lang-syne,' he indulged in ere pulling again, as he on several occasions did, on the Goomtee, where it flows past Lucknow. In these two incidents we see the sources of his success and glory. He was a man, and God by his Spirit made him a true Christian and servant of Himself. He did not, for it is nowhere demanded, sacrifice the former to the latter, as so many of his class too often do, but on its basis God built up an elevated and energetic piety, which sanctified, purified, and used his manliness for the highest ends. That pint-pewter is now a precious relic. From it in the siege he constantly drank, "it was the last vessel which touched his dying lips;" and it was still further consecrated by his heroic wife in her hospital and other philanthropic ministrations.

It has been said that no body of men, taken as a body, have done less in their day and generation, all circumstances considered, than they who constitute the ecclesiastical establishments of our Indian Presidencies; that there are a few great names, Thomason, Grant, Martyn, Heber, Buchanan and Wilson, but the mass-? This has been traced to the mode of their selection, the motives of their appointment, and the nature of the position, as, till lately, the servants of a body jealously afraid of the shadow of an attempt to spread Christian truth among the heathen or Mahommedans, and so keeping out of their service the only men who are worth anything as ministers-the evangelistic and self-denying, and repressing the expansive force of the Christian love and duty of such as are in it. It may be, but if ever man died to redeem the character of his profession and his class, that man was Polehampton. He came to India in the company of Dr. Kay, of itself an admirable introduction to work and views of work in a heathen land; he landed, resolved to be, as far as he could, a missionary, and to devote all his energies to the advancement of the then-projected Oudh Mission; when he reached Lucknow, to which by his own choice he was appointed, he was alone, had the whole ecclesiastical duties of the 53rd Queen's on his hands, of the civil station, and (voluntarily undertaken) of the Martinière with its eighty boys and eight masters. In the midst of duties that soon undermined even his fine constitution, his chief regret was that his sphere was so far removed from the heathen, but he preached, he collected money, he spoke and influenced in private, and exercised in all true respects the highest of offices-that of a missionary-minister. And as he anxiously looked forward to the arrival of Mr. Harris his colleague, (whose wife writes the well-known Lady's Diary of the Siege') it was not that he might have ease, but "help in organizing missionary as well as other work." Through his influence a native baboo was led to declare himself openly for Christianity, and the following account of his baptism in such sad and solemn circumstances is taken from Polehampton's Journal of the siege, under the head, Monday, 29th June :

"Our baboo came to-day. As it is quite possible that this is the last or almost the last, time we shall ever see him, I thought it well to ask him if he were now willing to be baptized. He was; and after much conversation with him, I baptized him in my room here; only Emmie being present. I could have wished that he should have been baptized in church, before many witnesses; but it is better as it is under present circumstances. He says, however, that, if he is asked whether he is a Christian, he shall not deny his Lord. God give

him grace to bear witness to Him! I believe him to have been long a sincere Christian at heart. He has Edward's address; and, in case of our dying here, or being killed, will write to him. I gave him fifty rupees to help him in case of our death. He could not take more, or I would have given him one hundred."

Mrs..Polehampton afterwards speaks of the assistance she received from him, even to the washing of her clothes :—

"One day he came to me, looking very faint, with his white cap and dress saturated with blood, but with a strange expression of pleasure on his face On my asking what was the matter. he said, "I am very glad; I have been shot in the head." I had noticed for some time past that he had showed perfect indifference as to his safety, and seemed quite fearless when walking about under fire. But his present apparent joy rather startled me. I sent him at once to the European hospital, as I knew that Dr. Thompson would attend to him for me. He examined the wound, and found that it was only a slight one, as the ball had not entered deeply, but had struck him, and glanced off. He bandaged it, and sent him to lie down for the rest of the day. The next morning, to my astonishment, he returned to me, looking pulled down by the loss of blood, but otherwise all right again. Soon after this, he grew so anxious to go outside the garrison to see what was going on, and to find out what had become of our house in cantonments, that he insisted on going out disguised as a common coolie, and said that he was almost certain he should not be recognised, but should come back to me in three days. I tried hard to persuade him not to venture, and told him that, if he went, I should never expect to see him again. However, he had set his mind upon it, and went out leaving me the following note:-"My dear madam, I have been to Mr. Harris." (I had told him that I could not consent to his going without his first consulting Mr. Harris.) "He said to me some Christians have gone out, and he heard they are all killed; their blood scattered about the ground. I think myself to "death as a dream. I am not the least frighted of it. If I die, I will see Mr. "Polehampton. Is it not a good thing for me? I hope God will protect me, "if I put my trust in Him."

