moved forward. The first brigade, led by Sir James Outram (as a volunteer), drove the enemy from a succession of gardens and walled enclosures; while the other divisions, under General Havelock, supported the advance. From the bridge of the Charbagh, over the canal, the direct road to the residency was nearly two miles in length, and this interval was cut up by trenches, crossed by palisades, and intersected by loopholed houses; and the progress of the troops being thus obstructed, it was determined to deploy along a narrow road that skirted the left bank of the canal. By this route, the advance was not seriously interrupted until the force came opposite the king's palace, or Kaiserbagh, where two guns and a strong body of the insurgents were in position, and from whence the fire poured upon the advancing columns was so tremendous, that nothing could withstand it: for a short distance the British artillery and troops had, however, to pass a bridge partially under its range, but were then sheltered by buildings belonging to the palace of Fhureed Buksh, which adjoined the outer wall of the residency. the battered defences of the enclosure, a cheer broke forth to welcome their deliverers, that must have sounded to the despairing hearts of the discomfited rebels as the knell of their destiny. Throughout the night of the 24th, great agitation and alarm had prevailed in the city; and, as morning advanced, increased and rapid movements of men and horses, gave evidence of the excited state of the rebel force. At noon, increasing noise proclaimed that street-fighting was growing more fierce in the distance; but, from the residency, nought but the smoke from the fire of the combatants could be discerned. As the afternoon advanced, the sounds came nearer and nearer, and then was heard the sharp crack of rifles, mingled with the flash of musketry: the well-known uniforms of British soldiers were next discerned, as the generals, Outram and Havelock, fought their way with their gallant band through a continuous line of streets to the Bailey Guard entrance of the residency enclosure; where, on the evening of the 25th of September, the two heroes clasped hands with Inglis, and listened to the outpouring of the full hearts that surrounded them with blessings and welcome. By this time darkness approached, and it was proposed to halt the troops for the The author of A Personal Narrative of night within the court of the palace; but the Siege, describing this scene, says "The General Havelock considered it to be too immense enthusiasm with which they were important that the beleaguered garrison greeted, defies description. As their hurrah should be at once relieved, to admit of any and ours rung in my ears, I was nigh delay that could be avoided; and he accord- bursting with joy. We felt not only happy ingly ordered the main body of the 78th-happy beyond imagination, and grateful highlanders, and the regiment of Feroze- to that God of mercy who, by our noble pore, to take the lead in a desperate handto-hand fight through the narrow streets and loopholed passages in front of them. It was a desperate enterprise; but it succeeded, and the garrison was relieved. In a few hours such relief would have been too late: two mines had been driven under the chief works, which, if loaded and sprung, would have placed the diminished garrison and its precious charge wholly at the mercy of the rebels; and, in all probability, the atrocities of Delhi and Cawnpore would have been repeated. Happily this terrible calamity was averted; but, on that day, all within the residency endured an age of agonised suspense-kuowing that the conflict raged fiercely around them, yet unable to assist in working out their own deliverance. But when, at length, the advanced column of the English force, surrounded by smoke and flame, had reached a street visible from deliverers (Havelock and Outram) and their gallant troops, had thus snatched us from imminent death; but we also felt proud of the defence we had made, and the success with which, with such fearful odds to contend against, we had preserved not only our own lives, but the honour and lives of the women and children intrusted to our keeping. As our deliverers poured in, they continued to greet us with loud hurrahs. We ran up to them, officers and men without distinction, and shook them by the hands-how cordially, who can describe? And those brave men themselves, many of them bloody and exhausted, forgot the loss of their comrades-the pain of their wounds - the fatigue of overcoming the fearful obstacles they had encountered for our sakes, in the pleasure of having accomplished our relief." Another eye-witness of the event (autho 41 "Lucknow Residency, Sept. 30, 1857. "Major-general Sir James Outram having, with characteristic generosity of feeling, declared that the command of the force should remain in my hands, and that he would accompany it as civil commissioner only, until a junction could be effected with the gallant and enduring garrison of this place, I have to request that you will inform his excellency the commander-in-chief that this purpose was effected on the evening of the 25th instant; but I must first refer to antecedent events. I crossed the Saye on the 22nd instant, the bridge at Bunnee not having been broken. On the 23rd I found myself in the presence of the enemy, who had taken a strong position, his left posted in the enclosure of the Alumbagh, and his centre and right on low heights. ress of the Ladies' Diary of the Siege), | tember, the following report from Majorsays "Never shall I forget the moment general Havelock, announced the relief of to the latest day I live. We had no idea the garrison of Lucknow, and the terminathey were so near, and were breathing air tion of his independent command in the in the portico as usual at that