The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

cuss( I him of personal corruption, with the object
of pi eventing him from attaining the object of his
ambition ; and this charge has been " endorsed "
by the War Democrats in Congress, not,
perhaps, because it is believed, but because by
keeping the Secretary out of the field, the pros-
spects of General M'Clellan may be improved.
The charges are that he has used the public funds
for his own electioneering purposes; that he has
put illegal facilities of money-making in the way
of his nephew, a banker, and of his son-in-law, a
rich manufacturer and member of the Senate ;
that he has for political purposes appointed im-
proper persons to office in the Treasury Depart-
ment ; that such persons have been guilty of pecu-
lation and over issues of postage or fractional cur-
rency ; and, moreover, that the female clerks in the
establishment introduced by his patronage have by
their immoral conduct scandalised the whole sere
vice. These charges—exceeding in shamelessness,
if they be false, the usual bitterness of party warfare
—could not be treated with contempt, and it has been
found absolutely necessary to appoint a committee
of investigation. The committee has already com-
menced its sittings, and Mr. Chase, who had made
up his mind to resign office, as soon as the Presi-
dent rewarded his denouncer, has reconsidered his
determination, and will hold his place till its report
be rendered. It is not considered probable that
Mr. Chase has been guilty of the grave offences im-
puted to him, or that any stain will rest on his per-
sonal honour, though it may perhaps be found that
in nepotism and favouritism he may have lain him-
self open to unfriendly criticism, if not to serious
blame. His great offence in the eyes of General
Blair and all who are intriguing for the re-election
of Mr. Lincoln is that he has been indiscreet enough,
not once, but many times, to speak contemptuously
of the intellect and manners of the President, while
in that of the Democratic party, his offence is that
he is a member of Mr. Lincoln's Government and
the soundest intellect of his party. Thus he stands
in the uncomfortable position of being attacked by
both perties, his fiercest assailants being those of
his own political household. The supposition is
that if the report of the Investigation Committee be
favourable, as almost everybody believes, he will
throw up the Secretaryship of the Treasury, and
enter the lists as an independent candidate for the
Presidency. Such a course of proceeding will set
him personally right with Mr. Lincoln and the
Cabinet, and perhaps be the means of producing
other Ministerial changes, which Mr. Lincoln, if he
could foresee them, would be the first to deprecate-
The House of Representatives, without a dissen-
tient voice, has increased the pay of the army at
an estimated cost to the Treasury of 40 millions of
dollars. It has raised the rates per month for pri-
vate soldiers from 13 to 16 dollars, and of all the
superior grades in like proportion. In this advance
the coloured soldiers are to participate. The Fede-
ral Government could not in honour act otherwise.
Expediency, if no higher motive, compelled it to do
justice to them. There are, it appears, 130,0001
black troops in the service, all of whom were dis-
contented at receiving only ten dollars a month,
while white men received 13. They have for months
protested against the wrong, and in some instances
have mutinied to enforce a demand which they
believed to be otherwise unattainable. A black
sergeant, a man of considerable attainments and
high character, was recently shot for mutiny, for
insisting upon the full amount of the wages pro-
mised to him on enlistment, for which act of severity
Mr. Lincoln was publicly denounced by an ultra-
Abolitionist weekly journal of this city as a shedder
of innocent blood, and the enemy of the negro race.
Since that time the urgent need of black soldiers in
default of white ones has induced the Government
to reflect upon the impolicy, to call it by no
stronger name, of making invidious distinctions
between the two portions of its armies. Accord-
ingly, the Senate, under the leadership of Mr.
Charles Sumner, voted an amendment to the Army
Appropriation Bill in which this wrong was reme-
died ; and on Saturday last the Lower House was
asked to concur and to decree that from and after
the first day of January last the uniform, arms,
equipment, rations, medical attendance, and pay of
white and. black soldiers should be the same. After
a debate that threatened to become personal, the
House agreed to the proposition by a majority of 81
against 49, It is expected that one result of this
measure will be that the future negro recruitment
will be carried on more successfully, and that an
additional 100,000 b:aeks, who could not otherwise
nave been induced to enter the service, will join the
ranks. There is still, however, the question of re-
taliation to be decided before the blacks will be
thorouee I.y—
-satiefied. The Federal Government has
solenThiy declared to its Southern enemy and to the
cladlized world that its uniform shall protect its
soldier, whatever his colour, and that for every
black man taken prisoner and afterwards put to
death, because he is a negro or because he may have
formerly been a slave on a Southern plantation, it
will execute a white Confederate prisoner. It re-
mains to be seen whether it will carry the threat
into execution. Mr. Lincoln pledged himself at
Baltimore to exact " retribution" for the massacre
of coloured soldiers at Fort Pillow, if on investiga-

