The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

L THE SUN, rLONDON, MONDAY: EVENING, JUNE 18, 1860:

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'The 200th anniversary of the formation of the
First, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, was
celebrated on Saturday evening by a sumptuous
festival, held in the Banquet-hall of St. James's
Palace. The distinguished corps whose origin was
thus brilliantly commemorated traces its first estab-
lishment to a period of history long previous to the
existence of a regular standing army in this coun-
try. Before the reign of Henry VII. it does not
appear that our kings had even a body guard, much
less any considerable number of troops accoutred
and ready for immediate action ; and before the
date of the Civil Wars the Royal Guard were the
only permanent soldiers in England. This dispute
between Charles I. and his Parliament related to
the command of the militia. In 1655, Cromwell
having allied himself with Louis XIV., Charles IT.
quitted the French Court and joined the Spaniards
in the Netherlands against the Grand Illonarque.
The Loyalist English who had shared the exile of
their Sovereign were enrolled by his brother, the
Duke of York, and in 1657 were formed into six
regiments. The first of these, in which were col-
lected some of the foremost adherents of the expa-
triated King, was called " The Royal Regiment of
Guards." The Spanish campaign proving unsuc-
cessful, this regiment, with the rest of the army,
retreated before Dunkirk. Dispersed, without
pay or subsistence, among the border towns of
Flanders during the next few years, the Royal
Regiment of the Guards, by one of the first com-
missions of the restored King, re-embodied in 1660,
under Thoinas, Lord Wentworth, the colonel, and
remained at Dunkirk until that town was sold to
the French in 1662. It then returned to England,
and three years later was united to the establish-
ment of the King's Regiment of Guards, raised at
the Restoration under Col. John Russell, brother to
the Earl of Bedford. The two regiments combined
then comprised 24 companies of 100 men each, to
which four companies of Grenadiers were subse-
quently added, and they received the style of the
"First Regiment of Foot Guards." The further
title of " Grenadiers " was conferred upon them by
the Prince Regent, in commemoration of having de-
feated the French Imperial Guard at Waterloo.
The services rendered by this splendid regiment in
the campaigns of Marlborough, Lake, Wellington,
and other iktmous captains are familiar matters of
history. "
The gorgeous banquet-hall of the Palace, which
was brilliantly illuminated, and its walls decorated
with the colours, standards, and trophies of the
regiment, formed into the most graceful devices,
presented a dazzling scene. The great bulk of the
company attended in riain evening dress, but the
cluster of stars, orders, crosses, and medals, which
most of them displayed, unmistakeably betokened
their military rank and renown. The monotony of
civil costumes was agreeably relieved by the uni-
forms of those officers of the corps who happened
that day to be on regimental duty.
The guests began to assemble shortly after half-
past 7 o'clock, and passed through a double file of
Grenadier Guards, posted along the grand staircase
rn corridors of the Palace, into a handsome and
pacious reception room. At aquarter-past 8 o'clock
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the colonel
of the regiment, who was to preside, arrived, accom-
panied by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-
Chief, and was ushered into the dining-hall, fol-
lowed by the rest of the guests to the number of
nearly 2GO, the band of the Grenadiers playing the
National Anthem.