hour, specu- province of Oude:lating when they might be in-not expecting they could reach us for several days longer; when suddenly, just at dark, we heard a very sharp fire of musketry close by, and then a tremendous chcering. An instant after, the sound of bagpipes-then soldiers running up the road-our compound and verandah filled with our deliverers, and all of us shaking hands franticly, and exchanging fervent God bless you's!' with the gallant men and officers of the 78th highlanders. Sir James Outram and staff were the next to come in, and the state of joyful confusion and excitement was beyond all description. The big, rough-bearded soldiers, were seizing the little children out of our arms, kissing them, with tears rolling down their cheeks, and thanking God they had come in time to save them from the fate of those at Cawnpore. We were all rushing about to give the poor fellows drinks of water, for they were perfectly exhausted; and tea was made down in the Tye-khana; of which a large party of tired, thirsty officers partook, without milk or sugar. We had nothing to give them to eat. Everyone's tongue seemed going at once, with so much to ask and to tell; and the faces of utter strangers beamed upon each other like those of dearest friends and brothers." The triumph of that day was not gained but with cost of noble blood. Upwards of 400 had fallen in the conflict; and among the slain were Brigadier-general Neill, Major Cooper of the artillery, Lieutenantcolonel Bazeley, Captain Pakenham, and Lieutenants Crump, Warren, Bateman, Webster, Kirby, Poole, and Moultrie. The whole list of casualties comprised 119 officers and men killed, 339 wounded, and 77 missing-wounded prisoners in the hands of a ruthless enemy. Thus was the force, in one day, reduced by 535 fighting-men. "The head of my column at first suffered from the fire of his guns, as it was compelled to pass along the Trunk-road between morasses; but as soon as my regiment could be deployed along his front, and his right enveloped by my left, victory decided for us, and we captured five guns. Sir J. Outram, with his accustomed gallantry, pressed our advance close down to the canal; but as the enemy fired with his artillery, and with guns from the city, it was not possible to maintain this, or a less advanced position, for a time, and it became necessary to throw our right in the Alumbagh, and retire our left; and even then we were incessantly cannonaded throughout the twenty-four hours; while their cavalry, 1,500 strong, swept round through lofty cultiva tion, and made a sudden irruption upon the baggage massed in our rear. "The soldiers of the 90th regiment, forming the baggage guard, received the charge with gallantry, and lost some brave officers and men; shooting down, however, twentyfive of the troopers, and putting the whole On the evening of this eventful day, body to flight. They were finally driven off Major-general Havelock surrendered to Sir by two guns of Captain Olphert's battery. James Outram, within the residency at "As the troops had been marching three Lucknow, the command he had so gene-days under a perfect deluge of rain, irrerously left in his hands at Cawnpore, and gularly fed, and badly housed in villages, now became second in command to his it was thought necessary to pitch tents, and senior officer; who had, since the 16th of permit them to halt on the 24th; and the the month, fought chivalrously under his assault on the city was deferred until the orders as a volunteer! On the 30th of Sep-25th. On that morning our baggage and ! wounded, continually exposed to the attack tents were deposited in the Alumbagh, conceived than described; but it was not under an escort, and we advanced. The until the next evening that the whole of first brigade, under Sir J. Outram's per- my troops, guns, tumbrils, and sick and sonal leading, drove the enemy from a succession of gardens and walled enclosures, supported by the two brigades which I accompanied. Both brigades were established on the canal at the bridge of the Charbagh. From this point, the direct road to the residency is a little less than two miles, but it was known to have been cut by trenches, and crossed by palisades at short intervals, the houses, also, being all loopholed. Progress in this direction was opposed; so the united column pushed and deployed along the narrow road which skirts the left bank of the canal. Its advance was not seriously interrupted until it came opposite the king's palace, or Kaiserbagh, where two guns and a body of mercenary troops were intrenched. From this intrenchment a fire of grape and musketry was poured, under which nothing could live; the artillery and troops had to pass a bridge partially under its influence, but were then shrouded by the buildings adjacent to the palace of Fhureed Buksh. "The killed, wounded, and missingthe latter being wounded soldiers, who, I regret to say, have fallen into the hands of a merciless foe-amount to 464 officers and men. Brigadier-general Neill,* commanding 1st brigade; Major Cooper, commanding artillery; and Lieutenant-colonel Bazeley, a volunteer with the force, are killed. Colonel Campbell, commanding 90th infantry; Lieutenant-colonel Tytler, my de"Darkness was coming on, and it was pro-puty assistant-quartermaster-general; and posed to halt within the court of this mehal Lieutenant Havelock, my deputy assistantfor the night; but I esteemed it to be of adjutant-general-are severely, but not much importance not to leave this belea- dangerously, wounded. Sir James Outram guered garrison without succour close at received a flesh-wound in the arm in the hand, and I ordered the main body of early part of the action, near the Charbagh, the 78th highlanders, and the regiment but nothing could subdue his spirit; and, of Ferozepore, to advance. This column