(From the Vanes Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, May 4.
Private despatches in cipher are said to have
been received in this city announcing the com-
mencement of hostilities on the Rapidan at an early
hour yesterday morning. None of the facts, how-
ever, have been made public, and, as the whole story
may be based upon calculation rather than upon
knowledge, there are as many inclined to disbelieve
as to credit it. It appears to be certain, however,
that General Lee has concentrated a large force at
Orange Court-house to contest the paasage of the
Rapidan should General Grant attempt a direct
movement upon Richmond, that both armies have
received heavy reinforcements, and that the greatest
battle of the wir is imminent from hour to hour,,

if it be not raging at this moment. For the firfst

time since Richmond has been the object of Federal
desire, the attacking General has succeeded in keep-
ing to himself the secret of his plans and move-
mements. No babbling secretary or aide-de-camp
knows what he has determined on, and, conse-
quently, no indiscreet wife or daughter of said
secretary or aide has been able to promulgate in
strictest confidence to her dear friend with
" Southern sympathies," of whom there are so many
thousands in Washington, the direction the armies
were to take, or the day the march was to begin.
On previous occasions Richmond has been better in•
formed than New York of every movement that
was aboat to be made, and in this respect General
Grant has shown himself to be a good strategist,
and virtually doubled the strength of his army until
it shall please him to strike a blow.
Both sides are confident of victory, but it may not
unprofitably be asked whether both are equally
well able to sustain a defeat, and whether, in point
of fact, a signal reverse could not be far better
borne by the South than by the North. However
damaging to the prestige of the Confederate cause
the loss of Richmond and the defeat of Lee's army
might prove, neither event, or both together, would
subjugate the Southern people or lead to that ex-
termination so ardently demanded by such soldiers
as Generals Butler and Sherman, such statesmen as
Mr. Charles Sumner and Mr. Thaddeus Stevens,
and such angels of feminine grace and maidenly
gentleness as Miss Anna Dickenson and the strong
minded sisterhood of the conventicle. Oa the con•
trary, the Southernlmasses, instead of splitting into
factions hostile to their own Government and cla-
morous for peace and reunion with the Yankees,
would be more likely than ever to forget all minor
differences and disagreements, and unite into one
compact phalanx of unyielding hate, having nothing
to expect from submission but ruin and death, but
everything to hope from prolonged and more des-
perate resistance. On the other hand, a Southern
victory, though it might intensify the animosity of
a large section of the Northern people, and induce
them to call for more men and more money to pro-
secute the war to the bitterest extremity of desola-
tion, would be attended with the danger of disrup-
tion in the Northern councils, of popular risings in
the great cities, of an accretion of strength to the
peace party ; of the defeat of Mr. Lincoln's, Mr.
Chase's, Gen. Fremont's, and every other Republi-
can candidate's claim to the Presidency; and at no
distant date of the transference of supreme power to
a military dictator, in the person of Gen. M'Clellan,
or of some more rigid tyrant of the type of Gen.
Butler. But there aro few Americans who look so
far into the future as to-morrow, unless for busi-
ness or personal purposes. In public affairs to-day
is sufficient for itself, and to day is always bright
and happy. It is the characteristic of the people to
be irrationally hopeful, and never to admit the pos
sibility of evil till it is upon them. At present they
rely wholly upon their superior numbers and their
superior wealth to crush the foe, forgetful that num-
bers in unskilful or unlucky hands may be the source
of weakness rather than of strength, and that money
too lavishly fabricated by the printing press, though
it may pay their armies, may demoralise or disgust '
the working classes, lead by its superabundance to
worse evils than those of scarcity, and ultimately
produce that financial crash which will ruin thou-
sands, and bring the pressure of unwonted poverty to
the homes of millions, But none of these things are
now thought of. The " rebellion "isto be crushed
by one blow. Gen. Grant is the master of the situa-
tion. The South is to forget and forgive its hue-lilies

tion. Like a boy who has b.3.en thrashed by a
schoolfellow, it is to bear no ; to join in the
sports of the playground as if nothing had hap•
pened, and to uudertike with its late antagonist a
nice little foraging expedition to Mexico for the ex-
pulsion of that impudent French boy who has yen-

tured into a precinct forbidden by pedagogue Mon-
roe. Such is the talk of the hour. All is gay, glorious
and hopeful. Nothing, in fact, is amiss, except that'
troublesome gold, which persists in reaching a -tire_
mium of 80 per cent. over greenbacks and making
things unpleasant in the Treasury Depar34ment.
The military situation, though th".l fate of the

