AN EPISODE OF THE INDIAN MUTINY.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 read with much interest in last week's Spectator of "An Episode of the Indian Mutiny." My father, the late Sir W. H. Russell, gave a most graphic description of the looting of the Kaisarbagh in his Diary in India. I always understood it was done with permission. I as a child looked with awe at a beautiful jade sceptre, which had belonged to the "King of Oudh," which my father secured, and which he exhibited at the South Kensington Museum. We have here two large oil paintings from the Kaisarbagh, one of the King of Oudh, the other a " Cleopatra," painted by Sir William Beechey. My father often lamented a rope of pearls he could have had in exchange for a bottle of rum which he did not have! The pearls were afterwards sold for £500.—I am, Sir, &c., Longueville, Mallow, Co. Cork. ALBERTA LONGFIELD.,
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