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London, England, 1858-05-25 00:00:00

very difficult one. Ills pursuit on the 21st of the party
which broke away after being driven by Sir Edward Lu-
gard from Saadut Gunge was highly effective.
Brigadier Hagart has received the marked commendation
'of Sir J. Hope Grant, and the brigadiers in command of
infantry brigades have particularly distinguished them-
selves under the eyes of their divisional commanders : -
Brigadier D. Russel, Ist Brigade ; Brigadier P. M. Gay,
3d Brigade ' • Brigadier the Hon. A. Hope, 4th Brigade ;
Brigadier Douglas, C.B. sth Brigade ; Brigadier Hors-
ford, C. 8., 6th Brigade ; '
Brigadier Evelegh, 7th Brigade ;
and Lieut.-Colonel Longden (her Majesty's 10th Foot),
attached to the Ghoorka Brigade, by order of the Com-
mander-in-Chief.
The Head-quarters 2d Brigade, with the sth Fusileers,
and 78th Highlander; under Brigadier Franklyn, remained
at Alumbagh in position, and was well disposed by that
officer to resist the enemy's demonstration on the 16th
inst,
To Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, K.C.8., my
warmest acknowledgments are due for the effective m liner
in which he commanded the Artillery Division.
The four corps, the Naval Brigade, the Royal Artillery,
the Bengal Artillery, and the Madras Artillery, worked
with the greatest harmony under his happy direction as
one regiment. The merits of Sir Archdale Wilson are too
widely known to gain anything by encomium from me,
but I may be permitted to express nay great satisfaction
at having been able to avail myselfof the assistance of this
most distinguished officer. The effective fire of the Artil-
lery during the long operations, which depended so much
on the management of that arm, elicited general admira-
tion. The practice of the 68-pounder of the naval Brigade
was capital, while .the Kaiserbagh and other great build-
ings which had been stormed showed in a very convincing
manner how. truly the shells had been directed by the
Royal and Bengal Artillery;" Whenever the field artillery
could be used the troops of Horse Artillery, and field
batteries of Royal Artillery, and the Madras Artillery did
the most excellent service.
Sir Archdale Wilson expresses his great obligations to
Captain Sir William Peel, K.C.8., R N., till that most
gallant officer was severely wounded ; and to Brigadier
Wood, C.D., Royal Horse Artillery, and Barker, C. 8.,
Royal Artillery, respectively commanding the field and
seige artillery brigades. It would be difficult for me to
give an adequate idea of the zeal and activity displayed.
by the chief engineer, Brigadier Napier, Bengal Eagi-
nears. Many of the onerations depended on his proper
appreciation of the obstructions to be overcome, and the
means at his disposal for that purpose. His great profes-
sional skill and thorough acquaintance with the value of his
enemy have been of the greatest service, and I recommend
him most cordially to your Lordship's protection. lam
under very great obligations to him.
The officers of the general departments of the army have
accompanied me during the siege, and I beg to return
'them my thanks. They are as follows :—Major H. W.
Norman, Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army; Lieut.-
Colonel W. Macpherson, officiating Quartermaster-General
of the Army; Colonel the Hon. W. L. Pakenham, CB.,
officiating Adjutant-General of her Majesty's forces ; Cap-
tain C. F. Seymour, Blth Regiment, officiating Quarter-
master-General of h, Majesty's forces ; Captain G. Algood,
officiating Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the Army;
Lieut.-Colonel Keith Young, Judge-Advocate-General of
the Army; Lieut. P. Stewar., Bengal Engineers, Superin-
tendent of Electric Telegraphs ; Dr. M'Andrew, Inspec-
tor-General of Hospitals of her Majesty's Forces.
Dr. Brown, the Superintending-Surgeon of the forte,
has again won my sincere thanks for his admirable ar-
rangements.
Captain Fitzgerald, Assistant-Commissary-General
who has had the disposition of the commissariat in the
field, has met every want of the army. He his distin-
guished himself much, and is a cradle to his department.
I must draw very particular attention to the services of
Major Norman, Deputy Adjutant-General, who, besides
his ordinary departmental duties, has performed the very
onerous one of Adjutant-General of the army in the field
throughout/the campaign.
To Captain H. Bruce, Deputy Quartermaster-General
head of the Intelligence Department, and to Captain G
Algood, officiating Assistant Quartermo.ster-General, who
performed the duties of Quartermaster-Genera of the
Army in the /field, until the arrival of Lieut.-Colonel
Macpherson. These officers have all bees moat active is
the performance of their duties.
To my personal staff, and that of Major-General Mans-
field, my acknowledgments are due, but more particularly
to my military secretary, Colonel Sterling, C. 8., and to
Captain It. G. Hope Johnstone, Bombay Army, Deputy
Assistant Adjutant-General to the Chief of the Staff.
Those two officers are most indefatigable.
A list of the members of these staffs is appended.
Finally, I wish to draw your Lordship's attention to
the conduct of the regimental officers, commissioned
and non-commissioned, and to the men of the regiments.
Their conduct has been very brilliant throughout. The
manner in which the 93d Regiment flung itself into the
Begum Kotee, followed by the 4th Sikhs and supported by
the 42d, was magnificent, and the subsequent attack on
the Emambara and the Kaiserbagh reflected the greatest
credit on the regimental leaders of the 4th division, and
the soldiers who followed them.
Corrected lists will be sent immediately of the officers and
soldiers who are deemed most worthy of distinction in a
force in which every ono has a have, &c.,
C. CAMPBELL, General,
Commander-in-Chief in India.

