company of European Artillery. Finally, it was decided that a party of European Infantry and some guns, with the women and sick of the 32nd Regt., should be brought up to the Residency, and that the rest of the regiment should be moved down under canvas to the Muriaon cantonment. This consultation was held on Saturday the 16th of May; the move was fixed for Monday the 18th. Meanwhile preparation was to be made, and I was charged with clearing the Residency buildings for the reception of the troops. The latter measure was immediately commenced. The furniture of the many rooms of the Residency was collected together into a few, and the detached building, termed the Banqueting Hall, which was occupied by the clerks' establishment and Records of the Chief Commissioner's Office, was emptied: the records, &c., being removed to the buildings which formed the Offices of the Judicial and Financial Commissioners.

I had strongly opposed the delay of two days in moving the troops, which had been resolved on; and now, while superintending these arrangements, my opinion of the inexpediency of the delay was confirmed. The Treasury lay directly adjoining and below the Banqueting Hall, and it was impossible to conceal from the sepoy guard the preparations which were being made. They saw the building immediately above them being cleared out, and it was well known that this was being done to admit European soldiers. No words could have evidenced our distrust of themselves more clearly than these acts. What was there to prevent them, so soon as it was known that the Europeans would not move till the Monday, from rising during the two nights and the Sunday which would intervene, and making the Treasury their own? The danger seemed imminent. If

the Treasury were lost, what chance of successful resistance should we have? I despatched, therefore, a horseman to Sir Henry Lawrence in cantonments, with a note urging these considerations, and entreating that the Residency might be occupied by the Europeans before night. My messenger returned with a few hurried lines from Sir Henry, authorizing me to order up a party of Europeans without delay. This was forwarded at once to Colonel Inglis. Before nightfall on that day 120 Europeans of the 32nd Regt., under Captain Lowe, with the women and sick, and four guns of Simonds' Battery, marched into the Residency enclosure, and the Treasury was safe.

The women were placed in the tykhana or underground story of the Residency, the sick in the Banqueting Hall, and the men were distributed partly in the lowest story of the Residency and in the Banqueting Hall, from the plateau of which they looked down directly on the heads of the sepoy guards below.

On the next morning, Sunday, the rest of the regiment marched down to the cantonment, and there encamped. The terrific heat of the weather, however, told severely upon the men, as had been feared. And after a few days the officers of the 13th N. I. surrendered their mess-house for the use of the Europeans, and some other buildings having been obtained close by, the whole were ere long placed under shelter. The position of the Europeans was close to that of the European battery, at the right entrance or city side of the cantonments.

The withdrawal of the European force from the Chowpeyrah barracks rendered the whole of that vicinity insecure. Accordingly, the Commissioner of

Lucknow, Major Banks, who occupied an exposed building on the Dilkoosha Road, abandoned it, and removed with his family to my house. Mr. S. N. Martin, the Deputy-Commissioner of Lucknow, also removed his family from the house which he occupied in the same quarter, and obtained shelter for them in the Residency. The ladies of the 32nd Regt. were kindly received by Sir Henry Lawrence in his cantonment residence.

On the 1st of May, the first of the summer instalments of Land Revenue fell due in the Province. The payment of this tax is as good a test as can be selected of the feeling as well as of the condition of the people. No difficulty was experienced in the collection. No measures of duresse were found necessary. The revenue flowed in with the greatest regularity, and all the district treasuries were soon full.

CHAPTER III.

MAY 17.-MUCHEE BHOWUN.

