A DIARY RECORDING THE DAILY EVENTS DURING THE SIEGE OF THE EUROPEAN RESIDENCY from 31st may to 25th september, 1857. BY A STAFF OFFICER WITH A PLAN OF THE RESIDENCY. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65 CORNHILL. 1858. The right of translation is reserved. LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE. LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE....

The Author of this work desiring, for military reasons, to withhold his name, the Publishers feel it due to the public to vouch for the authenticity of the "Diary," by stating that the Author is an officer of the Staff of the Anglo-Indian Army, and was in Lucknow during the whole of the siege; as, indeed, will be apparent from the full details he has given of all that transpired in the garrison. They beg to add that the only alteration made by them is the substitution of the most recent and comp

For about ten days previous to the outbreak, daily reports were made that an émeute was intended, and Sir H. M. Lawrence had ordered all kinds of stores to be purchased and stored in the "Muchee Bhawun" and the City Residency. But latterly the intelligence began to excite less attention, as so many days had passed away which had been named for the outbreak. On the evening of the 30th May, however, a sepoy of the 13th Native Infantry, who had shortly before received a reward from Sir Henry Lawren

On the evening of the 30th May, about 9 o'clock, shots were heard at Moodkeepore (the cavalry station), in the direction of the infantry lines in Lucknow. The 7th Cavalry, consisting of about 150 sabres, immediately were turned out by their officers, and placed in three troops. On wheeling into line, about 30 men rushed out of the ranks, and rode furiously towards cantonments: they were not seen again. The corps advanced towards the race-course, towards the Residency, at a canter, which place th

Yesterday morning, between the hours of 5 and 6, the enemy sprung a mine at the Seikh Square, blowing down the corner house, on the top of which Lieutenant Mecham and Captain Orr, with two sentries, were on the look out from the loopholes, Lieutenant Soppitt being below at the time. A few minutes before the explosion not a single individual was to be seen in the quarter occupied by the enemy. Suddenly, however, one man was discovered by a sentry, and Lieutenant Mecham fired at him, but missed; a

The incessant and arduous duties which have devolved on Brigadier Inglis and his staff, since the arrival of the relieving force, had hitherto prevented him from furnishing to the Major-General Commanding the usual official documents relative to the siege of the garrison. In the absence of these the Major-General could not, with propriety, have indulged in any public declaration of the admiration with which he regards the heroism displayed by Brigadier Inglis and the glorious garrison he has so

In consequence of the very deeply-to-be-lamented death of Brigadier-General Sir H. M. Lawrence, K.C.B., late in command of the Oude Field Force, the duty of narrating the military events which have occurred at Lucknow since the 29th of June last has devolved upon myself. On the evening of that day several reports reached Sir Henry Lawrence that the rebel army, in no very considerable force, would march from Chinhut (a small village about eight miles distant, on the road to Fyzabad) on Lucknow on

From the Homeward Mail. As the return proceeded from an official source the authenticity may be fully relied on. Brigadier-General Sir H. M. Lawrence, chief commissioner, killed; Lieutenant Hutchinson, aide-de-camp; Captain Hayes, military secretary, killed; Captain Edgell, officiating; Captain Wilson, deputy assistant-adjutant-general, contused, recovered; Lieutenant Hardinge, deputy assistant quartermaster-general, twice wounded, recovered; Lieutenant James, sub-assistant commissary general, w