The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-08 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

IniA attended with very oonatderablo Interest to (howl
Period' of the history of this railway which were now, they
hoped, drawing to a close. (Hear He sometimea tout.)
time to look to the weekly traffic retnruk,_ and It. wee

with letmeope tatiatection—wheth v due to his knwsdadge
or isnot—nue tee dni know (osushter;—but he posiccd
'he testbc on the ;lee was not far eh rt of d mble what It
vraia 12 months ago. Hear, hear ) Ile hoped that gentles
men prese.4. were fond .4 goetey, for the, would then Pe Cr-
ably eO-00 w.... 11•111 in adtoiri,,g CamAell'e poem on the
Pleasures of MI.. tletaghtsr ) Grist were the pleasure,
of hope, and it had tong been said be the moat diatiuguished
meu that nothing so ennobled • roan as I.mklrg far Into the
future. Men were too apt to live upon the present : nut he
would say for the shareholders of the Metropolitan Matelot
Company that they not live upon the present, Or, ou
the Contrary, they habitually, earnestly, and constantly
directed their view Into the future. (Laughter.) ile con.
eluded, amid laud cheers, by tap ..... tig a conflitnt hope
that, as he Lend shared In the depretalon of the company, he
would, within no very long time, be permitted to share tufts
prosperity.

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atone lu,o and the man, It might he, two .tone bawler,
volt would have cavalry Dna of the same physique as our
thlanmen, riding no heavier tbau your own bops of a
'hue,. But the norses on mulch the., 'I nassra were mounted
were of n campstgn pattern. With them Is too much blood,
and too little sub...M. oe huh in retpect or men ~nd horses
It excited my admirer', mech more that I oeheld •
regimont of year Lancers, who acted as gteld-gcodarmes,
to be p clear from in•rti +era the ground These I,acers
were lot'. lite, light, fisuke I to,n, of long limb, put oi
ghoul Or bread and OE ChelK hop ; and their horses were
stout. strong. lons-waving animals, well, Indeed, milted for
campaign. Totle lance Ic o' bamboo with a ilet,deter head
than eon, of more broad flanges. I like neither coustruv
lion When ones goes in over the projections, it is very
hard to extricate • yours, there being less obstruction, is
vacillated to penetrate still further, and unless the man
dexteronely reverses the grip of the lance, he may be dis-
armed by the act of slaying. Of all the conetruotlons, the
Bavarian lance, with the ball about a foot from the tip, Is the
best. Etperlence shows that a toot of Moorehead b sofa.
dent, that tio more need be required, and the violent coo-
000S1011 of the ball on the lips of the told,* helps to jerk
out the weapon.
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" Your Infantry march and perform evolutions with tve
claton and acadacy not to be excelled by soy troops in
Sarcpe. 1 much admire their free, yet true step, giving to
a man a manure of individual Independence, yet admitting
In all respecia of eympathetic imanituity of step. if that I
may use the expression. If 1, defers ittaliy notwithatsuiding,
were to ray that the great bearskin la an unpractical Incum
brawls, I fear to tactic opprobrium at a, tacking oi s of your
not least cherished institutions, and of 'ancient landmarks,'
how fond a people you are I know by my ...a of reading
But to &von] suck a topic. It ew mod to me trot there war
lack either of trainlog or Individual intelligence in sour
men when cove.it g the front ma skirmishers Each
man stassi up and tired awry, careless of cover. f believe he
would have done the same in ac.ual warfare, and then he
wonld have been a brave, atop.] fool, of tee stamp of fool
that John Bull ts when heir a fool The skirmishing, also,
of the Hussar, was very sl'E and unintelligent Tory rode
out, halted, and loaded, inateed of loading as they were
adnincli g, and then stood stock still, firing with letsuie into
Space. while tilear immobility gyve hostile skamishere the
opportunity to make them dead Is Ith great ease.
" Tour cavalry of the Guard Corp. are very tine to look at,
but there Is much abut them not agreeable to the eye of a
practical soldier. In the men height simply seems studied,
without mach regard to general physical power. They ride
much too short, as it nemed to me that their legs might de-
pend too far from their horses, which are by no means equal
to the weight they carry. In heavy country and long march-
ing the showy black cobs wool I he found of small endurance.
That the regiments, men and hones, are very short of real
work the attempt& made to gallop and charge were sufficient
evidence."