Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-03-16
Departure OF Troops from Lopdou.

From tie London Times February %.
London, it must be confessed is ads fo military
shows Whatever may be said ofthe nation the me,rop
oils is city shopkeepers. Its thoroughares are an
endless succession of plategas fronts its squares are
strawberries not parades; it, few barracks are hidden
among news and warehouses, or only he voted
nuisacce its Tower old curiosy.shop and its soldier
are geueray regarded "a ornamental appendices to the
Court and dangerous to nobody bu. servlnt girls In
deed, that gFOs, majority of people who do no, give
second hOughtto what they any day are ap, to
as the ClI is rcporte have done the review got I'D
for him in Windsor Park bu. where are the troops that
you fight your battles with? L1ndoner's recollection
ia Ito. very long one and though old people and books
tells us that the Guards to Holland to Portugal and
to Waterloo and since then, again to Lisbon and TO
Canada, tits SILL matter OF faith to believe that ,hev
melnt for real work. tina, such thing az bo ~ Of
fighting soldiers should Issue from this netropolis
Time, however has brought round of these tradition
al events and London is bchodng the departure not in
died. fegons but of regiments that stand for egons in
the pledge they convey and the certainty they afford
that England will spare nothing in prosecuting the cause
they sent OFT upon. The Turk NAV lave thougb,
that we have promised too long and dsel with hs conf
dence,-The Russian may also have thought lst ye va
ge tho sweets OF peace and the profits Of trade too
to enter on lie and death struggle with his popu
ton but, whatever the Invader mgy have hopeJ or the
Invaded may have feared, they will both know now be.
yoDd shade" OF doubt that Engaud has accepted the
gage OF Russia and committed her whole self rfcyocaby
to the quarrel For they will hear that tlios, appende
ges OF the Court, and those Of the metropolis
that gent to Waterloo, Lisbon, and to Canada
have been sent 10 the DIuube never to return ho
but with new blaz0n on their COJgs
il was, indeed, strange sight that London aav yes
terday, scarcely Imaginable by quiet citizens and very
different from what We picture TO ourselves when real
Of armies We said yesterday" but it vas long before
dawn; the still shono above and the lamps nared
beoT. For hours several thousand people of all ranks
had occupied what PEEL led the bue5I site in Europe
ngne 70 lead only 10 the ground floor ofhe National Gal
ery but which, in fact Is the south entrance Of St
Georges Btricks behind that building For those hours
all thlt cOlld bJ the CLEAN Of solitary bayone
passing to and FRO, and all that could be heard the
clock striking quarters from tue tower Of the neghborng
church The multitude were tOeraby patient, but deci
dedy loyal, and finding by repeated but desuOry eEpOT
nouts, that avae1 hut little 70 call for the GrenaIeT;
before they chose TO come they gang the National An
them aud "hIie Britannia" with much precision, per
hap but with body Of aGpnd which mus; have filed thC
whole space down to Whitehall. Che self constituted or
chaa found s own appllse, aud choorot long and LA
Wy with or without special At length the dark
nc's under the portal became fnuy relieved by the gilt
yer OF brass Instruments indicating that the band bad ia
ken va place, and the regiment formed within. Eoot
alter o. with clash Of music tie band emerged, TO The
inmeL3a delight Of the multitude and marched straigh
9"ards Tue fahj |herc II took up It's station. Ate
the pause Of n minute cains tie famous Grenaders
any one OF the many thousand unWaIko spectators
pectcd 10 see them emerge soemnly and slowly with
ObbOkon column Of biyOnots ard lofty fur caps he
nave been strangely ds,ppointcd for they rushed ort
without order from the narrow postaibat few yard
west OF tue pofuco aud ran, ralhcF bounded, dow
inc descent towards the pavement Itsccmed A. ever
mar, on reaching the street. was Gheered afcsh by tn
multitude which received him. and in which he vas sur
~ see some friend. BIT continuing their pace they
| NiW GINNING Escort of hcuds and noisy admirers Z
join the col3Dn the Strand till the whole had emerged
hbsn I1lmed, the regiment about thousand strong,
u showing their bcyoncl and back fr caps above IL
hen1s OF yast multitude which Gged tic StlDJ inarche
over Waterloo bridge 10 tte s,s,ion chez
Jog, ihe music and occasionally tho Wild bus hearty che
"s d the mob, soon brought the slccpers thcr win
doHa, and r6Any strange fgure was seen waving an
shouting hrcWeli through ;Ic dusk. IL was still drl
Gle Eight vas siili that Of The lamps ssJ stranger sud
sony reused from bis bel to look doVn tho seen
might lave 3rclmt Of the French Evolution and it,
iuna horto'' ~ QUE reporters tell u.s. the Greoa1Or
marched, thus escorted e 4o Waterloo saLl0pl aud wer