Commissioner, Simon Fraser, who was 'st killed in Delhi-now used as a the old Baptist Msssion House, now which was useful as a Hospital during etcalfe House on the riverside, now rked, and we pass along ground every saw much fighting; for it will be hat the small contingent of 3,000 to 4,000 eneral Barnard's command that first y to the Ridge, although uniformly en the Sepoys dared to come to close for a time more the besieged than with 30,000 to 40,000 trained native wildly determined to clear the country › face-surging around them. A good and the surrounding country is obhe historic Ridge: we note the line of e direction of Meerut, through which n at length moved up with the CaraRifies and Artillery, fighting the rebels he effected a juncture with General Alipur. Next day came the battle of , six miles North of Delhi, which is to us, and we see how, when the dly beaten, retreated to Delhi, the advanced to the old Cantonments and Ridge which became the base of operae of constant fighting for four weary, hottest of months until Delhi was is not generally realised or rememore British officers and soldiers died nd relief of Delhi, than in the defences f Lucknow, Cawnpore, and the subnaiens all nut. together. But the es.J UI course, III une nts arrived, notably General Nicholson njab, acknowledged as the bravest and er-leader in India; but at no time were than 8,000 in the British Force, and assault took place in September there 5,500 men all told, of whom but 1,200 h soldiers, to take this strong walled ed by 30,000 trained Sepoys-desperate disciplined rebels-with 114 guns most served by gunners, many of whom eir posts until bayoneted. But then, rit filled the handful of avenging nd their Sikh and Goorkha supporters! e Cawnpore massacres-apart from the ntered in Delhi where not a Christian live, whether English or Eurasianhe men wild to get at the murderers d children. consider the Ridge and its Memorials:Battery, the Mosque Picquet, Hindu ›, Asoka's Pillar-erected originally at c. by the Buddhist King whose memory ear to Ceylon Buddhists-but above all THE MUTINY MEMORIAL nal Gothic spire of red sandstone ommemorate the events of the siege, of the regiments and batteries serving f the officers who were killed or dicd perations. From the top, a magnificent tined of Delhi spread out on a plain. lls and gates, the town now greatly in trees, but with spires and minarets thons of the cnoot J e Plain where, on 1st January, 1877, proclaimed the Queen Empress of presence of nearly all the ruling of India and an Army of 50,000 men. are expected on this same Plain in when a special ceremony in conthe Coronation of the King-Emperor be observed by the Viceroy, Lord are ing the Memorial Tower, we Force during the siege and capture ber, 1857. This we notice is countergular signature in full-by "Fred. rtermaster-General of the Army in iture Field-Marshal and Commander e Ridge, we drive into Delhi by the v dismantled) and close to which is rom which the most deadly fire was y the rebels. Thence we turned and to the Kabul gate-also now dethen along the narrow lane which NICHOLSON of his victorious--but sadly thinned y, tried to force on his way to the ing to read in Sir Grant Duff's Diary of the Roberts when Commander-in-Chief under him in ly "eighties." Sir A. C. Lyall in his poem on "The Wahabee" party: y a shot from the gate we stormed, r the Moree battlement's shade; to the glacis our game was formed, is, to the v tectu house some princi trees On Missic Orpha of th miles This narrow lane was lined with repel on both sides, and even brave men › advance; but Nicholson sprang to the called on others to follow: his stalwart rm presented a sure mark and he fell vounded, though he lingered in life days and learnt that Delhi and its re, indeed, taken and the rebels cleared ble tablet let into the city wall showed where they fell-"who led the assault out fell in the hour of victory, and f September, 1857, aged 35 years." In all afterwards, among many other e saw an oil-painting of "Jan Nichols devoted worshipping Sikhs called -ikingly attractive, rather melancholy a full black beard, and a finely , bay and Jaipur, NATIVE DELHI stinct disappointment. There is neither nor the attractiveness in the archist, dirt and dilapidation mark the boutiques along most streets. Of course, ops are seen, and "Chandni Chauk," the eet, is wide and straight, lined by fine Eh an aqueduct down the middle. y afternoon, we visited the Baptist dquarters and saw a little of the ine) Girls' Industrial School, and heard ensive work at "the Camp" some We also had from Miss Thorne---the more We zenanas being now open to eachers in Delhi, than there are ladies nem. One lady had come out to work xpense. Next day we saw some of nd embroidery work of the schools, e the work of impoverished men and rly of good station-some of them rincesses of the old Mogul familys Thorne took charge, finding purch among visitors and in England, etc. e ladies declared to be very delicate y attractive work. Some of our party ice in St. James's Memorial Church, of tablets of unusual interest. all company in the Baptist Church e Rev. Stephen Thomas conducted reached, his two colleagues in the out at country stations. The chapel is one) is for native more than ces, as the tablets with the Ten ts in Urdu, on each side of the pulpit, in the morning Mr. Thomas told us seat occupied when he had service in Urdu and felt more at home with tion, than in the evening English Thomas was Secretary for the Delhi some time ago, as he is now for a amemoration Fund which is likely to 0, almost entirely from native subhich is likely to be devoted to A ZENANA HOSPITAL. with which works the Cambridge lso important operations in Delhi, and women and children especially great |