On the contrary, at Buxar, the Fort-adjutant, Captain Field, had so influenced all around, though without a chaplain, that, though the Bishop could not give the place a Sunday, his Saturday evening service in the verandah was thronged, the English soldiers coming with Prayer-books and making the responses, besides numerous Hindoos, many of them the Christian wives and children of the soldiers. There was a boys' school kept by a converted Mahometan, and one for girls by "Mrs. Simpson," a native of Agra, converted by Mr. Corrie, and the widow of a sergeant. She, however, got no scholars but the half-caste daughters of the soldiers. A little boy of four years old, son to an English sergeant with a native wife, was baptized, and the Bishop was delighted with the reverent devotion of the spectators. Cureem Musseh, once a Sepoy havildar, had his sword and sash hung over the desk, where, in a clean white cotton dress and turban, he presided over his scholars, whom he had taught to read Hindostanee, and to say the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Commandments, with a short exposition of each. The school served them likewise to hold prayer-meetings in, and, on rare occasions, a clergyman visited them. The Bishop's entrance into the sacred city of Benares he describes to his wife thus: "I will endeavour to give you an account of the concert, vocal and instrumental, which saluted us as we entered the town:-- "_First beggar_.--Agha Sahib! Judge Sahib, Burra Sahib, give me some pice; I am a fakir; I am a priest; I am dying of hunger! "_Bearers trotting under the tonjon_.--Ugh! ugh!--Ugh! ugh! "_Musicians_.--Tingle, tangle; tingle, tangle; bray, bray, bray. "_Chuprassee_, _clearing the way with his sheathed sabre_.--Silence! Room for the Lord Judge, the Lord Priest. Get out of the way! Quick! (_Then gently patting and stroking the broad back of a Brahmin bull_.) Oh, good man, move. "_Bull_, _scarcely moving_.--Bu-u-uh. "_Second beggar_, _counting his beads_, _rolling his eyes_, _and moving his body backwards and forwards_.--Ram, ram; ram, ram!"