New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-04

evsd ~. rspid rise Ia he army an appoint
msnt 10 The eommssd Of tho cavalry wholly v
his rank az a noblstnsn. 10 bsd never ssen service
Ia .py but Tho Irish Cfow.bar brigade, and fhongi
hs exhibited pfodigies u yalof 10 srtsrmlns 'ia'
nj. w,stohs. tcnantfy 10 their kour Of sorrow an>
Of want. hs Furnished on the Eastern field another
wonderful example o. how in great minds the
most opposite qunlitis. MAJ be combined. with
out wishing to spoil by explanation the very
pretty quarrel between Lord Raglan and
himself IL IL conceded on all hands that he
exhibited most marvellous discretion. Popular
impulses are In the main always right, and pop
ulAr LicknAmes are never without some founda-
ton. In the camp he was chri'tened by the
soldiers Lord Look.on. The gsyest part, how
ever, Of the play was that afserpiece in which
those mirthful beings, the priests and small
squireens OF that enlightened portion Of Ireland
called Mayo, declared on his return, with charm.
ing satire, "their entire confidence in his ability
"and vslor." On the strength of this declaration
We presume he has recently received the ribbon
of the Bath in company with the hero OF q hun
bred fights, De Lacy Evans.
Let us nov descend yet another step to the
generals of brigade, where We find aristoc-
racy figuring in the persons Of Lord Cardigan,
who frat commanded the light brigade Of cav
airy, and Lord George Paget, who succeeded
him. Lord Cardigan led in that celebrated
charge Of the six hundred, Of which Tennyson
has sung in such yirle strains. Could he have
hlteIed when Lucan gave the word to charge
Was he more brave than Colonel Shewell or
Colonel Douglass who were by him. Was he
more gallant than Sergeant Reilly or private
Murphy who fell7 No ribbon aoated before
them, no feast awaited their return, no stone
would marx their grave, but they rode on. Like
the celebrated single-speech orator, Hamilton
Lord Cardigan sc ans determined to acquire
the character of the single. charge dragon. lie
too has never since smelt powder, but is rioting
in his old revels in London's gay saloons
Lord George Psget was also in the Balaklava
charge, and this short story describes his
service. On the plea that he had lovely wife, he
refused to continue upon duty, and sent in his
resignation, and it was only at the most earnest
instance of royalty itself, who feared bis defal-
cation would swell the tumult against aris-
tocrscy, that he was induced to withdraw his
resignation and after time return. To recon-
Gle him to remaining at his post, he was placed,
though a notoriously incompetent officer, in
charge of the Light Cavalry brigade over the
heads of Col. Bell and Col Shewell, whose ser
vices for length and merit as far transcended his
as the planet Jupiter Outbulks the moon. But
even this sop did not safety him, and BY the
general orders of the day We see that this speci-
men of the aristocratc system has left yet once
more for England.
1t is not necessary to our purpose to travel
lower or to allude to the feeling said BY the pub
lie journals of England to prevail in arls'
tocratic, military circles, that the Crimes is
"a bore" or to the almost total absence
from the recent gazettes of the names Of
those aristocratic recruits who in hours
of sunshine were buzzing in glitteriag throng
around the Horse-Guards. The examples we
have cited are sufficient; in view Of them we
cannot withhold our weader that even 80 patient
and lord.worshiping being a. John Bull can
permit the absence of these soldiers of fashion
from their duty, and not insist upon the stern
rule of the Duke of Wellington: "sail or SELL"
True yalor does not consist in brilliant charge
OF &C in a century, when amid fash and thunder
and cloud men see not and care not whittier they
20; it rather belongs to that steady devotion to
duty which amid daily triil and protracted di IL
culties and suferiDgs never swerves.