The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-29 00:00:00

26th March, and immediately wrote to the Bombay Go-
vernment again on the subject, for I am satisfied that you
will have a right to your European servic 3 on your dis-
charge.
You had better stay quiet where you are till I receive an
answer, which may perhaps be favourable, as there -is a
new Governor, who will give your case his fuller consi-
deration, and you will not be worse for remaining with
the Beloochee Corps a while longer.—Believe me, your
well-wisher,

(Signed) C. S. NAPIXII, Lieutenant-General.
Colonel M'Murdo, the late Inspector-General of
Volunteers, wrote as follows :
War Office, London, 6th Feb., 1856.
I knew your brother in Scinde, and know too the high
opinions my father-in-law (Sir Charles Napier) enter-
tained of him.

Sergeant Campbell rejoined the 78th, and re-
turned to England in June, 1853, and was discharged
on the 15th June, after twenty years' service as a
non-commissioned officer in the 78th Highlanders.
He was afterwards the first appointed on the per-
manent staff of the Aberdeenshire, and assisted in
the enrolment of that regiment. After having
served five years as colour and pay-sergeant he
was discharged, from ill-health, in November, 1859.
In April, 1860, he was appointed sergeant-major
of the Artisan Corps, in Aberdeen, and while his
health permitted he drilled the Volunteers in town
and country, until he met with an accident, from
which he never recovered. He met with this acci-
dent while drilling Capt. Irvin's volunteers in the
vicinity of Aberdeen. In allusion to Sergeant Camp-
bell, Sir Wm. Napier entered the following charac-
teristic inscription on a copy of his history of the
Peninsular War:—" Presented to Mr. Wm Camp-
bell, the brother of a good soldier, from the author,
also the brother of a good soldier."
In 1863, at the suggestion of some friends, his
brother applied through Col. M'Murdo for a good
conduct medal without gratuity, from whom he Ore-
ceived the following ans% er :

War-office, Feb. 4, 1863,

I have a perfect recollection of Sergeant Campbell, and
the good service he rendered at Surrachee in drilling the
newly-organised Beloochee battalion, and I assure you it
would give me great pleasure if I found that I could be of
use to so excellent a soldier.

Finding that Sergeant Campbell did not apply
within the prescribed period, namely, three years
after his discharge, his brother, the writer, felt he
had no hope of success, and as a last resource he
addressed bis grace the Duke of Argyle, who was
pleased to reply :

Roseneath, Jan. 17, 1861.
I shall be glad to lay before the proper authorities the
facts of your brother's case, if you will state them.
Copies of Sir Charles Napier's letters, or of some of them,
should accompany the statement.--I am, &c.,

ARGYLE.

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(Signed)
His grace of Argyle wrote again from—
Torquay, March 24, 1864

The application of your brother was laid before the War
Office. As soon, as the holidays are over I shall cause in
quiry to be made what tho answer is.
(Signed)

ARGYLE.

His grace used his powerful influence to obtain
for the soldier the good-conduct medal, but red-
tapism prevailed, and the soldier died without the
honour being conferred on him.

Notwithstanding the intensity of his suffer-
ings, his end was peaceful, calm, and re-
signed ; he retained his faculties to the last. His
wife sent a messenger for a friend shortly after 12
o'clock on the morning of his death. The messenger
had a distance to go ; he knew the distance and the
time the messenger would take, and observed that
the messenger would not be back in time, and as it
happened—for he died five minutes before the mes-
senger arrived—a proof that his end was at hand.

To show the respect in which he was held by his
much-loved regiment (the 78th), a, party of them
attended his funeral, and carried him shoulder high
to his grave in the old town church-yard of Aber-
deen. The funeral was also attended by the ser-
geants of the present staff of the Aberdeenshire
Militia, and all along on the way to the burying-
ground the novelty of the military attracted great
crowds. The coffin was first carried by four sol-
diers, followed by the chief mourners; then came
the party of the 78th, four abreast, followed by the
Militia sergeants and others. The sergeant in charge
of the party managed so that each one of the party
carried hini in turn, and the four who carried him
into the church-yard lowered the remains into the
grave. Sergeant Campbell's maternal great grand-
father was:Alexander Frazer, brother to Mr. Frazer,
of Gorthley Stratherrick, Invern-ess-shire. It was
to Gorthley's house Prince Edward Charles Stewart
fled from the battle-field of Culloden, and remained
there for the night. Alexander Frazer, who was a
most powerful man, kept watch and ward over
the house till the Prince left the following morning
in perfect safety. Sergeant Campbell's grandfather
was Sergeant-Major of a Highland Regiment,
which he raised and drilled in Inverness, and went
to India with his regiment, accompanied with two
of his sons, and in an engagement called the Battle
of the Bloody Fields had his leg shot off. Sergeant
Campbell was also related to the Mackenzies of
Fairburn and the Campbells of Gilchrist, Ross-shire,
the Grants of Achcranack Badenoch, the Macleods of
Strathspey, and M'Gillivroy of Dunmaglass. In
noticing Sergeant Campbell's death, the writer has
no wish to defraud any one of the honours which he
ever felt might be shared by every soldier in the
Regiment. His greatest ambition was to gain the
confidence of his commanding officers and the re-
spect of his comrades, so that he might be num-
bered among the boys of his much-loved town, In-
verness. In his death ends a long list of many
generations of soldiers, who served their country in
every quarter of the globe.. His end was peace, full
of hope in the infinite mercy of his Redeemer ;
constantly looking forward, after the battles of this
life were over and gone, to the promised rest, and
"pointing up to sense of bliss that never, never dies."

Railway and other Companies.

NORTH BRITISH.

The report of the directors states that the pub-
lished traffic receipts, which were always below
rather than in excess of the actual receipts, showed
an improvement of £43,586 as compared with those
of the corresponding half--year of 1865. A balance
of undivided traffic receipts kept in suspense during
the Chancery suit relative to the English and Scotch
traffic agreement would now be credited to revenue,
amounting probably to about £15,000. Notwith-
standing an advance in the value of wages, coal,
coke, and money, the direct Ors thought there was
no reason to anticipate a disadvantageous compari-
son with the financial result of last year. They
pointed with great satisfaction to the additions made
to the weekly receipts, which would be found this
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railway than in 1865. The report entered at s
length into the policy of the directors, explairne
that when the Caledonian and North-Eastergn
Amalgamation Bill passed the Lords' committee
the North British directors withdrew the Taybridge
Bill. Similar considerations induced them to stop
the submersion of the experimental pier of the
Bridge of Forth, since had it once been placed in
situ, and it became advisable to abandon the work,
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great expense would have been incurredinraniosirnt
and removing the structure. The other works
of the Forth, for which authority had been obtained
but no expense incurred, would be for like reasons
held in abeyance, and the whole question of the
manner and degree in which the northern section
of the North British system could, under the altered
circumstances, .be made most profitable to the com-
pany and most useful to the public would be ma-
turely considered. It was not the North British
Company, but Parliament, which bad changed its
principle of action, and therefore, if it were found ex-
pedient to modify or abandon works designed to serve
purposes incompatible with the novel legislation of
last
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friendlynegotiations with theCaledonian which would
be conducted on their part on the bases of mutual
abstinence from the promotion of all new railways,
amalgamations, and other measures hostile to each
other ; the adoption of the status quo as settled by