The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-10 00:00:00

TALI OF • SORTIE= SIN TIM

Thursday morning with the Northern army opened
with a laughable ineideet. The moot westerly outpost
of our Infantry (formed by the 22nd) was at the
extremity of the village of Oodford, where there woe •
oorporal's party with • sentry in advance. A mounted
alio& of the regiment having visited the party proceeded
on to the sentry, who bad just reported that he heard
cavalry advanaLug. All of • eudden, the head of •
large body of transom was seen advancing at a trot.
Without • second glen°. the mounted officer bolted at
the top of his speed. The sentry, without waiting to
give the alarm by dring off his rifle, scuttled after his
OffioOr. The party bolted like rabbit' down the lined;
hot after them came a galloping stream of cavalry, the
offlorre with their swords drawn. The mounted Odom
outrode his pursuers, and got olear off. The sentry was
raptorial The rest of the party dodged through gape
in the hedges. The fun was yet to 041110, and come it
did, when it turned oat that the valiant stature?s of
the sultry were the Wiltshire Yeomanry on their
march from Warminster to join our heavy brigade oe
Limb Down. They were probably lasting for &I early
an opportunity LI possible of proving that they are ma
of mettle, and when they saw the 21ed °fiber bolt they
took it for granted the; he mast be as enemy, sod
abevied him aosordingly.
The Standard says :—Thia is very pleaseat—et least
It would be lone had leisure to lie on one's beak on the
steep greet slope fairing westwards, watching the Was
'mike curling lastly upwards from the °harming little
town of Pontmell Manna at one's feel' to let ones eyes
wander to park and field beyond in all the exubersecie
of nature's 'wealth making up the middle distance;
while far away, in undulating &sore waves, the Meek.
moor Vale oountry may be traced; or turning rotted
and reclining on one's elbows to survey, In an opposite
direction a country as rich and varied, with Shifts.
bury's quaint towers almost embosoined In trees stand-
ing oat in bold relief against the evening sky. Cos we
be astonistei if, as sash regiment emerged from vale and
lone, and th I .ndscape broke upon their
view, morn, ran from rank to rack,
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010&.11colt15, r • 41 we, rat&p, and &I if by 0;11
Impulse, the men betas into • iloid of pasnosiate soag
Need I say that their theme was "Mirthe England r
The Southern Army had suet to rest, or radar Ra-
rest, when • dash of lightning, followed by a tsarist
orsah of thuedwr, brought all to their seemei, maey is
their feet The clouds, which had been lowering all
the evening, culminated over our heeds while we 4,0 ;
and sail to tench us a lesion of humility, and to show
us how issigniflowit after all were the most terrible In-
ventions of man when tampered with Woes of eaters,
heaven's artillery bunt on us In all Its fury. There we
sat, awestruck and silent, as dish entreeded dash,
simeet blinding us with thsirvivkinees, and the thunder
, rolled in one oontinuous row, It pained away at
Lest, The night wind moaned for a time mourn.
telly ord, the straiten land,, and then all was stilL
The sal '.i,•rs again settled theinaires down to
slap, to dream, probably, of bow they would be
able to get lOW their set bards flan morning. A
detailed description of our line of =troll would
hardly interest your readers. Any one who oases
to take the trouble to look at a map of the oountry
will see that there are two high roads leading from
Sandford to Shafiesbary—the one, which lies over high
ground, leadiog over Pimples*, Denville, end teens
Downs to idolatry; the Other is the lower road, and
eertainly the longest, running by the villages of Stour-
pane, Shrowton, leen* Minster, Sanaa Waldron, aid
Footmen Magna. He will farther pensive that It
required no Moltke to much the division ionised to
be eneamped at Military by the upper road, that white
bad received the route for Fontesell bang sent by the
lower rood. Tee open nature of the country between
the lanseourse Deep and thee. roads allowed of either
Weida' being marched is separate oalumes, sash strik-
ing into We two main roads respectively at appointed
potato. All went well, and both divisions, with their
baggage, arrived at Weir respestin swamping grenade
without any mishap. The let Division hare in tag
anis the beet position as an unlimited supply of good
water lain their midst. The 2nd Division are not so
fortunate in ibis respect; a steep kill lies baleen' them
and the pond. from which they are to draw their meter.
