the Fusiliers; they remembered the legends of their ancient corps, and closing with the rebels, soon made the city of Mooltan their own. "Then arose from every crowded height and battery whence the exciting struggle had been watched, the shouts of applauding comrades; and through the deafening roar of musketry, which pealed along the ramparts, and marked the hard-earned progress of the victorious columns through the streets, both friend and foe might distinctly hear that sound never to be forgotten-the 'Hurrah!' of a British army after battle."

Thus fell the blood-stained city of Mooltan. Where are now the citizens who hooted on the murderers of Anderson and Agnew ?—the idolators who, with fresh painted foreheads and garlands of flowers in their hands, prostrated themselves with joy before their unconscious gods, and thanked them for the death of the Christians? Silent, shame-stricken, hiding in holes and corners, invisible, or kneeling in the mud for mercy-mercy from the Christian conqueror, to whose countrymen they had shown none!

Thus Major Edwardes, who may well say "Quorum pars magna fui," describes the fall of Mooltan.

No sooner did Moolraj discover that the city was captured, than leaving three-fourths of his army to the mercy of the victors, he retired with three thousand picked men into the citadel, intending to hold out till he could make advantageous terms for himself. The garrison who could escape made the best of their way over the city walls, and fled to their homes. Never did a city present a more awful scene of retribution than did that of Mooltan. Scarcely a roof or wall which had not been penetrated by En

glish shells, and whole houses, scorched and blackened by the bombardment, seemed about to fall over the corpses of their defenders. The citadel itself was now closely invested, and incessantly shelled; so that there was scarcely a spot within the walls where the besieged could find shelter. In this siege the blue jackets of Old England, as well as the red coats, took a part. Commander Powell, of the Honourable East Company's Navy, at the head of a body of seamen, worked one of the heavy batteries, from the commencement to the termination of the siege. "It was a fine sight to see their manly faces, bronzed by long exposure to the burning sun of the Red Sea, or Persian Gulf, mingling with the dark soldiers of Hindoostan, or contrasting with the fairer, but not healthier, occupants of the European barrack. They looked on their battery as their ship; their eighteen pounders as so many sweethearts, and the embrasures as port-holes. 'Now, Jack, shove your head out of that port, and just hear what my little girl says to that 'ere pirate, Moll Rag' (Moolraj ?) was the kind of conversation heard on board of the sailor battery by those passing."

The citadel still held out, but by the 19th two breaches had been effected, and the assault was fixed for six A.M. on the 22nd. Before that hour the traitor sent in his submission, asking only for his own life and the honour of his women. The answer from General Whish was that the British government" wars not with women and children, and that they would be protected, but that he had neither authority to give Moolraj his life nor to take it." Thus Moolraj was compelled to make an unconditional surrender..

This second siege of Mooltan occupied twenty-seven

days, and the British loss was 210 men killed, and 982 wounded. One of the last acts of the victors was to disinter the bodies of Agnew and Anderson, and to carry them to an honoured resting-place on the summit of Moolraj's citadel, through the broad and sloping breach which had been made by the British guns in the walls of the rebellious fortress of Mooltan.*

*I am chiefly indebted to that valuable work, "A Year in the Punjab," by Major Edwardes, for the preceding account of the capture of Mooltan. That work concludes by some admirable hints to the young soldier. He tells how he raised and kept together his army of irregulars. "I found five different countries oppressed by one tyrant, and removed him. I found three chiefs in exile, and restored them. Those countries and those chiefs rallied round me in my hour of need, and were my army. I had fixedness of purpose-a determination to make many barbarians' wills give way to one that was civilized. No man assisted me without being rewarded, and no man opposed me without being punished. This was well known; and when I held up my hand for soldiers, the soldiers came.

"The army thus raised was fed and paid out of the revenues of the country which it conquered.

"Irregular troops are either successful, or defeated at once. So I threw my whole strength into the advance, and never let them stop, but kept them always moving, if it was but an inch.

"The force was kept together during nine months of varying success by regular pay and kind treatment. The officers sat twice a day with me in Durbar; I learned to know them all— their character, their circumstances, their prejudices, and their wants; and by living the same life that they did, wearing the same dress, talking the same language, and sharing with them all dangers and fatigues, they became attached to me, and I to them. I believe that when the war was over, and we had seen our mutual enemy subdued, to part was a mutual sorrow." What became of Moolraj? it will be asked. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged; but recommended to mercy

THE PUNJAB CAMPAIGN,

1848-49.

AFFAIR AT RAMNUGGUR,

November 22.

THE Sikhs and Afghans having formed a combination against the British power, a large force was quickly assembled at Ferozpoor, under the immediate orders of Lord Gough, the Commander-in-Chief.

Shere Singh and Chuttar Sing having effected a junction on the 21st of October, their forces amounted to thirty thousand. On the 21st of November Lord Gough joined the British army assembled at Saharum. The Sikh forces were found posted at Ramnuggur. In front of this place flows the Chenab river, which has in mid channel a small island, on which, protected by a grove of trees, was placed a battery of six guns, with some four hundred men. The enemy also having boats on the river, and command of the fort, had pushed across a considerable number of infantry and cavalry. The British army having arrived in front of this strong position, a reconnaissance was made in

as the "victim of circumstance," and banished across the seas. The brave and talented General Courtlandt was received into the British service. Lake, Lumsden, Taylor, Young, and Pearse were promoted, and their names have since become better known to fame. Young Hugo James received a cadetship; the brave Mac Mahon was rewarded according to his deserts. Nor was the gallant Irishman, Mr. Quin, overlooked; though I cannot discover that he obtained that rank in the army which was undoubtedly the reward he would have coveted.

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force with cavalry and horse artillery. The Sikhs, confident in their numbers and the strength of their position, sent across their cavalry, who rode as if in defiance before the British army. A charge of the 3rd Light Dragoons, aided by light cavalry, had chastised on one point the presumption of the Sikhs. William Havelock, the Colonel of the 14th, entreated to be allowed to attack another body of the enemy, and to this Colonel Cureton consented. The Commanderin-Chief also riding up, said, "If you see a favourable opportunity of charging-charge." The gallant old Colonel soon made the opportunity. "Now, my lads,” he exclaimed, boldly leading his dragoons to the onset, we shall soon see whether we can clear our front of those fellows or not." The Sikhs made a show of standing the charge, and some of them stood well. Captain Gall, while grasping a standard, had his right hand cut through by the stroke of a Sikh sword, and Lieutenant Fitzgerald's head was cleft in two by a blow from one of the enemy's weapons; but the mass of the Sikhs opened out right and left, and gave way before their victors. Colonel Cureton, however, on seeing the 14th charge, exclaimed, "That is not the body of horse I meant to have been attacked:" and riding to the front, received in his gallant breast a matchlock ball, which killed him on the spot.

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Again the trumpets of the 14th sounded, and overturning all who opposed them, onward in the direction of the island that gallant regiment took their course. The Sikh battery opened on them a heavy fire, and there was a descent of some four feet into the flat; but Havelock, disregarding all difficulties,