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leaders (the Fyzabad Moulvie, the most able of them, having fallen) could succeed in bringing their men to face our troops, and they fled, leaving 15 guns in the hands of the victors. After this they dispersed, most of them making their way into Nepaul.

Sir Hope Grant, accompanied by Major Wolseley, marched to Fyzabad, whence he proceeded by boat to Amorha, on the opposite side of the Gogra. Here he received information that 4,000 of the enemy had taken up a position near Bunkussia, and another party of 1,800 had made for the Gogra. The General, determined to give no rest to the rebels, who were moving from Nepaul into the Terai, divided *his forces, sending one portion by Rampore Thana to scour the jungles, himself following in their track along the banks of the Gogra, while a third column was despatched into the jungle about Bunkussia. At midnight of the 20th of May, he marched from Burgudwa, and arrived soon after sunrise at the jungle covering the entrance to the Jerwah Pass. Here he received information that the Nana and Bala Rao, with 2,000 men and 2 guns, were at the mouth of the Pass, and Mummoo Khan, with 500 followers, a little to the west, on the same ground where he had inflicted a severe defeat on Bala Rao on the 4th of January.

Sir Hope, having ordered the cavalry and artillery to encamp, sent Colonel Brasyer with his Sikhs against Mummoo Khan, who, however, dispersed on his approach, and himself moved with the 7th Punjaubees into the Pass. The enemy occupied the spurs of the mountain stretching into the jungle on either side of the Pass, from the gorge of which their two guns opened fire. One company of the Punjaubees, led by Wolseley, Biddulph, and Wilmot, three officers of the divisional staff, climbed the hill to the left and drove the enemy before them, and the remainder of the regiment cleared the ridge on the right and captured the

guns, but owing to the troops having marched twenty miles, they were not able to overtake the retreating enemy.

Thus ended almost the last conflict of this great and memorable struggle, which had lasted two years, as it was on Sunday, the 10th of May, 1857, that the 3rd Bengal Cavalry mutinied at Meerut. As the last band of the rebels, deprived of their only remaining guns, was now driven beyond the Nepaul frontier, the General, leaving some small columns to meet any attempt on their part to break through, proceeded to Lucknow on the 4th of June, and, with his staff, took up his residence in the Dilkhoosha.

In the distribution of honours on the conclusion of the Mutiny, Wolseley received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was young to have attained so high a rank, for it was on the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birth, that, in company with his chief, he entered Lucknow, and, for a brief period, enjoyed the blessings of peace.' He was now employed in laying out the new cantonments, those formerly in use by our troops having been utterly destroyed by the rebels. Henceforth it was decided that Europeans should form a large proportion of the garrison of this important city, and his experience in quartering troops was of essential service when this question of the new cantonments came up for consideration.

Wolseley had only been established some five mouths in his comfortable quarters in the fine old palace near Lucknow, when he was once more offered a position on the staff of an army about to take the field, and, action being to him as the breath of life, he gladly accepted the proposal.

Early in October, Sir Hope Grant was nominated to the command of the troops about to proceed, in conjunction with a French army, to the north of China, to bring to terms the Imperial Government. Sir Hope Grant was desirous of appointing Colonel Wolseley to the head of the

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Quartermaster-General's Department, but Lord Clyde nominated the late Colonel Kenneth McKenzie, a most able and distinguished officer, and Wolseley went as Deputy AssistantQuartermaster-General in charge of the Topographical De

partment.

Had it not been for the sudden outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, Wolseley would have been serving during the past two years in China, to which country he found himself once more under orders. And what an eventful period in the history of this country, and of her great Asiatic dependency, as well as in his own life, had been those two years just concluded!

India has ever afforded the grandest field for the display of those talents and qualities which have rendered this country the Rome of modern history. In India, whether in war or statesmanship, the Anglo-Saxon race has appeared to the greatest advantage. This may in part be due to the superiority over natives which we share with all European nations; but we do not think we shall be guilty of self-laudation, if we chiefly attribute it to that peculiarity of the Anglo-Saxon race, by which resistance and difficulties only increase the determination to succeed. It is morally certain that no other Power save England could have retained her hold of India during the year 1857, with a military force which, at the time of the outbreak, only numbered 38,000 soldiers in the three Presidencies. To use Canning's phrase, 'India is fertile in heroes; and probably at no previous period of our history have the attributes which peculiarly distinguish our countrymen and countrywomen received a more striking illustration. Our women were heroines, and our incomparable rank and file nobly did their duty; while as for the officers throughout the long-drawn hardships, the dramatic episodes, and the glorious triumphs of the Indian Mutiny, we cannot do better than repeat the saying of that great

leader who may be regarded as the type, as he was the greatest representative, of the class. 'Brave,' would the great Duke of Wellington impatiently say, when anyone spoke in commendatory terms of the courage of British. officers, of course they are; all Englishmen are brave; but it is the spirit of the gentleman that makes a British officer.' Those who were privileged to take part in those glorious feats of arms, the Siege and Storm of Delhi and the Defence and Relief of Lucknow, may be congratulated in having been actors in some of those historic scenes, the record of which will never fade from the page of history.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CHINA WAR.

The Occupation of Chusan.-The Disembarkation at Peh-tang.-The Action at Sinho.-The Capture of the Taku Forts.-The Advance on Pekin.-Narrow Escape of Colonel Wolseley from Capture.-The Looting of the Summer Palace and Surrender of Pekin.-Colonel Wolseley's Visit to Japan and Mission to Nankin.-Return to England.

COLONEL WOLSELEY accompanied Sir Hope Grant to Calcutta, and, with the other members of his staff, sailed on the 26th of February, 1860, in the Fiery Cross, one of Jardine's steamers, which cast anchor at Hong-Kong on the 13th of March. As the transports arrived from England, India, and the Cape of Good Hope, the troops were disembarked and encamped at Kowloon, opposite Hong-Kong, which Colonel Wolseley surveyed, the other officers of the department, under Colonel Kenneth McKenzie, being engaged in arranging for the reception of the British troops. In a very short time, the required space was converted from a rocky waste into a neat camp, with tents and lines for the horses.

The first step was the joint occupation, by the British and French forces, of the island of Chusan, which was accordingly undertaken under instructions from the Home Government, who, in this, followed the precedent of the war of 1840-42, though Colonel Wolseley has expressed his opinion that the step was of little use, either from a military or