The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

(RNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
sad Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, oeautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian,
AlabaEtar, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &a
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNA.NT, Mine•
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C.. London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS.
INERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2, 5. 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
R &LOGY is given by Mr.TENNANT.F.G.S., at 149. Strand.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone, Dull Care,"
every evening at 8. A Day Performance. Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, Is.

PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. —World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Jndian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
(to., in his original entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s. ;
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's hall, 23, Piccadilly.
A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

WESTBOURNE HALL, Westbourne-grove,
Bayswater, W.

THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE DAY.

MORNING PERFORMANCE (by Special Request) on
SATURDAY, the. 26th, and WEDNESDAY, the 30th of
August, and SATURDAY, the 2d of September.

The BABY ACTRESS, age, Two Yeais and Ten Days, will
Recite and Act a whole scene from Shakapere's Play of
KING JOHN. give some amusing COMIC SKETCHES,
and in the course of the evening a SEA SONG and DANCE
(in character). This Little. Wonder is as pretty as talented,
and excels by far any juvenile prodigy that has yet appeared
in public.

From the Era, July 22, 1865.—" A genuine and remarkable
novelty is now belag exhibited. She is literally a baby, not
having reached the age of two years ; and is gifted with in-
telligence and powers of memory to a marvellous extent.
She recites whole scenes from ' King John,' A Midsummer
Night's Dream,' Zee., with appropriate action and astonishing
earnestness. A more wonderful instance of precocious in-
telligence cannot well be imagined. She may be truly classed
among the wonders of the present day."

Likenesses. Is. each. Programmes and words of the per-
formance may be had in the hall during the entertainment._

In addition to the above performances, Mr. ALFRED
'TOWARD'S DRAMATIC RECITALS and COMIC
SKETCHES, interspersed with Music.
Doors open at 2.30. Commence at 3. Admission, ls.; first
seats, 28.; reserved seats, 3s. Tickets may be had from Mr.
Whirley, Westbourne Hall, or of any book or music seller.

T HE 0 X F ORD.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Waimealey, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St.
Albyn, Rusk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, &c., by the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA GUNNISS.

NOTICE.—The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.

• ----
The Classical Ballet, entitled THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear-
ance THIS EVENING.

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, la. ; private
boxes. 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
KO KO RI KO.
This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest
hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad-
dition to the Operatic Selections, supported by the whole
talent of the establehment.
Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Durtah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.
Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to
the above establishment.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London,
and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.
Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added._

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock the Ist Battalion
Coldstream Guards, commanded by Lieut.-Col.
Feilding, paraded at the Infantry Barracks, Sheet-
street, Windsor, and marched with drums and fifes
to the Eton side of the river, where some 200 of the
men were engaged in a succession of aquatic sports
and exercises, such as swimming, diving, and other
feats. The battalion afterwards returned through
the town, the troops singing on their way back to
the barracks a variety of popular songs. The bat-
talion will leave Windsor on Friday for New Chel-
sea Barracks.

The detachments from the 4th King's Own Regi-
ment, 15th, 20th, and 35th Regiments, selected to
augment the service companies of the Royal Cana-
dian Rifles Regiment, the particulars of which were
given in 2he Sun of yesterday, left Chatham gar-
rison at an early hour yesterday morning for Ports-
mouth, where they embark on board her Majesty's
iron screw steam transport Himalaya, 700-horse
power, with the other troops proceeding to Canada.
The departure of the reinforcements of cavalry
and infantry for Kurrachee, which was to have
taken place yesterday morning, has been again de-
layed, a telegram having been received at Chatham
garrison notifying that the chartered transport
Beaumaris Castle, in which the troops are to em-
bark, will not be ready to receive the draughts on
board until Thursday next, when the detachments
will embark from Custom-house quay, Gravesend,
prior to which the Beaumaris Castle will be in-
spected by Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole, K.C.B.
Gen. Sir. J. Pennefather's period of command of
the Aldershot Division having expired, the inhabi-
tants of Aldershot have determined to present him
with a testimonial ; 100 guineas have been sub-
scribed, which have been expended in the purchase
of a silver Cellini cup from the establishment of
Messrs. Garrard and Co., goldsmiths and jewellers
to the Crown, Haymarket. The cup bears the fol-
lowing inscription :—" Testimonial to Lieut.-Gen.
Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.8., from the inhabitants

