The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-01 00:00:00

INSPECTION OF' FIELD-MARSHALS.

One of the most remarkaltle military ceremonies which
we have lately had the pleasure of recording, took place
on Saturday last, at the United Service Institution, in
Whitehall-yard, where several gallant soldiers, officers
and privates, who have distinguished themselves in the
Crimea, inspected the Field-Marsbala in her Majesty's
service.

The recently made Field-Marshals arrived punctually
in their respective perambulators, and were received by
the attendants with the utmost kindness and tends rness.
They were lifted along the passage, and placed in three
of the easiest chairs which could be procured. The
windows were carefully closed to exclude draughts.
While waiting the arrival of the veteran F.M.,
whose creation, dating 1840, is much older than that
of the Peninsular generals, and to whom more lati-
tude was therefore very proper'y allowed, the objects
of interest in the institution were explained to the
marshals. The skeleton of Marengo, the horse ridden
by Napoleon at Waterloo, much delighted them, as
having belonged to an acquaintance of other days ;
and General Wolfc's Quebec sword recalled to them an
event of their younger lives.
The other Field-Marshal's carriage was then heard,
and presently H.R.H. entered, in the uniform which he
wore at the taking of his last quarter's salary. With him
came the Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards, the
Colonel-in-Chief of the Sixtieth Rifles, the Grand Ranger
of Windsor Park, the 1,-)rd Wanlea of the Stannaries,
the Chief Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Gover-
nor and C instable of Windsor Castle, the High Steward
of Plymouth, the 01lonel of the Artillery Company, the
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and the
Prince Consort. Mr. Punch was also present.
The inspection was then gone through, and the Field-
Marshals were examined as to their efficiency, and their
catiability of rendering military service to her Majesty.
The Peninsular Generals admitted that their day bad
gone by ; but said they were delighted to hear that
younger men were appointed to do tneir work. From
m Alves of delicacy it was thought best not to undeceive
them. They were then asked if they had any complaint
to make, and they replie tat they had—that their pro-
motion to the highest ran'c in the army had either been
earned 40 years ago, or not at .11 ; and that both the de-
lay which had taken place, and the moment selected for
conferring the honour, were equally unfair. Mr. Punch
promised that this should be notified, and expressed his
entire concurrence in their sentiments.
H.R.H. was then inspected, and was warmly compli-
mented upon being in such apparently excellent coedi-
tion. H.R.H. stated that he was at that moment quite
as fit to discharge the duties of a field-marshal as he ever
had been, and that he long hoped to serve his Sovereign
in that capacity. Although he could not as yet aspire
to the renown of his colleague in honours, F. M. Leo-
pold, King of the Belgians, who had received 1,200,000/.
of the people's money up to last pay-day, and who, there-
fore, was naturally anxious to negotiate a peace (as such
items might in wartime be thought objectionable), he
trusted that he should not be found unworthy of the re
lationsbip. .

The examination being completed, the inspectors de-
parted, with the single recommendation, that the field-
marshals, being happily lodged in a collection of mili-
tary curiositie4, show(' be kept in what was evidently
their proper place.—Punch.

SALE OF FISH BY AUCTION.—The Mayor of Marseilles
recently issued regulations for the sale of fish by auction,
but it appears that the measure has met with great op-
position from the retail dealers and hawkers. Some of
those parties pushed the biddings up in such a manner
that the efforts of the authorities were unable to keep
them within any reasonable bounds. In presence of these
manoeuvres, the municipal inspector was at length corn.
pelted to put a stop to them by causing the fish to be
knocked down when the biddings had gone to such an
extent above the first price offered, as he considered suf-
ficient. The hawkers finding their manoeuvres defeated,
entered into a coalition, and at the last sale, not one of
them made his appearance, so that the greater portion of
the fish was left on hanl, the public not being suffi-
ciently numerous to carry it all off. A severe repres-
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