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December 7, 1882.]
ton one of the bravest officers that British soldiers ever fol-
lowed into the thick of fight, fell mortally wounded, On the
17th Wolseley was specially selected by Sir Culin Campbell to
Jad an attack oa the Moss House, a massive moated building,
to be scaled before the house could be stormed. When
signal was viven for assaulting this stronghold Wolseley, with
the impetuous energy that has always distinguished him,
leaped forward at once, far in advance of his men, as if deter.
mined that none should face death before him. One who was
au eye-witness of the attack, standing with Sir Henry Havelock
on the roof of Chuttur Manzil Palace, describes the scene
that followed in graphic phrases :—
“Tt is now three o'clock, and if the enemy have any men
concealed in that massive pile, the Mess House, we shail soon
see, for the redcoats are approaching ; they are moving down
in regular order along the road leading from the Shab Nojeef,
and now are lost to view. Presently a part of them are seen
advancing in skit wishing order, They have reached the en-
closing wall; they are over it, throngh the shrubbery, and
now the leading officer enters at the door which we have been
watching, and, while a larger body follow, rushing at a double
0 ht band tower of the Khoor-
sheyed Mngzil. It is Captain Wolseley of the 90th who has
placed it there,”
Tae building was deserted, bat Wolseley and his men had
to advance under a storm of bullets from the ‘Tara Kotee and
other towe's, The ensign of England had no sooner been
planted than it was struck down by a. ball. in ii
raised, and a second time the staff was severed. © All this time
both he and his men who remained inside the enclosing com-
pound wall of the garden, were exposed to the fire of shot and
Shell also, directed upon them from the Kaisar Bagh Pres.
ently, a8 Mr. Gubbins describes, they crossed. this wall, en.
tered the Tara Kotee enclosure, charged up its main avenue,
and were hid from view of the anxious onlookers by a belt of
trees. Pashing impetuously forward, they were bronght to a
momentary check by a tertifie fire fromthe loopholed walls
of the Motee Mabul. man, named Andrews, fell severely
wounded, e had been servant to Wolseley, who seeing him
shot down plunged into a storm of bullets and succeeded in
saving the poor fellow’s life. i
Having at Jast forced an entrance into the Motee Mabul,
they went on fighting from cour: to court. Mr. Kavanagh, «
celebrated civilian, who won the Victoria Cross by an act of
conspicuous ravery, thus describes the scene :—** Captain
Stream. Thence Wolseley, rallying his men once m re,
pushed forward, and they fought their way to the Residency.
As fate would have it, the comrades, cleaving their way from
opposite quarters toward the sate point, met, and thus Cap-
tain Wolseley was literally the first of the relieving force to
join hands with the beleaguered garrison.
His fierce'y energetic advance from point to point had been
crowned with the most conspicuous success, but it had ear-
ried him beyond the strict letcer of his orders, and for a time
80 displeased Sir Colin Campbell that this was probatly the
reason why Wolseley was not recommended for the Victoria
Cross, which he bad otherwise well-earned. The war-beaten
veteran, however, could not long entertain anger agaiost a
brave soldier with whose rashness his own fiery spirit was so
completely in sympathy ; and Wolseley seems to have been
forgiven after receiving a very outspoken lecture on the errors
of trop de zele.
With Outram’s force at Alumbagh the 90th were in all the
actions fought, often against enormons odds, but always with
brilliant results, from the end of the yeer up to February,
1857. On the 6th of March they left Alambagh to join the
jaub Rifles, under Adrian
Siege of Lucknow, which had been strongly fortified by the
rebels, began witha heavy artillery fire on the Martiniere,
and preparations were immediately made for an infavtry as-
With the loss of its chief stronghold, Lucknow fell an easy
prey to the British troops. Soon after this, Wolseley, who
vet majority. While acting in this capacity on the staff he
earned a high reputation for skill in dealing with native
aides, whose good faith he managed to insure by cleverly-
conceived yet very simple means. ‘The strain of work that
seemed incessant did not prevent him from compiling a mass
Grant’s march from Fyzabad to join Horsford, who bad
driven a rebel army before him beyond the Goomtee at Sul-
tanpore, Wolseley had charge of the advance, and the Pperfeo-
tion of his preparations for crossing the river in face ofa
large hostile force won hearty commendation from the Gene-
ralcommanding. In several engagements on the Gogra and
the final action of Jerwah Pass, where the power of Nana and
Bela Rao was completely shattered, Major Wolseley took an
eqnally prominent part, and at the conclusion of the cam-
paign was rewarded with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colo-
ne’.—Cone uded nex week,
A JEWISH PROVERB.
[From the Talmud.}
Foolish coxcomb do not fret,
Without thy aid the sun will set,
REDPATIWS WEEKLY.
AULUMN WOODS.
FROM THE GERMAN.
[For Redpath's Weekly.]
In lengthened train, the wild geese cackling shrill,
Winter's swift couriers, are southward flying ;
I wander o'er the fields, and calm aud stilt
The woodlands in far-folded mists are lying.