of Aldershot and neighbourhood, on his retirement
from the command of the Aldershot Division, Sept.,
1865." The testimonial will probably be presented
in the course of a few days, and the General will
leave the camp about the middle of the ensuing
month, when the command of the Aldershot Divi-
sion will devolve upon Gen. the Hon. Sir James Y.
Scarlett, K.C.B.
Yesterday morning a district court martial, of
which Major W. H. Kerr was the president, assem-
bled, by order of Major-General Sir R. Walpole,
K.C.8., in the general court martial room at
Chatham garrison, for the trial of Alex. M'Cluskey,
a private, attached to the 65th company of the
division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, on a
charge of striking Assistant Surgeon William Con-
nolly, M.D., while in the discharge of professional
duties. The accused had been previously sen-
tenced by court-martial to a term of imprisonment
for a military offence of which he had been c•n-
victed, and it was while he was at Melville Hospi-
tal, undergoing the customary medical inspection
prior to his removal to the military prison at Fort
Clarence, Rochester, that he broke away from the
escort, and rushing at the medical officer assaulted
him in a very severe manner. Evidence was ad-
duced to show that daring the time the prisoner
has been in the corps of Royal Marines, a period of
five years, his character and conduct have both been
very bad. A short time back the prisoner stabbed
a man during a quarrel in a public-house, for which
he was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour in
Maidstone Gaol, and on another occasion he
wounded a comrade on board ship by stabbing him
in the forehead. He has also been several times
convicted and punished by divisional and other
courts-martial. The finding and sentence of the
Court for the present offence will not be promul-
gated to the troops until the proceedings of the
Court have been submitted for approval to Major-
General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., commanding
the district.

Her Majesty's screw troop ship Himalaya, Capt.
T. B. Lethbridge, sails this morning from Spithead
for Halifax and Quebec with the following troops
on board :—Royal Artillery—Major Simpson, Mrs.
Simpson, three children, and servant; Major,
Field ; Capts. Chalmers and Heberden ; Lieuts.
Pretyman, Shuttleworth, Pipon, Rawes, Allen,
Kenneway. Ist Battalion 25th—Capt. Hope and
wife, and Lieut. Dobson. 30th Regiment—Capt.
Glascott and Ensigns Goodwyn and Kemble. 4th
Battalion 60th Regiment—Capt Phillips, Mrs.
Phillips, and servant, and Ensign Cunningham.
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade—Capt. Hyshe and
Ensign Walpole. The 4th Battalion of Rifle
Brigade—Capt. Norris and Mrs. Norris, child,
and servant, and Ensigns Hon. N. Littleton and
Viscount Cole. 2d Battalion, 7th Regiment—Lieuts.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUE§DAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1865.

Nowell, Rochfort, and Winter, and Ensigns B.
Stuart and St. George. Canadian Rifles—Ensign
Selby. Ist Battalion, 16th Regiment—Assist.-Surg.
Kerr. 47th Regiment-Capt. Thompson, Mrs.
Thompson, and child. 6th Regiment—Capt. Grant;
Staff-Surg. Nangle, Mrs. Nangle, and two children.
Assist. -Surg. Taylor, Assist.-Conn.-Gen. Mills, Mrs.
Mills, and child. 763 men, 26 women, and 51 chil-
dren:

