Litchfield enquirer., 1858-02-18

oItSC, hdfcIOCh COiuHu | and defeated him before the other columns
 could come up For this he was promoted tc Brevet-Major, and was made Companion ot 1 the Bath. In 1S44 he was promoted to tht
 rank of Lieutenant-C Colonel by brevet.
 Twenty-Five years of iucessant and Ia boriou'
 service now began to tell on his constitution
 and his medical adviser, in 1S49, sent him te
 Europe for two years for the resterati1n of his
 health. H. returned to Bombay iu 1851, and ] was soon after made Brevet-CoIonel, Quarter master-General, and then Adjutant-Geueral oi the Queens troops in India
 His subsequent career has been so recently the subject of public admiration, that we need do no more than recapituate the leading incl
 dents. With the greater portion of the 64th
 and 18th regiments he first attacked the mutt
 neers at Futty-pore, on the 18th of July, and I on the 15th at Asung, and at Pandoo Mud dee on the 16th, at Cawnpore, he had a
 horse shot under him, and the enemy lost 23 guns Advancing from Cawnpore on the 18th he captured Oonao, Busserut Gunge, and 1s guns This position he was obliged to give up, but retook it on the 5th of August, infict: ing great slaughter. On the 18th of August he again defeated the mutineers, and on the 16th attacked them at Bthoor. Eventually receiving re-enforccments under Sir James Gu, tram. he entered Lucknow on the 25th of Sep tember, and held his ground there until the
 garrison was finally relieved by Sr Colin
 Campbell on the 17th November.
 He died, like Lord Raglan, of dysentery,
 brought on by exposure.
 The English papers mention as singular
 circumstance, that about six or seven weeks previous to the intelligence of his death, Lady
 Havelock who up to that time cherished the
 firm conviction that her husband would not on,
 ly come trinmphanty through the campaign,
 meet him in England, then became the victim
 of powerful presentiment, of which she was
 unable to rid herself that she should hear of
 his death before mauy weeks han elapsed.
 It was net the boast of this brilliant officer
 that he had wen renown as soldier, which will place his name beside those of Wolfe and of Abercrombie, of Moore and of Napier He looked for higher reward than those which
 are bestowed by earthly sovereigns The ob. jects of his ambition were not the glttering of baubles, of stars and ribbons It was rather
 his study to lay his brightest laures and proud.
 est trophies at the foot of the cross of Christ, to give all the glory to the Almighty Poten- tate whose he was and whom he served-to Him who girded him for his great enterprise,
 and with whom there was laid up a crown, one
 ray of which mnst pale the lustre of all earth
 ly coronets From an early period of his dis. tinguished career, he ayowcd himself on the Lords side. He was "not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ" even when it was branded l as Methodisn,, for it was his constant aim SC to conduct himself as to put to silence the ig norancc of foolish men. "Havelock's saints
 were as proverbia for their courage and good
 conduct as CromwelFs Ironsdcs He was 6
 commander who lived in the hearts of his sol
 diers, and for whom and with whom they were
 prepared to dare every danger and encounter
 every -Independcnt