" The Doncaster Gazette." 135 



contributions are, like all newspaper articles, 

 of an ephemeral kind, and it is hardly fair to 

 reproduce any of them in a -book published 

 forty years and more after they were written. 

 They show, however, that "The Druid's" 

 repertory was unusually large, and his ac- 

 quaintance with Indian subjects — a country 

 which he had never visited, and of which, 

 about that time, few young and untravelled 

 Englishmen of his age knew anything at all 

 — very striking. When it is remembered 

 that the following article was the work of 

 a young man of twenty-six who had never left 

 his native land, it will be read with interest 

 by many who have been accustomed to re- 

 gard "The Druid" as a sporting writer and 

 nothing more. It appeared in the Doncaster 

 Gazette in March, 1849 : — 



"War in the Punjab. 



"The last Indian mail has brought des- 

 patches from the Punjab, rife with deep and 

 melancholy interest. Early on the morning 

 of November 21, 1848, Lord Gough took the 

 command of 22,000 men and 100 guns, near 

 the banks of the Chenab. On the right bank 



