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EXTRACTS 
FKOM THE 
DIARY OF LIEUTENANT F. W. STUBBS, BENGAL ARTILLERY, 
IN 1857-1858. 
BY 
MAJOR-GENERAL F. W. STUBBS, late R.A. 
November 26th, 1856. —Ferozepore. Got an answer from Johnson 
in answer to mine declining the Recruit Adjutancy, telling me that my 
name had gone up to head-quarters and it would be best not to refuse 
it; and that everything I had formerly asked for was to be granted. 1 
So go I must, I suppose. I hear W. Olpherts is to command the depot 
when he comes out. 
December 11th. —General orders in. Woodcock comes to 3rd Com¬ 
pany 6th Battalion, and H. A. Olpherts goes to 1st Troop, 1st Brigade, 
Horse Artillery. I am appointed to the depot as soon as relieved by 
Angelo. 
January 11th , 1857. —Got to Meerut. 
March 19th. —The recruits under Moir arrived. A young-looking 
set of men, but Moir reports favourably of them. There are 360 of 
them, besides 100 native recruits already here. 
April 24th. —The 3rd Cavalry here turned out against the cartridges. 
Feeling is very wide spread ; it has spread up to Umballa, where a man 
of the 9th Lancers was stabbed while sleeping on his cot at night, it 
is supposed by one of the malcontents. 
May 9th. —We paraded early this morning to hear the sentence on 
the Jemadar of the 34th Native Infantry read out, and also to witness the 
execution of the sentence on the 85 troopers of the 3rd Light Cavalry; 
10 years’ hard labour for 80, five years’ for the rest. Tombs’ Troop 
and Scott’s Battery went with loaded wagons, the Rifles with balled 
cartridge, we having only blank ammunition and the swords of the 
Horse Artillerymen. Ironing the 85 took a long time, after which they 
were marched down the line and off to the gaol, looking wicked. 
1 In 1855, when Adjutant of the Artillery Eecruit Depot at Meerut, I had pointed out the 
impossibility of undertaking the responsibility of 12 pieces of ordnance, arms for 400 men, and 
clothing, without any establishment whatever ; or of drilling the men properly without any 
assistance. Claiming also the ordinary pay of an adjutant. But the Mutiny broke out, and 
neither establishment nor pay came to me. 
11. YOL. XXI. 