The ground, too, is not very favourable for a large
•ooempment. The spites allotted to the 60W Rides was
very itaterAy Objected to, lOC selle se the men era,
neless they were trained to sleep Mending on Web
heads few of the men would have enjoyed much rest I
accompanied the &drawn brigade of the 2od Division,
composed of the 7th and 23rd FusWen and Latinate*
Militia. Our route, after ponies Tenant Danville, lay
through a charmingly wooded vale, known as fitubb-
heniptou Bottom. At Tarrant Denville we fated Its
kind rector, the Rev. Mr. Waite, ready at his gate
waiting to invite all that passed to partake of hie wet.
cams hospitality. Everything that man °wild desire
was laid out on his pretty awe, and few who peeled
by hie Irma to-do; will forget, when they recall these
matcouvrew, to aesociate with them the name of the
kind rector of Tarrant Guerilla It was Ledwil •
pleasant sight to see the kindly welcome given to the
troolo in all the village, through which they
and I weld not help thinking that the kledesesPalt
forethought shown by some poor old Greater's, who
stood at their cottage doors with a pal of water sad •
tin cup, for the use of those who might feel thirsty es
they posed, was no less worthy of mention thee the
more splendid hospitality of • Connie, suggested,
perhaps, es often by worldly wisdom as humanity.
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ne Daily Teky.“, I. speskin4 of Thursday's pro
-
medicos, says: —Ea/ first and second of the in,adin
divisions were, after what..... to be the stereotyped
fashion, ronsei at four in the moraine and kept Waldag
for an hour and • half in the rain doing nothing until
they started, pretty well tiring the men before the
march began. No wonder that, in i marsh for the
Fast Division of over eleven oiler and for part of the
Second quite fifteen' there shoald have been • good
many awe fall out. Beyond this nothing of special
sofa occurred traept that the 4th battahou f the 66th
did some good Staking work, metering the edemas of
their solemn whenever the nature of the mooed ad-
mitted. Deka to all the freak Meat barium bad (a
result attributed, on the one Mad, to the defective
train eariloo, end on mother to the thuudentorm), tbe
troops have been redacted to-day to mit pork. itog, ea
oomsthlog mysterious has happened to the field o=
to N.Ty instead of the expellent loft
which they have been hitherto receiving as their
ronots. There wee • rumour, which mounded very like
truth, that tome local Volunteers bed very much mio
oonduetvd themselves just before the marsh of the
Second Division from lielbury Down. It wee said that
some featherbed soldiers, not liking the bar/ work a/
, f. Sparten fare of the mop, lied taken
lea• b twiremark th.t " they had
baA • it." l rt tie eatialamory to lad that
I this ie • mere cesard, and to the meantime (ii. given
for what it is womb. [lt is worth nothing, the Nit
being that a number of volunteers had given in their
11•111e4 to Iliey till Thunday, and, haring dons so, logt
for their homes.]
Salisbury le as Ma to Atilt in honour of the alit m
the Prince of Wales. The town has been decorated
for days past, end to-eight Is is brilUastly illuminated.
Samierd's spools' says :—The Prisms Mary,
Duohees of Teak, lett Criebel yesterday evening, aad
Ooloned Napier Start, wham I moot bat mak to mart
I my thanks for his kindness, retuned to the Tower also
"t4Wday. Die to be hoped that this distinguished
omoanon ales, wW be ea the rester for the mimes
manteuvres nest year, I led to believe that
there is some idea of htattr them sm
either at the &al-
,
fordahlm moors, near Caa or ea the north-eastern
moors of the greet omullytirlir°lk*
The Daily News says :-00 Thursday the raw
hands ba Oarup had • rough sight of It under mane
mid have begun already to Gape/6mm some of the
budahipm W samplypiag mgi. balms ',wales

made easy for them on Blainiford Itscooouree Down.
There sue to begin with the great meat queries). I
hear that the nosjority of the foreo bad to eat salt pork
lest night. However, the men take kindly enough to
their salt junk, and even the grumblers admitted thst
to eat salt pork was better than going to 1,4 'upper', ss.
