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      have onljr one hrmdred English troops . Entrenchments axe also being thrown up at Allahabad , oatskie the fort , and also at Benares . We have © wly about five hundred men at Allahabad , aad fear hundred at Beaares , so if Havelock fails at Lueknow , -we shall bare 1 b& Ne » a and the Onde rebels , Btttneerinfj some 30 , © 4 M > , marching simultaneously on all these places . It is said the Dinapore mutineers are marching on this place , and have been joined by about 7000 men belonging to the Rajah < rf Dumerou , near Buxar ; we are preparing for them . "

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      ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CASUALTIES IVURIHG THE MUTINIES . { From the Hovieward Mail from . Fndia , of Sept . 16 . ) "We have compiled with considerable care and pains the following alphabetical list of those "who have perished up to the present time during the disastrous revolt in India . It will be read with sad interest : — Alexander , Lieut . Robert Waller , 3 rd Bengal N . I . ; Alexander , Lieut . Augustus Hay , 68 th Bengal N . I . ; Alphonso , Mrs . ; Andrews , Captain Francis , H . M . ' s COth Rifles ; Angelo , Lieut . A . M 54 th Bengal NJ . ; Avery Mr . ¦ and Mrs . Edward , Indore ; Archer , Henry , Allahabad .

      Bengal Artillery ' Leslie , Iieut . Sir Robert Horman , Bart ., 19 tfe Bengal N . I . ; iindsay , Lieut ., Cawnpore ; Lindsay , Major William ^ 10 th Bengal N . I . ; Lyell , Dr . Eob « rt , Patna . Macbeth , Mr . and Mrs ., and five children ; Alacdonald , Captain Donald , 20 th Bengal N . I . j JkjMahon , Ross r Indore ; Macnabb , Lieut . John Campbell Erskine , 3 rd Bengal Lt . Cav . ; Mara , Lieut . Patrick , Jaunpore ; Mills , Major Arthur Samuel , 22 nd Bengal N . I . ; Moore , Charles William , Bengal Civil Service ; Moore , Surgeon , H . M . ' s GOth Itines ; Mnnro , Ensign , 6 tli Bengal N . I . ; Murray , Mr . Napier , Ensign William Henry , H . M . ' s 60 th Bines ; Newberry , Cornet Richard Nicholas , 1 st Bombay Lancers ; Norris , Mr . and Mrs .

      Oakley , Surgeon Richard Henry ; O'Connor , Epbert , Agra ; 6 'Dowda , Lieut . Robert Charles , 72 ndBengal N . I . Parker , Captain Sir George , Bart , 74 th Bengal N . I . ; Pattle , Lieut . William , 20 th Bengal N . I . ; Payne , Mr . ; Pearson , Major Henry Edward , 18 th Bengal N . I . ; Penney , Lieut .-Colonel John , 1 st Bombay Lancers ; Perkins , Lieut . Henry George , Bengal Artillery ; Philips , Veterinary-Surgeon John , 3 rd Bengal Lt . Cav . ; Platfc , Lieut .-Colonel J « hn T 23 rd Bengal N . I . ; Tlunketr , Captain John , Gth Bengal N . I . ; Povis , Lieut . John , 61 st Bengal N . I . ; Pringle T Ensign , Gth Bengal N . I . ; Procter , Lieut . Archibald , 3 i ) th Bengal N . I . ; Prole , Lieut . William . George , 53 rd Bengal N . I . ; Trout , Major Walter Robert , 56 th Bengal N . I . Quin , Lieut ., 2 nd Bengal Lt . Chv .

