the while force was under a blaze of
fire, every inch of the road disputed ; and, as our
casualt:es will show, a sad loss we have sustaint-cl.
Instead of affording any great relief to this unf
tuuate garrison of Lucknow, as I am writing one
week after our entrance, we are alteost as: badly ff.
as the garrison ; cut off from our baggage ;. no c
municaton with gawnpore, and with few supplies
left ' • daily fighting, daily 1 ss.
"My poor good friend General Neill fell almost
the last shot that was fired on the 25th ult. I was
close to hits. A wre, ched man shot him from the
top of a house. He never spoke again, and could
not have suffered a moment's pain. There was
a gun between us at the time, but I got round
and saved his body by carrying it into the
entrenched camp on a gun carriage, and it was
buried by his own regiment the next day. I
am now attached to Brigadier Stisted, who
succeeds to the command of the Ist Brigade,
My poor friend Arnold has lost his leg, and is
in a dangerous state. Poor Bailey is ba-ily
wounded, and I fear the spine is touched, f
he has lost the use of his arms; and a frightful
number of the men, and sergeants—nearly one
hundred. Poor Pakeeham, too, was killed early
in the day, and many many other friends whom
yen del not knew. When it will be over nobody-
can tell. And the risks and the chances of each
day make it teal to think of.
" And 11,JW I have to tell you of the, tiss of
my poor boy. W sat has become of him I know-
, not ; but he must have been killed on that dread-
ful night. I del not want him to come, hut he
said yes, he would come with me, and was afraid
to stay behind when the baggage was left. All
the other Coolies, and horsekeepers, he., got in
safely ; but the rebels followed up our rear so
clos,ly that they cut off our sick and wounded,
and at one time our heavy guns. The latter
were recovered the next morning, but they burnt
our wounded as they were in their doolies, and
the bearers they either killed 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
nt,xt morning, until a regiment could go back
and find them. Arnold was shot a second time
in the same leg whilst in his dooly. It is use
less to tell you of my hair-breadth escapes on
that day, for everyone had the same.
" We are now living in a part of the Palace
of Lucknow, but such a scene of filth, mixed up
with costly things, it is impossible to imagine. The
finest china of the latest pattern from Bond-street,
or some other fashionable tradespeople, used by the
soldiers of the force, cookboys, or any one. Cook-
boys sitting on damask stools cooking the men's
dinners ; 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 stench is so
great we can scarcely sit—and no one to move all
this filth. The meii 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 after I
got in, and was truly thankful to find her alive and
well with a dear little child. Her friends at Madras
had heard she was dead. She was so glad to. see
rue, and good old Neill had brought a box or all
kinds of things for the ladies, such as arrow-root,
sago, candles, &c., tiro., and some wine, all of which
I had the great pleasure of distributing. And,
fancy, the dear old regiment had subscribed at
Ca,wnpore for the same good purpose : but their
box has not yet come up with the heavy bae,;4age,
and I much fear the whole of the baggage has fallen
into the rebels' hands, for we were obliged to leave
it about four miles from Lucknow, and we have
not heard of it since. The poor ladies expected to
have left for Ca wnpore 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 cenfined, and her
little b tby died two days ago. All the ladies are
living in little hole.- ; Mrs. has about six feet
square for her-elf. nurse, and child ; and they
were all in daily fear of being blown up by these
wretched rebels, who have mined underneath the
garrison in all drections."

Today the first of out extracts from private
Indian let,ers gives good reason to hope for ,be
safety of Benares. It is from alw ter of the Rev.
James Kennedy, dated Benarel, Dec. 5, 1857
"All is quiet at Jaunitore. The Oude rebels have
not followe.l the Goorkhas, as it was suppo4ed
they would hate done. They remain ,n the fron-
tier. This is rather strange, c insidering their
strength, and the encouragement to advance by the
retirement of the Goorkhas. This backward move
of our allies is said to have excited in our enemies
the suspicion that we were laying a .trap for them,
and therefore they fear to come on. Long may
their fear continue. 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 for 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 urgsut. As English soldiers are passing
1 through daily, in the event of any emergency a
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 Cohn Campbell's de-
spa, ehes are just published. But what a tale of
bravery ; what a wondrous tale of enduring cou-
rage, of lily resignation, and pitiful suffering is the
story of the defence of Lucknow ! Surely an Enkr_
thev angels of
very lishmsn is justified when he boasts that he is an
iEnnsgilcki, English an
sickness
and
n; andin surelysorr awE, Englishwomen shtl we omen in clanger,
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earth. I could fill a letter with
all i
_ interesting
stories I have already heard, but have but one
hour to finish my letters. The wowen and child en
papers will show yon
are on their way down. Thetrpf
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Brigadier Reps.
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Gwalior force, and his poor soldiersest
pieces in their very tentsallby
cutthe
to
, their
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baggage and
stores to lie taken, and his fine force of 3,000 or
1,1100 s,:ldiers to be saved from destruction by the
simple fact of their enemies faiiing to make full use
lof the surprise which, through his negligence or
utter want of skill they successfully concocted. The
officers and soldiers of the force lost all their kits
and traps of every kind, and retook nothing but a