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in thy snow-white breast ;
they hide no thorn beneath,

suns have shed their rays

,lding eve
me little

assing year

!end as each birthday passes on,

Through infancy and youth,
ich bud of virtue shall unfold
In flowers of peace and truth

3yful met again
thy birth,

y little prattling tongue,

train of mirth

tend see t
As now

1 may we meet again

1 as good and wise

see thee fair

Time has swept

a all that no

Y little mind
~s to play—

acfore thee dance

)your thrc

•e thee cease

s and our prayers,

and virtue, peace,

Around thee ever shine !

Then go, dear maiden! join again
Thy little birthday throng;
Forgive me if I here have kept

ning too long

SPECTRE SHIP

to ex pec

d from a German poem,
The author had

ars ago

t so prosaic a fulfilment of hi:
1 of La Belle Poule at Cherbough

poleon

t carries no

before the gale,

dark heavens play;

amines billows a sail

ss the spray.
a spectre hand

ng crev

D rocky strand

where the roar of the surges is lost,

a its roc

y coast,

light cloud flies

piles, no forest greens there,

alone, from the fields of air,

rin on the dreary waste

ere lies the King in the barren sand,

,o ornament graced—

id his staff of command,

.epulchre placed.
near, and the world's loud hum

her across the sea ;
s his neglected tomb,

hs have rolled on—the year is past—
moved he doth
he fifth of Ma

to distiirb his rest,

On the night when his weary spirit fled

3 peaceful home

tOre the haunts 'of the dead,

d the shi;

that desert shore,

royal standa.rd it bore—

lerweigh,

of the storm it ride

3'er the nightly spray

guides

stands near the prow,

and throbbing his brow,

distant strand f

r 'tis his own land,
is eyes behold.

From the ship he deseends; on the well-known sand

Once more he wanders about;

The ear

still shakes where his

footsteps wend

nd findeth them not

len by daylight he sought that spot,
ng surges would sound.

from its height it is hurled
he clouds where it held command,

From which he had often looked down on the world,

en into his hand

n, the child of his care,
Ile and fame ;

s blooming heir

very name
' he cries,

" o'er whose head a crown

royal grace

Ere thou quitted'
The wife of my love

le days of our fortune were flown,
it thy father's embrace
—my only son--

3ne of my house remain !

1 hath mounted the kingly throne,
Cing is a vassal again !"

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

TMENT OF

THE

ARMY

Friday's Ti

(From the Times.)

rence to an article which appeared in last
nes, condemning the system under which
ier Majesty's troops, and in the particular
rred to the 22d regiment, have been and are
to extreme hardships, beyond those which
enced by the average of the army, and partly
l by an unfair or injudicious allotment of the
luthorities of the Horse
ceived from a highly respectable
4 statement of facts and regula-
to the routine of military duty :

.equired

vices by th

quarter the folio'
Lions annlicable

" Every order on the authority of which troops are
sent abroad, or recalled from colonial or foreign service
to this country, comes from the Government to the

Commander-in-Chief

It is not the Commander-in-Chief, but the Go-
, which determines the amount of troops to
me of their departure, and

moveme

.•
:;ommander-in-Chief is not le
, •

ss devoid of

re req

to ueciue what specific corps shall be moved in
yen direction amongst those regiments which are
ad " fit for service,' than he is to fix the time at
the place to which, or the object for which they

rst order for foreign service is to
is which stands first on the ros-
) say the corps which has been longest at
s must be taken (the Commander-in-

the cc

con

Chief having no discretion in, the matter), unless there
be certain circumstances in its state of efficiency, &c.—
rell-defined, and unequivocal circumstances,
Jude it pro hac vice from the rigorous opera-
roster.

