The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-29
REVIEWED BY THE QUEEN,
THE ENGLISH ARMY PASSING BE.
FORE VICTORIA.

"Cockaiguln in London letter to the
San Francisco Argonaut describes Queen
Nictoria's review Of the British troops,
the first great review that has taken place
before the Queen in some time. Says
the writer: There was an immense crowd
of people present, on foot, on horse
back, and in carriages, stretching away
on either side of the flagstaff where the
Queen, on her arrival at five o'clock, took
up her position in her carriage. She
drove over from Marlborough station
(near where the ex-Empress Eugene
livcs), having travelled down from W ind
sor by special train. The famous Tenth
Hussars formed her escort, and the Prince
of Wales, who is its Colonel, rode on one
side of the carriage in full uniform, the
Duke of Cambridge on the other. The
weather was perfect-an almost cloudless
sky, with faint breeze As soon as
everything was in readiness, the Duke OF
Cambridge--who is in his element at
review-gave the order to begin.
The procession was headed by Sir
Archibald Alison, the General in com.
mand of the Aldershot Division, &C.
companied by brilliant staff. As soon
as he reached the saluting point, he
turned to the right, and, leaving his stah
to keep on without him, took up his
position beside the Queens carriage
Then came four batteries of horse artil-
lery. The horse artillery always have
precedence of all other troops, and take
the right of every column at review
The tirst two batteries were twelve
FOUNDER guns, drawn 10y perfectly
matched chestnut horses; the second were
nine Founders, and the horses all bays.
The uniform of the Horse Artillery is a
very snowy one. Sable BUSHES with
scarlet bags" and blue jackets covered
with braid across the breast and up the
cuffs-gold for officers, yellow cord for
men. All the men are horsed; none ride
on llmbers or caissons. Next came the
First Life Guards, one of the regiments
of Household Cavalry. Nearly every
visitor to London knows the uniform of
the statuesque warriors who sit on horse
back on each side Of the gateway of the
Horse Guards. Though but two hundred
and sixty strong, they went by grandly,
in their bright steel helmets and white
plumes steel cuirasses, white leather
breeches, long, black jack boots, and
scarlet coats. After them came the First
Dragons, in brass helmets and scarlet
tunics; and then the Scots G.eys, with
black bcarskin caps, instead of helmets.
The Fifth Lancers followed. They are
known as the "Royal Irish" and Just
now attract additional interest. Their
uniform is blue with green plumes, and
their arm lance with red and white
pennon at the end. Following them
came the Tenth Hussars. The Tenth is
perhaps the swellest and most fashionable
cavalry regiment in the English army.
The Prince of Wales is its Colonel (get-
ting pay without doing duty, and his
son, Prince Albert Victor, is one of the
Lieutenants. Like all English hussar
regiments, its uniform is blue with gold
lace cords across the breast
There are several good stories told
about the Tenth Hussars. "Ouida in
her novels, speaks of them as the "non-
dancing Tenth" The origin of this
name, so goes the story, was this At
ball to which the officers were invited -
twenty or thirty years ago it was-the lady
of the house went up to them, one after
another, asking them if she couldn't get
them partners, but always receiving the
stert otyped reply, "The Tenth don't
dance" She at last became SO angry at
the exhibition of puppy.sm, that she
went up to the senior officer present,
from whom she had received the same
answer, and said:
500 the Tenth march2"
"Ya-as."
"Well, then, be good enough to order
the Tenth to march out of my house
The ma jor scanned her through his |
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lisped, "Ya-as." In five minutes every
mani jack Of them had gone
The Field Artillery came after the
Tenth Hussars. Their uniform is much /
palmer and serviceable than the Horse .
Artillery, being dark-blue tunics with .
red facings, and felt helmets, They sit, /
too, upon the limbers, etc, After them .
came some Royal Engineers in red uni ]
forms, and commissariat and transport
corps wagons. At this point the cavalry
bands ceased playing, AID gave way to ,
the different infantry bands, which in .
turn massed themselves to play while .
the foot soldiers passed, Keeping tine .
to the air of "The British Grcnadiers, - .
the Brigade of Guards went by, making.
perhaps, the finest display of all the
troops in line There was battalion
each of the Greadiers, Coldstreams. and
Scots, all, in the main, dressed alike in
high, black bearskin caps and scarlet
tunics, and each battalion numbering
about six hundred and fifty officers and
men. Interest generally flags by the
t me the infantry come up. They look
so much alike in their red coats aud
black helmets, with now and then
break made by the raccoon-lur caps of
the Fusiliers their distinctive head
gear, or the dingy, dark, invisible green
Of the Rifles. There was such want of
in the strength of the differ
ent infantry battalions. also-ranging, as
they did, from three hundred and sixty
four men Of the Lancaster Regiment to
the seven hundred and twenty-five of
the Inniskillen Fusiliers. AS soon as
the monotonous filing past of the weary
Foot'' was over, the Horse Artillery and
Cavalry revived the spirits of every one
by going twice more-the first time at a