The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

THE LATE COLONEL TYLDEN.

The late Colonel Richard Tylden of the Royal Engi-
neers, C. 8.,
.• and .Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, was barn
on the 22d November, 1819. He. Was the second son of
the late Brigadier-General Tylden,- of the Royal En-
gineers,' andLecilena (his first wife) eldest daughter
William Baldwin, Esq., of Stede Mil, in the county,of
Colonel Tylden entered the Military Aea,d4mY atWool-
wicb, al a cadet, in 1834 ; second
lieutenant in the Engineers, 14th December, 1837; .first
lieutenant, I.9th March, 1840 ; second captain, 9th No-
vember, 1346 ; brevet major, for his services at '.the
Cape, 28t1} May, 1853 ; captain, I,7th February, 1854 ;
brevet lieut.-colonel, 12th December, 1854 ' • colonel and
aide-de-camp to the Queen, 29th June, 1855, and'Oemi-
panion, of the Bath at the same. time.
He went on foreign service to Corfu, in Jan., 1840 ;
remained there until April, 1844 ; then returned to
England, aod was stationed at Portsmouth until 1847,
when he was ordered to the Cape of Good Hope, where
ho remained until 1854.

Daring his service of five years at the Cape he was for
more than two years constantly employed on a difficult
but very important survey of the wild and' mountainous
district of Kafir land, called the. Amatola mountains.
On the breaking out of the Kafir war,- Sir Harry Smith
gave him the command of the very extensive frOnder
district of North Victoria, with his head.quarters at
Whitlesea. The only force be had to protect-this large
territory consisted of the small detachment of Sappers
and Miners that had been with hini in his survey, about
twenty mounted Burghers, and two or three ,hundred
Fingoes. With this very small force he attacked and
completely routed a body of 2,000 Kafka under the
warlike chief •Sindilla, and thus secured the safety of
the district entrusted to his command. This was the
first and most successful general action with the.Kaffirs
during the war, and, speaking of this daring and gallant
exploit, Sir Harry Smith thus expressed hirmiel,f—"lf
anything dashing is to be done, Tyiden is the man to do
it." At the close of the war he got leave to return to
England. On his arrival he found the war with Russia
commenced ; his father appointed to the command of the
engineers with the army under Lord Raglan, with the
rank of brigadier-general, and that the situation of major
of brigade was kept open for his acceptance. With the,
true spirit of a gallant soldier he immediately accepted
it, and although he had been nearly seven years absent
from home and friends, in three weeks from his arrival
he again embarked for the seat of war, and joined his
father at Varna. He was present at the landing of the
army in the Crimea, and at the battle of the Alma, and
two days after that glorious battle he had the melancholy
satisfaction of being with his gallant father when be died
of cholera, brought on by the great fatigue he had gone
through during the action, and afterwards the sad duty
of depositing his remains in a soldier's grave, at a spot
particularly marked on a plan he had made of the country
around the battle-field.

On arriving before Sebastopol he gave up his staff
situation to share the more arduous and dangerous duties
of the siege, and had the command of the right British
attack. From that time until he received his fatal
wound he was never absent from the trenches, was pre-
sent at every skirmish and sortie that took place near
his batteries, and particularly distinguished himself in
the attack and capture of the enemy's Rifle Pits and
Ambuscades, in April last. In this attack his gallant
conduct and scientific knowledge were highly eulogised
by the lamented General Egerton, than whom uoue
knew better how to distinguish merit amongst the offi-
cers under his command ; and he was mentioned in the
despatches, on this and many other occasions, by Lord
Raglan, who had the highest opinion of his experience
and abilities.

In the unfortunate attack of the 18th of June last he
was most severely wounded in both legs, so much so that
the medical officers did not think it safe to remove him
to Scutari until the 28th of July, when he was unfortu-
nately attacked by diarrhoea, though his wounds were
progressing favourably, which had such an effect upon
his weakened and shattered frame that he sack under it
on the 2d of August, the day after his arrival at Malta.
Amongst the many gallant and noble spirits who have
fallen in this war none are more regretted by the officers
of his corps ; and so highly were Colonel Tylden's ser-
vices appreciated by his Queen that he was made one of
her aides-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, and Com-
panion of the Bath—honours of which he was scarcely
aware when death deprived his country of his services
and his family of a beloved relative.

We ought not to close this short memoir of a young
and gallant soldier without recording the noble conduct
of his mother•in-law, Mrs. Burton Tylden, who left Eng-
land for the Crimea the same day she received the news
of his being severely wounded, and had the melancholy
satisfaction of being with the young hero when his gal-
lant spirit left its mortal tenement for a better world.

MR. W. S. ITTOODIN'S ENTERTAINMENT.

Just now, when novelties in every conceivable variety
in the shape of amusement are ministering to the public
taste, which, no wonder, has in consequence grown
rather fastidious, the ability of one individual, aided
only by his own versatility of talent to inspire a mixed
audience with good humour, and an unflagging interest
in his exertions for two full hours, must obviously in-
volve no ordinary amount of capability, and a never-
failing repertoire. Such, however, is the case with Mr.
Woodin, to whose new entertainment we have great
pleasure in again calling attention. The Olio of Od-
dities, is, indeed, worthy of its eccentric designation,
and although the season is fast waning, its attraction is
not diminished in the least degree ; night after night
finding the elegant salle at Polygraphic Hall—as its
proprietor has characteristically christened it—filied
with fashionable and delighted assemblages. Much
more compact in itself, and defined in its object, than
the Carpet Bag and .ketcle, Book, in which Mr. Woodin
mile his debut with such signal success, the Olio affords
a better and inure extended scope for the display of the
remarkable genius that gentleman possesses for hitting
off with striking fidelity the salient peculiarities of some
of the oddities of human nature, supposed to be met
with during an imaginary tour through the English
lake district, and elsewhere. These portraitures, though
purely fictitious, are so truthful, that, whilst viewing
them one cannot resist the idea that we have met
their prototypes somewhere or other in our intercourse
with every-ttay life—and they are assumed by Mr.
Woodin, one after the other, as illustrations of his mono-
logue in all the perfection of dress, voice, and manner
with a rapidity which is quite astonishing. The agreeable
character of the entertainment is much enhanced by a
beautifully painted panorama of some of the most
interesting scenery of the lakes, and the appropriate
musical accompaniment of a clever pianist. As a whole,
we could scarcely point to any public amusement where
a more pleasing, and, indeed, instructive, evening could
be spent.