Republic may hang upon it, dog not just now
excite half the interest of the
Presidential canvass.
Grant's success might scs',ter to the wind in a
moment the claims of every rival; but the rivals,
if not in their own persons, in those of the friends
who hope to attain, wealth, position, or place by

their promotion, are busily at work in all directions I
to procure nominations by regular conventions of
their party. That section of the Republican organi-
sation which still believes that Mr. Lincoln ought,
as a matter of convenience, if nothing more, to be re-
elected, has determined to hold a convention at Bal-
timore on the 7th of June. The friends of General
Fremont, the favourite of the Dutch (as the Ger-
mans are called in America), and of such influen-
tial members of the Republican party as believe that
Mr. Lincoln is neither earnest enough, wise enough,
nor honest enough to be entrusted any longer with.
the destinies of the nation, have called a convention
at Cler eland, in Ohio, for the 27th of May, They
hope to forestall the action of the other branch of
the party at Baltimore, and nominate their candi-
date under such auspices and with such eclat as
shall render it hopeless for any one on the same
side to compete with him. The friends of General
M'Clellan, who bids fair, provided General Grans,
gain no victory in the interval, to receive the an_
divided support of the Democratic party, are to
meet in convention in Chicago in June, s'n that the
whole country,lif General Lee will allo iv the leisure,
will be involved in the prelimin-41.7 operations of
president making in less tb'an a month, and Mr.
Lincoln, even if so disp-jged, will have no time to
interfere with military movements.
Meanwhile, to clear the way for a struggle be-
tween himself and the lesser athletes--whom he
can more easily throw than the heavier ones—Mr.
Lincoln has teen urged to re-appoint his two most
influential rivals to military command—to send
General Fremont to Florida, with a force insufficient
to add to his military renown, if not scanty enough
tolead him into peril ; and to send General
M'Cielleis to Louisiana to replace General Banks,
with the same amiable object, But, as General
Grant is Commander-in- Chief, and has been pro-
mised that no interference in military matters shall
4.ake place without previous consultation with
him, there are difficulties in the way of these
arrangements which Mr. Lincoln, even if disposed,
might find it damaging to attempt, or impossible to
surmount. Of the three other rivals whose names
are More the public—Gen. Banks, Gen. Butler, and
Mr, Chase—the first is already disposed of by his
defeat in Louisiana. The second has, it seems, placed
himself in the power of the Government by his
over-hastiness to grow rich, and will be called before
an investigating committee of Congress to answer a
variety of charges both at New Orleans and in his
present command. Whether the charges be true or
false, the investigation can scarcely be other than
damaging. In a country like this, where a public
functionary is supposed to be corrupt, merely be-
cause he is a public functionary, and where it is im-
possible to be placed in a situation where a fortune
can be made illicitly without being suspected of
making it, the charges are certain to be believed by
a class of people sufficiently large to Weaken, if not
to destroy, his chance of a nomination by any con-
vention of his party. Mr. Chase, a much more
formidable candidate, though nominally withdrawn
from the contest, has been placed in a similar pre-
dicament. General Frank Blair, speaking for the
Lincoln branch of the Republican Harty, has Pc-

tion the current reports should prove to be correr„.
A committee appointed for the purpose by the ;:iouse
of Representatives has just returned from 'the west,
reports, not only that the rumours 'ere true, but
that they under rather than over ',caked the cruelties
that were perpetrated. Uno er these circumstances,
Jth to the blacks and the
it becomes interesting h
whites to know whe%fler by"retribution" Mr. Lin-
coln meant " ret.aliation ;" and in what way he is
to exact the one or effect the other. As the blacks
Promise :or the future to be the main military prop
of Federal power, the question is one of no slight
rjip-irtance to them, as well as to the civilized
world ; and much curiosity is already excited to
know what steps Mr. Lincoln will take in the mat-
ter. Probably, he will make his mind known in a
" Prcclaraation"—his usual mode of extricating
himself from a difficulty.

