cident of an accident I might at this very moment
have been employed to assist in repressing the noble
aspirations of niggerhood, and helping to stifle the cry of
freedom that now resounds from the Sutlej to the Ganges. Is
not that a twang from your own lyre, Master D.? Could our
Own Correspondent have come it stronger?

"Happily, her Majesty has no further occasion for my
services, and I can take a brief on the other side. Expect
to hear, therefore, in some mysterious paragraph, That the
mode in which the cavalry were led, or the guns pointed,
plainly indicated that a European soldier held command on
this occasion; and, indeed, some assert that an English
officer was seen directing the movements on our flank.'
To which let me add the hope that the--Fusiliers may be
there to see; and if I do not give the major a lesson in
battalion drill, call me a Dutchman! There is every
reason why the revolt should succeed. I put aside all the
bosh about an enslaved race and a just cause, and come to
the fact of the numerical odds opposed. The climate
intolerable to one, and easily borne by the other; the
distance from which reinforcements must come; and, last of
all, the certainty that if the struggle only last long
enough to figure in two budgets, John Bull will vote it a
bore, and refuse to pay for it But here am I getting
political when I only meant to be personal; and now to come
back, I own that my resolve to go out to India has been
aided by hearing that Loyd, of whom I spoke in my last, is
to leave by the next mail, and will take passage on board
the P. and O. steamer Leander, due at Malta on the 22nd. My
intention is to be his fellow-traveller, and with this
resolve I shall take the Austrian steamer to Corfu, and come
up with my friend at Alexandria. You will perhaps bepuzzled
to know why the claims of friendship are so strong upon me
at such a moment, and I satisfy your most natural curiosity
by stating that this is a mission of torture. I travel with
this man to insult and to outrage him; to expose him in
public places, and to confront him at all times. I mean that
this overland journey should be to him for his life long the
reminiscence of a pilgrimage of such martyrdom as few have
passed through, and I have the vanity to be