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PRESENTATIONof NEW COLOURS
TO THE 49TH REGIMENT.
The ceremony of presenting a new pair of colours to
the 49th Regiment took place at Winchester yesterday
when the colours were consecrated by the Bishop o
Winchester, and presented by Lady Pakenham to the
troops. At one o'clock the barrack-yard was occupied
by about 600 of the 49th, and the Ist battalion of the
Grenadier Guards. Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence and a
distinguished party of the nobility and gentry of the
county were present. The Lord Bishop of Winchester,
accompanied by his son and his chaplain, and the dig-
nitaries of Winchester Cathedral, arrived soon after one
o'clock ; and at about two o'clock the interesting cere-
monial began. The day was remarkably fine, and the
concourse of spectators opposite theground was immense.
We should suppose 10,000 people were collected.
- -The troops were first formed in line, and then went
through a number of parade evolutions. The band played
the national anthem and a variety of marches.
The ceremonial commenced by a large dais, covered
with crimson cloth, being placed in front of the space
where the Bishop stood.
The old colours were borne by the ensigns, at the head
of the regiment, which marched past Sir H. Pakenham,
who commanded. They were in a sadly dilapidated
state, from their long service in all parts of the globe.
These were taken charge of by the Major, and the en-
signs advanced to the dais.
the Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER then advanced a
little in front of the line, and thus addressed the troops :
Soldiers of the 49th, I have solicited and obtained
permission of your gallant commanding officer to address
you a few moments before I invoke the blessing of Al-
mighty God upon the colours which are never to br sul-
lied by any act of yours, and are not to be abandoned
but with life itself. And let not any man marvel that I, a
man of peace, come among you, who are men of war, for
I hold that there is not a truer man of peace than a
Christian soldier. When he conquers it is not for na-
tional aggrandizement, nor the mere raising ofyour names,
but for the insuring of peace in future time. Many
a brave man has bled on the field, or expired on a bed of
agony, that his countrymen might be preserved from the
horrors of war. With respect to the services of the 49th,
I might go back to a time antecedent to the present
century. We must remember what a debt of gratitude
we owe to your companions in arms for their prowess in
many a well-fought field. And what did we not owe
also to the naval power for the preservation of our soil
from the insults and the cruelties of our enemy ? I
must bid you look back to the recollection of those days
when you won glory in Holland, Copenhagen, and Que-
bec; and since in Affghanistaii and China. I remember
well the stirring phrase used by the great captain of
the age, the Commander-in-Chief of the British army.
the Duke of Wellington, when he asked for the thanks
of Parliament to the army of India—those were stirring
phrases indeed—they were well worth living to hear,
and well worth dying to deserve ; they are for you to
treasure up, and your children yet unborn to hear froth
your lips. When you unfold those banners you look
upon them as the memorials of former days, and in cen-
turies yet to come they will be memorials of your coun-
try's renown, of your country's prosperity, and of your
country's peace. On these grounds I hold that the
Christian soldier is an instrument of good to the nation
at large, and I bid you God speed in the name of the
Lord, and as a Christian bishop I would bid you remem-
ber Him who is the God of battles, Him by whom na-
tions are led to victory and preserved in peace. Be
men of resolution and men of energy, pacific in your
profession and disinterested in your patriotism, ob-
servant of your duty to your Queen, your country, and
your God."
The Bishop then proceeded to read the prayers in
consecrating the colours.
Lady PAKENHAM then advanced to, and ascended the
dais, and supported by Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser and
Major Cornellan, who held the new colours, her Lady-
ship thus addressed the regiment feel much inte-
rested in the scene before me, and must try to express
the high importance I attach to the present solemnity.
I consider the colours that I am about to present to the
49th as emblems of the past career of the regiment, as
well as an earnest of their future success—they bear the
names of many battles extending from the Rocky Moun-
tains of North America to the great wall of China ; but
I esteem it as one of the highest privileges of the British
army, that wherever they have been successful hitherto,
that success has been attended by the bright halo of
Christianity spreading abroad, where the darkness of
Paganism had formerly reigned ! May I express a
humble hope that such will be the case in China, and
that the success of the 49th at Amoy may be a pledge
of this happy result ! Receive these colours, and bear
them forward as gallantly as you have already dune, and.
may the Lord God, the God of battles, give you the vic-
tory.—(The company immediately behind the dais ap-
plauded, and the example was followed by those who
could not bear this neatly expressed address.)