There was a very heavy thunderstorm in the night, and
Imo ran came down towards morning In toffee* but
the tents were, no far as I have heard, gaits waterproof,
and there were no oomploints on the soore of insaflident
roofing this morning. Lest night orders were given ti it
tents should belstruck, and all made ready for the march
forward at eerieu o'clock. hooorilingly men and • ffioers
were up soon after 4 cm., and the usual preparetiont
for striking tents and moving on were comnieloced.
But behold, • little before seven a fresh order come to
the effect that the maroh would not begin not/I eight.
In consequence of this unrooountable change of 1211111 i
on the part of Sir John Ifiehel the men, most of whom
had been soaked to the skin whilst preparing to strike
tents, were compelled to 'tend and dry "and cut,ch
oold," instead of marching on at 01301 as they ought to
have done. The let Division, which, as I told 70.. In
my letter of yesterday, were encamped in arabio Isoil
in • pretty Dorietabire valley, 110/0 found out what
peculiarly sticky and pertinaolowily adbc.ive material is
chalky Etta. Dirt we know is only matter in the
wrong place, and it seldom appears more completely in
that plane than when the two chargers of an officer in a
creek tweak, regiment contrive to take their matutinal
roll, whiol. by the way would be really seen to be as in-
dispensable to the picketed horses as "tub" to their
muter', and appear covered with& coat of whitish mad
However, the mud is quitted at last, arid the 'inert
fellows of the 4th Battalion Rile Brigade tramp merrily
through the village of Fontmell as an advance guard to
the lot Division with s couple of ninepouoders In close
attendance. The villagers bad as matter of course, all
turned out to see us morel' through, as the morning
sirsn bright sad breezy after the heavy storm of lest
night. The children maiden! In great number, and
slapped their hoods with glee when the bands came up.
From nearly all the people by the roadside we m. t
•itls a cheery "good morning." Some even adding
"Glad to see you in Dorset" One or two native*, fired
with warlike ardour, asitually fell into the column, and
marched • few furlongs along the road with the non;
but the quick step of the "Jager Battalion" soon shook
off the unwieghted yokels and we wended our way
under lielbary-hill without civilian companions. I
don't know whether the eountry MOODe to go on.gottiug
prettier, but isci far we have been marching throu:o
wormy which becomes more and more charming toe
farther we adverts, northwards, and anything finer than
the view from the road leading to Shaftesbury it would
net be easy to led' and even the men, who are usually
too much esourned in grumbling about short commons
or spopaletiog how far they have come, I beard re-
marking on the striking view. That Shaftesbury turned
oat to see as marsh through is • matter of coat..; for
even • lively town would be cached by the passage of
troops on the march—and from what I saw of It to-dsy
I should say that, as • rule, Shaftesbury was vary far
indeed from a lively plain. After • halt for a few
minutes outside the town we marched on anew the
railway at Sualey for Keay's—lir. Seymour's seat, of
"Claimant" notoriety. As the division wound through
a wooded defile on Its way to Kuoyle a turn in the road
gave a view of the long wiuding oolamn of troops,
which vu worthy of the paned of a liontoeVernet.
The band of the 17th ems" no playing that bout and
most inspirigng of mink's, "The ilea of Harlooh," as
if to make the whole thing perfect But, alas I a con-
trol oilier comes up. Bad news! AU the meat, the
:raifor the whole division, this time has turned had,
there will be salt pork for dinner again to-day.
Then, se it to console one, 00•21111 ma despatch from
lirigedier Baer, "Th. enemy pitched teats within
Mg* I got two gene up, and he had to strite his
tesse." I was unlaoky eaough to miss this pretty little
episode; bat from west I ean learn, the enemy seems
to have been as eomplately surprised by Baker as Ile
May wait by the Bavarians at Beaumont. The two
gem were smug/led forward, advantage befog taken
el the opt of the ground no cleverly that they
entirely escaped nodes until the whiz of their shells
rowed the enemy from his oonfi leas *smutty.