The operation of fixing the 8-inch and 6-inch
armour-plates which will protect the reconnoitring
tower constructed on the upper deck of the ironclad
frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1.000 horse-power, was com-
menced at Chatham dockyard yesterday, and dur-
ing the day two of the large fore and aft plates were
safely fitted to the tower in the positions they will
occupy, the work of planing and boring the plates
having previously been effected in the factory de-
partment of the dockyard. The port and starboard
portion of the tower--which, it may here be re-
marked, is of elliptical form, with the shorter dia-
meter fore and aft—will be protected by armour-
plates 8 inches in thickness, but as this portion of the
tower will be of conical form, the chances of any
hostile shot effecting any injury to it, although ob-
viously more exposed than the other portions of the
tower, are reduced to a minimum. All the 8-inch
plates have stood the betiding, slotting, and planing
processes to which they have been subjected without
exhibiting any flaw ; indeed, the iron from which
they have been worked aipears to be of the toughest
and best description. 'the 8-inch plates are the
largest yet operated upon at Chatham dockyard, but
arrangements are now ~sing completed for bending
and working armour-plates (.f 9 inches in thickness,
or double those of the thickness of the Warrior, with
which the sides of the iron frigate Hercules, to be
built at Chatham, are to beencased. Even this, thick-
ness of plating has been exceeded at the works of
Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, where seve-
ral thousandtonsof armour-plates of no less than 13i
inches in thickness have lately been manufactured
for the Russian Government, for encasing the sea
face for the ports at Cronstadt.
The iron-cased screw steamship Lord Clyde, 24,
built at Pembroke, arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Sunday morning, accompanied by the paddlewheel
steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Capt. Elphinstone D'O.
D'A. Aplin. Yesterday morning the Lord Clyde
was towed into Hamoaze, where she will be fitted
for the first division of the steam reserve. She mea-
sures 4,067 tons, and has engines of 1,000-horse
power.

The screw steam frigate Constance, 31, Capt.
Edward K. Barnard, which arrived last week in
Plymouth Sound from the eastward, is appointed to
go into Hamoaze, where she will be fitted for duty
on a foreign station, probably the West Indies.

Visit of the French Fleet to Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 28.
The preparations for the reception of the French
Fleets are to-day being pushed on with increased
vigour. The naval authorities are, of course, as busily
engaged as they can be ; the military authorities are
doing everything to render their part in the pro-
ceedings of the week effective; while the civic autho-
rities are vieing with both, and not without the
hope of coming very creditably out of the contest.
They must, however, have been somewhat dispirited
when they rose this morning and found that the
weather had completely broken the bright promise
of yesterday. To the success of the civic portion of
the entertainment here, which will partake very
much of the nature of a fete champetre, warmth
and sunshine are all but absolutely essential, and
the morning -held out but little prospect of either.
Rain set in at a very early hour, and continued to
fall until near noon with a quiet steadiness which
looked as if the weather was determined not to ex-
haust itself by any violent effort. The glass fell,
and with it fell the hopes which were yesterday so
sanguine. The afternoon, however, remained dry
throughout, and, although the sky is somewhat over-
clouded, the prospects of fine weather to-morrow are
not so gloomy as they at one time of the day appeared.
Notwithstanding the wetness of the morning,
Portsmouth wore early a lively, bustling aspect.
Troops marched through the town from different
directions, bound for Southsea-common, where, un-
der the command
of Sir G. Buller, K.C.8., they
went through a series of manoeuvres, preparatory to
the grander display which is to take place on Fri-
day. The troops were organised in three brigades,
the first consisting of the 6th and 12th Brigades of
Royal Artillery, the 3d company of Royal Engi-
gineers, and the 75th Regiment, being under the
immediate orders of Col. Poynter, C. 8., and Brevet
Major Colclough ; the second brigade, which was
composed of the Ist battalion of the 14th Regiment,
the 81st Regiment, the 87th Fusiliers, and the 52d
Light Infantry, were commanded by Col. Penny
and Capt. Butler ; while the third, which was made
up of the Ist and 2d battalions of Royal Marine
Light Infantry and the Ist and 2d battalions of
Royal Marine Artillery, were under the command
of Col. Tate, Brevet-Major Cooke acting as Major
of Brigade. The entire number of troops which
will muster on Southsea-common on Friday will, it
is expected, not be more than between 3,000 and
4,000 men, and as the cavalry will not be repre-
sented at the review, it can scarcely be made a very
imposing military display. While the two services
and the civic authorities are making their prepara-
tions on a great scale, the people of Portsmouth are
far from being content with the part of mere specta-
tors. The inhabitants of more than one street and
district have clubbed together and subscribed small
sums to defray the expenses of erecting triumphal
arches. Two very handsome structures of the kind
with transparencies attached to them are now fast
approaching completion near the railway station
on the Landport-road. It may be that not. one
of the French officers or seamen, in honour of
whose visit those arches have been constructed, will
catch a glimpse of them, for they stand rather upon
the outskirts of the town ; but then their erection
serves as one among many instances to show that
the reception which awaits, the fleet of our allies is
not merely official, but national in its its spirit. The
transparencies generally are more remarkable for
the fidelity with which the designs embody the sen-
timent of the occasion than for any artistic merit in
the execution. One in particular, displayed outside
a house on the road leading to Southsea, attracts
notice by its size and the brightness of its colouring,
It represents an English sailor with the union-jack
flying froin a pole which he holds in his left hand,
withwhile the other hand he warmly clasps the
hand of a French sailor bearing the tricolor, who
May tkey be united for ever !"
There
has just landed from the fierce-looking sea behind
m T
Bothmotto ar
as fine, brave-looking
fellows, very happy to make one another's acquaint-
ance, and prepared to fraternize to an unlimited
h
extent.
The guests invited to the banquet on board the
caricature
tar. is h
e no is,
e depicted of either the French or Eng-
lish
Duke of Wellington to-morrow evening will not
number more than between 60 or 70. They will dine
on the middle deck, which the commander of the
vesse:—Captain SeCCOMbe---is now doing his utmost
to transform into a gorgeous saloon. The guests
will consist almost exclusively of French and
English officers, and Captain Seccombe will by a
curious inversion of the laws of hospitality be in-
vited to dine on board his own ship. The Duke of
Wellington will be illuminated at the conclusion of
the banquet.
The committee who are engaged in the organiza-
tion of the dinner, concert, and ball, which make
up the somewhat formidable programme of the en-
tertainment to be given by the Mayor and Corpo-
ration of Portsmouth on Thursday at Governor's-
green have already received for the purpose up-
wards of £2,000 ; nor have they the slightest doubt
that the much larger sum which will be necessary
to expend in order to make -the municipal fetes

