We regret to announce the death of Sir George Udny
Yule. He was only an able Bengal Civilian of the older and more active type ; but he once did a wonderful thing. In 1858 he was a Commissioner in Bengal Proper, when three regiments of Sepoys, breaking late into mutiny, marched across his district to join the insurgent army in 0 tide. Mr. Yule had no troops, no military authority, and no responsibility in the matter ; but the impudence of the affair was too much for him. He was a hunting man, turned out his hunting equipage, borrowed more elephants from native friends, collected eighty European planters and clerks, and a small force of native "guards," and determined to stop the three regi-. meats. After a pursuit of days, during which he exhibited all the qualities of a firsts General, marching often across a roadless country as fastNas Sepoys in retreat, he actually drove the three regiments-2,400 trained soldiers—in headlong flight out of Bengal, and brought back his force without one sick man or the loss of one elephant. And then, because he had not succeeded in his fall intention, which was to destroy the Brigade, he offered to pay for his Expedition out of his own purse. He had never been a soldier, and relied only on his hunting experience ; but of the Europeans who rallied at his call, no one doubted that if the Sepoy Brigade had ventured to turn on him, or had checked its flight for twelve hours, it would have been destroyed. It was a matter of lifelong disappoint, meat to him that the Sepoys thought so too.
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