Biding on to the camp I happened to witness a
little sane which shows that the General oommand•
lak the let Division is ever useful of his men,
whoever one Is not. Miss with his Staff at the
head of the advance-guard, Sir Alfred Elmsford
noticed a rough finger-post stunk up, on which had been
'naked, "To camp two miles." "Gee you get down
eel strike me that two miles oat?" geld Sir Alfred to
as aide-de-camp, adding, "If the men see the 'two
nate they will not be cheered up as they will be by the
words 'to the comp' alone, as they will think that the
map mast be ohne at hand when • &Impost is put to
show the way." Theme little trait. are those which
shoo chow • good general from a bad one, and which
always make an ofßoer popular, In the best son*. of the
word, with those he commands. The otinp of the lst
Divialoa on Foothill down is nearly as pretty al tot pre-
dasessors, and to night the men under Sir Alfred will be
as soft clean turf instead of sticky ploughed land.
Their brethren and Browarigg, however, have now their
tarn of 'robin land and a steep hill to numb to-night to
To-day's numb oat a long ; hard upon sixteen
miles, I should imagine, and some of the Voittote,r and
Militia regiments had a good many straggl,re t iwards
the end of toe march. However, they were in good
oomph y„ for though the Gaud' are too well dined and
their Misers are too well up so their work for there to
be mesh streggling from their well-dressed ranks, they
looked*" if they hal had omit* enough of it when they
marched into "amp thie aftemoon. Rising over the
Downs I suddenly foetid myself in the preseuee 4 the
*way, and saw various charges exeouted in • mune
width in real warfare would have been ahead on the
wt of regiments on outpost duty. It is to bs hoped
that to-morrow we shall mettle down to serious besieges
If we cannot dr.ve the enemy &West the Wiley, from
the banks of which the outpost' of the two armies.
Invaders and defenders, or watching sash other as I
write.

The Standard sus that every taxpayer, no lees thal
every friend of soldiers, onslit to be grateful to Lrd
SbAhlteab,try tor his geherous and mealy letter ia snitch
he bean testimony to the good c.indeet of oh, troops
=edin e autumn mahreavree. Lord dludtesbury's
th
boon in Dorsetehir• had been mutt alumed by
the news of the intended military ocompationa of %irk
diairiot. Lettere "full of apprehension" were, it sums,
addressed to the noble lord from the vicinity of Crack-
bora*. The rintutorsil children of the Downs trembled
at the prospect of the red-ooat iruptios. They had
probably been reading Mr. &tabard's letters or Mr.
tuidella's speeches u to the immorality of the British
army. Their simple mbids had been formed is respect
of the life in camps by the Works of the last eentery.
To be taken Possession of by • licentious military—to
have their peaceful villales occupied by thou sons of
Belial, and their virtuous plains wound by "the
whiskered ?endear and the Ilene tiusur," was uaturagy
• gloomy prospect to the people of Darsetehire. Kiaq.•d
with these unpleasant foreboding@ were, prole dily, •
deeper feu of the requisitions to be made on the
domain* hearth by • celibate soldiery, and dismal anti-
, elpulous of the coniut of the men in scarlet and blue
hued on the ttisoi:es of members of the Puce Society
and of those who go in for • reduction of the military
intim sten

The Daily NllOl says, the agreeable *counts we
massive of the al•QUItt to which the tr.xips end the
preee•atry contrive to get &load d iring the autnuto
mecoeavree, eoutrass uncomfortably with a repot., that
in gone of the rill** through whioll the soidi we have
had to pass attempts have been mead to flee* th•••is
sanely by some of their more enterprising uouotry-
men. in one place we le•rn that beer, spookily watered
ler the oronpalgners, was 'herded for at the rate of 8&
per pint; and whenever beds Cr. in reviled for any
persons aosompanying the expeditions, tee nativo put
I price upon the soooromodation they sea off w whit*
goes far beyond the limits of extortion as practised or
nadentood even at • faehlonable watering-plaits. Inn-
keepers, of isourse, are not expected to entorkio our
/deader, beyond billet rule through pure patriotlem,
and ow-ears of loterinp doubtless consider that they
have • right to mate • profit out of the eage4ing
fetes.; but the business should no be overdone. The
oirentn.taooe, however. may be of seeks to of tors in
asseurtorning them to one of the hardship, of real
fighting work, and in *moiling them to go aa seldom
as possible outside resoaroes within their own com-
mand and oontrel for whatever they may happen to
require.