The company included his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, Sir Richard Airey, Colonel Ridley
(Scots Fusileer Guards), the Equerry to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Equerry to
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Mr. H.
Cox, Sir C. Yorke, Lord de Grey and Ripon, Rev.
It. Browne (Chaplain to the Brigade), Lord Rokeby,
Lord Combermere, Sir James Scarlett, Sir John
ii.irkland (Agent), Mr. White (Solicitor), Colonel
Martin, Sir E. Lugard, Mr. C. Hamrnersley, Lord
F. Paulett, C. 8., the Chaplain-General, Colonel
Parker, Mr. Dolby, Mr. Liley, Mr. Atkinson, Cap•
tain Hamilton (Cavalry Guards), Lieutenant Cun-
inghame (Cavalry Guards), Sub-Lieutenant Cun-
inghame (Cavalry Guards), Captain Malet, Captain
Bathurst, Captain Smith, Lieutenant Hayter, Mr.
Pickford, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord F. Fitzroy,
Major Barnard, Lieutenant Farmer, Captain Ha-
milton, Mr. Girdwood, Captain Hon. A. Annesley,
Mr. Blenkins, Mr. J. Wardrop, Lieutenant Vyner,
Captain A. C. H. D. Pennant, Lieutenant
Elliot, Lieutenant-Colonel Randolph, Captain
Verschoy le, Lieutenant Viscount Hinching-
brooke, Captain Stuckley, Lieutenant Clinton,
Captain Johnstone, Lieutenant Fluyder, Lieutenant-
Colonel Hume, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Lord A.
Hay, Lieutenant Hope, Lieutenant• Colonel N.
Bruce, Lieutenant-Colonel Cooper, Lieutenant Nor-
ton, Major Pearson, Colonel Lewis, Colonel Hon. J.
Lindsay, Colonel Lambert, Colonel Hamilton, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Higginson, Colonel Hon. It. Curzon,
Lieutenant-Colonel Montresor, Lieutenant-Colonel
Cust, Captain Alexander, Lieutenant Hon. C. Edg•
cumbe, Colonel Burnaby, Captain Phillips, Colonel
Stuart, Lieutenant Bridges, Captain the Earl of
Carrick, Captain Clayton, Lieutenant Hon. F. Stan-
ley, Lieutenant-Colonel Wynyard, Lieutenant-
Colonel De Horsey, Colonel Prince Edward, &c.,
C. 8., Colonel Burrard, Captain Bramston, Captain
Viscount Hood, Lieutenant Viscount Mahon, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel King, Captain Hon. S. Tracy, Capt.
Wynne, Lieutenant Viscount Uffington, Captain
Ewart, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir C. Russell, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Sir W. Wallace, Lieutenant-Colonel
Hogge, Lieutenant Seymour, Captain Anstnither,
Captain P. Murray, Captain Sir J. M. Bur-
goyne, Lieutenant-Colonel Cure, Lieutenant-Colonel
Fox, Lieutenant-Colonel Maitland, Lieutenant Fox,
LieutenantPakenham,Lieutenant-Colonelßradford,
Captain Thynne.
The following ex Guardsmen were also present:
—General Lord Downes, Colonel Vernon Harcourt,
Colonel Hatten, Sir Harry Verney, Colonel Hon. C.
Lindsay, Sir Ralph Anstruther, Colonel Hudson,
Colonel Hopwood, Mr. H. Oswald, Captain Nichol.
son, Major-General Stanhope, Mr. John Balfour;

Captain Dawson, M.P., Mr. J. Shaw Stewart, Ma.

jor-General Ridley, C. 8., Lord Charles Fitzroy,
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Colonel Lyres, Lieutenant-Colonel J Peel, M.P.,

Colonel Thornton, Lord Sandwich, Major-General

Craufurd, Major-General Hon. R. Bruce, Colonel

Brownrigg, C. 8., General Angerstein, Mr. Henry
Compton, Lieutenant-Colonel Purves, Lieutenant-
Colonel Fitzroy, Mr. E. Jekyll, Sir F. Bathurst,
Colonel Begot, General Arbuthnot, Mr. Buckworth
Vowell, Colonel Cartwright, Lord Sefton, Mr. J.
W. Pickford, Captain Munro, Colonel J. Johnstln,
Colonel Fletcher, Mr. C. Pole, Lord Bravbrooke,
Colonel G. Fitzroy, Mr. Alex. Mitchell, Mr. F. C.

Brooke, General Sir William Moore, Mr. Robert

Bruce, Mr. C. IL Turner, Sir Gorge Nugent, Col.
Reynardson, C. 8., the Duke of Manchester, Colonel

Roug, General Sir 11. F. Davie, Colonel Dixon,

Colonel Johrstone, Lieutenant Colonel Greenwood,

Lieutenant-Colonel Hatton, Mr. R. Lloyd, Sir H.
Fletcher, Mr. J. Murray Drummond, General Rob-
bins, Lord Blantyre, Lieutenant Colonel Clinton,

Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, C.B„ Colonel a. Camp-
bell, Lord Grantley, Mr. C. Brandling, Sir Thomas
Moncrieff, Mr. C. Balfour, Sir C. Rowley, General
Reeve, Mr. Alexander Kinloch, Lieutenant-Colonel
the lien. A. Egerton, Sir J: Ferguson, Colonel J.
nee", the Hon. J. St. Clair, Lord W. Thynne,
General Pludyer, Lieutenant-Colonel Musters, Sir
James Drummond, Mr. G. Fitzhugh, Colonel the'
Hon. A. Foley, General Gaseoigne, Sir C. Lindsay,
General Fox, Sir J. AVhicheote, Captain Morant,
General Sir J. Eustace, K.C.8., Mr. Balfour, M.D.,
Colonel P. Pennant, M.P., Colonel Goulburn, Major-
General T. Wood, Colonel Jodrell, Colonel the Hon.
H. Forester, Major-General Davies, and Lieute-
nant-Colonel F. Davie.

The dinner was provided by the Messrs. Staples,
of the Albion. The fine band of the regiment was
stationed in an adjoining apartment,
and performed
a choice selection of operatic music during the
evening.

On the removal of the cloth,
:('he health of " her Majesty the *Queen" was re
ceived with much enthusiasm.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis, the acting Colonel of
" his Royal
the GreNadier Guards, then gave

Highness the Prince Consort, our Colonel." (This
toast was drunk also amid enthusiastic cheering).
His Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT then
rose and said :—Gentlemen,--I am very much gra-
tified at the kindness You have evinced by the
Manner in which you have received the last toast.
(Cheers.) I feel justly proud of the distinction
conferred upon me eight years ago, when I was
appointed to succeed the immortal Duke of Wel-
lington in the command of this regiment (cheers),
since which I have held that honourable post
which not only connects me with you officially,
but brings me into intimate, and, I trust, cordial
personal relations with you. (Cheers.) It is on
an occasion like the present that the considera•
tion must be suggested to my mind in its fullest
force, of how much honour and distinction are
involved in the title of Colonel of the Grenadier
Guards. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we are assem-
bled here to-day to celebrate the 200th anniversary
of the formation of this regiment as at present con-
stituted. During the last 200 years, which embrace
the most glorious period of the history of our coun-
try, this regiment has taken an important and dis-
tinguished part in the most brilliant events of that
history. (Cheers.) It has fought at sea and on land,
in most parts of Europe, in Africa, in America ; and
whether fighting the French, the Dutch, the
Spaniards, the Moors, the Turks, or the Russians,
it has always stood to its colours, upheld the honour
of the British name, and powerfully contributed to
those successes which, under God's blessing, make
this country stand proudly forth among the nations
of the earth. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I need not re-
call to you its deeds, for they are all present, I am
sure, to your minds ; but I cannot refrain, on an oc-
casion like this, from pointing to some, at least, of
the long and uninterrupted list of victories with
which the name of the Grenadier Guards is asso-
ciated. (Cheers.) I must point to the celebrated
siege and capture of Namur, to the first defence
of Gibraltar, to the capture of Barcelona and Valen-
ciennes, to the battles of Blenheim, Ramillies,
Oudenarde, and Malplaquet ; and to the battle of
Dettingen, aye, and of Fontenoy; for, although in
the last-named field the victory did not finally re-
main with the Allies, it hal been fairly won by
the distinguished prowess of the Grenadier Guards.
I must point to the "capture of Cherbourg, which
just 100 years ago looked defiance upon our shores;
nor must I omit the battles of Lincelles, Corunna,
Barossa, the Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelles, Nive,
and Waterloo, where in the last and terrible strug-
gle with Napoleon this regiment acquired its title
of Grenadier Guards, by having vanquished in fair
fight those noble and devoted Imperial Guards, who
until they were met by the British bayonet were
held to be invincible. (Cheers.) The battles of the
Alma and of Inkerman, and the long-protracted
siege of Sebastopol, bring down to our own day the
glorious annals of which this corps may well b a proud.
(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, the duty of the British sol-
dier is, unfortunately, not confined to opposing the
external enemies of his country. It has been his fate
sometimes to stand in arms even against his own
countrymen—a mournful task, which I trust we
shall never see again imposed upon him. (Cheers.)
In such circumstances the soldier is upheld by the
consideration that while implicitly obeying the
commands of his Sovereign to whom he has sworn
fidelity, he is purchasing for his country by his
blood that internal peace and supremacy of the law
which form the only basis of the liberties as well as
the prosperity of the nation. This regiment, origi-
nally sprung from the Royalists who clung to
Charles 11. during his exile, have always proved
true to their Sovereign, whether they contended en
the field of Sedgemoor in defence of James 11.
against the Duke of Monmouth, or struggled heroi-
cally for five long years in the cause of George 111.
against his revolted American subjects. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, that same discipline which has made
this regiment ever ready and terrible in war has
enabled it to pass through long periods of peace
amid the temptations of a luxurious metropolis,
without impairing its vigour or its energy, to live
in harmony and good brotherhood with its fellow
citizens, and to point to the remarkable fact that
the household troops have for two centuries past
formed the permanent garrison of London. (Cheers.)
While always at the command cf the civil power to
support order and law, they have never themselves
disturbed that order, or given cause of disquietude,
either by insolence or by licentiousness. (Cheers.)
Let us trust that these same noble qualities may
still shine forth for centuries to come, and that the
Almighty will continue to favour and protect this
little band of devoted soldiers, (Cheers.) Gentle-
men, let us on our part manfully do our duty,
mindful of the deeds of our predecessors, loyal to
our Sovereign, and jealous of our country's honour.
(Cheers.) I give you, then, " Prosperity to the Gre-
nadier Guards, and the health of Colonel Lewis,
long an honoured member of the corps, and now its
able and zealous commanding officer." (Loud
cheers.)
Col. LEWIS said—ln the name of the regiment
and myself I begtoreturn our grateful acknowledg-
ments for the distinguished honour your Royal
Highness has done us in proposing our healths,
and to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-
Chief and all present for the flattering way in which
the toast has been received. The eloquent and
graphic account your Royal Highness has given of
your regiment—(cheers)—leaves me nothing to add
but that the contemplation of the gallant deeds it
has performed during the last 200 years, in which
it has taken a conspicuous part in every continental
war, and never failed to win additional laurels to
the British arms, and the feeling that our names
are associated, as it were, with heroes whose memo-
ries will ever be cherished with veneration and
gratitude by the British nation, niay well make
every officer present, now serving or who has
served in your Royal Highness's regiment, feel
doubly proud of belonging to so distinguished a
corps. (Cheers.) I shall very soon be called upon
to resign my proud command, and I therefore take
this opportunity of assuring your Royal Highness
that the great and kind interest you always evince
in everything connected with your regiment is
most fully appreciated by all your officers—(cheers)
—and for myself I can only add that I shall ever