      Iiaikes , George Davy , Bengal C . S . ; Raleigh , Cornet "W . F . K ., Tth Bengal Lt . Cay . ; liednian , Lieur . Frederick , 1 st Bengal N . I . ; Rennud , Major Syt-icnliam George Charles , 1 st Madras Fusiliers ; Reverley , Lieut . Matthew Hugh , 7-ith Bengal N . I . ; Reynolds , Captain John Hewctson , 53 rd Bengal N . I . ; Richardson ,. Captain Taylor Campbell , 18 th Bengal N . L ; Richardson , Lieut . James Angelo , 1 st Madras Fusiliers ; Iticketts , Mordauut , Bengal Civil Service ; Eipley , Lieut .-Colonel John Peter . 54 th Bengal N . I- ; Rivers , Lieut . Charles Robert , H . M . ' s 75 th Foot ; Robertson , David , Bengal C . S . ; Ross , Lieut . Sutherland , 9 th Bengal N . I . ; Russell , Captain Claud William , 54 th Bengal N . L ; Ryves , Major Wm . Henry , 61 st N . I .

      Scott , Ensign ,. 6 th Bengal N . I . ; Sharpler , Mr ., BLurtpore ; Shirreff ,. Major Francis , ( ioth Bengal N . L ; Sib'bald . Brigadier Hugh , G . B ., 41 st Bengal N . L ; Skene , Captain Alexander , 68 th Bengal N . L ; Skene , Mrs . ; Smalley , Mrs ., Jhansi ; Smith , Lieut , Henry Sidney , Is ; Bengal ISLI . ; Smith , Ensign , 6 th Bengal N . I . ; Smith , Ensign , Gth Bengal N . I . ; Smith , Lieut . Joim , 44 th Bengal N . I . ; . Smith , Captain Rowland Mainwairing , 54 th Bengal N . L ; Smith , Lieut . James Digby , 74 th Bengal N . L ; Smith , R ., Agra ; Snell , Lieut . George , 64 th Bengal N . L ; Spencer , Riajor Robert , 26 th Bengal N . I . ; Speiis , Ensign Henry George Wadham , 31 st Bengal N . I , ; . SpouiswoGnle ., Capjain Hujjli , 1 st Bombay Lancers ; . Spring , Ciiptaii ) Fraueis , H . M . ' s 24 th Regiment ; Stewart , Lieut . " William , Bengal Artillery ; Stewart , 'Lieut . 'Robert , 6 th Bengal N . I . ; Stewart , Lieut . Ileriry Ross , 18 th Bengal N . L ; Stephens , Ensign , H . M . 's 60 th Rifles ; Strain , S . G ., Uiicovcnanted Civil Service ; Supple , Ensign Jiihn Collis , 1 st Bengal N . I .

      Taylor , Captain John Henry George , 28 th Bengal Ttf . I . ; Tlniepland , Mr . and Mrs ., Jaunpore ; Townsend , Lieut ., Jhansi ; , Tregear , Vincent , Uncuvenanted Civil Service ; Tucker , Ensign Richard Green , 68 th Bengal , N . I . ; Tucker , Robert Tudor , Bengal Civil Service ; Turnbull . Lieutenant Frederick Henry , Bengal Artillery ; Twyford , ' Lieutenant Dehany Charles Edward , 2 nd Bombay E . R . Vans Hathorn , Cnptain Hugh , 18 th Bengal N . I . ; Vibart , Lieutenant Edward Daniel Hamilton , 54 tU Bengal N . I . Wate * field , Lieutenant William , 54 th Bengal N . L ; Way , Ensign C . G ., Gth Ikngal N . I . ; Wedderburn , John , Bengal Civil Service ; Wheatley , Lieutenant Gharlea Edward , 54 th Bengal N-L ; . Wheeler , Major-General Sir Hugh Mussey , C . B ., 48 th Bengal N . L ; Wlrisli , Lieutenant Edward Sampson , 10 th Bengal N . L ; Wiggins , Limitcnant-Colom-l E ., 52 nd N . I ., Cuwnporo ; Wiggins ,, Mrs ., Cawnpore ; Wilkinson , Mr ., Bareilly ; Williams , Lieutenant-Cuionel Stephen , 56 th Bengal N . I . ; Willoughby , Lieutenant George Dohson , Bengal Artillery ; Wyatt , George ( Uncovcnantud ) , C . S ., Bareilly . Yorke , Lieutenant James , 3 rd Bengal N . L ; Yule , Colonel Robert Abcrcromby . H . M . ' s 9 th Lancers .

