real author (after preserving his incognito for two years) was at length discovered; and in November, 1845, he was selected by Sir Hugh (now Lord) Gough to be an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. In the same month he passed an interpreter's examination in three native languages.

At this time, the first Sikh war broke out, and Lieutenant Edwardes sustained a severe wound in the thigh at the battle of Moodkee, while carrying Sir Hugh Gough's orders. During the second battle (Ferozshuhr) he was lying with the wounded in Moodkee fort; but he was sufficiently recovered to take part in the battle of Sobraon, which closed the campaign.

He now accompanied Sir Hugh Gough to Lahore, and in March, 1846, was recommended by the gallant veteran to the notice of Sir Henry Hardinge, the then Governor General, who placed him on the new political staff formed at Lahore under Sir Henry Lawrence, whose private secretary he became, remaining with him until 1848, when the declining health of that distinguished diplomatist compelled him to return home.

Shortly after Lieutenant Edwardes received his new appointment, he received a wound in the head while assisting Sir Henry Lawrence to put down a religious tumult in the city of Lahore. A month afterwards he assisted at the siege of Kote Kangra (the Rajke Kote of Lawrence's Adventurer in the Punjab). In September, 1846, he was selected to relieve Major Macgregor, C.B. in the important charge of the city of Lahore; but he had scarcely reached that capital when (the revolt of Sheikh Emamooden breaking out in Cashmere) he was ordered to proceed to Jummoo, and rouse Maharajah Golab Singh, to the assertion of the rights which had been ceded to him by the British government.

To effect this, Lieutenant Edwardes opened negotiations with the Shiekh himself, whom he induced to deliver up the secret orders to rebel which he had received from Rajah Lal Singh, the paramour of the Ranee. On this, the Shiekh was permitted by Sir Henry Lawrence to surrender, and giving himself up to Lieutenant Edwardes at the foot of the Cashmere hills, he was by that officer conducted to Lahore. On the evidence of the papers thus obtained, the Rajah Lal Singh was brought to trial under the walls of Lahore, was deposed from the ministry, and banished to Hindostan.

While the new treaty of Lahore, of December, 1846, was being ratified at Byrowâl, Lieut. Edwardes was left in the sole political charge of Lahore; and for his exertions in appeasing a second religious tumult at the festival of the Mohurrum, he received the thanks of the Court of Directors of the East India Company.

In February, 1847, he was deputed, in command of a Sikh army, to make an amicable financial settlement of Bunnoo, an Affghan valley, west of the Indus. Failing in this-as Runjeet Singh had failed for a quarter of a century-he projected and proposed to the resident at Lahore the plan of a regular military reduction and occupation of the valley, offering to conduct the expedition. This plan, recommended by the resident and approved by Sir Henry Hardinge, was at once carried out. Lieut. Edwardes, in December, 1847, was despatched with five thousand men and two troops of horse artillery; and in the brief space of two months, he levelled

the walls of four hundred fortified villages, built a strong fortress in their stead, and ran a military road through the heart of the valley, by these means entirely subjugating it. While effecting this, his life was twice attempted by certain patriots of Bunnoo, who sought to assassinate him in his tent. On the second occasion he only escaped by shooting the assassin with his own hand. The reduction of Bunnoo was barely accomplished, when the Mooltan rebellion broke out.

We have recorded several important services which Lieut. Edwardes was enabled to render to his country while yet a very young man; we have now to tell of those transactions upon which his fame for the present rests.

In March, 1847, a treaty had been concluded, by means of which the Governor-General (Lord Hardinge) had undertaken that the Punjab should be managed during the minority of Maharajah Duleep Singh. He engaged to control the civil internal administration of the country, and to maintain tranquillity within, as well as to provide for its external security; and this he engaged to do at the especial instance of the Sikh Surdars. The consequence of this arrangement was, that a peace ensued in the Punjab to which it had long been a stranger. But in April, 1848, occurred the treacherous murder at Mooltan of Mr. Vans Agnew and Lieut. Anderson, young men of great promise, and who had already distinguished themselves. This event gave rise to commotions in Mooltan, which speedily spread into other provinces, and resulted in a general insurrection of the Punjab.

When the Governor-General, the Earl of Dalhousie, became convinced that it was hopeless to expect that the commotion at Mooltan would die away, by the submission of the Dewan Moolraj, the chieftain commanding at Mooltan, or that it could be extinguished by the force applied to put down the rebellion, he prepared to enter into a vigorous war.

At this time, Lieut. Edwardes, recently appointed assistant in the management of the country in the neighbourhood of Mooltan, and having at his disposal a single native regiment only, conceived the design of driving the rebel Moolraj into his fortress, and rescuing the whole of the country round Mooltan from his grasp. He effected this, and he achieved it without the assistance of a single European soldier. Such was his character, such the confidence he had inspired amongst the natives, such the means that he used, and such the revenue he raised at the moment, in the very country he was rescuing from the treacherous Moolraj, that he was enabled to raise all the mountain tribes, to discipline these raw levies, and to drive back that chieftain into the very walls of the fortress from whose citadel he oppressed the surrounding country. It was on the 18th of June, 1848, that he gained his first victory, and took eight out of ten guns which the rebels brought into the field; and on the 1st of July, having been joined by the troops of the Newaub of Bhawalpore under Lieut. Lake, he fought a second battle, and again completely routed the army of Moolraj, capturing two more guns. It was during these operations that he lost the use of his right hand by the explosion of a pistol in his belt while arming for a fight. In these battles Lieut. Edwardes inspired confidence among the troops

by his exertions, and by his uniform ability commanded the affections and the respect of the natives who followed in his army.

