Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

ARE THEY THE RIGHT BM?

A writer in a cotemoorary says : —"ln the efro.V
of the present month I road the following annonneement,;
"Attached to Foot Guards, Major General Lord Below.'
meote
"Aide-de-camp, Brevet -Major Hon. W. Cote,
Fusileer Guards. rdd.
"Assistant Adjutant-Generals, Lieut.-Colonel Lo
Hay, Grenadier Guards; Brevet-Colonel Lambert:Grell
dier Guards.
For the subjoined reasons the appointment of I.4rd
Rokeby to the Guards was a o.
1. The lieutenant colonel jsb of the three household
regiments are ex ofj7cio brigadiers. They never act.in
inferior capacity. Gttadth
2. There is no " div;oion duty to be done le the
because these troops are never massed on home serrutie
only four battalions (including one on detachment? doe
Tower) out of seven battalions, bring quartered 011
_.;
at the same time. e„eteetett
3. The " field officer in waiting" on the Queen
all briga,le business." mad M 4. The half yearly inspections ought to be perior—
the Inspector-General of Infantry. his
I have said enough to show that Lord RokebY and
,k!)
aristocratic staff (two as-istant adjutant-generals, m- the
are as useless to the Guards as they are costly
to
public. bee
But this " rung birth about town," it appease,
"—Dor
so severely commented upon in military c
circles the t,„
, s
Panmnre insists on suppression ; another " Vaeeet
e y
therefore, must be found for Lord Rok bwho has "V, d for
interest" at headquarters. He is to be proviso
ci"'
thus---Lord West is to vacate the command at
Shorn
and Lord Rokeby will reign in his stead. he 110
Now, Lord West is a very promising officer ; „Theo.
served with the " line" in India, Canada, and the Lif"; et
Hence, he is really the right man in the right pitleigii•on,
Sherneliffe. Understanding every detail of his Pr°,feeTeeng
he is a master of the art of drilling recruits and em
battalions, battalions, which, at the present time, is the Ira"'
excellence in our camps. e„,eshiP
It is otherwise with Lord Rokeby. His J`l."
entered the Scots Fusilier Guards, Aril 24, 1814' olr
has never done duty with the line, and canot possibli
anything about recruits, forasmuch as Guards' v 16111045
drilled by a sergeant at Croydon, and are never platle-ed
thei- officers hands till their manui'acture into tram
soldiers has been completed. et of
P
Beyond doubt, then, the contemplated a po.intrii(,
the old Guardsman to the Shorncliffe command will "o
be allowed to take place) turn out injurious to the Pu
interests—a rank job. Ag. iI
Another "selection" meditated by the Horse G 115.-0-
severely handled by the clubs—that of Lord Georgeleele
to the command of the British cavalry in India. 6'4j
officer entered the army July 25th, 1834, and 110 fteoo
in the Crimea. Some men have greatness thrust 104
them, and Lord George is one of these. Beyond the .
of his being the son of the late Marquis of Anglese/ide",o
soldiers are quite at a loss to account for his lord6de
good fortune. " Lordly general " were the curse °' the
Crimean army ; we must take heed lest they becorao ince
bane of the Indian army. These are not times w viee to
matters. We must rpeak out, and loudly too, or wv-
En gland.

•
NENA SAHIB IN LOVE WITS AN IRISHW°3I4S‘

We are all in a mistake about Nena Sahib, at le~ad
according to M. Elgene Pergeaux, in the Courrteioad
Paris. M. Pergeaux does not indeed represent this too
as an Adonis ; but in other respects he describes thehis
famous Sahib as having so soft a heart, that, despite 0i he
whipping children to death, and murdering women' out
out
cannot read a tender line 'in Byron or Shakspere
being moved to tears ! He speaks French, Italiati,es
English, is acquainted with their several literatures,
our own language as fluently and surely as any :b; into
men de Hyde Park," and has translated "Hernia"' 11*
Hindoo, to the great admiration of competent crasitiof
Then the heart that could comprehend Ophella gold
course accessible to influences from living beauty,
arts
this amiable Nena so loved the fair Miss 101.ot
O'Sullivan, that when she died of c,nsumption, he Age
and wept over the tomb and would not be consoled. dog
wandered about his palace, this exquisite lover, reps a uld
nothing but " Pour Margaret " and then bis eyes w to
suffuse with tears, and he would quote some apPrf)re
passage from Baron, as well as he could do so for sobbin,ey.
Since that time he never loved woman, it is supposed, "aro
Monsieur Pergeaux ; but this adorable individual toivg
ride steeple-chases, play in fencing matches, and to kilfos
tigers cooly in single combat. Bat best of all, he if
Jenne
man who has music in his soul, and he told "le
Wooths " that French music was his especial dehg,oll
the soft, gay, brilliant, light French music—and to 0. to
that he spoke with "connoissance de fiat " he sat dowllthe
the piano and improvised an air that brought dawn
loudest applause from an Audience of connoisstfa
M. Pergeaux seems puzzled to account for the hyena win
taken by this heroic gentleman—but he assures us that
if,
finds upon inquiry such was the man whose name Oic
in the nostrils of every human being warmed by a spot
of Christian love and charity, stinks more foully than t
of Satan himself. Let us add, that we have corrections
v:
Indian History from other sources also. The Ott:lit/paod
tenist journal, the Univers, speaks of General Neil, ;lf
not Nena Sahib, as the wretch who has made hi°e et
infamous at Cawnpore by his "refinements of tortetio. f
The Univers is so shocked that it hopes England i ,
defeated—thus preferrirg the cause of Nena,
infants in wooden boxes and threw them into the ti 7.00
so that of civilisation. We notice these matters betaal
they have a literary bearing. If the U/tramoneaniP;'o
represented by the Univers, are audacious enough tiri,ies
write coteruperary history, we are aat'eorised in
sceptical when they pen legends of old times. Thita"tie
transmutation of Nena and Neil, reminds us of a &nit.
parallel in " The Siege of Troy," at Astley's, whel the
Amherst, the author, by a huge slip of the pen, ri,-400
Greeks in the city of Troy, and sent an army of It'Atice
from Hellas to punish the Greek ravishers of the uore
tent Helen.—Athenaeum