worthy of the national character for hospitality will
be speedily raised.
Portsmouth now contains nearly as many visitors
as it can conveniently accommodate, and the same
may be said of Southsea sand Gosport, and all the
towns in its immediate vicinity. How the thou-
sands who are yet to come are to be provided for it
is impossible to say, unless they proceed somewhat
upon the principle of the two Irish students, who,
wishing to live cheaply and to divide their expenses,
entered into an agreement that the one should board
and the other simply lodge, an arrangement by no
means in favour of the latter.

The following is a list of the French officers who
will accompany the fleet which is to-morrow to lie
beside our own at Spithead :—The Commander-in-
Chief of the squadron, Vice-Admiral Count Bouet
Willaumez, whose flag will be hoisted on board the
Solferino ; Rear-Admiral Baron de la Ronciere,
who will be on board the Magenta; Rear-Admiral
Fabre de la Maurelle, on board the Normandie ;
Rear-Admiral Saisset, on board the Couronne ;
Rear-Admirals Pothuan and Meguet. The captains
are Captain Chevalier, commanding the Invincible ;
Captain Robinet de Plas, Solferino, Captain
Bourgois, chief of the staff of Count Bouet Wil-
laumez ; Captain Miguel de Riu, commanding La
Gloire ; Captain de Surville, Provence ; Captain
Sagat Duvauroux, Heroine ; Captain de Rosen-
coate, Couronne ; Captain Le Bris, Magenta ; Cap-
tain Bachme, Flandre ; and Captain Pierre, chief of
the staff of Baron de la Ronciere. Those are the
nine French vessels of the larger class, which, as we
stated yesterday, will visit our shores. There are
besides four frigates—the Caton, Captain Grivel ;
the Reine Hortense, Captain Charlemagne ; the
Ariel, Captain Perier d'Hauterive ; and the Faon,
commanded by Lieutenant Guys. The Staff of the
Minister of Marine will consist of Captain Charle-
magne, and Lieutenant de Warn. Monseigneur
Coquereau will:accompany the fleet as chaplain in
charge.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

anticipate and to deal with the common obstacles to be ex-
pected in a battle-field, war is a rough disturber ; and, un-
less the industry of the barrack-yard is supported by other
and better resources, it is liable to be turned to nothingness
by even a gentle contact with reality."
. .

