ts of steps at each extremity except the east, which
formed the chancel, and at the intersection was a dome and cupola. It
was paved with marble, and the whole effect was beautiful. After the
consecration a confirmation followed, and the first to receive the
apostolic rite were the noble old Colonel himself and his three sons.
Twenty years later this fine building was filled with dying men, and
shared in the horrors of the siege of Delhi; but it has now returned to
its rightful use, and as a church of martyrs.

Indeed, all the places that the Bishop visited in this excursion have
since been associated with the Mutiny. Cawnpore was not much more
satisfactory than when Heber had visited it; an irreligious commandant
and a dissipated regiment had done much harm; and an imprudent letter of
one of the chaplains had led to a quarrel, in which the clergyman
unfortunately put himself in the wrong. Happily, a new commanding
officer and better conducted regiment had replaced the first, and the ill-
feeling was so entirely removed that the Bishop wrote, "Never did I enter
a station with such despondency, nor leave one with so much joy." And
thus he prepared Cawnpore for that which was in store for it!

His visit to Allahabad was chiefly memorable for his horror at the large
resort of pilgrims to bathe in the Ganges, and at the tax by which a
Christian government profited by their pagan superstition, with all its
grossness and cruelty. He brought home a little ticket, with the number
76902 stamped on it, such as was issued to the pilgrims, and made a
strong appeal to the Governor-General, as well as to persons in England.
The next year both this tax and that on the pilgrims to Jaghernauth were
suppressed. Here he heard of the death of Bishop Corrie, after having
held the see of Madras only a year and a quarter, but having spent many
years in India, and worked there for a whole lifetime, in which he had
seen the very dawn of missionary efforts, and had watched the English
Church spread from a few scattered chaplains to three bishoprics.

Lord Auckland and his sisters were more sincere friends of Christian
efforts than any Governor-General had yet been, but these were trying
times. Mr. Bateman, his daughter's husband, fell ill, and his wife was
obliged to return to England with him; the Bishop's other chaplain died,
and also some of his best friends. On going, a few years later, to
consecrate a church at Singapore, he visit