The Press. — London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

1114 You will take the necessary measures in your county to re cruit your regiment again to its numbers after it shall have been reduced by volunteering to the line. SIDNEY HERBERT. The Government have determined to give an en signcy, without purchase, for every seventy-five men who volunteer into the army from the militia. PATRIOTIC FUND. IN a letter from Captain Webb, assistant secretary to the Patriotic Fund, the subscribers are assured that "there is no distinction made in the royal commis sion between soldiers married with or without leave ; it being only requisite that satisfactory evidence be produced to establish the claim of widow or orphsu, and that the husband or father shall have fallen in action, or by the calamities of war during the present hostilities." The sum realised by the military fetes given at the Crystal Palace on the 28th October and 4th Novem ber amounted to 3,5981. Bs. 4d., after deducting the expenses attendant upon the fetes, and on the recep tion and maintenance or the " Guides " during their stay in London. 'Phis sum has been paid over to the three principal funds in the following proportions : The Royal Patriotic Fund, 2,5001.; the Central Asso ciation in Aid of the Wives and Families, Widows and Orphans of Soldiers ordered to the East, 7481. Ss. 4d. ; the Association for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Seamen and Marines in cases arising out of the War, 3501. The conveyance of the " Guides " to and from Folkestone, and of the various regimental bands who assisted at the first fete from their barracks at Hounslow, Chatham, &c., was gratuitously given by the South-Eastern, South-Western, and London and Brighton Railways; the last•mentioned company having also yielded a proportion of the receipts from v►sitors on the 29th of October. Major Powys, the hon. secretary to the " Central Association" Fund, has announced that the commit tee have summoned for next week a special meeting to take into consideration their rule No. 14, which ex cludes certain cases from benefiting by the fund, and which has lately excited so much public attention. This rule is as follows: Rule 14.—‘No woman married before her husband enlisted, un. lees afterwards placed on the strength of the regiment, and recognised as a married women in the regiment, can be allowed relief. Major Powys adds that the association makes no distinction whatever between women with leave and without leave, and that, out of the 11,000 persons who have applied for relief, not twenty have been refused. The Guildhall ball in aid of the Patriotic Fund took place on Wednesday night. The attendance was exceedingly numerous, the company being esti mated at over two thousand. An excellent quadrille band was provided under the leadership of Herr Koenig ; and a concert, led by Mr. Lindsay Sloper, in which Madame Anna Thillon assisted, was impro vised in the Aldermanic Chamber. The pecuniary result will, there can be no doubt, prove very satis factory. Mr. Thomas Graves, the proprietor of the Green Dragon Tavern and licensed concert-room, in High street, Poplar, applied to Mr. Yardley, at the Thames street I'olice Court, to take charge of five guineas, the proceeds of a concert of vocal and instrumental music nt his establishment on Monday evening the 10th inst., in aid of the Patriotic Fund. Mr. Graves remarked that his establishment was small, and the amount raised was trifling, but if the same course was adopted at every place of amusement in the United Kingdom, he ventured to say 100,0001. might be raised. Mr. Yardley said the suggestion was a very good one. OBITUARY OF THE WAR. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR GEORGE CATHCART was the fourth son of the first Earl Cathcart, by the daughter of the late Andrew Elliot, Esq. (uncle of the first Earl of Minto). He was born in the year 1794, and entered the army in 1810, as cornet in the 2nd Life Guards. The following are the dates of his several promotions :—Lieutenant, Ist July, 1811, 6th Dragoon Guards ; captain, 24th December, 1818, half-pay of West India Rangers; appointed to 7th Hussars, 10th December, 1819: major, Bth April 1820, 22nd Regiment; lieutenant-colonel, 13th May, 1826, unattached; appointed to 57th Regiment, 24th January, 1828; appointed to Bth Foot, 20th March, 1828; exchanged to half-pay unattached, 25th Sep tember, 1835; appointed to a particular service in Canada, Ist January, 1838 ; appointed to Ist Dragoon Guards, 11th May, 1838 ; colonel, 23rd November, 1841; exchanged to halt' pay unattached, 19th January, 1844 ; appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 13th February, 1846; major general, 11th November, 1851; appointed Governor and Commander-in Chief at the Cape, 1852. Sir George served in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, in Germany, as aide-de-camp to Lord Cathcart, and was engaged at Lidzen, 3rd May ; Bautzen, 20th and 21st May ; Dresden, 23rd August; Leipsic, 16th, 18th, and 19th October, 1813 ; Brienne, Ist February; Barsar-Aube, Aries, 21st March; and Fire Champanoise, 25th March, 1814 ; he served THE PRESS. also in the campaigns of 1815, as aide-de-camp to . - the