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their cries for assistance, notwithstanding there were plenty 
of boats at hand. At daybreak the dingy (jolly boat) of 
the pinnace was discovered still attached to her by the painter. 
By the time she had been righted and half baled out, the 
wreck had arrived opposite Rajhmal, when, through the merci- 
fully miraculous intervention of Providence, who had thus 
answered their prayers for deliverance, they were all safely 
landed. About forty or fifty non-commissioned officers and 
privates, who had been similarly saved, subsequently collected 
at Rajmahal, and proceeded with the colonel to overtake the 
regiment, in a steamer that had been sent to their assistance 
from Bhagalpore, the nearest civil station, on receipt of Col. 
Reed’s report of the disaster. The colors of the regiment, 
which were on board Colonel Reed’s pinnace, were lost, with 
little hopes of their being eventually recovered. The division 
arrived at Dinapore on the Ist of October. 
[TRUE COPY. ] T. J. Z. G. Stuon, Capt., 
Curragh Camp, Commanding Depét Sixty-Second Regiment. 
23rd May, 1876. 
Atlemoirs of the Aes. Aohn Clilkinson and 
George Atlatcham, Esq. 
Joun Wixinson, M.A., Rector of Broughton Gifford, near 
Melksham, and Prebendary of Chardstock, in the Cathedral Church 
of Sarum, was born in India, 11th March, 1816, son and grandson 
of military officers. He was entered at Wadham College, Oxford, 
but was elected a Postmaster of Merton College, 26th June, 
1835: afterwards became Fellow, on the Jackson foundation. 
He took a third class in Lit. Humaniores, Easter, 1838; B.A. 
the same year, Ordained 1839 to the Curacy of St. Thomas’s, 
