36 INTELLIGENCE FROM INDIA. 



ceived an oyerland summary of the Bombay 

 Gazette, was so good as to read aloud the ex- 

 citing intelligence it contained, to all the rest ; 

 and could we have been photographed as we 

 stood in every variety of sleeping costume, we 

 certainly should have made a graphic picture. 

 The intelligence from India was of a mixed 

 character, but, upon the whole, the good pre- 

 dominated over the bad, for though the spread 

 of disaffection, as evidenced in the plot just dis- 

 covered at Bombay, showed that no dread of 

 consequences, even when the cause of the insur- 

 gents had become apparently hopeless, would 

 deter Mahomedan bigots from plotting against 

 the lives of Christians, the fall of Delhi was a 

 grand triumph to British arms, and the capture 

 of the royal family rendered it the more com- 

 plete. The timely relief of Lucknow by the 

 gallant Havelock, announced in the same paper, 

 was, indeed, a most providential event. These 

 two highly important successes had, however, 

 cost us dear in the loss of two of our most dis- 

 tinguished generals, poor Neill and Nicholson, 

 but individuals must not be thought of where 

 the public weal is concerned ! 



At Aden we found the Hindoostan steamer on 