General Sir H. PAKENHAM then addressed the troops
as follows :—I am satisfied that all who have joined in
the interesting ceremony just concluded will feel that it
is my first duty to return to the Right Rev. Prelate
who has consecrated the colours our sincere and re-
spectful thanks for the performance of that sacred
right, and for the eloquent and impressive exhortation
we have had the advantage of hearing, and which
expression of our feeling I request his Lordship to ac-
cept from me on behalf of ell those who are here as-
sembled. Lieutenant-Colonel Adams, and 49th Regi-
ment, it has fallen to my lot, as commanding this dis-
trict, to assist in the presentation of colours to several
regiments. On these occasions it is customary to advert
to the opportunities of discharging their duty and se(
obtaining distinction which the course of service has
afforded to each regiment. From the lengthened peace
that Europe has now enjoyed, I have been obliged occa-
sionally to revert to times long past, to prove that our
regiments only wanted opportunity to evince their zeal
for the honour of their country. This occasion is, how-
ever, different. This is the first time I have had the
honour of addressing the officers and men who in their
own persons have, by their gallantry in action and steady
endurance of the most trying difficulties, added conspi-
cuously to the glories of the British army. The corps
stands, in one view, under particular circumstances.
The brillient services rendered by the regiment in the
late war at Egmont-op-Zee under his Royal Highness
the Duke of York, at Copenhagen under the immortal
Nelson, and at Queenstown, and in other hard con-
flicts in North America, under my much-loved friend
the gallant Sir Isaac Brock, memorials of which are
blazoned on the colours, and for which latter services
the regiment obtained the honour of being designated
Princess Charlotte of Wales's Regiment—these have
been so eclipsed by the late exploits of the corps in
China, that were it not grateful to every soldier to re-
fleet upon and recount such feats, we might be tempted
to pass them over, when considering the inappre-
ciable service of forcing the hitherto impassable gates of
the mysterious empire of China. As long as civilization
lasts the results of the glorious services performed by the
49th Regiment and the other gallant corps associated
with them under the command of Sir Hugh Gough will
be felt throughout Christendom, and the entrance then
opened into the Celestial Empire will never again be
permanently closed. This day two years the regiment
highly signalized itself by the assault and capture of the
important fortress and city of Amoy, when the Chinese
dragon was lowered before the red cross of Britain.
The mighty consequences of these victories are yet to be
developed ; but the proud emblazonment of the dragon
in the colours will always bear record of the noble part
taken by the 49th in this most important war. Since the
return of the regiment from long foreign service, it has
evinced the most patient and praiseworthy assiduity in
completing its reorganization, and I have observed, with
the greatest satisfaction, the kind and encouraging as-
sistance the corps has received from the battalion of her
Majesty's Guards quartered here, and I have the gratifi-
cation of returning my thanks to Colonel Clive and the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the lit
battalion of the Grenadier Guards, as well as to Lieute-
nant-Colonel Adams, the officers, non-commissioned
offirers, and men of the 49th Regiment, for the high state
of discipline to which the corps has arrived. I now wish
you all honour and prosperity, and when your colours
are unfurled before an enemy, may the Alraigh.y nerve
your hearts and strengthen your arms as heretof .re, and
carry you forward te honour and to victory.— (Coeering
followed the energetic address of the gallant Gensrat.)
Colonel ADAMS, of the 49th, then advanced to tae Lord
Bishop, and thus addressed him :—My Lord,—lt shalt
be my duty to instil into the minds of the soldiers of this
regiment tt.e reverence that at all times is to be paid to
those banners that you, my Lord, have this day conse-
crated; aid in the name of the corps I thank yo fur the
honour you have conferred upon it, by the part you have
taken in the interesting ceremonies of the day.
