He has been commanded to convey the Queen's sincere and earnest sympathy with her in her grief, and Her Majesty's sorrow at the loss sustained by Mrs. Brooke in the recent action near Kandahar, where the Queen has had to lament the death of so many brave officers and men. The accounts which Her Majesty has received of Brigadier-General BROOKE only increase her deep regret that she should have been deprived of the services of so gallant and worthy a soldier. * * * * * From H. E. The Governor, Bombay. To Mrs. Brooke, Ashbrooke, Brookeboro'. Viceroy desires me to convey to you his deep sympathy, in which I beg to join. It is reported your gallant Husband was killed while trying to carry off Captain Cruikshank when wounded. * * * * * From Major General Dillon. Horse Guards, Pall Mall, London, August 30th, 1880. My dear Mrs. Brooke, I have waited for some days before carrying out the wishes of the Duke of Cambridge, received from Kissengen, to convey to you by letter an expression of His Royal Highness' deep sympathy with you in your great affliction, and his sense of the loss which the service has sustained by the death of a gallant soldier and distinguished officer. In alluding to the sad event in the last letter received from Germany only to-day, His Royal Highness continues--"I am too sorry for General BROOKE'S death, a good officer lost to the service at a critical moment for the garrison of Kandahar. Lord Napier will feel it much." Believe me, Dear Mrs. Brooke, Yours very sincerely, M. A. DILLON. * * * * * From Lord Napier of Magdala. August 25th, 1880. Dear Lady Arabella, I cannot resist writing you a few lines to express my most sincere sympathy with you, and my sorrow at the loss of your gallant son at Kandahar, which the telegram has to-day announced to us. I have felt so much confidence in your son being with the Force, that I look upon his loss as a great public misfortune, as well as a domestic calamity, the bitterness of which you and his widow alone can tell. I much entreat you, dear friend, to try and remember that he fell nobly doing his duty, and I trust that God in his mercy will give you strength to bear this heavy bereavement, and will in His own time comfort you and the poor widow. Lady Napier joins me in the truest and deepest sympathy. Believe me, Dear Lady Arabella, Yours most sincerely, NAPIER OF MAGDALA. * * * * * Statement of Sergeant-Major Rickard, 2/7th Royal Fusiliers.