writer's privity, will secure the kind indulgence of the reader.

May the same grace be accorded to a Father, when he expresses his sense of the mercy that has exempted his own house from sorrows which at this time press so heavily on others. While in the act of tracing these lines, he has received from a bereaved parent a memorial of one—the gallant comrade of his own boy-who died on the field of Goojerat. May the Almighty Himself assuage the anguish He thus permits; and in the hour of our national successes, may we never be oblivious of the blood which purchased them, or, amidst our domestic gratulations, of the mourning relatives of our HeroDead.

June 16, 1849.

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JOURNAL OF A SUBALTERN.

CHAPTER I.

MARCH FROM SUBHATOO TO RAMNUGGUR.

SUBHATOO. Sept. 20, 1848.-Ordered to march. All hurry, bustle, and confusion. Half of us haven't got tents-none of us have got any money every one is in a whirl of excitement. Words cannot express the trouble, worry, and annoyance of a start; the procuring carriage-settling accounts-paying servants-hunting for a tent, for at present I have nothing but a hat to cover me-raising a little money for the march-writing letters

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paying farewell visits-in fact, I am in a state of mind bordering on distraction. The news from Mooltan is, that Shere Singh has gone over to the enemy with seven thousand men; and therefore General Whish was obliged to retreat fourteen miles from the town, to where he has intrenched himself. There has been an attempt at a massacre at Lahore, while Major Lawrence is in an awkward state of siege in Peshawur. Kote Kongra, a hill fort, is also reported to have been taken by four thousand Sikhs. The folly of trusting to these newlyraised troops is now evident; the only force in the place was half a Sikh regiment.

Sept. 24. At daybreak the reveillée sounded, and we all formed up in front of the barracks, gave three cheers for Mooltan, and then set out on our march, the band playing, of course, "The girls we left behind us;" marched to Kassowlie to breakfast. Staid at Kassowlie till half-past three, and then marched down to Kalka, where we arrived at dark, after a march of twenty miles; dined thirty-five in