,invent, the assertion is
it was 23 years between India and the
terwards 6 years at home, then 11 at
at home, and is now again ordered

and to th,

22d re

inaltr 3

The operation of the roster upon this
gaiiat corps is beyond all question one of great seve-
rity, a d a matter of deep regret ; but it has been al-
ogetE without positive injustice to other
and a gross violation of established and im-
partial rules. _ _

together unavoidable

(we cannot

me from the Secretary of State or War

o out which in the manuscript we co-
pied) to send two regiments to the Mediterranean some
4arrisons there having been unduly and
and the two first regiments for
t in orders, being the 42d and 88th, which

dangerously wea

ome before the

But the writer of the letter in Thursday's Times,
tin Old Indian and Constant Reeder,' asserts
that reinforcements ought to have been sent to India
e ordered for the Mediterranean, in
22d and 20th regiments would have had
their station at the lonian Isles, the
or one of them, •having received the
)r Bombay.

chance at

, The Old Indian' may know better than
who transmitted in both cases the order to
is; but then, as Lord Hill is hound
rom the Government and not from the

Ither (perhaps equally respectable) functionary, his
)rdship could not fail to execute the official commands
,e received according to the succession in which he re-
eived them, and therefore, and for no other reason,
ave the Mediterranean service to the two regiments
, -a • • - _ _

ting for further commands from
'self to the 22d

addressed I

Old Indian' says, that the officers of the
22d regiments Nvould have very gladly suf-
irtailment of their time at home on condition
;r their choice of destination, and being sent
'lion Isles instead of to Bombay. No doubt
Id; but what would the 42d and 88th have
Would they have given u.p. their right to the
inean for the sake of obliging the officers of

Lord Hill, as was said before, has no option in
this business. The existing system is very possibly a
bad one ; and, indeed, the present instance proves that
great inequalities of service do take place under it.
But it has been imposed by superior authority upon

the General Commanding the Forces, who is a mere
ministerial officer, and has no particle of discretionary
power, either to perpetrate abuse or to alleviate hard-
ship, left in his hands, as against the application of the
universal roster to the emergencies of the colonial or

of for

of the 22d,

'ice. There are othier cases besides that
of perhaps of quite equal, but of very

ROYAL PRESENTS

Since the birth of the Princess Royal, a great number of
Appropriate votive trifles have. reached Buckingham Palace,

['hey consist general

of fancifully-worked articles of infant apparel. Unfortu-
nately for the fair fabricators of these simple but expressive
tokens of loyalty, none find their way to the illustrious lady
to whose gracious acceptance they are in all humility prof-
fered, unless those which are fortunate enough to be pre-
seated through some official channel : such is the etiquette,
perhaps :somewhat toa rigidly enforced, when the motive is
so laudable. All packages addressed to the Sovereign are
opened by, or in the presence of, the deputy steward of the
household, whose duty it is to report the contents to the
lord steward ; and should that high functionary consider
them worthy of being laid before her Majesty, they are
either presented by himself in person, or consigned to the
charge of the lady in waiting for the time. Such gifts as
are connected with literature, the fine arts, or science, are
almost invariably accepted ; articles of personal atttire or
ornament generally become the perquisites of the Queen's
principal attendants, however costly the fabric or curi-
ous the workmanship may be. Any departure from this
rule must therefore be considered as a marked compliment.
Such a one has recently occurred. A case containing a pre-
sent of the latter descripti n was received at the palace on
Monday, intended for the Princess Royal, should her Ma-
jesty be graciously pleased to sanction its acceptance. The
amiable donor, a venerable spinster, residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Huddersfield, seems, as the on dit goes, to
have taken especial care that the creation of her fairy fingers
should suffer no damage in transitu. Like the congruous
puzzle, there was case within case, one of curiously wrought
wicker-work, a second of Spanish mahogany, with the royal
arms, and the letters " P. R." in a lozenge, richly embla-
zoned on the lid. This was again enclosed in a strong tin
case, superscribed, " For the Queen's most excellent Ma-
jesty, Buckingham Palace, London." These mysterious
cases contained an infant's cap and robe, worthy of a princess.
They are described to be of the most chaste and fanciful de-
sign. The cap is composed of that delicate but almost ex-
ploded fabric called cushion" lace, in the manufacture of
which dames of high, degree formerly delighted to excel. On
the crown-piece, the royal arms of England are embroidered
in dead gold, the circular fillet exhibiting the national in-
signia of the rose, thistle, and shamrock, wrought in gold
and colours within an interminable scroll of raised needle-
work. The robe is equally unique. The material is of the
finest Cachemere, lined with eider down, the colour royal
purple • the hood, which is quilted and padded, is lined with
rose-coloured satin, the loops of flock gold, with tassels of
small pearls ; the robe is edged all round by abroad stripe of
crimson Genoa velvet, having the royal arms and the insignia
of the three nations embroidered in dead and burnished gold,
and relieved with silver fretted work in points. The great
merit, however, of these elegant articles of infant apparel is
said to consist in the elaborate beauty of the needlework.
Her Majesty, to whom the presents were exhibited immedi-
ately on arrival, expressed her warm admiration of the skill,
taste, and patience bestowed upon them, and commanded in-
timation of their acceptance to be transmitted to the accom-
plished artist, who, no doubt, requires no richer reward for
her " labour of love and loyalty."