Robed in a blaze of crimson glories rare,
Bright glow the maples in the sunlit vapor;
As with the hectic flush the features weur,
Before in gloom is quenched life's flick’ring taper.
Among the hemlocks avd the pines which gleam
Along the hills with ever-verdant lustre
Do I behold, as in a waking dream,
‘The groups of red and yellow birch-trees cluster,
Like as Ophelia, grief-distracted maid, .
Amid her woes her tresses crowned with flowers ;
So thou dost with fantastic splendors braid
Thy form, O birch-tree, in thy dying Lours!
How strangely now with joy and sadness deep
Here in these autumn woods my heart ix trembling!
And knows not whether it shall sinile or weep—
Ophelia in her changefal moods resembling
Athens, Pa, R
BY THE RIVER.
BY WM. COLLINS.
(For Redpath's Weekly.]
1.
As the evening shadows flitting
Full upon the dewy lea,
By the silent shore I’in sitting,
raziug Outward to the sea ;
Dreaming by the louely river
s it marmurs through the glen,
Sighing for the one who never
uy return to me again.
11
Hope still whispers on the morrow
shall see the welcome sail
Aud my heart though pressed with sorrow,
Fonaity listens to the tate.
Ah! how bright would be the dawning
Of the san upon the sea,
As the fair and happy morning
Brought my darling back to me !
THE THREE STAGES OF PIETY.
. [Transluted from the Persian.]
Iu their maxims lingering s ill,
Aud replied, O men of grace!
He who sees his Master's face
Will not in his prayer recall
That he is chastised at all.”
Joun CosteLio.
THE TRUE STORY OF EGYPT.
Gen. R. E. Colton, of Washington, who, for ten years,
served asa Bey in the army of the Khedive of Egypt, lec:
tured upon ‘Modern Fgypt and the Causes Leading to the
Late War with England.” in Cooper Union on Saturday even-
exempt from the press, the fellah of the rural district is forced
te do unwilling military duty. ‘I'he fellah is the most inoffen-
sive fellow in the world. ‘He wants only to be let alone to
till the soil in bis wud-but village, He is tall aud straight,
and well made; he is fragal, and will march further and uu.
oaty lacks oue requisite, and that is, he can't fight, deesn't
want to figbt, and won't fight if he cau help it. ‘That is the
army that the British Admiral and General are honored for
humbling.
**Istuuil Pasha, the former Khedive, who abdicated in favor
of the present Khedive, was a very extravagaut potentate.
He spent $100 000,000 on the Suez Canal, and an equal amount
upon the sea wad at Alexardria. Egypt's revenues were in-
sufficient to pay the bills. ‘he uxurer whispered to Ismai
‘Borrow’ The usurer wasn’t aJew, He was an Englisb-
. He generally is, So Ismail b:rrowed money npon
bonds, aud he only got £70 out of every hundred, and had to
pay fourteen per cent..on the whole £100. When the time
came around to pay up Ismail Pasha still had vo fuvds, 80 b:
paid the loan with a new loan at still more frightful iuterest,
and so a third and fourthtime. But when eax ', good-natured
Ismail sent ont fora fifth loun it fell flut. He sent for a set
of French and Enghsh Commissioners. The Commissioners
came like the plagne upon the Egyptians. ‘Ihe first thing
they did was to vote themselves «uleries of £30,000 a year
each. Then they took pos-ession of everything from the
Khedive down. Euglishmen were put into every office, from
the highest to the lowest, and natives were turned out without
compunction. Out of a revenue of £9,000,000 two thirds
went to pay coupons upon bonds, for the Commissioners said:
‘These bonds must be paid if all Egypt starves? ‘The whole
country was administered in the interest of the bondholders.
In October, 1878, the coupons became due. The Govern-
nent, at the instance of the Commissioners, backed up by the
bondholders, seized upon the whole of the crop
t, the American officers, over fitty of them,
who hed for ten years served the Khedive in reorganizing the
army, were dismissed. Next, 2,500 native officers, that had
not been paid for over a year, had to go without pay, but
they got up a demonstration, and effected a comprc mise, and
got part of their pay, Stung pest all bearing. the people de-
manded a convocation of a popular Egyptian Legisiature and
a promise of keeping the army together, and after a demon-
stration by the arwy the Khedive was forced to yield. Bat
England stepped in and said no. Then followed the riots of
June, unpremeditated and spontaneous. There was no occa-
sion for the b mbardment. It was the greatest iniqnity ever
perpetrated against the people. ‘The whole war, on England's
art, was conceived in sin and carried on in imquity. It was
a war of the bondholders, i
“Arabi Pasba was a man of the people. He was a f:llah,
educated at the miluary ecademy, and he wou his distinction,
e could have sold out for milous, He did not, and he isa
He never pillaged or plundered. He took
troops. If Evgland allows Arabi Pasha to suffer an igno-
minious death she will have added an ther black blotch to
her escutcheon,”
PICTURFSQUE IRELAND: THURLES CASTLE, COUNTY TIPPERARY.