hundred yards from northwest to southeast, and four hundred yards from east to west. The entrenchment was commanded on all sides by buildings which gave shelter to the enemy's riflemen, who, after the outbreak, ceased to have any compunctions about using the defiling cartridges, which afforded the chief excuse for the Mutiny. The difficulties and disadvantages of the position are made apparent by a very perfect model of the Residency contained in the Museum of Lucknow. The building, which has given its name to the entire entrenchment, was an imposing three-story structure, standing upon the greatest elevation in the neighborhood. It has a subterranean apartment, in which a number of women found shelter. From the first, and throughout the siege, the Residency was a particular target for the enemy's guns, and its present ruined condition speaks more eloquently than words of the fearful storms of lead that beat upon it. "After repeatedly facing the perils of treason, and the more honorable dangers of the battle-field, it was the fate of Sir Henry Lawrence to be stricken down in a moment of comparative repose, and beneath the shelter of his own roof. It had happened, during the morning of the 1st of July, that an eight-inch shell, from a battery of the rebels, entered a small apartment of the Residency, in which at the time Sir Henry Lawrence was sitting, in conversation with his private secretary, Mr. Couper. The missile burst |