Teener Bowe, ffeirsar.
Again this morning we were op at four o'clock,
slot* teats end packed, and thee got such breakfast
ea we *aid. By seven o'clock the tented plain of I at
night had again became nothing but • mere stubble
lad. Before the brigade moved off, the Dorset battalion
wee formed up in square, and • prisoner from the
6th company wail brought up from the guard
teat In charge of • file of men. Colonel Mengel
said he was surry that they had • °swot insubordina-
tloo In the regiment, the man before them having
shirked his duty, and Mae* with strong languaie to
go on gaud. in oneness*/ of tide bed 000daot he
felt It neeemery to diem= the man from the battalion.
Those who had done their duty In the regiment with
mum obeerfulnees and readies* all through, notwith-
standing long marches and hard days, had greatly
pleased him, and he hoped and bellevel they would so
matinee throughout the manes Ivrea Aker this • drill-
nergeeet "degraded" the dismissed man by taking off
his acoontremente, the battalion marched off, end he
was left to go home how he could. lii. an unfor-
tunate °annum. Although It is necessary to melataln
discipline, lithe non. on. who reported the man had
been • little volt spoken he might have averted tide
discredit from the battalion. Being ordered on guard
Immediately on owning in from • toilsome marsh al
weigh to anger • salut ; and, If the ore* ordering Is
rough and domineering, complionee lathe more didloult.
After this painful episode, the Dorset battalion with
the rest of the 3rd brigade reerehed off about two miles,
aad took up position on • heath-sovered hill, orowned
with Ridge Wood, opposite to white was the enemy,
lit John Hichel nude a display if for* on the
right.of the pottiest, by extending the various battalions
cuss 3rd brigade (whitened in single rank against the
*y line, so that the Maiden were led to believe the
alga* would be made from our right. This, ',low**,
wan only • feint, the real onslaught being made by Sir
• Horsiord's division on the left. After title
deroastration, we moved away under • cover OS • hill
towards Oodford as • support to the &keeling forte.
Artillery, followed by hot rile predicts from akiratishers,
aad then • gene fuelled. from the infantry indicated
to ea that the hods was ragtag at Codlord Hill—en
almost unatealkble position —being the mitre of the
attack- Here we skald see some splendid skirculehteg,
the *poor* being admirably bandied. The 4th-
60* breasted the hill gallantly; and the let Wilk
Bide Volunteers with several regiments of tee line,
being thrown rapidly forward, were tumble to use the
kakis Widest eitasereoted—ehe ordinary bridge being
etiasidered blown up "--eo they forded the stream,
end dashed up the face of the bill, canning WI
essay gradually to withdraw with the lose of
ae•geLi INlimeata ail prim:men, including the 2nd
Wilts Vannes.. Out Dorset Elle Volun-
teers had mom* the bruise and were reeking in to
amio to the betook, elks hostilities were ordered to
Islisk It was naniaa Madly, and we in • wood
ether ikelford Hill, sad munebed oar "doff bisidtP
We altogether sit being gees cad of • fling at
the 10my• trioarsed the derision of She ametroll
Was tW the Southern Army had tereed the Wiley, bat
Wei aot able to melatala the hill. The boeaei bo"III°11
wee reareled se the down overloola. Codford, and
OM* we ow s ***oft of the 24. T rePasoni Pri•
moors. ask an • eattiair sel=re us LSO shivers
eller oar warm wok, a* we looked for our
illeggege tufa, bat tbas ass as dga sad Wore

long we learnt that we bad got to march Melt to
Teffont D 0.12 again, and °macre in the sante lines
iu on Thursday. It was all a Musks our striking tents
thin morning, owing to the inuellie-hooledness of some
of the Bristol° officials. Uolog through the Tillman we
saw the Volunteers of the lit iiivielon unencumbered
by great mete, and found that they bad not rased
their °any in the morning. lieu, too, we saw the
Rev. H Everett, of Ducheetaw, our oh ylein, who
Pwevareyitbing.manrritalteragenwialeregreeit gottig.man nyes7r.ar:ghlebis pa ac,
back vu
milady of the West York Militia, by toe way. At
I Trff !int we found that our ha. pge had been waiting
with hums harnessed all the day awaiting orders, so
that no preparations had been made for inane?, though
we were plumed to leans that it was to consist of beef,
potatoes, and broad beans. Instead of " tiger" and
" dog biscuit " as before. The nien of the Lorobastre
codu wand soap with rattlin2 ch irusee on the way
home, eheering up the bitudion, and at intervals the
bake bent performed a eimilar office wi,, their instru•
merits. C nl. *Land wag highly pkno,•,l. I,romiee4
the men • "barrel of heel" for I noir [duo/Mese, eel
alter dinner it vu duly consular', awl Um Colonel
hmetlir cheered. It wee nlidd-faii, however, before
Lb. feast was ready, but it wiu eaten with rush relish
that no epicure might envy.
