The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1864.

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

(From the limes Correspondent)

MELBOURNE, May, 26.
The war in New Zealand, which I percieve by
the English papers last received is supposed to be
at an end, has broken out afresh with increased
violence, and I am afraid is likely to endure for yet
many months longer. The history of our operations
during the last month is marked by a disaster of a
peculiarly disgraceful and perhaps unprecedented
sort. In order to make the narrative of the subse.
quent events clear to your readers I will begin by
retracing the career of General Cameron after the
decisive success at Orekau. Discomfited and almost
terrified into submission by their bloody repulse at
this place, the Ngnlimaniopotos, with the detached
portions of other tribes allied to them, fled in dis-
may, first to their strong position at Maungatauri,
and thence, evacuating that formidable pah, with all
its carefully-prepared fortifications, to Tauran ga, the
chief habitation of the powerful Ngapuhi tribe on
the eastern coast. They were followed thither
promptly by Gen. Cameron, with the 43d, 65th, and
portions of the 14th and 70th Regiments. The
General had also at his service the naval squadron,
under the command of Commodore Sir William Wise.
man, consisting of her Majesty's ships Curacoa, Esk,
Miranda, Harrier, and Eclipse. The first operations
of this force were entirely successful. Immediately
on his landing at Tanranga the General marched
against a rebel pah at Maketu, a few miles to the
southward, which was shelled by our troops, and
abandoned by its defenders after a triiing resistance.
Returning to Tauranga, some large Armatrongs, in•
eluding a 100-pounder, were got ashore from the
ships, and preparations were made for an assault on

a position called the Gate Pab, lying on the crest of
a hill on a small peninsula. The place consisted of
two pahs, 1,000 yards apart, connected by a
covered way, and surrounded by rifle pits and by
au inner line of rail fence, masked by branches of
trees and bundles of raupo. On the 27th ult. the
65th and the flying column of the 70th, under com•
mand of Colonel Green, left camp for the Maori posi-
tion ; the 43d, the Naval Brigade, Engineers, and a

heavy battery being posted in front, under General

Cameron himself. The rebel force was estimated at
800 men in all. At daylight of the 25th the bom-
bardment of the place was commenced with 13
heavy guns, and was maintained for nine hours. A
number of Maories being now seen retreating, the
68th were ordered in pursuit by a road which led
round the rear of the rebel works through a swamp.
In the meantime the Armstrongs having effected
practicable breach, it was determined to storm the
pah in front. The storming party was formed of
equal numbers of the naval brigade and the 43d,
under the command of Col. Booth, of the latter regis
meat, and of Capt. Hay, of the Harrier. In the
midst of a withering fire the party, advancing at the
double, carried the breach and entered the pah. Up
to this moment all had gone well for our arms, and
some of the spectators doubted not that the victory
was gained and the Gate Pah in our hands. But
now commences the strange and sad tale of the de.
nouement. The story at this point is naturally a
little confused, and there have been at least half a
dozen versions of it before the ptablic. The main
facts, however, are as follows—Our troops having
entered the pah found it, to their surprise, almost
deserted. Only two or three wounded natives were
seen inside. Thrown off their guard, the men
dispersed and it is said fell to plundering. In
an instant there opened from beneath and from
every Bide a tremendous fire of musketry, pointed
by unseen hands. The whole ground was alive
with Maories, and the air was rent with their
savage yells. A panic seized the 43d, and the
whole party, in spite of the heroic efforts of their
officers, fled in terror from the deadly place. A
second force despatched to their support, under
Captain Hamilton, of the Esk, arrived just in time
to share their fate. Their gallant leader himself,
while standing on the parapet and waving his
sword to the blue jackets, was shot through the
head, almost all the other officers being either killed
or wounded. The men poured headlong out of the
breach liken flock of sheep. To complete the story
of the disaster, the 68th, who had gone round, as we
have seen, by the rear of the enemy's position, were
alive repulsed in an attack upon another face of the
pah. Thrice were they led to the assault, and thrice
driven back by the deadly cross fire. The night of
the 29th closed on a scene perhaps unparalleled in
British military annals. A regular force of infantry,
supported by the crews of three or four men-cf-war
and by 13 large guns, had been beaten in a hand-
to-hand conflict with a horde of savages. A British
regiment had fled in terror from perhaps an equal
number of Maories. Our loss comprised no less
than 26 killed and 78 wounded, many of whom are
since dead. The proportion of officers slain is some-
what remarkable. The 43d Regiment lost in offi-
cers alone as many as, perhaps, any single regiment
at the battle of the Alma. Their colonel himself
(Booth) was left mortally wounded by his men
within the pah, and is since dead of his wounds.
Four captains (Glover, Muir, Hamilton, and Utter-
ton) and two lieutenants (Langlands and Glover)
were also among the killed, besides several other
officers wounded. The Naval Brigade lost Captain
Hamilton, of the Esk, and Commander Hay, of the
harrier, both highly distinguished and popular offi-
cers, and both equally glorious in their death.
Among the Curagoa's crew was slain Lieut. Hill, the
senior surviving officer of the ill-fated Orpheus. The
Maories, on their side, are supposed to have suffered
but slightly in proportion. Their killed were first
set down at 40, but later accounts make them
only 20, although it is probable that, according
to the usual native custom, they carried off many
of their dead fn their subsequent retreat. This
untoward affair has excited a profound sensation
throughout the colonies, and will probably lead to
an indefinite prolongation of the war, through the
feeling of exultation which it will have engendered
on one side, and of exasperation on the other. It is
fair to say that no blame is to be attached to Gen.
Cameron in this his first misfortune in the field. All
the arrangements for the attack seem to have been
well and carefully devised ; and allowing that the
best way of taking a Maori pah is to storm it in
front, everything was done that skill and diligence
could do to this end. The disgrace belongs solely to
the 433 Regiment, which fled ignominiously from
before the enemy,•leaving their officers behind to be
slain.

