The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-21
REVIEWED BY THE QUEEN
THE ENGLISH ARMY PASSING BE-
FORE VICTORIA.
Description of Review at Aldershot
How the Various Regiments
Looked-The Tenth Hussars.

Description Of a Review at Aldershot
How the Various Regiments
Looked-The Tenth Hussars.
"Cockaigne" in a London letter to the
San Francisco Argonaut describes Queen
Victoria'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 all 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 stations
tnear where the eX-Empress Eugenie
livcs), having travelled down from Wind
sor by special train. The famous Tenth
l~iussars 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 pcrfcct-an almost cloudlcss'
sky, with n faint breeze. AS soon as,
everything was in readiness, the Duke of!
Cambridge-who is in his element at al
rcview-gavc the order to begin.
The procession was headed by Sir,
Archibald Alison, the General in COM
mand of the Aldershot Division, &C
companied by a brilliant staff. AS soon:
as he reached the saluting point, he
turned to the right, and, leaving his staff
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 a reviews
The first two batteries were twelve
FOUNDER guns, drawn by 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
cutfs-gold for officers, yellow cord for
men. ALI the men arc horscd; nonc ride
on llmbers or caissons. Next came the
First Life Guards, one of the r%cgiInents
of Household Cavalry. Nearly every
visitor to London knows the uniform Of
the statuesque warriors who sit on horse-j
back Oh 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
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 a lance with a red and whiteI
pennon at the end. Following them
came the Tenth Hussars. The Tenth isl
perhaps the SWEETEST 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 tho
L~ieutcnants. Like all English hussar
regiments, its uniform is blue with gold-l
lace cords across the breast. !
There are several good stories toldf
about the Tenth Hussars. "Ouida, " I'M
her novels, speaks of them as the 'non-
dancing Tenth" The origin of this|
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
stere otyped reply, ''The Tenth don't
dance" She at last became so angry at
The exhibition of puppyism, that she
went up to the senior officer present,
from whom she had received the same
answer, and said: :
"Do the Tenth march2'
"Ya-as."
"Wcll, then, be good enough to order
the Tenth to march ont of my house."
The major scanned her through hisl
eye-glass, twisted his mustache, and
iisped, "Ya-as." In five minutes every
man-iack of them had gone.
The Field Artillery came after the
Tenth Hussars. Their uniform is much!
palmer and serviccable thar the Horse
Artillery, being dark-blue tunics with
red facings, and felt helmets. They sit,
came some Royal Engineers in red uni
forms, and commissariat and transport
corps wagons. At this point the cavalry
bands ceased playing, and gave way to
the different infantry bands, which in
turn massed themselves to play while
the foot soldiers passed. Keeping time
to the air of 'tThc British Grenadiers,"
the Brigade of Guards went by, making,
perhaps, the finest display of all the
troops in line. There was q battalion
each of the Greadiers, Coldstreams, and
Scots, all, in the main, dressed alike inl
high, black bearskin caps and scarlet
tunics, and each battalion numbering,
about six hundred and fifty officers and
men. Interest generally flags by tho
time the infantry come up. They look
50 much alike in their red coats and
black helmets, with now and then a.
break made by the r~accoon-fur caps of,
the Fusiliers (their distinctive head
gear, or the dingy, dark, invisible green
of the Rifles. There was such q want of!
uniformity in tho strength of the differ.
ent infantry battalions. also-ranging. as
they did. from three hundred and sixty