The Timm "special " with the Northern army, thus
deriodbee the battle : rh, Att. tek was evident', to be
on our right, Codford. TOil won the oencluoon we
had come to when Captnin Creanek doted Vowel on he
ridge nicer Stockton Woo I. There they are plain
enough—first cavalry, thin infantry, then two regi-
ments, followed by their whitethlad bole, roamed the
edge of the wood and appeared on the sky line. They
were marching away Wearily Groveley, so the attack
was to be there, after all. Yet star. was it not rather
strange this ostentitious moron along the sky hoe ?
Was our enemy snob a fool as he lookei, and wria he
really letting us see his hand? Where was the clever.
nem of Woisey, and iif Bski.r. NO doubt this marching
thug the ridge was ths pleaeantest of nears instead of
Ike saddest of mistakes. Suddenly toe troops dis-
appeared, and who could doubt that as Noon as they
were out of siaht they male no mole hui• to Groveley,
but twistoi round and sot off fur Codfuril es fast as
their legs othil.l carry them? There wins • fold of hill
under Stockton Wood, leading down to Calf ord, and
! what if thia should hi fu 'l of mons viinly to ilebanoh
upon our right. S it nuried out; and an the ground
would not tilts admit of s.r John Michel making his
dispositions altogether in the dark, we caught light of
first one battalion, them of another as it desoendod into
the hollow, sod by and by the brigade of Guards osene
coon the dleunt slope, and the talent red line before
them wee their skirmishers. Another regiment of Sir
Charles Staveley's Dis Alon moved to Fisherton. A
massage is mint to Lord Mark Kerr to hold on as best
he can in awe of attack, for oar left may alio be at-
tempted, and the two reserve brigades and • part of
the brigade before Wiley aro oonoentrated towards
Codford. It was about 12 o'clock as Sir
Robert and his Staff moved away to the left to watch
the development of the attuk, cantering with
erne! troops Over • turnip field. We passed •
brigade of Stauley'a lying anagly in • hollow.
Tome were two red reglittSlati and • dark-green
Volunteer battalion between them, and they
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were all ready to advance. A hone battery
oons. swiftly up and opens upon the enemy's skit-
mintier.. A better, of 18-poua4ers on the, hills
beyond the Wdey soon quecehee it, and It is now
evident that when the enemy has crossed the river and
attacks us in dank we 'hall be defending on a salient,
his batteries losing In front and endlsling oar whole
position. TWA looks awkward, but the grouat wee
eheiter here and there. We ere on the top et the hill,
and an strong in battalions and batteriem, and hope to
remain King of the Castle despite all coiner.. We bear
musaetry to the right down at Clodford. From the
furames of our positions, we hare • line prospect of the
enemy, stitruoisbers of the Guards coming on over the
*taboo, arida fitoll there SWIM no groat lone being
wins against us, mini we may wait plaindly on our bill.
Suddenly matters changed, and our Mil bemoans limi
plasma; ground. Elquatiron after eqn•droo of the
costars cavalry defile from the deep muse of CAford
and strike urn., the °pea oonntry far round our Bank.