retain a deep and grateful sense of the kindness

your Royal Highness has so unvaryingly shown me
since I have had the honour of commanding your
regiment. (Cheers.)
The PRINCE CONSORT—Gentlemen, the toast
which I have now to propose to you is "The health

of the Prince of Wales and the-rest of the Royal
Family." (Cheers.) 'lhe Prince of Wales joined
the army at the age of 17, a year and a half ago,
but his studies up to the present time have not en-
abled him to take any military duties upon himself.
While at Edinburgh last year he, however, availed
himself of the presence of the 16th Lancers to make
himself acquainted with the evolutions of cavalry
and to learn his drill. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with the usual honours.
The PRINCE CONSORT—Gentlemen, I beg that
you will now drink to our sister service, the navy.
(Cheers.) The wooden walls of Old England now
constitute, as they always have done, the chief
-defence of our country, the protection of our COTII-

merce, and the link which binds together our vast

and widely-scattered empire. (Cheers.) Modern

science has effected greater changes in that service
than in perhaps any other human pursuit; and

foreign nations are starting with us, as it were, from

the same point of departure in the common race of
naval preparation. But there is that confidence in

Englishmen, in their superiority on the unstable
element, which has a powerful influence in main-

taining their pre-eminence, and gives us a sure gua-
rantee of future successes. (Cheers) I would only
express my opinion, in which I trust most of those

here will agree that that service has at no time been

in a higher state of efficiency than at present. (Loud
cheers.)

