ord Panmure._

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _3rd July 1857_.

The Queen has received Lord Panmure's letter of yesterday. She has
sanctioned the going of four Regiments to the East Indies. With regard
to the reduction of the garrison of Malta to four Regiments, she hopes
the Government will well consider whether this will not reduce this
valuable and exposed spot to a state of insecurity.

The Queen is sorry to find Lord Panmure still objecting to a proper
Brigade system, without which no army in the world can be efficient.
We want General Officers, and cannot train them unless we employ them
on military duty, not on clerks' duty in district or colony, but in
the command of troops. The detachment of Regiments is no reason for
having no system, and the country will not pay for General Officers
whose employment is not part of a system; our Army is then deprived
of its efficiency by the refusal to adopt a system on the part of the
Government.

[Pageheading: DELHI]

[Pageheading: GRAVE ANXIETY]

_Viscount Canning to Queen Victoria._

CALCUTTA, _4th July 1857_.

Lord Canning presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and although
unable to give to your Majesty the complete details of the capture
of Delhi, and of the defeat of the rebels in that city,[22] as he has
long desired to do, he can at least announce to your Majesty that the
city is in the possession of the British troops, under Major-General
Sir Henry Barnard; and that nothing remains in the hands of the
insurgents except the Palace or Fort, in which they have all taken
refuge. This was the state of things on the 13th and 14th of June,
the latest day of which any certain accounts have been received from
Delhi; but nothing was likely to interfere with the completion of the
capture within forty-eight hours.

This event has been long and anxiously awaited, and the time which has
elapsed has cost England and India very dear. Many precious lives have
been lost, and much heartrending suffering has been endured, for which
there can be no compensation. The reputation of England's power, too,
has had a rude shake; and nothing but a long-continued manifestation
of her might before the eyes of the whole Indian Empire, evinced by
the presence of such an English force as shall make the thought of
oppositon hopeless, will re-establish confidence in her strength.

Lord Canning much fears that there are parts of India where, until
this is done, a complete return to peace a