[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

your issue of October 16th is an inquiry by "Pro Patrii " headed "British Heroes." May I be allowed to send to you copies of two tablets to be seen at Delhi, one over the gateway of the old arsenal, and the other at the Kashmir Gate P The latter I have not seen since 1905, and I bare some idea that the words have been added to, but in this I may be mistaken. The copies I quote are taken from "Delhi Past and Present," by Sir H. C. Fanshawe, K.C.S.I., as those on photographs are hardly legible :— Tablet on Gateway of Old Arsenal.

"On 11th May, 1857,

Nine resolute Englishmen, Lt. Geo. Dobree Willoughby, Bengal Artillery, In Command, Lieutenant William Raynor, Lieutenant Geo, Forrest, Conductor G. William Shaw, Conductor John Buckley, Conductor John Scully, Sub-Conductor William Crow, Sergeant Bryan Edwards, Sergeant Peter Stewart, Defended the Magazine of Delhi for more than four hours against large numbers of the rebels and mutineers, until the walls being scaled, and all hope of succour gone, these brave men fired the Magazine. Five of the gallant band perished in the explosion, which at the same time destroyed many of the enemy.

This Tablet Marking the former Entrance Gate to the Magazine is placed hero by the Government of India."

Tablet at the Kashmir Gate.

"On the 14th September, 1857, the British Force stormed Delhi. It was after sunrise on that day that the under-mentioned party, advancing from Ludlow Castle in the face of a heavy fire, and crossing this bridge, which had been almost totally destroyed, lodged powder-bags against and blew in the right leaf of this gate, thus opening the way for the assaulting Columns.

Bengal Engineers.

*Lieutenant Duncan Home.

*Lieutenant Philip Salkeld—mortally wounded.

Bengal Sappers and Miners.

Sergeant John Smith.

Sergeant A. B. Carmichael—killed.

Corporal F. Burgess—killed.

Bugler Hawthorne, 52nd Foot.

Bengal Sappers and Miners.

Soobadar Toola Rain.

Ja.madar Bis Ram.

Havildar Madho—wounded.

liavildar Tilok Singh—mortally wounded.

Sepoy Rain Heth—killed.

This memorial is placed here as a tribute of respect to those gallant soldiers by General Lord Napier of Magdala, Colonel, Royal Engineers, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1876."

Commandant, Royal Military College, Sandhurst.