Letters Written During The Indian & Mutiny. THE following letters, written by Colonel John Chalmers during the Indian Mutiny and the subsequent Waziri campaigns (after having been lost sight of for nearly half a century),have recently been discovered in an old box; during the reconstruction of the house in which his mother used to live. It has been thought that they are of suflicient.

interest to justify their being printed for circula- tion among his family at any rate, and with this view it has been decided to reproduce them exactly as they were written, without omission or alteration of any kind. It may perhaps be considered that some of the more private and personal passages, such as that in which hespeaks of himself as ‘ the scamp of the family,’ might judiciously have been represented