It does not tend to alleviate our sense of discom-
fiture, but rather to add to our mortification, to learn
that the pah which had been so valorously defended
by, the breve Ngapuhies was evacuated the same
night, and occupied by ns the next morning with-
out any difficulty.
The followedMaorieshuadsingthei r theirpahs
usual tactics on this occasion, of
rather as means of annoyance to an advancing foe
than as permanent works of defence. Reinforce,
ments have been sent to Gen. Cameron's army from
Auckland, and it is proposed to carry on a regular
campaign against the rebels of the eastern coast,
and to drive them from pah to pah until they are
ultimately conquered, as were the Waikatoes.

In the meantime some detached operations of
our troops in other Quarters have been crowned
with complete success. In Taranaki a large body
of Maories, for the first time perhaps in history,
marched out into the open field to attack a British
post on Sentry-hill, held by Major Buller, with
some 30 or 40 soldiers. On this Occasion the
Maories were in both senses on the wrong side of
the fence. They were repulsed with great slaughter,
leaving their chief, Parenga Kingi, and upwards of
100 men killed and wounded. The loss on the
British side was absolutely nil. There has been also
another engagement at Maketu, on the eastern coast,
in which the rebels were defeated with great
slaughter by the 65th and a large body of friendly
natives of the Arawa tribe. On this occasion our
sable allies displayed great gallantry, charging in
advance of the British troops, and doing nearly all
the actual fighting. The Arawas, who inhabit the
country of the hot springs in the romantic and
beautiful district of "totems, have an old grudge
against the Ngaphuis's dating from the days of the
terrible E Hongi, who, 40 years ego, spread deso-
lation among the lake tribes with the aid in mus-
kets and money which he had received from King
George IV. The battle at Maketn is highly satis-
betery as showing that the war is not altogether a
war of races, and that we can depend upon a large