If that description were quite correct it would be
a censure on those who selected Sir George Brown
for a most important post. They must have known
he would become Lord Raglan's right-hand man
and adviser. But, in fact, Mr. Kinglake is rather
severe in his desire to be impartial, because Sir
George Brown, in the special instance of the Alma,
was left very much, if not altogether, to his own
discretion, and directed a furious attack on the
principal par, of the Russian line, which "drew
their teeth" for subsequent operations,and he was for
a much longer time than his eulogist assigns free
from the trammels of the Horse Guards.

Sir George was one of the useful family of un-
enobled Browns, which in all degrees and parts of
the world have, according to Mr. Hughes, done so
much for the honour and glory of their country.
The family of Browns, of which he is a direct mem-
ber, haslong been settled in Linkwood, Elgin, where
he was born in 1790, and where he died on Sunday,
the 27th of August. He was intended for the ser-
vice, and was educated at the Royal Military Col-
lege at Great Marlow and at High Wycombe,
whence he was launched on his career at 18 years
of age, into the very midst of the war fever, which,
hot or cold, had been on Europe since 1793. The
young Scotchman [says the writer in the Times, evi-
dently himself an Irishman !], who never lost the
twang which distinguishes the speech of Englishmen
born north of the Tweed, was eager in his vocation,
and loved fighting with a keenness not to be damped
by blood or blunted by wounds, and in those days
of fighting he soon came to the front.
A reference to " Hart" will not give much infor-
mation concerning his career. in " War Services
of General Officers " his name does not occur. In
the services of officers. of the Prince Consort's Own
Rifle Brigade, of which he was appointed Colonel-
in-Chief the 18th of March, 1863, there is no men-
tion of him, but the following foot-note appears to
his name. as Colonel of her Majesty's 32d in that
high authority :
" Sir George Brown served at the siege and capture of
Copenhagen in 1807, in the Peninsula from August, 1808,
to July, 1811; and again from July, 1813, to May, 1814,
including the battle of Vimiera, passage of the Douro and
capture of Oporto, with the previous and subsequent ac-
tions; battle of Talavera (severely wounded through both
thighs), action of the Light Division at the bridge of Al-
meida, battle of Busaco, the different actions during the
retreat of the French army from Portugal, action at Sabu-
gal, battle of Fuentes d'Onor, siege of San Sebastian,
battles of the Nivelle and Nive, and the investment of
Bayonne. Served afterwards in the American war, and
was present at the battle of Bladensburg and capture of
Washington. Slightly wounded in the head and very
severely in the groin at Bladensburg. He has received the
War Medal with seven claps. Commanded the Light
Division throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, in-
cluding the battles of the Alma (horse shot under him),
Balaclava, and Inkerman (severely wounded—shot through
the arm), and siege of Sebastopol (medal and four clasps,
G.C.8., Grand Cross of the Logion of Honour, Ist Class of
the Medjidie, Sardinian and Turkish medals)."