though faint from loss of blood, he conrushed on with a desperate resolve, followed tinued, to the end of the operation, to sit by Sir J. Outram and myself, with Lieute- on his horse, which he only dismounted at nants Hudson and Hargood, of my staff; and, the gate of the residency. As he has now overcoming every obstacle, it established assumed the command, I leave to him the itself within the enclosure of the residency. narration of all events subsequent to the The state of the garrison may be more easily 25th instant." • Brigadier-general James George Smith Neill, of fusiliers, one of the most gallant and distinguished the Madras fusiliers, was a native of Ayrshire, N.B.; regiments in the Indian service; and on the outbreak and was the eldest son of Lieutenant-colonel Smith of the mutiny, being sent up from Calcutta with his Neill, of Barnweill and Swindridgemuir, in that shire. regiment, he first relieved Benares, and then pressed He was born about the year 1810, and entered the 1st on, by forced marches, to Cawnpore, where his pracEuropean fusiliers (Madras) in 1826. His first active tice with the high-caste Brahmin murderers will not service was in the Burmese war, during the admin-be soon effaced from the memory of the natives, istration of Lord Amherst; but he was compelled to return to Europe on furlough, on account of the inroad made upon his constitution by exposure while on field service. Returning to India, he held the command of the escort of the resident at the court of the rajah of Nagpore, in the years 1835 and 1836; and about the same time married Isabella, daughter of Colonel Warde. In the second Burmese war, under Lord Dalhousie, he was also employed; and, on the outbreak of the war with Russia, in 1854, he volunteered for active service in Turkey, and commanded a brigade of the Turkish contingent. He subsequently took the command of the 1st European having compelled them to inflict their own degradation by washing, with their own hands, the bloodstained floor that formed the scene of their atrocities. Brigadier-general Neill held the command of Cawnpore on the departure of Havelock for Lucknow, and is represented as a strict disciplinarian, but at the same time, as one who never spared himself, and always shared with his men in danger, difficulty, and privation. From the time he left his native home in Ayrshire (a stripling of sixteen), he had passed thirty years of his life in the service of his country; and his honourable career was terminated by a soldier's death at Lucknow, on the 25th of September, 1857. The government of India evinced its high appreciation of the services rendered by Major-general Havelock, and the force under his command, by the relief of Lucknow, in the following notification: cupied by native buildings of a superior class, through which ran a broad straight street. A similar street also extended from the old native town, past the palace of the ex-king of Oude, and in the direction of the residency and it would seem that it was only out of this south-eastern portion of the city that the troops had succeeded in expelling the enemy; the old town, by far the most favourable locality for the coverfighting that the rebels preferred, being still in their possession, and occupying the space directly between the residency and the Alumbagh. The isolated position of the little garrison. at this post, became of course a subject for grave consideration as soon as the junction with Brigadier Inglis had been accomplished. After the first outburst of thankfulness at the arrival of their welcome deliverers, the occupants of the residency "Fort William, Oct. 2nd. "The governor-general in council rejoices to announce, that information has been this day received from Major-general Sir James Outram, K.C.B., showing that the residency at Lucknow was in the possession of Majorgeneral Havelock's force, on the 25th ultimo, and that the garrison is saved. Rarely has a commander been so fortunate as to relieve by his success so many aching hearts, or to reap so rich a reward of gratitude as will deservedly be offered to Majorgeneral Havelock and his gallant band wherever their triumph shall become known. The governor-general in council tenders to Sir James Outram and to Major-general Havelock his earnest thanks and congratu-enclosure began to question how far in lations upon the joyful result of which a merciful Providence has made them the chief instrument. The governor-general in council forbears to observe further upon information which is necessarily imperfect; but he cannot refrain from expressing the deep regret with which he hears of the death of Brigadier-general Neill, of the 1st Madras European fusiliers, of which it is to be feared that no doubt exists. Brigadiergeneral Neill, during his short but active career in Bengal, had won the respect and confidence of the government of India; he had made himself conspicuous as an intelligent, prompt, self-reliant soldier, ready of resource and stout of heart; and the governor-general in council offers to the government and to the army of Madras, his sincere condolence upon the loss of one who was an honour to the service of their presidency. By order of the governor-general of India in council. "R. J. H. BIRCH, Colonel, "Secretary to the Government of India, in the Military Department." The mere possession of the residency, with its shattered defences and worn-out garrison, by no means involved the occupation of the city of Lucknow, which is, or rather was at the time, about six miles in length, in a direction from S.E. to N.W., the residency being situated nearly at the northwestern extremity. Nearly two miles, in the centre of this distance, were occupied by the old native town; while more to the north-west, about the same space was oc reality their deliverance had been effected: |