66

This was the last I ever heard of him, and I have not the least doubt he was killed at once, as soon as the sepoys saw him; for he was well known to them as being with us, and he had attended church regularly for many months. Not long before the siege, Henry baptized him, and he then told us that he had made up his mind to profess himself openly as a Christian, without fear of consequences, if the time should come for him to be tried. Even all our servants, who ran away just at the commencement of the siege, were killed outside. Every one, who was known to have done any sort of service for the Christians was put to death. I feel so happy in thinking of the Baboo's death: I know he was so true to his Christian profession, and he seemed to me to be almost longing for an opportunity of bearing witness to his Lord. How soon, too, his desire was granted to him of rejoining his earthly master and best friend ?"

Another name added to the roll of Martyrs in the infant nativeChurch! The man who had been the best at boating, who had won the hearts of a parish by his devotion to their wants, now found full scope when cholera broke out in the 52nd, a regiment afterwards succeeded by the immortal 32nd. By the latter he was equally beloved, and the former on leaving the station gave him a substantial token of their gratitude. The manliness of the true gentleman is seen in his letter on the occasion. In his letters we have most graphic and spirited sketches of life in India, in Calcutta, his remarks on the persons he met in which are perhaps a little too free, and in Lucknow. His account of Boileau's death, and the subsequent capture of the notorious robber Fuzzul Ali, by Lieut. Clarke is good. But the interest culminates when he approaches the mutiny DEC., 1858.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

The burning of Wells' bungalow, the firing of the sepoy lines, the rise of the 71st and 48th and of the 7th cavalry, the flight to the Residency, and the arrangements there, are rather glanced at than described. Up to the last, Polehampton, as yet a stranger to Asiatic history and native character, believed like so many that no mutiny would take place, that the people felt the rule of the British to be a blessing.

66

The work begins with a memoir of Mr. Polehampton up to his visit to India, from which period his own letters take it up, continuing till he enters the Lucknow cantonments 21st May 1857, where his Diary begins, which ends on Saturday, July 18th, with the words "talked a good deal to Charlton to-day, and prayed for him." he died from the effect of a wound through the body on which cholera On the 20th supervened. Rightly do the editors abstain from drawing the veil that covers the dying scene. with his wife and his God." His last words were He wished" to be left quite alone for ever." The story is continued by Mrs. Polehampton's letters and peace now and Diary, and finally closes by an inspection on Saturday, the 13th of February 1858, by Mrs. Polehampton in company with Dr. Bremner, of the sick and wounded on board the Himalaya,' which was to convey her to England. She landed at Plymouth, June 8th, after a long, though pleasant, voyage. cannot select better portions, than the first from a letter to her husAs a specimen of her part of the book we band's brother, and the second from her Diary.

THE HEROINE'S LIFE DURING THE SIEGE.

"My own private life was so unvaried and uniform, that there is nothing in it worth relating. If I give you a sketch of one day, you will have an idea of what it was during a great portion of the time, that is to say, after the reinforcements came in ; before that, from the time of Henry's death, I had no employment of any sort. We used to pass the day in our gloomy room as well as we could, in reading, and writing, and working. After this, I used to go to the hospital after breakfast, spend as many hours there as I found necessary, and return to dinner. In the evening I only spent an hour in the hospital, and then, when it got dark, my time of rest came; the most precious hour I had in the day; and that I spent at my darling Henry's grave. I often wonder now, in looking back at that time, how I escaped as I did on these occasions, for the bullets were constantly flying thickly, close over my head as I was sitting at the grave, and several times shells burst within a few yards of me there. It seemed so strange that I should be one to escape.

ENGLISHWOMEN.

"Monday, 30th.-As we were waiting for orders this morning, Mrs. Barbor began to sketch Cawnpore, the church, &c., she and I sitting on the box of the gharree (or small carriage). While we were there, the enemy began to fire round shot upon us from the other side of the river. They must have seen us plainly, as we were in a very conspicuous place. The officers took us away in haste; and when we had gone a few yards in the rear, another round shot struck the very spot where our gharree had been. They took us back to the lines of the 5th bridgade (32nd, 23rd, &c.) The firing soon slackened, and we returned half-way and breakfasted. Sat on the grass all morning. Marched at three; arrived at the barracks in Cawnpore in about half an hour. A good deal of round shot fired at us as we drove, but we crossed the bridge safely. It was quite like old times again in the midst of shot and shell. We could not cross the river without a feeling of horror, as we thought of all that had happened there, within a few yards of where we were crossing. We were close to

the place, where Sir H. Wheeler's garrison went into the boats, according to their treaty, and then were immediately fired on, and men, women, and children to the number of some eight hundred, all slaughtered, most of them on the spot, the rest soon afterwards. There were only four survivors of that fearful tragedy. Our three carriages were the last to cross. One of the soldiers on guard at the bridge looked in at the gharree as we reached the other side, and said, "Thank God, the sepoys haven't got at you!"

