The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

little mind

thee dance

gs and our prayers,

be thine

a, and virtue, peace,

n! join again

iday throng

PECTI

SHIP,

.ted from a German poem,

The author had
prosaic a fulfilment of hi
La Belle Poule at Cherbough

ears ago

avens r

Vows a sail

the spray

of the surges is lost,

la its rocky coast

lit cloud flies

s there,

is of air,

barren sand,

staff of command,
i.

world's loud hum

-1 tomb,

b his rest,

spirit fled

,he dead

rt shore,

andard it bore—

der weigh,

n it rides—
nightly spray

and throbbing his brow,

s own land,
behold.

s ; on the well-known sand

s footsteps wend

findeth them not;

sought that spot,
und.

its height it is hurled

held command,
poked down on the world,
land.

Id of his care

dooming heir

' o'er whose head a crown

were flown,

thy father's embrace.

ny only son--

ly throne,

IPORARI

PRESS

gT OF THE

ARMY

om the Times.)

an article which appeared in last
emning the system under which
's troops, and in the particular
!2d regiment, have been and are
hardships, beyond those which
le average of the army, and partly
air or injudicious allotment of the
r the authorities of the Horse
:eived from a highly respectable
statement of facts and regula-
e routine of military duty :
,he authority of which troops are
ed from colonial or foreign service
ies from the Government to the

wander-in-Chief, but the Go-
nines the. amount of troops to

Df their departure; and

tmation

'-in-Chief is not less devoid of

pecific corps

shall be moved in

nongst those regiments which are
-ice, than he is to fix the time at
hich, or the object for which they

rst order for foreign service is to
76 which stands first on the ros-
corps which has been longest at
ust be taken (the Commander-in-
•etion in the matter), unless there
ces in its state of efficiency, &c.—

and unequivocal circumstances,
hac vice from the rigorous opera-

le 22d regiment, the assertion is
as 23 years between India and the

s at home, then 11 at

- .
home, and is now again ordered
)eration of the roster upon this
d all question one of great seve-
deep regret ; but it has been al-
without positive injustice to other
s violation of established and im-

;ecretary of State or War

rnicu in the manuscript we co-
ients to the Mediterranean some
there having been unduly and
, and the two first regiments for
s, being the 42d and 88th, which

the letter in Thursday's Times,
Lri and Constant Reeder,' asserts
7ht. to have been sent to India
red for the Mediterranean, in
1 20th regiments would have had
aation at the lonian Isles, the
of them, having received the

3 Indian' may know better than
nitted in both cases the order to
then, as Lord Hill is bound
e Government and not from the
r respectable) functionary, his
o execute the official commands

)n in which he re-

succe:
lnd fi

no other reason,

to the two regiments

for fu r t

.er commands from
himself to the 22d

nYN, that the officers of the
would have very gladly suf-
t home on condition
of destination, and being sent
Ld of to Bombay. No doubt
would the 42d and 88th have

re given up their right---toth e
ake of obligi
ng the officers of

id before, has no option in
ing system is very possibly a
e present instance proves that

,
service do take place under it.
ed by superior authority upon