Turning to Lady Pakenham, Colonel ADAMS ad tressed
her Ladyshipwha
t all
the 49th Regiment feel the
greatest
withthe colours of their regiment. Most carefully shall they
beguarded, and we will endeavour, should our Queen re-
quire our set vices, to add to those honourable badges
deepestgratitudeli
' s
With which those colours are adorned. Many nevv there
are in
our ranks who assisted to gain one of those
ho iourable records of good and faithful service ; this day
two years we were under
l dli' foret :—'l'u
s yhooul having'd
in the this morning presented us
veneration--
the fire of the enemy, and
though, perhaps during their servitude the?, may never
again be required to fight in their country s cause, still
they will leave, as their gallant predecessors have done,
embers that only require to be gently breathed upon, to
brighten up into a flame that w ill in-pire all ranks with
that enthusiasm for deeds of gallantry that has ever
marked the British soldier.
The Gallant COLONEL then addressed Sir Hercules
Pakenham :—Your kind and considerate remarks re-
cfficers, nun-commissioned officers, and men, our warmest
specting this corps call forth from me on the part of the
—The recent Act, free-
imprisonment, is already thanks. You have brought to our recollections the -en-
producinging debtors under 201.
It certainly is a great injus- gagements in whichthis t has signalized itself
regimen
dissatisfaction.
• 'if- who had obtained judgments against from its formation to the peace concluded at Nankin, in
rice to plaintiffs from imprisonment,
had been at the cost July, 1842 ; and es there •
where theyis in our records honourable
debtors, and especially
The Act ought not to have effected ,think it will not be
mention made of some individuate, I
of imprisoning.
obtained (whether they had been executed or one or two
out of i.lece if I remind those around me of
judgments
ration, The Act came 't instan-es of most undauntedgallantry, as it keeps
not) before the Act was passe ope-
• too, the very day after it was passed. is a regiment re
a spieit of emulation in every rank of
the
P
This !
NON-IMPRISONMENT
sharp practice" with a vengeance! The all-principles ! counting valiant deeds of those who once served in thn
Government allowed the Bill to go through both Houses c tips ; and I am persuaded, should either officers t r
_ ..sphiyirg
of Parliament at railroad pace, just at the end of the men of this regiment have an opportunityr to outstrip the
of
session, and when those members who are lawyers (and their courage, that they will enee:vriave
gone before
1
the most likely to understand the Bill) were on the I
gallant deeds of die valiant spirits •
Assize Circuits. Sir Robert and his friends may depend j them. The first I shall bring to your notice is Sergeant
ho, wen
upon it, they will find this Act passing has put another Frazer, of the regiment at Stun y
Creek, h
vu-
nail into their political coffin. lunteers were sent by Captain Plunderleath to capture
THE COMMERCE OF FRANCE.—The Moniteur some guns that were playing upon the regiment whilst
with about 25 men, the first
publishes the returns of the principal imports of France, forming, steppedout
andaccompanied their colonel, rushed tip
in July last, from which it appears that the ditties he could collect,
and took them. Sergeant Frazer stabbed
levied thereon amounted to 14,980,828 f., or 3,571,601 f. to the funesrican.,
and captured a general officer, for
more than in 1843, and 3,815,551 f. more than in 1842.
seven
n I,gainlant conduct' he was promoted to the adjutantcy
The duties levied during the seven months of 1844,
whichf te New Brunswick Fenciblrs. Another, Lieutenant
ending on the Ist of August last, amounted to 86,528,235 f. with about 45 men, and a small band of In-
Fitzeibhoo,
They had been 78,290,550 f. in the corresponding period
hpao.learriors.ca pt u red through st rata gem and grea t daring
of 1842, and 81,328,445 f. in 1843. 23 officers, and 285 rank and file, 2 field pieces, and a stand
Lord Stanley has left the residence of Sir James
of colours; both of these two gentlemen are now residing
Graham, at Netherby, near Carlisle, for Lathom in Canada, and are colonels of militia. There are now
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