      Bagshaw , Lieut . Frederick John Salmon , 3 Gtli Bengal 2 T . I . ; Barley , Captain Frederick Proctor , 7 th Bengal N . I . ; Barbor , Lieut . George Douglas , 20 th Bengal IN . I . ; Barveil , Lieut . Edward " William , 13 th Bengal N . I . ; Barwell , Ensign YVm . Blunt , 18 th Bengal N . I . ; Battye , Lit > ut . Qriintin , 56 th Bengal 31 . 1 . ; Bax , Lieut . Gilbert Ironside , 48 th Bengal NJ . ; Be . iuvais ,. Mrs . ; Birch , Brevet Lieut .-Colonel Frederick William , 41 st Bengal N . L ; Birch , Captain Thomas Charles , 31 st Bengal N . I . ; Efsliop , Captain William Louis Moslwirn , 4 Gtl * Bengal N . L ; Blake , Captain

      JVIuirson 1 rower , 54 thBengal N . L ; Block , Adam Henry George , Bengal Civil Service ; Bone , Mr . and Mrs . ; Bowling , Surgeon Henry Hawkins ; Bright . Lieut . Arthur , 22 nd Bengal N . I . ; Brind , Colonel Frederick , C . B ., Bengal Artillery ; Brodie ,. Lieut . Francis Walker , 21 st Bengal N . I . ; Brook , Mr . ; Buck , Br . Carl , Bareilly ; Burlton , Lieut . Philip Hawtrey eomy-n , 67 th Bengal N . X . ; Burl ton , Caplain Francis Moird Hustings , 52 lid Bengal N . I . ; Burgess , Captain . Francis Jaqucs , 74 th Bengal 2 T . L ; . Burrowes , Captain Cosly , 54 th Bengal N . L ; Butler , Lieut . Charles John , 54 th Bengal N . I . ; liutler , Mr . and Mrs . and son .

      Carleton , J ., Agra ; Carr , S ., at Cawnpore ; Case , Liout .-Colonel William , H . M . 's 32 nd Foot ; Chalwin , Vet . Surgeon Edmur . d George , 2 n-l Bengal N . I . ; Cheek , Ensign A . M . H ., 6 th Bengal N . I . ; Chester , Colonel Charles , 23 rd Bengal N . I . ; Christian , George Jackson , Bengal C . & ; Codd , Ensign P . S . Gth Bengal N " . L ; Corpland , Kev . George William ; ¦ Crawley . Mrs . ; Crozier , Lieut . William ,. H . M . 'a 75 tli Regiment ; Cuppage , Burke Robert , Bengal C . S . _ Dawso : n , Vet .-Snrgeon Charles JoLn , 3 rd Bengal L . C . ; Deedesi Mr ., Agra ; Delamain , Captain John Weston , 5 Gtli Bengal N . I . ;¦ Dempster , Lieut . Charles , Bengal Artillery ; JDopping , Assist .-tiurgeon Anthony ; Douglas , Captain CLnrles Uobert George , 32 nd Bengal N . L ; D'Oyly , Captain Edward Armstrong Gurrie , Bengal Artillery ; Dyson , Ensign Jolm Charles , 18 tk Bengal N . I . Eckfbr < l ,. —— , regiment uncertain ; Edwards , Lieut . ^ Ernest Andrew , 54 tb Bengal N . I . ; Eld , M « jpr Ljonsl : Percy Dfenliam 9 th Bengal N . L ; EllisLieut . . Charles John