The PRINCE CONSORT,—Gentlemen, you will be
all anxious now to drink to the army—that army
of which the brigade of Guards, and this regiment
in it, form an integral part—integral not only from
its organisation, but from its feeling and spirit.
(Cheers.) The country has no less reason to be
proud of its army than of its navy. And, although
in mere point of numbers it cannot boast of any
scipthertihoreinity,
in proportion t
others,o or even of an an equality
o our population, our army

yields to none in those qualities of courage, discipline
and endurance which form the best characteristics
of soldiers. (Cheers.) The duties which that army
has to perform, in times of peace as well as of war,
are such as I make bold to state no other army in
the world could discharge—(cheers)—and, although
it may be the fashion to say that this nation is not a
military nation, I totally disbelieve that any other
country could produce an army like ours, composed
as it is entirely of volunteers. (Cheers.) Gentle-
men, in drinking to the army I beg to couple with
the toast " The Health of my dear relative our gal-
lant Commander-in-Chief," who is indefatigable in
his exertions to maintain, and, where possible, even
to improve the efficiency of that army. (Loud
cheers.)
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who was received with
cheers, said,—On the part of the army, and in my
own name, I rise to return thanks for the compli-
ment you have been kind enough to pay us. Believe
me, I am always especially proud of having my
name coupled with that of the Britisharmy. (Cheers.)
As your illustrious chairman has most justly
remarked, although in comparative numbers we
cannot hold our heads against the great continental
armies with which we are in the habit of coping,
still I am happy to think that in reputation, in
honour, in discipline, in courage we are second to
none of them. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have the
honour of addressing you this evening in a double
capacity—as one of the colonels of the brigade of
Guards, and as a Line officer at the head of the
British army; and all I can say is that I most cor-
dially assent to the observations which fell from
your chairman, to the effect that there ought to be,
as I believe there is, but one universal feeling of
mutual affection and respect between the Guards
and the Line. (Cheers.) I cannot conceive how
any other sentiment than that could exist, when I
remember the'great deeds performed by the brigade
of Guards, of which we have to-night had so
admirable a description. On the other hand, if the
Guards turn to the achievements of the rest of the
service, they will see that regiment after regiment
of the line has been invariably joined with them
on their own most memorable fields. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, the spirit of the army is kept up by
the esprit du corps of regiments, and I am con-
vinced there is not a regiment in the service which
is not as proud of its achievements as you are of
yours. (Cheers.) This is the feeling which ought
to animate the different corps of an army, and as
long as our army is composed of regiments which
can boast so brilliant a history as ours, as long as
we find success after success thus emblazoned on
their arms, I am persuaded that one sentiment of
mutual esteem and veneration must leaven the
the whole mass of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and
engineers. (Cheers.) I can assure you, sir, and
all my gallant friends and comrades, whether
civilians or military men, who now surround me,
that it is with an earnest desire to foster that good
feeling which I trust will ever prevail that
I have attempted to carry on the duties of
the service, and while I have the honour to
hold my present position it shall be my
constant endeavour to unite and blend the various
branches of the army harmoniously together, con-
fident that in that manner, and in that manner only,
I shall be performing my duty to my Sovereign and
my country. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I cannot sit
down without briefly bearing my personal testi-
mony to the gallantry I saw displayed by your
regiment in a recent campaign. I refer at this mo-
ment to the Grenadier Guards only, because it is
the regiment I am now addressing; but it is only
just to add that the same feeling also pervaded the