portion of the Maories to render us material assist-
ance against their insurgent brethren.
On the whole, the operations of the last month, in
spite of the defeat at the Gate Pab, may be said, to
have been highly successful. The General's despatch
from Tauranga, giving an account of that untoward
event, attributes the failure to the intricacy of the
Maori works inside the pah, and to the extraordinary
loss of so many officers at the moment when they
were most needed. The whole of the interior of the
pah is said to have been one mass of casemates,
scooped out of the earth of the parapets, and
covered over with branches and leaves. within
these the garrison were concealed, when the storm-
ing party entered the breach, and were enabled to
pour a heavy fire of musketry at close quarters
from behind their shelter. The affair is one more
proof, not only of the extraordinary capacity of the
Maories for the stratagems of war, but also, as I be-
lieve, of the superiority of their weapons in this
kind of fighting. However useful the rifle and
bayonet may be against regular soldiers in the field,
they are no match for the double-barrelled fowling-
piece and tomahawk, the favourite weapons of the
Maori in a hand-to-hand engagement. I have heard
some of our own officers admit the fact of this infe-
riority, and attribute to it most of the reverses we
have met with in this sort of encounter. The smooth-
bore musket can be loaded more quickly and fired
more frequently than a rifle, and the bayonet, how-
ever useful in the hands of a skilled professor, is not
equal to a cutting weapon, such as the tomahawk, at
close quarters. The Maories, we must remember,
are in all physical and moral qualities the equal of
the British soldier. He uses his arms as an Eng-
lishman would do who was defending his native
country amid swamps and forests, and was not
obliged to conform to the regular style of fighting,
or to wear a red coat in the sight of the enemy. In
this affair at the Gate Pah the Maories displayed
the highest qualities of soldiership, coolness. pluck,
patience, and fertility of resources. No regular
army in the world, perhaps, would have done what
these savages of Tauranga did against a better dis-
ciplined force, provided with an ample supply of
heavy guns and all the resources and materiel of
war.

The following is the list of killed and wounded.
Where not described_ otherwise, the wounds are
gunshot wounds

HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CIIRACOA.

Killed.—Lieut. Hill, late of the Orpheus; and James
Harris, Ordinary seaman.

Wounded.—Thomas Term, 0.5., hip, very severely—
William Fox, 0. S., left jaw, severely—Charles Ween,
marine, lower jaw, severely—John Watson, 0.5., left knee,
very severely—and Amos Smith, 0.5., groin, dangerously,

HER MAJESTY'S SHIP MIRANDA.

Killed—M. Watts, R.M.A.

Wounded—Lieutenant Hammick, right shoulder, very
severely—John Nokes, boatswain's mate, left shoulder, very
severely—M. Ryan, A. 8., left leg, severely—James Eng-
lish, captain of maintop, left thigh, severely—Samuel
Rushven, A. 8., left lung and fracture of left arm, very dan-
gerously—George Charmbold, left leg, severely—Levi
Keane, left thigh, dangerously—George Alton, R.M.A.,
left thigh, severely—and Alexander M'Alister, A. 8., arm,
severely.

Volunteers at Wimbledon, was yesterday visited
at the dinner hour, when his white-jacketed waiters
were in the fullest activity, by a distinguished
party, including several ladies, who expressed
themselves much pleased with the order, attention,
and abundance of every department. *
The band of the London Scottish performed for
some hours in the course of the afternoon, adding
much to the pleasure of the visitors. During the
day, so far as could be learnt, there was only one
contretemps. Ensign Starkie, of the 22d (Queen's
Westminsters) an excellent shot, and one of the re-
presentative 20 in the International Rifle Match,
having fired at one of the ranges, was turning to
leave the spot when his foot caught in some in-
equality of the ground, and he unfortunately suf.
fered a severe sprain, which will cause him to be
absent from the further stages of the present
meeting.

The following are the principal scores made
throughout the day :
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S PRIZE.
Highest Scores.

500 yds 800 yds. Total.
Adjutant Cash, Ist Rosshire 18 15 33
H Evans, Ist Derby
Private Lambert, Robin Hood
Lieutenant Burt, Ist Warwick l7 11 28
Ensign Pixley, Victories
Captain Suter, Ist Hereford
FIRST SERIES—EXTRA. PRIZES (500 YARDS),
Points.
Private Chapman, 18th Devon
Colour Sergeant Graham, 2nd Wilts
Captain Pattiahall, Bth Hereford
Private Walliker, Ist East York
Private Grieve, 3d Cambridge
Private Phillips, 3d Cheshire
Captain Smith, Ist Edinburgh .. 16
Private Avis, Ist Devon
Sergeant Bond, Ist Devon
Private Porcher, 10th Gloucester l6
Captain Wisdom, Ist Inverness
Lieutenant Walmsley, 7th Kent ' 16
Sergeant Boynton, sth East York l6
Lieutenant Dutton, Ist Stafford
FIRST STAGE—ALEXANDRA.
Highest Scores at 200 yards.