      , , Eaton , HJM . ' s 6 th Carabineers . Fagun , Lieut . James , 23 rd Bengal N . I . ; Fayrer Assi « t .-Surgeon Joseph ; Fe 3 ) , J ., Sirsa ; Ferris , Captain James Henry , Bengal Inv . ; Finnis , Lieut .-Colonel " John , 11 th Bengal N . I . ; Fisher , Brevet Lieut .-Colonel Samuel ; Fraser , Captain Edward , Bengal Engineers ; Fraser , Simon , Bengal C . S . ; Fulow , Mr ., AlMiabad . Gollovyay , Arthur , Bengal C . S . ; Gambiar , Ensign Charles Henry FUzroy ,. 38 th , Bengal N . I . ; Gibbings , Captaia Arthur , 38 th Bengal N . L ; Goldney Lieut .-Colonel Philip , 22 nd ¦ Bengal 3 S . L ; Gordon ,. Captain . Charles , 75 tli Bengal N . I . ; . Gordour Captain Francis David , 10 th Madras £ 1 . 1 . ; Gownn , Captain George Thomas , 27 th Bengal N . I . v Gowan , Lieut . James , 18 th Bengal' N . I . ; Graham , Superintending Surgeon James ; Graham , ABsist .-Surgeon John Colin ; Grant , Lieut Aldourio Patrick , 71 st Bengal N . L ; Greenuill , Captain Thoraaa' Mating-, H . M . ' s 24 th Foot ; Guise , Captain Henry John , 28 th Bengal N . I .

      ItLdlulay , Captain William Leonard , 56 th Bengal N . I ' - ; Handseonib , Brigadier Isaac Henley , 72 nd Bengnl N . I- ; HjaTibbuow , Asaist . r-Suigoon , Geoi-ge ; Harris , Brevet-Major Alfred , 1 st Bengal Lt , Cuv . ; liurrison , Iieut . Alii' «;« l T H . M . '» 7 &th Kegt . j HaweB ,, Lieut . GeoiRO Hanry , Gfcli Bengal ST . L ; Hawkina Captain Alexander William , Bongol Artillery ; Hay , Dr . John Blacdowall ; Haiyee , Cajita-in Fletcher Fulton Compton , C 2 nd Bengal N . I . ; Hiiyter , En-Bign Julian Yorke , 25 th Bengal N . I . ; Henderson , Lieut . David ) Henry , 20 !) h' Bengal N . I . ; Hillcrsdon . Charles George , Bengal' Civil Seivwe ; UiUiurd , C » ptuin Thomas Holyoabc , 23 trd Bengal N . I . ; Holland , Liout . Thomas Wolhims , 38 th Bengal N . K ; Holmes , Major Jhotcb Garner , 59 tli Bengal N . I . ; Horn , C , Agra ; Horn , P ., Agra ; Hubbard , 10 C , Agra : Humphreys ,. Lieutenant Mtervyn Arthdall , 2 O ( h

      Jiengtil K . I . ; Hunt , Lieut . Charles Johu , 4 th Bengal Lt ., Cav . ; Hunter , Rev . F ., wire nnd child , Sealkote ; Hunter ^ Lieut . Montgomery , 18 th N . I . ; Hlxtclunaon , Lieut . Percy Gcorgev 17 th Bengal N . r . Inse a ^ Lieut . James . John McLeod , Bengal Engineers . Jack , BtigadiBB Alexander , 42 nd Bengal N . I . ; Jackson , Lieut . Stuart Harv , 2 nd Bengal European Regiment ; Jacob , JMajor , lato of Sindiu's Service ; J « mea vDr .,. nnd Mra . E . M-, Augur ; Jennings , Rev . Midgloy John ; JunningH , Misii Annie ; , J « rvia , Captain Felix Vineont llicluu-u \ 06 th liongal N . I . ; Jones , E . S ., Mitzaporc : Jour dim , Muiib ., Agra . Kemp , Mr . Wirzaporo ; Kirk , Surgeon Kinjoch Winhvw ; K ' tfk , Asaist .-Surgeon Jolin , M . D .: ftirke , C »> ptain Henry , 12 th !« . » . , Knoac , Cnptain Ed-ward Willium John , H . M . 'u 7 Stt » EUgiment , LangiUil * , ftlrsw , JRiaufli : Law , Lieut . William Gcorgo , 10 th Btpgui £ LJL ; iMftauo , Mnior-Gcn ^ ral 3 k » Uewy . lLG . Bu

