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DEArH or HornocK.-This truly gallant and
Christian soldier died in India on the 5th of Novem-
Der. in the sixty-third year of his are. Of dvsents~v
brought on by exposure and anx;etv. IN. ;rtsii;
gence viii cause sadness in the United fkate. ..-.J1
as in England. His was an endeared name ~ ~.
Christians OF this country, for his noble. DARING. and
humane Efforts to save the garrisons of Cawpnore and
Lucknow In the midst of his triumnba and dc.r1v
purchased honors he has heen called TO a bigbcr
sphere, where the bloody scenes of war xil no more
pain his sight.
General H,veleck was born April 5. Ifa5. He had
served IN India since 1923. when he was hut sweptv-
eight years OF age He married, In 1927, Hannah
Snepneru, youngest daughter of the late Rev. DR..
s,arsnman OF Serampore, the learned and accom-
plished biblical scholar, ny whom he has left a family
OF three surviving daughters and three sons, the eld-
est OF whom, Henry Marshman Havelock. was born
In 1881 He 10 a captain in the British army. and
has been lately serving in India as Deputy Assistant
AdJufant General, under his father, whose honored
name he bears.
The London -Adrertiser says that Lady Havelock
and her daughters are now residing mt Bohn, on the
Kline They repaired thither some weeks ago. and
meant TO remain some time in GERMANY. II ia n curi-
Gus circumstance that about six or seven weeks ago
L1dy Havelock, who up 70 that time cherished the
hrm conviction that her husband would not only come
tr'umphsntly through the campaign, but that she
and her daughters should soon meet him in England.
then became the victim Of a powerful presentimept,
OF which she was unable to rid herself. that she should
hear OF his death before many weeks had elapsed.
The following is the conclusion of an article in ref.
erence to his lamented death, which we find in the
London Record.
1t is amazing that the frail fabric was enabled to
endure so long Look only at the history Of the last
few months; look at his toll in the Persian expedition,
where, nominally second, he was really chief; then
see him Fastening back TO India, when Bengal was
in the midst Of revolt. See him dispatched to Ala
habad, just as Sir Hugh Wheeler was about to sur
render at Cawnpore, and Sir Henry Lawrence was
writing the last of his unavailing dispatches from
Lucknow; see him between the 5th of July, and the
10Th Of November, by day often consumed by the
burning sun. and nj NIGHT offpn e1popiuU amidat
hooded swamps; see his patience tried to the utter
most by the plumbers of selfsuf6cient and vacillafing
rulers at Calcutta, his supplies interrupted, his rein
f0rcements marched off to repair the mischiefs Of
Dinapore, and his position menaced by three power
ful armies, each of itself enough to swallow up his
little hand; see him finally embarrassed by the news
Of a superior officer being sent to control his move
ments; although that officer had the good sense and
the good taste to decline carrying out the foolish pro-
ject; see him at last Mt Lucknow, unable TO remove
the women and children, himself determined to perish
Father than abandon them; see him waiting week
after week for the relieving army, his son severely
wounded, and his own health giving way-and we
think we can understand the force of the expression,
that he died from anxiety and exposure
But it was not the boast of this brilliant officer
that he had won renown rs n soldier which will place
his name beside those of Wolfe and of Abercrombie.
of Moore and of Napier. The objects Of his ambition
were N I the glittering of baubles, of stars and rib
bons- 1t was rather his study TO lay his brightest
and proudest trophies Mt the foot Of the cross
of Christ. to give all the gloryto the Almighty Poten-
whose he was and whom he serSed-to Him who
g;rded him for his great enterprise, and with whom
MDas laid up a crown, one ray of which must pale
the lus.er Of all worldly coronets. From an early
period of his distinguished career he avowed himself
pm the Lords side. He was mot ashamed of the
gospel of Christ, even when il was branded as Meth
odism, for it was his constant aim, so to conduct him
self as to put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Havelock's saints were as p%roverbial for their cour-
ICE and good conduct as CROMWELL Ironsides. He
knmander who lived in the hearts of his SOL
iiers, and for whom and with whom they were pre-
pared to dare every danger and encounter every toll.
His story will be recorded in the proudest pages
England's history, and his example will nerve the
lrms of warriors yet unborn. His fame survives as
rich legacy to his country, and il is for that coun-
Try to consult its own honor amongst the nations by
aking care of his family His monument will be
ound in the love of his soldiers, in the gratitude Of
he women rescued at Lucknow, and in the reverence
which will embalm his memory in the affections of all
his countrymen.' Paper.