This brief record might be amplified by those
who knew how active and how brave he was in the
earlier part of his career, and how soon he attracted
the notice of his seniors, and, above all, of the Duke
himself, at an epoch when daring actions and per-
sonal qualifications could receive no preliminary
flourish from a high certificate or from figures of
merit in a competitive examination. Indeed, though
he had no reason to be dissatisfied, his reward
might make some grumblers now-a-days ashamed
of themselves. He was gazetted to an ensigncy
the 23d of January, 1806, and became lieutenant
in September of the same year, while serving in the
expedition to Sicily, from which he proceeded to the
hotbed of war in the Peninsula, then under the
Duke's own gardening, after a run to the North
with the corps which reduced Copenhagen. But
fruitful in blows, and well-developed actions, and
plenty of glory plants, the Peninsula was not a
,particularly favoured forcing-house for promotion,
and so it was that five years elapsed before he ob-
tained his company. In that time he had fought
at Vimicra, Almeida, Busaco, and in the last action
was engaged, it is said, in a personal combat with
an officer of the staff of Marshal Massena, whom he
worsted. Then he rushed into the breach at Bada-
joz, was shot through the legs at Talavera, and
managed nevertheless to see the backs of the French
as they retreated from Spain, after a desperate and
protracted resistance, in which Fuentes d'Onor,
Salamanca, Nive, Nivelle, and Orthes had place
and mark. It was his ill or his good fortune to be
sent on the American expedition, and to accompany
Sir Hugh loss's force up the Chesapeake. He
was present at the " Races of Bladensburg," and,
no doubt, saw the burning of the national buildings
and stores at Washington without any very lively
demonstration of satisfaction, for he never approved
severity ; but, as he was severely wounded in the
encounter with the Americans, who so feebly de-
fended their capital, he could have taken no active
'part in a measure which has provoked so much cri-
ticism. With Bladensburg his career in the field
terminated till he was called to command his divi-
sion in 1854, but he long remained a regimental
officer, as it was not till 1842 he became Deputy-
Adjutant-General. He had by this time become a
Major-General under the Prince of Wales's Brevet
of Nov. 23, 1841, and his previous commissions
were—Major, May 26, 1814 ; Lieutenant-Colonel,
Sept. 29, 1814 ; Colonel, May 6, 1831. When Sir
John Macdonald died in 1850, the Duke of Wel-
lington appointed General Brown Adjutant-General
of the Forces, and on Nov. 11, 1851, he was made
Lieutenant-General. He resigned his office not long
after Lord Hardinge became General Commanding-
in-Chief, and his resignation was commented on at
the time in Parliament. During his tenure of office
at the Horse Guards he was a faithful and laborious
public servant, and at least on one occasion offered
resistance to measures which he thought contrary to
the interests of the service, and did not hesitate to
tender his resignation rather than consent to them.
A harsh, rude manner was assumed by him in his
dealing with officers to cover real kindness, and
men who received favours from him were often less
grateful than those who were charmed by Lord
Raglan's gracious mode of refusal. It may be
doubted if Sir George Brown was a military re-
former—if, for example, he did not think Brown
Bess better than the rifle ; but what was once
ordered was at once accepted by him. Although
some very old soldiers were passed over because
they were too old, Sir George Brown was called
on to command the Light Division in 1854, perhaps
in memory of his ancient services in the famous
old Light Division of 1812. He formed the Rifle
Brigade, 7th Fusileers, 19th, 23d Welsh Fusileers,
33d, 77th, and 88th into a corps to emulate the
fame of their predecessors. He led the advance of
the British army from Malta to Gallipoli, from Gal-
lipoli to Varna, and from Varna to the Crimea. On
the very day of landing at Old Fort he was in some
danger of capture from a patrol of Cossacks. The
manner in which he led his men at the Alma has
been well described in Mr. Kinglake's most vivid
manner. His grey charger was conspicuous in the
nick of fighting men, and when his white plume
disappeared from the summit of the ridge, where his
figure could be seen above the line of bayonets and
through the smoke of the battle, those of the Light
Division who were nigh forgot all but the impetuous
valour of the fiery old leader, and were delighted to
see him at their head once more when he had got
away from his dying horse. In the despatch of the
battle he was thus spoken of by Lord Raglan ;
"The mode in which Lieutenant-General Sir George
Brown conduoted his division, under the most trying cir-
cumstances, demands my warmest approbation. The fire
to which his division was subjected, and the difficulties
he kad to contend against, afford no small proof that his
best energies were applied to the successful discharge of
his duties."

During the winter he suffered a little from illness,
butiwas ever vigilant and energetic, and it was his