NAVAL COMMANDERS AT ACRE,

(From the Glasgow Courier.)
ADMIRAL STOPFORD.

Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., third son
of James, second Earl of Courtown, by Mary, his wife,
daughter and co-heir of Richard Powys, Esq., of Hindlesham
Hall, in Suffolk, was born sth February, 1768, and entering
the navy at an early age, served for some time in the Prince
George, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Digby, on the
American station. In 1790, he obtained post rank, and in
that year commanded the Lowestoffe frigate, then employed
in the channel. His next appointment was to the Aquilon,
of 32 guns, stationed in the Medite-ranean, which, in 1794,
acted with the fleet under Lord Howe, andrepeated the

signals of the rear division on the memorable first of June.
In the following autumn, Captain Stopford was removed to
the Phaeton, 38 ; and in 1790, joined the squadron destined
to escort the Princess Caroline of Brunswick to England.
Shortly after returning to the grand fleet, the Phaeton formed
part of Admiral Cornwallis's detachment, which fell in with
the French squadron, and, by a series of masterly manoeuvres,
effected a retreat as honourable to those concerned as the
achievement of a brilliant victory. Stopford subsequently
drove on shore L'Echoue, of 28 guns •, and, in company with
the Anson, captured La Daphne and La Flore. In 1798, the
Phaeton cruised under Sir John Borlase Warren, off L'lsle de
Dieu, assisted at the capture of several vessels laden with naval
stores and provisions, and rendered much essential service by
the destruction of many armed ships and privateers. In 1799,
Capt. Stopford was appointed to the Excellent, of 74 guns, in
which ship he took L'Arethuse, a national cutter, and seve-
ral merchant vessels ; and after remaining for some time with
the western squadron, sailed to the Leeward Islands, whence
he returned with a broad pendant in the summer of 1802. In
1803 he commissioned the Spencer, of 74 guns, at Plymouth;
in 1804, joined Lord Nelson's fleet in the Mediterranean ; in
1805, received the appointment of a colonelcy of marines;
and in 1806 acted a gallant part, and was wounded in Sir
John Duckworth's victory off St. Domingo. We next find
this enterprising seaman employed in the expedition against
Copenhagen ; and in 1808, having obtained the rank of rear-
admiral, appointed to a command in the Channel fleet., In
this (Lstinguished position, his active exertions, his partici-
pation in the attempt to destroy the French shipping in the
Aix Roads, the attack on the enemy's fleet in the Basque
Roads, &c., elicited the unqualified commendation of the
commander-in-chief, Lord Gambier, and a vote of thanks
from parliament. In 1810, the rear-admiral was nominated
to the command of a squadron employed at the Cape of Good
Hope, and while on this station conducted the naval part of
the armament which subjugated Java, a service which ob-
tained for him, once again, the thanks of parliament. In
1812 he became vice-admiral ; in 1813 returned to England ;
in 1815 was crated a Knight Commander of the Bath, and
has since been made Admiral of the White, and a G.C.B.
His admirable conduct of the operations on the Syrian coast
is too fresh in the public memory to require any notice here.
Sir Robert married, in 1809, Mary, daughter of Commis-
sioner Fanshaw, of the Plymouth Dock-yard, and has several
children.—London paper.