entire brigade of Guards, and, indeed, the whole
army on that memorable occasion. And as long as
that undaunted courage and spirit which I then
witnessed among you survives I am sure you will
have reason to be proud of the regiment to which
you belong and of the service of which it forms so
distinguished a part. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, per-
mit me again to thank you for the honour you have
done the army, and to express my gratification in
being present as a guest at this most interesting
banquet. (Cheers.)
The PRINCE CONSußT.—Gentlemen, we are ho-
noured to-day by the presence of the other regi-
ments, both of infantry and cavalry, who constitute
the Household troops, whose services live also
in history, and render them truly worthy to form
the body-guard of the Sovereign of these realms.
(Cheers.) I painfully feel the absence of one whose
name is associated with the glories of the Guards in
many a well-fought field. I allude to Gen. John
Byng, Earl of Strafford—(cheers)—who was lately
removed from this temporary scene to an eternal
and better world, and whose memory will ever be
cherished by his brother officers. (Cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, I propose to couple this toast with the name
of that distinguished and gallant General, Viscount
Combermere, now the last surviving officer who
was present with the Grenadiers at battle of
Lincelles. (Cheers.)
Viscount COMBERMERE.—In the name of her Ma-
jesty's Household brigade of cavalry, I beg to return
my most humble and heartfelt thanks to the illus-
trious Prince in the chair for the flattering manner
in which he was graciously pleased to propose our
healths. It is only upon few occasions that her
Majesty's household cavalry have been or can be
employed; but upon these occasions, I believe, they
have always done their duty to the satisfaction of
those under whom they served. (Cheers.) I am
happy to tell you that the brigade is at present in
a very efficient state, and if it ever should again be
called upon to take the field I am certain it will
maintain the character it has already acquired.
(Cheers.) It may be great presumption in me to
add anything to what has been so-well said by
your Royal Highness in praise of the Grenadier
Guards, but I may be allowed, as a very old officer,
to mention that, having known this regiment dur-
ing the campaigns of 1793 wad 1794 (cheers), and
having had the honour of serving, not in, but with
the Ist Regiment of Guards, I can speak to the gal-
lantry it displayed. My recollection extends as far
back as the battle of Lincelles, when the Ist Regi-
ment of Guards distinguished itself under that
eminent commander, General Lake. The regiment
also distinguished itself on various subsequea occa-
sions. It would be ridiculous in me, after what
has fallen from your Royal Highnesses, to touch
upon its more modern history, further than to say
that in the Peninsula, at Waterloo—in short wher-
ever they have been employed—the Grenadier
Guards have always rendered the most efficient and
eminent services. It was my intention to do my-
self the honour of proposing the health of the
Guards, but your Royal Highnesses have completely
taken the wind out of mj sails. (Laughter.) But
I may at least venture, in conclusion, to wish every
prosperity to his Royal Highness the Colonel of the
Grenadier Guards and to his distinguished and
splendid regiment. (Cheers.)
At th's stage of the proceedings their Royal
Highnesses the prince Consort and the Commander-
in-Chief quitted the hall, accompanied by their re-
respective suites. The vacant chair was then filled
in turn by Col. Lindsay and by Col. Lewis, the
commandant of the regiment.
Col. LINDSAY, M.P., proposed " The Health of
the Coldstream and Fusileer Guards," coupling
with the toast the name of Lord Rokeby, the com-
mander of the brigade of Footguards in the Crimea.
Lord RoxEnv, in responding, eulogised the firm-
ness and constancy with which the brigade endured
all the privations of a terrible Crimean winter, as
well as the gallantry which it had uniformly evinced
in action. The corps was now in an admirable con-
dition, and animated by the highest spirit. The
noble lord concluded by giving "The Health of
Col. Lindsay," whose unceasing exertions to pro-
mote the interests of both officers and men could
not, he said, be over-estimated.