      Iit?Ir At»Rin? Fmiriui Tt A\?\Ok Bkigadilii-Gi^Nilkal. Havllock

      Second Lieutenant in the Eifie Brigade ( 95 th ) where his military training was assisted by Cftptafn , afteV war * . Sir H . Smith , the victor of AliwaL Bavelock served for eight years m England , Scotland , and Ireland and having at length exchanged into the 13 th Li « -ht In ' fantry , embarked for India ia 1823 . ° In 1824 , the first Burmese war brofce out , and Havelock wa 3 appointed Deputy A&sistant-Adjutant-Geneial and was present at-tb ^ . actions at Napade e , Patanatrb and Peghan . On the termination of the war he was associated with Captain Lumsden and I > r . Knox on a mission to the Court of Ava , and had an a udience of the « Golden Foot , ' when the treaty of Yandaboo was siraed In 1827 , he published the ' History of the Ava Cam '

      pavgns , ' remarkable for the freedom of its comments on the transactions of the war . In that year he was appointed Adjutant of the Military Depot formed at Chinsurah By Lord Co-mbermere , and soon after married the youngest daughter of the late Eev . Dr . Marshman of Serampore . The Chinsurah establishment was soon after broken up , and Havelock returned to his regiment He subsequently visited Calcutta , and , having passed in the languages of the College , was appointed Adjutant to his corps by Lord W . Bentinck . The corps was then under the command of Colonel , afterwards Sir K . Sale . In 183 8 , Havelock was promoted to a company , after

      having , served twenty-three years as a subaltern . Aji army was now collected for the invasion of Afghanistan , and Havelock accompanied it on the staff of Sir "WUloughby Cotton . He went through tlie first Affglaat campaign , was present at the storming : of . Ghuznee ' aud the occupation of Cabul , and then , returned to-India-with Sir Willoughby Cotton . Having obtained leave to visit the Presidency , he prepared a ' Menioir of the Affghan Campaign , ' which was soon after printed in London . He returned to the Punjab iu charge of a detachment , and was placed on the staff of General Elphinstone , as Persian Interpreter .

      The Eastern Ghilzies having risen and blockaded Cabul , Havelock was sent to join Sir It . Sale , then marching back to India , and was present at the forcing of Khuord Cabul pass , at the action of Tezeen , and all the other engagements of that force till it reached Jellalabad . In conjunction with his friends ,. Major Macgregor and Captain Broadfoot , he had tlic chief direction under Sale of the memo rable defence of that place , ef which , he wrote all the despatches , whieli were afterwards so highly commended by . Sir . G . ' Murray , lu the final attack on Mahonied Akbar , in April , 1842 , which , obliged that chief to raise the siege , Havelock

      commanded the right column , and defeated him before the other columns could come up . For tins he was promoted to a Brevet Majority , andjwas made Companion of the Bath . He was then nominated Persian interpreter to General Pollock , and was present at the action of Mamoo Keil , and the second engagement at Tezeen . He then proceeded with Sir John M'Caskill ' s force into the Kohistan , and had an important sharein the brilliant affair at Istaliff . The next year he was promoted to a regimental majority , and nominated Persian interpreter to the Commander-in-Chief , Sir H . ( afterwards Viscount ) Gough .