As aU Our OATIgly are that. we ,to oat Net them, bat
we do fear the raring roll of nritketry, which teetill.4
to the strengthening of the Infantry attack. Regiment
after regiment emus towards as from Csiford • our
own troops open fire from the crest of our hill, and our
batteriet blase away. Tile Meng preesee on, and
mobile the lower edge of • wood, which stretches up
the ode of the hilL Guard; Rides, Volnatoers, and
!Glide swum out of Colford against us, and there
seems also the front &thick, for • shallow valley over
die river ta full of Infantry, with the bat Any near. We
are between two fires, and bow mown that our cavalry
did not warn us of all Ws Infantry orra•ing the river?
Well, never mind; we have • strong poewoa, ineuty of
men and guns, and are well able to stoo,l lei:. To.
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Guards rush for the woei. We seat regiments I‘,lo it
at the other end, ad for obJet two mimes there le
firiag enoagh to blow every leaf off the trees. outer
Storey hurnei fresh bettalious to the rescue. •Was
Regiment, mach to its wonder, is sent into as roughest
part of the wood, and pianos ra tautly into • C.regled
abyss. Presently the Gnarls begin egaia to leave stie
lower edge, and retreat arm the open, making •
di.sperato stagd by some haystacks • another battalto•
of Guards hat a hedgerow, sad is plating away at 40
yards into the 466 h itegimeat, which returns lyiug down
In open stubble. The troops got so close to eau other
that one or two of Sir Robert's Staff rode up to perti,‘
of the ensany to give them orders, and might have
been t Ikon prisoners. What with guns on the
hills, musketry in the woods, ma where the
stubborn WWI of bearskin tops the hedges, there W:1
die aad smoke enou‘h to blot oat all other sound
and sight. Ths regimeni• ware getting very sloe., dir
Hobert Walpole's troops pressing down the and thr
John Michele moo refusing to give way, when the Date
of Cambeilge ordered • oughr to wood the " se
, bring; and he had to blow &dein and *gain. The battle
ended in a storm of rata; and Was; this arid all the
, firing resetn,ate doubling here arid theca, crowds of
°sot, 1 on this, horses, sal cartiel hares
• Lariaug backwards aud forwards, the stone was, or
seemed to be, one of glorious vacuity end coottudett
, Now came the inquiry, Who has woo? Too troops
themselves had very little doubt about it. The Goads
cheered and waved titer Ankles, and Sir Charles
Stanley's men were jostle oartaln, they mad uaterly
destroyed the Notausroers. Sir Robert's position ere
strong, sad well defended by • whole 01101011 and a
Brigade of reserve, but he had been snaked with
unoomaion energy on two sides. Sir Jobs iliehers Sank
smock errs very finely delivered, and was praised by the
Duke, whose verdset was tom Sir John ll'ohel had
forced the Wiley, tiat hod not succeeded in taking the
hill.

The Daily Beta "special" on Friday writes—We are
all proud men in the Siuthern Army to-day. We feel
every one of at that whatever may be the ultimata
awari of the umpired in our first engagements, wit hove
bad the b at of it, and that our enemies are to-day dia.
conifitel by the good strategy of our gerierale and good
000 duct of the troops under Sir John iliohers
mad.
After the battle, the 88th marched unmoleated along
towards Goddard, no one looking for enemies now that
the fight wits over; but as the Kilkenny Militia were
following them, the nod, canting down from the hill,
took the mein Sank, and opened a heavy fire Into them.
The Kiliscarly WOW Is • deli by the side of a lane, the
t.lad Ins field upon the other side, on nitwit higher
ground. After a minate's heavy firing, the I:2adjorspe4
down into the lane and °Umbel the hedge; the
Kilkenny fell back to one side of the field, the 22n4 at
the other, and eo in the lane, sot five yards apart, they
fired at each other. Some of the 2288 knoa:tur more
of war than the Kilkenniet, recrossed the lane, and
getting into the higher ground poured a heavy are luto
their Beak. Bit the Kilkennisa neither knew nor
send anything about Wit ; they were nomerinally
stronger than the 22nd in the field, and wito a wild
cheer they went at them and fairly drove them from the
field again. Both sides had their blood up, and I
expected to see sneakers ;dabbed every moment. The
Nide of the tr:dge was again occupied, and the grggi
went arson It for some minutes, in spite of the desperste
attempts of • general offieer who tame up to put • stop
to it
An instance of Colonel Manses kindness of heart
oecurred on Tamils,. When we had (lowered shoat •
third of the dheacioe between Blandlord and Ilelbury
Down, • plucky little fellow, one of the buglers of the
Bridport carps, 'tweeted the nog., of the Colonel;
and, finding he wad getting tired, the Colonel set him
on hie own horse, sad himself welted the remaieder of
the distanai. This little epoxide provoked a spoutaneous
shear from the leading companies of the oettadoo.

