egram of this morning that affairs in
India have not yet taken a favourable turn. Delhi seems still to hold
out, and the death of Sir H. Lawrence[31] is a great loss. The Queen
must repeat to Lord Palmerston that the measures hitherto taken by the
Government are not commensurate with the magnitude of the crisis.

We have given nearly all we have in reinforcements, and if new efforts
should become necessary, by the joining of the Madras and Bombay
Armies in the Revolt, for instance, it will take months to prepare
Reserves which ought now to be ready. Ten Battalions of Militia to
be called out is quite inadequate; forty, at least, ought to be the
number, for these also exist only on paper. The augmentation of the
Cavalry and the Guards has not yet been ordered.

Financial difficulties don't exist; the 14,000 men sent to India are
taken over by the Indian Government, and their expense saved to
us; and this appears hardly the moment to make savings on the Army
estimates.

[Footnote 31: On the previous day, the Queen and Prince had
returned from a visit to Cherbourg, and found very disquieting
news from India. Sir Henry Lawrence was the Military
Administrator and Chief Commissioner of Oudh; on the 30th of
May, the 71st N.I. mutinied at Lucknow, but Sir Henry drove
them from their position and fortified the Residency. Some
weeks later, on sallying out to reconnoitre, the English were
driven back and besieged in the Residency; Sir Henry dying
from the effects of a wound caused by a shell.]

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_Viscount Palmerston to Queen Victoria._

DOWNING STREET, _22nd August 1857_.

Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty....
Viscount Palmerston has had the honour of receiving your Majesty's
communication of this morning. It is, no doubt, true that the
telegraphic account received yesterday evening does not show, that at
the dates mentioned from India, any improvement had taken place in the
state of affairs, and the loss of Sir Henry Lawrence and of General
Barnard,[32] but especially of the former, is deeply to be lamented.

With regard, however, to the measures now taking to raise a force to
supply the place of the troops sent to India, and to enlist recruits
to fill up vacancies in the Regiments in India, Viscount Palmerston
would beg to submit that the steps now taking seem to be well
calculated for their purpose. The recruiting for the