Although, in the first instance, the Governor-General of India and the Commander-in-chief considered that the season would not admit of the march of European troops, yet in consequence of the great efforts that had been made by Lieut. Edwardes and Lieut. Lake, it was thought advisable by Sir F. Currie, the resident at Lahore, to despatch a force amounting to about seven thousand men of all arms under Major-General Whish, from Lahore to Mooltan. We have all read of Whish's attack on and capture of Mooltan, which formed so bright a page in the subjugation of the Punjab.

No sooner were these brilliant operations of Lieut. Edwardes known in this country, than the government recommended him to Her Majesty as an officer well worthy of immediate distinction; rewards of whatever nature not being usually bestowed until the termination of a war. The Queen at once conferred upon the young hero the local rank of Major, and made him a Companion of the Bath. The Court of Proprietors, following the illustrious example, voted him a gold medal, the execution of which was entrusted to Mr. Wyon, and which will soon be ready for presentation.

On the vote of thanks in the House of Lords to the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor-General; to Lord Gough, the Commander-inchief; and to other distinguished officers, the Marquis of Lansdowne specially referred to Major Edwardes, and gave a glowing description of his exploits.

Viscount Hardinge "agreed in what had been said by the noble marquis with regard to Major Edwardes. He had been in communication with him while in India, and had found him to be a most sensible, intelligent, and clever young man. In a letter which he had received from him, he stated that he was most anxious that the comrades who participated with him in his services should also be associated with him in his praise, particularly Lieut. Lake and Lieut. Pollard, late a student in the King's College, and Lieut. Nicholson, and other officers who had distinguished themselves.

And the Duke of Wellington said: "I entirely concur in the approbation which the Noble Marquis has expressed of the conduct of Major Edwardes and other officers in the course of these actions. They have immortalized themselves by their conduct. It is impossible to speak too highly of Major Edwardes and the other gentlemen who have been engaged in these services."

After such praise as this what more is to be said? Major Edwardes reached England with his old commander Lord Gough, a few weeks since, and is now residing in his native county to recruit his health and strength, after a nine years' service in India, marked by the performance of deeds which it has fallen to the lot of very few at such an age to achieve.

HUNTING IN A GERMAN FOREST.

BY JAMES WHITTLE, ESQ.

HAVING taken up my quarters for a few months in C—, a small town in the neighbourhood of one of the ancient forests of Germany, I determined to devote some of my spare time to the pursuit of the stags, roebucks, and wild boars with which these woods abound-I should rather say, used to abound, for the indiscriminating hand of "Freiheit" was at this time annihilating, equo pede, all the good, as well as the bad, in Germany. An English friend, who had spent many years in the country, and could speak the language fluently, offered to be my guide; he was what the French would call un chasseur enragé, and I had little doubt that under his auspices I should see the magnificent beech and oak woods, and follow my favourite pursuit to the greatest advantage. To settle preliminaries we agreed to meet in the evening at the Club, (a thoroughly democratic one) to which we had been admitted, as honorary members, by the courtesy of the society. The building in which the Club meets, is in one of the principal squares, extremely comfortable, but very simple in all its arrangements, bearing a striking contrast to similar institutions in our own country, which in the present age are conducted on such a magnificent scale, as thoroughly to unfit men of moderate means for the homely and unostentatious habits of their quiet families. In the lower part of the house three rooms were devoted to newspapers (German, French, and Galignani), encyclopædias, books of reference on scientific subjects, and maps; adjoining these were the apartments of the manager, and a very tolerable kitchen, from which lunch, coffee, beer, or wine could be procured. Above-stairs one large room contained more newspapers, scattered about in great profusion, and periodicals; another room was devoted to cards, one to dominoes and chess, one to billiards, another to cloaks and hats, and last, though far from least in a German community, came the pipe-room, the Speise-Kammer of the German mind; here lie dormant the germs of poetry and fiction, the buried seeds of music, painting, and sculpture; this is the divine spring from which the learned German draws all those theories, the profundity of which astonishes the world, until reduced to practice they vanish into their native element.

But as I have said it is the Speise-Kammer only, the pantry, containing the crude and undigested mass which has to be drawn forth to other apartments, and smoked into a palpable, though not always intelligible, existence. This apartment is fitted up with a stove, a press, containing the tobacco-bags of the members, and two large frames or racks, covering opposite walls, on which are ranged the pipes of the whole society, each with its owner's name inscribed over it. In either stand are four rows, each containing between thirty and forty pipes; here they peacefully repose when off duty, and are carefully watched and tended by a presiding genius, whose sole duty in life, from New Year's-day to the thirty-first of December inclusive, consists in washing, cleaning, filling, and lighting them. Few smoke less than two, many, three or four pipes in the course of the evening, and the afore