[Footnote 1:  ‘I am not so much surprised,’ wrote General Anson to Lord Canning on the 23rd March, ’at their objections to the cartridges, having seen them.  I had no idea they contained, or, rather, are smeared with, such a quantity of grease, which looks exactly like fat.  After ramming down the ball, the muzzle of the musket is covered with it.  This, however, will, I imagine, not be the case with those prepared according to the late instructions.  But there are now misgivings about the paper, and I think it so desirable that they should be assured that no animal grease is used in its manufacture, that I have ordered a special report to be made to me on that head from Meerut, and until I receive an answer, and am satisfied that no objectionable material is used, no firing at the depots by the sepoys will take place.  It would be easy to dismiss the detachments to their regiments without any practice, on the ground that the hot weather is so advanced, and that very little progress could be made, but I do not think that would be admissible.  The question, having been raised, must be settled.  It would only be deferred till another year, and I trust that the measures taken by the Government when the objection was first made, and the example of the punishment of the 19th Native Infantry and of the other delinquents of the 70th, now being tried by a General Court-Martial, will have the effect we desire.’—­KAYE, vol. i., p. 558.]

[Footnote 2:  Surely those whom God has a mind to destroy, He first deprives of their senses; for not only were the magazines at Delhi and Cawnpore allowed to fall into the enemy’s hands, but the great arsenal at Allahabad narrowly escaped the same fate.  Up till May, 1857, this fort was garrisoned only by Native soldiers.  Early in that month sixty worn-out European pensioners were brought to Allahabad from Chunar, with whose assistance, and that of a few hastily raised Volunteers, Lieutenants Russell and Tod Brown, of the Bengal Artillery, were able to overawe and disarm the Native guard on the very night on which the regiments to which they belonged mutinied in the adjoining cantonment.  These two gallant officers had taken the precaution to fill the cellars below the armoury (which contained some 50,000 or 60,000 stands of arms) with barrels of powder, their intention being to blow up the whole place in the event of the sepoys getting the upper hand.  This determination was known to all in the fort, and no doubt had something to say to the guard submitting to be disarmed.]

[Footnote 3:  He has been accused of dilatoriness and want of decision after hearing the news.]

[Footnote 4:  Places at the foot of the Himalayas.]

[Footnote 5:  Now the Marquis of Tweeddale.]

[Footnote 6:  A small hill state near Simla.]

[Footnote 7:  It is a remarkable fact that the five senior officers at this conference were all dead in less than seven weeks.  General Anson, Brigadier Hallifax, commanding the Umballa station, and Colonel Mowatt, commanding the Artillery, died within ten days; Colonel Chester, Adjutant-General of the Army, was killed at Badli-ki-Serai on the 8th June, and Sir Henry Barnard died at Delhi on the 5th July.]