A BACKWARD COWRIDE.—During the Revolu-
tionary War, when a corps of ,the American army
was encamped near the borcugh of Elizabeth town, New
Jersey, an officer, who, by the way, was more of a devotee
of Venus than of Mars, paid his addresses to a lady of dis-
tinction, whom he was in the habit of visiting nightly. On
a discovery of the repeated absence of the officer, and of the
place where interviews with his Dulcinea were had, some
waggish friends resolved to play off a handsome trick at his
expense, which should deter him from a repetition of his
visits. The officer, it appears, rode a very small horse of the
pony kind, which he left untied with the bridle reins over
his neck, near the door, in order to ride off without delay,
when the business of courting and kissing was over, and
the horse always remained till backed by the owner, with-
out attempting to change his position. On a certain dark
and gloomy night, when the officer, as usual, had gone to
pay his devotions to the object of his dearest affection, and
was enjoying the approving smiles of the lovely fair one,
his waggish companions went privately to the door of the
house where the officer was, took his bridle and saddle from
the horse, which they sent away, placed the bridle on the
tail and the saddle on thewbhacoks,toaonddpetaheeeictiriulypplreowvienrghtheer
diately thereafter they retired some
chuodranseoafr athqeusipeot
to. Idlmcomwe,
distance from the house, and separating, raised the load
cry of alarm, that the enemy had landed and were march-
ing into the village. Our hero, on hearing this, took coun-
sel from his fears, and snatching a hasty kiss, he shot out
of the door with the velocity of a musket ball and mounted
into the saddle, with his back towards the head on the cow,
and plunging his sharp spurs keenly into her sides, caused
her to bawl out with excessive pain, and she darted with
her best gallop towards the camp. The officer still plying
his spurs with all his wine on board—u fihnisdienffgorhtrs'mt,oelafdhvuarnreye.,
ing rapidly backward, maugro 01.
carried off by magic, and roaring out
imagined that he was
and hearing the repeated baw ings of the tortured beast,
most lustily that the devil
into the very centre of the p
head goo.t
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ewnatsintehl
su,sheeaarrriinegd
the noise, discharged their
pieces and fled, and alarm-guns
quarters and cried " turn out" w
were fired, the drums beat toarmiths,altlhtehoeftsitcreernsgtlhefotftthheeiirr
disturbed their dreams, and the wh ifa
runningghos t
halfhad
lungs, soldiers started from theirosllt,eehpodays,
gr ed
t
ludicrous
naked, as quick as possible, in
to repel the terrible invader. When lo I the u
gallant deshabille,dicropurespsai
sight
soon presented itself to their eyes of the gallant officer
mounted on a cow, with his face towards her tail, her tongue
hanging out, her sides gory withithe gouging of the spurs,
and he himself almost deprived of reason and half petrified
with horror. A loud burst of laughter burst from the
assembled band at the rider and his steed—the whole corps
gave him three times three cheers as he bolted into camp.
He was carried to his quarters in triumph, there to dream
of lovers' metamorphoses, backward rides, stornway ad-
vances, and alarms of invasions, and thereby garnish his
mind with materials far writing a splendid treatise on the
novel adventure of a cowridet—American paper.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1864.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE ARMY.

The screw steam hip Black Prince, 41, Capt. James F.
B. Wainwright, which was navigated on Sunday from Ply-
mouth Sound into riamoaze, was placed yesterday after-
noon it tie Prince's dock, in Devonport yard. Her draught
forward is 25ft 3in, and aft about 26ft 6in.

The Edgar, 71, Capt. G. T. P. Horaby, flag of Rear-
Admiral S. C. Mures, was navigated yesterday morning
into Hamoaxe, and will be placed in No. 1 deck at Se sham
steamyard as soon as the blocks are prepared for her recep-
tion.

The Prime Consort, 35, Capt. G. o.lNrilles, C. 8., having
during the morning discharged her powder and shell, was
navigated in the afternoon from the Sound into Itamoaze.
She will be placed in No. 2 dock at Keyham, after it has
been examined ; this dock has been occupied by the Ocean,
which was displc;ced yesterday forenoon. The Prinfe Con-
sort drawn 25ft 9in forward and 27ft 7in eft.