Points.
Captain Astley, School of Musketry l7
Private Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company
Sergeant Sparrall, 12th Kent
Captain Hancocks, Ist Worcester
Private Cranweli, London Rifle Brigade
Lieutenant Punshon, Ist Newcastle
Hon. Member Evans, Ist Derby
Ensign Cunliffe, 26th Cheshire
Highest Scores at 500 yards.
Ensign Thomas, 4th West York
Lieutenant Marriner, West Middlesex lB
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Private Dawson, 4th West York
Sergeant Knox, 2d Middlesex l7
_ _

Corporal Blanks, Hon. Artillery Company 17
Private M'Crom, Ist Surrey

WINNER OF PRINCE OF WALES' PRIZE,
200 yds, 500 yds. 600 yds. Total
Sergeant Dodd, 2d Hereford..ls 16 15 45
FIRST STAGE—QUEEN'S.

Highest Scores, 200 yards, 16 points and upwards.

Points,

Sergeant Chuter, 25th Surrey
Sergeant Allen, 25th Somerset
Colour Sergeant Munro, 6th Ross-shire

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Colour Sergeant Ford, 26th Stafford.. lB
Private M'Kinnon, Ist Edinburgh lB
Sergeant W. Heep, 6th Lancashire
Private S. Chivers, sth Wilts
Jos, Ryder, 12th West York
Sergeant E. B. Pitchford, 38th Middlesex
Sergeant D. Miller, 10th Berks
Private Heiser, 2d Tower Hamlets l7
Lieut. Railton, 27th Cheshire
Private Atkins, 12th Essex
Private Bradley, Bth Notts
Private Parkinson, 22d Middlesex l7
Private Clark, Bth Oxford
Private Corfield, 13th Middlesex
Private Hangton, sth Norfolk
Sergeant Matthews, 6th. Suffolk l7
Private Rhead, 3d Gloucester Rifles
Colour Sergeant Harrison, 15th Lincoln
Lieutenant Puckle, 15th Middlesex
Private Frere, Ist London
Sergeant Guttridge, 34th Stafford l7
Sergeant Wyles, 19th Kent l7
Private J. Adams, Ist Herts
Corporal J. Wells, 3d Herts
Quartermaster Sergeant R. Pearson, Ist Kent 17
Lance Corporal Jankowaky, 39th Middlesex 16
Captain A. J. Lewis, 38th Middlesex
Colour Sergeant White, 29th Middlesex 16
Lieutenant R. J. Nodder, Ist Lancashire l6
Private R. Formby, sth Lancashire l6
eJergeant J. Holmes, 6th tan'eeetaire l6
Sergeant Edwards, 6th Stafford l6
Sergeant Muat, 3d Ayrshire
Quartermaster Sergeant Ruddock, Ist Betts 16
Colour Sergeant J. R. Ross, Ist Elgin .. 16
Lieutenant Benson, 15th Durham .. 16
Private Crickmay, sth Dorset l6
11. Robson, 7th Dorset ..
Private Yatman, 9th West Middlesex
Ensign Crooks, 11th Middlesex l6
Private Blanks, Hon. Artillery Company
Private Rook, lion. Artillery Company
Private Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company
Private Gore, 21st Lancashire
Ensign Taylor, 33d Lancashire
Private Hall, 33d Lancashire
Lieutenant Brougham, 13th Staffordshire 16
Private Wood, 20th Staffordshire
Sergeant Palmer, 36th Staffordshire l6
Private Keleall, 38th Staffordshire
Corporal Foster, 39th Staffordshire
Lieutenant Fuller, Ist Cambridge .
' Corporal Barker, let Cambridge . 16
Private Hodson, Ist Cambridge
Corporal Riches, sth Essex
Private Hammen, 14th Kent l6
Private Ralph, 18th Kent
Sergeant Kimble, 25th Kent .. l6
Private M'Kenzie, 29th Middlesex
Sergeant Reynolds, 36th Middlesex
Private Banes, 22d Middlesex l6
Ensign Chattock, 28th Middlesex
Corporal Noverre, Ist Norfolk
Sergeant Davidson, Ist Roxburgh l6
Colour Sergeant Smith, 4th Ross-shire
Private W. Green, 10th Northumberland
Sergeant Callett, 2d Sussex .. 16
Private E. Jones, Ist Warwick
Private Butler, Ist Warwick
Corporal Worth, Bth Warwick ......
Sergeant Wallis, Ist Surrey
Sergeant Harrison, 4th Westmoreland .. 16
Private Burton, Bth Derby l6
Private Blackmore, 2d Devon
Lieut Wright, 23d Devon .. l6
Lance Corporal Read, Isle of Wight l6
Private T. Cook, 7th Isle of Wight
Capt Hon the Master of Lovat, 7th Inverness 16
Sergt Major Netherrole, 3d Flamorganshire 16
Corporal Tippett, Ist Gloucester
Private Lane, Ist Gloucester . .
Dr W. Hutchinson, let Gloucester
Lieut Chapman, 12th North York l6
Corporal Thorney, Ist East York l6
Ensign Thomas, 4th West York
Corporal Collier, 4th West York ..
Private S. Neale, Ist Herts l6
Ensign Wilcox, 7th Wilts
Corporal Allen, 14th Wilts
Private Trewolla, 6th Worcester
Sergeant Robinson, 16th Middlesex l6
Colour Sergeant Baylis, 16th Middlesex
Private Warren, 21st Middlesex l6
Private Walmisley, 22d Middlesex
Private Leete, 22d Middlesex l6
Lance Corporal Oswin, 4th Northampton
Sergeant Deacon, sth Northampton
Sergeant Peasland, 2d Northampton l6
Private Scott, 4th Renfrew l6
Sergeant Pratt, 12th Surrey
Corporal Macrosbie, 12th Surrey .. l6
Corporal Willoughby, 23d Surrey .. 16
Sergeant Hiddel, 22d Surrey
Private Creed, 25th Somerset..
Private Beech, Ist Warwick
Private Allport, Ist Warwick l6
Quartermaster Sergeant Larmer, sth Surrey 16
Private Elsonore, 7th Surrry .. 16
Sergeant Carrick, lat Cumberland l6
Lance Corporal Doo, 22d Cheshire l6
Private Bishopp, 4th Cinque Ports
Ensign Rimington, sth Cumberland l6
Captain Seward, 12th Hants
Sergeant Muir, 3d Kirkcudbright
Colour Sergeant Redfarm, 4th Lanark l6
Not the least interesting feature at Wimbledon is
the Post-office, which is now under the charge of
Sergeant Russell, of the A division ; and it is really
surprising to know the amount of correspondence
which passes through his hands, he having the
care of upwards of 2,000 letters, which are distri-
buted to those to whom they are directed all over
the camp. There are two despatches and four deli-
veries every day.