COL LINDSAY, in acknowledging the compliment,
said that while endeavouring, in his peculiar posi-
tion, in conjunction with Gen. Druzmond, to up-
hold the interests of the brigade when seriously
threatened, he had never been unmindful of the just
claims of the rest of the service. Passing to the ex-
ploits of their regiment in the field, he could not

torget that on that day 45 years ago was fought
the battle of Quatre Bras, On that occasion their

third battalion had halted on a march of 27 miles

towards the scene of action, and was quietly cook-
ing its dinner when it heard guns firing in the dis-
tance. It immediately suspended its culinary ope-
rations and advanced to the wood of Boissu, out of
which it drove the French and held the wood in
spite of all the enemy's efforts during the remainder
of the day. At that memorable event there were
present with the regiment two distinguished officers
whose healths he would now ask them to drink—
viz , Lord Grantley and Mr. Robert Bruce, of Ken-
neth. (Cheers.)
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Lord GRANTLEr, in responding, remarked that
although there were very few of his old comrades
now left, he was sure they would all be ready to
buckle on their swords again in defence of their
Queen and country.

Colonel LEWIS gave the next toast, " The only
three surviving colenels who had commanded the
Grenadier Guards—viz., General Stanhope, General
Wood, and General Ridley." (Cheers.)

General STANHOPE said that he and his two com-
rades accounted it a high honour to have commanded

that regiment, but unfortunately they had all been
pitehforked out of it. (Laughter.) He had him-
self been connected with the corps for 39_3-ears,

and during the whole of that time the conduct of
no individual officer or man bad ever given him any

serious uneasiness.

General WOOD, although he had been consigned
to the dusty shelf, amid ploughs, shepherds' crooks,
and everything that was the scorn of the profes-
sional, soldier—(laughter)--could still look upon
that assemblage with gratification and Without
envy. (Cheers.)
Whatever changes in' the service

might ensue—and he believed great changes were
impending—he trusted that nothing would occur
that could alienate the elite of the British army and
nation from the Grenadier Guards. (Cheers.) For
himself he saw no escape from the dreary shelf to
which he had referred—(a laugh)—but he must en-
deavour to make himself as comfortable there as he
could, looking, perhaps, to have his solitude en-
livened, or at least mitigated, by the companionship
of some old comrade who might find himself in the
same situation. (Laughter,)
General RIDLEY confessed himself deficient in the
philosophic resignation
.just expressed by his gal-
lant friend. However invidious it might seem, to
say as much in the presence of the excellent officer
now in command of the regiment, he must own that
he greatly coveted his position. (Cheers, and
laughter.)

The acting Grenadier officers having next pledged
their retired brethren in a bumper,
Colonel LINDSAY said, the company ought not
separate without drinking another toast, which had
special claims on their attention. The example he
was about to follow was set by a very high autho-
rity, the late General Sir Charles Napier. The best
of officers at times made mistakes in action, and
then they looked—and generally not in vain—to
the bravery and self-reliance of their men to ex-
tricate them from their difficulty. He had much
pleasure in proposing " The non-commissioned
officers and privates of the regiment." (Cheers.)
The distinguished party then broke up.
It may not be out of place here to mention that
the men of the regiment will participate in the in-
teresting festivities by which the formation of their
corps is commemorated, it being the intention of
their officers to give them an entertainment on an
early day at the Crystal Palace.

1 sitting in Portsmouth, and have qualified accord-
ingly.
, The strength of the force at present stationed in
the camp at Colchester is 86 officers and 2,845 non-
commissioned officers and privates. There are
besides 202 women and 257 children living in the
camp.
The general court-martial for the trial of Capt.
H. G. Savage, commanding the 33d Company of
Royal Engineers, at Brompton Barracks, re-
assembled at Chatham Garrison, at 11 a.m,, on
Saturday, under the presidency f Col. H. Jervis,
commanding the Ist Battalion, Major W. L.
Stewart, officiating as the Deputy Judge-Advocate.
The Court was occupied during the day in taking
the evidence adduced by the prosecutor, Lieut,-
Col. A. P. Ross, R.E., in support of the prosecution,
the witnesses to be called to establish the charges
on which the prisoner was arraigned being Col.
Sandham, director of the Royal Engineer establish-
ment; Major Stopford, the Adjutant; Capt.
Gordon, Lieut. Harvey, and several non-commis-
sioned officers. The Court continued its sitting
until shortly before four o'clock, during which time
it was occupied in the examination of the witnesses
for the prosecution, and then adjourned. There
are several witnesses to be examined by the pri-
soner for the defence.

The steamer Anglo-Saxon, which arrived at
Liverpool from Quebec on the 14th inst: with mili-
tary invalids, disembarked her troops on Friday,
when the non-commissioned officers and men were
immediately forwarded to Fort Pitt hospital,
Chatham, which they reached on Saturday after-
noon, in charge of Major D. L. Colthurst, 17th
Regiment. The troops belong to the 17th
(Royal Tigers) Ist battalion, and the Royal Cana-
dian Rifles, together with a number of women and
children ; they sailed from Quebec on the 2d inst.,
the men being generally healthy, with no case of
death on board during the passage. On the arrival
of the invalids at Chatham they were medically in-
spected at Fort Pitt, when seven men were admitted
into the hospital for treatment, and 35 conveyed to
the invalid station to await an order for their dis-
charge.
The annual fete of the boys at the Royal Military
Asylum, Chelsea, will take place on Friday next,
the 22d inst., at a quarter to 3 o'clock. The games,
&e., will terminate about half-past 5 o'clock.