It was the intention of the a”thcrities at Devonpart yes-
terday to place the Warrior, 40, in Koyham basin in the
afternoon, and pnt her in dock No. 3 to-day, and to put the
Defence in No.l dock at Devonpurt yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty's despatch vessel Salamis, built at Chatham,
and commissioned for service by Commander Suttie, having
damaged her machinery in her trial trip, went up to Wool-
wich yesterday fel- repairs.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Fox, Staff-Commander
Pullen,with stores and passengers from the lonian Islands,
arrived
yesterday Via in the river and was signalled at Wool-
wich. The ndra and Mardias sailing transports, with
military stores from the demolished fortress at Corfu, also
arrived yesterday. The Morning Star, Britain's Pride, and
Melina are alongside Woolwich pier discharging cargoes
also from Corfu.

In consequence of the regulations now in contemplation
for the dbolition of the superannuation allowance to the tac-
tr,-ry men in the royal dockyards, 15 men yesterday received
notice of dismissal at Woolwich. They consist of engineers,
boilermakers, patternmakers, trimmers, and labourers, some
of whom had been employed in the establishment from 15
to 24 years. The men are to be dismissed on the 31st inst.,
and fear that they will be totally unaided by Government,
notwithstanding that the best portion of their lives has been
spant in the factory, where some of them have been maimed
and rendered unfit for future work.

Mahmoud Khan, the Persian Minister in London, went
down to Woolwich yesterday for the purpose of inspecting
the naval and military establishment. Accompanied by his
secretary and five Persian attendants, he arrived at 2 o'clock
and proceeded to the Royal Arsenal, where the visitors
were received by the heads of departments. These were Col.
Campbell and Mr. Anderson, superintendents of the royal
gun factories; Capt. Gordon, C. 8., principal superintendent
of military stores ; Lieut.-Col. Clerk and Lieut.-Col. Shaw,
superintendents of the royal carriage department ; and Capt.
Fraser, assistant superintendent of the laboratory. The in-
spection of the arsenal (each department of which appeared
to interest the visitors exceedingly) occupied more than three
hours. The explanation of the various works Ras given
principally in French by Col. Shaw. It was interpreted to
the Ambassador in Persian by his secretary. An Admiralty
order had been despatched to the dockyard for his excellency's
admission to that establishment also ; but on account of the
time occupied in seeing the Arsenal, the visit to the dock-
yard was again deferred,

The following appointments hays been made in the Royal
Naval Reserve—To be Lieut., Benjamin Lodwiek ;to be
Sub.-Lieut., Walter Hamilton Bisset.

THE NAVY.

By order of his royal Highness the General-Command-
ing-in-Chief, Col. Gny, commandant of camp at Colches-
ter, commenced on Thursday the cfficial half-yearly inspec-
tion of the troops at that camp. The Colonel first reviewed
the 4th Depot Battalion, and examined their kits, huts, &c.
On Saturday the inspection of the 9th and 10th Depot Bat-
talion commenced, and will b© continued this week. On
Thursday and Priday Major-Gen. Hay, Inspector-General
of Musketry, accompanied by Capt. M'Kay, deputy-assis-
tant-adjutant-general of the School of Musketry, paid an
official visit to the camp for the purpose of inspecting the
company musketry returns and registers, and examining
the troops in musketry instruction. 'I he inspection ex-
tended, of course, to each or the three depot battalions at
the camp.

In accordance with instructions received from the War-
office, recommending the cu3ployment of soldiers in culti-
vating gardens in which vegetables may be grown for their
own consumption, the military authorities at Colchester
have granted a piece of land, 9 acres in extent, to the three
depot battalions at the camp, each battalion taking three
acres, The land selected is situated near the new infant
school at Idonkwich, and is to be fenced and cultivated at
the sole expense of the troops under certain conditions ex-
pressed in the War-office letter.
The Asjutant General, Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, has ad-
dressed by command a circular memorandum addressed to
the army at horns and abroad, wherein the Field• Marshal
Commanding-in-Chid desires that officers commanding re-
giments and depots will transmit punctually on the let of
January, the Ist of April, the Ist of July, and the Ist of
October of each year a:return of men whose limited services
has expired during the quarter ending on the preceding
day,—viz., the 31st of December, the 31st of March, the
3,;th of June, and the 30th of September respectively, show-
ing how they have been disposed of. Officers commanding
depot battalions are requested to supervise the return from
each depot before transmission to insure its coirectness.