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imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release
from all debts and liaLilities without publicity, by application
to Messrs. Marshall, 8014o:tors of the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices—
(established 1830), 12, Hatton-garden, City branch -6, Moor-
gate-street, Bank.—AnyT.

The Late General (Bishop) Polk,

A writer in a contemporary says :—Having had
the pleasure of intimate acquaintance with the late
respected and excellent General Polk, from whose
lips I have heard the interesting story of a life so
prematurely cut off by the fortunes of war, perhaps
you will allow me to trespass upon your columns by
the insertion of the following brief memoir of the
venerable and patriotic soldier-bishop.
Leonidas Polk, cousin to the President of that
name, was born in North Carolina in 1812, so that
he was little above 50 years of age. Ho was of Irish
origin, his grandfather having taken part in the
famous siege of Derry. In his person he combined
all the warmth of feeling, the noble attributes, and
the generous impulses which in a peculiar degree
are characteristic of the Irish gentleman. General
Polk possessed a stately and well-proportioned
physique. His countenance was open and intellec-
tual, his features classical and expressive, while his
expansive and strongly-marked forehead indicated
great intellectual capacity. His fine manly appear-
ance was even thrown into the shade by the suavity
and urbanity of his manners and the vivacity and
perspicacity of his conversational powers.
Having graduated and duly taken his degree in
the university of his native city, Mr Polk was ap-
pointed cadet at West Point Military Academy,
where he remained during four years. When he had
completed the regular curriculum of his professional
studies, he received a commission as second lieute-
nant in an artillery company. While residing at
the college he received serious impressions, and
became a communicant of the Episcopal Church,
under the impressive preaching of the chaplain, Dr.
M'llvaine, since the Bishop of Ohio. After an asso-
ciation of a few months with the army, he retired
from the service, and offered himself as a candidata
for holy orders. Upon completing his ecclesiastical
studies, and passing through the diaconate, he was
ordained priest, when he became the assistant to
Bishop Moore, of Virginia, and rector of the Monu-
mental Church in Richmond. Mr Polk's health at
length failing, he journeyed to England, where he
remained for some time, and where he received very
favourable and, indeed, indelible impressions of
English institutions and manners.

