Reflections on the policy adopted by the Government of Captain John Gordon again sweeps the Ganges Neill is appointed to command the right wing of the The strength of the force destined to march on Lakhnao 526 Measures taken to ensure the passage of the Ganges 527 On the 25th he advances on the city He reaches the Chárbágh whence he determines to turn The force encounters enormous difficulties HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY BOOK VII. CHAPTER I. 1857. May 25. Ir is time now to return to Calcutta. The measures taken and the views entertained by the Government on receiving intelligence of the Calcutta. Mírath outbreak have been already recorded. It is evident that up to the end of the month of May they had not fully apprehended the gravity of the situation. "Everything," wrote the Secretary in the Home Department, Mr. Cecil Beadon, on the 25th of May, to the French Consul and the other French residents at Calcutta, who, with rare self-sacrifice, had placed their services at the disposal of the Government, "everything is quiet within six hundred miles of the capital. The mischief caused by a passing and groundless panic, has already been arrested; and there is every reason to hope that in the course of a few days tranquillity and confidence will be restored throughout the Presidency." Certainly the dis |