      At the close of 1843 , he accompanied the army to Gualior , and was engaged in the battle of Maharajpore . In 1844 , he was promoted to the rank of Lieut .-Colonel by brevet . In 1845 , ho proceeded with the army to meet the invasion of the Sikhs , and was actively engaged in the battles of Moodkee , Ferozoshah , and Sobnicn . At Aloodkee , lie had two horses sliot under him ; at Sobraon , a third horse was smitten down by a cannon-shot which , passed , through hia saddlc-clotlu On the conclusion of the Sutlej campaign , he was appointed Deputy-Adjutantr GuiUiral of the Queen ' s troops at 13 ombay . Thu . second Sikh war now broke out , and his elder brother , Colonel W . Havelock , was killed ut Ramnuggur . IIU own rcgimvnt , the 53 rd , having been ordered iuto the Hold , he to

      quitted hia staff employment at TJombay , in order , join it , and had proceeded as far as Iudoro , whan his furl her prugreas was countermanded , and he returned to liis pont . Twenty-five jears of incessant and luliorious service now began to tell on his constitution , nudlua incilical advisers , in 1840 , sent him to Europe i ' or two year * for the restoration of his health . He returned to Bombay in 1851 , and was soon after made lircvet Colon <; l , and appointed , through the kindness of Lord llaidinge , by whose Hide he hnd fought iu the three buttle * ol ' the Sutlcj , Quurtermaster-Genoral , aud thou Adjutant-( ieiuiiul , of Queen's troopa in India . Ou Lhe ddspatcu of the L-xnedition to Persia , he waa appointed Lo tkc Kcuoiul division , and commanded th « troouH at

      Moham-BK 1 GADIE 11-GENEKAL . HAVELOCK . ( From tko Illustrated laondon . News . ) BBiGABiBU-GitNttRAi , Henuy Havklock was bom at Bishopswenrmoutli , near Snnderlatid , in 1705 , His father , who was descended from a family which had long resided at Gximsby , having accuwaulatad an independence in commerce and sbip-buildung at Suiuierland , pu-rchased Ingreaa Park , near Dartford , in the county of Keut . He waa married to a daughter of the family of UStbrlck , which had been seated for many gonerationa at High Bamoai Henry Havelock was educated at the Clwrterhouse , where he had as hia contemporaries Lord Panmure , Dr . Thirlwall , the Bishop of St . David ' * ,. Dr . Waddington , the Dean of Durhum , tho late Archdeacon

      Hare , G . Grote , the historian of Greece ; Sir W . Macn aught en , tho unfortunate , envoy to Cabul ; Sir W . Nornia , late Recorder of Penang ; Sir Cliarlea Eaatlake , and , Mr . Yatoa , tho actor . In 1813 , in conacquencu of tho decline o £ hia father ' s £ bxbuuc 8 , Ingress Park waa 6 old to Government , and Havelock was entered of tho Middle Temple , and attended the lectures of Clutty , tho eminent special pleader , -where his most intimate oobociato whs tho late Sir Thomua Talfourdv the authiw of Ion . His elder brother William had distinguished himeolf in tlw Puoinaular War and at Waterloo ; ami Henry , yielding lo tho military propensities of hi * funnily , endeavoured through Ilia intureat to obtain a cwiumiaaioiK A month , after tho battle of Waterloo , ho waa appointed

      mcriih , tho glory of which action was , however , reserved for thu naval force . On the conclusion of thu peace , ho ruiurned to Bombay , and embarked in tho Krin lor Calcutta , in which vcusul 1 ^ , was wrecked , in April hist , off tliti couHt of Ceylon . 1 'lvo days after , he obtained a passage in the 1 'ire Queen , nnd , on Leaching Calcutta , w «« immediately acnt up to Allahabad as lirigndicr-Gunerul , to command thq movable column , with which he has now , in throe decisive actions , defcatud ll » e Maliarutta licnd , Nona Sahib . It is singular that in «» tlu : H « cngagcinenta in Burmuh , in Allg haiiiinin , ttt < J \ yalior , in tho Sutloj campaigno , aud in Poma , tliou B ' ijenvrully exposed to tlw hottest firo , ho haa never bouu wounded

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 894, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/6/