To the Right Hon. the Viscount Canning, Governor-
General, &c.
Camp Lucknow, March 28, 1858.
My Lord,—l have the honour to reportlo your lordship
the departure of his Highness Jung Bandoor from the
camp before Lucknow. I desire to take this opportunity
to express my thanks to his Highness for the assistance
rendered to me during the late operations by him and his
gallant troops. I found the utmost willingness on his part
to accede to any desire of mine during the progress of the
siege, and from the first his Highness was pleased to justify
his worls, that he was happy to ho serving under my com-
mand. His troops have proved themselves worthy of their
commanders, and it will doubtless be a happiness to them
heresfter that they were associated with the British arms
for the reduction of the great city of Lucknow.
My bast thanks are due to the Special Commissioner,
Brigadier-General Macgregor, C. 8., the medium of com-
munication between his Highness and myself. 'bag to
racommand him and the British officers serving under his
orders to the favourable consideration of your lordship.
I have the honour to be, my Lord, with the greatest re-
spect, your Lordship's most obedient and humble servant,
C. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in• Chief.

LIST OF THE PERSONAL STAFF OF HIS EXCELLENCY
GENERAL SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, K.C.8., COMMANDER.
IN-CHIEF IN INDIA; AND OF MAJOR-GENERAL W. R.
MANSFIELD, CHIEF OF THE STAFF.
Colonel Sterling, C. 8., unattached, Military Secretary
to th 3 Commander-in-Chief. •
Captain Sir David Baird, her Majesty's 98th Regiment;
Lieutenant F. M. Alison, 72d Highlanders; Captain VT.
F. Forster, 18th Ruyal Irish, Aides-de-Camp to the Com.,
mander-in-Chief.
Major J. Metcalfe, 3d Regiment Bengal Native Infantry,
interpreter and`commandant head-quarters.
Lieut. R. G. H. Johnstone, Bombay Army, Deputy
Assistant-Adjutant-General to he Chief of the Staff.
Lieut. D. M. Murray, her Majesty's 64th Regiment;
Lieut. F. It. S. Flood (severely wounded), her Majesty's
53d Regiment, Aides-de-Camp to the Chief of the Staff.
Surgeon J. Clifford, officiating surgeon to the Com-
mander-in-Chief.'
A. C. STERLING, Col., Military Secretary.
Head-quarters, Camp, Lucknow, March 22.

TIIE MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE-HOUSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES.
Sir,—My attention has been called to a letter in
the Times of Saturday last; in which, after a week's
consideration, Lord Shaftesbury writes :
" The Prime Minister, in the debate of the 14th,
stated that I bad attended a public meeting on Sunday
at Cambridge-house. The motive was so manifest that I
did not interrupt him and contradict his assertion."
I made no such statement. What I did say Is
correctly given by your reporter in the following
words

" I do not know whether be attended it, but I pre-
sume be had communicated to him the result of that
Sunday meeting."
Had I made such a statement publicly and in his
hearing-, whatever " motive" Lord Shaftesbury
may be charitable enough to impute to me, I should
have thought, judging by my own feelings, that,
instead of leaving it unnoticed for a week, he
would have at once contradicted it in the presence
of the assembled peers, who must have heard the
precise expressions used.

If he were ultimately led to notice the alleged
statement by the " anonymous writerd" to whom
he refers, he had at least one opportunity, subse-
quent to the data of his letter to you 'on which be
might have done so in my presence:in the House of
Lords. To most peers that would have appeared
the' more courteous mode of proceeding.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant, DERBY.
St. James's-square, May 24.

The annual report of the Oriental Gas Company, pre-
paratory to their meeting en Wednesday, describes the
lighting of Calcutta with gas, which was effected in
July last, after a Eeriss of extraordinary delays from
variety of accidental circumstances. Since that period
the use of gas has steadily, although slowly, increased
at Calcutta, and the number of lights supplied, which at
the commencement was only 333, is now 1,040. The
total expenditure of the company has been 71,5681.
PENSIONING PRIVATEERS.—A bill has been intro-
duced in Congress to pension the descendants- of priva-
teers during the last war. We shall probably next bear
of pensions to the descendants of the sutlers and CO''
boys cf the Revolution, and it is not at all impossible
that the posterity of the pirates we have hung may Oahu
Kinailar rewards, if it can be proved that their ancestors
ever plundered shies belonging to parties with whose
nations we were ever at war. The ingenuity with which
our public treasury is plundered is really remarkable.
There seems to be no end to the devices and pretexts
employed for getting access to the money of the Govern-
ment. Our public lands have been pretty nearly
hausted already in these plundering crusades. We sbait
be compelled by and by to increase the tariff for their
protection. This is the only sort of American industry
which finds favour in the eyes of our Government.—New
fork 7iin es.

ESCAPE OE MUTINEERS —Thu constant escape of the
persons we are chiefly aiixious to secure, from each sec-
cassive fortress which our troops capture, has not un-
naturally excited a goad deal of remark • and we have
heard it rumoured in explanation that While the native
troops aro quite willing to fight for us in the field they
will not intercept fugitives in their flight. Were the,
c'nargo true, which we can hardly suppose, it would, of
course, account for those annoying accidents we have se
frequantly bad to record. The charge carries along with
it an imputation Gf a sort of chivalry to these troops we
are not qui e prepared to give them credit for ; end
bearing in mind that we bad few or none of them a
Lucknow to connive at the escapes there, we are the
wore disposed to look upon our run of ill fortune in the
matter as a chapter of accidents in the history of the
war. It is forgotten that we did capture the Sing of
Central India, the gentleman who was going to boil the
Moue of the Neemuch garrison in oil, and we have
little doubt that the Jealbel of Jhansi, Nana of Bithoor, •
and the miscreant of Arrah will before long be hunted
down by the troop, or be betrayed into.our.haada•-"!
Bombay Timms.