AN INCIDENT ON THE " BATTLE FIELD."
The "north" against the "south. " array'd
In those warlike " inaacelVree "
Not really—but stall In mimic strife,
They're warrior " improver .."
Autumnal tints perVad• the some
Fruits la "golden pomp" her. stand
Fruitful iii yield of voluateers,
Welt, and noblest in the laud—
And one appura all health ; all hail!
• His °oozing, shouts awaken,
Echoes whisk enhoang flaw along
And Blandford town taken.
He rides along in buoyant style
And in good sooth in he stay:
Ha draws lei roan be stays his steed
Ha sees • voters& grey
In when martial paoe tho' somewhat slow
The anoient warrior's shout.
Hs ItwAlli bla name, John Hasoott 'tis
And one a the " ?Ana* own."
He Wanda barn down, he grasps his hand,
He shrike. it heartily too.
A glad day 'tau for that old Hamar,
That net° of Waterloo I
Who sabi aloud—For thirty years
England, Dom home, I've served,
Fightukg bar battles, in duty bound:
?bask Clod I w• re both preserved.
The reply waa gracious., "1 believe
At danger thou didst not wino"
I give thee thanks—nay more I give :
The good donor was "iii. Prince."
NEMO.
Newtonatewart, Ireland, &pt. 3, 1872.

An Australian eorreepondent dotes that the freeing
promote of preserving mem hem ben perfected. This
will enablo expound to to U . ...nutty
whole, instead of bonier bond most to Ina.
The narrow scope from clostruotion of Centerbury
Onstectral hie baduoed a number of oorrespondeuts to
dy to tee newspepers with maggestions, mon or less
valusbie, for to. prevention of andents of the kind in
fume*. The kn. E, It Denison, of Sumitomo remory, ,
=ore sharehes have been burst by plombere tiros
00.1 OU t 9 the getters then from all nuns pat
ted•ther, end he proposes to replace all to. wood.'
gamen by moue, sad ton such eandeak would be ba-
p:mien Lieut.-Colonel Wrottney, R& obnowl to
tee VIOIIOIIA qui= of peening by eolifertng defense
joints of the iftct oovering, and 1671 PrVII PIA&
to allow tie metal foes play to expend sad soaked', by
means of overlapping jnam Yr. Z. A. Morien7,
who spooks interning, seeing that his ovals of Tel:
meek wee demroyed through the natation nerd fin
poie on the rout, says all ore harm to do la to adopt the
principle of the Llavy imp, sad inidia that no firspot
nail be used by workmen net ia not promnd wile a
pane covering, through 'blob igalm4 iiirrisris, wood.
or auger& maid aos tAIJ.

POOLS.

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Pim Sz-zioss, Mondsy.—SMore th• Mai",
AidarYlllla Pe”uoy, end bis. Saunders.
Seven nation woe brought up for deserting ths
steamer Pctral. On Yriclay lat she put to through
stresc of weather on bar j mroey from London to
ngspor,., when the men, who had signed articles fh
wathout 'swing her, atlsged that she was not
spawn thy, and refused to Procood• Taal ladlid a
complaint at the Custom-houso, and Mr. Argent, .11.
Collector, went on board. If loud it. hart not bul-
warks, had boon leaky, and hot de.k house Irma so large
as to endaugsr her capsizing. The Bauch ordood a
survey by the Government Surveyor from Southampton,
and the man wale set free on their own reeognisanosa.
On Tuesday the ow was again adjourned.