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LONDON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 31.

WHIN the late Emperor of Russia visited
England some twenty years ago, it was said that he
asked to be shown some of those wonderful British
troops that bad done such great things in India. Usl
had witnessed the Household Cavalry brigaded at
Wormwood Scrubs, been present at a review of the
Foot-Guards in Hyde-park, and seen the wak-
ing of a crack Hussar regiment at Brighton.
But this did not satisfy him. He admired greatly
the black horses, the shining cuirasses, the costly
helmets, the big boots, and the gigantic pro-
portions of our mounted sons of Au* ; and, being
himself a soldier, he could not but praise the manly
bearing, splendid drill, and solid marching of
the Grenadiers, Coldatreams, and Scotch Fusiliers.
But experience and military knowledge taught
him these were our show troops. It was impos-
sible that we could use picked men like theme in
our d:stant wars, to reach the amine of which
was a journey of months from the mother
country. The EMPFROR had no doubt read of the
deeds done by Englishmen in the East, and in
those days our campaigns in Affighanistan were
fresh in everyone's memory, as were the sieges of
Guznie and Khelat, and the battles of Funnier
and Maharajpore, at which latter that slashing
old warrior, Lord Govan, fought and conquered
trained native males which exceeded his own forces
by four or five to one. And having beard of
these fights, and of the men who fought them, it
was not surprising that the exalt should ask to ase
some of those famous British line troops by wham
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llantry we had acquired and held our vast Indian
Empre. I
The sight that was desired by the Emperor of
Russis will to-morrow be accorded to our French
friends who are now visiting us at Portsmouth.
At the military review which will take place on
Southsea-common, our guests will see a fair speci-
men of what British troops of the line are at the
present time. Of the Royal Engineers or Royal
Artillery it is almost unnecessary to speak, for
their fame and excellences known throughout the
military world ; and although in each corps there
have, since the siege of Sebastopol, been intro-
duoed many improvements in dress, arms, and
accoutrements, it is said that even in the Crimea
both these branches of the service were cor-
dially admired by our allies. The Royal Marine
Light Infantry and the Royal Marine Artillery will
be something quite new to our guests. In the
French navy there are no soldier-sailors ; all the
sentry duties and other work which in English ships i
is doze by our Marines being in the French service
performed by the " blue jackets." The French I
Marine Infantry is a purely military corps, whose
duties are confined to the government seaports!
abroad and at home, to guarding stores, and such
like, and to performing garrison work in distant
colonies. If the men of this corps go afloat, they
do so merely as other troops might do, when
passengers to foreign countries. But a special
marine corps—one that does the work our
marines do on board ship—the French have
none, and the sight of our Portsmouth divi-
sion of Marines will certainly be • novelty to them.
The same may be said of our Marine Artillery.
In the French navy all the gunnery and artillery
duty is done by the sailors—there is no special
corps for this duty afloat. The English Marine
Artillery is a regiment of which we may well feel
proud, and which our guests will certainly
admire at the Southsea review to-morrow. In
both our Marine Infantry and Marine Artillery the
soldiers are sturdy and well-knit men. Their
pecu'.iar training, and the fact of almost
every one amongst them having served in
foreign climates, gives them • bronzed
and veteran look, which is seldom seen amongst
troops composed of comparatively young men.
The years they spend on board ship also add
greatly to their health and stamina—so much so,
that in a physical point of view it is almost
impossible to see finer corps than these
soldiers on land and sailors at sea. Besides the
Marines, Marine Artillery, Royal Engineers,
and Royal Artillery, there will be present to-mor-
row, the 14th, 52nd, 81st, and 87th Regimen*
and a part of the 75th, all of which bear on their
colours not a few names of places where they have
done their duty in hard battles or wearying
campaigns, and most of which have seen no small
amount of service in that Indian empire which
is such a source of wonder to other European na-
tions. Before a corps could earn such honours as
are implied in the words "Bhurtpore," "Hin-
e dostan," " Delhi," " Maids," and " Ave," it
must. have seen not a little hard work to the east-
ward of the Cape. But it is a coincidence not
unworthy of remark that these regiments of the
line that will parade to-morrow before our French
visitors have all taken part in suppressing the great
Indian mutiny ; and to learn the recent doings of
these corps we have only to tern to the accounts
written of that mighty campaign—or rather that
series of wonderful campaigns—of which it
may be said that the discipline, morale,
endurance, and courage of troops were never
more tried in the history of the world.
These men, these troops, form the mainstay of thei
English army. It is not too much to say that
to them, and to those like them, we owe the fact,
of India yet forming part of the British empire.
Other regiments may be more showy, other uni-
forms more gaudy, other men broader and of
greater height ; but of our English line corps it
may be fairly asserted that in all the qualities