The examination of candidates for admission to the Royal
Military
ca
vicederay! Woolwich, before Major-Gen.
theHamil-
ton,president, and other members of the
Council of Military Education, will commence on the 4th
proximo, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, The days allotted
to the different subjects of examination will terminate on
Wednesday, June 20.
The next examination of candidates for admission to the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will be herd at the
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, before the vice-president and
members f the Council of Military Education, on the IGth
of next month, and will occupy BiX days, ending Wednes-
day, the 22d.

Inspection of the Third City of London
Volunteers,

nft
on 300
leave, lvere
The annual inspection of this regiment by Col. Morris,
C. 8., Assistant•lnspector of Volunteers, took place yester-
day at Oaklands-hall, Kilburn, the residence of Mr. Donald
Nicoll. Of the corps, which musters nearly 1,000 effective
nmeaemrlbyelupwwereardss e o
unaccounted for. The day could not have been more charm-
ing, the
n pyararemaining
d
an
and to the Volunteers and the many friends by whom
ua rab
they were accompanied the occasion appeared to afford un-
mixed gratification. Scarlet in line always presents an im-
posing aspect, and frcm the outset of the movement " the
Workina Men's Corps" adopted the colour understood to be
viewed with most favour by the military authorities. OH•
ginally their caps and tunics, it is true, wore suggestive
rather of Garibaldian than British uniform, but latterly they
have chosen an exceedingly neat shako and closely fitting
tunic, and when assembled in any numbers their bearing
closely resembles that of i smart and well set-up regiment
of the line, Their moveraente yesterday were of the cha-
racter usual on such occasions, and wore performed with
great steadiness and solidity, rather than with any attempt
at dash et display. The opening volleys were scarcely as
connected as might have been desired, but towards the close
of the proceedings a marked improvement was visible. At
the termination of the movements Colonel Morris, whose
habit it is never to praise unless the men passing before
him have thoroughly entitled themselves to
commendation
at his hands, said he was glad to have it in his power
to express his satisfaction both with the numbers in
in
which they had attended and the manner which they
had gone through their evolutions. He was well aware
that 99 out of every 100 men in the ranks forfeited a day's
earnings in order to be present; but it must be some
compensation to them to know that by this substantial
sacrifice they were not only nronlaing the interests of their
corps, but in a material degree rendering service to their
country as
well. Colonel Morris pointed out a few details
in which the men themselves would acknowledge that attea-
tion to drill was calculated still further to promote
their efficiency, and intimated his intention of report-
ing in favourable terms to the War•office. In the
evening these members of the corps who had attended the
inspection, and the cadets belonging to the regiment, were
entertained at dinner by Major Richards and the other
officers of the regiment, at the new hotel, situate in the Vale
of Health, Hampstead leath. For purposes of this kind the
hotel is charmingly situated, and will no doubt become a
favourite place of resort. In one point of view it was, per-
haps unfortunate that, owing to considerations of space, the
officers and men should have been separated ; but no un-
pleasant feeling could have arisen on this score, as the meu
themselves were distributed in different departments. More-
over, the liberality of the officers provided not only a sub,
stantial repast, but one chosen in very good taste for the
men, and which seemed to command their entire approval.
The officers, of course, remained to see that the wants of
their subordinates were duly supplied before sitting down to
their own dinner, and, as a necessary consequence, the letter
was thrown back to a late hour. The only accident occur-
ring to mar the proceedings of the day was one which befell
Private Lodge. Having loaded his rifle, he incautiously
placed his left hand on the muzzle and brought the butt
smartly to the ground. The hammer falling with the shock,
the middle finger of the unfortunate man's left hand was
so shattered that amputation had to be resorted to. This was
borne with remarkable firmness, almost with indifference,
and the young man, refusing. the aid of a stretcher, walked
to the nearest cab, in which he was duly forwarded to his
residence
• Such was the sympathy excited by the accident
and the Sang froid with which it was endured that a sub-
scription amounting to close upon £23 was raised on the
spot by Mr Nicholay, the Quartermaster of the regiment.

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imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release
from all debts and liabilities without publicity, by application
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Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices
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