Duke of Wellington, and was present at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo ; and at the Cape from 1852 to the end of the war, for the suc cessful conclusion of which be received the Order of the Bath. He was appointed adjutant-general of the forces in 1853. In the Crimea he served as lieutenant-general commanding the 4th division of the British army, and fell at the head of his men in the battle of the sth. His division was not engaged at the Alma, further than to protect, by its presence, as a reserve, the left flank and rear against the enemy's cavalry ; and although it was called out on the 25th when the Russians attacked our position to front of Balaklava, it had no opportunity of distin guishing itself. BRIGADIER-GENERAL THOMAS LEIGH GOLDIE, who also fell on the sth, was appointed ensign, 13th January, 1825, 66th Regiment ; lieutenant, 10th December, 1825, 66th Regiment; captain, 24th November, 1828, 66th Regiment; major, 28th December, 1838, 66th Regiment; brevet lieutenant colonel, 20th March, 1840; lieutenant-colonel, 25th June, 1847, unattached; appointed to 57th Regi ment, Ist August, 1848; colonel, 11th November, 1851; brigadier general, 28th July, 1854. BRIGADIER - GENERAL STRANGWAYS commenced his career of active service in 1813, when as Lieutenant Fox Strangways he embarked with the rocket brigade, under the immediate command of Colonel Bogue, Royal Artillery, for the north of Germany, as part of the force sent from this country to be attached to the Swedish army during the campaign. At once entering on active service, part of the brigade was detached under the command of Lieutenant Fox Strangways, and assisted in the successful issue of two actions and in the siege and reduction of a for tress in Northern Germany previous to rejoining Colonel Bogue, then under the walls of Leipsic. One of the first casualties in the battle which ensued was the death of Colonel Bogue, the command of the brigade falling to Lieutenant Fox Strangways ; and so distinguished was his conduct and courage in this most important position, and so essentially did the distinguished services of his brigade contribute to the glorious victory of Leipsic, that on the field of battle, at the head of his troops, this gallant young officer received the thanks of the allied sovereigns. He also received the gold medal of Sweden " for bravery and good conduct," the Order of St. Anne of Russia, and the Order of the Sword of Sweden. accompanied by flattering testimonials from the military commanders of the allied sovereigns present, expressing their high approval of his conduct and courage. At the battle of Waterloo Lieutenant Fox Strangways was most severely wounded in the hip and spine while commanding his gun on the crest of the hill in the hotly-contested position behind La Haye Sainte. He was conveyed to the village of Waterloo, but it was several days before he could be removed to Brussels, where the ball was extracted,. and he remained in great danger and suffering for months, but ultimately returned with the army of occupation to England. In time, and slowly, he re ceived, according to seniority, and in the regular order, the different steps of rank, although always on active service. After more than forty years' service in the regular routine, Lieutenant Colonel Fox Strangways was sent to command the Royal Artillery in the Dublin district. The regular term of the command having expired, he returned to head quarters at Woolwich, and as the senior officer assumed the command of the Royal Horse Artillery. In September of 1853 he was sent, under the orders of the Earl of Lucan, his aides -de-camp Lords Worcester and Bingham, and Colonel Harry D. Jones, Royal Engineers, to assist in the reception of his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111. during his pro gress through the principal towns of the northern departments of France. When the British forces were sent to the East Lieutenant-Colonel Fox Strangways was appointed to the command of the Royal Horse Artillery attached to the expedition, the command of the entire artillery being confided to Brigadier-General Cator, but while at Varna he was placed by the commander in-chief in command of the whole force of artillery in the British army, in consequence of the prolong( d illness of the latter officer. The general brevet having made him a full colonel, the commander-in• chief, in token cf his high approbation of his merits, applied in a most flattering manner to her Majesty's Government for the bestowal on him of the rank of brigadier general—an honour at once granted, with distin guished and most gratifying mention of Colonel Fox Strangways' " brilliant services." Throughout the campaign the services of Brigadier-General Strang ways have been most conspicuous, and his name occurs frequently in the records of every engagement with the enemy from the battle of the Alma to that of Sebastopol on the sth inst., in which glorious en counter he received his death wound. Among the officers killed at Inkermann few will be regretted more deeply than LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES FRANCIS SEYMOUR, of the Scots Fusilier Guards. Ho was aide-de-camp to Sir George SATURDAY, Berkeley