Sir Henry Lawrence, casting about for a place of strength, fixes on the Muchee Bhowun.-Occupied and garrisoned, and repairs begun on the 17th May.-Muchee Bhowun described. Military stores removed into it. Adjacent buildings removed.-Mr. Gubbins begins fortifying his own house.-Objections made to remove adjacent buildings.Description of Mr. Gubbins' compound, or enclosure.-Sir Henry Lawrence invested with full military powers, as Brigadier-General.—Accounts received by the telegraph, which passed through Mr. Gubbins' hands, from Mr. Colvin at Agra, from Sir Hugh Wheeler at Cawnpoor.-Detachment of Europeans sent to aid Sir Hugh Wheeler at Cawnpoor, accompanied by Captain Fletcher Hayes.-Expedition up the Grand Trunk Road projected and undertaken by Hayes.-Mutiny of the cavalry with Hayes.-Murder of Mr. R. Fayrer, Hayes, and Lieutenant Barbor.-Carey's escape.-Faithful conduct of the Seikh Naib Risaldar Sheyresingh-Visit paid to Lucknow by the Nana of Bithoor in April.-Suspicions regarding it.-Communicated to Sir Hugh Wheeler, but disregarded.-Alarm communicated from Cawnpoor on the occasion of the Eed.-Precautions taken.-Symptoms of ill-feeling among the native soldiery.-Incendiarism.-Lines of the 13th and 48th Regts. of N. I. burned down.-Placards.-Ladies removed from the cantonment on the 26th May.-Located in various houses at the Residency.-Sir Henry Lawrence calls for written opinions on the proposal for increasing the pay of the sepoys of the line.-Majority opposed to the measure. -Abandoned in consequence.-Continued ill reports by telegraph from Agra.-Mr. Colvin requests aid of a party of Irregular Horse.Departure of Gall's expedition intended to move up the Grand Trunk Road. Symptoms of mutiny among the infantry of Gall's force at Cawnpoor. Its return.-Captain H. Forbes' escape.-Alarms at Allahabad.-Captain Hardinge, with a wing of his regiment, deputed there. Continued tranquillity in Oudh.-Incipient symptoms of disturbance in the Province, on the part of some of the talooqdars.-The same shown by the zemindars of Mulheabad.-Captain Weston deputed to coerce them.-Major Burmester's movable column, accompanied by Major Marriott and Lieutenant Hutchinson, sent towards Futtehgurh.

-Mutinies on the way.-Burmester, Farquharson, N. Martin, and Staples slain.-Captain Boulton escapes into Sir Hugh Wheeler's intrenchment.-Beginning of defences about the Residency.-Additional troops moved up there.-Treasure brought in from several of the districts. Attempt to bring it in from Duriabad fails.-Intercourse of Mr. Gubbins with native gentlemen of the city at this time described. -Sir Henry Lawrence meets them.-Copy of Mr. Colvin's proclamation reaches Lucknow.-Sir Henry Lawrence issues a similar one in Oudh.— Telegraphic message from the Governor-General.-Also from Sir Hugh Wheeler on the 26th May-and from the Lieutenant-Governor.— Disarmament of sepoys discussed.-Why abandoned.-Captain Hardinge arrives with a wing of the 3rd O. I. Cavalry at the capital.-Sir Henry Lawrence's untiring exertions.-His health fails.

I HAVE before mentioned that Sir Henry Lawrence was casting about for a place of strength in which to concentrate his ammunition and military stores, and to serve as a place of refuge in case of attack. The position and buildings of the Muchee Bhowun had attracted his attention early in the month, and he had consulted the Chief Engineer, Major Anderson, as to the possibility of putting the place into an efficient state of repair in time. Major Anderson did not think that the very extensive repairs required could be effected within the period which seemed available, and the project had been deferred. Now, however, Sir Henry resolved to put it into execution. On the 17th of May, he directed that the repairs of this post should immediately be commenced under the superintendence of Lieutenant M. Innes of the Engineers; and a garrison, European and Native, was placed in it under command of Major Francis, of the 13th N. I. Some description of this post is required.

Proceeding on the main road, leading from the Residency towards the Dowlutkhana and Hoseynabad, up and parallel to the stream of the Goomtee, you pass under the walls of the Muchee Bhowun, which from this and some other positions on the river has an