On his return to his native country, and being in
possession, by marriage and inheritance, of a large
number of slaves, he took up his abode with his
family in Tennessee. He erected a beautiful chapel
upon his estate for the spiritual edification of his
slaves, for whom he regularly performed daily reli-
gious ministrations. From this work, however, he
was called by the Convention of the United States
Episcopal Church to the honourable position of
missionary bishop. This episcopate, he assured me,
comprehended 6,000 miles of territory, including
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas,
and the Southern Indian States, the periodical
visitation of which usually occupied him 6 months.

Bishop Polk was consecrated at Christ Church,
Cincinnati, in 1838. On that important and inter-
esting occasion Dr M'llvaine delivered the conse-
cration sermon, a discourse replete with impressive-
ness and power. Oae striking passage in the
discourse, with reference to the " chaplain and the
student," created so deep a sensation at the time as
to be deemed worthy of reproduction in the English
leading journals.

Iu 1841 Bishop Polk was elected to the episcopate
of Louisiana (which he retained up to the hour of
his untimely death), when he retired from an ardu-
ous office that sorely taxed and tried his energy
and his health. He belonged to what is termed
the moderate or sound school of theology, and held
neither High Church nor Low Church opinions
or predilections. In evidence of his unflagging
zeal in the service of his Divine Master I may men-
tion, on his own authority, that since his appoint-
ment to the episcopate of Louisiana he built 50
churches, and collected and expended 750,000
dollars in the work of church extension.

Bishop Polk possessed considerable military
knowledge, a circumstance of which President
Davis (his class•mate at West Point) appeared to
be cognisant. This fact, coupled with the moral
itflaeace attached to the bishop's name and cha-
racter, induced the President to urge his accept-
ance of a command in the provisional army of the
`Z'onfeaerate States. Bishop Polk did not enter
hastily upon a change of calling. After much
deliberation and consultation with his brother
bishops, he was induced to imitate the chivalric
spirit manifested by the ecclesiastics of the Middle
Ages, when the cowl of the priest was combined
with the armour of the warrior, and the hand that
held the crosier did not disdain to wield the sword.
In undertaking the direction of an army Bishop
Polk was influenced by the strongest, purest, and
most patriotic of motives. "If our cause be holy,
he observed to me just before taking the field, "to
become a soldier is an obligation not less religious
than civil. We must not wait for the enemy to
violate our hearths and despoil our altars before we
enter upon self-defence—we must go against them
to guard against such profanation."

General Polk was no less loved by his " com-
mand" than by the people of his diocese; and his
brief but arduous military career has shown that
he fulfilled as honourably and as nobly the position
of a soldier and patriot as that of a Christian
bishop. Few personages in the Southern States
could have more mourners, and to none could be
applied with stricter truth the language of Holy
Writ—" A perfect man, in whom there was no
guile." As one who knew and esteemed the
lamented general, I feel a sort of sorrowful satis.
faction in penning this memoir. .Requiescat in pace.

pile of their torches, singing in chorus as they threw
them away. The crowd then dispersed, and all the
students proceeded to a Bier Keller (before agreed
on), where the custom is for each to drink in per-
fect darkness a huge chopin of beer to the remem-
brance of the deceased when living, and of his re-
membrance in death; after which they all throw
their glasses on the floor and break them in pieces.
It might, indeed, be hoped that such a shocking
tragedy would induce: the authorities to put a stop
to the system of duelling, which prevails at this
university to such an extent that they are not even
a weekly, but almost a daily occurrence. The faces
I saw last night were scarred in every variety of
form. Some had their faces cut open—the scars
scarcely healed; some had bandages round their
heads, others huge plasters on their cheeks; and at
this present moment a student is walking about
with his nose stuck on with plaster. " Tousles
gouts sont dans la nature,' and at Heidelburg scars
are considered beauties, in the same way that
tatooing is admired in New Zealand. What is also
strange, it is considered more honourable to receive
than to give cuts. The Germans are loud in their
praises of the ordinary duels with swords, as they
say only a nose or an eye can be lost, for up to
their necks the students are muffled up and pro-
tected, and only the faces exposed. For a nose to be
Gut off, or an eye put out, is by no means a rare
occurrence, but the famous Dr. G--s replaces
them so perfectly that only to the inner man is the
loss perceptible. A student, indeed, died of a sword
cut last year, but I was assured that it was quite
an accident, and entirely his own fault, as his skull
was unusually thin.