throughout the operations in Kaffraria in 1846 and 1847, and when Sir George Cathcart was, in 1852, appointed to the command at the Cape, he selected Colonel Seymour as his military secretary. He returned witl► Sir George this su►nmer, and though suffering severely from the effects of African campaigning, he re-embarked, after a few days' stay in England, as assistant adjutant-general of the fourth division, and died like a soldier, beside his chief, shot through the heart, in the action of the sth. Colonel Seymour was eldest son of the late Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, one of the Hertford family, and sometime member for Lisburne. The death from dysentery of the REv. Mn. WITEBLE, a Roman Catholic clergyman with the army, has caused universal sorrow. The loss of this exemplary Christian is a great one to the army. Nothing could exceed his admiraole devotion to the suffering in mind and body. BRITISH LOSS AT THE BATTLE OF INKER MANN. The official return of casualties on the sth inst., transmitted by Lord Raglan, contains the following abstract : Staff-5 officers killed ;12 officers wounded. 4th Light Dragoons-2 pnvates wounded. 11th Hussars-1 private wounded. 17th Lancers—l officer killed; 1 private wounded. Artillery-2 officers, 3 sergeants, 10 privates killed; 4 officers, 5 sergeants, 71 privates, wounded. 3rd battalion of Grenadier Guards-3 officers, 3 ser geants, 1 drummer, 27 privates, killed ; 6 officers, 6 ser geants, 1 drummer, 144 privates, wounded ; 30 privates missing. Ist Battalion of Colistream Guards-8 officers, 3 ser geants, 9 privates, killed; 3 officers, 6 sergeants, 110 pri vates, wounded ; 53 privates missing. Ist Battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards-1 officer, 2 ser geants, 21 privates, killed; H officers, 8 sergeants, 2 drummers, 109 privates, wounded ; 16 privates missing. Ist Regiment of Foot-1 private killed. 7th Regiment-5 privates killeo. ; 5 officers, '2 sergeants, 1 drummer, 46 privates, wounded ; 8 privates missing. 10th Regiment-1 officer, 1 pirate, killed ; 3 privates wounded. 20th Regiment--1 officer, '2 sergeants, 10 privates, killed ; 8 officers, 17 sergeants,) drummer, 101 pirates, wounded; 28 privates missing. 21st Regiment-1 officer, 13 privates, killed ; 6 o ffi cers, 11 sergeants, 79 privates, wounded ; 11 privates missing. 23rd Regiment-7 privates killed ; 1 officer, 2 sergeants, 18 privates, wounded ; 1 officer, 1 sergeant, 11 privates, missing. 30th Regiment-2 officers, 27 privates, killed ; 5 officers, 4 sergeants, 97 privates, wounded. 33rd Regiment-1 officer, 5 privates, killed ; 2 officers, 8 sergeants, 52 privates, wounded. 41st Regiment-5 officers, 2 sergeants, 53 privates, killed ; 6 officers, 4 sergeants, •2 drummers, 95 privates, wounded. 46th Regiment-2 officers, 2 sergeants, 24 privates, wounded • 12 privates missing. 47th Regiment-19 privates killed ; 2 officers, 2 sergeants, 43 privates wounded. • 49th Regiment-2 officers, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, 37 privates, killed; 11 sergeants, 1 drummer, 107 privates, wounded. 50th itegiment-1 officer, 8 privates, killed; 1 officer, 1 drummer, 20 privates, wounded. 55th R eg iment -18 privates killed; 5 officers, 4 sergeants, 54 privates, wounded. 57th Regiment-s 4 officer, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, 9 pri vates, killed ; 3 officers, 5 sergeants, 1 drummer, 69 pri rates, wounded. 63rd Regiment-3 officers, 12 privates, killed; 7 officers, 7 sergeants, '2 drummers 82 privates, wounded. 68th Regiment-2 offid{rs, 4 privates, ; 2 officers, 2 sergeants, 2 drummers, 2g, privates, wounded ; 2 sergeants, 12 privates, missing. 77th Regiment-1 office ,'2 sergeants, 17 privates, killed; 2 sergeants, 1 drumm r, 34 privates, wounded; 1 private missing. 88th Regiment-4 sergeant. ,18 privates, killed; 2 officers, 9 sergeants, 71 privates wounded. 95th Regiment-2 sergeant:. Privates, killed; 4 officers, 3 sergeants, 101 private.. wounded. fat Battalion Rifle Brigade— officer, 4 sergeants, 11 privates, killed ; 3 officers, 5 se _giants, 1 drummer, 77 privates, wounded ; 3 sergeants, privates, missing. 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigs& 1 officer, ti privates, killed; L officer, 1 drummer, 25 pri' ates, wounded. Total-43 officers, 31 sergeants 4 drummers, 376 pri sates, killed; 100 officers, 120 se .eants, 17 drummers - 1,668 privates, wounded; 1 officer, 6 sergeants, 191 pri• vales, missing. Ambulance-1 private wounded. Royal Marines —1 sergeant, 4 epirates, killed; 1 officer, 1 sergeant, 25 privates, worn' Grand Total-43 officers, 32 serge, nts, ants, 17 (hummers, 4 drummers,3B o privates, killed; 101 officers. 121 serg 1,694 privates, wounded ; 1 officer, • sergeants , 191 Pri rates, missing. The nominal return of non-come and privates who were killed or won! has not yet arrived. Subjoined is tli among the oflicers :— CAVAL.itY 1)IVISION.-17th Lance Archiball Clayland. Royal Artillery—Killed Brigadier Strangways; Major P. Townsend. \' Colonel Gambier, slightly; Captain and Baddeley, severely ; Captain G. Tupper, C. H. Ingilby, severely. lissioned officers lard on that day list of casualties -Killed Cornet General T. Fox youtidetl INdjutant J. F.L. &lightly; Captain