Six Months in British Burmah: or, India Beyond the Ganges in 1857. By Christopher T. Winter. London. Richard Bentley. 1858.

As a book meant to give a general idea of the physical features of the Burmese and their country, of their habits, national and social customs, daily life, religion, and literature, as well as of their relations in both peace and war to the British, this work may be received with some degree of attention by those who are totally ignorant of the subject. But it never passes beyond the vague and the general, and may be best described as partly a hasty sketch of the impression of one who was but six months in the countries of which he treats, and partly a compilation, most carelessly done, of information on the Government, revenue, literature, language, and religion of the Burmese and the British in Burmah. The chapters on the Burmans ethnologically considered' on Boodhism and on the Language and Alphabet of the Burmans' are painfully meagre and defective, and must lay the writer open to the charge of book-making. A popular book on Burmah is much wanted, but this is far from supplying the desideratum. A longer visit than six months, a knowledge of the language and literature of the people, and familiarity with the great work of Crawfurd and the papers of Latter, and of Judson, Mason, and the American Missionaries, are necessary prerequisites to writing a good book for the general reader on Burmah and the British there.

Japan Opened. Compiled chiefly from the Narrative of the American Expedition to Japan in the year 1852-53-54. London. The Religious Tract Society. 1858.

A VERY careful, trustworthy, and altogether admirable account of the "unsealing of the hermetic' empire" written with the ultimate view of directing the attention of the Christian and Missionary world to the opening there presented for evangelising work.

It is based on the official records of Commodore Perry in so far as they relate to Japan alone, to which is prefixed "a brief historical sketch of the past relations of Japan with the nations of the West" Commodore Perry's report was fully reviewed by us in Number LIV., but the historical sketch is altogether new. Amid the vast variety of works on the

1

East, published during the past two years, few will be found so interesting as this. The following well presents one aspect of that policy which, under the name of "annexation," and as misunderstood by those who are narrow-minded and limited in their views, has been, since Dalhousie's retirement, so foolishly condemned. In his preface the compiler well says :—

"The man of commerce will regard with pleasure the prospect of the opening of a new mart for his merchandise; and the philanthropist will rejoice that this long self-excluded race has become accessible to social improvements. But to the Christian this event possesses a singular and almost sublime importance. Underlying its secular aspects, and its social benefits, he can trace the causes and commencement of changes immeasurably more momentous than its immediate agents designed or discerned. While gratified, in common with others, with the commercial and political results of their negotiations, those results, in the Christian's view, form another link of that wondrous chain of national changes amongst the populous nations of the east, which mark out the present century as an epoch pregnant with more momentous issues to Christ, to them, and connected more intimately with the conversion of the world at large, than since the apostolic age. By the breaking down of another of those mighty barriers which have obstructed the evangelical efforts of Christians, the faith and any other period hope which rest upon God's purpose and promise are revived, that the day is at hand when, with other outcast millions of the human family, the isolated and self-excluded Japanese shall be brought as much within the sound, as they have always been within the scope of the glad tidings of great joy which are to all people.

"Connecting them with this design, the Christian will trace in the transactions which these pages record another grand movement of that majestic progress, which He is pursuing, under the promptings of boundless beneficence, whom the heavens have received" until the times of the restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." Sympathizing in his measure with the "satisfaction" with which Christ rested upon the results of his own sufferings and sacrifice, when he gave his life a ransom for many; rejoicing in every new indication that the course of Providence is forwarding the fulfillment of God's promises, and stimulated both to hope and to effort by the wider sphere of usefulness thus presented to him, the Christian will gird himself anew for the Master's service, and attempt greater things than hitherto for his cause. gleam with an intelligence not their own, and transactions which, to ordinary In his eye, the following pages will minds, possess no higher meaning nor importance than belong to and temporal," will stand out before him in characters of living light, revealing God's thoughts of peace and love towards those who are afar off, and making things seen more apparent than ever the Christian's own path of duty to the Saviour and to the world."

An English-Hindustani Law and Commercial Dictionary of Words and Phrases used in Civil, Criminal, Revenue, and Mercantile Affairs; designed especially to assist Translators of Law Papers. By S. W. Fallon. Calcutta. Thacker, Spink and Co. and R. C. Lepage and Co. 1858.

THIS work is one that "all whom it may concern," all who require such a guide and special Dictionary, will welcome with pleasure. The arrangement is good, the philology accurate, the lexicography very fair, and the scholarship, we believe, most creditable. The