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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 610, 11 September 1858, Page 5

India heroes do not lack recognition and applause on their return to this country. Among these who have been feted I may mention Lieut. Colonel Alison, the son of the historian Alison, to whom the people of Glasgow gave a dinner under the presidency of the Lord Provost. The guest of the evening, who was severely wounded befoi'e Lucknow, made a soldierly speech descriptive of the war in India and the conduct of Sir Colin Campbell. His father, whose loquacity, if not eloquence, is well known, late in the evening, achieved a daring flight. England has its Marlborough, Ireland its Wellington— Scotland has completed the triumvirate by placing by their side Campbell who " has delivered India from the tyranny of Nana Sahib;" you must not be too critical on after dinner speeches; but this from an " Historian !"

On the 7th June the members of the Oriental Club gave a sumptuous feast to Sir Archdale Wilson of Delhi and Major General Sir R. Strongly. Sir Ai'chdale made a simple and straightforward speech in the course of which he emphatically denied that at the taking of Delhi a single woman or child' was ill-used by either European or native soldiers. Sir F. Cnrrie replied to the toast of the East Indian Company as a body whose days are numbered. He said that better servants or a more efficient administration no Government could ever have than the body they doomed.